1 Corinthians 15

Thus death gives a believer his Quietus est; it frees him from sin and trouble. Though the Apostle calls death the last enemy (1 Corinthians 15), yet it is the best friend: to me to die is gain. Use 1. See here that which may make a true saint willing to die: death will set him…

16. We glorify God when we give God the glory of all we do: Herod when he had made an oration, and the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a God, and not of a man; and he took this glory to himself, the text says, Immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because…

When I go in the streets, and hear the language of some, I think of the man in the gospel, who had the spirit of an unclean devil in him (Luke 4:33). Men's lips do not drop as the honeycomb, but they drop poison to the defiling of others (1 Corinthians 15:33). It is a sign when…

Not in another flesh, but my flesh. 1 Corinthians 15:53. This corruptible shall put on incorruption. Question 2. By what arguments may the resurrection be proved?

Herod instead of hallowing God's name, stained the honor of his name in assuming that praise to himself which was due to God (Acts 12:23). We ought to take the honor from ourselves and give it to God (1 Corinthians 15:10): I labored more than they all. One would think this had s…

3. We show honor to our Heavenly Father, by ascribing the honor of all we do to him. 1 Corinthians 15:10. I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was in me. If a Christian has any assistance in duty, any strength against corruption, he rear…

Take heed of any unseemly word that may enkindle unclean thoughts in yourselves or others. (1 Corinthians 15:33) Evil communications corrupt good manners. Impure discourse is the bellows to blow up the fire of lust.

Answ. 1. As it is a means to prevent sin, no sword like this to cut asunder the sinews of temptation; it is almost impossible to sin presumptuously with the lively thoughts and hopes of Heaven: It was when Moses was out of sight that Israel set up a calf and worshipped it; so it…

5. Has God pardoned you? Do all the service you can for God (1 Corinthians 15:58). Always abounding in the work of the Lord.

The contemplating heaven would put us upon the study of holiness, because none but such are admitted into that kingdom: heaven is not like Noah's Ark, into which came clean beasts and unclean; only the pure in heart shall see God (Matthew 5:8). (3.) The meditation of the heavenl…

The wounds of the guilt of sin are as deadly and as strong as the lusts of its power, and it requires as great a power to dissolve and scatter them. For all the strength that the law and God's justice has, sin also has to back it — 'for the strength of sin is the law' (1 Corinth…

Now to die in faith, is to die in an assured estate of glory and happiness; which is that, that every man desires: therefore, as we all desire it, so let us die in faith, and we shall attain unto it. Saint Paul tells us, 1 Corinthians 15:55, Death is a terrible serpent, for he h…

For whereas Christ says of himself that he descended from heaven (John 3:13), his speech must be understood in respect of his Godhead, which may be said in some sort to descend, in that it was made manifest in the manhood here upon earth. And whereas Paul calls him heavenly and…

Because when God gives man power to will good things, then he can will them: and when he gives him a power to do good, then he can do good, and he does it. For though there be not in man's conversion a natural cooperation of his will with God's spirit, yet is there a supernatura…

A saint need not fear to put his hand boldly into it — it has left and lost its sting in the sides of Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:55: 'O death, where is your sting?' Why are you afraid, O saint, that this sickness may be your death — as long as you know that the death of Christ is…

So at last, and then bringing both body and soul together to complete glory. And the congruity of reason that is for this appointment, is observable, something like to that (1 Corinthians 15). As by man came death, so by man came also the resurrection from the dead.

It became him (says he) (Hebrews 2:10). For whom are all things, and by whom are all things, etc. And so in the point of the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:21). Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead; that is, it was congruous, harmonious, it shou…

No natural infirmities hang about glorified bodies, nor sinful ones upon perfected spirits of the just. Oh what lovely creatures will they appear to you then, when that which is sown in dishonor shall be raised in honor (1 Corinthians 15)! Fourth, you shall have an everlasting e…

3. We are afraid that many of you believe not a judgment, and your particular and personal coming to it; in fact there are among you who are like to these mockers spoken of by Peter in his second Epistle (chapter 3:3-4), who say, where is the promise of his coming? And as there…

A man that is under the hazard of a civil penalty, will think on it again and again, it will affect him, and he will not be at rest till he be without the reach of it; much more should you be with the hazard that your souls are in through sin; you are not excusable, so long as y…

He nailed the handwriting which was against us to his cross, as the Apostle says (Colossians 2:14-15): and having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. And as it is (1 Corinthians 15, at the close), he took the sting from d…

The grave will not swallow him up with a sort of dominion and right, as it does the reprobate. Fourth, it serves to confirm the truth of the resurrection of Christ, more than if he had never been in the grave, as the Apostle proves (1 Corinthians 15), from the beginning to the c…

Therefore, Revelation 1, we will find that he delights in this property, as a piece of his spiritual state, and grand honor, that he holds the stars in his right hand: such is his respect to them, and his it is to dispose of them. 2. It is a greatly exercising difficulty to the…

The Child born to us, is the mighty God, the Father of ages, the Prince of peace (Isaiah 9:6; Romans 9:5; Galatians 4:4). There is a wide difference between him the second Adam, and all men, even the first Adam in his perfection (1 Corinthians 15:47). If Christ suffered without…

Position 5. Free grace is the loveliest piece in heaven or earth; it makes us partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). And though the creature graced of God keeps an infinite distance from God, and is not "Goded" nor "Christed," as some do blasphemously say, yet it is consi…

For, 1. we yet groan as sick creatures in tabernacles of clay (2 Corinthians 5:1, 2), and carry about with us sick and dying clay, and Christ promises that of all that the Father gives him, he will lose nothing, but raise them from the dead; but that is, not in this life, but at…

Indeed he can [illegible] of them, neither soul nor body, neither a [illegible] nor a piece of an ear of his sheep, as he speaks (Amos 3). So Christ speaks (John 6:39); indeed, (1 Corinthians 15:23) every man shall be raised in his own order; verse 24. Then comes the end, when h…

This is to make John (who only prepared the way for Christ) to be the Messiah indeed (as many of the Jews thought) — that is, to think the eminent work of John's ministry (which was to humble and so prepare men for Christ) to be their attaining Christ himself. But if you be wear…

It may fully satisfy our faith that God himself is satisfied and that he reckons the debt as paid, so that our faith may boldly come to God and call for the bond in, as having Christ's resurrection to show for it that the debt is discharged. And hence the Apostle cries victory o…

And during that time, God prepared for him all sorts of afflictions and miseries to run through, which we our selves do here meet withall; and all that time he was acquainted with, and inured to all the like sorrowes that we are: and God left him to that infirmity and tenderness…

Some of the apostles did not believe the resurrection of Christ, Thomas said, he would not believe, unless he might see and feel (John 20:25). He was wanting in the belief of one article of faith, the resurrection of the dead, and (1 Corinthians 15) the whole church was wanting…

He looks at every thing he had as nothing; This I am, but yet I am nothing. He sometimes calls himself, the least of all the Apostles (1 Corinthians 15:9-10), and yet other times, not inferior to the very chief of them. Sometimes he calls himself, the least of all Saints (Ephesi…

1. With respect to Adam, that the parallel between the first and second Adam might be more exact. They are often compared in Scriptures as (Romans 5, latter end, and 1 Corinthians 15) and we read (Romans 5:14) that the first Adam was [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], the figure of hi…

Glory frees us from natural infirmities, but it does not strip us of natural properties, Christ has showed in his own body, what he can or will perform in ours, these same bodies but otherwise adorned, [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], and with these eyes shall I see God (Job 19:26-2…

I write not to please learned scholars, but to profit plain Christians; whose spiritual good I prefer above any credit to myself. I am sure, there is none due: there being few of my brethren but they transcend me in parts and learning, But by the grace of God I am what I am (1 C…

For Christ whom God the Father has raised up from the dead, is our righteousness and victory. Therefore thanks be to God, who has given us victory by our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:57). Amen. But mark how fitly and to the purpose Paul here speaks.

And it is the flat commandment of God (Matthew 5:34). It is alleged, that Paul (1 Corinthians 15:31) swears by his rejoicing in Christ. I answer; the words of Paul, by my rejoicing, are not an oath, but an obtestation: for the meaning of his words is this, that his sorrows and a…

He is the prince of life (Acts 3:15). He is a quickening spirit (1 Corinthians 15:45). And in this regard is he said to live in us, namely, as a root in the branch, or as the head in the members.

Always one and the same; no doubt in good things, specially in the religion established among us. The same must be the mind of all good subjects and all good people (1 Corinthians 15:58). 21 Is the law then against the promise of God?

Thirdly, for this liberty we are to give all praise and thanks to God. This did Paul at the remembrance of it (Romans 7:25; 1 Corinthians 15:57). And not to be thankful is a height of wickedness.

And Paul the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 6:9): be not deceived, neither fornicators, etc. (1 Corinthians 15:33): be not deceived, evil speeches corrupt good manners. Now men err and are deceived sundry ways, both in divine and human things (which appertain not to this place.)

For tomorrow we shall die.] This particle shows sufficiently why the Prophet so sharply rebuked them for drinking wine, and eating of flesh; to wit, because they scoffed and turned all the Prophets' threats into jests and matter of derision. Some think that Saint Paul in allegin…

Is not the holy Spirit of greater force than the dew? Saint Paul I remember uses the like similitude (1 Corinthians 15:36), where he speaks of the resurrection: but in regard he applies his metaphor to another purpose, I think it not amiss to let it pass for this time; because I…

The kingdom of the Father, as the inheritance of the godly, is contrasted with the earth, to remind them that here they are pilgrims, and therefore ought to look upwards towards heaven. In another passage, the kingdom of God is said to be within us, (Luke 17:21), but we shall no…

I think it more probable that, when Christ died, the graves were immediately opened: and that, when he rose, some of the godly, having received life, went out of their graves, and were seen in the city. For Christ is called the first-born from the dead, (Colossians 1:18,) and th…

And, indeed, there could be no doubt that a rich man, when he gave up his sepulcher to our Lord, made provision also, in other respects, for suitable magnificence and splendor. And this, too, was brought about by the secret providence of God, rather than by the premeditated desi…

For the lively assurance of our reconciliation with God arises from Christ having come from hell as the conqueror of death, in order to show that he had the power of a new life at his disposal. Justly, therefore, does Paul say that there will be no gospel, and that the hope of s…

Flesh and blood shall not thenceforth be natural, there shall then be no such function either [illegible] or corporeal, such as other creatures now [illegible] as well as we. These be in a manner the words which Saint Paul uses. 1 Corinthians 15. The first man Adam (says he) was…

This his Power shall perpetually continue, and stand in force, so long as the world has continuance, and so long as Flesh and Blood has any being upon earth. This entire power of the Kingdom of Christ shall have continuance and force, till the last day, and then shall another wo…

The Elect are all 'predestinated to be conformed to the Image of the Son of God, that he might be the First-born among many Brethren,' Romans 8:29. 'As we have borne the Image of the first Man, that is earthly, so we must also bear the Image of the heavenly: For as is the earthy…