10. Our Lord Jesus was not disappointed
in his hope. He declared his Father’s faithfulness in the words, thou wiltnot leave my soul in hell, and that faithfulness was proven on the
resurrection morning. Among the departed and disembodied Jesus was not left; he
had believed in the resurrection, and he received it on the third day, when his
body rose in glorious life, just as he had said in joyous confidence, neitherwilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Into the outer prison of
the grave his body might go, but into the inner prison of corruption he could
not enter. He who in soul and body was preeminently God’s Holy One was
loosed from the pains of death because it was not possible that he should be
held by it. This is noble encouragement to all the saints; die they must, but
rise they shall, and though in their case they shall see corruption, yet they
shall rise to everlasting life. Christ’s resurrection is the cause, the
earnest, the guarantee, and the emblem of the rising of all his people.
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