...that gave them their first being. Difficulties and impossibilities are for men, but not for him. " Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead ?" Reflection. — And must I rise again ? Then, Lord, how am I concerned to get union with Christ...

...may ask of Christians, in a spiritual sense, what Paul asked of Agrippa in a material sense : " Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?" that He should raise them in the twinkling of an eye, and in multitudes ? Has He not given each man...

...unto our fathers : 7. Unto which " cused of the Jews. 20. But snowed first unto them of Damascus " promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day...night, " hope to come. For which hope's sake, King Agripjia, I am ac" and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and " then to the Gentiles,...

...Thes. iv. 14. 2 Tim. iv. 1. Heb. vi 2. 1 Cor.xv. i Mat. xxii. 29. • ° See NOTE LXXX. ment : " Why should it be thought a thing incredible " with you, that God should raise the dead ?"r The Wisdom of God seems also to require the resurrection of the body. Since it is his will that...

...Cor. i. 9. jr. 14. 1 Thes. iv. 14. 2 Tim. iv. 1. Heb. vi. 2. 1 Cor.xv. i Mat. Mii. 29. ment : " Why should it be thought a thing incredible " with you, that God should raise the dead ?"r The Wisdom of God seems also to require the resurrection of the body. Since it is his will that...

...we may see from Acts xxvi. 6; 7. " And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers : unto which promise our twelve...hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews." If again Christians have been called from among sinners of the Gentiles, they will humbly remember,...

...less attributed in the scriptures to God. The apostle Paul, in his plea before Agrippa, inquires, "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?" To the Corinthians he declares the same sentiment, "God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also...

...that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. — Acts xxiv. 15. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead ? — Acts xxvi. 8. God who qnickeueth the dead, &c. — Rom. iv. 17. The earnest expectation of th«...

...the gospel dispensation ; at least Saint Paul thought so ! See the chapter last referred to. "And why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead." (Act xxvi. 8.) Surely a doctrine so glorious — so awfully sublime — so clearly taught in the sacred...

...Now is Christ risen from the dead 471 SERMON XXXI. THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY. ACTS xxvi. 8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead 487 SERMON I. THE DAY WHICH IS AT HAND. [AN ADVENT SEHUON.] ROMANS xiii. 12. The day is at hand. •...