We must stir up ourselves to praise God with the consideration both of the reason and of the encouragement we have to praise him. › The goodness of his grace relating to our souls and the life that is to come.

11. For his resurrection from the dead on the third day.

We thank thee, that as he was delivered for our offences, so he arose again for our justification, and was declared to be the Son of God with power, by the resurrection from the dead. Rom 1:4;

That though he was dead, yet he is alive, and lives for evermore, and hath the keys of hell and death, and being raised from the dead, he dies no more, death hath no more dominion over him. Rev 1:18. Rom 6:9.

That now is Christ risen from the dead, and is become the first fruits of them that slept, that as in Adam all died, so in Christ all might be made alive, and every one in his own order. 1 Cor 15:20, 22.

That God suffered not his holy One to see corruption, but loosed the pains of death, because it was impossible he should be holden of them, and so declared to all the house of Israel, that the same Jesus whom they crucified is both Lord and Christ. Acts 2:24, 31, 36.

And that for this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living, and that whether we wake or sleep, we might live together with him. Rom 14:9. 1 Thess 5:10.

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Pray now: a guided prayer in six parts, with the next heads each day.

Henry’s text is in the public domain. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, No. 265 Chestnut Street. Undated, about 1840 to 1860. The preface is dated Chester, March 25, 1710. From the Internet Archive scan. The KJV text is in the public domain.