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The Larger Catechiſm. 27 which the Members of the inviſible Church enjoy imo- diately after Death? A. The Communion in Glory with Chriſt, which the Members of the inviſible Church enjoy immedi- tely after Death, is in that their Souls are then made perfect in Holineſs l, and received into the higheſt Heavens m, where they behold the Face of God in Light and Glory, waiting for the full Redempti- on of their Bodies o, which even in Death continue united to Chriſt and reſt in their Graves as in their Beds q, till at the laſt Day they be again united to their Souls r; whereas the Souls of the Wickd are at Death caſt into Hell, where they remain in Tor- ments and utter Darkneſs, and their Bodies kept in their Graves, as in their Priſons, till the Reſurrecti- on and Judgment of the great Day. 1 Heb. xii. 23. m 2 Cor i. s, 6, 8. Philip. i. 23. Actſ iii 21. Eph. iv, 10. n 1 John iii. 2. 1 Cor. xiii. 12. Rom. viii. 27. Pſal. xvi. 9. p I Theſſ iv, 14. 9 Iſa. lvii. 2. Job xix 26, 27. f Luke xvi. 23, 24- Actſ i. 25. Jude ver. 6. 7. Q. What are we to believe concerning the Reſur- rection? A. We are to believe, that, at the laſt Day, there ſhall be a general Reſurrection of the Dead; both of the joſt and unjuſt t; when they that are then found alive, ſhall in a moment be changed; and the ſelf fame B dies of the Dead which were laid in their Grave, being then again united to their Souls for e- ver, ſhall be raiſed up by the Power of Chriſt v : the Bodies of the Juſt by the Spirit of Chriſt, and by vertue of his Reſurrection as their Head, ſhall be raiſed in Power, Spiritual, Incorruptible, and made like to his glorious Body w: and the Bodies of the Wicked ſhall be raiſed up in Diſhonour by him, as an offended Judge x. D 2