Easter Day: "the resurrection of all kinds"

We celebrate this day, the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus, blessed for ever; and in his, all ours; all, that is, the resurrection of all persons; all, that is, the resurrection of all kinds, whether the resurrection from calamities in this world, Ezekiel's resurrection, where God says to him, 'Son of man, dost thou think, these scattered bones can live again?' Or the resurrection from sin, St. John's resurrection, 'Blessed is he that hath his part in the first resurrection': or of the resurrection to glory, St. Paul's resurrection, that is, more argued, and more particularly established, by that apostle, than by the rest. This resurrection to glory, is the consummation of all the others. 

Johne Donne Sermon XXII, preached upon Easter Day, 1629.

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