17. We believe also “the resurrection of the flesh,” which went before in Christ: that the body too may have hope of that which went before in its Head. The Head of the Church, Christ: the Church, the body of Christ. Our Head is risen, ascended into heaven: where the Head, there also the members. In what way the resurrection of the flesh? Lest any should chance to think it like as Lazarus’s resurrection, that thou mayest know it to be not so, it is added, “Into life everlasting.” God regenerate you! God preserve and keep you! God bring you safe unto Himself, Who is the Life Everlasting. Amen.

CAPUT IX.

17. De resurrectione carnis in vitam aeternam. Credimus etiam resurrectionem carnis, quae praecessit in Christo: ut hoc etiam speret corpus, quod praecessit in capite. Caput Ecclesiae Christus, Ecclesia corpus Christi (Ephes. V, 23). Caput nostrum surrexit, ascendit in coelum: ubi caput, illic et membra. Quomodo carnis resurrectionem? Ne forte putet aliquis quomodo Lazari, ut scias non sic esse, additum est, In vitam aeternam. Regeneret vos Deus, conservet et tueatur vos Deus; in se, qui est ipsa vita aeterna, perducat vos Deus. Amen.