Question. Seeing death is certainly appointed for all men, how dost thou in the Creed say, that some shall then be Quick, or Alive?
Answer. St. Paul teaches that they which then shall remain alive shall suddenly be changed and made new so that the corruption of their bodies being taken away and mortality removed they shall put on immortality. And this change shall be to them instead of a death because the ending of corrupted nature shall be the beginning of a nature uncorrupted.
Scripture References: 1 Cor. 15:51; 1 Thess. 4:17; 1 Cor. 15:53
Question. Ought the godly in thinking upon this judgment to be stricken and abashed with fear and to dread it and shrink from it?
Answer. No, but rather to conceive great hope and comfort thereby. For he shall give the sentence, which was once by the Judge’s sentence condemned for us: to the end that we coming under the grievous judgment of God, should not be condemned, but acquitted in Judgment.
Scripture Reference: Rom. 8:1, 13, 23, 38-39; 2 Cor. 1:7; Phil. 3:20; Titus 2:13; 2 Pet. 3:12