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and great, ftand before God.' Acts xxiv. 15. forecited. The Dead will be raised by the Power of God: 1 Cor. vi. 14. And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.' God will not make them new Bodies, but they shall rise again with the felf-fame Bodies that were laid in the Grave: 1 Cor. xv. 53. * This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.' Job xix. 26. forecited. The Poffibility of fuch a Refurrection of the Dead appears, from the Omniscience and almighty Power of God: Heb. iv. 13. Neither is there any creature that is not manifeft in his fight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes ' of him with whom we have to do.' Rev. iv. 8. And the four beafts had each of them fix wings ' about him, and they were full of eyes within; and they reft not day and night, faying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty, which was, and 6 is, and is to come.' The Concern that the Omnifcience of God hath in the Refurrection of the Dead, is, to difcern every one's Duft from another's, and from the common Dust of the Earth. And that is all the Odds, between the first forming of Man's Body, and the forming it anew at the Refurrection: For Man's Body was originally Dust lying here and there on the Ground: Gen. ii. 7. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground.' Chap. iii. 19. In the sweat of thy face fhalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it waft thou taken: for, dut thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.' The Concern that the almighty Power of God hath in it, is, to bring together all the Duft of the fame Body, form it again into a Body, and reunite the

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Soul thereto. The Certainty of fuch a Refurrection appears, from the Truth and Faithfulness of God, who has faid it: John v. 28. 29. forecited. Dan. xii. 2. And many of them that fleep in the

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duft of the earth, fhall awake, fome to everlasting • life, and fome to fhame and everlasting contempt." The railing of the Dead, and the changing of thofe then alive, will be done in a Moment, at the Sound of the laft Trumpet: 1 Cor. xv. 52. In a mo'ment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the laft trump, (for the trumpet fhall found); and the dead 'fhall be railed incorruptible, and we fhall be changed.' Compared with 1 Theff. iv. 16. 17. The Lord himself shall defcend from heaven with a fhout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God and the dead in Chrift 'fhall fife firft: then we which are alive and remain, fhall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air and fo ' fhall we ever be with the Lord.' And the raised and the changed Bodies will differ from what they were before, during this Life, in their Qualities, though not in their Subftance, 1 Cor. xv. 52. 53. forecited.

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Queft. 38. What Benefits do Believers receive from Chrift at the Refurrection? Anf. At the Refurrection, Believers be ing raifed up in Glory, fhall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the Day of Judgment, and made perfectly bleffed in full enjoying of God to all Eternity.

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Believers, or they that are efftually called, justified, adopted, and fanctified in their Life, fhall receive or partake of the whole Benefits of Chrift's Purchafe at the Refurrection: And they shall then receive the whole, by these Degrees; to wit, fome in the Refurrection itself, more in the Judgment, and the completing Benefit after Judgment.

The Benefit of Chrift's Purchase they shall receive in the Refurrection itself, is, that they shall be raifed up in Glory: 1 Cor. xv. 43. It is fown in

difhonour, it is raised in glory." The Way how they will be raised, is, that Chrift will raife them as his own Members, by his Spirit dwelling in them, even as one awaking draws his Limbs to him: Rom viii. 11. If the Spirit of him that raised up Jefus from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up Chrift from the dead, fhall alfo quicken your mortal bodies, by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.' The Likeness in which their Bodies fhall be fafhioned anew in the Refurrection, is, the Likenes of the glorious Body of the Second Adam: 1 Cor. xv. 49. As we have borne the image of the earthy, we fhall alfo bear the image of the heavenly. Compared with Philip. iii. 21. Jefus Chrift fhall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body.' They will be raised incorruptible, glorious, ftrong, and fpiritual Bodies: 1 Cor. XV. 42. 43. 44. It is fown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption: it is fown in difhonour, it is raised in glory: it is fown in weakness, it is raifed in power: it is fown a natural body, it is raised a fpiritual body.'

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But the Wicked fhall be raised in Difhonour: . And the Way how they will be raised, is by the Power of Chrift as an offended Judge: John v. 29. And fhall come forth, they that have done evil, < unto the refurrection of damnation.' Matth. xxv. 33. 'And the Son of man fhall fet the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.'

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Immediately after the Refurrection will follow the general Judgment: Rev. xx. 13. And the " fea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to their works.'

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There will be a Day of general Judgment: Acts xvii. 31. God hath appointed a day, in the which 'he will judge the world in righteoufnefs, by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given affurance unto all men, in that he hath raised 'him from the dead.' The Man Chrift will be the Judge: Acts xvii. 31. above cited; compared with Rom. xiv. 10. We fhall all stand before the judgment-feat of Chrift.' And he will be feen with the bodily Eyes of all Fob xix. 26. 27. And though 'after my fkin, worms deftroy this body, yet in my flesh fhall I fee God: whom I fhall fee for myfelf, and mine eyes fhall behold, and not an other; though my reins be confumed within me.' Rev. i. 7. Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye fhall fee him, and they also which 'pierced him. At his coming to Judgment, the World will be going on in their ordinary Course and Bufinefs of Life: Luke xvii. 26. 27. 28. 30. And as it was in the days of Noe, fo fhall t be 'alfo in the days of the Son of man. They did

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cat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark. Likewife also as it was in the days of Lot, they did eat, they drank, they bought, they fold, they planted, they builded: even thus 'fhall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.' Matth. xxiv. 40. 41. 'Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.' The Parties that shall be judged, are, Men and Devils: 2 Cor. v. 10. 'We must all appear before the judgment-feat of Chrift.' Jude 6. And the angels which kept not their firft eftate, but left their own habitation, he hath referved in everlafting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.' The Summons will be given to the Quick and the Dead, by the Sound of the laft Trumpet, Theff. iv. 16, 17. forecited. The Effect of that will be, that the Dead fhall be raifed, and thofe that are alive changed, 1 Cor. xv. 52. forecited. They will be gathered from all Airths, unto the Place of the Judgment, by the Ministry of Angels: Mark xiii. 27. And then thall he fend his angels, and fhall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermoft part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.' Matth. xiii. 40. 41. As therefore the tares are gathered, and burnt in the fire; fo fhall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they fhall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity. The Righteous will meet the Lord Chrift the Judge in the Air,1 Theff. iv. 17. forecited. And he will feat himself for the Judgment, on a glo

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