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A27234 The doctrine of a general resurrection wherein the identity of the rising body is asserted against the Socinians and scepticks : in a sermon preach'd before the University at St. Mary's in Oxford, on Easter-Monday, Apr. 5 / by Tho. Beconsall ... Becconsall, Thomas, d. 1709. 1697 (1697) Wing B1656; ESTC R1506 19,938 35

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the Just had obtain'd in the Jewish Schools except those of the Sadducees yet the Notion of it was vastly different from that Glorious Resurrection which the Christian Institutions ratify and establish for none of 'em could ever arrive to a strict numerical Resurrection and therefore it s in this sence One of those Doctrines which stands to the Jews a stumbling-block and to the Greeks foolishness But notwithstanding these extravagant Insults it s to those that believe The power of God and the wisdom of God It s a Doctrine as powerful in the Evidence of it as it has been mighty in its Successes and tho' we cannot assert it from the established Course of Nature nor desire to rake it up out of the Rubbish of Heathen or Jewish Traditions yet it rests upon an unshaken Foundation even a sure word of Prophecy unto which we shall do well to take heed for we have before us the words of Him that is become The Lord of Life and Glory and has the Keys of Hell and Death He it is that assures us The hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth They that have done good unto the Resurrection of Life and they that have done evil unto the Resurrection of Damnation This famous Passage is almost universally allowed to be a Description of a general Resurrection Indeed the Learned Bishop Pearson observes that it strikes so closely at the Socinian Notion of a Resurrection that some of 'em are forc'd to apply it to a Spiritual Resurrection and pronounce the Grave to be the Regions of Heathen Ignorance and Impiety and the Reception of the Gospel to be the Resurrection from ' em But we must do Socinus and the most considerable of his Followers Crellius and Schlictingius a piece of Justice here for tho' they will not allow the words to prove the Identity of our Rising Bodies yet they reject the conceit of a spiritual Resurrection and assign the same Arguments against it that are advanced by this Eminent Prelate Since then we are thus far agreed that the thing pointed at is a General Resurrection we may venture to affirm that they instruct us in two important Circumstances of it first the Extent and secondly the Manner of it Here 's a distinction of Allotments Life and Damnation and they are founded in distinct Works and Actions good and evil and both imply distinct Classes of Persons the Righteous and the Wicked and consequently a Resurrection of both The Wicked must certainly bear a part in the Resurrection for every Soul that sinneth and every Body that dyeth and is committed to the Dust must rise again Yes as surely as he dyeth and enjoys a Sepulchre he must be forced from his Lodgment and rise again for neither the Grave nor Rocks nor Mountains shall cover much less secure him since all that are in the Graves must come forth Thus we have the Extent of the Resurrection Again If we demand with what Bodies shall we come Why certainly since our Resurrection is to be made from the Grave and since our Bodies even Flesh and Blood were committed to the Grave the very same Bodies will rise again the Substance will not be changed tho' the Quality's altered And thus we have the Manner of the Resurrection for All that are in the Graves shall come forth I shall endeavour to assert both these important Truths and that in Opposition to the Adversaries of ' em I begin with the First I mean the Extent of the Resurrection As for the Extent of it the Socinian Doctors are not yet agreed tho' the most Judicious declare for a general Resurrection It s observable Smalcius the Author of the Racovian Catechism only describes the Resurrection of the Just without taking the least notice of that of the Wicked whilst others allow the former but expresly deny the latter But an impartial Reader one would think could not have wished for a clearer Decision of this matter than our Saviour's words afford us when we are told That all that are in the Graves shall come forth part to the Resurrection of Life and part to the Resurrection of Damnation So that he that disputes the Truth of a general Resurrection must allow no distinction between the Righteous and the Wicked no more than their future Allotments or he must deny the Wicked the most common Office of Humanity that of Burial or excuse it by asserting an immediate Annihilation For if the Wicked at the point of Death do not immediately vanish into soft Air or if Mankind do not usually judge before-hand and thereupon deny 'em the Office of Burial or if the Allotments of Life and Damnation are not indiscriminately ascertain'd to affirm any of which would be a gross and palpable Absurdity then the Wicked must come forth of their Graves and make their Resurrection tho' a most Fatal one even the Resurrection of Damnation We may add to this leading Authority another of St. Paul's and its the more considerable since this great Apostle industriously pursues our Saviour's Methods in Representing it and that too with respect to the Universality Design and Manner of it For we must all appear no doubt from our Graves before the Judgment-seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his Body no doubt in that very Body they were committed according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad 2 Cor. 5.10 But to conclude this Argument from express Authorities of Scripture the Divine Author of the Book of Revelations hath so accurately described a general Resurrection that he seems to have industriously Ransackt all the Corners of the World in order to advance a Challenge to produce one single Mortal that has not his Summons to it And I saw the dead both small and great stand before God no doubt with that very Part about 'em for which they were once esteem'd Dead-men and the Sea gave up the dead which were in it and Death and Hell gave up the dead which were in them Chap. 20. ver 12 13. Here we see the Prince and Peasant the Infant and Man of Years must obey the Summons of a general Resurrection and all the Repositories of Art and Nature are forc'd to surrender up their Dead or disgorge the Mortal part of 'em And will any Socinian pretend to contrive a shelter for the Wicked I 'm afraid he 'll leave himself as well as them miserably expos'd especially when the Text assures us That the very Heavens shall flee away and there shall be no place found for them ver 11. But farther not to rest any longer in Generals I shall endeavour to prove it from the Nature of the Thing and that too in its particular Instances And First As for the Resurrection of the Just it s on all hands agreed that they are virtually raised in Christ for since the Head is risen and as such styled The first-born