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A27162	The Resurrection founded on justice, or, A vindication of this great standing reason assigned by the ancients and modern wherein the objections of the learned Dr. Hody against it, are answered : some opinions of Tertullian about it, examined : the learned doctor's three reasons of the Resurrection, inquired into : and some considerations from reason and Scriptures, laid down for the establishment of it / by N.B. ...	Beare, Nicholas.	1700 (1700)	Wing B1564; ESTC R38679	58,906	162

Sin and consequences of it as in the 1 3 6 and 11. Verses O Man … Secondly That he is said to treasure up wrath by which elegant metaphor nothing less can be signified than that his sins are kept in a safe reconditory to be brought forth against the Man in the great Day of Reckoning Thirdly He is also here infallibly certified of the Justice of all the Proceedings then and that 1st From the Nature of the Judgment it self 'T is Righteous 2dly From the Character of the Judge set forth by this Paraphrase who will render to every Man according to his Deeds which most certainly carries an accent and emphasis with it being so often in Scripture repeated as Psal 62. 12. Mat. 16. 27. Rev. 22. 12. 3dly By another Property which makes his Justice altogether as conspicuous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he is no respecter of Persons Fourthly We have here withal a large amplification of the different states which attend all according to their Deserts Lastly So universal is this last Scrutiny as that no Man whatsoever is exempt from it neither Jew nor Gentile that is no Person at all The Argument from this Authority runs thus There is a time coming when all Men which unavoidably supposes the conjunction of both parts shall make their Personal appearance before a most righteous Judge when all their Deeds of what kind soever shall be brought upon the Stage and they impartially treated without any other respects but their deservings When as St. Athanasius's Creed expresseth it All Men shall rise with their Bodies and give an account of their Works and they that have done Good shall go into life everlasting and they they that have done Evil into everlasting Fire And what is this but Justice both with respect to Body as well as Soul for both are here joined together and one is the inseparable concomitant of the other The Second Authority which I offer for the confirmation of the Doctrine which I endeavour to vindicate is John 5. 28. Marvel not at this for the hour is coming in the which all that are in their 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 To bring my Text home to the Argument we are necessitated to look back into the context where we find the occasion to be the cure of a Paralitical Man who had laboured under this Chronical Disease for no less a Space than 38 Years at which the Spectators deservedly wonder whereupon our Blessed Saviour gives them an account of a much stranger thing than this namely of the Resurrection of the Bodies of all Men from the first to the last at the end of the World Marvel not at this for the hour cometh when all that are in their Graves c. My observation from this Place for the Advantage of my Argument is First we have here a Resurrection how strange soever and impossible it may seem to be confirmed and established from the Mouth of Christ himself and secondly we have here the consequence of the Resurrection and the main Reason of it which is the matter of our Dispute and I most willingly appeal to the Reason of all Mankind whether it be not manifestly held forth in the latter Clause for tho the illative be suppressed yet t is manifestly implyed and the latter part is exegetical i. e. gives us the Reason of the former The Bodies of good Men are to rise again and to enjoy everlasting Happiness and the Bodies of the Wicked are to be united to their Souls to suffer those punishments in conjunction now which their Sins committed in their former Union have deserved The most natural Sense of the place is as if Christ had said All Men shall rise that they that have done Good may go into Life everlasting and that they that have done Evil unto the Resurrection of Damnation The Third and next Text is Rev. 20. 12 13. I saw the Dead small and great stand before God and the Books were opened and another Book was opened which is the Book of Life and the Dead were Judged out of these things which were Written in the Books and the Sea gave up the Dead which were in it and Death and Hell deliver'd up the Dead which were in them and they were Judged every Man according to their Works In this Vision St. John represents the general Resurrection under the popular Scheme of a grand Assize with allusion in all probability to the like passages of the Prophets Daniel and Malachy Dan. 7. 10. Mal. 3. 16. at which time the Books of Records containing the Indictments and Charges of those Summoned to appear are produced faithfully Read and Examined And as these are found so do the Persons at the Bar either stand or fall Even so is it to all intents and purposes at the Resurrection tho there will be no real Written Books of Registers but the Metaphorical ones of God's Omniscience and every Man's Conscience which carries in it the whole Work of the Court all the Officers of it we are hereby infallibly secured of the Accuracy of Justice in all the Proceedings Every Line and Clause of this Text affords us ample evidence of the Doctrine we contend for As the Bodies of all Men shall arise to be brought to Judgment so shall all their Actions be laid open carefully Scanned Weighed and Exaamined to make the Sentence Righteous Of which the Books that is the Accounts Charges and Works contained in them are the unvariable Measure and Rule inviolably to be observed by the Supreme Judge in the final Determinations of all Men. Now that the force of the Argument of this Text may not be eluded I desire the Reader to consider these three Remarks First The Dead are raised in order to their Tryal and therefore must by all be allowed in a special manner concerned Secondly 't is said expresly that the Dead were Judged which cannot be referred to the Souls of Men which are Immortal no ways subject to Death in the Sense here it must therefore by an unavoidable necessity be understood of the Bodies and so by consequence all the Business of this Judgment from first to the last both the Works and Remuneration fastned here And for the full assurance of which it ought to be Thirdly Farther noted how that 't is twice repeated in the close of both the Verses The Dead were Judged out of these things which were Written in the Books and they were Judged every Man according to their Works Fourthly After these I cannot pass by that of Heb. 6. 10. God is not Vnrighteous to forget your Work and Labour of Love in Ministring to the Saints For our encouragment in well doing the Apostle directs us to cast our Eyes on the recompence of reward which shall attend good and charitable Men at last and secures us in this that Righteousness