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A30200	The resurrection of the dead and eternall judgement, or, The truth of the resurrection of the bodies both of good and bad at the last day asserted and proved by Gods word : also, the manner and order of their coming forth of their graves, as also, with what bodies they do arise : together with a discourse of the last judgement, and the finall conclusion of the whole world / by John Bunyan.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1665 (1665)	Wing B5590; ESTC R34391	88,686	200

deal with sinners in the day of Judgement and will bring in I say all the Counsels and warnings he hath given men by these things both to clear up and to agravate their Judgement to them The second Book that will be opened at this day it will be the Book of Gods Remembrance Mal. 3. 16. For as God hath in his Remembrance Recorded all and every particular good thing that his own People hath done to and for his Name while they were in this World so he hath in his Remembrance Recorded all the evill and sin of his adversaries even every thing Eccles. 12. 14. Now Gods Remembrance is so perfect every way that it is impossible that any thing should be lost that is committed to it to be kept and brought forth to the Judgement at the time appointed for as a thousand years are but as yesterday with his Eternity so the sins that have been committed thousands of years since they are all so firmly fixed in the Remembrance of the Eternal God that they are always as fresh and clear in his sight as if they were but just now in committing He calleth again the things that are past Eccles. 3. 15. and hath set our most securest things in the light of his Countenance Psal. 90. 8. As he also saith in another place Hell it self is naked before him and destruction hath no covering Job 26. 6. That is the most secret cunning and hidden contrivances of the most subtle of the infernal spirits which yet are far more slethy then men to hide their wickedness yet I say all their wayes hearts and most secret doings are clear to the very bottom of them in the Eyes of the great God All things are open and bare before the Eyes of him with whom we have to do who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the Counsels of the heart Heb. 4. 13. 1 Cor. 4 5. Ye that say the Lord shall not see neither shall the God of Jacob regard it Understand O ye bruitish among the People and ye fools when will ye be wise He that planted the Ear shall not he hear He that formed the Eye shall not he see He that chasteneth the Heathen shall not he correct He that teacheth man knowledge shall not he know Psal. 94. 7 8 9 10. See also Hos. 7. 2. 8. 13. Can any hide himself in secret places that I should not see him that is when he is committing wickedness saith the Lord Do not I fill Heaven and Earth saith the Lord Jer. 23. 24. Now to know and see things it is the cause among men of their remembrance Wherefore God to shew us that he will remember all our sins if we die out of Christ he tells us that he knoweth and seeth them all and therefore must needs remember them for as is his sight and knowledge so is his Remembrance of all things When this Book of his Remembrance therefore is opened as it shall be in the Judgement then shall be brought forth of their hidden holes all things whatsoever hath been done since the World began whether by Kingdoms in general or persons in particular Now also shall be brought forth to open view all the transactions of God and his Son among the Sons of men and every thing shall be applyed to every particular person in equity and Justice to whom they belong the sins that thou hast committed shall be thy own and thou thy self shall bear them The Lord is a God of knowledge and by him actions are weighed It will be marvellous to behold how by thousands and ten thousands God will call from their secret places those sins that one would have thought had been dead and buried and forgotten yea how he will shew before the Sun such things so base and so horrid that one would think it was not in the hearts of any to commit for all is Recorded in the Book of Gods Remembrance While men are here they have a thousand tricks to present themselves one to another far more fair and honest then they are or ever were As Christ said to the Pharisees Ye are they who justifie your selves before men but God knoweth your hearts Luk. 16. 15. I God knoweth indeed what a nest what a heap what swarms yea what Legions of hellish wickednesses there is with power lurking like Cockatrices in those men that one would swear a thousand times are good and honest men The way of men in their sins it is like an Eagle in the Air a Serpent upon the Rock a Ship in the midst of the Sea and of a young Man with a Maid saith Solomon Prov. 30. 19 20. That is hiddenly closely covertly burying all under fair pretences wipeth their mouths in the close of their evill saying I have done wickedness But this though it may serve for the time present and no longer God will not be deluded nor blinded nor mocked nor put off Gal. 6. 7. They consider not that I remember all their wickedness saith he but I will reprove thee and will set them in order before thine eyes Hos. 7. 2. Psal. 50. 21. Here will be laid open the very heart of Cain the murderer of Judas the Traytor of Saul the adversary of David and of those that under pretences of holiness have persecuted Christ his Word and People Now shall every Drunkard Whoremaster Thief and other wicked person be turned their inside outward their hearts right open and every sin with every circumstance of place time person with whom with the causes also that drew them to the commission of every evill be discovered to all Here will be no hiding your selves behind Curtains nor no covering your selves with the black and dark night If I say surely the darkness shall cover me even the night shall be light about me yea O God darkness hideth not from thee but the night shineth as the day the darkness and light are both alike unto thee Psal. 139. 11 12. The piercing Eye of God beholds all places persons and things the holy hand of his Justice writeth them down in the Book of his Remembrance and by his Power and Wisdom will he open and read to all men exactly distinctly and convincingly whatever hath passed from them or bin done by them in their whole life For for all these things God will bring thee into Judgement Eccles. 11. 9. Again as God will bring out of the Book of his Remembrance what ever hath passed from thee against him so also will he then bring forth by the same Book all things and carriages of his towards thee Here will he bring to thy mind every Sermon thou hast heard every Chapter thou hast read every conviction thou hast had on thy Conscience and every admonition that hath been given thee in all thy life when thou wast in the Land of the Living Now will God lay open before thee what patience he extended to thee how he let thee l●ve

appeared such flames such Thunderings and Tempests as there were at the giving of the Law what flames and blackness will there appear at the execution thereof and if at the giving of the Law there appeared so much Holiness and Justice that it made all Israel flie yea holy Moses exceedingly fear and quake what will become of these that God shall judge by the rigour of this Law in the day of Judgement Exod. 19. 16. Heb. 11. 21. O what Thunderings and Lightnings what Earthquakes and Tempests will there be in every damned Soul at the opening of this Book then indeed will God visit them with Thunder and Earthquake and great noyse with Storm and Tempest and the flame of a devouring fire For behold saith the Prophet the Lord will come with fire and with his Chariots like a Whirl-wind to render his anger with fury and his rebukes with flames of fire Isa. 29. 6. Isa. 66. 15. The Lord will come with fire that is in the flaming heat of his Justice and Holiness against sin and sinners to execute the rigour of his threatnings upon their perishing Souls Secondly The second general Head that is contained in this Law to be opened at this day is its exactness and purity and strictness as to all acts of good that any poor Creature hath done in this life whereby he in the Judgement will think to shelter or secure himself from the wrath of God This is the Rule and Line and Plummet whereby every act of every man shall be measured and he whose righteousness is not found every way answerable to this Law which all will fall short of but they that have the Righteousness of God by faith in Jesus Christ he must perish as he saith Rom. 3. 21. 22. Judgement also will I lay to the line and Righteousness will I lay to the Plummet and the Ha●l shall sweep away the refuge of lies and the water shall overflow the hiding places Isa. 28. 17 18. That is though men may now shelter themselves under legall Repentance cold profession good meaning thinkings and doings yet all these things must be measured and weighed in the ballance of Gods most righteous Law and as I said whatever in that day is not found the Righteousness of God it will be found a re●uge of lies and will be drowned by the over-flowing of the wrath of God as the waters of Noah over-flowed the World Mal. 4. 1. And hence it is that all the ungodly will at this day be found as stubble and the Law as fire As it saith From his Right hand went a fiery Law And again his lips are full of indignation and his tongue as a devouring fire Deut. 33 2 Isa. 30. 27. For as fire where it se●zeth doth burn eat destroy devoure and consume so will the Law all those that at this day shall be found under the transgressio● of the least tittle of it It will be with the●● Souls at the day of Judgement as it is wit● those Countries that are over-run with mo●● merciless Conquerours who leave not any thing behind them but swallow up all with fire and sword For by fire and by his Sword will the Lord plead with all flesh and the slain of the Lord shall be many Isa. 66. 16. There are two things at the day of Judgement will meet in their height and utmost strength and they are sin and the Law for the Judgement will not be till the iniquity of the World be full ripe Joel 3. 13. Rev. 14. 15 16 17 18 19 20. Now then when sin is come to its full having plaid all its pranks and done all the mischief it can against the Lord of Glory then God brings forth the Law his holy and righteous Law one of which will now reign for ever that is either the Law or sin Wherefore sin and sinners they must tremble with all that help and hold them up for God will magnifie the Law and make it honourable Isa. 42. 21. That is will give it the Victory over the World for ever for that is holy just and good they are unholy unjust and bad Therefore by this Law will the Lord rain snares fire and Brimstone and a horrible Tempest this shall be the potion of their Cup. Psal. 11. 5 6. Let no man say then that because God is so famous in his mercy and patience in this day of his Grace that therefore he will not be fierce and dreadful in his Justice in the day of Judgement for Judgement and Justice is the last thing that God intends to bring upon the stage which will then be to the full as terrible as now his goodness and patience and long sufferance is admirable Lord who knoweth the power of thine anger even according to thy fear so is thy wrath Psal. 90. 11. You may see if you will a few of the sparks of the Justice of God against sin and sinners by his casting off Angels for sin from Heaven to Hell by his drowning the old World by his burning of Sodom and Gomorah to ashes condemning them with an overthrow making them an example to those that after should live ungodly 2 Pet. 2. 4 5 6. Jude 6. 7. For whatsoever the Law saith it saith it to them that are under the Law that every mouth may be stopped and all the World become guilty before God Rom. 3. 19. Moses seems to wonder that the Children of Israel could continue to live when they did but hear the Law delivered on the Mountain Did ever People saith he hear the Lord speak out of the midst of the fire as thou hast done and live Deut. 4. 73. O that ye did but know the Law and the wonderous things that are written therein before the Lord cause that fearful Voyce to be heard Cursed is every one that continueth not in every thing that is written in the Book of the Law to do them which curse must fall on all that walk not in all the Commandements of God without iniquity which none do I say but they that walk in Christ who hath alone fulfilled them all Gal. 3. 10. Ezek. 33. 15. Col. 2. 10. The Law is that which standeth at the entrance of the Paradice of God as a flaming Sword turning every way to keep out those that are not righteous with the righteousness of God that have not skill to come to the throne of Grace by that new and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the veil that is to say his flesh Gen. 3. 24. Heb. 1. 19 20. for though this Law I say be taken away by Christ Jesus for all that truly and savingly believe yet it remains in full force and power in every tittle of it against every Soul of man that now shall be found in his Tabernacle that is in himself and out of the Lord Jesus Col. 2. 14. Rom. 3. 19. Job 18. 14. it lyeth I say like a Lyon rampant at the gates of Heaven and will roar