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A47131	The Christian Quaker: or, George Keith's eyes opened Good news from Pensilvania. Containing a testimony against that false and absurd opinion which some hold, viz. that all true believers and saints, immediately after the bodily death attain to all the resurrection they expect, and enter into the fullest enjoyment of happiness. And also, that the wicked, immediately after death, are raised up to receive all the punishment they are to expect. Together with a scriptural account of the resurrection of the dead, day of judgment, and Christ's last coming and appearance without us. Also, where, and what those Heavens are into which the man Christ is gone, and entred into. By George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1693 (1693)	Wing K153; ESTC R219221	10,576	12

the literal Zion but the mystical Now that the Bodies of the Saints are not raised up immediately after Death or after the Spirit goeth out of the Body altho the Souls and Spirits of the Righteous and of all the Faithful both Men and Women who die in the Faith of the Lord Jesus Christ do immediately go unto God and Christ in Heaven and enter into a very great and large Enjoyment of the Heavenly Blessedness after the bodily Decease is clear from many express Testimonies of the holy Scripture For the deceased Saints tho their Souls and Spirits are alive with the Lord in Heaven and do not sleep but are awake and praise God continually yet they are said to be asleep in respect of their Bodies which are rather fallen asleep than dead and are said to sleep in Christ to wit under his Divine Care and Protection until he awaken them For which I shall cite these following Scriptures 1 Kings 2. 10. So David slept with his Fathers and was buried in the City of David Deut. 39. 16. Behold thou shalt sleep with thy Fathers said the Lord unto Moses 1 Cor. 15. 20. Now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first Fruits of them that sleep viz. because he rose from the dead the third day 1 Thess 4. 14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him for this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the Coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep for the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a Shout with the Voice of the Arch-Angel and with the Trump of God and the Dead in Christ shall rise first All which Places plainly show that tho the Saints as with respect to their Souls are raised up and ascended and are with God and Christ in Heaven yet as to their Bodies they are asleep and have not attained to the Resurrection of the Body for if they had attained to the bodily Resurrection Paul would not have writ of them by way of Prophecy in the future or time to come saying The Dead in Christ shall rise first to wit at the Voice of the Arch-Angel and Trump of God Now what this Trump or Trumpet is both Paul and John declareth and the Time about which it is to sound 1 Cor. 15. 52. In a moment in the twinkling of an Eye at the last Trump and the Dead shall be raised Incorruptible and we shall be changed Rev. 11. 15. 18. And the seventh Angel sounded which seventh is the last Trumpet c. And ver 18. Thy Wrath is come and the time of the Dead that they should be judged and that thou shouldst give reward unto thy Servants the Prophets and thy Saints and them that fear thy Name both small and great And because Paul 1 Cor. 15. lays down the Resurrection of Christ's Body from the dead as the Ground why true Believers which are his Members shall attain to the Resurrection of their Body it manifestly appears that they are to attain unto it at the end of the World or at the last Trumpet as above mentioned yet it may well be allowed that some did attain to the Resurrection of the Body immediately after Christ's Resurrection according to Mat. 27. 52 53. And the Graves were opened and many Bodies of Saints which slept arose and came out of the Graves after his Resurrection and went into the holy City and appeared unto many And therefore the deceased Saints have not generally attained the Resurrection of the Dead as touching the Resurrection of the Body but do wait for it until the Sound of the last Trumpet Nor did any of the Saints attain the Resurrection of the Body before Christ's Body rose from the dead because he is expresly called The first-begotten from the Dead and The first Fruits that go before the Harvest And therefore none did attain the bodily Resurrection before him neither Enoch nor Elias for though they were taken up yet it is not said they had attained the Resurrection of the Body it only implieth some particular Privilege that they did not taste of Death as other Men and the like may be said of Moses whose Body was more pure and excellent than that of other Men and therefore Michael the Arch-Angel did contend with the Devil about the Body of Moses and would not let him touch it as being more excellent and therefore it is said God buried him and no Man knoweth of his Burial-place to this day Moreover it is very plain from Scripture that the deceased Saints who lived from the beginning of the World altho their Souls and Spirits did ascend unto God and Christ in Heaven yet waited for the Resurrection of the Body and that more abundant Glory that should follow thereupon for it is said Heb. 11. 13. These all died in Faith not having received the Promises but having seen them afar off and were perswaded of them and embraced them c. And ver 39 40. All these having obtained a good Report through Faith received not the Promise God having provided some better things for us that they without us should not be made perfect Now what this Promise is is clear from Ver. 35. And other were tortured not accepting Deliverance that they might obtain a better Resurrection which is the Resurrection of the Just that is better than the Resurrection of the Unjust Now if some say The Promise that they waited for was Christ's Coming in the Flesh I answer As it was that in part so it was not only that but all that Felicity and Happiness that should come unto them by the Coming of Christ in the Flesh and his Death and Resurrection to wit the perfect Victory over Death which is not fully obtained until the Mortal put on Immortality and the Corruptible put on Incorruption as it is written So when this Corruptible shall put on Incorruption and this Mortal shall have put on Immortality then shall be brought to pass the Saying that is written Death is swallowed up in Victory O Death where is thy Sting O Grave where is thy Victory c. And that very first Promise that God gave to Mankind after the Fall did relate to this Victory over Death That the Seed of the Woman which is Christ Jesus should bruise the Head of the Serpent for tho the Head of the Serpent was inwardly bruised as in respect of the inward Redemption Salvation and Deliverance of the Souls of all the Faithful in all Ages of the World both before and after Christ came in the Flesh yet until they attain unto the Resurrection of the Body the Head of the Serpent is not in all respects bruised because the last Enemy that is to be destroyed is Death who is not fully destroyed until the Bodies of the Saints be raised from Death for by Adam's Fall Death both

of Soul and Body came upon him and his Posterity as is at large demonstrated in another Treatise of G. K's and by Christ's Death and Resurrection to all who sincerely believe in him and obey him that twofold Death is removed the Death of the Soul thrô Faith in him and that inward quickning and being raised with him who is the Resurrection and the Life now in the mortal State but the Death of the Body at the Resurrection of the Dead see this twofold Resurrection the one of the Soul the other of the Body expresly mentioned John 5. 25 28. And who say That the Faithful immediately after Death receive the Resurrection of the Body and all that fulness of Glory and Happiness that they are to expect for ever As it doth tend to overthrow a principal Article of the Christian Faith touching the Resurrection of the Dead so it tendeth to overthrow that other great and principal Article of the Christian Faith touching the Great Day of Judgment that is to be in the End of the World called in Scripture The last Day and The great Day and That Day by way of Distinction from other Days and which is frequently mentioned in Scripture for even the fallen Angels have not as yet received their final Sentence and full and absolute Punishment but are reserved in Chains of Darkness unto the Judgment of the great Day Jude 6. compared with 2. Pet. 2. 4. And Mat. 7. 22. Many will say re me in That Day Lord Lord have not we prophesied in thy Name c. And 2 Thess 1. 7 8 9 10. When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming Fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting Destruction from the Presence of the Lord and from the Glory of his Power when he shall come to be glorified in his Saints and to be admired in all them that believe because our Testimony among you was believed in That Day Note well these words In That Day Again Acts 17. 31. Because he hath appointed a Day in the which he will judg the World in Righteousness by that MAN whom he hath ordained having offered Faith as the Greek and Margent of the English Bibles hath it unto all Men in that he hath raised him from the Dead And ver 32. And when they heard of the Resurrection of the Dead some mocked and others said We will hear thee again of this Matter And these were some Philosophers of the Epicureans and the Stoicks to which this Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body seemed strange And so great an Article and Doctrine of the Christian Faith was this of the Resurrection that Paul calleth it The Hope of the Promise made of God unto the Fathers as plainly appeareth comparing Acts 26. v. 6. with v. 8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the Dead And ver 22 23. Witnessing both to small and great saying none other things than those which the Prophets and Moses did say should come that Christ should suffer and be the first that should rise from the Dead c. Note these words where it plainly appeareth That none of the Saints deceased before Christ's Resurrection were raised from the Dead although their Souls and Spirits did go unto God For the Resurrection of the Dead as a general thing is joined with the great Day of Judgment when the Son of MAN shall come in the Glory of his Father accompanied with his holy Angels and shall fit upon the Throne of his Glory and before him shall be gathered all Nations and he shall separate them one from another as a Shepherd divideth his Sheep from the Goats and first appointeth the Reward of the Kingdom viz. in the full possession of it unto the Sheep which is the first Resurrection and then he passeth the Sentence of Condemnation to the everlasting Fire or Fire of Ages unto the Goats on the left hand that is the Resurrection of the Vnjust But if all Men both Good and Bad receive their final Sentence immediately after Death there is no occasion for a Day of Judgment in the end of the World for that is prevented by what cometh to pass both to Good and Bad immediately after Death according to this absurd Opinion But again as concerning that Great Day of Judgment to come wherein both the Righteous and the Wicked shall receive according to the Works done in the Body Christ doth plainly elsewhere declare as Mat. 24. 36. But of that Day and Hour knoweth no Man no not the Angels in Heaven but my Father only And Mark 3. 32. But of that Day and Hour knoweth no Man no not the Angels in Heaven neither the Son but the Father Which is to be understood of Christ the Son as Man to whom then it was not known The which Day and Hour cannot be the time immediately after Mens decease for though after Death there is a Judgment that followeth every one according to Heb. 9. 27. yet that is not the great and last Judgment nor Universal but Particular And of this last Day Christ said John 6. 40. And this is the Will of him that sent me that every one which seeth the Son and believeth on him may have everlasting Life and I will raise him up at the last Day Note He doth not say I will raise him up in the Body immediately after Death but in this last Day to wit in the End of the World And with a respect to this Martha made a good Confession of her Faith touching the Resurrection of the Dead saying I know that he shall rise again in the Resurrection at the last Day The which Christ doth not in the least contradict but opened a further Mystery unto her to wit That he was the Resurrection and the Life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die And because he was the Resurrection viz. the Author of it therefore he could and would raise Lazarus her Brother from the Dead at that time which yet was not the Resurrection in the last Day for he was but raised at that time a mortal Man to die again And whereas he said He who believeth in me shall never die containeth a great and most comfortable Mystery to wit That neither the Souls nor the Bodies of true Believers strictly die their Souls sleep not but are awake and their Bodies tho they sleep die not their sleep is not the sleep of Death strictly taken And therefore Christ proved against the Sadduces the Resurrection of the Dead from the Words of God to Moses I am the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and God is not the God of the Dead but the God of the Living and therefore nothing of Abraham was strictly dead or perished neither his Soul