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A47184	A testimony against that false & 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 entered into / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1692 (1692)	Wing K217; ESTC R13586	10,317	13

A TESTIMONY AGAINST THAT False 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 entered into By George Keith WHereas many hurtful and dangerous Errors have taken place among too many called Christians which are some of the Tares and evil Seeds that Sathan hath sown while men have slept in the dark Night of Apostacy and that now some do think they are awakened and come to the Day and in the Light of Gods Day see into the true Christian Doctrine and pretend to great Openings and Discoveries and Revelations and yet some even of such hold some false and unchristian Opinions of which there are not a few concerning the Resurrection of the Dead although the Testimony of the holy Scriptures is very full and clear against these dangerous and hurtful Opinions and Principles imbraced by some as if they were true Christian Doctrines Some alledging That there is no Resurrection of the Body at all or That there is nothing of the Body that dyeth that riseth again Others alledging That the Resurrection is past already and all the Resurrection they expect they have already attained being as they pretend risen with Christ in all respects Others say Their vile or low Body is already changed and made conform to his glorious Body Others say They receive all the Resurrection they do expect immediately after Death All which are most dangerous and unchristian Principles and are directly contrary to the holy Scriptures for there were in Pauls time who said The Resurrection was past already and did overthrow the Faith of some such as Hymeneus and Philetus whose words did eat as a Canker as he declared 2 Tim. 2. 17 18. And such who say Their 〈◊〉 body is changed and made conform to the glorious Body of Christ contradict the Scripture and speak reproachfully but ignorantly against the Lord Jesus Christ for Paul useth these words by way of Prophecy as a thing not then fullfilled but a thing to be fulfilled at the Resurrection of the Dead Phil. 3. 21. Who shall change our vile or low Body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious Body c. He doth not say that the Body was already changed and made like to the Body of Christ but by way of Prophecy related it as a thing to come for the washing and cleansing of the Body from sin is not that change but it is necessary to prepare unto it for even after the Bodies of the Saints are washed and cleansed from sin they remain low and weak and mortal and corruptible subject to Hunger Cold Heat Diseases and Death and therefore are not made like to his glorious Body until the Resurrection of the Dead And such who say Nothing of the Body that dyeth riseth again do plainly contradict the Testimony of the holy Spirit recorded in Scripture and especially 1 Cor. 15. 7 38. for according to the Example that the Wisdom of God giveth of the Grain of Corn whereby to open the Mystery of the Resurrection as the true Body of the Seed in the Grain riseth so that out of the old Body a new Body doth arise but the Husk or Drossy part riseth not even so is the Resurrection of the Dead Therefore the new Resurrection Body is raised out of the old Body as the new Grain of Corn riseth out of the old but if the Body of the Grain of Corn did wholly perish or come to Dust nothing could arise which is a plain Example given us by the the Wisdom of God and that which rises is the Mortal that putteth on Immortality and the Corruptible that putteth on Incorruption and is not raised Flesh and Blood such as men now have but yet a true Body for Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God neither doth Corruption inherit Incorruption but the true Body of Man and Woman that shall arise at the Resurrection of the Dead lieth hid within this visible gross appearance of Flesh and Blood even as the true Body of the Seed in the Grain of Corn lieth within the Husk or as the precious Gold lieth within the course Mineral or Mine until the pure and precious Metal be seperated from the Dross And because this Seperation is not immediately effected but requireth a Time after Death and that even when the Seperation is made the Body remaineth and is lodged by the divine Providence that giveth to every thing its proper place as in a certain invisible Grave or Sepulchre that was mysteriously figured by the Burial place called Machpelah that signifieth a double or two fold Sepulchre Gen. 23. which Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite which word Ephron signifieth the Dust-eater for four hundred pieces of Silver The which as it is litterally true so is an Allegory and points at the Resurrection of the Body out of the Mystical and Invisible Machpelah or Sepulchre in Hebron which signifieth bordering in the Land of Israel figuratively and Mystically understood and by four hundred pieces of Silver as by so many Virtues signified by Silver this most excellent Burial place is purchased from Ephron but he who hath not these Virtues cannot have the Priviledge to be buried in this most excellent Burial place and therefore an Vntimely Birth is better than he as the holy Scripture declareth Eccles 6. 3. For it is no such Misery nor Unhappiness not to have an outward and visible Sepulchre which many of the dear Children of God have not had but surely they have this other more excellent Burial in the Mystical Hebron in the Mystical Land of Israel where all the dead Bodies of the Saints shall be raised up and stand with the Lamb upon Mount Zion to wit not the litteral 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 although the Souls and Spirits of the Righteous and of all the faithful both Men and Women who dye 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 though 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 a sleep in respect of their Bodies which are rather fallen a sleep 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 arose from the Dead the third day 1 Thes 4. 14. For if we believe that Jesus Dyed 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 a sleep 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 though 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 a sleep 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 found 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 vers 18. Thy Wrath is come and the Time of the Dead that they should be judged and that thou shouldest 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. layeth down the Resurrection of Christs Body from the dead as the ground why true Believers which are his Members shall attain to the Resurrection of their Body it manifestly appeareth 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 Christs 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 Christs Body rose from the dead because he is expresly called The first begotten from the Diad and The first Fruits that goeth before the Harvest And therefore none did attain the Bodily Resurrection before him neither Aenoch 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 Priviledge 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 Poly 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 although 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 dyed in Faith not having received the Promises but having seen then afaer off and were perswaded of them and imbraced them c. And vers 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 Vers 35. And others were Tortured not accepting Deliverance that they might obtain the 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 Christs 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 bruse the Head of the Serpent for though 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 Adams 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 through Faith in him and that inward quickening and being raised with him who is the Resurrection and the Life now in the Morta 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 fullness of Glory and Happiness that they are to expect forever As it doth tend to overthrow a principal Article