29 30. as I shall have occasion hereafter in this Treatise to shew more fully Now what other matters will be objected against my former Assertion I cannot imagine but the former Objections are thus answered and I suppose that other such like may as easily be answered And all that hath been said in this Section tends to the confutation not only of such as think the third Heaven to be a created Heaven but also of such as think the World to come to be all one with the third Heaven whereas it may plainly appear by what hath been said That the World to come considered as a Continent is to be distinguished from the third Heaven SECT III. Shewing That the World to come considered as a Continent shall have no Being before this present evil World shall be dissolved but shall begin immediately thereupon FOr evidencing whereof these four Positions are to be proved viz. 1. This present World is evil 2. This present World shall be dissolved 3. The World to come shall have no Being before this present World be dissolved 4. That it shall begin immediately thereupon That this present World is evil is plainly acknowledged 1 Position Gal. 1. 4. Christ gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil World where this present world is called an evil world not in respect of the original first condition of it for that was very good And God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good Gen. 1. 31. Nor in respect of the substance of any creature contained in it for every creature of God is good viz. for the substance of it 1 Tim. 4. 4. But it is called an evil world in respect of two accidents belonging to it viz. the evil of sin and the evil of pain or punishment The first thing that proves this present world to be evil is sin whereof there is much to be found and many are the corruptions and pollutions that are in this world through lust 2 Pet. 1. 4. 2 Pet. 2. 20. 1 Joh. 2. 16. For the reprobate Angels who sinned in the beginning do sin still and can do nothing else but sin and all men and women now living in this world are sinful by nature and sinful by practise and do sin dayly in thought word or deed by omission or commission some unto death and some not unto death 1 Joh. 5. 16. And if I should here reckon up in order all the particular sins mentioned or spoken against in the Word of God it would be no hard matter to nominate or find a subject person if not many subject persons for every sin Yea there is no man so just upon earth that doth good and sineth not Eccles 7. 20. Who can say I have made my heart clean I am pure from my sin Prov. 20. 9. If we should say our sins are but few the Prophet will tell us they are more then can be numbered by us for who can understand his errors Psal 19. 12. Or if we should justifie our selves and say We have no sin we should but act the part of Deceivers Lyars Hypocrites and Apostates for if any man say â—e hath no sin he deceiveth himself and there is no â—ruth in him he maketh God a lyar and his Word â—s not in him 1 John 1. 8 10. Now sin is evil Psal â—4 14. and the greatest of evils because it hath no â—eal good in it but is most opposite unto the greatest good and is the cause of all other evils And if sin be evil then the world that hath so much sin in it must needs be evil too because of sin and as it was never evil before sin came into it so it was never good since in this respect And how can it be good â—n this respect seeing sin is a transgression of the Law a work of the Devil the World and the Flesh seeing it is hateful to God and hurtful to men a dishonor to God and a reproach to men a grief to God and to all good men and the only Make-bate betwixt God and man Yea as long as we shall find any sin in the world whether it be original or actual against Law or Gospel against God our neighbor or our selves we may safely say It is an evil world by reason of sin Thus it was an evil world by reason of sin in Noahs time because then the wickedness of man was great upon the earth and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually the earth also was corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence Gen. 6. 5 11. It was an evil world when there was no King in Israel because then every man did that which was right in his own eyes Judg. 17. 6. It was an evil world by reason of sin in Zedekiahs time because then the King himself did that which was evil in the sight of his God and all the chief of the Priests the Prophets transgressed very much after all the abominations of the Heathen â—â—d polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem and they mocked the Messenger of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people till there was no remedy 2 Chro. 36. 12 14 16. It was an evil world by reason of sin in the Prophet Hosea's time because then there was no truth noâ— Hos 4. 1 2. mercy c. It was an evil world by reason of sin in our Saviours time because then many loved darkness rather then light because their deeds were evil c. John 3. 19 20. And thus it is an evil world by reason of sin even at this day for we know that many Countries at this day are meerly Paganish and Atheistical with God and without Christ and many others have taken up a false Religion as Judaism Mahomatism Antichristianism and Sectarismâ— yea the most reformed Countries and Churches at this day are blemished with many deformities and this English Nation which was wont to be renowned for the form and power of godliness is now become a very sink of errors and abominable practises so that a stranger or forraigner may now nod the head at England and say There are many deceivers in England who have deceived many There are in it many false Prophets that walk about Mat. 24. 11 Mat. 7. 15. in sheeps clothing but inwardly are ravening wolves There are many false teachers that privily 2 Pet. 2. 1. bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them There are many that creep into 2 Tim. 3. 6 7. houses and lead captive filly women laden with iniquity led away with divers lusts ever learning and never come unto the knowledg of the truth There are many that will not endure sound doctrine 2 Tim. 4. 3 4. but after their own lusts do heap to themselves teachers having itching
A DISCOVERIE OF THE VVorld to Come According to the SCRIPTURES The first Part thereof being Didactical or such as contains a Form of Positive Doctrine WHEREIN 1. The Doctrine of the World to come is propounded explicated confirmed and applyed in a more familiar method then formerly hath been observed 2. The Doctrine of Millenaries touching a New Reformed Church in the latter Times which they call A New World is confuted 3. Sundry passages of holy Writ are interpreted in reference to the World to come which have been formerly wrested and forced in a wrong sense Written by J. SEAGER M. A. and Minister of Broadclist in the County of Devon LONDON Printed by J. Macock for Luke Fawne and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Parrot in Pauls Church-yard 1650. TO The Parishoners of Broadclist Grace and Peace be Multiplyed BEloved in the Lord It is now full eighteen years since that I was placed by the hand of Providâ—nce as a Spirituall Pastor amongst you upon the death of Mr. Robert Stennings three years of which time I was forced by the violence of Souldiers to absent my self from you these three years only excepted I have been constantly with you and as the Lord hath given me much health and strength of nature amongst you so I have spent much of that strength in my private studdies and publick imployments for you In witness whereof I can yet produce diverse volumes of Sermons written by me and published amongst you but I account this needless seeing you your selves can witnesse enough as touching this matter I will not compare my self with other Spirituall Labourers in Gods Vineyard for I know that they have received some of them ten talents some five some two yet this I may safely say that I have not hid my Masters one talent in a napkin but have improved it with diligence for the advancement of his glory and truth amongst you Wherefore after so long a time it concerns you all to enquire how ye have profited by my Ministry for be ye well assured that after so much spirituall husbandry as hath been used amongst you in plowing sowing planting and wattering the Lord will expect a plentiful crop of saving knowledge and obedience from you For my part I am prone to think the best of you as indulgent fathers are wont to think of their children I acknowledge that diverse of your friends and allies have dyed in my time whose life was precious and whose death was comfortable unto me and I hope to be better acquainted with them in the world to come then ever I was in this world I ac-acknowledge also that there are diverse now living amongst you of whom I am perswaded such things as accompany Salvation that they do sincerely love God and his truth and have not received the Grace of God nor the word of his grace in vain and my prayer for such is That they may persevere in grace unto the end holding fast the pattern of wholsome words which they have received and may never suffer themselves to be drawn away with the error of the wicked and so fal from their own stedfastness And I must needs acknowledge a third sort amongst you whom I have hitherto apprehended as proud contemners of the Word of God in my Ministery I pray God to give them Repentance unto life that they may recover themselves out of the snare oâ— the devil and may obtain pardon for this sin before their death otherwise I tremble to think how hard it wil be with them in the great day of the Lord Christ when they shall be accountable for every good Sermon and for every wholesome truth which they have thus contemned and trampled under their feet And now my beloved being desirous before my death to leave among you some token and testimonie of my love towards you I have published this Treatise which I call A Discovery of the VVorld to come some matters herein contained have been delivered in the open Congregation and here your eyes may see what your eares have heard yea here your eyes may see more then yet your eares have heard from me or from any other as I suppose touching this subject I am perswaded in my conscience of the truth of such grounds as are here delivered and my own soul hath felt the comfort of them for which cause I am the more hopefull that the same grounds may proove usefull and beneficiall unto others You may perceive with your eyes that I have not studdied strong lines and lofty expressions in this work but have endeavoured in plain and familiar termes to unfold a great Mystery unto you I do not herein perswade you to seek and search after the knowledge of this present world and the things hereof neither do I herein perswade you to love this present world and the things hereof you are by nature prone enough unto these things but hereby I do perswade and intreate you to study the knowledge of the world to come and to be better acquainted with the Doctrine hereof then yet you are because I apprehend this as a choyce part and high degree of saving knowledge and that which will profit you more at the last then all earthly treasures whatsoever and I am perswaded it is for want of this part of saving knowledge that many errours in these latter times are so readily entertained an assented unto In brief you have here a price put into your hands by Gods providence the Lord give you hearts to make a good use of it and if at any time I shall perceive this first part of my Discovery to be acceptable and useful to the Church of God I shal forthwith if the Lord shal permit studdy to conceive a Second Part and as soon as I shall have conceived it I shall be in travel to bring it forth to publick view In the interim I commend you to God and the Word of Grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance amongst all them that are sanctified Your Servant in such matters as concerns your eternal good John Seager The Contents AN Introduction Sect. I. Shewing That none should be grosly ignorant of the World to come as touching the Nature of it Sect. II. Shewing That the World to come considered as a Country or a Continent is to be distinguished from the third Heaven Sect. III. Shewing That the World to come shall have no Being before this present evil world shall be dissolved but shall begin immediately thereupon Sect. IV. Touching the Nature of the World to come considered as a Continent Sect. V. Touching the second Coming of Christ in the Flesh Sect. VI. Touching the last Resurrection Sect. VII Touching the last Judgment Sect. VIII Touching the Personal-Humane Kingdom of Christ in the World to come Sect. IX Touching the different Conditions of good and evil Angels in the World to come Sect. X. Touching the blessed Condition of Gods Elect
the same day with the second Coming of Christ as appears 1 Thes 4. 16. and for this cause it is said That the dead shall rise and be raised at the last day Joh. 6. 39 40 54. and 11. 24. where the day of Christs second Coming is called the last day not absolutely but respectively as I conceive because it shall be the first and last day of that nature and kind And though Zach. 14. we know not this day as we know other days by way of computation from the beginning yet we must know it to be the last day in the former sence Eighthly It informeth us That the last Resurrection 8 Informat shall produce a great change in or upon the bodies of men women and children For though in this Resurrection of which I speak our bodies shall be the same with these 1. For Essence because whatsoever is essential to these shall be essential to them as head and ears eyes hands and feet c. 2. For Propriety because every one shall receive his own body again 1 Cor. 15. as God shall give unto every dead seed it s own body and so we shall see Christ not with other but with these same eyes Job 19. 27. Yet in the last Resurrection our bodies shall not be the same with these either 1. For Substance because the substance of these shall perish and be brought to dust Gen. 3. and the substance of those shall be formed and raised as is probable out of the dust of these not out of the substance of them Indeed those bodies of men which have been translated without death and those bodies of men which shall be changed without death probably shall have the same substance in the World to come which now they have But I speak here of the dead bodies of men and do not think that they shall be the same for substance with these which now we have for the Reason before alledged 2. Neither shall our bodies in the last Resurrection be the same with these for Qualities because they shall be changed in this respect For whereas 1. These bodies are corruptible those shall be incorruptible 2. These bodies are mortal those shall be imâ—ortal 1 Cor. 15. 42 43 44. Phil. 3. 21. 3. These bodies are weak and frail those shall â—e strong and able 4. These bodies are deformed and vile those â—hall be well formed 5. These bodies are natural those shall be spiâ—itual 6. These are it may be imperfect for stature or â—imbs those shall be perfect in both respects And thus the last Resurrection shall produce a great change in or upon the bodies of dead men and women Being thus informed touching the last Resurrection we should be admonished from hence to beware of all erroneous opinions in reference to this Subject As 1. If any think there shall be no such Resurrection Vse as the Sadduces thought Mat. 22. 23. as some Philosophers Epicureans and Stoicks thought Acts 17. 18. and as some amongst the Corinthians thought 1 Cor. 15. 12. This is an erroneous opinion contrary to the Informations before given and we should beware of it because they who thus think are not much better then Atheists but are much worse then some Pagans in former times who acknowledged the Resurrection of the dead and an everlasting life after death 2. If any think this Resurrection is past already with Hyminetus and Philetus 2 Tim. 2. 18. This is an erroneous opinion too and we should beware of it because they who thus think conceive that either the Scripture speaks of no other Resurrection but a spiritual Resurrection or of no other Resurrection but such corporal resurrections as haâ—â— been heretofore whereas it hath been shewed bâ—fore That the Scripture doth plainly distinguish thâ— last Resurrection from both these 3. If any think that the reasonable soul of maâ— is mortal and shall dye with the body it is an erroâ—â— not only against those plain places of Scriptuâ—â— Psal 16. Luke 23. Luke 16. which teaches That the Souls of Christ of the penitent Thief of Dives and Lazarus were living while their bodies were dead but also against thâ— doctrine of the last Resurrection For if these soulâ— of men should dye with their bodies what betteâ— reason can there be given for the resurrection oâ— dead men then may be given for the resurrection oâ— dead beasts birds and fishes wherefore beware oâ— this opinion 4. If any think that dead beasts as well as dead men shall rise again at the last day they are much deceived also as may appear by what hath been said before in this Section and this brutish conceit is a plain denyal of that difference which Solomon puts betwixt a man and a beast in their death Eccl. 3. 21. and shews themselves to be ignorant of it therefore beware of it 5. If any think that the dead in Christ shall rise a thousand years before those men which are dead out of Christ we must take this for an error too though it hath many friends because the Word of God teacheth us to allow but one day for the last Resurrection called the last day Joh. 6. 39 40 54. and 11. 24. in which this great Work shall be finished How then can the dead in Christ rise a thousand years before the rest of the dead unless this one last day shall contain a thousand years from the morning to the evening of it which I suppose none of them will acknowledg for a truth Wherefore when it is said The dead in Christ shall rise first 1 Thess 4. 16. we must understand that they shall rise first in â—rder of dignity if not first in time as we said before And suppose they shall rise some moment of time â—efore the rest of the dead yet we have no reason â—o think that they shall rise a thousand years before â—hem And whereas it is said The rest of the dead â—ived not again until the thousand years were exâ—ired Revel 20. we are to understand that Saint â—ohn in this place and in the Context doth acquaint â—s with two sorts of dead men viz. some are dead â—n Christ and these are yet alive in him and shall â—ive with him in Heaven by virtue of their spiritual Resurrection until the thousand years there spoken â—f shall be expired And others are dead out of Christ and these shall never live by virtue of a spiâ—itual Resurrection neither shall they live again by â—irtue of a corporal Resurrection until the thouâ—and years before mentioned shall be expired And â—f this be the true meaning of the place as I conceive â—â— is it makes nothing at all for this last Opinion â—ut proves it rather to be erroneous and therefore we should take heed of it Again This Doctrine touching the last Resurâ—ection should exhort and stir us up to divers duâ—ies As 1. To beleeve the last Resurrection seeing we have so many Scriptures to confirm it for when our Saviour had
second Coming of Christ in the Flesh should admonish all men to whom these tydings shall come 1. To beware of Atheism that they be not found Atheists in this point for they that are Atheists in this particular will scoff at this doctrine as it is said There shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lusts and saying Where is the promise of his Coming 2 Pet. 3. 3 4. and it shall be evil for such at that day 2. To beware of ignorance and disobedience that we be not found wilfully ignorant of God and wilfully disobedient to the Gospel of Christ because at his second Coming he shall punish such as shall be found in the guilt of these sins with everlasting destruction from the presence of God and from the glory of his power 2 Thes 1. 9. 3. To beware of intemporance and excess in eating and drinking and the cares of this life Take heed lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeting and drunkenness and the cares of this life and so that day come upon you unawares Luk. 21. 34. 4. To beware of security that we do not sleep as do others and promise our selves peace and safety in our sins because sudden destruction shall come upon such as travel upon a woman with child and they shall not escape 1 Thes 5. 3 6. 5. To beware of causeless contention and strife with our neighbors For if a servant shall say in his heart My Lord delayeth his coming and shall begin to beat the men-servants and maidens the Lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him and in an hour when he is not aware and will cut him in sunder and will appoint him his portion with unbelievers Luke 12. 45 46. 6. To beware of all erroneous opinions about this Subject And seeing we have such clear Informations in the Word of God concerning it it will be dangerous for us to listen to any Informations contrary to these or to entertain any erroneous opinions in reference to this second Coming of Christ in the Flesh of which sort I have met with some created at this day As one saith There shall be a third Coming of Mr J. Arch Christ in the Flesh to which many Scriptures before quoted properly belong as he thinks and that his second Coming in the Flesh shall be only to raise the dead Saints and to set up his Kingdom upon this Earth and to establish it in the hands of all his dead and living Saints whereupon he shall withdraw himself into Heaven again until his third Coming at the end of the world whereas the Scripture speaks plainly but of two Comings of his in the Flesh and shews That as his first Coming in the Flesh was to take away sin so his second Coming shall be without sin unto Salvation Hebr. 9 28. Another saith That his second Coming in the Flesh is yet far off a thousand years off at least Another saith That his second Coming in the Flesh shall not be before there shall be a National Conversion of the Jews which shall occasion a more full Conversion of Gentiles Another saith That his second Coming in the Flesh shall be into this corrupt world Another saith That after his second Coming in the Flesh he shall return bodily into the third Heaven there to reside for ever and his Saints with him But I rescent these opinions as so many wild fansies or foperies such as have no footing at all in the Word of God And though I might here fill many pages with a large Confutation of them yet I forbear because I desire to furnish the Reader with more profitable matter and do think that by the light of the former Informations the judicious Reader may discern the darkness of these conceits Again That which hath been said touching the second Coming of Christ in the Flesh should exhort and perswade all men to whom these tydings shall come to these following duties 1. To be watchful against sin and Satan that we may keep a good Conscience in all things Sleep not as do others but watch and be sober 1 Thes 5. 6. Behold I come as a thief blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he be found naked and they see his shame Rev. 16. 15. 2. To beleeve his second Coming in the Flesh assuredly seeing we have no reason to doubt thereof and seeing they that beleeve not this are no better then Atheists and Christ shall come to be admired in them that beleeve 3. To look for that is to hope for this second Coming of his as we are taught to do both by precept 2 Pet. 3. 12. and by example Philip. 3. 20. 4. To love this second Coming of his seeing there shall be a Crown of Righteousness for such as love his Appearing 2 Tim. 4. 8. 5. To pray for this second Coming of his that it may be hastened Rev. 22. 20. and that we may be accounted worthy to stand before him at that day Luk. 21. 36. 6. To be diligent whiles we live both in our general and particular Callings For blessed is that man whom the Lord when he cometh shall find sâ— doing Luk. 12. 43. SECT VI. Touching the last Resurrection AS the second Coming of Christ in the Flesh is one of the first things which shall be made visible in the World to come So the last Resurrection is another of them which shall be made visible too upon the same day with his second Coming if not at the same instant And touching this Subject also the Scripture informeth us of divers things As First It informeth us That the last Resurrection 1 Informat is to be distinguished from a spiritual Resurrection 1. Because all that have now a lively faith are partakers of a spiritual Resurrection in that they are quickened together with Christ and are risen together with him Ephes 2. 5 6. Col. 3. 1. according to his promise The hour is coming and now is when the dead shall hear the voyce of the Son of man and they that hear shall live Joh. 5. 25. whereas none of them are yet partakers of the last Resurrection 2. Because a spiritual Resurrection is all one with Regeneration being that Grace of God whereby men are quickened spiritually and so raised from the death of sin unto the life of Righteousness and translated from death unto life in a spiritual sense 1 Joh. 3. 14. but the last Resurrection shall not be all one with Regeneration 3. Because a spiritual Resurrection is called the first Resurrection and that properly Rev. 20. 5. 6. but the last Resurrection shall not be the first 4. Because this spiritual Resurrection is proper only unto such as are or shall be blessed and holy as it is said Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first Resurrection for upon such the second death hath no power but they shall be Priests of God and of Christ
and shall raign with him a thousand years Rev. 20. 6. viz. in the state of the first and spiritual Resurrection but the last Resurrection shall not be proper only unto such as are or shall be blessed and holy 5. Because this spiritual Resurrection is not a bodily Resurrection from a bodily death but the last Resurrection shall be a bodily Resurrection from a bodily death And so for these Reasons the last Resurrection is to be distinguished from a spiritual Resurrection Secondly It informeth us That the last Resurrection 2 Informat is to be distinguished from all corporal Resurrections that have been heretofore Indeed we read of many corporal Resurrection that have been heretofore as the widow of Sarepha's son was raised from death to life by the power of God in the Ministry of Elijah 1 King 17. 22. The Shâ—namites son was raised from death no life by the power of God in the Ministry of Elisha 2 King 4. 34 35. The dead man that was cast into the Sepulchre of Elisha was raised from death to life 2 King 13. 21. The Rulers daughter was raised from death to life by our Saviour Christ Mat. 9. 25. The widow of Naims son was raised from death to life by Christ himself Luk. 7. 14 15. Lazarus after he had been in the grave four days was raised from death to life by Christ himself Joh. 11. 43 44. Tabitha was raised from death to life by the power of God in the Ministry of Peter the Apostle Acts 9. 40. Eutichus that fell down from the third loft and was taken up dead was raised again by the power of God in the Ministry of S. Paul Acts 20. 10. Yea we read That when Christ was crucified 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 Mat. 27. 52 53. Yet I say That the last Resurrection is to be distinguished from all these 1. Because these Resurrections are so many pledges and fore-going signs of the last Resurrection 2. Because these Resurrections were but particular ones but the last Resurrection shall be a general one 3. Because these Resurrections left men in a state of mortality and in possibility of a corporal death but the last Resurrection shall not leave men in such a condition Thirdly It informeth us That the last Resurrection 3 Informat shall be common to all dead people men women and children whether good or bad just or unjust Elect or Reprobates Indeed some men shall be found living at the second Appearing of Christ who shall be caught up in the Clouds to meet him in the ayr 1 Thes 4. 17. and so they shall neither dye nor rise again only they shall be changed and this change shall be unto them instead of a Resurrection 1 Cor. 15. 51. We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed Yet doubtless all men women and children that shall be found dead at that day of what sort or quality soever shall be raised again in their bodies and their Souls shall come into them again that in Soul and body united they may live for ever either in a state of Bliss or in a state of misery For the Prophet Isaiah saith in the plural number not excepting any Thy dead men shall live together with my dead body shall they arise Awake and sing ye that dwell in the dust for thy dew is as the dew of herbs and the earth shall cast out the dead Isai 26. 19. S. John saith I saw the dead small See John 28. 29. Acts 24. 15. and great stand before God Rev. 20. 12 13. And how can this be unless all the dead both small and great shall rise again And though the Prophet Daniel saith That many of them which sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake Dan. 12. 2. Yet doubtless he means all such sleepers who when they shall be divided into two sorts viz. Elect and Reprobates shall be but many of each sort And so the last Resurrection shall be common to all dead people men women and children Howbeit we must acknowledg some difference between the Resurrection of the just and the unjust For 1. The just and such as have done good with acceptance shall come forth to the Resurrection of life but the unjust and such as have done evil without repentance shall come forth to the resurrection of condemnation Joh. 5. 29. 2. The just and such as have done good with acceptance shall have a priority in the last Resurrection The dead in Christ shall rise first 1 Thes 4. 16. if not in time yet in dignity but the unjust and such as have done evil without repentance shall have a posteriority in the last Resurrection that is they shall rise last though not in time yet in dignity and so shall be less honorable in this Resurrection then the just shall be 3. The just and such as have done good with acceptance shall rise again not only by the power of the Trinity but also by the power of Christ as Mediator by vertue of his Merit and their Union with him but the unjust and such as have done evil without repentance shall rise again only by the power of the Trinity and not by the power of Christ as their Mediator nor by vertue of his Merit and their Union with him seeing they have no Union with him Fourthly It informeth us That the last Resurrection â— Informat shall be proper to mankind and not common to other creatures with them that is to say Though it be true that all dead men women and children shall rise again at the last day yet we may not think that dead birds beasts and fishes shall rise again with them for two Reasons 1. Because the Apostle Paul speaking largely of the last Resurrection doth restrain it to mankind excepting dead birds beasts and fishes from â—aving any share in it saying All flesh is not the â—ame flesh but there is one kind of flesh of men anoâ—her flesh of beasts another of fishes another of birds 1 Cor. 15. 39. as if he had said When I speak of the last Resurrection I would be understood to â—peak of it only in reference to mankind and not in reference to birds beasts and fishes for as these creatures dyed not in the first Adam so they shall not be raised by the second Adam 2. The reason why dead men and women shall rise again is because they have reasonable Souls living while their bodies are dead as Abraham Isaac Jacob Dives Lazarus are now alive in their Souls their bodies being dead but other creatures as birds beasts fishes have no souls living while their bodies are dead for there is this difference betwixt a man and a beast that when a man dyeth his spirit lives and ascends to God that gave it but when a beast dies his spirit dies with