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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

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 dayes 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 to me in That Day Lord Lord have not we prophecyed in thy Name c And 2 Thes 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 judge 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 vers 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 Epecureans and of 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 vers 8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the Dead And vers 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 Christs 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 joyned 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 sit upon the Throne of his Glory and before him shall be gathered all Nations and he shall seperate 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 be 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 immedately 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 else-where 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 13 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 the 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 the Life he that believeth in me tho' he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never dye 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 dye again And whereas he said He who believeth in me shall never dye containeth a great and most comfortable Mystery to wit That neither the Souls nor the Bodies of true Believers strictly dye their Souls sleep not but are awake and their Bodies though they sleep dye not their sleep is not the sleep of Death strictly taken And therefore Christ ●…oved 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 nor yet his true Body for even his Body did but sleep as when the Body of a man sleepeth that is not dead for the Bodies 〈◊〉 of such dye in the worst sence of the word Death who dye in final Unbelief and Impenitency on whom Death feeds and whose Iniquities are upon their Bones and whose Bodies are called the Carkasses of them that have Transgressed against the Lord whose Worm dyeth not and their Fire goeth not out c. see for this Psal 49. 14. Ezek. 32. 27 Isa 66. 24. But as concerning the dead Bodes of the Saints and true believers in Christ Jesus it is prophecyed Thy Dead my Dead Body shall arise so the Hebrew hath it for the Bodies of the deceased Saints are the Body and Temple of Christ and Members of hi●… and therefore

cannot perish 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 to wit the Earth not vulgarly understood Isa 26. 19. And that Job had a firm ard stedfast Belief of the Resurrection of his Body after Death is clear from his Words viz. And though after my Skin Worms destroy this Body yet in my Flesh shall I see God c. Job 19. 26. which is not to be understood of the gross corruptible Body of Flesh but of the Resurrection Body that may be called Flesh in a more excellent sence than that vulgarly understood as Paul said All Flesh is not the same Flesh So the Flesh that is mortal gross and corruptible is not that Flesh that shall be raised up immortal and incorruptible for the word Flesh is taken sometimes in a very high sence where it is said Vnless ye eat my Flesh c. and All Flesh shall see the Salvation of God and I will give them Hearts of Flesh c. And Lastly That there is yet a Resurrection of the dead to come of all such generally who have dyed in the Faith is clear from Rev. 20 4 5 6. And they lived and reigned with Christ a Thousand Years but the rest of the Dead lived not again until the Thousand Years were finished this is the first Resurrection blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first Resurrection Where note well that the Resurrection of the Saints in the Thousand Years is called the first Resurrection c. which every true Believer who is inwardly risen with Christ as to his Soul and inward Man is interested in and hath a right unto but is not possessed of until the Resurrection of the Dead And therefore if any will call the inward rising of the Soul from the Death of sin the first Resurrection yet it is not That first Resurrection mentioned Rev. 20. 4 5. Moreover concerning the Nature and Manner of the Resurrection of the Bodies of the Saints how that the Body is not raised a mortal corruptible Body of Flesh and Blood but immortal and incorruptible Paul doth plainly declare and it is altogether safe in this and all other matters of Faith to hold to Scripture words 1 Cor. 15. from V. 44 to 50. And here Note First That Paul doth not call him a Fool that did believe either the Truth of the Resurrection of the Body or the true Manner of it but called him a Fool that not believing the Truth of it nor the true Manner of it and by arguing against it did enquire How are the dead raised up and for the Instruction of this Fool Paul sendeth him to learn the manner of it from the sowing and rising of the Grain of Corn and he reproveth such at Corinth sharply who did not believe the Resurrection of the Body 〈◊〉 not having the knowledge of God 1 Cor. 15. 34. Awake said he to Righteousness I speak this to you shame So that according to Pauls Doctrine such who have not the true Faith of the Resurrection of the Body greatly fall short of the Knowledge of God Note Secondly That the Resurrection of the Dead and Eternal Judgment belonging to the first Principles of the Doctrine of Christ according to Heb. 6. 1. as well as Repentance and Faith are necessary to be known and believed in order to the perfecting if not the beginning the Work of our Sanctification and Salvation Note Thirdly That as the Bodies of the Saints that shall be raised up at the Resureection of the Dead shall not be raised Mortal and Corruptible but Immortal and Incorruptible so they shall not need any Meats or Drinks or other things that this Mortal and Corruptible World doth afford nor the Light and Influence of the Sun Moon and Stars And in the Resurrection they shall neither Marry nor give in Marriage but be as the Angels of God Mat. 22. 30. and the place of their Abode or Habitation shall be that New Heavens and Earth mentioned by Isaiah cap. 65. 17. and cap. 66. 22. and 2 Pet. 3. 13. which is not as some weakly imagine this visible Heavens and Earth that waxeth Old but those which are far more excellent and shall not wax old Rev. 21. 1. But yet it is clear from Scripture That at the Coming and Appearance of Christ without us in his glorified Body which all good and sound Christians joyfully wait for even that He shall come in the Clouds of Heaven accompanied with his Holy and Glorious Angels that all the raised Saints shall appear with him in their glorified Bodies signified by the coming down of the New Jerusalem from Heaven Rev. 21. 2 3. being made like unto his Glorious Body according to Jude 14. And Enoch also the seventh from Adam prophecied of these saying Behold the Lord Cometh with Ten Thousand of his Saints to execute Judgment upon all c. And whereas some say the Greek beareth it in ten thousands I say he both cometh In them and also With them for the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth frequently signifie in the New Testament With or Among as well as In as is clear from Mat. 20. 26. Luke 1. 28. Rom. 16. 7. 1 Cor. 2. 6. where the greek particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth among and cannot be good sence otherwise Translated Note 4 thly That the Belief of Christ's being in Heaven now in his glorified Nature of Man both of Soul Body hath such a necessary connexion with the Belief of his Coming and Appearance without us to judge the Quick and the Dead that these two stand or fall together and every one that believeth the first cannot but believe the latter for it were strange to think that Christ hath and forever shall have the glorified Nature of Man in Heaven and that the Saints should not see him at the Day of Judgment But as for such as do not believe that Christ hath any being in the glorified Nature of Man now in in Heaven without them they cannot believe that ever he will appear unto them or any other and it is nothing but giving way to carnal dark Reasonings and Wisdom of the Flesh called by Paul Vain Philosophy and Worldly Rudiments that hinder men to believe the Truth so plainly declared in the holy Scriptures And 5 thly From the like dark Imaginations doth proceed that they believe no Heaven nor Hell but within them while they enquire Where is that Heaven into which the Man Christ is gone and hath any of us seen him or spoke with him To which I can easily Answer That Heaven is both near to us and far from us and is of a far more large Extent than that it can be contained within us tho' we have a heavenly Seed Plant and Birth in us that is daily nourished with heavenly Food and is watered daily with the heavenly Dews Rains and this Heavens tho' not visible to our weak mortal Eye of Flesh yet are visible to the Eyes and Sight of our Faith and is that New Heavens that never waxeth Old and the Paradise of God 2 Cor. 12. 4. compared with Rev. 2. 7. Gen. 2 9. 10. which are the Throne of God the House of God that hath many Mansions concerning which Christ said John 14. 2 3. In my Fathers House are many Mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto my self that where I am there ye may be also And tho' we have not seen the Man Christ with our carnal bodily Eyes yet with these concerning whom Peter writeth 1 Pet. 1. 8. Whom having not seen ye love in whom though now ye see him not yet believing ye rejoyce with Joy unspeakable and full of Glory And that the Saints shall see the Man Christ and be with him forever where he is to behold his glory shall be a great part of their eternal Felicity Joh. 17. 24. and because of which they shall the more abundantly see and enjoy him inwardly God in him through him and Jesus said unto Thomas after his Resurrection John 20. 29. Thomas because thou hast seen me thou believest blessed are they that have not seen yet have believed And how can all Nations stand before the Son of Man Mat. 25. if he shall not appear without us at the Day of Judgment G. K. FINIS