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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.
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Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
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to be punished 2 Pet. 2. 9. And Jude saith for them is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever Jude 13. The punishment of the ungodly it is reserved till the day of Judgement which will be the time of their Resurrection Observe first The wicked must be punished Secondly The time of their punishment is not now but at the day of Judgement Thirdly This day of Judgement must be the same with the Resurrection of the Dead at the end of this World As therefore the Tares are gathered and burned in the fire so shall it be in the end of this World The Son of Man shall send forth his Angels and they shall gather out of his Kingdom all things that offend and them that do iniquity and shall cast them into a Furnace of fire there shall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth Mat. 13. 40 41. There shall then be a Resurrection of the Dead both of the just and unjust Fourthly The Soveraignty of the Lord Jesus over all Creatures doth plainly foreshew a Resurrection of the bad as well as of the good Indeed the unjust shall not arise by vertue of any relation they stand in to the Lord Jesus as the Saints shall but yet because all are delivered into his hand and he made Soveraign Lord over them therefore by an Act of his Soveraign Power they that are ungodly shall arise this is Christs own Argument The Father judgeth no man saith he but hath committed all Judgment unto the Son that is Count him and fall before him as their Soveraign Lord even as they honour the Father and he hath given him authority to execute Judgement also because he is the Son of Man And then he adds Marvel not at this for the hower is coming that all that are in their graves shall hear his Voyce and shall come forth they that have done good to the Resurrection of life and they that have done evill to the Resurrection of damnation Joh. 5. 22 23 27 28 29. From hence also Paul argueth saying For this cause he both dyed rose and revived that he might be Lord both of the dead and living And then adds We must all stand before the Judgement Seat of Christ. Rom. 14. 9. 10. Pray mind these words Jesus Christ by his Death and Resurrection did not onely purchase Grace and Remission of sins for his Elect with their Eternal Glory but did thereby also obtain of the Father to be Lord and Head over all things whether they be things in Heaven or things on Earth or things under the Earth All Power saith he in Heaven and in Earth is given unto me and I have the Keys of Hell and of Death Mat. 28. 18. Rev 1. 18. So that all things I say whether they be visible or invisible whether they be Thrones or Dominions or Principalities or Powers all things were created by him and for him Col. 1. 16. This being thus at the Name of Jesus every knee must bow and every Tongue confess that he is Soveraign Lord to the glory of God the Father Phil. 2. 9 10 11. Now that this may be done He hath his Resolutions upon a Judgement-day in which he to shew himself his People his Way and Word in their Glory will have all his Enemies raised out of their Graves and brought before him where he will sit upon them in the Throne of his Gloâ—y and will shew them then who is the onely Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords Mat. 25. 31 32. 1 Tim. 6. 14 15. Beloved He comes with ten thousand of his Saints to execute Judgement upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed and of all their wicked speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him Jude 14 15. Fifthly The great preparation that God hath made for the Judgement of the wicked doth clearly demonstrate their rising forth out of their Graves First He hath appointed the day of their rising Secondly He hath appointed their Judge to judge them Thirdly He hath Recorded all their acts and doings against that day Fourthly He hath also already appointed the Witnesses to come in against them Fifthly The Instruments of death and misery are already prepared for them For the first he hath appointed the day of their rising which day John calleth the time of the dead that they should be judged Which time Paul saith is a time fixed he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the World c. This time and day Christ brings down to an houre saying The hour is coming when all that are in their Graves shall hear his Voyce and shall come forth c. Revel 11. 18. Acts 17. 30 31. Joh. 5. 28 29. Secondly As he hath appointed the day so he hath appointed the Judge He hath appointed a day in which he will judge the World in Righteousness by that Man whom he hath ordained of which he hath given assurance to all men in that he hath raised him from the Dead This Man is Jesus Christ for it is He that is ordained of God to be the Judge of the Quick and the Dead Acts 17. 30 31. Acts 10. 40 41 42. Thirdly All their deeds and works to a word and thought and every one already Recorded and Inrolled in the Books of the Laws of Heaven against that day The sin of Judah is written with a pen of Iron and with the point of a Diamond upon the Tables of their heart And again saith God Write it in a Table and note it in a Book that it may be for the time to come even for ever and ever that this is a rebellious House c. Jer. 17. 1. Isa. 30. 8 9. Fourthly God hath prepared his Witnesses against this day James 5. 1. Job 20. 27. Mat. 24. 14. Rom. 2. 14 15. Malac. 3. 5. Fifthly The Instruments of Death and Eternal misery are all already prepared He hath prepared for them the Instruments of Death he hath ordained his Arrows against the face of persecutors Psal. 7. 11 12 13. Psal. 21. 12. Hell is of old prepared he hath made it deep and large the fire the everlasting fire is also now of a long time prepared the heavy weights of Gods Curse are also ready and their damnation now of a long time slumbereth not Isa. 30 33. Mat. 25. 41. Deut. 29. 19 30. 2 Pet. 2 3. But now I say how rediculous a business would all this be if these things should be all prepared of the onely wise God and there should be none to be judged or if he that is ordained Judge should not either through want of power or will Command these Rebels and force them before his Judgement-Seat Glad indeed would the sinners be if these things might be true Glad I say at very heart if they might be in their secret places of darkness and the Grave for ever but it must not be the day of their rising is set
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 lâ—ve