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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

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