the denial of 2 Tim. 2. 17. Who concerning the truth have erred saying that the Resurrection is past already and overthrow the Faith of some We therefore who are taught and believe the written Word of God and make that the Rule of our Faith and Manners do own and profess a Resurrection of our mortal bodies at the last day when Jesus Christ the eternal Son of God whom the Heavens shall contain till in his own good time he shall think fit to put an end to the Generations of men and the frame of this visible World shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the Trump of God and having called the dead from their graves shall visibly distinguish the righteous from the wicked taking them up with him into Heaven to join with his glorious Host of Light and sentencing these into everlasting fire which heavy doom and vengeance shall presently be executed upon them for through the stupendious Operation of the Son of God the Earth that now is with all the works therein shall be on fire and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat and all wicked men and devils shall be plunged into that Lake that burns for ever Knowing therefore these terrours of the Lord the Ministers of the Gospel perswade men by a speedy repentance to turn unto God to mortifie and subdue all their carnal lusts and corruptions and to be regenerated and born again in the spirit of their minds to cast off the old man with his deeds and to put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and holiness because God will bring every man into judgment and they must look to give an account after they are dead of all that they have done in the body whether good or bad But it is a very great argument to me that these Familistical Quakers believe none of these things in good earnest because I find these arguments of the Immortality and future subsistence of every mans Soul of the satisfaction and death of Jesus for the sins of men upon the Cross and his intercession for us now in Heaven of the Resurrection of the Body and the general day of Judgment at the end of the World either not at all made use of by them or but lightly touched and that in a mystical and allegorical way Whereas the holy Apostles did in their Sermons most commonly make use of some or more of these general heads according to the capacities or needs and necessities of their Auditors As for example what can be more effectual for the begetting sincere holiness in men than to press upon them the consideration of the Death and Passion of Jesus Christ who out of meer good will gave his life a ransom for the sins of all the world and that he is now an Advocate and Intercessor in Heaven for those that believe on his Name And if they will not be moved by love and kindness then to advise them to look to their Interest and Advantage forasmuch as all men must give an Account to God at the general Day of Judgment for all their Actions and shall receive either Reward or Punishment as they have been either good or evil and therefore since their Souls are immortal and live after their Bodies are dead it behooves them to provide for them in time and secure them a happy Entrance and Admission into the other world Would not this be much better than to make a long Harangue and nonsensical Story of the Light within and coming to the Witness within which their Auditors understand nothing of in the way they propound it and at last concluding like mad People with downright railing against every man that is not of their mind which way of Preaching the Gospel is very much different from the manner of the Apostles and such as the true Ministers of God in England desire never to be guilty of Learning I have now made it more than a probable Conjecture that although these modern Familists the Quakers make a great noise about Christ within them and the Light of God yet they are mere Sadduces really denying the Immortality and Life of the Soul after the death of the Body and therefore so much more carefully to be avoided by every man that tenders his Happiness in the other world for though they beguile the simple and unwary yet the more prudent and understanding person who is able to dive into the bottom of their Errors and Heresies will undoubtedly confess it to be a piece of beastly sottishness undermining the very foundation of all Religion in the World CHAP. V. That the Quakers are dangerous Enemies of the Civil Magistrate WE have seen their Opposition to the Church and their Disaffection to the Ministry of the Gospel let us now see if they are any better-natur'd to the Civil Magistrate And here you shall find them dissembling their Opinions and because something must be said as well to satisfie the minds of the common People whom they delude as to keep themselves out of the reach and cognizance of the Laws of the Land they pretend a kind of a partial subjection and obedience which when strictly examined is indeed no obedience at all And herein they shew themselves as in all other things excellent Proficients in the School of H. N. who in his Exhortat speaks thus That his Instructions of the upright and Christian Baptism his crying voice c. These may be confessed among the adulterous and sinful Generation and the false hearts of the Scripture-learned for so he calls all that are not of his way but says he ye shall not talk of your secrets or utter your Mysteries openly or nakedly in the hearing of your young Children or Disciples but spare them not in the ears of your Elders which can understand the same or are able to bear or away with the sound thereof In like manner the Quakers conceal the Depth and Mystery of their way from their new-made Proselytes and when they must say something for satisfaction of the world they speak so doubtfully that their Expressions seem not to mean what they carry in them But to descend to some Particulars They are dangerous Enemies to the Civil Magistrate 1. Because their Principles tend to the exciting of Sedition and Rebellion In the Book called The Principles of Truth p. 58. they say thus Such Magistrates who be proud and lofty who rule not for God but for themselves who love the praise of men c. such Magistrates they deny and testifie against This at the first looks very innocently and harmlesly but let the Reader beware how he swallows it for there is Death in the Pot. The Apostle 1 Pet. 2. 13 14. commands thus Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreme or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and
great deal of poison I shall therefore for the sake of the Ignorant and such as lie most obnoxious to their snares discover the Cheat. To omit that this Expression Several Ministrations before and after the Law by Moses and after by John Baptist and Christ and his Apostles can scarce be made tolerable sense a fault pardonable enough in Mechanics and the Brethren of the Family but a notorious instance of their Hypocrisie in pretending immediate Inspiration from the Spirit when they write nonsense In the Discourse such as it is we learn these three things 1. That the Ministration of Christ was but a temporary Ministration to continue only till the Dispensation of the Spirit came and therefore was disliked and rejected of God as wanting that full Measure Rule and Power of the Spirit which should afterwards come into the world Whereas the Ministration of Christ was indeed the Ministration of the Spirit and therefore to set up a Dispensation of the Spirit above and in opposition to that of the Lord Jesus in the Gospel is a blasphemous derogation from the honour of our blessed Saviour who said to his Apostles Joh. 16. 14. He shall receive of mine and shall shew it unto you 2. It follows from the forementioned passage that the Spirit of God equally moves and acts in them as it did in the Apostles therefore say they As the Apostles were commanded to wait at Jerusalem for the gracious illapse and descent of the Holy Spirit so they and this signifies to them both what and when to speak But will any sober person believe that a Quaking Speaker is divinely inspired when he commits endless Tautologies and vain repetitions and makes inconsequent illations and especially when the greatest part of his Harangue shall be downright railing Shall the eternal Spirit of Wisedom and Reason be guilty of nonsense and absurdities 3. It will follow that what they speak or write must be as good Canonical Scripture as the Bible and we are as much bound to believe George Fox and James Nailor as S. Paul and S. Peter I shall instance but in one Quaker more to prove this first part of their Doctrin all one with Familism and that shall be out of Humphrey Smith's Discourse of the three Ministrations of Moses Christ and the Spirit If Moses says he with all his Priests Tythes and long Prayers were now upon earth and Christ in his own body with his Miracles Baptism and Supper then whether those obey not Moses who leave the Priests and come to Christ And whether such when they are come to Christ should always be looking and following after his Body Miracles Baptism or Supper without them or tarry and wait to receive the Spirit within them And then which of these now should all people that profess Christ be led by in these days either Moses or the Person of Christ or the Spirit of Truth There is no sober Christian that can read this passage without anger and disdain to see such wicked wretches scoff and flearingly insult upon the sacred Person of our Lord Jesus the whole History of whose blessed Life and Death in the Letter of it they esteem no better than one of Esop's Fables Again the same Person hath this Whether they be not compassed about with a cloud of error who are upholding that Ministry of the Law which Christ is the end of and likewise such as are upholding and keeping up that which Christ said he had finished And being that Moses nor indeed his true Ministers of the Law are upon Earth neither the body of Christ which by the Professors was murdered at Jerusalem visibly to be seen upon earth then what was it these have to follow who have not received the Spirit to be led by Here again the Personal Offices of the blessed Jesus are laid aside SECT II. The second thing wherein the Familists and Quakers are all one is the Pretence of immediate Revelation David George and H. N. both pretended to receive their Doctrin from the Angel Gabriel And Wil. Gibson the Quaker says that the Gospel which they preach they have not received it from men nor from books nor from writings but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ in them and then he goes on and denies the Scriptures of the old and new Testament to be the revealed Will of God There are two things especially by which our Saviour Jesus Christ and his Apostles demonstrated the Truth of their Doctrin 1. The Miracles which they did And these were so many infallible Seals and Marks of the Divinity of the Doctrin they communicated to the World that God was the Author of it For there can be no surer evidence of any thing being delivered from heaven than when a man in favour of it is enabled to work Miracles And this was the sign which Moses gave the children of Israel when they asked how they should know the word which God has not spoken Deut. 18. 22. When a Prophet speaks in the name of the Lord if the thing follow not nor come to pass that is if he do no Miracle that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken 2. The Reasonableness of the Doctrin which they delivered To this S. Peter seems to appeal 2 Pet. 3. 15. when he bids us be ready 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 always to give an answer to every man that asks us a reason of the hope that is in us Now let us examin a little the Doctrin of these Modern Familists or Quakers by these two foregoing Rules they pretend Divine Revelation and would fain have the World believe that they are divinely inspired but is any man so simple as to believe they are so merely because they say it so a man may believe all the Cheats and Impostors in the World What sign do they shew or what evidence do they bring that they have received their Doctrin immediately from God If they can work any Miracles to confirm it we will believe them otherwise we have no more faith to believe them than we have to believe that Mahomet discoursed with the Angel Gabriel and received his Alchoran from him As for the Reasonableness of their Doctrin a very easie and mean capacity can find none in it for how should there be any Reason in what they teach when they themselves deny the use of Reason and tell the world they are guided by a Light within them that is neither Reason nor Conscience which yet is but like a dark Lanthorn that gives light to none but themselves And besides by this Principle it is impossible they should ever convince any man that is not merely besotted As for Example the Quakers Light says that the Sacrament of the Lords Supper is needless but the Light within me tells me it is not And is not my Light as good as his nay much better for I have the warrant of Christ and his Apostles but he has only his own bare blind Fansie And the man
was set apart and dedicated to the Service of God and this House so dedicated and consecrated to a holy use the Christians called a Church Thus Nymphas gave his House at Coloss for a Church to serve God in Philemon turned his House into a Church at Laodicea and Aquila and Priscilla theirs at Rome Whereby it is plain that the believers in the Apostles time did not perform their holy Mysteries in common Houses but in consecrated Places and these Houses which were thus dedicated to the Service of God they called Churches SECT III. As God will have a Portion of our Time for himself and a part of the Place of our Habitation appropriated to his Use and Service so he will likewise have a Rent or Tribute paid him out of our Estates to acknowledge his Sovereignty and Dominion and his Interest in us and all that we possess And this was Gods Method and Process in the very first beginning of the World for in Paradise itself he had his Honorary Rights in all these three kinds As touching the Place God had the chiefest and the best the midst of the Garden for the Time the cool of the Day and for the Fruit when he had given all the rest to Adam he reserved the Tree of Knowledge as most justly and properly belonging to himself This now God challenges to himself and for any man to deny or detein these just Rights is to cast off and disown the Sovereignty and Dominion of God over him When God brought his People into the Land of Canaan he reserved the Tithe to himself as his Rent out of it and this Rent he assigned over to the Levites for their maintenance and because the People held all things of God therefore they were to pay him Tithe of all Levit. 27. 30. All the Tithe of the land of the seed of the land and fruit of the tree is the Lords it is holy unto the Lord. And Deut. 14. 22. Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed that the field brings forth year by year And in 2 Chron. 31. 4 5. it is said that the Children of Israel brought in abundance the first-fruits of corn wine and oil and honey and of all the increase of the field and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly You see then that God was to have Tithe of all and this Tithe he gave to his Servants the Priests and Levites who beside these had several other Tithes Oblations and Duties paid not deducting or accounting the charges and labour of the Husbandman They had likewise the Ransoms of the First-born both of man and beast and further they had forty eight Cities set out by Joshua for their Habitations and two thousand Cubits about them each Cubit being a full Yard besides one thousand next the Walls for their Cattel whereunto were added twenty Cities more in process of time when the number of the Tribe was greatly increased And all this they had though the Tribe of Levi was not near a tenth part of the People But least the Cheats and Mountebanks of the times should persuade the People that this nothing concerns them let us see what the Gospel says in the Case St. Paul in 1 Cor. 9. 14. speaks thus Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel i. e. of those things which in the Gospel are consecrated to God and due for the message of the glad tidings of salvation and it is as much as if the Apostle had said As the Priests and Levites had their maintenance out of that which was offered and dedicated to God in the Law so God had ordained that the Ministers of the Gospel should be mainteined of that which is consecrate to him in the Gospel Very good Now have not Christian Kings Emperors Princes and other Noble Persons given and consecrated to God and several Christian Councils pronounced an Anathema or Curse to him that should alienate them Houses Lands and Tithes for the maintenance of the Ministers of the Gospel ought they not then to live of them and does not the Apostle say it Again in Gal. 6. 6. the Apostle commands Let him that is taught the Word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things What can be plainer than this God hath transferred his Right over to his Ministers and enjoined all men to be liberal to them and to give them a share of all the good things they possess The bad ones God asks not though men are too ready to give him the blind the halt and the lame but he requires a part for his Ministers out of all the good things we enjoy It is most certain then that there is a Maintenance due to those that preach the Gospel and this none can deny but such as neither acknowledge Gods Dominion over them nor the Authority of the Holy Scriptures For shew where and when God has released and given back his right to a portion of all mens Estates to them again Or can any man say that he holds his Estate by such a Tenure in Capite as that God hath not a Rent due out of it The Question therefore is What manner of Maintenance this must be The Apostle says in general that it must be a part out of all good things and to this all men are bound by which it appears that the Maintenance of a Minister is not to be looked upon as a free Gift from the People or in nature of an Alms but as a Rent which God has reserved and claims out of all mens Estates and which he has given to his Servants the Ministers For the better Illustration of this I shall add these two Considerations 1. That the Maintenance of the Ministers under the Gospel ought to exceed that of the Priests and Levites under the Law For the Dispensation of the Law was much inferior to that of the Gospel and if a tenth of all manner of increase was due to God under the Ministration of Condemnation and Death surely a more ample portion belongs to the most sacred Majesty of Heaven and Earth under the Gospel which is the Ministration of Life and Immortality For as the Apostle reasons 1 Cor. 9. 11. If we have sown unto you spiritual things is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things Intimating that there is no comparison between them and that the best carnal things can never bear any proportion to those rich Treasures that are communicated to men by the Stewards of the Gospel And this was the Practice of the Apostolic Church they brought not the Tenth but their whole Estates and laid them down at the Apostles feet and the reason is given by Irenaeus who conversed with them that had seen the Apostles they gave chearfully and largely utpote majorem spem habentes forasmuch as the Promises and their Hopes were bigger under the Gospel than under the Law It remains
then an undoubted Truth that if the Priesthood of Jesus be more excellent than that of Aaron and the Ministry of the Gospel a more honourable and excellent Function than that of the Levites under the Law then ought the Maintenance of the Euangelical Ministers to be more large and honourable than theirs under the Law Secondly The Apostle 1 Tim. 3. 2. commands that the Ministers of the Gospel be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 good House-keepers and how should they be so if they have not Provision and Means to maintein it and that in a certain manner For if themselves be fed at the Trenchers of Benevolence what assurance have they of a dish of meat for their poor Brethren The Heavens themselves are unstable now it rains and we have abundance then cometh drought and all is in scarcity The humour of Man is as variable the People of Lystra that made a God of St. Paul on the one day stoned him on the other Acts 14. And in the fiery time itself when Zeal was most inflamed our Saviour as it seemeth found even then a cooling blast when for want of ordinary supply he was fain to fetch Twenty pence by a Miracle out of a Fishes mouth to serve his need withal Matth. 17. 27. Unless therefore the Zeal and Piety of men towards God did now burn as bright as in the Apostles time when they thought nothing too much or too good for their Spiritual Fathers it were the most wicked and unseemly thing in the World to put the Ministers of Jesus either to labour like Mechanics with their hands for their bread or to live upon the uncertain benevolence of the People Wherefore when the great Love of the first Ages to Christ and his Ministers by degrees cooled and was abated and men grew to be lovers of themselves more than lovers of God it pleased that All-wise Providence which always watches over the Church so to inspire the hearts of Christian Kings and Princes to secure his provisions that though men should so far forget and deny God from whom they receive all that they have as to detain sacrilegiously his right yet they might be compelled by Laws and external Discipline to pay him this his Rent or Tribute which they would not do of their own accord For all the Tythes are the Lords and the Ministers claim them not as a duty of the people unto them but as the Lords portion which he gives to his Ministers and so the Scripture speaks Mal. 3. 8. Will a man rob God yet ye have robbed me saith the Lord. Mark well God does not say they had robbed his Ministers though he gave the Tythe to them but they had robbed him And whoever sacrilegiously detains and keeps back his Tythe robbeth God and must expect to be cursed with a curse Almighty God therefore reserving a portion out of every mans Estate as his Rent or Tribute to the end that every one may acknowledge his Sovereignty and Dominion over all that he possesses questionless the Civil Magistrate may and ought to make Laws whereby men may be forced to give God his due when they shall grow so wicked and Atheistical as to rob him of it And if it be lawful for a man to appeal to the secular Powers to secure his own Estate it is much more lawful to use them to preserve Gods Revenue And if it were not some more mischievous design these abominable wretches drive at they may as well quarrel at the Laws that are made for the maintenance of the Poor as at those that are made to constrain them to pay their Tythes since the Poor are likewise Christs charge as well as the Ministers and yet none but some covetous Worlding would say that it were better they should be left to the free benevolence of every one if they were it is doubtful whether a great many would not starve But would you know what design it is the Devil drives at by setting these people to cry out against the maintenance of the Ministers It is briefly this to bring men back from the true knowledge of Christ and the liberty of the Gospel into their ancient bondage of Pagan Superstition and Idolatry and to compass this he makes these wild people his Instruments For he well knows that it is the Ministers that lay open his plots and warn men to take heed of falling into his snares and traps and they daily incourage men in vertue and instruct them in the knowledge of God Now if he could take these enemies of his Kingdom away he is then sure the people will perish through ignorance and become his own easie prey And there is no better way to make sure work with the Shepherds than to incourage the flock to withdraw and detain though it be with the greatest injury to God and their own souls that portion and maintenance God has commanded to give him and assigned over to his Ministers For Faith comes by hearing and how should people believe except the Word of God be preached to them I shall now take away as briefly as I can those Objections which these bold Enthusiasts make against the present maintenance of the Ministers And first they endeavour to perswade men that Tythes are Levitical and consequently when Christ came they were abolished with the Law of Moses But to this impious cavil I answer 1. That there is nothing of the Law of Moses abolished or taken away by Christ but what did adumbrate prefigure and shadow out his coming in the flesh for whatever was natural and moral obliges us still and will do so to the end of the world therefore Christ says Mat. 5. 17. that be came not to destroy the Law and the Prophets but to fulfil it i. e. to make it more perfect than it was before But 't is apparent that Tythes were no Types of any thing nor did they shadow out any thing to come that when that substance was come they should be taken away and we may as well say that Prayer to God was taken away by the coming of Christ as that the Revenue due to God was taken away for we are as much bound to honour God with our substance as with our lips 2. Tythes were due to God and paid before ever the Law of Moses began and therefore cannot be said to be proper and natural to that In Gen. 14. it is said that whilst Abraham dwelt at Hebron in the Plain of Mamre his Brother Lot was carried away Prisoner by the four Assyrian or Babylonian Kings with all that he had and that Abraham confederate with Mamre the Amorite and his brethren Escol and Aner armed his houshold three hundred and eighteen in all and pursued them unto Dan where he smote them in the night and recovered Lot and the prey and that as he returned Melchisedek King of Salem Priest of the most high God met him and gave him Bread and Wine and blessed him and prayed and praised
habitation of David which judgeth uprightly thinketh upon Equity and requireth righteousness Through him God will now in this day which he himself hath appointed or ordained thereunto judge the compass of the Earth with righteousness Again Chap. 35 he speaks thus Behold in this present day is this Scripture fulfilled and according to the testimony of the Scripture the raising up and the Resurrection of the Lords dead cometh also to pass presently in this same day through the appearing of the coming of Christ in his Majesty Which Resurrection of the dead seeing that the same is come unto us from Gods grace we do likewise in this present day to an Evangelie or joyful message of the Kingdom of God and Christ publish in all the world under the obedience of the love in which Resurrection of the dead God sheweth unto us that the time is now fulfilled that his dead or the dead which are fallen asleep in the Lord rise up in this day of his Judgment and appear unto us in godly glory It is plain from hence that both the day of Judgment and the Resurrection of the Dead are in this life and that H. N. doth both raise them up and judge them by his Doctrine And because the Reader shall be sully satisfied and see that it is not without cause that I lay this charge upon this beastly Generation of Quakers I shall produce some Testimonies from their Writings wherein they deliver themselves after the same manner with H. N. Thomas Forster in a certain Pamphlet which he calls A Guide to the Blind when the blind lead the blind the consequence is apparent speaks thus Christs first appearance to the world was in flesh and the fleshly eye saw him but his second appearance is in spirit which no fleshly eye can behold and live for as the Lightning cometh from one part of Heaven to lighten another part under Heaven so shall the coming of the Son of man be and blessed are all they who wait for his second coming to wit without sin unto salvation for his second coming is to put an end to sin to finish transgression and to bring in everlasting righteousness He that hath an ear to hear let him hear From hence it appears that Christs second coming is made only his spiritual coming into mens hearts to make them without sin and to bring in everlasting Righteousness and that when he thus comes no fleshly eye can see him all which make Christs coming to Judgment to be nothing but his appearing in the Generation of Quakers But the Scripture is express that Christ shall at the end of the world descend from Heaven as he went thither Act. 1. 11. that is visibly and bodily for so he ascended And in Revel 1. 7. it is said Behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him and they also which pierced him Therefore his second coming to Judgment is not his coming into mens hearts by his Spirit but his coming with thousands of Angels to give sentence upon all men and this by a visible descent from Heaven to be seen by the wicked as well as the righteous The same person in another place expresly denies the second coming of our Lord and Saviour to Judgment in the plain and literal sense The Children of the Light says he that is the Quakers can tell you that as Christs first appearance to the world was in the flesh and the fleshly eye saw him so his second appearance is in spirit and no fleshly eye can behold him he being a spirit Is not this a denial of Christs coming to Judgment besides a manifest falshood For Christ is no more a Spirit now than he was in the days of his flesh but sits in his Body at the right hand of God and in the same Body that now he hath in Heaven shall he come to Judgment and be seen of all by their natural sight as we behold one another Now for the glorious Immortality and blessed Rest that every holy Soul expects in the life to come it is perfectly allegorized away and made nothing but a certain condition and state of mind in this life So that Sadducee Forster in the Book before-named pag. 45. declares Our Captain says he is able to make War with the Enemy and not only give us Victory but also an entrance into the Holy of Holies within the Veil here By which it appears that if we enter into the Holy of Holies here that is into Heaven in this life then there is no Heaven nor happiness to be expected in the life to come But to make all sure and compleat the Quaker a perfect Sadducee George Fox in his Great Mystery affirms That the Soul is a part of the Essence and Being of God This was the very thing which caused such an irreconcileable hatred between the Pharisees and Sadducees in our Saviour Christs time But the Fox was not so cunning here as he might have been nor did he well weigh the monstrous and wicked consequences of this his Assertion For if the Soul be a part of the Essence of God it will follow 1. That the Essence and Being of God is discerpible and may be shred and divided into millions of pieces which is a notorious Blasphemy against the sacred Majesty and Perfection of God 2. It will follow That God must reward and punish himself because every mans Soul after death returns according to this opinion and is joined to and lost in the Essence of God and there being nothing but God if he reward and punish any thing it must be himself 3. It will follow that a part of God must be sinful for every mans Soul being fallen into sin and yet is a part of Gods Essence it follows of necessity that a part of God must be sinful A prodigious Blasphemy I forbear any further Citations because the thing it self is so obvious to every man that understands but the drift and purpose of Familism wherein the chiefest Articles of a Christians Faith are made but a Fable whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Moral is the mystical meaning which they put upon it And are not these brave Guides think you of the Gospel when they frustrate and make void the greatest Arguments that Christ Jesus has thought fit to excite and stir men up to holiness withal that is the consideration of a Judgment to come and a blessed Immortality in the Kingdom of Heaven I grant that there is to be a Resurrection from sin and all men are to be conformable to the Resurrection of Jesus by their rising to a new and holy life and placing their affections upon heavenly and divine Objects according as the Apostle speaks Col. 3. 1. If ye then be risen with Christ seek those things that are above But besides this there is likewise a Resurrection of the natural body to be expected at the end of the world which St. Paul charges those Hereticks Hymeneus and Philetus with