eth for a little time, and then vanisheth | away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that. James iv. 13-15; i. 10. Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear.-1 Pet. i. 17.

I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts. 1 Pet. ii. 11; 1 Chron. xxix. 15.

Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle; even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.2 Pet. i. 14.

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.-Rev. xiv. 13.

Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching.-Luke xii. 37, 38.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE

DEAD.

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more they shall not awake.-Job xiv. 12.

I know that my Redeemer liveth, &c. and though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God; whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another.-Job xix. 25 -27; Ps. xlix. 15.

I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness.-Ps. xvii. 15.

He will swallow up death in victory, &c.-Isa. xxv. 7, 8.

Thy dead men shall live together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake, and sing, ye that dwell in dust for thy dew is as the dew of herbs; and the earth shall cast out the dead.-Isa. xxvi. 19.

death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction.Hosea xiii. 14.

But as touching the resurrection of the dead, &c. I am the God of Abraham, &c. God is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living.-Matt. xxii. 31, 32; Luke xx. 35. 37, 38.

Many bodies of the saints which slept, arose at the death of Christ.— Matt. xxvii. 52.

Thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.--Luke xiv. 14.

The hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth: they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, &c.-John v. 28, 29.

I should lose nothing; but should raise it up again at the last day, &c. and I will raise him up at the last day.-John vi. 39, 40. 44, 45.

I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, &c.-John xi. 24-26.

Because I live, ye shall live also.John xiv. 19.

They taught the people; and preached, through Jesus, the resurrection from the dead.-Acts iv. 2.

And when they heard of the resurrection from the dead, some mocked. -Acts xvii. 32.

Of the hope and resurrection from the dead I am called in question, &c. The Sadducees say, There is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.-Acts xxiii. 6. 8; xxiv. 21.

They themselves also allow that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.Acts xxiv. 15.

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from

God who quickeneth the dead, &c.
Rom. iv. 17.

The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation

19. 23.

And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.-1 Cor. vi. 14.

The resurrection of the dead proved at large; and with what bodies; and the manner of the resurrection. 1 Cor. xv. 12-56.

That we should not trust in ourselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead.-2 Cor. i. 9.

He which raised up the Lord Jesus, shall raise up us also by Jesus; and shall present us with you.-2 Cor.

iv. 14.

The Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.-Eph. iv. 30.

We look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.-Phil. iii. 20, 21.

He is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, &c.-Col. i.

18.

When Christ, who is our life, shall then shall appear, also appear ye with him in glory.-Col. iii. 4.

I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope: for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, That we which are alive, and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which are asleep for the Lord himself shall descend, &c. and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them, &c.-1 Thess. iv. 13-17.

Not laying again the foundation, &c. of the resurrection of the dead.Heb. vi. 1,

2.

Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.-Heb. xi. 35.

Thy wrath is come: and the time of the dead, that they should be judged. Rev. xi. 18.

I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, &c. 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; on such the second death hath no power, &c. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, &c. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell (or the grave) delivered up the dead which were in them.-Rev. xx. 4-6. 12, 13.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

OF CHRIST'S SECOND COMING TO THE JUDGMENT; AND RENDERING UNTO EVERY MAN ACCORDING ΤΟ HIS DEEDS DONE IN THE BODY, WHETHER GOOD OR BAD.

IF thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.-Gen. iv. 7.

Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?-Gen. xviii. 25.

The wicked is reserved to the day of destruction: they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.-Job xxi. 30.

I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.-Job xix. 25.

The ungodly shall not stand in the judgment; nor sinners in the congre gation of the righteous.-Ps. i. 5.

The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.-Ps. ix. 17.

God is Judge himself.-Ps. 1. 6. Verily, there is a reward for the righteous; verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.-Ps. Iviii. 11.

He cometh to judge the earth; and he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth. -Ps. xcvi. 13; xcviii. 9.

Shall not he render to every man according to his works?-Prov. xxiv. 12. Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, &c. and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.-Eccles. xi. 9.

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Eccles. xii. 14; iii. 17.

Thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men; to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. -Jer. xxxii. 19; xvii. 10; Ezek. xviii; xxxiii. 8, &c.

Agree with thine adversary, &c. lest at any time thine adversary deliver thee to the judge, &c.-Matt. v. 25, 26.

Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? &c. Then will I profess unto them, I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity. -Matt. vii. 22, 23; Luke xiii. 25-27. Whosoever shall not receive you, &c. it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city. Matt. x. 14, 15; xi. 21-25; xii. 41, 42. But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.-Matt. xii. 36.

So shall it be in the end of the world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather, &c. them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire;

there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth: then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun, &c.—Matt. xiii. 40 -43. 49, 50; Luke iii. 17.

The Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father, with his angels: and then he shall reward every man according to his works.-Matt. xvi. 27.

Christ, by a similitude of the labourers in his vineyard, and the hiring of some early for a penny a day, and afterwards others later, who were to have what was right, as the hirer judged fit; shewed God's free grace, to give to those who came late as to the others who bargained; his justice in giving to them what they agreed for; but they murmured, expecting more and then his grace to the others, saying, Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?— Matt. xx. 1–16.

There was a man who had not on a wedding garment; and the king saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither, not having a wedding garment? and he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping, &c.— Matt. xxii. 11-13; xxv. 30.

As the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be, &c. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn: and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory: and he shall send his angels, with a great sound of a trumpet; and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, &c. But of that day and hour knoweth no man; no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only: but as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be; for as in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, &c. Watch therefore, &c. be ye therefore ready also; for in such

an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh, &c.-Matt. xxiv. 27. 30, 31. 36-39. 42, &c.; Luke xii. 35, 36; xvii. 24; 1 Tim. vi. 14.

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory; and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was an hungered, &c. Then shall he say unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was an hungered, &c. and these shall go away into everlasting punishment; but the righteous into life eternal.-Matt. xxv. 31-33. 35. 41, 42. 46; Luke iii. 17.

Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.-Matt. xxvi. 64.

Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father, with the holy angels.-Mark viii. 38.

The Father judgeth no man; but hath committed all judgment unto the Son, that all men should honour the Son, &c. and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man, &c. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek not mine own will, &c.-John v. 22, 23. 27. 30.

He that rejecteth me, &c. hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.-John xii. 48.

I will come again, and receive you.-John xiv. 3.

Ye now therefore have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, &c.-John xvi. 22.

The same Jesus, which is taken from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.-Acts i. 11.

He commanded us to preach unto the people; and to testify, that it is he which was ordained of God, to be the judge of quick and dead.-Acts x. 42.

He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained: whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.-Acts xvii. 31.

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled.-Acts xxiv. 25.

Thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest, &c. that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? or despisest, &c. After thy hardness, and impenitent heart, treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath; and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will render to every man according to his deeds: to them who by patient continuance in well doing, &c. eternal life; but unto them that are contentious, &c. indignation and wrath, &c. upon every soul of man that doeth evil, &c. but glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, &c. For there is no respect of persons with God, &c. in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.-Rom. ii. 3. 5-11. 16.

Is God unrighteous? &c. God forbid; for then, how shall God judge the world?-Rom. iii. 5, 6.

Why dost thou judge thy brother? &c. we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ: for it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then, every one of us shall give account of himself to God.-Rom. xiv. 10—12; Isa. xlv. 23.