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T H E By J O H N.B U N Y A N, A Servant of the Lord's Christ. 1665. Written from Bedford Prison. |
Having gone thus far, I shall now come to
THE SECOND PART OF THE TEXT,
o wit, that there shall be a resurrection of the wicked. "There
shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust;" for as the
just go before the unjust, in name and dignity, and honour, so they shall in the
last day, go before them in the resurrection.
Now, then, when the saints have thus risen out of their graves, given up their accounts,
received their glory, and are set upon the thrones, "for there are set thrones
of judgment, the thrones of the house of David" (Psa 122:5). When, I say, they
are all of them in their royal apparel, with crowns of glory, every one presenting
the person of a king, then come the unjust out of their graves, to receive their
judgment for what they have done in the body. As Paul saith, "We must all appear
before the judgment-seat of Christ, that every one," both saints and sinners,
"may receive the things done in the body, whether it be good, or whether it
be bad."
But now, because I would prove by the word, whatever I would have others receive
for a truth, therefore I shall in few particulars,
FIRST, prove the resurrection of the wicked.
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