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A94749	A synopsis, or, Short view of essential Christianity in part, in which the first fruits unto God, (or saints) in the Apostles dayes lived. : According to the doctrine of Christ ... : With some explications or enlargements thereupon. : Tending to the edification, comfort, and refreshing of all sorts of people ... / By William Tomlinson ...	Tomlinson, William.	1684 (1684)	Wing T1853; ESTC R185375	44,494	110

seemes to make the other resurrection which is to be general out of the graves to be more marvellous Secondly the first of these resurrections is in order to bring men to live the life of righteousness but the second or general resurrection is after ●●ey have done good to give them their reward The first is only a raising up to life The second is a raising up of some to life and of others to condemnation according as they have done good or evil in their life time For we must know that this is after men have done good or done evill that is at the last day which our Saviour often mentions for the comfort of the righteous who are before hand raised up to life by him Joh. 6.39 40 44 54. And this is the Fathers will which hath sent me that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day And this is the will of the Father 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 Again No man can come unto me except the Father which sent me draw him and I will raise him up at the last day Again saith he Who so eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood hath eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day This is not a raising up out of the death o● sin unto life but a raising up again of those that before hand have eternal life And this is spoken for the comfort of all such as also many other comfortable words are left upon record for such which also clearly hold forth this Doctrine of the general resurrection Take this one place for concluding of this particular 1 Thess 4 13. to the end of the Chapter But I would not have you ignorant Brethren concerning them which are a sleep that ye sorrow not as others that have no hope For if we believe that Jesus dyed 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 comming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are a sleep For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voyce of the Archangel and with the Trumph of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the Ayre and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words Here he calls the death of believers a sleep as Christ said of Lazarus he sleepeth when he was dead and it s frequently said in the Old Testament such a one sleept with his Fathers when he was dead Death is but as a sleep out of which men must rise again therefore sorrow not saith the Apostle as others that have no hope For if Jesus dyed and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him And further the Apostle here describes the order of the resurrection The dead in Christ shall rise first and with them such believers or Servants of Christ as are then alive shall be caught up together with them in the Clouds to meet the Lord in the Ayre and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Now comfort one another herewith saith the Apostle Here is a stedfast ground for Hope to Anchor upon One thing he expresses in the 1 Cor. 15. which is here passed over concerning them that are alive at that day namely they shall not dye but they shall be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an Eye for this mortal must put on immortality and the natural body must be made a Spiritual body I have spoken the more of this because although the common notion hereof is retained among People yet the lively sence of these things is to much buryed and out of minde For surely if men did seriously meditate hereof it would have a weighty influence upon their lives and conversations to make them inoffencive in the World Another thing collateral with this is that as there shall be a resurrection of all so there shall be a day of judgment for all when every man shall receive according to the things done in the body whether good or bad It may be some will say this is rather a ground of fear then a ground of hope True it is so to them who take pleasure in iniquity and are strangers to Christ Jesus and to a righteous life But to those that are innocent in the World and believe in Christ and meet with afflictions and tribulations here it is a most comfortable ground of Hope For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a more exceeding and eternal weight of glory But before we speak more of it see first how certainly it is grounded upon Scripture that there shall be a day of judgment Act. 17.30 31. The times of this ignorance God winked at but now commandeth all men every where to repent Because 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 Hence it s plainly held forth that the raising of Christ from the dead is a sure Testimony to all men that God will in an appointed day by him judge the World and that in righteousness For every man shall receive according to his deeds done in the body whether good or evil Again the Apostle Paul tels us of a day of wrath and righteous judgment of God Rom. 2.5 and so forward But thou after thy hardness and impenitent Heart treasurest up unto thy self wrath against the day of wrath and day of the 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 seek for glory and honour and immortality to them he will render eternal life But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the Truth but obey unrighteousness to them indignation and wrath Then he goes over with it again ver 9 10. Tribulation and anguish upon every Soul of man that doth evil of the Jew first and also of the Gentile But glory honour and peace to every man that worketh good to the Jew first and also to the Gentile Again minde what our Saviour Jesus Christ said to his twelve Disciples when he sent them forth with power to preach or publish the Kingdom of Heaven to be at hand and therefore to call them to repentance and to heal the sick and cast out Devils c. saith he whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your words when ye depart out of that House or City

shake off the dust of your feet Verely I say unto you it shall be more tolerable for the Land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment then for that City Matth. 10.14 15. The like expression he uttered concerning Chorazin and Bethsaida in the next Chap. viz. Chap. 11.21 22. Because they repented not when they saw the mighty works which he had done in them It shall be more tolerable saith he for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment then for you Hence its plain that there 's a day of judgment yet to come for those Cities that have been so long since destroyed And that it shall be more tolerable for them at that day then for those that have had more means of knowledge and true understanding afforded them and yet cast it behinde their backs and remain impenitent This being rightly considered may make the stoutest Heart to tremble who goes on in the paths of wickedness as it did Felix Act. 24.25 As Paul reasoned of righteousness temperance and judgment to come Felix trembled or was made fearfull struck with fear For he that is to judge is no respecter of Persons and hath all power given him in Heaven and in Earth and from him can none flee for shelter Therefore to the unrighteous and ungodly that day is terrible But to the upright in Heart who in sincerity and Truth desire to please the Lord in walking obediently before him in a good conversation and innocent in the World to them the day of judgment is a ground of Hope Why Because they shall receive good at the hands of the Lord He will appear to their comfort Judge you how comfortable a thing it shall be at the last day to the righteous and mercifull when Christ shall say to them come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the World Matth. 25. But because that portion of Scripture doth so eminently set forth the day of judgment with some remarkable circumstances thereof let us view it a little more fully in the preparation to it and also in the matter of fact upon which judgment is to passe and the Sentence of judgment it self The preparation is this The Son of man shall come in his glory and all the Holy Angels with him and shall sit upon the Throne of his glory ver 31. there 's the preparation of the judge And before him shall be gathered all Nations ver 32. there 's the preparation of the People to be judged And he shall separate them one from another as a Sheepherd divideth his Sheep from the Goats and he shall set the Sheep on his right hand but the Goats on the left Here now is his secret judgment of them in himself who knowes the wayes and thoughts and Hearts and lives of all men Then follows his open expressed sentence of judgment upon them First to those on his right hand this comfortable sentence come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the World ver 34. And then he gives the reason of this his righteous judgments For saith he I was an hungred and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye took me in I was naked and ye cloathed me I was sick and ye visited me I was in prison and ye came unto me Then shall the righteous answer Lord when saw we thee so and so or did so unto thee Take notice Their sentence or judgment of matter of fact runs wholy upon Acts of mercy which by them were not had in remembrance or at least little set by for they had herein minded the Counsel of Christ in not letting their left hand know what the right hand had done But though they minded not what they had done yet the righteous judge of all the World recorded what they had done and brings up again their mercy into remembrance to their joy and comfort Yea a Cup of cold Water given to one of his little ones in love to them because they belong to him shall not be forgotten Then on the other hand he shall say to them on his left hand depart from me ye cursed into everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels And then he gives the reason of their sentence which is only a defect in mercy For saith he I was an hungred and ye gave me no meat I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink I was a stranger and ye took me not in naked and ye cloathed me not sick and in prison and ye visited me not Then these shall plead for themselves as the others did against themselves saying Lord when saw we thee an hungred or a thirst or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not Minister unto thee Then shall he answer them saying Verely I say unto you in as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these ye did it not to me And these shall go away into everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternal Here you see this Scripture doth not only hold forth a day of general judgment but upon what grounds also the sentence of judgment shall passe And its worth your observation to take notice that the sentences run wholy upon Acts of mercy and the want of mercy It runs not upon this or that profession or united Society of men It runs not thus come ye blessed of my Father for ye are Catholiques or Papists and have been absolved by your Priest or ye are Protestants reformed in part from the superstition and Idolatry of the Papists or ye are of the Episcopal or Presbyterian or Independent or Anabaptist or fifth Monarchy or Quakers Society But ye have been mercifull ye have shown forth the nature of your Heavenly Father who is love and mercy and therefore now mercy is extended to you For seeing God is love surely he must needs have most respect to his own nature where it is found As on the other hand he shall have judgment without mercy that hath shewed no mercy Oh therefore list up your heads you tender hearted humble mercifull men in hope of a righteous day of judgment to come and faint not in doing good or in your patient waiting for the comming of the Lord though you be under affliction and tribulation in the World For the day will come that will make amends for all and satisfy you to the full So that your labour of love in what kinde soever shall not be in vain or forgotten of the Lord. Divers other Scriptures do confirm the general resurrection of the dead and Eternal judgment which were principles in the Doctrine of Christ and not to be confounded with the first Spiritual resurrection out of the Grave of sin or with the particular secret judgment of God inwardly in a mans Spirit For these are before death natural the other come after These first are