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ii. 16. How dieth the wise man? as the fool.

viii. 8. No man hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war.

xii. 5. Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.

Ver. 7. The dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

xxxii. 29. O that they were wise; that they V. Preparative duties for death. Deut.

would consider their latter end.

Ps. xc. 12. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. Ps. xxxix. 4.

John ix. 4. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day; the night cometh when no man can work.

CHAP. XIX.

1 Cor. iii. 22, 23. Whether life or death, all are yours; and ye are Christ's.

2 Cor. v. 6. While we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.-Ver. 8. We are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

Phil. i. 21. For me to live is Christ, and to and to be with Christ, which is far better. die is gain.-Ver. 23. I have a desire to depart

1 Thess. v. 10. Christ died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live of just men made perfect. together with him. Rom. xiv. 8, 9. Heb. xii. 23. The righteous go to the spirits

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

VIII. Death of the wicked. Job xxvii. 20, 21. Terrors take hold on him as waters; a

1 Pet. i. 17. Pass the time of your sojourn- tempest stealeth him away in the night. The ing here in fear, Matt. x. 28.

VI. No preparative duties are to be performed after death. Isa. xxxviii. 18, 19. The grave cannot praise thee; death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down to the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day. See Ps. vi. 5.-xxx. 9.-lxxxviii. 10, 11, 12.-cxv. 17.

VII. The death of the righteous happy Ps. xxxi. 5. Into thy hand I commit my spirit, O Lord. Acts vii. 59.

xxxvii. 37. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace.

cxvi. 15. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

Prov. xiv. 32. The righteous hath hope in his death. Numb. xxiii. 10. Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.

Eccl. vii. 1. The day of his death is better than the day of his birth.

Isa. Ivii. 1, 2. The righteous is taken away from the evil to come. He shall enter into peace. 2 Kings xxii. 19, 20.

Job iii. 17, 18. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

Ps. lxxiii. 24. Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Ps. lxxxiv. 11. The Lord will give grace and glory.

Luke xvi. 22. Lazarus died, and was carried by angels into Abraham's bosom. Ver. 25. Now he is comforted.

xxiii. 43. Jesus said, This day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

east wind carrieth him away and he departeth,
Ver. 22, 23. For God shall cast upon him,
and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.-
and shall not spare.
hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his
Men shall clap their
place. Jer. xxiii. 19.

wicked.
xxxvi. 6. God preserveth not the life of the

Ps. xxxvii. 34. When the wicked are cut off thou shalt see it.-Ver. 38. The end of

wicked men shall be cut off.

Prov. xi. 7. When a wicked man dieth, his expectation perisheth.-Ver. 10. When the wicked perish there is shouting.

not.

xii. 7. The wicked are overthrown and are Ch. x. 27.

xiv. 32. The wicked is driven away in his wickedness.

Eccl. viii. 10. I saw the wicked buried; they were forgotten.

Isa. xiv. 9. Hell from beneath is moved for

thee, to meet thee at thy coming.

xiv. 15. Thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

Ch. xxxiii. 8, 9.
Ezek. xviii. 18. He shall die in his iniquity.

buried; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being
Luke xvi. 23. The rich man died, and was
in torment. Ps. ix. 17.

IX. The dead leave all their possessions behind them. Ps. xlix. 10. They leave their wealth to others. Job i. 21. Eccl. ii. 18.

Ver. 14. Their beauty shall consume in shall carry nothing away, his glory shall not the grave.-Ver. 17. When he dieth he descend after him.

return, and shall take nothing of his labour, Eccl. v. 15, 16. As he came, naked shall he which he may carry away in his hand. In all

points as he came, so shall he go. Ch. ii. 19. Who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool that shall be after him?

ix. 5, 6. The memory of them is forgotten. Also, their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Job xiv. 21. His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not.

1 Tim. vi. 7. We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing

out.

OF THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD.

X. That there shall be a resurrection of the dead. (See Christ shall raise the dead.) Job xix. 25-27. I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. 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; though my reins be consumed within me. Ps. xlix. 15.

Ps. xvi. 9. My flesh shall rest in hope. Ver. 10. Ps. lxviii. 20. Acts ii. 26, 27, 28. 31.

Dan. xii. 2. Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake; some to everlasting life, and some to everlasting shame and contempt. Ps. xvii. 15.

| raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Ver. 19. The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.-Ver. 21. Because the creature shall be delivered from the bondage of corrup tion, into the glorious liberty of the children of God.-Ver. 23. We ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

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

xv. 12-14. How say some of you, that there is no resurrection of the dead? (2 Tim. ii. 17, 18.) If there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.-Ver. 20. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.

Ver. 21-23. Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his order: Christ the first fruits, and afterward they that are Christ's, at his coming. Col i. 18.

Ver. 35. Some man will say, How are the dead raised? and with what bodies do they come?-Ver. 38. God giveth a body as it pleaseth him.-Ver. 42. So also is the resur

it is raised in incorruption.-Ver. 43. It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.-Ver. 44. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.

Matt. xxii. 30. In the resurrection they nei-rection of the dead: it is sown in corruption, ther marry nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels in heaven.-Ver. 31, 32. As touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Luke xx. 35, 36.

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

Acts iv. 2. The apostles taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. Heb. vi. 1, 2.

xxiii. 6. Paul said, Of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. Ch. xxiv. 21.

xxiv. 15. Paul said, I have hope toward God, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

xxvi. 8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

Rom. iv. 17. God quickeneth the dead. 2 Cor. i. 9. God raiseth the dead.

viii. 11. If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that

Ver. 52-54. The dead shall be raised incorruptible. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. Isa. xxv. 7, 8.—xxvi. 19. Hos. xiii. 14.

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2 Cor. iv. 14. He that raised up the Lord Jesus, shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

v. 1-3. We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven. If so be that being clothed, we shall not be found naked.Ver. 4. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

OF A FUTURE JUDGMENT.

CHAP. XX.

Eph. iv. 30. By the Holy Spirit of God ye in the air: so shall we ever be with the are sealed unto the day of redemption.

1 Thess. iv. 14. If we believe that Jesus died and rose again; even so them that sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him.

Ver. 15-17. 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 from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump 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

Lord.

Heb. xi. 19. Abraham accounted that God was able to raise Isaac from the dead.

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

Rev. xx. 6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Ver. 13. The sea gave up the dead which were in it. Isa. xxvi. 19. See Christ shall change the bodies of mankind.

CHAPTER XX.
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OF A FUTURE JUDGMENT, AND THE STATE OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED.

I. OF a future judgment, and its consequences. Acts xxiv. 25. As Paul reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled.

Heb. vi. 1, 2. Let us go on unto perfection. Not laying again the foundation of the resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment. ix. 27. It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.

II. God is judge. (See Christ shall judge the world.) Ps. 1. 6. God is judge. The judge of all the earth. Gen. xviii. 25.

xcvi. 13. He cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth. Ver. 10. Ps. lviii. 11.-xcviii. 9.

Acts xvii. 31. He hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in righteous

ness.

Rom. ii. 2. The judgment of God is according to truth. Ch. iii. 5.

Ver. 12. As many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law.

Ver. 16. In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ.

1 Cor. iv. 4. He that judgeth me is the

Lord.

Rev. xx. 11, 12. I saw a great white throne,

and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life: and the

dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

III. The persons and things that shall be judged. Eccl. iii. 17. God shall judge the righteous and the wicked.

and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy xi. 9. Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know, that for all these things God will bring thee into judg

ment.

xii. 14. God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil. Rom. ii. 16. God shall judge the secrets of men.

shall speak, they shall give account thereof in Matt. xii. 36. Every idle word that men the day of judgment. Ver. 37.

Rom. xiv. 12. Every one shall give account of himself to God.

1 Cor. iii. 13. Every man's work shall be made manifest.

souls, as they that must give account.
Heb. xiii. 17. Ministers watch for your

riot, shall give account to him that is ready to
1 Pet. iv. 4, 5. They that run to excess of
judge the quick and the dead.

Ver. 17. Judgment must begin at the house of God.

IV. When the day of judgment shall be. Mark xiii. 24-26. The sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light; and the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers

iv. 17. We shall be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air: so shall we be ever with the Lord.-Ver. 18. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

that are in heaven shall be shaken. And then | before God, even our Father, at the coming of shall they see the Son of Man, coming in the our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. clouds with great power and glory.-Ver. 32. But of that day and hour knoweth no man; no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Matt. xxiv. 29 to 44. 1 Thess. v. 2. The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 2 Pet. iii. 10. 2 Thess. ii. 3. That day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.Ver. 8. Whom the Lord shall consume, &c.

V. Uses to be made of the doctrine of a future judgment, and its consequences; for encouraging steadfastness and perseverance in sundry graces and duties of the Christian life. Luke xxi. 34, 35. Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and the cares of this life; and so that day come upon you unawares. (Compare 1 Pet. iv. 4, 5.) For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the earth.-Ver. 36. Watch ye, therefore, and pray always; that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. See Matt. xxiv. 42. 44 to 51. Mark xiii. 33 to 37.

1 Cor. i. 7, 8. Waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

iv. 4, 5. He that judgeth me is the Lord. (See Christ shall judge.) Therefore judge nothing before the time, till the Lord come. See Matt. vii. 1, 2. Rom. xiv. 3. 10. 13. Col. ii. 16. James iv. 11.

Acts xvii. 30, 31. The times of ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth all men every where to repent. Because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in righteousness, by Jesus Christ.

Col. iii. 4, 5. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry.-Ver. 8. Also put off anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.-Ver. 9. Lie not.-Ver. 24. Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance. 1 Thess. ii. 19. We who are ministers, what is our hope or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

v. 2. The day of the Lord cometh as a thief in the night. 2 Pet. iii. 10.

Ver. 4. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.Ver. 6. Therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober.

Ver. 8. Putting on the breast-plate of faith and love; and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

2 Thess. ii. 1, 2. We beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind.

1 Tim. vi. 14. Keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. See Obedience to

Christ.

Tit. ii. 12, 13. Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world: Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.

James v. 7. Be patient, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.-Ver. 8. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

1 Pet. i. 7. That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than that of gold that perisheth, though it be tried by fire, might be found unto praise, and honour, and glory, at the appearing of Jesus Christ.-Ver. 9. Ye receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Ver. 13-15. Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober and hope to the end, for the grace that shall be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation.

iv. 7. The end of all things is at hand; be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

Ver. 13. Rejoice, in as much as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

2 Pet. iii. 11, 12. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be, in all holy conversation and godliness? Looking for, and hasting to iii. 12, 13. The Lord make you to increase the coming of the day of God, wherein the and abound in love one toward another, and heavens being on fire, shall be dissolved, and toward all men. To the end he may es- the elements shall melt with fervent heat. Ver. tablish your hearts unblameable in holiness, | 13, 14.

1 John ii. 28. Little children, abide in Christ, that when he shall appear ye may have confidence, and not be ashamed at his coming.

iv. 17. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judg

ment.

Rev. xiv. 7. Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven and earth, and the fountains of waters.

VI. The dissolution of the heavens and the earth. Ps. cii. 25. The heavens are the work of thy hands.-Ver. 26. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure; yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment, and as a vesture shalt thou [Christ] change them, and they shall be changed. See Heb. i. 10, 11, 12.

2 Pet. iii. 7. The heavens and the earth, which are now, are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment, and perdition of ungodly men.-Ver. 10. The heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat; the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burnt up. Ver. 12.

Ver. 13. Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. See Rev. vi. 14. Isa. xxxiv. 4.-li. 6.-lxv, 17.-lxvi. 22.

HAPPINESS OF THE RIGHTEOUS.

VII. The happiness of the righteous in heaven, inconceivably great. 1 Cor. ii. 9. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. Isa. Ixiv. 4.

1 John iii. 2. Beloved, now are we the sons of God; and it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. Rom. viii. 29. Phil. iii. 21.

VIII. Christians are heirs. Rom. viii. 17. If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. Ch. iv. 14. 16.

Gal. iii. 29. Heirs according to the promise. Eph. iii. 6.

Tit. iii. 7. Heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Heb. i. 14. Heirs of salvation. vi. 17. Heirs of promise.

xi. 7. 9. Heirs of righteousness by faith. James ii. 5. Heirs of the kingdom which God hath prepared for them that love him.

1 Pet. iii. 7. Heirs of the grace of life. Christians have an inheritance, a kingdom, &c. Matt. xix. 21. 29. Thou shalt have treasure in heaven-Shall inherit everlasting life.

xxv. 34. Christ will say, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Luke xii. 32.

Luke xxii. 29, 30. I appoint unto you a kingdom, even as my Father hath appointed unto me; that ye may eat and drink at my table, in my kingdom.

Acts xiv. 22. We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

xx. 32. To an inheritance among them that are sanctified, by faith in Jesus Christ. Chap. xxvi. 18.

Rom. v. 17. They which receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by Jesus Christ. 2 Tim. ii. 12. If we suffer with Christ we shall also reign with him. Matt. xix. 28.

Gal. iii. 18. An inheritance, not of law but of promise. Rom. iv. 14.

Eph. i. 11. In Christ we have obtained an inheritance.

Ver. 14. The Spirit of promise is the earnest of our inheritance.

Ver. 18. The glory of God's inheritance in the saints.

Col. i. 12. The Father hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

iii. 24. Of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance; for ye serve the Lord Christ.

1 Thess. ii. 12. God hath called us to his

kingdom and glory.

2 Thess. i. 5. That ye may be accounted worthy of the kingdom, for which ye also suffer.

2 Tim. iv. 18. The Lord shall preserve me to his heavenly kingdom.

Heb. ix. 15. Christ the mediator, &c. that they might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

x. 34. An enduring substance. Ch. xii. 28. A kingdom that cannot be moved.

1 Pet. i. 3, 4. God hath begotten us to a lively hope; to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven.

2 Pet.i. 11. An entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly, into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Rev. i. 6. Jesus Christ hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father. Ch. v. 10. xx. 4. 6. See Luke vi. 20.-xiii. 28, 29.—xiv. 15.

xxi. 7. He that overcometh shall inherit all things.

1 Cor. vi. 9. The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Ver. 10. Gal. v. 21. Eph. v. 5.

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