A30200:169
The resurrection of the dead and eternal judgement, or, The truth of the resurrection…The resurrection of the dead and eternall judgement, or, The truth of the resurrection…
The resurrection of the dead and eternal judgement, or, The truth of the resurrection of the bodies both of good and bad at the last day asserted and proved by Gods word : also, the manner and order of their coming forth of their graves, as also, with what bodies they do arise : together with a discourse of the last judgement, and the final conclusion of the whole world / by John Bunyan.The resurrection of the dead and eternall judgement, or, The truth of the resurrection of the bodies both of good and bad at the last day asserted and proved by Gods word : also, the manner and order of their coming forth of their graves, as also, with what bodies they do arise : together with a discourse of the last judgement, and the finall conclusion of the whole world / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1665
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. That good man then shall suffer loss, or the loss of all things that are not then according to the Word of God. If any mans works shall be burnt (or any of them) he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire, that is, yet so as that all that ever he hath done, shall be tried, and squared by the Word of God.
5. That good man then shall suffer loss, or the loss of all things that are not then according to the Word of God. If any mans works shall be burnt (or any of them) he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire, that is, yet so as that all that ever he hath done, shall be tryed, and squared by the Word of God.
From all which, it must be unavoidably concluded, that the whole Body of the Elect must count with their Lord for all things they have done, whether good or bad, and that he will destroy all their bad, with the purity of his word, yea, and all their pains, travel, and labour that they have spent about it. I am persuaded, that there are now many things done by the best of Saints, that then they will gladly disown and be ashamed of: yea, which they have and do still do with great devotion. Alas, what gross things do some of the Saints in their devotion father upon God, and do reckon him the ⟨p. 58⟩Author thereof, and so he also prompts them forward to the doing thereof, and doth give them his presence in the performance of them! yea, and as they father many superstitions and Scriptureless things upon him: so they die in the same Opinion, and never come in this World, to the sight of their evil and ignorance herein. But now the Judgment day is the principal time wherein every thing shall be set in its proper place; that which is of God in its place, and that which is not, shall now be discovered, and made manifest. In many things now, we offend all, and then we shall see the many offences we have committed, and shall our selves judge them as they are. The Christian, is in this World, so candid a Creature, that take him when he is not under some great temptation, and he will ingeniously confess to his God, before all men, how he hath sinned and transgressed against his Father; and will fall down at the feet of God, and cry, Thou art righteous, for I have sinned; and thou art gracious, that notwithstanding my sin, thou shouldest save me: now I say, if the Christian is so simple and plain-hearted with God, in the days of his imperfection, when he is accompanied with many infirmities and temptations: how freely will he confess and acknowledge his miscarriages, when he comes before his Lord