Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

1. Christ at his second appearance will raise up all the dead out of their graves: there shall be a general resurrection, John 5. 28, 29. The hour cometh in which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice and come forth, they that have done good to the resurrection of life, they that have done evil to the resurrection of damnation. Something hath been spoken already concerning Christs victory over death, and loosening all his prisoners, but give me leave to illustrate the resurrection a little further; and here I shall endeavour to set it forth by an allusion to that notable place, Ezek. 37. and the ten first verses. The hand of the Lord was upon me▪ and carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley, which was full of bones. And caused me to pass by them round about; there were very many in the open valley, and so they were very dry. And he said unto me, Son of man, Can ⟨p. 17⟩these bones live? and I answered, O Lord thou knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones hear the Word of the Lord, Thus saith the Lord unto these bones, Behold I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I was commanded, and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. And when I beheld, •o the sinews and flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them above, but there was no breath in them. Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the Winds, Prophesy Son of man, and say to the Winds, Thus saith the Lord God, come from the four Winds O breath, and breathe upon these slain that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet an exceeding great Army. Something like this will the Resurrection be at the last day. Now the bones and bodies of all former generations are scattered up and down in the valley of the shadow of death: some are sunk into the deep, others are buried in the earth, the flesh is consumed, and resolved into its first elements, and the bones of some remain, of other are mouldered into earth;