Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

now when the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God shall come down from Mount Zion which is above, into the valley of this inferior World, he will Prophesy over all the bodies and bones of all the children of men that are dead, and speak unto them to live; he will say unto them whilst they lie rotting in their graves, Live; he will say, Awake ye that sleep in the dust: and O ⟨p. 18⟩what a noise and shaking will there be then in the ground? what a clattering of bones together in the coming of bone to his bone? If the body hath been quartered and buried, part in one place and part in another; (as the Levites concubine, who was divided into twelve parts, and sent to the twelve Tribes of Israel, and it is likely buried in twelve distinct places;) the bones will fly through the air out of all those places, and meet together in one body. O what a great part of the air, water, and earth will there run into conjunction, by the command of Christ, and be turned into those very bodies which were resolved into them by death, and the corruption of the Pit; but with the addition of such new qualities as shall sublimate, spiritualize, and refine them from all that dreggishness, and ill humour that shall be the foundation of any sickness or death for ever; then the bones will come together, and be made like stones for strength; then the sinews will be as it were Iron sinews, and the flesh brass; such strength will be put into them, as I conceive is not to be found in the strongest creatures which hitherto God hath made; that they might be fitted, the bod•es of the righteous for an eternal life of happiness, and bearing the glory of Heaven: the bodies of the wicked for an eternal life of misery, and bearing the torments of Hell; either of which the body, now as it is, would sink under. Then the Sea will give up her dead, and the Earth will give up her dead, Rev. 20. 13. As the Whale cast Jonah upon the shore after he had lain three days in his belly: so the Sea will cast up all the dead that for so many years have been buried in its bowels: but what a st•rring will there be in the ⟨p. 19⟩earth! those which are alive will wonder to see such a strange metamorphosis of the ground; to feel men and women stirring and moving under their feet, arising and crowding for room amongst them.