Secondly, God will do it. He not only can do it; but he certainly will do it, because he has said it. Our text is very full to this purpose, All that are in their graves shall hear his voice: and shall c•me forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of li•e, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. These words relate to, and are an explanation of, that part of Daniel's prophecy, Dan. xii. 2. "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and so•e to shame and everlasting contempt." The which appears to have been calculate to confront the doctrine of the Sadducees; which the Holy Ghost knew was to be at a great height, in the Jewish church, under the persecution of Antiochus. There are many other texts in the O•d and New Testaments that might here be adduced; such as Acts xxiv. 15. And have hope towards God, which they themselves also allow, that there sh•ll be a resurrection of the dead, of the just and unjust. And Job xx 26, 27. 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. But I need not multiply testimonies, in a matter so clearly and frequently taught in sacred scripture. Our Lord and saviour himself proves it, against the Sadducees in that remarkable text, Luke xx. 37, 38. Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord, the the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him. These holy patriarchs were now dead: nevertheless, the Lord JEHOVAH is called their God, namely, in virtue of the covenant of grace, and in the sense thereof; in which sense, the phrase comprehends all blessedness, as that, which by the covenant, is secured to them who are in it, Heb. xi. 16. God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. He is not called the God of their souls only; but their God, the God of their persons, souls and bodies; the which, by virtue of his truth and faithfulness, must have its full effect; now it cannot have its full effect on the dead, who, in as far as they are dead, are far from all blessedness;
Seco•dly, God will do it. He not only can do it; but he certainly will do it, because he has said it. Our text is very full to this purpose, All that are in their graves shall hear his voice: and shall c•me forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of li•e, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. These words relate to, and are an explanation of, that part of Daniel's prophecy, Dan. xii. 2. "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and so•e to shame and everlasting contempt." The which appears to have been calculate to confront the doctrine of the Sadaucees; which the Holy Ghost knew was to be at a great height, in the Jewish church, under the persecution of Antiochus. There are many other texts in the O•d and New Testaments that might here be adduced; such as Acts xxiv. 15. And have hope towards God, which they themselves also allow, that there sh•ll be a resurrection of the dead, of the just and u•just. And Job xx 26, 27. 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. But I need not multiply testimonies, in a matter so clearly and frequently taught in sacred scripture. Our Lord and •aviour himself proves it, against the Sadducees in that remarkable text, Luke xx. 37, 38. Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord, the the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jac•b; For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him. These holy patriarchs were now dead: nevertheless, the Lord JEHOVAH is called their God, namely, in virtue of the covenant of grace, and in the sense thereof; in which sense, the phrase comprehends all bl•ssedness, as that, which by the covenant, is secured to them who are in it, Heb. xi. 16. God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. He is not called the God of their souls only; but their God, the God of their persons, souls and bodies; the which, by virtue of his truth and faithfulness, must have its full effect; now it cannot have its full effct on the dead, who, in as far as they are dead, are far from all blessedness;
