Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

II I shall enquire into the nature of the resurrection, showing, 1st, Who shall be raised. 2dly, What shall be raised. 3dly, How the dead shall be raised.

First, Who shall be raised. Our text tells us who they are; namely, All that are in the graves, i e all mankind, who are dead As for those persons who shall be found alive at the second coming of Christ; they shall not die, and soon thereafter be raised again: but such a change shall suddenly pass upon them. as shall be to them instead of dying and rising again; so that their bodies shall become like to those bodies which are raised out of the graves, 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed; in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. Hence these who are to be judged at the great day, are distinguished into quick and dead, Acts x 42. All the dead shall arise, whether godly or wicked, just or unjust, (Acts xxiv. 15.) old or young: the whole race of mankind, even these who never saw the sun, but died in their mother's belly, Rev. xx 12. "And I saw the dead sm•ll and great stand before God." The sea and earth shall give up their dead, without reserve none shall be kept back.

First, Who shall be raised. Our text tells us who they are; namely, All that are in the graves, i e all mankind, who are dead As for those persons who shall be found alive at the second coming of Christ; they shall not die, and soon thereafter be r•ised again: but such a change shall suddenly pass upon them. as shall be to them instead of dying and rising again; so that their bodies shall become like to those bodies which are raised out of the graves, 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed; in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. Hence these who are to be judged at the great day, are distinguished int quick and dead, Acts x 42. All the dead shall arise, whether godly or wicked, just or unjust, (