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ded, on Mount Sinai, when he gave the Law, With thundrings and lightnings, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud; fo that all the people that was in the Camp, trembled, 19 Exod. 16. And if he gave the Law with the found of a Trumpet, why not judge the World with it too?

This Shout is the fhouting of the holy Angels, begun by the Voice of the Archangel, in their defcent with Chrift; and fignifies what fuch Shoutings do among Men, either great Joy and Exultation, or Alacrity and Courage: Thus Men fhout for Joy when any thing happens which highly pleases them; thus Soldiers fhout when the fignal is given for Battel.

Thus when our Lord fhall fay, Come ye holy Angels, go down with me to judge the World they will fhout for Joy that that Day is come, which will put a final end to the Kingdom of Darkness; when the Devil and his Angels, and all Wicked Men fhall be caft into the Lake of Fire; and Good Men rewarded, and crowned, and received into the immediate Presence of God in Heaven. For this is matter of Joy to all Holy Angels, to fee the final Conqueft of all the Enemies of CHRIS T's Kingdom; to fee the Triumphs of Juftice, to fee all Impiety and Wickedness fhamed, condemned, and punished, and the World cleanf ed from the Pollutions of it: To fee their numbers encreafed by the advancement of Good Men into Heaven, who will now be united to their Company and joyn with them in finging Hallelujahs to Him that fitS 2

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teth on the Throne, and to the Lamb; for if there be joy in Heaven at the Repentance of one Sinner, what Exultation and Acclamation will there be, to see the whole number of G O D's Elect raised again with glorious Bodies and receive that Kingdom which was prepared for them before the Foundations of the World!

When our Lord fhall fay, Come ye holy Angels, and be the Ministers of my Juftice, and execute my Vengeance upon a Wicked World, upon the Devil and all Bad Men, and gather together mine Elect from the four Corners of the Earth; with what Shoutings will they receive their Commiffion? With what Alacrity and Courage will they execute it? For fo our Saviour himself represents it, that the Angels are not meerly Attendants of State, but his Officers and Minifters whom he employs in judging the World: Thus he expounds the Parable of the Tares, 13 Mat. 41, 42, 43. He that foweth the good feed, is the Son of Man: The field is the world: The good feed are the Children of the Kingdom: but the tares are the children of the wicked one: The Enemy that fowed them is the Devil: The harvest is the end of the world: And the reapers are the Angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burnt in the fire; fo shall it be in the end of the World. The Son of Man fhall fend forth his Angels, and they shall gather forth out of his Kingdom all things that of fend, and them which do iniquity; and fhall caft them into a furnace of fire: There hall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then hall

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the righteous fhine forth like the fun, in the kingdom of their Father. And thus he expounds the Parable of the Net, that was caft into the fea, and gathered of every kind. Which, when it was full, they drew to fhore, and fat down, and gather'd the good into Veffels, and the bad they caft away. So fhall it be at the end of the World: The Angels fhall come forth, and fever the wicked from among the just; and fhall caft them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth, v. 47, 48, 49, 50.

What is meant by the Trump of God with which Chrift defcends from Heaven, is hard to fay; only thus much we know, that it is fuch a Trumpet, at the found of which the Dead fhall rife; as St. Paul exprefly tells us, 1 Cor. 15. 51, 52. Behold I Shew you a mystery; We shall not all fleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, (for the trumpet Shall found) and the dead fhall be raifed incorruptible, and we shall be changed. And therefore this laft Trump feems to be what our Saviour calls the voice of the Son of God, 5 John 25, 28, 29. Verily, verily I fay unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead fhall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that bear fhall live. Which may indeed be understood of a Metaphorical or Spiritual Death and Refurrection, that those who were dead in Sin, fhould be raised to a new Spiritual Life by hearing the Voice of the Son of God, and believing on him; but though our Saviour might in

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tend this fenfe, yet he meant fomewhat more by it, as appears from what follows: Marvel not at this for the bour is coming, in the which all that are in their graves Shall bear his voice, and shall come forth, they that have done good unto the refurrection of life; and they that have done evil unto the refurrection of damnation. So that the voice of Chrift fhall raife the Dead, which may well be called the Trump of God, when it fhall found through all the World, and give a new life to the Dead, and fummon 'em to Judgment.

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For this is another very material Circumftance of the Future Judgment, That all the Dead, both good and bad, fhall be raifed to Life again, and appear before the Judgment-Seat of Chrift: That as we muft give an account of whatever we done in this Body, whether good or bad, fo we must re-affume our Bodies again when we come to Judgment. I fhall not now difcourfe to you of the Nature or Poffibility of the Refurrection, which belongs to another Argument; but the Man Chrift Jefus is the Judge of Mankind, he appears in Humane Nature himself, cloathed with an Humane Body, though infinitely bright and glorious; and he comes to judge Men, not unbodied Souls, and therefore we must be re-united to our Bodies again, for a Humane Soul is not a perfect Man without its Body. An unbodied Soul is guilty of none of thofe Sins for which we must be judged, for we must be judged for

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what we did in the Body; the Man finned, and the Man must be judged, and the Man must be either happy or miferable for ever.

Lord! with what Horrour and Reluctancy will bad Souls enter into their Bodies again; not to enjoy their old beloved Senfualities, but to be judged for them! when the very fight of their Bodies fhall call to mind all the Villanies they acted in them; when they muft appear before their Judge, with all the Inftruments of Wickednefs about them, with those very Bodies whofe Members they had made fervants of uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity: With Eyes full of Adultery, with Hands ftained with Blood, or full of Bribes or Rapine, with a blafpheming, a lying, a reviling, a perjured Tongue; to unite a Soul to fuch a Body again, is like tying a Man to his murdered Friend, which will both fcare and torment his Confcience, and poifon him with a noifome Stench. The Body which was the Tempter and the Inftrument in all this Wickednefs, will now be a Witnefs against him, and an Inftrument of his Punishment too.

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But holy Souls will give a better Welcome to their Bodies, Bodies in which the Flesh was fubdued to the Spirit; which were preferved pure and clean from all fenfual Lufts, which were the ready Inftruments of Righteoufnefs and Vertue, which were offered up living, holy, and acceptable Sacrifices to God; which fuffered Lofs, and Want and Torment, and Death for the fake of Chrift: Good men would defire to be judged in fuch $ 4 Bodies

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