X36 ARervelation oftheApocalypfe. CAP.2O, been lying afleep in his grave; BeholdI am he,faith the LordGod,that Will openyour graves, and that Will caul you to come out of your Sepu4chres,and that Will bring you into theLando(Ifrael, and ye Jhall knout that Iam the Lord,When I have openedyour graves ,andbrought you up out ofyourSepul- chres,Omy people, verf. 12,13. To ghat purpofe fhould they be brought into the Land of Ifrael again after the laft Rcfurreetion; we !hall then all that belong to Chrift have our dwelling in the Heavens, not on the earth. Befides,that Refurre fhon which Ezechiel fpeaketh of, [hall be ef- feted by little and little leafitrely,ver /.8,9,1 o. But the generali Refuro rec`tion (hall take effeé't in a moment,in the twinkling of an eye, a Cor. 15. 52. Befieles,thefe bones are the whole hoofe of Ifrael, verf. I1.. and now Thal l there be anunitingof 7udah and Ephraim into one , which thofe two peeces of wood that are çompaa together in onedoe declare. Now there things are proper to the Ifraelites,and thofe not already paft, but to come, as that hat ptneffe íheweth, which is fpoken ofin the end of the Chapter, and which is greater then that any time paft can challenge it unto it felle..How agreeable alto is that, that the varquifhing and con- foundingofClog and Magog is coupled together with this Refurret7ion, in the 38 and 39, Chap. lave that the Refurreetion goeth before it in Sze- chid, but it followeth it here inIohn;the caufe whereofwe will fpeak of ftraightway es. And I doubt not alfo,but that the Prophet Daniel wound teach us as much by thofe,many.thatfteep in the duff ofthe earth,thatJhallalwake,fome toeverlaflinó life,others toJ7ame,and toperpetual) contempt;Chap. 12.2,3. For many are not all; but thisword feemeth to be ufed of purpofe, that fo theremight be a difference put between the-genera/I RefurreElion, and this here fpoken of :He doth alto give the chiefe honour to thofe that teach and turn others unto righteoufneffe,not fo becaufe of their labours. which were paff before in their life timé, but becaufe oftheirp refent la- bour and diligence. For they that do make others wife by inftruection fba11. thine ; not thole which have made others wife : noneof which things we know is to come topaffe after the laft Refurredion. I will not now for brevities fake examine how that place of Hofea, Chap. 13. 14. Belongeth alto to this purpofe : Seeing the Scriptures therefore do fo willingly take up this fo expreffe a fimilitltdeof the Refurretlion,to Ggni fie the refporing o fthe IeWes; and we find not this matter,that is of fo great moment, fully declared'elfewhere in this book; we hope that we effer the truthno violence and wrong, ifwe interpret this place altoafter the meaningofother places ofScriptures, that be like unto it. But (will fame fay) we baave.made mentionof thecallinxof tkeleltes before in the- fo mçr
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