Serrn. CXXVII. 157 SERMON CXXVII. Of the Anions for which Men will be accountable. C O R. V. I O. The 'web Sermon an For we mutt ail' appear before the Judgment Seat of ChriJi, that every tbu Text. one may receive the Things done in his Body, according to that he bath done, whether it begbòdor bad. IProceed to the Third Pröpoftiori contained in thefe Words, viz. That all the Aétions which Men have done in this Life {hall then come to account, and Men [hall be judged for them. .That every Man may receive the Things donein the Body, Iku w;w,1o-, the Things proper and due tò the Body foTomevery good Copies have it i And then the Meaning will be, that every one may receive the Reward due to him ;. the Word Body; by a frequent Hebraifrn, being put for Me Perfon ; as if he had fäid, the Rinárd due tó hinifelf, according to the'ACtions he bath done in this Life, good or bad: But in moft Copies it is, nà Q1ß; The Things done in, or by the Body, as our Tranflation tenders it, that every one May receive the Reward of the A&ions which he bath done in this Life ; and then -this Phrafe doth import what it is that (hall be the Matter of our Account at the DayofJudgment, viz. The Things done in the Body, that is all the A&ions of this Life, while we are in this World, in this State Of Union of the Soul and Body. Whether there be any peculiar Emphafis in this Plirafe, .rá,ß r a7@- The Things done by, or in the Body,' as if it did exclude thofe Things Which (hall be done after Death, in the State of Separation of our Souls from our Bodies, from being accounted for at the Refurreftion in the Day,of judgment I fay, . whether therebe any fuch Emphafis in rhofeWords, 'kerbing, done in the Body, I cannot certainly affirm, though according to the Nature and Reafon of the Thing it feems very probable, as the School men have generally determined in this Cafe, that Meritum efl viatoris, Merit andDemerit are proper to this State of Trial; and that wicked Men when they are in termino, and their State is fi- nally concluded, and the Trial of their Obedience is at an End, do not demerit by their Sins, nor increafe their Puni{hment. For although that Hatred and Enmitjr'òfGod which is in the damned Spirits, be a monftrous Irregularity in A. Creature, yet it cannot well in Reafon be otherwife, but that a Creature, which is extremely miferable, and with all defperate, and Oft all' Hopes of .Remedy and Recovery out of that difmal State; I fay, it cannot well in Bea- ton be otherwife expeaed, but that a Creature in fuch a Condition {hould rage agairift the Author of its Torment and Punifhment, and do all the De- fpite tb hiriì that he tan, and with that he were not though it be in vain to with fo; and it feems probable that God will not bring this to a newAccount, becaufé it feems fo natural and neceffary a Confequent of a miferable and de- fperate State : But though this be probable, I am far from being peremptory in it much lets atn I confident that it is the Meaning of this Phrafe here in the Text, and I do not love to ,build do opinion upona fingle and doubtful Phrafe of Scripture. I only mention it by the by, not intending to inffl upon it, being much of his Mind, who fald, Non amo nimis argutam Theologian, I am no Lover of great Sùbtilty and Ntrety iii Ttvsnity. It is fufficient to my Purpofe, that this Phrafe of every Man's receiving the Things done in the Body, does at leaf} ímport thus Much, that we (hall be ac- countable at the Day of Judgment, for all the A&ions that we have doné in this 4 Life;
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