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The confession of faith

Chapter 305

III. The bodies of the unjust shall, by the power of

Clirist, be raised to dishonour; the bodies of the just, by iiis Spirit, unto honour, and be made conformable to his own glorious body K
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He that descended u the fame also that ascended up far above all hea- •▼en«, that he might fill all things.
^ l.uke xvi. ii.1. And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham .afar off, and irus in his bosom. Ver. 24. he cried, and said, Father iiajn, have mercy on me, and I.azarus, that he may dip the .., of his finger in water, and cool lijy tongue; for I ani tornrented in this flame. Acts i. 25. 'I'hat he may take part of this ministry and apos- tleship, from which Judas by trans- !gres^ion fell, that he might go to his own place. Jude, Ver. 6. And the ■iigels which kept not their fir»t estate, but lift their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day. Ver. 7. Even ns ■S(Hiom and (iomorrha, and the cities about them, in like manner giving themselves over to fornication, arul going after strange flesh, are &et forth for aia example, suffering the ven- geance of eternal fire. 1 Pet. iii. 19. By which also he went and preach- ed unto the spirits in prisoo.
H. * 1 Thess. ir. 17. Then w« which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air : and «o shall we e\'er be with the i,ord. 1 Cor. xv.Sl. Behold, I shevr you a mystery ; we shill not all sleep, "but we shall all be changed, Ver. 52. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump : for the trum- pet !-ljaH sound, and the dead sliall be raised incorruptible, an4 we shall be changed.
*' Job xlx. 26. And though after my fkin worn« destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God; Ver. 'J7. Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another, though my reins be con- emned within me. 1 Cor. xv. 42. .So also is the resurrection of the dead. It i» sown in corruption, it is raised in incorrupt ion :' Vtr. 'l:\. It is sown in dishonour, it is niised in glcry : it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power: Ver. 44. It is sown a natu- ral body, it is raised a sj iritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
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CHAP. XXXIII. Of the Last Judgment,
/^ OD hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the ^^ world in righteousness by Jesus Christ ^, to whom all power and Judgment is given of the Father ^. In which day, not only the apostate angels shall be judged % but likewise all persons that have lived upon earth shall appear before the tribunal of Christ, to give an account of their thoughts, words, and deeds, and to receive according to what they have done in the body, whether good or evil '^.