LITTLE BOOKS BY JOHN BUNYAN.

I.

THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.

II.

THE BARREN FIG-TREE.

THE

RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD

AND ETERNAL JUDGMENT.

BY JOHN BUNYAN.

'The trumpet shall sound; and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we
shall be changed.'-1 Cor. xv. 52.

EDITED BY GEORGE OFFOR

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CONTENTS.

THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, AND ETERNAL

JUDGMENT; or, The truth of the resurrection of the bodies,

both of good and bad, at the last day, asserted, and proved

by God's Word; also, the manner and order of their coming

forth of their graves; as also, with what bodies they do

arise; together with a discourse of the last judgment, and the

final conclusion of the whole world.

'THERE SHALL BE A RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, BOTH

OF THE JUST AND UNJUST.'-Acts xxiv. 15.

This doctrine carried Paul through temptation and afflic-

tion, and kept him separate; inquire, First, What is meant

by the dead. Second, What is meant by the resurrection.

Third, Why the apostle doth here speak of the resurrection of

the dead as of a thing yet to come.

First, The dead, in Scripture, under a fivefold considera-

tion.-1. Dead by nature.-2. Dead by sin.-3. Twice dead.

-4. Dead to sin.--5. Eternal death. Second, What is meant

by the resurrection; it is the resurrection of the body; of the

bodies both of the just and unjust; this promised to the

fathers; began to be fulfilled in the resurrection of the body

of Christ; not, therefore, the new birth or resurrection from

a state of nature to one of grace. Third, The resurrection

spoken of as a thing yet to come, not already enjoyed either

by saints or sinners; this resurrection is spoken of by Job

(ch. xiv. 12),

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