S U ND AT READ ING, 
 
 THE 
 
 GENERAL RESURRECTION, 
 
 PARTI. 
 
 Being a Defcription, taken from Scripture, 
 of fome of the Events which will come to 
 pafs at the End of the World. 
 
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 Two Shoe-makers, 1 ft Part - 1 
 
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 Dialogue between James Stock and William 
 
 Simpfon - ~ I 1 
 
 Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, lit Part - 1 
 
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 Hiftory of Tom White the Poftihon, 1 ft Part 1 
 
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 Hiftory of Mary Wood the Houfe-maid 1 
 
 The Hiftory of Charles Jones the Foot- man 1 
 
 Beggarly Boy - " 1 
 
 Good Mothers Legacy - - r " 1 
 
 Hiftory of John Doyle - 1 
 
 Two Soldiers - 1 
 
 Life of William Baker. - - - 1 
 
 The Gamefter, and the Story of finful bally, 1 
 
 Path to Riches and Happinefs, - * 
 
 The General Refurreaion - - oh 
 
 The Two Sifters - * " ' ~ °h 
 
 The happy Waterman - - «>J 
 
 Husbandry Moralized - - - *T 
 
 The Carpenter - )r 
 
 The Apprentice's Monitor - - u ™ 
 
 The Horfe Race - - °£ 
 
 The Dram Shop - : * Qn < 
 
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 General RefurreBwn } Me* 
 PART I. 
 
 1^ VER fmce fin entered into the world 
 2j and death by fin, this earth has been a 
 vaft grave yard, or burying- place for her chil- 
 dren. In every age, and m every country, 
 that fentence has been executing, " Duft 
 thou art, and unto duff thou JhaU return." 
 Mankind at fir ft confuted only of one pair, 
 but how inconceivably numerous are now 
 the.fons of Adam!rGne fingle nation com- 
 monly contains many millions of men, and 
 thefe millions form only one generation. 
 How many, then, m-uft be the millions that 
 have appeared on the earth in the long run 
 of near fix thoufand years! Let imaginati- 
 on call up this vaft army ; — infants that have 
 Tuft lived to fee the light, multitudes of 
 the young and middle aged, and all the 0*d 
 and grey-headed alfo — perfons of all coun- 
 tries and of fucceffive generations— let them 
 all pafs in review before us, and how vaft 
 and aflomfhing is the multitude ! If the po> 
 terity of one man, Abraham, by on^of his 
 fons, was according to the language of Di- 
 vine Prom ife, " as the Jiars of heaven and as 
 ' the jand of the fea jbore\ innumerable" who 
 can compute the multitudes that have fprung 
 from all the different Patriarchs? Who can 
 
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number the long line of children thathaye 
 proceeded from Adam, and all the families 
 of the earth that have fprung from the loins 
 of Noah ! But what is now become of this 
 vaft and inconceivable hofl ? Alas! they 
 are again turned into earth, their original 
 element ; they are all funk into the grave, 
 excepting only theprefent generation ; and 
 we alfo are going down, one after another, 
 into that preappointed for all living. There 
 has hardly, perhaps, been one moment of 
 time, during the fpace of many thoufand 
 years, in which one perfon or other has not 
 been dropping into the grave ; and in fome 
 feafons, throueh the fword of war, the de- 
 vouring pe ft i fence, or other vifit^fiotis of 
 God, thoufands have been mowed down at 
 once, and have formed one undifringuifl'ied 
 heap of dead. The greater part of man- 
 kind, beyond companion, -are now fieep- 
 ing Under ground. There lies beauty, 
 mouldering into duO, a prey to the vileit 
 worms; there lies the mean and humble 
 beggar ; and there lies the he<\d that once 
 wore a crown; There lie the mighty giants* 
 the Samfons, and the Cgefars of the world. 
 There lie the, wife and the learned, as we<fk 
 and helpiefs as the fool. There lie fome 
 wiih whom we ourfelves have converfed, 
 and who were once our dear friends and 
 our companions ; and there lie our fathers 
 and mothers; and there perhaps alio lies 
 
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 a render wile or hulband, a child, a lifter 
 or a brother. 
 
 And fhall they lie there always ? Shah 
 tbis body, the curious workmanfnip of God, 
 m f, y fully and wonder fully, made? continue 
 always in ihefe ruins, and fhall it never be 
 reftored ? This we know, that " It is not 
 a thing iw:o:Jibk with God to raife tbedead^ 
 He that could firft form our bodies out oi 
 nothine is juS as able to form them anew, 
 and to" repair the wahesof time and death. 
 But what has he declared to be his intenti- 
 on in this Cafe ? for on this the matt r turns 5 
 and it is a point which is fully revealed in 
 the Scriptmes. tc The hour is coming? lays - 
 that Sacred Book, " When all that are in the 
 «rave pall hear the voice of the Son of man, 
 and they pall come forth; they that have done, 
 well, to the refurretlion of life ; and they that 
 - have done evil to the rejurreclion of damnation. 
 << -Behold? fays St. Paul, V I pew you a myf- 
 tery ; we pall not alljleep? (that is, mankind 
 will not all be fleeping in death when the 
 day of theRefurreclion comes, for there will 
 be one generation remaining then alive up- 
 on earth; " lut we pall all be changed 1 in the 
 twinkling of an eye, at thelaft trump, for the 
 trumpet pall found and the deadpaUbe raijed 
 incorruptible, and \mpallbe changed? "For the 
 Lord himf elf pall defcend from beaven with a 
 pout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with 
 
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 the trump of God ; find the dead In drift ji all 
 rife Jirfi ; then we which are alive and remain 
 pall be caught Hp together with them to meet 
 the Lord in the air." 
 
 Let us now realifethe maiufiv and ter- 
 ror of this tremendous cj$y. When the mul- 
 titudes of the dead are fieeping in the filenf 
 grave ; when many perhaps of the living 
 are thought lefs of the great event; when 
 fume men are running eagerly, as they 
 are now, after riches and honour-, and 
 feme after femfuai p. .lea Aires ; while they are 
 eating and drinking, marrying and giving 
 in fniarnage; while fume are a flee p in the 
 de^id of night; while feme are planning 
 future inii chief ; and lb me are in the very 
 ac"t of fin ; while the* cpiirfe of nature feems 
 to go an as v. fu • 1 , fo that unbelieving feof- 
 fs take occafion from thence to ailc, "Where 
 n the prptnife of his Coming ? for fine e the Fa- 
 thers fell afieepy all things continue as they were 
 from the beginning of the creation" — When, 
 perhaps, a "few only are ferving God, and 
 gje bohng for their Saviour's appearance — ■ 
 wfciir the .'.;!r-ede in fhort no more expert 
 t he app^-achi; g judgment, than the people 
 of ik.(krr did the definition that befei 
 them on that fine clear morning when Lot 
 fled awav ; or than ! he people of the old 
 wor'd expected the Deluge on the day when 
 Noah entered the ark—then fuddcnly fhali 
 
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 \%$ Heavens open over the aflonifhed world, 
 and " the trumpet pall found and the dead (kail 
 be ra[/ed incorruptible for in an i nil ant the 
 found (hall reach all the manfions of the 
 dead, and " in a moment, in the twinkling of 
 an eye'" the dead fhall be ratfed, and the 
 living (rial I be changed. This call will be 
 as effectual in railing each of (he ions of 
 fnen as ever that call of Chrift was, <e La- 
 %ar us , come forth . " O , w h a t a fu ; p r fze w i ! 1 
 it be to the thoughtlefs world ! Should this 
 alarm bur ft over our heads this moment, 
 with w ? hat terror would it ftrike many a one 
 who reads this defcription of it r How dread- 
 ful, then, will be the furprize and confler- 
 nation when this event fhall actually come 
 to pafs ! Now, indeed, there are many who 
 flop their ears : Now, though the voice of 
 Mercy calls, though Reafon pjeads, and 
 Confcience warns, yet multitudes will not 
 hear ; but then there fhall be nooneamonc* 
 the millions of mankind that fhall be able to 
 difobey the fummons, for the living fliall 
 flart and be changed, and the dead rife at 
 the found. But for what purpofe fhall they 
 life? It is in order that they may come to 
 judgment. " For we muft all appear before 
 the Judgment-] eat of thrift % and muft give an 
 account of the things done in the body, whether 
 
 they be good or whether they be evil" And 
 
 ihefe pall go away into ever lafting pumfhment, 
 ®ndthe righteous into life eternal"' — u And I 
 
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 fans) ('fays the Apoftie) the dead, /mail tffri 
 great, fand before God ; and the books were 
 "opened, and the dead were judged out of thoft 
 thin :s 'which were 'written- in the bsoks dieard- 
 ing to their works ; and the fat gave up ibe 
 dead that were in it, and death and hell { that 
 is the place of departed fpirits; delivered up 
 the dead which Were in 1 hem , an 4 1 hey were judg- 
 ed every man according to his -works f— and who- 
 foever was not found written m the Buok of 
 Life was eajl into the lake of fire."— did I 
 Jaw (continues the fame Apoflle) a new 
 "heaven and a new earth, for the fir ft heaven 
 md the fir ft earth were faffed away.—/ind 1 
 heard a great voice out of be vert, faying , Beheld 
 the Tabernacle of God is with men, and he will 
 dwell with them, and there fhall be no more 
 death, nor for row, nor crying, for the former 
 ihit,7S are faffed away. —And He that fat on 
 the Throne fa.d, Behold I make all things new. 
 In like manner we are told in another 
 place that " the heavens and the earth are 
 but 'kept m Jlore until the day of defiruelion 
 and perdition of ungodly men £ and that when 
 this "great and terrUle day of the Lord fhall 
 come then "the very elements fhall melt with 
 & rent heat— the earth alfo,. and all 1 be works 
 thereof ftall be burnt up"-" the heavens fhall 
 depart as a fcrolf-" they all fall -wax old 
 as doth a garment, and as a vefiure fhad they 
 be changed ; » and there fhall then be "new 
 heavens and a r> ew ^th, wkemn dwelletb 
 
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 r igbt eoufnefs? Well might the Apoftle fay, 
 Seeing then that all theje things /hall be dif- 
 folved, what manner of perfons ought we to 
 be in all holy converfation and godlinefs I " 
 
 There are many things fpoken of in fcrip- 
 ture that fhall follow the grand fcene of the 
 RefurredHon, which remain to be defcribed ; 
 but we fhall fpeak in this place only of one 
 further point, and that is of the perfon who 
 is to be our Judge. It will be Jefus Chriif , 
 "for the Father ; (fays the Scripture) ' c judg- 
 elh noman, for God hath committed all judgment 
 to the Sou, bee a ufe he is the Son of Man!" 
 i€ This jame Jefus? ^faid the angels juft after 
 his Refurredion) " which is taken up from 
 you into heaven , fljall fo come in like manner 
 £s ye have feen him go into heaven? Once he 
 as *' defpifed and rejected of men " he was 
 led as a lamb to the /laughter :, and as a fkeep 
 before his /bearers is dumb, fo he opened not his 
 mouth he was "mocked, and buffetted, and 
 [pit upon he was him (e!f arraigned before 
 the bar of Pontius Pilate, and he was hung 
 upon the Crofs, as if he was the vileft male- 
 factor, the whole multitude having joined 
 in crying, Crucify him, Crucify him. — But 
 now, "Behold he cometh in the clouds ; and 
 every eye /hall fee him, and they alfo which 
 pierced him, and all nations of the earth /ball 
 wail becaufe of him? For the Lord Jefus fhall 
 
 be revealed from heaven with his mighty an^ 
 
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Lord J ejus Chrift now alfo he is " come 
 to be glorified, in his Saints, and to be admired 
 in all them that believe? Some men think 
 that to forget or to difobey Chrift is no 
 great matter ; they are good, as they call 
 it, in their own way, and therefore they are 
 fatisfied. But fuch men fhould be reminded 
 that it is not at the bar of their own reafon, 
 nor even at the bar merely of their own 
 confidences that they are to be tried, but 
 that they are to be tried at the bar of Jefus 
 Chi ift. " The word thai Ihavejpoken to you" 
 (faid our Saviour to the Phanfees) " it pall 
 judge you at the laft day? Let us further en- 
 quire, then, what Chrift hath fpoken te us 
 and what the Scripture in general hath faid 
 refpecting the manner of our trial on the day 
 of judgment, for this is the way in which a- 
 lone we can truly know whether we fhall bs 
 accquittedor condemned, 
 
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 AN HYMN 
 
 On the Second Coming of Chrift. 
 
 LO ! He comes in clouds defcending, 
 He that was for fin tiers flain ; 
 
 While the hoft of Saints attending 
 Swell the triumph of his train ! 
 
 Every eye (hall now behold him ; 
 
 Every creature bend the knee : 
 They that mock'd him too and fold him, 
 
 Pierc'd and naiPd him to the tree* 
 
 See, the Angels all adore him ! 
 
 Hark, the trump proclaims the day I 
 All the nations Hand before him, 
 
 Heaven and earth are fled away ! 
 
 Come, thou Saviour long expected, 
 Sit on thine eternal throne ! 
 
 Thou that waft by man rejedted, 
 Claim the kingdom for thine own, 
 
 END of PART L