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the conftant Course of his Providence,
which We call Nature; and pass over
Them Unregarded, when they be-
come Visible and Common in the Ef-
fects of Second Caufes, which yet, when
we come to make a Philofophi
cal Scrutiny into them, are

right at things that

Hardly do we guess a

All of them above our Com- are upon Earth, and

the Things that are be-
fore us. But the things
that are in Heaven
wifd. ix. 16.
who hath fearched out.

with labour do we find

prehenfion; If the most neg-
lected Production of Nature,
the Minutest Plant or Infect,
is able to puzzle all our Rea-
fon; And if the More we
Know of Nature, we do but open a
larger Field of Doubts and Difficulties
to ourselves; Why should we question
the Power of the God of Nature? Why
fhould his Arm be shortened only in This?
If all things else are Poffible with God,
why fhould the Refurrection of the
Dead be Impoffible with him? Or in
the words of the Apoftle, Why should
it be thought a Thing Incredible that God
Should Raife the Dead?

Thus having shown the Certainty of
the Resurrection, from the Declaration
of Gods Will, together with the Suffi-
ciency of his Power for it; The next
Thing that I am to fhow is, The Uni-
verfality of the Resurrection
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"that are in the Graves shall Hear "his Voice and fhall come forth Which I defign for the Subject of the Next Difcourfe.

SERMON

SERMON VIII.

The Third Sermon on the Refurrection,

JOHN V. 28, 29.

Marvel not at This; for the Hour is coming, in the which All that are in the Graves fhall hear his Voice;

And fhall come forth; They that have done Good to the Refurrection of Life; and They that have done Evil, unto the Refurrection of Damnation.

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Aving confidered in my First Difcourse, how little the Refurrection was known to the Heathens, how corruptly Beleived by the Jews, and afterwards how far opposed by fome Heretical Chriftians, I came in the

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IId Place to show, against all the Oppofers of it, the Certainty of the Refurrection. This I prov'd both from the Will and Power of God; fhowing from the Holy Scriptures, that it is the Determinate and Declared Purpose of his Will to Raise the Dead; and that his Power is able to Perform it, as it is manifested to us in the Works of his Providence; I inftanc'd in three of them; The Creation of the World, The Formation of the Fœtus in the Womb, and Vegetable Productions; Every one of which, upon due examination, would appear to be at leaft of Equal Difficulty with the Resurrection.

And now I come to the

IIId Thing propofed, the Univerfality of the Resurrection. ALL that are in the Graves fball Hear his Voice, and ball come forth, &c.

Now the Universality of the Resurrection may be made to appear.

ift, From the exprefs Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures.

2dly, From the Future Judgement confequent thereupon; and

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3dly, From the most pernicious confequences of the Contrary Erroneous Doctrine.

1. From the Express Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures.

Though we should look no farther than the Text, What Can be more Express than the Declaration here made-ALL that are in the Graves fall Hear his Voice, and ball come forth

What could more plainly Express a UniverSality, than That Univerfally Comprehenfive Word All? Suppofing that it was certainly our Saviour's Design to have expreffed, that All Mankind, of what Age or Degree foever, fhould after their Death Arife again, How could he have Expreffed it more fully and emphatically? All that are in the Gravesthat is, All the Dead; the Grave being the Common Word used to exprefs the Receptacles of the Dead, wherever their Bodies are depofited, whither in the Earth or in the Waters. So St. John defcribes the Refurrection of the Dead, as arifing from all Quarters, Revel. xx. 13. And the Sea gave up the Dead which were in it, And Death and the Grave deliver'd up the Dead which were in them.

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