The first resurrection mentioned here is a true resurrection, because it is synchronal with the general judgment. For, 1st, "the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready," (Rev. xix. 7), upon the desolation of Babylon, when the beast and false prophet are committed to the flame, before the first resurrection, and she is also "prepared as a bride adorned for her husband," (Rev. xxi. 2,) at the passing away of the first heaven and earth, which passes away before the face of him that sat on the white throne, i. e. at the commencement of the general judgment; 2dly, The "bride hath made herself ready" before the first resurrection-the bride is the New Jerusalem. Rev. xxi. 9, 10-the New Jerusalem according to Is. lxv. 17, 18. is the new heavens, and new earth; and the new heavens and new earth according to 2 Peter, iii. 13, are ready after the mundane conflagration at our Lord's appearance: 3dly, The thrones are set "and they sat on them, and judgment was given unto them" at the first resurrection. Rev. xx. 4—and Matth. xix. 28. Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that ye which have followed me, in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel, which makes the great white throne and the thrones to be synchronal; 4thly, The Wicked one is to be consumed. by the brightness of our Lord's coming, 2 Thess. ii. 8— our Lord is to judge the quick and the dead at his coming, (2 Tim. iv. 1.) and the Wieked one, the beast and false prophet, are consumed before the first resurrection, Rev. xix. 20; 5thly, St. Paul's account of the Resurrection on the descent of our Lord (1 Thess. iv. 15, 16, 17) gives the resurrection only of the good dead and the

changing only of the good quick, and so also 1 Cor. xv.he is to judge the quick and dead at his coming—there is to be a resurrection both of the just and of the unjust, Acts, xxiv. 15-which must then make the judgment-day run through two distinct resurrections; 6thly, St. Paul affirms that " every one" will rise "in his own order: Christ the first fruits; and afterward they that are Christ's, at his coming"-that "the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death,” (1 Cor. xv. 23, 26,)—which plainly shews, that there will still be death after the resurrection of those that are Christ's at his coming, either because all will not have been raised, or, when they are raised, they will be the Gog and Magog subject to the second death of fire from heaven, when death will altogether cease; 7thly, There is a resurrection of life and a resurrection of damnation, John, v. 29,-a resurrection of the just, Luke, xiv. 14, and a resurrection of the unjust, Acts, xxiv. 15,--there are the children of THE resurrection, who are the children of God, and are equal unto the angels, Luke xx. 36, and there is the 'EZ-Aiάoraσis or select resurrection, distinguished out of that, which belongs to the many, the wicked, which St. Paul desired to attain to Philip, iii. 11.-the Lord is to judge the quick and dead at his coming-so that the judgment runs through two resurrections; 8thly, The Jews will not see Christ henceforth till they say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, Luke, xiii. 35,-at the conversion of the Jews there shall come out of Sion the deliverer. Rom, xi. 26-the conversion of the Jews is the fulness of the Gentiles, Rom, xi. 25,-and the fulness of the Gentiles is before the first resurrection, for Jerusalem ceases to be trodden down, or the sanctuary is cleansed before that event, Luke xxi. 24; Dan. viii.

14, since the bride is before that ready; 9thly, The Jews are to repent that the times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord and he may send Jesus Christ, which was before preached unto them-for the heavens are to receive him till the times of the restitution of all things, concerning which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets, Acts, iii. 19—21, in other words, till the times of the restoring of the Kingdom to Israel, Acts, i. 6, which to the Jews was ALL THINGS:-the times of refreshing, which must be the times of restitution, are the times of the conversion of the Jews, and the conversion of the Jews is the fulness of the Gentiles, when the bride is ready, which is before the first resurrection; 10thly, After the passing away of the second woe, the time is come for the dead to be judged, Rev. xi. 18, but the passing away of the second woe happens before the first resurrection.

Thus then it is plain that the first resurrection is synchronal with the commencement of the general judgment described at Rev. xx. 11-15. and Matt. xxv. 3146; and the first resurrection must be a real one; and the day of judgment must extend through two resurrections. The passage Matt. xxv. 31-46. seems to imply, that good and bad would rise together; but it will be easily seen, that the passage will prove nothing of the kind: it is a mere parable, the scope of which was to show that every one would be rewarded according to his improvement of the talents entrusted to his care, and that an everlasting discrimination would be made between those who improved and those who neglected them. To give us a notion of the exact process of the last grand Assize was far from being the design of the parable; and, consequently, when it comes in opposition to passages,

which are spoken plainly, detailedly, and in no parable, it must bend to them. Such are those we have above given. Such is the detailed account of the two resurrections at Rev. xx. which is confirmed by passages which have nothing in them like parable.-That part of a revelation last given out must be supposed to exhibit “ the some things which are hard to be understood" 2 Pet. iii. 15, 16. more clearly, rather than help to darken them. It is a certain thing that "we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad," 2 Cor. v. 10; and so all "the dead great and small" are made to pass in review before God, and to receive their final sentence according to the record of their works. Rev. xx. 12. But “ every man in his own order": if only the good dead rise, and, only the good quick are changed at the coming of Christ, then as yet their lot alone is decided at the same time with their resurrection and changing, but the end is not yet. "Then cometh the END, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign (in and after the millennium Rev. xx. 4.) till he hath put all enemies (Gog and Magog and Satan) under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." (1 Cor. xv.24-26); when death and hades and the wicked (Gog and Magog) are cast into the lake of fire or exterminated together, being devoured by fire from heaven, Rev. xx. 14, 15: so that it is plainly shown, that the judgment of good and bad and the casting of death into the lake of fire, i. e. the destroying of the last enemy, death, do not all happen in a day together.

2. The Second Resurrection. Since none but the good