bered up above kings and princes, and emperors: by his word and spirit in his people, how peaceThey wear the triple-crown: They have made able, how fruitful in blessedness and prosperity his kings bow at their feet, and emperors, stand bare-kingdom is. And hence it is that God purposeth foot at their gates: They have kicked the crowns to bury Antichrist, before he sets 'glory in the land of princes from their heads, and set them on again of the living.' Eze. xxvi, 20, 21. As also you read in with their toes. Thus their covetousness has set the book of Revelations; for there you find the them high, even above the suns, moons and stars kingdom of Antichrist was destroyed before the of this world: but to what end? That they may new Jerusalem was set up. When men intend to be cast down to hell. build a new house, if in the place where the old one stood, they first pull down the old one, raze the foundation, and then they begin their new. Now God, as I said, will have his primitive church state set up in this world, (even where Antichrist has set up his ;) wherefore, in order to this, Antichrist must be pulled down, down stick and stone; and then they that live to see it, will behold the new Jerusalem come down from heaven, as a bride adorned for her husband. SEVENTH CAUSE. Seventhly, Antichrist must be destroyed, because he standeth in the way of the setting up of the kingdom of Christ in the world. Many princes were in Edom before there was a king in Israel; and Christ has suffered Antichrist to set up before him. And he standeth in his way, and has so overspread the world in all places, with that which is directly contrary to him, that he cannot set up his kingdom, until that which is Antichrist's is tumbled down to the ground; even as a man whose ground is full of thorns, and briars, and weeds, cannot sow in expectation of a crop, until he hath removed them. And these seeds has Antichrist sown where the kingdom of Christ should stand: 'Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briars; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks, (this is to happen to the church of God,) Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.' Is. xxxii. 13–15. And the antichristian synagogue be turned into a wilderness. When God came from Egypt with his people, to set up his kingdom in Canaan, he cast out the heathen before them in order thereunto; Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.' Ps. lxxx. 8. Wherefore, Antichrist must be removed and destroyed for this: For Antichrist is in flat opposition to Christ, as Tibni was to Omri: 1 Ki. xvi. 21, 22. Wherefore Antichrist must die. The reason is, because Christ's kingdom shall be peaceable, without molestation; and glorious, without the fumes and fogs of Antichristian darkness: Because also, as the world hath seen the manner of the reign of Antichrist, and how tyrannical and outrageous a kingdom his is so they shall see the reign of Christ, Such has been the tendency of the Antichristian church in all ages; witness the cases of the Emperor Henry IV., Henry II. of England, and many others. The spirit and precept of Christianity, on the contrary, is, while fearing God, to honour the king; and that we be subject to principalities and powers, Tit. iii. 1; see also Mat. xxii. 21; Ro. xiii. 1-7.-ED. † See Fox's Martyr., folio, vol. i., last leaf.—ED. New wine is not put into old bottles, nor a new piece into an old garment; nor shall any of the old anti-scriptural ordinances, ceremonies, rites, or vessels of the man of sin, be made use of, or accounted anything worth, in this day of the kingdom of Jesus Christ. And thus I have shewed you something of Antichrist, of his ruin, and of the manner and signs of the approach thereof; together with the means and causes of his ruin. All which I leave to the judgment of the godly, and beg their instruction where they see me to be out; and shall conclude, after a short word of application. First, Must Antichrist be destroyed? Then this informs us, that a time is coming wherein there shall be no Antichrist to afflict God's church any more. 'Tis Antichrist, Antichristians, and Antichristianism, that is the cause of the troubles of Christians, for being Christians. And therefore 'tis from the consideration of this that it is said, men 'shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks,' and that they shall learn war no more:' Is. ii. 4. Yea it is from the consideration of this, that it is said the child shall play with venomous and destroying beasts, and that a little child shall lead the wolf, the leopard, and the young lion, and that the weaned child shall put his hand into the cockatrice's den, and catch no hurt thereby. Is. xi. 6—9. For as was said before, 'tis through the instigation of this spirit of error, that the governors of the world have heretofore done hurt to Zion, and I say now again, all things shall turn to their right course, and occupy their places, as do the bodies in the higher orbs. Secondly, Is Antichrist to be destroyed, and must she have an end? Then this gives us to understand, that a day is coming when Antichrist shall be unknown, not seen, nor felt by the church of God. There are men to be born who shall not know Antichrist, but as they read in the word that such a thing has been. These shall talk of her, favoureth the things of the flesh, plenty of which as Israel's childrens' children were to talk of Pha- there is in that country: But they that will live raoh, of his cruelty; of his tasks, of his pride, after the flesh must die. Wherefore come out of the Red Sea, and how he was drowned there: from among them, and be ye separate, - - and They shall talk of them, as of those that have touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive been long dead; as of those who for their horrible you, and will be a father unto you, and ye shall wickedness, are laid in the pit's mouth. This will be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Albe some of that sweet chat that the saints shall, mighty.' 2 Co. vi. 17, 18. But why (some may say) at their spare hours, have in time to come. When must we come out? I answer, because God has God has pulled this dragon out of the sea, this temple-work to do, temple-worship to do, temple-saleviathan out of his river, and cast his dead car-crifices to offer, and none of these things can by any case upon the open field, then shall those whose means be done, but at Jerusalem. But if you still ancestors have been put into terrors by him, come object and say, 'The Lord has raised us up proflocking to see the monster; and shall rejoice for phets in Babylon,' and we will not come out; you all the mercy. In that day, the church of God must not murmur if you feel what is to follow. shall say, 'O Lord I will praise thee: though thou And that such may know upon what bottom they wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, stand, let them read the 29th chapter of Jer. 15 and thou comfortest me.-In that day shall ye -19. say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people,' &c. Is. xii. 1, 4. O how sweetly did David, and the church in his day, sing of the ruins of the Egyptians, and the deliverances of their fathers, which had been in times of old! Ps. Ixviii. to wit, what God did in Egypt, what he did at the Red Sea; what he did to Sihon, to Og, and to the remnant of the giants: How he divided the waters of Jordan, and gave the land of Canaan in its fruitfulness among his people: Ps. cv. How that though Pharaoh and his horsemen and chariots were terrible then, yet now there is nothing left but their souls, their feet, and the palms of their hands; nothing but that which can do no hurt; nothing but what may minister an occasion of joyful remembrance of them. Ps. cvi. and cxxxii. Thirdly, Is Antichrist to be destroyed? Then this calls aloud to God's people to make haste to come out of her. Ho, ho,' says the prophet: He cries out as if the people were asleep: Come forth, and flee from the land of the north.' Zec. ii. 6. The people of God in the latter days will want a heart to come out of her, with that fear of her plagues as they should: Wherefore another says, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues.' Re. xviii. 4. When Israel was carried into Babylon, 'twas not that they should dwell there for ever: Though they were bid to build them houses, and beget them children there. But when they had built, planted vineyards, and got wives and children there, 'twas hard getting them from thence again: For now they were as it were naturalized to the country, and to the manners of it. Je. xxix. 4-7. But God will have them out, (but they must not think to carry thence their houses and vineyards on their backs,) or he will destroy them with those destructions wherewith he hath threatened to destroy Babylon itself. Flesh will hang behind, because it Fourthly, Must Antichrist be destroyed? Then what mean they, who were to appearance once come out, but now are going thither again? If it cost Lot's wife dear for but looking back, shall not it cost them much dearer, that are going back, that are gone back again? and that, AFTER the angel had fled through the midst of heaven, preaching the gospel to those that dwell on the earth? Re. xiv. 6-10. They that received the mark of the beast at first, before this angel came forth, are when compared with these, excusable: Re. xiii. 16, 17. Wherefore, they are not threatened with that smoking wrath, as are these which are here under consideration. You dread, that which is like to become of them that will be so mad to run into an house, when fire is putting to the gunpowder barrel, in order to its blowing up: Why thus do they, let their pretended cause be what it will, that are returning again to Babel. Are her plagues pleasant or easy to be borne? Or dost thou think that God is at play with thee, and that he threateneth but in jest? Her plagues are death, and mourning, and famine, and fire; Re. xviii. 8. are these things to be overlooked? And they that, as before is hinted, shall receive the mark of the beast in their forehead, or in their hand, and shall worship him, they, ‘the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God:' Re. xiv. 10. And will this be a delightsome draught? Remember how ill God took it, that his people of old, in their hearts, though but in their hearts, went back again into Egypt. You may say, but I have friends, relations, and concerns in Babylon. And, I answer, so had Lot in Sodom; Ge. xix. 14-16. but for all that, he must either quickly come out, or run the hazard of being burned there with them. But methinks, a people that belong to God, should be willing to leave all to follow him: Besides, his presence is promised at Jerusalem, there also will he accept thy offerings. Fifthly, Is Antichrist to be destroyed? Then let them that love God, his Son, and his Zion, cry to God that it may be hastened in its time. One of the songs of Zion is, that Babylon shall be destroyed. The cries of the souls of them that were slain for the witness of Jesus is, that Babylon may be counted with, and that their blood may be revenged upon her. The promise is, that Babylon shall be destroyed: And do we hold our tongues? The church of God will not flourish as it should, until Babylon is destroyed: The world will never be in its right wits, until Babylon is destroyed: The kingdom of Christ will never be set up, in and by his church, as it ought, and shall, until Antichrist is destroyed: There will never be peace upon earth till Antichrist is destroyed: And God has promised that there shall be peace and truth, and glory, when Babylon is destroyed: And do we hold our peace? Besides, your innocency in suffering; your honesty towards God, in your testimony for his truth; the substantial ground which you have for the bottom of your faith, as to things controverted betwixt Antichrist and you, will never be manifested as it will then; and so consequently, you never so brought out to the light, and your enemies never so put to shame as then. " Then shame shall cover her that said unto thee, Where is the Lord thy God?' Wherefore, as I said, cry unto the Lord, keep not silence, give him no rest, let him not alone, until he has delivered his miserable people out of the mouth of this lion, and from the paw of this bear. Sixthly, Is Antichrist to be destroyed? Then let us live in the expectation of it; and let this be one of our songs in the house of our pilgrimage. God bids his people, while in Babylon, to let Jerusalem come into their mind, Je. li. 50. and writes to them that then were in her, to acquaint them that he remembered them still, and would assuredly deliver them from that place and state. And wherefore doth he thus, but to beget an expectation in them of their salvation and deliverance? Je. xxix. 13, 14. The Lord is so pleased with the faith and expectation of his people, as to this, that they seldom are herein concerned as they should, but he steps in with them, and warms their hearts. The reason is, because the faith of God's people, as to the downfall of Babylon, stands upon as sure a foundation as doth the salvation of their souls; and that next to that, God is as much delighted in what he has purposed to do against Babylon, as in anything else in the earth: And therefore, if you consider it well, the great and glorious promises that are to be fulfilled on earth, are to be fulfilled when Antichrist is dead and buried: These bits are too good even for his children to have, so long as this dog is by, lest he should snatch at the crumbs thereof; wherefore they are reserved until he is VOL. II. gone: For thus saith the Lord, 'That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word towards you, in causing you to return to this place: For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.' This is in Jeremiah the twenty-ninth, ver. 10, 11. and in chapter the thirty-first he adds, Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.' ver. 12—14. Again, in the thirty-second chapter, still speaking of the same thing, he saith, 'Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.' ver. 41. I conclude this with that which I find in chapter the thirty-third: And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me. And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise, and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble, for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.' ver. 8, 9. Seventhly, Must Antichrist be destroyed? Then this should make us glad, when we see the signs of his fall presenting themselves to our view. Indeed, the signs of his fall, or those that forerun it, are terrible, and amazing to behold. But what of that, since the wrinkles that are in their faces threaten not us but them? A man is angry, and will punish; yea, and whets his sword, makes his rod, and he speaks not a word, but blood, blood, is in it. Indeed, this should make them that are concerned in this anger, be afraid; (but the judgment is, they are fast asleep,) but what is in all this of terror to them, for the pleading whose cause he is so angry with the other? Nothing whereat the innocent should be afraid. Cold blasts in November are not received with that gentleness as are colder in March and April; for that these last cold ones are but the farewell notes of a piercing winter; they also bring with them the signs and tokens of a comfortable summer. Why, the church is now at the rising of the year; let then the blasts at present, or to come, be what they will, Anti christ is assuredly drawing towards his downfall: And though the devil, knowing what is to be done to him, and to his kingdom, shall so blind his disciples, and fright the godly, do something like it upon the church of Christ; yet we should look through these paper-winkers,* and espy in all * 'Paper-winkers,' in every edition, except the first, which was from the author's manuscript, has been altered to 'paperwindows.' Bunyan's allusion is to the winkers, called by many 'blinkers,' put by the side of a horse's eyes, to keep him under the complete control of his driver-and by 'paper-winkers' this, that fear, yea, certain terrible judgments are following of him at the heels, by which not only the soul, spirit, and life of Antichrist, but the body thereof; yea, body, and soul, and head, are quickly to go down thither; from whence they, as such, shall not arise again. Amen. the flimsy attempts of Antichrist to hood-wink mankind by printed legends, miracles, and absurd assumptions-it is one of the almost innumerable sparks of wit, which render all the writings of Bunyan so entertaining and strikingly instructive. -ED. 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 FINAL CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE WORLD. BY JOHN BUNYAN, A SERVANT OF THE LORD'S CHRIST. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. -1 COR. xv. 51, 52. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.'-JOHN v. 28, 29. London: Printed for Francis Smith, at the Elephant and Castle, without Temple-Barre. [No date.] ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. THIS very important treatise, judging from the | style in which it is written, was, probably, one of the first books composed by Bunyan. The form in which it is prepared, with minute divisions to assist the memory, and its colloquial language, in- | dicate that it was first intended for the pulpit and then enlarged to form a more complete treatise; while the frequent recurrence of the words 'I say,' shew the unpolished style in which he was in the habit of committing his thoughts to paper, when he became an author. raised in heavenly and wondrous perfection; like to the Saviour's glorious body. That body, which being transfigured did shine as the sun, and his raiment became as the light.' That body which, after his resurrection, might be touched, but which could appear and disappear to mortal eyes; in the room at Emmaus, or in a closed room filled with his disciples; could be touched, yet vanish away; could eat with them on the sea shore, and could ascend to heaven from the mount. Thus it was foretold by the prophet and reiterated by the apostleA good copy of what appears to be the first edi-Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have tion, is in the British Museum, a small 8vo, without date-and from this, collated with the reprint by C. Doe in Bunyan's works, 1691, the present edition is published. Doe, in his catalogue of all Mr. Bunyan's books, appended to the Heavenly Footman, 1690, states that The resurrection of the Dead, and eternal Judgment by John Bunyan, a servant of the Lord's Christ, was first published in 1665.' I have not been able to discover any subsequent edition in a separate volume. The resurrection of the body is a subject of universal and deep importance. It defies our reasoning powers, while it exalts our ideas of the divine omnipotence. With God, all things revealed in his word are not only possible, but certain of accomplishment. The bodies of the saints, which are a part of the Redeemer's purchase will be entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.' Is. lxiv. 4; 1 Co. ii. 9. Not one atom of our dust can be lost; a bright, a glorious anticipation to the saints; but how solemn and awful a thought to those who die without hope. Among Christians it is common to think and talk of the happiness of the spirits of the just made perfect; but alas, how seldom do. we think or speak of the perfect bliss of our whole nature, body, soul, and spirit-incorruptible, undefiled, glorified-every part equally the object of the Saviour's purchase and of his care. This treatise, which will be ever new, and ever important, was peculiarly required in Bunyan's early days. Under the protectorate, the minds of men, which had been kept in slavery, became suddenly emancipated from human creeds and formu |