In consequence of this all the graves shall open, and the bodies of men arise. _The sea also shall give up the dead which are therein_,[38] and every one shall rise with _his own body_: his own in substance, although so changed in its properties, as we cannot now conceive. For _this corruptible will_ then _put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality_.[39] Yea, _death and hades_, the invisible world shall _deliver up the dead that are in them_. So that all who ever lived and died since God created man, shall be raised incorruptible and immortal. 2. At the same time _the Son of man shall send forth his angels_ over all the earth, _and they shall gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other_.[40] And the Lord himself shall _come with clouds, in his own glory, and the glory of his Father, with ten thousand of his saints, even myriads of angels_, and _shall sit upon the throne of his glory. And before him shall be gathered all nations, and he shall separate them one from another, and shall set the sheep_, the good, _on his right hand, and the goats_, the wicked, _upon the left_.[41] Concerning this general assembly it is, that the beloved disciple speaks thus: _I saw the dead_, all that had been dead, _small and great, stand before God. And the books were opened_ (a figurative expression, plainly referring to the manner of proceeding among men) _and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works_.[42] II. These are the chief circumstances which are recorded in the oracles of God, as preceding the general judgment. We are secondly, to consider the judgment itself, so far as it hath pleased God to reveal it. 1. The person by whom God _will judge the world_ is his only begotten Son whose _goings forth are from everlasting, who is God over all, blessed for ever_. Unto him, being _the out-beaming of his Father’s glory, the express image of his person_,[43] the Father _hath committed all judgment, because he is the Son of man_:[44] because tho’ he was _in the form of God, and thought it not robbery to be equal with God, yet he emptied himself, taking upon him the form of a servant, being made in the ♦likeness of men_.[45] Yea, because _being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself_ yet farther, _becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God hath highly exalted him_, even in his human nature, and _ordained him_ as man to try the children of men, to be the _judge both of the quick and dead_; both of those who shall be found alive at his coming, and of those who were before _gathered to their fathers_.