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A30912	Good things to come, or, A setting forth some of the great things that will contemporize and take place when our Lord Christ shall come again mentioned in the Holy Scriptures ... / by P.G.B.	Barbon, Praisegod, 1596?-1679.	1675 (1675)	Wing B751; ESTC R38717	116,082	128

that subject he begins with that of the Lord Christ his being risen of the truth whereof were many witnesses as is mentioned by him he taking knowledge of some amongst themselves that said there was to be no resurrection from the dead 1. Cor. 15. 12. contrary to the faith that was preached and beleeved and being a thing that did render the assertors of that truth as false witnesses which he makes good from the tising from death the Lord Christ laying very great stresse on that as a foundation and bottom on which the whole building stands he mentions it again ver 15. and argues from thence to the 20th verse to make out and clear that truth and then in vers 20. he concludes saying but now is Christ risen and become the first fruits of them that sleep so he calleth death This doctrine of the resurrection looketh backward and forward as it looketh backward it eyeth death which came by man to wit Adam as it looketh forward it eyeth living again by man to wit the man Christ our Lord as in vers 21. He is the blessed redeemer from the grave and the restorer to life again after death vers 22. As in Adam all die so in Christ shall all be made alive this It looketh backward and forward backward It eyeth Adam forward it relateth to the Lord Christ the new and second Adam as by the first Adam sin entred and death by sin as the effect following its cause Adam was forewarned and it was told him in the garden of Eden that in the day he did eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evel he should die he did notwithstanding take and eat he sinned and death seized on him by sin came death and it went over all Adam being the father of all the stock from whence man proceeded his sin or sin that entred by his disobedience was propagated and entailed to all his posteritie Rom. 5. 12. As by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin c. vers 17. By one mans offence death reigned by one In Adam all sin In Adam all die In the Lord Christ all shall be made alive the just and the unjust the righteous and the wicked all over whom death hath reigned all that dyed in Adam so is the paralel and proportion as and so all shall be made alive by the power of the Lord Christ the great conqueror of sin and death The matter is considerable as it relateth to the resurrection and rising again of the sons of Adam the argument or thing the Apostle was upon and it doth not meddle with that of election and faith or living by faith in a spiritual way neither may it be so understood or made use of without straining and forcing it to speak that the Apostle never intended In Christ shall all be made alive so as to rise and live again in the body There shall be a resurrection of the just and of the unjust some shall be made alive again to everlasting life Dan. 12. 2. And some to shame and everlasting contempt some shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord. c. 2. Thess 1. 9. They shall be bid depart ye workers of iniquity shall be bid go ye cursed c. Math. 25. 41. Whereas the just and righteous shall be gathered to the Lord Christ and be for ever with him 1. Thes. 4. 10. The Apostle argueth from the resurrection of the Lord Christ his rising again after his being crucified dead and buried he rose again It was said to the women that came to the sepulchre by an Angel Math. 28. 6. Luk. 24. 6. He is not here he is risen He was buried in the grave or sepulchre but he arose from thence and was not there he was dead but he is alive and liveth for evermore and hath the keys of death and the grave Rev. 1. 18. to open when he pleaseth and as he pleaseth Christ our Lord is risen from the dead a great saying and blessed Christ our Lord is risen from the dead and become the first-fruits of them that slept so death and lying in the grave is termed 1. Cor. 15. 20. our Lord saith John 5. 28. 29. The hour cometh when all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth they that have done good to the resurrection of life and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation Christ the first fruits there is very much in that he as conqueror of death as the captain and leader the beginner and finisher one that hath and ought to have the preheminence he being the beginning and first fruits from the dead that in all things he might have the preheminence Col. 1. 18. the Lord Christ as man is first and chief to him the preheminence belongs in all things for God the father hath highly advanced him and made him mighty Phil. 2. 9. As by man to wit Adam came death so by man namely the Lord Jesus very man and the son of man so he stiles himself came also the resurrection from the dead By the first man Adam came death by the second man the Lord Jesus Christ came the resurrection from death Alas for those sadduces that say there is no resurrection It is good for all the servants of God and lovers of the Lord Christ to be of like confession and belief with the Apostle Paul Acts. 24. 15. And have hope towards God that there shall be a resurrection from the dead both of the just and the unjust The power and vertue of the resurrection of the Lord Christ produceth great effects as to the one so to the other The forementioned words in vers 22. As in Adam all die so in Christ shall all be made a live are so full and plain as nothing can be said further there needs no dilating on them only keep to the thing in hand to wit death or dying and rising and living again after it As to that of all dying in Adam ask the many ages and generations that are past since Adam since God created man upon the earth ask what is become of the great potentates the mighty men the rich the wise the honorable yea the good and just men also and all free and bond and they will all beare witness in a real wise to this that in Adam all die they are all dead and gone they are all in their graves death hath gone over all as sin went before so death followed after all the sons of Adam as well as he himself have dyed only two or three excepted that dyed not but were translated In like manner and in way of parallel and proportion In Christ and by Christ shall all be made alive sooner or later not one of Adams sons excepted there is no reserve in the case all must arise all must appeare and give an account of the things they have done in the flesh whether good or

regeneration is attended withall in the polluted world in this polluted state We shall in this change be quite rid of sin and defilement and of sinning any more then That which holy John sayth of those that are the sons of God in the blessed estate of regeneration such as are born of God that they cannot sin because they are born of God true only in a sense or consideration will then in the highest sense and degree be made good And it might be said they cannot sin because they are so changed and have put off corruption and put on incorruption holyness and purity the seed of sin and corruption being quite put away and they in their persons washed from it in the bloud of the lamb Rev. 1. 5. Rev. 7. 14. then with that change the mistery of God will be fully finished to wit that of full redemption of the body the whole man waited for by those that have the first fruits or earnest of the spirit Rom. 8. 23. it will then be enjoyed the bodyes of the just and saved people will be changed and made like the pure and spotless body of the Lord Christ Phil. 3. 21. what they lost in Adam this change will restore to the just with very many and great advantages for it will be a restoration as well as a change or a restoration in the change very much for the better And not like that which attended Adam in paradise which was so much for the worse This change will not only have rectitude and purity restored but also a state of stability therein together with immortality and that which is the effect following namely everlasting life Life for evermore This is one of the great things in this change from a state of sin defilement and corruption to a state of purity holyness and innocency so as being wholly pure to be capable to see God as is promised to the pure in heart Math. 5 8. and to see the Lord Christ as he is in his glory and also to be for ever with him 1. Joh. 3. 2. 1 Thes. 4. 17. The second thing in this change is immortalitie that put on and mortality that put off This dying body which is dying dayly as we are carrying it about with us shall then be put into a state and condition of immortality so as not to dye at all but to live for ever to have a life eternal a life everlasting instead of a life of seventy years or the like as the posteritie of Adam have had and hath been counted a blessing from God Psal 91. 16. But this change will put men into a state of freedom from sin the cause and death the effect as for sin and iniquity that prophecy Jer. 50. 20. will then be throughly fulfilled at that time saith the Lord the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for and there shall be none and the sins of Judah and they shall not be found for I will pardon them whom I reserve these changed ones in a moment which is something like that Zech. 3. 9. And I will remove the iniquity of that land on one day which things have never been made good these prophecyes were never fulfilled as yet and though they may in a great measure have their fulfilling before yet are they never likely to be so fully and throughly fulfilled till that day when sin and corruption shall be taken away put off and death swallowed up in victory and be no more and Mortality swallowed up of life to wit life everlasting 2. Cor. 5. 4. so as death and Mortality will then be no more among the righteous and saved ones who then will be changed and put into an estate as neither to sin nor to dye And if any should think they had attained to a state of freedom from sin here in this world before that day if they could assure themselves or others of a like freedom from death and the grave it were something otherwise that of holy John 1. Joh. 1. 8. If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us compared with Prov. 20. 9. will take place but then at that happy time they shall be freed by being changed and by putting off corruption and mortality and be put into that blessed estate of freedom and glorious liberty of the sons of God And the grace of the new testament or covenant confirmed by the bloud of the Lord Jesus the blessed mediator and advocate thereof shall in the highest degree be enjoyed by them then and there so as God being their God in a gracious wise and they his people he shall keep them in that blessed estate for ever and they shall not depart from him any more for ever Jer. 32. 40. but shall enjoy everlasting life in the enjoyment of happyness and felicity and freedom from all sorrow and misery whatever the blessed fruits of that happy change into immortality and everlasting life Now for the manner of this change it is held forth in a way of putting off and putting on a borrowed way of speaking this corruptible this mortal must put off and put on to wit they must be freed quite rid of sin corruption and mortalitie and made pure incorrupt and immortal and this by putting off and puting on as men put off and put on raiment change their clothing put off filthy and torn or old rayment they put it off put it away lay it by and put on clean sound and good clothing new and fresh so is this putting off and putting on here A plain and known thing alluded unto a usual and known thing for the manner so this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal put on immortality having put corruption and mortalitie away and laid them by Further take we notice of that of the prophet Zachary Zech. 3. It is spoken of Joshua haply as a Type of the thing in hand or it may be a prophecy eyeing of it to wit the change however the mauner is much the same Ioshua was cloathed with filthy garments and stood before the Angel the Angel bids those that stood by to take away his filthy garments from him as the garments of corruption shall be taken from the righteous and to him he said behold I have caused thine iniquitie to pass from thee as shall then the corruption and sin and also mortality passe away from the righteous and it is spoken with a behold In the one and in the other A thing rare and considerable behold I shew you a mystery behold I have caused thine iniquity to depart Joshua his filthy garments shall be taken away As the changed shall put off their garments of corruption and mortality and shall put on garments that are pure incorrupt or spotless and immortalitie also and eternal life There is something declared vers 2. very high and marvelous to wit I will cause the iniquitie of that land the land of Canaan Israels possession to