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A58888	A discoverie of the vvorld to come according to the Scriptures the first part thereof being didactical, or such as contains a form of positive doctrine : wherein 1. The doctrine of the world to come is propounded, explicated, confirmed, and applyed in a more familiar method then formerly hath been observed, 2. The doctrine of millenaries, touching a new reformed church in the latter times, which they call a new world, is confuted, 3. Sundry passages of holy writ are interpreted in reference to the world to come, which have been formerly wrested, and forced in a wrong sense / written by J. Seager...	Seager, J. (John)	1650 (1650)	Wing S2172; ESTC R32635	182,162	318

ears and turning their ●ars from the truth are turned unto fables There 2 Pet. 2. 2. ●re many that follow the pernicious ways of Seducers by reason of whom the way of truth is evil spoken of And there are many that are lovers of 2 Tim. 3. 2 3 4 5. their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankeful unholy without natural affection truce-breachers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good traytors heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof And as it is an evil world at this day by reason of sin so we may well expect that it shall grow worse and worse towards its end and dissolution because our Saviour hath said That towards the end iniquity shall abound and the love of many shall wax cold Mat. 24. 12. wherefore we may well acknowledg this present world to be evil in respect of sin The second thing which proves this present world to be evil is pain or punishment whereof also there is much to be found and as long as a man lives in this world his flesh upon him shall have pain and his soul within him shall mourn Job 14. 22. Sin and punishment are as the cause and the effect as the mother and the daughter the one leads the way the other drags after the one makes men merry for the present the other makes them mourn afterward and as all men living have sinned so they do all suffer for their sin more or less in one kind or other only with this difference those pains which are suffered by Gods Elect in this world are truly said to be castigatory and such as do prepare them for eternal Salvation but those which are suffered by the rest are truly said to be vindicatory and such as do prepare them for eternal wrath And the pains of this life are either inward such as are inflicted upon the Soul or inward man or else outward such as are inflicted upon the body or outward estate of man But if any desire to have a particular accompt of the pains of this life he must hear and observe the several plaints and cries of all particular persons and so you shall have one to cry out Oh my head another Oh my eye another Oh my tooth another Oh my heart another Oh my back another Oh my bones another Oh my bowels another Oh my thigh another Oh my foot You shall have one to complain of the Fever another of the Plurisie another of the Dropsie another of the Palsie another of the Stone another of the Strangury another of the Gout You shall hear one bewail his corporal blindness another his deafness another his lameness another his poverty another his oppression another his losses another his imprisonment another his banishment And perchance you shall have another say The graves are ready for me and the pains of death or the pains of Hell are upon me Thus lust when it hath conceived bringeth forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death Jam. 1. 15. Yea not only man himself doth thus suffer for his sin in this world but also other creatures do suffer pain for mans sake and the whole Creation is in pain and groans to be delivered from that bondage of corruption which the sin of man hath brought upon it Rom. 8. Now all pain or punishment is evil in its own nature Mat. 6. 13. That which helps to make the days of our pilgrimage to be few and evil Gen. 47. 9. And all the days of the afflicted are evil Prov. 15. 15. And consequently this present world that hath so much pain or punishment in it must needs be evil in this respect And if here it should be asked Whether the latter days of this world shall not be better then the former and more free from pain and punishment My Answer should be I think they shall not because our Savior hath foretold us of many painful evils that shall happen towards the end of this world as of Wars and rumours of Mat. 24. 6 7 10 30. Wars of Famines Pestilences and Earthquakes in divers places of the rising of Nation against Nation and Kingdom against Kingdom of the rising of parents against their children and children against their parents of hating and betraying one another and sheweth That at the very time of his second appearing all the Tribes of the Earth shall mourn and doubtless they shall then mourn not only by reason of sin but also by reason of pain and punishment that shall be then upon them Wherefore I infer from what hath been said That this present world is evil and is likely to beget worse both in respect of sin and also in respect of pain or punishment Yet I find in some Books printed of late years Vse that some men have dreamed of a great change in this world before the end not for the worse but for the better they say That this old world in its latter age and towards its end shall grow better and be more free from sin and pain then ever it was for say they Upon the fall of Antichrist there shall be a National Conversion of the Jews and thereupon shall follow a great Conversion of the Gentiles and such a golden age for holiness and happiness as never hath been Yea some of them have said That there shall be a Reformation-change all the world over at least in Discipline before its end But I would tell such Dreamers Surely a deep sleep is fallen upon you you sleep in the day of spiritual light and not in the night of spiritual darkness as others do you are more swayed by the letter then by the proper sence and scope of those Scriptures which you bring for the proof of that phantastical New-World of which you speak you balk the New-Testament and hide your selves under the dark Prophecies of the Old whereas you should consider that Christ and his Apostles have so clearly interpreted the Prophets as touching the latter times and have so fully stated the evil and perillous condition of them that we need not appeal from them to the Prophets in this Argument And whereas in your printed pages you quote divers passages out of the 11 Chapter to the Romans as if they were pat and sure for your opinion I would tell you also That you much mistake the proper occasion and scope of that Chapter for you should know that the Apostle in the said Chapter doth speak of the Jews of his present time and not of a latter off-spring of them as may appear vers 5. and that the Jews of his then present time were some of them of Gods Election and others not vers 7. and that those of the Election were some of them converted and others were not vers 14. but as for such as were unconverted among them he was willing to convert and save them and had

illustrated in the Gospel by the separation of goats from sheep Mat. 25. 32. as also by the severing of the bad fish from the good Mat. 13. 49. Now by reason of this everlasting separation of theirs from all Union and Communion with God with Christ and the Saints they shall never have any experience of Gods Goodness Mercy and Love towards them in Christ Neither shall they ever have any experience of the Saints favour and fellowship but shall still abide under the wrath of God And so this everlasting separation of theirs will be unto them an everlasting Death and this Death is called in Scripture the second Death Rev. 20. 6 14. because it shall follow immediately upon the destruction of the first death For the natural death of mankind which is the first death shall be destroyed at the general Resurrection and thereupon shall begin this the second Death It is called everlasting punishment Mat. 25. 46. because it shall be such a punishment to those that shall suffer it And it is called a lake of fire Rev. 20. 14 everlasting fire Mat. 25. 41. everlasting burnings Isai 33. 14. because all that shall suffer it shall be everlastingly tormented with it as it were with fire Thus we may understand the Nature of thi● Death Secondly Touching the Certainty of it I affirm That Reprobates shall most certainly suffer this everlasting Death in the World to come As may be made good by these Arguments 1. They who shall not have their names found in the Book of Life shall suffer everlasting Death in the World to come Rev. 20. 15. But Reprobates shall not have their names found in the Book of Life Ergo. 2. They that are appointed unto wrath shall suffer everlasting Death in the World to come But Reprobates are appointed unto wrath 1 Thes 5. 9. Ergo. 3. They that are vessels of wrath shall suffer everlasting Death in the World to come But Reprobates are vessels of wrath Rom. 9. 22. Ergo. 4. They that will never beleeve effectually shall dye in the guilt of their sins and so suffer everlasting Death in the World to come John 8. vers 24. But Reprobates will never beleeve effectually Ergo. 5. They that will never unfeignedly repent and so turn from their evil ways shall suffer everlasting Death in the World to come as may appear Ezek. 3. 19. 18. 20. But Reprobates will never unfeignedly repent and so turn from their evil ways Ergo. 6. They that will Apostatize and grow worse and worse shall suffer everlasting Death in the World to come as may appear Ezek. 3. 20. 18. 24. But Reprobates will still Apostatize and grow worse and worse 2 Tim. 3. 13. Ergo. 7. They that will still hate wholesom reproof shall suffer eternal Death in the World to come according to that of Solomon He that hateth reproof shall dye Prov. 15. 10. But Rebrobates will still hate reproof while they shall remain here Ergo. 8. They that will still and finally be wicked persons shall suffer eternal Death in the World to come according to that of the Lord O wicked man thou shalt surely dye Ezek. 33. 8. But Reprobates will still and finally be wicked persons Ergo. 9. They that will still despise Gods Ways and Commandments shall be sure to suffer everlasting Death in the World to come as Solomon saith He that despiseth his Ways shall dye Prov. 19. 16. But Reprobates will still thus do while they shall remain in this world Ergo. Thirdly Touching the Causes of it I affirm 1. That the Efficient Cause of this their Death shall be the whole Trinity God Father Son and Holy Ghost For it is said concerning wicked Reprobates That God hath prepared for them the instruments of death Psal 7. 13. And that he will kill their children with death Rev. 2 23. And if the whole Trinity will do this then it is the whole Trinity that shall inflict eternal Death upon Reprobates in the World to come 2. That the Meritorious Cause hereof is and shall be sin for sin only and every sin in its own nature deserves death both temporal and eternal as it is written Death entred by sin Rom. 5. 12. The wages of sin is death Rom. 6. 23. The Soul that sinneth shall dye Ezek. 18. 20. And though it be true that all such as have or shall have their sins pardoned through Christ shall escape eternal Death notwithstanding the desert of their sin yet it is most certain that Reprobates shall suffer this Death in the World to come even for their sin as the Meritorious Cause thereof and then they shall acknowledg that every sin of theirs hath brought this Death upon them 3. That the Final Cause of it shall be the Glory of Gods Justice for he shall punish them with everlasting Death that he may manifest the Glory of his Justice upon them and that all men may see his Righteousness This latter Proposition may inform us as before 1. That it had been good for Reprobates if they Vse had never been born for if they had never been born they could never have suffered everlasting Death But now seeing they have been are or shall be al born this death shall seize upon them 2. That it will be worse with such in the World to come then it can be with them in this world for here they can suffer no other then a temporal death but hereafter they shall suffer eternal death not without cause but for their sins 3. That all men living in the body should take some speedy course for their own safety that they be preserved from eternal death for I know that none of us are willing to suffer this death with Reprobates in the World to come and the Word of God prescribes a way for the avoyding of it And therefore all should take this way or this course for their own safety and preservation Object But what course must we take for to preserve our selves from this eternal death Sol. First We must earnestly pray to have our sins pardoned as our Saviour hath taught us in his Prayer and this pardon of sin will preserve us from eternal death as may appear by that speech of Nathan to David God hath put away thy sin thou shalt not dye 2 Sam. 12. as if he had said Though thou mayst and must dye a temporal death yet thou shalt not dye an eternal death because God hath pardoned thy sin Secondly Because this pardon of sin cannot be obtained without a lively faith in Christ we must in the next place labour and pray for this faith and such a faith as this will preserve us from eternal death as may appear by that saying of Christ to Martha Whosoever liveth and beleeveth in me he shall not dye Joh. 11. 26. that is though he dye a temporal death yet he shall not an eternal death because he beleeveth in me Thirdly Because our faith cannot be good without repentance we must also labour for a