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A85442	The vvorld to come. Or, The kingdome of Christ asserted. In two expository lectures of Ephes. 1. 21, 22. verses. Prooving that between the state of this world as now it is, and the state of things after the day of judgement, when God shall be all in all: there is a world to come which is of purpose, and is a more especiall manner appointed for Jesus Christ to be king, and wherein he shall more eminently reign. / Preached by Mr. Tho: Goodwin many years since, at Antholins, London. Published for the truths sake.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1266; Thomason E838_13; ESTC R207443	23,121	40

to be in the thing First to tell you what they shall not do They shall not eate and drinke nor marry and give in marriage So Christ tels us in Mat. 22. 30. The children of the resurrection do none of these things And therefore to imagine a Turkish heaven here below is the absurdity that hath been put upon it and which indeed made the Fathers many of them after the first 300. years after Christ to flye out so much against this subject for there was an opinion then that Christ should reign at Jerusalem and that they should abound in all severall pleasures and delights c. and this the Fathers were against I have told you what they do not I will tell you what they do he tels us as I sayd before that they shall be Kings and Priests as in Rev. 20. 6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection why on such saith he the second death hath no power they are out of all danger of it being in a celestial state ●ut saith he they shall be Priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a thousand yeares here is both their reigning and their Priesthood set out I would open it a little First they shall be Kings You heard before out of Heb. 2. 5. That hee hath not put this world to come in subjection to Angels The Angels now they are the Thrones and Principalities and great ones that rules this present world but the Saints shall be Kings then And for them to take the Angels places to be as the Angels now are after their resurrection there is no absurdity in it Christ saith after the resurrection the Saints they shall be as the Angels of God they shall be Priests likewise I shall take off what absurdity there may seem to be in that by this Our Saviour when he took up his body out of the grave he continued forty dayes upon the earth What did Christ do all that while It is playne he performed the part of a Priest and Prophet he did instruct them in the worship of God and speaking to them of things pertayning to the Kingdome of God so you read expresly in Acts● the Apostles had a brave Teacher Christ risen from the dead so he began that new world and he remained forty dayes here of purpose to do it Now consider is it any absurdity for the Saints to be conformed to Christ their Lord and head to run through the same states that he did he lived in this world was poore and miserable so are you when he dyed he commended his spirit into the hands of his Father and whether his soul went our souls goe So likewise when he took his body again out of the grave he remained forty dayes upon earth instructing his Disciples in the things concerning the Kingdome of God If the Saints do so when they take up their bodies againe in all this here is but a conformity to Christ he ascended then up to heaven and so shall his and be for ever with the Lord But the great objection is That the soules of men that are now in heaven and see the face of God for them to come downe and reign on earth and do such service here below it would be a disadvantage to them or changing a better estate for a worse which seemes to be a great absurdity For answer consider to take off the absurdity that even this State I speak of will be a better State then what their soules are now possessed of for otherwise our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST when his body and soule was united againe at his resurrection was not in a better state then his soule was in after death when it was seperated from his body Certainly his state after his resurrection whilst upon earth was better then his state before his resurrection but you will say they are now in heaven where they behold the face of God as the Angels do which they may loose by coming here upon earth that doth not follow for the Angels came down here below and yet Christ saith they alwayes behold the face of their father so may these Saints on earth behold the face of God Stephen though a mortall man yet the heavens were opened to him He saw the glory of God and Jesus sitting at the right hand of his Father My brethren God hath eternity of time to reveale himselfe to his people in and he doth advance his Favourites by degrees First he glorifies their souls apart after when soul and body is united it 's in a better condition simply considered then the soule had before how many wayes God hath to manifest himselfe to his Saints how many degrees they shall pass through and how many worlds he will have to do it in that is known to himself however the more the better If God shall lead you by degrees through this and that glory from one to another it will be to your advantage As in a Masque there are several shews which adds to the excellency of it God hath eternity of time to make all these shewes and representations of himselfe to his children And let mee adde this that the will that he fulfilled which is prayed for in that we call the Lords prayer Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven There is a time when the will of God shall be done on earth as compleatly as in heaven which is in that time of the first resurrection My brethren I have spoken these things as that which hath a great shew of truth in it and as that which is exceeding probable I have told you my grounds for it which I could never answer my self Now there is a fourth degree of this world to come and that I am sure will hold and that is that time during the day of judgment strictly so taken after the generall resurrection both of just and unjust Then to honour this New World not only shall the Saints come down but Jesus Christ himself will come down and abide a long day here below Therefore it is not absurdity for Saints to leave heaven when Christ himself shall do it neither will it diminish any thing from Christs happinesse for he will come and bring all his glory with him That we call the day of judgment will be a long day judg you your selves whether it will be so or no Do you think that the accompts of all the world can be cast up in the twinkling of an eye Doth not Solomon say expresly That God will bring every worke to judgment with every secret thing whether good or evill in Ecclès. 12. And doth not the Apostle say in 1 Cor. 4. 5. That when the Lord comes he will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the heart Will not this require much time surely it will be a long day when our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will do that great work or service to God the greatest that ever was more then all his preaching which is the examining the accounts of all the world convincing all man-kind of their evill and sending them speechless to Hell Things shall be so there that the Saints shall be able to judg the world too according to that in 1 Cor. 6. 2. Now here this new world will be in its height and perfection here is Christ and all his Saints and Angels about him Yet not that this world shall be subject to Angels but they shall gather all the Nations together and shall execute the sentence that Christ pronounceth against them and fling them all to Hell but the Angels shall not sit as Judges they shall stand and not sit whereas the Saints are sayd to sit upon 12. Thrones and they are said likewise in 1 Cor. 6. To judge Angels And now shall this world to come be at its perfection that creature that hath groaned under mans lusts shall then be fully restored to the glorious liberty of the sons of God the world will then be new hung This is Christs world to come wherein he shall have all things subject to him For at this time shall all things be under Christs feet and never till then for the last enemie that shall be destroyed is Death and when all things shall be subdued to him then shall the sonne also himself be subject then shall he give up the Kingdome to the Father And what that State is that shall come after Christ hath given up the Kingdome to his Father no man knows only the Scripture saith this of it That God shall be all in all and that Christ himselfe shall then be subject FINIS

time of raigning to Christ First is to draw all mens thoughts to him that is that all men might honour the Sonne as they honour the Father John 5. 22. As for every work there is a season so likewise for every person wherein they shall in a speciall manner be more glorious Secondly this was a reward exceeding due to Jesus Christ that he should have a kingdome appropriated to him for a season that all judgment should be commi●ed to him and he should draw all mens eyes to him in a more immediate manner because he vailed himselfe in obedience to his Father therefore the Father to recompence him he will not appear himselfe so much in the government saith he let my Sonne take it I will commit all judgement to him and see the equity of this because God will put all things under the feet of Christ therefore will he againe give up all things to God and be subject himselfe to him as God-man 1 Cor. 15. 28. Though Jesus Christ hath this kingdome and means to conquer all his enemies before he give it up yet when he is in the height of his dominion when he is in his full triumph and hath cleared all the worlds accounts then will he give up the kingdome to the Father which may teach us when we are highest and most assisted and raised to fall down and give glory to the Lord so Jesus will do when he hath all enemies under his feet and judged and pronounced sentence upon all then will he set up his father deliver up the kingdome unto him and he shall become all in all this will be the last and great solemnity of all This is the first distinction his naturall kingdome which is due to him as man joyned to God that remains forever but there is something of his Mediatory kingdome to be given up Distinct 2 The second distiction is this This Mediators kingdome it receives a double consideration First Consider Christ as a Mediator for the Church and so consider him as under imperfection sinne or misery or any other want till they shall be compleat or Secondly Consider him as he is head to the Church made compleat and perfected in all parts degrees that I may explain my self You may call to mind that when I opened the third and fourth verses compared with the seventh verse I told you that in election there were two great designes or contrivements the one was more principall and cheif which I called Gods decree of the end what Gods designe was to make us and there it was that God chose us in Christ as a head unto absolute glory which with Christ and in Christ we shal have for ever in the highest heavens Secondly God designed the way unto this end and so God was pleased that he might set off the glory of that perfect state the more therefore he lets us fall into sin and misery and suffers our bodies and souls to be separated before we shall come to that end which God hath designed us to To enjoy this Canaan we must go through a wildernesse to it Now answerable to this double designe of God Jesus Christ hath a double relation to his Church the one as a head simply considered and so were chosen in him to that perfect state unto which God hath designed us Secondly Christ hath the relation of a Redeemer and Mediator for us that as we are fallen into sinne and misery and distresse so he might redeem us and helpe us now while the Church is in an imperfect state and hath not all its members nor they out of all danger neither though they be in no reall danger yet they are to give an account of their actions and there is a final sentence to be past upon them and in that sence there may be said to be forgiveness of sinne in the world to come and therefore Paul prayes for one that he may finde mercy at that day Now while there is any such thing as guilt or the appearance of it or any imperfection and till that finall sentence be past so long is Jesus Christ a Mediator for us and so God hath given him all power in heaven and earth to give eternall life to them that believe Now so long as Jesus Christ rules in a way of conflict and as a Conqueror is destroying sinne and death and all emnity also raising soule and body and bringing them together in this sence the Sripture speaks of his sitting at the right hand of God but when once the finall sentence is past then this work of the Mediator his reigning as to destroy enemies and such like is over and then Jesus Christ will present us to to his Father Loe here I am and the children which thou hast given me we are now as thou didst look upon us in thy primitive thoughts in election so he stands in relation to them as a head there we are considered as perfect and the Mediators office is laid down and God becoms all in all both to Christ and us I would add a third thing to this that is how Christ is a King and sits at the right hand of God for ever when Jesus Christ hath given up this kingdom of his Redeemer-ship unto the Father yet then he shall sit down for ever with this honour that it was he that did exercise this office so that there is not a soule lost nor a sinne unsatisfied for nor any enemies unsubdued it is true he is not a Generall in Warre any longer but he shall have this honour that he did all these exployts brought all these rebels in so that indeed in truth Jesus Christ shall reign more gloriously with the Father after that time of judgement is over then ever he did before now he shall raigne triumphantly whereas before he raigned as one in conflict and conquest Jesus Christ himselfe will say that he never was King so much as he shall be now Jesus Christ shall ever have the glory of it that he was that great and glorious Dictator that he subdued all enemies and delivered up the kingdom peaceably to his Father and in some sence set the Crown upon his Fathers head who was as it were in some sence put out of his rule in the world by Satan and wicked men that did what they list and the Saints they lye under sin and misery and Christ he subdues all these enemies and presents all these soules to the Father with a peaceable rule and government and this he enjoys with the Father for eternity now whereas it is said Of his kingdome shall be no end the meaning is it shall not be destroyed for ever it s a kingdome that gives way to no kingdome it shall still be continued though he himselfe give it up to the Father and become visibly and apparently more subject then he was before not in respect of his Godhead for so he is never subject nor in respect of his manhood

vvill also make this new vvorld more compleat he vvill bring part of Heaven dovvn too to add to the glory of this state I shall breifly give you some grounds for vvhat I say such as for this tvventy years I have not knovvn vvell hovv to ansvver I do not say that Christ himselfe shall come dovvn from Heaven to reign here on earth but let it be understood that Christ shall still remaine in Heaven and there to be his Court where he shall reign both over this world and the world to come Yet this I conceive that part of Heaven shall come down and rule this new world to make the glory of it the more compleat and that it may clearly put down old Adams world my reasons and grounds which satisfies me in this are these If this be not so I do not know how to understand that place which shall be the foundation of the rest in Rev. 20. the whole Capter but specially the five first verses you shall finde and such as know that Book they do acknowledge as much that in the Chapter going before both Pope and Turke is destroyed In Chap. 19. Ver. 20. it is said there The Beast was taken and with him the false Prophet that wrought miracles before him with which he deceived them that had received the marke of the Beast and them which worshipped his Image these both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone Here we see the Beast and the false Prophet is gone where is the Devill he is left still therefore in the beginning of the 20. Chapter he tels us what becomes of the Devill I saw an Angell come down from Heaven having the key of the bottomlesse pit and a great chain in his hand and he laid hold on the Devill and bound him a thousand years and cast him into the bottomlesse pit and shut him up set a seal upon him that he should deceive the Nations no more till the thousand years were ended The Devill though now he travell the Earth up and down and is ruler over the world yet here he is kept up that he may not deceive the Nations This was never yet fulfilled it could not be fulfilled during the times of Antichrist for the Devill never deceived the creatures more then he did in that time and we see how it follows in order after the Beast is taken and destroyed then is Sathan bound up but we know the Beast is not yet destroyed therefore this thing is not yet come and it cannot be after the day of Judgement his binding up for he is after his binding to be loosned a little season and you shall finde that after Satan is let loose a little while then the day of Judgement follows when all the dead shall rise and be Judged as in the 11 12 13. Verses Now take notice that when the Devill is gone and thus shut up for a thousand years what ther 's done in these thousand years of that we read in the 4 5 6 7. Verses And I saw Thrones and they sate upon them and Judgement was given unto them Who are they that have this Judgement given unto them What is meant by Judgement but reigning and Authority that such shall have And I saw the soules of them that were beheaded for the witnesse of Jesus and the word of God which were the Martyrs in the Primitive times under the Roman Emperors persecution and saith he which had not worshipped the Beast neither had received his marke on their foreheads or in their hands which were such as had stood it out in the times of Antichrist and had not defiled themselves They lived saith he and reigned with Christ a thousand years but the rest of the dead lived not againe untill the thousand years were finished this is the first resurrection Now it is said by some that the first resurrection is a spirituall resurrection of mens souls from the death of sinne such interpretations are commonly put upon it Now I desire you would consider with your selves a little and weigh the place First of all it is the body of men that are said to be dead that is plaine for they are said to be beheaded or slaine with the sword for the witnesse of Jesus It cannot be said so of the soule that it 's beheaded or slaine with the sword And as the death is such must be the resurrection but their death was a naturall death and their resurrection must be answerable And saith he They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years This is not meant the glory of heaven that reigned with Christ onely there for so they shall reigne for ever with him and so they had reigned from the first time that they were slain they were with Christ in glory but this reigning is upon their rising from the dead for saith he The rest of the dead lived not againe therefore this rising of theirs is a living againe This saith he is the first resurrection Now my brethren consider further where doe these reigne It seemes it is on earth by this argument because why else is the Devill bound up he need not be bound up for their reigning in Heaven but we see here as a preparation to their reigning the Devil is bound this is a place I could urge multitude of things out off but I must not enlarge I know not likewise how to answer another place Rev. 5. 10. where we have the the Saints in Johns time saying Thou hast made us Kings and Preists and we shall reigne on earth They do not say vve do reign but vve shall reign on earth and then joyne with that what is said in 2 Pet. 3. 13. We according to his promise looke for new heavens and a new earth c. We Apostles we Saints that live now we look for it how prove you that because the use he makes of it shews as much as in ver. 14. Wheréfore beloved seeing you looke for such things be deligent that you may be found of him in peace without spot and blameless It could be no argument to them in those times to be holy and blamelesse If they that lived in those times might not personally look for it and what was it which according to his promise the Saints then looked for it is for a new heaven and a new earth If we take heaven properly there is new heavens to be made but the old heavens shall continue which was made from the foundation of the world and where we shall ever be with Christ after the day of judgment And how is there a new earth It shall be an earth wherein righteousness dwels because as I said it will be a new world subject to Jesus Christ when the new Jerusalem comes down from heaven if you aske me what the Saints that rise from the dead shall do here in this new world For that I shall give you such considerations as shall take off the absurdity that seems