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death_n	bondage_n	deliver_v	fear_n	4,056	5	6.5580	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90206	The world to come, or The mysterie of the resurrection opened: in a discourse at Burford in the county of Oxon, upon Acts 24.15. / By John Osborn, minister of the Gospel at Bampton in the bush. As also, in a conference between him and Richard Coppin of Westwell.	Osborne, John, lover of the truth as it is in Jesus.	1651 (1651)	Wing O526; Thomason E635_1; ESTC R206479	55,151	76

which our resurrection is founded the main prop by which it is supported the example unto which it is conformed and the fountain whence it is derived and therefore the most eminent evidence by which it is cleared We proceed to the Apostle's next Argument the end Arg. 7. of our Redemption and the absurd consequent of the contrary Doctrine If in this life only we have hope in Christ we are of all men most miserable The Argument may be formed thus this being presupposed If there be no resurrection of the dead then Christians have onely hope in this life If in this life only Christians have hope in Christ then they are of all men most miserable But Christians are not of all men most miserable Therefore they have not hope in Christ only in this life The consequence is clear for of all men they in this life are most subject to afflictions Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every son he receiveth What son is he whom the Father chasteneth not But if ye be without Heb 12. 6 7 8. chastisement whereof all are partakers then are ye bastards and not sonst They usually have the bread of affliction given them to eat and water of affliction to drink yea waters of a full cup are wrung out to them when others fare delictiously every day their chain is made heavie when others walk at liberty they are brought low when others are lifted up their heaven is covered with darkness clouds and thick darkness when others have clearness and serenity the sun continually shining in his brightness their condition admits variety of revolutions but these have no changes therefore if there be no hope to them of a better state in another world they are of all men most miserable But the Christian Faith and Scriptures makes them of all men most happy yea and only them happy Christ hath purchased God promised the Spirit sealed better things to them then what other men have or themselves enjoy in this world they are again and again pronounced blessed nine times in so many verses Math. 5. 2 to 12. the manifold repetitions and particular instances of their blessedness notes the firmness and fulness of it They are blessed with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ Eph. 1. 3. Freedom from all evil fruition of all good particularly deliverance from the evil of death Christ hath delivered them who through fear of death were all their life time subject to bondage Heb. 2. 15. How are they delivered from death or the fear of death if ther bodies shall for ever remain under the power of it and never be set at liberty This all men desire sith death is the King of Terrors and the Saints hope for we our selves groan within our selves waiting for the Adoption the Redemption of our body Rom. 8. 23. Just they are before and God is manifest in them yet they wait for the Redemption of the body viz. from the grave and those evils they are incumbred with in the world They shall hunger no more neither thirst any more neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat Rev. 7. 16. God shall wipe away all tears from their eys there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are past away Rev. 21. 4. Shall all this be in this life Is all this in mysterie If so how is it fulfilled Or is it in death to the Saints Indeed there is no hunger thirst heat tears sorrow crying or pain but yet they have not all promised how in death is this accomplished there shall be no death But this is not all a Christians hope immunity from evils there is a recompense of reward to come positive good and that after death Therefore saith Christ when thou makest a feast this command binds all our life long while there is occasion and opportunity of feasting call the poor the maimed the lame the blind and thou shalt be blessed for they cannot recompense thee but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just Luke 14. 14. that this is not in this life is manifest from that parallel Heb. 11. 35. They the Saints were tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection and from Rev. 11. 18 and the Nations were angry and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead that they should be judged and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the Prophets and to the Saints and them that fear thy Name small and great This is the promise mentioned Heb. 11. 39. and perfection v. 40. which the Patriarchs received not These all having obtained a good report through Faith received not the promise the Apostle speaks of men dead long before and dying in Faith that they received not the promise God being faithful it must be received in due time in soul they can not receive it in full after death the time of receiving it is when all are made perfect God having provided some better thing for us that they without us should not be made perfect Of this perfection God will have all partakers together and this perfection cannot be without the Resurrection of the body and this very thing is particularly affirmed of Abel Noah Abraham Sarah Isaac and Jacob these all dyed in Faith not having received the promises but having seen them afar off and were perswaded of them and imbraced them and confessed that they were Strangers and Pilgrims on the earth While they lived they received not the promises but saw them at a distance in respect of time and place they looked not for them in that time or Country for then and there they were Strangers and Pilgrims and that we might not restrain it to any one particular Country or more they take the whole earth in saying that in it they were Strangers and Pilgrims and hence the Apostle concludes v 14. They that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country What country not an earthly and truly if they had been mindful of that country whence they came out they might have had opportunity to have returned but now they desire a better country that is heavenly v. 16. and this in the close of this verse he calls a City prepared of God For God is not ashamed to be called their God for he hath prepared for them a City and this is not theirs only but the inheritance of all Saints Here we have no continuing City but we seek one to come Chap. 13. 14. Which is expressed by life If we be dead with him we shall also live with him 2. Tim. 2. 11. Eternal and everlasting life The gift of God is eternal life Rom. 6. 23. This is the will of him that sent me that every one that seeth the Son and believeth on him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day g Ioh. 6.