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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.
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Barbon, Praisegod, 1596?-1679.
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written there shall come out of or to Isaiah 59. 20. Sion the deliverer and shall turn away ungodlines from Iacob a great number of which we shall speak after Then in the world to come when the saints shall be so changed at the coming of our Lord Christ will those prophecyes be fully fulfilled Ier. 50. 20. In those dayes and in 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 c. and that also Zech. 3. 9. And I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day sayth the Lord both in the one and the other which it is likely will not so fully be in this world but must be in the world to come CHAP. VI. Containing the proposing of some things to consideration touching the difference and distinctions that will be between the raised saints and the changed though in many things the same in a likely way at the coming of our Lord Christ in the world to come and that the resurrection and this changing are not the same but two distinct things THe mistery shewed by the Apostle touching the not dying of the living saints at the coming of our Lord Christ but then changed in a moment seemeth to be a very great thing and to differ much from that of the resurrection from the dead and likewise that there will be a difference betwixt the raised and the changed though in many things the raised and those so changed will be alike and the same which will the easier appear if we shall consider the state of man in paradise at his first creating which seemeth to be the very Image and figure of the state and condition the living saints shall then be changed into in a moment in the twinkling of an eye with some blessed additions of stabilitie immortality and everlasting life This mistery of not dying but being so changed seemeth very much vailed and little minded but as the same with the resurrection of the dead which the holy Apostle speaketh of as another distinct thing behold I shew you a mistery after he had spoken largely of the resurrection As there will be much of likeness and oneness between the raised and changed so there will be much of difference as may be gathered from what the Apostle hath declared and it is likely much of the mistery lyeth in that I shew you sayth the Apostle a mistery we shall not all dye but be changed in a moment of which we shall make inquirie And first of that wherein the raised and the changed will be the same in their joynt attainers and enjoyments and after we shall propose wherein they will disser 1. They will agree and be joyntly the same in the time of their rising and changing together at the appearing of the Lord at the sounding of the trumpet of God the dead will then be raised and the living changed in a moment 2. They shall be caught up together in the clouds and shall meet the Lord Christ together in the Air being capacitated so to do 3. They shall be with the Lord Christ together and never severed from him any more 4. They shall be both rid of corruption and mortalitie and shall be clothed with incorruption and immortality and life everlasting 5. They shall both enjoy the world to come and the happyness of it dwell in the new earth live and reign wirh the Lord Christ then and there for a thousand years and afterwards shall be with him the whole time whilest the second and last session of judgement is passing 6. They shall both enjoy the great blessedness of that happy day and the good things which God hath prepared for them that love him and wait for the Saviour Which good things the eye hath not seen nor the ear heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive 1. Cor. 2. 9. 7. They will both be without pain sorrow or miserie and tears will be wiped from their faces and death shall not meddle with them any more 8. And to add no more they shall both injoy the grace of the new covenant or testament God to be their God and they his people in an eminent manner then and the grace of the new covenant to keep them in that blessed condition for evermore These raised and changed so although in many things they agree and be the same in their attainers and enjoyments yet they differ in some things and that very considerable and are not one and the same in all things as the mistery which the Apostle shews which he declares with a behold after his treating of the resurrection and raising of them from death something plainly doth implie behold I shew you a mistery we shall not all dye but be changed and that alive or living which we may take notice of in the first place The different way of attaining that happy estate and great injoyments in the world to come it is by dying and lying in the grave and rising again and so that way freed from corruption and clothed with incorruption and with glory honor and immortalitie and eternal life rich clothing indeed then But now the changed in a moment alive without dying it is clearly another way living being alive without dying they shall be so changed as to put off or to be rid of corruption and to put on and be clothed with incorruption immortalitie and everlasting life This as a ground of the difference whence many things will follow Again the raised having once dyed will rise and live again but the changed will never dye nor live again but be changed in a moment into a state of incorruption and immortality as the Apostle tells us we shall not all dye but we shall all be changed The raised will not be the same yet the same not the same they were in body as they were when they dyed as the Apostle vers 37. 38. compared with vers 42. God giveth to every seed his own body though not the same as sown so he sayeth is the resurrection sown in weakness raised in power c. But the living then at Christs coming and the trumpets sounding will have the same bodyes without dying they will be changed being alive and living corruption will be put off and mortality and they restored to their first estate which they had and were created in Adam in paradise before his fall when he suffered and they suffer in him the change then being so much for the worse unto which these living then will be restored for the better with some great addition of blessedness into which perfect estate according to what they were created consisting in righteousnes and holynes will they be changed then at that great change and restoration of all things Act. 3. 21. wherein the sons of God that have the first fruits of the spirit as the earnest thereof will have the highest
goeth on vers 4. I will build thee and thou shalt be built O virgin of Israel vers 6. there shall be a day wherein it shall be said arise ye and let us go up to Sion to the Lord our God vers 7. the Lord saith sing with gladness for Jacob. vers 8. behold I will bring them from the north and gather them from the coasts of the Earth vers 10. he that scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepheard doth his sheep or flock vers 11. the Lord hath redeemed Jacob. vers 12. therefore shall they come and sing in the height of Sion for Sion will be very high indeed then and shine forth very gloriously this is much the same with that of holy Isaiah chap. 2. 2. When it shall come to passe in the last days the very time we are treating of that the mountain of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow unto it He goeth on and speaketh of great things that shall be done for Israel Gods people At vers 31. He speaketh of a new covenant God will make after those days with the house of Israel and Iudah Reade the matter at large What it is he declares vers 33. of Ier. 31. Namely he will put his law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and he will be their God and they shall be his people There is much of grace in it in that he undertakes to do it without any condition vers 34. Seemeth to look further and to eye another time then that of grace and the state of regeneration as to its full fulfilling it is said they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying know the Lord the reason is For they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them saith the Lord. This new covenant it seemeth not only to eye the day of grace but the day of glory Not only the day of Christs first coming when he confirmed it with his bloud Heb. 9. The comfort and blessed fruit whereof all the servants of God in all ages since have enjoyed and yet do and still shall enjoy till that happy time come when they shall enjoy the high and full enjoyment of it in that blessed world to come when the great fruit and blessedness of it shall then be made partakers of so as was never attained unto or enjoyed before in that happy time that is coming it will have its full fulfilling and be made good in every particular That in vers 34. of this Ier. 31. which seemeth to eye another time in order thereunto for in the day of grace whilest this world lasteth there will be need of teaching and exhorting one another as it is commanded Heb. 3. 13. But exhort one another dayly whilest it is called to day whilest the day of grace lasteth so chap. 10. 25. But exhort one another and so much the more as we see the day approacheth wherein there will be no need of doing it Here in the state of regeneration there will be but knowledge in part but then in that happy state and time there will be the full vision and knowledge of God that man will be capable of the greatest according to the greatness and the least according to their littleness every vessel bigg or little will be brim-full that it can receive no more The earth to wit the new earth will be full of the knowledge of God as the waters cover the sea Isa 11. 9. Holy Paul semeth to eye this of not teaching one another 1 Cor. 13. 9. we know but in part we prophesy in part so was it at the present but there was another time to come when it would not be so Vers. 10. When that which is perfect is come that blessed time that perfect state takes place as it will do when the raised and changed ones shall appear with the Lord Christ then an end of things in part and of teaching also For prophesying or teaching as to them will then cease Here we are but as children then as perfect men here we see but as through a glasse darkly but then we shall see face to face clearly and fully we now know but in part but then we shall know as we are known for God will fully take away the face of the covering and vail that lets and hinders Isa 25. 7. when there shall be a changing so that vail will be done away Very high knowledge of God then our Lord will shew us plainly of the father and in him we shall behold his glory In the eighth and ninth chapters of the epistle to the Hebrews this is treated of by the Apostle under the term of a new testament A covenant and a testament differ something strictly minded though in substance they may be the same There were many covenants made by Almighty God as with Noah and Abraham Isaack and Iacob with the Israelites with David and with Levi c. But he made but two testaments a first by Moses confirmed by the bloud of Bulls and Goats A second by the Lord Christ confirmed by his own bloud or death as a testament must be else it is of no force but a covenant is of force whilest a person liveth and is otherwise confirmed The new testament as a testament of the Lord Christ he is the blessed mediator or surety of it as Moses was of the first It relates chiefly to the time of grace and the estate of regeneration in this world and is of high concern and great fruit and benefit to all believers much of the mistery of godlines and of the Gospel being contained in it but as a covenant it seemeth to eye and look at a further time not yet come and a covenant that shall then be made good when they shall not teach for there will be no need of it they shall know as much as they shall be capable of knowing for such fullness they shall enjoy as nothing can be added to it No great question but the Apostle had this in his thoughts in order to that blessed time to come the last verse seemeth to speak out so much to them that look for him to wit the Lord Christ shall he appear the second time as he appeared the first without sin to wit the imputation of sin in a low condition in the form of a servant so the first time but the second time in power and great glory without sin unto salvation Heb. 9. 28. to wit to full and perfect salvation of body and spirit united in one at that happy day There are many blessed expectants that look for the Lord Christ his appearing this second time as good old Simeon Hannah did the first time there are blessed servants that look for their Lord his return from a far country whither he is gone to receive for