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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62256	[N]ews of a new world from the word and works of God compared together evidencing that the times of the man of sin are legally determin[ed] and by the same right the days of the S[o]n of Man are alre[ady] commenced : being some account of eight sermons delivered at a lecture in London : whereto for further evidence are added two small tracts, the one touching the times of Gog & Magog, the other touching the 3 last vials / by J.S.	J. S.	1676 (1676)	Wing S77; ESTC R31797	131,955	209

with me or at least I am not yet manifest in it Therefore I say his ascending was that he might marry our natures in his own person unto his glorious head though he was marryed unto the father in eternity yet not as the son of man on earth but this was the marriage of the son of man on earth And so he carryed up our nature out of this state of poverty beggery in sin death yea out of legalor first covenant-righteousnesse into the glory of God that is the third marriage that I have been speaking of wherein you see how it differs from the first marriage The first was the marriage of the son of man in heaven unto the godhead but this is the marriage of the son of man on earth unto the son of man in heaven that is clear by our Saviour his own stating of it let us not slight that for he says before Abraham was I am this glory is to be the covering the clothing to the son of man on earth this is the wedding from which he comes You possibly will say why did not Christ come all this time hath this wedding lasted this 16. 1700. years my brethren our Lord Jesus Christ is presented as our head so that Christ was married as a publique person and we must all follow to this wedding this hath been the work ever since through all times and ages from Christs assention it hath been I say the preparation of the Bride the lambs wife for this fourth and last marriage Christs 3d marriage the heavens must receive until the restitution of all things till his Bride be ready And all the saints have been hastening out of themselves out of his fleshly fallible state and image into the resurrection life they have been hastning by a mistical death this is the work of all ages since Christ to prepare the Bride that is such a number of men and women as God hath fore known in his eternal counsel that are to come up successively upon the stage of this world in their generations and times to be the witnesses of our Lord and of his death his sufferings are to be fulfilled in them and so is his life to be manifested in them as the dyings of Jesus so his life this hath been his work since his a scention and when his number is eompleated then will the Lord reveal himself from heaven in our persons in that glory which our natures have been invested with from his ascention then will Christ and his bride the lamb and the lambs wise plant and model the world and they will have a new seed after that which shall be born in Christs own image as Adam is said to beget a son in his own image which will be the new race of men and women after this glorious marriage For Christ will have generations of saints that shall be brought forth unto him in his kingdom in another glory then we have known all this time Thus I have been carryed whether I would not for what I designed to speak I am not come to I should have shewed you by the example and pattern of his wedding on Christs part the glory of his marriage and I should have come to the application but I must take another time for this The Seventh Sermon 1. Ep. John 3.2 Beloved now are we the sons of God and it doth not yet appear what we shall be YOu see though I am off from my former text yet not from my subject this text benig of a kin to it and bordering upon it and having many things in my mind upon it though not digested into such a method as more leisure and time might have afforded I shall abruptly present to you the 2. heads upon which we shall spend this opportunity without more curious survey of the text or context and briefly they are 1. That blessed and glorious hope which is laid up for the Saints at Christs appearing and 2d the evidence of it These are the two things that I shall pick out of these words the hope is that we shall be like Christ when he appears the evidence of this hope is that we shall see him as he is for the hope it self you see it concerns us our persons and our spirits And that is the immediate and great concern and expectation of believers in Christs glorious kingdom and at his glorious appearing the change that shall be brought upon our selves the glorious change that shall be brought upon all things for he that sits upon the throne says behold I make all things new is to begin first upon us it is to begin upon the Saints and when they are changed not only will all things be changed to them but all things shall be changed with them though not presently yet in due course and order for the Apostle says that the whole creation grones and travels in pain expecting to be delivered into the glorious liberty of the sons of God they are to be delivered into our liberty and the Gospel throughout in all the priviledges both of grace and glory in both states of the kingdom both that of grace and of glory the militant and the triumphant state do hold forth first fruits that shall be first visited and first saved and then the Lump and body first the root and then the branches and I do the rather put a note upon this because we are apt to be carried forth into other contemplations and expectations of the change of times the change of kingdoms common-wealths Churches and overlook the fundamental change this head change this right change which begins in the persons of Saints of believers themselves which may be called the beginning of changes as we read of the beginning of revenges in Deuteronòmy or the head revenge of the enemy so this is the head of change and in vain do we look for a happinesse to come unto us by the change of our circumstances and of our conditions if there be not this Radical this fundamental change in our persons and spirits Now this change I shall first present it to you in the substance of it and then shall consider the arguments the illustrating arguments in the text and in the context First the substance of this change into a likenesse of Christ when he shall appear we shall be like him the likenesse unto Christ is that which cannot but speak for it self and commend it self sufficiently to our desires can there be any better thing then to be like Christ can there be a greater thing then to be like Christ Let us but consider who and what he is he is the likenesse of God the brightness of his glory the character of his person in whom god hath drawn forth himself to the life he is the image he is the glory of God there is not any excellency in God but it is displayed in our Lord Jesus most beautifully most divinely most advantagiously and therefore it may well be a hope

be run out and as this late time hath been full of wonders this might be reckoned among them as one to be too early with our expectations or observations it having been the common fault of all times hitherto to lagg and come behind and it were very strange if any of us in this sleepy age should be up and stirring before the Lord is stirring for my part I cannot think it I shall shut up this point with this one note referring the reader to what farther he shall find in the end of this discourse the 11th of the Rev. which gives us a chronology of the whole time and tryal of the Church from the race of Antichrist to the 7th trumpet gives us no expectation of any long time of exercise after the resurrection and ascention of the witnesses but only the third wo which it is there said comes quickly and will likely as quickly pass away which third wo can be nothing but this Gog and Magog Now that the witnesses are risen and ascended may I conceive be made out both from the time allotted for that scene and from the evidence of the thing it self when it appeared for the time it must be at and with the expiring of the 41 months of the beast which 42 months good measure pressed down and runing over and above a hundred years to spare may be put to the account of the beast if we should reckon from the downful of heathenisme at Constantines coming to the Empire but I pitch the Epocha and commencement of his 42 months Anno 390 in that last expiring of the Dragons cause by the discomfiture of Eugenius by Theodosius which came up in 1650. at or before which time I question not may be proved the witnesses were risen and ascended to a heaven of rest and glory to which they were called by a great voice from heaven as by a calm and unprejudiced reflection on times not out of our remembrance might be instanced when a scone of this nature not in one or two particulars but in all circumstances throughout so paraiel that an exacter portracter of the vision could not be drawn did present it self therefore that scene being over what can any wo since be other then that of Gog and Magog My 2d word thersore is to the people of God in respect of their spiritual and inward affairs and concernes it serves both to give them account of what hath befalne them and to advise them both what to expect and what to do 1. By way of account it hath been such a time of tryal and troubles upon the saints in respect of their own particulars as well as the publike within as well as without as I think no former experience can paraiel what with strange spirits false Christs and false prophets and danger of seduction and delusion thereby what with horrible temptations carried on with such artifice and cunning such delusive power not to be resisted wherein these spirits of darkness have been so far successful to make such impressions as have captivated multitudes hurried more and distracted somewhat with the shock of terrible outward dispensations by persecutions losses tryals of all sorts and that which hath added to the horror of all hath been the darkness of the dispensation that they have not known what to call it nor upon what account to put these things which now begins and I am perswaded will every day more and more go on to clear up to be upon the account of the Devil let loose and to be their particular share with the publick interest of Christ in this tryal by Gog and Magog 2. By way of advice it serves to teach us what to expect till this scone be over to direct us what to do and to comfort us in what shall follow first expect all that an enraged enemy the Dragon with all his instruments can do to the utmost of their line to make your lives uncomfortable and to drive you to utter despair we read under the 5th trumpet when the Locusts first came forth of the bottomless pit that so great would be the tryal and torment that men should seek death desire to dye Re. 9.6 if in those days under the first wo what in these days under the last wo both Jeremy Daniel Joel the prophets the Apostles Christ himself all acquaint us it will be a day none like it of such tribulation that men shall be dispiried walk up and down like Ghosts and shadows yet be not dismaid for as our Saviour said in the case of Lazarus this sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God and for your glory when God hath sinished his work upon Mount Sion when patience hath had it's perfect work Therefore the direction is act faith in God under this dispensation let your eye be on the designe of God which is your mercy your glory see every tryal every thing ordain'd to serve and promote this designe anoint the means by faith that they may attain their end or rather Gods end upon them offer up your selves to God under this death this tryal to be regenerated to be made new to be fitted for the kingdom expect such a gracious working of your tryals not from your selves nor any grace in your selves but from the grace of God his covenant of grace our former works miscarried because wrote much in our own spirit therefore the Lord hath taken the work into his own hands hath laid by man and every creature that he may work all himself and have all the glory and his work shall abide this is the direction the comfort follows first this is the last enemy and this is the last shock by this enemy the last enemy is death if this enemy be not called death and signalised by that name Esa 25. as the type of him is Esa 28.15 yet death and the Dragon or the devil that hath the power of death fall together Rev. 20. for no sooner is the devil cast into the lake but the white throne appears and by the judgment of the white throne death and hell are cast into the lake so that the saints after that shall be troubled with death and hell no more neither death corporal nor death spiritual And what follows then but the new heaven and the new earth and the new Jerusalem a new world and all things therein new But you will say we must passe through a sore fiery tryal first but still remember it shall be but a tryal the devil shall compasse the camp of the Saints but shall not carry his design no more then the Sodomites did that compassed Lots house fire shall come down from God out of heaven and feed on them you reade how by the 7th Vyal the great c●…y is divided who knows what God may work by Gog and Magogs own divisions this third wo is indeed the greatest woe but to whom to the inhabitants of the earth not to those that dwell in