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A26260 Scripture-prophecies opened which are to be accomplished in these last times, which do attend the second coming of Christ : in several letters written to Christian friends / by E. Avery. Avery, E. (Elizabeth) 1647 (1647) Wing A4272; ESTC R2586 37,649 53

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until thou return to the earth for out of it wast thou taken for dust thou art and to dust shalt thou return Unto this some may object The creature is ransomed from eternal death by the redemption that was in Christ in respect of the bodies remaining ever in the grave for it is said 1 Cor. 15 that As in Adam all die so in Christ shall all be made alive So from this Scripture we do conclude there shall be a resurrection of the body Unto this I answer There can no such thing be gathered from this Scripture 1 Cor. 15. 22. for whereas it is said As in Adam all die so in Christ shall all be made alive this death and resurrection is to be understood in a spiritual sense and not to be understood of the death and resurrection of the body for natural death cannot be said simply to be death and so the resurrection of the natural body cannot be said to be life for if it were so the bodies of the wicked may be said to rise to life as well as the Saints But death eternal is death and life eternal is life to be cast into outer darknesse where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth and to be cast out of the favour of God this is death and to live in God who is love and nothing but love as the Apostle saith God in love and he that loves in live liveth in God and God in him this is life eternal to know this God and his Son whom he hath raised from the dead not onely to know that God hath raised Christ from the dead but he hath raised me with Christ and so destroyed death in me which is the last enemy in that we are risen with Christ death and hell are destroyed in the spiritual man and cast into the lake of fire and brimstone which is the second death now this second death belongs to none but the wicked the Saints being altogether freed Now it may be demanded what this lake of fire and brimstone is and so consequently what is the second death from which the Saints are free Unto this I answer The second death is onely that horrour of Confusion which shall be in wicked men in the day of perdition concerning which the Saints have some experience in the last and dreadful desertion as in Hos. 13. 13 14. from whence they are ransomed and so in Dan. 12. 1. Jer. 30. beginning at vers 5. For thus saith the Lord We have heard a noise of trembling of fear and not of peace Ask ye now and see whether a man doth travel with childe Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins as a woman in travel and all faces are turned into palenesse Alas for the day is great and there is none like it it is even the time of Jacobs trouble but he shall be saved out of it And so it follows in vers 8. which sheweth the full redemption of the Saints as well in bodies temporal as spiritual Now death in a spiritual sense is death as to be cast out of the favour of God c. and this was the death that God did denounce to Adam in the day that he did eat the forbidden fruit Gen. 3. Now this death is not the natural death of the body for that cannot be said to be death as before it is spoken but death in this sense as here from the which death mankinde is ransomed in that redemption that was in Christ for now there is no hatred in God for God is love nay he is love to his enemies as our Saviour saith Love your enemies that ye may be like your heavenly Father and God saith Anger is not in me as in Isai. for should God be angry the creature would be as stubble before consuming fire But then it may be objected If God be love to all why are not all saved I answer Because God doth not manifest himself in his own nature unto any but those who are ordained to life as in Acts 2. As many as were ordained to life believed So Judas said Why dost thou manifest thy self to us aad not unto the world And our Saviour said To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven but to them in parables that they seeing might not see and hearing might not conceive And the Apostle saith that Israel hath not attained what he sought for but the election hath attained it and the rest were hardened And so where God doth not manifest himself in the face of Jesus in the anointing such a one continues in unbelief and so dead in trespasses and sins and such were some of you as the Apostle s●ith until we were washed and made clean by this anointing And so those in whom this anointing this Spirit of Jesus is in whom Jesus Christ is come in the flesh such a one need not that any should teach him for as the Apostle saith the anointing teacheth him And so as we are taught of God so are we like wise freed from the bondage of the Law and all Forms nay Gospel-forms as in Isai. 10. 27. where it is said It shall come to passe in that day that his burden shall be taken off thy shoulder and his yoke from off thy neck and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing And Isai. 9. it is said Thou hast broken the yoke of the burden the staff of the shoulder and the rod of the oppressour as in the days of Midian for every battel of the warriour is of confused noise and with tumbling garments in blood but this shall be with burning and with fuel of fire and the reason is given For to us a Childe is born to us a Son is given the government shall be upon his shoulder as vers. 6 17. and then we are freed from all servitude as well temporal as spiritual for there shall be no grieving brier nor pricking thorn the whole creation shall be subject to the Saints and they shall rule over their oppressours Isai. 65. 15. Behold my servants shall sing for joy of heart but you shall howl for vexation of spirit and ye shall leave your Name for a curse to my chosen And it follows vers. 7. Behold I create new heavens and a new earth the former shall not be remembred nor come into minde but be you glad and rejoyce for ever in that I create for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoycing and her people a joy and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her nor the voice of crying And so it follows to vers 23. where it is said They shall not labour in vain nor bring forth in trouble and in vers. 25. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together which shews the glory of the Saints in this life and their freedom from servitude When it is thus we are no more subject to any Law but the law of liberty and so we are made kings and
so after that the glorious state of the Church follows Others likewise do conceive that the Jews shall be converted to the Faith before the end And so concerning the glorious state of the Church most conceive it in a spiritual sense yet some do not deny but that there shall be a temporal power which shall go forth from the Saints as in Revel. 2. 16 17. and Psal. 2. which is the Kingdom of the Saints that is begun even here in Babylon amongst their implacable enemies as Mic. 4. from vers. 8. unto the end Dan. 2. 41. Now I shall not undertake to confute any of these particulars by force of Argument but I shall shew how far I can joyn with them and where I differ Now in the first place Whereas the Saints do expect a dissolution of all things at the last day when the Son of man shall come in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory and all the Saints with him in like manner who shall be gathered together by the sound of a trumpet as in 1 Cor. 15. and 1 Thess. 4 and 5 Chap. concerning which time the Scriptures are as follow Isai. 2. towards the end Isa. 13. Isa. 51. 6. Isa. 66. Psal. 50. Revel 6. 13. unto the end Reve● 20. all which Scriptures and many more speak of the day of Judgement and unto this I will assent in that I do verily believe that the glorious state of the Church shall not be until all these things be fulfilled which are spoken in these Scriptures as our Saviour saith Heaven and earth shall passe away but my word shall not passe away for that cannot be shaken because it is the foundation of the new heaven and the new earth as Isa. 51. 16. which is not to be understood of the written Word for that shall passe away when all things are fulfilled Now that Word of God which continues for ever is God himself as Joh. 1. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and that Word was God so that as God was from all eternity so this Word of God continues to all eternity and sure this Word begins to be manifested in the Saints 1 Joh. 4. though it hath been a long time hidden Howsoever though I do joyn in this that the glorious state of the Church shall not be till these visible things are passed away yet I differ from them in the matter which shall passe away and in the manner how it shall passe away and by what means it shall passe away Now that matter which shall passe away is generally conceived to be this visible heaven and earth at the last day and by what means by fire and in what manner it is made forth at large 2 Pet. 3. where it is said that the day of the Lord shall come as a thief in the night wherein the heavens shall passe away with a great noise and the element shall melt with fervent heat and the earth with the works therein shall be burnt up Now I say I do differ in all these particulars in some sense for I differ First in the matter which shall passe away for I do not conceive that these visible heavens shall be dissolved and so consequently of that which follows Unto this some may reply Doth not the Apostle Peter speak plainly that the heavens and earth are reserved to fire against the day of judgement and perdition of wicked and ungodly men To this I answer If you do observe the Apostle Peter in the words foregoing you shall finde that he makes distinction between the world that perished by water and the heavens and earth which now are which are said to be reserved to fire whereas this visible heaven and earth as it is understood in the letter to be the firmament and the earth that we live in as it was distinguished in the Creation it is the same as it was from the beginning as the mockers say vers. 4. Now whereas the Apostle makes this distinction between the heaven and earth which was before the flood and the heaven and earth that now is whereas it is the same in the letter none will deny I say from this distinction of the Apostle in this Scripture and many other Scriptures which joyn in this I do conclude that these Scriptures which we have formerly conceived to concern the dissolution of this visible heaven and earth do onely concern the passing away of the Ordinances which is that heaven wherein God hath appeared gloriously unto the unspeakable consolation of the Saints and this earth here spoken of is the best part of man as his natural wisdom and humane learning and gifts not onely common gifts but spiritual gifts whereby they are enabled to speak unto edification which may be comprehended under the same notion for the Apostle speaks as if the wicked may have the common gifts of the Spirit Now those gifts that the Saints have been carried forth in of late do evidently appear to be that element which melts with servent heat But here you may observe that though heaven in our sense is thus on fire 2 Pet. 3. 12. yet it is but dissolved and the element is but melted onely here is a difference between heaven and the element for heaven onely ceaseth to be in that manner as it was in grosse yet there is no alteration in the nature of it as when we say the Parliament is dissolved the men continue the same onely it ceaseth to be a body Politick and likewise our precious Cordials as Bezer are not effectual to our good untill they be dissolved into some liquid matter so God who is our heaven in the Ordinance for there can be no heaven without him And so when God which is our heaven shall be thus dissolved and cease being covered with a vail then this vail shall vanish away like smoke which vail is the Ordinance and heaven being dissolved the Saints are in a capacity to contain this heaven in the flesh and surely God who is our heaven shall appear in the flesh of all his Saints shortly in his glorious manifestations for as the Apostle Peter saith We according to his promise look for a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousnesse which is not a heaven without us as before in the Ordinances and the teachings of men but it is a heaven within us even God manifested in the flesh of his Saints as in the humanity of Christ Now the Saints stand in the same relation to God as our elder brother Christ whilst they are in the state of imperfection as John saith We are the sons of God but it doth not appear what we shall be but when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is and then are the sons of God manifest Now we see that we are no losers though our heaven being on fire hath been dissolved for now we have our heaven within us that cannot