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A50858 A beame of light darted thorough [sic] the clouds, or, Truth breaking forth from under a veil by Joshua Miller. Miller, Joshua, 17th cent. 1650 (1650) Wing M2062; ESTC R35047 30,283 75

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Saint I judge that all punishment for sin according to the terme of the word is taken away only a loving correction whether God castigates for sin or from sin I have a latitude in my judgement to suppose both may be true and I believe that Christ never so satisfied God as that he should not correct his people for Christs death did not at all extend to that particular when Christ bad his Disciples pray he exhorts them to say forgive us our trespasses Now if they need not to ask pardon in this sense why was this Petition included so it is spoken to Saints by the first words say Our Father now in what sense this Prayer may meane we should aske pardon I answer onely as to a Father and no otherwise so John If we confesse our sins he is faithfull and just to forgive us our sins 1 John 1.9 why was not sinne forgiven before Yea in respect of justification but this confession and pardon is only under a fatherly relation Yet hereby I doe not understand that our Prayers make any change in Gods Will but rather in praying God doth manifest what he will do to us and for us so then I judge that a Christian ought not to pray to God as a Judge for pardon but may consider him as a Father CHAP. V. Whether this visible world shall be destroyed or changed and how GOD from age to age brings forth some old truth as new unto the world therefore let not the Reader stumble if he find that here which may at present be contrary to most mens judgements For that opinion of some that say the world is judged already in the Saints in some respect is true to him that lives in spirit but I will not speak of that I leave the end to try all things My discourse shall only be of this question Whether this visible frame of things shall be destroyed or changed which is a great question amongst godly men which I say not that I will resolve but only hint at it as the truth is manifested in me First that this visible world shall be destroyed by materiall sire as some places seem to allow as 2 Pet. 3.7 where the heavens and the earth are kept in store reserved unto fire some think that as the old world was destroyed with water so the Anti-type must be like it that is to say destroyed by fire An argument for this opinion may be thus framed Fire is an element strong and fierce therefore all matter that is tangible by it may be consumed but the visible world hath matter fit for fire to feed upon therefore it shall be burnt But this argument is more logicall then theological and it wil not be a hard matter to prove that a great part of the earth and heavens is not matter for fire but rather fights against it In the 12. Verse of the aforesaid Chapter the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the element shall melt with fervent heat that as fire consumes all stubble so there shall be an utter consummation So in 2 Thes 1.8 he shall come in flaming fire taking vengeance some from these places conclude that it will be materiall fire and all things shall be burnt up Now to answer these places there are some Scriptures that speak not of an utter desolation and if I erre consider with thy self I am not alone I may ask whether those former places speak of fire in a metaphoricall sense and by way of allusion and no more that as the nature of fire is to purge and purifie drosse out of metalls and it suddenly burnes up all combustible matter so this may note the suddennesse of that change and that it will purge the world of its drosse And for the havens melting with fervent heat it may point this to us that they shall melt so as wax doth by the candle where it is not destroyed but onely made pliable to receive the impression of the scale so the heavens may thus be said to melt that is to say not destroyed but only changed from those corrupt qualities that are in it not of the substance it shall receive the deep impression of Gods image and glory Now to illustrate this that there will only be a change 2 Pet. 3.13 Neverthelesse we look for a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwells righteousnesse This seems to allow that only the corruption shall be taken away and we shall have a new heaven and earth in righteousnesse They shall be brought forth into a state of purity freed from bondage Non per interitum pristinorum sed commutationem in melius not by a destruction of the old but by a change into a better so David speaks Psal 102.26 The heavens shall waxe old as a garment as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed He saith not here destroy them Now the changing a thing is a converting the same to the best advantage And the allusion seems to be strange that as a vesture when changed is not destroyed but onely refined drest the best side outward So the world hath at present corruption covering it as a garment therefore it may be translated into a better state For if Davids words hold true then it must be changed but not destroyed And indeed the worst side of the world is now outward since Adams fall But I will not determine whether this change will be by materiall fire or whether fire in those places be a figurative speech For the instrumentall cause of this change I may have some ground to suppose the contrary but will leave this to the end which tries all things Some have converted these Scriptures into other mysterious senses and I judge a spirituall use may be made of all things Yet let none be so ignorant as to bind one sense upon such places as these are for some Scriptures have both a literall and a spirituall meaning under them For instance where Christ is said to raise the dead cleanse the lepers heal the sick and the like no man can truly deny but that CHRIST did fulfill this in the letter yet he doth it in a spirituall sense also every man hath Microcosmos Ecclesiast 3.11 a little world in him Now God in order to the great change begins first in mans heart therefore let Christians take heed of denying one truth by binding it to another For to avoid error I would take such Scriptures in the largest sense for both these meanings may be in few words CHAP VI. Whether all creatures shall be restored to their pristinate state in Adam THE whole Creation since Adams fall hath been subject to innumerable evills and changes Now some are of opinion that all creatures shall be restored excepting such as are for the food and cloathing of man and they give this reason because man shall have no need then of such helps but shall be perfect I answer By the same rule all creatures shall