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The saints inheritance after the day of ivdgement. Being also an answer to certaine scruples of late delivered, and others printed, expecially in that book intituled, The personall reigne of Christ upon earth. By T. B.
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it is not the world to come and as Adam was made Lord of all the creatures living under heaven and the Lord himselfe brought all the beasts and Gen. 1. 29. Gen. 2. 19. fowles unto him as to their Lord to see what he would call them but now since the fall neither beasts nor fowles will yeeld him any free subjection but by the halfes as hee doth to the Lord but at the restauration of all Job 39. 9. 27. things when all that offend are taken away and all that doe iniquity then shall the righteous shine as the Sunne in the kingdome of their Father Matth. 13. 41. 43. 1 Cor. 15 24. Heb. 2. 8. that is when Christ hath rendred up the kingdome to his Father then shall all these creatures yeeld their free obedience to man as at the first but saith the Apostle we see not yet all things put in subjection under him and as I said before the Angels have the charge of things here below because man by reason of his corruption and weakenesse that came by sinne is unable to governe the creatures but when man is restored to his first perfection and made able to doe it the Angels shall doe it no longer but this wee see is not yet therefore it is still the third part of the old world for unto the Angels he hath not put in subjection the world to come then the Angels shall abide in heaven their owne proper place and man being made equall to the Angels shall have the dominion over all things as at the first and Christ is at his Fathers right hand till all these things be done the heaven shall receive him untill the restitution of all things to their first perfection this is that refreshing that is for to come from the presence of the Acts 3. 19. 21. Lord he shall send Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you then you that are troubled shall rest with us when the Lord Jesus shal be revealed 2 Thes 1. 7. 10. from heaven with his mighty Angels when he shall come to bee glorified in his Saints and to bee admired in all them that beleeve then shall the creatures be delivered into the glorious libertie of the Sons of God that is Rom 8. 21. they shal have a most excellent estate when the children of God are glorified the Lord will doe them justice also in restoring them to their first perfection and they shall have againe all that they lost by the sinne and fall of Adam I doe not say that there shall bee any resurrection of the creatures that are dead but there shall be some of every kind that was given to Adam Gen. 6. 19. 20. Eccle. 3. 14 1 Cor. 3. 15 both of fowles and beasts whereof Noahs Arke was a figure for I know saith Solomon whatsoever God doth it shall be for ever the judgement day shall be as a purgation to purifie the creatures and they shall bee saved as through fire as death and the grave doe not destroy our bodies for ever and as the corne is cast into the earth it must die before it can be quickned but being dead God giveth it a body so shall the creatures be purified at the day of judgement then shall the light of the Moone be as the light of the 1 Cor. 15. 36 37 38. Esa 30. 26. Sunne and the light of the Sunne shall be sevenfold as the light of seven dayes but as the wages of sinne is death and it is gone over all except those that are found alive at the last day they shall not die but be changed at the twinkling of an eye and so made able to endure the fire that they may not bee 1 Cor. 15. 52 53. consumed but purged from their corruption But some because it is said that the Saints shall raigne with Christ a thousand yeares and they will needs have it in this world before the end Revel 2 5. and not knowing where to finde it they say the judgement day shall continue a 1000. yeares but this cannot bee except they deny the expresse Word of God because he hath appointed a day in which hee will judge the world The day of the Lord commeth as a thiefe in the night The great Acts 17. 31. 1 Thes 5. 24 2 Pet. 3. 10. 12. Acts 2. 20. Rom. 2 16. Matth. 24. 36. Matke 13. 32. and notable day of the Lord In the day when God shall judge the secrets of all men That day and hower knoweth no man thus it appeares to me to be rather lesse then a day then more it may be the shortest day that ever came for any thing we know but more it cannot be when the Scripture is so full and cleare to every understanding that will be satisfied in it When the righteous and the wicked appeare before the Lord at the day of judgement Christ for the love he beareth to the righteous he will come leaping over the mountaines and skipping over the hills Can. 2. 8. he is not slacke concerning his promise 2 Pet. 3. 9. When the Son of man commeth I tell you that he will avenge them speedily Luk. 18. 8. and concerning the wicked saith he I will come nearre to you to judgement and I will bee a swift witnesse against them Mal. 3. 5. here Christ comes leaping and skipping speedily and swiftly that his elect may not be held too long in suspence from their happinesse as some would have it a 1000. yeares wayting at the barre before the Judge for absolution And there is good reason for it for God that is able and will bring to every mans remembrance at that day all their thoughts words and deeds that ever was in all their lives and the booke of their conscience and the booke of the Law of God shall be both open to them Revel 20. 12. then I suppose the sentence may soone bee passed upon them they need not have their sentence one after another as some that affirme this would have it but the righteous being all on the right hand and the wicked all on the left hand then shall the Judge say to them on the right hand Come ye blessed and to all on the left hand Goe ye cursed Matth. 25. 34. 41. And if they reply and say one day with the Lord is as a thousand yeares I answer this was the judgement of those that hold because God was six dayes in creating the world therefore it should continue six thousand yeares which if it be so there being passed above five thousand and a halfe already where will you finde a thousand yeares more before the day of judgement so that this will not helpe them at all and to say the Saints doe raigne with Christ a 1000. yeares meaning while they stand at the barre of his judgement to mee it seemes very improper and though their cause be never so good neither can they be said to raigne here
the heavens rejoyce and the earth is glad the field is joyfull and all that is therein and all the trees of the wood will rejoyce before the Lord when he commeth to judge the earth Then shall they see the Sonne of man comming in a cloud with power and great glory when these things begin to come to passe then looke Luke 21. 27 28. Revel 19. 7 Luke 2. 25. 26. up and lift up your heads for your redemption draneth nigh Let us rejoyce and be glad and give honour to him for the marriage of the Lambe is come and his bride hath made herselfe ready because it was revealed to old Simeon that hee should not see death till he had seene the Lords Christ therefore he waited for the consolation of Israel be patient therefore brethren unto the comming of our Lord behold the husbandman waiteth for the fruite of the earth be yee also patient establish your heart for the comming of the Lord draweth nigh saith Micah James 5. 7 8. Micah 7. 7. I will waite for the God of my salvation and Paul commends the Corinthians for this thing for saith he yee come behind in no gift wayting for the comming of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall confirme you unto the end that ye may be blamelesse in the day of our Lord for saith he our conversation 1 Cor. 1. 7. 8. is in heaven from whence also we looke for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile bodies and make them like unto his Phil 3 20 21. glorious body according to the working whereby hee is able to subdue all things unto himselfe Blessed is hee that waiteth and commeth to the 1335. dayes saith the Angel to Daniel but go thou thy way thou shalt rest till the end Dan. 12. 12 13. be and then stand in thy lot in the end of the dayes when all things are restored to their first perfection then Daniel shall have his lot among other Saints therefore waite I say on the Lord I will waite for the Lord my soule doth waite in his word doe I waite My soule doth waite for the Lord more then they that watch for the morning I say more then they that watch for Psal 130. the morning let Israel hope in the Lord watch therefore for ye know not at what houre your Lord doth come therefore be yee ready for in such an Matth. 24. 42. 44. 46. 47. houre as yee thinke not of the Sonne of man commeth blessed is that servant whom his Lord when hee commeth shall finde so doing verily I say unto you hee will make him ruler over all his goods now what are those goods that the Saints shall bee made Rulers over at the day of judgement but those creatures that were given to the first Adam and hee by his sinne lost this Lordship over them and the second Adam hath restored to him all againe in their first perfection and saith Luke hee will make him ruler over his Luke 12. 42. 44. household and over all that he hath now saith Paul I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and Ephe. 3 14. 15. earth is named what other meaning can this have but this after the day of judgement to be made Lords and Rulers over all the creatures here below and as I take it in some degree also above the Angels in heaven howsoever here is sufficient to answer a question sometimes moved which is this whether Quest shall the Saints or Angels have the highest degree of glory after the day of judgment I answer the Saints for as the beasts shall be confined to the earth so Answ the Angels shall be confined in heaven but man shall inherit all things all things I say both in earth and heaven and as man shall have more glory on earth then any beast or fowle can have so I suppose he shall have more glory in heaven then any Angel there because that he is the master piece of all and as it were a modell of all the creation being the last that was made all the rest being but made for him the Elders were with Christ on the throne and the Angels standing round about it read Revel 7. 11. therefore in more glory Revel 5. 11 7. 11. then the Angels Secondly Vse may teach us admiration with David and say O how great is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that feare thee which thou Psal 31. 19. hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sonnes of men First Looke backe upon sinne and see the cursed nature of it and admire at the filthy contagion of it that hath defiled the lower heavens and the earth Iob 15. 15. Gen 6. 12. and all creatures in them and spoyled the glory and beauty of them all Secondly This may teach us to admire at the great mercy and goodnesse Psal 136. 23. 72. 12. Psal 63. 5. of our God who remembred us in our low estate how he delivered us when we had no helper he looked and there was none to helpe then his owne Arme brought salvation Thirdly Here we may admire at the folly of Adam that would hazzard such a glorious world of creatures and lose them all for a bit of an Apple Fourthly we may admire at their happy and permanent condition under the second Adam when as they shall bee established for ever and see how fickle and mutable they were under the first Adam O then happy is he that is not under the first but under the second Adam who hath restored againe what the first lost Fiftly here we may admire at the great price of our redemption the worth and value of the blood of Christ when we had spoyled and ruined the whole 1 Pet. 1. 19 creation all the glorious workes of God by our sinnes that the blood of Christ should purchase redemption for mankind and establishment to the Angels that had not sinned and purification to the creatures here below and establishment to all Sixtly here we may see and admire at the justice of God to all that creatures that have suffered punishment not for their owne sins but for ours now they shall not onely be delivered after so long a time but established in an unchangable condition for ever which will make amends for their great losse they had by the sinne of man Seventhly admire at the wisedome of God that could finde out such a way to satisfie his owne justice and yet to save his creatures Eighthly this may teach us to admire at the power of God that is able to doe all these things which in all mens judgement was a greater worke to renew the ruins of the old world then it was at the first to make it of nothing he travelled in the greatnesse of his strength and is mighty to save he layd Isay 63. 1. Psal 89.