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A85442	The vvorld to come. Or, The kingdome of Christ asserted. In two expository lectures of Ephes. 1. 21, 22. verses. Prooving that between the state of this world as now it is, and the state of things after the day of judgement, when God shall be all in all: there is a world to come which is of purpose, and is a more especiall manner appointed for Jesus Christ to be king, and wherein he shall more eminently reign. / Preached by Mr. Tho: Goodwin many years since, at Antholins, London. Published for the truths sake.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1266; Thomason E838_13; ESTC R207443	23,121	40

THE VVorld to Come OR The Kingdome of Christ asserted In two Expository LECTURES On Ephes. 1. 21 22. verses PROOVING That between the state of this World as now it is and the state of things after the day of Judgement when God shall be all in all There is a world to come which is of purpose and in a more especiall manner appointed for Jesus Christ to be King and wherein he shall more eminently Reign Preached by Mr. Tho Goodwin many yeares since at ANTHOLINS LONDON Published for the Truths sake DAN. 7. 27. And the Kingdome and dominion and greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole heaven shall be given to the Saints of the most high whose Kingdome is an everlasting Kingdome and all Dominions shall serve and obey him LONDON Printed and are to be sold in Popes-head Alley and in Westminster Hall 1655. THE WORLD TO COME OR The Kingdome of Christ asserted In two Expository LECTURES EPHES. 1. 21 22. Farre above all principalitie and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not only in this world but also in that which is to come and hath put all things under his feet THese words set forth and proclaim the supremacy of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ over all persons by what names or titles soever distinguished or dignified in all Gods dominions belonging either to this world or that which is to come I shewed you before what it was for Christ to sit at Gods right hand as also how it was amplified by the subl●mity of the condition and by the quality of the persons over whom Jesus Christ is set by Principalities Might and Dominions he would include all sorts whatsoever as Angels good and bad and so Magistrates Now I am to speak of the extent of Christs dominion and that is in this world and in the world to come the great thing to be opened is what is meant by the world to come There are three interpretations given of the words Sence 1 First it is taken for heaven and earth this state of the world on earth that state of the world in heaven which are two worlds only here will be a question why heaven should be called a world to come when it is extant now as well as the earth which is called the present world To which it may be answered that though heaven be a world now that is extant yet to us poor creatures here below it is a world to come though it was created at the same time this lower world was its comfort to Saints that they have a world to come for wicked men come in for the greatest share in this therefore called men of this world let them take it it s their world Saints have a world to come Luke 18. 13. but this doth not seem to be that which the Apostle aimes at here Sence 2 Secondly this phrase may note the duration of Christs kingdome that it is everlasting for so in Scripture it is used to expresse eternity Mat. 12. 32. And therefore Isa. 9. 6. which we translate the eternal Father the Septuagint reads the Father of the world to cōme and so Christs kingdome is said to be for ever and ever that is not for one ever but for all evers the Apostle in Heb. 10. 12. saith that Christ after he had offered one sacrifice for sinne for ever sate down at the right hand of God Now that word for ever doth not relate to Christs sitting at Gods right hand but rather to the sacrifice he offered who for ever by one sacrifice took away sinne for it may be said that there are not Principalities and powers for ever that Christ may sit for ever at Gods right hand when this world ends there will be an end of all Principalities and powers 1 Cor. 15. 24. Then cometh the end when he shall deliver up the Kingdome to the Father and shall put down all rule c. Take notice in what sence Christ hath a kingdome and sits at Gods right hand for ever and in what sence he is said to give up this kingdome to the Father I would clear it by two distinctions Distinct 1 First there is a naturall kingdome due to Jesus Christ as he is in the God-head and a naturall inheritance due to him being man as he is joyned to the God-head For so hee inherits the priviledges of that second person which is this naturall Kingdome which he obtained and which was due to him by inheritance Heb. 1. 8. To the sonne he said thy throne O God is for ever and ever he speaks of his naturall inheritance though the right be involved in him as he is God and so he is joyned in commission for ever as God and man with the Father and so in respect of this naturall dominion of his all things are said to be made by him and for him Col. 1. 16. Now this naturall right that Jesus Christ hath remains for ever and accordingly many of those priviledges which are to be understood by his sitting at the right had of God they likewise must remaine for ever As first a fulnesse of joy At thy right hand is fulnesse of joy Jesus Christ doth enjoy a fulnesse of joy immediately by God himselfe Secondly All that personall honour and those glorious abilities which he was filled and crowned with when he went first to heaven Heb. 2. 9. all these shall remaine to eternity And they are naturally due to Christ though they were bestowed on him then when he came to heaven he is thus in commission with his Father so farre as naturall rule goes though in that respect lesse then the Father 2. The second part of this distinction is that there is a dispensa●ory kingdome that Christ hath and that is as he is considered as Mediator between God and his Church which kingdome is given to him it is not by nature due to him but as he was the Sonne of God he was chosen our to exercise that power which in this kingdome is held forth and this is pointed out by his sitting at Gods right hand which God gave him as the reward of his obedience John 5. 22 23. The Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgement to the Son It is committed to Christ he is that Lord that God hath set up to do all his businesse for him visibly and apparantly and this kingdome is in a speciall manner appropriated to Christ it is so Christs as it is not the Fathers in a more eminent manner the Father judgeth no man To appropriate a work to one person rather then another is an act of Gods wisdome hence it is that Christ hath his work for a time and afterwards gives it up to another till the day of judgement be over Jesus Christ hath the government of the kingdome and shall reigne but after the day of judgment the kingdom is to be given up to the Father the reasons why God hath appointed a

care for this world for there is another world as there are things present so the comfort is there are things to come Care not for this world it is old Adams world it brings oft times much losse to Saints it 's well if thou canst get handsomely rid of it with little sinning It is called a present evill world It was all Christ desired for his Disciples John 17. Not that they might be taken out of the world but kept from the evill of it But there is a world to come which Abraham and all Believers are Heyres of for they were not only heyrs of Canaan but it is expresly sayd in Rom. 4. 13. that they were Heyres of the world Vse 2 Secondly Admire wee this man Christ Jesus whom God hath thus advanced and set up and hath made a world of purpose for him peculiarly for him and his to enjoy and for him and his as under him to rule and govern That he that was the scorn and derision of men for so Christ was when here below that God should raise him up and set him at his own right hand and subject all Principalities and powers unto him and use him in all that great businesse of judging the world If this had been spoken of God it had been no wonder for all Nations of the earth are but as the drop of the bucket to him but to heare it spoken of man who is but a drop of that bucket that this babe or suckling should still Satan subdue Angels have them all under him O how excellent is thy name in all the earth This made the Psalmist admire What is man that thou visitest him Visiting is sometimes put for visiting in anger as in Psalm 59. 9. So God visited Christ at first and when that was done he visited him with favour hee takes that broken shattered man and raiseth him up to crown him with glory and honour What is man He speaks of the nature of man as being united to the God-head What is this babe this suckling that thou shouldst raise him up to such an height All this concerns us for the Psalmist calls him the Lord our God how excellent will his name be one day in all the earth This will swallow up the thoughts of man and Angels to eternity Now put all together and here is the most glorious appearance of a Kingdome that ever eyes beheld more by farre than all the Kingdoms of the world that Satan shewed our Saviour take but what this Chapter holds forth of it First here 's a father of glory mentioned vers. 17. For as God is the fountain of glory so himself is the father of it This father hath an eldest sonne whom he made a man and visited him as you have heard and set him in the Throne at his owne right hand There is your King and to set out the glory of this King he hath Nobles under him as Principalities and Powers and Mights and Dominions he hath them all under his feet Those that are his Friends they fall down and worship him they throw down their Crowns before him and for those that are his enemies hee hath the most glorious conquest over them he sits and makes them his foot-stoole that he may sit the easier And for Satan that great Devill Jesus Christ triumphs so over him that he makes his children set their feet upon his neck here is the highest exaltation that ever was What can be added to make Christ Jesus more glorious one would thinke hee hath enough He is a King over a whole world is advanced in the highest Throne he hath the highest power all is under his feet what is there more to be added Look upon Adam who was the type of Christ he had a world about him he had a Paradice a Court which was peculiarly his as the King of the world if he had stood he was the father of our nature what wanted this man he wanted a wife a helper God himselfe saith so all this was in a type This man Christ Jesus we heare of his advancement ●ar above all Principalities and powers Here is a father of glory and a sonne set in glory and he hath glorious Nobility enough But where is the Queen what saith the-words following He hath given him over all to be the head of the Church above all priviledges else He counteth this the highest and chiefest flowr in the Crown that he is a head to the Church who is his body and the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all as if our Lord and Saviour should have said though I have all this honour and am thus full yet if I have not a body a Church I wan● my fulnesse for the Church is the fulnesse of him that filleth all therefore above all hath God given this to him to be a head to his Church Christ hath all else under his feet but come up saith he to the Church and sit on my right hand Psal 45. As I sit at my Fathers right hand and as I sit down in my Fathers throne you shall sit downe with mee in my Throne And though all things else be under my feet I will have my Church my body sit on my right hand for she is my fulness My brethren Jesus Christ delights more in love then in power Though he be a King and hath all power committed to him yet that doth no whit abate his love he takes care that his Church shall share with him in his glory and greatnesse Oh what is man that thou art mindfull of him the Lord Christ and the Church made up that man THE WORLD TO COME OR The Kingdome of Christ asserted The second Sermon EPHES. 1. 21 22. Not onely in this world but in that which is to come and hath put all things under his feete THE last time my work was to shew you that between this world as now it is and the state of things after the day of Judgment when God shall be all in all that there is a state which the Scripture calls a world to come which is of purpose and in a more speciall manner appointed for Jesus Christ to be King when he shall have all things put under his feet I quoted divers places to make it good especially that in the eighth Psalm and the 2d of the Hebrews At the 5. verse of Heb. 2. I found it was the Apostles scope to prove that the Psalmist had prophecyed of a world to come ordained for Christ and he proves it by this that he was to have a world wherein hee was to have all things subject to him which was but the same thing that follows here in the text And saith he though we now see Christ crowned with glory and honour ver. 8. which is all one with sitting at the right hand of God Yet saith he We see not all things put under him therefore it proves that there is a world to come wherein all things shall be subject to

time of raigning to Christ First is to draw all mens thoughts to him that is that all men might honour the Sonne as they honour the Father John 5. 22. As for every work there is a season so likewise for every person wherein they shall in a speciall manner be more glorious Secondly this was a reward exceeding due to Jesus Christ that he should have a kingdome appropriated to him for a season that all judgment should be commi●ed to him and he should draw all mens eyes to him in a more immediate manner because he vailed himselfe in obedience to his Father therefore the Father to recompence him he will not appear himselfe so much in the government saith he let my Sonne take it I will commit all judgement to him and see the equity of this because God will put all things under the feet of Christ therefore will he againe give up all things to God and be subject himselfe to him as God-man 1 Cor. 15. 28. Though Jesus Christ hath this kingdome and means to conquer all his enemies before he give it up yet when he is in the height of his dominion when he is in his full triumph and hath cleared all the worlds accounts then will he give up the kingdome to the Father which may teach us when we are highest and most assisted and raised to fall down and give glory to the Lord so Jesus will do when he hath all enemies under his feet and judged and pronounced sentence upon all then will he set up his father deliver up the kingdome unto him and he shall become all in all this will be the last and great solemnity of all This is the first distinction his naturall kingdome which is due to him as man joyned to God that remains forever but there is something of his Mediatory kingdome to be given up Distinct 2 The second distiction is this This Mediators kingdome it receives a double consideration First Consider Christ as a Mediator for the Church and so consider him as under imperfection sinne or misery or any other want till they shall be compleat or Secondly Consider him as he is head to the Church made compleat and perfected in all parts degrees that I may explain my self You may call to mind that when I opened the third and fourth verses compared with the seventh verse I told you that in election there were two great designes or contrivements the one was more principall and cheif which I called Gods decree of the end what Gods designe was to make us and there it was that God chose us in Christ as a head unto absolute glory which with Christ and in Christ we shal have for ever in the highest heavens Secondly God designed the way unto this end and so God was pleased that he might set off the glory of that perfect state the more therefore he lets us fall into sin and misery and suffers our bodies and souls to be separated before we shall come to that end which God hath designed us to To enjoy this Canaan we must go through a wildernesse to it Now answerable to this double designe of God Jesus Christ hath a double relation to his Church the one as a head simply considered and so were chosen in him to that perfect state unto which God hath designed us Secondly Christ hath the relation of a Redeemer and Mediator for us that as we are fallen into sinne and misery and distresse so he might redeem us and helpe us now while the Church is in an imperfect state and hath not all its members nor they out of all danger neither though they be in no reall danger yet they are to give an account of their actions and there is a final sentence to be past upon them and in that sence there may be said to be forgiveness of sinne in the world to come and therefore Paul prayes for one that he may finde mercy at that day Now while there is any such thing as guilt or the appearance of it or any imperfection and till that finall sentence be past so long is Jesus Christ a Mediator for us and so God hath given him all power in heaven and earth to give eternall life to them that believe Now so long as Jesus Christ rules in a way of conflict and as a Conqueror is destroying sinne and death and all emnity also raising soule and body and bringing them together in this sence the Sripture speaks of his sitting at the right hand of God but when once the finall sentence is past then this work of the Mediator his reigning as to destroy enemies and such like is over and then Jesus Christ will present us to to his Father Loe here I am and the children which thou hast given me we are now as thou didst look upon us in thy primitive thoughts in election so he stands in relation to them as a head there we are considered as perfect and the Mediators office is laid down and God becoms all in all both to Christ and us I would add a third thing to this that is how Christ is a King and sits at the right hand of God for ever when Jesus Christ hath given up this kingdom of his Redeemer-ship unto the Father yet then he shall sit down for ever with this honour that it was he that did exercise this office so that there is not a soule lost nor a sinne unsatisfied for nor any enemies unsubdued it is true he is not a Generall in Warre any longer but he shall have this honour that he did all these exployts brought all these rebels in so that indeed in truth Jesus Christ shall reign more gloriously with the Father after that time of judgement is over then ever he did before now he shall raigne triumphantly whereas before he raigned as one in conflict and conquest Jesus Christ himselfe will say that he never was King so much as he shall be now Jesus Christ shall ever have the glory of it that he was that great and glorious Dictator that he subdued all enemies and delivered up the kingdom peaceably to his Father and in some sence set the Crown upon his Fathers head who was as it were in some sence put out of his rule in the world by Satan and wicked men that did what they list and the Saints they lye under sin and misery and Christ he subdues all these enemies and presents all these soules to the Father with a peaceable rule and government and this he enjoys with the Father for eternity now whereas it is said Of his kingdome shall be no end the meaning is it shall not be destroyed for ever it s a kingdome that gives way to no kingdome it shall still be continued though he himselfe give it up to the Father and become visibly and apparently more subject then he was before not in respect of his Godhead for so he is never subject nor in respect of his manhood

for so he is always subject but then Christ shall acknowledge the Father to be the Author of his kingdome and that he gave him power and honour and glory and then shall he resigne up his Crown to his Father againe from whom he had it so much for the second sence of the words Sence 3 Now I will adde a third interpretation of these words Not only in this world but in the world to come but not to exclude the other two I named before but it shall rather take them in and that which I shall say is this That betweene the state of this world as now it is and the state of things after the day of Judgment when God shall be all in all there is a world to come which is of purpose and in a more speciall manner appointed for Jesus Christ to be King in and wherein he shall more eminently reigne God hath appointed a speciall world on purpose for Jesus Christ which in Scripture is called a world to come and Christs world That as this world was ordained for the first Adam and given to the sonnes of men so there is a world to come for the second Adam even as that time after the day of Judgment is more eminently for God when he shall be all in all So there is a world to come which is made for Jesus Christ and which the Angels have nothing to do withall for it is not subjected unto them as this world now is Heb. 2. 5 6 7 8. Vnto Angels hath he not put into subjection the world to come whereof wee speake but one in a certaine place testifieth saying What is man that thou art mindfull of him c. Thou madest him lower then the Angels thou crownedst him with glory and honour c. And hath put all things in subjection under his feete But saith hee Wee see not yet all things put under him but wee see Jesus Christ who was made lower then the Angels crowned with glory and honour c. We see plainly that he speaks there of Jesus Christ as he doth here in the Text And what he here in the Ephesians calls sitting at Gods right hand there he expresseth it to be his crowning with glory and honour And then likewise for that passage of all things being under the feete of Christ which is spoken of here in the Ephesians the Apostle quotes out of Psalm 8 6. which speaks of Christs dominion and that sentence is no where found in the Old Testament but only there and quoted likewise in 1 Cor. 15. 27. all which places relates to Christ Then againe he calls it a world to come in Heb. 2. that is ordained for this man and hee doth the like here in the Text therefore these places compared together we see how they agree 1 Cor. 15. 25. He saith Christ must reign till he hath put all things under his feet which he quotes out of Psalm 110. 1 So that these places before named they are all parallel places with the Text and there is another place parallel with it 2 Pet. 3. 7. compared with the 13. vers. The heavens and earth which are now by the same word are kept in store and reserved to fire against the day of judgement And at the 13. verse in opposition to the heavens and earth which are now he saith We according to his promise looke for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousnesse that is we look for a world to come wherein righteousnesse dwels and that these places hold forth the same thing appeares by this that when he had alledged there was to be a new heaven and a new earth that is a world to come At the 15. verse he quotes Paul that he had written to them of these things and that was in his Epistle to the Hebrews For it 's the best argument to prove that Paul wrote the Epistle to the Hebrewes Hee hath written to you saith he of this new world and that was in Heb. 2. there hee wrote of this new World So likewise unto this give all the Prophets witnesse in Acts 3. And therefore I am not ashamed to give witnesse to it too Rev. 5. 10. When they saw Christ once take the booke and was installed King what do their thoughts presently run out too it is to the World to come He hath made us Kings and Priests and we shall reigne on earth To be sure at the day of Judgment they shall which shall certainly be a long day when all the accounts in the world shall be certainly rip't up and the world shall be new hung against the approach of their new King and the glory of the creatures then wil put down the glory of this old world We see then how this place to the Ephesians and that in Heb. 2. how parallel they are Now I would have you consider likewise the scope of the 8. Psalm as the Apostle brings it to prove this new World And indeed any one that reads that Psalm would think the Psalmist doth but set out old Adam in his Kingdome in Paradise who was made in his nature a little lower then the Angels One would thinke that were all the meaning and that the Apostle applies it to Christ only by way of allusion but the truth is the Apostle brings it to prove and to convince these Hebrews that that Psalm was meant of the Messiah whom they expected saith he One in a er taine place hath testified Hee brings it as an expresse proof and testimony that it was meant of Christ and was not an allusion only Now the scope is this as you read in Rom. 5. 13. that Adam was a type of him that was to come namely Christ So in the 8. Psalm you read there Adams world is the type of a world to come The first Adam had his world where there was sheep and oxen and fowles of the ayre Now whereas it is sayd in the Psalm that all things were under his feet it is not meant of man in innocency but of the Messiah Christ and his world which is made of purpose for him as the other world was for Adam That it was not meant of man in innocency properly and principally appears First because it 's sayd Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength There was no babes and sucklings in Adams time he fell before there was any Secondly it 's said was to still the enemie avenger But the Devill was not stilled by Adam he overcame him therefore it must be meant of another that should still this enemie How excellent saith the Psalmist is thy name in all the earth speaking of this world Adam he had a Paradise but he never propagated Gods name in all the earth much lesse did he sound it in the heavens Again Adam though man yet he was not the son of man but called the sonne of God he came not of a man Againe take the argument the Apostle

to be in the thing First to tell you what they shall not do They shall not eate and drinke nor marry and give in marriage So Christ tels us in Mat. 22. 30. The children of the resurrection do none of these things And therefore to imagine a Turkish heaven here below is the absurdity that hath been put upon it and which indeed made the Fathers many of them after the first 300. years after Christ to flye out so much against this subject for there was an opinion then that Christ should reign at Jerusalem and that they should abound in all severall pleasures and delights c. and this the Fathers were against I have told you what they do not I will tell you what they do he tels us as I sayd before that they shall be Kings and Priests as in Rev. 20. 6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection why on such saith he the second death hath no power they are out of all danger of it being in a celestial state ●ut saith he they shall be Priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a thousand yeares here is both their reigning and their Priesthood set out I would open it a little First they shall be Kings You heard before out of Heb. 2. 5. That hee hath not put this world to come in subjection to Angels The Angels now they are the Thrones and Principalities and great ones that rules this present world but the Saints shall be Kings then And for them to take the Angels places to be as the Angels now are after their resurrection there is no absurdity in it Christ saith after the resurrection the Saints they shall be as the Angels of God they shall be Priests likewise I shall take off what absurdity there may seem to be in that by this Our Saviour when he took up his body out of the grave he continued forty dayes upon the earth What did Christ do all that while It is playne he performed the part of a Priest and Prophet he did instruct them in the worship of God and speaking to them of things pertayning to the Kingdome of God so you read expresly in Acts● the Apostles had a brave Teacher Christ risen from the dead so he began that new world and he remained forty dayes here of purpose to do it Now consider is it any absurdity for the Saints to be conformed to Christ their Lord and head to run through the same states that he did he lived in this world was poore and miserable so are you when he dyed he commended his spirit into the hands of his Father and whether his soul went our souls goe So likewise when he took his body again out of the grave he remained forty dayes upon earth instructing his Disciples in the things concerning the Kingdome of God If the Saints do so when they take up their bodies againe in all this here is but a conformity to Christ he ascended then up to heaven and so shall his and be for ever with the Lord But the great objection is That the soules of men that are now in heaven and see the face of God for them to come downe and reign on earth and do such service here below it would be a disadvantage to them or changing a better estate for a worse which seemes to be a great absurdity For answer consider to take off the absurdity that even this State I speak of will be a better State then what their soules are now possessed of for otherwise our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST when his body and soule was united againe at his resurrection was not in a better state then his soule was in after death when it was seperated from his body Certainly his state after his resurrection whilst upon earth was better then his state before his resurrection but you will say they are now in heaven where they behold the face of God as the Angels do which they may loose by coming here upon earth that doth not follow for the Angels came down here below and yet Christ saith they alwayes behold the face of their father so may these Saints on earth behold the face of God Stephen though a mortall man yet the heavens were opened to him He saw the glory of God and Jesus sitting at the right hand of his Father My brethren God hath eternity of time to reveale himselfe to his people in and he doth advance his Favourites by degrees First he glorifies their souls apart after when soul and body is united it 's in a better condition simply considered then the soule had before how many wayes God hath to manifest himselfe to his Saints how many degrees they shall pass through and how many worlds he will have to do it in that is known to himself however the more the better If God shall lead you by degrees through this and that glory from one to another it will be to your advantage As in a Masque there are several shews which adds to the excellency of it God hath eternity of time to make all these shewes and representations of himselfe to his children And let mee adde this that the will that he fulfilled which is prayed for in that we call the Lords prayer Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven There is a time when the will of God shall be done on earth as compleatly as in heaven which is in that time of the first resurrection My brethren I have spoken these things as that which hath a great shew of truth in it and as that which is exceeding probable I have told you my grounds for it which I could never answer my self Now there is a fourth degree of this world to come and that I am sure will hold and that is that time during the day of judgment strictly so taken after the generall resurrection both of just and unjust Then to honour this New World not only shall the Saints come down but Jesus Christ himself will come down and abide a long day here below Therefore it is not absurdity for Saints to leave heaven when Christ himself shall do it neither will it diminish any thing from Christs happinesse for he will come and bring all his glory with him That we call the day of judgment will be a long day judg you your selves whether it will be so or no Do you think that the accompts of all the world can be cast up in the twinkling of an eye Doth not Solomon say expresly That God will bring every worke to judgment with every secret thing whether good or evill in Ecclès. 12. And doth not the Apostle say in 1 Cor. 4. 5. That when the Lord comes he will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the heart Will not this require much time surely it will be a long day when our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will do that great work or service to God the greatest that ever was more then all his preaching which is the examining the accounts of all the world convincing all man-kind of their evill and sending them speechless to Hell Things shall be so there that the Saints shall be able to judg the world too according to that in 1 Cor. 6. 2. Now here this new world will be in its height and perfection here is Christ and all his Saints and Angels about him Yet not that this world shall be subject to Angels but they shall gather all the Nations together and shall execute the sentence that Christ pronounceth against them and fling them all to Hell but the Angels shall not sit as Judges they shall stand and not sit whereas the Saints are sayd to sit upon 12. Thrones and they are said likewise in 1 Cor. 6. To judge Angels And now shall this world to come be at its perfection that creature that hath groaned under mans lusts shall then be fully restored to the glorious liberty of the sons of God the world will then be new hung This is Christs world to come wherein he shall have all things subject to him For at this time shall all things be under Christs feet and never till then for the last enemie that shall be destroyed is Death and when all things shall be subdued to him then shall the sonne also himself be subject then shall he give up the Kingdome to the Father And what that State is that shall come after Christ hath given up the Kingdome to his Father no man knows only the Scripture saith this of it That God shall be all in all and that Christ himselfe shall then be subject FINIS