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A27585 The catechism of the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ in the thousand years shewing by scripure that the great articles of the redemption, the resurrection, the mystery of the saints not dying but chang'd, the judgment, the delivery up of the kingdom to God all in all cannot be explained at full dimensions without it. Beverley, Thomas. 1690 (1690) Wing B2126; ESTC R23687 27,470 34

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Water of Life and over Them the second death can have no power Q. But it seems They only who have been Martyrs and especially They who would not Receive the mark and Name of that Antichristian Idolatrous Power which the Revelation calls the Beast are They who thus Rise and enjoy that State a Thousand Years Rev. 20. 4. A. They are indeed the principal there nam'd to Answer the Table or Representation of Things in that Prophecy of the Revelation But it is subjoyn'd immediately v. 6. Blessed and Holy is He that hath part in the first Resurrection though they are not the principals Beheaded for Christ And the Apostle Paul assures us All who have died in Christ will God bring with Him That none should Mourn without hope for Dead Friends as if They should loose that Glory For none of the Saints can be perfected the one without the other The Living Saints cannot prevent the Dead and the Wee of the Living Saints are Joyn'd in that Glory with the Dead Rais'd 1 Thess 4. 15. and Heb. 11. last Call'd we All as making up the whole Q. What then shall be the State of the Saints Living and Remaining at the Coming of the Lord A. They also are as was said Partakers of the First Resurrection so that the Second Death shall have no Power over Them For the Blessed and the Holy is only He who is so Partaker And it is expresly said These shall not dye but be Changed and caught up to meet the Lord in the Clouds and be for ever with the Lord So they cannot fall into the Lake of the Second Death The Leaves of the Tree of Life are therefore for the Healing these saved of the Nations And the River of Life from the Throne runs down to them and the Trees of Life are for their Food and Medicine and the Healing Waters from the Sanctuary so that whatever doth Live shall Live Rev. 22. 2. Ezek. 47. 11. They shall be as Adam had he continued in Paradise served with the whole Variety of the Creation for Use and Delight without Lust or Sensuality without Labour Sorrow Curse or Death till They are so changed and they shall propagate a Holy Seed Psal 110. 3. in such abundance as to recompence with a much more to the Glory of the Second Adam Rom. 5. 12. to the end for the few that are saved within the World of the First Adam Q. What Entercourse shall there be betwixt the Saints of the New Heaven above and the Saints of the New Earth beneath A. Such as betwixt the Lights of Heaven and the Firmament and our Selves now on Earth For the Nations of the Saved shall walk in the Light of the New Jerusalem above shining as the Sun and Stars down to them And as All Glory on Earth is refer'd to the Light of the Sun and the Heaven over us So the Saints the Kings on Earth shall bring their Glory to the New Jerusalem above especially They shall give their Glory and walk in the Light and Enjoyment of God and of Christ And Angels and Saints above Angels Equalls shall Ascend and Descend on that Jacobs Ladder whose Foot being on Earth its Top reached to Heaven and God and the Lamb are on the Top of it and by Ezekiel's steps enlarging and winding still upward shall All below Ascend upward Gen. 28. 12 13. Ezeck 41. 7. Q. Give yet a fuller Account of the State of the wicked in this Kingdom of Christ A. The Scripture is not so full nor so clear in setting out the State of the Wicked under this Kingdom yet so that It is most certain that They who have lived before it are rais'd to Illustrate the Glory of it and to bear the Shame and Dishonour of their wickedness under the Just and Righteous Condemnation of Christ call'd a being slain with the Sword of his Mouth Shame and Contempt shall be pour'd upon Them as a Just Recompence of all the Scorn They have cast upon Christ his ways and Servants and They shall be seen in a State of Punishment Destruction and Death under a sharp sense of it in Themselves and so that They shall be seen as Carcasses whose Worm dyes not and their Fire is not quenched so that They are an Abhoring of all Flesh And this is a Just and Righteous Recompence of all the Cruelties They have exercised upon the Servants of God and their Disobedience to God and to Christ and their so obstinate prefering the present World before and above the World to Come Lastly in what ever State Any of them can be suppos'd to be They are certainly so under Christ and his Saints That They are made his Foot-stool Dan. 12. 2. John 5. 29. Esay 66. ult 2 Thes 1. 9. Psal 110. 1. Q. When does the Kingdom of Christ begin A. It begins at the Coming and Appearance of Christ and at the Resurrection of his Saints at that his Coming and Appearance a Resurrection to Life Honour and Immortality and to a visible Glorious Appearance with Christ and Reigning with Him Q. Is there not a Resurrection of the Wicked at the same Tme And if so How then does their Resurrection stand in Relation to the Happy Resurrection A. There is their Resurrection as was last declared but because It is a Resurrection to Punishment and Dishonour It is called Death and They are called the dead though i● a visible Appearance The Scripture therefore but seldom names the Resurrection of the wicked as a Resurrection and when it speaks of the Resurrection at any Time absolutely It means the Happy and blessed Resurrection as Luc. 20. 35 36. 1 Cor. 15. throughout Rev. 20. 4. 6. And therefore there can be no other Respect had to them in the Kingdom of Christ and the Resurrection proper to it but as They add to the Triumph of the Kingdom and are in a State of Deprivation of its Glory Q. What proof can you give of the Kingdom of Christ at his Coming and Appearance A. The whole Stream of the New Testament Joyns his Coming and his Appearance and his Kingdom One with Another The Son of Man coming in his Kingdom Mat. 16. last When the Son of Man shall come in his Glory and All the Holy Angels with him Then shall He sit on the Throne of his Glory Mat. 25. 31. Remember me when Thou Comest in not into thy Kingdom Luk. 23. 42. Because They thought the Kingdom of God should immediately Appear He spake a Parable unto Them of a Nobleman going into a Far Country to Receive a Kingdom and to Return and Having Receiv'd a Kingdom He Return'd in it Luke 19. 13 15. When we made known unto You the Power and Coming of Christ and were Eye Witnesses of his Majesty to wit in the Transfiguration that Great Fore-Appearance of his Kingdom Behold He who is the Prince of the Kings of the Earth cometh in the Clouds and Every Eye shall see Him Revel 1.5.7 And his Appearance
this Kingdom Christ hath Fully declar'd God's Name to the Saints and put down all Rule Authority and Power in order to God's being All in All Then in the Highest and last Act of Subduing or Casting Death and Hell into the Lake and also in the Highest Act of declaring the Name of God It delivers up it self and is subject that God may be All in All. John 17. 26. 1 Cor. 15. 28. 54. c. Revel 20. last Q. If the Kingdom deliver'd up to God and the Father be the Last End It must be an End before all Oeconomy or Dispensation of means For the End must be before all means How do you state this A. It must needs be so even before Creation it self and therefore we Read so often of the Purpose of God before or from the Foundation of the World Ephes 1. c. 3. And It Contain these Two Things as not of Free Dispensation but of Absolute necessity 1. That the Eternal Rest of All Created Beings can be only in Vnion to the Father the Word the Spirit who are One and who Inhabit Eternity Creatures therefore below being capable of this Vnion as All which have not Understanding are Annihilated And Creatures of Understanding Angels and Men can be no other then miserable in the loss of this Vnion Hell therefore the lowest Lake lies in departing from God Mat. 25. 45. 46. 2. The Eternal Vnion if there be such an Vnion which is of Free Grace only can be only by God to God and so must be by the Eternal word through the Eternal Spirit to the Father Now among All the Varieties of Dispensations wherein These Grand Ends which upon the supposition of Creatures Eternally Happy are Absolutely necessary are brought to pass by Infinite Wisedom and Power The Kingdom of Christ is Supreme in the order of means or Dispensations as is evident in that It is the Last and so Supreme Q. If the Kingdom of Christ be the Supreme Dispensation and means It must then be in the Eye of God before any other Means or Dispensation And if Creation be but Dispensation in order to the Supreme End of God being All in All the Kingdom of Christ must be in the Eye of God before Creation it self either of Angels or Men A. And so the Scripture always Represents it The Lamb had the Book of Life for his Kingdom before the Foundation of the World and His Purpose in Christ is an Eternal Purpose And Angels and Men even All Things were Created by Him and for Him and by Him They Consist Ephes 3. 11. Col. 1. 15. to 21. Q. But are not These Things to be understood of Christ as He is the Eternal Word and not as in our Nature A. They are All proper to the Eternal Word not by way of Free Dispensation but Absolutely and Eternally and to the Eternal word in our Nature by way of Free Divine Dispensation in order to the union of all Created Beings of Understanding to God All in All. Q. Wherein then stands this Dispensation A. In that the Eternal word far above Angels Principalities Powers Became lower then the Angels by Becoming Man and so Comprehended the whole Created Intellectual Nature that he might be the Head of the whole in their Vnion to God And that in Him They might All be Reconciled to God with the whole Inferior Creation which Having serv'd the Glory of the Creator by Jesus Christ They Fly back into their Former State of Nothing in themselves but indeed are Return'd into the Divine Immensity and Angels and Men be Vnited to God for ever Ephes 1. 10. Col. 1. 20. Q. What need could the Angels who never sinned have of a Mediator by whom They should be Vnited to God or what Sign is there in Scripture of any such thing A. In that even Purest Created Nature is not Clean in his sight that is Compar'd with the Infinite Holiness of God and that there is Folly in it The Angels that Stand Stand by their Election and Cover their Faces before God and Christ in an Humble Thankful and Reverential Acknowledgment hereof Learn by the Church the Great Mysteries of the Gospel Adore and Worship the First Begotten Coming into his Great World to Come and Converse in Innumerable Companies with his Saints above and below in his Kingdom even as they Serve as Ministring Spirits now for the Heirs of that Kingdom Job 4. 18. c. 15. 15. 1 Tim. 5. 21. Isa 6 2. Ephes 3. 10. 1 Pet. 1. 12. Q. How did Christ Appear in this Dispensation for Man before his Fall A. If God Charges even the Holy Angels with Folly so that the Heavens were not Clean in his Sight How much less Men whose Houses are of Clay and whose Foundation is in the Dust There must be therefore a prospect in the Divine Eye of their State in a Mediator and as in Glorious Bodies Job 4. 19. Phil. 3. 21. Q. What Types or Fore-Appearances were there hereof A. Adam Himself as Comprehending Humane Nature in his State of Holiness and Blessedness even before his Fall was but a Type of Him that was to Come and who did indeed so Comprehend all his Seed The First Sabbath was but a Type of the Great Sabbatism of the Second Adam that Remains to the People of God in the World to Come For This Sabbatism then Remain'd Although the Works were Finish'd from the Foundation of the World and That Paradise was but a Type of the Paradice of God Rom. 5. 14. Heb. 4. 3 4. Rev. 2. 7. Q. But how does the State of the Kingdom of Christ Agree with the Redemption of Fallen Man by Christ A. Admirably it Agrees and in a much Fuller and Clearer View For His Saints as in Highest Representation of his Redemption are every single Person in Robes wash'd white in his Blood They are Priests of God and of Christ as to their Justified State And as to their Sanctification the Throne of God and of the Lamb are in the midst of Them They see his Face as his Servants they serve Him His Name is in their Fore-heads They are as the Pillars of his Temple and Go out no more from Him And there can in no wise Enter into that State Any Thing that defileth so that every one must be Holy As to their Happiness and Glory They Reign with Christ for ever Thus in the particulars Consider them together as in the General Assembly and Church of the First born written in Heaven And so They are the New Jerusalem the Bride or Lambs wife to whom It is Given in Regard of Justification to be Cloathed with Linnen White and Clean which is the Righteousness of the Saints As to Holiness It is Clear as a most Precious Jasper and Wall'd High and Guarded by Watch of Angels from all Defilement As to Happiness and Eternal security The Lord God and the Lamb are the Light thereof and the Glory of God Enlightens it that it can see in no