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A47560	A glimpse of Sions glory, or, The churches beautie specified published for the good and benefit of all those whose hearts are raised up in the expectation of the glorious liberties of the saints.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Glover, Jose, fl. 1641.; Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.; Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.	1641 (1641)	Wing K711; ESTC R8454	21,933	42

glorious things spoken of the reigne of the Church but there have never beene such glorious times since those Prophecies and therefore these we are to expect to be fulfilled That place of Ezekiel of the dry Bones receiving Flesh and Life is apparant to be the Iewes comming and Gods ioyning two stickes together making Iudah and Ephraim to be one and therefore glorious things are to be expected immediately after the fail of Antichrist and if you may speake of the fall of Antichrist as done you may speake of those Promises as done So in the 21.22 Revel. There is a description of the glorious estate of the Church which ordinarily is applied to the glory of Heaven But there is a mistake in applying these things to the glory that is in Heaven and not to thinke of the glory that shall appeare on Earth before It is said that John saw the new Ierusalem come downe from Heaven if it had been the glory of Heaven more like Heaven should have been opened and he raised up to it Againe Iohn here sayes that the foundations of the Walls had twelve Stones and in them the names of the twelve Apostles that the Foundations of Heaven should have the names of the twelve Apostles is not like For Abraham Isaac and Jacob the Patriarchs and Prophets shall bee there as well as the Apostles and why should it not have the names of the Patriarchs and Prophets as well as the Apostles And if you read the Revelations you shall finde that the Kings and Princes came to give in their glory to the Church Now that the Kings and Princes should come in to make Heaven glorious there is no likelihood in that Thus there are these Prophesies to be fulfilled and these Promises to bee accomplished and therefore a time for the Lord GOD with the Saints to reigne gloriously And why should we think it much Let us but consider the great Designes that God hath in honouring of his Saints in the World and we have not cause to thinke much of such a truth as this for hereafter in Heaven Christ will be honoured before his Saints But how will Ch●ist be honoured before all the World you will say at the day of Judgement But onely at that time so long as the wicked shall stand for their sentence Doe we thinke there shall be no further time for Christ and his Saints to be honoured but just then God intends to honour Christ and the Saints before all the World Christ hath purchased a glorious Condition by humbling himselfe so low to the Death of the Crosse and therefore was promised the Heathen for his Inheritance and the utmost parts of the Earth for his possession and this must bee given in due Time and God is pleased to raise the hearts of his People to expect it And those that are most humble most godly most gracious most spirituall searching into the Scriptures have their hearts most raised in expectation of this And it is not like that that work of the Spirit of theirs shall be in vaine But God is beginning to cleere it up more and more God is beginning to stirre in the World and to doe great things in the World the Issue whereof I hope will come to that we speake of But what shall bee the glorious Condition of the Church when the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth for which the Saints shall sing this glorious Hallelujah Tell us somthing of this good Land In the generall I answer It is the resurrection from the Dead as the Apostle speakes Rom. 11. concerning the Calling of the Iewes But for Particulars Glorious things are spoken of thee O thou Citie of God The first thing wherein the happinesse of the Church consists is this That it shall be delivered from all the Enemies of it and from all molesting troubles and so be in a most blessed safety and security The God of Peace shall tread downe Satan shortly and all that are of Satan Christ is described in this Rev. 19. with his garment dyed in Blood when he doth appeare to come and take the Kingdome and he appeared with many Crownes on his head that notes his many victories and his name was King of Kings and Lord of Lords And the Saints appeared triumphing with him clothed with white linnen and set upon white Horses is that a cloathing for Soldiers Yes for the Army of Christ that rather comes to triumph then for to fight Christ fighteth and vanquisheth all these Enemies and they come triumphing in white All Teares shall be wiped away from the Church Isay 25.8 Revel. 21.4 There shall bee no Brier nor Thorne Ezek. 28.24 among the People of GOD Ezekiel did once live among Briers and Thornes but there shall bee no pricking Thorne left And this Citie that is described in the Revelation shall have the gates alwayes open in regard of the secuirty that is there no danger at all of any Enemy Secondly there shall be a wonderfull Confluence of People to this Church both Jew and Gentile shall joyne together to flow to the Beautifulnes of the Lord Dan. 2. verse 35. Christ is compared to the Stone that shall breake the Image and shall become a Mountaine and fill the whole Heaven Isaiah 60. They shall come as Doves to the Windowes And when IOHN came to meathe Citie the Church it was a great and mighty Citie Thirdly because where there is much Confluence there useth to bee a Contraction of much filthinesse Therfore in the third place it shall be most pure a pure Church yea in great part if not altogether Nay we may almost affirme altogether to be delivered from hypocrites Without there shall be Doggs and whosoever shall worke or make a lye Not without in Hell but without the Church Hypocrites shall bee discovered and cast out from the Church though many get into the Church now then the righteous Nation shall enter in In the 44th of Ezekiel 9. There is a description of the Church under the Gospel And he shewes that none uncircumcised in heart shall enter in there But the fulfilling of the Prophecies of those Chapters in the latter end of Ezekiel will not be till this time and then no uncircumcised in heart shall enter Revel. 21.27 There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth c. there are two Negatives in the Originall they shall not they shall not enter As Christ sayes Whosoever comes to me J will in no wise cast out I will not I will not cast out Blessed are they that are called to the Supper of the Lamb Before many were called and few chosen but now all that are called are chosen and none that are made partakers of the first Resurrection shall die the second Death It is a most pure Church and therefore is described The Walls to be precious Stones the Citie to be as cleere as glasse and the Pavement to be pure gold Fourthly there shall be abundance of glorious

presence of Iesus Christ and of God shall be exceeding glorious in the Church then the name of it shall be called IEHOVAH SHAMMAH The Lord is there They shall follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth they shall see the King in his beauty and glory And such a presence of Christ will be there as it is questionable whether there shall be need of Ordinances at least in that way that now there is And therefore some interpret that place so They shall be all taught of God and shall not need to teach one another And so that place 2. Peter 1.19 We have also a moresure Word of promise wherevnto ye doe well that ye take heed untill the Day dawne and the Day-starre arise in your hearts Now the Morning-Starre the Holy Ghost applies to them Revel. 2.28 That is such a glorious presence of Christ as shall so instruct them as if they had not need to take heed to the Word of Prophesie And in Revelat. 21. They shall need no Temple nor Sunne nor Moone for the Lamb is the Temple and the light thereof the presence of Christ shall bee there and supply all kind of Ordinances And Revel. 7. Christ sayes Hee will lead them to the Fountaine of living Waters all the Ordinances Here are but the streames and Conduits then they shall be led to the Fountaine Though we dare not affirme that there shal be no Ordinances yet is there some probability at least thus far in comparison there shall be such a presence of Christ there as therr shall not be that need of Ordinances In the tenth place There shall bee the addition of Martyrs and many of the Worthies of God that have lived in former Times shall rise againe If you read the 7th Revel. and 21th Revel. you cannot but be convinced of this That those that have suffered Martyrdome under Antichrist shall have the glory of that time and Daniel shall come up and stand in his lot and as he so many of the Worthies of God in former times and this shall add to the Glory of that time The eleventh is this There shall be most blessed Union of all the Churches of the World The envy of Ephraim and of Iudah shall be taken away Isaiah 11. There shall be one King and one Name Zach. 14.9 Wee all professe one Lord but give him divers Names but then there shall be one Lord and his name one Zeph. 3.9 They shall serve the Lord with one Consent with one Shoulder it is in the Originall And if you read that Chapter you may see what Reference it hath to a more glorious Time than the returning of the Iewes from the Captivity Dissentions in any one Congregation are evill and for one Church to dissent from another is a grievous evill Blessed will the Time be when all dissentions shall bee taken away and when there shall bee a perfect Union of all and not any distinction of Calvinists or Lutherans or the like but all shall come and serve God and be called by one Name The twelfth is the Resurrection of the Creatures of the World and so in that regard there shall be abundance of outward Glory and Prosperity That place in the 8th of the Romans The Creature groanes under the Burthen that it is in that it may be delivered into the Adoption of the Sonnes of God When the fulnesse of the glory of the Adoption of the Sonnes of God shall come the Creatures shall be delivered to them The whole World is purchased by Christ and purchased for the Saints that is Christs ayme All is yours sayes the Apostle the whole World and therefore Revel. 21.7 it is said The Saints shall inherit all things You see that the Saints have but little now in the World now they are the poorest and the meanest of all but then when the Adoption of the Sonnes of God shall come in the fulnesse of it the World shall be theirs for the World is purchased for them by Iesus Christ Not onely Heaven shall be your Kingdome but this World bodily And so that place 2 Pet. 3.10 where it is said The Heavens shall passe away with a great noise and the Elements shall melt with fervent Heat the Apostle speakes as if it were the Day of Judgement But there is one passage whereby we may gather that the Apostle onely meanes a mighty change that shall be before the day of Judgement verse 13. We according to his promise look for new Heavens and new Earth Where hath God promised a new Heaven and a new Earth I know no place in Scripture that I can referre this place unto but Isaiah 65.15 which is apparant to be meant of the Church Now the Apostle speakes of these Times when there shall be a mighty change in the World then shall be fulfilled that Promise There shall be new Heavens and a new Earth We can find no such promise but in Isaiah and that is meant of the Church and therefore it is probable the Apostle meanes that Lactantius sayes When the Thousand yeeres come the World shall bring forth Fruite alone and the Rocke shall distill Dew and no Creature shall live upon Prey the Dog shall not hunt the Child shall not be afraid of the Serpent making the place of Isaiah which we understand metaphorically to be understood literally Of the Wolfe and the Lambs living together and the Child playing upon the Hole of the Cockatrice And all the Prayers that ever we put up for the Church will be answered and the blessing of all will come upon the Churches Heere we have some degree of Blessing But the Blessing of all the prayers of the Prophets and Apostles will come upon it In Isay They were to cry to God and give him no rest till he made Ierusalem the praise of the whole World that is till God did bring this Time and Ierusalem hath not bin so lifted up All these prayers that have not given God rest all this while shall be answered and Ierusalem shall be advanced Lastly Those glorious Titles that the Church of God hath in the old Testament will be made up to the full and that is a Resultance from all the Former There are many glorious Titles of the Church of God in the old Testament Now the estate of the Church in the old Testament was but Typicall typifying the estate of the Gospel I shall name some of them and when those come to be fulfilled it will be glorious First the Lords Portion Deut. 32.9 Secondly his Pleasant Portion Ierem. 12.10 Thirdly his Inheritance Isaiah 19.25 All People are the Worke of his Hands But his Church is his Inheritance Fourthly the dearely Beloved of his Soule Ierem. 12.7 Fiftly Gods Treasure and Peculiar Treasure Exod. 19.5 Sixtly His Glory Isaiah 46.13 Seventhly The House of Gods glory Isaiah 60.7 Eightly A Crowne of Glory Isaiah 62.3 Ninthly A Royall Diademe in the same place Tenthly The glory of God Ierem. 3.17 Againe The Throne of his

Prophecies fulfilled and glorious Promises accomplished When you read the Prophets you have Prophecies of many glorious things And the knowledge of this truth will help to understand those Prophecies Revel. 2. It is said there was a Booke sealed shewed unto Iohn and none could open the Booke but the Lambe The Booke of the Prophecies Prophecies is a sealed Book and especially the booke of the Prophecies of the Revelatious But when the Lamb Christ shall come to reigne this shall be opened to us And therefore it is said the holy Apostles and Prophets should reioyce at the destruction of Antichrist because the Prophets should be so cleerely opened and understood by the People of God Revel. 22.6 These sayings are faithfull and true and the Lord God of the holy Prophets sent his Angell to shew unto his Servants the things which must shortly be done Why the Lord God of the holy Prophets That Lord God that did intend to make the holy Prophets cleere and evident Saies the woman of Samaria when the Messiah comes he shall teach us all things We may well say it of the comming of Christ heere the meaning of abundance of Prophecies and Promises that we know not what to make of shall be cleere before us Christ is called the word of God and is said to be faithfull and true because he wil discover the truth and faithfulnesse of the Promises And this will bee a glorious Time when the Prophecies shall be opened and the promises come to be fulfilled Fifthly Abundance of hidden Mysteries of Godlines will be cleered then that now are exceeding darke 4. Revel. Iohn did but see a Doore opened in Heaven But afterwards Revel. 19. he saw Heaven opened Noting the cleere revelation of Truth that shall be then And Revel. 11.19 There was seene the Arke of the Testament Whereas the Arke stood before in the Holy of Holies that was shut up that none was to come into it but the High Priest But now it is opened to all In the Arke where the Secrets a Type of the Secrets that shall be opened at this Time that were shut up before Glorious Truths shall be revealed and above all the Mystery of the Gospell and the righteousnesse of Faith shall bee discovered Before what a little of the Mystery of the Gospel and the righteousnesse of Faith was discouered but this will grow brighter and brighter till that time which is the great Designe of God for his Glory to all Eternitie Sixtly the gift of the Saints shall be abundantly raised He that is weake shall bee as David and he that is strong as the Angel of the Lord Zach. 12.8 and then shall be accomplished that Promise that GOD will powre his Spirit on them and their young men shall see visions and their old men shall dreame dreames It was fulfilled in part upon the Apostles but the full is not till that time knowledge shall be increased Seventhly the Graces of the Saints shall be wonderfully inlarged even in a manner glorified thoughuot so full as afterwards in the highest Heaven but mightily raised The Saints shall be all clothed in white linnen which is the righteousnesse of the Saints that is the Righteousnesse they have by Christ whereby they shall bee righteous before God and holy before Men HOLINES shall be written upon their Pots and upon their bridles upon every thing their Graces shall shine forth exceedingly to the glory of God Iohn saw a Vision of the Bride comming downe from Heaven with a Heavenly Glory fit to meet Christ her Bridegroome to stand in his presence and serve him day and night Yea further Religion shall bee honoured and no more be a disgrace God hath promised to his Church that hee will wipe away their Reproches for ever The People of God have been and are a despised People But their Reproach shall be for ever taken away and they shall not be ashamed of Religion for it shall be glorifyed before the Sonnes of men Therfore it is said Revel. 14. They shall have the Name of God upon their Foreheads openly to professe Religion A time shall come when ten men shall take hold on the skirt of a Iew and say We will go with thee Cant. 8.1 I will kisse thee yet should I not bee despised She would embrace Christ publikely and should not be despised It shall be so honourable as none shall be able to despise it There are notable Texts of Scripture to shew the great Honor that shall be in the wayes of Religion Isaiah 49.23 Kings shall be thy Nursing Fathers and Queenes thy Nursing Mothers they shall bow downe to thee and lick up the Dust of thy Feet What a high expression is this for the Honour of Godlinesse So in Isaiah 60. are a great many of notable expressions verse 13. I will make the place of my Feet glorious that is the Church There was a time when as the Feet of Christ were as burning Brasse to shew the suffering condition of the Church But now the Feet of Christ that is the Church shall be made glorious vers. 14. you have two notable Scriptures for this in the Prophesie of Zachary The first in the 4th of Zachary 16. They shall be as the Stone of a Crowne-lifted up They are now trampled upon as the stones of the street but they shall be as the Stones of a Crowne and not onely so but as the Stones of a Crowne lifted up The second place is in Zach. 12.5 The Governours of Iudah shall say in their hearts the Inhabitants of Ierusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of Hoasts their God Wee know that now in many places the Governours of Iudah the great ones of the Countrey their Spirits have beene set against the Saints of God Wee know what reprochfull names they have put upon them and how they have discountenanced them Though the Governours of Iudah have counted them factious and Schismaticks and Puritanes there is a Time comming when the Governours of Judah shall bee convinced of the Excellency of Gods people so convinced as to say in their hearts that the Inhabitants of Ierusalem that is the Saints of God gathered together in a Church are the best Common-wealths men not seditious men not factious not disturbers of the State but they are our strength in the Lord of Hosts they are the strength of a Kingdome and shall be countenanced by them as the strength of a Kingdome as those that will bee most usefull in a Kingdome This will bee a blessed time when as wicked men and wickednes shall bee despised and Godlinesse as honourable as ever it was contemptible this shall bee when the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth in his Church And through Gods mercy wee see light peeping out this way That the Governours of Iudah are saying The Inhabitants of Ierusalem shall be our strength Religion shall be honoured in the World one day and not only at the day of Iudgement but here In the ninth place the