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A39212 The great day at the dore and he cometh with clouds that shall judge the quick and the dead, and reigne on the earth with all his saints, not for a thousand yeares in this corrupt and sinfull world, as some coruptly conceive and teach, nay, but for a thousand and a thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand thousands of yeares, even for ever and ever, eternally in the world to come ... proved clearly by the word of God ... Eachard, John, 17th cent. 1648 (1648) Wing E49; ESTC R149 28,197 34

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them that are sleep as to receive a●y glory before them but the d●ad in Christ shall ri●e first and th●● they that are alive shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord c. as in ver. 17. he declareth And so they would understand him 1 Cor. 15. The first fruits is Christ then afterwards they that are Christs at his coming to intend a resurrection of those that are not Christs a thousand years after as Christ the first f●ui●s was a thousand years and more before whereas the words spoken there conc●rn● not them at all they are not fruits neither is death to be counted an enemy in respect of them but of those that are Christs unto whom death will then be swallowed up in victory although they shall then bee raised also as Christ saith The houre is coming wherein all that are in the grave● shall heare his voyce and shall come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evill unto the resurrection of condemnation Iohn 5. The h●●re cometh saith he he saith not the day nor the thousand yeares but the houre for no doubt in the same houre that the Lords voyce goeth forth it shall be done The Trumpet shall sound the d●ad shall be raised and we shall be changed in ● moment But there is yet one thing more which hath been a long time held as an Article of faith that notonely at first drew them o● to the opinion but doth still hold them fast to it the thing is this That Christ at the end of the world after the generall resurrection and judgement shall ascend with all his Saints into heaven and there remain and dwell for ever and the creation of the Heavens and the Earth passe away and be no more as is commonly beleeved by the multitude and they judge to be true which if it be then of necessity the glorious Kingdome of Christ with his Saints so much spoken of in Scripture to he on earth and not yet fulfilled must be before the end of the world and then at the end thereof cease as they say The Scriptures they alledge for proofe are Iohn 14. 2 3. 2 Cor. 5. 1. 1 Pet. 3. 4 5 6. Heb. 6. 19 20. 1 Thess. 4. 17. This likewise I request ye to consider not so much the common opinion of the multitude or judgement of the Millinaries which proves nothing as the Scriptures they alledge for their opinions which ought duly to bee weighed And first the words of Christ In my Fathers House are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I goe to prepare a place for you and if I goe and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto my selfe that where I am there ye may be also Christ doth not say nor mean here that he would goe and prepare his Fathers house or the many mansions that are therein for them as some think but a place as he saith which no doubt is that whereof God spake before unto David saying Also I will prepare a place for my people Israel and will plant them and they shall dwell in their place and shall be m●v●d no more c. 1 Chron. 17. 9. Where he promised likewise to establish the Kingdome and Throne of Christ for evermore vers. 11 12 13 14. Neither doth Christ say I will come again and receive you up into heaven to the Throne of God from whence I shall come but unto my selfe that where I am there ye may be also And Christ is then to be in his Kingdome which the Father hath appointed unto him in the world to come where all things shall be in subjection unto him when there shall be new heavens and a new earth as the Prophet Esay testifieth and Peter also and as Iohn foresaw with the new Ierusalem coming down from God out of Heaven even that heavenly Countrey and Citie having foundations which all the holy Fathers thers looked for And this is the place which Christ went to prepare for them and for all their children and wherein when he cometh and receiveth them unto himselfe they shall be with him and he will be with them and God himselfe also and will dwell with them and they shall be his people and he will be their God as he hath said Rev. 21. And concerning the words of Paul 2 Cor. 5. 1. For we know that if our earthly House of this Tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God an House not made with hands eternall in the Heavens Here the Apostle speaketh of our bodies which hee calleth 〈◊〉 earthly House of this Tabernacle and before chap. 4. our outward man if this be dissolved we have a building of God c. By which he declareth plainly that as wee beleeve the resurrection of our bodies at the last day so we are to know they shall not be then earthly naturall vile corrupt mortall weak dishonorable without glory as now they are but they both the dead that are risen and the living being changed shall be heavenly spirituall incorruptible immortall powerfull honorable glorious for so he had testified before 1 Cor. 15. And in another place again saying For our conversation is in heaven from whence we look for the Saviour the Lord Lord Iesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body c. Phil. 3. 20 21. And that this building of God or House is not temporall or fading but eternall and not lying now in the grave nor being anywhere now in earth in respect of this glorious change of cloathing but in Heaven from whence it is to come as he saith v. 2. For in this we groan earnestly desiring to be cloathed upon with our House which is from Heaven c. And he calleth it a building of God an house not made with hands as having respect unto the day of the Lord that great day of the generall assembly of them all his first born so cloathed and adorned when they shall manifestly appeare to be that true and heavenly Tabernacle spoken of Heb. 8. 2. and 9. 11. that holy Citie the New Ierusalem which Iohn saw coming downe from God ou● of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband such a glorious change shal there be of the bodies of the Saints at the resurrection And as touching the words of Peter Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in Heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time this inheritance incorruptible c. is the same spoken of before reserved in heaven ready to be revealed from thence