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A91363	A little cabinet richly stored with all sorts of heavenly varieties, and soul-reviving influences. Wherein there is a remedy for every malady, viz. milk for babes, and meat for strong men, and the ready way for both to obtain and retain assurance of salvation: being an abridgement of the sum and substance of the true Christian religion; wherein the cause of our salvation, the way, the guide, the rule, the evidence, the seals, &c. and the connection of these points together, and dependancy of them one upon another: this I have endeavoured to do orderly, exactly, methodically, with much plainness and clearness. / By Robert Purnell.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.	1657 (1657)	Wing P4237; Thomason E1575_1; ESTC R209217	254,040	517

dwelleth Righteousness beholding and being filled with the fruition of the glorious presence of God and of the Lamb Jesus Christ in the company of innumerabl Angels and Saints 1 Cor 13. 10. Psal 16. 11. Rev. 3. 21. 2 Pet. 3. 13. Psal 17. 15. 1 Tim. 4. 17. Heb. 12. 22. O what variety of joyes may be considered in the glorification of man in the delights of heavenly mansions and in the blessed society of the Saints but chiefly in the beholding of God the body glorified the soul shall be far more prefect then it was in the state of innocency for in it shall be understanding without error light without darkness wisdom without ignorance reason without obscurity the Lord shall in the sight and hearing of all world pronounce unto his servants Matthew 25. 34. Come ye blessed of my father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world 1. Come ye here is our union and communion with the Trinity 2. Blessed here is our absolution from all sins and our endowments with all happiness 3. Of my father here is the Author from whom proceeds our felicity 4. Inherit here is faith ending in fruition and the promises in possession 5. The Kingdom behold our birth right according to grace 2 Tim. 1. 9. 6. Prepared See Gods fatherly care for his chosen John 14. 2. 7. From the foundation of the world O the free and eternal love of God in Christ having made this introduction let me crave leave of thee reader to speak more particularly of the most glorious state of a Christian in heaven after the sentence of absolution at the last day of judgement and to this point I shall rather lisp then speak being not able to conceive much less to describe that most excellent bliss and eternal wait of glory but we may take a scantling thereof thus the Lord in his word doth set forth to our capacity the glory of our eternal life after death in eight things 1. Their bodies shall shine as the brightness of the Sun 2. The soul shall be far more perfect then it was in the state of innocency 3. Consider the place where we shall be and that is in the third heaven 4. Consider whose presence we shall enjoy Father Son and and holy Spirit Saints and Angels c. 5. In this s●ate we shall know one another 6. In this state we shall speak one to another 7. Consider the variety of joy that there shall be in heaven 8. Consider the duration and continuance of this blessed state 1. Their bodies shall shine as the brightness of the Sun in the firmament like the glorious body of Christ The Glory of a thousand Suns made into one will be but as sack-cloath to that wherein Christ shall appear in mans nature he being in the Glory of his Father Mat 16. 27. And we shall be like him 1 John 3. 2. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their father as appears in this Scripture Mat. 13. 43. 2. The soul shall be far more perfect then it was in the state of innocency sor in it shall be understanding without errour Light without darkness wisdom without Ignorance reason without obscurity memory without oblivion the Will also shall be without perversness joy without sorrow pleasure without pain In the slate of innocency there was in man a possibility not to Sin but in the state of Glory there shall be no possibility to sin In a word both body and soul in heaven shall be in such a blessed state that neither our tongue can express it nor our mind conceive it The soul shall be more happy in being present with Jesus Christ in heaven then if it had been present with Adam in the state of innocency Adam was instated only in an earthly paradise but now thou being with Christ art instated in an everlasting Kingdom Again Adam though pleased in a state of innocency yet he was liable to lose that blessed slate and did lose it though he were a perfect creature but by Christ we are instated in a Kingdom that cannot be shaken or lost Again When Adam was made by God in innocency he enjoyed only the society of beasts on the earth and birds of the air but when Christ brings a soul to heaven God the Father Son and holy Ghost Angels and Saints shall be his companions 3. Consider the place where the Saints shall be after the Judgement and that is in the third heaven we read of Saints departed that they see the face of God They that are in the third heaven are in the presence of God the Saints departed are in the third heaven they are in paradise Luke 23. 43. which is the third heaven 2 Cor. 12. 2 4. The place of the blessed is usually known by the name of the third heaven the third heaven is a shining body created immediately of God the throne of his special presence and of the gracious manifestation of his perfections and the habitation of the blessed both Angels and men The whole Region of the air unto the Moon is in Scripture called the first heaven from the Moon to the highest stars inclusively the second heav●n That which is above these the place of happiness is the thi●d heaven 2 Cor. 12. 2. This third heaven is called a house not made with hands 2 Cor. 5 A City whose mak●r and builder is God Heb. 11. 10. The City of the living God H●b 12. 22. This is Ch●ists fathers house John 14. 2. Paradise Luke 23 43. Heaven the Heaven of Heavens 1 Kin. 8. 27. The wo●ld 〈◊〉 this is the great City of the g●eat King he measured with the reed twelve thousand ●urlo●gs the length and the bredth and the height of it are equal Rev. 21. 16. It is the Court of God and Christ wherein are habitations for in numerable company of Saints and Angels John 14. 2. Heb. 12. 22 23 24. This heaven of heavens hath twelve foundations Rev. 21. 14. The matter of the building of the wall of it was of Jasper and the City was pure gold like unto clear glass Rev. 21. 18. the form four square ver 16. Twelve thousand furlongs that is fifteen hundred English miles square the gates are in number twelve made of twelve pearls every several gate was of one pearl ver 21. Situate East West North and South three looking every way ver 13. Having ingraven upon them the names of the twelve Tribes of Israel and twelve Angels for the keepers of them the streets are of pure gold ver 21. It s Temple is God and the Lamb its Light the glory of God and the Lamb its Inhabitants are the Lords people ver 24. It s water a pure river of Life Chap. 22. 1. Its fruits are the fruits of the tree of Life ver 2. In a word there is no place so glorious by creation so beautiful with delectation so rich in possession so comfortable for habitation

Christ and thou shalt be saved Now might not the Jaylor have replyed as many do now in our daies and say I can as well make a world work miracles overturn mountains as believe by mine own power therefore Paul and Silas why bid ye me believe To this I answer though it be true that every commard of God is alike difficult to flesh and blood that a man can indeed as well make a world as make a prayer aright a man may as well subdue an army of men as subdue one lust did not the Lord convey a power into the soul together with the command viz. If God command a man to believe and gives him power to believe the work will soon be done Ezek. 36. The Lord commands to make a new heart now a man is no more able to make a new heart then to make a new world therefore as we said before he promiseth in the same place to give a new heart and in another place it is said mortifie your lusts now this a man cannot do of himself but the same God that commands us to kill our lusts will kill them for us Micah 7. 18 19. He will subdue our iniquities and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depth of the Sea Again God commands us to repen● but we are no more able to repent or to shed one tear for sin then a rock is to give out water or we are no more able to repent then to turn the stream or to make a slint flesh till the Lord give us a repenting heart he hath promised to give repentance to his people So that the commands in Scripture doth not shew what the creature can do but what he should do yet not by our own natural power but by his assisting grace to enable us to do what of our selves we cannot do therefore we should pray with Saint Augustine Lord give what thou commandest and then command what thou pleasest To draw towards a conclusion to this point let me acquaint the Reader of what I have observed amongst all sorts of men with whom I have more or less conversed viz. First the Papist both in their writings and discourses cry up and press all people to be doing good works The Arminian his cosen Jerman pleads for the same and that almost if not altogether from the same principle to the same end the new upstart Quakers fals in and closeth with these old errors pressing people to do the thing that is commanded but not as it is commanded so many of our brethren of the Presbyterian party being in and under a spirit of bondage themselves preach the Law before the Gospel and put their hearers to act for life but not from life So also our brethren of the Independant party and those of the Baptist party many of them to my own knowledge do more mind the things they do for God in way of obedience to his commands then they do the principle from which the rule by which and the end to which they do it and when they have done it even these also are apt to lay too great a stress upon it So then the Papist freewiller Quaker Presbyterian Independant Baptist all these preach teach and cry out to all their hearers for a holy conversation nay to come a little nearer home the word of God cals upon us for it our own consciences call for it and check us for our remissness therein nay the Christians with whom we converse expect it from us what remains then but that we be found in the practices of it but let us beware we rest not upon it for as we are not to conclude our justification from any effects of sanctification so we are not to conclude that apprehension of justification to be from God which takes us off the means waies and rules of sanctification the Ranters error springs up in them for want of this distinction In a word to say no more duty is the matter of promise as well as Gods mercy as doth most clearly appear by these Scriptures 1 Cor. 2. 12. Ephes 2. 8. Phil. 1. 29. Acts 5. 31. Joh. 8. 32. And our holy conversation is not the cause of our salvation but the effect neither do I hold that there is any free will in man neither do I believe that any man hath or ever since the fall had any will or power of himself without God to do any thing that is good for in him as the Scripture saith we live move and have our being so that in through and by God and Christ we may do all things for he is a Sun and a shield and will give grace and glory and no good thing will he withhold from them that wait on him Psal 84. 11. Yet God hath given all men enough to leave them without excuse what man is there that knoweth not that if he make use of all the opportunities will power and understanding that God hath given him but he may avoid more evil and do more good then he hath done or doth now do Of Justification and Sanctification how they differ and wherein they agree GOD in Justification imputeth the righteousness of Christ to us in Sanctification his Spirit infuseth grace in us In Justification we read sin pardoned in Sanctification we read sin subdued the one doth free all Believers from the warth of God that they never fall into a state of condemnation the other neither equal in all nor in this life perfect in any but going on and growing up to perfection Again Justification and Sanctification differ thus to wit Justification is the imputing of anothers justice to us to wit Christ Sanctification is the impression of Justice that it may be in us In Justification there is satisfaction of Christ In Sanctification there is the obedience of a Christian Justification is a perfect and absolute undivided act at once Sanctification is a work begun not equal in all but carried on in all by degrees Justification is first Sanctification afterwards consisting in separation from sin filthiness and common pollution Justification and Sanctification are two inseparable companions where one doth dwell the other will lodge and as Election is the proper work of the Father as Eph. 1. 3 4. Redemption of the Son 1 John 2. 1 2. So Sanctification is the proper work of the Holy-Ghost 1 Cor. 6. 11. Now there are four things considerable to shew us wherein we are to keep our Justification and Sanctification distinct the one from the other 1. We are to keep Justification and Sanctification distinct in respect of the subject and matter of this which is not any thing in us or done by us but the personal and spotless righteousness of Jesus Christ made over to us 1 Cor. 1. 30. 2. It is our duty to keep up our Iustification distinct although it be not accompanied with Sanctification although there be failings in us the Prodigal in Luke 15. came and confessed his sin as a

with his lips Psalm 106. 33. and so his meekness was tryed to the highest Again to instance one more for all if Paul have a greater revelation then the other Apostles he must have a thorn in the flesh even the messenger of Satan to buffet him so the woman Mat. 15. 22. to the 28. She had a strong faith that Christ was able to help her daughter and the mercy she desired was but external to wit crums now Christ did try the truth and strength of this faith in a threefold seeming denyal but in all tryals the Lord doth proportion them according to the strength of those that he doth afflict See 1 Cor. 10. 13. The Lords people have divers corruptions and so do need divers corrections How to know what sin God aims at in affliction THE Lord saith in his word hear the voice of the rod Micah 6. 9. which if we did heedfully observe we might find out the sin that God ayms at in the affliction 1. When we find in Scripture that such and such a punishment is denounced against such and such a sin we may find by the effect the proper cause pride with dejection and contempt whoredom with barrenness idleness with poverty worldly sorrow with death 2. Consider if thou wouldst find out the sin God afflicts thee for consider God doth punish thee by way of retaliation like for like as when we have dishonored God he doth cast dishonour upon us and having wronged our inferiours our superiors wrong us or if we lavish our tongues against others we are paid home with the scourge of tongues thus David was justly dealt with 2 Sam. 12 10 11. 3. When we are taken in the very act of sinning so Jon. 1. 12. flying was followed with a tempest and the I sraelites murmuring for flesh were punished by God whilst it was between their teeth Numb 11. 33. 4. When our sin in its own nature bringeth forth such a punishment so a lazy Christian doth always want four things comfort and content confidence and assurance Idleness in natural things brings forth beggery and want drunkenness begets dropsies and surreits so the sin of uncleanness brings forth weakness and filthy diseases so immoderate carking is attended with consumptions 5. If thou wouldst know the sin that brought these afflictions on thee observe what thy conscience doth most check thee for Josephs brethren in their troubles calls to mind their cruelty to their troubles calls to mind their cruelty to their brother Joseph which was indeed the cause of their cross Gen. 42. 21. When a man may be said to suffer for well-dong and when for evil doing FIrst for well-doing 1. That man that doth suffer for well-doing in the account of God according to his word his person must be holy he or she must be in the main godly 2. The cause that they suffer for must be good it must be for righteousness sake viz. either for his believing in Christ pleading for him or practizing of his commandments and so his affliction will be better then the prosperity of the wicked Psalm 37. 15. They shall have more comfort in scantness obscurity then wicked men have in plenty credit and great felicity 2 Cor. 4. 8 9. We are troubled on every side yet not distressed we are perplexed but not in despair persecuted but not forsaken cast down but not destroyed 3. He that doth suffer for well-doing he must suffer in a right manner first humbly secondly patiently and meekly thirdly cheerfully fourthly he that doth suffer for Christ must have good ends c. 1. He must suffer humbly we read of Christ whose footsteps we ought to follow that he was led as a lamb to the slaughter he opened not his mouth 2. As he did suffer humbly so he did suffer patiently 3. He did suffer cheerfully 4. He did not revile again when he was reviled when he was threatned he did not threaten again 4. He that doth suffer for Christ must have good ends in his suffering viz. 1. To bare witness to some truth of Christ contained in the Scriptures 2. To bare witness for the name and glory of God 1 Pet. 4. 13. But when a man doth that which is evil and doth suffer for it this is not thank-worthy with God See these Scriptures 1 Pet. 2. 20. 1 Pet. 4. 15 19. Many men that suffer and glory therein suffer only for their faults and are in no wise acceptable to God The Lord is many times better then his word never worse THE Lord promised to Israel only the Land of Canaan but besides that he gave them two better Kingdoms Numb 32. 33. Solomon did only pray for wisdom and the Lord gave him more wisdom then he asked and riches and honour to boot 1 King 3. 11 12. Jacob told the Lord that if he would give him raiment to put on and bread to eat God should be his God and the Lord gave him that and ten times more Gon 28. 19. compared with Gen. 32. 10 For with my staff I passed ●ver this Jordan and now I am become two bands Gen. 33. 4 5 6. So again 1 Sam. 1. Hannah begged a son and the Lord gave her a Son and a Prophet too she desired a single mercy and the Lord gave her a double mercy Gen. 17. Abraham and said O that Ishmael might live before thee the Lord granted that and gave him an Isaac to boot ver 19. Mat. 15. 22. to the 28. The woman of Canaan did only beg of Christ the life of her daughter and Christ gave her that and said moreover be it unto thee even as thou wilt Again we read Ephes 3. 20. That he is able to do exceedingly above all that we can ask or think these words are so full that they can hardly be exprest So again sometimes we only ask temporal mercies and he gives us both temporal and spiritual mercies Sometimes a soul doth beg only support under temptations and the Lord doth give that and more to wit a deliverance out of temptation So again we find Mat. 18. 23. to the 27. That the Lord gave him more then he desired he desired but dayes of paiment and the Lord forgave him the whole debt So again Act. 3. 2 3. The cripple did only ask of Peter and John an alms and they gave him a mercy more worth to him then the whole world they cured him of his lameness Mercies and deliverances are many times nearest to us when we think they be furthest off WE read Act. 27. 20. When all hopes of being saved was taken away then Paul stood up and told them from the Lord that there should not be so much as the loss of any mans life amongst them So Luk 24. 15. When two of the Disciples were walking together and were sad about the death of Christ Christ risen from the dead talked with them and they knew it not Gen. 21. 16. to the 19. we read that Hagar was weeping for her son

impartiality of his justice c. by all which it doth appear most certain that Christ will come Psalm 50. 3. Luke 21. 27. Mat. 25. 31. Mat. 24. 30. Jude 14 15. 2 Cor 5. 10. 2 Pet. 3. 2. That day is very near although no man knows the time of Christs coming exactly in respect of the day and hour yet there are signs set down by Christ and his Apostles shewing that that day is not far off and further it doth plainly appear it is near yea very near by these demonstrations 1. By the fulfilling of prophesies 2. By the appearances of providences 1. By the fulfilling of prophesies viz. We have seen the Father against the son and the son against the father and the mother against the daughter and the daughter against the mother wars and rumors of wars and a great falling away and perillous times as earth-quakes many false prophets and Doctrine of Devils and some coming in the name of Christ saying I am he the unbelief that is in most and that state of security and falling from the truth once professed and the revealing of the man of sin 2 Thess 2. 1 2. These and the like are clear testimonies that the day of the Lord is at hand 2. This day is near as appears by the appearance of providences as it was in the dayes of Noah and as it fell out in the dayes Lot c. 1 Thes 5. 3. When they shall say peace and safety then suddain destruction cometh upon them 2 Tim. 3. 1 5. This know that in the last dayes perillous times shall come for men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy without natural affection truth-breakers false accusers fierce despisers of those that are good c. Surely these things do now abound by which we know the day is near the Lord hath promised to avenge his people speedily Luk. 18. 5. Zeph. 1. 14. The great day of the Lord is near is near Isa 13. 6. Howl ye for the great day of the Lord is at hand Joel 1. 15. For the day of the Lord is at hand Joel 2. 1. For the day of the Lord is come for it is nigh at hand Heb. 10. 37. Yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry Object But that day and hour knoweth no man Answ Men may guess at the time and not miss much for all that for instance did not Moses through faith see the redemption of the first captivity Daniel of the second and Abraham the day of Christ and the spouse her beloved coming skiping upon the mountains and a few in Israel were found waiting for their redemption doth not the foot-steps of Christs coming begin to appear The manner of his coming THe Lord Jesus will certainly and surely like a Soveraign like a King in Majesty triumphing in much glory attended with the Arch-Angel and all the host of heaven the trumpet will be sounding the world burning the earth shaking mens hearts failing Psal 46. 6. And then the Lord will roar out of Sion and utter his voice from Jerusalem and the heavens and earth shall shake Joel 3. 16. A fire stream came forth from before him thousands ministred unto him Dan. 7. 10. And ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him this day of the Lord is great and terrible who can abide it the sight of Christs presence shall be doubtless an incredible brightness and majesty in which he shall appear for he shall come in the clouds of heaven Mat. 26. 64. with incredible glory Mat. 25. 31. accompanied with the whole Army of his Angels as before and with a great shout and voice of the Arch-Angel 1 Thes 4. 16. And by reason of his brightness the Sun and the Moon shall be darkned as lesser lights by the greater and stars shall fall from heaven that is they shall seem as it were to fall and the powers of heaven shall be shaken Mat. 24. 29. Mat. 13. 24. Yea at his sight heaven and earth shall fly away Rev. 20. 11. There shall not be a destruction of the nature of the Sun Moon and Stars as some say for the Scripture doth speak of a new heaven and new earth old renewed and so at Christs second coming he shall renew all things See Ezek. 32. 6 7. Act. 3. Rom. 8. he shall come in the glory of his Father Mat. 16. 27. with power and great glory Mat. 24. 30. the glory of a thousand Suns made into one will be but as sackcloth to that wherein Christ shall appear in mans nature the wicked shall be punished with everlasting destruction from his presence and the glory of his power 2 Thes 1. 9. and when his glory shall be revealed the Saints shall be glad with exceeding joy 1 Pet. 4. 13. The signs of Christs coming ALthough no man knows the time of Christs coming exactly in respect of the day and hour yet there are signs set down by Christ and his Apostles shewing that that day is not far off what extream security and impiety false prophesie false Christs pestilence famine earth-quakes treacheries want of faith and charity have not these things already abounded Mat. 24. 32 33. When ye see these things the end is near 1 Thes 5. 1 2 Concerning the times and seasons brethren it is not needfull that I write unto you for you your selves know well that that day of the Lord will come as a thief in th● night therefore learn a parable of the fig-tree when its branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves ye know that summer is nigh so likewise ye when ye shall see all these things come to pass know that it is near ev●n at the door Christ shall come visibly VVE read Mat. 24. 64. hereafter shall you see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory Rev. 1. 7. Behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him the damned shall see him to their amazement and the godly shall him to their joy and consolation Rev. 22. 4. They shall see his face and his name shall be in their for●heads Acts 1. 11. This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven that is Christ going up into heaven was visible so Christs coming out of heaven shall be visible Matthew 26. 64. The posture a Christian should be in at his coming BE ye also ready for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man cometh hold out faith and patience but a little and he that shall come will come and will not tarry Mat. 24. 44. Luke 12. 35 Let your loyns be girt about and your lamps burning and you your selves looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Tit. 2. 13. Be ye

now lye hid shall then be made known Luke 18. 17. and 12. 2. there is nothing covered that shall not then be revealed 1 Cor. 4. 5. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness Matthew 24. 30. Then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and mens hearts fail for fear and for looking after those things that are coming on the earth Joel 3. 16. the Lord also shall roar out of Sion and utter his voice from Jerusalem and the heavens and the earth shall shake but the Lord will be the hope of his people Christ shall come terribly and yet seasonably THe day of the Lord is great and terrible who can abide it Joel 2. 11. There hath not been ever the like neither shall there be Joel 2. 2. there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since the creation Dan. 12. 1. Then shall be great tribulation such as was not from the beginning to this day Matthew 24. 21 22. A fire stream shall come forth before him and ten thousands shall be ministring unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand shall stand before him and the judgement shall be set and the books opened See Dan. 7. 10. Jude 14. Yet this coming will be seasonable to all that have an interest in him and did look for him and hasten to his coming and love his appearing for now they shall be like him 1 John 3. 2. Isa 25. 9. and Isa 2. 3 4. Rev. 21. 4. There be four things that Christ hath already done for his flock and five things he is now doing and six things more he will finish when he comes THere are four things that he hath already done viz. 1. He hath taken our nature upon him Heb. 2. 16. 2. He hath taken our sins upon him Isaiah 53. 6. 3. He hath taken the curse due to us upon himsef Gal. 3. 13. 4. He hath fully satisfied Divine justice for us Isa 53. 11. Then there are five things that he is now doing for us viz. 1. He is at the right hand of the Father making interceslion for us Heb. 7. 25. 2. He is teaching us as a Prophet and preserving us as a King and healing us as a Physitian and feeding us as a Shepheard c. 3. He is preparing for the destroying of Antichrist 2 Thes 2. 8. 4. He is making good his promise in pouring out his Spirit 5. He is turning our disunion into union Zeph. 3. 9. Then there be six things more that he will do for us when he comes 1. He will unvail himself and every eye shall see him Rev. 1. 7. 2. He will gather his spiritual Kingdom Psal 50. 5. 3. He will establish his Kingdom on the top of all kingdoms Isa 2. 2. 4. He will restore our judges as at the first and counsellors as at the beginning Isa 1. 26 5. He will make his enemies his footstool Psalm 110. 1. 6. He will make his people the head and not the tail Deut. 28. 13. Dan. 7. 27. Many more things hath Christ done for us many more he is doing and many more will he do when he comes Let the reader take notice these that I have named are but a taste Of the resurrection of the dead at the second coming of Christ THough the resurrection of the dead is above nature and mans corrupt reason yet it is neither against nature noragainst right reason the Scripture proves the resurrection of the dead by many testimonies examples types and reasons c. 1. The resurrection is proved by testimonies Job 19. 25 26. Dan. 12. 2. Hos 13. 14. Mat. 22. 31. and 27. 52. John 5. 28 29. Phil. 3. 21. 1 Thes 4. 2. By example of those that were raised 1 King 17. 22. 2 King 4. 34. 2 King 13. 21. Matthew 9. 25. and 27. 52 53. Luke 7. 14. John 11. 11. Acts. 9. 40. and 20. 10. 3. By types as Aarons rod budding Numb 17. Of the Jews returning from Babylon Ezek. 37. but chiefly of Enoch and Elias Gen. 5. and 2. Kin. 2. 4. This resurrection is also proved by reasons drawn first from the Covenant of God which is not broken by death Mat. 22. 30. But the chief reason is drawn from Christ who is not only the type and example of our resurrection but the beginning also thereof For the Life of the body the Church is from the head There is a first and a second Resurrection 1. THe first Resurrection as most do affirm is a Resurrection from the death of sin to the Life of Righteousness this is a Revocation from a state of death to a state of Life 2. There is a resurrection of the same body that man had in this life Iob 19. 26. The form of this resurrection consisteth in the re-union of body and soul and restoring of the de●d to Life and in the suddain change of those that remain upon the earth at his coming c. This resurrection is either of the godly or of the wicked There is a Resurrection to Life and another to condemnation John 5. 29. 1. Of the godly they shall be first raised and then freed not only from corruption and bodily defects but shall be crowned also with Glory 1 Thess 4. 16. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the Arch-Angel and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first Agreeable to this Text is that in Rev. 20. 4 5. I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God which had not worshipped the beast nor his Image neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands and they lived and raigned with Christ a thousand years Ver. 5. But the rest of the dead lived not again untill the thousand years were finished this is the first resurrection blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection on such the second Death hath no power the Apostle Paul speaks to the same thing 1 Cor. 15. 23. But every man in his own order Christ the first fruits afterwards they that are Christs at his Coming 1 Thess 4. 14. For if we believe that Jesus dyed and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him 1 Cor. 15. 42 43 44. It is sown in corruption it is raysed in incorruption it is sown in dishonour it is raised in Glory it is sown in weakness it is raised in power it is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body ver 49. As we have born the Image of the earthly we shall also bear the Image of the Heavenly Adam The bodies of the Elect being thus first raised they shall have most excellent and supernatural qualities I will instance in four 1. As before they shall be raised in power whereby they shall be freed from all wants and weakness and enabled to continue without the use of meat and drink

sleep and other former helps 2. They shall be raised as before in incorruption whereby they shall never be subject to any manner of imperfection blemish sickness or death 3. In Glory whereby their bodies shall shine as bright as the Sun in the firmament Three glimpses of which Glory were seen first in Moses face secondly in the transfiguration thirdly in Stephens countenance Three instances and assurances of the Glorification of our bodies at that glorious day see Exod. 34. 27. Mat. 17. 2 3 4. Acts 6. 15. 4. In agility whereby our bodies shall be like Angels free from these shakles of clay and so move from heaven to earth and from earth to heaven even as swiftly as can our very thoughts they shall saith the Prophet renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as Aeagles they shall run and not be weary they shal walk and not faint Now if any ask how long it shall be after this first resurrection before the rest of the dead shall rise then I answer we find it recorded Rev. 20. 5. But the rest of the dead lived not untill the thousand years were finished I dare not expound this text for want of Light Now as we read of a first and second resurrection so we read of a first and last Judgement or of a particular and general Judgement Viz. Every man in particular appears before the Judgement after the hour of his death Heb. 9 27. But fully and generally upon all men after the second coming of Christ Act. 17. 31. The death of every one severally goeth immediately before the particular Judgement so the general resurrection of all goeth before the final judgement which shall be at the last day but there shall be a great distance of time between the resurrection of the Elect and the reprobate So there shall be a great difference between the resurrection of the one and of the other c. Viz. 1. The Elect shall be raised as members of the body of Christ by vertue derived from his resurrection the reprobate as malefactors shall be brought forth of the prison of the grave by vertue of the Justice of God 2. The Elect shall come forth to everlasting life which is called the resurrection of life The reprobate to shame and perpetual contempt called the resurrection of Condemnation 3. The bodies of the Elect shall be spiritual that is glorious powerful nimble Phil. 3. 21. But the bodies of the Reprobates shall be full of uncomeliness and horror and lyable to extream torment Of the Reign of Christ or kidgdom of Christ in this world though not of this world AS to this point I cannot write as to the former but under correction and with submission to better Judgements I crave leave to present mine and then let me tell the Reader I have seriously read once and again over and over all that I have heard of and met with both for the personal Reign and also against the personal Reign of Christ and searched the Scriptures and debated and reasoned with Christians many times for many moneths and I cannot yea I dare not positively affirm any such thing nor totally in any sense warily understood deny it For the Scriptures seem to point at such a thing although I do not find it so fully confirmed as many people of note pretend it doth so then although I dare not say the Kingdom of Christ is of this world yet I dare not deny but his Kingdom in a sense may be in this world Though I cannot affirm that he shall Reign personally on earth a thousand years yet I have some ground to affirm that he shall Reign spiritually a●d have a spiritual Kingdom for a season or else what means that Scripture Rev. 11. 15. And the seventh Angel sounded and there were great voices in heaven saying the Kingdoms of this world are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign Doth not this Scripture point to the same thing Dan. 7. 27. And the Kingdom and Dominion and the greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heavens shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most high and all Nations shall serve and obey them Doth not the Prophet Isaiah speak to the same thing Isal 2. 2 3. And it shall come to pass in the last daies that the mountain of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hils and all Nations shall flow unto it for out of Sion shall go forth the Law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem Isai 1. 26. And I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellors as at the beginning Jer. 3. 15. And I will give you Pastors according to mine heart which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the Light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be seven-fold Isai 11. 6. Then shall the Wolf dwell with the Lamb and the Leopard shall lie down with the Kid c. Vers 7. And the Cow and the Bear shall feed their young and the Lion shall eat straw like the Ox. ver 9. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the Knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea Jer. 32. 39. And I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me for ever Zech. 14. 9. Then the Lord shall be one and his name one Zeph. 3. 9. For then will I turn to the people a pure language that they may all call upon the Lord to serve him with one consent Act. 3. 19. Is not this the times of refreshing that shall from the presence of the Lord Acts 3. 21. Is not this the time of restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his Prophets since the world began Compare this with Acts 19. 21. and Rom. 8. 19 20 21 22. Shall not the Jews be converted and imbrace the Gospel and the fulness of the Gentiles come in Rom. 11. 12. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles How much more their fulness ver 15. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world What shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead ver 26. And so all Israel shall be saved as it is written there shall come out of Sion the Deliverer and he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob Isa 35. 6 7. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb shall sing for in the wilderness shall waters break forth and streams in the desart and the parched ground shall become a pool and the thirsty land springs of water Deut. 28. 13. Dan. 7. 27. Then the Lord shall make his people the head and not the tail Zeph. 3.

19 20. Behold at that time I will undo all that afflict thee and will save her that halteth and will get them a praise and a fame in every land where they have been put to shame for I will make you a name and a praise unto all people of the earth when I turn back your captivity before your eyes saith the Lord. Hold out faith and patience but a little and he that shall come will come and will not tarry but bring his Reward with him and so bring about a swifter a fuller and a more universal happiness then any could imagine Before Sion travelled she brought forth and at even-tide it shall be Light Zach. 14. 6. Oh who would but Love the appearing of Christ in spirit and look for and hasten to the coming of this day of Restitution Let our note become O why are his chariots so long in coming the sweeter the enjoyment the stronger should be the desires Oh that the day should be so great and our desires so small the spouse doth desire the day of her marriage the prisoner his liberty the malefactor his pardon the Labourer his rest and Heir his inheritance an Apprentice his freedom the Marriner his port and shall not we live in a continual expectation of that day which removes every sorrow and supplies with every comfort In a word this day will be a clearing from all undue imputations Now a Christian is sometimes called Dissembler Anabaptist Separate Hyppocrite and what not But he may say when Christ doth appear his Innocency shall appear too all slanders and defamations shall fall off from the Saints and their very enemies shall be fain to confess that these people whom they have hated are those whom the Lord hath blessed c. The blessedness of this state doth consist in these and the like things 1. A clear Apprehension of God reconciled to us in Christ 2. Cor. 5. 19. Col. 1. 20 21. 2. A clear apprehension of our selves cloathed with the Righteousness of Jesus Christ Col. 1. 28. 3. A clear apprehension that all sin is forgiven Isai 53. 6 1 Pet. 2. 24. 4. A clear apprehension of our Consciences being purged in the blood of Christ Hebrews 9. 14. 5. A clear apprehension of the Law perfectly by Christ fulfilled for us Rom. 10. 4. 6. A clear apprehension of that real close spiritual glorious and inseparable Union that there is between Christ and our souls 7. A clear apprehension of that saving testimony of the Spirit of God ratifying and testifying all this in the soul We find that the Apostles themselves and also Churches with whom they walked made use of these benefits and priviledges that they should have at Christs next coming to bear up their spirits under their sufferings here viz. 1 Pet. 1. 13. Wherefore gird up the loyns of your mind be sober and hope to the end for the Grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ James 5. 8. Be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh Heb. 9. 28. Vnto them that look for him he shall appear the second time without sin unto salvation 1 John 3. 2. Beloved Now we are the Sons of God and it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is Rev. 22. 20. He which testifieth these things saith surely I come quickly Let us all say with the Church Amen even so come Lord Jesus The divers expressions in Scripture concerning the coming of Christ which set him forth as coming in various Dresses Viz. Sometimes as a Bridegroom sometimes in Fire sometimes as a Warriour sometimes as a Judge are not to be understood of divers Comings but one and the same coming in divers Respects as to his people he comes as a Bridgroom when in respect of the wicked he comes in fire and as a Judge I shall close up this point with two Scriptures Isaiah 61. 5 6. And strangers shall stand and feed your Flocks and the sons of the Alian shall be your Plough men and your Vine-dressers But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord men shall call you the Ministers of our God Chap. 14. 2. They shall take them captive whose captives they were and they shall rule over their oppressors c. Of the last judgement the signs that go before it what is meant by it the place where the person who the time how long the judgement shall last out of what we shall be judged this day shall be a great Day 1. Of the Signs that go before the last judgement THE signs foretokening the last judgement are certain nottable changes in the world in Church and State some farther off some nearer unto the coming of the great judge 1. The publishing and the sound of the Gospel throughout the whole world 2. The Apostacy of many professors losing their first love and drawing back c. 3. The revealing of Antichrist that man of sin and child of perdition 2 Thes 2. 8. 4. Common corruptions in manners joyned with security as in the dayes of Noah and Lot 5. Wars commotions and troubles both in the world and in the Church of Christ 6. False Christs attended with false Prophets and armed with false miracles 7. The calling of the Jews into the faith of the Gospel 8. Signs in heaven earth and all the elements 2 Pet. 3. 7. Mat. 24. 30. What is meant by judgement BY Judgement is meant the pronouncing and executing of the irrevocable sentence of absolution or condemnation in which the Godly shall be judged one way and the wicked another way for the first shall be Judged but not condemned the latter shall be judged and condemned Of the place where the Lord will judge the world THE place where the Lord Christ shall sit in Judgement is verily thought to be in the air over the Vally of Jehosaphat by mount Olive near to Jerusalem Eastward from the temple 1 Thes 4. 17. this might be confirmed by these reasons 1. Because we find some ground in the word of God for this Joel 3. 2. and ver 11. compared with Zech. 14 4 5. 2 Because as Christ was there abouts crucified and put to open shame so over that place his glorious throne shall be erected when he shall appear in judgement to judge the world in righteousness where he himself was unjustly judged and condemned 3. Because that the Angels shall be sent to gather together the elect from the four winds from one end of the earth to the other it is most probable that the place where they shall be gathered together shall be near Jerusalem which is the center of the earth as may be proved 4. Because the Angels told the disciples that as they saw Christ ascend from Mount Olivet which is by the valley of Jehosaphat so shall he in like manner come down from heaven but I

love thereof they willingly parted with much of their earthly goods and possessions to lay up treasure in heaven Abraham and Sarah left their own country and possessions to look for a City whose maker and builder is God Heb. 11. 10 15 16. David preferreth one day in this place before a thousand elsewhere Psal 84. 10. Elias earnestly besought the Lord to receive his soul into his Kingdom and went willingly though in a fiery Chariot King 19. 4. Saint Paul having once seen heaven continually desi●eth to be dissolved that he might be with Christ Phil. 1. 23. Saint Peter having espyed but a glimpse of eternal glory in the mount wished that he might dwel there all the dayes of his life Mat. 17. 4. saying Master it is good for us to be here c. Christ a little before his death prayeth his Father to receive him into that excellent glory Joh. 17. 5. And the Apostle witnesseth Heb. 11. 2. that for the joy which was set before them they endured the cross and despised the shame 1 Pet. 5. 4. and when the chief Shepheard shall appear ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away c. this eternal condition admits of no change or alteration decay or consumption waste or diminution mans eternal condition admits of no comparison revocation or conclusion c. What use we may make of all these precious things 1. EXcellent arguments may be drawn to pres-Christians to a holy life 2 Pet. 3. 11. see ing then that all these things must be dissolved what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness and ver 14. Wherefore seeing ye look for such things give diligence that ye may be found in him in peace It is our duty to live in a continual expectation of the coming of the Lord Jesus with our loins girt and our lamps burning for blessed is that servant whom his master when he cometh shall find so doing 2. Consider that here is a fountain opened for Christian comfort and ground for patience in all troubles that there shall be an end a Christians hope shall not be cut off if in this life only we had hope we were of all men most miserable 1 Cor. 15. 19. But here lyes the comfort and patience of true Christians theywait for another world and they know it is a just thing with God to give them rest after their labours 2 Thes 1. 9. and a crown after their combate 2 Tim. 4. 8. and after their long Pilgrimage an everlasting habitation 2 Cor. 5. 1. Be patient saith the Apostle and settle your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh James 5. 8. 2 Pet. 2. 9. When they that have sown in tear shall reap in joy Psal 126. 5. 3. Consider that assurance of that blessed state may be attained in this life we know faith Paul 2 Cor. 5. 1. That if our earthly house of this tabernacle be destroyed we have a building not made with hands eternal in the heavens these things saith John I have written unto you that ye may know that ye have eternal life 1 John 5. 13. I am sure saith Job 19. 25 26 27. that my Redeemer liveth and he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth and though after my skin worms destroy this body yet shall I see God in my flesh whom I my self shall see and mine eyes shall behold when I awake saith David I shall be satisfied with thy Image Psal 17. 15. 4. The consideration of this should provoke us to be such as may be made meet for this inheritance of the Saints in light and to endeavour to attain and retain the earnest of the Spirit whence we may be alwaies able to say we are confident and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord 2 Cor. 5. 8. and to fill the soul with strong consolation against the sufferings of life and the fear of death and to work an answerable conversation that whether absent or present we may so walk as we may be accepted of him 5. The consideration of this should put us upon a patient waiting for and a longing expectation of our change which draweth on a pace and not to put that off as most do to the last year and when that is come to the last moneth of that year and then to the last week of that moneth and then to the last day of that week and then to the last hour of that day and then to the last minute of that hour and so time shall be no more and we shall not find repentance although we seek it with tears 6. Consider that the cause of our salvation and so of our glorious condition is Gods meer love and favour without any merit of ours Luke 12. 32. It is our Fathers good pleasure to give us a Kingdom Joh. 3. 16. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son Ephes 2. 8. By grace we are saved through faith and not of our selves it is the gift of God Rom. 6. 23. everlasting life is the gift of God and though eternal life be called a reward yet it is not of merit but of mercy let this be grounded in our hearts that the Kingdom of heaven is not a stipend of servants but an inheritance of Sons which they only obtain that lay hold on his mercy Romans 5. 8. compared with 1 Tim. 6. 12. and 19. 2. Now as hath been said as the love of God is the cause of our salvation fo Jesus Christ is the way Joh. 10. 9. Joh 14. 6. 3 The holy Spirit is the guide in that way as in Joh. 16. 13. 4. The Scriptures of truth is the rule Gal. 6. 16. Isa 8. 20. 5. The evidence of this salvation is faith Heb. 11. 1. It is true the instrumental cause offering and proclaiming salvation is the Gospel but the instrumental receiving and applying it is faith and the cause sealing it inwardly to our souls is the Spirit of God the external and instrumental seals thereof are the two confirming Ordinances Baptism and the Lords Supper 6. The anchor of this salvation is hope Heb. 6. 19. 7. The effects of this salvation is love to God because he loved us first and a holy conversation if ye love me saith Christ keep my commandments and they that have believed in Christ must be careful to maintain good works which are found and required in the way to the Kingdom but they are not the cause of reigning Of the end of the world THE consequents of the last judgement is life eternal in heaven or hell and the end of the world having finished the former let me point to the latter and I have finished what I intended we read Mat. 24. 3. that Peter James John and Andrew Mark 13. 3. came to Christ and desired him to satisfie them in these three questions 1. Concerning the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple 2. Concerning