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

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

useth saith he this man must have all subject to him all but God he must have Angels subject to him for he hath put all things in subjection under his feet This could not be Adam no not in the state of innocency but it 's true of Jesus Christ Angels and all were under his feet 2. As it is not ment of man in innocency so it cannot be meant of man fallen neither that is as playn as the other The Apostle himselfe saith that we see not all things subject to him Some think that is an objection the Apostle answers but indeed it 's a proof to prove that man fallen cannot be meant for we do not see all things subject to him You have not any one man of the whole race of man-kind to whom all things are subject take all the Monarchs of the world there was never any man that was a sinner that had all subject to him therefore it is not meant of man fallen but saith he We see Jesus crowned with glory and honour and therefore it 's this man and no man else that is there spoken of And then againe take notice that it is not an Angel to whom all shall be subject but plainly man that is made a little while lower then the Angels but then crowned with glory and honour And it is not only this world that shall be in subjection to this man but it is a world to come For saith he We see not yet all things under his feet but we see Jesus Christ crowned with glory and honour Therefore it is not this world but there will be a world that shall be in subjection unto Christ when all things shall be under his feete And it is that which the 8. Psalm speaks of besides Christ interprets this Psalm of himselfe Mat. 21. 16. when as they cryed Hosanna and made him the Saviour of the world the Pharisees were angry at it and our Saviour confutes them out of this Psalm Know you not or have you not read that out of the mouths of babes and sucklings he hath ordained praise quoting this Psalm to speak of himselfe what the meaning is I refer to what Mr. Mead hath written upon the 8. Psalm he interprets it of that man Christ principally that was but a babe by whom God would stil the enemie it is therefore Jesus Christ to whom only all things are subject shal be put under his feet He is the sole manwhom the Psalmist and Apostle means that hath a world to come ordained for him as the first Adam had a world made for him so shall Jesus Christ the second Adam have a world to come made for him this world was not good enough When I considered saith he thy heavens the work-manship of thy hands Jesus Christ hath a better world a better heaven and earth then Adam had A new heaven and a new earth according to his promise when the Saints shall reign This world he hath not subjected to Angels none of those Principalities and Powers rule there As there are two Adams and the one was the type of the other so there are two Covenants the Law and the Gospel the Angels they by nature were above the world and all things in it and the Law was their Covenant they were the deliverers and declarers of it the Law was given by Angels There 's a second Covenant which is the Gospel ond that declares and speaks of this second world made for Christ Now the Angels God hath not used them to preach the Gospel they do not meddle with it that worke is not carryed on by them but God hath appointed men to do it who were babes and sucklings out of their mouth hath he ordained strength to begin to create this new world but then why is it a world to come If we speak of it as the Gospel beginning of it because as the other world was 6. days in making the work went on by degrees so will it be in this new world and we are now but at the first dayes worke the perfecting of it is to come Therefore the Kingdome of heaven is sayd to be like to a grain of mustard-seed which is the least of all seeds but grows to a great bignesse by degrees The Apostle calls conversion a delivering of us from this present evill world there is the first days work and God will never leave till he hath perfected this world and because the perfection of it was to be afterwards therefore it was sayd to be A world to come And as the first world had a seventh day for the celebration of the Creation in it so hath the new world a Lords day a Rest of which hee speaks in Hebr. 4. Now this world when it is finished it shall not be subject to Angels but to Christ and his babes and sucklings to the man Christ Jesus for whom it was made and to the Saints who shall be the Citizens of this world as they suffer with him so they shall reigne with him Wee do not read that the Angels at the day of Judgement shall sit upon thrones of Judgement But it 's sayd of Saints that they shall sit upon thrones Mat. 19. 20. and so in Rev. 20. And so likewise Christ promiseth to give the government of tenn Cities to him that had ten Talents and improved them and five Cities to him that had five Talents The Devils shall be shut up and if they be gone there needs not the Principalites of good Angels to oppose them That which good Angels do to the Saints in this present state below that office and worke shall the Saints that arise from the dead perform unto the Saints that shall remaine alive in that world to come For it is now such as have part in the first Resurrection that shall have to do in that world and not Angels and it 's no absurdity neither And if Angels which have alwayes beheld the face of the Father as Christ saith of them yet have they beene busied and employed about things below why may not Saints be so too It will be an honour rather to them Thou hast made us Kings and Priests and we shall reigne on earth It is true the Angels shall gather the Elect from all the corners of the world and they are Executioners to throw men to hell but they that are the Principalities and powers of this vvorld to come they are men that shall judge the Angels and then shall Christs Kingdome be at it's height and when that is ended the Kingdom shall be given up to the Father Vse 1 First of all take notice that here is two worlds for you that looke for happinesse Me-thinks you should be satisfied with the expectation of this Alexander wept before he had halfe conquered this world that there were no more for him to conquer out of a supposition when he had conquered all what hee should do afterwards If thou hadst the same desire thou needst not

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

it a new world a world to come For the second Adam for the substance the same world shall be restored which was lost in Adam this God will do before he hath done with it and this restitution of it is the world to come Now then why is it called A world to come It is called so though the foundation of it be now laid and was laid then when our Lord and Saviour was upon earth the foundation of it is laid in the new creature As the first creation began the old world so this new creature begins the new world and as the old world was six days in making so this new world is not perfected at once the new creature that is in your hearts it is but the beginning of it Mark in Heb. 2. how this new world is begun and but begun and when it began Ver. 2. If the word spoken by Angels was steadfast how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation which at first began to be spoken of by our Lord and was confirmed to us by them that heard him God also bearing them witnesse c. For unto Angels hath he not put into subjection the world to come whereof we speak its plaine hee speaks before of the preaching of the Gospel which was begun to be preached by Christ and though the Angels delivered the Law yet this Gospel which is the Kingdome of Heaven and the beginning of the world to come whereof we now speak this Gospel was not delivered by Angels this world to come was not subjected to them they preached it not neither shall they have to do in that world which the Gospel begins so that you see this world to come began when Christ began to preach and therefore observe the language of the Gospel Repent saith John the Baptist for the kingdingdome of Heaven is at hand the world to come is coming upon you so our Saviour Mark 1. 14. Mat. 16. 28. There be some standing here that shall not dye saith Christ and yet all were dead that stood there long ago they shall not dye saith he till they see the Sonne of man come in his Kingdome The foundation of this world was laid by Christ in bringing in the Gospel and it was he that was Prophesied of in Dan. 2. 44. In the dayes of these Kings whiles Principalites and Powers were standing he that meant to raigne in the world came stealing in upon it In the dayes of these Kings shall the God of Heaven set up a Kingdome that shall never be destroyed c. This new world began in the flourishing and height of the Roman Monarchie what did Christ when he came into the world and afterwards went up to Heaven he began this world before that time the Devill was worshipped as the God of this world in all parts of it Christ he flings him downe Luke 10. 17 18. I saw Satan fall down like lightning Christ destroyed the Devil in all those heathen Oracles whereby people were deceived when heathenisme did not prevaile then did Jewisme shew it selfe and Christ he throws that down too by the preaching of the Gospel the Apostle cals this a shaking of the earth There was a great deal of the old world gone presently and fell down before this new world Jesus Christ he converted by the Apostles millions of soules over all the world in 2 Cor. 5. 17. Conversion is there expressed by the passing away of old things this is the first dayes work for the world is yet to come this is but a delivering us out of this present evill world and not a subjecting of it to Christ as in Gal. 1. 4. When Christ threw down heathenisme and Jewisme it was but the first dayes work like a new naile that being strucken in puts out the old one by degrees This kingdome of Christs shall break in peeces and consume all other kingdomes Dan. 2. 44. this will eat out all the Monarchies and glory of the world Now after this first days work of throwing down heathenisme and Jewisme then came a night of Popery wch was set up in the room thereof what will Christ do before he hath done he will have a second days work and will not cease till he hath thrown down every ragg all that drosse and defilement that Antichrist and Popery brought into the world We now are under the second days work we are working up still to a purer world it is still this new world working up to its perfection and Jesus Christ will never rest till he hath not onely thrown out all the drosse of this world both of doctrine and worship which conformity to the world hath brought in But for a second degree of this work Jesus Christ will not rest till he hath brought in the generallity of men in the world to be subject to himselfe the world according to Scripture account consists of Jews and Gentiles and how bitterly doth the Apostle complaine in his time of Gods cutting off the Jewes the generality of the Nation was cast off and for the Gentiles saith he Who hath beleived our report There was very few of them in comparison that did come in to Christ but there will come a time when this new world shall have a further perfection when the generality of mankinde Jew and Gentile shall come into Christ The world was made for Christ and he will have it before he have done Rom. 11. 26. All Israel shall be saved There he tels us of a new world of the Jewes and for the Gentiles he tels you They shall be cast in the vaile shall be taken from off all nations Isa. 25. 7. And that which is so much aleadged for unity shall one day be fulfilled but it will be when Christ is Lord of all the earth and not till then Christians will not agree till then here will be a brave world indeed that will be another degree of that world to come One shepheard and one sheepfold of Jewes and Gentiles and that as large as all the world John 10. 16. This was never yet fulfilled Jewes and Gentiles were never yet one sheepfold together but they shall be so one day Read the Prophets and you shall read there of strange things of glorious times that shall be here upon earth of all Nations coming into the Church the mountains of the Lords house being set on the top of the mountains and all Nations flowing unto it and of great prosperity they shall have which was never yet fulfilled and there are many fall in and acknowledge thus much that there shall be a glorious church on earth when the Jews shall be called but there is a third thing which is much controverted which here followeth The third degree of this new world is this that vvhen this glorious time comes that Jesus Christ as we have said will call home both Jews and Gentiles and have a new world in respect of the multitudes that shall come into him Christ