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A26260 Scripture-prophecies opened which are to be accomplished in these last times, which do attend the second coming of Christ : in several letters written to Christian friends / by E. Avery. Avery, E. (Elizabeth) 1647 (1647) Wing A4272; ESTC R2586 37,649 53

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until thou return to the earth for out of it wast thou taken for dust thou art and to dust shalt thou return Unto this some may object The creature is ransomed from eternal death by the redemption that was in Christ in respect of the bodies remaining ever in the grave for it is said 1 Cor. 15 that As in Adam all die so in Christ shall all be made alive So from this Scripture we do conclude there shall be a resurrection of the body Unto this I answer There can no such thing be gathered from this Scripture 1 Cor. 15. 22. for whereas it is said As in Adam all die so in Christ shall all be made alive this death and resurrection is to be understood in a spiritual sense and not to be understood of the death and resurrection of the body for natural death cannot be said simply to be death and so the resurrection of the natural body cannot be said to be life for if it were so the bodies of the wicked may be said to rise to life as well as the Saints But death eternal is death and life eternal is life to be cast into outer darknesse where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth and to be cast out of the favour of God this is death and to live in God who is love and nothing but love as the Apostle saith God in love and he that loves in live liveth in God and God in him this is life eternal to know this God and his Son whom he hath raised from the dead not onely to know that God hath raised Christ from the dead but he hath raised me with Christ and so destroyed death in me which is the last enemy in that we are risen with Christ death and hell are destroyed in the spiritual man and cast into the lake of fire and brimstone which is the second death now this second death belongs to none but the wicked the Saints being altogether freed Now it may be demanded what this lake of fire and brimstone is and so consequently what is the second death from which the Saints are free Unto this I answer The second death is onely that horrour of Confusion which shall be in wicked men in the day of perdition concerning which the Saints have some experience in the last and dreadful desertion as in Hos. 13. 13 14. from whence they are ransomed and so in Dan. 12. 1. Jer. 30. beginning at vers 5. For thus saith the Lord We have heard a noise of trembling of fear and not of peace Ask ye now and see whether a man doth travel with childe Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins as a woman in travel and all faces are turned into palenesse Alas for the day is great and there is none like it it is even the time of Jacobs trouble but he shall be saved out of it And so it follows in vers 8. which sheweth the full redemption of the Saints as well in bodies temporal as spiritual Now death in a spiritual sense is death as to be cast out of the favour of God c. and this was the death that God did denounce to Adam in the day that he did eat the forbidden fruit Gen. 3. Now this death is not the natural death of the body for that cannot be said to be death as before it is spoken but death in this sense as here from the which death mankinde is ransomed in that redemption that was in Christ for now there is no hatred in God for God is love nay he is love to his enemies as our Saviour saith Love your enemies that ye may be like your heavenly Father and God saith Anger is not in me as in Isai. for should God be angry the creature would be as stubble before consuming fire But then it may be objected If God be love to all why are not all saved I answer Because God doth not manifest himself in his own nature unto any but those who are ordained to life as in Acts 2. As many as were ordained to life believed So Judas said Why dost thou manifest thy self to us aad not unto the world And our Saviour said To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven but to them in parables that they seeing might not see and hearing might not conceive And the Apostle saith that Israel hath not attained what he sought for but the election hath attained it and the rest were hardened And so where God doth not manifest himself in the face of Jesus in the anointing such a one continues in unbelief and so dead in trespasses and sins and such were some of you as the Apostle s●ith until we were washed and made clean by this anointing And so those in whom this anointing this Spirit of Jesus is in whom Jesus Christ is come in the flesh such a one need not that any should teach him for as the Apostle saith the anointing teacheth him And so as we are taught of God so are we like wise freed from the bondage of the Law and all Forms nay Gospel-forms as in Isai. 10. 27. where it is said It shall come to passe in that day that his burden shall be taken off thy shoulder and his yoke from off thy neck and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing And Isai. 9. it is said Thou hast broken the yoke of the burden the staff of the shoulder and the rod of the oppressour as in the days of Midian for every battel of the warriour is of confused noise and with tumbling garments in blood but this shall be with burning and with fuel of fire and the reason is given For to us a Childe is born to us a Son is given the government shall be upon his shoulder as vers. 6 17. and then we are freed from all servitude as well temporal as spiritual for there shall be no grieving brier nor pricking thorn the whole creation shall be subject to the Saints and they shall rule over their oppressours Isai. 65. 15. Behold my servants shall sing for joy of heart but you shall howl for vexation of spirit and ye shall leave your Name for a curse to my chosen And it follows vers. 7. Behold I create new heavens and a new earth the former shall not be remembred nor come into minde but be you glad and rejoyce for ever in that I create for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoycing and her people a joy and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her nor the voice of crying And so it follows to vers 23. where it is said They shall not labour in vain nor bring forth in trouble and in vers. 25. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together which shews the glory of the Saints in this life and their freedom from servitude When it is thus we are no more subject to any Law but the law of liberty and so we are made kings and