Selected quad for the lemma: nation_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
nation_n glory_n lord_n shake_v 1,255 5 9.9347 5 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
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

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

standing still he dieth But what saith God I will ransome him from the power of the grave I will redeem him from death O death I will be thy plague O grave I will be thy destruction repentance shall be hid from mine eyes Howsoever all his former fruitfulnesse shall be blown away as in the words following in the next Chapter where those which are thus ransomed as before take unto themselves these words and say They shall no more look unto Idols they shall no more seek unto Ashur nor any carnal confidence but they shall wait on the Lord and in him shall they trust And those who have attained unto a resurrection with Christ if they go on to know the Lord he shall return as the rain and as the later rain upon the earth And those that shall attain unto this resurrection as before spoken shall grow up as calves in the stall as Mal. 4. And those likewise which are thus risen with Christ shall be secured in the chamber spoken of in Isa. 26. in respect of the spiritual man whilst the Lord comes out of his place to destroy the works of the flesh in us which are the inhabitants of the earth in a spiritual sense and the chamber is God himself wherein the spiritual man liveth in security and peace even that man-childe spoken of Revel. 1. who is caught up to God and to his throne which man-childe shall rule all nations with a rod of iron even this spiritual man shall be secured when the heavens are shaken and the earth is removed out of its place yea the spiritual man in those who are living at the coming of Christ which never died in respect of the spiritual desertions even that part of the Church which doth remain when two parts are cut off and die as in Zech. 18. from vers. 8. to the end I say the spiritual man both in those that are risen at the coming of Christ with those that are risen from the dead shall be caught up into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air Now these clouds are not the clouds of the air but the clouds of heaven which are the Saints themselves which shall witnesse that all this is done Christ's being taken up into the clouds of this visible firmament did typifie the taking up of the Saints spiritually unto God concerning which we have a cloud of witnesses in the Saints and accordingly do expect Christ coming in glory spiritually and all his Saints with him as the Scripture speaks Now having spoken at large concerning the heavens being dissolved which remains the same in nature though it ceaseth to be in that manner as before and having likewise spoken of the Saints being dead and risen with Christ spiritually Now in the next place I shall make forth so far as God shall reveal that which followeth And in the first place concerning those elements which melt with fervent heat which certainly is to be understood to be the glorious truths which are held forth in Babylon in which there is great mixture of Errour that may very well be compared unto that head of gold and the brest and arms of silver of the great Image Dan. 2. which shall be tri●d by the fire of the Spirit and though the truths cannot burn yet they shall be melted and the fire shall try every mans work whether it be of God or no and I am sure if any man build on the foundation wood hay or stubble it shall be burnt up with this fire which tries and refines the Truths and the Saints and so the melting of these elements which are the Truth shall but refine them as silver and purifie them as gold and so it loseth nothing but drosse which is the earth and the works thereof that shall be burnt up as follows in this Scripture which burning we have formerly conceived to be the utter consummation of this visible earth in which we live but now we finde it otherwise in that the books which were sealed begin now to be opened even that which was hidden from the Prophets and Apostles and Christ himself as man who speaks concerning the end of the world that of that day and hour knoweth no man but the Father onely but when God shall appear in his glorious manifestations in the Saints and the enemies of God shall behold the glory of the Saints when the Lord shall make bare his holy arm in the sight of all the Nations and all the ends of the earth shall behold the salvation of the Lord Isa. 52. but unto their horrour and amazement Zech. 13. So you see that the earth before spoken of which shall be burnt up is not the earth we live in which is harmlesse in it self for sure it can do no evil but by the blessing of God it doth much good though not of it self yet according to the providence of God who maketh the sun to shine and the rain to fall that the earth may bring forth fruit and sure every creature of God is good in its kinde and therefore the earth cannot be said to be evil nor her works evil and accordingly it shall not be burnt up for the curse is taken from the earth in that redemption that was in Christ and in that the earth is not fruitful but brings forth briars and thorns and the like it is not because the earth is evil but onely a just judgement of God to make a fruitful Land barren for the sins of them that dwell in it and so we cannot finde in Scripture that this visible heaven and earth are to have an end for we finde to the contrary that they are to continue as in Jer. 33. 25. and 35. 36. and likewise it is said in the Psalms and in Ecclesiastes that the earth endureth for ever and so where it is said that the heavens and earth that now are are kept by the same word in s●ore reserved unto fire against the day of judgement and perdition of wicked and ungodly men this ye see is to be understood otherwise then hath been formerly Now I shall make forth in brief concerning those things which do remain according as God shall reveal the meaning of this Scripture Now in the first place where it is said that the heavens and earth which now are in distinction from that heaven and earth which were before the flood which if you do understand it in the letter is the same as it was from the Creation and therefore as I have before spoken the heaven and earth which now is is to be understood in a spiritual sense as the heavens to be the glorious Ordinance wherein God hath appeared and the earth to be wisdom and gifts and the like these heavens and earth are to be reserved to fire against the day of judgement of wicked and ungodly men Unto this some may object How can this heaven and earth you speak of be reserved to fire for the destruction of wicked