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Good things to come, or, A setting forth some of the great things that will contemporize and take place when our Lord Christ shall come again mentioned in the Holy Scriptures ... / by P.G.B.
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Barbon, Praisegod, 1596?-1679.
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lastingness no comparison for that shall abide as long as the moon endureth When the Lord Christ reigneth there shall be great honour and subjection given to him by the great ones and it will fare well with the poor vers 12. 13. 14. also vers 2 4 6. of this 72. Psalm then shall that be fulfilled and made good Psal 67. 3. 4. 6. 7. Let the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee O let the nations be glad and sing for joy for thou shalt judge the people righteously and govern the nations upon earth Let the people praise thee As they will do then they will sing Hallelujans and prayse to the lamb what followeth then then shall the earth yeeld her encrease very fruitful times then and God even our own God shall blesse us and all the ends of the earth shall fear him It will be so eminently then In the next place take we knowledge of that very eminent place Isa 65. It is the prophecy where the new heaven and the new earth are spoken of and promised see what is said in vers 13. Therefore thus sayeth the Lord behold my servants shall eat but ye shall be hungry to wit the wicked and unsaved nations and people behold my servants shall drink but ye shall be thirsty behold all with a behold very observable my servants shall rejoyce but ye shall be ashamed vers 14. Behold my servants shall sing for joy of heart but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart and howl for vexation of spirit vers 15. And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen for the Lord God shall slay thee and call his servants by another a new name a great difference then like that of Dives and Lazarus we see here is eating and drinking then for so did Adam and Eve and so did our Lord Christ in the day of his being here both before his death and after his resurrection Luk. 24. 42. 43. And so very likely will those changed alive then do for they will be men and women It followeth as a reason and that with a behold also vers 17. For behold I create a new heaven and a new earth The old will be done away and forgotten vers 18. They are bidden to rejoyce for the great blessednes and glory Jerusalem will be in God will create them so a rejoycing a praise Vers. 19. The voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her nor the voice of crying It is easy to see to what time and state that belongs this world affords no such exemption from weeping and crying only it will as to the full fulfilling be in the blessed world to come Vers. 21. They shall build houses and inhabit them they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them Vers. 22. They shall not build and another inhabit they shall not plant and another eat it fares so in this world many times but it will not then for as the dayes of a tree which are many so shall be the dayes of Gods people It followeth and mine elect shall long injoy the work of their hands their building and planting c. vers 23. They shall not labour in vain as many do in this world nor bring forth for trouble of which we made mention before For they are the blessed of the Lord and their off-spring with them Vers. 25. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together The same with that in Isa 11. of which before It is not hard to conceive what time this relateth unto it relateth to and is a prophecy of the new earth that God will create when there shall be the restoration of all things When it shall all come to passe and be so as is declared whether we believe it or no. The prophet Jeremiah declareth something to the like effect Ier. 33. 6. 7. 8. 9. I will bring them health I will cause their captivitie to return I will cleanse them from all their iniquitie and it shall be to me a name of joy and praise before all the people of the earth For the great prosperitie God will procure unto it And vers 11. The voice of joy and the voice of gladness the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride c. For he will cause their captivitie to return And so he goeth on in a promisary way of good things to the end of the 16th verse See the prophecy at large I spare to set it down for fear or being over-large And consider to what time it relateth for its full fulfilling at the time of the branch of righteousness growing up to David in the land it will be We may also minde that Ier. 50. 19. 20. When Israels captivitie shall be returned c. and the iniquity of Israel and Judah sought for and not be found for there shall be none we spake of it before Hosea the prophet mentioned by holy Paul Rom. 9. Eyeing the time of their great return and Gods gracious return to them Hos 2. 18. In that day to wit of the restoration I will make a covenant with them and with the beasts of the feild and with the fowls of heaven and with the creeping things of the ground and I will break the bow and the sword and the battel out of the earth I will make them lie down safely It may easily be minded what day this relateth unto it being the same with Isa 11. mentioned before when the hurtful nature of the creature will cease and mans enmitye also and wars cease to the ends of the earth and the restoration of all things and the peaceable kingdom of the Lord Christ takes place then it will be so and it is not like to be before Vers. 19. I will betroth thee to me for ever The marriage of the lamb will be nigh then yea I will betroth thee to me in righteousness c. vers 21. And it shall come to passe in that day I will hear the heavens and they shall hear the earth and the earth shall hear the corn and the wine and the oyl and they shall hear Iezreel and I will sow her to me in the earth to wit the new earth as to the fulfilling of it it is not sayd in heaven but in the earth Further see what the prophet Ioel sayth chap. 3. 18. And it shall come to passe when Ierusalem shall be holy and no stranger passe through her any more as they shall in no wise then Rev. 21. 27. at that day then at that day the mountains shall drop down new wiue and the hills shall flow with milk and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord and shall water the valley of Chittim It will go ill with Egypt then vers 20. But Judah shall dwell for ever and Jerusalem from generation to generation for God will then cleanse so as never before I conceive by changing of
away all teares from the eyes of his then will no more be death nor sorrow nor crying nor pain there to the servants of God for ever Rev. 21. 4. Then shall sathan be bound or chained that he hinder not the saved nations in their great felicity Rev. 20. 2. To say no more although much more might be mentioned relating to the beginning and first coming of the Lord Christ into the kingdom and reign on earth We shall in the next place take notice of some things relating to and contemporizing with the end First of all soon after the end of the thousand years reign and some short time before the last session of judgement beginneth will sathan be let loose for a little season and will deceive the unsaved of the nations who had been chained up with him till then to their total ruine and destruction then will Gag and Magog and their number as the sand of the sea gather together and compasse the camp of the saints about and the beloved city then will fire come down from God out of heaven and destroy them Rev. 20. 7. 8. 9. Then shall the devil that deceived them be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and false prophet as being more wicked and abominable in the sight of God then he had been cast whilest alive above a thousand years before Rev. 20. 10. Rev. 19. 20. Soon after then will be the resurrection of the unjust and wicked sinners they shall then arise to judgment for then will be the second and last great session of judicature to that end mentioned Rev. 20. 11. 12. Then shall they be judged condemned and cast into the lake of fire called the second death Rev. 20. 12. 13. 15. Which as it is the last time or concluding act of the saints judging the world 1 Cor. 6. 2. So there being nothing as to the time mentioned before and they being reserved to the judgment of that great day and to be judged by the saints so is it also the time of their judging of Angels 1 Cor. 6. 3. 2. Pet. 2. 4. Jude vers 6. Then the last enemie death and hell or the grave shall be cast into the lake of fire Rev. 20. 14. Death the last enemie will be then destroyed All enemies will then be totally subdued and destroyed and put under his feet actually to the through fulfilling of 1 Cor. 15. 16. Then shall be an end of all rule authoritie and power then will the Lord Christ deliver up the kingdom unto God the father of whom he received it then will he become subject himself unto the father and God even the father become all in all these are some of the great things that will attend the end We may here in a general way a little take notice what will be in the middle or body of that time of the thousand years of Christ his kingdom and reign on earth according to what the scriptures hold forth as to the great blessedness of the servants of God and their long continuance in that happines and high enjoyments for ever once begun ever continued Those great things mentioned as relating to the beginning are not many of them to be minded exclusively but inclusively as continuing to the very end The things the righteous shall enjoy and be made partakers of the eye hath not seen the ear hath not heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive The psalmist admires it as may we Psal 31. 19. Oh how great is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men It is said in 1 Joh. 3. 2. Now are we the sons of God a great thing and it doth not yet appear what we shall be to wit how happy how blessed and glorious but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him and see him as he is A great thing indeed And we shall be for ever with him and never severed from him more 1 Thes. 4. 17. And in his presence will be fulnes of joy at his right hand there are pleasures for evermore Psal 16. 11. The holy scriptures of the old and new testament speak much of the happines of that day to the righteous in particular holy Peter Paul and John The psalmist David Psal 72. 7. speaking of Solomon in the tipe but of our Solomon in the antitype the Lord Jesus sayth in his dayes to wit in the time of his kingdom and reign the righteous shall flourish and abundance of peace shall be in the earth so long as the Moon endureth This will be and continue the whole thousand years reign and also all the time of the last session of judgment which as hath been said before is the last and most glorious part and administration of Christs kingdom and as some apprehend will last neer a thousand years more until he deliver up the kingdom to God the father and God the father become all in all That gathering of Gog and Magog at the end of the thousand years Rev. 20. 8. will be little or none interruption thereunto for it will be very short and is only to give the Lord an opportunity to destroy all the wicked that are left in order to the speedy resurrection of the whole that had been dead from Cain to that time to come to judgment and is to usher in the same which kingdom of our Lord Christ in all the parts and administrations thereof being ended and delivered up by him to God the father and God the father become all in all the Saints shall then receive and enjoy higher and greater glory and shall go and be with the Lord Christ for ever in the kingdom of the father a particular setting down of things we shall forbear for fear of tiring the reader CHAP. V. Of the great wisdom and understanding of the Apostle Paul and his high knowledge in the heavenly misteries and the many revelations he had IN the next place upon the whole of those verses forenamed we may minde the great wisdom and understanding that holy Paul was endued withall the many revelations he had and the high misteries that were unfolded and made known unto him which he hath declared for the good and benefit of others being made an instrument in the hand of God for that purpose He had high discoveries and an abundance of revelations and yet was kept humble Gods grace being sufficient 2. Cor. 12. 7. 9. holy Paul had much made known unto him of very high and great secrets he had a great insight into the high misteries of Christ Ephes 3. 3. 4. they were declared by him such high misteries as are not declared and held forth so particularly by any other as namely the order that will be in the resurrection and when the just shall arise in their order and when the unjust The resurrection is a great