Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	judgement_n	lord_n	ungodly_a	1,215	5	10.0738	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43577	The general assembly: or, A discourse of the gathering of all saints to Christ Wherein it appears that all saints in all places and ages, shall be at last gathered together to Christ their head. Together with the time, manner, ends and reasons of this last great congregating of all saints, and what use may be made thereof. Being some meditations upon 2 Thess. II. 1. By O. H. minister of the Gospel.	Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1766; ESTC R221312	62,244	144

be cloathed with white robes and palmes in their hands Rev. 7.9 O the triumphant Song they sing Rev. 15.3 It is unintelligible by others and cannot be learned by any but overcomers O happy Souls 7. They meet to see the Execution of God's Vengance upon the Wicked Jude 14.15 Behold the Lord cometh to execute Judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly of their ungodly deeds and hard speeches the righteous shall rejoyce when he seeth the vengance Psal 58.10 The more the Saints Will is melted into God's Will the more content will they have in the executing of Justice not so much on God's Creatures but his Enemies see 2 Thes 1. 6 7 8 9. 8. They meet for a clear Manifestation of their inward Principles and outward Practices to each other Saints are called hidden ones Psal 83.3 their best part is most out of sight their life is hid with Christ in God but when Christ who is our life shall appear then shall we appear with him in glory Col. 3.3 4. Yea and the Creature waiteth for the manifestation of the Sons of God Rom. 8.19 O what a display will there be at that day of Men's inward States one to another never before known 1 John 3.1 2. 9. They meet to have their Graces perfected This and never till then is the day when that is accomplished Eph. 4.12 13. The perfecting of the Saints till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect Man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ Then will every corner of the Soul be filled with Grace to the full brim He that begun a good work here will perform till the day of Jesus Christ Phil. 1.6 Now they have attained to that they were pressing after O blessed day Oh sweet attainment 10. Yet once more they meet together to injoy God immediately together This Crowns all the rest this is the top of all the Achme and highest Felicity of a rational Soul This is that they have been long breathing after Some glimpes of his blessed Face they saw through the glass of Ordinances and were thereby changed into the same image from glory to glory 2 Cor. 3.18 But that sight of God was but through a glass darkly but then face to face 1 Cor. 13.12 When he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 John 3.2 What Man dwelling on this side Death knows the meaning of that Word God said to Moses thou canst not see my face it s well if we can see his back parts Exod. 33.20 but then the Lord will unveil his blessed Face to glorified Souls We cannot till now how a finite Soul is capable of seeing an infinite Object but then as the faculties will be strangely inlarged and extended so this Vision will exceed our present low Apprehensions This is called the beautiful Vision promised to the pure in heart that they shall see God Mat. 5.8 and it s this that makes them compleatly Happy That 's one of the sweetest words in the Bible 1 Thes 4.17 18. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord wherefore comfort one another with these words CHAP. V. An Account of the Intercourse the Saints have at their meeting together THE former Head referred to the main Business of the Saints meeting together which was glorifying God injoying of him which consists in their personal Felicity 2. This latter concerns their mutual Society and familiar Entercourse one with another which will be additional to their comfort and happiness in those heavenly Regions Communion of Saints is one Article of our Faith and the great Priviledge of Believers in this lower World both that which is Catholick with all Saints through the World and that which is Personal and Immediate with Members of the same Society As soon as any Man commenceth Christian he espouseth this Communion Phil. 1.5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now Wicked Men talk their good Fellowship in feasting drinking jesting gaming alass they are all but Child's play yea Devils sport to this and leave the Soul sapless and guilty But this Fellowship of God's Children is delectable honourable and profitable a distinctive Character of a Saint an Emblem of Heaven a step to Communion with God Yet that Fellowship they have in Glory far exceeds that they have below for they are defecated from the dregs of Corruption and sinful Pasions their Souls purified their Graces perfected and though they be different Lives yet all center in God That the Saints above have familiar Entercourse one with another is generally asserted and very probable because such a Communication doth greatly heighten their Comfort and Happiness But how this is carried on is not so Evident whether it be imprimendo imprinting their Conceptions in the Minds of each other as Scotus saith or representando ordinando ordering their Conceptions in their own Minds and so in some peculiar way representing them by certain Species to others So Aquinas or sonando by forming Sounds which after their way are intelligible But we that are so much strangers to the Nature of Spirits cannot conceive of these things Yet after the Resurrection when Bodies are united to their Souls possibly they may hold Discourse vocally yet it must be said whil'st in this World in a sound Sense that they know no Man after the flesh 2 Cor. 5.16 How much less in Heaven when their Bodies become Spiritual will they know each other or confer together in a low carnal Manner as they do here in this World Let the more learned read Dr. Tuckny's Discouse in his Praelect Theol Page 152 to 157 upon this Question Beati in statu gloriae se mutuo sunt aquituri That the Blessed in the State of Glory shall know each other for which he brings Proofs out of Scripture of Dives and Lazarus and Moses and this in Christ's Transfiguration c. and some Argument But of this I shall say as he quòd questio ista in se contineat veritatem theologicam non fundamentatem fidei Articulum that this Question contains in it a Theological Truth not a Fundamental Article of Faith not necessary to our Salvation but useful to our Edification and Consolation Now if it be asked what Subjects the Saints glorified shall in all probability discourse upon I confess its an high an hard Question for I do find in the 2 Cor. 12.4 that when the Apostle Paul was lifted up into the Third Heavens he heard 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wordless Words or Words that could not be uttered or which it is not lawful for a Man to utter God forbid that I should presume to express either the Matter or the Manner of these Conferences above But words or