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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46952	A treatise concerning mans future eternity wherein the great doctrine of the eternity of all mankind in the world to come, either in happiness or misery is proved, explained, and applyed / by John Jackson.	Jackson, John.	1661 (1661)	Wing J83; ESTC R24082	38,904	150

Philosophers were of this opinion That wicked people shal go after they depart hence into a horrible place called Tartarus where they shal be eternally tormented that good men shal go after their departure out of this life into a pleasant place called Elizium where they shal live happily for ever Which opinion of theirs clearly shews that they had some imperfect notions of Mans future Eternity either in torment or happiness Again they who write of the world tel us That the people of every Nation in the world are of some Religion and they who are of any Religion do hold That there is a life after this life where it shall go well with the good and ill with the bad of mankinde for ever Why else are they Religious Doubtless that must needs be a manifest Truth that appears to be so not onely by the light of the holy Scriptures but also by the Light of Nature and the common opinion almost of all people in the world Nay by the common practise of the Divel himself who as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour endeavouring by his temptations apparitions possessions and wiles with de●uded sinners to deprive as many of mankind of eternal salvation as possibly he can and to bring them at last unto everlasting damnation from which Good Lord deliver us CHAP. III. Describes the misery of that everlasting condition of woe and punishment that the wicked shall go into at the the end of the world HAving hitherto proved the Doctrine Of mans future Eternity I shall in the next place explain it and first of all I shall mournfully look downward towards the miserable Eternity of such as shall be damned and shew you so far as I know it by Scripture-Revelation wherein the misery of their everlasting punishment which is the punishment of punishments doth chiefly consist namely in these three particulars 1. In their punishment of loss 2. In their pain of sense 3 In the everlastingness of both these kinds of punishment First The misery of that everlasting cursed and damned condition that the wicked shal go into at the end of this world doth consist in their punishment of loss and that in these four respects 1. They shal be punished with the loss of the comfortable and beatisical presence of God the Father Son and Holy Ghost They shall depart and go away from the Lord in such a sort as that they shal never have any savour nor any refreshing from the presence of the ever-blessed and glorious Trinity God being the chief good and the greatest felicity and his loving kindness being better then life therefore to be punished with the loss of his favour will be as it were the everlasting death of the damned and their greatest loss and saddest misery 2. They shal be punished with the loss of heaven that place of celestial rest and blessedness where God is said to dwell whither Christ is ascended and where the Lord will manifest himself unto his people to their everlasting comfort and happinesse There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth saith our Saviour when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob all the Prophets in the kingdom of God and you your selves thrust out Luke 13. 28. 3. They shall be punished with the loss of the blessed Communion of all the holy Angels in heaven for seeing they shal be punished with the loss of the favourable presence of God with the loss of heaven it follows that they shal be punished with the loss of the joyful fellowship of all the holy angels who do alwaies behold the face of God in heaven Mat. 18. 10. 4. They shal be punished with the loss of the comfortable company of all the Saines in heaven and of all their glorious perfections heavenly priviledges for sith they shal depart from the Lord and shal be shut out of heaven and cast into hell where they shal for ever remain unpardoned and unsanctified retaining their vile hearts and sinful natures therefore it necessarily follows that they shal be deprived of the happy society of all the Saints and of all those celestial perfections and blessed priviledges that they shal enjoy when they shall be ever with the Lord in the kingdome of heaven Luko 16. 22 to 27. We think their loss to be very great who are punished with the loss of the temporal good things of this life but alas What is that to the loss of the eternal good things of the life to come A Godly Gentleman observing the gallant accommodations of a pious Noble man took occasion to speak to him after this Christian manner My Lord said he you had need make sure of heaven or else when you die you will be a great looser it infinitely concerns both great and small to make sure work about their Salvation otherwise when they die they will be great losers for they will lose not onely their comforts on earth but also the joyes of heaven and that without all hope of recovery Luke 16. 23 24. Secondly the misery of that wofull and cursed condition called The damnation of hell that the wicked shal go into after the day of Judgement doth consist in their pain of sense or in that sensible pain that they shall bee punished withall in hell that terrible place of torment and that in sundry particulars worthy of our most serious consideration 1. They sh●l be punished universally with a sensible pain all over as in their bodies and in all the parts thereof and in their souls and in all the faculties thereof These shal go away into everlasting punishment it is spoken of the wicked after they were condemned to go in their bodies and souls into Everlasting fire prepared for the divel and his angels Mat. 25. 41 46. 2. They shall be punished extreamly with a grievous sensible torment in their whole man for They shall go into hell into the fire that never shall be quenched and into the lake that burns with fire and brimstone Mark 9. 46. Rev. 21. 8. Though fire and brimstone be terrible yet the thing thereby signified is more terrible indeed indeed the largest and most capacious heart alive cannot conceive how extream their pain and misery will be upon whom the total wrath of God shall abide for ever John 3. 36. Rev. 14 10. I● ●a●n if Judas if Spira and others were so grievously t●rmented with despair and horrour of Conscience when the terrours of God were upon them and if the wrath of God upon Christ for a while caused his soul to be exceeding heavy and made his bodie sweat as it were great drops of blood how extreamly will the infinite fierce wrath of God torment the damned in hell when it shall abide on them for all Eternity 3. They shall be punished continually without having any ease intermission or freedom from pain throughout the infinite space of Eternity how can it be

the happiness of their life eternal and as it were the highest pitch of their heavenly felicity All the Elect people of God by whatsoever names and Religions they were called and distinguished here on earth they shal all have in heaven Communion one with another fellowship with the holy angels and a full fruition of the ever-blessed Godhead in Trinity of Persons and that in these three respects which I shal the rather express in Scripture-Language for the help of our weak understanding herein 1. They shall enjoy God in Christ in being present with him in the same Empyrean heaven and ever-blessed Eternity where he enjoys himself and where his glorious angels and the blessed souls of his people enjoy him Christ hath promised his people that he will receive them to himself that where he is there they may be also and therefore there they shall be in his appointed time Again the Apostle Paul plainly tells us that we shall be ever with the Lord so we shall partake of that fulness of joy that is in his presence and of those pleasures which are at his right hand for evermore Psal. 16. 11. This this is that which the Saints here on earth do so earnestly and ardently desire as that their souls are restless and unsatisfied until they come to the full fruition of God in the highest heaven which he hath prepared for their everlasting home and entertainment in the world to come 2. They shall enjoy God in seeing of him as he is For then saith Saint Paul we shall see face to face and know even as we are known 1 Cor. 13. 12. Again the Apostle John saith that then we shall see the Lord as he is and so we shal enjoy him by our immediate and blessed Vision of him 1 Joh. 3. 2. All the Saints shall behold the glory of their blessed Saviour in his heavenly kingdom with the eies of their glorified bodies and they shall see the blessed De●ty in three glorious Persons with the eies of their understanding fully enlightened with the light of glory They shal all know the Lord apprehensively in all his admirable excellencies and perfections and they shall see him whom their soul loveth as it were face to face clearly and perfectly and so they shal have a full satisfactory knowledge of God who is the first Truth and of all Truths else which may conduce to their complete happiness Zuingerus was so fully perswaded of this as that he said at the point of death I am glad that the time is now come when the Lord will shew himself unto me face to face 3. They shall enjoy God in Christ in being perfectly one with the Father and Him as they are one after such a real manner as that they shal never be parted from him but shal be indissolubly joined unto him to their unspeakable comfort and happiness Jesus Christ who cannot but be heard hath prayed both for the beginning and the accomplishment of this blessed union His prayer is That all his people may be one with the Father and him as they are one They cannot therefore but be partakers of this blisful one-ness with the blessed Trinity and being partakers of it they will enjoy God by their happy conjunction and immediate communion with him All believers through the Holy Ghost are now inseperably united to the glorious Person of the Son of God as members to their Head and by Christ they are united to God the Father the Fountain of Grace and Glory whereby they are now made partakers of the Divine Light and Life of Grace 2 Pet. 1. 4. And this spiritual and mystical union begun here shall be perfected for ever hereafter whereby they shall partake of the everlasting Light and Life of glory immediately from the Lord of Glory in such a heavenly all-satisfying sort as that they shall be as fully happy as possibly they can wish or desire to be As all the Elect shall be beatifically united to God in Christ so they shall be perfectly united one to another in judgement wil and affection how much soever they differed on earth they shall all accord in Heaven in one scope and act of giving glory and praise to God and in one perpetual adoration and fruition of one infinite Deity in Trinity of Persons and so they wil be mutually happy in God in themselves and in each other Although it is the Soul which doth enjoy God or that doth partake of the good which is in God yet the body also shall have a share in the happiness of the souls enjoyment of God in the Kingdom of glory 1 Thes. 4. 16 17. Sith God is an infinite self-existing Spirit from Eternity in Eternity to Eternity and is his own happiness and the author and object of All happiness therefore the full enjoyment of God blessed for ever who is self-sufficient in his Being and all-sufficient in his Communications will be a satisfying felicity and as high an happiness as either Saints or Angels can desire to enjoy Ps. 73. 25 26. I could not but be affectionately taken with the judgement of a pious writer about this particular Enquire saith he of such as are yet militant upon earth wherein their happiness consists the answer will be In their having fellowship with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ Let those who are triumphant be asked What it is that renders their heaven so glorious their glory so incomprehensible ye shal have no other account but this it is because they have now attained a compleat fruition of that all-sufficient all-satissying ever-blessed and ever-blessing Object God in Christ. It is the Doctrinal Observation of a worthy Preacher That God alone is more desirable then any thing then all things in heaven and earth and no wonder if we consider That the Lord is such a depth of Divine perfections as that he possesseth in one onely perfection the excellencie of all perfections in so excellent sort as that none is able to comprehend it but himself Therefore the everlasting enjoyment of him can be no other then perfect blessedness We may piously think according to the Scriptures that when the Saints shal partake of this heavenly fruition of God in Christ they wil have such a full sence and real experience of the everlasting love of God unto them as that they will be for ever affected with it and constrained by it perfectly to love the Lord their God perpetually to rejoyce in him and everlastingly to land him and praise him for their blessed enjoyment of him and so their Love to God joy in him thankfulness to him shal never cease because it is a part of that heavenly happiness which wil redound from their beatifical fruition of God in Christ. A day in thy Courts saith Sacred King David unto God is better then a thousand I had rather be a door-keeper in