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The saints inheritance after the day of ivdgement. Being also an answer to certaine scruples of late delivered, and others printed, expecially in that book intituled, The personall reigne of Christ upon earth. By T. B.
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T. B.
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Wing B203; Thomason E59_4; ESTC R3205
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people the voyce of weeping shall be no more heard in her violence shall be no more heard in thy land wasting nor destruction within thy borders but thou shalt call thy walls salvation and thy gates Reve. 21. 22. 22. 9. prayer the Sunne shall be thy light no more by day neither for brightnesse shall the Moone give light unto thee but the Lord shall be to thee an everlasting light and thy God thy glory thy Sunne shall no more go down Esay 60. 18 19 20 21. neither shall the moone withdraw it selfe for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light and the dayes of thy mourning shall be ended thy people shall be all righteous they shall inherit the land for ever the branch of my planting the worke of my hands that I may be glorified and not onely Esay 86. 24. so that they shall enjoy all things here but they shall goe forth and looke upon the carcasses of them that have transgressed against the Lord for their worme shall nor die not the fire be quenched but they shall bee an abhorring to all flesh the miseries of the damned that they shall see shall much increase their joy when they shall see what judgements the Lord hath saved them from and what a joy will it be when the creatures shall yeeld us true subjection as they did to Adam in Paradise and how will the Angels rejoyce to see all the Saints not onely converted but glorified Luke 15. 7. and how shall we rejoyce to see the will of God done on the earth as it is in heavens and when we shall have that Petition granted which we have so long prayed and waited for which is Thy kingdome come Matth 6. If any shall yet object and say the Saints shall not enjoy all things because we brought nothing into the world and it is certaine we shall carry nothing out naked we came and naked we shall returne Arise and depart 1 Tim. 6. 7. Job 1. 21. Micah 2. 10 Heb. 11. 16 Matth. 8. 11 Luk. 23. 43 Eccle. 12. 7 for this is not your rest because it is polluted therefore they desire a better country that is a heavenly and they shall come from the East and West and shall sit downe with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the kingdome of heaven and this shall be as soone as they depart this life This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise then shall dust returne to the earth as it was and the spirit to God who gave it The answering of this may satisfie three sorts of opinions first that the soule is begotten as well as the body secondly that there is a place of abode for the soule when it is departed from the body besides heaven or hell thirdly it may answer those that thinke the soule and body both shall not after the day of judgement enjoy all things but shall bee confined in heaven for ever First if the spirit returne to God that gave it then the Father did not beget it but the Lord breathed into Adam the breath of life and he became a living soule and the Lord formeth the spirit of man within him and Gen 2. 7. Zach. 12. 1. some untimely birthes never had any spirit in them Man is the father of the flesh because he begot it but it is Gods owne peculiar title to be the Father of Spirits Numb 16. 22. 27. 16. See Heb. 12. 9. because he formed it Zach. 12. 1. and gave it Eccles 12. 7. If man should beget the soule of his childe then he that hath a righteous soule would beget a soule in his own likenesse but we see the contrary Againe if a man should beget the soule of his childe he must either infuse his owne soule into it or else he must infuse a peece of it but which of the two is it If he infuse a peece of his owne soule into the childe then he hath but a piece left himselfe and his childe another piece but if he hath parted with all his soule then he hath none himselfe but so much for this ridiculous question For the second that there is a place for the soules abode when it is departed from the body besides heaven or hell this I deny for I suppose the testimony of Christ is sufficient to prove that the Soules of Abraham Isaac and Jacob are in Heaven for we doe not conceive that their bodies are there but that they are turned to dust and are in that burying place which Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite then their soules are in heaven else Gen. 23. 15 how shall they come from the East and from the West and sit downe with them in Heaven If they were not there before the day of Judgement we should be there as soone as they But where is that great assembly of the first borne I meane of all those that are borne anew of the water and the Spirit if they be not entred into the Kingdome of God Where those first borne such as Andronicus and Junia who were in Christ before me Joh. 3. 3. 5. Rom. 16 7. Heb. 12. 22 23 24. are not they in the heavenly Jerusalem the City of the living God is it not there where the spirits or soules of Just men are made perfect they are with Jesus the mediatour of the new Covenant and where is he but in heaven till the restitution of all things and this as soone as their soules depart Acts 3. 21. Heb. 9. 24. from the body saith Christ to him upon the Crosse this day shalt thou be with me in Paradise but will you know where this Paradise is if you will take Pauls word for it he will tell you that it is the third heaven 2 Cor. 12. 3 4. for saith he such a one was taken up into the third heaven he was caught up into Paradise now if from this place you be not satisfied that Paradise and the third heaven is to be understood the same thing you must be forced to grant that Paradise is above it for he was first taken up into the third heaven and then he was caught up into Paradise he doth not say that he was cast downe againe into Paradise so then if the soule of the thiefe was that day with Christ in Paradise then it was in the third heaven where the soules of all just men are made perfect that are departed for they are not so while they are here and in the Parable the rich man died and in hell he lift up his eyes being in torments here it is plaine that his Soule went immediately to hell but the begger went to Abrahams bosome But Luke 66. 22 23. say they where is Abraham I say that Christ hath told you already in heaven but why in Abrahams bosome because he is said to be the father of the faithfull as the father of the Prodigall rejoyced to see the returne of his Sonne so will Abraham rejoyce to
chaines in Jobs time and could not touch his goods nor children nor his body but as he had commission from God and the devill desired to intice Ahab to goe and fall at Ramoth Gilead and told the Lord how but he could not doe it till the 2 Chron. 18. 20 21. Lord said Goe and do so and so in the times of the Gospel they besought Christ that they might goe into the herd of Swine but could not till Christ said unto them Goe but yet in this time he did not cease to compasse Mal. 8. 31 32. 1 Pet. 5. 8. the earth but goeth up and downe like a roaring Lion seeking whom he may devoure and his chaine is long and his commission large to doe much hurt but that God who is able to bring good out of evill and all things worke together for good to them that love God as in Jobs case 2 Sam. 16. 12. Jam. 5. 11. And as the malice of Josephs brethren wrought for his good but when Christ came into the world the devils knew that he would Rom. 8. 28 Gen. 50. 20. chaine them up from their purpose a thousand yeares which would be a great torment unto them therefore when they saw Jesus they fell downe before him and with a loud voyce said Thou Sonne of God most high I beseech Luke 8. 28 29. 31. thee torment me not But he commanded the uncleane spirit to come out And they besought him that he would not command them to goe into the deepe meaning this bondage for a thousand yeares Christ comes and disarmes the strong Mat. 12. 29 Luke 11 21 22. Col. 2. 14 15 man and bindes him and then spoyles his goods upon the Crosse hee spoyled Principalities and powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them in it the Son of God was made manifest to destroy the workes of the devill then saith Christ after this I am he that was dead 1 Joh. 3. 8. and am alive and behold I live for evermore and have the keyes of hell and death Then he laid hold on the Dragon that old Serpent which is the Devill and Revel 1. 18 Revel 20. 1 2 3. Satan and bound him from his purpose a thousand yeares he having the keyes of the bottomlesse pit cast him in and shut him up and set a seale upon him that he should not deceive the Nations any more till the thousand yeares should bee fulfilled and after that he must bee loosed a little season Here Christ did not bind the devill from going up and downe as a roaring Lyon seeking whom hee may devoure and his commission did reach 1 Pet. 5. 8. to doe much hurt in this thousand yeares to single persons but the Devils purpose was to set up the man of sinne that mystery of iniquity that sonne of perdition the Antichrist in his Throne and full authority this hee knew would make great spoyles in the Church of Christ and the mystery of iniquity did already worke and Diotrephes loveth to have the preheminence 3 Joh. 9. 10 he prates against the ministers of Christ with malicious words and would not receive them and forbad others that would and cast them out of the Church Here you see how busie the devill is with this instrument to set up Antichrist because he aimes not so much at single persons as the ruine of nations from which he is bound a thousand yeares I grant that he raised great persecutions and sowed the tares of heresies that did much mischiefe and occasioned great warres and made great spoyles in the Church yet this did not content him for he knew that Antichrist was for to come having great knowledge in the prophesies of Daniel which made him stirre so Dan 7. 20 21. much and caused his wicked instruments to bring in one patch of Popery after another and would not rest till hee had him in his throne which was about a thousand yeares before hee was in his full ruffe to doe that mischiefe to the Church of God that the Devill expected hee should Now when this thousand yeares was ended there was a starre fell from heaven unto the earth and to him was given the key of the bittomlesse pit Revel 9. 1 2 3 4 5. and he opened the bottomlesse pit and there arose the smoake of the pit as the smoake of a great furnace and the Sunne and the ayre was darkened by the smoake of the pit and there came out of the smoake Locusts upon the earth and unto them was given power as the Scorpions of the earth have power and it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grasse of the earth nor any greene thing nor any tree but onely those men which have not the seale of God in their foreheads and to them was commanded that they should not kill them but that they should bee tormented or vexed five moneths and that their paine should bee as the torment of a Scorpion when he stingeth and striketh a man Here you see the bottomlesse pit that was shut and the devill that was bound a thousand yeares now the pit is opened and the devils loosed yet not to doe what they list but according to the commission granted to them Francis Junius in his Annotations upon this place saith by this star is meant some Angel glistering with glory as a starre from heaven it may be Christ who by princely authority hath the Keyes of Hell Chap. 1. 18. or some other inferiour Angel who hath the same key permitted unto him and occupieth it ministerially or by office of his ministry the key was given to the starre for those powers of wickednesse are thrust 2 Pet. 2. 4. Jude 6. Revel 20. 3 downe into hell and bound with chaines of darkenesse and are there kept unto damnation unlesse God for a time doe let them loose by the bottomlesse pit he meaneth the deepest darknesse of hell and the smoake of the hellish and infernall spirits all darke and dackning all things in heaven and in earth the spirituall darkenesses are the causes of all disorder and confusion for the devill sent these darkenesses into his kingdome that he might at once with one impression overthrow all things and pervert if it were possible the elect themselves by this light both active as the Sunne and passive as the ayre which is lightned by the Sunne is taken away and this is that which goeth before the spirits a description of the malignant spirits invading the world taken from their nature and power from their nature for they are like unto Loâ—usts in quicknesse subtlenesse hurtfulnesse and in number and for their power they are like the Scorpians of the earth who have a secret power to doe hurt yet although these devils be let loose and their commission is inlarged yet still they are bounded by the counsell of God because they hurt not all men but onely the reprobate vers 4. neither had