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A90206	The world to come, or The mysterie of the resurrection opened: in a discourse at Burford in the county of Oxon, upon Acts 24.15. / By John Osborn, minister of the Gospel at Bampton in the bush. As also, in a conference between him and Richard Coppin of Westwell.	Osborne, John, lover of the truth as it is in Jesus.	1651 (1651)	Wing O526; Thomason E635_1; ESTC R206479	55,151	76

that we shall be unwearied in all our actions and motions 4. In Glory It is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory Which glory stands in the integrity beauty and 1 Cor. 15. 43. splendor of all members they shall be raised perfect having no deformity through defect of convenient members or congruous quantity or through accession of some member or part inconvenient or disproportioned in scituation or uncomliness in any kind whatsoever the body which is now foul filthy without beauty or splendor shall be made lightsome clear and shining clothed with heavenly glory and Divine light When Christ was transfigured on mount Tabor his Face did shine as the Sun and his raiment was white as the light Mat. 17. 2. It may well be supposed it hath no less but rather greater beauty now since hi is entred into his glory for some reasons this glory might be vailed before his Ascension but the Apostle is plain for his glorious state now and ours in conformity thereto Who shall change our vile bodies that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body Phil. 3. 21. and we shall be like him 1 Joh. 3. 2. The glory of his transfiguration was a fore runner not of his own only but of our glory also in heaven the same it was for Essence with what he had afterward though different in circumstance and degrees that onely for a season but this for ever that transient this permanent Psal 45. Christ in the flesh was fairer then the sons of men in his low estate white and ruddy the chief of ten thousand Cant. 5. And is he not beautiful being highly exalted at the right hand of God This beauty is made up of the integrity of his body in respect of the number order and perfection of his members and proportion in colour and exceeding brightness and heavenly splendor and such shall be our glory and beauty of our bodies in the world to come now we have blemishes but then we shall have none yea not onely our imperfections shall be done away but a new beauty conferred on us In all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absolom for his beauty From the soal of his foot even to the Crown of his head there was no blemish in him 2 Sam. 14. 25. Of the Nazarites 't is said they were purer then Snow they were whiter then Milk they were more ruddy in body then Rubies Lam. 4. 7. Moses face shone so that he put on a Vail when he spake to the people and of Stephen 't is said they that sate in the Councel looking stedfastly on him saw his face as it had been the face of an Angel Acts 6. 25. All that glory I conceive no glory in comparison of this at the Resurrection When they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the Firmament and they that turn many to righteousness as the Stars for ever and ever Dan. 12. 2. And the Righteous shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdome of the Father Mat. 13. 43. We shall all have the same glory for Essence but not 〈◊〉 degrees but as there is one glory of the Sun another glory of the Moon and another glory of the Stars and one Star differeth from another Star in glory so also is the Resurrection of the dead 1 Cor. 15. 41 42. All Stars are not of one magnitude nor all Saints the same in glory all shall be fair pure clear beautiful and delightful to behold having all members of a comly proportion and amiable colour and shining in glory no deformity by defect redundancy or disproportion in any part in respect of matter or colour 5. Spirituality It is sown a natural body it is raised a Spiritual body 1 Cor 15. 44. not for substance but qualities conditions and gifts of the Spirit being by the Divine power sustained and acted immediately 1. Whereas now it is supported by natural helps Food Physick Fire Clothing c. then God shall be all these to the body They shall hunger no more neither thirst any more neither shall the Sun light on them nor any heat Rev. 7. 16. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the Throne shall feed them and shall lead them to living Fountains of water v. 17. Moses Elijah and Christ were preserved forty days without food on earth why should not our bodies be preserved thus without means for ever in heaven 2. It shall be under the guidance conduct and command of the Spirit immediately in all its motions and actions here the soul immediately caries and commands the body but there the Spirit of God both soul and body where it listeth and acts as it pleaseth without difficulty or weariness they shall wholly give up themselves to the command of the Spirit We now proceed to the efficient cause of this great work and that can be no other then God It 's a miraculous work and a new Creation and so above the power of Nature to effect and proper to God who is the Author of Nature The ancient Rabbins said There be three 〈◊〉 Menass Ben Israel de resur 〈◊〉 2. c. 1. Keys in the hand of the blossed God which are not committed to any Legate the Womb the Rain and the Resurrection of the Dead that is He maketh the barren to Bear causeth the Rain and raiseth the Dead This is that Dew in Isa 26. 19. Thy Dew is as the dew of Herbs or as the dew of light the morning dow which refresheth recreates grass and the herbs and causeth them to flourish thy Dew the Divine Power by which thy dead shall be quickned and revived is as the Dew that falleth on the Herbs it shall so raise them as the Herbs that are decayed and withered are raised up by the morning Dew and comfortable heat and influence of the Sun God who quickneth the Dead as Rom. 4. 17. Who quickneth all things 1 Tim. 6. 13. Which raiseth the Dead 〈◊〉 Cor. 1. 9. it is an Act common to all the three Persons Father Son and Spirit The Father raiseth up the dead and quickneth them John 5. 21. and the Spirit Rom. 8. 11. The Son John 5. 21. Even so the Son quickneth whom he will Therefore Christ promiseth it I will raise him up at the last day John 6. 40. 44 54. and John 11. 25. I am the Resurrection and the Life How is that Not Formally but Causally I am the Cause of the Resurrection and Life that any man hath None rise or live but by me This from Christ's mouth the Apostles preached and believed knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus 2 Cor. 4. 14. Thus in Jerusalem they taught the People and preached through Jesus the Resurrection of the Dead And also at Athens Paul preached Jesus and the Resurrection Chap. 17. 18. And thus doth he answer the first Adam As in Adam all dy so in Christ shall all be

and reasoned saith Luke Jesus himself drew neer and went with them but their eyes were holden that they should not know him t Luke 24. 15 16. They discourse together he preacheth unto them and he adds They drew nigh unto the Village whither they went and he made as though he would have gone further u verse 19 to 28. But they constrained him saying Abide with us for it is towards evening and the day is far spent and he went in to tarry with them And it came to pass as he sate at meat with them he took bread and blessed it and brake and gave to them And their eyes were opened and they knew him and he vanished out of their sight x verse 29 30 31 32. Also the same day at Evening When the Disciples were assembled for fear of the Jewes came Jesus and stood in the midst of them and saith unto them Peace be unto you And when he had so said he shewed unto them his hands and his side then were the Disciples glad when they saw the Lord y Ioh. 20. 19 20. And saith Mark He upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen Mark 16. 14. But Thomas was not with them Ioh. 20. v. 24. He again appeared unto them when Thomas Ioh. 20. 26. was with them who because he had rashly said Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nails and thrust my hand into his side I will not believe John 20. 25. therefore saith he to Thomas Reach hither thy finger and behold my kands and reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side and be not faithless but believing v. 27. That this resurrection is not only spiritual appears from Luke 24. 39. Behold my hands and my feet that it is my self Handle me and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have And from Luke 24. 42 43. for he eats of broyled fish and an honey comb Also the Sea of Tiberias while they were a fishing discourseth with them works a miracle eats bread and fish John 21. 1 to 23. A fourth time to the Disciples on a mountain of Galilee Mat. 28. 16. where they worship him and receive a Commission to baptize and preach to the Nations ver 17 to the end Of these apparitiors saith Luke He shewed himself alive after his Passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God Acts 1. 3. He manifested himself to their eys by his visible presence standing among them walking with them eating and drinking before them to their ears by audible words to their hands by touching of his flesh and that they might be sure it was no delusion he opens their understandings z Luke 24. 45. works miracles and confers on them the holy Ghost and the gift of working wonders a Mark 16. 17 18. From Apparitions let us come to Attestations we have first the Testimony of Angels He is not here for he is risen as he said Come see the place where the Lord lay Matth. 28. 6. And go quickly and tell his Disciples that he is risen from the dead Vers 7. And in Mark He is risen he is not here Behold the place where they laid him Mark 16. 6. But go your way tell his Disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee there shall ye see him as he said unto you In Luke Why seek ye the living among the dead Chap. 24. 5. Figuratively Spiritually this cannot be meant but Properly and of a bodily Resurrection that which the women sought the Angels affirm to be risen what was crucified what was laid in the Sepulcher what they came to embalm what Mary thought had been taken away John 20. 15. and that was the body of Jesus We have also the witness of the women b Luke 24. 10. who first saw him after his resurrection Mark 16. 10 11. The two Disciples vers 13. The ten Disciples vers 20 25. Confession of Thomas John 20. 27 28. and therefore is Mathias chosen with the eleven to be a witness hereof Acts 1. 22 to the end To this all the Apostles bear witness Acts 2. 31. and 5. 30 Acts 17. 2 3. Rom. 10. 9. 1 Cor. 15. 4. 5 11 12 15 20. Lastly the Watchmen enemies to Christ Matth. 28. 11 12 13 14 15. Having such a cloud of witnesses why should we doubt Hereunto might be added Prophesies Psal 16. 10. Mark 9. 31. and 10. 34. and Figures aforegoing Mat. 12. 40. Signes accompanying and effects following it as the Earthquake the glorious Apparition of Angels filling the Keepers of the grave with terror and amazement for they did shake and became as dead men Mat. 28. 4. If the Resurrection were spiritual why not the Earthquake also and the descent of the Angels and if these were but in fancy how is it they became as dead men Let us next view the Sepulcher the place where the Lord lay Luke reports when the women entred in they found not the body Chap. 24. 3. and the Angel saith He is not here Matth. 28. 6. Mark 16. 6. and they give the reason For he is risen Matth. 28. 6. Mark 16. 6. and is gone into Galilee Did he rise in Spirit Then he went in Spirit into Galilce How impertinent is this answer to the occasion their seeking the body of the Lord and how is this a reason why he could not be in the grave He is risen spiritually and mystically therefore his body is not here Can such non-sense think you be allowed the words of an Angel If spiritual how come the carnal Souldiers to know it Besides to what purpose did they affirm his Disciples came by night and stole him away Matth. 28. 13. Sure we are he was bodily in the Sepulcher To this the Libertines themselves though sufficiently impudent will consent I demand where is that body now What is become of it Is it annihilated that cannot be for it saw no corruption Acts 2. 31. In the grave it stayed not He is not here shew us where it is and it sufficeth But this is beyond any revelation of theirs to declare They must remain for ever silent in this point or profess they cannot tell That it was stolen away by the Disciples the suborned Watchmen said and that when they were asleep Matth. 28. 13 14 15. If they were awake why did they suffer it If when they were asleep how did they know it but these men affirm they know not what the body stole away they know not how we can give a better account of it from the words of the Angels It is risen from the dead and ascended up into heaven from whence he shall come again in like manner as he went up to execute judgement upon

40. If it be eternal and everlasting and for the perfection of it require a raising up at the last day how is it limitted to this life And for his assurance Christ tells him that he hath it already Who so eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day v. 54. He may be as sure of it as if he had it already or he hath it begun in him in a way and tendency to perfection grace is glory in 〈◊〉 glory grace consummate We are changed from glory to glory 2 〈◊〉 vlt. This life is begun but ends not here it 's not of the soul onely but of the body also therefore Christ adds I will raise him up at the last day And of this we cannot miss for he prefixeth a double asseveration to strengthen our Faith Verily verily I say unto you He that believeth on me hath everlasting life v 47. and tells us it was his business to accomplish his Fathers will I came down from Heaven not to do mine own will but the will of him that sent me v. 38. Of this also Peter testifies When the chief Shepherd shall appear ye shall receive a Crown of Glory that fadeth not away h 1 Pet. 5. 4. If we receive it while we live what becoms of it when we dy and shall be no more If my soul must animate another body another takes my Crown or it perisheth however as to me it fadeth but the Text sets another day when this Crown shall be received and we first wear it when the great Shepherd shall appear This apparition is not Spiritual to the soul onely in believing so he had already appeared in those to whom he here writes Chap 1. 2 3. But this when the Crown shall be put on is to come hear what the great Shepherd himself speaks as to the time manner and end of his appearing When the Son of man shall come in his glory and all the holy Angels with him then shall he sit upon the Throne of his glory Mat. 25. 31. And before him shall be gathered all Nations and he shall separate them one from another as the Shepherd divideth the Sheep from the Goats v. 32. But that is not till the end of the world Mat. 13 30 37 38 39 40. To the same effect is that of Peter Epist 1. Chap 1. v. 3 4 5. Who hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead To an inheritance incorruptible undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in Heaven for us Who are kept by the Power of God through Faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time This inheritance and salvation we have not in this life for we hope for it it is reserved in Heaven for us and we are kept for it and it shall not be revealed till in the last time and He that overcometh shall inherit all things Rev. 21. 7. Besides it is incorruptible and fadeth not away which cannot stand with any state of the Saints in this life Nor is this only fairly concluded from but plainly asserted in Scripture to be after death whereas Hypocrites and unbelievers have no hope in death Iob 27. 8. the faithful have I would not have you ignorant brethren concerning them that are asleep that ye sorrow not as others which have no hope 1 Thes 4. 13. This hope is in death as appears by the Apostles scope to comfort the Saints and raise up their spirits which are apt to be sadded and dejected with the disease of their beloved friends and from v. 14. If we believe that Jesus dyed and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him For this cause did Paul desire to be dissolved Having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is farre better i Phil. 1. 23. He speaks of dying and that bodily not spiritually as a way to a life and state farr better then the present sent Nor was it Paul's desire onely We that are in this Tabernacle groan being burthened not for that we would be unclothed but clothed upon that mortality might be swallowed up of life 2 Cor. 5. 4. When he saith not that we would be unclothed but clothed upon that Mortality might be swallowed up of Life He plainly declares this state not to be while we are Mortal and that when this Mortality shall be swallowed up of Life a Christian shall not onely be unclothed and stript of his burthensome vile and filthy garments but be arayed afresh with those that are light pure and precious What Christ Paul and Peter avouch doth John from the same Spirit testifie Rev. 14. 13. And I heard a voyce from Heaven saying unto me write Blessed are the dead which dy in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them Spiritually we cannot understand this without manifest injury and violence to the Text a man may Spiritually dy and yet not presently rest from his labours as the words import or if it be supposed the rest promised may follow the death specified at a distance namely somtime after when a man naturally dies how is this the peculiar priviledge of those that dy in the Lord For all shall so rest though they never be partakers of this Spiritual death in Christ if there be no resurrection of the dead body and how do their works follow them then how are they then blessed that shall be no more or at least not what they were before whose souls being fired out of their old habitation take to themselves other dwelling places and so return again to their former labours If it be affirmed they may be happy in Heaven though their bodies rise not Tertullian shall answer for me Quomodo foelices si ex parte perituri how can they be happy who in part are perished Happiness is a state of perfection but the soul separate from the body is incompleat and imperfect and therefore cannot be happy till both it and the body be united to make one perfect man Again I reply there is no happiness glory or good thing promised to soul or body but in Christ raised from the dead grant the body is not raised you must yeild also Christ is not raised and so doing you raze the very foundation of all our felicity the house of our hope in all particulars thereof must fall to the ground therefore If there be no Refurrection of the dead and our hope onely in this life we are of all men most miserable Which is Pauls second ground in this Chapter whereof conceiving our selves to have spoken sufficiently we proceed to a third The Universality Perfection Integrity duration of the Arg. 8. Kingdom of Christ and his victory over his and our enemies then cometh the end when he shall have delivered 1 Cor. 15. 24.

my reins be consumed within me Cop. Job did not speak as rightly he should do and that appears in chap. 42. where he comes to confess he spake things he understood not here he gives an answer to those words which he spake in chap. 19. Osb Whereas in your answer you affirm out of ch 42. that Job understood not what he spake My reply is this 1. Job saith not the things were false of which he here affirmeth he spake but understood not but that he understood them not which he afterward expresseth thus things too wonderful for me which I knew not which by any thing that yet appears by you alledged cannot be drawn without violence and injury to the text unto any other sence then this he had spoken things which for the nature of them were so high that he could not understand them he could not reach them or comprehend them there was more in them then his understanding could attain unto this doth not import a contrariety between his words and those things he speaks of but onely a disproportion of his understanding to comprehend them A man may speak of God and his ways as Job in this book doth truly and in so doing he may say as Job I uttered things I understood not things too wonderful for me which I knew not For who can finde out the Almighty how wonderful are his judgements and his ways past finding out So then the narrowness and shortness of Jobs understanding to comprehend the Latitude and reach the heighth of those things which here he speaks of doth no whit overthrow the truth of that he had spoken concerning them So that whatsoever the things were that Job intends in this 42 chap. which he understood not when he uttered them You must prove he speaks falsly of them which yet you have not done nor can it with any good consequence be gathered from the words alledged 2. Though that were granted and the words so taken as by you they are urged that he spake what he knew not and beside the truth yet will not this serve your turn he speaks indefinitely that he uttered things he understood and knew not but that all the things he spake of were of that nature and so falsly propunded by him cannot be imagined or affirmed with any pretence of reason for then all that he spake must be false which I think you dare not adventure to maintain and if you should the very reading of his discourse without Argument would refute you if then it be onely some things he speaks of you must clear the relation of these words in ch 42. 3. to those in ch 19. of his Redeemer and Resurrection or by better evidence of Scripture or reason then yet you have produced prove these to be of that sort or your silence would have been as argumentative as your allegation and this you will hardly do yea you must confess you cannot do it if you do but examine and acknowledge the testimony that God himself gives of Job verse 7 of this chapter Ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right as my servant Job hath If Gods testimony deserve the preheminence as doubtless it doth as of one to whom all those things that were to Job so wonderful and unsearchable lay open and plainly discernable you must then prove this of his Redeemer and Resurrection by him after death to be none of those speeches of his which are by God attested here to be right or that all he spake of God was false or let that answer fall as having uttered things you understand not things too wonderful for you Cop. These words of God in commendation of Job have reference to what Job saith in this 42 chapter v. 3. 4 5. specially v. 5 6. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now mine eye seeth thee wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes This is it the Lord commends Job for as having spoken right concerning him Osb This refers to other passages for Job was set in opposition to his three friends Job had discoursed with them who are condemned by God as not having spoken right concerning him as Job who is therefore commended but they speak not in this chapter but before therefore this testimony doth relate to things before Cop. Job so rises that he knew not the time Job being in ch 19. under the first Covenant in 42 under the new speaking ch 19. of his Resurrection and seeing his Redeemer his apprehension being dark he could not tell whether it was in the body or spirit Osb Job speaketh not of Spirit but of seeing God in his flesh which Job waited not for but till after his body had been destroyed with worms and this Job calls the latter day Cop. Job spake that he should see God at the last general day but he was carnal and his words were accomplished in this life for he afterwards sees him he had a full sight of God as he expected and says I have seen the Lord already I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now mine eye seeth thee and that was the last day to him Job speaks I have had thoughts that I shall see my redeemer at the latter day but then Job was carnal many souls will say that At the last day I shall see my Redeemer as I have said my self Osb Did Job conceive aright or not when he saith I shall see my Redeemer stand at the latter day upon the earth Cop. He was mistaken as was Martha Martha understood the resurrection in one sense Christ in another Osb This you have not proved nor how this sight of God which you say he had was in his latter day 1. When as you say it is in this life you have not produced any authority of Scripture to prove the latter day is so taken in respect of some latter part of the life of a man but it is usually taken for the latter part of the time of the worlds duration 2. If it be elswhere so taken it doth not appear so taken in these words of Job nay the contrary rather for Job is said to live one hundred and forty years after he had seen the Lord and therefore it cannot be his latter day in this life Cop. It was the latter day to him Osb He speaks of such a latter day that should come after worms had destroyed his skin and his body when his reins had been consumed within him therefore this latter day could not be in his natural life Cop. Job so spake of worms that he should see God after worms had destroyed his body before he knew the sight of God to be in this life for he said it one way but found it another As I my self have thought and as many other souls also Now I appeal to the Consciences of some that are here present whether it be not so Osb Other mens sayings or thoughts