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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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tells us so Heb. 2. 5. as the other were but it will be under the power of the Lord Christ and the saints Then their noble rulers will be of themselves and from among themselves Jer. 30. 21. This and much more that might be mentioned seemeth very plainly to speak forth that that the new heaven and the new earth wherein shall dwell righteousnes and the world to come are much the same and there is very little if any difference at all both beginning and taking place together at the coming of the Lord Christ and both concurring in time with the resurrection of the just and the changing in a moment the then living servants of God and other great things that will be the attendants of that happy day Then will these so raised and changed be caught up together to meet the Lord and they will be for ever with him in the world to come and never severed from him any more When the wicked shall be put from him and bid depart When the righteous shall enjoy great blessednes and felicity then according to that which is a righteous thing with God the wicked shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power even when he shall be glorified in his saints and admired in all them that believe 2. Thes. 1. 6. 9. 10. In the world to come wherein the righteous will be so happy and blessed and the wicked so unhappy and accursed we may a little take notice what the world sayeth and we may begin with that of our Lord Math. 12. 31. 32. where he tells us that blasphemy against the holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven neither in this world nor in that which is come such wicked sinners as despite the spirit of grace here in this world they shall not be forgiven there is no more sacrifice for them Such wicked sinners as shall blaspheme the spirit and being under wrath and punishment blaspeme the God of heaven whose judgments are all just they shall not be forgiven then in the world to come The evangelist Mark chap. 10. 30. He declareth the great reward the loosers for Christ sake here shall receive then in the world to come as they shall also in this present world in the world to come they shall have everlasting life they shall have it with all the good things and great happines that attend that life The evangelist Luke he tells us the same Luk. 18. 30. The Lord Christ will be high then his name highly advanced in the world to come where he will set up his kingdom and reign fully even here below on earth in the new earth among the righteous who shall also reign with him then and there as it is written Rev. 5. 10. And hath made us unto our God kings and Priests and we shall reign on the earth And this when the wicked and unsaved of the nations shall be sent away and bid depart to their doleful places of aboad Mat. 25. 41. 46. That will be made good in the world to come which is mentioned by our Lord in the parable concerning Dives and Lazarus Luk. 16. 19. 20. 22. 25. The wicked for the most part with Dives have their good things in this world and the righteous with poor Lazarus they have affliction and sorrow evill things but then in the world to come it will be otherwise the righteous will have the good things the blessednes and the felicity and the wicked will have then in the world to come the evill things as it is sayd son remember that thou in thy life time received thy good things and likewise Lazarus evill things now he is comforted and thou art tormented The world to come where the righteous shall receive and enjoy everlasting life it will not be in heaven above but it will be here below on earth as the other world The old world was so and so is this present world and so will be the world to come in the earth in the new earth where our Lord Christ will be with his saints when he cometh the second time from heaven where he now is and will be till the times of restitution or restoration of all things Acts. 3. 20. 21. and the new heavens and earth take place and all things made new when and where our Lord Christ will be with his saints reigning with them a thousand years Rev. 20. 4. 6. The new Jerusalem will come down from heaven then and the tabernacle of God as of old will be with men where men will dwell then and God himself will be with them and be their God Rev. 21. 2. 3. and shall afterward be with him in the second and last great session of judgment concluding their judging of wicked men and be judging of Angels Rev. 20. 1. 12. 13. 2. Pet. 2. 9. Jud. ver 6. 1 Cor. 6. 2. 3. as is mentioned before All this and very much more that might be set forth will be in the world to come To understand as some do that by the world to come is meant heaven above sayd in holy scripture to be the residence of the great Jehovah seemeth to be a miss-understanding and a wrong applying of it and the scriptures in all things relating to the world to come To cry heaven heaven as some seem to do in all cases and concerns relating to the world to come as when men dye and are no more here in this world it seemeth very much to dazel and darken the right understanding of the scriptures in order to those blessed promises and prophecys that relate to the future happy condition of the servants of God in the world to come and to be the means of raising an Idea or unknown thing in the mindes of men as if in the world to come men should be Angels or little deities and not men and women as was Adam and Eve and as many should have been if he had continued in his first estate and as men they will be and so converse together in the habitable world to come To make all future things in order to the happyness and blessedness of men in the world to come or new earth then to be either in heaven or hell and so to be meant especially taken properly and restrictively so seemeth to be far from the drift and intent of the scriptures rendring many things in them declared insignificant which do well agree with the habitable world to come but not with heaven properly so understood The world to come of which we have been speaking it will be new peopled with the raised and changed saints wherein Israel the seed of Abraham a nation born in one day will have the preheminence being Gods nation and the gentile saved nations shall walk in their light to wit the light of the new Jerusalem Rev. 21. 24. And then will that be fully fulfilled in Rom. 11. 26. And so all Israel shall be saved as it is
the Lord their God Haply by changing them in a moment in the twinkling of an eye vers 10. He saith yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea that cannot be numbred and where it was said ye are not my people there it shall be said ye are the sons of the living God Vers. 11. Then shall the children of Israel gather themselves together and appoint themselves one head for great shall be the day of Jezreel which hath never yet been made good nor is it very likely to be so to the full till that happy day and time we have often mentioned take place I might improve to the same account that of the prophet Amos chap. 9. vers 13. 14. 15. That of the prophet Obadiah vers 17. to 21. That of the prophet Micha chap. 4. 13. But I shall forbear and close this essay with that Mich. 7. 18. 19. 20. Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage he retaineth not anger for ever c. He will turn again he will have compassion he will subdue our iniquities and cast all our sins into the depth of the sea If they be sought for they shall not be found for there shall be none then all being done away Vers. 20th thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob his mercy to Abraham as thou hast sworn to our fathers from the dayes of old All sure and stable and one jot or tittle of it shall not fail So as upon the whole we may with great probabilitie conclude that those great prophesyes forementioned and that new covenant extend to the time of the coming of our Lord Christ the second time when they will be all made good to the full to those believers found alive and changed in a moment then and be made the inhabitants of the new earth and world to come That many things contained in them are incompatible with the state of regeneration in this world but as to their utmost fulfilling will fitly sute and agree without any allegorie or spiritual meaning put on them they will agree and sute with those so changed in a moment inhabiting the new earth and world to come That those prophecyes and the new covenant do in a special wise appertain to the seed of Abraham Isaack and Jacob the Israelites to whom do appertain the promises Rom. 9. 4. Not in the least excluding the right of the gentile believers That they shall all have the full and utmost fulfilling without the least failer All which is submitted to the consideration of the wise in heart who have the promise they shall understand Dan. 12. 10. CHAP. IX Containing something further proposed and dilated on Touching sundry high predictions promises and sayings of our Lord Christ the holy Apostles and other penmen of the New Testament eyeing and relating to that happy day of our Lords coming the second time for their great and utmost fulfilling and making good with those great things before which shall take place then also AS the new covenant and those high and great promises and prophesyes in the old Testament will have their great and utmost fulfilling in the world to come at the coming of the Lord Christ in the new earth so in like manner will many prophecies promises and blessed sayings in the scriptures of the new Testament then be fulfilled and made good also whatever fulfilling in a degree they may have had before in the day of grace Then there will be full redemption full salvation to the utmost full freedom and very glorious liberty of the children of God There will be full restoration from their corrupt and fallen condition in Adam to a perfect rectitude Full deliverance from sin and death and the grave with full enjoyment of God and the Lord Christ and likewise with the holy Angels and saints of the most high God Abraham and Isaack and Jacob the holy prophets and martyrs the holy Apostles of the lamb with all the just men made perfect Together with full blessedness felicitie and joy and that without any sorrow grief or pain together with immortality and life everlasting in the enjoyment of all those high enjoyments and blessedness to the full beyond conceiving As it is written the eye hath not seen nor the ear heard neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1. Cor. 2. 9. All which shall be made good and enjoyed Then at that happy day of our Lord Christ in the world to come The loosers and sufferers for Christs sake shall then be fully rewarded with all that forementioned they are encouraged to wait and hope stedfastly to the end for great will be the grace that will attend them at the revelation of Jesus Christ 1. Pet. 1. 13. In the world to come it will be so Not so fully in any time in this world Here they have the word and promise sure and stable that will not fail Then and there they shall have the things promised Here they have the earnest to wit the spirit then and there they shall have in possession and full enjoyment It is said of the faithful Heb. 11. 13. All these to wit Abraham and Isaack and Jacob and Sarah and those named before dyed in faith so as they lived not having received the promises but having seen them afarr off to wit by the eye of faith and they were perswaded of them with high perswasion and confidence and embraced them cheerfully and joyfully no question and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth Another a better country their hearts went out after and God prepared a better for them that these blessed expectants and all others of like expectation might not fail or misse of their hope God hath provided for them a city vers 16. These they had the promise but they did not receive the things promised vers 13. It is said they saw them a far off As our Christ said of Abraham Iohn 8. 56. He rejoyced to see Christs day and he saw it and was glad As they before mentioned were much pleased and satisfyed concerning the thing and confessed That they were pilgrims and strangers in the earth Abraham and Isaack and Iacob and Sarah c. It is spoken of them good servants of God their thoughts were of another a better countrey of a more heavenly nature or kinde and God hath provided one for them A citty a country new and undefiled A new Ierusalem In that happy day of the coming of the Lord Christ in the new earth in the world to come The expectants of that happy day may say with holy Peter blessed be God and the father of our Lord Iesus Christ which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again into a lively hope by the resurrection of Iesus Christ from the dead Unto what are we so begotten