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A58888	A discoverie of the vvorld to come according to the Scriptures the first part thereof being didactical, or such as contains a form of positive doctrine : wherein 1. The doctrine of the world to come is propounded, explicated, confirmed, and applyed in a more familiar method then formerly hath been observed, 2. The doctrine of millenaries, touching a new reformed church in the latter times, which they call a new world, is confuted, 3. Sundry passages of holy writ are interpreted in reference to the world to come, which have been formerly wrested, and forced in a wrong sense / written by J. Seager...	Seager, J. (John)	1650 (1650)	Wing S2172; ESTC R32635	182,162	318

together Gods Elect from the four winds of the Earth viz. unto Judgment Matth. 24. 31. They shall sever or separate the good from the bad before the sentence of Judgment shall be given Mat. 13. 49. And I grant that this Judgment shall be attested and approved of by all the Saints of God In which sence it is said That the Saints shall judg the world 1 Cor. 6. 2. And the Apostles shall sit upon Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel Mat. 19. 28. Yet we must know that this Judgment shall be visibly administred onely by Christ as Mediator and as God and Man in one person and by no other person In which sence it is said The Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgment unto the Son Joh. 5. 22. God will judg the world by the man whom he hath ordained that is by Christ Act. 17. 31. He will judg the secrets of men by Iesus Christ Rom. 2. 16. And Christ is ordained of God to be Iudg of quick and dead Act. 10. 42. 2 Tim. 4. vers 1. And this without doubt will be a great comfort to Gods Elect at the day of Judgment when they shall consider that they shall have none to pronounce Judgment upon them at that day but Christ their Saviour who dyed for their sins and rose again for their Justification As on the other side it will be a great terror to reprobate sinners when they shall consider that they shall have none pronounce Judgment upon them but Christ whom they have always contemned and despised if not in his person yet in his Ordinances and in his Members and whom they would not have to reign over them in this world by his Word and Spirit Fourthly I affirm That the last judgment shall 4 Inform. extend unto all reasonable Creatures both Angels and men It shall extend to the Angels both good and evil For Christ is the Lord of the good Angels and their office is to worship him as their Lord and therefore he shall judg them at the latter day not for any evil they have done because they have done none but according to the good they have done because they have been always ready to worship him to obey his voyce and to do his Will And he shall judg the evil Angels or Devils for their first fall and for all the evils they have acted since For they are reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day Jude 6. And h●● Judgment upon them shall be approved of by the Saints Know ye not that we shall judg the Angels that is the evil Angels 1 Cor. 6. 3. This Judgment also shall extend unto all men women and children For this cause it is said That Christ shall judg the righteous and the wicked that i● such as shall be found righteous or wicked at that day Eccles 3. 17. And he shall judg the quick and the dead Act. 10. 42. that is such as shall be found alive at his second Coming and such as shall be found dead at that day shall be raised and brought to Judgment And he shall judg the small and the great Revel 20. 13. all the ungodly Jude 15 yea all shall stand before him Rom. 14. 10. Therefore all men shall be judged by him Yet we must understand That he shall judg men in a different way at that day For he shall judg the Elect as righteous persons with the Judgment of Absolution but he shall judg the Reprobates as wicked persons with the Judgment of Condemnation And he shall judg the Elect and Righteous according to the good they have done forgetting their evil works but he shall judg the Reprobates and wicked according to the evil they have done not regarding their seeing good works Fifthly I affirm That the last Judgment shall be just and righteous altogether For which cause 5 Inform. it is said That God shall judg the world in righteousness in uprightness in truth Psal 9. 8. Acts 17. 31. Rom. 2. 2. And if he shall thus judg the world at the last then the last Judgment shall be just and righteous altogether Yea all the proceedings of this Judgment shall be just as may be seen in these particulars 1. There shall be a Throne or seat prepared for Judgment For God hath prepared his Throne for judgment Psal 9. 7. And will not this be just That a Throne shall be prepared before Judgment shall be pronounced on any 2. There shall be a summons to Judgment to this effect Arise ye dead and come to judgment And will not this be just That there shall be a general summons before the Judgment shall be pronounced upon any 3. There shall be a personal appearance of all men made before the Iudgment seat of Christ 2 Cor. 5. 10. And will not this be just That there shall be a personal appearance of all before Judgment shall be pronounced upon any 4. There shall be a cause produced for this Judgment viz. the righteousness of the Just and the wickedness of the unjust For God shall bring every work to judgment with every secret thing whether it be good or evil Eccles 12. 14. And will not this be just That there shall be a cause produced before the Judgment shall be pronounced upon any 5. There shall be evidence brought in on both ●●es viz. for the acquitting and absolving of the Just and for the condemning of the unjust Which evidence shall be found written in the books which shall then be opened for the books shall be opened Dan. 7. 10. Revel 20. 12. What Books These 1. The book of Gods Omniscience 2. The book of every mans Conscience 3. The book of the Law Iames 2. 12. 4. The book of the Gospel Rom 2. 16. 5. The book of Life Rev. 20. 13. These books shall be opened and in them shall be found written whatsoever shall make for acquitting of the Just and the condemning of the unjust And they shall be judged according to that which shall be found written in these books And will not this be just That evidence shall be brought in on both sides before the Judgment shall be pronounced upon either party Yes 6. There shall be after all this a Sentence of Judgment given and pronounced both upon the Just and unjust The Sentence that shall be given and pronounced upon the Elect under the name and notion of just persons shall be to this effect Come ye blessed Children of my Father receive the Kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world And the reason of this Sentence shall be added thus For I was hungry and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was naked and ye clothed me I was sick and in prison and ye came unto me And in as much as ye have done it to one of these little ones which beleeve in me ye have done it unto me Mat. 25. 34. 40. The Sentence

dominion here shall be their slavery hereafter wherefore if we desire not to be slaves to Gods Elect in the world to come we must repent unfainedly while we live here as of other sinnes so of our tyranny over others and we must take heed how we lord it over Gods heritage here for it cannot be safe for us to lord it over such as shal be our Lords and Masters in the world to come Yet many in these daies are very ambitions of Lordship and dominion of others they cannot endure to be governed but would be Governours themselves they hate Lordship Kingship and Supremacy in others but they much desire the same in behalf of themselves and the grand contest now is upon whose shoulders the Government of Nations shall be laid whether on theirs who most desire it or on theirs who have most right unto it Indeed they that have right to this Government by the Law of God and Man may lawfully desire it but why should others desire it who have no such right at all unto it Surely these men are right of Absaloms spirit and every one of them saith in his heart as he sometimes said Oh! that I were made Judge in the Land that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me and I would do him justice 2 Sam. 15. 4. but Absaloms ambition was well rewarded when he was hanged as a Traitor in the Forrest and the ambition of these also will be well rewarded if ever they shal come to preach their late repentance at Tyburne or if ever they shall come to be hanged in chaines under darknesse or if ever they shall come to be slaves to Gods Elect which things may speedily befall them unlesse they repent In the meane while I had rather my soul should be subject to the powers that are ordained of God then that it should desire a temporall power over Nations I had rather be a Subject then a Soveraigne in this world knowing the burthen of subjection and the danger too to be far lesse then that of Soveraignty and if all that are called to be Subjects would study the point of subjection more and that of soveraignty lesse it would be better for them both in this world and in that which is to come and seeing God hath commanded loyall subjection for conscience sake to be yeelded to lawfull powers in this world we may well conceive that he will not suffer the same to go unrewarded either in this or that which is to come SECT XVII Touching the riches of Gods Elect and the poverty of reprobates in the world to come HEre followeth a seventh speciall difference which shall be betwixt the parties before-named in the world to come and it may be expressed thus in two Propositions Gods Elect shall have a rich estate in the world to come Rebrobates shall have a poor estate in the world to come The former Proposition is That Gods Elect 1 Proposition shall have a rich estate in the world to come for clearing whereof we must understand that the rich estate of Gods Elect in the world to come is described two waies in the Word of God viz. 1. By the name of an Inheritance for in Christ as the Apostle saith in the name of the Elect we have obtained an inheritance Ephes 1. 11. that is the right of inheritance and this inheritance is said to be incorruptible undefiled that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for them 1 Pet. 1. 4. It is said to be immortall because it cannot die away out of the name as a temporall inheritance may It is said to be undefiled because it cannot be defiled and polluted with sin in the getting keeping and disposing of it as a temporall inheritance may be neither can it fade away and be brought to nothing as a temporall inheritance may be neither is it reserved for the Elect in corrupt earth to be possessed and enjoyed by them in this world but it is reserved for them in heaven to be possessed and enjoyed by them in the world to come and we may conceive that this inheritance of theirs shall be of large extent because the Scripture speaks of divers things which they shall inherit in the world to come viz. They shall inherit the Kingdome prepared for them Mat. 25. 34. Luk. 12. 32. Luk. 22. 30. They shall inherit a Crowne called a Crovvn of righteousnesse 2 Tim. 4. 8. and a Crowne of Life Jam. 1. 12. They shall inherit glory Pro. 3. 35. the glory before described They shall inherit the blessing 1 Pet. 3. 9. They shall inherit the promises Heb. 6. 12. They shall inherit a reward for vvhat they have done and suffered in obedience to Gods vvill Col. 3. 24. They shall inherit all good things Rev. 21. 7. 2. Moreover their estate of inheritance is described by the name of riches and the riches of the vvorld to come are called Durable riches Prov. 8. 18. Because they shall be more durable then temporall riches are and shall endure for ever Precious riches Prov. 24. 4. Because they shall be farre more precious then any temporall riches can be Pleasant riches Prov. 24. 4. Because they shall be more pleasant to the injoyers then temporall riches can be True riches Luke 16. 11. because they shall afford more truth of content then any temporall riches can Vnsearchable riches Ephes 3. 8. Because the worth and value of them cannot in this life be searched out unto perfection as the value of temporall riches may for there is none so rich in this world in respect of his earthly substance but he may by himselfe or his friends search out the farthest end of his wealth and may know what his outward estate is worth to be bought or sold but the Riches of which I speake cannot be thus serrched out in this life seeing here we know but in part and prophecy in part and they are called the Riches of Christ Ephes 3. 8. Because they shall be none other but such as Christ hath purchased with his most precious bloud So from both these descriptions I may infer That the the rich estate of Gods Elect in the world to come shall be a rich inheritance And that they shall have such a rich inheritance in the vvorld to come may be thus proved 1. That they shall have unsearchable riches in the vvorld to come such as Christ hath purchased for them shall have a rich estate or inheritance in that vvorld But Gods Elect shall have unsearchable riches in the world to come such as Christ hath purchased for them Ergo they shall have a rich inheritance in that world 2. They that are or shall be rich in faith in this life shall have a rich estate in the world to come But Gods Elect are or shall be rich in faith in this life as may appear by that of the Apostle Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith Iam. 2. 5. Ergo. 3.

the same day with the second Coming of Christ as appears 1 Thes 4. 16. and for this cause it is said That the dead shall rise and be raised at the last day Joh. 6. 39 40 54. and 11. 24. where the day of Christs second Coming is called the last day not absolutely but respectively as I conceive because it shall be the first and last day of that nature and kind And though Zach. 14. we know not this day as we know other days by way of computation from the beginning yet we must know it to be the last day in the former sence Eighthly It informeth us That the last Resurrection 8 Informat shall produce a great change in or upon the bodies of men women and children For though in this Resurrection of which I speak our bodies shall be the same with these 1. For Essence because whatsoever is essential to these shall be essential to them as head and ears eyes hands and feet c. 2. For Propriety because every one shall receive his own body again 1 Cor. 15. as God shall give unto every dead seed it s own body and so we shall see Christ not with other but with these same eyes Job 19. 27. Yet in the last Resurrection our bodies shall not be the same with these either 1. For Substance because the substance of these shall perish and be brought to dust Gen. 3. and the substance of those shall be formed and raised as is probable out of the dust of these not out of the substance of them Indeed those bodies of men which have been translated without death and those bodies of men which shall be changed without death probably shall have the same substance in the World to come which now they have But I speak here of the dead bodies of men and do not think that they shall be the same for substance with these which now we have for the Reason before alledged 2. Neither shall our bodies in the last Resurrection be the same with these for Qualities because they shall be changed in this respect For whereas 1. These bodies are corruptible those shall be incorruptible 2. These bodies are mortal those shall be im●ortal 1 Cor. 15. 42 43 44. Phil. 3. 21. 3. These bodies are weak and frail those shall ●e strong and able 4. These bodies are deformed and vile those ●hall be well formed 5. These bodies are natural those shall be spi●itual 6. These are it may be imperfect for stature or ●imbs those shall be perfect in both respects And thus the last Resurrection shall produce a great change in or upon the bodies of dead men and women Being thus informed touching the last Resurrection we should be admonished from hence to beware of all erroneous opinions in reference to this Subject As 1. If any think there shall be no such Resurrection Vse as the Sadduces thought Mat. 22. 23. as some Philosophers Epicureans and Stoicks thought Acts 17. 18. and as some amongst the Corinthians thought 1 Cor. 15. 12. This is an erroneous opinion contrary to the Informations before given and we should beware of it because they who thus think are not much better then Atheists but are much worse then some Pagans in former times who acknowledged the Resurrection of the dead and an everlasting life after death 2. If any think this Resurrection is past already with Hyminetus and Philetus 2 Tim. 2. 18. This is an erroneous opinion too and we should beware of it because they who thus think conceive that either the Scripture speaks of no other Resurrection but a spiritual Resurrection or of no other Resurrection but such corporal resurrections as ha●● been heretofore whereas it hath been shewed b●fore That the Scripture doth plainly distinguish th● last Resurrection from both these 3. If any think that the reasonable soul of ma● is mortal and shall dye with the body it is an erro●● not only against those plain places of Scriptu●● Psal 16. Luke 23. Luke 16. which teaches That the Souls of Christ of the penitent Thief of Dives and Lazarus were living while their bodies were dead but also against th● doctrine of the last Resurrection For if these soul● of men should dye with their bodies what bette● reason can there be given for the resurrection o● dead men then may be given for the resurrection o● dead beasts birds and fishes wherefore beware o● this opinion 4. If any think that dead beasts as well as dead men shall rise again at the last day they are much deceived also as may appear by what hath been said before in this Section and this brutish conceit is a plain denyal of that difference which Solomon puts betwixt a man and a beast in their death Eccl. 3. 21. and shews themselves to be ignorant of it therefore beware of it 5. If any think that the dead in Christ shall rise a thousand years before those men which are dead out of Christ we must take this for an error too though it hath many friends because the Word of God teacheth us to allow but one day for the last Resurrection called the last day Joh. 6. 39 40 54. and 11. 24. in which this great Work shall be finished How then can the dead in Christ rise a thousand years before the rest of the dead unless this one last day shall contain a thousand years from the morning to the evening of it which I suppose none of them will acknowledg for a truth Wherefore when it is said The dead in Christ shall rise first 1 Thess 4. 16. we must understand that they shall rise first in ●rder of dignity if not first in time as we said before And suppose they shall rise some moment of time ●efore the rest of the dead yet we have no reason ●o think that they shall rise a thousand years before ●hem And whereas it is said The rest of the dead ●ived not again until the thousand years were ex●ired Revel 20. we are to understand that Saint ●ohn in this place and in the Context doth acquaint ●s with two sorts of dead men viz. some are dead ●n Christ and these are yet alive in him and shall ●ive with him in Heaven by virtue of their spiritual Resurrection until the thousand years there spoken ●f shall be expired And others are dead out of Christ and these shall never live by virtue of a spi●itual Resurrection neither shall they live again by ●irtue of a corporal Resurrection until the thou●and years before mentioned shall be expired And ●f this be the true meaning of the place as I conceive ●● is it makes nothing at all for this last Opinion ●ut proves it rather to be erroneous and therefore we should take heed of it Again This Doctrine touching the last Resur●ection should exhort and stir us up to divers du●ies As 1. To beleeve the last Resurrection seeing we have so many Scriptures to confirm it for when our Saviour had

1. That the Execution of it shall immediately follow the Sentence of it For no sooner shall that Sentence be given but forthwith the righteous shall go into life eternal and the wicked shall go away into everlasting punishment Mat. 25. 46. 2. That the Execution of it shall be full and compleat in all things according to the Sentence For nothing shal be found in the Sentence which shall be found wanting in the Execution but in all things according to the Sentence shall the Execution be they that shall be blessed in the Sentence shall be blessed in the Execution and they that shall be cursed in the Sentence shall be cursed in the Execution and so Christ shall render unto every man according to his works Rev. 22. To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality eternal life But unto them that are contentious and obey not the truth but obey unrighteousness indignation and wrath tribulation and auguish Rom. 2. 7 8 9. 3. That the Execution of it shall continue for ever For it is granted that the felicity of the godly and the misery of the wicked shall have no end in the World to come And if so then it will follow that the Execution of this last Judgment shall have no end but shall continue for ever both in multiplying of joys upon the godly and in multiplying of sorrows upon the wicked And what else can befall them both after the Sentence of this Iudgment but the Execution thereof Wherefore if we take the day of Iudgment for the day of Sentence we cannot say with Mr Mede and say truly That it On the Apotalyps shall continue a thousand years But if we take the day of Iudgment for the day of Execution we may say and say truly That it shall continue for ever Now as the Scripture doth thus inform our judgments concerning the last Iudgment so doth it also Vse apply ●●e same Doctrine for the reformation of our lives Partly by way of Dehortation And so this Doctrine of the last Iudgment should dehort us in general from the practise of all sin because every sin unrepented of and unpardoned shall be brought to judgment and receive a just recompence of reward Eccles 12. 14. And in particular it should dehort us 1. From Atheism in all degrees because they that shall be found in the guilt of this sin without a pardon for it at the day of Iudgment shall suffer for it according to the full desert of their sin And God shall then say unto such an Atheist Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thy self but I will reprove thee and set those things in order before thine eyes Psal 50. 21. 2. From sinful ignorance in all kindes because they that shall be found in the guilt of this evil without a pardon for it at the day of Iudgment shall suffer for it as it is written He that knoweth not his Masters will shall be beaten with stripes Luk. 12. 48. And Christ at his second Coming shall take vengeance on such as know not God 2 Thess 1. 8. 3. From sinful unbelief in all kindes because such as shall be found in the guilt of this evil without a pardon for it at the day of Iudgment shall be condemned for it and shall suffer according to their demerit as it is written He that beleeveth not shall be damned Mar. 16. 16. And the unbeleevers shall have their portion in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone Rev. 21. 8. 4. From sinful impenitency in every kinde because such as shall be found in the guilt of this evil without a pardon for it at that day shall perish for it everlastingly according to that of our Saviour Excepe ye repent ye shall all perish Luke 13. 1 2. 5. From sinful disobedience in every kinde because such as shall be found in the guilt of this evil without a pardon for it at that day shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of God and the glory of his power 2 Thess 1. 9. 6. From sinful envy and grudging at the good of others because such as shall be found in the guilt of this evil without a pardon for it at that day shall be severely judged and condemned for it according to that of Saint James Grudg not one against another brethren lest ye be condemned behold the Judg standeth before the door Jam. 5. 9. 7. From rash and peremptory judging one of another because such as shall be found in the guilt of this evil without a pardon for it at that day shall be condemned for it according to that of Saint James My brethren be not many Masters knowing that ye shall receive the greater condemnation Jam. 3. 1. 8. From sinful swearing in every kind because such as shall be found in the guilt of this evil without a pardon for it at that day shall be condemned for it according to that of S. James But above all things my brethren swear not neither by Heaven nor by the Earth nor by any other Oath but let your Yea be Yea and your Nay Nay lest ye fall into condemnation Iam. 5. 12. 9. From sinful security because such as shall be found in the guilt of this evil without a pardon for it at that day shall be greatly terrified in their consciences in so much that they shall hide themselves in the Dens and Rocks of the Mountains and shall say unto the Mountains and Rocks Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great Day of his Wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Rev. 6. 16 17. 10. From unmercifulness because such as shall be found in the guilt of this evil without a pardon for it at that day shall be severely punished for it according as it is written There shall be Judgment merciless to them that shew no mercy Iam. 2. 13. 11. From Adultery and Whoredom because such as shall be found in the guilt of this evil without a pardon for it at that day shall be judged for it as it is said But Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judg Heb. 13. 3. 12. From all Errors in opinion especially such as relate to this Subject As 1. That this Iudgment is yet far off 2. That the day of Sentence shall continue a thousand years 3. That the place of this Iudgment shall be in this present world Now such and all other Errors should be abandoned because such as shall be found guilty of them without a pardon at this great Day shall be condemned for them as S. Peter saith of erroneous persons Their Judgment lingereth not their Damnation slumbereth not 2 Pet. 2. 3. Partly also this Doctrine of the last Judgment is applyed in Scripture by way of Exhortation And so it should exhort us in general to the practise of all known duties seeing we