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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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creatures rejoyce at the comming of Christ to Judgement Psal 96. 11 12 13. because then they shall be restored againe to their first perfection by these things I know that what God doth it shall be for ever Eccles 3. 14. Yet I am confident that in this world before the end of it here well bee glorious dayes for the Gospell shall be Preached in many nations together in the last dayes in the times of the Gospell being the third and last age of the World when the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountaines and exalted above the hills that is the Gospell shall Micah 4. 1 2 3. Isa 2. 2 3 4 prevaile against and above all mountaines and hills of opposition and all nations shall flow unto it and many nations shall goe and say come let us goe up to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob he will teach us of his wayes and we will walke in his paths for out of Zion shall goe forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem and he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people that is Christ by his Church and people will bridle and curbe and keepe under the power of the enemies but the next words cannot well be fulfilled in this world before the end that is when they shall beate their swords into Ploughshares and their speares into Pruning hookes and learne warres no Vers 4. 2 Cor. 10. 4. 2 Tim. 2. 2 3 4. Mat. 24 7 8 more for all the life of a Christian is but warfare and we must indure hardnesse as a good Souldier and we know by experience what warres hath beene this last age under the Gospell and so they shall continue for Kingdome shall be against Kingdome and there shall be warres and rumours of warres till the comming of Christ to Judgement but after that day when the Saints shall have all things restored to them in their first perfection Mat. 13. 41 42. and all things are taken out of his Kingdome that doe offend and that doe iniquity and are cast into the furnace of fire by the Angels at that day then I suppose the Saints shall dresse the gardens and prune the vineyards as Adam did in his innocency yet for pleasure and recreation not working as a toyle but for delight then shall this be fulfilled there shall be warres no more but in the most glorious times under the Gospell before the end of the world wee shall never be freed from warres as I said before but when Kingdome is against Kingdome and Nation against Mat. 24 6 7. 14. 29 30 36. Nation then shall the Gospell be Preached in all the world for a witnesse unto all Nations and then shall the end come and immediately after the tribulation shall appeare the signe of the Sonne of man in heaven yet the Judgement day knoweth no man nor Angell in heaven But it will be very glorious times when the hearts of Lions Tigers Wolyes Leopards and Cockatrices shall be taken from them and the hearts of Lambes and Children given to them so that they shall not hurt nor destroy in the Isa 11 6 7 8 9 10 11. mountaine of the Lord but the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters that cover the Sea then shall his rest be glorious when his wayes are knowne upon earth and his saving health is come into all Nations and some shall be redeemed out of every Nation every kindred tongue and people Other sheep he hath which are not yet of this fold them also I must bring and they shall heare his voyce and there shall be one fold and one shepherd yet all this in troublous times Dan. 9. 25. The children of Israel shall returne and seeke the Lord their God and David Psal 67 2. Rev. 5. 9. Joh. 10. 16. Hos 3. 5. their King and shall feare the Lord and his goodnesses in the latter dayes Zions righteousnesse shall goe forth as brightnesse and the salvation therof as a lampe that burneth and the Gentiles shall see thy righteousnesse and all Kings thy glory and thou shalt be called by a new name which the Isa 62. 1 2 3. mouth of the Lord shall name thou shalt also be a crowne of glory in the Lord a Royall Diadem in the hand of thy God Arise shine for the light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee for darknesse shall cover Isa 60. 1 2 3 4 5. the earth grosse darknes the people but the Lord shall rise upon thee his glory shall be seen upon thee the gentiles shall come to thy light Kings to the brightnes of thy rising thy sonnes shall come from farre thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side then shalt thou see and flow together and thy heart shall feare and bee enlarged because the abundance of the Sea shall be converted unto thee and the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee surely these will be glorious times when Jewes and Gentiles so well accord to serve the Lord and this shall bee before the end and I Rev. 31. 13. 18 19. hope it is neare at hand that Antichrist shall downe this Kingdome being the tenth part of the great City which now is falling off and the rest will soone molder away and the Kingdomes of the world are become the Kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ and the Temple of God was opened in heaven and there was seene in his Temple the Arke of his Testament the Nations were angry then what makes the Nations so angry with us how quiet have the Nations been these hundred yeares till now the tenth part of the City fell and the Temple is opened and the Arke and the Testimony are seene that is Christ and the saving doctrines of election and free grace are clearely laid open this makes the Nations angry but we hope in this great Earthquake all the superstition and Idolatry of Antichrist will tumble downe and many of those gracious promises shall be fulfilled But as the destruction of Jerusalem and the destruction of the world foretold in the Gospell are so infolded together that it is hard to distinguish one from the other because that in many things they doe so agree Mat. 24. yet in some things they may be knowne so the restauration of Jerusalem or the calling of the Jewes doth so agree with that restauration of all things to the first perfection and the comming downe of that Jerusalem out of heaven Rev. 21. 2. that it is hard to distinguish the one from the other yet in some things they may be knowne I will here name some places of the Scripture which I suppose the promises are so mixed that they neither can be applyed before nor after but partly before and partly after it is said judgment shall dwell in the Wildernesse