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A85442	The vvorld to come. Or, The kingdome of Christ asserted. In two expository lectures of Ephes. 1. 21, 22. verses. Prooving that between the state of this world as now it is, and the state of things after the day of judgement, when God shall be all in all: there is a world to come which is of purpose, and is a more especiall manner appointed for Jesus Christ to be king, and wherein he shall more eminently reign. / Preached by Mr. Tho: Goodwin many years since, at Antholins, London. Published for the truths sake.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1266; Thomason E838_13; ESTC R207443	23,121	40

to be in the thing First to tell you what they shall not do They shall not eate and drinke nor marry and give in marriage So Christ tels us in Mat. 22. 30. The children of the resurrection do none of these things And therefore to imagine a Turkish heaven here below is the absurdity that hath been put upon it and which indeed made the Fathers many of them after the first 300. years after Christ to flye out so much against this subject for there was an opinion then that Christ should reign at Jerusalem and that they should abound in all severall pleasures and delights c. and this the Fathers were against I have told you what they do not I will tell you what they do he tels us as I sayd before that they shall be Kings and Priests as in Rev. 20. 6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection why on such saith he the second death hath no power they are out of all danger of it being in a celestial state ●ut saith he they shall be Priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a thousand yeares here is both their reigning and their Priesthood set out I would open it a little First they shall be Kings You heard before out of Heb. 2. 5. That hee hath not put this world to come in subjection to Angels The Angels now they are the Thrones and Principalities and great ones that rules this present world but the Saints shall be Kings then And for them to take the Angels places to be as the Angels now are after their resurrection there is no absurdity in it Christ saith after the resurrection the Saints they shall be as the Angels of God they shall be Priests likewise I shall take off what absurdity there may seem to be in that by this Our Saviour when he took up his body out of the grave he continued forty dayes upon the earth What did Christ do all that while It is playne he performed the part of a Priest and Prophet he did instruct them in the worship of God and speaking to them of things pertayning to the Kingdome of God so you read expresly in Acts● the Apostles had a brave Teacher Christ risen from the dead so he began that new world and he remained forty dayes here of purpose to do it Now consider is it any absurdity for the Saints to be conformed to Christ their Lord and head to run through the same states that he did he lived in this world was poore and miserable so are you when he dyed he commended his spirit into the hands of his Father and whether his soul went our souls goe So likewise when he took his body again out of the grave he remained forty dayes upon earth instructing his Disciples in the things concerning the Kingdome of God If the Saints do so when they take up their bodies againe in all this here is but a conformity to Christ he ascended then up to heaven and so shall his and be for ever with the Lord But the great objection is That the soules of men that are now in heaven and see the face of God for them to come downe and reign on earth and do such service here below it would be a disadvantage to them or changing a better estate for a worse which seemes to be a great absurdity For answer consider to take off the absurdity that even this State I speak of will be a better State then what their soules are now possessed of for otherwise our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST when his body and soule was united againe at his resurrection was not in a better state then his soule was in after death when it was seperated from his body Certainly his state after his resurrection whilst upon earth was better then his state before his resurrection but you will say they are now in heaven where they behold the face of God as the Angels do which they may loose by coming here upon earth that doth not follow for the Angels came down here below and yet Christ saith they alwayes behold the face of their father so may these Saints on earth behold the face of God Stephen though a mortall man yet the heavens were opened to him He saw the glory of God and Jesus sitting at the right hand of his Father My brethren God hath eternity of time to reveale himselfe to his people in and he doth advance his Favourites by degrees First he glorifies their souls apart after when soul and body is united it 's in a better condition simply considered then the soule had before how many wayes God hath to manifest himselfe to his Saints how many degrees they shall pass through and how many worlds he will have to do it in that is known to himself however the more the better If God shall lead you by degrees through this and that glory from one to another it will be to your advantage As in a Masque there are several shews which adds to the excellency of it God hath eternity of time to make all these shewes and representations of himselfe to his children And let mee adde this that the will that he fulfilled which is prayed for in that we call the Lords prayer Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven There is a time when the will of God shall be done on earth as compleatly as in heaven which is in that time of the first resurrection My brethren I have spoken these things as that which hath a great shew of truth in it and as that which is exceeding probable I have told you my grounds for it which I could never answer my self Now there is a fourth degree of this world to come and that I am sure will hold and that is that time during the day of judgment strictly so taken after the generall resurrection both of just and unjust Then to honour this New World not only shall the Saints come down but Jesus Christ himself will come down and abide a long day here below Therefore it is not absurdity for Saints to leave heaven when Christ himself shall do it neither will it diminish any thing from Christs happinesse for he will come and bring all his glory with him That we call the day of judgment will be a long day judg you your selves whether it will be so or no Do you think that the accompts of all the world can be cast up in the twinkling of an eye Doth not Solomon say expresly That God will bring every worke to judgment with every secret thing whether good or evill in Ecclès. 12. And doth not the Apostle say in 1 Cor. 4. 5. That when the Lord comes he will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the heart Will not this require much time surely it will be a long day when our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will do that great work or service to God the greatest that ever was more then all his preaching which is the examining the accounts of all the world convincing all man-kind of their evill and sending them speechless to Hell Things shall be so there that the Saints shall be able to judg the world too according to that in 1 Cor. 6. 2. Now here this new world will be in its height and perfection here is Christ and all his Saints and Angels about him Yet not that this world shall be subject to Angels but they shall gather all the Nations together and shall execute the sentence that Christ pronounceth against them and fling them all to Hell but the Angels shall not sit as Judges they shall stand and not sit whereas the Saints are sayd to sit upon 12. Thrones and they are said likewise in 1 Cor. 6. To judge Angels And now shall this world to come be at its perfection that creature that hath groaned under mans lusts shall then be fully restored to the glorious liberty of the sons of God the world will then be new hung This is Christs world to come wherein he shall have all things subject to him For at this time shall all things be under Christs feet and never till then for the last enemie that shall be destroyed is Death and when all things shall be subdued to him then shall the sonne also himself be subject then shall he give up the Kingdome to the Father And what that State is that shall come after Christ hath given up the Kingdome to his Father no man knows only the Scripture saith this of it That God shall be all in all and that Christ himselfe shall then be subject FINIS

THE VVorld to Come OR The Kingdome of Christ asserted In two Expository LECTURES On Ephes. 1. 21 22. verses PROOVING That between the state of this World as now it is and the state of things after the day of Judgement when God shall be all in all There is a world to come which is of purpose and in a more especiall manner appointed for Jesus Christ to be King and wherein he shall more eminently Reign Preached by Mr. Tho Goodwin many yeares since at ANTHOLINS LONDON Published for the Truths sake DAN. 7. 27. And the Kingdome and dominion and greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole heaven shall be given to the Saints of the most high whose Kingdome is an everlasting Kingdome and all Dominions shall serve and obey him LONDON Printed and are to be sold in Popes-head Alley and in Westminster Hall 1655. THE WORLD TO COME OR The Kingdome of Christ asserted In two Expository LECTURES EPHES. 1. 21 22. Farre above all principalitie and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not only in this world but also in that which is to come and hath put all things under his feet THese words set forth and proclaim the supremacy of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ over all persons by what names or titles soever distinguished or dignified in all Gods dominions belonging either to this world or that which is to come I shewed you before what it was for Christ to sit at Gods right hand as also how it was amplified by the subl●mity of the condition and by the quality of the persons over whom Jesus Christ is set by Principalities Might and Dominions he would include all sorts whatsoever as Angels good and bad and so Magistrates Now I am to speak of the extent of Christs dominion and that is in this world and in the world to come the great thing to be opened is what is meant by the world to come There are three interpretations given of the words Sence 1 First it is taken for heaven and earth this state of the world on earth that state of the world in heaven which are two worlds only here will be a question why heaven should be called a world to come when it is extant now as well as the earth which is called the present world To which it may be answered that though heaven be a world now that is extant yet to us poor creatures here below it is a world to come though it was created at the same time this lower world was its comfort to Saints that they have a world to come for wicked men come in for the greatest share in this therefore called men of this world let them take it it s their world Saints have a world to come Luke 18. 13. but this doth not seem to be that which the Apostle aimes at here Sence 2 Secondly this phrase may note the duration of Christs kingdome that it is everlasting for so in Scripture it is used to expresse eternity Mat. 12. 32. And therefore Isa. 9. 6. which we translate the eternal Father the Septuagint reads the Father of the world to cōme and so Christs kingdome is said to be for ever and ever that is not for one ever but for all evers the Apostle in Heb. 10. 12. saith that Christ after he had offered one sacrifice for sinne for ever sate down at the right hand of God Now that word for ever doth not relate to Christs sitting at Gods right hand but rather to the sacrifice he offered who for ever by one sacrifice took away sinne for it may be said that there are not Principalities and powers for ever that Christ may sit for ever at Gods right hand when this world ends there will be an end of all Principalities and powers 1 Cor. 15. 24. Then cometh the end when he shall deliver up the Kingdome to the Father and shall put down all rule c. Take notice in what sence Christ hath a kingdome and sits at Gods right hand for ever and in what sence he is said to give up this kingdome to the Father I would clear it by two distinctions Distinct 1 First there is a naturall kingdome due to Jesus Christ as he is in the God-head and a naturall inheritance due to him being man as he is joyned to the God-head For so hee inherits the priviledges of that second person which is this naturall Kingdome which he obtained and which was due to him by inheritance Heb. 1. 8. To the sonne he said thy throne O God is for ever and ever he speaks of his naturall inheritance though the right be involved in him as he is God and so he is joyned in commission for ever as God and man with the Father and so in respect of this naturall dominion of his all things are said to be made by him and for him Col. 1. 16. Now this naturall right that Jesus Christ hath remains for ever and accordingly many of those priviledges which are to be understood by his sitting at the right had of God they likewise must remaine for ever As first a fulnesse of joy At thy right hand is fulnesse of joy Jesus Christ doth enjoy a fulnesse of joy immediately by God himselfe Secondly All that personall honour and those glorious abilities which he was filled and crowned with when he went first to heaven Heb. 2. 9. all these shall remaine to eternity And they are naturally due to Christ though they were bestowed on him then when he came to heaven he is thus in commission with his Father so farre as naturall rule goes though in that respect lesse then the Father 2. The second part of this distinction is that there is a dispensa●ory kingdome that Christ hath and that is as he is considered as Mediator between God and his Church which kingdome is given to him it is not by nature due to him but as he was the Sonne of God he was chosen our to exercise that power which in this kingdome is held forth and this is pointed out by his sitting at Gods right hand which God gave him as the reward of his obedience John 5. 22 23. The Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgement to the Son It is committed to Christ he is that Lord that God hath set up to do all his businesse for him visibly and apparantly and this kingdome is in a speciall manner appropriated to Christ it is so Christs as it is not the Fathers in a more eminent manner the Father judgeth no man To appropriate a work to one person rather then another is an act of Gods wisdome hence it is that Christ hath his work for a time and afterwards gives it up to another till the day of judgement be over Jesus Christ hath the government of the kingdome and shall reigne but after the day of judgment the kingdom is to be given up to the Father the reasons why God hath appointed a

it a new world a world to come For the second Adam for the substance the same world shall be restored which was lost in Adam this God will do before he hath done with it and this restitution of it is the world to come Now then why is it called A world to come It is called so though the foundation of it be now laid and was laid then when our Lord and Saviour was upon earth the foundation of it is laid in the new creature As the first creation began the old world so this new creature begins the new world and as the old world was six days in making so this new world is not perfected at once the new creature that is in your hearts it is but the beginning of it Mark in Heb. 2. how this new world is begun and but begun and when it began Ver. 2. If the word spoken by Angels was steadfast how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation which at first began to be spoken of by our Lord and was confirmed to us by them that heard him God also bearing them witnesse c. For unto Angels hath he not put into subjection the world to come whereof we speak its plaine hee speaks before of the preaching of the Gospel which was begun to be preached by Christ and though the Angels delivered the Law yet this Gospel which is the Kingdome of Heaven and the beginning of the world to come whereof we now speak this Gospel was not delivered by Angels this world to come was not subjected to them they preached it not neither shall they have to do in that world which the Gospel begins so that you see this world to come began when Christ began to preach and therefore observe the language of the Gospel Repent saith John the Baptist for the kingdingdome of Heaven is at hand the world to come is coming upon you so our Saviour Mark 1. 14. Mat. 16. 28. There be some standing here that shall not dye saith Christ and yet all were dead that stood there long ago they shall not dye saith he till they see the Sonne of man come in his Kingdome The foundation of this world was laid by Christ in bringing in the Gospel and it was he that was Prophesied of in Dan. 2. 44. In the dayes of these Kings whiles Principalites and Powers were standing he that meant to raigne in the world came stealing in upon it In the dayes of these Kings shall the God of Heaven set up a Kingdome that shall never be destroyed c. This new world began in the flourishing and height of the Roman Monarchie what did Christ when he came into the world and afterwards went up to Heaven he began this world before that time the Devill was worshipped as the God of this world in all parts of it Christ he flings him downe Luke 10. 17 18. I saw Satan fall down like lightning Christ destroyed the Devil in all those heathen Oracles whereby people were deceived when heathenisme did not prevaile then did Jewisme shew it selfe and Christ he throws that down too by the preaching of the Gospel the Apostle cals this a shaking of the earth There was a great deal of the old world gone presently and fell down before this new world Jesus Christ he converted by the Apostles millions of soules over all the world in 2 Cor. 5. 17. Conversion is there expressed by the passing away of old things this is the first dayes work for the world is yet to come this is but a delivering us out of this present evill world and not a subjecting of it to Christ as in Gal. 1. 4. When Christ threw down heathenisme and Jewisme it was but the first dayes work like a new naile that being strucken in puts out the old one by degrees This kingdome of Christs shall break in peeces and consume all other kingdomes Dan. 2. 44. this will eat out all the Monarchies and glory of the world Now after this first days work of throwing down heathenisme and Jewisme then came a night of Popery wch was set up in the room thereof what will Christ do before he hath done he will have a second days work and will not cease till he hath thrown down every ragg all that drosse and defilement that Antichrist and Popery brought into the world We now are under the second days work we are working up still to a purer world it is still this new world working up to its perfection and Jesus Christ will never rest till he hath not onely thrown out all the drosse of this world both of doctrine and worship which conformity to the world hath brought in But for a second degree of this work Jesus Christ will not rest till he hath brought in the generallity of men in the world to be subject to himselfe the world according to Scripture account consists of Jews and Gentiles and how bitterly doth the Apostle complaine in his time of Gods cutting off the Jewes the generality of the Nation was cast off and for the Gentiles saith he Who hath beleived our report There was very few of them in comparison that did come in to Christ but there will come a time when this new world shall have a further perfection when the generality of mankinde Jew and Gentile shall come into Christ The world was made for Christ and he will have it before he have done Rom. 11. 26. All Israel shall be saved There he tels us of a new world of the Jewes and for the Gentiles he tels you They shall be cast in the vaile shall be taken from off all nations Isa. 25. 7. And that which is so much aleadged for unity shall one day be fulfilled but it will be when Christ is Lord of all the earth and not till then Christians will not agree till then here will be a brave world indeed that will be another degree of that world to come One shepheard and one sheepfold of Jewes and Gentiles and that as large as all the world John 10. 16. This was never yet fulfilled Jewes and Gentiles were never yet one sheepfold together but they shall be so one day Read the Prophets and you shall read there of strange things of glorious times that shall be here upon earth of all Nations coming into the Church the mountains of the Lords house being set on the top of the mountains and all Nations flowing unto it and of great prosperity they shall have which was never yet fulfilled and there are many fall in and acknowledge thus much that there shall be a glorious church on earth when the Jews shall be called but there is a third thing which is much controverted which here followeth The third degree of this new world is this that vvhen this glorious time comes that Jesus Christ as we have said will call home both Jews and Gentiles and have a new world in respect of the multitudes that shall come into him Christ

vvill also make this new vvorld more compleat he vvill bring part of Heaven dovvn too to add to the glory of this state I shall breifly give you some grounds for vvhat I say such as for this tvventy years I have not knovvn vvell hovv to ansvver I do not say that Christ himselfe shall come dovvn from Heaven to reign here on earth but let it be understood that Christ shall still remaine in Heaven and there to be his Court where he shall reign both over this world and the world to come Yet this I conceive that part of Heaven shall come down and rule this new world to make the glory of it the more compleat and that it may clearly put down old Adams world my reasons and grounds which satisfies me in this are these If this be not so I do not know how to understand that place which shall be the foundation of the rest in Rev. 20. the whole Capter but specially the five first verses you shall finde and such as know that Book they do acknowledge as much that in the Chapter going before both Pope and Turke is destroyed In Chap. 19. Ver. 20. it is said there The Beast was taken and with him the false Prophet that wrought miracles before him with which he deceived them that had received the marke of the Beast and them which worshipped his Image these both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone Here we see the Beast and the false Prophet is gone where is the Devill he is left still therefore in the beginning of the 20. Chapter he tels us what becomes of the Devill I saw an Angell come down from Heaven having the key of the bottomlesse pit and a great chain in his hand and he laid hold on the Devill and bound him a thousand years and cast him into the bottomlesse pit and shut him up set a seal upon him that he should deceive the Nations no more till the thousand years were ended The Devill though now he travell the Earth up and down and is ruler over the world yet here he is kept up that he may not deceive the Nations This was never yet fulfilled it could not be fulfilled during the times of Antichrist for the Devill never deceived the creatures more then he did in that time and we see how it follows in order after the Beast is taken and destroyed then is Sathan bound up but we know the Beast is not yet destroyed therefore this thing is not yet come and it cannot be after the day of Judgement his binding up for he is after his binding to be loosned a little season and you shall finde that after Satan is let loose a little while then the day of Judgement follows when all the dead shall rise and be Judged as in the 11 12 13. Verses Now take notice that when the Devill is gone and thus shut up for a thousand years what ther 's done in these thousand years of that we read in the 4 5 6 7. Verses And I saw Thrones and they sate upon them and Judgement was given unto them Who are they that have this Judgement given unto them What is meant by Judgement but reigning and Authority that such shall have And I saw the soules of them that were beheaded for the witnesse of Jesus and the word of God which were the Martyrs in the Primitive times under the Roman Emperors persecution and saith he which had not worshipped the Beast neither had received his marke on their foreheads or in their hands which were such as had stood it out in the times of Antichrist and had not defiled themselves They lived saith he and reigned with Christ a thousand years but the rest of the dead lived not againe untill the thousand years were finished this is the first resurrection Now it is said by some that the first resurrection is a spirituall resurrection of mens souls from the death of sinne such interpretations are commonly put upon it Now I desire you would consider with your selves a little and weigh the place First of all it is the body of men that are said to be dead that is plaine for they are said to be beheaded or slaine with the sword for the witnesse of Jesus It cannot be said so of the soule that it 's beheaded or slaine with the sword And as the death is such must be the resurrection but their death was a naturall death and their resurrection must be answerable And saith he They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years This is not meant the glory of heaven that reigned with Christ onely there for so they shall reigne for ever with him and so they had reigned from the first time that they were slain they were with Christ in glory but this reigning is upon their rising from the dead for saith he The rest of the dead lived not againe therefore this rising of theirs is a living againe This saith he is the first resurrection Now my brethren consider further where doe these reigne It seemes it is on earth by this argument because why else is the Devill bound up he need not be bound up for their reigning in Heaven but we see here as a preparation to their reigning the Devil is bound this is a place I could urge multitude of things out off but I must not enlarge I know not likewise how to answer another place Rev. 5. 10. where we have the the Saints in Johns time saying Thou hast made us Kings and Preists and we shall reigne on earth They do not say vve do reign but vve shall reign on earth and then joyne with that what is said in 2 Pet. 3. 13. We according to his promise looke for new heavens and a new earth c. We Apostles we Saints that live now we look for it how prove you that because the use he makes of it shews as much as in ver. 14. Wheréfore beloved seeing you looke for such things be deligent that you may be found of him in peace without spot and blameless It could be no argument to them in those times to be holy and blamelesse If they that lived in those times might not personally look for it and what was it which according to his promise the Saints then looked for it is for a new heaven and a new earth If we take heaven properly there is new heavens to be made but the old heavens shall continue which was made from the foundation of the world and where we shall ever be with Christ after the day of judgment And how is there a new earth It shall be an earth wherein righteousness dwels because as I said it will be a new world subject to Jesus Christ when the new Jerusalem comes down from heaven if you aske me what the Saints that rise from the dead shall do here in this new world For that I shall give you such considerations as shall take off the absurdity that seems