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A43577	The general assembly: or, A discourse of the gathering of all saints to Christ Wherein it appears that all saints in all places and ages, shall be at last gathered together to Christ their head. Together with the time, manner, ends and reasons of this last great congregating of all saints, and what use may be made thereof. Being some meditations upon 2 Thess. II. 1. By O. H. minister of the Gospel.	Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1766; ESTC R221312	62,244	144

it is but a short absence there shall be a joyful meeting A little recess shall be attended with an everlasting converse David would not mourn for his dead Child for saith he I shall go to him but he shall not return to me 2 Sam. 12.23 ch 18.33 but he lamented sore for Absolon whom he was never to see again with comfort Those that die in the Lord are not lost but laid up Their Bodies sleep in Jesus and their Souls rest in the bosom of their dear Lord They are with him in Paradise and say Luke 23.28 43. weep not for us but weep for your selves Imitate our Example worship the same God as we do live at the rate of Heaven let your Affections be with ours hold Communion with us This I have treated of in my Book of Heavenly Converse 6. Make ready to follow these crowned Saints They are got above we are below they pray for the filling up of their Number let us pray that we may be made meet to be partakers of the inheritances of the Saints in light Col. 1.12 The Language of Jesus Christ and all the Saints is be ye therefore ready also Luke 12.40 Be dressing your selves for that Marriage-day Blessed are they that are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb and have put on their fine linnen clean and white which is the righteousness of Saints Rev. 19. 7 8 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Righteousnesses both inherent and imputed Both are necessary for their several Ends and Uses Whether this refer to the Day of Antichrist's fall or at the Resurrection its true in both There 's great and good things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 2.9 freedom from Sin Sorrows perfection of Peace and Joy immediate Communion with God fulness of Grace and eternal Happiness Wherefore beloved seeing that you look for such things be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace without spot and blameless 2 Pet. 3.14 Watching warring wrestling working well-doing waiting till your change come with your Loins girt your Lamps light Luke 12.35 v. 36. burning and shining with Splendour and you your selves like unto men that wait for your Lord. 7. Be longing for that blessed Day when your Souls shall be gathered among them with our blessed Lord Paul saith he desired to depart and be with Christ Phil. 1.23 which is far better It s good to be with Saints here but it s far better infinitely better to be with them in Heaven where the King makes the Court and the Courtiers are all crowned Kings Is there not great reason the Saints should cry out with Monica Austin's Mother quid hic facio What do I here Or with Calvin usque quo Domine How long Lord Oh when shall my poor imprisoned Soul be set at liberty from this body of clay and this body of death When shall I mount up above the Stars into those Coelestial Regions Oh the groanings of my Soul under this body of death and distance from God Yea I groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with an house which is from heaven 2 Cor. 5.1 2 3. When will my dear Lord break down these clay-walls and break this cage and let this Soul fly up into the Heavens where it shall be perfected How long shall I dwell in Meshech and sojourn in the tents of Kedar Psalm 120.5 I am weary of Sin and distance from my dear Lord most of my godly Friends are gone when shall I follow after Why is his chariot so long in coming why tarry the wheels of his Chariots Jude 5.18 Make hast my beloved and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices Rom. 6.27 Why doth my Soul thus linger and lagg behind my old Companions Such and such are gone with whom I took sweet councel in familiar Conference about the things of God and our heavenly Country many with whom I have pray'd and praised God with whom I have sitten down at the Lord's Table now they are drinking this Wine new in my Father's Kingdom and why am I left thus far behind worshipping afar off Lord come thou down to me or take me up to thee reach out thy hand pluck me out of this low Dungeon and set me where thou hast promised Mat. 19.25 such as have followed thee in the Regeneration upon Thrones yea thou hast promised that such as overcome shall sit with thee in thy throne Rev. 3.21 The preferment is too high for such a worthless worm such a dirty villain as I am but thy promise is sure to be performed I depend upon it I long for such a day some yea thousands have taken possession I am one of thy redeemed ones thou hast given me the earnest of thy Spirit and some foretasts and perelibations of Glory Oh for a full harvest I reach out my arms towards thee and hope at last to injoy thee the spirit and the bride say come and let him that heareth say come Rev. 22.17 20. he which testifieth these things saith surely I come quickly my soul eccho's Amen even so come Lord Jesus CHAP. XI Encouragement to God's Children from the Saints gathering together in sundry Cases 5. THE last use is of Consolation or Incouragement to the People of God that there shall be such a blessed gathering together 1. That the Saints of God that have lived in all Ages shall then meet and know and injoy each other with mutual Content 'T is worth observing that Plato brings in Socrate's comforting himself with the hopes that upon his Removal hence he should be with Orpheus and Musaeu's with Hesiod and Homer Yea he should greatly be pleased with the Society of Palamedes and Ajax But oh how much more content shall translated Saints take in the Society of those Coelestial Inhabitants of whom they have so often read and heard of with delight when they shall say there stands holy Enoch that walkt with God and was translated Body and Soul to Heaven There stands Noah that just and perfect Man the Father and Founder of a New World There stands Abraham the Father of the Faithful and Friend of God There stands just Lot wrestling Jacob The beloved Joseph more glorious now then in Pharaoh's Court There stands meek Moses the Jews Lawgiver once King in Jeshurun that conversed with God face to face There stands Aaron the Saint of God far more glorious now then in his priestly Garments in the Holy of Holies There appears holy Lot patient Job zealous Josiah David the Man after God's own Heart Behold a troop comes up of Old and New Testament Saints all the Prophets Apostles Ministers Martyrs Confessours and Saints in all Ages which will represent a splendid shew next to the infinite God and our glorious Redeemer Romam in flore Paulum in ore Christum in corpore If Augustin judged it a brave sight and worth

together in one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is very emphatical it signifies to recapitalate or recollect or reduce all to an Head it implies that mankind by Sin is separated from God disjointed one from another the Members scattered just like an old ruinous House that 's fallen All the pieces thereof are gone asunder till the workman come and set them together and rear up a stately Fabrick of the old Materials Man hath not lost the faculties of his Soul by the fall but the rectitude thereof Gen. 6.5 Gen. 3.8 Luke 15. All the imaginations of Man's heart are become evil He hath banish't himself from God into a foreign Country In a natural Sense Acts 17.27 God is not far from every one of us But in a moral Sense God and unconverted Sinners are at a great distance Eph. 2.13 Chap. 4.18 they are far off alienated from the life of God but Grace brings Sinners from their wanderings The Spirit in the word unites them by a blessed cement in an efficacious manner and that he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit 1 Cor. 6.17 And the Blood of Christ unites God and the Soul meritoriously O blessed conjunction Oh Eph. 2.13 22. happy meeting God hath found out a way in the Gospel to gather together the outcasts of Israel Isa 56.8 Alass we are all as Sheep going astray Isa 40.11 John 10.16 but our Lord gathers the lambs into his armes and brings them into fold Jews and Gentiles make one fold For saith the Apostle Paul ye are all the Children of God by faith in Christ Jesus Gal. 3.26 Faith makes a mistical Union Love a Moral Eph. 4.15 But speaking the truth in love or teaching it in love may grow up into him in all things which is the head even Christ Oh this this is the foundation of all the rest conversion is the first collection 2. God gathers his Saints by Death to himself It s said of Abraham that he should be gathered to his Fathers in peace Gen. 15.15 and he was gathered to his people Gen. 25.8 Interpreters observe that this is usually applyed in Scripture to good Men and it refers to the Soul that they go to their godly progenitors Gen. 25.17 Gen. 49.29 and because this is applied to Ishmael therefore the Jews think he was a Penitent But however Num. 20.24 Chap. 27.13 the Phrase is applied most ordinarily to good Men as Jacob and of Aaron of Moses of Josiah 't is said 2 Kings 22.20 I will gather thee to thy Fathers and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace It s true he died in Battle but in peace with God and was translated into the everlasting peace with the Saints this is the way of Divine Providence to carry his Children through a tempestuous Sea into an Haven of Rest they shall not always be tormented with Satan's temptations the Worlds oppositions their own corruptions but when they have done their work here in this wary World they shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds each one walking in his uprightness Isa 57.2 Oh blessed change God gives them a quietus est from the Troubles of this wary Pilgrimage Rev. 14.13 1 Thes 4.14 they rest from their labours their bodies sleep in Jesus and are laid up safe in a quiet Repository Luke 23.43 and their Souls do enter into Paradice i. e. the third Heaven the immediate presence of God As Earth is the common Mother of all so Heaven is the receptacle of all Believers 3. God gathers them up out of their graves by the resurrection of their Bodies and the re-union of their Souls to those self same Bodies This was a Doctrine believed and well digested in the Old Testament Job 19.25 26 27. Though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God thy dead Men shall live saith Isaiah ch 26.19 together with my dead body shall they arise The New Testament doth abundantly confirm this great Article of our Faith John 5.28 29. 1 Cor. 15. Oh what an Army of Saints will start up out of the Earth Their scattered bones and dust shall be reared up and coagulated and our Lord will bring their glorified Souls along with him to sing out the high Praises of Jehovah Roses die sweetest Flowers perish and the beauteous Complexion of the Earth turns to a bleak and withered hue in Winter yet in Summer there is a kind of Resurrection If you say in them life is remaining in the Root and Seed we say the Soul is the root of the Body and Christ the root of the Soul and both are living Col. 3.34 and though there be no physical Contract yet there is a relative Union betwixt Soul and Body and a deep rooted love and inclination the Soul hath to it the silly Snail by its natural life and power can make for it self an Habitation yea a Silk-worm becomes a winged Fly See Mr. Baxter of Self-denial Page 206. the warmth of the Hen turns the Egg into a Chicken these are Emblems of the Resurrection And what cannot the Power of God effect If a skilful work-man can turn a little earth and ashes into such curious transparent Glasses why should we doubt whether the mighty Power of God can communicate a glorious perfection to the Flesh that 's dissolved into its Elements Luther saith I love the noble Art of Chymistry it is such a brave Emblem of the Resurrection O what a blessed ravishing sight will that be to see the sanctified Soul united to the glorified Body to receive their reward together This is the next 4. By the same power of God some shall be changed others raised from the dead the Souls of the glorified Saints shall descend and be united to their own Bodies and then ascend to meet the Lord in the Air and the wicked are left behind on their dunghil the earth in setters to receive their Sentence and confined to their Prisons this is that Mystery which possibly the blessed Apostle Paul heard from God when he was caught up into the third Heaven and heard unspeakable words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 worldles words 2 Cor. 12.4 This is 1 Cor. 15.51 52. Behold I shew you a mystery we shall not all sleep i. e. die but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye This is further confirmed and explained in 1 Thes 4.15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep And verse 16. The dead in Christ shall rise first then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air Verse 17. Calvin saith he speaks here of the Faithful only Calvin in 1 Cor. 15.5 the resurrection of the Wicked is a kind of