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Show faring. or A CHRISTIAN. Chip. 3 . holdeth alfo in this, that as Adam loft Eternall Life by his fin,and yet lived after it for a timetfo the faithful Chrifiian hath recovered Eter- nal Life by Chrifis pallion,though he die a natural dcath,and remaine were dead, yetasit is in the text, the lived to God; that is dead for a time-7 namely, till the Refiirreetionfor as Death is recko. were written in the Book of Life wit them that were abfolvcd 0); their finnes, and ordained to Life eternal! at the Refiirred‘tion That ned from the Condemnation of Adam,not from the Execution 3‘ to Life is reckoned from the Abfolution, not from the Refurretftion of them that are elected in Chrifi. That the place wherein men are to live Eternally, after the Refur- it", ‘F: 5-5,, 1%,. "flu-'2". 'Px::- Orr #:7ku k _ Aftcni‘n: itra broom. rm 3. COMMON-WEALTH. elm? 38. And though at that time the Patriarehs and many other faithfull me reétion,is the Heavens,meaning by Heaven,tho{e parts ofthe world, which are the molt remote from Earth,as where the {tars are,or above the flats,in another Higher Heaven,called Cwlum Empyrmm,(\vliere- of there is no mention in Scripture,nor ground in Reafonhs not eafily to be drawn from any text that I can find. By the Kingdome of Heaven, is meant the Kingdom of the King that dwelleth in Heaven and his Kingdome was the people of lime], whom he ruled by the Prohets his Lieutenants,firfi Mofes,and after him E1eazar,and the Sove- raign Prieftsaill in the days of Samuel they rebelled,and would have a mortall man for their King,after the manner of other Nations.And when our Saviour Chrifl,by the preaching of his Minii‘tersdhaH have perfwaded the Jews to return,and called the Gentiles to his obedience, then [hall there be a new Kingdom ot‘l-leaven-7 . becau‘fe our King Iliall then be God, whofe t/zrom' is Heaven; without any neceihty evrdent in the Scripture, that man fliallafcend to his happinefle any higher than Gods j'oorflool the Earth. On the contrary,we find writtenUo/J. 3. 1 3 .)that no mm 1142/; aft-molar! mo Hcaveman he tlmt crime donut from Humane")! the Son 9fman,1/)iiti5in Hm 11m. \Vherc I obi‘erve by the way,that thefe words are not, as thol‘e which go ilniR-Jelldtcly before,the words ofour, Saviour,but of Snjohn lllllli‘clitiin' C hril't was then not in Heaven,but upon the Earth. The like is laid ot David (Aft: 2.34.)where St. Peter, to prove the Attention ol‘Chrift, ufing, the words ofthe Pfalmifl, (I'ftzl. i 6. Io.)'I'/2ou wilt not [owe myfom‘e in He/I,not [uflrer thin: Holy om Iojte corruptioo,laith,tiiey were {pokenfnot of David,but) ofChrift-aind to prove it,addeth this Keaton, For David or no! aflmdm' into Heaven. But to this a man may talily aniwer,and fay, that though their bodies were not to attend till the gene tall day ot‘]udgment,yet their fouls were in Heaven as {oon as they were departed from their bodies-,which alto {eenieth to be confirmed by the words oi‘our Saviour (Ln/cc 20. 37, 38.) who proving, the Refurrec'tion out ofthe words ot Molbsfaith thus, TIMI III/t rind are rmféa'ga'm Major/bawdy ilwérzflr,wbm be calla/J 1/2: Lord, 1/}: God ofAlmi/Jizm,ana' ti 6 God of 1/:1.1(,t1i/.'l' [be God ofhzcob. I or be 5'5 no: a God oft/1c Dma', out oft/Jo Living/or they all 111': to [Jim But it there words be to be undcrf'tood only ofthe Immortality ot‘the Soul. they prove not at all that which our-Saviour intended to provenvhicli wasthc Rel‘urrcc‘tion ot‘the Body, that is to fay, the Immortality 01 the Manll‘heretore our S;l\‘lOUI‘.mL‘;‘.ncIll,tl1;it their": l'atriarchs were Immortall 3 not by a property coni‘equent to the ellince , and, nature of mankind; but by the will ot‘ (jod, that was plt‘llhl "X his mere grace , to bellow L'tcrm/l lg: upon the fair null. A rid than the Soul of man is in its own nature Eternall, and a livino Creature, inpfiedendent on the body; or that any meer man is Immozitall otherwne than by the Refurrec‘tion in the lafl day, ( except 15not and iiiru, )15 a doctrine nor apparent in Scripture. The whole 14. Cha - ter oftoo, which is the ipeech not of his friends, but ofhimfelfe complaint of this Mortality of Nature; and yet no contradiftidn is a of the Immortality at the Rei'urreétion. from it bop: of 4 me( faith hee t'erfe 7.) fit [ac c/Z dorm, Thug/2 t/xc root t/Iereof wax gld am! to flock thereof/11': in t/Jegrozmd, yet wow it fame") [be water 2'; mi/l 5 dc turd/Wing fort/J dong/1o; [Ike/z P/dfir. But man 51'}er and nut/£7; Army, yea, mmgiwz /z up [/16 G/zzfl, andw/Jore is be? and (verfe t2 ‘ mm lot/1 (11mm, and rifetlj not, till the bedroom 65 no more B. I when is it, that the heavens {hall be no more? St. Peter iris at the generallRelurreetion. For in his 2. Epiltle 3 tells . tl ut Phus; mt and 7ver1e, he faith, that t/Io Heaven: and tire Earth 3162:! ZreaprerD orore/ere'cdimto firedgair/fl the day of Illdgmeflt 47rd forditioftoja' ungodly mm, and(vcrfe 12. ) 100mg fan, and dot/fin" 777mg ofGod,w/Jcrc.'n the Herwomflmll be on fire andflm to toe as f fi rmd (/71: Element: llm/l molt wit/1 fervent 15ml. 'Ne'vert 5e dgflol- 7:de/effe 117:: , cording to [lie promo/é look for mm Hernia/15 amid new Earth anode fa'yt*r*'/t't/} rig/IfWI/fiff/fe. Therefore whereilob faith man rif th Hm till the Heavens be no more; it is all one as ifhe htdf "d cl "Qt fimortall . '1 \ tLite (and _ Soule , and Litein ' t l 1e Scriptu i, ' re, do t ufually at ,tieinn-rInt- it t. chime thing ) beginneth not in man, till the Rel‘urrcé‘tion 3nd Lily or judgement; and hath tor caufe, not his fpecificall nature9 a d gent-patron, buttht l'i‘oiiiiie. For St. Peter faies not, Wee looiéjgor 27;, JEJ'Lu/J , flild a new eon/2, ( from thure,) but fro)" Pro» pliifiiigiffimrri? ithatlh bfleen‘alrerady proved out of diversevident C , _ p re3 int ie ,5. chapter or this book, that the Kin0do m‘ oi (rod is a_Civil(,ommon~wealth,where God himfelt‘is So 0* '0 by Venue hril of the old, and lince of the New Cov ' vemw)' he _ reignet v, h b 3 this Vica. r, or Lieuten ‘ ' ant7 the fame places CINDY )doWhCI'C the m‘ Lore afilio prove, that atterthe comming again ofour saviour in his ot‘kléod‘i: irdbcgdhl i31?}: min zilfttially, and Eternally; the Kingdom, out ot'placcs ()t‘sm lt , . ut ccaule this doctrine (though proved mena now, h I l p Ere nor few, nor obfcurci) Will 0r ant-tithe; l5" doc utpropound it, maintaining appear to molt nothing in this, pure 6m": 1,‘pt til ox ot Religion; but attending the end of that dill Countrey-n120121 ,‘coinée rning the Authority, 3 not yet amongfi my proved 'or Wizard" t) j)lb}:1"hmil all forts of doctrine are to bee a "fume:"'it'liati‘ocvc; bténttb: tote commands, both in ipeech, and 1 ~ _ . t , . ,n ' crittrine conterning the Kingdome God, have (0 great lnflElCnCC on 21,131; to be prorated ifll'ifli'i123?bhyd )Ingrid:H $5 |