eges fittel for them, an1 ca!ſel by the Spirit the Kingdom of Hea- vn 3 it ſurpaſſing the Sinai Church-State as much as Heaven 0 oh Earth ; and he is now proceeding to caft down Papijm, or mon Chriſtian-Pag aniſm, and Mahometiſm, Revel. 19. 19, 20, 21, and to ſubdue the generality of Men, both Jews and Gentiles, to Him. ſelf, Zech. 14. 9g. Rom. I. 25, 26, when this Chriſtian Heavenly Frame ſhall be advanced to an higher degree by the deſcent of th New Ferufalem from God out'of Heaven, Rev, 21. r, 2, and 26 i 7 ver, 1, to6, In the which the Kingdom of Chriſt ſhall he meg peaceable, glorious and proſperous. And to the rendring of it em;. nently ſo, Scripture ſeems to intimate, That the Bodies of the Martyrs of Jeſus ſhall be raiſed, and-their Souls united to then; and ſo be made conformable to Chrift's glorified Perſon, Phi}, % tc comp. Keve?. 20. 4,5, 6, Theſe will their Lord fend down "gy to this new World to have the ſame ftate in it, and to perform the ſame Offices to the Saints, as the Angels had, and did in the Wortz paſt, Mark 12. 25. there to be Kings, and Reign as the Angelicai Thornes and Principalities did before, Rev. 5. 10, and 25, 4, A; Prieſts help on the Saints Duties,and inſtrutt them in the Matters the Kingdom of God,and ſo anſwer in Conformity to their Head.zc he was fortyDays after his Reſurre&ion ; during whoſe reign in this new World the Devil ſhall be chained up, ſo as they ſhall not he i. teſted, nor the Nations deceived, as formerly they were by him, Revel, 20. 1, 2, 3» ſo as there ſhall be no need of good Ange!s tg oppoſe or reſtrain him. At the cloſe of which thouſand Years tha Devil will be looſed for a little while, as v. 3, 7, 3. and infeſt > World,when the great Lord and King of it ſhall in the greateſt $9. lemnity deſcend into the Air with all kis Hoſts of Angels, and by the Trumpet of God ſounded by the Arch-angel,the Dead in Chriſt thall firſt be raiſed, and the Living changed in the twinkling of an Eye ; and being openly own'd and acknowledged by the Supreme Judge, ſhall be Affeſſors with him, when the Judgment ſhall pro. ceed by the Angels, bringing Devils and all impenitent Mankind tg the Barr of Chriſt, where the vaſt Accounts of them ſhall be caſt up and audited, and on the Charge againſt them they ſhall be found ſpeechleſs and conviet,fo as the great Judge ſhall ſolemnly ſentence them, and it be afſented to, and applauded by all the Saints, Revel, 2. It, 12, 15. comp. 1 Cor, 6, 2, 3. and be as glorioully executed by the Miniſtring Angels, Marth. 13. 41,42, 43. And lo this great King and Lord having thus ſhut up the ſcene of this World, (hal return in Triumph into the Heaven of Heavens, and there, in the heighth of his Glory deliver up his Kingdom to the Father,thac God may beall inall, 1 Cor, 15. 22, to 29, # We deſcribe it fur- ther in the following Teſtimony, and in this Epiſtle, as to fom? part of it, 6 But one in a Certain place teſtified w ſaying x, * What is man y, that thou art mindful of him = ?;:;-;, : F Falk or the ſon of man a that thou viſiteſt him b ? | w The Spirit proves «fjirmitively out of one of the Prophets, that with theſe Hebrews it might have the moreWeight and Autho. rity, by an Elliptical Speech, 7hat this World to come was ſujet to the great Goſpel-Miniſter, But to Feſus he put in Subjettion the World to come, as one teftifieth : This Ce was the King and Pro- phet David, a Lord and Son to whom was this Feſus, the Title of the eighth P/alm aſcribes it to him; he is not particularly 1amed, becaule theſe Hebrews well knew it, yet he Neuzgmerm, throuchly teſtified, or moſt expreſly giving a full Confirmation ot what is af: ſerted, that Jeſus is the Lord of the World to- come : And this ſomembere was a well known Place, and very ready with thoie He- brews, even Pſalm 8, x Making, it known by Word and Writing
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\ there, beyond contradittion., y The Subjett of David's Admiration is not the firſt Adam, nor any meer Man, but the Goſpel-Prophet, God-Man, a moſt eminent one, the Meſhah of theſe Hebrews, the Man Chriſt Feſus, 1 Tim, 2.5, and to him only are the Priviledges vouchſafed agreeable, and by him only enjoyed. For Aim had
now loſt his Dominion, when this Pſalm was penn'd, and was neves
{9 honoured as to haye all things under his Feet, even Principalities and Powers, which Chriſt had, v. 6. Ephbeſ. 1, 20, 21, 22, and Chriſt interprets it of himſelf, Matth, 21. 16, The Expoſtulation is reſolvable : Man is nothing in himſelf, that ſuch Royalty ſhould be aſſigned ro gm. + That God ſhould reſpet him, ſhould remember and defign ſuch a Worm, and Man for ſo great Preferment, as Uni- on to the Deity and Univerlal dominion. 4 This is the peculiar Title of the /econd Adam. Adam was a Man, but not the Son 05 Man, but of God by Creation, Luke 3. 38. but the Spirit teſtifietit this of Chrift, Day. 7. 13. Lord of the Sabbath, Luke 6. 5. C04- Man, John 3. 13. and 5, 27. b Emoxern 10 be pecultariy iT fpeic- ed; and with a ſpecial care concerned tor him, ſo in{initriouly, and with ſo great a Providence to afford him ſuitable Succour. 156e Form of it is an Expoſtulation with Admiration : Jt 75 an Amart- ment at the Diſcovery of ſo ſtupendous Love to Min, How em: tied BY himſelf for Sinners ? This Work of Chrif is the greatelt Wore: and Afftoniſhment to Angels,
7 Thou madeſt him c þ a little lower &d than angels, thou crownedſt him with Glory and nour e, and didſt ſet him over the works Of hands f.