Chap.r.Sect./· Looking unto f cfus. Book v. 107.) works (except men, Angels, and devil s, heaven and hell, the two manllons for the faved and damned) ihall be totally and finally ddfolved and annihilated. And of this opinion were Hilary, Clement, and all theanw:nt~ before [ erome; and ofour Moderns not a few. For my part I rather enc!ine this way, be. caufe of the many scriptures that are fo expreffe, I {hall mention only thefe.-Man lyeth d~wn and rifeth not till the heavens J b benomore.~O[cld thouh4f laidtbe foundationsof the e,trth,;ral~{~11%.~ 5, and the heavens are the work! of th) hands, they fball perifb, but 26. thou/b~tlt endure. All the ho11jfHf heavm foal! br: dijfolved, and theheavenfball be rolled together 1M afcroll; and all the hoafts fb.r//Ila 34•4· fall duwn, M the leafe falleth from the vine, and M.a falling jig from the fig-tree. To which prophelle [ohn feems to allude1 And the Rev.6.•4· heavens departed M a fcrowle when it is rolled together, dnd every mountaine and lfland were moved out of their places. Again, heaven and earthjha!l pajfe11way (faith ( hri£t) but my VVordjha!tMn. 14.;6. not paffi away.--The day ~[the Lord will come M a thiefe in thc1 Pet. 3· :•· night, in the which the heavens jhall paf{e litWII} with a grea't noyfe, and the elementJ jhfdl mdt with fervent heate, the earth .!!l{o, tmd the works that are therein, fba!l be burnt up. - And the werld pllj[eth away, 11nd the luftsthereof, br.t he that doth the will ofGod 1 Job, 2 •17• abideth for ever.-And I Jaw agre,lt white throne, and him that R,ev.2o.11. fate on it, from whofe face the earth and the heavm fled away, and there wM found no place for_ 'tbem. Now I would demand whether being no more, as [ob; and perijhint, as David; and rolling together, andfalling downlik§ a withered leafe, as !far : and paffing away, as our Saviour, and Peter, and .fiJing away, as [ohtt; do not include an Utter abolition? If to thefe Scriptures I ihDuld addeone reafon, I would argue from the end of the worlds creation; was it not partly for the glory of God ? and partly for the ufe ofman ? now fort he glory ofGod, the manifefiation of it is occalloned by the manifeftation of the world unto man; ifman therefore ihould be removed out of the world, and no creattlre in it be capable of fuch a manifefiatien, what would become of his glory? And for the ufe of man, that is either to fupply his neceffity in matter ofdyet, phyGck, building, apparel; or for his infiruc1:ion, direction , recreation, comfort, ddight; now when he {hall att~ i ne that bleffed efiate of enjoy•ng God, and feeing God face tv face, the 'e end s or be like mufi. needs
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