to theE P HE SI A N S. 1 47 8 ainfl the Holy Ghofi, and have the venom of this fin in theirSpirits~ofrevn~e~ ~ ·11f1God fuchas theDevil hath:except thofeGod takes of all forts.lt Js a known Strm.XI. a,:'e Matt 12. 31 . He through whofe hands all ilie Pardons of the World goes, 1../'"V'..J Jefi,; Chrifi, that ftan'ds at the fealing of them, faith, that all.mamur of,fo1 apd blaJPhemy}hallbeforg_JVe~J u11to mm. He doth not only fay, it m"!J.be foriven but he expreOy faah, •t}ha/1 beforg•vell. God bath f9 ordered 1t, thn gs all Mankind /hall fall into all forts of fin ; fo /hall fome of his E;lea do, fome i'ntofome, and fomc !nto anoth~r: that yoti can inftance in lio .fi?, or way of. finning, or aggravation of finnmg, wh1ch /hall not be pardoned to fome of the Sons of men. . ' ·. . k ,. · Then go, take all rariks, (there a;e other d~v1lions yet,) take all ran s of Poor and Rich, Kings and Nobles, W1fe and Fools; God takes of all thefe. He takes of Fools, as he faith, I(ai. 3f•8. Though qfoot, he fhall11ot erre m that way. Natural fools, God takes fome of them, and teacheth them to know Chrifl. Pray(faithhe)[orKit;gs,mtdallm Authortty; fot God would have all men •Tim.i. to be faved, all forts of raoks. See now, my Brethren, of whom th.e Church Univerfal co~lifteth, and fee the Ob{'erv. r. gloryandfplendorofit: All tlungs m Heaven, and all tl_ungs on Earth; all Nations all Famthes, all Kwdreds; whatfoever d1vdions you can mal<e. You have it, 1 Revel.)·9· and likewife Rev. 7· where the Church Univerfal is reprefented, perhaps under a particular way; yet, I fay, you /hall find it reprefented there. Firfl, in the )lhChapter, the four Beafl{ a11d the .frur tmd tumt,ty Elders, they cry unto Chrifl, they give glory unt6.h_im; for (fay they) thou wafl jlai11, a11d haft redeemedus unto God by thy blood'; o11t of ev.ry kwdr_ed, (there is Families,) andTongzu, a11dPeopte, andNatto11. Andalltlungsm Heaven come in too ver.II. A11d I heardthe votceofmanyAttge!s rouud abo;;t the Thro11e. Y~uhavethelike words, Chap.].vtr.t9· I beheld, atld loa great multitude, which 110 mmt could11ttmber, of at! Nations, a11d Kindred, and People, mtdTongues,f/oodbefore the Thr01te aJJd before the Lamb, And ver., r. A!J the At;gelt flood rotmda~ot<t tht Thro11e, aud a6out the Etder_s. The Angels come in too. Men are nearer the Throne; for 1f you obferve lt, the A11gels do ftand about the Elders. Men are nearer, becaufe (as I faid before ) they have a nearer relation to Chrift; he is in fuch a way a Head to them, as he is not to Angels. This (my Brethren) is the glory and the fpleildor of this Univerl'al Church, of the Body of our Lord Jefus Chrifl. ll.nd what ll10uld this teach us, by way of Ufe and Qbfervation, but to long for that day when we fl1all all meet thus toge– ther; when God will bring men out of all parts of the Earth, where thou /halt meet with fome of thy kindred ,Come ofthy Nation,fome that have been juft fuch Sinners as thou art ? What a glorious day will that be! We account it a glorious day, when thefrdueflof the Gentiles /hall come in, and .7ew and Gmttle /hall make up otte Sheepfold', and Chrifl be o11e Shepherd: and it will be a glorious day indeed. But the day that is to come, whenas Chrift /hall have all his Children ·about him; when God-Man, in whom all things are fummed up in his Perfon for excellency; and when Men and Angels and all/hall be gathered up to him that have been from the beginning of the World to the end of it, when that ge'neral Affembly /hall be full and compleat; and he. /hall not want, no not the leafl joynt, the leafl Member, What a glonous day Will tillS be, when God bath all his Som about him! He forbeareth now opening thefultufJ of his Glory•, becaufe hebath not all IllS Sons about lum; but when he bath them all about him then he will bring forth all his Riches,all the Treafures of his Glory: As you kn~w AhajuerU! !J,n, 1 , 2 , d1d, ~hen he had the Prmces ofthe Provinces before him in his great Palace.He was Kmg of an hundredtwenty fevm Provi11ces;and theText faith,He (ate 011 the ThrotJt of hJS Kittgdom,which was iJ1 Shufan the Palace; and he made a Feafi to at! his Pri11ces m1d his Servants,the power of Perji.t and Media,theNobles mtd Pri11ces of the Provi11ces beittg before him. It feems it was a great occaGon,whether to /hew the grcatnefs of his glory, or for what other end he calleth them up they were all before him,and then he makes a Feaft,fuch a Feafl as never was read of. So,when God /hall have all the Princes of the Earth,rhc firfl.born before him; when Men /hall comefr•m tbe Eafl, mtdfrom the Weft, and.ftdown with AbraV 2. ham,
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