to theE P H E S l AN S. Thottfmid timrs Tm Thoufand, mtdThott{allds of Thou(<mds; frJ)'i11g with a loud~-., Voter, worthy is the Lamb that WMjlattt, to rtcezvr Power, and Rzches, a11d Serm.XIL Wifdom, a11dStrength, a~tdHottollr, attdGiory, mtdBir!fmg. You have the~ like,Chap. 7· 9, to, ri, Then Thirdly, you have a nngot all the Creatures tlJat are round about both Angels and Men; that afford matter of pratfe unto God for his Creating them. Chap. )• I ?• '4· This is the Scheme, and reprefentations, as in this World; 0, but what will it be .at the weat day, when Chnil Will come in his own, and hts Fathers glory, wllh alllus holy Angels, when Chnfr; that bath all thing in his Perfon, ihall appear in his fulnefs ! And all the Holy Angels and Saints ofthe Sons of Men, that have been exiilent from the beginning of the World to that day; and not one wanting, but that Chrifr will raife it up at the lafr day; and then when all thefe lhall go to Heaven, and be ever together; when God lhall have all his Sons about him, and his eldeil Son in the mtdfr cif them; then he Wtll brmg forth all hts Treafures of glory , that ihalllail, and not be fpent to all Eternity. Seco11dly, Make fure to be one of this great AITembly; let men flock unto, and get into Chriil by cluilers, Gm. 49· 1 1, to hun lhall the gathenng of the People be. Jefus Chriil fetteth up his Standard, come into Jefus Chrifr, not to be !S JudM, who fell lhort by iniquity from this lot; 'tis a fatal faying ofPeter's to Simo1l MJgm, thou hail no part nor portion in this matter; that fo ipnume. rabic a company flwuld be gathered under this one Head, and that thou flwuld'ft be ihutour. I have but further to move you to it, Two things out of the Text; you muil be gathered one way, either to Chriil or Satan; you muil fall either to Chriil's or the D,vils allotment and fl1are ; as Chriil is the Head of all that 01all be faved ,Epbes. r.latter ntd; fo the Devil is the Head of all the Children ofdJ– obedience, Ephes.z. 2. And as Chrifr is the Head of the Angels, though he be not of the fame nature with them ; (o is the Devil of men, and at the end ofthe World , when Chrifr lhalf h•ve taken out all thefe his own, all the refr 01all be cail into the Fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels. The Old expreilion in the Old Teftam·em was, That Men were gathered to their Fathers , the wicked untoCtetm Giga11tum, unto the company of the Giants; thofe wicked ones a– fore the Flood, from whom Hell hath its denomination, as the fir{\ Inhabitants of it; inProv. 21.r6. fo the Language of the New is, to be gathed to there Devil and his Angels, to the Fire prepared for them. . I will give you but one Obfervation and fo I will end. The Obfervation is this,' ( It is from this fame gathering together again,) That God to ihew forth his Glory aHd his Skit and his Grace the more, goeth over his works again the fecond time fj>oils them, ihatters them in pieces, and then makes them better thari ever : This is his manner.Shattered,you fee, are all things in Heaven and in Earth, here is his Glory now to make them up again: This makes his Glory illuilrious and his work illufrrious. To give you an inilance or two, and then to make~ little ufe of it, and fo conclude. God created Man according to his Image you know at firfr; (and certainly had you lived with Adam, you would not have known how you could have been happy.) A Glorious Creature he was, he had the Image of God drawn upon htm, he was God's Herald, he had his Arms upon his breft: On a fudden, after God had drawn this Picture, he daiheth it, breaketh it in pieces, fit ikes out all he had done. What was the reafon of this? He meaneth to make it up better; h~meaneth to frame upon Man, the Image of Chriil, and make him like unto htm; Tote horr tbe Image of tbe Earthly; but I wilt make a brtter Image for you, )'Otljha/J hear the lmagr of the Hravmly, )'OujhaTI be cha11ged from Glo>:y to Glory. Thus he goes over his work again, after he had fpoyled the firft. So hkewtfe, he createth Man at firil Immortal ; there was a poilibility he ihould die, but by the Providence of God, he 010uld not have dyed. What doth God? He takes and divides Soul and body, and flings the Body into . the Grave, there ~o rot: What is his end in this ? He will raile it up a Spiritual Bo– dy, more glonous Ten Thoufand times than it was at firfr. What faith the A– poill~~ I. Cor. I)? Firll:, faith he, that which is natural, and then; that which is Spmtual. z Go
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