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ESSAY TOWARD
THE
{SECT. íT7.
word
of
the apostles,
may
be
present
with him
in his
1
ingdóm
to
behold
his
glory
;
and'
is
not that a
very con-
siderable
part of
his glory, which
the
Father bath con-
ferred upon
him,
to
be
Lord and King, and
head
of
his
church
?
But
this
.peculiar
glory
reaches
no
further than
the resurrection
and
judgment,
and
cannot
be
seen
af-
terwards
;
for
in
1
Cor.
xv.
21.
Then
cometh
the
end,
and Christ
shall
deliver
tip
the
kingdom
to God the
Fa-
ther." Verse
28.
"
The
Son
himself
also shall be
subi,
jest
unto
the
Father, that God
may be all in all."
As
for
that
final blaze
of
supreme
glory,
wherein
Christ
shall
appear at
the
day
of
judgment,
just
before
he
re-
signs
up
his
kingdom, and
which,
perhaps,
is
once
called
his kingdom
;
2 Tim.
iv.
1.
when
he shall come
in
the
glory
of
his
Father, and of
his
holy angels,
as
well
as his
own
;
Mark
viii. 58.
Lucke
ix.
26.
the sight
of
it shall
be public and common
to all
the world,
and
not
any
pe-
culiar favour
to
the
saints.
,-
It
seems,
therefore, most probable,
that
it
is
only
or
chiefly in
the
separate state of
souls
departed,
that
the
saints have a
special promise
of
beholding this
mediato-
rial
glory
of Christ
in his
kingdom
;
and
this
favour our
Saviour
entreats of
his
Father
for others
that
shall
believe
on him, as
well
as
for
his
apostles.
I
might here take
occasion
to
enquire,
whether
every
text, which
promises
to
other christians,
as
well as to
the
apostles,
a
dwelling
with
Christ
in
his
kingdom, must
not
have
a more
special reference
to the
glory
of
the separate
state, upon this very account, because
this kingdom
of
Christ
ceases
at
the resurrection and
judgment;
and
particularly
that
text
in
2
Pet.
i.
11.
"
So
an entrance
shall
be
ministred unto you, abundantly, into
the
ever-
lasting kingdom
of our Lord
and Saviour
Jesus
Christ
:"
which
is
often, in
scripture,
called everlasting, because
it
continues
to the
end
of
the
world
:
And the
abundant
entrance into
it,
very
naturally
refers to our
departure
from this
life.
Answer
4.
I
cannot
find
anv
text óf
scripture, where
this blessing
of
being
present
with the
Lord, after death,
in the separate state,
is
limited
only
to the
apostles
:
I
read not
one
word
of
such
a peculiar favour promised
them
by
Christ;
and,
therefore, according
to the
current
coarse
of
several
other
places
of
scripture,
which-
have