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For the first, seven things shall cease. The first is the Execution of the Mediatorship of Christ, or of the offices of a king, priest, prophet. Thus much teacheth ⟨p. 115⟩Paul,¹ when he saith, that Christ in the last day must give up his kingdom to his father. And though the execution shall then cease: yet nothing shall be wanting to them that believe: because then shall be the full and eternal fruition of all the benefits of our redemption. Secondly, then shall cease all callings in family, church, and common wealth: because Christ shall then put down all power,² rule, and authority. In this blessed estate, there shall not be magistrate and people, master & servant, husband and wife, parents and children, pastor and people: but all such outward distinctions of persons shall cease, and we shall be as the angels of God. Thirdly all virtues, that pertain to us, as we are pilgrims here upon earth, shall have an end, as faith, hope, patience: because the things believed and hoped for shall then be obtained. Withal that part of invocation called Petition, shall cease, as also the preaching and hearing of the word and the use of sacraments.³ The fourth thing that shall cease is original sin with the fruits thereof: because ⟨p. 116⟩no unclean thing may enter into the heavenly Jerusalem.⁴ Fifthly, then shall cease all miseries, and sorrows, all infirmities of body and mind: for then all defects of eyes, arms, and legs, shall be restored. The sixth thing that shall cease is natural life with the means thereof, as meat, drink, clothing, physic, recreation. For then our bodies shall be spiritual, that is, immediately & eternally preserved by the operation of the spirit of God, as now the body of Christ is in heaven. The last thing to be abolished is the vanity of the creatures, specially of heaven and earth: which i• the last judgement shall again be restored to their former excellency.