Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life…Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life…

What a fearful condition then are all men out of Christ in, who shall have no interest in His resurrection? Rise indeed they shall, but barely by his power as their ^mJudge, not by fellowship with him as the first fruits and first borne of the dead; and therefore theirs shall not be properly, or at least comfortably a Resurrection, no more than a condemned persons going from the prison to his execution may be called an enlargement. Pharaoh• Butler and Baker went both out of prison, but they were not both delivered; so the righteous and the wicked shall all appear before Christ, and be gathered out of their graves, but they shall not all be Children of the Resurrection, for that belongs only to the just. The wicked shall be dead everlastingly to all the pleasures and ways of sin, which here they wallowed in. As ⟨p. 526⟩there remains nothing to a drunkard or adulterer after all his youthful excesses but crudities, rottenness, diseases, and the worm of Conscience; so the wicked shall carry no worlds nor satisfactions of lust to hell with them, their ^aglory shall not descend after them. These things are truths written with a sun beam in the book of God: First, That ^bnone out of Christ shall rise unto Glory. Secondly, That ^call who are in him are purged from the Love and power of sin, are made a people willingly obedient unto his sceptre and the government of his grace and spirit; and have eyes given them to see no beauty but in his kingdom. Thirdly, Hereupon it is manifest ^dthat no unclean thing shall rise unto glory. A prince in the day of his state, or any royal solemnity, will not admit beggars, or base companions into his presence. ^eHe is of purer eyes then to behold, much less to communicate with unclean persons. ^f