The Fountain of Life Opened

To confirm this dream, they urge Joh 14.3. If I go my way, I will come again and receive you to my self. As if the time of Christs receiving his people to himself should not come, until his second coming at the end of the world. But though he will then ⟨p. 838⟩collect all believers into one body, and present them solemnly to his Father: yet that hinders not, but he may, as indeed he doth receive every particular believing soul to himself at death, by the Ministry of Angels. And if not, how is it that when Christ comes to judgement, he is attended with ten thousands of his Saints, that shall follow him when he comes from heaven? Jude 14. you see then the Scriptures put no interval betwixt the dissolution of a Saint, and his glorification. It speaks of the Saints that are dead, as already with the Lord. And the wicked that are dead, as already in Hell, calling them Spirits in Prison, 1 Pet. 3.19, 20. assuring us that Judas went presently to his own place, Acts 1.25. and to that sense is the Parable of Dives and Lazarus, Luk. 16.22.

To confirm this dream, they urge Ioh 14.3. If I go my way, I will come again and receive you to my self. As if the time of Christs receiving his people to himself should not come, until his second coming at the end of the world. But though he will then ⟨p. 838⟩collect all believers into one body, and present them solemnly to his Father: yet that hinders not, but he may, as indeed he doth receive every particular believing soul to himself at death, by the Ministry of Angels. And if not, how is it that when Christ comes to judgement, he is attended with ten thousands of his Saints, that shall follow him when he comes from heaven? Iude 14. you see then the Scriptures put no interval betwixt the dissolution of a Saint, and his glorification. It speaks of the Saints that are dead, as already with the Lord. And the wicked that are dead, as already in Hell, calling them Spirits in Prison,