2. Consider herewith, how that he hath reserved this, as his last work, in that other World: when this World shall come to be folded up as a Garment; and a final conclusion be put to all these other Dispensations and Works of Glory that are now on Foot. And as Solomon told us that he hath made the wicked for himself and for the day of evil; So Job also tells us, That the Wicked is reserved to the day of Destruction, and shall be brought forth at (or to) the day of Wrath: [Reserved] by God, till after all his other works of wonder are ended and gone, then to be brought forth as a Trophy of his Glory. Both themselves and all their Sins are reserved till then, and laid up amongst God's Treasures, to be then made public. The Salvation of his Elect, and the Destruction of the Wicked, are the last and only ⟨p. 149⟩Works that then remain, and do remain, and are purposely kept unto that time, when he means to show himself to be God indeed; and to make all Men and Angels know that he is God. It is an Argument of the fearfulness of that Punishment the Devils shall undergo, Jude 6. 2 Pet. 2. 4. That he hath reserved them in everlasting Chains unto the Judgment of the great day. It is a certain Rule, that God's latter works do still exceed and put down the former: So far, as the former shall not in comparison be remembered, Isa. 65. 17. Jer. 3. 16. When God would make his Apostles (as to this World) the greatest spectacle of Misery that (excepting what he made his own Son, who was the first-born among many Brethren) he ever put upon Saints, Prophets or Martyrs, that had preceded and were afore them. How doth the Apostle express his Design in it, 1 Cor. 4. 9. I think (says he) that God hath set forth us the Apostles [last] as it were Men appointed to Death, for we are made a Spectacle unto the World, and to Angels, and to Men. Alluding to those Gladiators, brought up last upon the Stage, as a Spectacle to the People. The thing I cite it for, is, that the greatest work in that kind, he appointed to be at last: As also, was that which immediately ⟨p. 150⟩preceded it, the coming of his Son in the last days. And but this of punishing the Wicked is his last, and very last, of all that he will do for ever.
2. Consider herewith, how that he hath reserved this, as his last work, in that other World: when this World shall come to be folded up as a Garment; and a final conclusion be put to all these other Dispensations and Works of Glory that are now on Foot. And as Solomon told us that he hath made the wicked for himself and for the day of evil; So Job also tells us, That the Wicked is reserved to the day of Destruction, and shall be brought forth at (or to) the day of Wrath: [Reserved] by God, till after all his other works of wonder are ended and gone, then to be brought forth as a Trophie of his Glory. Both themselves and all their Sins are reserved till then, and laid up amongst God's Treasures, to be then made publick. The Salvation of his Elect, and the Destruction of the Wicked, are the last and only ⟨p. 149⟩Works that then remain, and do remain, and are purposely kept unto that time, when he means to shew himself to be God indeed; and to make all Men and Angels know that he is God. It is an Argument of the fearfulness of that Punishment the Devils shall undergoe, Jude 6. 2 Pet. 2. 4. That he hath reserved them in everlasting Chains unto the Judgment of the great day. It is a certain Rule, that God's latter works do still exceed and put down the former: So far, as the former shall not in comparison be remembred, Isa. 65. 17. Jer. 3. 16. When God would make his Apostles (as to this World) the greatest spectacle of Misery that (excepting what he made his own Son, who was the first-born among many Bretbren) he ever put upon Saints, Prophets or Martyrs, that had preceeded and were afore them. How doth the Apostle express his Design in it, 1 Cor. 4. 9. I think (says he) that God hath set forth us the Apostles [last] as it were Men appointed to Death, for we are made a Spectacle unto the World, and to Angels, and to Men. Alluding to those Gladiators, brought up last upon the Stage, as a Spectacle to the People. The thing I cite it for, is, that the greatest work in that kind, he appointed to be at last: As also, was that which immediately ⟨p. 150⟩preceded it, the coming of his Son in the last days. And but this of punishing the Wicked is his last, and very last, of all that he will do for ever.
