The world that now is; and the world that is to comeThe vvorld that now is; and the vvorld that is to come

The Parts of the New-Creation in the World to come, are, first, the New-Heavens, and the New-Earth, wherein dwelleth Righteousness, 2 Pet. 3.13. whereby we are to understand, that New-State, and Frame of Government here on Earth, which the Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, and King of Nations, will constitute, and command his Saints to execute in all his Dominions and Kingdoms, under the whole Heaven, Dan. 7.13, 14, 27. & Isa. 9.6, 7. Secondly, The New-Jerusalem, that heavenly Jerusalem, Heb. 12.22, 23, 24. called the General Assembly, and the Church of the first born, written in Heaven, &c. whereby we are ⟨p. 8⟩to understand that glorious State of the Church of God on Earth, which will be in that day, when God will glorify the House of his Glory, Isa. 60.1, 2, 7, 13, 19, 20. which Christ shall present unto himself a glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, nor any such thing, Eph. 5.27. but holy and without blemish; called the Lamb's Wife, Rev. 21.9, 10, 11. prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband, v. 2. In this holy City the heavenly New-Jerusalem, shall the pure Worship of God be celebrated, and his Sacred Ordinances shall be administered according to his Divine Institutions; and his Spiritual Gifts shall again be given unto his Saints for the Glory of his holy Name, and for the Conversion of the Nations, that shall be saved, Isa. 60.1, 2, 3, 4, 5. The Gentiles shall come to thy Light; —The Abundance of the Sea shall be converted unto thee. And Rev. 21.10, 23, 24. And the Nations of them which are saved, shall walk in the light of it, &c. Thirdly, The Renewed Creatures, whose earnest Expectation waiteth for the Manifestation of the Sons of God,