The world to come. Or, The kingdom of Christ asserted. In two expository lectures…The vvorld to come. Or, The kingdome of Christ asserted. In two expository lectures…

To be sure at the day of Judgment they shall, which shall certainly be a long day, when all the accounts in the world shall be certainly ripped up, and the world shall be new hung against the approach of their new King, and the glory of the creatures then will put down the glory of this old world. We see then how this place to the Ephesians, and that in Heb. 2. how parallel they are: Now I would have you consider likewise the scope of the 8. Psalm, as the Apostle brings it to prove this new World: And indeed any one that reads that Psalm, would think the Psalmist doth but set out old Adam in his Kingdom in Paradise, who was made in his nature a little lower then the Angels; One would think that were all the meaning, and that the Apostle applies it to Christ only by way of allusion: but the truth is, the Apostle brings it to prove, and to convince these Hebrews, that that Psalm was meant of the Messiah whom they expected; saith he, One in a er taine place hath testified: He brings it as an express proof and testimony that it was meant of Christ, and was not an allusion only. Now the scope is this, as you read in Rom. 5. 13. that Adam was a type of him that was to come, namely Christ: So in the 8. Psalm, ⟨p. 12⟩you read there Adams world is the type of a world to come. The first Adam had his world where there was sheep, and oxen, and fowls of the air: Now whereas it is said in the Psalm, that all things were under his feet, it is not meant of man in innocency, but of the Messiah, Christ and his world, which is made of purpose for him, as the other world was for Adam; That it was not meant of man in innocency properly and principally, appears,

To be sure at the day of Judgment they shall, which shall certainly be a long day, when all the accounts in the world shall be certainly rip't up, and the world shall be new hung against the approach of their new King, and the glory of the creatures then wil put down the glory of this old world. We see then how this place to the Ephesians, and that in Heb. 2. how parallel they are: Now I would have you consider likewise the scope of the 8. Psalm, as the Apostle brings it to prove this new World: And indeed any one that reads that Psalm, would think the Psalmist doth but set out old Adam in his Kingdome in Paradise, who was made in his nature a little lower then the Angels; One would thinke that were all the meaning, and that the Apostle applies it to Christ only by way of allusion: but the truth is, the Apostle brings it to prove, and to convince these Hebrews, that that Psalm was meant of the Messiah whom they expected; saith he, One in a er taine place hath testified: Hee brings it as an expresse proof and testimony that it was meant of Christ, and was not an allusion only. Now the scope is this, as you read in