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The greatest sinners exhorted and encouraged to come to Christ, and that now without…
The greatest sinners exhorted and encouraged to come to Christ, and that now without delaying. Also, the exceeding danger of men's deferring their repentance. : Together with a discourse about the day of judgement. And on several other subjects. / By Increase Mather teacher of a church at Boston in N. England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
printed by R.P. for Joseph Brunning i.e, 1686
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3. Believers shall at the day of judgment be as so many Kings with Crowns on their heads. Know you not that the Saints shall judg the world? 1. Cor. 6.2. A Sceptre shall be put into their hands Rev. 2.26, 27. to him that overcometh will I give power over the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron. i. e. with a sceptre, They shall reign on the earth then, […]. 5.10 There are great disputes concerning the reign of Saints on the earth: Nothing is more ⟨p. 79⟩clearly expressed in the Scripture than that the Saints of God shall one day possess a glorious Kingdom Luk. 22.29. And their Kingdom they shall not have in heaven only, but in this lower visible world▪ under the whole heaven ▪ […]. 7.27. In the place where they served God and where they suffered for his Sake there they shall reign. But they must not look for a Temporal Dominion in this world: They must stay till the Resurrection, and the day of judgment, and then they shall reign. In the morning. i. e. in the morning of the day of judgment or at the resurrection the upright shall have Dominion Psal. 49.14. In the Regeneration (whereby the Resurrection is intended) they shall sit upon thrones Mat. 19.28. Tho Christ only shall pass the Sentence of death upon the reprobate world, yet the Saints shall sit with Him upon Thrones of judgement, as Assistors and Aprobators of that judgement.
3. Beleevers shall at the day of judgment be as so many Kings with Crowns on their heads. Know you not that the Saints shall judg the worl•? 1. Cor. 6.2. A Sceptre shall be put into their hands