A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

Thus Christ's church shall for ever leave this accursed world, to to go into that more glorious world, the highest heavens, into ⟨p. 279⟩the paradise of God, the kingdom that was prepared for them from the foundation of the world.

Thus Christ's church shall for ever leave this accursed world, to to go into that more glorious world, the highest heavens, into ⟨p. 279⟩the paradise of God, the king•om that was prepared for them from the foundation of the world.

7. When they are gone, this world shall be set on fire, and be turned into a great furnace, wherein all the enemies of Christ and his church shall be tormented for ever and ever. This is manifest by 2 Pet. iii.7. "But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgement, and perdition of ungodly men." When Christ and his church are ascended to a distance from this world, that miserable company of wicked being left behind▪ to have their sentence executed upon them here, then, some way or other, this whole lower world shall be set on fire, either by fire from heaven, or by fire breaking out of the bowels of the earth, or both, as it was with the water in the time of the deluge. However, this lower world shall be set all on fire.— How will it strike the wicked with horror, when the fire begins to lay hold upon them, and they find no way to escape it, or flee or hide from it! What shrieking and crying will there be among those many thousands and millions, when they begin to enter into that great furnace, when the whol• world shall be a furnace of the fiercest and most raging heat! in-so much that the Apostle Peter says, (