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Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins…
Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins Milk-Street, London; ; [Three lines from Hebrews]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for Benjamin Harris, 1690
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Christ's certain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. › Chapter 11
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. One end of the conjugal Relation here, is, the propagation of Man kind insomuch as the number is incomplete, and will be incomplete till the end of the World, and the number is completing by Generation▪ but at the Resurrection the number of Man kind will be complete; the number of the Elect will be perfect, and in this regard they will be like to Angels▪ whose number was complete at the first and therefore this end of marriage ceasing, the Relation should cease also.
1. One end of the conjugal Relation here, is, the propagation of Man kind insomuch as the number is incompleat, and will be incompleat till the end of the World, and the number is compleating by Generation▪ but at the Resurrection the number of Man kind will be compleat; the number of the Elect will be perfect, and in this regard they will be like to Angels▪ whose number was compleat at the first and therefore this end of marriage ceasing, the Relation should cease also.
2. Another end of marriage is mutual help; and this end also will cease; at the Resurrection the wicked they shall have no help, the righteous shall have no need of […] from such Relations; God will supply All, they will be perfect in him; God will be All, and in All: God will be instead of Father, Mother, Husband, Wife, and all unto them, like Angels they shall behold the Face of their Father, and have no need of conjugal Relations.
2. Another end of marriage is mutual help; and this end also will cease; at the Resurrection the wicked they shall have no help, the righteous shall have no need of 〈…〉 from such Relations; God will supply All, they will be perfect in him; God will be All, and in All: God will be instead of Father, Mother, Husband, Wife, and all unto them, like Angels they shall behold the Face of their Father, and have no need of conjugal Relations.