The World to Come, Title page – To the reader
foreign: THE WORLD TO COME, Heb. 25. OR, The Doctrine of the Kingdom of GOD and his CHRIST, to come on Earth, Rev. 11.15. which ſhall ſhortly be over all Nations.
Tendred in the mean-time out of faith in his own Soul, and love towards all Men,
Firſt, In the Principles or Foundations thereof, in four parts.
Secondly, In the Practicals or Improvements of it on ſeveral Texts, as is more particularly ſpecified in the next leaf.
By W. S. Miniſter of the Goſpel, whoſe faith thereof is ſupported [beſides many others] by the Twelve ſpecial enſuing Foundations, as by ſo many Divine Gradations of Gods Revealing Confirming and Compleating the ſame in its due time. [Here alſo ſet down for the good of all men.] — As being
I. Promiſed by God the Father, Gen 3.15. The Seed of the Woman, &c. Pſal. 110.1. 1 Cor. 15.25. See Treat on Gen. 3.
II. Propheſied of by Enoch in the old world, Jude 14, 15.
III. Foretold by Jacob in the New World, Gen 49.1. with 10, 11, 12 in Judah's Bleſſing.
IV. Wonderfully manifeſted by Balaam's the Sorcerers Parable, Numb. 24.17, 18, 19. and when, verſ. 23, 24.
V. Typified by two partial Types in the Old World, viz. by Enoch and Noah, the Types of the firſt and ſecond ſtate thereof.
VI. Typified alſo in the New World by three pairs of partial Types; the firſt of Abraham and Melchiſedeck, the ſecond of Moſes and Joſhua, the third of David and Solomon: The three firſt of the Kingdom of the Stone, Dan. 2.34. The three laſt of the Kingdom of the Mountain; As more fully appears in the following Explication, page 9, &c.
VII. Confirmed alſo both to David and Solomon by a Divine Charter, very eminently illuſtrated a Sam. 7.8. to the end.
VIII. Proved by a ſeven-fold Evidence in the Irenicon, with its Adjuncts formerly, by many ſorts of Arguments, &c.
IX. Twice alſo ſtrongly ratified to Daniel: Firſt by Revelation onelyonly, after Nebuchadnezzar's dream, in the two ſtates thereof, viz. of the Stone, Chap. 2.34. and of the Mountain, verſ. 35. Secondly, By both Viſion and Revelation, where after the four Beaſts Dan. 7. was ſhewed to him when Chriſt ſhall receive his Davidical Kingdom, (verſ. 14.) over all Nations.
X. App…ied by our Saviour himſelf to the Son of Mans Kingdom, Matth. 13.4. His coming in his Kingdom, Matth. 16.28. Ca…led the Kingdom of God, Luc. 21.31.
XI. Explained by St. Paul at …he deſtruction of the Man o… Sin, 2 Theſſ 2.8. And Saints Reſt, 2 Theſſ. 1.7. Appeara…ce and Kingdom, 2 Tim. 4.1.
XII. By Revelation m…ſt … to the belo…ed Apoſtle John. Chap. 19.11. and Chap. 20, 21, …2. … …xplained page 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, &c.]
LON… … the year 1671.
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