Revelation 21

3. The saints at death shall not only have a sight of God, but shall enjoy the love of God; there shall be no more veil on God's face, nor his smiles checkered with frowns, but God's love shall discover itself in all its radiant beauty and fragrant sweetness. Here the saints pra…

Lumen actuat colores: Light adorns and gilds the world: What were the world without light, but a prison? The heavenly inheritance is irradiated with light: Christ as a continual sun enlightens it with his beams (Revelation 21:23). 2. To an inheritance incorruptible: It does not…

The wicked stumble at a Savior, and suck death from the tree of life. 4. Without being new creatures, we cannot arrive at heaven (Revelation 21:27). There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defiles.

The kingdom God gives his adopted sons and heirs excels all earthly monarchies: 1. In riches (Revelation 21:21): the gates of pearl, and the streets of pure gold, and as it were transparent glass. 2. In tranquility; it is peaceable, the white lily of peace is the best flower of…

If a physician could give you a prescription to keep you from dying, what sums of money would you give? At the Resurrection Christ will give the saints such a prescription (Revelation 21:4). There shall be no more death.

A father may be fallen to decay, and have nothing to leave his son but his blessing; but God will settle an inheritance on his children, and an inheritance no less than a kingdom; (Luke 17:32) It is your Father's good pleasure to give you a kingdom. This kingdom is more glorious…

On the Sabbath we are doing angels' work, our tongues are tuned to God's praises. This Sabbath on earth is a shadow and type of that glorious rest and eternal Sabbath we hope for in heaven, when God shall be the temple, and the Lamb shall be the light of it (Revelation 21:22-23).

Heaven is the extract and quintessence of happiness. It is called a kingdom (Matthew 25:34) — a kingdom for its riches and magnificence: it is set out by precious stones, gates of pearl (Revelation 21). There is all that is truly glorious, transparent light, perfect love, unstai…

If a Cardinal put his red hat upon the head of a murderer going to execution, he is saved from death. But let all impenitent murderers read their doom (Revelation 21:8). Murderers shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: this is the second death.

The painter going to draw the picture of Helena, as not being able to draw her beauty to the life, drew her face covered with a veil. So when we speak of the kingdom of heaven, we must draw a veil, we cannot set it forth in all its brilliant beauty and magnificence; gold and pea…

(1.) A stately palace. 1. It is large and has several stories; for the dimensions of it, it is twelve thousand furlongs (Revelation 21:15), or as it is in some Greek copies, twelve times twelve thousand furlongs, a finite number put for an infinite; no arithmetician can number t…

What glory can God have by a proud, ignorant, profane heart? 3. If God should pardon and not sanctify, then that should enter into heaven that defiles, but (Revelation 21:27): "Nothing shall enter that defiles." Then God should settle the inheritance upon men before they are fit…

Moses slighted the honors of Pharaoh's Court, having an eye to the recompense of reward (Hebrews 11:26). Saint Paul who had a vision of glory, and Saint John who was carried away in the Spirit, and saw the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven, having the glory of God in it (R…

There are two things which obstruct man's happiness, and till they are both of them removed from him, he remains altogether hopeless of it, namely his guilt and his pollution: the former has armed the law against him to his condemnation, and the latter has made him actually and…

After the great abuse of the Lord's Supper in that Church, the Apostle recalls them again to the observation of it, according to the institution of Christ. And after the defilement of all the ordinances of the Gospel, under the Anti-Christian apostacy, yet the Temple and the Alt…

And (3) By their celebration is he glorified in the world: And therefore, (4) As he has made blessed promises to his people, to grant them his presence and to bless them in their use: So (5) Being the tokens of the marriage relation that is between him and them, with respect to…

(1) Matthew 10:2; Luke 10:1; Galatians 1:1; Acts 1:26; Acts 6:3; Acts 14:23. (2) John 20:21, 22, 23; Galatians 1:1; Ephesians 2:20; Revelation 21:14; Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5, 7. (3) Matthew 28:18, 19, 20; 2 Corinthians 11:28; Acts 20:28; 1 Peter 1:2; Colossians 4:17.

Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you, and lo I am with you even to the end of the world. In them is the Tabernacle of God with men, and he dwells among them, and they are his people (Revelation 21:3). The promise of Christ being, that where two or th…

2. Everlasting and eternal. First, the state of the Elect in heaven, and their glory there, is not subject to corruption, or the least alteration; as appears in that notable and lofty description of the heavenly Jerusalem, Apocalypse 21:14, and from the 10th verse, to the 21st:…

Surely, we must follow Moses, and labor to see him that is invisible, by faith. This will make us courageous, and without fear in Gods cause; remembering this also, that among those which are reckoned to go down to hell, the fearful man is one, (Revelation 21.8) who dares not st…

A DESCRIPTION Of the Spirituall TEMPLE. The spiritual temple of the New Testament, the New Jerusalem which came down from heaven, the Bride prepared for the Lamb, the Lord Jesus the Christ (Revelation 21:2), may not be unfitly compared to the material temple of Jerusalem, in the…

This was the nature, use and end of the Tabernacle of old. God dwelt therein in the signs and pledges of his presence, and was on the account thereof the God of that people, according to the terms of the Covenant between them (Exodus 25:8; Revelation 21:3). That therefore wherei…

These assemblies were those which exposed them to sufferings, as those whereby they made their profession visible, and evidenced their subjection to the authority of Christ; whereby the unbelieving world is enraged. This in all ages has prevailed on many, in the times of trial a…

2. If these Scriptures (Isaiah 60:15 and 59:21) and the rest, do prove, that when the Jews shall be called, it shall be with them as is said; then what the Synod here says is gained, and stands good, namely that in holy, reforming, and most glorious times, there shall be a conti…

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Revelation 21:6. I will give to him which is athirst, of the well of the water of life freely.

1. There are express testimonies of the will of Christ, and his promise for its accomplishment, that the church and all its ordinances of worship should be continued always to the end of the world. So as to the church itself (Matthew 16:13; Revelation 21:3), the ministry (Matthe…

Not so much for crucifying the Lord of life; the Gospel was tendered to them after Christ was slain; 'twas for not believing or refusing the Gospel. If you will know what company there is in hell, that Catalogue will inform you, Fearful, and Unbelievers, &c. (Revelation 21:8). I…

We for our parts deny it, as having no warrant in the word of God, which mentions only two places for men after this life — heaven and hell — with the twofold condition thereof: joy and torment. Luke 16:25-26; John 3:36; Revelation 22:14-15; Revelation 21:7-8; Matthew 8:11. Nay,…

How great will their shame be, when it shall be said to them, that their father was hanged, not for his goodness, as many in the world have been, but for his wickedness: not as a martyr, but as a malefactor, truly so? But that which is ten thousand thousand times worse than all…

Your eyes shall see the land that is very far off (Isaiah 33:17). Jerusalem also was a type of the Church, and of Jerusalem above (Galatians 4:26; Revelation 21:2), and so the Temple (Psalms 15:1), and it was a type also of Christ's body (John 2:21; Colossians 2:9). Hence some h…

Hence the fourth doctrine is this: that the rule of Reformation in religion, is the will and Word of God. He that will reform aright, must reduce, and bring all things back to that rule: when John was to measure the Temple, and to reform the Church, there was a Reed given to him…

The Church is Christ's spouse; the contract is made, the espousals shall be at the last day. The members are picked out one by one to be presented to the Lamb at last as a glorious bride for him (Revelation 21:2). And all God's dealings with them in the world, are but preparatio…

Saints (Psalm 50:5, 16, 17). [Called to fellowship with Christ] so (1 Corinthians 1:9) else if they be not united to Christ by faith, they are not fit materials for such a building as a Church of God, which is the house of the living God (Ephesians 1:1; 1 Corinthians 1:2; Philip…

Secondly, this is chiefly, lest by our infirmity, we should displease our God, where the wicked only tremble, because of the punishment (2 Corinthians 7:1). Here is forbidden hardness of heart, and no fear, to fear any thing, as the loss of life, goods, friends, displeasure of m…

4. They are called His seed, in respect of the portion which they get from Him; the Apostle says, that parents provide for their children; it is indeed eminently so here, believers come under His care, oversight, and tutelage; and as a man provides for his household, his childre…

There are shortly three things comprehended in this doctrine, (speaking now of unbelief, not only as opposite to historical faith, which we commonly call infidelity, but as it's opposite to saving faith, which we show is that which is called for here:) 1. That unbelief, or not r…

The heaven of glory is called the holy heaven (Psalm 20:6). The Lord will hear from his holy heaven, and the new Jerusalem the Church, has a brave crown on her head (Revelation 21:10-11). She comes down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God.

Cast in two worlds, that is nothing; add to the weight millions of heavens of heavens, the balance cannot go down, the scales are unequal; Christ is a huge over-weight. To all these drawing powers in Christ, in the general, because Christ is the Master and King of the land, wher…

There was a serpent, a tempter in Paradise, but there is none in Heaven; the devil is shut out, and the old man is left in the grave never to rise more. 2. There is not the least evil of affliction (Revelation 21:4): All tears shall be wiped away from their eyes. Whatever is pai…

Math. 5. 6. Rev 21:6. In the fourth place, here is set downe the Meanes of spirituall life, in these words, And in that I now liue in the flesh, I liue by the faith of the sonne of God, who has loued me, and given himselfe for me.

In him are hidden all treasures of wisdom, and knowledge (Colossians 2). God and the Lamb are all things to all the Elect in the kingdom of heaven (Revelation 21). Here we see the right way to become rich: and that is, above all things to seek to be true and lively members of Ch…

For the company of them that dwell in heaven by their faith, cannot be discerned by the eye. John saw the heavenly Jerusalem descending from heaven, yet not with the bodily eye, but in spirit (Revelation 21:10). The things which make the Catholic Church to be the Church, namely,…

The words in the originall translated save, are exceptiue: as if he should say, I will glorie in nothing except in the crosse of Christ: and exclusiue, onely in the crosse of Christ, and in nothing els. Albeit they are sometime aduersatiue, as Gal 2:16. and Apoc 21:27. There sha…

Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after Righteousness, for they shall be filled. And this holy Thirst is spoken of, as a great Thing in the Condition of a Participation of the Blessings of eternal Life, Revelation 21. 6. I will give unto him that is athirst, of the Foun…

'An high Way shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; the Unclean shall not pass over it.' Revelation 21:27. 'And there shall in no wise enter into it, whatsoever works Abomination or makes a Lie:'

Where the uncleanness of sin abides unpurged there is no true holiness — it is universally opposed to holiness and is our unholiness; where it is not purged in any measure or degree there is no work of sanctification, no holiness so much as begun; but those who are truly sanctif…

§. 7 On these suppositions we lay, and ought to lay the observation of the Lord's Day under the New Testament, according to the institution of it, or declaration of the mind of Christ, who is our Lord and Law-giver concerning it. 1. A new work of creation, or a work of a new cre…

As such they were, typed by Jacob and Esau (Romans 9:11, 12), and are expressed under that distribution (1 Thessalonians 5:9). Some [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], from the beginning being chosen to salvation (2 Thessalonians 2:13); [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] (Ephesians 1:4), before t…

In the mean time wholly to remove this unexpected objection out of our way, I shall show the invalidity of those pretences which the same learned author makes use of to countenance his application of this whole angelical message to the Christian churches of these latter days, wh…

3. At that day of his appearing, all these shadows will instantly be done away: there will not one tear be left on any believer's cheeks, there will be no affliction or desertion to hide him from them, but they shall be forever with him. There will then be no ordinances, nor tem…