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    THE GOSPEL OF THIS FUTURE BLISS

    The gospel is glad tidings of the near approach of this kingdom, which was by promise made known unto the fathers, and was by prophecy unfolded to their children The gospel is glad tidings of the kingdom at hand, which kingdom Adam lost, and the Lord Jesus regained. 5Philippians 2:9. Hebrews 1:2, 2:8 Colossians 1:20. Ephesians 1:21, 22. The gospel is glad tidings of salvation; good news of the triumph over the prince of this world, which the Redeemer has wrought in his own person, and will shortly manifest in the persons of all believers, who are found worthy to attain that world, and the resurrection of the dead, at his coming and kingdom. 62 Timothy 4:1. 1 John 3:2. Romans 14:9. John 16:11. The theme of the gospel is the kingdom of heaven, or the recovery of the joys which Adam forfeited in Eden, with warning now of another death, answering the penalty of its broken law with the second death The gospel is the joyful sound of the near approach of the happy state, in which the blind shall receive their sight, the cars of the deaf shall be unstopped, the lame man shall leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing; glad tidings of the near coming restoration of the innocence and peace of which Satan robbed man in the garden of the blessed, and of the removal of the curse which, for Adam’s sake, was imposed on creation, and of the renovation of the earth, to make it the promised holy land, “the city of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel. 1Isaiah 60:14. Then shall the merciful obtain mercy, and the pure in heart shall see God. Then is the millennium, the sabbath, or rest, which remains for the people of God, not in this wilderness of our pilgrimage, but in the heavenly Canaan.HDM 7.3

    Neither the four Gospels, nor the Acts, nor the Epistles, speak of any other millennium: all the promises and prophecies can be interpreted of this, and of no other. This is the hope of the promise made unto the fathers, both Adam and Abraham, 2Acts 26:6, 7, 8. and also the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, the appointed heir of all thongs. 3Hebrews 1:2. These prophecies the Lord came to fulfil, and to redeem these promises, and to preach the gospel of this kingdom at hand, a kingdom first set forth to sight in his own person on the mount of transfiguration, and hereafter to be manifested in all his faithful at his coming with clouds to the judgement. Such a millennium has been looked for since the fall of Adam; a sabbath of holy joy and glorious immortality in the earth, the new earth, redeemed from the power of Satan, and the plague of sin, and the curse of death, for which creation unites her groanings with the prayers of the saints, from the first transgression to this day: that these heavens and this earth may be restored from the bondage of corruption to the glorious liberty of the sons of God, in the likeness of the Lord our elder Brother, and the first-fruits of the dead.HDM 8.1

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