The new earth
But there seems to be a further meaning in these words, even that they shall have a more eminent part in the new earth, where righteousness lives, in that inheritance of which Saint John has given a general description, and the details we shall know hereafter, in the twentieth chapter of the Revelation. And I saw an angel come down from heaven, and he laid hold of the dragon, that old serpent, and bound him for 1,000 years (Revelation 20:2). And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and of those who had not worshiped the beast, nor his image, nor received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands, and they lived and reigned with Christ for 1,000 years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the 1,000 years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power. But they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him for 1,000 years.
1771 text
13. But there seems to be a yet farther meaning in these words, even that they shall have a more eminent part in the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness, in that inheritance, a general description of which (and the particulars we shall know hereafter) St. John hath given in the 20th chapter of the Revelation. And I saw an angel come down from heaven――and he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent――and bound him a thousand years――And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and of them which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands, and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again, until the thousand years were expired. This is the first resurrection: blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power. But they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
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Sermon 22 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 5:5-7.
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