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praiſe God for taking to himſelfe his ewn 
power; Chriſt cennived-(asit were) till nowat the-powerof his 
enctnyes; Antithrit, and not C hriſt- ſeemed rorule, and to fir 
in the Temple.of God p but.now C hriſt is reſolved .to rule him- 
ſc]fe, ang to make;all his enemyes his footſtoole : and therefore 
now--we give thee thanks,'O Lird-God Almightyes 2. They pray 
Chriſtitq 89 Qn. to. judgement. 1;. Becauſe the nations were 4n- 
g#1,9 d. they have been angry long enough,. they have ſet 
chemſclves againſt Chriſt and-againſt his C hurch;- and thegefore 
now it is time to bridle their. wrath,and:to break them with-a rod 
of iron, 0 /ct,thy wrath come. 2. Becauſe. the. rime of judgement 
is now_ accompliſhed which God. had decreed in-his eternal 
cqunſd), - 2nd which the Father had put in hisown power; 41 
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celeſtial Fir by ( hriſt, and therefore they beg, go on Lord 7eſs, _—_— Bos 
' reward now thy ſervants, Prophets, Saints; and deſt Ay them which yu; _ G 
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was that Chriſt ſhould rule, untill he had put Fo C-6 
all things in. ſubjeRion under his feer. Nay, why not theſe 
words ſpoken now rather than before ? Chriſt indeed reigned as 
King ever ſince his aſcenſion, but now more eſpecially he is to 
manifeſt his Kingdome, for now is he to judge among the beathen, $64-cak. 6 
now is he t0-woxnd the heads of man) conntryes, now is hetoover- © * 
throw Pope, Turke, andall his enemyes, and he alone with the 
Father and the Spirit is to reigne in his Elect Saints and Angels. 
Thus all agree, that Chriſt in the latter dayes ſhall be 
honoured in his Kingly power, hitherto Chriſt hath been muc 
honoured in his Prophetical and Prieftly office, but not ſo much 
in his Kingly; but now he muſt be fally honoured in his Kingly 
office; now eſpecially the Kingdomes of this world muſt become the 
King domes of the Lord, and of his Chriſt, and ſo he ſhall reigne for Rev-11. 15. 
ever and ever. Certainly there is a difference betwixt Chriſts 
reigns before, and his preſent reigne at the day of judgement, 
Chriſt hath a double throne wherein he fits and reignes, ts him 
that overcomes will 1 give to fit with me in

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thy friends, and 
made thine cnemics thy footitoole; Marke, be hath committes 
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1s Written (asirwers,) theſe words, 1 Sonne, 
ood Vita ref which I had put in ney epi power; and my 
| E fk ure is that all the world [hall be ſet Jay <p t x Frontend #n- 
pn parry paſe amay mich grear ages; 14nd the- elements ſhall aq 
with fervent heete, the ear  #{ſo, and the ork that are there- , 
dhe barn up ond Twill have new heavens, and anew earth, + 
{ball awell right eonſmeſſe ;,_go roo then, put ou thy nohes, ap- 
: Toke aps 7 this heaven of all thoſe g loriows tirit: 
ME let them.waite on thee to thy judgement /eate ; 
_ Fi, pafſethy uy me mdf, ard ford erpenbareove td, nd 
ther all thy: Sainte, that they me? live wich 
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they alſo which pierced him. Sore 
contraverke there is abour theſe clouds, as whether they be An- 
eels ? when the Pſalmut ſpeaks of. alt ſorts of Meteors, as of 
waters, clouds, winds, flames, ſome ſay, all theſe are Anzels; 
+ and of the «fm be ſaith; who maketh his Angels ſpirits, and his, 


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Miniſters a flame of fire. For my part I rake 1t in the liceral ſenſe, 
that upon the very backs of clouds Chri:t ſhall come riding a- 
long at the general day ; and howſoever this may ſeem a ſmall 
matcer unto us, yet 1 cannct look on'any circumilance of this 
tranſaction as ſmall and trifling! the very clouds on which - 
Chrilt rides,ſpeak rerrour, and comfort. 
'I.. Oh what a terrour 15this to the wicked ? they ſhall ſee the 
Sernne of man coming in the clouds, and then ſhall all the Tribes of ***+24- 30, 
the earth mourn. Theſe Tribes of the earthare the 
ebes of the wicked; no ſooner ſhall they look 11, ;,4:- tum inrel i go, ud 
up,and ſeeChr1i} in his clouds, bur with uncon- gue, plicurm ox tuft; illemiſe- 
ceiyable horror-willchey cry it out,O yonder is randus ſolum pertiner, Aretius 
he whoſe blood we nezle&ted, whoſe grace we inlacum. 
tefited, whoſe councels ie refuſed, whole go- 
yernment ive calt off. O yonder 1s he that comes now in clouds, 
in rempeſtuous clouds ; O ſez how he florms!do not thoſe very 
douds in which he rides ſoeak or threaten a tlorme > In the 
expheeenth Palme 1s a deſcription of Chrifts comin » ro jude- 
- Ment. But O hoy terrible ? in che ſeventh verſe, we tinde 
'# the rarth trembling ; mn the eichth verſe ; a fire devoxring ; 1n the 
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" Palin8.,, 8 nunch verſe, the heavens bowing downwards : in the'12, 13, 14, 
27 9.10, "a we are wy kgs | "w; the po mmm of 
” T1; 12,13; "wings, haylc-ſtones flying through the ayre, the foundations of the 
þ 24,15. El Gibeoaeds 7 th the Mithey God,-our :Jeſus deſcends. 
Oh howfhould the wicked bur'rremble at.this, -when'bur a con- 
Gideration ofthis hath ſometimes tlatrled Gods own people > 
Ex12b.3.16, bold «kak with quivering lips, trembling.joynts, bones 
, m »into'duft, when he had onely a Prophetick repre- 
ſemtationof Chrifts ſecondappearance !: all che dreadful thinzs 
-;  -.- *thatattendedithe preſence of God in Egypt, at the red Sea on 
* . Mount Sine cheWilderneſle, are made bur rypes,bur 
'ſhadowes of the terrible march of rhe Capraine of che Lord of 

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__ 2x; - a+ Here isthe patience, faith, and joy of Saints. And 
T re" Silo anreds of be carth ſhall monrne over him, even ſo, Amen. 
This I cinaot bit-underfiand- of the wicked ; onely ſome tell 
us of a double mourning on that day, the one of joy and love ; 
and the other of forrow and deſpair I ſhall not deny bur there 
| * _ may be ſome fiyeer teares upon this ſweer ſubjeA, Chriſts appa- 
; ritien-in the clowds © Such a ſhine will be from Chrilt in the 
"$0 cloud;; that-the very ſhine will pierce the hearrs of men with 
0 the gol:e array of love, and how may this work tears? 
I 5 this. Text. of fFobw,, Behold he cometh with clouds, 
© and everyicge fhall ſee him, and they ggiſo which pierced 
LE 7 him ; and all the kindreds of the earth: ſhall wayle, &c. Some 
” Hinc conſe- Divines gather, that Chrift at thar day, will' ſhew in 
$ << be his elorified body chewounds of hs crucifying, as arr infallible 
E4- cierrs,  frophy of his victory overall hisenemies ; and hence rhe wick- 
Mcetdulnerum.o- Ed who pierced, or cructhed the Lordof glory, by their ſnnes, 
© frenſurmn,. 14% will weep, and, waile. I can think no lefle, bur that Chril} 
gum trophaun ar char day wilt open bis boſome, and ſhew thoſe wounds of 
| djro : **- love, which he had inchis heart fromall-ererfiity, rozether with 
| +» = patggs thoſe wounds which he received on the Crofle, as they ate 9lo- 
E yoco. rized in his ererna}love.: andthen as at the difcovery of Poſh 
6 _ he andhis brethrenfelluponthe necks of each other and wepr; 
{0 will this ciſcoyervyin the appearances of Chriſt britig a ſweet 
conful onuronthe [Fires of Saints'; then ſhall a Saint fall at 
the feet of hjs Savionr;” and weeping ſay, O my Jeſus ! thou 
arcmy Father,. Brother, Husband, . Self ; while there were 0- 


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ther things, 1 loved other things beſides thy ſelf, bur alas ! they 
are everlaltingly gone, and have left me alone, yet now thou 
oowneſt me ; O my Jeſus thou breake& my heart : oh 1 cannot 
© bur weep our teares of love, and reares of joy at this appearing ,.- 
'Owelcome, welcome, fſeer Jeſus into theſe clouds ? oh wel- 
come, welcome;ſweer Jeſus into this neather world. 
In theſe clouds I mult leave our Saviour for a while, and 
the rather, becauſe - I beleeve | he will deſcend no 
lower: onely before I paſſe, one word of Uſe toall his 
(..- SANS; 2 #48. « | | | 
-  Youſee him ill upon his old defigne ; though the world riow Fe. 7 
end, yet hitherto there is noend'*of his great tranſa&tion ; his ' | 
firſt coming and his ſecond coming is to fave your ſoules ; his | 
firſt coming was to purchaſe, his ſecond to give you the poſleilt- 
on of ſalvation. What,are you not glad of this Goſpel-newes, 
that Chriſt will come art laſt from this Empyreal Throne to his 
judgment-ſear, to give you the poſſeſſion of ſalvation? is not 
the promiſe of his coming comfortable ?.'15 ir not comfortable 
to beleeve in him, and to hope for him? why,muſe then, whar 
comfort ywill it be to ſee his perſon with all his glorious trayne 


coming for you? The Mighty God, the Lord bath ſpoken, and | 
called the earth, from the riſing of the Sunne, to the going down Plal.yo.r, 


thereof ; out of Zion the perfeftion of beauty hath God ſhined; ouwr 3% 


Ged ſhall come, and ſhall not keep ſilence, a fire ſhall devonre be- 
fore him, and it ſhall be very tempeſt uwons round about him ; he ſhall 

call to the heavens from above, and to the earth that he might judge 

his people. ' Itis indeed a molt terrible day untothe wicked, but 

oh how ſweer, and pleaſant, and comfortable to his Sainrs ? 

Chritians! do we not long to have Chrills Spirit come into 

our ſoules with life > do we not droop while Chritt is abſenc 

from our ſoules 2 are nor the feer of them beauriful thar bring 

glad tydin2s of peace, and of ſalvation by Jeſus Chriit > oh 
chen what will it be ro ſee the King, not in his Embaſladours , 

but in his own perſon cominz for usto fetch us into heaven ? if 

we have bur a dear frien1 returned from ſome farre Country , 

how do all runne out to meer him with joy 2 Oh ſaith the child, 

my father is come, ſaith the wite, wy husband 5 come ; and ſhall 

notwe, when we ſee cur Father, our Husband, our Head, our 

Saviour returning with great glory, and glorious Majeſty , cry 

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the Saints and people of 
God, to whichof the Angels ſaid he at any time, fit on my right 
hind, wntill I make thine enemies thy foot-ſteol> are they not all 
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woes/fring [Pirits, fent forth ta ninsfter for them, ho ſhalt be hits 
CY; Not according totheir office Chriſt puts them up» 
otyimployment at this day. 4. 4. © my efngels! you chat wait 
pon me, that excell in ſtrength, that do my commandmes:c, and Plal.a030k * 
hear ken: to the woyce of my Word: go your wayes now into all the four Plakgoiso il 
mids of the warld. gather all my Saas together unto me, thoſe that mw 
have made a covenant with me by facrifice ,, ſearch into all the duſts 
of the earth, and leave net behind ont duſt that belongs wnto any 
Saint ; ſearch into the bottome of the Sea, ſee what becomes of thoſe 
drowned bodies of my dare ones , if either wormes have eaten thoſe 
in graves, or fiſhes have devonred them in the deep, why now reſtore 
them ;, am not 1 as able to recover them, as I was ts create them ? 
is it not as eaſie for me to raiſe the dead, as to make heaven, and 
earth, and all of nothing > go then, and gather rogether all thoſe 
duſts, and let every duſt be brought home to*its own proper body, and 
compatt thoſe duſts a: ſoft as they are into ſolid bones; and propheſie 
pon thofe bones, and ſay #nto thew, O ye dry bones, hear the Ward 
of the Lord, thus ſaith the Lord, behold I will cauſe breath to enter Ettk.37 4, 
into you, and ye ſhall live, and 1 will lay ſnewes xpon yow, and ca 
aver you with chinne, and put breath in you, and ye ſhall live, and ye ; 
that 1 ams the Lord ;, why this is my will and pleaſare, and 
therefore be Lone, Oo my Angels Jo Jour office, what ? have not 1 COm- 
wanded you ? : 
i © miſſion, or commiſſion, or" diſmifſion given, the 
Angels, ſift meſſengers of his will fall on the execution ; and 
ro that purpoſe immediately they ſound the Trumper ; ſo it fol- 
lowes, and he ſhall ſend ns eLugels

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the ſound of a Trumpet. ſaith Chriſt; ©9"#im 4 lapide, 
wa moment.,in the twinckling of an tye, at 
the laſt Trampe we ſoall be changed ( faith Panl ) for the Tram- Mat. 24. ;r. 
pet ſhall fund, and the dead ſhall be raiſed. And the Lord himſelf * ©9215. 52. 
ſhall deſcend from heaven with a ſhout, and with the voyce of the t Thel.4.16. | 
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Archange bangel,” and with the Trumpet of God : but whether this 
NE” Hoey be of- filver, or- of braſſe, or. ofthe aire, 
4 © of of the cloud and meteors whereon Chriſt rides, they 
* Piſcaroe, /."-1 EDN 28ree 7 others more robably look upon this Trum- 
efius Aretine'| PEE as nothing ele bur a meraphor ; or a ſound formed in the 
alji fereom- aize.; like the found of a Trumper. A voice 1t 1s without all 
contraverſe ; and metaphorically ir

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ſpirits to their own bodies. An hor-- 
eere: ſcindis rible terrible voyce 1hall ic be : But howſhould Angels who are 
- Chiyol. Spirits. make'a voyce ? bya collifion of the ayre which the An- 
zx-Cor.15. gels can move ar their pleaſure ; and who canrell, fay ſome , 
is | there may be ſome new created inftrament Trumpet-like ; 
adapred for the Angels, at the fides of which by a-force and col- 
lifion of the aire rhis great ſhout may be, to convene All the 
7. world? orwhoknowes (ſay others). but that the Lord- Jeſus 
go. may.fill-the Angels, even as Trympets are 'hlled with a loud 
of blait,and thatthrough them this loud blaſt ſhall come ruſhing like 
go a mighty wind upon the dead Saints, and ſo awaken their bo- 
x dies out of the duſt 2 we all kno this was uſual in all the Jewes 
ſolemnities to convene the people by the ſound of a Trumpet, 
x; Andthe Lordſpake unto Moſes, ſaying, make thee two Trum- 
X*10. nets of filver, — that thou mayſt uſe them for the calling of the 

*3» Aſſembly, — and when thou ſhalt blow them, all the Aſſembly 
".  feall affemble themſelves. Andif yego to War, then ye ſhall blow 
an alarme with the Trumpets, andin the fagne way ( ſay they ) 
Chrilt now will convene all the world with the ſound of aTrum- 
5 per, or with the ſound of ſome ſuch intirumenr of divine power 
FEET ind vertue;- whereby the dead ſh:all be raiſed, and their es 
n and ſoules re-uniced. Amid{t all thoſe Authours, 1f I may de- 

- liver my opinion ; I ſuppoſe the Textthat will cleare all to us 

x Thef. 4. 26, 2hove all that is written, 1s that of 1 Theſſalonians 4. 16. For 
the Lord himſelf ſhatl

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as 
comprehended under that one ;. to-which-agrees,, Afar. 24. 31. 
Mr. Ayn/worth obſetyes, that wh are done by a mul- 
titude,. where one is chief,that the aCtion ws frequently aſcribed 
either.toche multitude, or to. him that is chief indifferencly ; 
as Zebaigda brought forth the Kings ſon, and he put the crown upox 
him, 2 It- #2, of they browght forth the Kings ſonne, and 
they put npox him the crew, 2 Chron, 23. 11. ſo David offered 
burnt-offerings, 2 Sam. 6. 17. or they offered burnt-offerings , 
1 Chron, 16. 1. andfo he ſhall deſcend with the voyce of the 
Archangel ; or he ſhall ſend his. Angels with a great ſound, 
Mat. 24. 3. " 

That there are ſeven principal Angels Maſter Mede affirmes; 
and thagghere is one which yet eminently is called the Arch- 
angel ; ſome others affirme ; as among Divels, there is one 
chief Divel, called che Prince of Divels,. and therefore the fire 
is ſaid tobe prepared for the Diwel and his Angels, ſo from this 
Taxt.of 1 Theſ 4.16. and of Dww. 10.13, and of Fade ver.g. 
Some probably conclude that the good Angels have a Prince , 
even Michael, whom 7ade calls the Archangel. But of this 
no more ; the Lord keep me from intruding into thoſe things 


* which Thave net ſeen. The day it ſelf will diſcover it, and fo 1 


leave it as having ſaid enough to *ſatisfie the ſober 
minded, 

For the ſecond, what is this voyce of the Archangel ? Icon- 
ceive

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in the morning, there were thun- 
ders. Inthis ſenſe ſome expound theſe words of the Apoflle , 
where the Lay is ſaid to be ſpokewby Angels, becauſe the Angels 
did raiſe up thoſe -extraordinary thunders, which happily were 
the matter of the articulate voice, in which the Lod ſpake to 
1/racl: or if the Law was ſpoken by Chriſt ( as I have delivered 
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thy opinion etſewhere ) he being the Angel of the Covenant', 
eNfal, 3.1. awd the Angel of bis preſtnce, Iſa. 63.9. Yer this hin- 


Book. 3 « 
Chap.1, 


&rs not, but that reared Angels might ſpeak the Lav too, If $e&. 4. 


or x7 reſpect of the articulate veto yet in reſpe& of the voice 


of tfanders which attended on' it; thus thunder is often called 
the woice of God, and'the wayce of bis excellency, Job.37.4,5. Pſal. 
29-3,4,5,6,7,8,9. 


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Angels with a Trumpet, and 
great voyce. Ando the larter words are exegetical, 9. d. with 
«Trumpet, that is, with great voyee, like the voyee of a Trum- 
pet;(o that this reading very probably proves that the lat Trum- 


Marth, 24.31, 


pet is to be taken meraphorically, For the more full contrma- - 


tion whereofT argue rhas; when any thing is aſcribed ro che An- 
gels which is nor ſuirable ro their ſpiritual nature, and which chey 
ave no need offor the work they are abour,itis to be raken-me- 
taphorically ; unleſle the context or ſome other Scriprure force 
us to a Proper acceprtatton ; but a material Trumpet of filver, 
brafle, or rhe like meral, is not ſuttable ro rhe ſpiritual natur: 
of the Angels ; neither have they need of ſuch a Trumper fox 
producing a great ſound in the'ayre ; ir is evident that withour 'a 
Trumper they can make a great found like the noiſe of a Trum- 
per; and rhere is nothing atall in the Scriptures that will force 
us, Or probably lead us tn a proper acceptation cf the word ; 
adde yer to what hath been ſaid ; that ſomerimes a great voice 
bs et outby the ſimilitude ofa Tramper, 1 heard behind me a 
ear wojee , as of « Trumpet , Rev. 1. 10, and zhe 
f* wojce which I heard, was as it were of a Taumpet , 
ev.4.I. 
But why 1s

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ſee all the dead ever fince. the bevinning 
of theworld riſe out of their gfaves? for the wicked I beleeve 
they ſhall riſe like toades from their holes. ina black, ſwarthy, 


| ax bang A que{ton is amongſt the 'Schooles whether Re- 


robares. ſhall riſe again with all their deformities which tlicy 
d in- this life 2 as ſome ,of rhem” being blind, halr, lame, 


. maimed, deaf, dumb,. &c. Whether now they ſhall riſe in 


the ſelf-ſame condition ? for my part I conceive that whereas: 
God the Authour of nature, will at that day reflore humane na- 


' rure, that therefore there ſhall be no defects of natural pars ; 


ertainly-nothing ſhall be wanting in the damned, which may 


| impede the ſenſe of torment 1n any part, nojy. adefe& of any 


member would hinder. theſe univerſal rorments, that mutt 
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ceaze on every part of the bodies of the damned in hell ; their 
bodies therefore ſhall be whole, onely the bodies of ſuch ſhall 
be foule; _uly,- heavy,. lumpiſh bodies, as oppoſed to the glo- 
Tious qualities of the bodies of Saints ; why, what bodies .( you 
will ay) have they? I anſwer, "yn bodyes: no ſooner 
ſhall che bodies ot the Saints arije; bur they ſhall exceed wirh 
Gneatar qualities; They were ſowen

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but they are 
raiſed in ineorruption ; they were ſowen in diſhonour.,” but raiſed in 
glory; thef were ſown in weakyeſſe, but raifed in prwer 3 they were 
ſowen natural bodies, but raiſed en bodies. The Sunnen its 
ſhinin2, doth-bur thadoyy forrh the glory of. their bodies ; and 
this will in ſome meaſure rorment Reprobares, ro ſee the differ- 
ence of their bodies and the bodies of rhe Saints, .Q (will they 
ſay) yondare they, whom ye defpiſed, and now are they ho- 
noured. [See a world of Sunnes rifing at once out of all parts of 
theearth ; ſometimes we lived on earth, and we never ſavy but 
one Sure rifin; in the Faſt, but loe millions of Sunnes on 
Eaſt, and Welt, and North, - and South ; O thoſe are the glori- 
ous Saints of heaven ; ſee yith what fivift and agil bodies rhey 
are freparing to fly into the ayre, to meer their Lofd and Sa- 
viour there ;' whileſt in the mean rime we riſe with ſuch heavy, 
dull, and deformed bodies, that we cannot mount, O what will 
become of us ? why this is the day of reſurretion. The Angels 
have been here ro unſeale our graves, to roll away 
the ones, »/ 0 edepmond gn. and ſound of the Trumper, our 
ſcattered dults have mertogether : and loe now we (tand upon 
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ſhall be gathered ; howſoever.their dults 
ve be ſcatreredinto a thouſand thouſand parts, yer the power 

+ 6E Chit ſhall-reſtare all thoſe duſts,and bring them together in- 

to their ſeveral compacted bodies. * | 

' 2. To the queſtion whether they ſhall be gachered > Some ſay 

| ro the alles ſehoſpaphar, gy > Tex, let e”  aauqqay 
- wakened,” and come up go the Valley of Fehoſbaphat, for there will 
on. "I® T.fit to judge: the Heceben Amy Lig 9 is Text 
2 eference to. particular judgment of God upeirclc- 
. | neifiles which dwell round about Zer«ſalem,: and the ge. 
J no ns © Tf Wit rea $ot many 2g windy that 
"A& &, Fs ſame Jeſus mbich it taken up from you into beaven, ſpall 
- He tiat3* ſo cope in. he qponir. we ſeeu him go into heaven; then re- 
twrned they mnto fer from the Mount called Oliver. But 
I bejeeye this Text ſpeaks onely of the manner how Chrilt ſhall 
come, and not. of the place to which: he ſhall come. Indeed 
is not probable that either rhe Valley. of Fehoſsaphas; or the 
Aonnt of Olivet can be ſufficient places to contain all che men 
Ba: that ever were, are, andſhall be ; andtherefore if ſuch a thing 
Et can” be. dexermined,. I ſhould rather appeale rothar Text, then 
© 2:Dhel. 4..17.-we which axe alive and reman ; ſhall be caught up together with 
WW them ( that areraiſed ) is the clouds,. to meet the Lord in the ayre. 
4d When Chriſt was askr this very queſtion, where Lord ?, whither 
> fſhallrheSamntsbe gathered? where ſhall the general judgmenr 


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- | be? he anſfivers; -whereſcever the body is, thither will: the Eagles 
 Lnke 17-37. - be gathered rogetber. By the body, Chriltmeant himſelf, and by 
HS the Eagles Chtife means hisele&, becauſe their youth 15 renew- 
| edas the Eagles; nowthzetect muſt reſort to Chriſt whereſo- 
gum ever he 1s, andthe Ap6ftle is expreſſe, that Chrift is 4x the ayre, 
>. andi»theclouds : andtherefore thither muſt the ele be garher- 

x ed; they (hall bz:caughs up by the holy Angels inco the clouds, 

tomeet the Lord in the ayre. 

VP. _ Omy brethreg,7 what ſights are theſe' what changes, won- 

| \ ders, \trange face of things will be this-day 2 how 1s 1t that we 
) afe.not as frequent in the meditation of this ſummons as 7erome 
— was, Who as he thoughthexrd:dayly.that found, ariſe je dead 4nd 
come to.judgment 2 methinks + {ad and ſerious confideration of 

theſe paſſages might Rep us cloſe to Chrut'; come try a little, 
v uthe hutrytngs@fthegday wc ate ſo dliracted that we put 
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- reach the ſpiritual part of a meditation, yer in the evening or 
morning when all is ill, or inthe nizhe-ſeaſon when all is qui- 
et, then labour to prevent the day of doome, ſo realize itas if 
then we ſaw Chriſtin the clouds, ſending his Angels on this er- 
rand, away, and bring hither all themen, and women in the 
world; and in the firtt place gather my Saints together unto me, 
Adam, and Abraham, thoſe fathers of the: world and of the | 
faithful, let them ſee all their children, -and ler all their chil- , 
dren ſee them, and bring them all co my Throne 5 awaken the | 

* world, lerthem who have ſlept in their graves, ſome thouſands 

\ of yeares be now rouzed, and raiſed. Imagine then, asif we 
heard the Trumper of God ſounded by the Angels of God, and 
as the ſound of it waxed louder and louder; that we ſaw the 
Mountaines skip like Rammes, and the lictle Hills like young 
Sheep. That we ſaw all the graves in Churches, or Church- 
yards, in Fields, or Plaines, or Seas fly open, that we ſawwll 
the bodics of the dead beginning ro firre, and to ffand upon 
their feer, and preſently the Angels coming, and raking all the 
Sainrs upon their wings, and ſo flying with them throuch the 
ayre till they came to the Throne, and judement-ſeat of Chriſt : 
15 it poſſhble chat ſuch a meditarion ſhould paſle withour ſome 
tin&ure of it on our ſpirits? 1f my eares ſhall-hear that ſound , 
and if my eyes ſhall ſee theſe fights, is it nor time for me ro lay 

+ theſe things to hearr, that I may be found fairhful and well-do- 

 Ing?.as ſure as Ihave this book in my hand 1 muſt be one_ of 
thoſe that ſhall hear the ſound of che Trumper, andaway 1 
muſt from the mouth of my grave, wherever Ithall be buricd , 
to the cloud where Chriſt dorh fit ; come then, how would 1 
' Tiſe? as foul asa toad? or as an Angel of God? O my God! 
ſer this home on my ſoul ! O where's my Lampe > and where's 

"my oyle-? are all ready ? andam I ready, furniſhed, and pre- 

red ro meertthe Lord inthe ayre2 Chriſtians ! if we have any 

ife in us, let us a& and realize this to the life ; O this would 
keep us cloſe ro Chriſt, and to the Banner of Chriſt ; who would 
not march under this Banner, and adhere to him, that but 
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howſoever their duſts 
may be ſcatreredinto a thouſand thouſand parts, yer the power 
of Chrilt ſhall reſtore all thoſe duſts,and bring them together in- 
to their ſeveral compagted bodies. 

2. To the queſtion whether they ſhall be gathered > Some ſay 
ro the Valley of Zehoſsaphat, from that Text, let the Heathen be 
wakened, and come up to the Valley of Fehoſbaphat, for there will 
T fit to judge. the Heathen Rd about ; but I beleevg.this Text 
hath reference to a particular judgment of God 
nemies which dwell round about Fer=ſalewm, and not 
neral day of judgment; Others ſay to- Aownt-Okvet from that 
Text, this ſame Jeſus which i taken up from you into heaven, ſhall 


0 come in like manner as ye have ſeen him go into heaven ; then re- 
twnrned they unto Jeruſalem from the Mount called Oliver. Bur 
1 beleeve this Text ſpeaks onely of the manner hoy Chrilt ſhall 
come, and not of the place to which he ſhall come, Indeed 
tis not probable that either the Valley of Fehoſoaphas, or the 
Aonnt of Olivet can be ſufficient places to contain all che men 
that ever were, are, and ſhall be ; and therefore if ſuch a thing 
can be degermined, I ſhould rather appeale to that Text, then 
we which axe alive and remain ; ſpall £ caught up together with 
them ( that are raiſed ) in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the ayre. 
When Chriſt was askt this very queſtion, where Lord? whither 
{hall rhe. Saints be gathered ? where (hall the general judgment 
bz? he anſivers, whereſcever the body 1s, thither will the Eagles 
be gathered together. By the body, Chriitmeant himſelf, and by 
the Eagles Chriſt meant his ele&, becauſe their youth 13 renew- 
ed as the Eagles; nowthe ele& muſt reſort to Chrilt whereſo- 
ever he 1s, andthe Apoſile is expreſle, that Chriit 1s #n the ayre, 
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holy Angels into the clouds, 
to meet the Lord in the ayre, 

O-my brethren, whar ſights are theſe ! what changes, won- 
ders, {irange face of things will be this day ? how is it that we 
are not as frequent in the meditation of this ſummons as 7erome 
was, Who as he thousht,hexrd.dayly.that found, ariſe ye dead and 
come tojudgment ? methinks a ſad and ſerious confideration of 
theſe Paſſages might keep.us cloſe to Chrut ; come try a little, 
Ft uuthe hurrytings of the day we are ſo attracted that we CoRRCE 

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reach the ſpiritual part of a meditation, yer in the evening or 
morning when all 15 {ull, or in the ni;ht-ſeaſon when all is qui- 
et, then labour to prevent the day of doome, ſo realize itas if 
then we ſayy Chriſtin the clouds, ſending his Angels on this er- 
rand, away, and bring huther all the men, and women in the 
world; and in the firit place gather my Saints together unto me, 
Adam, and Abraham, thoſe fathers of the world and of the 
faichful, let them ee all cheir children, and ler all their chil- 
dren ſee them, and bring them all co my Throne 5 awaken the 
world, let them who have (lept in their graves, ſome thouſands 
of yeares be now rouzed, and raiſed. Imagine then, asif we 
heard the Trumper of God ſounded by the Angels of God, and 
as the ſound of it waxed louder and louder, that we ſaw the 
Mountaines skip like Rammes, and the lictle Hills ike young 
Sheep. That we ſaw all the graves in Churches, or Church- 
yards, in Fields, or Plaines, or Seas fly open, that we ſay all 
the bodies of the dead beginning ro (irre, and to ftand upon 
their feet, and preſently the Angels coming, and taking all the 
Saints upon their vwinzs, and ſo flying with them throuch the 
ayre till they came tothe Throne, and judgment-ſeat of Chriſt: 
is ir poſſible chat ſuch a meditation ſhould paſle without ſome 
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the Saints lifted up, and ſer before the 
-Judge, bur theſe thnngs follow. - | 
1. They look, and gaze, and dart their beames.:, and refle:; 
their glories on each other. Oh the communications ! oh. the 
| dattings of beames betwixt Chrilt and his Saints | look as when 
E, two admirable perſons;:two lovers meer together, their eyes 
# ſparkle, they look on,. as if they would look through one ano- 
| ther. So Chrilt and his Saints at firit meeting, they look on , 
as if they would look through one another.., And ſuch is the ef- 
feſt of theſe looks, that they give a lultre to each other by their 
looks. Did not Hoſes faceſhine when he had been with God 2 
and ſhall not the faces of the ele& glitter and ſhine when Chri.t 
alſo looks on them ? nor ſtayes 1t there ; but as they ſhine by 
| Chriſt, © ſhall their ſhine refie& on Chrilt, and give a glory ro 
E Chriit ;-and-this I take it to be che meaning of the Apolile, 
"2 Theſ.1.10, that when Chriſt ſhall come, he ſpall be glorified in bis Saints ; not 
_ <a onely in himſelf, but in his Saints alſo ; whoſe glory as ir comes 
| - from -hwm;fo it redounds alſo to him,for of bim, and through him, 
""Rom.11.36. and to him are all things. x 
: 2. They admire at the infinice glory, and beauty, and digni- 
ry, andexcellency that js in Chrift. The glory they refle& on 
-him is nothing ro the glory-thar isin him. * Oh when theſe Stars 
che Saints ſhall but look uponChriit the Sonne of righteonſneſle, 
rag (vrTIGInE. "4 admire. So the Apoſtle, when he ball

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behold him who is the expreſſe image of Ged,, 
br and the brightneſſe of his Fathers glory ? O the luttres that he caſts 
fertheach way ! is not. his very body more ſparkling than the 
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Diamond before the Sunne 2 yea, more than. the Sunne it ſelf- 

now ſhining at noon-day ? how ſhould th2 Saints but wonder ar 

this fight > Oh there is more beauty, and elory in Jeſs Chriit 

than ever theit thoughts or 1umaginations could pothibly reach ; 

there is more weight of ſiveerneſfle, joy, and deli:hr in Jeſus 
| Chriſt, than either the ſeeing ee, or hearing eare, or the valt x Cor, 2.9, 
underitanding heart ( which can multuply and adde {i1l] ro any 

, ; former thouchts) can poſſibly conceive : every ſoul will cry out 

then, 1 beleeved to ſee much glory in Jeſus Chriſt, when ever I 
ſaw him ; I had ſome twili2he, or Moon-light glances of Chrit 
on earth ; bur O blind L! O narrow 1 | that could never have 
faith, opinion, thouzht, or imagination to fathom the thou- 
ſand-thouſand part of the worth, and incomparable excellency 
that I now ſee m him. Why,this cauſeth admiration,” wh2n we 
ſee more thanever we could expect ; the Saints ſhall then cry 
out, and ſay, I ſee more, ten thouſand times more than ever 
Iexpeged; I ſee all the beauty of God pur forth in Chrit, 1 
ſee the ſubſtantial refle&tion of the Fathers lizht and £Jory in 
Jeſus Chrif}, I ſee thouſands of excellencies in Jeſus Chrict that 
never were revealed ro me before. This 15 the very nacure of 
admiration ; it1sever wondering or admirin2 at ſo ne new and 
range thing : the glory of Chriit will then exceed all former 
apprehenſion. O they admire to ſee the Kin? in ſuch a beauty, 
they admire to ſee' the Judge in ſuch a glirrerin2 and glatio.s 
robs of. Majefly , they admire, and they cannot bar 
admire. 

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and power, and might be yunto ouvGod for ever, ' aud ever. Amey, 
Saints and Anzels will both vive glory to Jer us Chriſt that day ; 
every ele& man will then acknowledge, ere is Chriſt that ſhe 
ls blood for me,' here is the Swiour that laid down his life for 
me, \here1s the Sacrifice that gave himmRIfa propitiatien for me, 


"here is the Perſon that mediated,” and interceded, - 3nd niade 


peace for me, here 13 rh Redeemer that delivered,and redeem- 
ed me fromthe wrath ro come ; and then they begin thoſe 
HAlelujahs,thatnever never ſhall have end: Hallelnjah,and again 


'Hallelnjah ; and Amen Hallelnjah ; for the marriage of the Lamb 
3; come, and his wife hath made her ſelf ready. | 


4. 'Chrift welcomes them into his glorious preſence ; if the 
Father could receive his Prodigal but repenting with hugges and 
kiſſes, how will Chrift now receive his Saints, when they come 
as 4 Bride'to the ſolemmzation of the marriage ? his very hearr 


ſprinizs (as I mayfay) arrhe fight of his Bride ; no ſooner he 


ſees her, and ſaluresher, bur he welcomes her with ſuch words 
as theſe. 'O my love, my dove, my faire one, come now and enjoy 
thy Hacband, many 4 thought 1 have had of thee, before I made the 


"world, 1ſpent my infinite eternal thoughts on thy ſalvation, when the 


world began I gave thee « promiſe that I would betroth thee mnt» 
me in-righteonſneſſe, and in judgment, in loving-kindneſſe , is 
mercy, and in faithfalneſſe; Tr was1 that for thy ſake was incar- 
nate, andlived, ond dyed, androſe again, and aſcended, and 
fnce my aſcenſion that have been — for thee, and ma- 
kinz ready the Bride-chamber where thotFand T muſt live, for 


'ever andever : and now I come hither into the clouds, to meer 


thee more than half the way;and my meaning is to take thee 
by the hand, 'and to bring thee ro my 'Fathgr; now do Irtake 
thee for my own;O my Siſter, my Spotffe,thou att as dear to me 
as my own dear heart; come, ſee into my boſome , ſee here 


- ove wricten in the volden letrers of free-grace';” come near, for 


T muſt hive thee with me ; aid I will never more beſo ſtran2e 


to thee asto this day ; ſomerimes'thy ſfinnes have-inade a wall of 
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tion betweerme and thee ; ſometimes I withdrew and was 
gone, and I hid my ſelfbeyond the curtaines ; and for a time 
thou haſt layen hid 1n the clofſer of the grave; but now wee'le 
never part more ; anon I will bringthee to. my Father, and 1 
wall ſay to him,Father, behold here my Spouſe thar I have matr- 
ned unto my ſelf; inthe meantime welcome to thy Jeſus; I 
have purchaſed thee with my blood, 1 have paid dear 
for thee ; and now I'le year thee as a crown, and ornament for 
ever, , 
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the ſolemnity of the marriage, As the Bridezroo.nN on 
the day of Nuptials comes forth in his glory, and as the Bride on 
the marriage-day comes forth in her belt array ; and as the ſer- 
vants, and parents, and friends,and all appear on the marriage- 
day in as much glory as they can; ſo Chrit on this day cones 
forth in his glonie, with all his Anzels in their glory ; and the 
Saints, the Lambs yvite, the Kings daughter, is all glorions , Plal.45.13. 
without and within. Though ftarres may loſe their ſhining when - 
the Sunneariſeth, yer the glory of the Saints ſhall be . leſſe 
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becauſe of rhe Sun of righteouineſſe, bur racher more, This is 
che day rhat Chritt ſhall honour his Saincs before all the world; 
come (will heſay.) andfit youdown. at my. right hand ;: as a 
Shephearddividerh his Sheep from rhe Goares; 1o: will-I ſepa- 
rate you from wicked reprobares, why you are..chey for whom 
the erernal councels of.my;/Farher aid work, you are they in 
whom I am-now to be-glecified forever; and therefore noyy 


-- will Texalt , andadvance, and/honour yau-;, fit here, .orftand 


of your Saviour,” 4” 1. | Tr 0:3 -MGO. .7 
6. Hereupon Chriit fully and. aRually: joyes in then,. and 
they in him :' he joyesin them; becauſe noy he ſees of thertra- 
vail of hi; ſoul ;' he ſeesth2 iflue of all his doings and ſufferings 
re-on eafth,he ſees now the great work he hath broughtabout, 
co\vit,” the glory of his Saints ; #nd he. canner bur-- rezoyce 
therein. ' As a man that makes a work that 1s very curtous, and 


here on my ri: ht hand; O come, come hither to the right hand 
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* Elorious, herakes abundance of delizhtro look upon it 5 when 


God made the world, he look't upon what he mfde, an! he ſaiy 
It yas £00d, and-he delighted 1n it;"So © tooks on h1s 
Saints, and when he ſees wharhe hath dons, ices ſo poor 


a worme to {o hich anexcellency, herakes infipue cel,nr cher- 
in ; now he ſees that he harhkartained:hisend in that great de- 
ficne, 'and deepeſt councels:that he had-befsre the world: he 
was then reſolved toſave a number of (amnzts,and ro bringthem 
at laſt ro himſelf rhat:chey.mi. he:behold/ himan hjs glory, an 
manife(t "the ' rich2s of © ns + £race-;_ :and; ta -thar* purpoſe 
hath he {ill been carrying on the great-work:of ſoules ſalvation, 
as ie have heard ;” and now thar he ſees traccomplithed, and 
fulfilledin them, he mult needs delighr ;./n that day i ſhall be 
[aid to Feruſalem, fear thou not, and to Zion let not thy hands be 
faint, forthe Lord thy Godin the midſt of thee i5 "Mighty; he will 


ſave; he will rejuyce over thee with joy, he will reſt in hir.lewe, the will 


joy over thee with ſinging. | Lage” 
An1 as he joyes in them, fo they cannot bur re;oyce in him; 
as hz delights in their glory, ſo they cannor but delight 1n his 


tlory ; are they not at Chris right hand? and'18nor rhat the 


: place of pleaſure, th= paradiſe of God?rn thy preſende 14 fulneſſe of 
« toy ad at riy rioht hand are pleaſures for egermorexthe, very'ſertin; 


them qn Thriiis ri.ht hand, 1s che beginning of heayens joy. 
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T he preſence of Chriſt makes joy , exceeding joy ſaith Fade ; oh Jude 24. 
but what joy ? what fulneſs of joy > what exceeding joy will it 
be to be ſet at Chriſts right hand? riow begins that joy, that ne- 
yer, neyer ſhall bave end. © the complacency which' the 
bleſſed feel in their ſeeing, knowing, loving, and being beloved 
of Jeſus Chriſt. O my Chriſt , let me have tribulation here, 
let me bere ſpend my daies in ſorrow , and my breath in ſighings ; 
puniſh we bere; cut me in pieces here; burn me bere; ſo that Imay 
there be placed at thy right band, for then joy will comegand ſor» 


row iſh; ſorrow is but for a night, this night of life;-buc 
joy in this morning of the reſurreRion, and ic ne- 
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names of all that are cleRed from firſt trolaſt; Thou 
Zobn,8& thou Jofephz& thou Fuderh; & thou ary; 8& thou Zliza- 
berth, &c. you are allbook*'d' down; there is the particularity, 
and there is the certainty ; your names are written in heaven, re» 
zoyee1w jt ; oh what isthe joy of Saints when once they ſee this 
book opened 2nd their names inrotfed, ingraven there in letters 
of glory. ' 'This very book cleers-it tome, ' that 
eterviity made choice of a particular and dee 
of perſons, to ſave them; and. that none othi 
but thoſe who were ſocleted , and whoſoever 
they ſhall not fall away.. 411 that Worſhip the Beaff, 
are not Written-in the book of life of the Lamb, from the foundation 
of the worl1d,On the other fide, be that overcometh,the ſame ſhall be 
written in the book of life, and I Will not blot ont hia name , but 1 
will confeſſe bis name before my Father. and before his Angelt, 
This is the-day when that book of life ſhall be opened , and 
Chrift ſhalt-read the names of cvery, ele perſon before God 
and Angels; not that Chriſt needsa book-;, or indeed reads a 
name , bur: that his eleQion ſtands fo firm, that he knowes 


every predeſtinared Saint as well , as we know their names, 


whota for our memories we commit unto our books ; and then 
he will ſo-konour bis Saints-, that he will publiſh cheir names 
to all the world: | L 

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and accordingly they were judged. - 

i. As to evilthings, unfruitful works of darkneſs. It is 
2 queſtion, and Idarenot be too poſitive init, vis. Whether 


. the fins of Golls people ſhall br manifeſt at the day of Judgement? 
radon are pr the negative, becauſe God in his promiſes 


ſpeaks ſo expreſly of forgiving iniquities, of remembring thens 10 
wore, of blotting them out, of throwing them into the bottome of the 
Sea, of caſting them behind hi back; in which reſpeRt = 
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they , the godly are (aid not t9 come into Judgement, I ſyppoſe Joh. 5.24. 
this laſt Text is ill urged, for by Jadgment is nor meane diſcuſ- 
-fion, but condemnation, and in our beſt cranſlations ſo it is 
rendred ; others are for the affirmative:, upon theſe grounds. 
1. Becauſe many of the godly and wicked mens fins are ming- 
ted together, and there cannot be a Judgement of diſcuſtion, 
receding that of condemnation, unletle godly mens ſins are al- 
0 produced, 2. Becauſe it is ſpokergenerally in reſpe& of all 
ſorts, that che books Were opened; by which books moſt undet- 
ſtand the conſcieaces of men ,-and by the opening of choſe 
books, they underſtand che manifeſting, clearing, and diſcover- 
ing of conſciences at that general day; 3, Becauſethe Scriptures 
are expreſle for the afficmative ; not but thart- thofe Texts are 
tepths, that /ins are forgiven, blotted ont, thrown away ;, to be ye- 
ed no more ; (i.) as tO condemnation ; bar as for explo- 
ration ,or diſcuſſion the Lord ſpeaks univerſally, that of every-14,1hur zn46, 
idle word that men ſpeak , they ſpall give an account thereof at the 
| day of {Judgement If the ballance weigh down on this fide (for 
my part I amnot peremptory , but. ſhall eaſily ſubmit co the 
ſpirits of the Prophets ) yet this manifeſtation ſhal{ not be for 
the ſhame, grief, trouble, ignominie, or confuſion of rhe godly; 
but onely for the ſetting up ofGods juſtice, & that the goodne 
and free grace of God in Chriſt may be made more illuſtruous; 
how will Chriſt then be exalted , when all the world ſhall ſee 
his righteouſneſs and goodneſs, his truth and mercy, now 
again meeting together, and kiſfing each other? ic was ſoar 
bis firſt coming,and it wil be ſo at bis ſecond coming;then-ſhal 
his juſtice and mercy, his righteouſneſs and goodneſs be mani- 
feſted to all, in that by. bis own merits, notwithfanding 
their ſins, he will bring all his Saints eo his heavenly 
lory. 
; | a for good things, whether good works;dutics or graces, 
there is no queſtion but all theſe will be that day produced, 
and laid open, 1. We ſee Chriſt enumerating che good Works 
ofthem on his right hand ; for 7 war a» hangred, and ye gave 
me meat; 1 was thirfty, and ye gave me drink; I was 4 ſtranger, and 
ze took me in; naked, and ye cloathed mz; ſick, and ye viſited me; Wah 25.35; 
iv priſon; and ye came antome. It is true in this catalogue we 26, 
$nd-nothing of faith, but all of works; but certainly faich is in- 
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 cluded,as the life of the Tree is included inthe fruit, not onely, 
nox-Pprancipally-are works here mentioned for the goodneſs of 
the i work contidered in itfelf 3 but as rheſe works did exprefſe 
qur faith-pnd love to Jeſas Chriſt \ 'in that byaith we could ſee 
Chriſt N48 ren pear), 'orpriſoner, and could: Yove Jelus 
Chriſt in thele poor,; better than all our:wordly goods, or li- 
berties: --1 do-not wonderthat Pas! adviſerh his Corinthians, 
fag that” 18 abownt in thi grace-of contribution. to the Saints : 
aogxhatiheiprayetd bis Philippiens, efod 1445-7 pray that your 
lovgi meg abe! t:awre; And.that he eayech to? his Theſſa- 
lonjand; how beard makeyou toincreate;8& to abound in love 
$ one cowatds anotber;and towards all men; and chat he praiſech 
2 Th:0.1.3, Godin their bebalf; 'we are bowndro thank God alwayes for you, 
brethren it is meet, ;becanſe.that your fairh groweth exceedingly, 
E and thecchatity of every onzof youll 1onardeach other abiandeth. 
” a... Chriſtians} if we did. bur:conſider hag every duty donetoGod 
\* or Man; that every penny given tos poor \naked Saint , that 
-c0p of cold-water 'givert ro aPropher in the name'of a 

Prophet ſhould not loſe' his reward , but this-day ſhoold be 
reckodaliats oor (av1t were) 02 @ grip 7] In 

miry for his picce' of filyer" govew [ck a "day td [#ch aont, 

y es jo this piece of AYE day given 1 ſack a one, 8c, 

Oh who would notsbound in faith and love ? oh who would 

think any thing too much ,'t00 good ; too dear to give to the 

needy members of Jeſus Chriſt? there is a"*charge' laid upon 
iz Miniſters to preaththis Norine:, 'I beſeechyougive me leave 
i Tim. 6.17» rg diſchargemy duty / aridits lay it,” and {caveit #t your doors, 
38,19. where beggars uſually ſtand ; charge them that are rich in thu 
Ke. World ——that they do good, that they be rich in good Works, ready 
A. as lots to; diftribute, willing. tb communicate ; laying ap in ſtore for 
> of 0 # themſelves a good foundation againſt the time to come , that they 
TV A mm day hold-on vxernal lifes Y ou to whom God hath given the 
% 1iches of this warld,-as you would meet Chriſt with comfore, 
N-#£../4 learn this lefſogy;confider whether of theſe too reckonings 
£2 44 k» will be more comfortablecat that day, Item, ſo much given 
© ontes to ſuch 2nd ſucha\ religions uſe? or ſo much given towards 
, Kev? ach a Feaſt, and-for he entereainment of ſuch brave pallants? ſo 
Au? 1 # much- to gromoteithe Goſpel? or fo much at dice, cards, horſe- 
races ? if one ſhould tell you, that eicher you muſt feed Chrilt 
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im the poor, or you muſt ſtarve in hell; you muſt either cloath 
naked Chriſt iq the poor, or you mult be laid naked to the fiery 
indignation of the Lord for ever, oh what ſtri&tneſs would you 
call chis? bar I recolle& my ſelf ; if Chriſt ſer you at his right 
hand ; be will then recount all your charities , and all your la- 
bours of love to the Saints : you that are poor, and bad nothing 
eo give, he will tell yon of your good works, if it was no more, 
bur ar ſuch a time, you caſt a mite into his Treaſury, and at 
_ ſucha time you carried a Letter for the Lord Jeſus ; he will pro- 
duce andcommend theſe pirtances of your poor charities to all” 
the world, 
2. Nor onely good works to man, but all the Saints duties 
to Got (hall come in remembrance, Oh then it will be 
known who ſerved the Lord in ſpirit and truth , and who 
did not ; then Men'and Angels ſhall know, /«ch a day th# poor 
Saint performed ſuch 4 / van ſervice ; every prayer in publick 
or private, every tear (hed for (in, every ſob, or ſigh, every ſpiri- 
tual meditarion, or ſelf-examination, every glance, ejaculation, 
'or looking up wnto Jeſws, ſhall be recounted by Jeſus : It was faid ag.1to!4, 
of Cornelius,that as wel bu prayers toGod,as bis alms to men came 
tip for a memorial before God, certainly every duty in reference to 
rhefirſt table is booked in heaven, & at this day the book being 
opened , it will appear, that ſuch a prayer thqu madeft ſuch a 
morning, and ſuch an eyening in thy cloſet, and now will Chriſt Mart. 6 6. 
lay ; did not Ttelt thee, that if thaw would? pray to thy Fa- 
ther 31 ſecret, then he that ſaw thee in ſecret , ſhould reward thee 
openly? why now ſhalttbou have thy reward in a full vieWw, 1 will di- 
unlge here all thy ſecret duties, to Men and Angels; all the 
World ſhill know it, thy wanarings I told them, and th) Pl1l,56.8, 
tears | bottled them, lo here, are they not all written in my 610k? — 
*3- Nor onely duties, but graces ſhall now be rekearſed ; thy 
knowledge faith, hope, love, ſpiritual joy ; thy fear, obedience, 
repentance, humilitie, meekneſs, patience, zeal, perſeverance 
ſhall. be fully diſcovered ; time was that in the incenſe of ſuch 
a praier many ſweet ſpices were burned together ; therein was 
faich working by love; therein was humilitie , therein was pas» 
tience inſubmitting to Gods will and pleaſure, therein was hope 
of a gracious anſwer in Gods due time, therein was holineſſe, 
brokenneſle of heart, and love to others, &c, Time was (ſaith 
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Chriſt). that 1 gathered my wyrrbe with my ſpices , that I ate my 
honey<comb with wy honey, that 1 both accepted and delighted my 
ſelf in thy beaventy graces ; 1 ſhall never forget how thou didſt ra- 
viſh wy heart , my oY ſpouſe ; bow thou doſt ravifh my bear: 
with one of thing e1es,, ' and &5th one chain of thy neck, Why, thus 
ſhall: the Lord fetforth, and cell all the world what gracious 
children he had; then will appear indeed the meckneſs of Hoſes, 
the faith of e/{brahemn, the patience of 7ob , the zeal of Phineas, 
the love of Magdalene ; and according to the meaſure of grace 
conferred upon thee, Ghrift will ſec out ; we commend the 
graces of ſuch and [ach Saints at their death, but ob let Chriſt bla- 
<0n me, and bit graces in me at the reſurrettion-day. | 
- "Thus farfor the exploration or trial before ſentence, 
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with Chriſt in- his Throne; Joba.in his vifon ſaw many . 
Thrones, And 1 ſaWv Thrones, and they ſate upon them, and judge- 
ment 4s givengmto them, And Chyi@bimſelf rold bis Apoſtles, 
verily I ſay wnto you, that ye Which followed me in the regene- 
ration , when the Son of Man ſhall ſit in the throne of bu glory, ye 
alſo ſhall fit upon t\velve Thrones , judging the twelve F riber «{ 
lirae!. Hence ſome argue that-amongtit all the: Saints, the Apo- 
Ries (hall bave their,Tbrones ſeared next to Chriſt ;-t owſoever 
the reſt ſhall not be-depriyed of their Thrones ; for not onely 
twelve: Thrones, but twelve-and twelve are ſet about the 
Throne of Chriſt, and round about the T hrone nere four an 
ewenty Thrones (or ſeats )- and mpon the Throne 1 ſaw four and 
twenty Elders fitting cloathed with nbite rayment , and they bad 
on their. heads crowns of gold, Onely four and twenty Thrones, 
and fourand twenty. Elders are numbred, but thereby is repre- 
ſented the whole Church of Chriſt ; Ir is, plain eocuph, that all 
the Saints/ſhall appear plainly io the glory, of Chriſts Kingdom, 
having Thrones with him in the ar, during the time of his 
judgement; | | 
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and they alſo which pierced 
bim, We heard before, that no ſooner Chriſt inthe clouds 


+ but they ſaw him then, as the priſoners that ſee the Judge 


riding to his Judgement-ſeat; oh but now they ſhall ſee him 


_ 44n the Judgement: ſeat ready with ſparkling eies, and thun- 


dring voice to ſpeak their ſentence, Priſoners at the bar muſt 
not turn their backs on the Judge when he be» 


gins their ſenrence ; no more muſt reprobates ; In majeſtate viſuri ſunt, quem 
They mu#t ſce bimin Majefly whom they would '* bumilitate videre nolue- 
run:5 ut tanto diſltrin&ius 


; virtutem ſenriant quanto con- 
Jo much more they may feel his power , by hoW ning infirmirarem Ceri 


wot deigne to lnok upon in humility ; that by 


much more they derided his weakneſs, Oh the func. 
difference betwixt Chriſts firſt coming in the 
fleſh , and in his ſecond coming in the clouds ; then he came 
in povertie, now in majeſty; then in hum'ijity, now in 
glory ; then with poor Shepherds, now with mighty Angels; 
then the contempt of Nations , now the terror of the World; 
then crowned with thorns, now with majeſty, then judged by 
one man, now judging all men; then as a Lamb, now as a Lyon; 
-ok horror to conceive | how will the ſight of this Judge amaze 
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the wicked ? and the rather becauſe they ſhall ſee him whom 
they have pierced, Is not this the aggravation of their terror? 
conceive the guilty man-ſlajer coming to his trial, will not 
the red-robes of his Judge make his heart blecd for his blood. 
ſhed> doth not that crimſon cloath preſent a monſtrous hew 
before his cies? O then what (ght is this, when the man ſlain fits 
in the judgement>ſeat? the' roſy wounds of our Saviour ſtill 
bleeding (as it were) in the priſoners preſence ? well may they 
hang their heads, but they ſhall not ſhut their cies; they ſoall ſee 
him, ſaich the Text, yea, they alſo Which pierced bim ſod ſee hims

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of whom you ſaid, there #4 no beautie - in hizs that we 
ſhould defire bim, Whatſoever he (hall ſay, this I beleeve, that 
Chriſts ſweet face will be moſt terrjþle ro the wicked at that 
day. Oh ic wili-cut them co ſee him. in the jadgement-ſeat 
- whom they baſely ſhut out of doors, preferring a luſt be- 
fofe. his. preſence ; then will they begin with extreameſt grief 
and bitterneſſe of ſpiric to figh and ſay , Ob , be that Flook wpon, 
and muſt lock upon, and cannot chooſe but look upon : he whom 1 now 
ſee ſirting on yonder flaming, white, and gloriows T bone, us Feſus 
Chrift, Te Mightie God, the Prince of Peace, that true Meſſiah, 
x whaſe precious blood was pomred out 4s water upon the earth , to 
[1 ſave bu. peeple from their ſins : -it whe, yea, the ſelf ſame he 
t. that mary a time whiles I lived on earth , invited and wored me 
by ba faithful Miniſters, that beſought and entreated me with 
rears of deareſt love, to leave my lufts, and to-bid the devil adien; 
that knocked again and again at the door of my heart for entrance, 
offerins himſelf to be my at ſufſiciert, an4everlaſting husband, tel- 
ling me that if ] tvonld but have embraced bim, at thu time ſhould 
have been the ſolemnitic of tbe marriage, and now he would have 
fet an immortal croWn-of bliſſe and glory wpon my head with bis 
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own Almighty band ; but I alas| like a nilful defferate wretch, 
forſook my own mercy , judged my ſelf nnworthy of ex erlaſting life, 
and wretchedly and cruelly against my own ſoul , ptrſecmed all 
the means Which ſhould have ſanflified me , and all the Miniſters 
which ſhould have ſaved me , asinſtruments in the his of Chriſt, 
and now happy I if I were an hundred thouſand millions of miles 
diftant from this ſight of Jeſua Chriſt , oh that theſe tics in my 
head were holes again , as they Were but even now When I w.; v9;- 
ting , or rotten in the grave ! oh that I could turn any way aſide 
from thu glorious ſight | oh that I were aftont, or r1e, or air, 
or any other thing that wanted eies | oh that 1 had mo eie 
Within , nor underſtanding facultie to conceive of Chriſt , 
or to know Chriſt Jeſus as my Judge , now ready to bid me go 
to hell | certainly theſe will be the woful wiſhes of the wicked, 
when they ſhall look on Chriſt as fitting on his Throne of 
Judgement, ; 

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they ſhall look on them. Indeed they 
fit ſo neer their Saviour, that they cannot look on him, bur they 
muſt look on them; the Saints are on their Thrones, either in the 
Throne or about the Throne of Jeſus Chriſt; and the repro- 
bates ſtand in a dire oppoſite line to the Saints , ſo that their 
cies cannot be off them ; It is ſaid inthe parable, that the rich 
man being in hell, he lift Hp by eies, and ſaw Abraham afar off, 
and Lazarm in his boſome; but the diſtance being ſo great as 
heaven and bell, rbat cannot be literally underſtood, but one- 
ly parabolically, ir is otherwiſe here, for howſocver the ſepara- 
ton be already made, yet neither is theſentence, nor executi« 
on paſt upon the reprobates; and indeed as yer, both the S3ints 
and reprobates are inthe air, the one on the righthand , 8nd 
the ocher on the left hand of Jeſus Chriſt, and chercfore chey 
cannot but have a full view of each other, Inthe Apocti- 
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to Chriſt of theſe things, 
riches miſ-ſpent, and healch miſ-ſpent, and wiſedome, policy, 
learning, gifts and parts miſ-ſpent,O conſider it ! if the FaR6ur 
after many years ſpent in forrain Countrics, at laſt returns 
home without bis reckonings , who will not blame him for his 
negligence ? but when his Maſter calls bim to account, 
and he finds nothing but a bill of expences, this in courting, 
that in feaſting : who laughs not at ſo fond a reckoning ? 
Thus many paſle the time of their life as a time of mirth, then 
when they return to their Lord again, behold all their ac- 


by ) { counts are fins, their-profits-vanities, 
+ LD 3+ I (hall adde one thing more; not onely of gifts tem- 


poral, but of all bleſſings ſpiritual,though but tendred, and of- 
fered, muſt all give anaccount. Oh the ſad accounts that ma- 
ny. a ſoul will make of theſe things ! methinksI hear ſome wick- 
ed wretch confefling thys to Chriſt; Tryue Lord, I lived at ſuch a 
time when the ſun of the Goſpel ſhone bright in my face; and in /ach a 
place where all warGoſpen;T lived under ſuch aminiſtery,whoſer be- 
fore me life and death;, many and many a powerful, and ſearchin 
Sermon have I heard; any one paſſage Whereof (if I had not Wicked- 
ly and wilfally forſaken my own mercy) might bave been unto me 
the beginning of the new birth , and everlaſting bliſſe. Sometimes 
in the uſe of the means I felt ſtirring or ſtrong workings in my 
heart , and then I was fully purpoſed to have been axother man, 
to have cleaved to Chriſt, and to have forſook the world IP 
Was almoſt reſolved to have been Wholly for God, I was almoſt 
perſwaded to be a real (Chriſtian, ob what thoughts Were in my 
heart, when ſuch a faithful Miniſter preſſed S truth home ? 
methinks every Sermon 1 beard then,is now a preaching again, me 
thirks IT hear ſtill the voyce of the Miniſter , me thinks I ſee ſtil 
bis tears dropping down his cheeks ; oh how freſh: the reproof , ad- 
monition,exhortation of ſuch, and [ach a Preacher now in my mind? 
ob how earneſily did he intreat me ! with What love and tender 
Compaſſion did he beſeech me | how did his bowel yearn over me ! 
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how ſtrongly did he convince me , that all was not nell nith my 
fim-ſick ſoul | how plainly did he rip up all my (ores | and open to me 
all my ſecrets, and my whole heart ! but alas within a while I made 
jeſt of all, 1 bardened my heart againſt all, I [tifl:d all his con- 
vittions , 1 ſhut my dayes againſt his diſcoveries ; [cared neither 
for the Minifter, nor any thing be ſaid, or did, And yet here is not 
all, not onely the Miniſters of ( briſt,; but the Spirit of Chriſt [ome - 
times ſpake to my heart ,, 1 remember at ſuch a time Chriſt himſelf 
(a7 it were) condeſcended, and bowed the heavent,and came down to 
entreate ne for my ſouls health; oh the ſtrivings of the Spirit of 
Chriſt, al if he had been loath to have took a denial ! O Chriſt, Rev. 3.20 
1 remember thy words, When thou criedſt to me, open ſinner, open t 
thy heart to thy Saviour , and 1 will comein, and ſup with thee, 
and thou With me. Why ſinner , are thy lufts better than 1? thy 
carnal pleaſures better than N>thy worldly commodities better than 
T1? why finner , what doſt thou mean > how long ſhall thy vain 
; TFhonghts lodge within thee? O take pitie on thy Feſta | for here / 
ſtand,and vary nt the door of thy heart ,and my head © filled with the 
dew, and my locks With the drops of the night. But alas I res 
ſifted Chriſt and bu Spirit ; O thou fudge ard Saviour of all 
thine E lett, I dealt churlifhly with thee, I tired ont thy patience, I 
gave thee a repulſe , I told thee I had entertained other lovers, 
and 1 would none of thee ; I troad on conneel, I trampled thy preci- 
e145 blood under my feet; and noWv I am expetling no other but ta eat 
the fruit of my own way. NoWv may/? thou accompliſh thy Word, be- 
eanſe I ſet at nought all thy counſels, and would none of thy reproof, 
therefore thou mayſt langh at my calamitie, and mock now my fear 
cometh, Lo , here the confeſſions of ſinners. Every thing now 
com?s out,for Chriſt wil have it ſo,as a preparative to his doom 
upon them

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inſulting over them with helliſh ſpighe 

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- Give me leave a little to enlarge upon theſe words. No 
_ſooner Chriſt begins the ſentence , Depart from me | bur 
methinks I imagine the reprobates to reply ; how 2 gepart 
from thee? why O Chriſt, thou art all things, and therefore the 
loſle of thee is the loſſe of all things ; thou art the greateſi 
good; and thereforeto be deprived of thee is the greateſt evi). 
thou art the very center,and perfeR reſt of the ſoul, and there. 
fore to be pulled from thee is the moſt cruel ſeparation :' we 
were: made bythee, and forthee, O let us never be divided 
from thee; we were made according tothy Image, ' O never 
drive us from our glorious Pattern, Away, aWay (faith Chriſt) 
ys have no part in me, or inmy merits, never ſpeak, or intreat 
me any more,: but depart from me. But ſecondly, they may re- 
ply again, if we-muſt depart, and depart from thee, at leaſt give 
us thy blefling beforewe go, thou haſt great ſtore of bleflings 
to give, and we hope thou haſt one yetin ſtore for us, we crave 
+ bur a {mall thing, bur a bleſſing, O 5t ir a little oye ; thou arc 
our Father [( witneſs our creation) and-it is achfef property 
of x Father to bleſle his children, No; depart from me ye cnrſed. 
.#n place of a bl:ſſing take the full curſe of your Father ; you 
bave been moſt prodigal and diſobedient children : you have followed 
bim who had my fir ſt curſe; and now ſhare ye curſes with him,curſed 
be you in your ſouls,and in your bodyes,and in yoar thonghts, and in 
your words, and in the haynouſneſs of your fins, and inthe grievonſ- 
weſſe of your puni/oment. But thirdly , if we muſt depart from 
- thee, and depart accurſed , yet appoint us ſome meet and con- 
venient place to go into create 8 fruitful piece of ground, and 
let a goodly- ſun daily (ſhine upon it, let it baye ſweet and 
wholeſome. air, and be ſtgred with fruits , and lowers, of all 
forms and colours ; give us the variery of creatures for 
our uſes; O if wee muſt go from thee , the ſource and 
fountain of heavenly ſweetnels, efford us ſome plenty 
of carthly pleaſures, which may in ſome ſort recompence 
our paine of Joſle , ſpeak. but the word , and ſuch a place | 
will preſently ſtart up, and ſhew it ſelf, No, depart from | 
me ye enrſed into fire ; thongh fire naturally burns not ſpirits, 


Jet I Will lift and elevate thu fire above its natare ; you bave finncd } 
againſt nature, and I will puniſh you above natare ; Fire? alas that a 
ever we were born! who is able to reſt in fire> the very n 


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thooght of it already burns us,Of all the creatures appointed by 
God to be the inſtruments of revenge, fire and water have 
the leaſt mercy. But Fourthly , if we mult into fire, let the 
ſentence ſtand but for a very ſhore time; quench the fire 
quickly balf an hour will ſeem a great while there ; No, depart 
from me ye Cnrſed into everlaſting fire : it was kindled by my 
breath, and it hath this property among other ſtrange qualities, that 
3t ts an wnquenchable fire ; as long as 1 am God it ſhall endure, 
and ye broyl in it; andwhen I ceaſe to be bappy, then ſhall ye 
ceaſe to be miſerable, O wo is us | what > to live ina fire 
perpetually without all end, or hope of end>— Yet Fifthly, 
allot us then ſome comforters, whoſe ſmooth and gentle 
words may ſweeten our torments, or ſomewhat dull the moft 
keen edge of our extremity; O let the Angels recreate us with 
ſongs and himnes of thee, and of thy bleſſedneſs, that we 
may hear that ſweetly delivered which others fully enjoy : 
No, no; depart from me ye curſed in toeverlaſting fire , prea 
pared for the devil and hu angels : they ſhall be your comforters, 
they that will triumph in your miſeries , they that are your deadly, 
deſperate enemies; they that Will tell you by what deceits and by- 
wayes they led you from me , and that will give you every hour nevy 
names of ſcorn awd horrible reproach. O ſentence not to be 
endured, and yet never , never muſt ir be reverſed. O my 
brethren, I tremble at the very mentioning of this ſentence, 
and O what will they do on whom it muſt paſſe? I beſeech 
you before we paſſe from ie,wil you ask but your ſouls this one 
queſtion? What? can you divell with everlaſting fire? if you 
can, you may go oninſin; but if you cannot, why then ſtop 
here, and repent of fin, O now ſay , if this be the effeft of ſin, 7 
Lord pardon What's pait , ana O give me grace that 1 may finno 
more , 4s ſometimes 1 bave done, Methivks if a tempeation 
ſhould come again for ordinary entertainment, you ſhould 
fright it away with the remembrance of theſe powerful words, 
depart from me ye curſed into everlaſting fire, prepared for the devi/ 
and by angels. 

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that it ſhall not be direRly known , ere it be: ſeen and 
done. 1 ſhall onely relate what others ſay. ro this point, 
and ſo leave you to your liberty of judging what is righr, 

x. Some ſay that the Saints (ball judge;he world by pre- 
ſenting their perſons and ations , by comparing their good 
examples with the evil examples of all the reprobates ; and ſo. 
they ſhall convince and condemn the world. Behold the Lord 
cometh with ten thouſands of his Saints , to execute judgement up+ 
01 all , and ts convince all that are ungodly among them; This 1 
conceive to be a truth , yet ſurely this is not all truth. 

2. Others ſay , that the Saings (hall judge the world by 
way of inditing., impleading, accuſing, witneffing, &c. Ard 
I conceive it may be thus too; the Saints of che Law more e- 
ſpecially accuſing the breakers of the Law , by the Law. Ds 
wot think that 1 will accuſe you to the Father, there #4 one that ac- 
cuſeth you to the Father , there t« one that accyſeth you , ever; 
AMofes, in whomyetruſt. . And the Saints of the Guſpel more 
eſpecially judging the prophaners of the Goſpel, by the Goſpe); 
inthat day whey God ſhall judge the ſecrets of men by Jeſus Chriſ?, 
according to my Gefpel, This likewiſe is truth, but I belecye as 


| yet we have not the whole truth. 


3. Others ſay , that tbe Saints (hall judge the world after 


the manner of exultation , glorying , and rejoycing to ſec the 
vengeance, The righteout ſhall rejazce when be ſeeth the yer 


geance , he ſhall Waſh his feet in the blood of the wicked. But 


this their exulting being a conſtant and perpecual a, riot for , 
a time, but foreternity, methinks this preſent at ſhould be ye: 
ſomewhat more. 


4. Others ſay , that the Saints ſhall ' judge the world by 
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way of aſſeſlion, aſſent, vate, ſuffrage, comprobation, and the 


like ſubordinate, and conformable ats, «And / heard another Revit. 17, 
ont of the Altar ſay , even fo Lord God eAlmighty , wae andyigh-R<Y-19.1,3, 


tors are thy judgements, -xAnd after theſe things, | head a great 
woyee of much people in heaven, ſaying, eAllelujab, ſalvation, and 
glory , and honour , and poWver anto the Lord our God, far 
true and righteous are hy judgements ; this certainely is 
at. þ and commonly ſo received , yet neither is this all 
trut, 

5. Others ſay, that the Saints (hall judge the world (+. ) 
Chriſt in the Saints, and the Saints in Chriſt. He in them by 
thoſe infallible principles of DivineJuſtice which are impreſt in 
them ; and they in him, by thoſe inſeparable bonds of union, 
whereby they wholly relateto him : or he and they together 
as head and members, the aR of the head imputed to the mem- 
bers, and the act of the members acknowledged by the head; 
his Judiciary Act ( eſpecially as from his Mediatorſhip and 
Manhood ) having a pecu'iar influence upon them ; and their 
Judiciary AR ( in a perieRt conformitie , though not 
any abſolute proportion, ) having a peculiar reference 
to him, And methinks #hoſe Texts of Marth. 19 28. 
Jude 14, 15. ſpeak there of Chriſts, and of the Saints judge- 
ment, as of one joint act, 

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6. Inthis doom which Chriſt and his Saints ſhall paſſe on re- 
probates, our Saviour tells us of ſome..reaſonings betyixt him 
and them ; 1 was an bungred ( ſaith Chrilt ) and ye gave me no 
meat ; 1Iwas thgſty, and ye gave meno drink, &C, =—— Then 
ſhall they anſwer, Lord, when ſaw we thee an hangry, or athirſt, or 
a ſtranger, or naked, or ſick, or in priſon, and aid not miniſter unto 
thee and then ſhall he anſwer them, verily T ſay unto you jnaſmuch 
4s ye did it not to one of the leaFt of theſe, ye did it not ro me. As if * 
Chriſt ſhould have ſaid, time was that I was under reproach , 
miſery, calamity, neceſſity ; 1 lay at your doores like Lazarus 
full of ſores, and as I thought nothing too much for you, ſo I 
expe&ed alſo ſomething from you ;- but oh cruelty ro ſee thy 
Chriſt an hungred, and nor to feed him ? to ſee thy Chriſt a- 
thirſt, and notto coole or quench his thirit ? ro ſee thy Chriſt 
a firanger, and not to give him a nights lodging ? to ſee thy 
Chriſt naked, and not ro cover him with a garment, who yyould 
oladly have covered thee with the robe of righteouſneſſe, che 
garment of ſalvation? O monſtrous inhumane heart ! O pro- 
digtous wretch | who among the Heathens ever dealt thus with 
their Idols > have any of theNations (tarved their gods, turned 
them our of doores? and mult I onely be leizhred ? away re- 
probates ! you had no mercy on me, and now I laugh ar your 
calamity ; ſurely be ſhall have judgement withont mercy , that 
bath ſhewed no_merey. They ftand wondering at this, and 
cannot remember that ever they ſaw Chrilt in ſuch a condition; 
Why Lerd (ſay they ) when ſaw we thee an ax 4 or thirſty, or 
naked ? art not thowhe that roſe again from the arad, and aſcended 
on lngh,andevtr ſince haſt been exalted above the higheſt Cherybims, 
4 name being given thee above every name ,, at which name to this 
day, but efpecially now on this day, every knee doth bow of things in 
heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; how then 
c&uld we ſee thee in ſuch-a condition ? is not this thy ſecond 


. cominz in glory? and were we alive at thy firſt coming in hu- 


miliry > how can this be > oh why ſhould thou charge us with 
unkininetle to thy ſelf ? Sure 1f we had known thee in need, we 
would have civen thee of thy own, thou ſhould never have 
wanted what thin2s we enjcyed, but thou ſhould have com- 
manded both us and them. To which our Saviour replyes, O 
deceitful , icncrant , and ſiupid ſoules | have you no berte: 
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learned Chriſt than ſo > am not I Head of the Church, and can 
che Head be without Members ? Verily, if you had loved, re- 
leeved, or done good to them, yon had done {o ro me ; but in 
being uncharitable to them, you were no lefle unto me, Ne- 
ver ſay you would have been thus and thus kind to Chriit, whiles 
you were unkind to Chrifiians: herein lies the decettulneſle of 
your hearts ; O they are deceitful above all things, and deſperately | 
wicked, whe can kyow them ? but I the Lord ſearch the heart, I try 6-236 98 
the reines, even to give to every man according to his wayes, and ac- 
cording to the fruit of his doings ; In as much as ye did it not to one 
of the leaſt of my me:nbers, "ye did it nor ro me ; and therefore 
oet you down to hell, get you out of my preſence ; take them 
Divels, away with them Angels to the Divel and his Anzel; fer 
ever. | 

Theſe are the reaſonings berwixt Chriſt and reprobates ; and 
if ſo,may we-not imazine the like berwixrSainrs and reprobates? 
is there not the ſame reaſon of reaſoninz beryyixt them and the 
infertour Judges, as berwixt them and the Supream Judge 2 for 
my part I cannot conceive, bur if we admit of ſuch diſputes be- 
rwixt Chriſt and them, well may there be the like diſputes, ar- 
euin2s, and reaſonings betwixt Saints and them : for they ha 
on earth more familiarity, converſe,and communion tozether; 
ſome of them it may be, were innear and dear relations to each 
other ; and now thar rhe one ſhall judze the other to erernal 
flames, oh hart paſſages will be beryixt them ? I ſhall intance 
in our neare(t relations upon earth, as of Malters and ſervants, 
parents and children, hushands and wives, Miniſters and people; 
no que{l1on bur in theſe very relations ſome ſhall ;udze, and 0- 


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thers b2 judged ; our Saviour tells us, there ſhall be two men in 
one bed,the one ſhall be taken,the other ſpall be left ,, two women ſhall 
be grinding at ove Mill, the one ſhall be taken, and the ather left ; 
two men ſhall be together in one field, the one ſhall be taken, and the 
other left ; waerein the Lord ſeemes to they thar Gods ele&ion 
doth exten4 it {elfto all ſorts of perſons, and ſepararte- the mot. 
They ſhall not be ſaved by families, as in Ao4hs time, but on: 
friend ſhall be caken by Chriſt into heaven, and anocher left tor 
theDivel to carry inco hell.Give me leave butto enlarg on thoſe 
r22aſonings, or diſcourſes that w2 may imagine vill b2 now be- 
tis. theſe ſeveral relations. As —- 

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I, Betyixt Mafter and ſervant ; if yie Maſter be the Saint , 
and his fervancethe reprobare; then. Mll the Malter ſay, 'O thou 
ad I call on thee ro duty 2 

how gf#tn have I told thee that I would have thee tobe Gods 
[ſervanit as well as mine? hoy often came-that word to thy eares; 
Servants obey your Maſters in al things according to the fleſhznotwith 
eye-ſervice as men-pleaſers,but in huqloe of heart ,feaſ8ng Ged ? 
how often was that. precious word layd clole to thy conſcience, 
be that geth wrong, ſpall riceive for the wrong which he doth, bat 
in doing ſervice to me 44 to the Lord, thou ſpoxldſt of the Lird receive 
the reward of the inheritance, for in ſuch ſervice thin didft ſerve the 
Lord Chriſt ? but thou would not be warned, and nov thou 
art juſtly condemned; I ſay Amen to Chruts ſentence ; get 
thee down to hell and there ſerve Satan, and receive his wages 
in fire and brimſone for ever. —— Or if the ſervant be the 
Saint, and his Majierthe reprobate, then (hall the ſervant ſay, 
O my quondar Maſter, how many a time ha{t thou tyrannized 
itover mg# how did{t thou uſe me, or abuſe me roſerve thy 
own lufl&nd corruptions ? many a time Ihave had (trong de- 
fires to wait upon God in the uſe of publick and private Ordi- 
nances ; thi; morning,and that evening I would have ſerved my 
Maſter the Lord ;eſus Chrift; hut thou wouldit not ſpare me one 
houres time for prayer, reading, meditation, &c, I was ever 
faithful in thy ſervice, goin to bed late, and riſing early; the 
arought conſumed me by day, and the froft by night, and my ſleep 
many a time departed from mine eyes; ſurely God hath ſeen my affliti- 
on, and the labour of my hands, and now he bath rebuked thee ; do't 
thou not obſerve the admirable julitce and righreouſnefle of 
Chriſt inthe ſentences paſt on us both? reqember that thou in 
thy life-time recieved{t thy good things, And I received evil 
rhyi2s, bat now I am camforted, \ndch 24ſt be rormented. 
Irtoryſerve a better Maſter, after my weeks work with thee, [I 
ſhall keep axperperual Sabbarh wich God ; but go thou with thy 
old compamions from thy glorious manſon to a] oathſame dun- 
ceon;; from thy Table of ſurfer,to a Table of venzeance; from 


thy faithful fervant?, to affiicting ſpirits ; from thy bed of 


doun, to a bed of fire ; from ſoft linnen and filken coverings, 
ro with a rock for thy pillow, and a mountain-for thy 


coverler. 
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2, Betwixt parent and childe ; 1f the parent be the Saint, 


and the childe the reprobate ; then ſhall the Parent ſay, O thou _ 


wicked, rebellious ſonne ! or O thou wicked, rebellious, and 
diſobedienty/dauzhcer ! It is I that begor thee, or that broughr 
thee forth'; that during thy infancy laid thee in my boſone, 2nd 
dandldthee on my knze, and carried thee in my armes, and 
ſer thee as a ſealz upon my heart ; that during thy minority fed 
thee, andapparrelled thee, and trained thee up in manners, 
learninz, a particular calling, and eſpecialfy in the nurture and 
admonuion of the Lotd ; and then when 1 ſaw thy untoward- 
nelle of ſpirir, and thy breakings out into things forbidden by 
God and man, O the admonitions, reprehenſons, corrections! 
O the many thouſands of warnings that I gave thee of this day, 
and of the wrath ro come ! and yet thou wenteſt on 1n thy i{ub- 
borneſſe, till thou becameſt many and many a time a grief of 
mind, a bitrerneile of ſpirit unto me : and then hoy often did 


I mince thee of thy duty. Chilayen obey your parents in all things 
Honour thy father and mother, which is the firſt commandment with Ep 
promiſe? the eye that mecketh his father, and deſpiſeth to obey hys Prov. 39.17, 


mother, the Ravens of the Valley ſhall pick it out, and the Joung 
Eagles ſhall eat it ? Bur alas, all theſe expreiſions mace no ſavin2 
impreſſion on thy hardened heart, thy brow wa brafle, an 
thy ſinew of iron, thou walt ever (luffe-necked, and now thou 
art jufily damned ; I cannot but approve of Chritts judgment 
upon thee ; chouzh thou camelt out of my bowels, yet. now I 
have no pity, no bowels of compaſſhon towards thee ; the glo- 
ry of God hath ſo fivallowe 1up all my natural affe&ions, thar I 
cannot bur l:ugh at thy calamity, and oy in thy daranation ; 1 
gave thee a bo-iy, 2n.} Gol hi {elf gave the 2 ſoul, but nov 
ler Divels have both, n | tor:nent them in hell ; be gone ! I 
ſhall never ſee thee a,,.in. --—— Or ifrhe child be the Saint, 
and the parent the reprobar2, then ſhall the childe ſay, Oun- 
worthy parent ; unworthy o'everlaitin; life | Thad my natural 
beinstrom thee, bur my 1 1c1-uai bum : was tram. the Lord : if 
L hadfollowed thy e;:s, I hit been cverla{ii mned ; did 
not Lknow thy i_noran.e, thy anÞelizf, thy inzfle, thy 
covetouſneile, thy pri.2, thy mice, thy lw!, thy luke-warm- 
nalle, by 1mpari-ncy, thy «1.oncent”:gnr, thy v-in-glory, 
thyelf-love ? didit thou nor ozren check me for my forward- 
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neſſe, and zeale, and holinefle in Religion ? did thou not ask 


- me, what art thou wiſer than the reſt of the -neighbour-hood 2 


are there not many gray hairesamonegſt us, whoſe wiſedome and 
experience thou haſt not yerattained ? andcan(t not thou walk 
on ſoberly towards heaven, andeither do as the moſt, or keep 
pace with the wiſeft > what, have any of the Rulers, or of the 
Phariſees beleeved on Chriſt? oh I ſhall ever remember to the 
rap and glory of Chriſt, what diſcouragements Thad, and yer 

ow the Lord pluckt me as a fire-brand out of the fire; and now 
hath the Lord ſet me on the Throne to judge thee according to 
thy demerirs ; -and therefore I joyne with him, whois the Fa- 
ther of ſpirirs againſt the father of my fleſh ; -deparr ; go to'the 
gods whom thou haſt ſerved, and ſee if they will help thee inthe 
day of thy calamity, 

3. Berwixt husband and wife ; nov if the husband be the 
Saint, and the wife the reprobate, then ſhall the husband ſay ; 
Thou artqhe whom I knew in the fleſh, whom I dearly affe&ed 
with my heart and ſoul ; whom I nouriſhed and cheriſhed as my 
own body ; thou art ſhe that was the wife of my boſome, as 
near and deare to me as my heart in my boſome ; rhou waſt my 
companion, my yoke-fellow, and my very delizhr, but oh ! 1 
could never rule thee, lead thee, guide thee in the way of life, 
in that path that is called holy : many a time have I wooed, ſu- 
ed, and ſoughr to gain thy ſoul to thar bleſſed Brtdegroom, the 
Lord Jeſus Chriſt, ryany a time have I prayed with thee, and 
for thee ; many a time have I flirred thee up to hear the Word , 
LO yait upon God in the uſe of all meanes publick and private ; 


and inſtead of imbraces, or yieldings to theſe bleſſed motions , 


I have met with contentions and jarres, 4s 4 continual dropping in a 
ver) rayny day; but death hath diſſolved that kyor, fo that now 1 am 
no more thy husband ; this us the day of ſeparation, and I ſhall no more 
Conſort with thee ; as the reſurrettion there 15 wo uſe of marriage, but 
now 1 am to live as an Angel in heaven, and becauſe thou would(t 


not draw C i Chriſts yoke, no therefore adieu for ever 


'andever ; | never more lye in one bed, orfitat one 


board, or walRMn one field, or grinde at one Mill ; -thou haſt 


loſt me, and thou haſt loſt Jeſus Chriſt , two husbands in one 
day 3 go now and take thy choice in hell ! thou art free from 
us, 


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Divet-and his Angels. Or if the wife be the Saint, and 
the husband the reprobate, then ſhall the wife ſay ; Thou art 
he, whom I looked upon as myſeconc-ſelf, my head, my g0- 
yernour, my helper, my husband;z. for whom 1 was willing to 
forſake my native home, fathers houſe, deare relations of fa- 
ther, mother, - brother, fiter, and many comforts in that kind; 
and I expe&edto have found new matrer, and a continued influ- 
ence of comfort, and _— marriage-{tate ; but oh the 
vexations of ſpirit ! had{t thou not almoſt drawn me ayay from 
Jeſus Chrift > was I not forced through many provocations 


ſomerimes to break out and ſay. Swrely a bloody knisband art thou Ex94.4.25, 


tome? manya time I cryed out, O my husband when wilt thou 
ſer up the rich and royal trade of grace in thy famuly ? when wilt 
thou exerciſe prayer, reading, catechifing , conference, dayes 
of humiliation, and other houſhold holy duties? oh for doing 
ſomething to afſure our ſoules of meeting together hereafter in 
ven ! Burt alas ! ir would not be ; and now fee the efte& z 
hereI fland like a-Queene, deckt and adorned with cloth of 
gold, with'rayment of needle-work, with the whice robe of 
Chrilts righteouſneſſe, ſo that the King of heaven greatly deſires. 
my beauty, and my ſoul is this day married to Chrilt; Iacknoy- 
ledge him,” and no other husband in the world, and for thee 
who refuſed to joyne with me in the worſhip of God, now God 
hath refuſed rhee : farewell or fare 1ll for ever. 
4. Berwwt Minilter and ſome of his people at leaſt: if the 
people beas ſo many Saints, and the Miniſter the reprobare , 
then ſhall the people ay : O thou art the man that undertooke(t 
that high and mighty calling of feeding ſoules \vith the Word of 
life ; bur now are thy ſinnes written inthy forehead, for' ei- 
ther thou run't before thou waſt ſent, or being ſent, thou haſt 
been exceeding negligent in the gifr that was in thee : Didſt 
thou not propheſie in Baal, and cauſe Gods people to erre 2 
did thou not tudiouſly and mainly ſeek for the Fleece, nor re- 
arding reſpe&ively the flock ? didſt thou not rengthen the 
A of evil-doers in preaching peace,peace to wicked men 7; 
walt thou not prophane, and wicked, and looſe in thy lite, and. 
by that meanes led many thouſands to hell ! 'O thou bloody 
Butcher of ſoules ; hadit thou been faithful in thy Minilty , 
- well mizht choſe damned companions about thee have eſcaped 


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Book, V, Looking ngro Jeſus. "Chap. 1.SeR.s 
rhe flames | hut they are dogmed to death,and now thou 

hear their cry&s,, and grieyqus.groancs,” and complaints again(t 
thee, this yyasths DAG GLEEws £0 we us the bread of life, 
bur Chriz, didbs not eus2'did he not feed us wath: un- 
profirable matter, fables conceics, airyſamences, rarher. chan 
with any thing tending to godly<difying, which is faich ? did 
not-our tongues, and the tongues of our children Rick ra the 
roof of our Mquths 1p calling and crying for bread, forthe bread 
of lite, and he wouldnt pity us? we gave him the tenchs which 


Acad off 


and upon his ſqyl qnce hucied. ig bell, ler this be the Epicaph, 

the price of load, the price. of blood ; if thou. didit hearthe 

blood of Abet,being but one; man, forgeunor the blond of ma- 

now thou art judgin; the gxrh. Why: thus db the'damaed 

- about thine. cates; _ and, gs for: us: ( ſay the- Saims |) 

1 vere once thy people, but.najy thy quedigesg w2 content to 

cott wn and to.our Sayviours dopm, g9:thau curiedanto ever- 
nz ure. Mme 

' "Men, brethren, anJfathers, I begin thus with the Miniters 

deom, rhaj you yo pak Lyould-deal unparttaily; and verily I 

beleeve 1t, if our caſe come to this, ye of the Minutry ſhall be 

in a thouſand times works enncicion than any of you ; tor be des 


ie Ha arded 
nefſe, and (ifT,.lt be fo) lec him be-qur ring-leader to bell; 


. the horrour due to the gwlrofour own ſoulcs,. all th: blood of 


choſe foules who have periſhed under our Miniftry through our 
deftult witt be laid ra aur charge ; lictle do-yeu know, pr con%- 
der thx burthen ghar Hes. upon; us, a burthen able ro-make the 


- ſhoulders,of the maſk mighty Angel tn heaven to ſhrink under 


i. Chry/oftome was a glatiaus Sains, . year: catiinz his eye upon 
| one 


Clup.1:Sel.6s — Looking wntaFeſur, — Book. V. 


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one anely Text in the Bible, —_ that have the rule over Heb.e3.17. 


you, and whe your ſthves, for 


watch for your ſoules, at they 4uju commi» 


char muſt give acoonme, ht profeſſerh that the terrour of this Text 919m terre 
wade bue brart tyewwble, Surely it endo, to make our hearts me; 
e 


remble;if we ſetiouſly weigh our rertib 
ſhould miſcarry. 

- - But now 011 the other fide, if the Miniſter be the ele&, and 
fenrenc'd to ſalvation ; and many of his people prove no berter 
than reprobates, then ſhall the-Mirriier ſxy, O miſerable ſouls, 
now you feet the rtuth of thoſe' comminations, and cutſes 
which we opened and wfolded, ard diſcoveted t6 you out of 
Gods Word ! we dealt plainly with you, that the unrighteons ſhould 


net inherit rhe King dowee of God , we adviſed you again and again , * 


be not deceived, nenther fornicatort, mr idolaters, not adulterers , 
nor efferinats, nor abuſers of themſelves with thankind, nor theeves, 
"nr coverons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nr extortioners, ſpall 
inherit rhe K ingdome of Ged : and fuch wete you, and notwuh- 
(landing all-out threats, warnings, intreatings, bzſeechings , 
rhus ye lived, and thus ye died ; and here 1s the iflue, Chrut 
now bath doomed you to hell, and here am I ſer on a Throne 
ro judee your ſoules, for the Saints ſhall ;udze the world as well 
as Chrit himſeſfe ; oh whar ſhall 1 do > O' my bowels, my 
bowels ! here's a caſe beyond all the former, each of them ac- 
cording to their relations judge another; bur here's a multitude, 
not one, of two, or ten, or an hundted, but many hundreds, or 
thouſanis,according tothe number of ſuchand ſuch congrezati- 
ons, where I have preached. 

In Chrifts reſonings with the wicked we have heard of his 
ſaymgs, and their anfivers, and of its replications to their an- 
fvers, much ſaid on both des ro and azairr; I may ſuppoſe the 
like here. Oh whar ſhall 1 do (ſayes che Minilter) what doom 
fhatl:Fpaſle on this affer. bly of reprobares > can I abſolve them 
who the righreous God h1yth condemned 2 can I ſay, come a- 
long wich me ro hetven, now Chrit hath ſaid, go ye curſed in- 
to hetf> and ch now thall I rurn my ſpeech from my wonted 
wooing, beſeeching, intreating, exhorting, to a direct doom- 
mg, damninz, condemning theſe ſoules ro the pit of hell ? 
”- ſometimes indeedTI opened to theſe ſoulzs all the armoury of 
Gods wrath, I thundred and liehcned in their congregations 3 
Uuuuuuz bur 


b concutit, 
om, 1n caſe that \ye Chryſ. de- 


Chap:2.Sea.s 


bur my dGgnc was LO fright them out of hell-fire, and know- 
ing the terrours of the Lord, to. have perſwaded. them towards 
heaven, *and heavenly things; but now if I ſpeak condemnati- 


-:-- ON, no ſooner ſhall 1 ſpeak, bur their ſoyles will finkdown to 
> - hell; O miſerable ſoules, what ſhall I ay Þ or whatcan you fay 
+: +» fot yourſelves ? Then ſhall they anſver ; * Oh Sir, do not you 


ravate.che torment by your condemnation ; the weight of 
Ghrifs doome.is already unſupportable, bur will you adde more 
weighc 2 why. remember, we are ſoine of us (it maybe) of 
your fleſh and blood ; many atime you told us that you unfe; 
_Y loved us ;. and that we were deazer toyouthan all me 
ty enjoyments ; many a time you told us that you were willing 


to ſpend your ſelffor us, as the candle that burnes it ſelf to give 


others light ; you wete pleaſed to beſtow your prayers, teares , 

, Sroanes for our ſoules; your very books and writings 
wete hizh expreſſions, and abiding monuments-of your deare 
love to us ; you ig 1c: not your firenzth ' and ſpirits in 
compariſon of our ſoules; and ſhall chis faire commical 


Fceanend in a diſmal,doleful, bloody tragedy? would you do-or 


ſuffer any thing to ſave us, and will you now condemne us ? oh 

forbear! -_ 
Ahno; (Gith the Miniſter) I cannot forbear; allistrue char 
you ſay, Iloved you dearly, and I was willing to ſpend, or to 
ſpent for you; bur this aggravates the more ; ah my travaile, 
paines , books, writings, words, teares, ſighs, groanes are in 
one yolume together, and this volume has been opened this 
day, and now's the quelion put, what have you profited by all 
my words,prayers,teares, ſighs, and groanes? 1s not all loſt? and 
arenor your ſoules loft? and now do you tell nie of love ? what, 
did Iever love you

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they enjoy God, life, and 


haven ;. ſometimes I haveyvith;much 'wonder and admiration 
' bereid fome regiments paiſing,ourkreates; but had Licen thoſe 
Rothane armres, when they returned Vigots, and made their 


folemne tryumiphs in the tireers of Rewe, 
have'admired 2 never was the like Gght 
Atmy inthe word, Orthe comaly 


then how ſhould I 
to-this of Chriſt and his 
march chey make, through 


ehe'sky, and through the. orbs,. and through all the heavens, 
ey come to the heaven of heavens ! was ever ſo many 
elitring Sunnes together-unone day ? was ever ſo many glones 


ll rh 


it, br his Angels, 0 whe 15fhe that 
wy, Pr ar the Hh . 


on this 


the, Kingdome of glory ? not 10 ſpeak of 
gon Pokerh forth as the morn- 
on, clear as the Sunne, an verrible as an Ar- Can:.6.10, 


mygrich Banyers? are not in the head of thoſe regiments Adam, 
awd Abel,and Neahand Abraham,and Haacand Jaceb;and all the 
Patriarchs, and all che Prophets, and all the Apoſtles 2 And 


( if thou art a Sainrthar rea 


this ) ar not thou one Sunne ap- 


pointed by God amangſt the reit to folloy Chrilt ? here's e- 
noushto fill thy heart with-joy, before-hand ; as ſure as yond 
Strme now ſhines in the Firmamem, ſhalt thou that beleeveſ 


paſſe 


by that Sunne in its very orb, and by reaſon of thy glory ic 


ſhall loſe irs ſhine; oh then what ſpreading of beaury and 


ipheneſſe. will be in the beavens as all che Saints goalong ! 


yhac fun 


ps of darkneiſe ſhall rhoſe.glirterinz Starres appear to 
be” when all che Saints of God ſh 1 


enter ito their feveral 


orbes and ſpheares ? and thus as they march along higher, and 
higher, ull they come to the highelt, ar laſt. heaven openz unr> 
them, and' the Saints enter into their Maſters joy ; what is 
c<here done at their firt entrance, T ſhall difcover-another time ; 


onely for a while let us Took behind us, and ſee yyhat becomes of 


thts neather world. 
"Nofſooner Chrit and his company, in the Emprreal heaven , 


uthouwrs ſeem ro aſſent ; As, 
"T. Pluldfophers,cſpeciully the Stocks yere of this mind. Hx- 
mor primordinm, . exicas ig, (aud Seneca, moyſture was the be« 


Sum 
ares 


, and fire ſhall be the end of this world. 


ently this whole world; ſeron fire ; To this, prophane 


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ſpeaking 


the Sunne, Moon?, and Starres ; wark ( ayes. he ) what- 


ſeever 


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ther in one fire. — _ | 
[2 Phe Potts g Erhi Dales ng of thoſe whom Ce- 
ſar left wbante! rhe Bartel'of P 7 Hor 4 «ſar pepules 


Þ thin non ufſevit ignids,- ret cumnrterris. = If fir ot now 
burwtheſe, when heaves, HH rarth, and alt ſalt b ys then mu#t 
= Cooporom likemanner »E e quoghte | bs fove; —_— 
mare te rat 
anMord; Ta ab be pointy bs 


bor: Rookies miſlal ſeems 


David, though T know 
Ln Aka 1 a fevtll, 
of with; '4 day. of fire, 
"Ss "arte the Sybil = 


Bihari theſe, on Text of Sctiprute is to, me more 
thanall theſe, i— 2 Pee. "5.10. The heavens ſhall paſſe away 
within great woiſe, and the elements ſhalt melt with fervent heats , 
© wad the that are theytin ſhall be burnt up. 
Hence'all our Divines agree, thar a fire ſhall ceaze on the. uni- 
ver, Go ern yi Divines, whether ing 
my wholly annihitaced,or renewed by $ce?7erompe 
oies, fin? after them ſay, .the end of this fea is jo 
purifying og rethink f rhe heaven and earch ; for all corrup- 
prin ad ref oth our of them, bur chey.in their ſub- 
Ranice ſhall remainfliill: Tf we ask them, to'what. end ſhall this 


| neathe? work berchewed ? ſome ſay for an habicacle of the re- 


'ftored beafts ; others for a firter accommoda- 
tion of men, * and the glorified. Saints ; -0- 
thers for a perpetual monument of Gods Pow- 
erandglory.  Polanrs, and ſome»of our Mo- 
dernes are of opinion, that * : theſe heavens, 

and this earth when purified with thoſe fires, and 

wprrinvefted with new endiwments, they ſhall be the everlaſting 
tatipns of the bleſſed Saints. But on the contrary, others are 


of the orkeer option, rhat all the world with all rhe parrs and 
be workes 


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Looking unto Feſus, Book V. 107 


Chap.1:Se&.7. 


works (except men, Angels, and devils, heaven and hell, the 
two manſions for the ſaved and damned) ſhall be totally and 
finally . diſſolved and annihilated. And of this opinion were 
Hilary, Clement, andall theantients before 7-rome, and of our 
Moderns not a few, For my part I rather encline this way, be- 
cauſe of the many Scriptures that are ſo expreſle, 1 ſhall men- 
tion only theſe. — az lyerh down and riſeth not till the heavens " 
be no more. -— Of old thou haſt laid the foundations of the earth, po - pj 
and the heavens are the works of thy hands, they gall periſh, but :5, ; 
thou ſhalt endure. All the hoaſts of heaven ſhall be diſſulved, and 
the heaven ſball be rolled together as a ſcroll, and all-the hoaſts ſhall 1a 34.4, 
fall down, as the leafe falleth from the vine, and as a falling fig from 
the fig-tree. To which prophelie John ſeems to allude, And rhe Rev. 6. 14, 
heavens departed as a ſcrowle when it ts rolled together, and every 
monntaine and Iſland were moved ont of their places. Again, 
heaven and earth ſhall paſſe away ( ſaith Chriſt) bxt my Word ſhall Mr: 24.36. 
not paſſe away. T he day of the Lord will come as a thiefe in the* ©*+3+ 19+ 
nght, in the which the heavens ſhall paſſe away with a great noyſe

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earth alſo, and 
the works - that are therein, ſhall be burnt up. — And the world 
paſſeth away, and the luſts thereof, but he that doth the will of Gaal * J9Þ+ 2.17. 
. abideth for ever. — And 1 ſaw a great white throne, and him that Rev.20.11. 
ſate on it, from whoſe face the earth and the heaven fled away, and 
there was found no place for them. Now I would demand whe. 
ther being no more, as fob ,, and periſbing as David ; and rolling 
together, andfalling dows like a withered leafe, as Iſay : and paſſing 
away, as our Saviour, and Peter, and flying away, as fohn ; do 
not include an utter abolition ? If to theſe Scriptures I ſhould 
adde one reaſon, I would argueftrom the end of the worlds crea- 
tion ;! was it not partly for the glory of God? and partly for 
the uſe of man ? now for the glory of God, the manifeſtation 
of it is occaſioned by the manifeſtation of the world unto man , 
if man therefore ſhould be removed out of the world, and no 
creaturein it be capable of ſuch a manifeſtation, what would 
become of his glory ? And for the uſe of man, that is either to 
ſapply his neceſlity in matter of dyet, phyſick, building, apparel , 
or for his inſtru&tion, direction, recreation, comfort, delight , 
now when he ſhall attaine that bleſſed eſtate of enjoying God, 
and ſeeing God face to face, theſe ends, or the like mult needs 
S XXXXNXE be 


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1074 Book. V. Looking wnio Feſws, Chap. 1.Se&.7 
b be fruſtrate. "This argument is 


ns need ao more. 
Only we ſhall heare our Antagoniſts;obj and give them 
their anſwers, and ſo conclude, 3&7 
The texts more eſpecially ob 'nSainſt this opinion, are 
ewo; the firſt is-that in Rus. 8, 21. Thecreatare it ſelfe ſoall 
be debivered from the ge of corraption into the glorions liberty 
of the ſonnes of God : here (ſay they) is an ca expectation, 
-artributed to bruit creatures, that they ſhall be delivered from 
the bo | ption into the glorious libertyof the chil- 
dren of God.” But i anſwer, thar'no immortal. being of the 
bruit creatures is here promiſed, but only « (imple deliverance 
and diſmiſlion from the ſervitude they were in, to uagrateful 
men, | . The birds, ' beats, and fiſhes, do now ſuffer for our dyer ; 
* horks, mules; and beaſts of that nature do now groan under the 
kf * Gartftens of our pleaſures, or neceſlities ; their annihilation there- 
""*; prodie fore to them muſt needs be & kinde of deliverance; and at laſt 
}. Rom. 8, 21. theyſhall be delivered at the time of the glorious liberty of the 
Cor. 0. > fonsofGod, the text will beare it thus, * &; pro Giz,, Fhe crea 
"a yo WT tre ſhall be delivered by rht gloriows liberty of the: ſonnet of Ged. 
tis ' (@) When ſuch a deliverance comes 'to men, theſe ſhall 
3 a; be freed from their ſervitude by being not at all, having 
q Co ID Gone all che buſfineſſe for which they were -ordained, or 
4 ga. The ſecond cext is thatin' 2 Per. 3.13. we lock, for new hea- 
Oe 3e 13% pepr;, and 4 wew earth, whirein dwelleth rig hteewſueſſe,.. Theſe 
words (ſzy ſome) imply a purging, rather than aboliſhing , a 
taking of the corrupt qualityes only, not tbe ſubſtance, But 
Tam of another minde, and if I muft give my ſenſe of the place, 
Iſny—— -: 
Wy. tively, that by n-w heavens aud wew e47th, is not meant 
I renewed heavens andearth; is it not punttually in the ſeventh 
| ; | that the hravent avd the earth which arenow are reſerwed 
\Per 3, 7,19; bo fire againſt the day of judgement ? and doth he not deicend 
unto particulars in the tenth verſe, chat the heavens which are 
now, - ſhall paſſe away with great moyſe ? that the elements hall 
11,12, melt with fervent heate? and that* the

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alſo. and the works 
therein ſhalt be burnt wp? and doth henot infer thereupon in the 
eleventh and twelfth verſes, that all theſe things ſhall be diſſolv- 


ed? andin the thirteenth 'verſe, that we are therefore to ab 
or 


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af; 


Chep. r.5eR.7 Looking wnto Feſwe, . Boos — 


for new heqvens, and a nem: earth ? diſſolution mends not a fa- ; 


brick, bur deftroyes it ; How then ſhould that which is difolved 
be laid to be reſerved, #nd tet Rand > ſurely if Percy had thoughc 
of this only, ſome words of his would have intimated 
ſo mach. end of theſe creatures was for mans uſe, and man 
them co more, to what end ſhould they be relerved ? to 
ſay for a monument of what hath been ; or for che habication 
the Saints; or for an out- let for che Saints, deſcending ſome- 
times from the higheſt heavens to ſolace themſelves here be- 
low ; are bnt groundlefſe furmifes, and deſerve no anſwer 
at all, 

2. Poſitively, by new heavens, and new earth, is meant the 
heaven of heavens, and place of glory. Now theſe heavens are 
rermed ew, not in regard of their new making, but of our new 
taking poſleſfion of them for our new habitation, and they 
are called heavens andearth, becauſe they come inſtead of that 
heavenly covering, and that earthly habitation which we now 
enjoy ; ſo that the text may well beare this paraphraſe, we /5%k 
for new heavens { 1.) the ſapreame court of Gods preſence, and 
anew earth, (i.) a new habitation for us, which ſhall infinite! 
exceede the commodities and happineſs of theſe heavens & eart 
which we now enjoy; thus fohy in his revelations, And 1 ſaw 4 


new h:aven and a new earth, for the firſt heaven, and the firſt earth Rev.21.r. 


were paſſed away, ana there was no more ſea. This new heaven, 
and new earth is the place or habitation prepared for the bleſſed 
Saints and people of God. 4 new heaven, where the Moon is 
more glorious than our Sun, and the Sun as glorious as he that 
madeir, for it is he himfelfe, the Son of God, the Sun of righ- 
teouſneſſe, the Sun of glory, # new earth, where all their 
waters are milke, and all their mi|ke honey; where all their 
grafſe is corne, and all their corne Manna ; where all their 
glebe, and clods of earth are gold, and all their gold of innu- 
. merable Carats; where all their minutes are ages, and all their 
ages eternity ; where every thing is every minutein the high- 
eſt exaltation as good ascan be. Of theſe new heavens, and 
this new earth, I can never ſay enough, nor know enough, till 
I come thither to inhabit ir. Something only we ſhall diſ- 
cover of it in our next Sections; for now are the Saints entred 


in with Jeſus Chriſt, 
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= Oe Only one word of uſe, Chriſtians ! what's the matter that we 
S are ſo buſie about this world ? why

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without ſpot unto 

his Father. We may imagine Chriſt as going to his Father with 

his bride in his hand, and ſaying thus,, O my Father, here is 

my Church, my Spouſe, my Queen , here are the Saints con- 
cerning whom I covenanted with thee from eternitie, concerning 
whom I went down from heaven, and dyed on earth, and afcend- 

ing upI have interceded theſe many hundred yeares , concern. 

ing whom I went down to judge the world, and having ſen- 
tenced them to life eternal, I now bring them in my hand to pive 

them the poſſeſſion of thy ſelfe. Theſe are they whom thou 
gaveſt me in the beginning of the world, and now I reſtore them 
tothy ſelfe at the end of the world, for they arethine. Thus he 
preſents- them to his Father. Indeed we reade that Chriſt 
preſents the Saints to himſelfe, as well as to his Father, Chri# 
[wed the Church, and gave himſelfe for it, 

ſent it to himſelfe a glorious Church, not baving (pit or wrinkle ; 
but this I take it was done before , when firſt a ſoul beleeves, it 
iscontracted to Chriſt, when the ſoul is ſentenced to glory, then 

is-the ſolemnitie, and conſummation of the marriage, then doth 

Chriſt preſent the ſoul to himſelfe ; and I know not but that the 
Miniſters of Chriſt may haye a part in this matter, fix 7 have 

eſpouſed you to one husband (ſaid Pax! to his Corinthians) that { Ges. 
may preſent you as a cha#t Virgin to Chriſt, And after this when © 
Chriſt rakes the bride home, brings her into heaven, and lzades 
her by the hand into his Fathers preſence, then is his lalt pre- 


_ fencation, | then he preſents her fanltleſſe before the preſence of his 


glory 


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that he might pre- Eph, 5. 25,27; 


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glory with exceeding joy. The word ſignifies leaping, ſpringing, 
exalting joy : O what ſpringing, kaping, exalting is in heaven, 
when Chfiſt takes the band of his bride, and pives her into the 
hand of his Father, 4.4. O my Father, fee whac a number 1 
have brought home to thee; thou knoweſt what T have done, 
and what I haye ſuffered, and what offices I have gone through, 
to bring theſe hither, and-now my Mediatourfhip is done, I 
reſign all my chatgeto thee againe', fee what a poodly troope, 
 _ WhatanoblcarmylI have brought” thee home, why all theſe are 
L mine, and all mine are chine, and alf thine are mine, and / an 
* Jol. x7+ 10,12. oſorsfied 11 ther ; all thoſ® that thou gaveſt me, [have kept, and 
; one of them: is loſt , ſee here is 1dem, and Abt, and Noah, and 
Sem, andevery Saint from the beginning to the end of the world, 
E the nuptial between them and me is folemnized, /and whither 
J ſhould I leade them bur to my Fathers houſe, and ints my Fa- 
b: 4 thers preſence? I havealready prononnced them blefled, ard 
the glary which thou gaveſt me, I have giventhem, that they may be 
© Joh.17. 22,23.090, even 45 we areone, [inthem, and thiy in me, that they may be 
i made perfeft in one. © Heretake them from mine hands, now give 
4 them a welcome into glory, 4d let them know that thow ha#F loved 
them, as thou haſt loved me

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2. He preſents all his commiſfions to his Father, as he is a 
Mediatour (ar leaſt by deſtination) from alt eternitie; were nor 
1 the Saints choſen in C hrift before the foundation of the world ? then 
&, Bpb-1-4. was he a Mgdiatour in the bufineffe of Election, and then was he 
_——_" > Ppredeftinatedtobea Mediatour of reconcitiation. 7 was ſer «p 
[© et3*  fromeverlaſting, (5. I was appoynted and defipned to be a 
b.- Mediatour from alteternitie. Howfoever he was a Mediatour 
virtually and inchoatively from the fall of Adam, then did he 
undercake that great negotiation . of reconciling God to man, 
and man to God, and atually he was a -Mediatour after his 
ircarnatian ; for then was he marnfefted in the fleſh, then was 
he manifeſted to be what before-he was, then did he a that 
part vicihly opon earth, which before he had acted ſecretly and 
inviliblyin beaven, then heentred upon the work of his active 

aod paſſive obedience; then he diſcharged his Prophetical and 
Prieftly office here on earth,” which having Cone, then he entred 
upon his Kiogly adminiſtration in heaven. Now as to this work 
.he was called by God (him bath God the Father ſealed; it pleaſed 
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the Father by him -—— to reconcile all things to himſclfe.) And as 
co theſe offices ſeverally he had mmitien from God, (the <1 1-19, 
Lord bath anojnted me to preach good tydings wnto the meek ;, and 102.61.1. 
the Lord hath ſworne aud will not repent, thox art « Pritft for ever, Þ'2l 110.4. 
and the Lird ſaid unto wy Lord, fit rhow at my right hand untill SS 
1 make thine enemies thy footFirole, ) So now he comes with all his 
commiltons in his hand, and hedeligers them all up unto his 

- Facher againe

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function by delivering up his com- 
millions to his Father. 7» heaven there 15 ne nerd of Sun or Moone, Rev 21, 23, 
thatis, as ſome interpret, there is no need of preaching, or 
prophelying, of the Word or Sacraments, fir the Lambe «7 the 
light thereof, Chriſt is the only meanes of all the communication 
that the Ele& there ſhall have; and as for his regal office, the 
Apoſtleis expreſle, zhey ball he deliver up the Kingdowe to God, 
even the Farher. Only here is the queſtion, how is Chriſt ſaid to 
reſigne his Kingdome to God the Father ? for ſaith notthe 
Scripture that Chrifts Kingdome ſhall have no end ? and that 
Chriſts throne is for ever and ever ? for anſwer, Iſee no contra- —w_t, 4 


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Father himfelfe was quite ftript of it? no; but as the King- 
dome which che Father gave the Sonne is nevertheleſle called the 
Fathers Kingdome, or the Kingdome of God ; fo Chriſt ſhall re- 
rurae it, yer retaingitalſo. Two things (weſay) are contained 
inthe terme of reigne, /c;. dominion, and execution ; to weare 
the Crown, and to beare the Scepter : now Chriſt in the former 
ſenſe ſhall reigne for ever, the honour of dominion and of wear- 
' ing the Crown he ſhall never reſigne up to his Father, for his 
Fathers throne difturbes nor his, there are both their chrones at 
once, Rev.7.17. but the funRions ofa King, to (it in judgement, 
to reward deſeryers, to puniſh evil-doers, to reſcue the 
oppreſſed, to fight with the enemy, Chriſt in this ſenſe 
ſhall ceaſe to reigne, and Thall deliver up. che Kingdome to his 
Father. More 


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ſhall ceaſe , and by conſequence tn reſpect of his Mediatour- 
ſhip, orin reſpect of tus humanity, he ſhall that day be ſubjet 
to his Facher. * ; . 7 £5.aJ 
You will fay, - is not, and was not Chriſt always ſubjet 
to his Father as man, or as Mediataur betwixt God and 
man 2 _ how then do welimit this ſubje&ion to that day ? thez 
(faith che Apoſtle) ſhall the Sen be [ubjef. e 
I anſwer; this ſubjeRion;will be ,chen, or: at that day more 
clearly manifeſted than ,ever it,was. before ; then he muſt ſur- 
render his Kingdome to his Father - in- the: ſight of men-and An- 
els , then he ſhall lay aſide all his offices in the view of all, ſo 
hat thenceforth God ſhall not reigne by the humanitie of 
Chriſt, but by himſelfe ; nor ſhall we thencefgr:h be ſubje& to 
Gad through a Medatour Chriſt, but immediately ro God him- 
felfe ; nor ſhall Chrift himſelie reigne over us as Mediatour any 
more, for the very glory of his Majeſty ſhall become ſo illuftri- 
ons, that all eyes ſhall ſee how tranſcendently eminent the Dei- 
tie of Chriſt is above all creatures, even above the huminitie of 
Chriſt himſelfe. That a fu'ler view of Chrifts 1bjetion ſhall 
be at that day than ever before, we ni-y illuftrace thus by night 
the Sun reignes or rulcs over is, vut by 12% lurk ; for the 
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light of theM6oneis borrowed from the Sun, though in the 
night we ſee not any ſubjetion of the Moone to the Sun at all ; 


" but ſo ſooneas the Sun riſeth, © preſently the Moone ſurceaſeth 


irs office- of iHighrning others, -and becomes ſubje& ro the Sun 
| Inna not by a. new ſubjeRtion, bat by a declaration of its 

rmerſubjetion,” fo that now all may fee what eminency of 
glory and light the Sun hath-boch above the ſtars, and above the 
Moone; thusit.is with God and Chritt

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then ſhall 
God himſelf be ai» a/, without meanes, without defe&, with. 
out end. 

[t is obſervable that Chriſtin his Mediatory Kingdome hath 
ſome ſuch things as beare an Analogy to the means and in{tru- 
ments df governing in the Kingdomes of men, As, 1. He hath 
his militia and his laws, with threatnings and promiſes, in the 
ordinances of his Word, 2. He hath bis grants, and ſeales, 
with many priviledges to confirme his people in the ordinances 
of his Sacraments. 3. He hath his Officers and Embaſſadours 
for the management of ſpiritual affaires in the ordinances of his 
miniſtry ; but the ceaſing of Chriſts Kingdome is the ceaſing of 
all theſe ; and he therefore ceaſeth his Kingdome that God may 
immediately ſucceed all theſe ; without any meanes, or withour 


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any Mediatour /4kt all: he himelfe” nay be inſtead of all ; or all 
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ſhall then'ſee God-as be is clearly and immediately. "Oh how 


excellent is this enjoyment above all preſent enjoyments here 
below ? as the! enjoyrhent of. a friend gn his. pitare, lerters, 
rokens, isſhort of what we enjoy when we have bis perſonal pre- 
ſence; or asthe+ heat and lighr of the Sbn through a cloud is 
beneath that heat and light when the plorious body of it is 
open - to us without any interpolition ; even ſoall the gnjoy- 
ments of God inthe uſe of meanes, graces, bleſſings, ordinances 
arcinfinitely inferiour.to that enjoyment of God which ſhall be 
without all meanes; all che raviſhments- of our ſpirit in prayer, 
hearing, reading, meditating, is but afip of thoſerivers which 


we ſhall have in heaven: 1 kn6w the remembrance of God in a 


private meditation is ſweer, P/al. 104. 34. and communion 
with God in any ordinance is a feaſt of ſweetneſſe, and marrow, and 
fatneſſe, Pal. 63: 5,6. but when the ſoul ſhall immediately 
poſieſſe God, when this Kingdome of grace ſhall expire, and all 

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the adminiſtrations of it ſhall vatirfſh away, will not the fountain 
be much more ſweet than all the ſtreames ? ſurely feaſts, and 
[weetneſſe, and marrow, and fatneſſe, are termes exceedingly too 
dimunitive to give us . any, more than a ſmall hint of that incom- 
prehenſible ſatisfaction by immediate- communion. O the won- 
ders of heaven | there ſhall be light wg acandle, and'a per- 
perual day without a Sun; there ſhall be health without phytick, 
and ſtrength of body without ule of food; there ſhall be know. 
ledge without Scripture, and fetled government without a writ- 
ten law; there ſhall be communion without Sacraments, and 
joy without-promiſes to be its fewel, the ſoul in glory ſhall go 
ftreight unto God, and immediately participate his-glory and 
happineſſe. *Tis thecompariſon of a learned Divine, ſppoſe 
you ſaw a company of Chryſtal Globes placed in a pa#allel lyne, be- 
cauſe their pofurure will not admit the- Suns immediate beames ; 
wee'le ſuppoſe another ſingle Globe ſet bY the middle of them, to 
tranſmit the Sun-beames unto all thoſe Glibes, by this meanes they 
all fine, though it be only by reflettion, but when the Sun ſhall (0 
come about, as that they ma) immediately receive it's beames,there's 
mo further uſe of the ſingle Globe then , ſo here, while we through our 
aiſtauce from God are uncapable of immediate enjoyment, theres a 
neceſſitie of Chriſt s meaiation,*but when all things that cauſe that 
diſtance are removed, and we brought into the preſence-chamber of 
God himſelf, there*s no ſuch need of a Mediatour then, Now here 
is one thing, wherein heis our a// in a//, we ſhall enjoy himim- 
mediately

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firſt face, 
which is his Divineeſſence enjoyed by fight. -Yet I meane not 
ſo, as if the ſoul which is a creature could take in the whole 
elſence of God which is incomprehenſible , but the ſoul ſhall 
and muſt be ſo full of God, as that it ſhaſ not be able to receive, 
or defire one jot more. And oh how excellent is this enjoyment 


above all preſent enjoyments? it is now our higheſt happineſſe 
to 


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to bave ſome glimpſes of his glory ſhining on us, and ſome drops 
of his favour diftilied into us, oh but when God ſhall ' be = | 
alli all, we hall haveasmuch-of God as our ſouls can hold, 
we ſhall have the glory of God ſo poured.in, till we ſhall be able 
to receive no more... And here isthat which gives the ſoul a full 
ſatisfaRion ; never would jg be ſatisfied till ic came to this , ſup- 
;poſe that God ſhould draw'out all the beauty, ſweetneſle, good- 
neſſe that he hath communicated to all creatures in the world, 
andiigve the quinteſſence of all, and communicate that unto the 
foul of one poore Saint, certainly it would not ſerve the turne, 
there nuſt be a greater communication before the ſoul be fully 
fatisfed and reſt.content , only once admit it into the glorious 
preſence of him/who is a/l ip 4/1, and it expires it's in- 
finite deſire into the boſome of that God, tor there's enough 
to fill bis ſpirit; he cannot deſire ſo much, but there is more, and 
yetinfigitely mdre; if there be enough in God for the. ſpirits of 


all juſt men made perfe& with God, -if there be enough in God 


for Angels whoſe capacityes are greater than the Saints, if there 
Beenoughin God for Jeſus. Chriſt, whoſe capacity is yet far 
wider than the Angels, if there be enough in God for God bim- 
{\f, whoſe capacity is infiiitely greater than them all, then 
there muſt needs be ſatisfationenouph in God to any one poore 
ſoul, Here is another thing wherem God is our «// ;» a//,we ſhall 
enjoy hirn fully. | | | 

3. Ir conſiſtsin our enjoying God x4

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any thing 
amiable or deſirable, Mtheſe are in him. Hence ſome take ir 
to be Davids meaning, when he ſaid, he had none is heaven but 
God; that the ſole enjoyment of God, (of God, and of — 

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Chap. Sedt.9. Looking unto Feſwe. 


elſe but God) is the ſouls true happineſs, when it is at higheſt ; 
whom have / in heaven but thee? whom ? why there are Angels, 
there are Saints, there are the ſpirics of juſt and perfe& men; 
are theſe nothing with David? Oyes ! all theſe are good, but 
they are not able to ſatishe a ſonal without God himſelf. Wae- 
ther God will make uſe of any ceatures for our "ſervice then 2 or 
if any, of what creatures? and what aſe ?_is more than I yer 
kno# ; but to make up a full enjoyment there is requireda gra- 
cious-glorious-preſence, a ſweet effuſion or communication of 
that preſence, a juſt comprehenion of the excellency of that 
commanication, a perfe& love, and a pzrft& reſt in the-love of 
whatſoever itis we comprehend ; now this is proper only to 
God, it is he only thac fills che

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but there we ſhall love our 
ſelves for God, and 'cis a glorioas love , why this is toenjoy God 
ſolely, in this reſpe& he is 4/1, and in all , whom have 1in heaven 
but thee ? 

Here's a poynt enough to weane us fron the world. Alas ! 
_ thetime iscoming on a pace that all chis world ſhall be difſoly- 
ed, and then God fall be all in 4/1; here lyes the Saints happi- 
neſs to have God immediately, God fully, and God ſolely ; and 
will not Saints prepare themſelyes for ſuch a condition as this ? 
you that have the world, »/? ir as if mt, for the faſhion of this 
world paſſeth away; and you that have but a little to do wilt 
the worl1; improve that condicion ; furely *cis your own faule 
if you have noc more to do with God, for you have little elſe ” 
caxe 


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take up your hearts, God may dwell and walke in your hearts 
without diſturbance, give me neither poverty nor riches (faith the 
wiſe manupon that account) a meane-condition is more capable 
of happineſs than that which overloads us with outward things, 
whiP| others are caſting yp their accounts, you may tay with 
David; bow precious are thy thengeys unto me OGed, how preat is 
the ſumme of them ? whilſt others are following their ſuits at 
courts of juſtice, you may follow all you have at a throne of 
grace; whil'& others are numbring their flocks and heards, all 
your  Arithmetick - may be employed to'number your dayes , 
whil' others cannot get out of clutches of the world, you 
may get into the embrgces of your God ,- why, this, is to prepare 
your ſelves for fuller and fuller. enjoyments of God, it is God 
willbe ali» al, and this igthe_verytop of heavens bappineſs, 
ſurely the leſs you bave of the world now, if you can butimprove 
it, the more you may have of heavens happineſs evenupon earth, 
forwhat is the happineſs of heayen, but the ſole enjoymear of 


, God > Chriſtians! if you feele any inclinations , pantings, 


breatbings after this world, give me leave to tell you, tat you 
will never be bappy till, you have loſt all, .cill you have no friends, 
nor eſtates, no enjoyment. but God alone 4 when all is. done, 
when this world is nothing, -whgo-means ſball ceafe, both for 
bodyes and ſouls, and when. Chriſt ſhall ceaſe his- Mediatours 
office, and the Son of man be fſubjeR to his Father, then God 
ſhall be al in «l..- TP 


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Of.Chrifts (notwithſtanding this ) being all inall. to his 
bleſſed, ſaved, redremed Saints to all eternity, 


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fall ſhort of his glory. 

Bur ſome objet, that the mediatory office of Chriſt ſha!! 
wholly ceaſe, and that the body and foul of Chriſt ſhall then be 
znnibilated. 

Indeed this was the opinion of Extiches, that the hamane na- 


ture of Chriſt ſhould be changed or converted into the divine , 
and 


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Chap. 1.5eR. Il'O, Los king unto Feſus, 


and thus he interprets that Scripture,#- er j4/ t/ e £2n:e alſo bime- 


ſelf be ſub, ett, that God may be all in all ; vir 1s this ſb eftan 1 Corry.2s, 


- (ſaith he ) but a converſion of the creature 1uis tlewery [1b 5l ome, 
or eſſence of the Creatowr himſelf ? But we deny 


the mnterpretation ; the Sonne as man ſhall b2 27: ipſam ſubjefionem communi - 
ſubje&, and yet the manhood of Chrilt- ſhall OO SOTES —_ 

! "% h6f., "8 >, . " turam creature 1 m ſubs 
Rill remain ; it is true that his Mediatory ofhice Laption vel effentian creavorks 


ſhall wholly ceaſe, but ut followes not | that yg ge Trin't, lib 1.c.8,&Acer, 


therefore the manhood of Chrift fhall be in lvco. 
converted or changed into rhe Deity ; there 

may be other reaſons for the continuation of his humane n- 
ture beſides the execution of his Mediatory office ; As, 1. That 
the luſtre of his Deicy might ſhine through his humanity, and 
that thereby our very bodily eyes may come to ſee God, as 


uch as is poflible for any creature ro ſee him, 7 [hall ſee hinz jb, 9.27, 


ſaith 7ob-)- not. with other, but with theſe ſame eyes ; 2, That 
the Saints may ſee how the power of an inknite God can con- 
veigh the luſtre of his Deity into a creature ; upon this account 
I verily believe, that Angels and men will be continually vieyw- 


ing of Jeſus Chriſt, Fe ſhall come to be admired of the Saints ; he » The:.1-19, 


ſhall be admired ( as we have heard ) atthe judement-day ; nor 
ts tharall, but the Saints in heaven ſhall ſee with their eyes ſuch 
excellencies in Chritt, as that they ſhall admur? for ever ; I ſay 
for ever, as much as they did at the firit moment when they ſaw 
him ; here if we ſee any thing excellent, we admire art firlt, bur 
after a while we do not fo; but in heaven there will be ſo much 
excellency in Chrilt,that we ſhall admire a3 much roall ererniry, 
as we didarthe . very fir moment, there will be no abaremenr 
in glory of our being taken with the fight of the glory in Jeſus 
Chriſt ; 3. Thar Chrilt by his humanity may converſe more 
freely, andfamiliarly with his brethren in his Fathers houſe ; 
ob x 6 inrumacy that will be there betwixr Jeſus Chrilt and his 
Chriſtian Saints ! oh the murual re;oycin; and deli. ht thar yill 
be/there berwnxt Jeſus Chriſt and his dearett darlinzs ! as Chrit 
fromerernity re;oyced in the habitable parr of his carth, to wil 
the Saints (his habitable earth) co all etermity rejoyce in Chritt; 
the eye of the Saints in glory can never be off Chrit as MeGgin- 
rourand God;now the eye of the Saints in glory ſhall never be 
off Chriſt as Gced and Mediatour then. Thus far of his human=< 
ory. "ATE 2. ror 


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know any thing: of the eſftential glory of Chrilt as 
God? The Scriptures ſay that: God iþake ro Moſes face to face, 
God tells him thou cant not ſee my face, and ht favours him: 


. {0 farreas totell him the reaſon, for there (Hall no man ſee my face 


and live,. q. d. No man in this life, he muſt firſt dye, and be 
chanzed,and then he ſhal have a peculiar revelation of the divine 
majelty ; then he ſhall ſee him. hers ; but how. that is, I can- 
not rell ; come, let us queilion this no further ; ſurely it is a 
mercy that this infinite glory is not diſcovered to-us;, for as a 
weak eye is notable to behold the or to ſee it in rota, 
(as the Schoolmen ſpeak) in that wheelE or circlewherein the 
Sunne doth.runne, but onely im the beames of it ; no more can 
we ſee Chriit as Godin his glorious eſſence, or in his eſſential 
elory, but onely in the beames thereof, in his word and effe&s; 
if now we know (©. little of ſpirits and ſpirttuals, oh then how 
lirthe do. we know of him who 1s the Father of Spirits ? 
I ſhall ſay no-more therefore , let us be content to be 
ignorant of theſe things, till we enter.into the confines of e- 
rernity, | 

Bur whether ſhall this glorious eſſence, oreflential glory of 
Chriſt be more ſeen, or manifeſted, ar, orafter the day of judg- 
ment,than eyer it was before?l anfiver, _— : 


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the glory of Chriſt isſtil] more and more ſeen, as, 1. In this life Dr.»Amneſiey 
we may ſee ic in part, thus David ſpeaks of himſelf, wy ſou! <2 94non 


thirſteth for thee,mmy fl-ſh [ongeth for thee, to [ee thy paver thy gle» 


with Ged, 


3,45] bave ſeen thee in the Santtwary;but this Gght is very dum, 1 Cor.13-12, 


We ſee onely now «i through a glaſſe darkly. The ſecond period 
ts betwixt our difſolution and reſurreQion ; and chen ſhall we 
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the eſſential glory of Chriſt more immediately and fully, 
our creeping apprehenſion of God ſhall then be elevated , and: 
our diſtance from God ſha! then be ſhorrned, and all the riddles 
of grace and of Jeſus Chriſt ſhall then be opened, This ſight is 
ſo great that if a ſoul ſhould come from heaven to declare it, 
neither could that ſoul cxpreſſe it , nor weunderſtand'it , we 
read of ZLazarmw, whoſe ſoul Chriſt returned into his body, 
whom much people of the Jews came purpoſely to ſee , that 
they might hear ſtories of the other world , but not a word 
from him of any ſuch matter ; Paw!'s rapture may ſatisfie with 
the. reaſon of ir, be heard there ajinr« phuare, wordleſſe 
words, ſuch words 2s could not poflibly be repeaced on earth, 
and yet 8ll this. is but the ſecond ſtep to the full viſion of 
Chriſts eſſential glory.. The third period is at che reſarreRion, 
and during the time of the laſt Jadgment, And then we ſhall 
ſee more of his glory ; Cameroaffirms , that *t# no cxriofiive to 
ſay , that the Saints and Angelt in Heaven had a new glory by 
the exhibition of Chriſt , the rue myſtery of the incarnation 
being thereby better known; and we may as ſafely affirm that 
the Saints ſhall have a new glory , by new viſions of the glory 
of Chriſt at the day of reſurreRtion ; they ſhall then ſee the ſ0- 
lemnitie of heavens glory carried on by Chriſt in his glorious 


actings;and all chat ever the ſoul ſaw before in being with Chriſt 


in heaven till chereſurreqion, ſhall be ſwallowed-up with the 
fight of this glory ofChriſt at the reſurceRion. day. The laſt yeri- 
a is after che reſurreion,& that ſhal continue even to al cter- 
nitie, now all che manifeſtations of Chriſts glory before this are 

' but asa-few green cares rubb'd in our hands, ſothat the ful crop, 
or the ful harveſt is yer behind, But this is that, (which as we told 
you before) we cannottell , though we had the tongues of men 
& Angels. Thus far of the firſt point, what is the glory of Chcilt, 
2+ How ſhall the Saints bebold this glory? I anſwer, 
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indeed this ſhall drown all the other fights , if any think 
that Chriſts glorious body ſhall be roo intenſive,and too extra- 

Cy « brightneſs for our weak eyes ; let ſach conſider 

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r. Theeyein heaven ſhall be glorified ; now plorification 

adds a ſingular excellency to the faculties, it advancerh the fa« 
culties, and raiſeth themto an higher picch of excellency; glori- 

fication adds a greater capacity ro the eye than ever it had be- 

fore. + In' this world 'chere is « difference in our eyes and ſight, 

a man of a-clear ſight ſees more things, and more of every 
thing than « dark fgbe doth; fo xz glorified eye ſees more of 
chings than our eyes now can ſee; it ſha] be enlarged exceeding- 

ly to'take in 0bjeRs which now it cannot receive; glorification 

adds ſtrengelveo the faculties both- internal, and external, ſo 
that the eye (hafl be able to look on the glory of Chriſt , not 
with difficultie , but with contentment; in this world every 
ſenſe we have is apt to be deſtroyed by excellent objeRs , and 
the more excellent , and tranſcendent the objeR is, the more 
it hurts'and deſtroyes the ſenſe; as the Sun by its brightneſs 
darkens-the eye, and other things by mighty ſounds bring 
deafneſs on theear ; Paw/ indeed had 2 viſion of glory , bar 
becaiife his faculties were not. glorified, he was he knew nor 
bow , Whruher '#x the body, or ont of 'the body , whether alive or 
dead, he tiFnotknow; certainly the fight of the glory of 
the'orher' world would amrie, diſtract and deſtroy us, if we 
bad fight of itasnow'we are; but in heaven the cye ſhafl have 

ceat pleaſure in —_— brighteſt lighe, becauſe ir 

1 be advanced to the bigheſt pitch of ſtrength thar may. 
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of hurting us,to leave upon us, a more ſweet , enlivening, and 
powerful impreſſion, By this means all the impediments thar 
hinder the conveyance of divine influences from chat heavenly 
obj: will be removed. To illuſtrate this, let the moſt excel- 
lene fight be ſet before a man that'is defective in his bodily 
ſtate, and it doth not take him; what ſhould a fick man do with 
ſach things ? he makes nothing of the moſt pleaſant gardens, 
orchards, buildings , nor of the moſt glorious fights that are; 
when he is ſick, they are but (ſick things to. him , and of none 
effeR; but in heaven the body ſhall be glorified, and ſtript of all 
corruptions and imperfeRions, ſo that there (hall be no barun- 
= the influences of the glory of Chriſt which ſhall there be 

cen. 

3. As there ſhall be. a glorified eye ating in a glorified bo- 
dy, (o it ſhall be acted by a gl1rified ſpirit, che eye is bac the 
organ or inſtrument of ſight, and without the ſpirit would con» 
vey no more than a glaſſe doth; ir is the ſpirit of a mv char 
gives life to viſion, it is the ſpirit of a man ciat dif. 
covers things , and ſets them forth in their worth , vercues, 
ends ; now in heaven the ſpirits of men ſhall be glorified, and 
enabled to perform all thoſe offices in perfeA.on; ſo that when 
a man ſhall look on the man Chriſt Jeſus by'vertue of a glori- 
fied ſpirit, he ſhall ſee more, know more, taſte more than 
any other can; As a man of underſtanding when he looks 
on a diamond, or a wedve of zold he hath other apprehenſfions 
of ir, anda furcher couch upon his ſpirit, than abeaſt, ora 
child in a cradle bath; ſo where the (12he of the eye is ated by 
a olorified mind, it takes i more from che fight of every 
thins which ito be ſeen ( unexoreſſibly more ) than what can 
be done here by the moſt ſantifed Spirit in the world, Now 
in theſe reſpe&ts Chriſts glorined body (though ir be the bright- 
eſt viſible thinzin the Heaven of Heavens ) yet may it be the 
obje& of the eyes of Saints, for they (hall have glorified 

eyes, in glorified budics, and ated by cheir glorified ſpirits, 

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As Chriſt hath a twofold glory, ſo there is a twofold manner of 
' beboldingir, (5;) ocular and mental. 
I. "There isan ocular viſion, a fight of Chriſt with our very 
eyes , whom I ſpall ſee for my felf, and mine eyes ſhall bebold him: 
' with theſe-eyes in our heads we (hall one day behold the hu- 
; mane-glory of Chriſt ; I doubt not we ſhall behold the beauty 


of Heaven, the ſhining bodies of the Saints, but above al, our 


ſhall deligbtfully contemplate Chrifts glorious body; 

and indeed his drown all the other fights - if avy think 
that Chriſts glorious ſhall be roo intenſive, and too extra- 
ordinary 'a brightneſs for our weak eyes; let ſach conſider 

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r. Theeycin heaven ſhall be glorified ; now plorification 
adds a ſingular excellency to the facnities , it advancerh the fa+ 
culties, and raifeth them to an higher picch of excellency; glori- 
fication adds a greater capacity ro the eye than ever it had be- 
fore. + In' this world chere is « difference in our eyes and ſight, 
a man of a'clear ſight ſees more things, and more of every 
thing than « dark fight doth; 'ſo n glorified eye (ces more of 
chings than our eyes now can ſee; it ſhal be enlarged exceeding- 
ly to'take in objeRts which now it cannot receive; glorification 
adds ſtrengths to the faculties both internal, and external, ſo 
that the eye ſhafl be able rolook on the glory of Chrift ,.not 
with difficultie , but with contentment; in this world every 
ſenſe we have is apt to be deſtroyed by excellent objeRs , and 
the more excellent , and tranſcendent the objeR is, the more 
ir hures'and deſtroyes tbe ſenſe; as the Son by its brightneſs 
darkens-the eye, and other hinges by mighery ſounds bring 
deafneſs: on the ear ; Paw/ indeed had # viſion of glory , bar 
becdiife his faculties were aot- plorified, he was he knew not 
bow , Whivher '# the body, or ont of the bedy , whether alive or 
dead, he GiFnotknow; tertainly the fight of the glory of 
the'orher' workd would ame , diſtract and deſtroy us, if we 
bad fight of itasnow'we are; but in heaven the cye ſhaf{ have 
= plealure in beholding' the brighteſt light, becauſe ir 


be advanced to the bigheſt pitch of ſtrength 'thar may. 


24." }Av the-eye hal be glorified , ſo it ſhal 8 in « glorified 
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of hurting us,to leave upon us, a more ſweet , enlivening, and 
powerful impreſſion. By this means all the impediments thar 
hinder the conveyance of divine influences from that heavenly 
obj: will be removed. To illuſtrate this, let the moſt excel- 

lene fizhe be ſet before a man that'is defective in his bodily 

ſtate,and it doth not take him; what ſhould a fick man do with 
ſach things ? he makes nothing of the moſt pleaſant gardens, 
orchards, buildings , nor of the moſt glorious fights that are, 
when he is fick, they are but ſick things to. him , and of none 
effeR; but in heaven the body ſhall be glorified, and ftript of all 
corruptions and imperfeQions, ſo that there (hall be no bar un- 

- the influences of the glory of Chriſt which hall there be 
cen. 

3. As there ſhall be. a glorified eye aRing in a glorified bo- 
dy, (o it ſhall be acted by a gl»rified ſpirit, che eye is bar the 
organ or inſtrument of fight, and without the ſpiric would con» 
vey no more than a glafſe doth ; ir is the ſpirit of a mv thar 
gives life to viſion, it is the ſpirit of a man chat dif- 
covers things , and ſets them forth in their worth , vercues, 
ends ; now in heaven the ſpirits of men ſhall be glorified, and 
enabled to perform all thoſe offices in perfeR.on; ſo that when 
a man ſhall look on the man Chriſt Jeſus by'vertue of a glori- 
fied ſpirit, he ſhall ſee more, know more, taſte more than 
any other can; As a man of underſtanding when he looks 
on a diamond, or a wedge of gold he hath other apprehenſions 
of ir, anda furrher couch upon his ſpirit, than abeaſt, or a 
child in a cradle bath; ſo where the (19he of the eye is ated by 
a olorified mind, it takes in more from che hghe of every 

thing which '$'to be ſeen ( unexpreſſibly more ) rhan what can 
be done here by the moſt ſanified Spirit inthe world. Now 
in thefe reſpe&ts Chriſts 2lorined body (though ir be the bright- 

eſt viſible chinzin the Heaven of Heavens ) yet may it be the 
obje& of the eyes of Saints, for they (hall have glorified 
eyes, inglotified budics, and ated by cheir glorified ſpirits, 
2, Therz is a mental viſion, a (ighr of Chriſt by the eyes of 
6ur underſtandinzs; and furely rhis exceeds the former, the 
eye of the body is on-ly 03 the body of Chriſt, but the eye of 
the ſoul is on the body and ſoul, on the hamanitie and Deitie 


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God, Divines uſually call it , Beatifical viſion. 

But how ſhall Saints behold the glorious Efſence , or God- 
head of Chriſt ? 

1, Some ſay,'Chriſt as God, or the Godhead of Cbriſt ſhall 
be known by the Humanity of Chriſt ; ſuch a luſtre of bis Dei- 
tie ſhall ſhing throvgh his Hymanitie, as that thereby, and by 
no other means ſhall the- Efſential glory of Chriſt appear. 

2. Others ſay, that beſides the Humanitie of Chriſt, there 
ſhall be a ſpecies repreſenting the Divine Eſſence of Chriſt, 
and a light of glory elevating tbe underſtanding by a ſuperna- 
curalſtrength ,- and that thereby the glorious Eſſence of Chriſt 
ſhall be diſcovered, 

3- Others ſay, that the Divine Eſſence ſhall be repre- 
ſented to the glorified underſtanding, not by Chriſts bumanity, 
nor by any ſpecies, but immediacely by it ſelf, yer they allo re- 
quire alight of glory to elevate and fortifie the underſtanding 
by reaſon of 'irs weaknels , and infinite diſproportion and d1+ 
ſtance from the incomprehenſible Deity. 

4. Others hold, that to theclear viſion obEhriſt as God, there 
is not required a fight of Chriſts bumanirie,as the fiſt ſupppole; 
nor a fpecies repeſcting theDivineEſſence,as the ſecond ſuppoſe; 
nor any created light elevating the underſtanding , as the third 
ſuppoſe; but only a change of the natural order of knowing;Itis 
ſufficient (ſay they) that the Divive Eſſence be immediately re» 
ry res co a created underſtanding z which though it cannot 

done according to the order of nature, as experiencetels us, 
( for {bd we conceive things as firſt having paſſed the ſenſe and 
imagination ) yet it may be done according to the Order of 
Divine grace, I ſhall notenterinto theſe ſcholaſtical diſputes, 
it is-enough for a ſober man to know that in beaven we ſhall ſee 
him-face to face,bu ſervants ſhal ſerve him, they ſhal ſee hu face, 

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. '8. They ſhall ſee Chriſt as God , of the ſame Efſence with 
the Father, and the holy Ghoſt, and yet a diſtin Perſon from 
-cbem both; they ſhall ſee che Unitie in Trinitie, and Tiinitie in 
Unitie ; they ſhall ſee bow the Son is begotten of the Father, 
and how the holy Ghoſt proceeds from the Father , -and the 
Son; they ſhall jce the difference between the generation -w 
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the Son, and proceſlion of the Spiric. Theſe are myſteries ia 
which we arc blind and know very little or nothing, but in 
ſecing his face we ſhall ſee all theſe. 

2, They ſhall fee Chriſt as the firſt being , or principal of 
all the good that is in the world ; they foall ſee bow all things Joh.1.z, 
were Wade by bim , and without bim Vas not any thing made that 
w4 made ; they ſhall ſee all the good in the creature 5s lowing 
from Chriſt , and as contained in the abſolute perfcRion of 
Chrilts Divine Nature ; they ſhall ſee in one Chriſt all the ex- 
cellencies of all the creatures uniced, which is indeed to fee 

ig in his eminency if there be any beauty, riches, honour, good- 
nels in any creature, that is eminently , tranſcendently,. and 
Originally in Chriſt, and that ſhall be ſcen. 

3- They (ball ſee Chriſt in ail his wayes, counſels, decrees, 
executions, tranſaQions, from everlaſting to everlaſting; that 
great buſineſs of eleRion and reprobation will then be diſcover- 
ed; ic is an exprefiion of eAuguſtine, they ſhall then ſee the reaſon 
why one %# elefied, and another reprobated; tvhy one & rich, and ano- 
they poor; they ſhall then fee all the works that ever God did, or 
that ever God willdo; it is not yet 6000 years ſince the crea- 
tion of che world, and what is 6000 years to eternitie? certain- 
ly the truth of Origer's opinion touching the exiſtency of other Orig,1.de Prin- 
Worlds before this,& the futare ſucceſſion of other worlds after this, cipits 3.5. 
will then be known. If no worlds before this, yet if God in b 
Chriſt hath done ſuch great things in only 6000 years, what he 
may doin the next 6000years , and ſo inthe next 6ovo years, 
who now can tell? we ſee not theſe things, but the Saints 

- inſeeing the face of {hriſt (hall ſee all things, 

4. . They ſhall ſee Chriſt in all his glory , wayes , counſels, 
decrees, executions, tranſaRions, as working for their happi- 
neſs. Now this is more than the former ; there's a great deal 
of difference in ſeeing an objec as excellentin ie ſelf, andin 
ſeeing an obje& as conducing to my happineſs, As one that 
is a ſtranger, and another is an heir rides over ſuch a demeſgne; 
the ſtranger rides over it, and takes delight to ſee the ſituation, 
rivers, trees, and fruits, but the heir looks upon ir after another 
manner , th# ( ſaith be) i the land for which my father laid ont ſo 
mach, and all to enrich me, and all to below it on me , as my inhe- 
ritance. So the Saints admitted into the glorious ſight of Chriſt, 
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they take not only a view ofChriſt,of theEflenrial glory ofChriſ, 
of the tranſaQions of Chriſt, things excellent in themſelves , 
bur they ſee all theſe as ro make them happy ; they fay of Chrit, 


. andofall his atings, theſe are mine, and for my W—_— ; A 


ſtranger may look upon a King, and ſee beauty, and majeſty , 
andglory, and honour in him, bur the Queen looks upon the 
Kingand his beauty as her own; ſo the Saints look upon the King 
of heaven, they ſee Chrilt, andall in Chriff as their own,to make 
them, happy for ever and ever. . 

*5.; They ſhall ſee Chriſt 4 kei; but. what ? do'we not ſee 
him now 4s ets ? ono: we now fee him not as he 1s 1ndggd 
atetruch; bur onely as he is in hear-ſay, and report ; we now 
ſee hifn onlygg he is ſhadowed out to us in the Goſpel of peace; 
and whatzsthe Goſpel, bur che pourtraiture of the King, which 
he ſent to another Land to be ſeen by his Bride? ſo Kings and 
Queens onearth wooe one anther ; whiles the Bride" 1s on 
earth, ſhe never ſeeth him as heis 1n his bet Sabbath-Royal- 
Robe of immediate glory, ſhe ſeeth him rather by the ſecond 
hand, (.5,.) by meflengers, words, mediation ; he rather ſends 
tus pourrraiture, than comes himſelf ; bur in heaven the Saints 
fee hims as ke us, they ſee Chrift himſelfin his own very perton; 
they ſce the red and white in his.own face ; they ſee all the in- 


fide. of Chrit ;- and. thouſands of -excellencies ſhall-then 


be revealed, that we ſee not.now ; the myſteries of: thar 
glotious Ark.ſhall then. be, opened ;; bis mcarnation, ' his 
[wo..,natures in .one. perſon, his ſuftering- as - man; » and 
his {wting.in the ſeat of God, as God , all theſe ſhall be ſeen. 

6. They ſhall ſee Chrict without interruption, anq withour 
intermiſfonto all erernity. - If once the eye be ſer on the face 
of Jeſus.Chriit, ic will never be raken of again. Some con- 
cieve this to be the reaſonwhy the Saints in- heaven can never 
fall away, becauſe.they ſhall have a continual viey of Chriſt as 
God ; Surely to have but oneglunpſe of Chriitin this reſpe&, 
though it were gone preſently, ir were a great happineſſe beyond 
all that the world affords; it was ſometimes the defire of a Phi- 
loſopher toſee the nature of the Sunne, though-he were to be 
burnt by it ; ſo if Chriſt ſhould bur grant us this happineſle, you 
ſhall come to ſee me, but the ſight of me will deſtroy you, this were 
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ſhall never end ; that Chrit ſhould nor onely paſſe by, bur 
Rand ill, fo as the ſoul ſhall never loſe his ſight ; O howglori- 
ous is this ? ifa man do but look upon a delightful objea, he is 
loath to have the eye drayn from it ; ſurely the eyes of Saints 
ſhall be erernally opened to ſee thedivine nature of Chriſt; turn 
them which way they will,. they ſhall never turn aſide the buſied 
eyes of their underſtanding from off the Deity of Chritt; he fills 
heaven ; he 1s that fair Tree of life, the branches whereof in all 
that huge and capacious borders of heaven have not room to 
growin ; for the keauen of keavens cannot contain him, Of the 
wonders of heaven. There is c Abraham, Moſes, Elias, 
the Prophets, the Apoſtles, all the glorified Mattyrs,”burthe 
Saints have neither leaſure, nor hearts to feed thEnſelves with 
beholcing of creatures; no, no ; all the eyes of heaven (which 
are a fair and numerous company ) ate upon ( onely, onely 
upon) the Lord Jeſus Chrilt ; the tather hath no leaſure ro look 
over his ſhoulder to his ſonne ; the 'husband hath no leaſure to 
look over his ſhoulder to his wife ; Chriſt takes all eyes oif from 
ſuch created things; ſurely 'tis enough for the Sainrs and Anzels 
in heaven to ſtudy Chrilt tor all eternity ; it ſhall be their onely 
labour to read Chriſt, to ſmell Chriſt, ro hear, ſee, and rafte 
Chrilt;- to love, joy, and enjoy Jeſus Chriit for ever andevyer. 


"Thus far of the ſecond point, hoy the Saints ſhall behold the 


olory of Chrilt, . 

3. Wherein is the comprehenſiveneſle of this expreflion

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and looking upon 
all that Majelty and glory which Jeſus Chriit hath. In this ſepſe 
Paul took it when he complained, we walk by faith,not by ſight, 
q. d. on earth we have faith, and in heaven we have fight ; 1t is 
ſome comfort that now I ſee Jeſus Chrilt by faith, but compara- 
tively to that ſicht which the Saints have in heaven it 1sas no 
comfort at all ; alas! Iam nor, I cannot be ſatisfied ſo long as 
I am abſentfrom the Lord, I look upon my ſelf as one from 
home ; And as a Prince in a {lrange Land fits down ſadly, be- 
cauſe he hath not the fight of his father, ſo I am forced to com- 
plaine; O [cannot ſee my Lord, I would fain behold him, 1 am 
a ſtranger on earth, a pilgrims in this worid,l am not where I would 

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be, 1 ans abſem frons him whons 1 moſt deſire; O I defirete be diſe- 
folved, and tobe with Chriſt; F-malk, with bims bere on earth by 
faith, but to walk, with him in the ſtreetes of heaven by ſight is far 
better ; O 1 long, I pant, 1breath, I defire, I think, every day 
# year, and every year 4n age till I be: in heaven, at home, in ”y 
Fathers armes, that 1 may behalq and I ee bins, and that immedi at 
ly, Iſ ay immediatly in his glory.. This is one way of beholding 
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all in all ; he is atf_ in himſelfe, and uf we en- 

joy him"he is al i» all unto us; To-ſee a little into: 
the ſtate and condition of the Saints in glory in this enjoymenc 

of Chrift, —— . & 

r., They pofſeſſe Chriſt as their own; they go to-Chriſt, and 
they lay hold on him,ſaying, thox art mme, It was indeed the 
language of the Spouſe whileſt yer on earthy / am. my beloveds , 
and my beloved is mine ; there'sa rizht, anda propriety made o- 
ver to-her in her berrothing unto Chrilt, bur after the ſolemni 
of the marriage is over, the potleſhon 15 then- more full ; when 
once the Spouſe comes to behold Chritt in his Kinzdome, ſhe 
may then'go boldly ro-her beloved,and ſay, all I ſee is my own; 
I had thee in hope, but now hope is vaniſhed, and attual enjoyment 
comes inplace; ls, now-I havethee in my eye, an4 in my heart , 
and in my hands, and in my armes ; and as nothing ſhall ſeparate 


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s now, for all our enemies are trod under foot, ſo never will I part 
with thee, (a farre as to. be out of my eye, 1 will ſtill behold 
thee, and in beholding 1 will ftillpaſſeſſe thee, far thou art mine 
own, 
; 2. They haverhe uſe of what they poſleſſe ; and this is an in- 
finite good to the Saints ; rhey ſhall not onely poſlefle Chrilt , 
bur they ſhall have what uſe they will ofChrif, and of all ig 
Chriſt ; they ſhall as they pleaſe make uſe,of his humanity, and 
of his Deity, of his glorious eſſence, and of a ghamous attri- 
utes; O wonder ! that a Saint ſhould come to Chrilt, and ſay, 
O my Lord,. thou art mine, and my pleaſure ts to make uſe of thy 
Wiſdome, power, and mercy; and that .Chriit ſhould reply, 
and ſay, welcome ſweet ſoul, uſe me and all my glory as than pleaſ- 
eſt, why thus it is ; even as a friend will ſay to his frend, make 
ſe of all I have as your own; ſo will Chriſt come to his 
Sarnts, and bid them make uſe of all his riches, glory, excellen- 
o » evenas they will, even to the utmoſt that they are capable 
of, 
3. They have the ſweet and comfort of all they uſe ; and this 
makes up a compleat enjoyment. In things below we may have 
the pofleſhon of them, and the uſe thereof, bur 1f we have not 
the ſweet and comfort of that we uſe, we cannot be ſaid truly ar 
fully to enjoy thoſe things; what is the poſſeſſion and uſe of meat 
and drink, it ive taſte not the ſyveert of them ? Hence Godis ſaid 
to g1ve ws all things richly toenjoy ; no creature can give us rich- 
ly to enjoy another,one may gIv2 us ſuch and ſuch rhings where- 
in there may be comfort, bur he cannot give us comfort in ſuch 
things, it is onely God that can give us that ; 1t is ſo with the 
. Saints in glory, God gives them all things, yea, Chriſt gives 
himſelf to them as all i» all roenjoy him richly, fully,fiveerly, 
to the very uttermolt. This another way of beholding Chrilic 
1s a fruition or enjoyment of Chriſt, wherein and whereby he is 
our all in all, 

3. It comprehends all the effe&s and conſequents of ſuch a 
bzholding of his glory, which are infinite delight and co:npla- 
cency in the will, andall praiſe and thankſgivinz in the mouths 
Of his Saints, For the firit, Ir is diſputed whether eternal hap- 
Pineſle be more in the a&s of the under{tanding, or of the will ? 


and ſome conclude that it is principally in the will, becauſe 
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Looking unto Feſws. - - Chap.a.SeR. 2 


chat is an a&ive appetite, and predominant in a nian, -indeed 
the whole ofa man. Oh the joy, delight, - and complacency 
that will atiſe inthe will upon the ſeeing and beholding of Jeſus 
Chriſt ! they ſhall delight infinitely 1n the eflential glory of 


Chriſt, and 1 the declaredglory of Chrift; "they ſhall delig tin 


all that gl6ry'that is refleed upon Chrift' by all his creatures in 


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heaven; they, ſhall. delight in his preſence, and in his love, 
' Chriſt ts all delights, and how then ſhould they but delighc in 


Chriſt > for the ſecond, as they delight in. their wills, {o will 
their mourhs be filled with praiſes; we read of Saints and Angels 
continually prayfing God'in heaven ;- there ſhall be none of our 
duties” of monthing, fafting, praying, - bumbling ; the a&s of 
patience and juftifying faith ſhall ceaſe in Heaven ; but the duty 
of praifing, and glonifying God will continue to all erernity. 


- Methinks 1 ſee the Saints foHlowing the Lamb 3 *methinks I hear 


the familiar converſes betwixt Chriſt and rhem; as Chriit opens 
himſelf tothem, ſo they to him ; firit;he begiris ; Oh my dear- 
eſt Saints, you are they, for whom before all time I aecreed this 
heaven; and now you fee the execution of my decrees ; whiles tle 
world food, I was Ftill carry:ng on the work of your ſaluction, eti- 
ther in doing or ſuffering, or in ſneceſſive works, \cpplying my d+- 
ings and ſufferings, my ative and paſſive obed.ence to your fer- 
ſons, and now the world s at an end, yM ſee the endof my work , 
and the end of your faith, which is the- eternal ſalvation of your 
'ſoules ; Oh now-I hate my wiſh, and you have your happineſſe ; 
kere you and I will live together, that 1 may:for ever behold you , 
and that you may for ever behold me, and my glory; which no 

ſooner ſaid, but methinks T hear all thoſe innumerable Saints 

in heaven to anſwer, worthy i tl e Lamb that was ſlain toreciere 
power, andriches, and wiſedome, and ſtrength,and honour, and 
olery, and bleſſing, and therefore unt» h.ms that loved us, ard 
waſh ed us from our ſimnes in his own blood, and hath made us Kings 

#un:o God and his Father, to him be glory and dominien for ri 

anderer. «Amen, Yea methinks I hear every creature in hea- 

ven ſay, bleſſing, honour,glory,and power be unto him that ſitteth 

9 the I hrone, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever, «Amen. 

Why this is their continual work in heaven ; they have norking 
elſe to do, bur with joy and cladnefle ro ſin? forth the praiſes of 

God; and of Chriit, and that his mercy endureth for ever, mo 

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this likewiſe is comprehended under that notion of the Saints 
beholding of Chriſt, which compleartly makes up the propoſition 
aſſerted, that Christ, or the glory of C hriſt, which the Saints ſhall 
behold to all eternity, uf their all in all, 

Thus farre we have propounded the object which is Zeſws car- 
rying on the ſalvation of his Saints in his coming again 
to: Earth, and taking them up with himſelfe and his 
Anzels into heaven ; our next work is to dire& you how 
r look, unto Feſms in this reſpect, 'and then ye have 

one, 


SD SESETOHHEP ASSESS 
CHAP. II, Szcr, 'r, 


of knowing Feſus as carrying onthe great work of

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we muſt meditate and ſeriouſly confidet' of it. A meer ſtudent 
may know Chrift, and fiudy Chriſt, as he knowes and ſtudies 0- 
ther things: he may-heap togerher' many notions concerning 
Chriſt,” and his comingto judgment,” bur he hath no impreſſion 
of the holineſfle of Cheſt upon ſus heart ; 'and in rhis refpe& he 
is a ſtranger to/Chriſt, and ro-all his aQtings; alas, he fudies 
Chriſt, but he doth nor rightly, ſeriouſly, inwardly conſider of 
-* Chrift; hedoth nor /ok wnto Tee, as one that looks to his pat- 
rerne, 'oras one that looks to his refuge, hope, and help; true 
and ſpiritual conſideration is a ſerious matter; its not ſome 
few and fleeting thoughts that are the diſcharge of this work, bur 
rhoughts "reſting, dwelling , faxing,” and flaying upon Chriſt , 
until 


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untill they come to ſome profitable iflue ; O it is another man- 
ner: of buſineſle than many are aware of; it's a thinkin ich 
thought upon thought ; it's a reiteration and multiplication of 
ochaagins of the mind upon the ſubject propounded ; t© the 
Scripture expreflerh it,/ /ooked on all the works that »y hands had 


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wrought, and in the next verſe, I returne1 to ſee 5 he looked upon, Eccle(-2,11,1 2 


and conſidered his works, and he returned to behold them ; he 
thouchrt on them before, bur now he returned to think ; he re- 
newed his thoughts upon the matter, and took a ney view of 
them. - Indeed when the underiianding works ſeriouſly and ſpi- 
ritually

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when Chriſt with all his celeftial ſervants 
ſhall fix upon it: a mornings cloud guilded wuchthe beames of 
the Sunne is admirably fair and ſhining; but what a ſhinin 
cloud is that where the ' Sunne of righteouſneſfſe with 
all his morning Starres do fit and ſhine ? here's. enough to 
dazzle my eyes, and to take up my thoughts ; O my ſoul think. 
on it, : 

3. Conſider Chrifts ſummons of the ele& to come under- 
ppm: ; no ſooner in the cloud, but he ſhall ſend his Angelt 
with a great ſound of a Trumpet, and they ſhall gather together his 
elett from the foure windes, from the one end of heaven to another. 
Will nor rus be a firange fight to fee Chnifta coming, wich 
Trumpets ſounding before him, caufing all rhe dead ro awaken 
out of their ſleepes of death? the ſound of this Trumpet 
was ever in eromes cares, ariſe om and come to judgment, and 
no queſtion bur thy eares ſhall be filled with the blalt thereof ; 
the Trumper ſhall found that ſhall be heard over all the world; 
and rhen-ſhaſl the dead ariſe our of their graves; andevery Saints 
foul ſhalt re-enter into his own body, by verrue of-the reſur- 


'rection of Chrift their Head.- CanlI paſſe this meditation with-. 


out ſome refle&ion on my ſelf > O my-foul how joyfully wilt 


. thout greet thy body, when .rhou ſhake enliven it again ? how 


wilt thou ſay, O my dear Siſter, whom 1 left behind me in dutt 
when I went to heaven ? hoy ſweert ts thy carcafle, how come- 


ly is thy countenance ? how do I enter- into thee, and ne 
thee, 


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thee, and I will never more leave thee ; thou waſt my yoke- 
fellow in the Lords labours, and my companion in pertecution 
and wrong ; now {hall we enter together into our Matters joy ; 
ſee, liftup thy head, behold Jeſus Chritt yond (itring in- the 
cloud ; and lo here the Angels waiting on us, and coming to 
take us with the reſt of Saints into theatre, to meet our Redeen- 
er there, Could I bur realize this ſummons, this reſurrection, 
this meeting of the ſoul and body, and going with the Angels in- 
to the judgment-ſeat, oh how would it work | and what work 
would it make within. 

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Conſider Chriſt and the Saints meeting at the judgment 
day ; oh how ſhall the Saints look, and fare, and gaze ar the 
beauty of Jeſus Chrift ? oh how will they break our 1nto admira- 
ation at the firſt view of thoſe glories which never before appear- 
edon thisfide heaven ? Is not this he ( will they ſay) of whom 
we read fo often, thar he was fairer than the ſonnes of men 2 
that he was white, and ruddy, the chiefeſt of ren thouſands ; 
that his countenance was as Lebanon, excellent as the Cedars, 
glorious as when the Sunne ſhinerh in his trengrh ? bur was ever 
the half told us of what now we ſee, and behold > O the ſuper- 
excellent tranſcendent beauty of this Sunne of rightecuſneſle ! 
O the treaſures of lovelinefle 1n this "amp Chrut never (cen be- 
fore ! And thus as they admire, ſothey adore ; now they begin 
thoſe Hallelujahs, that never, never ſhall haveend ; they tall 
at the feer of Chriit,, and the Lord Chritt takes chem up with 
his hands, and foldsthem in hisarmes ; oh what mutual reci- 
procal ſalutationsare theſe þetwixt Chrilt and his members ? oh 
my head ! and oh my body ! oh my husband! and oh my Spouſe ! 
oh my dear, and oh my darlin; ! never two lovers met with 
ſuch heat of love as Chrilt and his Saints ; come, ſaich Chrit, 
andfit you down hereat my right hand, and ler the world be on 
my-lefr.han4 ; 1t was otherwile with you in your life-time, my 
gold and my jewels were then calt in the dult ; you were then 
cloathed wwh infamy, and the vileſt of men were then cuilded 
with honour ; but now I willſer all right, now the duſt ſhall be 
feptamway, and the jewels of my Kingdome (hall b2 gathered 

; now the Goates ſhall be driven intothe deſarr, an you 
whoare the ſheep ſhall be broughr into my fold, Oh my ſoul, 
what ameetin2 isthis 2 what a fight will this bz, to behold the 
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Saints in this condition, and thy ſelf amonoſt them 7 coritdi3 
thou bur realize this one very paſſage, it were enough ro quench 
thy luſt, and to kindle a flame of pure love in thy heart to Jeſus 
Chrif, it is a quickning, rouzing,talling,rejoycin2 conſideration. 
5. Conſider Chriſt ſentencing the Saints for. eternal glory ; 
then ſhall the books be opened, and all the good works of the 
Saints ſhall be revealed and made known ; and then ſhall the 
Judee from his Throne of Majeſty ( in the Gghr and hearirth of 
all theworld) pronounice that ſentence,” come ye bleſſed if my 
Father, inherit the Kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of 
the world. 'q. d. "Come my'Saints; come with meinto-/glory; 
come noyy from 1zbourro reſt, from diſgrace to glory, ftom the 
Jawes of death,to the joyes of eternal life ; for my ſake ye have 
been railed cn, reviled and curſed ; but now it ſhall appear to 
all thoſe curſed Eſaxr, thatyouare the true Zacobs thar-iſhia11 re- 
ceive the bleſſing, and bleſied ſhall you be ; come now and 
poſſefie with me the inheritance of heaven, where you/ ſhall'be 
for love ſonnes, for birth-right heires, for dignity Kings, for 
holinefſe Prieſts; come, you may boldly enter in, for my PFa- 
ther hath prepared,and kept ir for you, ever ſince the firſt fourt. 
dation of the world was laid. | wr bis 
O'fmy ſoul, doft thou not remember when ſometimes thou 
haſt been at the feer of Chriſt in the beauty of holineſle, -and 
there tookeſt in thoſe droppings ofhis Spirit, which were betrer 
to thee than the feaſts of Kings ? doſt thou not remember when 
ſomerimes thou halt had the out frm of light dartedfrom che 
face of Jeſus Cri; when he whiſpered to thy ſout the fogrive- 
neſſe of thy ſinnes, ſaying, fear not, thy finnes ſhall not hurt thee, 
Tam thy ſalvation ? oh what joy was then ? what'meltings, mo- 
vittgs, {tirrings, leapings of heart were then in thy boſome ? 
but wasthat joy any thing 6 this ? or to be compared with this? 
that was a Urop, "but "here's an Ocean, here's fulneſſe*of joy; 
oh what" leapin?s of heart, what raviſhments will berwithin 
when thou ſhalt ſee thy ſelf in the armes of Chriſt, and ſhalt re-, 
ceive words of life from the mouth of Chnit, 'in the face of all 
the world ? what a thing will this bz, when-Chrilt (hall -paſſe a 
ſeritence of death on others, and ſpeak words 6f fe: unto thee ? 
when thou ſhalt ſee him frowning upon the world (and oh thoſe 


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the fulneſle of his love upan thy ſelf? that Chrictar ſuch a time 
ſhould be delighting thee with all the imbraces of love,and with 
this ſweet invitation to heaven, come thou bleſſed inherit ;he 
Kingaome, it were enough to ſpirita ſoul halfe dead: the very 
meditation of this mult needs be ſeer. 

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wicked Angels and; the, world. , O th2 tor- 
ment ! O the vexation of \yicked/men. and Divels, when rhey 
ſhall ee thoſe very men whom: rhey ſcorned, oppreſied, per- 
ſecuted, -to be now advanced, 'not onely to glory, but to be 
their judges!ir isas if ſome Nobleman had wronged ſome poor 
man,and that the-Kinz ſhould therefore deliver the Noble man 
into the power of the poor man to take his own revenge; Surely 
the ungodly ſhall fee this, and be grieved,he ſhall gnaſy with his teeth Plal.112.20, 
for indignation, and melt away : but on the contrary, the righte. us 
ſhall rejoyce when he ſeeth the vengeanceyhe ſoall waſh hus footſteps in yp, . "nt 
the blood of the ungodly. 

Oumy ſoul, dottzhay beleeve this truth ? and att thou confi- 
denctithar thou ſhalt fit with Chriſt on his very Throne to judze 
che world > why then be joyful in afflictions, exerciſe thou pa- 
tiencein the cenſures and judgments of the world, knoiv theu 
for thy comfort that there 1s a turnandrtime of judginz, and 
therefore ſay, with.me it i5 a ſmall matter that 1 ſhould be judge © 

| : _" " (5G 1 Cor.q.z, 
of you, or of mans judgment, as the original hath it, of mars day. 
Is itriot enough to command patience, if Gods day be ar hand, 
when I ſhall judge my unjuſt Judges? heark what the Apollle 
ſaith, be patent brerhren untothe coming of the Lord, behold the 
husbandman waie:h for the precious fruit of the earth, and Jam. 5.7 ,8,9. 
hath long patience for. it; mntill he recieve the early and 
latter raine ; be yee alſo patient, Stabliſh your hearts , 
for the 'coming of the Lord draweth nigh, - — behold 
the Fudge tandeth before the door, Come exerciſe patience, let 
the world be judginz ; if they will needs ſlander, reproach, and 
Bbbbbbbz perſecute 


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by 


perſecute thy ſoul”, they had better abuſe any Judge on earth 
-than thee : 


though thou art the pooreſt, weakeſt, meaneſt of 
Gods Saints upon the earch; they will know-one day that they 


have abnſed their own Judge in abafing thee. And therefore be 


thou quiet, ſilent, patient; Say as David, tet him alone, and les 
him curſe, yea, let bims judge, for the Lord bath hiduen him, it may 
br the will lock on mane affliflion , arid will requite good for 
judging this day , Yhis's bis day; bas the day of the Lord ts my 
hen ſoul 1 fit with Chrift on bu Throne to judge 
honey-comb, of Chriſt nad his Saines judging obe world 1 + 
- 7. "Conſider Chriſt #nd bis Saines going up into R 
I Et 
_y ; : ikea ini 
Shepherd co their fold ;"c>d ſhall be goavick. all his (oops 
following bim into bezven.'' Harh norChrift faid fo? 5 F 
away, 1 will rome again, and receive you 'waty \wy' ſelf, 
that where 1 am, there'you. muy b:atfo. © thoſe ſoups of 
Joy , and (houcs

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of praiſe that will fill theworld xt chat day ! 
d rhus as they go wlong, feaven umo them , and 
Enter in; whar welcomes they have there is paſt my 
if we 1 bee we Amr rryndoener welcome that 
HWpive? m7 ſpoeft , and rome my dew , rome wil 
wy Saint; ; bers be theſe manſion: that I wont before to prepare, 


relling 
Ch 


44d wake roddy for you ; here be theſe . babitations 
Lara Min {i dwell together ; 'hors is :your Fathers houſe, 


the building of the wal % all of Paſper , anilthe wer ft piver of is 


other, _ And as this Chrift fhates chem , fo will the Angels, 
thoſe created citizens of heaven ſelore-them too , for if joy be 
in heaven at The converfionof one finner , what joy will there 
be atthe glorification'ofallthefe Saints? what welcomeenter- 
rainmient will the Anpels'pive to theſe newpueſts at their firſt 
entrance into heaven ? 

Omy ſoul, if rhou'art one' of them that fhalttbave this wel- 
come, what wilt'thou ſay when thon art admitred in hither, 
if weeping were in heaven wouldft- thou 'not weep for joy ? 

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Chap:1.SeR. 2. Looking unto Feſus. Book. V. I I1 


- ſare theſe things are nos fitions of mans brain, but truths and 
realities ; and as they are trucand rea], ſo theyare exceeding 
full of joy ; all the excellencies of this world are but a dream 
in compariſon of them; even the fun in its brightneſs is but dark- 
neſs to this-glory that ſhallthen be ſeen, Come, thiok-over- 


theſe things, and larged in thy thoughts, that before 
44 __ may The ſweet,and taſte of this goodneſs of 
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8. Confider all the ſeveral tranſsRions that will foHow in 
heaven; . ther will Chriſt preſent all his Ele&' to God his Fa- 
| ther; then will he give in all his commiſſions which he hath 

- received from his Father ; then will the Sow himſelf: be ſubjet3 to 
the Father, that God may be all in all. | cannor ſtay to enlarge on 


theſe. One r,.though God be all in all, that excludes 
not Chriſt, for he alſo is 41/ i» «l/ to all his Saints , even to all- 
ecernity ; Immediate Nidns and fruitions of Chriſt, as God is- 


the very top of heavens joy : Chriſt © Al, andin all; Chriſt is 
the Center of heavens happineſs ; Chriſt is the Well-ſpring thar hel 
fills the pe Saints and Angels ; Chriſt is the 0 ee | 
of happinets it ſelf, thereis as much happineſs ia Chriſt as hap- 7" ” | 
pineſs is ; whatever belongs to glory, is in Chriſt, i» bin dvells A- +; 
all the ſulneſs ; whatever excellency isin heaven, ic is in Chriſt, D674 

not only in perfeRtion, but connexion, for all choſe excellencies 

racer together,reſt &in Chriſt;Chriſt is all good things to al his- 

Saints in heaven ; be is beantie to their eies, muſick to their 

cars, —_— their mouths; perfume to their noftrils, healch 

to their ,joy to their ſouls, NERInnS underſtandings, 

content to their wiks; he is time wit fliding, ſocictie with» 

ont loathing,debre without fainting, Alpha and Omega, the be+ 

ginning and ending ; wanting both, needing neither, yet the 

Author of them both, he is 4/1 5» all, from one, not all. Even 

all che ſtrength, wit, pleaſure, vertues, colours, beauties, 

harmony, and goodneſs that are in men, beaſts, fiſhes, fouls, 

trees, herbs, and all creatures, are-nothing but ſparkles of thoſe 

things which are in Chriſt, Chriſt himſelf will chen ſupply 

their uſe, {o that the beſt creatures which now ſerve che Saints, 

ſhall not have the honour to ſerve them thenz there will be no Revi31 23) 
need of the Sun , nor of the Moon to ſhine in that Citie, 

= the glory. of God doth lighten it , and the Lamb #4 the light 

thereef. 


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And bence the beholding of Chriſtds the 4/! jx all. to his 
Wo glorified Saints : this was Chriſts prayer, Father / will that thoſe 
 Joh-1p.24, © Whom thow baſt given me; be with me where Tam, to what end? 


'ellar they may bebold.my glory, Chriſts heavenly. preſence is 
\epmſpicuous, he is nor preſent as ſome things that are nor ſeen, 
and yerare preſent , but his preſenceis, or certginly ic ſhall be 
conſpicoous to all bis Saints, when he was in the world his 

wry. was covered under a mean outſide, he was like a;bright 
light'in a dark Lanthern, & there were very few that knew him 


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ts then ;/ butin heaven he ſhall be as acabiner opened , or as che 
©xJoh.;3,>, Sun in- his full glory, we ſball know him a we are known , and 
Fo behold bim face to face, we ſpall [ee him «s he ir. Nor one- 


ly will he be conſpicuous, but his preſence ſhall be vital; a 
ſtone may be with us,- and ſeen clearly, but ther's lictle infthe 
t of that; in the beholding of Chriſt there will be an ain 

of kindneſs upon the Saints , there will be viſions ivith li 
. and dear refreſhing ; O the influences that the ſighe of Chriſt 
will have on his Saints in heaven ! nor onely will he-be con- 
ſpicuous and vital, but his preſence ſhall be fixed; he ſhall abide 
with the Saints , thac they may for ever behold him. . Oh if 

there was ſuch running after Chriſt in this world, ſome petti 
I on hills, and others on'trees, that they-might behold him when 
44 he paſſed by,what will the ſight of Chriſt in heaven be, when be 
Pd. ſhall be alwaies in the eie of his Saints , and never out of ſighe, 
pa when they ſhall be alwaies viewing of him, and be.alwaies 
| ſatisfied with that view? nor onely will he be conſpicuous, vital, 
 Revel. 22.4, 5, fixed but his vety. preſence (ball transform ; they ball [er his 
F face, — and they ſhall reign for: ever and ever, O the influence 
of this ſight ! it is of ſuch a transforming nature, that to ſee 
the King will make Kings ; this viſion of glory amounts unto a 
fruition of glory, if everthon art a ſpeRator of Chriſt, thou 
, art ſure to be a partaker of Chriſt in all his glory. 7 fall be 
* Plal.z7.15. ſatisfied, when 1 awake with thy likeneſs. It doth not yet appear 
” 1 )Joh,z.% what we ſpall bezbut we know that,Vhen he ſhall appear, we ſhall be 
x like him; and why ſo? for we hall ſee bimat he uw, Andnowon- 
der , forif the imperfeR beholding of his glory in the glaſſe of 
' 1 Cor413.42- his Goſpel change the ſoul into the ſame image from glory to glory, 
how'"muck.more ſhall the full view of his gloty in heaven tranſ- 
form both the ſouls & bodies of hisSaints into a fulneſs of glory? 
EY .*-: | | | Here 


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Here then is the top of heaven; here is the A/ in a//; bere is the 
faisfaQion of ſouls to the very uttermolt , if Chriſts glory 
in kis transfiguration was ſo ſatisfaRory to Petey, as that he 
deſired his fight of it might never haveend , or interruption, 
O is 14 good tobe here, lot ms here build T abernacles, and yer 
Peter was onely a ſpeRatour of this glory , for he had himſelf 
no ſhare in t; O then what infinite ſatisfaRtion mayſt chon 
expeQ in the beholding of Chriſtsglory in heaven , which will 
be accompanied with an everlaſting enjoyment ? the luſtre of 
his glory will be diffuſed unto all, ſo that ſome ſha#l enjoy the 
Slory of the Sun, others of the Maon, and others of the Stars. 
O my ſoulif thou art but aStarthere, yer if thou art filled 
with that lighe that comes from the Sun of righteouſneſs, ir 
is. enough. Ob remember! oh conſider ! ob never forget this 
ing wnto Jeſm | as it is thy duty on earth, ſo it is thy pri- 
iledge and bigheſt happineſs in heaven for ever and 


ever. 
SBCT. 3. 
Of defiring after Jeſus in that reſpe. 


Jo x ET us deſire after Feſws, carrying 0n this work of mans 

ſalvation. at his ſecond coming. It is true, many 
ſkcinkl ac che. thoughts of death-and jadgment, and-'tis an high 
Pitch to deſire the diſſolution of our ſelves, and of. this world; 
the'beſt Chriſtians' are compounded of fleſh andifpirir, and if 
the ſpirit long.to be in heaven', yet the ficſM isloath ro leave 
this earth.” Speakione O my ſou}, thou prayeſt daily , Cowe 
Lord Feſu, let thy Kingdome come ; but is not the fleſh afraid, 
leſt God ſhould hear thy prayers Oh that we could loath 
our loathneſs in that reſpe& | oh that we could long for this 
ſecond coming, of Chriſt to judgment ! And Chriſtians ; this 
is attaineble, or otherwiſe I ſhoutd not perſwade you to it, 


1 amr in a'ſftrait ( ſaid Paw!) between tio, having a azfire tode- Phil.1.23. 


part; and to'be with Chrift Which is far better. Andthis is the 
vice of the deſolate bride, Comes for the Spirit of Chriſt with-- 
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Rev,12.17. inherfaith come, the ſpirit andthe Bride ſay Come. Yea, the 
22, %hole creation ſaith come, Waiting 0: be delivered from the 
-bindage of corruption into the glorious liberty of rhe Sons of God ; 
and not onely they , bunt our ſelves alſo which have the firft- fruits 
of the Spirit , even we our ſelver groan Within onr ſelves, wait- 
ing for the adoption," to wit the redemption of our body. 
Oh that we could groan! oh that we could come up to 
this high piech, even to ſigh out , not our breath-, but our | 
ſpirits } even to groan out, not ſome vapours, but our 
hearts } Oo. 
b .- E know. it is ſuitable to fleſh and blood to rremble at the 
 At.r425, Cboughts of judgement,” #/ben Pan reaſoned of righteonſneſſe, 
| temperance ,' and of judgement to come , Felix irembled, Weak 
= Chriſtians as well as heathens may have many terrible fancies 
and notions of that day; Oh to think of a time, when there frall 
be' a great earthquake, When the Sun ſhall become black as jet,and 
the Moon red as blood , when the Stars of heaven ſhall fall, and 
| when the Heavens themſelves ſhall depart as a ſcroll ; When the 
. Trumpet ſhall ſound, that will ſhake the earth,and every Mountain 
Rev.6.1z, and Iſland ſhall be moved ont of their places, when the Kings of the 
earth, and the great men, andthe rich men, and the chief Captains, 
and every boudſman , and every free-man ſhall hide themſelves in 
17, #he dens, and intht rocks of the mountains and ſbalt ſay to the rocks 
' and tothe monntains , fall on # , and hide u« from the face of him 
that. fitteth on the Throne ,and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the 
groat day of his wrath i come, and who ſyall beable to ſtand ? will 
ir not be cercible 7.if the people were ſo afraid when the Lord 
came' without ſuch attendants to give the Law upon Mount 
Sinai z certainly much more terrible muſt ſuch a coming in this 
mariner be, when he (hall come like a-revenging Judge to take 
an account of the world for the keeping , or forthe breaking of 
that Law. - + 2% 45 
In this reſpe&t/, wonder not at ſome weak Chriſtians, thae 
cry out, O Lord thou knoweſt , that I bave not defired this woful 
day; A wiſe Jew was wont to ſay, from a deep fore-ſight of the 
rterrour of this: day , the Meſſiah will come, bus Lord let me not 
live.to ſee bis coming, Now to conquer this fear , and to abate 
ſuch flaviſh terrour in ſuch ſouls , ob that they would conſider 
it-in the whole notion of it, not onely as it ſhall be a = ' 
| ack» 


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. blackneſs and of terrour,but as it ſhal be alſo a day of reſt and of 
releaſe. Someareapt rotakeitup inthe half notion of it, they 
look on it onely as a day of judgement, and a day of condem- 
nation, and ſo they fly from it as from a ſerpent; but if they 
would take it up again, and look on the other (ide, the ſerpent 
would be turned into a rod, The day which will be ſo dread- 
ful rothe ungodly, and the beginning of their miſery, it 
will be, as joyful to the Saints, and the beginning of their 
lory. | 
l But'in what reſpe&is this day of Chriſt ſo deſirable a day? 
I anſwer, in theſe particulars 


; I, It is «day of refreſhing , here the Saints work in a Fur- A 


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nace, bi fire ts 3n Zion, and his furnace in Jernſalem ; but Chriſt 11, 31.9, 


in. bis ſecond coming (when all: the world (ball be on fire) 
hall fan wind (as I may ſay) on bis Saints to cool them; to the 
wicked is an hot day ,' a day ofeverlaſting burnings , but ro 
the Saints it is a day of cooling, quickoning, reviving, and re» 
— fri + ab'th * 

2, It is 4 day of reſtoring of all things. Every creature is 
now init's work-day arefle, all defiled with fin, but at that 
day there (hall be a reſticution of all things; all the diſorders 
and ruines which fin hath brought into the world ſhall then be 
repaired, and man himſelf whoſe ſin is the cauſe of all, ſhall then 
be reſtored to bis original glory, 


. 3. It is a day of the wanifeſtation of the ſont of Ged,; Then Rom.8.19, 


hall it be known whbo are true Saints, and who are reprobates; 
here we live in:Fonfulion , and in our moſt refined Churches 
(if we have none ſcandalous)yet we may have many hypocrites, 
and we cannot diſcern them ; but in that day it ſhall be known 
who are the Lords, and who are not ; the hypocrite ſhall then 
be unmancled,:and the ſons of God ſhall ſhine and glitter 
. as the Sun, that all may run and read, theſe are Gods Elett; theſe 
are the Sons and Dangbters of the Almighty, 


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in 
white, attended with the retinve of glory, riding in bis chariot 
of lighr, and ſmiliag ugon alt bis Sammts. Naw is not this de- 
ſireable >The Apoſdle tels us of the Sziats aching for the glarivus 
4 of- ths and roar tr Saviewr fe/ww Chrift. 
therefore ſurely won: 104 hero io 5, 
8 It is the day of Chriſts joy. Thes bs foall fon of the mor. 
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” Co Wo 


Chip.1.SeQ.3 


Lookiny nnto Feſme. Baok V, 11 17 


of hu foul , and be ſbaltbe ſaticfird. Now what i; the crayail 
of his foul ? is ir not the perfeQion of his redeemed ones? oh 
when Criſt ſeeth this, when he ſeeth his {ſpouſe as withou: 


ſpot , or wrinkle , taen ſhall be fulfilled chat propheſiz, a 1be1(,.62.5. 


B ridegyvowe regayceth over rhe Bride', ſo fſoall thy God rejngee over 
rbee'; look howthe joy of a Bridgtovm is over bis Bride upan 
the wedding-day (faretly then if ever; alt is love and joy, ſo is 
Chriſts joy over his. Szinrs ar rhe laſt day, then begias char 
joy thor-never, never ſhall have end, there (hall be ao moment 
- tire wherein Chrift will not rejoyce over Mis Sxiars for ever 

er, \ wh c 

9, It ivrbe dup of Chrifls perſeftion, Chritt as Medintour is 
not fully perfe&ei} allthis rsbe in glory united co him ; 
As av head that wants an-arm, or hund, or , we fay is lame; 
ſo «io 5 kind df myſtical famencefs rhar Cheiſt our head hath 
not wich hin alt his members, the Szints are little picces of 
myſticaE Chriſt, and irſhult. nor be well til} Chriſt gather in 
his arms, and thighes, and pultctem-nearer ro himſelf 1n glory: 
and is not this deſirable to ſee the' Lord Jeſus Chriſt 
as Head of the Church in his perfetion? to fee the Sun 
of righteoaſneſs with every beam united co lum > Odefiradle 


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Bleſſed are they that are cal- 


lid into the Mavriage-ſwyper of the Lamb, One of the ſeven Rev. 21.9, 


Angels ther came to Fobn in vifions, talked with him , ſaying, 
Come bither,and I will ſhew thee the Bride, the Lamb: wife.lf the 
eſpouſed Virgin be willing ro be married , how is ic that we 
cty not, Cams Lord Jeſus, come quickly ? 

11, It is Chriſts day of preſenting his Stints unto his Fa- 


ther; bv delivers wp the Kingdome to God, even the Father, Then : Cor.s 14, 
| ſhall 


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Looking antoFeſms. Chap.2.SeRt. 3 


rs 


— Muth.24.30, 


Rev.1. 5,6. 


bought, thou 


(hall he take his Bride by the hand and bring her to his houſe, 
and preſent her-in all ſtate and ſolemnity to the Father, Is 
not this a'deſirable day ? ſurely Chriſt rejoyceth , and bis very 
heare_ even- ſprings again to preſent his -Church unto. his Fa- 
ther, Father, bere behold my Bride , that { bave marriedwnta my 
ſelf. It is true, a child may ſometimes marry ſuch a one, as he 
may be sſhamed tothink-of bringing to his Fathers houſe ; bur 
how mean 'and ſinful ſocver we are of ourſelves, when once 
we arc married unto Chriſt,: be will not think it any di r, 
no-not before. bis Father y: that he bath ſack'a Bride : Farber 
(will he ſay) lobere all my Saints , of all that thou haſt given me,1 
have lo , but the children of peridition, theſe are mine, dearly 
the price,” O-welcome'theny to glory. | 
12, .Itis the dayof Chnifts glory. What glorious deſcripti- 
ons have we-in Scripture df-Cheiſts Coming t9, judgemenc 7. 
the So» of Man ſpall come from PENS end grent glory, 
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dominion for ever and ever, eAmen. Now 
is not this a deſirable thing? do we beleeve there is ſach a thing 
as: Chriſts mediatory glory ,- and Chriſts eſſential glory ? as 
Chriſts humane glory,and Chriſts divine glory? and haye we no 
deſires:to. behold this glory ? ſurely Chriſt bimſelf deſired it of 
God, he would have his Saints with him where he is,that oy 
might 


might behold his glory; acid ſhaſtnot we defire it, whom itToſt Caar.8.14, 


concerns ? 'O! the ſweet temper of the Spouſe when ſhe 
cried out , make haſte my beloved, avid bi thou like « Roe, or 10 4 
young Hart upon the monntaing of ſpices ! K.- "6 
Come now, and run over theſe partictlars; ſurely every one 
is motive enough ro defire this day ; it is a day of refreſhing, 2 
day of reſtoring, a day of manifeſtation of the ſons of God, 2 
day of adoption, and ofthe redemption of our bodies ; a day 
of Chriſts coming, of Chriſts revealing, of Chriſts appearing,of 
Chriſts joy , of Chriſts perfe&tion, of Chriſts wedding , of 
. Chriſts preſenting of his Saints, of Chriſts glory; whatare we 
not yet ina longing frame? the wife of youth that wants her 
husband for ſome years, and expeRs that he (ſhould return 
from over-fea lands, ſhe is often on the ſhore , her very beart 
loves the wind that ſhould bring him home; every ſhip in view, 
that is but a drawing near the ſhore, is her new joy , and new 
reviving hopes; ſhe askes of every pafſenger; 0 /aw jon my huſ- 
band? - what i be adoing? when will he come? be not yet ſhipped, 
and ready for a retwry> fouls truly related tothe Lord Jeſus 
Chriſt ſhonld methinks long no leſſe ; O what defire

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of the Bible, he that teffifleth theſe tbings, ſaith 
ſnrely I come quickly. Amen, Een ſo, come Lord Jeſus, 


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SECT. 4. 
Of boping in Feſus in that reſpef, 
4. L, ET us hope in feſm , as carrying on the great work of 
our ſalvation forus in his ſecond coming, Hope is of 
o00d 


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FJoby14-;. 


I Heb.9.12, 


, Jch.z 3. 


* 1 Pet.1;3.4. 


of, chings to come ; Moe! is an at of the will ex 
it ſelf-zow s chot hich, it loves as future; onely the Ris 
good.as itis the, wet of hope is difficult to obtain, and there- 


po Fit differs from ; for deſire leaks at future good without 
any 2pprebenſjon 0 oy. but hope. reſpeRs the fare 
good oy is gotten Ye 4 2 Tg will.oot 


difficy ſty, 
de inuſc of means, Sooh Ul diffcole, are not.true hopes, we ſee 
ney deſirable chivgs. ſet before us, of which we may {ay » Oh 
hat me. had our pers and portion of them 4 but ; faall 195 ge-be, 
age Catch ind Bad.ouk the crach, whether we h hive ac (ure on part.or 
in chem?or ny whether we Baveany 
thiogs? oh ch& is wortby our pa ins [come then, let.us y ao 
s further progreſſe, let us not onely ly Sfre that 5t. may be on 
«xd /; bur let.vs ſay, -on.ſome ſure and certain. gy ond by eps 
it. « thas, Mr 2e 98 We hope Chriſt wil come agewn, ective 
us to bim fe that rs be ra we ma he alſo, 

Indeed there is.  RRe wilt hot lag rd pmior ſuch an 
hope is 8 /#re_AvcHor , that will hold inaſtorm; one» 
ly. becauſe our ſouls lie uponit, we bad need. ta look to it.thac 
our, ke, NE hs boars .can (ay, they hope ta be ſaved 4s well 

dur.Lfear by pirvefy ys will yg wile famcncabiy frue 

ſiraced. wt Saviour, bri agg. many gleadſo with confidence 

at the [aſt day: for life, who ſhall be rejected with miſerable 
difappointment; wary hat? ſay toms at that day, Lord, Lord, cc. 
atd [ will confeſſe unta thei, - never knew ther ,, depart from me. 


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his glorious coming be 
to plotifieas.,, Bleſſed 'the Godand Eat her. a aur Lord Jaſjus 
Chriſt, whoaccording to hit abundant mercy hat begotten us again 
whto a lively hops; fo an inheritance incorruptible. Who. ſoever 

hath the true hope of heaven, he is one that is begotten again; 
ſo our Saviour , _ a man brborn again, be cannot /ee the 
RK ingdime of Gal: ny: things may: be* done, as Herod 
heard Jobn the. pl ape /FT ya hips but except aman be 
born again, thoſe. waxy things. arc 1n-Geds-account yy 
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When Peter had' told Chriſt, that he and his fellow- diſciples 
bad forſaken all, and followed him, then 7eſws ſaid, verily 1 ſay 
wxto you, that ye Which have 
the Son of man ſpall fit in the T hrone of bs gory, ye ſhall alſo fit up- 
on tWelve thrones, judging the twelve Tribes of Iſrael. q.d. Peter, 
you have forſaken all,and fotfowed me; but know that bate for- 
ſaking is notenough , but you whothave felc the work of God 
regenerating your ſouls, upon which ye have followed me, ye 
(hall fic upon ewelve Thrones. Tn thoſe who are alive atthe 
laſt day there will be a change, and this change will be to them 


lowed me in the regtneration, when Ma19, 28. 


inſtead of death; b-bo/4 1 ſh: w you a myſtery, We ſball not all ſleep,”, Cyr, r5. 51, 


but we ſhall all bee changed. Certainly in thoſe who at the laſt 
day ſhall'fie on Thrones with Chriſt , there muſt be a change 
likewiſe in this life, (;.) a new ſpirir, and a new life muſt be put 
into them : Oh what a change is this ! ſappoſe a rational ſoul 
were put into a beaſt, what 'a change would be in that crea- 
ture! ſuppoſe an angelical narhre were put upon'us , what a 
change would there be in us? oh bue what a change is this 
when a man is born again of water and of the ſpirit ; I muſt 
rell you that the higheſt degree of glory in heaven is not ſo dif- 
ferent from the loweſt degree of grace here , #s the loweſt 
degree cf grace here is different from the higheſt excellency 
of nature here, becauſe the difference berwixt the higheſt de- 
gree of the glory of heaven , and the loweſt degree of grace is 
onely gradual, bat the difference rhat is betwixtthe loweſt 
degree of grace and the higheſt excellency of nature is a ſpeci- 
cal difference, Oh there's a mightie work of God in preparing 
ſouls for glory by grace,& this change maſt they have that muſt 
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the coming. of Jeſus Chriſt , bur alſo, asit were, 


Zoing forth, ro mett, Jeſus Chriſt wich - burning Lamps, Lucbey 
could ſa 


| that be was vo trueChriftian,neither could he truly recite 
the Lord: prayer , that With all bis beart deſired not this day of the 
coming of| Chriſt. ...Ic. is\true, that whetber we wil orno , that 
day will,.come,, .but inthe Lords prayer Chriſt hath caught us 
God. would accelerate and haſten the day of his, 
glorious coming , , thy Kingdowe come , (:.) the Kingdome of: 
glory, at the. judgement , as well as the Kingdome of graceia-; 
Re Church, It is true alſo that the day of the Lord is 4 ter+ 
rible day, ,, the, Heaveos, and Earth, and Sez, andAirſhal he - 
allon + kg re, and burg to nothing, veverrhelefſe we accorg- 
5ng, t0:bis promiſe. look, jor new. keavens , and a newearth; we 
that have laid hojd.upon God ;, and laid hold; on him by che 
right bandle_, according to his promiſes, we look for this day of 
the Lord, ee. ook for it ,, and baften unto.it , we are-glad tis lo 
near ,, and we.do what we can to; have jtnearer ;/ withan holy 
kind of, patience we beg f the Lord ; Come Lord Jeſn., come 
quickly. This was Pas s.character ;- we know:that the whole 
creation, groaneth ,- and travelleth in pain together nnti{\now;. 
aud not onely they, but our ſelves alſo, mhich have the firſt-ſrnits 
of the Spirit, , even we our ſelues groan Within our ſelves wait ing 
or the adoption ;.to wit the redemption of. our bodies; . Gods 
children, Juch 2s have the firſt-fruits of the Spirit, the begin- 
n\ipgs of true ſaving graceinthem , they conſtantly look and 


4Jong forthe day of full deliverance, or of the coming of Chriſt, 


This the Apoſtle. inſtanceth in his Corinthians ,. ye rattle behind 
in no gift , waiting for the coming of onr Lord feſus Chriſt ; and 
in like- manner he, writes to his Philippians , car conver/ation 


. .# in heaven, from Whence alſo we look for the Saviour , the Lord 


leſws 


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'Jeſmws Chriſt, And ro Titans himſelf he writes the ſame things, Tir.2.13. bj 
we look, for that bleſſed bope , and the glorinas appearing of The 
great God, ani our Saviour feſns Chriſt, Now Chriftians 
lay this charaRer to hearr, do you long , pant;' and Took for 
this glorious and ſecond coming of Chriſt > have you any ſuch 
wiſhes, and ſayings of heart and mind as'theſt ate ,' Oh that 
Chriſt would appear | oh that Chriſt would now bresk the heavens, 
and come t0 judgement | ob that I conld ſee bim in the Cloud, and 
on his Throne oh that bis enemitt were rnined , my ſms ſubdued, 
my ſoul ſaved, that I might ſerve bins'without Wearineſſe, far ever 
and ever Surely if theſe elongations of ſoul bet you; itis a 
comfortable evidence that your hopes are ſound, and thar 
Chriſt wil come to receive you to himſelf, and ro bringyou to 
glory. b 1 
3- If we love Chriſts appearing, then wil heappear onour 
ſide. Henceforth there ts laid up for me a'croWn of righteouſneſſe, > Tim. 4.3. 
which the Lord the righteows Fudge ſhall give me at that day, and 
mot to me onely, but mwnto them alſo that love his appearing.» ' A 
true Chriſtian loves Chriſts appearing in ordinarices,*and in all 
the means of grace, how much more in his'own perſon > Bur 
how ſhould we love that we ſeenot? O yes? there's a kind 
of an Idex of Chriſt, and of his glorious appearing+in evety 
ſanQified ſoul, und in that reſpe& we love him though we can» 
not fee him, who having not ſeen ye love, ſaith the Apoſtle; and r Per,1.8, 
ſo your /ore and* faith at the 'appegring of Joſmes Chrift ſhall be 
femnd nnto praiſe; and honour,ant glory. Thoſe that havenot ſeen Veic7- 
Chriſt, znd yet lovethe Tdea of bis fght, even tliey ſhalt appear 
at che appearing of Chrift in praiſe, and honour, and glory. 
Is not the crown laid up for them thatlove the appearing of 
{briſt>' is ir not@fign of a good cauſe to foveaday of-hearing? 
ſarely love of Chriſts coming cannot conſiſt without ſome aſ- 
facance that a ſoul ſhal ſtand vpright in thejudgement.” "He 
that hach nor a confidence in hiscauſe, Joves nor the coming 
- of the Jadge; no guiltie priſoner loves the Sefitons, or loves the 
\Judges preſence; it isthe cry of reprobates,'O' je mantains, and, 
"Oye Hathr full on 14, and hide 'from+be face of bim that fittethon * | _ 
tbe Tyore: bur as for Chriſt and his Svints.O the mutual loves, ; 
and mutual longings in their breſts\ The laſt words'that Chriſt *1 
-ſpeaks' inthe Bible { and amongſt us laſt words make deepeſt 7 
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: 1124 | BookV. Looking unto Feſue. Chap.1.SeR; 3 


'  ÞAmpreſſions) are, Surely 1 come quickly; and the laſt anſwer that 
is made in our behalf, is, Amen, even ſo come LordJeſw. 1 
knowthis CharaRec is near the former , and therefore 1 ſhall 

elit OYer. | | 
4+; If our,works. be good, then wil.be reward us according 
toourworks; Ac that great day. this will be the trial, works? 

Waenh. 24.33; or 00 works ? then will be a to them on bu right band, Come ye 

34135, bleſſed F ather , inherit the King deme prepared for you, for F | 

36. waian bungred, end ye gave me meat; [was thirſty and ye gave me 

drink; Iwas aftr and ze took ane. in, naked and je cloathed we, 
1 was fick and je viſited we , 1944 in priſon, and ye came wnio me, 

'% Here were works, upon, which followed the rewards of heaven, 

© 9-46. © for theſe went into eternal life.l know, works are not meritorious, 

' and yet they are evidences; I know works without faith are 

bur.gliſtcing.ins,, and yer. works dong in. faith are ſignes , and. 

fore+runners of cternal glory ;. I know.that if all the excellen. 
cies. of. all the moralitics of, all the. men in the world were put 
together ,. theſe could never reach glory ,* and yet acxp of cold 

Water given to one of Chrifts litthe ones in the name of a Diſciple 

Chriſt ſhall net Hoſe its. reward. If a Chiiſtian doube , how 

ould Irknow:thatmy works; ace of, a right ſtamp. I anſwer, 

1, Look at the principle, is here nor ſometbing above nature? 

do; F.not. find ſome-new light let out-by , that ſhews a 

and excellency, and. beantie in good works? is there nor 

ing in.methat-makes the ſame tobe ſweet, or pleaſant, 

OT leto me ? 2. Lookatche end ;. natural works have 

DEe-better end then ſelf.) and; creature-reſpeAts ; but in my 

works is. there no/ aim at ſome. thing higher than ſelf > whae 

ever Ido, .isnot.thisin mine eye, thar all Ido may tend to the 

-henourand glory of God > I had need rake becd of vain-glory, 

&-ſelf-applanie; the. godly, at che, day of judgment do not know 

the good works they did; if my gim-be at God I ſhall forget my 

ſelf;as if all I'did were ſwallowed up in God.3.Look at the man- 
ner of my doing works : TVzzeb bad agood intention, but bis 
work was.not gavod, hecaule the manner was not good ; are my 
warks according tothe wile? dothey carry acontormitie to the 

Law of God? er every man tric by amr work in this; O my ſoul, 

bring thy\works40;rhe cgopch-ſtone , the Scripture, the Rule of 

goodnels,is not al 4hy gold then diſcovered tobe drofſerthe Scri- 


| Macth. 10-24, 


pture 


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ture doth not only tell of works ,- but tells us the manner of 
I—, chem; as for inſtance, if rightly done , they muſt 

done in zeal, in fervency, in aRtivity; thus Gods people are 
called « peculiar people, 2ealoms of good works, a formal, cultoma»+ 
ry ; ſuperficial performance of holy works fails in che manner 
of performing them : what, are my works performed in zeals? 
is there not coo much of coldneſs , emptinels formalitie in all I 
do? why, thus may I know whether my works are of a righe 
ſtamp; certainly all works, duties, aRings, which-are nor done 
by a gracious heart , through a gracious power , tv a gracious 
end, in a gracious manner, are fins, and not ſuch works as (hall 
have the rewards of heaven, Some may objeR, this anhard 
ſaying, who then ſhall be ayed?*I anſwer, 1. By confeflion, 
very few; tvhat s the whole company of (hriſtians, beſides a very 
few ( ſaid Salvian ) but « fink of vices ? arethey onely gocd 
works which are thus and thus qualified ? it were enough to 
make us all fear all che works that ever-we have done. Bar fe- 
condly, here's all our hope , that in a Gofpel-way Chriſt looks 
at our good works in the trath of them , and not inthe per- 


feRtion of them; no man goes beyond Pau/, who nhen be would, 


do good, fond evil preſent with bim: Alas, there is a perpetual op-. 
poſition and confli& betwixt the fleſh and the ſpirit, ſo that 
the moſt ſpiritual man cannot do the good things he would 
do ; and yet we muſt nor conclude, that nothing is good in us, 
becauſe nor perfet'y good. Sincerity and cruch in the in- 
ward party may in this caſe , hold up our hearts from ſinking ; 
as hein the Goſpel cried, I belreve, Lord help my unbelief . to 
if we can but ſay, / do good works, Lord help me inthe concur- 
rence of all needſul circumſtances, here will be our evidence that 
our hopes are ſound, and that Chriſt will ſentence us to erernal 
life. Come ye bleſſed, c.a0d why ſo? for [ was an hungred, and ye 
gave me meat, fo. 

$: If we bclieve in Chriſt, then ſhall we live with Chriſt; 
if we come to him and receive him by faith , then will he come 
again , andreceive 1 toh:mſclf, that where he @, there we may be 
alſo. Good works are good evidences, but of all works 
thoſe of the Goſpel are cleareſt evidence, and have cleareſt 
promiſes, come then, let us try our obediences tothe Com- 
mandements of fairb, as well as life ;. let usrry our ſubmiſſion 
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. Row, 10,9, 
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Lt Johan 5. 3, 


Rom. 5.5, 


Heb/6.1 Is 


tothe Lord by beleeving; as well as doing. Surely the greateſt 


' work of God that ever any creature did, it is this Goſpel-work, 
- whenit apprehends irs own unworthine(s, and ventures it ſelf 8 
its eſtate upon the. righteouſneſs of Jeſus Chriſt : if, we were able 


to perform a full,exact, &2ccarate obedience tdevery particular 
of the moral Law,it were not ſo great a work, nor {o acceptable 


' to God, nor ſhould be ſo gloriouſly rewardedin heaven, as this 


ove work of beleeving in bjsSon Je'usChriſt. This is the wark to 
which in expreſſe terms ſalvation, heaven, & glory is promiſed, 
be that beleeveth on the Son bath everlaſting lifeyc+ he that hearetb 


; aw) words,believeth on him that Jent me bhath.everlaſting life, &> 
+ ſhall not come into condemnation, but he hath paſſed from death. to 


life, -— And this is,.the will of him that ſent me,that every one that 
ſeetb the Son, and beligueth. on him may bave everlaſting 
life. ——— ' eAnd theſe things are \ Written that Je migbe 


 beleeve that Jeſus is Croft the Son of, God, and that beletving ye 


might have life through his. name. — Beleeve on the Lord jeſus 
Chriſt, and thon ſhalt be ſaved. — And if thow ſhalt confeſſe with 


. thy month, the Lord Je(w4, and ſhalt believe in thine heart that God 


hath raiſed him from the dead, thou foalt be ſaved. — And we are 
not of them Who draw hack unto perdition,, but of them that believe 
wato the ſaving of the, ſont. end theſe things have,1 Written 
wnto you that beliewe.ontbe name of the Son of Goa, that ye may 
know that ye bave everlaſting life. Why-this above :11is the 
Goſpel-work, to. which are annexed thoſe graec ous, pro» 
miſes of eternal life. So that if we belecve in Chriſt, 


| how may we be aſſured that we ſhall live with Chriſt 2 


O my ſoul, gather ap all chefe charaQters, and try by chem, 
Every ove caniay, that they hope well, they hope to be ſaved, 
chey hope to meet (hiſt with comfort,though they have no 
grcund. for it but their own vain conceits, but hope. on good 
ground is that hope that maksth not aſbame, lay then ,, artthou 
born again?d oft thou

~1,637 words

ſhall yet praiſe him , who u the 
health'of my conntenance and my God. 
If T may here enter into a Dialogue with my own poor, 
trembling, wavering ſoul, —— Perſor — why art thou hope» | 
lefſe O my ſou] ? would thou not hope, if an honeſt man had | 
made thee a promiſe of any thing within his power ? and wile 
thou not hope when thou haſt the promiſe, the oath, and the 
covenant of God in Chriſt? Soul - Yes; methinks 
I feel ſome little hope, but alas it is but a lictle, a very 
litcle,-—— Per ſon Ay bur go on my ſoul , true hope 
iscalled a lively hope , and a lively hope is an efficacious hope ; 
no ſooner faith commends the promiſe unto hope , but hope 
rakes it, and huzos it, and reckons itas its Treaſure, and feeds 
on it as Manna, which God hath given to refreſh the weary 
ſoul in the deſert of fin, 20 onthen,, till thou comeſt up to 
the bigheſt pitch, even to that triumphant joyful exp:Ration, 
and watang for of Chriſt in glory. —— Soul—— Why , me- | 
thinks I would hope , I would aſcend the higheſt ſtep of hope; 
but 2las I cannot, Oh I am expoſed co many contraverhies, 
I am prone to many unquiet avitations; though I have a 
preſent promiſe', yer lextend my cares and fears even to cter- 
nity ; Alas, I cannot comprehend, and therefore |] am bardly | 2 
ſatisfied ; my ſinful-reaſon ſees notits own way and end, and j 
þ: cauſe it muſt take all on truſt and credit, therefore it fals | 
to wrangling; nay, Sathan himſelf ſo ſnarles the queſtion, and 
I am ſo aptto liſten to his doubts, that in the concluſion [ 
know not how to extricat?: myſelf. — Perſon -- Sayſt thou 
ſa? ſurely inrhis caſe there is'no cure, no remedy. but one- 
| ly the teſtimony of Gods Spirir ; bur ſaith not the Apoſtle, Rom, #16, 
-- that the. Spirit it ſelf bears witneſſe with our ſpirits, that we 
art. the children of Ged? if a Man, or Argel, oc Archangel 
ſhoul 


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ſhould promiſe heaven ,- peradyentore-thou mighreſt doubr, 
bur if the Supream Efſence of the Spirit of God bear witneſs 
within, what room for doubting? why;xhis voyce of the Spirit is 
the very voyceof God; heark then, enquire O my ſoul, if 
thou - haſt 'but chis teſtimony of che Spirit , thou-art ſure 
e ——— ſo —— Ob that it were thus with me! 
oh 'thac the Spirit would even now give me to drink of 
the Wels of Salvation! oh that the Spiric would teſtifie ic 
home! -oh that he- would ſhine- upon, and <nlighten all 
thoſe graces which he -hath planted-in me1- fain would I 
come to the higheſt pitch of hope, oh that Lcould look upon 
the chings hoped for as certainly future, —— Perſon ——— 
Thou ſayft wetl O my foul, andif theſewiſhes be real , then 
pour out thy ſelf unto God in prayer; this was the Apoſtles 
method ;- now the God*of bope fill you with all joy and-pract' in 
believing , that ye may abownd in hope through the poWer of the 
boly Ghoſt; let this be thy praRiſe, ' pray as he prayed.; pray 
thou 'for thy ſelf as he prayed for others; if an- earthly 
father will hearken to his child, how much more Will God 
the Father $ive the Spirit to them that ah, the | Spirit of 
him,—-— Soul Why if chis'be it; to thee Lord do I 
come; 'O giveme the Spiric, che witneſs of the Spirit , the 
ficſt-fruits of the Spirit, the ſealing of chy Spirit , the earneſt 
of the Spirit, Ogive me the Spirit , and lec the Spirit give me 
this hope. O the hope of /ſracl, and Saviour thereof in the ' 
rime-'of tromble, why ſhouldſt thow be as a ſtranger in my ſoul, 
and'as a way faring man that turneth aſide to tarry for a 
night? Come,'O come, and dwell in my ſoul, come and blow on 
my garden, that the ſpices thereof may flow out : come and fill 
me with livelyhope; yea, Lord excite, and quicken, and 
ſtir vp myſcul'to a&- this hope», yea, ſo illighten, or ſhine 
upon my'- hope ;- that I may know that I hope , and 
know that T joyfully expe&t , and wait for the coming 
of Chriſt, O let me hear thy voyce; ſay wnto my ſoul 1 am, 
and 'will be thy ſalvation. Perſon Well now, 
thou haſt prayed , O-my ſoul , Come, tell me, doſt thou feel 
nothing ſtir 2 "is there nothing at all in thee that aſſures 


” thee of this aſſurance of hope? is there'no life in thy af- 


fetions? no ſpark that takes bold on thy heart co fer 
it 


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it on flame > no comfort of the Spirit, no joy in the holy 
Ghoſt? —— Son! Yes | methinks | feel ic now begin co 
work , the Spirit that bath breathed chis prayer in to me comes 
in as Comforter; oh now that I rel:ize Chriſts coming and 
my reſurce&ion , I cannot but conclude with David, there- 
fore my beart is glad, and my glory rejoyceth, and my fl-ſh alſo ſhall 
reſt in hope, Ob what an earneſt is this > whac a piece bath 
the Spirit put into my hand of the great ſum promiſed? not 
onely that he in great mercy promiſed me heaven , but be- 
cauſe he doth not put me into a preſent Poſſeſſion, he now 
gives me an ecarnclt of my future inheritance. Why , ſure'y 
x'l is ſure, unleſle che earn:ſt deceive me; and what ? ſhall L 
diſpute the truth of the earneſt > ob God forbid ! the ſtamp is 
too well known to be miſtruſted ; this ſeal cannot be coun- 
terfeit, becauſe it is agreeable with the Word ; I find in my ſelf 
an hope , a true ſincere hope, though very weak : 1 find up- 
on trial that I am regenerate , thar I look and long for the 
ſecond coming of Jeſus , that I love his appearance even 
befare hand : that my works though imperfe& are fincere 
and true., that I believe on the N-me of the Sonne of God; 
and flcſh and blood could pever work theſe duties or theſe 
oraces in me, it isonely that good Spirit of my God , which 
hath thus ſealed me up to the day of redemprion. Away, 'K 
away deſpair, trouble me no longer with amuſing thoughts; | 
I wilt henceforth ( if the Lord inable ) walk confidently, and E 
chearfully in the ſtrength of this aſſurance, and joyfully expet 

the full accompliſhment of my happy contra from the hands 

of Chriſt, The Lord « my portion, therefore Will I hope in him; 

the Lord is good to them that wait for hims, to the ſoul that ſecketh L31»3.24, 

bim ; it is good that I both bope and quietly wait for the ſalvation of 2Fs 
"the Lord. — It is good that I hope to the end, for the grace that is i 
to be brought unto me at the revelation of Jeſus Chrif, CODY 


Plal.16.g. 


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SECT. 5. 
Of belceving in Feſm in that reſpef. 


F. Et us beleeve in Jeſs as carrying'on the great. work of 
8 our ſalyationin his ſecond coming. Now this beleev- 
ing in Chriſt is morethan hoping in Chriſt, faith eyes 
chings as preſent, bijthope eyes things as furure ; and hence the 
Apoltle deſcribes faith to be the /nb/tance of rhings hoped for , it is 
the ſubſtance, foundation, or prop which upholds the building ; 
or it is thie ſubſtance, eſſence, exiſtence of a thing hoped for, a 
confequently abſent and a far off, to be by a firme apprehenſion 
of the beleeyeras apy! if v.95 and real. And this is as ne- 
eeſſary as the former ; obif we could but ſee things now, as they 
ſhall appeare attharlaft general day of judgement, how mighri- 
would they work npon our ſouls? T verily think the want of 
| this work of faith is the canſe almoft of all the evil in the world , 
andthe ating of faith onthis ſubje& would produce ftuits even 
toatiration. Tfwecouldbur ſee that glory of Godia Chyiſt, 
and th6ſe plorious treafures of mercyes that ſhall then 'be com - 
municated , if we could but ſee thoſe dreadful evils that are now 
elifearned; andthall then be fulfilled, would rot this draw the 
rdeft heart under heaven ? come, ler usaR faith this day, as if 
is duy were the laſt day\ athouſand yeares are but as one day 
eofafth , *fr takes Hold upotieternal life, wheaſGever it as, it 
takes prefenr poſſeſſion of the glotious things of the Kingdome 
. df God even now. .. % | 


hy RS Laan a 
Gthen let us beletve ſh Jeſus as in reference to his ſecond com- 


4 8 Ill | 


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nt: t::20 £ Þ Sr tow'ſtidutd we beſeeve ?' what dire&ions to,aR our faith 
| on Jeſus in this reſpeR Þ Tanſwer, — ata 
1. Faith mult directly go to Chrift, 
2. Faith muſt go to Chriſt as Godin the fleſh. 
3. Faith muſt go to Chriſt as God in the fleſh made under 
the law. TORT 
4. Faith muſt goto Chriſt made under the directive part of 
_ by his life, and unter the penal part of the law by his 
eatn.. 


5. Faith 


Chap. .SeR.5 | Looking wnto Jeſus, Book V., 1131 


ee II 


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5. Faith muſt go to Chriſt as put to death in the fleſh, and as 
quickned by the 5 piric. 

6. Faith muſt go to Chriſt as going up into glory, as fit- 
ting _ at Gods right hand, and as ſending down the holy 
Ghoſt. 

7. Faith muſt goto Chriſt as interceding for his Saints, in 
which work he continues till his coming againe. Ot all theſe 
before. 

8. Faith muſt

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have finiſhed the work which thou wr 
gaveſt me to di, Now faith ſhould eye Chriſt as far as he goes, A 
if Chriſt will not have done till: he come againe, and receive us 
to himſelfe; and ſertle us in glory , no more ſhould faith, it 
ſhould Ri!l follow after him, and take a view of all his tranſaRi- 
ons from firſt to laſt ; what will Chriſt come apaine ? will he 
ſammon all the Ele& to come under judgement > will he ſen. 
tence or judge them to eternal life ? will he condu& them into 
glory, preſent chem to his Father, and betheir al iz a/'to all 
eterriity ? why then let our faith act it ſelfe upon all theſe pro. 
miſes; or if I may inſtance in one for all, Chrifts coming is 
the moſt comprehenſive of all, andis not the coming of Chriſt 
very frequently mentioned in the promiſes, as the great ſupport 
and ſtzy of his peoples {ſpirits till then? donor the Apoſtles 
nſually quicken us to duty, and encourage us to waiting by the 
mentioning of this glorious coming of Jeſus Chriſt > why then 
Eececee 2 = 


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Joel 1.15 


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let us at our faith on this glori6us objet , Chriſtians, what do 
we beleeve, and hope, and waite for, but to ſee this coming ? 
This was Pauls encouragement to rejoycing and to moderation, 
rejoyce in the Lord alwayes — and let your moderation be known to 
all, the Lord is at hand, To think and ſpeak of that day with 
horrout, doth well beſeem the impenitent ſinner, but doth ill 
beſcem the beleeving Saint ; ſuch may be the voyce of an un- 
beleever, and it may be ofa belecver in deſertion or temptation, 
but it's not the yoyce of faith.  O beleeve on Chriſt, as car- 
rying on our falvation at his coming againe,” for yet-a 
little while, and he that ſhall come, will come, and he will nat 
rarry. 

"s

~312 words

and from 
the glory of bu power, O miſerable men! now 'it is Gods deſign 
to berevenged on you. This is the day when the wicked ſhall 
ſuddenly ftart out of ſleep, and meet with gaſtly amazedneſs at 
the mouth of cheir Sepulchers; above them ftands the Judge 
condemning, beneath hell gaping, on the right hand juſtice 
threatning,. on all ſides the world burning, to go forward is 

intollerable, to go backward is impoſlible, to turne a fide is un- 
available ; which way then 2 heaven gates are ſhut, hell mouth 
.4s open,, where they muſt end their endleſſe miſery ; the laſt 
rorment laftech ever. Oh the ſhrikes ofthe wicked at every 
paſſage of this day ! when the Prophet 7oe/ was deſcribing the 

formidable accidents of this day, he was not able to expreſſeir, 

but ſtammered like a child , or an amazed imperfe& perſon, 

A. A. A. for the day of the Lord is at hand We tranſlate it, 

Alas, for the day of the Lord 1s at hand. But Lyra, Ribera, the 

vulgar latine, and others tranſlate it, A. A. A in Hebrewit is 

indeed but one word, and ſounds as 4ha, which howſoever ſo 

written, yet is it pronounced without any aſpiration, as Aharon, 

is pronounced Aaron. The beſt criticks would but bave it *n 

| word, 


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word, and ſo they write it, A-a-a. for the day of the Lord is at 

hand : thus they that ſtammer, and cannot ſuddenly ſpeak, fay 

A-a-4. itis not ſenſe at firſt ;” the Prophet was ſo amazed, thar 

he knew not what to ſay , the ſtammering congue that is full of 

feare, can beſt ſpeak that terrour, which will make all the wicked 

of the world to cry, and ſhrike, and ſpeak fear:ul accents, oh 

the ſhrikes ! oh che fearful ſounds that will chen be heard ! ſure 

that noyſe muſt needs be terrible, wheo

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that they may be ſaved. Now this 
containes ſeveral ſteps. As -— 

1. They muſt be regenerated. It is true they partake of this 
grace before, but now is the full perfetion and manifeſtation 
of it, and therefore the laſt day is called t9e day of rege- 
neration. 

2. They muſt be redeemed. $0 they are inthislife. Paul 
could tell his Coloſſians, that Chriſt had delivered them from the Col.I.13,14: 
power of darkneſſe ,, and taat in kim they had redemption through 
his bloed. Yetthe Scripture calls the day of judgement in a 
peculiar and eminent manner the day of redemption. Aud 
grieve not the holy Spirit of God whereby ye are ſealed unto the day of Eph.4-30. 
redemption. 

3. They muſt be adopted. Ir is true, they are adopted in 
this life, we are now the ſions of God ( faith the Apoſtle) yer it doth 1 Job-3.2, 
not appeare what we ſhall be , the glory which Chriſt will put 
upon us at the laſt day is fo far tranſcendent and ſuperlative to 
what now we are, that we know not what we ſhall be, ſons, 
and morethan ſons, and therefore the Apoſtle calls the laſt day Rom.8.23. 
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4. They muſt be juſtified! Iknow mo were juſtified by faith 
before, and this juſtification was evidenced to ſome of their con- 
ſciences ; but'now ſhall they be juſtified ity by the lively voyce 
of the Judge himſelfe, now ſhall their juſtification be Yolemaly 
and” publikely declared to all the werld; The Syriack word 79 


7uſtifie,is alſo to conquer, becauſe when a man is juſtified, he over. 


comes all choſe bills and; enditmenrs which were brought in 
againſt him ; now this is manifeſtly done in the day of judge- 
ment when Chriſt ſhall before men and Angels acquit, and 
ablolve his people, oh what a glorious conqueſt will that be over 
fnne, death, and hell, when the Fndge of the whole world 
ſhall pronounce them free from all finne, and from all 
thoſe miſerable effets of finne, death, hell, and dam- 
nation. »Y 
5. They muſt inherit the Kingdome prepared for them, ſo is 
the ſentence atthat day, come ye bleſſed, inherit the K ingdome. 
Not only are they freed from bell, but chey muſt inherit heaven, 
Now herein is an bigh ſtep of falvation, and a great part of 
thedefighe of Chriſts coming, to bring his Saints into heaven, 
be went thither before to prepare it for them, and now he comes 
again to give them the poſſeſſion of it, come enter inth heaven. 
Heaven ? whatis heaven? furely it is not one fingle Palace , 
but a City, a Metropolis, a Mother-city, the firſt City of Gods 
creation : when the Angel carryed fohn in the ſpirit to a great 
and high mountaine, he ſhewed him the great City, the holy Ferg- 
ſalem, deſcending ont of heaven from Goa, having the glory of God. 
Bur a City is too little, therefore its more, its a Kingdome, feare 
not Rarte Beck. it. is your Fathers good pleaſure to give you the 
King dome ; atd at this laft day he bids his Saints to inherir the 
Kingdome. Or ifa Kingdome be too little, it is ca!led a world. 
T he children of this world marry, and are given in, marriage, but 
they which ſhall be act*unted worthy 'to obtaine that wirld, and the 
reſurreftion frem the dead, neither marry acr are given in marriage, 
neithtir Can they dye any more. There's another 'world beſides 
this, and for eminency it is called rhe worla to come,  O' the 
bredch, and largenefle of that world ! as the greater circle muſt 
conraine the leffe, ſodorh that world containe this ; alas, all our 
dwellings: here are but as caves under the earth, and holes of 
poore clay in comparifon. In the boſome of rhat heaven is 
many 


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many a dwelling place, in my Fathers bouſe are many wanſons; ; 
there lodges many thouſands of glorious Kings ; O what faire 


fields, and-mountaines, of roſes and ſpices, are there 2 iurely 
gardens of length and bredth.above * millions of myles are ao- 
thing in-compariſon. O the wines, the lillyes, the roſes, the 
precious trees that grow in /mmanxels land ! an hundred har- 
velts in one yeare are nothing there, The loweſt ſtones in every 
manſion- there,are precious ſtones; the very building of the wall 
abort it is Jaſper, and the (it) is pure gold, like unto cleare gloſſe. 
O glorious inhericance ! Tell me Chriſtians, in what City on 
earth do men walk upon gold ?. or dwell within the walls of 
gold ? though none ſuch here, yet under the feet of the inha- 
bitants of heaven there is gold ; all the treets, and fields of that 
City, Kingaome, World, ave pure gold, as it-were tranſparext glaſs. 
But /alas, what ſpeak 1 of gold, or glaſſe'? all cheſe are bur 
ſhadows, indeed and in truth there is nothing ſo low as gold, 
or precious ſtones, there is nothing ſo baſe inthis, high and 
slorious Kingdome, as-gardens, trees, or roſes; compariſons are 
but created ſhadows, that come not up to expreſſe the glory of 
the thing. I ſhall therefore leave to ſpeak this, becauſe un- 
ſpeakable. 

6. They muſt live . with Chriſt in heaven, they muſt ſee, and 
enjoy Chriſt there toall eternity. This isa maine end of Chritts 
coming, 1 will come againe, and receive vou untomy ſelfe, that 
where

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I am, that they may be- 
hild the glory which thou haFt given me. Olet faith eye this 
above all.che former.! what ? will my Saviour come againe ? 
and ſhall I feg his face? Oh what pleaſant fight will this ame 
be? ifheaven,, if the inheritance be ſuch a wonder to the be- 
bolders;wbata beauty is that which'is in the ſamplar ? Oh what 
an happineſſs, t9-ſtand; 'befides that dainty precious Prince in 
heaven tofee the King on histhrone ? to ſee the Lambe, the 
faire tree-of life,- che lowre of Angels, the (potleſle roſe, the 
crown, #Hie gariand, the joy of-heayen, the wonder of wonders 
for etermy 2 Oh whata life to fee that precious tree of lite ! 
vo-feea tnufjitude without quantity of the apples or glory ! ro 
ſee loveirfolfe, and to be warmed with the heace of 1 mmediate 


love that comes our from the precious heart and bowels of Jeſus 
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Chriſt ! Oh what a dearneſſe to ſee all relations - meet in one ! 
to ſee the Saviour, the good Shepheard, the Redeemer, the great 
Biſhop of our ſou!s, the Angel of the covenant, the head ofthe 
body of the Church, the King of ages, the Prince of peace, the 
Creatour of the endsof the earth, the ſorg of Angels, and glo- 
rified Saints. Nor only muſt they ſee Chriſt, but they ſhall en- 
joy him whom they ſee, they fly with doves-wings of beauty 
afrer the Lambe, and in flying after him they lay held upon bim, 
and they will not leave him, they can never have enovgh of the 
chaſt fruition of the glorious Prince Immannel, and they never 
want his in-moſt preſence to the full , they ſuck the honey and 
the honey-combe ; they drink of the fl of eternal conſo- 
lations, and fill all empty deſires; -and as -if the ſouls of Saints 
were without bottome, a freſh they ſuck againe to all eternity. 
Now thisis ſalvation indeed ; the ſou! that attaines this full en- 
zjoyment, is ſaved to the vttermoſt, | | 

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of his grace is more eſpecialiy 
aſtened on Saints, that ſometimes were ſinners. Oh whar 
ſoryes will be rold at this day of graces afts? 7 was « blaſphemer, 
and a perſecutor; and an injurions perſon (laid Paul) but | obtained 
mercy. av inenin, but 1 was be mercyed, asif he had been dipe 
ina river, in a ſea of mercy ; it may be he will make the ſame 
acknowledgement at the day of judgement, / was a ſinner, bus 
the grace of the Lord Feſms to me was abundant, ſuperabundant ; 1 
obreyned 4s much grace as wonld® have ſaved a world. Certainly 
free grace ſhall then be diſcovered to ſome purpoſe ; then ir 
ſhall be known, that where fin abownded, grace far more > BE OUCY= 
abounded or more than over-abounded. tnrigeragioryriy, Itis a word ROW.F. 36 
borrowed from fountaines, and rivers, which have over-flowed 
with waters ever (ince the creation , then all the Saints ſha;l 
exalr, and magnifie, and with loud voyces praiſe the glory of 
his grace; they ſhall look on their debts written in graces book, 
and then ſhall they ſing and ſay, 0 che myſtery of grace ! © the 
gold-mynes, and depths of Chriſts free love ! why this was the + 
great defione of our ſalvation: at che firſt, when God was willing 
to communicate himſelfe out of hisaloneneſſe everlaſting, he 
laid this plot, that all he would do ſhould be : to the praiſe of the il 
glory of his grace ,, andnow at his ſecond coming, having done £ph-1.6, 3} 
all he will do, the Saints for whom he hath done all, adaire, "Fi 
eſteem, honour and ſound forth the praiſes of his grace. is noc + 
this their cverlaſting

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ye fearful, O ye of lictle 
faith > Oh whar an unreaſonable tinne is unbelief ! nay, Cay the - 
ſcrupulous, if 1 were afluredof this ; if I kney that my Judge 
were my friend, I ſhouldnor fear ;. but is he not my enemy ? 
have not I provoked him to enmicy again my ſoul > do 1 nor 
fatid ir out in armes againſt my Judge ? am not I daily Gnning \ 
againft him, who juſtly may condemne me for my (inne ? give : 
this for granted, chat this and no other, no becrer is my caſe, 
and what ſay you then ? if ut be ſo, heark then to the voice of 
our Miniftry. We poor Miniſters that love your ſoules ( fa 
what you will of us) would fain have allthis enmity againſt God, 
and apain{t Chriſt done away ; and to this purpoſe we not onely 
appear many and many a time upon our knees to God for you , 
bur ( MaAugre all your oppoſition againſt us ) we could be con- 
tent to come upon our kneesfrom God to you, ro beſeech you 
not to provoke your Judge again(t your ſoules : what is Chrilt , | 
and you at oddes ? is-the difference wide betwixt your Judge and 

you ? I do now m my Maſters name, in the name of God, and | 
in the name of the Lord Jeſus Chriſ,. beſeech you to belceve ; | 
1 beſeech you in Chrifts name, in ( hriſts ſtead, be Je reconciled 

unto God, Is not this the Apoſtles word > now then we are Em- 2 Cor, 5.209, W 
baſſadours for Chriſt, as though God aid beſeech you by us, we pray W. 
you in Chriſts ftead ? Chniſts Miniſters are not onely Gods Le- bo 
gates, bur Chriits Surrogates ; to make this plain. ro you, when M 
a Prince ſends a'meflenger toanother Prince ; thar meſſenger is 
onely an Embaſiadour, the Prince beinz not bound to carry the 
meſſace, himſelf in perſon, bur now Jeſus Chriit, h2 is the 
Fathers Embaſladour, and Chriſt is thereby bound to bring the 
meſſage of peace himſelf, bur being neceflarily employed elſe- 
where ( inthe ſame defigne of grace ) he conſtitutes us his offi- 
cers ; ſo thar we do not come onely in the name of God, bur 
in the place of Chriſt to dothac work which is primarily his ; 
as the Father hath ſent me, even ſo ſead I you; and this was the 
commendation of the Galathians, that they received the «A- 
paſtle Paul even as Feſns Chriſt, Now weigh our defire, we be- 
ſeech you to beleeve ; we beſeech youro tign2 the Articles of 
agreement berwixt Chrittand you ; what ? ſhall ſome bafe in- 
onliderable luſtftand in competition with Jeſus Chrict > will 
T | Frfffftz you 


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you not make your peace with our Judze whiles youare in the 
way, and before he fit in the Throne? behold we give you warn- 
inz, the Fudge is at the door; now beleeve and be ſued.  Ohhow 


\ fanwould we rempt you (as it were.) with. glory 2: we. render 
. Chrit,” and we offer peace, w2' come in the Judzes.name to be- 


ſeech you to make ready forhim, and for heaven; we bring 
fvarion to;your very doots, to your very eares, and there we. 
are ſoundinz,knocking, will ye go t» heaven, ſinners? will ye goto 
heaven? Oh believe' in himtbat will judge you, and. he. will ſave 
- 3. Chriſtby his $picir

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for ever with the Lord. eAmen, 
Amen, 


SE3CY; & 


Of loving Feſus in that rejpett. 


6: © ET us /ovefeſu,as carrying on the great work of our 
ſalvation for us in his ſecond co'r.n2.In proſecution of | 
this, mult fir; ſer down Chriits leve to us,and then our I 
toye to Chriit ; thar is the cauſe, and this the efte& ; that 1s the - .F 
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ſprin;; and this the (freame ; in vaine ſhoul4 we periwade our if 
hearrs to-love the Lord, if in rhe firit place we were nor ſenhible | 
that our Lord loves us.”e love him (1aith the Apottle) becauſe 

ke firſt loved us ; it is Chrilts way of winning hearts, he drayyes Joha 4.19, 
a lump of love our of his own heart, and catts it inco the (inners 


heart, and ſo he loves him. Come then ler us firtt rake a view 
of Chaiits love to us, and ſee if from thence any ſparkes cf love Fo 
wil fall on our hearts to love him againe. Should I make a F; | 
table of Chriits a&s of love, and free-grace to us, I might begin þ 
with that erernity of his love before the beginning, and never - i 
en rill I draw it down co that eternity of his love without all yj 
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endin2 : his love is as his mercy,fron everlaitiny to everlitung; 

he loved us before time, in the beginnin;; of time, 1n the ful- . 

nefle of rime, at this time the flames of his love are as hot in 21s —— | 

breft asthey were at firit, and when time ſhall be no more he 

will love us {till;this fire of heaven is everla;ting ;there 1s in {he ] 
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breſt of Chrift an erernal coal of burning love, that never,neyer 
ſhall bz quenched. Bur I have in ſome meaſuse-.already diſcove- 
redall thoſe a&s of his grace andlove,tillhis fecond coming:and 
therefore Fbegin there. 1 | 

1. Chrit

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bring 
them thither , anon- they come ; and oh how his heart {pri 
within him at their coming ! what throbs and -pangs of love are 
in his hearr at the firſt view of them ? as they draw near, and fall 
down at his feer, and worſhip ham ; ſo he drawes near, and falls 
upon their necks,and welcomes them. Methimks I hear him lay, 
come bleſſed ſoules, you are my purchaſe, for mhom 1 covenamed 
with:my Father from eternity; O you. are dearely welcome to your 
'Lord ; in that now I have you in my armes ; 1 feel the fruit of my 
death, the ro werges of my ſacrifice, the returne of my prayers ; 
fer this I was borm and ay#il; for this I roſe again and aſcended 


into | eaven, for this T have interceded 4 Prieſt in Leaves theſe ma- 
»y veares; and now 1 hare the end and deſigne of all my attings and 
uiferings for you, how is my oy filjilied? look as at the meetin 
of two lovers there is great joy, eſpecially if the. dutance har 
been great, and the defires of enjoying one another _ 
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ſo is the meering of Chriſt with his Sainrs;the joy is ſo great thar 
x runnes over, and yetsrhe faire browes, and berureous locks 
of Cherubums and Seraphims; and all the Anzels have a part of 
this banquer at this day, 

3, Chrift will ſentence his Saints for

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and 
bowels of Jeſus Chriſt ; this is that Zenith of love, when ſen(- 
bly and feelin2ly ir burns at hotreſt; it is rruey-thac Chritts love 
breaks out in all thoſe precedaneous as, we have already ſpo- 
ken ; oh but what loves will he calt out from himſelf in slory > 
the more excellent the ſoyle 1s, and the nearer th2 Sunne 1s, 
the more of Summer,an1 the more of day; the more delicious 
muſt be the apples, the pom2ranates, the roſes, the lillies thar 
grow there ; ſurely Chrit in glory isa bleſſed ſoyle ; roſes, and 
liltes, and apples of love, that are erernally Summer-greene 
and ſweet, grow out of him ; the honey of heaven is more 
than honey ; the honey of love that 13 pure, and unmixr, and 
glorious in Chriit, mult needs be incomparable. I cannor ſay, 
bur char Chriſts love, like himſelf, is the ſame yeſterday, and ro 
day, and forever ; there 1s no intenhon, or remillion of his 
love 


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' loveasinit ſelf; for God #5 love, he is eſſentially love; and 
therefore admirs of no degrees ; yer in reſpect of the ſenſe, or 
manifeſtation of this love of Chrilt, there muſt needs be a diffe- 
rence ; thus if he loved his Spouſe on Earth, how much more 
will he loye her when his Bride in/heaven ? It he loves us while 
ſinners, and enemies tohis holinefle, how much more will he 
love us, when we are ſonnes, and perfe&ed Saints in glory ? he 
that could ſpread his'armes, and open hishearr on the Croſle , 
will he nÞr then open armes, andheart, and all tro them that 
reizne with him 111 his Kingdome ? if in this life ſuch is loves 
puiltance , that we. uſually fay of Chrilt , though the 
kead be in keaten,' yet he hath left his Leart on e-rth with 
' ſimmers; what ſhall we ſay of Chriſt in glory, where love 
like the Sunne ever ſtands in the Zenith 7 where c/e eternal God 
#5 the ſoules everlaſting reſuge,, and underneath are hu everlaſting 
armes ? 
2. AndifChriſt

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love thee, I feel I lovetlee, 
even u 1 feel 1 love my one » or 4s I feel 1 Inue my ſelf. 
Such arvuments of love have been laid before us, as that 
now 1 know no more ;'. we have ſeen, whole Chriſt cap-a- 
pe; We have; heard. of the. loves of Chriſt;from ererniry ro 
eternity ; we have hada view of the eyerlatting Goſpel of Je- 
ſus Chriit, wherein his love: 1s repreſented to us as hnt as 
death, orias-the flames of God; and Gdo we not yet love 
him > hath C brit all: this while opened his breait and hearr 
to us, ſaying , friends , does, come in, ard awell in the 
 ke!es of this rock? 'And\ do. we ſcratch his breaſt? do. we 
turne our backs upon him, and requite his love yith ha- 
tred? jurely this 18- more than ſinne; for what is ſinne 
but a trani-.reffion of the Law? - but this ſmne 1s both a 
tranſpreſſiion of Law and Goſpel, what?--to ſpurne again(t 

to ſpit on grace? to diſdain 
him 


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him who is the white and ruddy, the faire} of heaven > 
_ oh the aggravation of this finne ! its an heart of flint and 
adamant that ſpits at Evangelike love : Law-love is love , 
but Evancelike love. is more than love; its the gold, the 
flower of Chrifts wheat, and of his fineſt love. Oh the 
many /Goſpel-paſtages of love that we have heard ! oh the 
ſweer fireames of love thar we have followed, till now 
that we are compm$go a Sea of love, - to an heaven of loye, 
to an infimte, - eternal , everlaſting love in heaven! 1 
want words-to / exprefle this loye+ of Jeſus; a Sea of love 
is nothing , : it hath- a bottome ; | an heaven of love is no- 
thing, --1t hath a bripme ; but infinite, ' eternal, ever- 
laking love 'hath no” botrome, no brimme, no bonds, 
and do we not yet love him? do we not yet feele the 
fire) of love. break forth? , if not, it is'time to turne our 
pteachbing nta. praying; O rhow

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a tender care to preſerve 
joy. This is the Benjamin, ens avks paatiny Be 


be 0 childres ſoffor axy thing, but _ in their joy ; 1 would: 
beve all that loue my Name to be joyful in me 
Oh, fay ſome, but Chrifts dayisa terrible day , when Chriſt 
res, be will make the heavens, and carth, 123d bell co ſhake 
; anderemble Our God ſhall come, and al wot bp fence 4 fire 
ſhall devorre before him, and it ſhall be very tempeſteons round about 
; True-! but what's all this terrour but an ergament of my 
Eathers power, andjuſtice againfbfinners? if thou art Chrifts, 
and baft thy part.in him, not one jot of all this terrour belongs. 
FER 40-thee. The Lord knows how to deliver the godly ont of tempta- 
| tions, and toreſerve the aro: 6.4 to tbe day of judgement to be paniſved. 
He knows how to make Om and 
2 joy.to his people, heeveri it for the 
g_—_ rw bw wherein both joy and ſorrow ſhould be 
to the higheſt. 0 then let the heavens rejoyce, the ſea, 
Wy? 7,89. ok the floods, - bills, for the Lord comerh to j adee the earth, 
& with gs ſhall he judge the world, and the people with 
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in the clouds, to 
meet the Lord in the ajre, — wherefore comfort ene another with 
theſe words. Chrilts coming is a comfortable doctrine to all 
beleevers ; and therefore all the EleRt that heare theſe words, 
ſhould be' comforted by them. Comfart ye, comfort ye my 

eople. 

s £ Chrift our Saviour muſt be our Judge, the ſame Jeſas that Pp 
was borne for us, and lived for us, and dyed for us, and doth now 
pray for us, will come at laſt to judge us; is not this comforts- 

> you that have heard all his tranſaRions,.can youever for- 
get the unweariedneſle of Chriſts love, in his conſtant and con- 
cinualaGtings for your ſouls ? how long hath he been interceding | 
for his Saints ? how long hath he been knocking art their hearts q 
for entrance? it is now above a thouand fix hundreth years that 


he hath been praying, and knocking and he refolves not to give 

over till all be his, ll all the tribes in ones and ewos be over 

{dens and up with him inthe heavenly Canaas And if this {t 
he chat muſt be our Judge, if hethat loves our ſouls muft 

judge our ſouls, if he that hatha great intereſt and encreaſe of | 

joy inour ſalvation, muſt paſſe our ſentence, will not chis work us 

into a rejoycing frame ? ; 

3. Chrifts ſentenceis the Chriſtians acquittance , (I may 
call it his zgeneral acquittance from the beginning of the world 
co the end thereof.) Hence ſome call this the day of the belee- 
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vers full juſtification , they werebefore made juſt, and eſteemed 
juſt, but. now by a lively ſentence they ſhall be pronounced juft 

Chriſt bimſelfe. now is. the compleat acquittance, or the 
fullabſolution from all ſfinne.;; now will Chriſt pardon, and ſpeak 
oubbis pardons once forall; now-will he take his book (where- 
inall our finnes, 'asſo _manydebts or treſpafſes are written) and 
he will cancel all ; jowr fins ſhall be blotredout (faith Peter) when 
the time of refreſhing ſnall come from the preſence of the Lord, - And 
is. not this:enough'to. cauſe our joy?) whenithe Spirit witneſſing 
with our'ſpicits doth: butin part.aſſare-us of-firines pardon, is it 
not exceeding ſweet;? oh but how.ſweet will be that ſentence, 
whieb will fally. reſolve. the queſtion, and leave no rogme of 
doubting any more forever ? conſider. O my ſoul, the day'iis a 
coming,” -when the Judge of heaven: and:earth will.acquit thee 


_ of all thy ſinnes before allithe-world;-it.is-a part of his buſi- 


neſle at that day'to glorifie his juſtice and free grace in thy abſo- 
lation. - O Chriſtians | how may we

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. joy indeed, for 5n thy-preſeuce there 11 fulneſſe-of j1y, and at thy 


ri hr hand thertare- pleaſures evermore; Thereis joy, - and full 
j0y,and fulneſſe of joy.; . there are'pleaſures, and pleaſures ever- 


more, and pleaſures evermoreat, Gods rightband. O the mn- 
Aick-of the SanQuary!. O the finleſſe + and 'we!l tuned Pſalmes ! 


O'the ſongs of the, high Temple without either Temple or or- 
dinances, as, we have them here ! can wechooſe to'joy 'at the 
thought of this joy above ?:if God would'o difpenſe, that even 
now we. might ftand-at theutmoſt'dore | of heaven, and that 
God would frike up a window, and give us a ſpiritual eye, and 

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an heavenly heart, ſo that we could look in, and behold che 
Throne, and the Lambe, and the troopes of glorified ones cloath- 
ed in white; would notthis cheare up our hearts, and hill chem 
with joy unſpeakable, andfull of glory ?- certainly this day will 
come, whea Chriſt will bring us not-only to the dore, but :hrough 
the gates into the City ;, and then we ſhall ſee all cheſe (ſights, and 
heare all the muſick made in heaven, how then ſhould we but joy 
in the hope of the glory,of God ? O methinks raiſed thoughts of our 
manſion in glory; ſhould make us ſwim through the deepelt ſea 
of troubles, and aflictions, andnever feare. Come then, O my 
drowzy ſoul, and hearken to theſe motives, if yet thou ſeeſt noc 
the Sun it ſelfe appeare,methinks the twilight of a promiſe ſhould 
revive thee, it is but a little while, and be that hall come, will 
come, and he will not tarry. It may be thou art reviled, and per- 
ſecuted here on earth, and what then? hath not Chriſt bid thee 


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to rejojce in affliftions? isit not his word, that in this very caſe Mat.5,12, 


thou ſhouldeſt rejoyce, and be exceeding glad? — is it not his 
command, think it nt ſtrange concerning the fiery tryals, but ra- 
ther rejoyce, in as much as ye are partaker; of Chriſts ſufferings, that 
when hu glory ſpall berevealed, -ye may be glad alſo withexceeding 
109. We muſt rejoyce now, that we may rejoyce then ; indeed 
our preſent joy is a tat of our future joy, and God would have 
us to begin our heaven here on earth. Come then, come forth, 
O my dull congealed heart / thou that ſpendelt thy dayes in for- 
row.,...and thy breath infighing, that mingleſt thy bread wich 
teares,” and drinkeſt the teares. which chou weepelt , thou thar 
prayelt for joy, and. waiteſt for-joy,, and longeſt for joy, and 


complaineſt for want of joy ; O the time's a coming, when thou 


ſhalt bave fulneſſe of joy , the time*s a coming when the Angels 
ſhall bring thee to Chriſt, and when Chriſt ſhall take thee by the 
hand, - and leade thee into his -purchaſed joy, _ and preſent thee 
unſpotted before his Father, and-give' thee thy place abouc his 
Throne; and doſt thou not rejoyce in this? art thou not ex- 
ceedingly raiſed in ſuch a Meditation asthis > ſurely if one drop 
of lively faith were but mixed with theſe motives, thou mighteſt 
carry an-heaven within theegzand go on ever ſinging to thy grave, 
ſay then, doſt thou beleeve? or doſt thou nor beleeve? if thy 
faith be firme, how ſhould'ſt thou but rejoyce ? if chou rollelt 


thy ſelfe on Chriſt, and on that promiſe, 7 will ſee you againe, and 
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your heart ſhall rejezce, and Jour joy no man takgth from you, how 
ſhould'ſ& thou rejoyee, be exceeding glad? if thou 
lookeſt upon the holy G as deſigned ather and the 
Sonne to bring joy . and delight into chy ſoul, how ſhould'ft 
with the water of life, with'the oyle of glad- 
neſſe, and with the new wine of the Ki of God ? O the 
bleſſed workings of faith on ſucha ſubjeR as this | if once we 
are but juſtified by faith, and that we can aR our faith on Chriſts 
glorious then it will follow, chat we ſhall have peace 
with God, and rejoyce in the hope of the glory of God, and not only ſo, 
but we ſhall glory in tribulation alſo. 


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by all the circumſtances, that may ſhew them 
odious. | 'Thas Perey when he had denyed Chriſt, it is ſaid that 
he thou ht thereon, and/he wept. He thought thereon, or he caſt 
in his thoughts one thing upon another ; 9.4. Jeſus Chriſt was 
my Maſter and yet I denycd bim, he told me of this before-hand, 
that I might take heed of it, and yer1 denyed him ; I profeſſed 
co him'thatT would never do it, 1 would never forſake him, and 


, yet Idenyed him ; yea, this very night, and no longer ſince, I 


ſaid it againe and againe that I would not deny him, and yet 1 
denyed him ; yea, faid, :howgh all others deny thee, yer will nt I, 
and yet worſe than all others, Idenyed him with a witneſſe, for 
affirmed deſperately thar I knew not the man, nay 1 ſware deſ- 
perately that I knew not the man, nay more than ſo, I ſware, 
and1 curſed roo; if 1 knrw the man, let Gods enyſe fall upon me ; 
and allthis 1did within a few ftrides of my Lord ; at that very 
titne when I ſhould have ſtood for my Lord, in that all the world 
forſooke him , why, theſe were the circumſtances of Peters fin, 
and meditating onthem, he weyt ont and - bitterly, "And thus 
we ſhould aggr5vate ourfins in our confeſſions ; O my ſins were 
ouit of meaſure ſinful; O chey were (ins againſt knowledge, wand 
light, againſt many-mercyes received, againſt many judgements 
threatned, apainft

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Lord here is my ſoul, thou mayſt if thou pleaſeſt ſend Satay for it, 


and give mea portion among the damned. This ſelfe-judging , 1 
or ſelfe-condemning is exemplitied to the life in Zz74 ; 1 
for —— | | 


i. Hefell on his kyees;, he did not bow down his knees, but t;;4 9, 5. [ 
like a man aſtoniſhed he fell on his knees, he had before rent | | 
his garment, and mantle, and pluckt off the haire of his head and 

off his beard, and fate down aſtoniſhed; and now at the evening ; 
facrifice he falls on his knees, and on the ground in grear a- 
mazement. 

2. He fpreadout bus hands untothe Lord; q. d. here ismy breſt, Ver. 5. 
and here is my heart-blood, I ſpread my armes, and lay all open, | 
that thou maytt ſerthe naked poynt of thy ſword of juſtice army 
very heart. | 

3. Heis dumbe, and ſpeechleſle (as it were) before the Lord ; 

And now O our God, what ſhall we ſay after all this ? for we hawe Ver. 10: 
forſaken thy commandements. q. d. ſhall I excuſe the matter > 

alas! it isinexcuſable ; what ſhall we fay after all this > ſhall 

wecall for thy patience > we ave had it, but how did we abuſe 

it ? ſhould we call for mercy ? indeed we hadirt, but our ſtub- 

borne hearts would never come down: O our God what ſhall 

we fay > I know not wha: to ſay, for we have ſinned againſt -. 
thee. 

4. He layes down his ſoul, and all the peoples ſoulsat Gods 
feet, 4.4. here we are, thou mayſt damne us if thou wilt, Behold 
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we are all here before thee inour treſpaſſes, for we cannot ſtand be- 
fore thee, becauſe cf. this. Behold here we are, rebels. weare ; 
-here are our heads and throats before the naked poynt of thy 
verigance, ifnow thou ſhouldeft:take us trom our knees, and 
throw us1nto hell, if we muſt go from our prayers to damnati- 
on, we cannot but ſay that thou art. juſt-and- righteous ;. oh its 
mercy, its mercy indeed that we have been ſpared, its juſt and 
righteous with God that we ſhould be damned. 

In (this more . eſpecially lyes ſelfe-condemnation- ; it 
makes a man to trample. upon his own ſelfe, ' it. makesa 
man. freely. to accept of.. damnation ; They ſball accept 
of the puniſhment of their iniquity, and then will. I re-- 
member my: covenant © with 7acob , they ſave God (as it 
were;) a. labour, judging themſelves, that they may not be 
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to glory, from a leſſer meature to an 's 

higher meaſure of glory. Theday isa coming that Chriſt will | 

be glorified in himſelfe, and he will be gloritied in his Saints, O 

the gloryes that will then be accumulated and heaped upon 

Jeſus Chriſt ! come now let us behold this glory of Chriſt till 

we are changed in ſome high meaſure into the ſame glory with 

Chriſt , Chriſts glory rightly: viewed is a changing glory, And 

herein the views of Chriſt ſurpaſſe all creature-views, if we be- 

hold the Sun, wecannot poſſibly be changed into another Sun, 

but if with the eye of knowledge and faith we behold Jeſus Chriſt, 1 

we ſhall be changed into the glorious image of jeſus Chriſt , | 

if the Sun of righteouſneſſe caſt forth his golden beames upon us, 


and we enjoy this light, why then who # ſhoe that looketh forth as Cant. 6, 16 | 
the morning ( as Anrora, the firſt birth of the day ) faire as the Moone, | j 
cleare as the Sun; | 

I know this glorious change is but a growing change by de. , 


rees, from g/ory toglory, and yet whocan deny bur there is 
ome- conformitie To Chriſts glory even in thislife > - do not 
theſe very texts ſpeak the ſelfe fame thing ? theſe things have 
I ſprken to you, that my joy might remaine in you, and that yin jny 
might be full. And theſe things write we mnto yeu, that your joy 1 John 1. 4 

may be full. And 45k, and ye ſhall receive, that your joy may be has 
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her conſolations that ye may wilke out, and be delighted with the 
abundance of her glory. And the God of all hope fill you with all 
joy and'peact is beleeving, Surely all joy, and peace, are ſynech- 


. dochically put for all other - inchoations of gloritication, But 


how is a Saint in this life filled with all joy ? I anſwer, 1, In 
regard of the objet, God and Chriſt, 2. in regard of the 
degrees ; though not abſolutely, yet ſo far forth as the meaſure 
of joys in this life attainable, I might inſtance in the joy of 
Mr. Peaccckg, Mrs. Brettergh, and of fome Martyrs, who ſung 
in the fires, 3. Inregar&of duration, rejozce always, not only 
in the calme of peace, but in the ſtorme of violent oppoſition, 
A Saint may baye his troubles, but theſe troubles can never to. 
tally or finally extinguiſh his joy, your joy no man taketh from you. 
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And now (my brethren) Ihavedone the errand which Chriſt 
ſent meon, 1 verily beteeve, I have now delivered this work of 
the everlaſting Goſpe), or of Chriſts carrying on the great 
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work of mans ſalvation, hath been ſomewhare long in ſpeaking, 
but oh how longin acting ! maylI give youa ſhort view of 
what I have ſaid, and of what hath been acted from eternity, 
and will yet be acted to eternity ; you may remember, that God 14 
in his eternity laid a plot or deligne to gloriiie the riches of his ly 
grace in ſaving ſinners,” and to that purpoſe tirit he decreed a | 
Chriſt. 2. Preſently after the fall, he promiſed the Chriſt he y 
had decreed. 3. In fulneſſeof time he exhibited the Chriſt thar | 
he had promiſed ; then it was that the fame Chrilt cook npon | 
him our nature, and joyned it to his Godhead co be one perſon , 
and in that perſon he was borne, and lived, and dyed, and roſe 
againe, and aſcendedjnto heaven; there now he hath been 
ſicting, ſending down the holy Ghoſt, and interceding for his | 
Saints for above one thouſand (ix hundred yeares ; And in this | 
laſt work he will continue till the end of the world, and then he 
will come againe to judge the world, and t9 receive his vaints to 'F 
himſelf, that where he 1s chey may be with him, to fee and enjoy 
him to all eternity. This is the epitome of all I have ſaid ; only 
in every particular I have ſet down Chrilts aQtings towards us, 
and our aCtings towards C hriſt, in various formes, and out 
goings of his love he hath acted towards us, and in various 
formes,and out-goings of our ſouls we have been taught fitly a-d 
ſuitably to a& towards him. 

Now in all theſe atings how doth the free grace of Godin 
Chriſt appeare ?- ye are ſaved by grace, ſaith the A poſtle, E pr. 2. Eph, 2.5. 
5. thedecree, the meanes, the e:1d of our ſalvation is grace, and 
only grace. The decree is grace, and therefore it is called 24- 


And theendis of grace, for eterzal /if+ :« rhe gift of God, both gm. 6... 
beginning, and progreſſe, andexecutioa is all of grace, This is Ep6itc, = 
the riches of his grace, the exceeding, the hyperb«liral riches of his Fp®.2.7, 
grace; the concluſion of allis this, Gods tree grace which was 
firſt deſigned, will at laſt be maniteſted, and eternally prait-d by 
Saints and Angels, the ſame free grace which from the begin- k 
ning of the age of God, fromeverlaiting, drove on the faving >} 
plot, and ſweet defigne of our ſalvation, will at It b=gioritied 
to purpoſe, when heavens inhabirants will be ever C1911.g into 
this golden-myne ; ever rolling this ſou! -delighting and precious 
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the circumference of all our 
happineſſe ; Chriſt is the pearle hid in the large field of Gods 
Word , Chrifkgs the ſcope of all the Scriptures, all things and 
ſons in t world were types of him, all the Prophets 
foretold him, all Gods loye runs through him, all the gifts and 
races of the Spirit low from him, the whole eye of God is upon 
im, and all his deſignes both in heaven and earth meet in him ; 
the great deſigne of Gods this, that he wight gather together in 
one all things in Chriſt, both which are in heaven, and which are on 
earth, ever'in him. All things are ſummed up in one Jeſus 
Chriſt ; ifwe look oa the creation, the whole world was made 
by Chrift, if we look on providences, all things ſubſift -in Chriſt, 
they have. their being, and their well-being in him. Where 
may we finde God but in Chriſt > where may we ſee God but in 
this eſſential and eternal glaſle : Chriſt wore face of Ged, the 
brightneſſe of his glory, the expreſſe image of his Fathers perſon ; 
hol ye by ir wine all = and all peorte . and Jeſus Chriſt 
is the ſubſtantial rayes, the eternal and eſſential irradiation of 
this Sun of glory : Chriſt outs God as the ſeale doth the ſtampe; 
Chriſt reveales God as the face of a man doth reveale theman, 
ſo Chriſt co Philip, he that hath ſeen me, hath ſeen the Father; qd. 
Lam as like the Father as God is like himſelfe, there is a perfe&t 
indivifible unity between the Father and me, 7 and the Father are 


-  oxe; one very God, hethe begetter, and! the begotten , Chriſt 


is the ſubſtantial roſe that grew out ofthe Father from eternity , 
Chriſt isthe eſſential wiſdome of God ; Chriſt is the ſubſtantial 
Word of God, the intelle&ual birth of the Lords infinite under- 
ſtanding. Oh