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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87177	The everlasting joys of heaven: or, The blessed life of a Christian, in grace here; and in glory here-after. Set forth for the comfort and encouragement of all those that desire to fear the Lord; / by John Hart, a servant of Jesus Christ. Recommended to the reader, by Obadiah Sedgewick, and Iohn Downam, ministers of the Gospel.	Hart, John, D.D.; Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.; Downame, John, d. 1652.	1656 (1656)	Wing H948; Thomason E1680_2; ESTC R209155	49,553	177

Lord how excellent is thy Name in all the world which hast set thy glory above the heavens When I behold thine heavens even the work of thy singers the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained What is man say I c. And Psal. 19.1 There he shews that the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shews the work of his hands day and night uttering the same running through all speeches and langauges unto the ends of the world wherein he hath set a Tabernacle for the Sun which compasseth round the whole earth in a miraculous manner which earth now by the mighty power and word of God in the middle of the heavens stands supported and hanging upon nothing All which Gods wonderfull and marvellous works proclaim the miraculous dwelling place of the Almighty in heaven provided above all his visible works to welcome and entertain man in before and after the Resurrection for ever Wherein Faith whose nature is like a Vine to take hold of every little help besides the Scriptures even by strength of naturall reason takes advantage to fortifie it self by that Even Nature it self might lead us unto the God of Nature and of all things by a strong argument drawn from our mortality and change from whence it strongly concludes The Creation of man and consequently of The whole frame of nature thus Whatsoever hath a being independent of it self were able also by virtue of that independency and being to have kept if self in that being from mutability and change But no creature since the creation ever yet had that power by virtue of its being to have kept it self in being from mutability and change Therefore it had a Creator which is the Almighty Jehovah only able to give a being to his words the same for ever Alpha and Omega And thus we leave The Certainty of the building to draw near therefore unto the building it self and The Certainty of our knowledge of a future glorious estate therein for ever attainable by us God in Trinity blessed for evermore who had sufficiently from all eternity lived in all Glory and Contentation being that infinite wisedome set up from everlasting from the beginning and before the earth works thereof were made minding at length to have a Creature made which should bear his image be Lord of all the creatures to be made and able to conceive and reflect back again his excellēcies at length to be taken up from the earth into heavē for ever into the association participation of the heavēly Quire of Angels in his fulness of time even then rejoycing in the habitable part of the earth having his delight with the sons of men in resolution and intention created Prov. 8.27 prepared the heavens and set his compass upon the deep established the clouds above when he confirmed the fountains of the deep had given a decree to the Sea that it should not passe his Commandement and appointed the foundations of the earth having furnished the heavens with all the hosts of them and the earth with all usefull creatures therein fitted for recreation comfort and delight of his new guests to be created at length when all things were fitted for him created Man his last and greatest work of wonder for whose sake and for reflexion of his glory in inioying of his works of wonder all these things created before him were given to him these visible heavens with all the creatures shewed unto him with a use of and insight in them and manifestation and revelation after his fall of a Heaven of Heavens the mansion of the Beatifical vision revealed in the Scriptures wherein he should at length be received having finished his course upon earth called for the sublimity and exceeding height thereof Gods dwelling place The high and lofty place of him who inhabiteth eternity Isa. 57.15 and by St. Paul a building not made with hands but eternal in the heavens of the assurance whereof he speaks confidently For we know c. and this is put without all peradventure 2 Cor. 5.1 For saith he we know and therefore in this we sigh earnestly wherein there is a Certainty set down That in this life we may come to be assured of a future glorious estate to come saith he we know Therefore though alreadie we be come near and on our way to view this glorious Building not made with hands yet seeing wee are a prettie distance off it to comfort our selves in our way thither let us take a brief survey of this Knowledge St. Paul so confidently speaks of what it is For we know In unfolding whereof if I be not mistaken these four things will discover it 1. A Description of the Qualification and Subject wherein this knowledge resides 2. How this is known of us 3. How we may know that we know what we know 4. How to trie the truth of what we know from that which is but a counterfeit thereof By help whereof we may by Gods blessing attain to the knowledge here meant For the First The Subject wherein it resides usually Qualifleation thereof There commonly ushers the same A strong Conviction called by our Saviour Joh. 16.8 The Conviction of the Spirit which there is said to be Threefold 1. A Convincing of Sin 2. Of Righteousness 3. Of Iudgement then there is a full way opened unto this knowledge spoken of Wee know Now for this 1. Gonviction We must know That there is nothing in this world so difficult then to convince us of these two things 1. How wicked we are and how good God is which is the sum of the two first convictions to convince us of these two things 1. How out of measure sinful sin is How miserably besotted we are with it in this our depraved nature in how great danger we are thereby of everlasting damnation how dangerous it is to retein it how insupportable the burthen thereof would be without Gods great mercy to us and that the sooner we leave it is and will be the better for us But the second is greater then this for it is an easier matter to throw us down then to raise us up again being fallen the Divell will both help to pull us down and keep us so being dejected when he sees us a going But to convince us that notwithstanding all this misery that we are in That there is an everlasting righteousnesse attainable freely purchased for us and given unto us of free gift by Christ who hath redeemed us from death and condemnation satisfied the fathers Justice unto the full infinitely far in value beyond all the sins of the world who being the onely be gotten son of God assumed our flesh and in that nature hath appeased divine justice so as henceforth whosoever will lay down the weapons of their rebellion and ensigns of their disobedience beleeve in him and sue forth their pardon living and being hereafter governed by the laws of his Kingdome like

condition and therefore must needs have an estate of satisfaction Now if a man in that estate might see the end thereof or beyond it it were not satisfactory for the soul Other creatures have no capacity beyond their present estate and therefore are satisfied therewith But it is not so with man who hath a reach beyond all he possesseth or can see even to eternity it being impossible to satisfie an eternal constitution with finite things Therefore we must have an eternal Estate God having stamped upon the soul an impression to look after that onely which is Eternal and Infinite therefore being now in a finite Creature it must look for an eternal Estate hereafter at its departure hence which is Eternal in the Heavens Again Secondly As it is a new Creature there is a principle in the soul to be contented with nothing but Eternity and therefore according unto this Spirituall eternal principle it thirsteth after and must have an Eternal estate For as its original is not of Corruptible seed but of Incorruptible by the word of God who liveth and abideth for ever 1 Pet. 1.2 3. so must we needs have an Eternal Estate suitable And Lastly In regard that the Saints hopes are Eternal and so nothing else save Eternity can answer the same seeing they are begotten again to a lively hope out of Gods abundant Mercy by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead To an Inheritance immortal and undefiled that fadeth not away reserved in Heaven for them 1 Pet. 1.3 4. Seeing then in this life it is a grievous thing to be disappointed of our hopes which the Saints pray against but would much more be so in heaven seeing here we have no continuing City but wee looke for one to come Therefore our Expectation being strongly upon that Inheritance to come and the hope deferred as Solomon saith being the fainting of the heart if our desires and hopes should misse of this tree of Life in Eternity Wee should be Sick in Heaven which is impossible and therefore our Estate there must of necessity be an Eternal Estate suitable to our lively hopes Now This Meditation of Eternity where it fastens upon the soul works great Matters into it The Meditation I say of our Change and Eternal Glorious Estate to come for Eternity it works stamps and makes strange impressions of wonderfull matters upon the soul as 1. A willingnesse to put off our Earthly house for that Eternal in the Heavens for Such are supposed to have Eternal life already abiding in them 1 John 5.13 which no Murtherer or such like can have and may Know that they have Eternal life which is in Christ their Head who is true and the true God Eternal life 1 John 5.20 They have a Spring of Eternal life abiding in them a Well of water of life springing up unto Everlasting life not contented with this world but having hearts more in heaven then on earth 2. Then again it makes us do all earthly things with a subordination to this eternal estate so as all things may further and nothing may wrong or hinder it and so to improve our time unto the utmost advantages which may further the same contrary unto wicked men who are the most abusers and prodigall of time not following their rule Ephes. 1.4 To redeem the time But the Saints on the other side as they improve their time so they desire to do all things exactly with subordination unto heavenly things especially heavenly things more immediately ushering eternity Whereunto as all their thoughts and meditations bend so do they tend towards eternity in all things because in all their actions they have a design upon eternity doing all things as though they were to answer all at the last day when yet they know that their sins before that time are done away and covered Jerem. 31.34 Micah 7.18 And this meditation of death and eternity of heaven after the same it maketh us also abundant in the work of the Lord knowing that our labour shall not be in vain in the Lord and makes us work through all difficulties unto this eternall estate doing all things unto that end not drawing back or indenting with God For seeing it knoweth that there is no determination-of this estate it makes what it cā a suitable endeavor of Eternity upon earth to work in all things toward the same And yet more it filleth the soul ful of honourable thoughts not to be contented to sit down any more doting upon these earthly things on this side of eternity as we have formerly done setting our eyes upon that which is vanity and vexation of spirit nothing yea lesse then nothing compared with eterninity For here as David speaketh Psal. 119.19 We may see an end of all perfection and earthly glory whatsoever in this life But of this heavenly perfection as there is no so we can see no end thereof And this meditation of death and eternity following after it makes this impression upon the soul also as is usuall in disputations To state the grand businesse of heaven and earth aright to weigh all things in the ballance of the Sanctuary wherein they are found light nothing yea lesse then nothing compared with this eternity of heavenly glory to be revealed and so to look for or expect no great matters where they are not to be found But to use this world and all things therein as though we used them not and ther fore laieth this conclusion for an invincible ground that all the afflictiōs of this life are not worthy of that glory which shall be shewed unto us so great that the whole creatiō is said to groan wait for the revelation theoreof with the manifestation of the sons of God Rom. 8.18 Called therefore the fervent desire of the creature waiting groaning and travelling in pain with them to be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God And therefore in all the murmurrings and tossings of the body in this life it quiets the same with holy Bernard his speech unto his body to be contented to suffer and wade through all the exigents of this life patiently because the time of the body is not in this life but in the world to come wherin our frail bodies shall be made like unto Christs glorious body Phillip 3. And it further to comfort us in our weary journey assures us That all this life time is nothing else but a time to sit and prepare us for to be Inhabitants of Heaven for ever to learn the language of Canaan in to be indowed with those supernatural habits of heavenly graces putting on the Lord Jesus Christ in all his holy vertues so by viewing of the exceeding rich and precicious promises to be partakers of the Divine Nature And as it was said of those Virgins that were to be brought unto King Ahashuerosh Est 2.12 They were first to be fitted and persumed a year one half thereof