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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47296	Five discourses on so many very important points of practical religion by John Kettlewell ... ; with a preface giving some account of the author's life.	Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695.	1696 (1696)	Wing K367; ESTC R17624	70,803	182

account it was they came to Christ with that captious Question Master what thinkest thou is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar or not hoping by his Answer to have matter to accuse him either of Disloyalty to Caesar if he denied or of betraying the Freedoms and Privileges of the Jewish Nation if he affirm'd it Matt. 23.15 16 17. Thus defective was the Sense of Duty which even the Jews themselves were generally guided by under Moses's if they were admitted into it be a place of Pleasure to them Thus for instance if a man is wholly given up to Lust and Intemperance if his greatest Pleasure be in Revellings and Drunkenness in Luxury and Wantonness in Licentiousness Mirth and Riotous Entertainments he would as soon be condemned to Abstinence and Fasting and other Religious Severities and Self-denials here on earth as to undergo the very same in Heaven For there he must needs starve his eager desire and languish in the pain of an unsatisfied Appetite the place it self affording no such things as would content them In the Resurrection from the dead says our Saviour they neither Marry nor are given in Marriage That is a Fools wish and a Mahometan's Paradise they neither eat nor drink to sustain them since they cannot die any more being in these respects not like men on Earth but equal to the Angels of God in Heaven Luk. 20.35 36. Again if a man is turbulent and factious apt to set Friends at odds and to enflame Enmities if his whole delight is to stir up strife and to engage Parties in Heaven he must live alone for he will find no Abettors nor Encouragers nor after all his Labour procure so much as one adherent in that most peaceable and quiet place Again if a man is ill natur'd and envious if he mourns because others rejoyce and grieves at the prosperity of his Neighbours to place him in Heaven where even the meanest Souls whom he most contemned on Earth are Crown'd with immortal Happiness would be the readiest way both infinitely to heighten and to perpetuate his Torments Again if a Man's heart is full of hatred and malice if he delights in doing mischief and is glad at his Soul when he can work his spite and revenge an injury what should he do in Heaven where there is nothing else but Mercy Forgiveness and Love There are none there but who have loved not only their Friends but even their Enemies they have sought the good of all the World and have hazarded yea when it was needful laid down their own Lives to confirm or bring others to the truth and make them happy This was the Gallantry of their Vertue then and it is their immortal Honour and Delight now they still reflect upon it and always rejoyce in it and then to make such a man as this a constant Witness of that joy is to confute and reproach to shame and torment him for evermore Again if a man is proud and ambitious if he give himself up to assume state and expect attendance if his highest aim be to be above his Brethren and to have them submit and pay a deference to bow and cringe to him what delight should he take in Heaven where he would find every Saint raised to Honour whilst he stands off at a distance only as a Looker on for all the Saints in Heaven yea even the very meanest whom he accounted unworthy to come into his Presence here on Earth are Christ's Brethren and God's Heirs they are set upon a Throne and Crown'd with an unspeakable and immortal weight of Glory And this all the Saints about them whether higher or lower in Happiness and Honour according as the degrees of their Faith and Obedience in this World have been are infinitely pleased with For whilst they were here on Earth they were wont to esteem others better than themselves Phil. 2.3 And to look every man not so much upon his own things as the things of others 1 Cor. 10.24 And this temper they carried to Heaven with them where every one rejoyces with each other and counts his Brothers Happiness his own If this Man then were there he would see all those exalted whom his Pride would make low he would see them honoured whom he would have despised he would grieve and envy fret and fume alone and find them honour'd and himself unpitied and contemn'd to all Eternity Lastly if a man is an Enemy of God and an hater of Religion if it has been his Practice to vilifie God's Saints and to deride his Ordinances to burlesque the Holy Scriptures or to blaspheme the Deity what content of heart think you could it be to him to see there is a God of utmost Majesty and Excellence mighty and irresistible in power to reward his Saints and as a flaming Fire to consume his Enemies To see that Heaven and Hell which he boldly and securely contemn'd as fabulous are dreadful Realities To see what being Religious comes to which he derided and all good men fixt in height of Glory whom he had despised and thence expect the miserable state of those men who had set themselves as he had done to laugh God's Servants out of their Religion or out-brave himself out of his Being Surely to such a Person this sight of Heaven could be nothing less than the first Horrors and Amazements the beginning and foretaste of Hell And thus it appears that all the sins of Impiety towards God of Pride and Intemperance of Envy Hatred Uncharitableness and Unpeaceableness which take up in a manner the whole Compass of Transgressions are all so many direct Hindrances and utter Incapacities to our enjoying any Happiness in Heaven they make us dead to all the Enjoyments and wholly unfit for the Company of that place For what Communication hath God with wickedness what fellowship saith the Apostle hath righteousness with unrighteousness what Communion hath light with darkness 1 Cor. 6.14 Nay the being in Heaven with all our sins unmortified about us would not only deprive us of all the Happiness and Pleasure of that blessed place but it would also render it an uneasie state and make Heaven it self become in part a Hell to us For it would fill us as I have shown with shame and discontent with remorse of mind and grife of heart with eternal Torment and Vexation As for this Reformation of our Lives and Natures and Deliverance from sin here then it is plainly requisite and indispensiblely necessary to fit and capacitate us for any Enjoyments of Happiness in Heaven hereafter And this the Scriptures plainly affirm concerning it St. Paul tells us That the Vessels of mercy must thro' that method of Faith and Repentance which God has prescribed be prepared unto Glory Rom. 9.23 And that God's delivering us from the power of darkness hath made us meet to be partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in light Col. 1.12 13. And our Saviour says expresly That except we