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A96328	The Christians hope triumphing in these glorious truths; [brace] 1. That Christ the ground of hope, is God, and not meer man, against the Arians, and other unbelieving Christians. 2. That Christ is the true Messiah, against the unbelieving Jews. 3. That there is another life besides this, against the grosse atheist. 4. That the soul of man is immortall, and doth not sleep till the day of resurrection, against the errour of some seeming semi-atheists. 5. How the hope of heaven should be attained, whilst we are on earth, against the carnall worldlings. 6. How this hope may be discerned where it is, and attained where it is not, for the comfort of every poor Christian. All which truths are briefly pointed out and cleared, in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords in the Abby-Church at Westminster on Wednesday, May 28. being the day appointed for solemn and publike humiliation. / By Jeremiah Whitaker. Published by order of the House of Peers.	Whittaker, Jeremiah, 1599-1654.	1645 (1645)	Wing W1710; Thomason E286_4; ESTC R200074	52,593	59

all Saints in all ages to be confident that godlines is profitable for all things 1 Tim. 4.8 Job 21.14 whereas carnall men have undervalued the wayes of God and have been ever questioning what profit shall we have if we pray unto him Fifthly When this hope is attained the soule will not adventure the losse of it for the attainment of the best things in the Earth Phil. 3.8 but counts all things as losse and dung in respect of this chusing rather to suffer afflictions with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sin Heb. 11.26 that are but for a moment and liking this choice so well that no arguments can draw them from it Joh. 6.68 whither should we goe Lord thou hast the words of eternall life no nor will the Saints adventure this hope for the avoiding of the worst condition for this hopes sake they have bin a Act. 5.41 imprisoned b Heb. 10.33 plundered c Heb. 11.37 banished d Heb. 11.35 tormented and all too little hope causing them to triumph that all these light afflictions which are but for a moment 2 Cor. 4.17 18. worke unto them a more exceeding weight of glory Effect 2 Secondly Consider the carriage of the soule that hath this hope towards God First The soule that hath this hope adoreth the riches of gods love that man may come to God in the new and living way Heb. 10.29 when Adam fled from God and the damned spirits cannot indure the approaches of Christ but cry out What have we to doe with thee Matth. 9.29 Ezra 9.2 thou Jesus of Nazareth that yet there is hope in the God of Israel for such sinnes as they have committed and for such sinners as they confesse themselves to be when all other hopes faile that there is yet hopes of Heaven to poore sinners that are conscious of their deserts of Hell here are the exceeding riches of his glory and that height and depth and such dimensions of love that the more they know the love of Christ Ephes 3.19 the more they finde t passeth knowledge and their apprehensions of this love end in admirations behold what manner of love the father had bestowed upon us 1 Joh. 3.1 that we should be called the sonnes of God who are the children of wrath by nature Secondly This hope as it admireth the love of God to us so it inlargeth the soule in love to God 2 Cor. 5.14 for the love of Christ constraineth us if Christ died then were we all dead and therefore we that live are no longer to live to our selves to our own ease and carnall contentment but to the praise of him who love us and gave himselfe for us Thirdly This hope maketh us to eye God to see him that is invisible to set God at our right hand to make his glory our end Heb. 11.27 Psal 16.8 Psal 25.15 Rom. 8.24 and our aime our eyes are ever to the Lord and he shall bring us out of our distresse this keepeth the soule in a waiting condition and not to be weary in looking upward Fourthly This hope transformeth us into Gods nature he that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as God is pure 1 Joh. 3.1 looketh on every act of sin as an act of uncleannes never counteth himselfe pure enough but while he is living that soule is cleansing himselfe till the soule come to be presented to the father without spot or wrinkle Ephes 5.27 Fifthly This hope sweetens the thoughts of God and of Eternity maketh all those glorious truths as the day of the appearing of Jesus Christ c. that in their nature are very dreadfull to grow delightfull and setteth them into a state of looking for 2 Pet. 3.12 and hastening to the comming of the Lord. Sixtly This hope admireth the happinesse of all that are in Christ crying out Psal 65.4 Col. 1.12 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest giving thanks that God hath counted any of the sonnes of men meet to be partakers of the inheritance with the Saints in light Ephes 1.18 and beggeth for others that their eyes may be opened to see what is the hope of this calling Effect 3 The third effect of this hope appeareth in its demeanour towards this world The hope of Heaven First Weakens our esteem of things below enabling the soul to count it a small thing to be judged in mans day 1 Cor. 4.3 when we are risen with Christ then we begin to set our affections on things above and not an things below Col. 3.2 Secondly This lessens our expectation from things below sheweth as the vanity of all earthly comforts in their nature in their continuance in their use Luk. 12.15 that mans life doth not consist in the abundance of these things Thirdly This hope keepeth the soule from swelling when outward comforts doe abound Psal 64.10 if riches increase set not your hearts on them Fourthly This hope preserveth the soule from sinking when discomforts flow in to overwhelme it calleth upon the soule why art thou disquieted in me Psal 41.5 hope thou in God there is more good to be received by hope then we have lost then we can lose that hope that bringeth the soule to the good that is eternall onely can sustaine the soule from sinking under evil temporall Effect 4 The fourth Effect of this hope is in its carriage towards the word of God as hope holdeth up the soule from sinking so the word of God holdeth up faith from fainting therefore all the children of hope are much affected with the word Psal 119.49 upon which God causeth his servants to put their trust see what high expressions there are used in one Psalme Psal 119. by him that was a man after Gods own heart First is your esteem of the word such as you can say with him in truth ver 32. ver 6. ver 27. ver 52. the Law of thy mouth is better then thousands of Gold and Silver and that you have respect unto all Gods commandements thy testimonies are my delight and my counsellours and thy statutes have been my song in the house of my Pilgrimage Secondly That your soules love this word and can say I love thy commandements above Gold yea above much fine Gold and how sweet is thy Word unto my taste yea sweeter then the honey ver 127. ver 103. ver 11. ver 148. ver 111. ver 161. and the heney-combe Thirdly Are your desires so after this word that you hide it in your hearts make it your meditation claime it as your inheritance for ever that your heart standeth in awe of his Word that you have chosen the way of his precepts that your soules can no more subsist without the Word of God then your bodyes without food and therefore your soule breaketh for the longing it hath to Gods precept at all times

they alone have strong consolation who flee for refuge to the hope st before them and by this hope enter within the vaile whither the forerunner is before entred that this might dwell upon your hearts give me leave to propound a few motives Consid 1 Consider first the necessity of hope no man without it can live contentedly or die comfortably First No man can live contentedly aske your owne soules doe you thinke that any of you can live either rationally as men or usefully as Magistrates or spiritually as Christians First Doe you thinke that any can live rationally as men without hope life without hope may be sensuall like to the life of beasts made to be taken and to be destroyed but it cannot be rationall for reason teacheth us so to use things temporall as to provide for things eternall What content can there be to a man of reason without hope when he considereth either the deficiency of the good he enjoyeth or the eminency of the evil he feareth First for the deficiency of good looke on the sonnes of men that seeme to themselves and others the happiest under the sun and you shall easily perceive this truth first that no condition of men is so compleatly good as to be without a mixture of evil there are some graines of gall and wormwood to allay the sweetnes of the most delightfull potion and though this beitternes for a few moments may be concealed from sense yet it is cleare to reason whenn man reflecteth inwardly and communeth with his owne heart Solomon when he returned to himselfe judged the comfort that before seemed most admitable to be most contemptible crying out Vanitie of vanities allthings underthe sun were butvanitie Ecccles 1.8 full of labour that man could not utter it the eye being not satisfied with seeing nor the eare with hearing therefore all the good things of this world being in themselves incompleat can never give to the soule compleat contentment for nothing can act above its one sphere Secondly Suppose the condition of some on man of ten thousand to be so good as to be free from any considerable mixture of evil yet no-condition here below but is capable of a melioration it is not so good but it may be better so hope is still needfull that all fruitions might be heightened by expectations Thirdly If the condition be such that thy soule doth nott wish it to be better yet thy heart may justly feare it may be worse and so there is ever need of hope if not for a new addition of some good you have not yet for the continuance of all the good you have otherwise when you say your mountaine is the strongest then desolation may be the neerest and when there is the highest lifting up then you may meet with the saddest casting downe when Nebuchadnezzar said Is not this great Babel which I have built for my selfe c. then came there a voice from Heaven saying thy kingdome is departed from thee Dan. 4 31. c. and when the rich man in the Gospell began to feed upon sense without hope and said Soule take thine ease he had that sad answer returned foole this night shall thy soule be taken from thee Luk. 12.20 Secondly Consider the eminencie of evil besides that there is a mixture of evil for the present with allgood whereby it cometh to pasle that all your comforts laid in the balance can scarcely equall your diseomforts yet consider all the evil you feel for the present is nothing to what you may feare for the future and it is not so ill to day but it may grow worse to morrow we had need to remember our Creator in out best time before the evil dayes come in which we shall say we have no pleasure in them and when after all stormes and tempest still the cloudes shall returne after the raine Eccles 12.2 Thirdly Consider the sadnes of these dayes the Lord hath made the glory of our Jacob thin Isa 17.4 and the fatnes of his flesh to wax leane and a great fire is kindled under all our glory How are the estates of many great men emptied how many Naomies out of every Countrey that say Call me not Naomi but Marah how is the greatnes of men diminished how are their honours overclouded the day of the Lord of Hosts is not onely on the Bryars and Bushes buton all the Cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up and upon all the Oaks of Bashan Isa 2.13 upon all the high mountaines and upon all the hills that are lifted up God calleth upon all the sonnes of men Enter into the rock and hide your selves in the dust for feare of the Lord and the glory of his Majesty when he ariseth to shalke terribly the the Earth whe had never more terrours without God raineth downe upon us feares and snares and an horrible tempest and therefore we had never more need of hopes within Secondly Without hope great men cannot live usefully as Magistrates when God hath made any of the sonnes of men great it is hard not to be great in their owne eyes this aslure your selfe of that though you are greater yet your corruptions are not thereby fewer Originall sin is in all men equall your diversions for the most part are greater you have so much company of others as that you have little time to commune with your owne hearts your temptations are stronger the greater you are Satanoweth you the greater spite few have been made better by greatnes how many men doe all ages tell us of who have been made worse there are many flatterers and but few admonishers It was Solomons unhappines in the midst of all his glory Eccles 7.28 that he found scarce one man in a thousand faithfull adde to this that your engagements to God are greater your falles if you miscarrie more exemplary your account unto the great God more dreadfull you have I knowne saith God above all the people of the Earth therefore you will I punish for your iniquities Thirdly No man can live spiritually as a Christian without hope every Christian besides the combats he must meet with as man hath other combats he must undergoe as a Christian his spirituall combat is stronger not onely with temptations without but with corruptions within his thoughts are higher his feares are larger his care is not onely how to be secure in mans day but how he may be delivered from sinne and death and hell how he may stand fast in the day of evil What is it that can make a poore sonle enter into this combat continue in this conflict despise this world deny himselfe runne thorow all straits triumph over all difficulties but onely hope which causeth us to see that the light affliction of this world which is but for a moment Worketh for us a farre more excellent and eternall weight of glory whilst we looke not on the things that are seen

conversation is in heaven Phil. 3.10 from whence they look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change this vile body that it may be like unto his glorious body for this they both labour and suffer this is that for which all the daies of their Pilgrimage since their conversion they have been trading and trafficking for now when they have laid out all they are and all they have for the purchasing this pearl if at the end of their life they should be deprived of this purchased possession this must needs make them more miserable 4. The love that they bear to Jesus Christ is sweeter Christ hath led them into his wine-cellar and taken them up into the bed of love espoused them to himself and kissed them with the kisses of his mouth when others are meer strangers to these spirituall embraces what if a stranger count it no misery to be severed from Christ Isa 54.6 yet what woman is not grieved in spirit for the losse of the husband of her youth What saies a poor Christian must Christ and my soul part now God forbid The time was I did not know him nor long after him when the thoughts of Christ were not in my heart then to have been severed from Christ would have appeared to me to have been no great misery Gal. 4.9 but now when my soul hath known him or rather is known of him when the desires of my soul have been let out towards Christ Isa 26. and the remembrance of his name when I have made Christ my joy my crown of rejoycing now to part with that which my soul loves will make me miserable Ruth 1.16 therefore the poor soul cleaves to Christ as Ruth to Naomi saying Intreat me not to leave thee nor forsake thee where ever thou goest let me goe that where thou art there my soul may be also 5. Consider that the expectations of the Saints are firmer It is the hope of heaven that makes them passe thorow good report and bad report the gladnesse of their hearts is not the joy of sense but the rejoycing in the hope of the glory of God 〈…〉 and this hope holds them above all fears to this hope they flee as to a Rock of refuge set before them and for this cause they faint not and all these light afflictions Rom 8. ●● H●b 11 1● which are but for a moment they count unworthy to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed to them willing they are to count themselves Pilgrims and strangers upon earth seeking this heavenly Countrey this house not made with hands this inheritance immortall undefiled and that never fades away 1 Pet 1.4 They that were never born to these high hopes may better bear their mean condition but after the abundant mercy of God hath begotten them again to this lively hope and raised them up to all these glorious expectances 1 Pet. 1.3 then to goe disappointed must needs make them miserable Job 6 12 20. If the Troops of Tema when they looked and the companies of Sheba when they waited for waters and found none if they were confounded because they had hoped if the sons of Nobles in that time of drought returned ashamed Jer. 14.3 confounded and with their heads covered because they came to the pits and found no waters if in petty expectations here below Isa 9 11. we often times roar like Bears and mourn sore like Doves when we look for judgement but there is none and for salvation but it is farre from us what soul can then bear the disappointments of eternity But surely experience of Christ works hope Rom. 5.4 vers 5. and this hope will never make the soul of any Christian to be ashamed Adde to all the former not only the disappointment of their hope but the disparagement of Christ their head whose name is more tender to their souls then the apple of their eye Where is the great work of Christs redemption from what evils did Christ redeem his people from If his people have onely hope in Christ for this life surely from the evils of this life the best of the Saints are not exempted to the greatest of these evils they lie exposed where and what then is the inheritance of the Saints in light where are those sons and daughters that the Captain of salvation made perfect through sufferings bringeth unto glory Heb. 2.10 What are become of all those precious promises of Jesus Christ Joh. 14.2 I goe to prepare a place for you In my Fathers house there are many mansions What is become of all the prayers and strong cries that Christ uttered in the daies of his flesh Father I will that those that thou hast given me were with me where I am Joh. 17.24 that they may behold my glory Surely if the hope of the Saints be limited to this life then Christ is disparaged and all the expectation of the Saints disappointed Obj. It may be this Doctrine is true for those Christians that are poor that live in a low afflicted condition whose sorrows and sufferings doe abound whose life is made bitter unto them by reason of sore bondage but what doe you say to great men whose cup is full and runs over upon whose tabernucle the Almighty shineth in this life God hath made their portion very fat and their meat to be plenteous and if there be no other life beside this sure of all men in this life they are most happy and in what sense can it be said in life or death upon this supposall that of all men they are most miserable An. The text speaks of Christians that are good rather then of them that are great and if God hath made men both great and good Psal 119 96. and hath called your souls into fellowship with Christ he hath opened your eyes to see an end of all these seeming perfections before you come to your end and then what is all the greatnesse upon earth in comparison to one daies communion with the great God Besides the more you enjoy in your life the more you are to lose and leave at your death and is it not a misery in death to be stripped of all if beggars so unwillingly put off their raggs how unwilling are Princes to be plucked away from their robes and the sons of Nobles to goe down into the grave and there to make their bed in the darke what greater unhappinesse is there then to say I have been happy but now I must be plundred of all and be eternally in an undone condition never to take pleasure any more and there is nothing of honour nor of all my labour wherein I have shewed my self wise under the Sun that I may take away with me in my hand This is a sore evil that in all points as I came naked Eccles 5 16. so I must goe where the rise is highest the