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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70256	The priveledge of the saints on earth beyond those in heaven in respect of gifts and graces exercised, duties and services performed, sufferings and tryals undergone by them which the glorified are not capable of : being the sum of a discourse upon a part of Hezekiah's Song of thanksgiving ... : to which is added A short discourse of the nature and extent of the Gospel-day : reaching from the destruction of the old to the erection of the new Jerusalem out of Zech. 14, 6, 7 / by William Hooke.	Hooke, William, 1600 or 1601-1678.	1673 (1673)	Wing H2628; ESTC R28112	66,910	165

while they live in this world where they make the Name of God known to them that knew it not before This is the first and highest Petition of all in our prayers and therefore of greatest concernment Secondly There is another service in my Text which cannot be performed in Heaven and it is contained in these words The Father to the Children shall make known thy Truth And is not this also a most blessed service for it contains what is imported in the second Petition in the Rule of Prayer viz. Thy Kingdom come For this is one excellent way of advancing and enlarging the Kingdom of God in this world viz. when Parents shall make known the Truth and Faithfulness of God to their Children To which purpose consider Psal 78. 2 7. Deut. 4. 9. and 6. 6 7. And this is the great service of the Saints upon Earth both Ministers and People The things saith Paul to Timothy 2 Epist Ch. 2. Ver. 2. That thou hast heard of me among many witnesses the same commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also And this is a service which cannot be done in Heaven For the dead Saints cannot contribute ought to the enlarging of the Kingdom of Grace in this World and as for the Kingdom of Glory there are but two wayes of enlarging that which are by the departure of the Saints on Earth to Heaven and by the Resurrection in neither of which doth God use the service of the glorified Saints at all The care therefore of the choicest Saints hath been not only for the time of their lives but for the Generations to come that they might know what God had done The time would fail to tell of Moses and Joshua and David and Paul whose Epistles close with this Doxology and hearty desire of glory to be given to Christ in the Churches for ever The truth is the whole Scripture is a Book of the Acts and Monuments of the Lord 's wonderful works in gathering and building protecting saving and doing good to his Church and that for this end that the Generations to come might put their hope and trust in God And this was the unanimous design of the Pen-men of holy Scripture This shall be written for the generations to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. Thirdly Here in this world the Saints may live exemplarily blameless and harmless as the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation And this is a great service also For First Hereby some may come to be converted 1 Pet. 3. 1. and so the Kingdom of God is enlarged by this way also And Secondly Many hereby will be convinced and left without excuse in that great day For this is one way whereby the Sains shall judg the world they shall judg it exemp●arily and in concurrence with Christ sententiarilly Now I say this is a service which cannot be done in Heaven where First There is no evil person Nor Secondly Any need of examples for the glorified Saints to walk by who are all perfect and under the immediate and sole Government of the Spirit of God There is but one example in Heaven and that is the exemplary cause of the glorification of our bodies viz. The glorified body of Christ For in this life the Saints conform to the grace of Christ actively and at the Resurrection they conform to his glorified body passively as to their patern Here in this world the Saints have opportunities of reproving Sin confuting Errors instructing the Ignorant warning the Unruly comforting the Feeble minded praying for their Relations and Friends c. Now there are no such things in Heaven where there is no Sin no Error no Ignorance no Unruliness none Afflicted no praying for Relations I remember how dying Mr. Rollock was much offended with a Kinsman for desiring his Prayers when he should come to Heaven God will have but one Intercessor there Hence they may do good to the bodies of Men. For they may feed the hungry give drink to the thirsty lodge the harbourless clothe the naked visit the sick and imprisoned whereas in Heaven there are no necessities or wants Here the Saint may suffer for Christ give a testimony to his Cause and to the Truth by the loss of their Relations and Friends of their Goods Health Ease Credit Liberty Houses Lands Countries Life c. For Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works follow them And this is such a service as the very Angels are in no wise capable of So that you see there are many services which the Saints may do here for Christ which they cannot do in Heaven Indeed if they could return to this life again they might do such works as these For when Lazarus was raised from the dead he entertained Christ again And when Tabitha was raised from the dead it is very probable that she fell to her good Works and Alms-deeds again to her making of Coats and Garments again for the poor as she had been wont Act. 9. 39. But these are rare examples of the returning of the dead Saints to this world again For as the Cloud is consumed and vanisheth away so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more He shall return no more to his house neither shall his place know him any more Lastly There are some gifts of grace which cannot be exercised in Heaven For First Here the Saints do believe whereas in Heaven Faith is turned into Vision Here they walk by Faith and not by sight as they shall do in Heaven And Faith is a gift of Grace whereby God is much glorified for it empties and humbles the Heart and carrieth it forth to Christ and glorifies God in all his Attributes Whereas in Heaven the Saints have all in hand and therefore they live by sight and not by Faith There is but one thing there to come to them to the compleating of their happiness and that is the resurrection of the dead in the Faith whereof they live but yet this Faith is of another nature than that which justifieth and saveth in this life Secondly It followeth hence That here in this life the Saints do exercise Hope waiting for the good which is held forth in the Promise which their Faith believeth they shall have Whereas in Heaven Hope is turned into fruition and enjoyment For Hope that is the thing hoped for that is seen is not Hope for what a man seeth why doth he yet hope for There is no hope in Heaven the Fathers to the Children cannot hope for thy Truth as Hezekiah here saith except it be of the Resurrection whereof the Saints have a most joyful expectation They are glad and rejoyce in that their flesh

instead of a Father to him that it went well with him and his Kingdom whiles he lived but miserably with both afterwards Many Children have lost themselves together with their Parents Consider what I say And then you that have such Ministers of Jesus Christ as labour in the Word and Doctrine and watch for your Souls prize them pray for them and improve them for you know not the consequences of their removal 5th Use of Exhortation Lastly Seeing there is more service to be done on Earth than in Heaven how should this exalt Christ Jesus in our hearts and enlarge them in love to him who as he wrought so much for us on Earth so still is he at work for us in Heaven He He is the great Worker in the highest World You know what he saith in his prayer to his Father I have glorified thee on Earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do Yea but we are to understand it of his Work upon Earth for his Work in Heaven is not as yet finished nor will before the end of the world Alas we can do little for Christ in Earth and less in Heaven Yet Jesus Christ whether in Earth or Heaven is still at work for us It is not with him as with us Heaven takes the work out of our hands but it puts it into his For thither is he gone to take and keep possession and to prepare places for us There he executeth his Mediatory-Office continually appears and makes intercession for us sheds abroad his Spirit gives Commission to the Angels and Gifts unto Men calleth and gathereth in his Elect ones enableth us to work on Earth governs the World upholds his Church and subdues their Enemies All the Work of Heaven lies upon Christ's hands and it is well it doth o● what would become of us on Earth And as this should raise our Esteem an● Love of Christ so should it quicken us the more to work for him on Earth seeing he is still at work for us in Heaven He wrought above thirty years for us here on Earth but in Heaven above sixteen hundred and thus he will continue his work to the end of the world To him therefore be glory and honour for ever and ever Amen A short Discourse OF THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF THE Gospel-Day Reaching from the Destruction of the OLD to the erection of the NEW JERUSALEM Zach. 14. 6 7. And it shall come to pass in that day that the Light shall not be clear nor dark But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord not day nor night but it shall come to pass that at evening time it shall be light By W. H. London Printed for John Wilkins and are to be sold at his shop in Exchange-Alley next door to the Exchange-Coffee-House over against the Royal-Exchange 1673. COURTEOUS READER THou hast added a brief Treatise of the nature of the Gospel-Day in its Rise Progress and Perfection The Morning of which Day beginning in the Apostles times had much darkness mingled with a little light You know what stiff and earnest contentions there were for the Jewish Rites and Ceremonies yea the very Articles of Faith called in question the Spirit of Anti-christ working even then in the Evangelical Churches which in after Ages grew to a greater height in the exaltation of the Man of Sin But still the Light and Purity of the Gospel prevailed though sometimes the darkness was such as to threaten an utter extirpation God raising up some faithful Witnesses in all Ages to hold forth and vindicate the Light against all that opposition made against it The Truth had its Champions even then when the whole World wondred after the Beast And from them to us it is continued by an uninterrupted succession being still of a growing and encreasing Nature like the path of the Just shining more unto the perfect day What cause have we to bless God that we see the Truth and Gospel going on conquering and to conquer all Errour and Opposition Well the night is far spent and the day is at hand and go let us cast off the Works of Darkness and put on the Armour of Light and so much the more as we see the Day breaking when Shadows shall flee away Light shall overspread the face of the whole Earth Peace Truth Holiness and Comfort shall then abound In the mean time it is no wonder if Light and Darkness conflict together Light of Peace with Trouble of Truth with Errour and go let us not be secure God may soon bring a Cloud over our Peace and Liberty And let us also who are of the day be sober bearing with and forbearing one another forasmuch as yet we know but in part and see through a Glass darkly but when the Evening of this Gospel-Day cometh the Lord shall be one and his Name one Zech. 14. 7 9. one heart and one way Jer. 32. 39. In the Faith and Hope hereof Let all the Children of Zion rejoyce and endeavour to be a People prepared for the Lord. Reader I shall detain thee no longer from this useful and seasonable Discourse The blessing of God go with it and make it fruitful so prayes Jan. 18 th 1673-4 Thy Servant in the Gospel H. J. ZECH. 14. 6 7. And it shall come to pass in that day that the light shall not be clear nor dark But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord not day nor night but it shall come to pass that at evening time it shall be light THis Chapter begins with the revenge of God upon Judah and Jerusalem for their crucifying the Lord of glory Ch. 13. 7. of which vengeance Christ himself foretold and he calls them days of vengeance where he amply fieth what the Prophet here speaketh briefly Yet God threatneth to be avenged on the Nations that dealt thus with Jerusalem and the Jews They should have no thanks for this their service as minding only the fulfilling of their own wills and not Gods Ver. 3. But though Jerusalem should be overthrown and the Temple burnt and the Temple-Worship abolished yet the Lord would have a care of his Church and make way for the conversion of the Gentiles and expose the Truth and Way of his Worship to the open view of the Jews and Gentiles from East to West For the Truth and Way of God's Worship and of Salvation was pent up before Christ's coming in the narrow confines of Judea and obscured also and darkned with shadows and Ceremonies as Jerusalem the Seat of God's Worship was with Hills But now all should be laid open before all the world from East to West And this here is signified by an Allegory of the cleaving of Mount Olivet one famous Hill being put for the rest in the mid'st towards the East and towards the West whereby the City of God which is the Church should no longer be obscured but patent

when you hear of a Church bereft of its Pastor pray to the chief Shepherd to supply the empty room with a meet successour As Moses said in another case Let the Lord the God of the Spirits of all flesh set a man over the Congregation which may go out before them and which may go in before them and which may lead them out and which may bring them in that the Congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no Shepherd Oh sirs There is a great service to be done for Christ by prayers during the opportunity of our intercession which dieth together with us What great things have been and still are done by prayers By these was the Church delivered out of Babylon and Peter out of Prison By these was Zion built By these is the Gospel upheld the enemies thereof brilded and liberty obtained c. And when God will do great and wonderful things he will gather his praying Saints together and pour out a mighty Spirit of prayer upon them Sixthly Comfort the feeble minded and support the weak Speak a word in due season to the weary For sometimes you shall meet with such as want it and who walk in darkness and see no light and are ready to complain like Heman Psal 88. at large In such cases Strengthen the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees and say to them that are of a fearful heart be strong fear not And this it seems was Jobs practice He strengthened the weak and his words upheld him that was falling And if they were in affliction the moving of his lips asswaged their grief For heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop but a good word maketh it glad And this savoureth sweetly of the Spirit of Christ who would not break the bruised Reed nor quench the smoaking Flax. The words are diminutive for the meaning is he would strengthen the bruised Reed and blow up the smoaking Flax. For he carries his Lambs in his bosom that is he tenders them and laies them near his heart As when the Church was in affliction and sick of love he stayes her with flagons and comforts her with Apples his left hand is under her head and his right hand embraceth her Not his right hand under her head and his left hand embraceth her for that is not next the heart of Christ He is our High Priest who is touched with the feeling of our infirmities hath compassion on us in just proportion He speaks to the heart of the trembling Haemorrhoiss when she fell down at his feet and saith unto her Daughter be of good comfort thy Faith hath made thee whole go in peace And he takes part with that brokenhearted sinner that sate behind him at his feet weeping and washing and wiping and kissing them and rebukes censorious Simon and saith to her Thy sins are forgiven thy Faith hath saved thee go in peace Oh the sweet Spirit of Christ Let the same mind then be in you which was in him And comfort them that are in trouble with the comforts wherewith you your selves have been comforted of God And be kindly affectioned one toward another in brotherly love And when the case requires it shew your self a son of Consolation Seventhly In Heaven you know are no necessities whereas here are many which will give occasion therefore to such service as Heaven hath no need of For here are poor Saints and the poor are always with us who sometimes want Food sometimes Clothing sometimes Lodging sometimes Money c. You then that are able must follow Job's example saith he I have not with-held the poor from their desire nor caused the eyes of the Widow to fail nor eaten my morsel alone but the Fatherless hath eaten of it also Neither have I seen any to perish for want of clothing or any poor without covering but his loynes have blessed me and he was warmed with the fleece of my sheep The stranger did not lodge in the street but I opened my door to the Traveller c. and the eyes of our Lord Jesus are much upon such good works as these for he beheld how the people cast their money into the Treasury Heaven affordeth no such objects of your Love and Compassion There are indeed many Beggers at Heavens Gates but never a Begger within Heavens doors And there are many Widows and Fatherless Children here but never a Widow nor Orphan there Brethren Be ye then merciful 〈◊〉 your Father in Heaven is merciful And blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy And it is that which will lengthen out your lives Mercy even to the bruit creatures shall prolong your dayes much more then to Men especially to the houshold of Faith Lazarus shall rise and have a new lease of his life to entertain Christ again And so shall Tabitha to make Coats and Garments for Widows again Life is well bestowed upon merciful ones And life is the time of acting this Grace for bowels are shut up in Heaven and no pity shall be shewed to the nearest perishing relations in the day of Christ Again Here you may entertain Jesus Christ in his Members and Ministers Here you may be fellow-helpers to the Truth and Gospel And what says John of that We ought therefore to receive such that we might be fellow-helpers to the Truth And saith the Apostle Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained Angels unawares We cannot entertain Angels in Heaven for they have their places there as well as we and there we are rather entertained by them Zech. 3. 7. but here it hath been done as by Abraham and Lot And though we cannot expect to entertain them as they did yet if we could what is that to the entertainment of Christ himself And if we entertain his Members at our houses or do any Office of Love for them we do it unto Jesus Christ Eighthly Let us be willing also if need be to suffer for Christ which is a service peculiar to this life But I say If need be because we are not to cast our selves upon suffering uncalled We must take up but not make a Cross But when the providence of God and his Word calleth us to witness for Christ to the loss of ought that is nearest and dearest to us let us remember that this is one of the services which termineth with our lives and cannot be performed in glory It hath indeed been our portion hitherto to escape those sufferings which many of our brethren have undergone But have we been sufferers in affection Have we been prepared for the Cross Or have we not been among the fearful And have we sympathized with our Brethren in their sufferings and have we accounted them happy that have endured yea and their sufferings honourable for the sake and in the quarrel