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A52387	The cross crowned: or, Short affliction making way for eternal glory Opened in a sermon preached at the funeral of Daniel Waldoe Esq; in the Parish-Church of Alhallows Honey-lane, May 9. 1661. By James Nalton, minister of the gospel, and pastor of Leonards Foster-lane London.	Nalton, James, 1600-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing N121A; ESTC R219314	34,657	97

worth in our esteem Nay yet more This glory is not only a weighty glory but an hyperbolical transcendent glory far surpassing the capacity and comprehension of such poor creatures as we are for such is the excellency beauty and sweetness of it that as one saith excellently * Bolton of the four last things No mortal man can describe it no created understanding can conceive it or comprehend it Eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 2.9 The eye has seene admirable things Solomons Temple and the glory of it which was so great That for the Temples sake at Jerusalem even Kings did bring presents unto God Psal 68.29 and Solomons stately house which was thirteen years in building 1 Kin. 7.1 and all the wonders of the world The ear has heard most delicious exquisite heart-ravishing musick the heart of man can conceive yet much more then either eye hath seen or ear hath heard for in conceit it can turn all the stones upon earth into pearls all the sand upon the sea-shore into Silver and all the water of the Sea into liquid gold yet the height and happiness of heavenly glory do's far surpass all this especially if ye consider these three things most worthy of our meditation 1. The place where this glory is prepared 2. The Properties wherewith it is adorned 3. The Priviledges wherewith it is attended For the first The place where it is prepared is Heaven The new Jerusalem The City of the great King this must needs be a glorious place it ye consider these particulars 1. God himself is the maker and builder of it Hebr. 11.10 The most goodly Palaces that ever were built on earth are but the work of mens hands but this is a house 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made without hands 2 Cor. 5.1 God himself made it without mans help 2. God built this house for himself for the honour of his Majesty to be the place of his residence where he will keep his court as if he should say Here will I dwell for I have a delight therein 3. In building this house he shewed all his skill it was his Master-piece therefore there are two words used in the Text Heb 11.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The former of them signifies an Artificer a curious workman or contriver God did not only build this house but he shew'd extraordinary workmanship in contriving it the frame or fabrick of this earthly globe ye see it is a goodly piece full of beauty but alas this is but a stage or scaffold set up for a while viz. for 5 or 6 thousand years which is but a moment in comparison of eternity but this heavenly house is to last for ever Now if the scaffold be so glorious how infinitely beautiful will the house it self be 4. It must needs be a glorious place because of the Glorious Company there residing viz. The great God of heaven and earth the Lord Christ with a glorified body and all the holy Angels and spirits of just men made perfect continually triumphing in the praises of the Holy One rejoycing in him and he in them For the Second The Properties wherewith this glory is adorned I will name but these three 1 It is a pure Glory without the least mixture of misery or infelicity There the Saints enjoy light without darkness mirth without mourning health without sickness wealth without wo beauty without blemish and honour without envy In this life all our comforts have some mixture of bitterness in them but there are unmixed joyes and delights without the least wormwood or gall mingled with them 2 It is a perfect glory nothing shall be wanting that the soul can desire Fulnesse of joy Psal 16.11 and a full Reward 2 Joh. 8. 3 It is a satisfying Glory The Saints shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatnesse of his house and he will make them drink of the River of his Pleasures Psalm 36.8 All the pleasures and treasures that this world can afford us will not give satisfaction to an immortal Soul They do not feed Esurientem animam but esuriem animae The hungry soul is not filled but the hunger of the soul is increased by them But this glory will so fully delight beautifie and satisfie the soul that it can desire no more For the third The Privileges wherewith this glory is attended They are of two sorts some are Privative Positive 1 Privative in the freedom from all evil For example The soul is here subject to temptations and corruptions desertions from God and provocations from wicked men Psal 120.5 Wo is me that I sojourn in Mesech c. These are so exceeding grievous to a gracious heart that they make a man cry out with holy Job My soul chuseth strangling and death rather than life Job 7.15 But when the Soul comes to enjoy that glory all these shall be removed All tears shall be wiped away from their eyes and there shall be no more death nor sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain Rev. 21.4 2. Positive Priviledges in the fruition of all good things that can be conceived or desired For the Saints shall have an Immediate Communion with God these three wayes viz. By Seeing God Enjoying God Being made like to God 1. The Saints shall see him as he is 1 John 3.2 This is that which is called the Beatifical or blessed-making vision for in his presence Hebr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in his faces is fulness of joy If a man had all the pains of hell upon him this vision were able to make a man rejoyce because totam amaritudinem Gehennae absorberet saith Chrysost It would swallow up the bitterness of hell it self 2. The Saints shall enjoy him as their Portion He shall be All in All that is as one sweetly expresseth it He shall be joy to our Souls Life to our Bodies Beauty to our eyes Musick to our ears Perfume to our nostrils Honey to our mouthes and Contentment to our hearts for what can be wanting to him that has that God for his Portion who has and does all and fills all things in heaven and earth 3. The Saints shall be made like to God and conformed to the Image of his Son Jesus Christ Rom. 8.29 1. Like him in Soul by perfection of Grace for they shall have perfect knowledg perfect holiness and righteousness as much as Creatures can be capable to receive 2. Like him in Body For he shall change our vile Bodies that they may be fashioned like unto his Glorious Body Phil. 3.21 Then shall our Bodies be Spiritual 1 Cor. 15.44 active lively and nimble as Spirits And they shall be Impassible such as are not capable of suffering and Immortal such as can never dye In brief they shall have such an admirable beauty and lustre put upon them that they shall shine forth as the Sun

It is Storied of Alexander that when he heard of the riches of the Indies he gave away all his present Possessions that he had in Macedon and being asked why he did so He answered I hope and look for far greater things than these Oh that we could imitate this Heroick Resolution To contemn our present enjoyments in comparison of our future hopes This is the third Duty Duty The fourth The fourth and last is this Let us frame our selves to a Heavenly Conversation Though our commoration or abode be upon earth let our Conversation be in heaven Phil. 3.20 For hereby we shall be sitting our selves for that Glory that shall be revealed If one of you were to have an Inheritance in Spayn you would learn the Spanish tongue and the Spanish fashion you would frame your selves to the custom of that Country or Kingdom where you were to spend your dayes Why surely ye look for an Inheritance in Heaven among the Angels yea to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Equal to the Angels Luke 20.36 Why do you not frame your selves to an Angelical Conversation You look to be like them in dignity strive to be like them in duty To do your Fathers Will on earth as the Angels do it in heaven To this end Let us every day take a turn or two with Christ on Mount Tabor take a prospect of heaven and turn every Solemnity into a school of Divinity Let us say as Fulgentius did when he saw the Nobitity of Rome sit mounted in their bravery Si talis est Roma terrestris qualis est Roma caelestis If Rome be such a glorious place what is Heaven If the Musick on earth be so delightfull how unconceivably sweet and melodious will the Musick of heaven be Thus a Sanctified fancy may make every creature a ladder to heaven Use 2 To close up al with a word of Consolation This Doctrine may be as an Alabaster box of precious oyntment to refresh and revive the spirits of all true Believers all the Saints and Servants of Christ in the midst of all the troubles and trials sorrows and sufferings that can befal them There is a Crown of Eternal Glory prepared for you which may make your hearts dance for joy yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry and when he comes he brings his Reward with him Rev. 22.12 Then shall ye hear him speaking comfortably to you he will speak to your hearts and say Come ye blessed of my Father receive the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world Enter ye into the joy of your Lord and Master Mat. 25 20. q. d. This joy cannot enter into you because of your straitness but ye may enter into it because of its fullness The Sea cannot enter into a Hogshead because the Vessel cannot contain it But the Hogshead may enter into the Sea because the Sea can fill it To conclude There are 4. principal Names whereby the Holy Ghost expresseth the felicity of the Saints in heaven 1. It is called a Life and such a Life as is Eternal 2. It is called a Glory and such a Glory as is a Crown 3. It is called a Kingdom and such a Kingdom as is Immutable and Unmoveable 4. It is called an Inheritance and such an Inheritance as is Immortal Now tell me poor fainting drooping Soul What is it that thy heart can wish Or what can bear up thy spirit under all afflictions reproaches difficulties and discouragements whatsoever if this cannot do it Is there any thing thou lovest better than life Is there any better life than a life of glory Is there any glory greater than a Crown of glory Is there any Crown so desireable as that which comes by Inheritance Is there any Inheritance so admirable or delightfull as that which is immortal undefiled and such as newer shall fade away Lift up thy head therefore because thy Redemption and eternal Glorification are so near at hand say to thy own Soul as that godly man did on his death-bed Hold out faith and patience thy work is almost at an end Encourage thy self as Basil tells us the Martyrs encouraged one another when they were cast out naked in a Winters night being to be burned at a stake the next day Sharp it the cold but let us endure a while and Abraham's bosom will warm us Troublesond is the way but the end of the journey will be sweet and pleasant Let our feet burn awhile that we may dance for ever with the Angels Let our hands feel they fire that we may lay hold on Eternal Life The Lord Jesus work these things upon our hearts that they may make an abiding Impression Amen I have done with the Text. Let me speak something to the Occasion How seasonably this Text may be applied to our dear deceased Brother Daniel Waldoe Esquire one that fined for Alderman in this famous City whose Funerals we this day solemnize ye that knew him and his Conversation may easily conceive He was a man trained up in the school of affliction for many years together being exercised with that acute and tormenting disease of the Stone about 30. years And doubtless God by that long and sharp affiction was preparing him for eternal glory partly by purging out his dross and making him white as the Scripture phraseth it Dan. 11.35 and partly by teaching him the exercise of Patience and perseverance For that speech of the Apostle was verified in him Rom. 5.3 Tribulation worketh patience It is a Paradox to Reason for affliction in its self and its own nature worketh Impatience and makes a man fret and fume like a wild Bull in a net as the Prophet speaks Isa 51.20 But when God works with it then it worketh patience and makes a man say with David Be silent unto the Lord O my Soul Psal 62.5 Do not utter an impatient word Yea his Afflictions taught him not onely Patience and submission but also self-denial and sympathy or a fellow-feeling with others miseries He could sigh in their sorrows and bleed in their wounds and be affected with their sufferings as if they had been his own In brief the Rod taught him that excellent Lesson To have a heart weaned from the world for the Rod has a voice Micah 6.9 and it spake to him in that language which the Prophet used to the Jewes in Babilon Micah 2.10 Arise ye and depart for this is not your rest The Testimony therefore that I may give of this worthy Citizen without flattery or partiality is this First He was a very humble man low in his own eyes no way self-consident or self-conceited And I am of the same opinion with that famous Divine Dr. Harris late of Oxford that was wont to say He valued no man for his gifts but for his humility under them Certainly the more Grace any man hath in his heart the more base he will be in his own eyes Did ye