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A01937	The man for heaven A sermon preached at the court to his Majesties houshold, anno Domini, 1637. By Iohn Gore, rector of Wendenlofts, and preacher of S. Peters in Cornhill, London.	Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex.	1639 (1639)	STC 12073; ESTC S103329	11,321	26

said of his Friend or Father Si bene essem sine te nunquam venirem ad te If I could bee well without thee I would never come at thee It is our illnesse and our weaknesse our lamenesse and our sicknesse that makes us to repaire unto Christ or else I am afraid wee would seldome or never come at him As for the Holy Ghost David cals him a Loving Spirit Psal 143. 10. a Spirit that loves the company and the conduct of a poore sinner let thy loving Spirit lead mee into the land of Righteousnesse it is not only a leading Spirit but a loving Spirit a Spirit that loves to lead us and to carry us into all truth into all goodnesse and to guide our sinfull feet into the way of peace wee read of divers that were condemned in Scripture for having to doe with Familiar Spirits and justly for what gracelesse wretches were they that durst bee familiar with those evill spirits that were the mortall enemies of their soules that durst to harbour those hellish Serpents in their bosomes that stung their Soules to death eternall And oh what a blessed and a happy thing it were if we were but halfe so desirous of the familiaritie and acquaintance of the Good Spirit as they were of the evill ones then as Iob speakes in the place fore-named Inde proventus erit bonus thereby good shall come unto thee Good to thy estate thou shalt prosper by it Good to thy children they shall flourish by it Good to thy name thou shalt have credit and reputation by it Good to thy body thou shalt have health and protection by it but speciall good shall come to thy Soule thou shalt have mercy and peace and salvation by it Thou shalt have his good Word to instruct thee his good Angels to guard thee his good Spirit to comfort thee and above all his good Kingdom to receive thee Therefore if thou lovest thy selfe and tenderest thy owne good let thy conversation with God bee Res familiaris a free a frequent and a familiar thing Lastly if wee take the originall word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the native and proper sense as it signifies the traffiquing and trading that one Merchant or one Citizen hath with another then it affords us this consideration That to converse or to have commerce with God is Res quest uosa the gainfulest trade and the richest marchandise under Heaven For if wee beleeve the Apostle Godlinesse is no vile commodity but exceeding gainfull yea gaine it selfe yea and great gaine too if not to the purse yet to the Conscience if not to the estate yet to the soule it is for it hath the promises not only of the life that now is but of that which is to come There bee many that say saith David Psal 4. 6. Who will shew us any good It is not the saying of one man or of some men but of many and of most men who will shew us any Good all their desire is to listen and inquire who can tell them of any good purchase any good bargaine any good fortune that may concerne them or come to their hands let the party that shewes it bee who hee will if hee shewes any good wee love him wee thank him for it Behold here is one Saint Paul by name that shewes us Summum Bonum the Greatest Good the truest and surest Gaine that is to be had in all the Christian World and that is to keep a Factory in Heaven as it were by the meanes and mediation of Jesus Christ to deale betwixt God and our own Soules in a secret and a sacred commerce to exchange our Prayers for his Favours our duties for his Mercies and so to drive a Spirituall trade in the City of God And this will bring us into such a way of profit that wee shall gaine Wisdome and Grace and Comfort and Credit in this life and a Crowne of Eternall Glory in the life to come and now judge your selves whether to have our conversation in Heaven bee not Res quaestuosa a gainfull thing I come now to the second generall proposition of my Text which is this How wee that live and converse upon Earth can bee said in proper sense to have our Conversation in the Heavens I shall answer it foure waies 1. Per Elevationem By lifting up our hearts and minds and Soules to God Wee read Levit. 11. 21. that those Reptilia those Fowls or other Creatures that crept on all foure were Abomination in Moses Law the people might not eat nor touch them but those that had legges and wings to leape withall and to lift up themselves from the Earth toward Heaven those were cleane in Gods account This was certainely a symbolicall type to signifie unto us that those Christians that are alwayes creeping as it were and crawling and groveling upon the Earth alwayes minding earthly things and setting their hearts upon the muck of this World they are uncleane and Abomination to the Lord But they that have the legges and wings of Faith and fervent Prayer to leape as it were from the Earth and to lift up themselves towards Heaven in their ejaculations and devotions to God they are those whom God accepts An Angell once cried Revel 8. 13. Woe woe woe to the inhabitants of the Earth Inhabitantibus non Accolis saith a Father not to the sojourners and strangers of the Earth as all good Christians are whose Home is Heaven and the Earth but a place of their pilgrimage for a time But the woes are to the setled Inhabitants of the Earth who so fixe their hearts on the Earth that they make it their Heaven like that Cardinall that would not change his part in Paris for his part in Paradise or like the Children of Reuben and Gad Numb 32. 3. that desired to make their stay on this side Jordan and let their brethren if they listed passe over into the Land of promise for their owne parts they liked well of the place where they were and did not desire to remove because it was a place fit for their Cattell In like sort they that make more account of their cattell than they doe of their conscience and doe more esteeme the pleasures and profits of a life temporall than the incomprehensible joyes of the life eternall they that so love the Earth that by their good wills they would not leave it for Heaven Woe bee to them three wayes first woe to them in life secondly woe to them in death thirdly woe to them after death or thus woe to their bodies woe to their soules and woe to both body and soule together in that woefull place of torment In a word therefore if we desire to escape this threfold woe and that it may bee well with us both here and hereafter let us doe by our af●ections as Husband-men do by their corne if it lie low in a damp room it is in danger to putrifie and corrupt and stink therefore

Imprimatur THOMAS WYKES Octob. 9. 1638. THE MAN FOR HEAVEN A Sermon Preached at the Court to his Majesties Houshold Anno Domini 1637. By IOHN GORE Rector of Wenden-lofts and Preacher of S. Peters in Cornhill LONDON LONDON Printed by R. Bishop for Thomas Alchorn and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Green Dragon in Pauls Church-yard 1639. The Man for Heaven PHILIP 3. 20. Our conversation is in Heaven from whence also wee looke for the Saviour the Lord Iesus Christ YEE Honourable and Honoured Courtiers here is a Text of Scripture fit for persons of your rank and quality A text that will learn you so to demean your selves so to order your Conversation in this World that after you have been Courtiers on Earth you may be Courtiers in Heaven after you have conversed with men you may converse with God after you have served and attended our gracious King and Queene below you may be preferred and taken up by the Angels of Heaven to accompany and attend the King of Glory above Certainly if there be an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Heaven upon Earth an Estate of Majesty Height and Glory Heare it is and you are those that are advanced and enstated in it Let mee only advise you as a poore unworthy Messenger of Christ to take heed and beware of Capernaums Doome Mat. 11. 23. And thou Capernaum which art exalted to Heaven shalt be thrown down to Hell Oh pray to God that ye may escape that wofull praecipitium that dismal that dolefull that deadly Down-fall Rather as Salomon saith let your way be upward direct your steps and courses to Heaven-wards and labour every day to arise in your care in your zeale in your devotions to God that you may come neerer to Heaven at night than you were in the morning that so even while you live and converse on Earth you may be truly and rightly said to have your conversation in Heaven For so speakes my Text of some and God grant it may bee spoken of us all that Our conversation is in Heaven from whence also we looke for the Saviour the Lord Iesus Christ In which words there are two generall parts to be observed First the excellency of the Saints they have their conversation in Heaven Secondly the expectation of sinners from thence also we looke for the Saviour c. First what is meant by conversation Secondly how we that live and converse on earth can bee said in proper sence to have our conversation in Heaven The first of these may be considered in foure circumstances 1. That a mans conversation is Res continuata a constant a setled continued thing It is not one or two or some few particular actions that do denominate a mans conversation but the generall course and current of his life which if it be rightly ordered as it ought to bee then it is termed an Honest Conversation 2 Peter 2. 12. Have your conversation honest among the Gentiles if otherwise it be idly and unprofitably mispent then it is termed a vaine conversation 1 Pet. 1. 18. yee are redeemed from your vaine conversation That which brings a man no profit no credit no comfort in the end that 's a vaine conversation And God forbid that any Christians conversation should be so vaine This we know that as there is no man so bad but he may do some particular actions that are right and good as God said of Abimelech Gen. 20. I know thou hast done this thing in the integrity of thy heart that one thing he did well though his conversation went another way so on the contrary there is no man so good but he may do some particular actions that are vile and bad as t is said of David he was upright in all things save only in the matter of Vriah In that one thing hee failed exceedingly though the whole streame of his life and conversation went right to God-ward It is with a Christian in this world as with a Ship that goes to Sea They are bound for such a Coast that way they sayle and thither they direct their voyage now there may come many a contrary storm that may turne them cleane back or drive them quite another way which for the present is a great trouble and griefe unto them but as soone as ever the storme is over and the Sea is calme they hale and toyle and never are at rest till they have recovered themselves and are gotten into the right way againe So fares it with a Christian soule such a one is bound for Heaven that 's his home that 's his harbour that 's the Heaven where he would be now there may come and daily there doth come many a crosse many a corruption many a pleasing or unpleasing temptation that turnes him cleane another way into the way of sinne and wickednesse or turnes him clean back from the way of Grace and goodnesse which for the present like the divisions of Ruben Iudg. 5. must needs cause great sighings and thoughts of heart and indeed hee is never at quiet in his mind nor at peace in his conscience till by the mercy of God he have recovered himselfe by repentance and come back to his old comfort and conversation againe So the meaning of the Text is this that it is not enough for a man to look to Heaven at some particular times as in the time of sicknesse of sorrow of extreme adversity as the manner of the world is for then the wickedest man that is will peradventure have an eye to Heaven Iust as you see a Hog that never looks to Heaven till he be over-turned and cast upon his back then he looks to Heaven and cryes whereas if you do but let him loose that he gets upon his leggs againe hee returnes with his snowt to the earth and looks to Heaven no more so fares it I feare me with many a carnall man that seldom or never looks to Heaven till hee bee overturned in his credit overthrown in his estate or cast upon his back on the bed of sicknesse and death then he lisis up his eyes to those Hils from whence commeth his help as David speaketh whereupon if God do but set him at liberty and restore him to his health that he get upon his legs againe hee returnes like a Hog to his old swinish disposition looks no more after Heaven till he be castdown again into the like distresse Thus it is but thus it should not be If you desire to have comfort from Heaven in your sicknesse let your conversation be there in your health and that not for a fit or a brunt but in a constant setled and continued course of life that like as it is said of God Deut. 11. 12. that his eyes are upon the land from the beginning of the yeare to the end thereof so let thine eyes be upon God from the beginning of the day of the weeke of the yeare even to