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A28856	No home but heaven A sermon, preached at the funerals of the right worshipful the Lady Sybilla Anderson, in the Church of Broughton, in the county of Lincoln. Octob. 30. 1661. By Edward Boteler, sometimes fellow of St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge, and now rector of Wintringham, in the county of Lincoln, and chaplain to His Majesty.	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1664 (1664)	Wing B3803; ESTC R217243	26,996	74

speaks of whose foundation is in the dust light Job 4.19 volatile unstable dust as the word is there observed to signifie Foundations that cannot stand the shock of an Earthquake which force may undermine and blow up or if they escape these time will assuredly bury in their own Ruines Not a Citie besides this of the Text but we may say of it as our Antiquary doth of Rheban Camd. Brit. Ireland p. 86. it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Citilesse Citie We read in the Ecclesiastical History of Simeon the Anchorite who lived in the time of Domnus Bishop of Antio●ch that before that terrible Earthquake which shook in pieces Phoenicia he whipp'd the pillars which stood in the Market-place crying Evagr. Schol. l. 4. ca 33. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stand fast ye are like to dance shortly Upon such Pillars stand all sublunary buildings their foundred footing shakes their lofty tops It stains their glory and takes down their height to think that sad fate in the Prophet attends them Thorns shall come up in their Palaces Isa 34.11 13. Nettles and Brambles in the fortresses thereof and it shall be an habitation of Dragons and a Court for Owls And he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptinesse Babylon is now the glory of Kingdoms Isa 13 19. the beauty of the Caldees excellency but presently shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah Nineveh the ranting Metropolis of Ashur the City of three dayes journey Jon. 3.3 who multiplyed her Merchants above the stars of heaven Nah. 3 16. Cap. 2.10 she is now empty and void and waste and the heart melteth and the knees knock together Tyre the joyous City whose antiquity is of antient dayes the crowning City whose Merchants are Princes whose Traffiquers are the honourable of the Earth Isa 23.7 8. She must not cannot stand for her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn Zion only cannot be moved but standeth fast for ever Her foundation is in the holy mountain Psal 87.1.3 5. Glorious things are spoken of thee O City of God The Highest himself shall establish her Urbs aeterna a title once given to Rome is the due of this City in the Text of none but this the Eternal Citie Here are those Gates that lift up their heads above all and here are those everlasting doors for the King of Glory and his Saints to enter in Blessed are they that do his Commandments Rev. 22.14 that they may have right to the Tree of Life and may enter in through the Gates into the Citie For as we have heard so shall we one day see in the City of the Lord of Hosts in the City of our God Psa 48.8 God will establish it for ever And be that enough to have spoken to the first part of the Text the title of a Christians Inheritance It is a City Proceed we to the second The Estate a Christian hath in that Citie it is a Reversion It is to come We seek one to come Not as if the Saints were quite out of possession here for till they can come to their estate it is often coming to them in the glimpses and foretastes of it Heb. 6.4 5. They taste the heavenly gift and the powers of the world to come They have an Heaven upon Earth by communion with God 1 Joh. 1.3 by fellowship with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ But it is to come because the sweet and sweight of it lies in the promises what they have now is very little compared with that full free and un-interrupted possession a soul shall be put into when he enters the everlasting gates of the City of the great King You are come to the City of the Living God saies the Apostle What come to it already and yet to come Yes saies St Augustine Credendo venisti sed nondum per venisti You are in the Suburbs but not yet in the City for that 's to come We seek one to come Our happinesse consists not in what we have but what we hope for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as St. Basil speaks blessings reposited and stored in Promises And therefore the Holy Ghost in the Scriptural Deeds and Conveyances of a Believers estate makes so frequently use of phrases of futurition Psal 97.11 Light is sown for the righteous Sown it 's but growing and coming on Adhuc mea messis in herba Psa 31.19 O how great is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee It is great goodnesse but it is laid up Eph. 1.14 The Apostle calls what we have now Pignus only the Pledge and Earnest that Redemptio acquisitionis is yet behind possession is in reserve and but coming We seek one to come Nor have we any cause to suspect the hand of Providence as over-close or reproach our Father with unkindness for keeping our estate so long from us there 's a threefold good intended us by this deteinure the thoughts of which may be useful 't will keep a good understanding betwixt us and Heaven for thereby our Graces are rendred active our Affections ardent our Possession welcome 1. It will keep Grace in action Many Graces are now set on work and imployed by this respite of happiness that would be idle that would not be at all were we in possession of it There are three notable Graces that live best that only live upon reversion and futuritie 1. Faith precious Faith That argumentum non apparentium Heb. 11.1 the evidence of things not seen so it is called by that Apostle who came nearest this Citie of any that retreated into pilgrimage The promises are Pabulum Fidei Faith lives wholly and solely upon hereafter She sees best when the object is furthest off Videbo cum sed non modò I shall see him but not now Num. 24.17 I shall behold him but not nigh Had God given Abraham Canaan in present where had been work for that vigorous faith of his whose quick eye saw through the thick distance of four hundred years Gen. 15.13 and whose long arms reach'd a promise over the heads of so many intervening Generations Give in hand and take away Faith For Fides est credere quod non vides cujus merces est videre quod credidisti so St. Augustine 2. Hope which is inconsistent with possession Ro. 8.24 For hope that is seen is not hope As Faith advanceth to sight so Hope shall commence fruition Heb. 6 19 Hope is the Anchor of the soul It is serviceable whilst abroad in the storm the Harbour will not need it Enjoyment supersedes hope it is one great purpose of God in keeping his people and their possessions asunder that they may learn to live in hopes of them 1 Pet. 1.13 hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought to them at

scant it is that to waste any of it in Apology or Preface were to discover a greater want than I am begging pardon for I shall cast my self therefore upon your charity and fall next way upon my Text A Text one part whereof I have discoursed to this now happy Lady's ear and the other I come here to dedicate to her Exequies It is written Hebr. 13.14 But we seek one to come CRazy and sickly times are as a great warning Piece discharged from Heaven to startle the secure world whose soules for the most part lie open to a surprizal like that people in the Prophet Jer. 49.31 having neither Gates nor Barrs and dwelling without care When diseases grassat and grow epidemical they come upon more than an ordinary errand and it will not be enough that we take up that common discourse of being minded of our mortality unlesse we consult our immortality too This verse furnisheth us with an Admonition of both Of our Mortality We have here no continuing City Of our Immortality We seek one to come Or if you please the deceased Lady and I will divide the verse betwixt us She is a legible Sermon upon the former part shewing you we have here no continuing City Let me give you an Audible one upon the latter part perswading you to seek one to come There 's a word in our way would not be pass'd by or leap'd over we must do it the right to speak to it But. But we seek one to come It is a particle of Discretion Gramarians tell us and so it is here in the best sense speaks the greatest Discretion in the world when the transiency of our present conditiō makes us drive on immortal designs and the reflecting upon that pitiful minute share we have in this inch of time influenceth so effectually upon us as to put us upon all possible provisions for eternity And that 's the force and purport of the particle that brings in the Text to make us being discharged our houses of flesh and like to turn out e're long provide our selves of a Mansion an abiding place a seat of some certainty where we may fix dwell and take our rest We have here no continuing City but we seek one to come Come we to the words and observing St. Paul's Rule to preach absque eminentia sermonis 1 Cor. 2.1 without flash or flourish I shall spend my discourse upon these three plain parts 1. A Description of a Christian's Inheritance It is a City 2. His Estate in it it is a Reversion only It is to come 3. His Demeanour towards it till it comes to his hands he seeks it We seek one to come For the title first A City Sometimes it is called An House but of admirable work a rare Structure the true Architecture 2 Cor. 5.1 we have an House 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not made with hands eternal in the Heavens Sometimes it goes under the name of a Countrey Via and Patria distinguist the Worlds This life is our way that other our Countrey Cicero Patria est ubicunque est benè and that 's no where on this side Heaven Heb. 11.13 14. They confessed saith our Apostle that they were strangers and pilgrims on the Earth and declared plainly that they seek a Countrcy Sometimes no less than a Kingdome will serve to expresse it Matth. 25.34 Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world Thus Heaven like the Bread of Heaven will fit every palate gratifie the relish of every soul as Saint Origen conceives of the Manna Here 's House and Kingdome and Countrey and City it is any it is all these Seek it and you 'll find it so We seek one to come But we 'll keep to the Metaphor of the Text A City Heaven is the City of the Saints So it is called often and borrows the name of Hierusalem the Metropolis of Judea Thren 1.1 The City that was great among the Nations and Princesse among the Provinces Psa 48.1 2. The City of God the Mountain of holinesse Beautiful for scituation the joy of the whole Earth Rev. 21.10 He shewed me that great City the holy Hierusalem descending out of Heaven from God Hence they have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ortus civicum Philip. 3.20 as that word which our rendring gives Conversation doth rightly signifie And they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Cives conscripti Fellow Citizens with the Saints Eph. 2.19 and of the houshold of God Please to see this City a while and I hope it will raise you higher than Hierusalem did the Kings of the Earth of whom it is said They saw it Psal 48 5. and so they marvelled 1. A City there 's multitudo It is a place of great receit and entertainment It is next to incredible the number that were found in Hierusalem without wedging when the seditious within and the Leaguer of Titus from without had so thin'd them in the day of their desolation Such the City in the Text Joh. 14.2 In my Fathers house are many Mansions sayes our Lord as if Heaven was parcell'd and made all out into dwellings for the everlasting reception of the Saints God sayes to St. Paul of Corinth Act 18.10 I have much people in this City but what myriads of millions hath he here Nations are little enough to expresse them Rev. 21.24 The Nations of them that are saved he calls them that best knows their number When the Angel had sealed the thousands of Israel after this saies St. Rev. 7.9 John I beheld and loe a great multitude which no man could number of all Nations and Kindreds and People and Tongues stood before the Throne and before the Lamb cloathed with white Robes and Palmes in their hands Though Gods Flock be little in comparison of that great Hord and those Droves of the damned yet shall they be numerous when he shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet and they shall gather his Elect together from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other A City there 's multitudo That 's a first 2. A City there 's Fortitudo Cities are places of strength Gen. 4.17 Willet Hexapl. in Gen. Cain thought the first builder of a City did it for his defence in his fear when he thought every bush a man and every man a slayer Thus we read of Cities of Refuge of walled Cities great and fenced up to Heaven Psal 48.12 Walk about Zion and go round about her tell the Towers thereof Much more may it be said of Zion in the Antitype the City in the Text v. 3. God is known in her Palaces for a Refuge Job 3.17 Here the wicked cease from troubling here the weary are at rest Psa 91.1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide