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Eschatos echthros, or, The death of death in the death of Christ being a narrative of the first death as the mistress of mortals and empress of the universe : conflicting of various sections and directions (as appears by the index) in order to a holy living and happy dying / by R. Mayhew ...
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Mayhew, R. (Richard)
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Wing M1439; ESTC R31202
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Beaven without him I had rather saith another be in Hell with a Christ than to be in Heaven without him Heaven is the presence of all Good and the absence of all Evil. Redde mihi vitam aeternam quam debes That Monk died like himself who said Lord pay me Heaven which thou owest me Heaven is a Flower of Salvation blown out the Saint here is in the Suburbs of Heaven Heaven is the Inheritance of those unto whom Christ is Life and unto whom Death shall be gain If Heaven be the Inheritance of these Quest what manner of Inheritance then is Heaven Heaven is a free Inheritance Sol. 1. Would it not puzzle all the Saints on Earth and Angels in Heaven to bring in the worth of Heaven and yet this is a Donatâ—â—e Many Inheritances here below are bought but this Inheritance is given Here men buy Inheritances and pay to the worth of them Luk. 2.32 but Heaven though it cannot be valued to its worth yet it is given 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fear not little-little Flook there are two diminitives in the Greek for it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdom The word translated Flock signifies a little Flock but Christ to shew the exceeding littleness of it adds another word little Fear not little-little Flock Heaven is a full Inheritance Ahasuerus had a large Territory he reigned from India unto Ethiopia over 127 Provinces A man would have thought that 127 Provinces had been enough for 127 persons and yet this large Territory was a poor pittance Many have large Inheritances here below and cannot live upon them but Heaven is an Inheritance thou mayest live upon if possessed of this Inheritance thou shalt never want more Heaven is a perfection of Felicity without intermission and amission If once possessed of this Inheritance then thou wilt say with Jacob It is enought Thou wilt as one reads it make known the way of life satiety of joys before thy face Ainsworth Psa 16.11 pleasures at thy right hand to perpetuity Heaven is a living Inheritance Heaven is not only a living Inheritance but also an Inheritance of Life Death is legible in the face of the Earth but Life is legible in the face of Heaven I am come that ye might have life Life here life hereafter Mutability and Mortality Rev. 2.10 are written upon all things here below but Heaven is called a Crown of Life Be thou faithful unto death there is the precept and I will give thee a Crown of life there 's the promise Heaven is a lasting Inheritance The Inheritance will last so long as the Heir last Into what a time of Debauchery are we fallen and how short-lifed are earthly Inheritances How long soever the Fathers were in getting them the Children are not long in spending them An earthly Inheritance may be spent but this heavenly Inheritance cannot be spent Though those who are actually Christs may lose all at Sea and all 〈◊〉 Land all in the Ship and all in the Shop all within doors and all without doors yet they cannot lose Heaven this is a lasting Inheritance yea this is an everlasting Inheritance The Apostle having imposed a making of the calling and election sure subjoyns this For so an entrance will be ministred unto you abundantly 2 Pet. 1.10 11. into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. This Kingdom is the Kingdom of Glory because stiled an everlasting Kingdom It is called the Kingdom of Christ because given to him as a reward of his passions It is an everlasting Kingdom because the Vnion between Christ and a Christian is everlasting As Christ on earth is the Christians Medium of Reconciliation and Communion so Christ in Heaven is the Christians Medium of Vision and Fruition There are among other things these six things which those who are actually Christs can never lose The Soul cannot be lost The Soul is a Blossom of Eternity hath a stamp of Immortality now Death it self though the Mistress of Mortals and Empress of the Vniverse despairs how to kill this Fear not them which kill the body Luk. 12.4 and after that have no more that they can do Men. may kill the Body but they cannot kill the Soul Those who assert without blushing the Mortality of the Soul seem at least to stand upon the Brink of Atheism Though the Body return unto the Dust yet the Soul to Hell or Heaven Luk. 23.43 1 Pet. 1.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Peccare not Perire Though the Veins of the penitent Thief were breathed and his Vitals let out yet his Soul goes to Heaven To day shalt thou be with me in Paradise To day is not this emphatical and doth not Christ promise more than the Thief asks Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation Who are kept the Greek word is a military word taken from Souldiers they are safely kept kept as a Garrison in time of War against the Enemy Though a Soul actually in Christ may sin 1 Joh. 3.9 and do sin yet not unto Death not unto the second Death He that is born of God sinneth not not to condemnation The Saviour cannot be lost Once and Ever is Christs Motto Though yesterday some were not Semèl Simùl Heb. 13.8 to day some are but to morrow these may not be yet yesterday to day and for ever Christ is the same Jesus Christ the same yesterday to day and for ever The same yesterday before his coming in the flesh The same to day while in the flesh The same for ever Heb. 9.24 after his Ascension unto and Admission into the Kingdom of Heaven now to appear in the presence of God for us Art actually Christs then though thou mayest lose thy Lands lose thy Limbs lose thy Liberty lose thy Life yet thou canst not lose thy Love lose thy Christ The Grace of Christ cannot be lost Grace may decay but it cannot die it may be abated but it cannot be abolished it may be shaken in the Soul but it cannot be shaken out of the Soul Grace 1 Pet. 1.13 is incorruptible seed Which were born not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible Grace is the Seed the Heart is the Soil Gold may be lost Goods may be lost Grandeur may be lost but Grace cannot be lost this must go into Glory when Time goeth into Eternity The Spirit of Christ cannot be lost What the Body is without the Soul Lifeless and Loveless that the Soul is without the Spirit and yet this Spirit cannot be lost What Wheels are to the Chariot and Oil to those Wheels that the Spirit is to the Soul and yet this Spirit cannot be lost What Sails are to the Ship and Wind to those Sails that yea infinitely more than that is the Spirit to the Soul Joh. 16.14 and yet this Spirit cannot be lost I will pray the Father and he shall
equal and compare me that we may be like Christ hath not his second Christ is an inexhaustible Fountain This Ore is never goldless this Sun is never lightless this Ocean Eph. 3.8 is never waterless That I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ Fear not Death for Christ is thine and he is a God What of a Christ is not called into Question That Christ is God I shall endeavour to evince from plain and positive Texts and Truths from gracious and glorious Appellations and Titles from probable and promising Arguments and Reasons From plain and positive Texts and Truths Thy Throne oh God is for ever Psa 45.6 Heb. 1.8 and ever That this is spoken of Christ is evident But unto the Son he saith Thy Throne oh God is for ever and ever Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus who being in the form of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 2.5 6 The word here Form signifieth an essential and substantial Form Christ was in the form of God i.e. he was in the Nature and Essence of God or in the Glory and Majesty of God And thought it not Robbery to be equal with God Once more My Lord Joh. 20.28 and my God These places are unanswerable proofs of the Deity and Divinity of Christ From gracious and glorious Appellations and Titles Christ is called I AM. Before Abraham was I AM. But what is this I AM Joh. 8.58 This is one of the names of God this is proper to God and with this name was Moses sent to the children of Israel I AM hath sent me unto you Exo. 3.14 Now this name I AM takes in all time past present and to come which speaketh Christ to be a God Christ is called the chiefest or Standard-bearer among ten thousand Cant. 5.10 Now Standard-bearers are choice men Elect of the multitude Christ is called a great God Looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God Tit. 2.13 and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Not only God and great God but also the great God Christ is called the true God This is the true God and eternal life Not a false but a true God 1 Joh. 5.20 not an Impostor as the Jews call him nor a less Prophet than Mahomet as the Turks call him nor a feigned God among the Gentiles as the blind and the bloody Papists call him but the true God and eternal life being the Author of it and the Donor of it the God of it and the Giver of it Christ is called God over all Whose are the Fathers and of whom as to the flesh Christ came Rom. 9.5 Oecumenius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who is over all God blessed for ever Amen Christ is over all over Angels over Saints over Devils Is not this a pregnant proof for the Deity and Divinity of Christ Blush said one for shame and be thou confounded oh thou wretched miscreant Arrius when thou hearest Christ by the Apostle glorified with the Title of God in the singular number and with the Article Ho the God that God and yet denyest his Deity who is over all the or that God blessed for ever Amen What more legible than the Deity of Christ in this place with many other places Christ is called a mighty God Giâ—d thy Sword upon thy thigh oh most mighty He is mighty Psa 45.3 yea most mighty There cometh one after me mightier than I. Jesus was mightier than John What is a Pharaoh a Sennacherib a Mounsieur to this mighty Christ Psa 89.15 All Nations unto him are but as the drop of a bucket What is Man to God I have laid help upon one that is mighty Yea Christ is an Almighty God Rev. 1.8 I am Alpha and Omega The beginning and the ending saith the Lord which is and which was and which is to come the Almighty Christ is called the only wise God To the only wise God our Saviour 25. Verse of Judes Epistle Christ is wiser than men wiser than Angels the wisdom of Men the wisdom of Angels the wisdom of God the God of wisdom Christ is called the End of the Law for righteousness Rom. 10.4 He is the End of the Law for righteousness to every one that believeth Thus he is in respect of Nation whether Jew or Gentile in respect of Sex whether Man or Woman in respect of Age whether Green or Gray in respect of Degree whether a Man in his Rags or a Man in his Robes Christ is called the Image of the invisible God Christ is exactly like unto God Col. 1.15 Who is the Image of the invisible God the first born of every creature Christ is called the Desire of Nations What is there in any Nation Hag. 2.7 that is the Desire of every Nation Christ is the Desire of all that are actually his in all Nations I will shake all Nations and the desire of all nations shall come Christ is stiled the Saviour of the World The Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the World 1 Joh. 4.14 Now who below a God can save a Man Christ is stiled King of Saints Just and true are thy waies Rev. 15.3 thou King of Saints Christ hath a Kingdom in this World though his Kingdom be not of this World Christ hath a Kingdom and his Saints are the Subjects of his Kingdom Christ is King of Kings and Lord of Lords The Kings of Tarshish Rev. 17.14 Psal 72.10 11. and of the Isles shall bring presents the Kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts yea all Kings shall fall down before him all nations shall serve him As Christ is King of Saints and of Sion so he is to be King of Nations Christ is the Father of Eternity Christ as God is from Eternity and the Father of Eternity Abi Gnad Isa 9.6 His name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor the Mighty God the Everlasting Father the Father of Eternity so the Hebrew the Prince of Peace Christ is the Bread of Life I am that Bread of Life Christ is not only Bread and Bread of Life Joh. 6.48 but also by way of Emphasis the or that Bread of Life Christ is the Water of Life I will give unto him that is a thirst Rev. 21.6 of the fountain of the water of life freely Now is not he God who is the Bread of Life and Water of Life Christ is called the Rock of Ages Christ was the Rock for Old Testament Saints 1 Cor. 10.4 and Christ is the Rock for New Testament Saints They all drank of that Spiritual Rock that followed them and that Rock was Christ Christ is called Emmanuel A Virgin and yet with child shall bring forth a Son Mat. 1.23 and his name shall be called Emmanuel which being interpreted is God with us As God for Vs so God with Vs Christ is called Jesus