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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01900	The happinesse of the saints in glory, or A treatise of heaven, on Rom. 8. 18 For I reckon, that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. By Tho. Goodwin. B. D.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1638 (1638)	STC 12039; ESTC S118384	22,138	106

more to it if any thing more can bee added to it and if I but mention the properties they will further adde to this glory and make it abound He name no more than those wee have already laid downe to our hands 1 Pet. 1. 45. Elect to an inheritance incorrupted and undefiled and that fadeth not away revealed in the last times In the first place brethren 1. Property it is an inheritance the deed of which runnes for ever to him and his The subtillest Lawyer that is yea such an one as can almost finde a knot in a bulrush shall not be able to picke the least hole in your evidence it is an inheritance to which every one of you shall be heires and shall have an everlasting possession in it it is not in Heaven as it is in this world where the elder brother is onely heire and goes away with the inheritance when many times the yonger are beggars but in Heaven it is not so for there we shall be all heires and coheires with Christ the reason of it is because it is called the inheritance of the Saints 2 Col. 12. Giving thankes unto the father who hath made us meete to bee partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light Why my brethren now you know light is such a thing as is common to all so that if there were ten thousand times more men in the world then there is they might enjoy it neither doth any envie at the light another hath why Heaven is an inheritance of the sonnes in light which wee shall be partakers of there shall be no envying of one anothers happinesse and light in glory why my brethren you may be all heires yea you shall bee all heires there are no younger brethren Againe why alasse in this life the livings we possesse the inheritance of them passeth from one to another from the father to the sonne yea and further all the evidence they have will bee burnt one day they will be made voide at the day of judgement the whole world will be burnt and what will become of their inheritance But now secondly this 2. Property inheritance is eternall incorruptible 1 Cor. 5. 1. For wee have if this earthly house of our Tabernacle be dissolved we have I say a building with God not made with hands eternall in the Heavens An inheritance my brethren that will be for ever why now thinke what eternity is and thinke of it againe it will even amaze your thoughts Eternity is that which multiplies our joyes here upon earth to enjoy a thing many yeeres is our greatest joy if we can so enjoy it there lies our comfort hence those words of the rich man in the Gospell Soule take thy rest for thou hast goods laid up for many yeeres What a happinesse is it not onely to enjoy an inheritance many yeeres but for ever goods layd up for ever what a mercy is it that they are for ever the eternity of them addes to our joyes it was a rejoycing to David that God would give him a Kingdome but more that hee would prepare a Kingdome to his house a great while 2 Sam. 7. 18 19. Then went King David and sate before the Lord and said Who am I O Lord God and what is my house that thou hast brought me hitherto and was this yet a small thing in thy sight oh Lord God but thou hast spoken of thy servants house for a great while to come David tooke it for a great favour that God would bestow a Kingdome upon him and yet saith he this was but a small thing in thy sight what was it a small thing to give a Kingdome No but there was another thing more than a Kingdome and that was that his posterity should sit on the Throne for a great while this made the mercy the greater if Heavens glory should last but for a few daies or yeeres it were worth more seeking after than all the things of this World wee make a great strife for momentary trifles in this world but Heaven shall last for ever it hath an everlasting evidence it shall never have an end the day thereof is for a long day for it is for eternity and a day Againe David was to die himselfe and to leave the glory of his Kingdome to another yet he tooke it for a great favour and mercy that it was promised to his house for a great while but now in Heaven we shall never die we shall possesse our Kingdome in our owne persons to everlasting the pleasures and riches wee enjoy here must go to others The rich man in the Gospell sings to his soule Soule thou hast goods in store laid up for many yeares eate drinke and take thy rest but marke the answer Thou foole this night shall thy glory be taken from thee Now in Heaven it is farre otherwise we shall never be deprived of our glory why let not the least thought of jealousie come into our mindes For this in the next place is incorruptible and not onely incorruptible in it selfe but also in those that enjoy it wee shall bee ever with the Lord we shall be the persons themselves The Kingdomes of this world were brave places if they might have no end the Kings of them exceeding happy if they might never die but live alwaies but alasse though they live like Gods they shall die like men Now in Heaven there is no such thing there is no dying nor talke of dying but mortality shall bee swallowed up of immortality wee shall enjoy those inexhaustible Rivers of pleasures to eternity Now wee come to the 3. Property next property It is incorruptible and undefiled 1 Cor. 5. 25. All the comforts wee have in this life are mixt with sinne yea with the impotency of sinne and misery so that one saith well to this purpose Though the joyes of a King be many and greater than others yet they have as many sorrowes attending upon them as joyes and if not crosses yet sinne the greatest crosse of all if men bee sensible of it but Heaven is undefiled there is no anguish no griefe no teares no sorrowes but joyes to all eternity There shall be no vexing Canaanites to trouble you neither outward nor inward enemies Isa 35. And the ransomed of the Lord shall returne and come to Sion with songs and everlasting ioy shall bee upon their heads they shall obtaine ioy and gladnesse and sorrow and sighing shall fly away here the guilt of sinne afflicts us the punishments due unto the same affright us one man is troubled with a lust which hee would faine master another man cries out with the Apostle O miserable man that I am c. Qualmes come over many mens hearts for the guilt of sinne and how many throes have they before they can get sinne abandoned another is vexed with some tormenting malady and grievous sickenesse in his body but in Heaven we shall bee freed from these sorrowes