man could number of all Nations and Kindreds and people and the Inhabitants of heauen exceede in number the stars in the firmament or the sands by the Sea shore O Israell how great is the house of God and how large is the place of his possession In domo Patris mei multae sunt mansiones In my Fathers house there are many mansions sayth our Sauiour Iesus Christ Whereof this proportion may be made that as far as the whole world in greatnesse and compasse of place doth exceede the wombe of one priuat womā so much doth the place of blisse passe all the whole worlde in greatnesse and quantity And as much as a man liuing in this world doth passe a child in his mothers wombe in strength of body beauty wit vnderstanding and knowledge so much and so farre more doth a Saint in heauen passe men of this world in all heauenly knowledge This place is so great spacious as if wee compare the whole cōpasse of earthly things with the multitude of heauenly all that euer God made besides heauen it selfe is but as a prick or small point or period beeing matched with the workemanshippe of heauen This is that large and glorious Kingdom of God which he hath prepared to set forth his glory and to expresse vnto vs his mighty power To conclude this point though heauen be large and great which no tongue can expresse yet streight is the way narrow is the gate to goe into it Many seeke it and few finde it for the streitnesse of the way is affliction the narrownes of the gate is true contrition the Suburbs is the Church the dore is Christ by whō if we truly seek we shal surely enter in O let vs therefore striue to auoyd sin the our wayes may be verity our paths piety Gods holy spirit our cōductor his Word our director Our Faith holde the Anchor while Grace steeres the Helme Let our teares bée the seas and our sighes the gales of wind to arriue at Gods heauenly Kingdom which God hath prepared vs Christ hath merited for vs the holy Spirit doth assure vs and our godly life will witnesse the same vnto vs which the Father of mercy euen for his Sonne Iesus Christ his sake for euer grant vnto vs. Amen Thirdly Heauen is described by the Ioyes NOw as Heauen is a most glorious place a Kingdome which hath no end or measure either in power or glory So in the same are contained Ioyes vnspeakeable As a learned Father saith that it is an easier matter to know what God is not then to know what hee is It is much easier to tell what is not in heauen then to tell what is there the ioyes thereof are so great that all the Arithmeticians in the world cannot number the Geometricians measure nor Rhetoricians with all their eloquence vtter and expresse the same it doth exceede the power of our eloquence and the capacity of all our intelligence Saint Paule was rapt into Heauen and saw the ioyes thereof they were so exceeding great that his tongue was not able to expresse them Therefore he saith that neither eye hath seene nor eare hath heard nor the heart of man conceiued the greatnes of heauenly ioyes They which are there wish nothing but they haue it before them they desire nothing but they enioy it they dwell in loue they liue in peace and continue in the fruition of all blessednesse Blessed is their estate blessed their beginning their present beeing and their neuer ending They are crowned with ioy and gladnesse and remaine for euer in a most blessed estate As they haue beene here members militant there they are all triumphant all Kings reigning and all victoriously triumphing There the King is Verity and the law Loue and Charity the honor Equity the peace Felicity and the life Eternity If Peter said onely vpon Christ his transfiguration it is good to be héere O how much more shall the childrē of God reioyce in the Kingdome of heauen when they enioy not onely Heauens beauty and the beholding of Christ in his glory but shall themselues bée glorified and shine as the Sunne in the Kingdome of their Father All the Ioyes Pleasures Delights comforts that this worlde can yéelde are but shaddowes if they bée compared vnto the true Ioyes in the Kingdome of Heauen The ioyes of our bodyes shall be infinite the ioyes of our souls vnspeakable Our earthly and vile bodyes shall bée made like vnto the most glorious body of the Son of God like vnto the brightnesse of the Firmament like vnto the Angels like vnto the Sun in his strength We shall sée God face to face we shall sée him as hée is all the parts and powers both of body and soule shal be filled with the sight presence and fruition of God As the Lords glory reflected vpon Moses did make his face to shine vpon the Mount So will our Sauiour Jesus Christ refine and beautifie with the perfection of grace that they may bee like vnto his glorious body It was one of our Sauiors last requests in the behalf of his Church Father I will that those whō thou hast giuen me be with mee where I am that they may behold my glory For the glory of Christ is so delightfull to be séene so swéet to bée possessed and so pleasant to be inioyed and his continuall presence is so ioyfull vnto all the Saints in Heauen that if the least drop thereof should descend into hell it would sweeten all the paines of the damned The fountaine of Happinesse is called by Diuines visio Dei beatifica the sight of God which maketh vs happy Haec sola est summum bonum nostrum this onely sight of God is our cheefest happinesse which Christ also confirmeth whē he saith to his Father This is life euerlasting that men know thee the liuing God and Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent In seeing him wée shall know the power of the Father we shal know the wisdome of the Sonne and we shall know the goodnesse of the holy Ghost wee shall know the inuisible nature of the most sacred and blessed Trinity This sight of God is the full beatitude and glorification of man for in seeing him we shall possesse him in possessing him wee loue him in louing him we shall praise him and in praising him we shal liue and reigne with him for hee is the Inheritance of his people the possession of their Felicity and the reward of their expectation He is supereminent aboue all superexcellent beyond all and most abundant in Loue to all All persons generally haue the participation of ioy and euery one in particular the fruition of glory But this one thing let vs cōsider that there is a twofold equality of proportion quantity of glory which ariseth not from the Obiect Almighty God which is euer the same but from man the subiect which is
not in euery particular alike capable of glory Yet happy and thrice happy shall they bee who shall bee partakers of the least of heauenly glory They that haue least can desire no more and they that haue most discerne no wants in others but haue a contented pleasure with profit safety with solace felicity with vnity peace with perfection and agreement with grace Where Christ his righteousnesse is their holy rayment and his perfect fulnes their ioyfull contentment Their drinke is the most sweete water of Life Angels food their delicate nourishment they shall haue the blessing of the holy Trinity with all the spirituall riches vnspeakeable ioyes of heauen to be powred vppon them O who can tel the greatnesse of this ioy When where togither shal meete the Head and the Body Christ and his Church the Prince of peace and his Spouse our two old friends our soules and our bodyes shall meete after so many yeeres of separation with Angels Arch-angels Cherubins and Seraphins Patriarches Prophets Martyrs Apostles and all the blessed Saints of God also fathers and mothers husbands and wiues maisters and seruants brothers and sisters parents and childrē neighbours and friends all shall meete together what cryes and shouts will there be for ioy what clapping of hands and sweete embracements one of another O great shall be our ioyes when we behold our long-desired purchase which we haue so often wished for and most great shall bée our ioy more then euer it was when wee both with body and soule shall sée and behold our Creator as hee is where wee all shall thinke one thing and all shall sing one song Halleluiah God O we shal not onely behold our most blessed Sauiour who so deerely bought vs but we shal also reign with him triumph with him sit in the iudgement seat with him iudge the very Angels with him O what more hope could be thought vpon except it were to bee Gods our selues All the ioyes all the riches all the happines that heauen containeth shall be powred vppon vs. To these ioyes to these felicities and to this blessed Inheritance bring vs O Lord for thy deare Sonne Christ Iesus his sake Fourthly Heauen is described by the Eternity As this Kingdome is full of ioyes vnspeakeable so the ioyes thereof are also eternall Thy Kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome and thy Dominion indures throughout all generatiōs The God of heauen shal set vp a Kingdome which shal neuer be destroyed this kingdom is life euerlasting this glory is eternall these ioyes are permanent the Crowne neuer fadeth the Saluation is perdurable the Inheritance immortal and the Habitation perpetuall The Author to the Hebrewes saith We receiue a kingdome which cannot be shaken Saint Iohn heard in Pathmos great voyces from heauen saying The Kingdomes of this world are our Lords and his Christs and he shall reigne for euermore Thus God will bestow vpon his Saints a glorious ample ioyfull and a perpetuall kingdom where they shall be ioyfull in an euerlasting ioy The ioyes of heauen are exquisite the felicity permanent and the glory eternall where faith hath her perfect worke in charity Hope her desired happinesse and loue a large scope in euerlasting Vnity They that haue receiued here smal things for a time shall receiue there great things for euer they that haue beene faithfull here ouer a few things shall bee made there rulers ouer many things they that haue suffered sorrow heere for a short time shall enter into ioy there for euer which is called the ioy of the Lord They that haue beleeued in God shal reioice in his presence for euer they that haue liued in his feare shall liue without feare of any enemy for euer they that haue kept holy the Lords Sabboths here shall there kéepe holy day for euer they that haue honored their Parēts Ministers Masters Magistrates shall be honoured of God and Angels for euer they that haue chastised their bodyes and suffered with Christ Iesus shall bee indued with the light of euerlasting immortality and reigne with him for euer they that haue loued their neighbours shall be beloued of God for euer they that haue mourned sorrowed and truly lamented for their sinne shall receiue Crownes of glory for euer they that haue watched praied in the night fasted in the Bridegroomes absence shall now rest in the day that hath no night and be richly feasted in the Kingdome of God for euer They that haue labored in the Lords Vineyard shall there receiue the penny of eternall blisse for euer they that haue ouercome the World the Flesh and the Deuill shall triumph in eternall glory with Christ and his holy Angels for euer and they that haue here wrung their hands for sorrow shal there clap their hands for ioy for euer more This shall be the blessed estate of all Gods Saints that shall dwell in the kingdome of God for euer These cōsiderations caused the Patriarches Prophets and the Saints of the olde world to long for desire that eternall swéet most ioyfull inheritance of Gods heauenly Kingdome Toby Iob and Elias wished thēselues in that Kingdome Paule desired to bee dissolued and bee with Christ Salomon counted all the glory of his Kingdome but vanity and the continuance thereof but as a wéede Dauid lamenteth that hee is so long kept away frō this glorious eternall Kingdome Woe is mee saith hee that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech and to haue my habitation among the tents of Kedar And againe Like as the Hart desireth the water brooks so longeth my soule after thée O God my soule is athirst for God yea euen for the liuing God O when shall I come to appeare before the presence of God And againe he saith that he should vtterly haue fainted but that he did rest in hope of a better Kingdome and beleeued verily in short time to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the Liuing Why did Abraham forsake his own natural countrey and his fathers house and to goe out he knew not whither Why did Moses forsake Egypt and refused to bee called the son of Pharaohs Daughter Why did so many Saints and holy men women leaue their ancient houses and riches and wander vp and downe in wildernesses in mountaines and in dens caues of the earth Surely for this cause they had respect vnto the recompence of the reward that was Regnum Dei the Kingdome of God they counted their Countrey but banishment and a cursed vale of misery their worldly glory but vanity their dwelling and abode here but a Iayle a prisō or a dark dungeon their pleasures but sorrow mourning and teares and all their doings were to this end that they might enioy a better Inheritance that is this glorious kingdome of Almighty God This is the Inheritance whereof the Apostle speaketh Proposito sibi gaudio sustinuit crucem He suffered affliction
The Author to the Reader I Beseech you to peruse this little Booke of my owne making imprinted at my own cost charges Which I humbly intreat you to accept at my hands not weighing the worth but respecting my good will And deale therein in your vertuous disposition and Christian loue and charity as God shall moue your minde I. A. Minister and Preacher of Gods Word A CELESTIALL Looking-glasse To behold the beauty of Heauen Directed vnto all the Elect Children of God very briefly composed and authentically penned that it may be effectually gained PSAL. 87.3 Glorious things are spoken of thee O city of God PSAL. 107.43 Who so is wise will ponder those things LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes 1621. ⧠TO THE RIGHT HONOrable truly Noble vertuous and most worthy Lady the Lady CATHERNE Marchionesse Buckingham wife vnto the right Honorable GEORGE Marquesse of uckingham Vicount VILLERS Baron of Whaddon Lord High Admirall of England c. grace and peace from God the Father through our Lord Iesus Christ RIght honorable and vertuous Ladie so farre forth as the holy Scripture maketh mention of the Titles Magnitude Ioyes and Eternity of heauen the which I haue here intreated of or any other diuine matter whatsoeuer so farre I may bee bold either to speake write or intreate of and no further for the secret things belong vnto the Lord but the reuealed belong vnto vs and to our children for euer Deut. 29.29 But yet it may bee thought great boldnesse in mee that am altogether vnacquanted or knowne vnto your Honor being a Minister and Preacher of Gods Word to presume to shrowde from the preiudice of contempt this my small and vnlearned Treatise Intituled A Celestiall Looking-glasse to be patronized vnder your Honors protection beeing a Lady of such dignity and vertue and so in some sort I do my selfe acknowledge Yet as the Lord hath adorned you among other religious Ladyes with whō yee shine as a cleere Lamp of light in the world through your vnfeigned loue and sincere profession of the Gospell whereby you are an honor not onely to your house but vnto your whole degree and Sexe which as it is a sweete testimony to your owne heart that you are beloued of God and hath made you far and neere honored of all those that loue God so also as your religious zeale towards Gods Word doth exceed your honor or Greatnesse it likewise maketh me very confident that it will excuse my boldnesse the rather because I haue receiued the ground of my worke from the direction of the word of God but the method I submit to the correction of man and am sorry it is no more worthy your honorable view But although it bee rawly comprized in a fewe scattered leaues and as rudely composed in a sort of scribled and vnlettered lines as the fruit of whose outward husk being vnpolished may seeme vnpleasant yet no doubt the inward kernell once tasted and well digested may proue cordiall and right fruitfull Right Honorable and Christian deuoted Ladye like as the Moralists sheweth me that where only the quality of the affection and not the quantity of the present is to be attended Modicum non differt à magno it is no matter whether the present bee great or small So was it with Alexander who receiued a fewe harsh lines of verse from Choerilus Artaxerxes a handful of water from poore Sinaeta and our Sauiour Iesus Christ the poore widdowes mite In like manner I am loth to trouble your Honor with a treatise of long circumstance lest I should feare you with the losse of time and so make an end before I beginne But if the good liking of this Mite of my poore labours could winne the hope of your fauour to intreat you with patience to peruse the same and withall vouchsafe to grace mee with your honorable acceptance to patronize this small worke which I in all dutifull manner with as tender affection as euer mother or nurse gaue their brests to their children or the Pellican peckt out her blood to feed and cherish her young doe here as kindly dedicate and present then shall I if God spare me life be comforted and encouraged vnder so worthy a fauourer to proceede in the like studies and according to my bounden duty incessātly with al humility pray to Amightie God for his glory not onely to preserue your Honor in all happinesse to continue you honorable vpon earth but also to bee farre more adorned to reigne with a Celestiall Crowne of glory in the Kingdome of heauen Your Honors in all Christian duty to be commanded I. A. An Apologie of the Author to the Reader O Wretched man that I am What am I that dare vndertake being but dust and ashes wormes meate to enter into a description of the sacred and Coelestiall Kingdome of heauen which is in all things inscrutable and vnsearchable and in all respects infinite It exceedeth the power of our Eloquence the capacity of our Intelligence in so much that no mortall man can comprehend it Much lesse that I of men one of the meanest of a defiled heart and polluted lips of weak memory and of a shallow vnderstanding should attempt and presume to define or describe the vnspeakeable Ioyes or secrets of heauen Yet for as much as the Lords Pen-men haue according to our capacity described in sundry places diuers particulars of the heauenly blessednesse I haue briefly according to the rules of sobriety collected and considered the same for our instruction and comfort And as the authority of the speaker or writer is lost when as the voyce and life is not affected with the worke it selfe I doe therefore hartily desire al those although vnknowne vnto many that shall either reade or heare this short and briefe Coelestiall Looking-glasse and gather comforts vnto their soules our of these my labours to pray vnto our Lord Iesus Christ for mee to giue me his grace and direct mee with his holy Spirit that what I either preach or write I may both in life and doctrine expresse and performe the same vnto my liues end that whilst I endeauour to raise others I may raise my selfe from all my sinnes to the glory of Gods holy name and the saluation of my owne soule Amen I. A. Qui cessat esse melior cessat esse bonus Hee that ceasseth to be better ceasseth to be good Looking-glasse to behold the Beauty of Heauen OF all the workes of God Heauen is the most ancient it was made at the beginning of the world and it was the first of all Gods works the felicity thereof cannot bee imagined neither the blessings numbered so incomparable as cannot be equalled of such value as none can comprize it so great ae cannot bee measured and of such eternity as neuer can be ended The very name of heauen to all is louely because it is a hauen for rest a Paradise for pleasure a City for
for the ioy that was set before him This is that pretious pearle and treasure which the Merchant found in the field and sold all that hee had and bought it This is that Inheritance in respect whereof S. Paul estéemeth all the world as dung The same InheritaÌ„ce for which Ignatius that godly Martyr biddeth this price Fire gallowes beasts breaking of bones quartering of my members crushing of my body al the torments of the Deuill together let them come vpon mee so I may enioy the treasure of Heauen Thus you see that our Summum bonum our chiefe good thing our Vltimus finis our last farewell our Terminus ad quâ—m the end whereunto all our actions endeauours hopes and desires doe tend and bend is that we may liue for euer And so the end of all our preaching the scope of all our hearing the fruit of all our beleeuing the effect of all our knowledge and the maine point of all our profession is to liue that wee may enioy this euerlasting Kingdome To conclude and briefly end though Gods kingdome of glory and the glory of Gods kingdome hath no end The Lord in his mercy correct our present sinfulnesse erect our further weaknesse and direct our future frailty that we may earnestly desire aduisedly search truly know and perfectly fulfil al things that may please him wherby we may walke vprightly in his wayes and liue truly in his Loue to our comfort and his glory that in the end we may obtaine that long desired and beautifull Diadem wherewith he crowneth his Elect and reigne with him in his euerlasting Kingdome to behold the delightful countenance of his most glorious Maiesty to be filled with the excéeding swéetnes of his most blessed presence which is life for euer The Author to the Reader If Logicks Art could heauenly ioyes define or Geometry Coelestiall wayes but measure here mortall man might shew those works diuine Now in the heauens where Saints do reigne with pleasure arithmetitians ne're can number right Nor yet the tongues of Rhetoricians rare describe that blisse which Saints haue in Gods sight Reioycing still with Christ our Sauiour there esteeme you this Coelestâ—all Looking-glasse Which I haue penn'd Heauens beauty to behold each day and night pray God may bring to passe Such ioyes vnto our soules for to vnfold Nonne Deus eras via FINIS a Gen. 1.1 Psal 33.6 Psal 136.5 Act. 14.15 Reu. 14.7 b 1 Cor. 2.9 Esay 64.4 Psal 31.20 c Mat. 5.12 1. Pet. 4.14 d Dani. 7.14 Luk. 1.33 Dan. 2.44 e Math. 11.28.29 Iere. 6.16 f Reu. 2.7 g Reu. 21.2 h Mat. 16.19 Luk. 19.12 i 1. Pet. 5.4 2. Tim. 4.8 k Reu. 22 1 Mat. 19.28 Reu. 3.21 l Mat. 19.29 m Ioh. 6.44 n Ioh. 3.3 Mat. 19.28 2 Cor. 5.17 Iam. 1.18 1. Pet. 1.3 o Mat. 9.29 1. Pet. 1.9 p Ezech. 18.21 q Lu. 12.32 Ioh. 3.15.16 r 2. Cor. 12.2 Å¿ Reu. 3.21 t Deut. 10.17 u Exo. 6.3 w Reu. 21.2.10 x Ps 24.4 y 1 Pet. 2.9 Titus 2.14 z 2. Cor. 5.17 a Iohn 12.36 Ephe. 5.8 b Mat. 25.34 c Gal. 4.7 Rom. 8.17 d Rom. 9.23 e 2. Tim. 4.8 1. Pet. 5.4 f Reu. 7.9 Mat. 25.14 Tim. 2.18 2. Pet. 1-11 Luke 24. Reu. 21.11 Reu. 2.3 Marke 16. Luke 10. Reu. 21.10 Reue. 21.2 Esay 60.11 Reu. 21.25 Reu. 21.2 Reu. 21.21 Reu. 22.15 Reu. 21 2 Reu. 21 14 Reu. 21.2 Reu. 21.21 Reu. 21 23 Reu. 22 1 2 Reue. 21.6 Rom. 8.17 Titus 3.7 Mat. 24.25 Reu. 21 16 17 Reu. 7 9 Baruch 3 24. Iohn 14 2. 2. Pet. 1.11 1. Cor. 2 9 1 Cor. 2.9 Esay 64.4 Ps 31.20 Mat. 5.8 Reu. 19 9 Psal 64.4 Ioh. 3.33 Rom. 3 4. Luk. 9 33 Mat. 13 43 Dan. 12 3 Mat. 13 43 1 Cor. 2 9 Esay 64.4 Phil. 3 21 Dan. 12.3 Reu. 22.4 1 Ioh. 3 2 Exo 34 30 Phil. 3 21 Ioh 17 24 Ioh. 17 3 Psal 16 11 Reu. 21.6 Psal 145 Dani. 2.3 Mat. 19.29 2. Cor. 4 17 Ioh. 16.22 1. Pet. 5.4 1 Pet. 1.4 Heb. 12.18 Reu. 11. 2. King 19. Phil. 3. Heb. 11. Heb. 12. Mat. 13. Phil. 3. Hieron in catalogo 3.
beauty a Kingdome of state a Crowne of glory a Throne of Maiesty life euerlasting it is desired of all hoped for of many but onely enioyed of the best All religions ayme at it the wicked doe wish for it the Iews expect it the schismatiques seeke for it the Turkes would enioy it and the Papists thinke to merit it But the true Protestant the regenerate Christian by faith and repentance begges it and he through the merits of Iesus Christ shall enioy it As Heauen is the highest place the Throne of God the Court of the great King the mighty Iehouah So it is the Citty of safety the harbour of the Iust the peculiar people the regenerate Christians the Children of Light the Elect by Gods Preordination where al are Kings and heires with Christ inuested with glory crowned with Maiesty clothed with security decked with delights replenished with pleasure garnished with all graces adorned with beauty furnished with the best company and flourishing with the flower of all Nations The chiefest reasons that the vnderstanding of mortall man can comprehend to the describing of Gods Kingdome are specially these foure First by the Titles Secondly by the Magnitude Thirdly by the Ioyes And fourthly by the Eternity Heauen is described by the titles To set forth heauen more fully to our vnderstanding it hath diuers glorious Titles and names in the holy Scriptures it is called an heauenly Kingdome a blessed and euerlasting Kingdome a Celestiall and heauenly Ierusalem a Kingdome of glory a Throne of Maiesty a Paradise of pleasure the glory of God and life euerlasting In the Kingdome of heauen are three sacred and most blessed orders or dignities The first of them is Supercelestiall containing Cherubins Seraphins and Thrones The second Celestiall containing Dominions Principalities and Powers The third Subcelestiall containing Vertues Arch-Angels and Angels Iohn to shew vnto vs in some measure the vnspeakable glory of heauen describes the place vnder the name of a great City comparing it with the most precious things of this world inuironed round about with a great wall for the safegard of the Citizens The wall is made of Iasper to note the riches therof in the wall are twelue gates which doe open vnto euery quarter of the world signifying the willingnesse of heauen to accept the Elect in euery place on euery side and from euery Countrey and Nation These gates are made of pearles and euery gate is a pearle vndiuided without blemish They are euer open signifying security to receiue with welcome all that enter in At those gates are twelue Angels whose names are written vpon the gates and they are the twelue Tribes of Israel They are porters to keepe out all strangers and to admit with welcom all Citizens Euery gate hath a porter to shew vigilancy Euery porter is a Tribe to shew the dignity Euery porters name is on the gate to the end that euery one should execute his owne charge The wall wherein those gates are hath twelue foūdations to betoken a sure firme established ground-worke In those foundations are writtē the names of the Lambes twelue Apostles implying that the foundation of the City is layde vpon the Rocke of Faith The foundations of the wall of the City are garnished with all manner of pretious stones The first is Iasper to figure prosperity the second Saphir in signe of truth the third a Chalcedony to note perfection the fourth an Emerald in to-of victory the fift Sardonix implying security the sixt Sardius to demonstrate fidelity the seuenth Chrysolite to expresse purity the eight Berill to marke out content the ninth a Topaz alluding vnto plenty the tenth a Chrysoprasus to designe beatitude the eleuenth a Iacinth to speake of Eternity the twelfth an Amethyst to manifest loue And thus is the wall garnished to shew vs the treasure and felicity thereof The City it selfe is all of pure gold both the buildings and streets are gold shining like cleere glasse the light of this City is Christ from his seate proceedeth a riuer as cleere as Crystall on both sides the bankes growes the tree of Life that yeelds continuall fruite it beareth twelue times euery yeare twelue manner of fruits to represent the quantity and variety of the pleasures and ioyes of heauen of which riuer and fruits all the inhabitants may eate and drink their fill The riuer is neuer drying nor the fruits fayling for the Lord maintaineth the same There is no winter to nip the fruits no sommer to consume the water nor fall of the leafe to disgarnish the tree of his beauty There is no heate to vexe nor cold to grieue no hunger nor thirst no malice nor strife no anger no pride no dissimulation nor deceit no couetousnes nor griping no whoredom or vncleannesse no swearing or profaning no disobedience There is no cosener to collogue no parasite to dissemble no foe to fight no inferiour to yeelde obedience no forrainers but brethren no strangers but all of the houshold of faith Children of one holy Father coheires with Christ their elder brother They shall not neede the helpe of any Doctor for Physicke nor any Lawyer to pleade for their right the whole Kingdome is their owne and their Letters patents of Donation are recorded This is the principal inheritance of the Saints and the habitation for all the Elect children of God prepared for them from the beginning of the world To conclude this point make vs O Lord to bee of the number of them whom thou hast ordained to reign with thee in thy heauenly Kingdome write vs in the booke of Life that we may bee in the assembly of thy righteous Saints and giue vs grace to bee sorrowfull for our sinnes fearefull of thy Iudgements thankefull for thy benefites louers of thy mercies and mindefull of thy presence that we may be diligent to please thee haue grace to know thee and hope to embrace thee through the merits of Iesus Christ our Sauiour Amen Secondly Heauen is described by the Magnitude AS Heauen is a most glorious Kingdome so it is a most spacious and large place the Angel measuring the same findeth it to bee euery way 12000. furlongs euery which furlong hauing in it twenty fiue Geometricall paces eight of them doth make a mile which is fiue thousand foote So that these twelue thousand furlongs are made fifteene thousand miles which beeing made square by addition there are thrice so many for the other three parts or three squares of the City This is that large Kingdome which containeth the innumerable multitude of all the Elect children of God Thousand thousands doe minister vnto him and ten thousand times an hundred thousand doe stand about the seate and Throne of God Of euery Tribe of Israel were sealed twelue thousand and great multituds which no