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A46992	Comfortable words to afflicted consciences together with a short advice to ministers how to handle them : and also Mansio Christiana, or, The Christians mansion-house, being a sermon preached on the Lords-day, 7th Feb., Anno Dom. 1668 at the funeral of Mrs. Martha Walmisley, the wife of Mr. Charles Walmisley, minister of Chesham magna in the county of Bucks / by William Jole ...	Jole, William, d. ca. 1702.	1671 (1671)	Wing J887; ESTC R8442	40,808	152

bring us into this Land Numb 14. ve 8. Hearken unto Caleb and Ioshua unto the faithful spies and true Ministers which declare from the word of God what place Heaven is and hearken not unto any that endeavour to bring an evil report on this good Land where only is fulness of Ioy and pleasures for evermore Indeed there are some difficulties will meet us in our way thitther but no impossibilities Say with Caleb the Lord is with us we are able to overcome them Numb 13. compared with Num● 14. ver 9. 2. Pray against earthly mindedness The young man that seemed so earnest to get to Heaven as is set out by his postures of running and kneeling and asking what to do yet his great earthly Possessions hindred him from being prevailed with by the promise of Heavenly treasure Mark 10. ver 2● Reuben and Gad had so much Cattle that they are not eager to dwell in Canaan Iacob's Flocks and Herds made him drive slowly homewards Gen. 33. v. 14. though I grant his fear of Esau might be a great cause also Those Christians are in most danger of neglecting Heavenly Mansions that are well seated in Earthly places haec sunt quae faciunt invitos mori these things make us unwilling to die Let us use the Earth as the Birds do the Air is their proper place and they care not to descend on the Earth but only for their times of Feeding so long as they keep aloft they are secure but when they come to settle on the Ground there are Nets or Guns or some Snare to endanger them So long as Christians keep their thoughts on Heaven and the thing above they are ●afe from Temptation but when they ●et them hover too long upon Earth and the things ●●low Satan is ready to shoot at them or hath one Snare or other to catch them though your daily Bread grows on Earth yet look on Heaven as your home and send your thoughts desires thither again that it may appear though you Table here you expect to dwell in Heaven A few words more and then I shall conclude 1. Be content though God allo● you but a low place or no place in this world seeing Christ is preparing a place for you in a better world 2. Get your affections more weaned from earthly Houses you that have them and fix your thoughts more on those Heavenly Mansions Because Children know no better things they are so much in love with every painted Gew-gaw It is our ignorance of the Joys in Heaven that makes us so greatly pleased with these toyes on Earth 3. Be not immoderate in grieving for any Relations or Friends departed no though you have h●d them but a little while with you So long as we are in the Body we are absent from the Lord the Apostle Paul groaned earnestly in desires of enjoying his Heavenly Mansion 2 Cor. chap. 5. ver 2. and he gives us his Reason in the 1. ver Who would not go out of a thatcht Cottage to inherit a Pallace those that die in the Lord do but leave an Earthly Tabernacle to inherit an Heavenly Kingdom and will you think it too s●on for them to be thus happy Solon being asked who were happy tells a story of two Youths who out of affection drew their Mothers Chariot to the Temple and the Gods to recompence them caused them to die presently those are happy that can number Death among their priviledges and bid it welcom If I could offer your Wife or Children House or Land would you say no I thank you I cannot spare them yet they shall tarry with me one year longer before they go to possess it We are wiser in earthly matters why are we such fools in Heavenly matters if we did cordially believe and seriously meditate on the blessedness in Heaven we should grudge at every hour we ●arry on earth we should think the shortest life too long and like the next Heir be eagerly desirous to inherit I say nothing of the party deceased though she hath left a good name behind her because I was totally ● stranger to her FINIS PAUL The Pattern of PARDONING MERCY Being A SERMON ON 1 Tim. Chap. 1. Ver. 15. Howbeit for this cause I obtained Mercy that in me first Iesus Christ might shew forth all Long-suffering for a Pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting 1 Tim. 1. Chap. 16. Ver. Howbeit for this cause I obtained Mercy that in me Iesus Christ might shew forth all long suffering for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting THis Verse referreth to the last words of the former Verse whereof I am chief howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy as if the Apostle would say Although I was so heinous a sinner yet Iesus Christ hath made me a pattern of mercy to all others As God makes some stand as fearful monuments of his wrath to fright ●hose that are impenitent like Lot's wife tu●ned into a Pillar of Salt to season after Ages So God is pleased to set others as Monuments of free-grace to invite all penitent Sinners the Apostle tells us what was Gods aim in pardoning him that was so great an offender to make a pattern of long suffering to encourage the greatest sinners to lay hold on his Mercy For Division of the words 1. Here is an Act mentioned Obtained 2. The thing mentioned Mercy 3. The Person mentioned I that needed long sufferings I the chief of sinners Lastly the Reason mentioned for this cause that I might be a pattern to them that shall hereafter believe that is to say that by my Example the greatest Sinners m●ght be encouraged to lay hold on the offer of Free Pardon seeing such a desperate opposer of Jesus Christ as I was received into favour that none might hereafter despair of Pardon but all Sinners might be encourag'd to come to God through Jesus Christ. The Doctrine will be most comfortable thus rendred That God hath set Paul as a glorious pattern of Mercy to encourage all sinners by his Example to seek for pardoning Mercy The orderly handling of this Doctrine will be 1. To see what a Pattern is 2. How Paul may be said to be a Pattern 3. Why Paul was made a Pattern Lastly What excellent ●ncouragement all Sinners hereafter may make of this glorious Pattern of Free-grace For the First What a Pattern is For on this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lyeth the stress of the whole matter A Pattern is materi● proposita ad imitandum something that is laid before our eyes for us to imitate when a Li●mner hath drawn some curious Picture in which he thinks he hath shewed much of his Art he hangs it out for all Passengers to look on to shew them what he can do every piece is not fit to be a Pattern but the most exact Pi●ces In the converting of Paul who by his own confession was one of the greatest

as our Mansion-house as the Text doth represent it a place prepared for us to dwell in for ever And what a glorious place must heaven needs be which the Bridegroom of our Souls hath now been 16 hundred years preparing for his Bride We must look upon heaven as our home our Fathers house If you ask what ground a Christian hath for this confidence I answer the Text telleth us Christ is gone thither to prepare a place for them Christ entred into heaven as a common person in the name of his Elect and so is gone to take possession in their right as a Guardian takes possession of a house and Land in the right of his Ward but Christ entred in his own right and ours both as he is our Guardian The high-Priest under the Law entred into the holy of holies with the names of the twelve Tribes on his Brest-plate to shew that he acted there for them whose names were there written Christ our great high Priest is entred into heaven whereof the holy of holies was but a Type thither hath he carryed the names of his Elect for whom he is to provide Mansions and therefore Christians are said to have an Inheritancereserved in Heaven for them 1 Pet. chap. 1. ver 4. how should this make us high in our hopes and lowly in our hearts heaven is ours in Reversion Great hopes or hopes of great things beget great Spirits and keep Men from doing any base or sordid things which are below what they hope for a Christians hope keeps up his heart and hinders him from doing any thing unbeseeming his hope The Eagle scorns to catch at Flies A Christias is that true Eagle that soareth above these petty things below the hope of Heavenly Mansions should should lift us above the Earth 2. It should make us lowly in our hearts not to strive and fight for places here but to be contented with any place remembring that while we are in this world we are out of our proper place Those that are neglectful to look after Heavenly Mansions are most quarrelling for places on Earth a christian may call all the things of this world Esek and Sitnah as Isaack named those 2 Wells about which the Philistines strove with him Gen. 26. 20 21. If God give House or Land to a christian it doth but make the Men of the world strive with him and hate him for it as the Philistines did envy Isaack's Flocks Herds Gen. 26. 14. But a Christian may call Heaven Rehoboth by the name of Isaack's Well which they strove not for Now God hath made room for me says Isaack a christian hath one place which ugodly men will not strive for namely Heaven what an Argument therefore is this to remove our desires from earthly Houses and to fix them on our Heavenly Mansions in Earthly Houses we are always either wanting room or furniture or food or peace in eating it or assurance of continuing but our Heavenly Mansions have all these properties Heaven is a good place for it is of Christ's own preparing Heaven is a large place there is many Mansions room enough and provision enough of all things to make a Saint happy Abraham's Servant asked Rebeckah i● there room in thy Fathers house for us to lodge in She answered we have both Straw and Provinder enough and room to lodge in Gen. 24 ver 23 25. A Christian need not make such an inquiry concerning Heaven there is room enough and provision enough God prepared the world for Adams use before he sent him to be there God built the House and ready furnished it and then raised up Man God our Redeemer is gone to prepare Heaven before he carry his Members thither Heaven is also a safe place where God dwelleth there can be no fear of enemies to molest us Israel in the earthly Canaan had plenty but not safety the Cananites continually were invading them Heaven only is the place of Peace The Heavenly Ierusalem is described to have a great wall and high and 12 Gates and 12 Angels watching at the Gates and the City to be built upon a great and high Mountain Revel 20. ver 10 12. Namely all things that may import safety Heaven is too high for danger to climb up to it it is so immured that there can be no scaling it the Gates are so strong that there is no breaking them open and the Watchers so watchful that there can be no fear of surprize And in Heaven also is suitable company there we shall dwell with God the Holy Trinity with Holy Angels aud Saints here on Earth unsuitable company may make us weary of our Habitations Lot chose the Plain of Sodom to dwell in but what an uncomfortable place did it prove to that righteous man by reason of the wicked company of those beastly Sodomites no doubt had he known their evil manners before nothing could have tempted him to have thought of dwelling there Christians that know and see this Earth to be a Sodom must not choose it for their dwelling place Lastly Heaven is a place that abideth for ever Worldly Cities have no firm Foundations but the Wall of Heaven is described to have twelve Foundations Rev. 21. ver 14. Earthly Houses may be burned or beat down either by accident or design as we see a woful instance in London that City most famed throughout the world but you know that the World it self is reserved for the general Conflagration will you make that your Dwelling-place which you know must be destroyed We linger like Lot and are loath to come out of this Sodow but the Lord is merciful by sending us many crosses pulleth us hence This sheweth us further how we come to neglect Heavenly Mansions We over-value Earthly Tabernacles and that makes us undervalue heavenly Mansions Earthly Houses are visible their Gardens and Orchards Parks and Forrests Fish-ponds and Motes Arbors and Banquetting-houses but Heavenly Mansions and what Provision is made there is only known to Faith 1. Cor. chap. 2. ver 9. as it is written Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard neither have entred the heart of Man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him which if it be true of those things prepared in the Gospel it is more true of those things prepared in Heaven This consideration of Heavenly Mansions may much quiet and com●ort those that either are not born to House and Land or that are driven from House and home by any sad Providence your Tents may be removed but your Mansions endure for ever 2. Use of Exhortation to all that hope for Heavenly Mansions 1. Search the Land where you hope ●o dwell for ever Israel ●ent spies to ●earch for Canaan but the●r spies were of two sorts Some brought an evil ●eport on Canaan saying there were Gyants and yet brought of the good fruits of the Land but Caleb Ioshus told them the truth If the Lord delight in us he will