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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12093	Mans last end the glorious vision and fruition of God. By Richard Sheldon Doctor in Divinity, one of his Maiesties chaplines	Sheldon, Richard, d. 1642?	1634 (1634)	STC 22396; ESTC S102411	66,288	126

kingdome of glory No man saith that Reverend Pastour Cowper commeth Cowper apud D. Boyes 8. Sonday after Trinit epist either to prison or pallace but by the entrie thereof So man goeth to heaven or hell but by the way thereof If this which I have set downe touching good workes the very way of man to his eternall felicity were not apparent in it selfe according to the tenure of sacred scriptures requiring commanding the same yet the very manner of Christs investing and inducting his Saints with and into glory doth most evidently evince the same For Mat. 25. 22. 23. 24. were it not a dishonour against the infinite pure Majestie of God and impeachment to his all Luk. 19. 17. knowledge and wisdome to thinke that he should otherwise give glory in time then in such a manner as he from all aeternities foreknew hee would give and had predetermined to give Or that he should not from al aeternities have foredetermined decreed so to give glory as in the time of his admission of his Saints into glorie he doth actually give in truth of thing collate the same Now how God doth actually giue collate glory at the day of glorification the Gospell is so cleere that there is no declaration or amplificatiō of the same needfull for he admitteth into his kingdome of glorie those that have beleeved in him and beloved him even as from all eternities he had prepared Isa 64. 4. 1 Cor. 2. 9. the glorie which eye hath not seene nor eare heard nor heart conceived for those that love him Love him is expressed but beleeve on him is supposed For it is not lesse possible to love God without Faith then it is possible to please him without faith which the Apostle concludeth to be altogether impossible And thus doe the good Heb. 11. 6. workes of the faithfull follow them So so the Virgins Reve. 14. 13. that have light and Oyle in their Lampes with joy Mat. 25. 10. finde admittance into the joye of the Bridgroome So so all those that have on their weding garments Mat. 22. 11. 12. are graciously admitted all others wanting the same are justly excluded So so the iust judge that gives to every man according to his workes rewardeth his diligent and faithfull Servants whō hee findeth watchfull and by their piety and obedience Mat. 25. 20. 22. in the good use of grace and this by grace to have gained either five two or more talents according to the measure of grace received So so are good works via regni the way to the kingdome as it is the joynt voice of all the people of God But yet we must know this very well that we must not attribute eternall life nor the means that leade thereunto to any other then to the grace of God Concerning which truth venerable Austen after a long discourse concludeth August de grat et lib. arbit c. 8. et 1 15. 16. c. thus Therefore most deare our good and godly life is nothing else but the grace of God and without doubt life everlasting which is given to good life is the grace of God for it also is given because that unto which it is given is freely given but that to which it is given is onely grace but this which is given to it because it is a reward thereof it is a grace for a grace as it were a reward for Righteousnesse that that may be true because it is true that God will reward every 2 Cor. 5. 10. man according to his works thus he Which being so as it is most evidētly so that the life of Glory is given too and according to the life of grace and sanctitie O let vs all with joye and alacrity abound more and more therein adding vertue c. 2 Pet. 1. 5. 6. as St. Peter adviseth that this life being ended and our races couragiously run through wee may gloriously bee exalted into the vpper house of Gods glory and Eternitie O gracious God how happie is hee whom thou shalt vouchsafe so to teach Psal 94. 12. and instruct in thy Law that dutiefully walking therein hee may in the end come to behold thee the God of Gods in thy Caelestiall Sion Psal 84. 8. And so here as I cannot but observe so I cannot but lament the infinite janglings of diverse touching the causality of good works to salvation whether it be of condignity or congruity whether they be as conditions without which not as merrits For cleere it is that they are so necessary to Salvation as the way thereunto so that without them salvation shall never be had In Philosophy it is most true from one extreame to another no man can passe but by over the middle So likewise in Divinity it is most true that no man can passe from the extreame of sinfull misery but by the middell and meanes of godly life and piety When the Philosopher shewes what manner of Causalitie the passing along vpon the way hath for the passengers comming to the wayes end then may the Divine in like sort declare what manner of causalitie the walking and going on along in piety may have for the attaining unto the end thereof life everlasting what neede such disputes O how better is it to have an inward true sense and testimony of justification then to have such wrang ling and foolish logomachie about the formalitie of Iustification We all on all sides I except the out-witted Precisians and Libertines Brownists and Separatists require faith as necessary yea as absolutely necessary to salvation What neede then such hateful disputes about the causality of them to salvatiō Let all rather endevour to abound in them then to dispute of them for so an abundant meanes of entrance 2 Pet. 1. 12. into glorie and of attaining their last endes shall be ministred unto them How idle might that Duke or Prince be thought to be who being called by any free and powerfull State to be their absolute Lord and Soveraigne should first before he would goe to take the said Crowne dispute with his Sages what manner of causality his going in Coatch or riding on horsebacke might have for the attainement of the same Is it not enough for the Duke to know that he cannot be Lord and King except he make his profection and his going to the place where this honour must be bestowed on him Againe is it not enough for him that is in danger of shipwracke to know that he shall perish together with the ship unlesse by some convenient meanes he escape to the land How unwise should those have beene reputed who being in St. Paules company and in Act. 27. 44. danger of shipwrack should have refused to have taken either board or planke whercon to swimme to the shore before the Apostle had declared in expresse tearmes what manner of causaltty the taking of such boardes and the swimming out upon