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A87177	The everlasting joys of heaven: or, The blessed life of a Christian, in grace here; and in glory here-after. Set forth for the comfort and encouragement of all those that desire to fear the Lord; / by John Hart, a servant of Jesus Christ. Recommended to the reader, by Obadiah Sedgewick, and Iohn Downam, ministers of the Gospel.	Hart, John, D.D.; Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.; Downame, John, d. 1652.	1656 (1656)	Wing H948; Thomason E1680_2; ESTC R209155	49,553	177

condition and therefore must needs have an estate of satisfaction Now if a man in that estate might see the end thereof or beyond it it were not satisfactory for the soul Other creatures have no capacity beyond their present estate and therefore are satisfied therewith But it is not so with man who hath a reach beyond all he possesseth or can see even to eternity it being impossible to satisfie an eternal constitution with finite things Therefore we must have an eternal Estate God having stamped upon the soul an impression to look after that onely which is Eternal and Infinite therefore being now in a finite Creature it must look for an eternal Estate hereafter at its departure hence which is Eternal in the Heavens Again Secondly As it is a new Creature there is a principle in the soul to be contented with nothing but Eternity and therefore according unto this Spirituall eternal principle it thirsteth after and must have an Eternal estate For as its original is not of Corruptible seed but of Incorruptible by the word of God who liveth and abideth for ever 1 Pet. 1.2 3. so must we needs have an Eternal Estate suitable And Lastly In regard that the Saints hopes are Eternal and so nothing else save Eternity can answer the same seeing they are begotten again to a lively hope out of Gods abundant Mercy by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead To an Inheritance immortal and undefiled that fadeth not away reserved in Heaven for them 1 Pet. 1.3 4. Seeing then in this life it is a grievous thing to be disappointed of our hopes which the Saints pray against but would much more be so in heaven seeing here we have no continuing City but wee looke for one to come Therefore our Expectation being strongly upon that Inheritance to come and the hope deferred as Solomon saith being the fainting of the heart if our desires and hopes should misse of this tree of Life in Eternity Wee should be Sick in Heaven which is impossible and therefore our Estate there must of necessity be an Eternal Estate suitable to our lively hopes Now This Meditation of Eternity where it fastens upon the soul works great Matters into it The Meditation I say of our Change and Eternal Glorious Estate to come for Eternity it works stamps and makes strange impressions of wonderfull matters upon the soul as 1. A willingnesse to put off our Earthly house for that Eternal in the Heavens for Such are supposed to have Eternal life already abiding in them 1 John 5.13 which no Murtherer or such like can have and may Know that they have Eternal life which is in Christ their Head who is true and the true God Eternal life 1 John 5.20 They have a Spring of Eternal life abiding in them a Well of water of life springing up unto Everlasting life not contented with this world but having hearts more in heaven then on earth 2. Then again it makes us do all earthly things with a subordination to this eternal estate so as all things may further and nothing may wrong or hinder it and so to improve our time unto the utmost advantages which may further the same contrary unto wicked men who are the most abusers and prodigall of time not following their rule Ephes. 1.4 To redeem the time But the Saints on the other side as they improve their time so they desire to do all things exactly with subordination unto heavenly things especially heavenly things more immediately ushering eternity Whereunto as all their thoughts and meditations bend so do they tend towards eternity in all things because in all their actions they have a design upon eternity doing all things as though they were to answer all at the last day when yet they know that their sins before that time are done away and covered Jerem. 31.34 Micah 7.18 And this meditation of death and eternity of heaven after the same it maketh us also abundant in the work of the Lord knowing that our labour shall not be in vain in the Lord and makes us work through all difficulties unto this eternall estate doing all things unto that end not drawing back or indenting with God For seeing it knoweth that there is no determination-of this estate it makes what it caÌ„ a suitable endeavor of Eternity upon earth to work in all things toward the same And yet more it filleth the soul ful of honourable thoughts not to be contented to sit down any more doting upon these earthly things on this side of eternity as we have formerly done setting our eyes upon that which is vanity and vexation of spirit nothing yea lesse then nothing compared with eterninity For here as David speaketh Psal. 119.19 We may see an end of all perfection and earthly glory whatsoever in this life But of this heavenly perfection as there is no so we can see no end thereof And this meditation of death and eternity following after it makes this impression upon the soul also as is usuall in disputations To state the grand businesse of heaven and earth aright to weigh all things in the ballance of the Sanctuary wherein they are found light nothing yea lesse then nothing compared with this eternity of heavenly glory to be revealed and so to look for or expect no great matters where they are not to be found But to use this world and all things therein as though we used them not and ther fore laieth this conclusion for an invincible ground that all the afflictioÌ„s of this life are not worthy of that glory which shall be shewed unto us so great that the whole creatioÌ„ is said to groan wait for the revelation theoreof with the manifestation of the sons of God Rom. 8.18 Called therefore the fervent desire of the creature waiting groaning and travelling in pain with them to be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God And therefore in all the murmurrings and tossings of the body in this life it quiets the same with holy Bernard his speech unto his body to be contented to suffer and wade through all the exigents of this life patiently because the time of the body is not in this life but in the world to come wherin our frail bodies shall be made like unto Christs glorious body Phillip 3. And it further to comfort us in our weary journey assures us That all this life time is nothing else but a time to sit and prepare us for to be Inhabitants of Heaven for ever to learn the language of Canaan in to be indowed with those supernatural habits of heavenly graces putting on the Lord Jesus Christ in all his holy vertues so by viewing of the exceeding rich and precicious promises to be partakers of the Divine Nature And as it was said of those Virgins that were to be brought unto King Ahashuerosh Est 2.12 They were first to be fitted and persumed a year one half thereof

perpetuall peace and reft what can replenish us with more delight and fill our hearts with invincible courage in our spirituall warfare than having fought the good fight of faith in assurance of victory to meditate with hopefull expectation on that glorious crown which God hath infallibly promised to those that overcome what can be more pleaâ—ing in the time of our nonage then to think on that rich inheritance which we shall enjoy when we come to full age and what can more chear and refresh us in our tedious pilgrimage then to meditate on the joys and delights which we shall shortly attain unto in our heavenly country neither is this conversing in heaven whilest we are here upon earth more pleasing than profitable Seeing if our thoughts be thus taken up with these heavenly excellencies we shall not judge any thing too much which we can do or suffer for God glory from whose free grace we expect the full fruition of such inestimable happinesse Nothing can more inflame our hearts with the fervent love of our dear Saviour then to consider that by his merits and bitter passion he hath purchased for us this heavenly inheritance Nothing can more confirm our patience in our light and momentary sufferings in and for Christ than to have our thoughts taken up with that far exceeding eternal weight of glory prepared for us with which the afflictions of this present life are not worthy to be compared Nothing next unto Gods glory can be a more effectual intentive and motive unto all holinesse or conversation than this rich wages with which this our good and bountifull master will of his free grace reward our worthlesse service and weak endeavours And therefore seeing our Authour in this book doth piously and profitably discourse on this subject which is so pleasant and usefull and as it seemeth to me not in a verbal manner but with a sweet rellish and experimentall feeling of these heavenly joys in his own soul unto which he inviteth others being already approved and licenced by an abler hand and better judgement I also commend it Christian Reader to thy perusall and pray that thou maiest reap that fruit and benefit in thy reading which the Authour intendeth in the writing of it Thine in the service of Iesus Christ Iohn Downam GRACE Leading unto GLORY FAith seeth all this World on fire as holy Ierome thought he alwaies heard the sound of the last Trumpet sounding in his ears arise ye dead and come to judgement and therefore suits its actions affections and meditations according to the report of that wonderfull and matchlesse admiration yea and helpeth it self in all the exigents of this life with supportation and strength to passe through all the afflictions and occurrences thereof with the excellent surmounting thoughts of the Life and Glory to come Wherein my desire was now in the decaying of this our earthly house and of all outward things to stir up both my self and others to meditate upon the more high and enduring substances which fade not away but endure for ever Now the end of faith being the salvation of our souls that grand businesse we have to agitate and eye in all our actions being in all to plot for possession of that eternall glory promised reserved for us in the heavens whereunto by the mighty power of God we are kept by faith unto salvation 1. Pet. 1. 3. I therefore though the unworthiest of all to meddle in so high and transcendant a Subject by Gods assistance undertook to lanch forth the frail barque of my weak endeavours into this great and vast Ocean knitting together some old and new store gathered from some of our late most eminent and spirituall Divines touching the great and strange operations of the blessed Spirit as he assures salvation unto glory even untill those strange and extraordinary sighings and groanings which he stirreth up in the Saints longing to the full enjoyment of heavenly Glory Honey we know is gathered out of the sweets of diversity of sweet flowers and what is sweeter then honey or the honey-Comb save Gods word which in sweetnesse far surmounts all the Aromatick fragrancies and sweets whatsoever Therefore we even out of diversity of gifts may pick out much sweetnesse and delight finding some rarities and much strength therein as a bunch of arrows knit together is of more strength than one or two of them Wherefore as 1 Sam. 14. 27. Ionathan having tasted a little honey on the end of his rod had his sight revived So no question if we please to put forth our selves to lick deeply of this ensuing honey pot vented in this discourse we may also by Gods blessing attain to have our eies further so anointed and cleared with this eye salve as we shall so much the more cleerly see into things invisible tasting how gratious the Lord is who before the foundation of all the world had provided for us eternall habitations in so great and superabounding glorious mansions for ever and so be stirred up unto so much the more thankfulnesse unto the everlasting praises of our good God who hath done and still doth for us so aboundantly above all that we are able either to think or speak so becomming the more perfect upon earth of our everlasting work in heaven whilest not certain of any thing here we rest assured of what we shall enjoy eternally there For Certain it is That we can never yeeld to part with this life until we be assured of a better and that the assurance of the certaintie and excellencie of that future glorious Estate to come in Heaven for ever is the onely Antidote unto a Beleever to make him out face Death looking beyond it and all other incident crosses in the way unto it As we know Saint Paul did who seemed to take care for this onely one thing as the sum of all things to know Christ the vertue of his Resurrection the fellowship of his affliction being made conformable unto him in Death if by any means he might attain unto the Resurrection of the dead Phil. 3.10 11. This seems also that one thing which holy David desired and says he would require that he might dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of his life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to visit his temple to be hid in the secret place of his Pavillion and to be set upon a Rock Psal. 27.4 5. That a day in Gods courts is better than a thousand every where Psal. 84. And in another place eying Heaven and the glory to come he affirms that a thousand years in Gods sight are but as yesterday and a watch in the night Psal. 90. v. 4. And Psal. 39.6 when he hath shewed that man walketh in a vain shadow disquieting himself in vain with heaping up these earthly things he adds And now Lord what wait I for mine hope is even in thee So Job 19.25 he there flies out in the middest

Lord how excellent is thy Name in all the world which hast set thy glory above the heavens When I behold thine heavens even the work of thy singers the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained What is man say I c. And Psal. 19.1 There he shews that the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shews the work of his hands day and night uttering the same running through all speeches and langauges unto the ends of the world wherein he hath set a Tabernacle for the Sun which compasseth round the whole earth in a miraculous manner which earth now by the mighty power and word of God in the middle of the heavens stands supported and hanging upon nothing All which Gods wonderfull and marvellous works proclaim the miraculous dwelling place of the Almighty in heaven provided above all his visible works to welcome and entertain man in before and after the Resurrection for ever Wherein Faith whose nature is like a Vine to take hold of every little help besides the Scriptures even by strength of naturall reason takes advantage to fortifie it self by that Even Nature it self might lead us unto the God of Nature and of all things by a strong argument drawn from our mortality and change from whence it strongly concludes The Creation of man and consequently of The whole frame of nature thus Whatsoever hath a being independent of it self were able also by virtue of that independency and being to have kept if self in that being from mutability and change But no creature since the creation ever yet had that power by virtue of its being to have kept it self in being from mutability and change Therefore it had a Creator which is the Almighty Jehovah only able to give a being to his words the same for ever Alpha and Omega And thus we leave The Certainty of the building to draw near therefore unto the building it self and The Certainty of our knowledge of a future glorious estate therein for ever attainable by us God in Trinity blessed for evermore who had sufficiently from all eternity lived in all Glory and Contentation being that infinite wisedome set up from everlasting from the beginning and before the earth works thereof were made minding at length to have a Creature made which should bear his image be Lord of all the creatures to be made and able to conceive and reflect back again his excelleÌ„cies at length to be taken up from the earth into heaveÌ„ for ever into the association participation of the heaveÌ„ly Quire of Angels in his fulness of time even then rejoycing in the habitable part of the earth having his delight with the sons of men in resolution and intention created Prov. 8.27 prepared the heavens and set his compass upon the deep established the clouds above when he confirmed the fountains of the deep had given a decree to the Sea that it should not passe his Commandement and appointed the foundations of the earth having furnished the heavens with all the hosts of them and the earth with all usefull creatures therein fitted for recreation comfort and delight of his new guests to be created at length when all things were fitted for him created Man his last and greatest work of wonder for whose sake and for reflexion of his glory in inioying of his works of wonder all these things created before him were given to him these visible heavens with all the creatures shewed unto him with a use of and insight in them and manifestation and revelation after his fall of a Heaven of Heavens the mansion of the Beatifical vision revealed in the Scriptures wherein he should at length be received having finished his course upon earth called for the sublimity and exceeding height thereof Gods dwelling place The high and lofty place of him who inhabiteth eternity Isa. 57.15 and by St. Paul a building not made with hands but eternal in the heavens of the assurance whereof he speaks confidently For we know c. and this is put without all peradventure 2 Cor. 5.1 For saith he we know and therefore in this we sigh earnestly wherein there is a Certainty set down That in this life we may come to be assured of a future glorious estate to come saith he we know Therefore though alreadie we be come near and on our way to view this glorious Building not made with hands yet seeing wee are a prettie distance off it to comfort our selves in our way thither let us take a brief survey of this Knowledge St. Paul so confidently speaks of what it is For we know In unfolding whereof if I be not mistaken these four things will discover it 1. A Description of the Qualification and Subject wherein this knowledge resides 2. How this is known of us 3. How we may know that we know what we know 4. How to trie the truth of what we know from that which is but a counterfeit thereof By help whereof we may by Gods blessing attain to the knowledge here meant For the First The Subject wherein it resides usually Qualifleation thereof There commonly ushers the same A strong Conviction called by our Saviour Joh. 16.8 The Conviction of the Spirit which there is said to be Threefold 1. A Convincing of Sin 2. Of Righteousness 3. Of Iudgement then there is a full way opened unto this knowledge spoken of Wee know Now for this 1. Gonviction We must know That there is nothing in this world so difficult then to convince us of these two things 1. How wicked we are and how good God is which is the sum of the two first convictions to convince us of these two things 1. How out of measure sinful sin is How miserably besotted we are with it in this our depraved nature in how great danger we are thereby of everlasting damnation how dangerous it is to retein it how insupportable the burthen thereof would be without Gods great mercy to us and that the sooner we leave it is and will be the better for us But the second is greater then this for it is an easier matter to throw us down then to raise us up again being fallen the Divell will both help to pull us down and keep us so being dejected when he sees us a going But to convince us that notwithstanding all this misery that we are in That there is an everlasting righteousnesse attainable freely purchased for us and given unto us of free gift by Christ who hath redeemed us from death and condemnation satisfied the fathers Justice unto the full infinitely far in value beyond all the sins of the world who being the onely be gotten son of God assumed our flesh and in that nature hath appeased divine justice so as henceforth whosoever will lay down the weapons of their rebellion and ensigns of their disobedience beleeve in him and sue forth their pardon living and being hereafter governed by the laws of his Kingdome like

Earthly Tabernacle which is the reason rendred Herbr 11.9 10. Why Abraham was so willing to dwell in Tents for he looked for a City which had a foundation whose builder and maker is God So it is Heb. 13.14 That here we have no continuing City but we look for one to come and as in a City there are gathered together the confluence and riches of all the good things in the Country round about it besides that it is a setled resting place not like Tents and Tabernacles flecting up and down here to day and away to morrow So in heaven The City of the living God the Celestiall Ierusalem there must needs be the abundance of all heavens surmounting excellencies And lastly it is called heaven as a house of the most rare and admirable structure made by God himself without hands wherein we may coÌ„ceive if these inferior visible heavens in our view adorned with such varieties of unconceivable beauties so amaze our spirits and the fearfull and wonderfull making of our earthly houses so transport as David confesseth of his fearfull and wonderful making how much more admirable is this rare Building Mansion and resting place of the Almighty all things being so much the more excellent as God sheweth himself to be a immediate agent actor therin 2. The Scituation thereof For lo lo how it stands as it is said of Gods Mountain the Church exalted above the hills Isa. 2.2 and above the tops of the Mountains yea as though Mountains were set above Mountains of the top of one another yet this high and lofty place is far above all the heaven of heavens above all storms and tempests and vexations whatsoever so high and safe as no thief can come to dig through and steal and where our treasures may safely lie in the highest elevation that may be scituate not amongst briars and thorn as our houses are or amongst strangers and oppressors but where we shall be most beloved and welcome amongst all our friends and kindred where Christs is with all the Saints and Angels This shall be heaven to be with Christ wheresoever he is to follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth Father I will that those whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold my glory Iohn 17.24 and so To be ever with the Lord 1 Thes. 4.17 Then also the praise of a building is to be scituate in a pleasant not in an unpleasant dirty place as those cities were which Solomon gave to Hiram King of Tyrus 1 King 9.11 which he therefore refused but this building is placed where pleasures abound for evermore called Psal. 35.18 the Rivers of his pleasures far before the rivers of that earthly Paradise which had but one Tree of Life guarded with Cherubims and a flaming sword watered with four Rivers running through it whereof whosoever drunk might thirst again but here there runneth along a pure River of water of life of which whosoever tasteth and drinketh shall never thirst again but be in them a well of water springing up unto everlasting life with a Tree of Life growing on each side thereof guarded with no flaming sword or affrighting Cherubim but free to enjoy the full vertue thereof to live for ever And then again In our houses we love to have our buildings with excellent lights which is a commendation to them but in Heaven in this buildings this commodity shal be in the perfection thereof Col. 1.12 called The inheritance of the Saints in light out of all morral artificial and natural darkness even the Sun it self being darknesse compared with the light thereof always light and light all over lightened by Christ the Lambe who is the light thereof not like the Sun which lightens but a part of the world and leaves the other dark but light all over and nothing but light no light like unto this always and ever light and many times lighter than that of the Sun mentioned Isaiah 30.26 which is said should be like the light of seven dayes when the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people and healeth the stroake of their wound The next Consideration is The Materials Form or Matter of this Building It is immaterial not made of stone or marble or any such like substance a building not made with hands far surpassing all other Buildings as God is the most cunning Master Builder we know not what it is but it is set forth unto us Revel. 21. in the highest expressions of all things which with us are accounted excellent as Gold Pearl Diamonds with all other pretious stones whatsoever and the pavement of Gold as a shining glass Whereby the Holy-Ghost would have us inlarge and stretch forth our meditations unto the furthest extent of comprehension by things within the compasse of our reach to meditate upon things incomprehensible that by all things which are pure and pretious excellent durable attractive and admirable we might be in love with and long after things far above all expression of Men and Angels Another thing is 4. The Capacity and Extent of this Building For it is large and hath room enough for all as Christ speaketh Iohn 14.1 In my fathers house are many dwelling places wherein none shall be straitned as it was with Abraham and Lot whom the land could not bear because of their substance Gen. 13.6 and betwixt Isaac and Abimelech Gen 26. who were therefore forced to divide and part dwellings but in heaven is largenesse and room enough for all not like Tophet Isa. 30.33 which by the Prophet is said to be a place deep and large not for any refreshing but for the Torments and misery therein but none for conveniencie and comfort where for all this largenesse they shall be so straitned as if there were but room for one onely whereas in heaven there shall be such largenesse of room as though heaven were but for one onely there shall be such room for all And then we have to confider 5. The Furniture of this Building For in our houses here usually the glory of them is the riches of their adorning inwardly in heaven is expressed there to be lasting and enduring for ever all the furniture thereof whereas ours are transitory and subject either to corruption and vanishing or both where Theeves may dig through and steal Mat. 6.19 And therefore the Saints are said to have indured joyfully the spoiling of their goods because they had in Heaven a better and more induring substance Heb. 10.34 And 1 Cor. 7.13 He would have us to use this world as though we used it not because the fashion of stage play thereof passeth way But the riches of this building are such as shall endure for ever where no worm can come to eat or consume the furniture thereof which we know not till we see it but it is expressed by Crowns Treasures Whiterobes and the like all understood which may be infinitely comprehended thereby when we enjoy the same The next

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