WILLIAM DYER Preacher of the Gospell Aetat 27 1663 A CABINET OF JEWELS OR A GLIMPS OF SIONS GLORY Written by WILLIAM DYER late Preacher of the Gospel at Chesham and Chouldsbury in the County of Bucks Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things that are written therein for the time is at hand Rev. 1.3 Printed in the Year 1663. TO Those of Chouldsbury Parish Together with all others who did attend constantly upon the Word of God there Preached Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplyed from God the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ. DEarly Beloved They that love God dearly are dearly beloved of God dearly beloved of Christ dearly beloved of Angels dearly beloved of Saints they are beloved of all and have the love of all whose love is worth the having O my dear Friends I cannot think of you and your condition but it fills my eyes with water and my heart with griefe and with Jeremy I wish O that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountaine of Tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the Daughter of my people Jeremiah 9.1 Oh that I am constrained to be from you whom I could live and dye with spend and be spent for so deare a people as you are I would chuse to be doing the work to which I was called amongst you rather then any where else if I might I should not count my Life dear to me so that I might have the liberty to preach Christ to you for your edification and salvation I hope your Consciences will bear me witnesse that whilest I was with you I Laboured as much as in me lay to be a helper of your joy not to Lord it over your faith and I bless God I can with a good conscience safely say I have coveted no mans Gold nor Silver as you your selves know I could do very much for you but I dare not sin against God and my own Conscience But my dear Brethren Though they have separated us one from the other they cannot separate our hearts I hope there will never be a separation of our loves but that will still continue if we do not see one another yet we may love one another and pray for one another And now my desire is that my pen may reach you though my voice cannot reach you That I may still approve the sincerity of my love to you I shall give you twenty Directions for the right ordering of your Lives and conversations in these dangerous and sinful times that you may live in Heaven whilest you are on the Earth and come to Heaven when you shall leave the Earth I. First Loath sin and leave sin He that covereth his sins shall not prosper but whosoever Confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy Prov. 28.13 If we confess our sins he is faithfull and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness 1 John 1.9 There must be falling out with our sins before there be falling off from our sins there must be a loathing of sin in our affections before there be a leaving of sin in our conversations Oh is it not a thousand times better to part with sinne though never so sweet than to part with God and Christ and Heaven one of them you must do One sin will damn a Soul out of Christ but no sin can damn a Soul in Christ Sin is the evill of evils it is worse then the Devill for its that that made the Devil to be a Devil O the love of sin and the lack of grace will ruin and destroy your souls for ever It is better not to be than to be a sinner better to be no people than not to be the Lords people Oh therefore kill sin that sin may not kill you mourn for sin and flye from sin do not commit new sins but repent of old sins Ezek. 36.31 You shall loath your selves in your own sight for your iniquities O poor soul hast thou not served the flesh and the Devil long enough Yea hast thou not had enough of sin is it so good to thee or so profitable for thee Oh what a place will you be shortly in of joy or torment Oh what a sight will you shortly see in Heaven or Hell Oh what thoughts will shortly fill your hearts with unspeakable delights or horror what work will you be imployed in to praise the Lord with Saints and Angels or to cry out in fire unquenchable with Divels Oh therefore dye unto sin confess it mourn for it and be ashamed of it hate it and loath it and flye from it as from a Serpent and though your sins are more then you can number yet they are not more then God can pardon II. Secondly Put off the old man and put on the new Eye not one to another seeing ye have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the Image of him that created him Col. 3.9 10. And that ye put on the new man which after God is created in Righteousness and Holinesse Ephes 1.14 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but a new creature Gal. 6.15 As new born Babes desire the sincere milk of the Word that they may grow thereby 1 Pet 2.2 Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things are past away behold all things are become new 2 Cor. 5.17 A new understanding a new will new desires new love new delights new thoughts new words new company and a new conversation he is not what he was before O dear friends be new Creatures that you may be glorious Creatures We can call nothing in Heaven ours till Christ be ours Without regeneration there is no salvation Verily I say unto you except yea be converted and become as little children ye cannot enter into the Kingdone of Heaven John 3.3 Verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdome of God You have heard much of God Christ and Heaven with your ears but this will not bring you to Heaven unlesse you have much of God Christ Heaven in your hearts you must be able to say I was once a slave but now a son once I was dead but now I am alive once I was in darknesse but now I am light in the Lord once I was a child of wrath an Heir of Hell but now I am an Heir of Heaven once I was under the spirit of bondage but now I am under the spirit of adoption A true Believer lives in the Lord 1 Thes 1.1 On the Lord Rom. 1.17 Luke 20.38 From the Lord Joh. 6.57 To the Lord Romans 1â— 8 With the Lord 2 Corinth 13.4 III. Thirdly Make your peace with the Prince of peace Isa 9.6 Psal 2.12 Kiss the Son least he be angry and ye perish from the way
Truth obey the Truth and hold fast the Truth Now Beloved Let me beseech you for Gods sake and for Christs sake and for your Soules sake keep your selves from false Teachers from false Doctrine from false worship from false Opinions If you will be tasting and siping at Babylons cup you must resolve to receive more or lesse of Babylons plagues XVIII Eighteenthly Be one with every one that is one with Christ Endeavouring to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the bond of peace There is one body and one Spirit even as ye are called in one hope of your Calling One Lord one Faith one Baptisme one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all Ephes 4.3 4 5 6. Every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him By this we know that we love the Children of God when we love God and keep his Commandments 1 Joh. 5.1 2. He that loveth not his Brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen 1 John 4.26 Oh Consider what a dishonour it is to the Gospel that those that professe themselves Sonnes of the same God Members of the same Christ Temples of the same Spirit Heirs of the same Glory should be at a jarring one with another It is strange and unnaturall that Lillies should prove thorns to one another that those who are Saints in profession should be Devils in practise to one another that Gods Diamonds should cut one another For Wolves to devour the Lambs is no wonder but for one Lamb to devour another is a wonder and monstrous Oh that Christians instead of loving one another should hate one another Oh how unlike are we to that God whom we professe to be our God! He is full of love full of goodness and full of mercy and patience Oh but Christians cannot beare and forbear one with another Oh do not wicked men warm themselves at the sparks of our divisions and say it is as we would have it Oh Beloved hath not God made his wrath to smoke against us for the divisions and heart-burnings that have been amongst us Oh that you would lay this to heart and throw away all discord and divisions and heart burnings and labour for a onenesse in love and affection with every one that is one with Christ Oh labour for a healing spirit You cannot love God if you do not love the people of God If any man saith he loveth God and hateth his brother he is a lyer Let brotherly love continue Heb. 13.1 They that feared the Lord spake often one to another Mal. 3.16 Christs Doves should flock together There be many that cannot love a man unlesse he be of their Opinion or a Member of their Church though he be a Member of Christ Every man hath a good opinion of his own opinion But alas Beloved it is not this opinion or that opinion this way or that way will bring a man to Heaven without faith in Christ and he that hath faith in Christ hath a right to all the Ordinances of Christ and Promises of Christ and Priviledges of Christ therefore let me beseech you to love every man that is a godly man let him be of what way and form he will And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul Acts 4.38 XIX Nineteenthly Love Christ with a Love stronger then life who loved us with a love stronger than death Therefore doth my father love me because I lay down my life that I might take it again no man taketh it from me but I lay it down my self I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again John 10.17 18. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners 1 Tim. 1.15 Christs love to us was stronger then death he dyed for love he laid down his life to save our lives he loves us as the Father loves him John 15.9 As the Father hath loved me so have I loved you continue ye in my love Oh the Scripture hath exceeding high expressions of his affection to us Now Beloved if he died for us and suffered for us and set his heart upon us to love us and delight in us how ought we then to love him again Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind Math. 22.37 38. Whom have I in Heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee Psal 73.25 Vnto you therefore which believe he is precious 1 Pet. 2.7 Oh let our hearts be full of love and affections to Christ Love will breed courage and cast out fear slavish fear before God and carnal fear before men God can keep us from the torments of men but men cannot keep us from the torments of God Whilest we stand by God God hath promised to stand by us Therefore be not afraid of any Authority that stands in opposition to the Authority of Christ None can promise us better than Christ can none can threaten us worse than Christ can Can any man promise us with better then Heaven Can any man threaten us with worse than Hell Heaven is promised to those that love him and Hell is to be the portion of those that hate him Oh my dear Brethren Let us Love Christ with a love stronger then death so did Paul and the rest of the Apostles Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distresse or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or sword Rom. 8.35 Love is stronger than Death many waters cannot quench it neither can the floods drown it Cant. â— 6 7. 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Twentiethly Be every day as serious in your preparation for death as if it were your last day All the dayes of my appointed time will I wait till my change come Job 14.14 This night thy soule shall be required of thee Luke 12.20 For what is your life it is even a vapour that appeareth a little time and then vanisheth away Jam. 4.14 Behold thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth and mine age is as nothing before thee Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity Psal 39.5 As no Saint knows when that time and hour shall be so no wicked man knows when it shall not be To live without fear of death is to dye living To labour not to dye is labour in vain Men are afraid to dye in such and such sins but not afraid to live in such and such sins Oh the Hell of horrors and terrors that attend those soules that have their greatest work to do when they come to dye therefore as you would be happy in death and everlastingly blessed after death prepare and fit your selves for death Did Christ dye for us that we might live with him and shall not we desire to dye and be
you But it is good for me to draw near to God I have put my trust in the Lord God that I may declare all thy works Psal 73.28 He that dwelleth under the shaddow of the most High no plague shall come nigh him He will give his Angels charge over thee Psal 91.10 Though the Fig-tree should not blossome and there be no fruit in the Vine though the labour of the Olive should faile and the fields should yield no meat the flock should be cut off from the fold and the herd from the stalls Yet I will rejoyce in the Lord I will triumph in the God of my salvation Hab. 3.17.18 The Name of the Lord is a strong Tower and the righteous runneth into it and are safe James 4.8 Draw near to God and he will draw near to you This is a great comfort to the people of God though they be as Lillies amongst Thorns and as sheep amongst Wolves that they have a God to go to Come my people enter into thy Chambers shut thy doors about thee hide thy self as it were for a little moment until the indignation be overpast Isa 26.20 Let the world frown and friends forsake you God can sweeten all your enjoyments keep in Gods way and you will be sure of Gods protection doe you keep Gods precepts and God will keep your persons do what God commands and avoid what God forbids and then you need not fear what men can doe unto you If you would have God to take care of you you must cast your care upon God wait on him and walk with him obey his precepts and believe his promises Oh beloved Let wicked men fall out with us and hate us and reproach us and punish us as much as they will if we keep in with God therefore my beloved above all things get communion with God and keep communion with God Communion with God will yield you two Heavens a Heaven upon Earth and a Heaven after death all Saints shall enjoy a Heaven when they leave the Earth some Saints enjoy a Heaven whilest they are on the Earth He enjoyes nothing that wants communion with God he wants no-nothing that enjoyes communion with God X. Tenthly Live above the love of Life and the fear of death For whosoever will save his Life shall lose it and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it Matth. 16.25 If any man come unto me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my Disciple Luke 14.16 He that loves not Christ more than his life will be sure to save and to keep both He that goes out of Gods way to avoid danger shall certainly meet with danger Ye are not your own for ye are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your body and in your spirit which are Gods 1 Cor. 6.19 20. My dear friends Let us live above suffering and fears though we cannot live without suffering In the world you shall have tribulation but be of good cheer I have overcome the world I have overcome the world for you and I have overcome the world in you John 16.33 He that loves Christ above his life will let life go rather then Christ Consider my beloved Christ and the cloud of Witnesses and Martyrs that are gone before and are passed over and through all those floods and safely arived to shoar and are now in Heaven with God and Christ and holy Angels where there is fulness of joy and pleasures for evermore Thou wilt shew me the path of Life in thy presence is fulnesse of joy and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore Psal 16.11 Oh the joy that they enjoy Oh the rivers of consolations that flowes from God! Therefore are they before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell amongst them They shall hunger no more neither thirst any more neither shall the Sun light on them nor any heat for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them shal lead them into living fountains of waters and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes Rev. 7.15 16 17. Who are they that have all this honour and glory and joy and blessedness in Heaven For this see verse 14. These are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. The sweetnesse of the Crown which Believers shall receive will make them amends for the bitternesse of the Crosse they carried XI Eleventhly Desire better hearts more then better times O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickednesse that thou mayest be saved how long shall thy vaine thoughts lodge within thee Jer. 4.14 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts murders adulteries fornications thefts falsewitness blasphemies Mat. 15.19 The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it Jer. 17.9 Oh Beloved instead of reforming we are complaining of wicked men more then of wickedness of their cruelty more than our Apostacy of their injuries against us than our injuries against God We pore too much upon second causes or complaine of instruments not of our selves We have been a long time in sinning and we had need be a long time in repenting the times had not been so bad had not we been so bad and the times would soon be better if we were but better Alas Beloved we have sinned such sins as unrighteous men could not sin against the clearest Light and dearest Love the better God hath been to us the worse we have been to him he hath loaded us with his mercies and we have wearied him with our sinnes Oh let us blame our selves more and the times lesse Let us turne unto the Lord that he may turne to us in love and mercy Let our hearts go out to him that his heart may come unto us Oh beg and cry for better hearts that you may serve God better for broken hearts for sincere hearts for that is that God looks at and calls for Prov. 23.26 My Son give me thy heart Our hearts are alwayes out of tune to serve God but never out of tune to serve sin for if we had never so good times and not good hearts it would rather hurts us than blesse us XII Twelfthly Grow downward in humility and inward in sincerity Vnto me who am lesse then the least of all Saints is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ Ephes 3.8 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted Mat 23.12 Put on therefore as the Elect of God holy and beloved bowels of mercy kindnesse humblenesse of mind meeknesse long-fustering Col. 3.12 Be cloathed with humility for God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble Humble
my fathers lyeth waste and the Gates thereof are consumed with fire Nehem. 2.2 3. How can Sions Sons be rejoycing when their Mother is mourning Though they were the Jews Desolation yet they were Jeremies Lamentation How can such rejoyce in her standing that do not mourn for her falling When the Churches Adversaries make long furrows upon her back we should cast in the seed of tears Remember them that are in bonds as being bound with them and them which suffer adversitie as being your selves also in the body Heb. 13.3 Sympathising with others makes an estate that is joyful more happy and an estate that is doleful less heavy The righteous perish and no man layeth it to heart Isa 5.7 We may draw up that charge against many now Amos 6.46 They lye upon beds of Ivory and stretch themselves upon Couches and eat the Lambs out of the flock and the Calves out of the midst of the stall that drink wine in bowls and anoint them selves with the chief Ointments but they are not grieved for the afflictions of Joseph O that there were not too many such now adays that eat the fat and drink the sweet and are not troubled for Sions troubles Instead of sympathising with them in their misery they are censuring of them for their misery But the true Servants of God are tender and broken-hearted they weep and mourn and wring their hands for Sions sins for Sions Breaches for Sions Calamities for Sions Deliverance and thus they do and will do till they see Sion on Mount Sion with the Lamb to be Tenthly the Lambs followers are known by their love to Christ and sufferings for Christ they chuse the worst of sorrows before they will commit the least of sins For thy sake are we killed all the day long and counted as sheep for the slaughter Psa 44. Rom. 8.36 And ye shall be hated of all men for my Names sake Mat. 10 22. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake Mat. 5.10 Love can walk on the water without drowning and lye in the fire without burning How shall we land at the Haven of rest if we are not tossed upon the Sea of trouble A believer should live above the love of life and the fear of death Though we cannot live without afflictions yet let us live above afflictions None are so welcome to that spiritual Canaan as those that swim to it through the Red Sea of their own bloud In suffering the offence is done to us in sinning the offence is done to God In suffering we lose the favour of men in sinning we lose the favour of God Therefore Daniel chose the Den of the Lion rather than he would forsake the Cause of the Lamb Dan. 6. And the three Chrildren chose rather to suffer sadly than to sin foully Dan. 3. And Moses chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season Heb. 11. â—5 It is better to be a Martyr than a Monarch it is better to be a prisoner for Christ than to be a Prince without Christ or against Christ O how precious how glorious how lovely and how sweet is Jesus Christ to believers O they love him entirely uprightly they love his glorious person and the beauty of his holinesse and his Name his Honour his Cause and his Members they will suffer for him and die for him because he suffered and died for them Rev. 12.11 And they loved not their lives unto the Death Now by this all men may know the Lambs followers from the Beasts followers viz. by their sorrowes and sufferings for Christ for Truth for Righteousness and for Conscience sake Heb. 10.34 And they took joyfully the spoyling of their goods Heb. 11.35 Eleventhly The Lambs followers are known by this They seek the publick good of others above the private good of themselves I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart for I could wish that my self were accursed from Christ for my brethren my Kinsmen according to the flesh Rom. 9.2.3 And now O Father glorifie thy son that thy son may glorifie thee Joh. 17.1 He prayed for glory more for the Fathers sake that bestowed it than for his own sake that received it A true Christian doth not desire grace only for this end that God may glorifie him but he desires grace for this end that he may glorifie God For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich 2 Cor. 8.9 O that the Lord Jesus should not only in pitty save us but in love dye for us And David after he had served his own Generation by the Will of God fell on sleep Acts 13.36 His Generation did not serve him but he served his Generation not the Generation that was before him for they were dead before he was living nor the Generation that was behind him for they were living after he was dead but his own Generation and not by his own will but by the Will of God Old Ely mourned more for the lose of his Religion than for the lose of his Relation 1 Sam. 4.18 So Moses Exo. 32.10 Now therefore let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them and that I may consume them and I wil make of thee a great Nation He was no self-seeker but a life preserver Grace doth not only make a man carry it like a man to God but to carry it like a God to man Reason makes a man a man but grace makes a man a Christian Every gracious spirit is publick though every publick spirit is not gracious As we are not born by our selves so we are not born for our selves But the Beasts followers and Babylons Merchants are for themselves and seek themselves Yea they are greedy Dogs which can never have enough and they are shepherds that cannot undorstand they all look to their own way every one for his gain from his Quarter Isa 56.11 And teaching things they ought not for filthy lucres sake Tit. 1.11 Wo to you Scribes and Pharisees for ye devoure widdows houses and for a pretence make long prayers therefore ye shall receive the great damnation Mat. 23. These make not gain to stoop to Godlinesse but Godlinesse to stoop to gain Twelfthly and Lastly The Lambs followers may be known from the Beasts followers by this They are more for power than form for heart than Art for matter than method for substance than shew Having a form of Godlinesse but denying the power thereof from such turn away 2 Tim 3.5 As they who have the power of Godliness cannot deny the form so they who have the form of Godliness should not deny the power Alas what is hearing without doing and praying without practising and preaching without reforming God loves to see the plants of
righteousnesse lodened with the fruits of righteousnesse He beareth greater respect to our hearts than he doth to our works I beseech you therefore Brethren by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God Rom. 12.1 The Formalist he is all for outward action and for nothing of inward sincerity he is for a body without a soul and a shew without a substance but it is not a shew of outward piety that will excuse inward hypocrisie For he is not a Jew that is one outwardly neither is that Circumcision which is outward in the flesh But he is a Jew which is one inwardly and Circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of God Rom. 2.28 29. I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews and are not but are the Synagogue of Satan Rev. 2.9 They are better in their outsides than they are in their insides but Believers are better in their insides than they are in their outsides The Kings daughter is all glorious within her cloathing is of wrought Gold Psalm 45.13 The one bowes his knee at the name of Jesus the other bowes his heart to the truth of Jesus the one signes with the Cross the other carryes the Cross Oh what would not superstitious men do for Heaven if they might have Heaven for their doing But they that sail in this rotten Bottom will surely sink in the Ocean Who hath required this at your hands to tread my Courts To what purpose is your sacrifices unto me saith the Lord I am ful of the burnt offerings of Rams and the fat of fed beasts and I delight not in the blood of Bullocks or of Lambs or of He-goates Isa 1 11. It was not the Clay Spittle that cured the blind man but Christs anointing his eyes It was not the troubling of the Waters in the Pool of Bethesda that made them whole but the comeing down of the Angel Alas the dish without the meat will not feed us Man may spread the Net of Duty but its God must take the Draught of Mercy Now by this Beloved you may know the Lambs followers from the Beasts followers And thus I have briefly and clearly shewed you these five things First What following the Lamb is Secondly Why gracious Souls follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth Thirdly The Excellency of following the Lamb. Fourthly The Misery of following the Beast Fifthly How the Lambs followers may be known from the Beasts followers I shall make some Use of this First For Examination and Selfe-tryal Oh friends for the Lords sake and for your souls sake examine your selves and try your selves by this that you may know whose you are and to whom you do belong Know you not that to whom ye yield your selves servants to obey his servants ye are to whom ye obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness Rom. 6. O who do you follow if men verily you have your reward if sin you shall have sins wages which is eternal death woe and misery in this life and Hell and destruction in the other life but if God then you shall have eternal life Therefore be not deceived mistake not your selves God is not mocked for whatsoever a man sowes that he shall reap O beloved Examine your selves and try your selves what is it you mind what is it you seek what is it you do do you follow the Lamb in his Commands in his teachings in his appointments and in his Examples through sufferings and reproaches have you forsaken all and followed him Matth. 10.29 Have you taken up his Crosse and denyed your selves Mat. 16.24 Have you learned of him to be meek and lowly Mat. 11.29 Have you visited and cloathed his Members Mat. 25.35 Have you kissed the Sun and made your peace with him O beloved are you new Creatures are you in Christ are you in faith Know ye not if Christ be not in you ye are reprobates 2 Cor. 13.5 The second Vse is for Exhortation O Beloved Let me beseech you for your precious and immortal souls sake to come out of Babylon from the Beasts Image and from his Worship and from his Mark that you may not be defiled O come away to Jesus Christ Arise my Love and come away Cant. 2.10 Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest Mat. 11.28 Oh sinners he calls you to come to him will you not go we must forsake sin and embrace vertue put off the Old man and put on the New man we must have Repentance and Mortification a dying unto sin and a living unto righteousness from the love of earthly things to the desire of heavenly things Our bodies and souls must come away unto Christ our souls because they are the Spouse of Christ our bodies because they are the Temples of the Holy Ghost We must come away from the Eenticements of the flesh the allurements of the world and suggestions of the Divel and from the Whore of Babylon and from all the inventions and traditions of men Rev. 18.4 That ye may walk with God before God after God in the Name of God and in the Spirit of God And that we may live in Christ as Christ lives in the Father O what more happy then to live for ever and so to live for ever as Christ himself liveth Surely that is a blessed and glorious life This is a Believers life Secondly Labour more and more to be like those that follow the Lamb fully they are very holy and pure they are called Virgins First For their Chastity That I may present you as chast Virgins unto Christ 2 Cor. 11.2 These love Christ with a chast but not with an adulterous love Secondly For their purity They are Virgin-Saints they are not defiled with the Whore of Babylon but have kept themselves from her Idolatry and Superstition and from her sin and wickedness And in their mouth was found no guile Believers are stiled and titled Heaven Christs Members are glorious Members they are called Heaven for two Reasons First Because there is much of Heaven in them Secondly Because there is much of them in Heaven First There is much of Heaven in Believers much of God much of Christ and much of the Spirit Of his fulness have all we received grace for grac Joh. 1.16 The glory of God the knowledge of God the presence of God the love of God the holiness of God the joyes of God these are the things that make Heaven to be Heaven Now there is much of these in Believers therefore they are called Heaven We are taken into Communion with Angels and our Communion with the Angels in a great measure doth consist in bearing a part with them in praising God it is the action of Heaven Believers are holy Ones and they have glorious Titles First The Lords Portion Deut. 32.9 Secondly