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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65694	Eighteen sermons preached upon several texts of Scripture by William Whittaker, late minister of Magdalen Bermondsey, Southwark ; to which is added his funeral sermon preached by Sam. Annesley.	Whittaker, William, 1629-1672.; Annesley, Samuel, 1620?-1696.	1674 (1674)	Wing W1718; ESTC R29271	230,495	446

enjoy of the love of God here on earth so much we have of Heaven here on earth The excellencie of Heaven is described thus 1 Cor. 15.28 God shall be all in all There shall be no marrying nor giving in marriage but we shall be as the Angels of God we shall there have no need of these Comforts because there we shall have a full fruition of God There shall be no Sun nor Moon nor Stars there is no want of these because the Lamb is the brightness thereof And if the love of God in its fullest perfection be the very happiness of Heaven then certainly nothing can make that person miserable that enjoys any part of Heaven here on earth In thy presence is fulness of joy yea and that for evermore There is much comfort in what we have of his presence here but what his people have of his presence here is but a kind of absence to what they shall have hereafter 2 Cor. 5 6 8. Therefore we are always confident knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. We are confident I say and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. The presence of God which we have here he compares with the presence which we shall have hereafter and the presence we have of God here he accounts a kind of absence in comparison of that as you may see by comparing those two verses together 4. Reas 4. Argument That nothing can make a person miserable but the want of this special and peculiar love of God it appears from the excellencie of the person loving THE LOVE OF GOD this is a great word If God be for us who can be against us if God justifie us who can condemn us v. 31 33. of this Chapt. 2 Timoth 4.16 17. St. Paul when all forsook him thought he had enough in this that God stood by him At my first answering no man stood by me but all men forsook me this was uncomfortable in it self I pray God it may not be not laid to their charge Nevertheless the Lord stood by me and strengthened me This contradicted all that went before this circumstance as to the point of troubles and afflictions because there is more in God to support and comfort then there could be in afflictions to deject and and discourage Our Saviour could not speak to his Disciples without reproving them for their cowardize foretelling them how it should shortly appear You shall leave me alone What then to be left alone when he was to go through all those troubles this was a very uncomfortable thing yet says he I am not alone for the Father is with me John 16.32 it is some refreshment in our sorrows to have Friends to pity and to compassionate us but oh what a refreshment is it to have the infinite God to love us You know the Emphasis of all the sorrows that our Saviour underwent during his sufferings here on earth was That God had withdrawn the sense of his love from him My God my God why hast thou forsaken me as for his Disciples their leaving of him their turning their backs upon him and falling off from him these things he could easily bear but Gods forsaking was the bitterness of his cup and made him cry him with a loud voice My God my God why hast thou forsaken me 5. Reas May be drawn from The nature of the love of God is such an eminent mercy that nothing can make that person miserable that doth partake of this one Priviledge because 1. The Love of God is the tenderest it is the most affectionate Love The Love of Parents is great but the love of God is greater Math. 5.11 If you that are evil know how to give good gifts unto your Children how much more then shall your Father which is in Heaven give good things to them that ask him The love of a Mother is great but the love of God is greater and exceeds it Isa 49 15 16. Can a Woman forget her sucking Child that she should not have compassion on the Son of her Womb yea they may forget yet will not I forget thee Behold I have graven thee upon the Palms of my Hands thy Walls are continually before me The tenderest Compassions that can be found on Earth come far more short of the compassions of an infinitely gratious God then the least drop of Water to the vast body of the Ocean There is no proportion between these two In all Afflictions of his People he is said to be afflicted thereby intimating that he bears a part of their afflictions and is sharer with them in all their troubles Isa 63.9 He that toucheth them toucheth the Apple of his Eye Zach. 2.8 2. The love of God it is the truest and most prudent love there is nothing of Cockering or indulgence in it It is no such love as to overlook the failings of his own People no Every Child whum he loves he corrects Heb. 12.6 Judgement begins at the house of God God is more quick in his chastising of them then of others and his love makes him to be so because God would recover them sooner and prevent their longer wandrings from him Before I was afflicted I went astray but now have I kept thy word Psal 119.67 Therefore he says to Israel You only have I known of all the Families of the Earth therefore you will I punish for all your Iniquities Amos 3.2 My kindness to you is far above all others therefore I will correct you I will make you smart now that you may not smart for ever you shall new feel the bitterness of Sin to bring you to Repentance and these Afflictions helps in order thereunto As concerning others the Sinners in Zion whom God regards not it is said why shotld you be smitten any more Isa 1.5 Ye will revolt yet more and more This is a great Priviledge and part of the Covenant and Promise that God hath made with his People as Psal 89.30 31 32 33 34. If his Children forsake my Law and walk not in my Judgements if they break my Statutes and keep not my Commandments Then will I visit their Traugression with the Rod and their iniquity with stripes Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my faithfulness to fail My Covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my Lips The visiting their trangressions with a Rod and their Iniquities with Stripes is mentioned here as an eminent Promise and part of the Covenant of Grace David accounted the Reproofs of the righteous a great favour to him Let the righteous smite me and it shall be a great kindness let him reprove me it shall be an excellent Oyl which shall not break my head Psal 141.5 3. The love of God is the most liberal and bountiful love All love is liberal and bountiful and according as the person