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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

incomprehensible things of Heaven are painted out in these humane colours because we are much taken with these things and partly because the Disciples did yet dream that Christ would establish a worldly Kingdom and would have ruled some time as an Earthly Monarch Christ therefore in a sweet and friendly manner works them off from expecting any such thing here by telling them what he is going to prepare for hereafter your expectations shall not be altogether disappointed you shall have honour and happiness but it shall be in a better place in Heaven● for thither I go to prepare for you● the Providence of God sent Ioseph secretly before-hand to provide a place for his unnatural Brethren Christ the truth of Iosep● is gone into Heaven to prepare a place for all his Brethren though by our sins we both sold him and crucified him Hebr. 6. v. 20 Christ is called the Saints fore-runner implying that the Saints shall follow him into heaven Before Christ ascended he said Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am Iohn 17. ver 24. Therefore he is gone before to prepare a place for them Heaven is prepared already but our Sins had shut it against us Christ is gone to provide admission for us The Doctrine I shall offer is That Christians must look on Heaven as their dwelling place Reasons of the Doctrine are 1. Because God designeth heaven as our Dwelling-place A Christian hath a Body and a Soul an earthly and an heavenly part A Body formed of the Earth and a Soul infused from heaven This Earth was made for the delight of the Body here is beauty to delight the Eye and sweetness for the Taste and variety to delight the outward Sences But Heaven was made for the Soul In the Body we resemble the Beasts on Earth in the Soul we resemble the Angels in heaven The Body is contented with the things of the Earth and thinks it good to be here but the Soul finds nothing able to satisfy it here on earth And therefore is always mounting up to heaven by contemplation and desirous to be dissolved from its earthly clay God made Man looking upwards towards heaven and the Beasts bowing downward towards the earth to shew us that the Earth is the proper place for brute Beasts but heave● is the place whither Man should aspire 2 Reason why Christians should look on heaven as their Dwelling-place lyeth in the Text Because Christ prepares it for them and where can he better provide a place than in his and our Fathers house I asse●d to my Father and your Father Joh. 20. ver 17. My Father by Nature your Father by Grace as S. Austin interprets it Where can he better prepare a place for his Elect than in his own Kingdom It 's the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. chap. 1. ver 11. Where can Christ better prepare a p●ace for them than in that Kingdom which God the Father hath freely bestowed on them Luke 12. ver 32. Fear not little Flock for it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you a Kingdom fear not want or trouble here but look on your selves as Heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven Where can he prepare a place better than in that Kingdom which Christ also appointed for them Luk. 22. ver 29 30. And I appoint unto you a Kingdom that ye may eat and drink at my Table and sit on Thrones ●udgeing the twelve Tribes of Israel And therefore you may be sure that this is meant of heaven For here on Earth Saints do not sit on Thrones but rather on Dunghils as Iob and Lazarus did they do not Judge here but rather are judged and hardly censured 3 Reason why Christians must look on Heaven as their Dwelling-place is because the word of God directs us so to do To s●t our affection on things above and to seek those things to look on the world but as our Inne but on Heaven as our home 4 Reason Because experience doth shew that on Earth Christians have no certain Dwelling-place 1 Cor. 4. ver 11. here we travail and meet with troubles here we sojourne here we suffer here we have no continuing City but we seek one to come Heb. 13. ver 14. Indeed neither Believer nor Unbeliever have any settled condition on Earth But it is more especially appropriated to Believers 1. Because of the Worlds ill dealing with them they are always driving them from Post to Pillar as we say from place to place Moses was much longer a stranger in Madian then a Courtier in Egypt 2. Because Believers do look upon Earth as an uncertain place where they cannot set up their rest they look on the world as a Camp where they wall meet with opposition rather then as a City where they should expect safety and quiet The Christian expects his resting place to be in that City which Abraham looked for Hebr. 11. v. 10. A City that hath Foundations whose Builder Maker is God All the Cities on Earth are so easily removed as if they had no Foundations Heaven only is an immoveable City Last Reason why Christians must look upon Heaven as their dwelling place is to move them to a Heavenly Conversation such as our hopes is such will our Conversation be if your hope be only in this life then your trade and dealing your thoughts and actions shall be to get worldly things your Conversation will be earthly the prevailing degree of love in all you do will be for earthly things or as the Scripture doth phrase it you will mind earthly things Philip. 3. ver 19. All our aims actions and endeavours will be but to get Money to buy Land to build Houses to settle your rest on Earth your discourses will be about dividing the Inheritance like theirs Luk. 12. ver 13. or about making more room for your worldly store like the fool in the Gospel but if your hope be in Heaven your Conversation will be Heavenly Hope is a deep dye that casts a tincture and leaves its colour in the whole Conversation of a Christian. He that looks on the world as his Pilgrimage or place of Travel will provide only as for a Traveller But he that looks on the Earth as his dwelling place will be providing as for an Inhabitant one Room will suffice a Traveller but an Inhabitant wanteth a whole house a few things will suffice a man in his Journey but an Inhabitant needs a great deal of Furniture and therefore the Scripture alwayes puts a difference between a man in the World and a man of the world Iohn 15. ver 19. By our feet we walk on earth but by our heart we dwell in heaven Application 1. For Information To teach us what thoughts we must have of earth and heaven We must look on the earth as David did to be but the house of his Pilgrimage Psalm 119. ver 54. But we must look on heaven

preach the Gospel to the poor to heal the broken hearted to preach deliverance to to the Captives to preach recovering of sight to the blind to preach liberty to them that are bruised For Explication The Spirit of the Lord is upon me Christians receive a measure of the Graces and gifts of the Spirit but Christ received the Spirit without measure Iohn 3. ver 34. Several Saints are more eminent in several Gifts and Graces Moses had the spirit of Meekness and Miracles All the Judges of Israel had the gift of Government and Fortitude Solomon had the Spirit of Wisdom the Prophe●s had the Spirits of Prophecy the Apostles had the gift of Tongues and Interpretation of Gospel Mysteries But in Jesus Christ the fulness of all Graces and Guifts do meet as in their proper Center A christian may be said to be rich in Grace and Gifts but Christ only is full He hath all fulness Because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel Here Christ shews the world his lawful Commission Be ashamed all ye that climb up into the Ministry by any other way then of lawful Ordination Christ shews his Orders from Heaven and mark it our Saviour doth not say because the Spirit of the Lord is upon me therefore he hath sent me but because he hath sent me therefore the Spirit is upon me God bestows a measure of Gifts upon every one whom he sends into the Ministry but he doth not send every one into the Ministry upon whom he bestows a measure of Gifts Gifts without Ordination is no lawful Commission To preach the Gospel to the poor This tells for what end Christ received the Gifts of the Spirit to make him an able Preacher of the Gospel To preach the Gospel Moses was sent to preach the Law but Christ is sent to preach the Gospel Moses the servant of God handed the Law to Israel after the Flesh Christ the only begotten Son of God handed the Gospel unto the spiritual seed We have lost nothing but time by coming last into Gods Church they were before us Gentiles in time but we are before them in priviledges To preach the Gospel to the poor That is to say to the poor in Spirit such as see and acknowledge their want of Righteousness those that are sensible that they have provoked God but they have nothing whereby to appease his wra●h and need Christ to stand their friend to make peace between God and them To heal the broken hearted That is such whose consciences are terrifyed and tormented with the guilt of Sin according to the Greek word it is those whose hearts are cut asunder meaning with the sense of sin and sorrow for fin God hath sent me to purify and pacify such accusing consciences To preach deliverance to the Captives He meaneth not those whom men have enslaved to their power but those that see themselves in spiritual slavery to sin and Satan And recovering of sight to the blind Christ is the light of the world He is the day Star from on high that visiteth us who are walking in da●kness The world without Christ was a dark Dungeon The Heathens were like the Sodomites when the Angel had struck them with blindness It is said that they wearied themselves to find the dore Gen. 19. ver 11. Christ is called in Scripture the dore of Salvation the blind-folded Heathens wearied themselves in vain to find this dore To set at liberty them that are bruised Those may be said to be bruised that are struggling with sin but cannot overcome sin but get many falls by which their Souls are sorely bruised and their consciences full of pain and torment so that by all these expressions we are taught what the Gospel offereth to us Namely Christ offereth us his hand to pull us out of the lowest pit of sin and out of the dark Dungeon of Ignorance to give liberty and spiritual freedom to us that are oppressed with all kinds of miseries that we that are poor may be enriched with his Grace that we that are blind may be enlightned by the light of his Gospel that we who by nature are Satans bo●d slaves may be made free and set at liberty by him And as the Father sent Christ on this errand so Christ sends his Ministers on the same errand You see therefore what kind of People you have to deal with such as are spiritually poor broken hearted blind Captives and bruised The Doctrine I shall name is this That Christ hath an especial eye to those that are afflicted in Conscience And the Reasons may be such as these 1. The reason in the Text because it is his Office to take care of such God hath sent him for that end and purpose 2 Reason is the helplesness of such poor sinners they can do nothing but weep and complain sigh and mourn and disquiet themselves more at the apprehension of their misery but do not know what to do to ease their consciences therefore the merciful nature of Christ makes him have a tender eye towards such 3 Reason Because such are prepared for Christ to deal with such are prepared to welcom the Gospel Christ preacht to the Scribes and Pharisees but they thought themselves to be whole and needed not a Physitian and therefore despised his help but when he preached to the Publicans and Sinners they followed him He preached to that Mary noted as a sinner and she followed him weeping Luke 7. ver 37. All the Publicans and Sinners drew nigh to hear Luk. 15. ver 1. Whereupon the Pharises murmured which gave an occasion to those Parables in that chapter of the lost Sheep the lost Groat and the lost Son Christ is sent to save those that see their lost condition without him and such only will bid welcom to the Gospel 4 Reason why Christ hath such an eye to afflicted consciences is Because Satan is so buisy with them he seeks to drive them to final despair of mercy and to suggest thoughts of Self-murther Therefore as the Devil hath an evil eye towards them to destroy them Christ hath an eye of pitie and compassion towards them to deliver them and to preach Salvation to them if Satan desire to winnow Peter Christ will take the greater care of him if Satan ●empt Peter to denie his Master Christ will look back upon him to reclaim him again Now this is a pattern for Christ's Ministers to imitate have an especial eye to the sin sick Souls the broken hearted In the close of the former Sermon I hinted that some Advice was needful unto Ministers how to deal with afflicted consciences I reserved it unto this place where I might present them with such a blessed pattern to follow Afflicted consciences during the time of temptation they are like blind men therefore deal with them as such lay no stumbling blocks before them make your Doctrine plain and obvious be you instead of eyes unto them perform the office of a good guide