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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59782	The third part of The practical Christian consisting of meditations, and Psalms illustrated with notes, or paraphrased, relating to the hours of praier, the ordinary actions of day and night, and severall dispositions of men. By R. Sherlock D.D. Rector of Winwick.; Practical Christian	Sherlock, R. (Richard), 1612-1689.	1677 (1677)	Wing S3257; ESTC R221141	121,011	380

the wilderness of this world to their native home of Heaven shall be received into and rejoyce in their proper and peculiar mansions of peace each differing indeed in the degrees of glory according to their difference in the degrees of grace but all shall enjoy their full proportion of happiness and with common joy shall sing together perpetual Hallelujahs to him that sitteth upon the Throne and to the Lamb for ever Rev. 5.13 Happy and for ever happy were I if with a floud of Tears and incessant Prayers if with the devout surrender of all that I am all that I have to the service of God I might be admitted into this celestial Society Heb. 12.22 23 24. To come unto Sion and unto the City of the living God the heavenly Hierusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels To the general assembly and Church of the first born which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just men made perfect And to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant All this I believe as a Christian but my Hope to be admitted into this blessed Society is too weakly grounded and this because my Charity both towards God and his Saints is too cold and benum'd I do profess to love God and do desire that my heart may be every day more and more inflamed with the same fire of his love but doubtless I must have withal a due regard and veneration for his Saints for as God is praised in his Saints so is he dishonoured in their disrespect Ps 150.1 Zach. 2.8 He that toucheth them toucheth the apple of his eye If the zeal of some persons towards the Saints in Heaven exceed its due bounds and limits I must not therefore throw off that devout respect which is due unto them remembring that 't is the end of my Faith the sum of my Hope to be by divine Charity joyned with them in the same mystical body of Christ our common Lord and Redeemer and with them to love and to praise the Lord yea to praise and love him for ever which is the happiness of the Saints in Heaven Ps 84.4 for blessed are they that dwell in thy house they will always be praising thee But I am unworthy too much unworthy sinful dust and ashes to make one in this heavenly quire But I will not despair since my dear Redeemer hath 1. purchased this happiness for me a Heb. 9.12 15 24. since 2. he hath promised to receive me thereinto b Joh. 14.3 and 3. he hath prayed also for my actual possession thereof saying Father I will Joh. 17.24 that they whom thou hast given me may be with me where I am that they may behold the glory which thou hast given me O sweetest Saviour who to save and redeem man vouchsafedst to be made man and to appear in the likeness of sinful flesh O when when will that happy hour come wherein I shall be admitted to behold thy blessed Face which the Angels in Heaven behold with joy and wonder When I shall awake up after thy likeness I shall be satisfied with it Ps 17.16 satisfied to the greatest height and fulness of content when I shall behold that glory thou hadst with the Father before the world was Joh. 17.5 even so come Lord Jesus come quickly MEDITAT IV. Of the perpetuity of Heavenly joyes THe most full enjoyment of all the good things this world affords is not to be called or accounted Happiness because they are not only vain and empty of true satisfaction but also not permanent and lasting To every purpose under the Sun tending towards satisfaction and happiness there is time and judgment Eccl. 8.6 a Time limited for its prosecution and enjoyment and Judgment also shall pass upon the actions relating thereunto it must needs follow therefore the misery of man is great upon him But the good things of Heaven are durable permanent and lasting hereunto shall no Time succeed no Judgment follow The Glory of them that dye in Grace is Immortal Eusmirier● their Happiness Immutable their Crown immarcessible their Life everlasting and their Raign with God and the Lamb for ever and ever No day does pass with these blessed Souls without its fulness of joy and content This joy shall be ever new and yet ever the same This glory shall never wither or decay but flourish for perpetual eternities And this must needs be joy because celestial joy consists as in the blissful vision of God so in an assimilation to him for just men made perfect are immutable in their perfection and felicity by beholding him who is unchangeable so the Apostle We all as in a Glass beholding the Glory of the Lord 2 Cor. 3.18 are changed into the same Image from Glory to Glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord. The Moon and the Stars receive their light from the Sun and become like unto him by being opposite and in a sort beholding the Suns bright face So the pure Souls in Heaven by seeing God who is the Light of lights are from him enlightened and made like unto him So saith the beloved Apostle Beloved now are we the Sons of God 1 Joh. 3.2 and it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know when he shall appear we shall be made like him for we shall see him as he is And that is not as now in a glass darkly 1 Cor. 13.12 but face to face i.e. as fully as our measure will contain our proportion bear and our degree in Grace require That the inheritance of Heaven is for ever is manifest from the dearness of its purchase it cost no less than the precious blood of the Son of God how then shall that life of Glory ever fail or fade away since the Lord of life himself vouchsafed to dye for its acquisition and purchase The joyes of Heaven saith Gran. Gra. medit shall continue as many Millions of years as there are Stars in the Firmament and many more They shall last as many hundred millions of years as there have been drops of Rain faln from Heaven since the beginning of the world and more much more In a word they shall endure as long as there is a God in Heaven and this God the same which was which is and which is to come from everlasting to everlasting Shall not then my heart be fixed where such lasting joyes are to be found And thither my heart must first be sent by way of Harbinger before my person can arrive there I must now have my conversation in Heaven before I can have my consummation there I must now be heavenly minded or else never hope to be admitted into the joys of Heaven But O the heavy burden of my sins These do depress and weigh down the mind and make her affections grovel in the dust And yet even these shall not hinder thy ascent