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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43583	Meetness for heaven promoted in some brief meditations upon Colos. 1. 12. discovering the nature and necessity of habitual and actual meetness for heaven here, in all that hope for heaven hereafter. Designed for a funeral legacy. By O.H. an unworthy minister of the Gospel of Christ.	Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702.	1679 (1679)	Wing H1771; ESTC R216793	64,886	228

Canticum novum vetus homo male concordant That the new Song and old Man agree not well together No man could learn that new Song but the hundred fourty four thousand which were redeemed from the earth Rev. 14.3 Alas they have not hearts nor harps tuned for it Suppose it were possible that our Lord should bring an unsanctified person to Heaven saith one he could take no more felicity there then a beast if you should bring him into a beautiful room to the society of learned Men or a well furnisht Table when as the poor thing would much rather be grazing with his fellow bruits thus a poor graceless sinner would rather be with his Cups or Queans at best in his Markets and counting his Bags but there 's no such things in Heaven therefore if he were there he would be quite out of his Element tanquam Piscis in avido as a Fish in the Air or a Bird in the Water or Fire Can you charm a Beast with Musick Or can you bring him to your melody or make him keep time with your skilful quire So the Anthems of Heaven saith one fit not a carnal mans mouth suit not his ear Poor wretches they now think Sermons long Sabbaths long Prayers and Praises long and cry what a weariness is it When will it be over And are these think you fit for this Heavenly imployment to all Eternity where this noble company of Coelestial inhabitants serve God day and night in the Temple Rev 7.15 Alas the poor unregenerate sinner hath no faculties suited to such a glorious state and work as that above is the Mind Will Memory and Conscience are like a full stomach that loaths the honey-comb These old Bottles cannot hold the new Wine of glory You may as well hew the Marble without Tools or draw a Picture without Colours or build without Instruments or Materials as a Soul not qualified with Grace can do the work of God acceptably either on Earth or in Heaven Oh Sirs think of this you must be prepar'd fitted qualified for Heaven here or else Heaven will be no Heaven to you CHAP. IX An use of conviction and lamentation over Souls that are unmeet for Heaven I Now proceed to Application and all the Uses I shall make of this point shall be of Lamentation and Exhortation 1. Of Conviction Humiliation Lamentation A man would think upon such plain demonstrations as are oft laid before sinners in the ministry of the Word they would once at last reflect upon themselves and say am I thus or thus qualified Upon what terms stand I for another world Am I an adopted child of God Am I justified Am I converted to God and brought through the pangs of regeneration Have I made a covenant with God and taken God for my God and given my self to him What saving work hath passed upon my heart If I should come to you one by one and pose you with this solemn question Friends whither bound Whither are you going Are you for Heaven or Hell Oh no you 'l say God forbid but that we shall go to Heaven God is a merciful God Christ dyed to save sinners we do not doubt but through the merits of Christ we shall be saved as well as others Alas Sirs these are too general grounds to build your hopes of Salvation upon God is merciful but he is also just Christ dyed for sinners but do you imagine all shall be saved by him Let me ask you a few sober questions and answer them not according to your fancies but according to Scripture rule Do you believe that all men shall be saved What is Hell then for that 's so oft mention'd in the Bible Or do you think that the gates of Heaven are as wide as the gates of Hell or that as many shall be saved as damned Dare you so directly contradict our blessed Saviour and give him the lye Mat. 7 13 14. Can you imagine that our Lord Jesus who is the door-keeper keeper of Heaven will admit any but those that he saith he will entertain Or do you think he will admit those that he saith he will keep out What think you can any secretly steal in unknown to him or forcibly thrust in against his will Is the infinite all-seeing God grown so weak or blind that you can couzen or conquer him Or can you bribe him to let you in with fair words or large gifts Or dare you stand to plead in his face that you are qualified and meet for Heaven when he tells you that you are not Do you think there is such a thing as a groundless presumption or rotten hope that will give up the ghost Is not the Devil a cheat Are not your hearts treacherous And are not they fools that trust these and will not try by the word what they affirm And have you solemnly and faithfully tryed your title to Heaven Have you not taken all for granted without a serious proving of your state meerly because you would have it so And are you content to do so in temporals And will you madly venture your immortal Souls on such grounds as you dare not try And can you think to escape the strict tryal of the omniscient God Sirs the business is important Heaven and Hell depend upon it We Ministers that believe an Eternity and certainly know upon what terms Souls are saved dare not but be faithful to you and declare the whole councel of God I must 1. Tell you who those are that are far off Salvation and are utterly unmeet for this Inheritance and can pretend no claim to it 2. Such as pretend a claim but its groundless and but a pretended claim and cannot be made out on Scripture grounds 1. Their are a sort of persons within the pale of the visible Church for I here meddle not with Heathens or Jews that are ipso facto point-blank excluded in as plain terms as can be spoken These are a sort of sinners that carry the black brand in their foreheads of whom a man may say without breach of charity these carry visibly the doleful tokens of eternal death and damnation View two catalogues of these one is in 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Know ye not i. e. Methinks you cannot plead ignorance in so notorious a case so oft inculcated that 1. the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God i. e. That grind the poor over-reach their brethren when they have them at advantage God is the avenger of such 1 Thess 4.6 therefore not the rewarder with Heaven 2. Neither Fornicators shall inherit the Kingdom of God Such filthy goats must be set at Gods left hand This sin as venial a sin as it s reckoned by some is damning and excludes men from Heaven Do you think such dirty dogs shall ever trample on this golden pavement when God would not suffer even the price of a whore or dog to come into his house Deut. 23.18 3. Nor Idolaters gross or more refined