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A43816	God's eternal preparations for his dying saints discovered in a sermon at Paul's, May the 7th 1648 / by Thomas Hill ...	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1648 (1648)	Wing H2022; ESTC R25713	29,286	46

not a joint in the mystical bodie of Christ shall bee lost for this is certain and it is a most sweet truth As by the death of Christ the hypostatical Vnion was not dissolved not the humane Nature separated from the Divinitie so by the death of a Saint the mystical Vnion is not dissolved neither bodie or soul are dis-jointed or separated from Christ the very dust of a Saint is still in Christ's keeping and though in a most mysterious way yet both soul and bodie are united to him though many of your friends may bee lost in the sea and eaten by fishes though many of them shot to pieces with bullets and torn with Cannon c. yet still the mystical Union is undissolved and though it is true Jesus Christ will send for wicked men at the day of Judgment as a Judg send's for a Prisoner the Sheriff or who ever the officer bee when hee intend's to execute him commanding that such a Prisoner bee brought to the place of Execution yet hee raise's his Saints not as a Judg but as an head hee raise's them by vertue of Vnion with himself as a father send 's for his Son home from the Vniversitie that hee may more refresh him and satisfie him and cloth him c. it may bee hee think's hee hath had short Commons there that now hee may com and bee entertained with the fatling even as the Father did entertain his Prodigal son and much more then wee are capable here upon earth but then 3ly There is a day of Judgment when they shall have possession of this eternitie Com yee blessed of my Father enter into the Kingdom heretofore the Kingdom of Christ hath been in them entered into them but now they must enter into the Kingdom heretofore som●joy entered into them but now they must enter into their Master's joy bee possessed of joy of a Kingdom and then fourthly and Lastly Jesus Christ himself hath prepared Mansions Joh. 14. 2. Mansions are not tabernacles but durable houses I go to my Father to prepare a place for you and thither you shall com and there are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you a most ingenuous melting speech room enough in heaven for all the Saints though God hath never so many children yet every one shall bee his heir and though Jesus Christ have never so many subjects yet every one shall bee a King why because hee himself is their reward hee himself is their Crown hee himself as Austine saith is their Inheritance every one an house every one a Mansion in heaven yes God himself is their habitation who is eternal Now the Grounds why it come's to pass 1. God and the Father hath resolved it from eternitie it is resolved from eternitie that it should bee so their names are written in the book of life thou John and thou Elisabeth and thou Mary and thou Zacharie you are book'd down there is the particularitie there is the certaintie your names are written in heaven rejoyce in it Luke 10. 20. 2. Jesus Christ hee likewise hath taken care to doe his part hee hath purchased this place for you it is a purchased possession Ephes. 1. 14. As hee did purchase it so hee possessed it hee kept it hee reserveth heaven for you as well as preserveth you for heaven the Crown is reserved for you in heaven 1 Pet. 1 4. 3. The Spirit which is an eternal Spirit a in concurrence with God the Father and God the Son hee hath been preparing and polishing b and fashioning his Saints that they may bee meet for heaven Col. 1. 12. and so you see a joynt concurrence that all their operations may bee of equal extent not as the Arminians would say and their followers that make the death of Christ larger then either the Decrees of God or the Application of the Spirit here the three glorious Persons in the Trinitie joyntly concur that all the Decrees may bee made good that all the promises may bee accomplished and that all your prayers may bee answered and so in this eternal house reserved for you you shall then see all these three effected Now for the nature of eternitie and there I shall onely hint that which is the description of the learned Boëtius Eternitie is such an unbounded possession of life as is perfect and altogether 1. There is a Possession a possession that is a tenure both firm and quiet In heaven you are not subject to any uncertainties to any intercisions to any interruptions you shall never bee turned out of that house it is above Thievs or Robbers Mat. 6. 20. 2. It is a possession of life nothing is properly eternal but that that is living Eternitie being a duration according to immanent acts as the School-men speak and those immanent acts do presuppose life now life for life or life upon life skin upon skin so som render that place in Job indeed the Anatomist's will tell you you have many skins three or four at least life upon life one after another You 'l venture all to save your life which you most esteem Life is most precious it is an high pitch of love when you com to venture it for God it being most dear to you and therefore the fitter to set forth Eternitie it is a possession of life 3. Interminabilis without bounds no end of this happiness God is absolutely eternal both without begining and without end but this shall have no end as much as creatures as much as Angels are capable off it is an unbounded an infinite possession as it were of life and that 4. Perfect whereas now the best of Creatures Angels have but onely an imperfect Eternitie onely an Eternitie à parte pòst for time to com 5. Altogether you are fully entirely and wholely possessed of it and all at once you have whole heaven the first moment you com to heaven Time is Nunc fluens but Eternitie is Nunc stans a standing moment that hath a co-existencie to time past time present time to com that is the nature of it and that house you shall have in heaven shall have this eternitie added to it to the happiness of having the fruition of God himself By way of Instruction Let poor carnal men that wallow in lust and take so much pains to gratifie the Devil in making provision for their flesh consider how dear they pay for them and what they lose Alas poor souls you pamper your bodie you paint your hous you adorn it but all this while you take a great deal of pains to very little purpose for you lose Eternitie Cyprian bring's in in the Devil triumphing over poor carnal people at the last day of Judgment Here are the souls that I never died for and in a way of upbraiding Jesus Christ here are the souls that thou laid'st down thy life for and under-went'st so much trouble

and soveraign cordial under the bitterest troubles that can befall them Let us begin with the first and that I shall onely handle at this time but before I make any further entrance upon it give mee leave onely to premise this one thing The best of Saints dwell here in poor tabernacles the best of Saints all Adam's sons have no better a portion then to dwell in poor earthly Tabernacles Som men are very great so great that they are called Gods Psal. 82. yet even they must die like men It is appointed for all men once to die Hebr. 9. 27. And in the same Dialect doth the Psalmist speak in another place Verily man in his best estate is altogether vanitie not onely man when hee lie's sick under a great long Ague or a Feaver or the Stone or the Gout not onely under infirmities of old age which is a kinde of sickness but verily man in his best take him in flore take any young man when hee hath strength and vigor and marrow and all heat all advantages nature can afford him yet in his best hee is altogether vanitie Old men must die and young men may die I beleeve you have many instances of both it may bee it hath cost som of you many bitter and brinish tears wee are all poor Tenents at will it is true wee are Tenents for life but yet that life is but for a moment and so indeed our lease is but from moment to moment O that wee were so wise as to consider it and therefore to carry our selvs like Pilgrims and strangers here and abstain from fleshly lusts which war against our immortal souls as the Apostl●Peter beseecheth his beloved 1 Pet. 2. 11. Do not reckon your selvs at home make account you are but in a journey you are But {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in an Inn it is to no purpose to go build there to go plant there a garden to go furnish your chamber you are but for a nights lodging the very Stoïcks Epictetus and others could speak that language O that wee could bee the more active while our candles are burning because wee know not how soon they may bee extinguished God let 's not alwaies the candle burn out somtimes it is put out O that wee could bee active as our Savior Christ was I will do my Father's work while it is day while it is light the night cometh when no man work 's Joh. 9. 4. O that wee would so consider that wee dwell in these brittle houses of clay that wee would redeem time redeem precious opportunities Eternitie dependeth upon every moment there are many that sell away their time to the first temptation in the morning many young Gentlemen Citizens and others for whom their fathers have had many wearisom journeys and thoughts night and day to get good estates now they think themselves Gentlemen the first thing they do in a morning after they have spruced and powdered and combed and tricked up themselves then they sell themselves and their talent of time to the next temptation at the next tavern at the next gaming-house the Lord put it into the hearts of the honorable Governors of this Citie to look to those snares those pit-falls that have undon many thousand young men and where many of your estates after you have gotten them with a great deal of care and industrie are thrown away with the shaking of the elbow as they say they sell away their time so far are they from redeeming time little do they minde eternitie and and consider that at the best they also dwell in houses of clay and that in their best estate they are altogether vanitie this I premise There are three things will conduce if God please to help mee in the middest of many weaknesses to open this point That hee hath made eternal provision to entertain all his Saints in heaven 1. I 'le give you the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of it by way of demonstration that it is so 2. The {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or grounds of it how it come's to pass that it should bee so 3. What the Nature of this Eternitie is * For the first there are these hints which I hope will help to clear it If the Lord did not intend eternal provision for his Saints in heaven why hath hee given them immortal souls capable of etertie God and Nature saith the Philosopher never do any thing in vain let us say God and his wisedom and grace never doth any thing in vain There are many desperate disputes never did wee expect to hear such in England especially in these times of Reformation against the immortalitie of the soul in defiance to that cleer light of God's Word even here There is a house eternal in the heavens for what for a mortal bodie for a mortal soul what need 's an eternal house for a mortal soul Paul desired to bee dissolved and to bee with Christ it seem's Paul who was guided by the Spirit of God Philip 1. 21. hee thought hee had an immortal soul else why did hee desire to die that hee might bee with Christ hee had better have stayed here hee did enjoy much of Christ here why would Christ himself have given such an answer to the Thief Luke 23. 42 43. Lord remember mee when thou comest into thy Kingdom why saith hee this day shalt thou bee with mee in Paradise It is a poor evasion they have that Christ should say to him Verily I say unto thee to day there they would have the comma thou shalt bee with mee in Paradise then the answer is not full to the Thief's question for then they overthrow the Scriptures and make it nothing and withall manifestly pervert the original as the Spirit of God speak's it unto us but this is the first thing God hath given you immortal souls and therefore reserv's it for you 2ly The Lord hath proclaimed that hee hath appointed a day though it bee concealed that there shall bee a resurrection of all his Saints their souls and bodies shall bee re-united It is most desperate doctrine the Socinians have up and down in their books they have a delentur they tell you your souls shall bee blotted out Who would have thought wee should ever have so far complied with Socinians and Arminians as many people do I hope it is ignorantly but to speak the very Socinians language they reckon the soul shall bee blotted out no eternitie afterwards but why soul and bodie re-united Surely for som further end hath not Jesus Christ said Joh. 6. 39 44. hee hath it twice I came down to do my Father's will and the will of my Father is this that all that hee hath given mee shall com to mee and I will loose none of them so again ver. 44. and I will loose none of them not the least member not the least finger