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B03760	Christ's last sermon, or, The everlasting estate and condition of all men in the world to come. Exactly describing the everlasting, blessed, and happy condition of the children of God in glory for ever: with the everlasting, endlesse, and caseless [sic] condition of wicked men in the world to come forever. Set forth for the comfort of the godly, and for the terror of the ungodly. / By a godly, able and faithfull servant of Jesus Christ, J.H.	Hart, John, D.D.	1664 (1664)	Wing H940B; ESTC R177841	23,456	47

Christs last SERMON OR The everlasting estate and condition of all men in the World to come Exactly describing the Everlasting Blessed and Happy condition of the Children of God in Glory for ever With the everlasting endlesse and easelesse condition of Wicked Men in the World to come for ever Set forth for the Comfort of the Godly and for the Terror of the Ungodly By a godly able and faithfull Servant of Jesus Christ J. H. Col. 3 4. When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also upon with him in glory Mat. 25.34.41 Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world Depart from me ye Cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels EDINBVRGH Printed by ANDREVV ANDERSON Anno DOM 1664. Courteous Reader THere are lately published some useful and profitable Sermons viz. Christs first Sermon A Key to open Heaven-gate The true Christians Path-way to Heaven The Plain mans Path-way to Heaven Heavens Glory and Hells Horrour The dreadfull Character of a Drunkara There are also severall other small Books needfull to be bought and read viz. Bessie Clarkson of Lanerk The Lady Culrosse Dream The last Good-night The History of Doctor Faustus The History of Fortunatus The History of Roswall and Lillian The History of Guy Earle of Warwick No Jest like a true Jest or The History of Captain Hynd All which with variety of other Stories are to be sold by Andrew Anderson CHRISTS LAST SERMON OR The everlasting estate and condition of all men in the world to come John 14.2 3. In My Fathers House there are many Mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you And if I go I will come again and receive you unto my self that where I am there ye may be also OUR blessed Lord and Saviour having in the foregoing Chapter acquainted his Disciples with His departure from them out of this world He comes here in this and the three following Chapters to give them his last fare-well-Sermon and therein He endeavours principally to comfort the sad hearts of His Disciples who were now disconsolate and cast down in the spirits under the sense of so great and sad a los● as the losse of their great and only Lord an Master Jesus Christ For whom they had le●● and lost all Christ having acquainted them wit● His going out of the world they thereupon presently begin to be dejected and cast down at thi●● sad news Lord said they have we left all an● followed Thee and wilt thou now leave us shall we now be exposed to the difficultie and dangerous of the wide world No saith our Saviour bi●●● not discouraged let not your hearts be troubled it is for your good that I go away In my Fathers House are many Mansions I go to prepar a place for you And if I go I will come again and receive you You shall be no losers by My going away from you I will surelie make you a●● mends for all your losse There are Mansions of joy in Heaven that will abundantlie counter vail all your wordlie losses If I go away it is for your good for I go to prepare a place for you And though you have not my bodilie presence yet you shall have my spirituall presence I will send you another Comforter that shall abide with you for ever I will not leave you comfortlesse I will come unto you That is by My Spirit to guide you and direct you into all truth and to bear up your hearts under all those troubles and temptations which ye shall meet withall in the world Having thus briefly given you the scope of ●he whole I come now to the words themselves ●●com whence I raise these four Propositions first that there are mansions of glory in heaven for the people of God hereafter In my Fathers House are many mansions 2. I note from ●ence that Christs ascension was to prepare a place for Believers I go to prepare a place for you 3. That Christ will certainly come again ●●nd receive Believers to Himself I will come ●gain and receive you 4. and lastly which shall briefly insist upon I note from hence ●hat those mansions of glory prepared by Christ or Believers in Heaven will abundantly recomense and make good all the losses and all the crosses which Believers may meet withall in the world I shall begin with the first of these that there ●re mansions of Glory for Believers hereafter The point is so plain from the words themselves that I shall onely give you a place or two of Scripture in the 84. Psalm vers 11. The Lord will give grace and glory and no good thing will ●e withhold from them that walk uprightly Eye ●ath not seen ear hath not heard neither hath is ●●ntred into the heart of man to conceive the things which God hath provided for them that love him Cor. 2.9 Come ye blessed saith your Saviour inherit the kingdom prepared for you Mat. 25.34 Severall other Scriptures I might give you b●● I shall proceed to the uses of this usefull poin● Is it so then that there are Mansions of Glor●● for the godly hereafter then I note from henc● the unspeakable miserie of all wicked men bo●●● here and hereafter Is there glory in heaven f●● Believers What is there then in hell for Unb●●●lievers if glorie be the portion of the godly wh●● will the lot and portion of wicked men b●● The wicked saith Psal 9.17 shall be turm●●● into hell and all the Nations that forget Go●● Wicked men shall have no part nor portion those glorious Mansions they are prepated onl● for the godlie Wicked men may indeed whic● shall but further agravate their sorrow behold t●● Saints received by Christ into glorie as Dives b●● held La Zarus in Abrahams bosome but it w●●● afar off Wicked men may at the last day he●●● that blessed sentence fo Come ye blessed but the again also they shal hear I and that with a vengeance too that wofull sentence of Go ye curs● into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil an● his Angels It is impossible for wicked men I me● such as live and die in sin unrepented of to ent● into heaven Know ye not saith the Apostle 1 Co● 6.9 that the unrighteous shall not inherit 〈◊〉 Kingdom of God The Evangelist St. John Re●● 20.21 speaking of the world to come which 〈◊〉 foresaw in his heavenlie vision I saw saith he t●● dead small and great stand before God and the Books were opened and another Book was opened which is the Book of Life And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in those Books according to their works All the wayes of men both good and bad are exactlie written down both in the Book of Gods everlasting Rememberance and in the Book of mans own particular Conscience And the sea gave up the dead which were

in it And Death and Hell that is the grave delivered up the dead which were in them And they were judged every man according to their works And whosoever was not found written in the Lambs book of life was cast into the lake of fire There 's the event of this judgement to the wicked But what successe the Righteous shall there have he sets down in Chap 21. Verse 3. Behold saith he the Tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them and be their God And God shall wipe all tears from their eyes And there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor cursing neither shall there be any more pain He that overcometh shall inherit all thing●… and I will be his God and he shall be 〈◊〉 ●…on A blessed priviledge indeed but what remains for the wicked See what follows in the eight Verse The fearfull and unbelieving the abominable and murtherers whoremongers sorcerers and idolaters and all lyars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone A most dreadfull Scripture the Lord awaken every secure sinner and give them hearts to consider these things before it be too late For as the Prophet Malachy faith Mal. 4.1 The day cometh that shall burn as an Oven and all the proud yea and all that do wickedly shall be stubble and the day cometh that shall burn them up saith the Lord Hosts that it shall leave them neither root nor branch Then shall they call upon the mountains to cover them and ●pon the ●●lls to fall upon them to hide them from the fierceness of the wrath of God O consider this all you that forget God lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you Secondly if there be such mansions of Glory for Believers hereafter I note from hence the desperate folly and madnesse of all those who neglect or despise their own salvation Ye will not come to me saith our Saviour Joh. 5.40 that ye might have life This is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darknesse rather then light because their deeds are evil Christ and salvation is freely offered to all in the Gospel Christ invites all to come Ho every one that thirsteth come to the waters Isa 55.1 Rev. 22.17 The Spirit and the Bride say Come and let him that is athirst come and whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely And as Christ invites all to come so he receives all that doth come He that comes to me I will in no wayes cast him out saith our Saviour Joh. 6.37 What think you sinners of these Scriptures will ye come to Christ and accept of life and salvation or will ye wilfully cast away your own souls for ever You see here Christ offers himself to you freely if you will but receive him Come unto me saith our Saviour Mat. 11.28 all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will refresh you What 〈…〉 of the 〈…〉 will ye come 〈…〉 and be saved 〈…〉 you be so de●peratly mad as to destroy your own most precious and immortall souls When I behold the lives of most men my very heart trembles to think what will everlastingly become of their precious souls all the care they take is for their bodies how does money come in and how they shall get riches but they never consider how it goes with their souls Ah sinners are your bodies everlasting Is this world everlasting Can any thing but heaven make you happy Are not your souls everlasting will ye rather cast away your souls then leave your lusts for sin and you must part orelse heaven and your souls will never meet He that doth not leave his sins on this side the grave by Repentance shall find 〈◊〉 sins to meet him on the other side the gravel 〈◊〉 condemn him If you live in your sins ye sha● die in your sins Yea die everlastinglie for you sins Sinners I beseech you consider are yo● fit to die are you fit to live in another world are you prepared for heaven If not let me te●● you you are fit for nothing but hell and hell● prepared for you Sinners what do you do What do you mean to do are you yet a sleep Al● Lord what a harvest will hell have in these sin full daies What preparations do men make so heaven Are not they that were filthie filthi● st●ll What men were that they are still Thoug● God is every day tumbling men into their graves yet no man mends his pace for heaven Sinners you hear all this but can you bear all this Le● me give you two or three properties of a man fitted for hell and I beseech you try and examin● your own souls by them The first propertie of a man fitted for hell i● Obduration A stone you know is fitted to descend it is its propertie to fall downwards Hardnesse makes fitnesse The way to Hell is from burning to burning from a seared Conscience to a damned soul A second propertie of a man fitted for wrath is alienation estrangednesse to God speaks fitness to wrath and it is a sign that the Soul is fitted for utter darknesse There are but two steps to death first the sinner saith he will have no fellowship with God And secondlie God saith he shall have no fellowship with him Now is the sinner judged now fit for hell then judge ye the Execution onlie is wanting And the Devil is not usuallie backward to perform his office The sinner is upon the Gallows as it were he wants but turning off unlesse Christ steps in with a reprieve that soul is utterlie lost A third propertie of a man fi●ted for Hell is Prophanenesse Prophanenesse is the badge of a wicked person Wickednesse in the life speaks out a cursed soul You may know what Countrie men are of by their Language By their Fruits ye shall know them When mens words and works are the Language of Hell what need any further inquirie what Countrie men or to what place they belong You may read Hell in their very faces The tree is known by his fruit saith our Saviour Mat. 7.20 Mens lives foreshew what their ends are like to be As the Tree falls so it lyes As sinners live so they usuallie die Every mans life lively bespeaks what they are and what they shall be hereafter If men will go on in the broad way of sin you know where their journies end will be Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction Mat. 7.13 I know not what lives you live but to be sure you may either spell Heaven or Hell in them If ye would know the frame of your souls then view your lives your souls breath out themselves either into the bosom of God or the Devils and into whose bosom you breath out your souls here in this life into that bosom you will certainly b●eath