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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42153	Abraham's prospect Being a sermon preached at the funeral of Mr John Williams, late vicar of Devinnocke, in the parish-church of Llanspithid in the county of Brecon, on the 12th day of June, 1680. By Owen Griffith.	Griffith, Owen.	1681 (1681)	Wing G2018B; ESTC R218703	21,276	27

beaten Many Cities have large Charters but greater Priviledges have the Burgesses and free denizons of the New Jerusalem who have their names written or enrolled in heaven Heb. 12.23 Magistrates of Cities and Burroughs usually have their Books or Rolls wherein the names of all free men are written or registred whereby they may claim their right to the priviledges of that Corporation whereof they are admitted members In relation thereunto God is said to have his book and this enrolling of names assures the Christian of his right to the Priviledges of Heaven And oh what excellent things what royal Prerogatives belong to that City of God! where is Mirth without sadness health without sickness life without labour light without darkness an Olio of delights an Ecstasie of fruitions Pyrrhus said of Rome not then mistress of the world that it was urbs Regum a City of Kings but one thing was wanting in that kingly City as it was told a great Emperour ravished with its beauty men died there as well as in other places it was not priviledged from death It may truly be said of this City that it is urbs regum where the meanest door-keeper wears a Crown more pretious than the Onyx and the Jasper and their Crown shall never fade their joy never fail their Sun never set their life never end There will be neither hunger nor thirst nor weariness nor age they shall be priviledged from sin and sorrow and death itself for evermore 4. The largest Capacity Some Cities are famous for their bigness Nineveh was an exceeeding great City of three days journey Jon. 3.3 and Scanderoon the Imperial Seat of the great Cham of Tartary 28 miles in compass and Quinsay the greatest in the world reported to be a hundred but nothing to this great City Rev. 21.10 which is 12000 furlongs the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal v. 16. A great and definite measure being put for an indefinite and a greater As it is said of Tophet it is large and deep for the King it is prepared Isa 30. ult so of Heaven we may say it is large and high for the blessed it is prepared It is the Court of God and of Christ wherein are habitations for an innumerable company of Angels and all the Spiritual seed of Abraham which are as the Sand on the Sea shore For though the Scripture saith that few shall be saved yet is that to be understood comparatively to the vaster numbers that walk in the broad way that leadeth to destruction for absolutely considered they are a great multitude that no man can number Rev. 7.9 yet shall one heaven contain them all Though the way to heaven be strait and narrow yet is heaven it self spatious and ample Therefore our Saviour tells his Disciples Joh. 14.2 in my Fathers house are many mansions there is room provided and accommodation sufficient to entertain all comers None shall have cause to complain the place is too strait for me give place to me that I may dwell Isa 49.20 None though they come late and last thither shall be forced to any inconvenience as the blessed Virgin was to lodge in a stable because there was no room for her in the Inn Luc. 2.7 5. The greatest Security Men live in Cities for the security of their persons and the safety of their goods Tutò vivere was one end they had at first in building them that they might be places of strength and protection against hostilities and dangers whereas solitary dwellings are often exposed to violence and assaults But this is a City most secure The greatest in the world Nineveh Babylon Jerusalem have had their rise and ruine so that now they live only by the mouth of fame Fuit Ilium ingens gloria Teucrorum That they have been is all we can say of such as once flourished in greatest strength and splendor but now lie buried under their own ruines and all their beauty and honour is laid in the dust But Heaven is a City that cannot be shaken Heb. 12.27 All things there are out of Gun-shot beyond the reach and attempts of men and devils They that are there shall not feel nor need they fear the destroyer any more It is subject neither to rust nor to robbery not to vanity in it self nor violence from others for neither can moth corrupt there nor thieves break through and steal Matt. 6.20 This is the only City upon the Gates whereof may truly be engraven that Venetian Motto Nec fluctu nec flatu movetur neither winds nor waves neither secret underminings nor open Assaults can create any molestation or disturbance to it and the reasons of its being so strong and impregnable are given in the following words which leads to the Third part The description of the Excellency of the Object and that by two particulars 1. It s stability and firmness it is a City which hath Foundations 2. It s Architect and Author whose Builder and maker is God 1. It s stability and firmness it is a City which hath Foundations The strength of any building lies chiefly in the foundation though the walls be weak yet if well founded it may stand long The strength of the Church is described by this that it is sounded upon a Rock so that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it Matth. 16.18 and the New Jerusalem hath Foundations and these all of stones and those stones most pretious and therefore most durable Rev. 21.18 which denotes the firmness and security of the place and of their condition who are translated thither The Apostle therefore 2 Cor. 5.1 opposeth this earthly and that heavenly house this being made with hands that without this transitory that eternal Here we have but Tabernacles that have a roof but no Foundation and if we call them houses their foundation is but dust which deserves not that name Job 4.19 The world is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a fashion that passeth away 1 Cor. 7.31 All the goodliness and splendor of it lies in the outside and is but skin deep without any consistency or solid stay Here there is no continuing City The Church and every member of it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ambulatory in an unsetled and suffering condition All are but sojourners Psal 39.14 Our dwellings are uncertain by fire or poverty or persecution and a thousand intervening accidents to be sure by death we shall be forced to leave them But in Heaven there are Mansions which is therefore called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an abiding City there we shall not only be but continue for ever 1 Thes 4.17 We cannot tell how many the foundations be St. John makes mention of Twelve Rev. 21.14 by which some understand the twelve Apostles and their doctrine summarily comprized in the twelve Articles of our Creed but we may reduce them to two principal ones and this we may conceive the lowest number There is a Foundation upon a