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A62907	The faith of the saints as to a future house and happiness in the other world set forth in a sermon preached at the funeral of that worthy servant of Christ, Mr. Walter Marshal / by S. Tomlyns.	Tomlyns, Samuel, 1632 or 3-1700.	1680 (1680)	Wing T1859; ESTC R23761	22,228	33

might have adjudged and sent us to hell as our own place We are at best but as VVorms and Grass-hoppers Job 25. last Isa 40.20 compared with God and did a King ever build a Palace to entertain Worms and Grass-hoppers in By sin we were become as Rebels and Traytors and do Emperors use to build Royal Houses to Treat and Entertain those that have struck off their Authority and sought their lives O wonderful Mercy that God should build and furnish a Palace for us that might have been shut up in the eternal Prison and Dungeon Vse 2. Exhortation From this Truth I would draw several Exhortations 1. Hath God prepared such a house Oh labour and strive to be prepared for it Col. 1.12 seek to the Father to make you meet to partake of this inheritance Hath God built such a glorious house and will he take Swine and Lepers into it hath he laid out such curious workmanship on the Place and must not the Persons be Refined Perfumed Beautified and Adorned that shall inhabit it As the Place is the work of God so must not those that shall enjoy it be in a peculiar manner his Workmanship Eph. 2.10 Rev. 19.7 8. The Spouse of Christ is said to have made her self Ready and to come to the King in Raiment of Needle-work Psal 5.14 15. That Israel that is Gods glory Isa 46. last shall only enter into this house that is the habitation of his Holiness and of his Glory Isa 63.15 2. This should make the People of God willing to die and long to remove from hence Do we profess that so many years we have been seeking a City and Country Above and shall we be unwilling to find and enjoy what we have been so long seeking Shall we not long to possess the inheritance that is reserved for us should our Mansions above still stand empty should that house God hath built remain Un-Tenanted Why like worms are we so in love with our holes why do we go to the Threshold and door of our Fathers house with Sorrow and Tears with Moans and Complaints as if we were rather entring into the Prison than stepping into the Palace of God Oh! why do we dote so on an Earthly house why are we so Fond of a Frail Tabernacle why is our love so inordinate to a vile Cottage and our desires so weak and languishing after our Fathers house is the Footstool better than the Throne are our Hutts and Sheds to be preferred before the Mansion House of the Lord of Heaven and Earth 3. Moderate your sorrow for the death of godly Friends and Relations Our loss is their gain Phil. 1.21 To me to live is Christ and to die is gain they gain a better House better Company a better Country as they were Heirs in Reversion by the death of Christ so they are Heirs in Possession by their own death 2 Sam. 10.37 As Barzillai willingly parted with Chimham his Son sending him to live with King David in his Royal City and Palace at Jerusalem so we should freely dismiss our Christian Friends when they are to cross the Jordan of death enter into the True Canaan and live with the King of glory in heavenly Jerusalem If a man should strip our Children or Friends of Rags and cloth them with Royal Robes pull down their Cottages and give them strong and stately Houses in the place of them would we complain Our godly Friends do make a better Exchange may not we then command our Souls to return to their Rest because the Lord hath dealt so bountifully with our Friends which he hath taken to himself Their Souls enjoy a present Harvest though it be yet but seed-time with their Bodies and these very Bodies that now are sowed in the dust shall spring up again to life and immortality As the Tabernacle was taken down in the Wilderness but set up again in Canaan so this Tabernacle of our Bodies that is taken down by death shall be set up again and being turned into a strong house shall stand for ever in the heavenly Canaan God favours the dust of his spiritual Temples and will build them out of their Ruins that his Spirit as well as our Souls may inhabit them for ever Doctrine 4. Saints do or may know that when their earthly House and Tabernacle is dissolved they have a building of God an Eternal House in the Heavens But how can they know this have they a door opened to them into Heaven can they see their Names written over the Mansions taken up for them have they a window into the Breast of God can they read the book of Life search and peruse the Mysterious Rolls of Eternity Is not this a vain Boasting or foolish Bragging of things that cannot be understood or known I Answer True Christians are not mistaken or deluded they have ground for what they assert and they may come to know this 1. By Believing Faith is one kind of knowledge It is the knowing of things by the Testimony and Record of God and his Word is a sure Foundation to build Faith on God hath left us a Promise of the Everlasting Rest Heb. 4.1 he hath set matter of Hope before us in his Testimony and Oath Heb. 6.17 18. he that believes takes God at his Word he that comes in with his Eccho and Amen of Faith to the offers of God sets to his Seal that God is true John 3.33 Joshua and Caleb believed Gods Promise that he would give them the Earthly Canaan and it befell them according to their Faith Other Israelites distrusted Gods Power and rejected his Promise and it happened to them according to their Unbelief they were shut out of the Earthly Canaan Numb 14.8 9 28 29 30. So those that by the mouth of Faith do kiss the mouth of God speaking in the Promise Heb. 11.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Gre●k word signifies to salute and that by Kissing the Patriarks thus saluted the Promises by the mouth of Faith shall not be disappointed according to their Faith it shall be to them As in the division of the World of old he that as the first occupant did set his foot on a Country did thereby get a Right to it even by his taking Possession of it therefore Land was passed from one to another among the Hebrews by taking off the shoe thereby as it were disclaiming and renouncing the right that he had gotten by setting his Foot first on the Land Ruth 4.3 7. So truly whatever we can set the foot and lay the hand of Faith on we make to be our own we Claim Challenge and et a Right in the Promise by believing This is the Record that God hath given us Eternal Life and this Life is in his Son he that hath the Son hath Life 1 Joh. 5.11 12. Receiving Christ the greatest gift of God we become intituled to all the other gifts and Promises of God that in him are