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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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