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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42350	The Christians labour and reward, or, A sermon, part of which was preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable the Lady Mary Vere, relict of Sir Horace Vere, Baron of Tilbury, on the 10th of January, 1671, at Castle Heviningham in Essex by William Gurnall ...	Gurnall, William, 1617-1679.	1672 (1672)	Wing G2258; ESTC R10932	62,221	185

Heaven Heb. 10.34 Ye have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance and Heaven is a place so excellent as renders it uncapable of an hyperbole not so far above our heads as it is above our thoughts It hath not entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him One may as easily draw in all the Air of the world at a breath as express or conceive how great and glorious the Saints reward in Heaven is As it is praemium reconditum pro nobis so it is absconditum à nobis as it is laid up for Believers so it is hid from them We are now the Sons of God but we know not what we shall be The Apostle compares our apprehensions of Heaven here to the low apprehensions which little children have of mens affairs 1 Cor. 13.11 which you know is very low That Saint which knew least of Heaven while on Earth did the first moment he entred into that Glorious place understand more of it than all the Doctors of the Church ever did or could whilst on Earth The Scripture therefore presents it to us as an object of our admiration not comprehension O how great things hath God laid up for them that fear him Psalm 31. When Saint Paul had set forth the Saints Happiness in that Golden chain of Salvation whom he predestinated them he called whom he called them he also justified and whom he justified them he also glorified breaks forth like a man in an Extasie What shall we say to these things expressing thereby his inability to express the greatness and glory of them Yet so much the Saints know of this blessed state that waits for them as will not suffer them to admire any thing they see here below any more than he would the light of a Glow-worm who hath seen the Sun I shall content my self at this time in setting forth the Transcendency of that Happiness the Saints shall receive as their reward in Heaven after their labour is finished on Earth To consider First The Properties of that Blessed state to which they shall be advanced in Heaven Secondly To compare the Saints work and labour on Earth with this their reward in Heaven First of the first The Properties of that Blessed state with which their labour shall be rewarded in Heaven First It is a state purely Spiritual The Saints state on earth is partly Spiritual and partly Animal He ceaseth not to be a Mortal Creature when he becomes a new Creature his life is Spiritual as a Saint but Animal as a mortal Man and so his comforts and refreshings are Animal as well as Spiritual He eats he drinks he sleeps and all these acts of Nature have a pleasure and sweetness proper to their kind which is too low for that glorifyed state to which they shall there be exalted they shall need neither meat nor drink where there is no hunger nor thirst no time there lost in sleep where the Body shall never be weary nor drowsie but be as wakeful as the Soul no need of cloaths where there shall be no shame where the body it self shall out-shine the Sun in its noon-day glory And is it not more desireable to be without these than to need them and have them to have sound legs then to be lame and have crutches who had not rather have been with Moses beholding the face of God in the Mount though all that time without food than Feasting with the Israelites at the bottom of the Hill surely Spiritual Pleasures are more noble and sweet than bodily or else we might say that Sensual men have more joy and pleasure in their life than God hath in his Secondly It is an accumulative state wherein there is an aggregation and concentration of all those things which are requisite to make their happiness compleat it is not Esaus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but Jacobs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not having much but having all will make man happy Are here all thy Children said Samuel unto Jesse and would not sit down to the Feast till David the only one wanting was come Thus mans Soul cannot sit down to its Feast and be satisfyed till it hath all that goeth to its Perfection the absence of any one Ingredient keeps it in motion looking and longing for it and that is inconsistent with compleat happiness which consists in rest arising from satisfaction Now in Heaven there is a confluence of all that the Saint even then when his faculties will be stretched out and enlarged to their utmost capacity can possibly desire He that overcometh shall inherit all things and I will be his God The glorifyed Saint hath above him the beatifying Vision of God himself and Jesus Christ the purchaser of all his Felicity whom he so loved on Earth and longed to see Within him he shall behold his own Soul made perfect in all its noble Powers satisfyed with the Image of God as full of Holiness as it can hold Upon him he shall see that body which was once so vile and corruptible made Immortal Spiritual and Glorious even like the Glorious body of Christ the exemplar cause after which it is fashioned about him he shall see an innumerable company of Holy Angels and glorifyed Saints his Brethren not one of them envying his happiness but all congratulating him for it and rejoycing in it Beneath him he shall see the Infernal Pit of Hell wherein so many millions of lost souls are to spend a miserable Eternity in unspeakable torment which must needs fill him with ineffable joy to think how near once he himself was falling into it but was happily prevented by the arms of free Grace seasonably interposing and ●atching him In a word he shall have joy without sorrow health without languour rest without labour and life without end Thirdly It is an entire state There is not only all Ingredients of Happiness in Heaven but the Saint enjoyeth all together here on Earth the Christian hath many pretious Promises sweet Refreshings and Comforts but he takes in the sweetness of them successively not all in one draught Indeed the largest Heart of the Holyest Saint on Earth is an house of too little receipt and roomth to entertain so many Guests together No now the Christian entertains himself first in the company of one then of another Promise God comes in a little at this and more at the next Sermon he hears He is as a leaky vessel under a runing cock filling but never full But in Heaven the Saint is filled and that all at once as a vessel thrown into the Sea full as soon as it is in This the Apostles expression seems to import that mortality might be swallowed up of life 2 Cor. 5.4 in a word the Christian here is like some great man that hath a vast estate but he neither seeth all his Land nor receives all his Rents together but in Heaven his whole felicity