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A26342	The earthly and heavenly building opened in a sermon on 2d. Corinthians, Chap. V. Verse 1, at the funeral of the late ... Henry Hurst ... / by Richard Adams ...	Adams, Richard, 1626?-1698.	1699 (1699)	Wing A490; ESTC R20830	24,177	34

and Brother which we have now brought to be shortly deposed in the Lap of our common Mother the Earth was the House wherein his great Soul did for a time reside even as ours do whilst we live in these Bodies we bear about and this House of ours or State of Life is presented to our View more distinctly in its Corruptible Foundation Immutable Station Inevitable Dissolution 1. Corruptible Foundation The material Principle is but of a terrene Quality 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 earthly in its Original and Composition The first Man is of the Earth earthly a 1. Cor. 15.47 so frail be sure since the Fall that there is no soundness in it whose Foundation is in the Dust crushed before the Moth b Job 4.19 more easily mouldering away when God doth but lay his Hand on it than a Moth is bruised betwixt a Mans Fingers yet that little Animal weaker than a Worm may when disposed of at the Pleasure of the Almighty overthrew this Foundation Neither is the Foundation frail but also it hath 2. A mutable Station The State of the Soul in this Life is not fixed but in a perpetual Motion and therefore the Apostle appositely compares this earthly Body wherein we sojourn a little as an Inn unto a Tabernacle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hypallage Earthly House of this Tabernacle or as Beza would render it by a Figure the Tabernacle of our earthly House it being as moveable an Habitation as it 's a frail Foundation Some would derive the Word from an Hebrew Root which signifies he dwelt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Others from a Greek signifying a Shadow Sith a Tabernacle at the first was composed of Boughs and Leaves for the shading of Persons from the Heat and Wet But not to be curious about the Name our Body may be aptly enough compared to the thing called a Tabernacle or Tent which was very obvious to St. Paul who had exercised himself in Tent-making c Act. 18.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For 1. The very erecting of a Tent or Tabernacle whether we consider it under a Civil or Military Notion doth import the brevity of the Inhabitants stay in it When the Apostle Peter writes d 2 Pet. 1.13 I think it meet as long as I am in this Tabernacle to stir you up by puting you in remembrance He intimates That he had not long to live and was willing to live to the best purpose by doing the most good during his short stay As when the Israelites built themselves Tents being in a travelling Posture not having any certain Habitations And as they were upon the way Sojourners and Strangers so are all of us in the Body for here have we no continuing City e Heb. 13 14. Though alas we may see some such Fools in their own practical Judgments feathering their Nests with the silly Birds that think not how soon it may be removed Yet even an Heathen * Gorgias Leon●ih in Stobaeus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who neither considered the Cause nor knew the Remedy could by the Eye of a natural Understanding call it A rotten fleeting little Cottage of short duration wherein the Soul must not stay long before the bodily frame of Nature will soon be taken in pieces by Death 2. The carrying of Tents and Tabernacles about doth further note the state of Pilgrims and Travellers that pass from place to place as we do move without rest whilst in the Body So the Prophet elegantly makes use of the Comparison f Isay 38.12 Mine Age is departed and is removed from me as a Shepherds Tent Which is set up a little while for Shelter and removed to another Pasture at pleasure As it is reported of the Nomades in Scythia as well as Numidia that they always remove their Tents with their Cattle which plainly sets forth our State here to be no less Transitory than Temporary and therefore the Apostle might well liken it to a Tabernacle especially if we consider further what he opens to our View and that is 3. The inevitable Dissclution of this earthly Tabernacle which is so temporary and transitory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if it were dissolved Which Supposition with reference to the Consequent doth evince that without all dispute it will be dissolved or taken down as a Tent that is loosed and laid up when the Siege is raised the City obtained and the War ceased It may be as a Tent is sometimes cut asunder and trod underfoot or burnt up So the Body by some violent Death may be sooner demolished than otherwise in the ordinary course of Nature it would be But tho it escape that Violence it cannot be long before it fall in pieces of its own accord For dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return g Gen. 3.19 Though thy Constitution thy Care and Labour with timely Advice of Physitians may help a little yet here is no stay long for the Life of thy hand to allude to that Expression of the Prophet h Is 57.10 It is appointed unto all Men once to die and then this Tabernacle will unavoidably give way for true Beleevers to go into that Receptacle which is nextly described in my Text viz. II. A Building of a more noble Structure peculiar to the Saints who do immediately pass into it upon the Dissolution of their earthly Tabernacles even a State of Glory provided by God for the separate Souls to enter into and abide in immediately after Death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We have a Building of God an House not made with Hands eternal in the Heavens When a Period is put unto the Scene of this Life much the same Word radically with this that signifys a Tabernacle then the Saints Souls who have acted their parts therein shall forthwith pass into those Mansions which our Saviour went before to make ready for the Reception and Entertainment of his Followers i John 14.2 I know some do expound this Building to be only the glorified Body But if we well consider this description in my Text which I shall presently open with reference to the 7th and 8th Verses in this Chapter noting the Souls immediate Passage out of the Body into this Building we may nextly and most fitly take it for the Glory with which the sanctified Soul upon its departure is forthwith cloathed and afterwards wherewith the Body shall be adorn'd at the Resurrection The Building we see is set forth to our View from Four Circumstances 1. The Architect the Founder and Builder 'T is a Building of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Mansion Seat of Glory is no other than the Paradise of God k Rev. 2.7 a rare Work where all due Proportions are observed and all Ornaments rightly chosen and placed ravishing the Eye of the Beholder Not only is it in a general Way the Paradise of God as he is the Author of the whole Creation