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death_n	body_n	dead_a	die_v	8,703	5	6.0319	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91900	The saints longings after their heavenly country. A sermon preached at St. Pauls church on Tuesday the sixth of June; 1654. At a solemn anniversary meeting of the Cheshire Gentlemen, and freemen of the City of London, born in the same county. / By that faithful and painfull servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Ralph Robinson late minister of Mary Wolnoth London.	Robinson, Ralph, 1614-1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing R1712; Thomason E848_3; ESTC R207320	21,164	43

things But above all things be mindful of your Heavenly Countrie First Never be at rest till you get good evidences of your Right to the inheritance of that Country You will be miserable whatever outward advantages you have till you have a possession in that Country Prove your spiritual Estate and Condition you are all by nature of another Country we are all born the children of wrath as well as others Eph. 2. 1 2. T is Repentance Saving Faith the work of Grace that will witness our right to Heaven Take heed of these false Evidences of common Profession Common Gifts worldly prosperitie on which most men build their hopes of Salvation All these are but sandie Foundations Consider such Scriptures as these 2 Cor. 5. 17. Rom. 8. 10. If Christ be in you the body is dead c. Better you had never been than not to have a Title to Heaven Secondly When you have proved your Right to it let your thoughts be much on it Mind the things of your Country the glorie the happiness of that Country Let your hearts dwell upon the meditation of Heaven and the things of heaven It is Gods command Col. 3. 1. That we would set our affections on things above It was the Apostles practise Phil. 3. 20. I might use many Arguments to perswade you to these thoughts and studies As First Your calling is a Heavenly calling Heb. 3. 1. It is a heavenly calling in regard of the Original and Efficient Cause It is heavenly in regard of the Object of it it is all about things of a heavenly nature It is heavenly in regard of the tendencie of it It is a call to Heaven that is the Terminus ad quem Whom he called them he glorified Rom. 8. 30. Glorification is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of effectual Vocation 2. All your happiness is in Heaven there it is that your Crown lies there all your treasure is and where should your hearts be but where your treasure is Matth. 6. 21. There is your Riches there is your eternal abiding if you be Saints There are your best and dearest Relations 3 Not to mind the things of Heaven is an implicite deniall of the resurrection of Christ See Col. 3. 1. he that doth beleeve that Christ sits at the right hand of God cannot but be often looking up that waie It is a good evidence that Christs Resurrection and Ascention have had some spiritual power upon our hearts when we minde the place where he is 4. The serious minding of heavenly things will make us less careful about all earthly occurrences He that lives much in Heaven is prepared to entertain any Providences God pleases to produce on earth the heart of such a Christian will be quiet and composed whatever fall out The serious thoughts of the good things of that upper Country will make the heart patient though it have but little will preserve it from pride and surfeiting of the greatest portion of the good things of these lower Countries 5. It is the way to have a long Heaven It is the way to have a double Heaven he that lives most in Heaven on Earth hath the longest Heaven The serious thoughts of Heaven do after a spiritual manner translate the soul into heaven that is a pertinent place to this purpose 2 Cor. 3. 18. he that doth by holy meditation view the glory of the Lord shall be visibly changed into the image of the Lord. And then Thirdly and lastly Be desirous to be put into possession of it You must staie in this lower world till God send the messenger of death for you but yet you may long and breath for such Translation It is the last prayer of the Spouse Can. ult ult the last prayer of the Church Rev. 22. 20. That Christ would hasten his coming It is a happie thing to be contented to die twice happie to be desirous to die Plutarch saith that the Egyptians at their feasts did usually bring in the Anatomie of a dead mans bodie And Strabo writes that the Persians at their Feasts used Pipes made of dead mens bones He that sets the Deaths head on his Trencher will eat most spiritually most soberly most thankfully He that is fit to die and willing to die is prepared for whatever shall come upon the World We shall never be like Abraham Isaac and Jacob till we have these desires after our Heavenly Countrie FINIS