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A52476	Three choice and profitable sermons upon severall texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17, John 14. 3, Heb. 8. 5 : the first of them being the last sermon which he preached at the court of election at Boston, the second was the last which he preached on the Lords-Day, the third was the last which he preached on his weekly-lecture-day : wherein (beside many other excellent and seasonable truths) is shewed, the Lords soveraignty over, and care for his church and people, in order to both their militant and triumphant condition, and their fidelity and good affection towards himself / by that reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Norton ...	Norton, John, 1606-1663.; Norton, John, 1606-1663. Copy of the letter returned by the ministers of New-England to Mr. John Dury about his pacification.	1664 (1664)	Wing N1324; ESTC R40050	44,511	76

to the self-same thing is God For what thing for our heavenly house our house not made with hands he that fits us for these things is God And thus doth he fit us by trouble by these matters of groaning that do pass over us from day to day This should be a great incouragement There is a place prepared for you but remember you must be fit for your place you are not fit for your place in that you are meerly Regenerate but you must pass through such a measure of Obedience both active and passive that is appointed for you that by this means you may be meet for the inheritance of the Saints in light The place is fit for us already but we are not fit for it as soon as we are Regenerate 2 Cor. 5. he doth there instance in the troubles of the body the grief of the outward man we are burthened with our body but all this while a fitting for our place If you belong to God he is working you to the self-same thing be your trouble this or that the Cholick Palsie Stone or whatever he is working us for the self-same thing This is a great matter in our troubles to consider that God by them is fitting us for our place in Heaven Reas 2. From the Quality of the Undertaker that hath undertaken the reception of our Souls to himself I will come and receive you to my self If it be so let us that suffer according to the will of God 1 Pet. 4.19 commit the keeping of our Souls to him you may boldly do it he sends a fiery Chariot for Elijah likely it was an Angel He makes his Angels spirits his Ministers a flame of fire Heb. 1.7 Christ hath his way to carry your Souls to Heaven you do not believe what a condition your Souls will be in as soon as ever they are out of the body do but think what a meeting here is but we believe not these things As Christ when he sent to his Disciples to comfort them Luke 24.11 they thought they were tale tales so when we hear of these things we look at them but as idle tale but saith Christ I will come and receive you to my self Reas 3. Taken from the Person we shall be with namely Christ Phil. 1.23 You shall be with Christ which is best of all or which is farre better There is no better House then this Mansion there is no better Presence then his Presence therefore well might he say It is best of all or farre better Instruction 1. Learn from hence that the most and the greatest Communion that we have with Christ in this life still leaves us in a condition of absence from Christ compared with that Communion we shall have with him after death So faith the Apostle 2 Cor. 5.8 We are willing to be absent from the body and present with the Lord ver 6. for while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord It is a place of absence from the Lord that is compared with what we shall have after death If you think of Paul Who did enjoy Christ more then Paul did Did not Paul enjoy Church-communion Yes but notwithstanding this was a place of absence from the Lord compared with the society that by death he should be in Was not Paul acquainted with any godly men you know what he saith of Timothy but yet saith he I am absent from mine own people The word that is here translated Absent signifies Absence from his own people he loved Timothy well but he thinks the Spirits of just men made perfect exceed the Spirit of Timothy Here is no Companion that is like the Company there here is no Communion will satisfie here Where most of Christ is it is best but yet it is absence comparatively We are absent from the Lord. Instr 2. The New man the Believer is never at rest till he is with Christ in his Mansion-house If you never finde any such thing in you but that if you might have your desire you would be here alwayes believe it you have not this New man in you this New man never is at rest till it comes to Christ It is true there is weakness in the best and unbelief-may prevail too-too much but I speak of this new Nature that is in these and reigns in these that are Regenerate You know how it is with those that love one another after that Jacob knew what was become of Joseph there was no staying of Jacob Let me go and see him before I dye Gen. 45.28 What was the reason of it there was an intire love one unto another You know how it is with those that do indeed love one another that have been long absent one from another they cannot rest until they meet Was there any did ever love another as the New man loves Christ The New man loves him with a divine love the coals thereof are coals of fire which hath a most vehement flame Cant. 8.6 There are some on earth that do long after Christ there are those on earth that do desire after Heaven and do any love another as Jesus Christ loves the New man There must be a meeting between these two Lovers I will come and receive you to my self Mark how John concludes the Revelations Chap. 22. ver 21. Behold I come saith Christ He that-testifieth of these things saith I come Amen even so come Lord Iesus Here is a longing to be with Christ In any of your quaeries concerning Christ you are never at rest rill you come to Heaven it is the proper Being of the Sun to be in motion this New man is a divine man and his motion is still unto and after Christ Instruction 3. The death of the Believer it is a reception of the Soul by Christ Jesus Christ receiving of our Soules at Death is an incouragement to strengthen us against the fear of Death Are you affraid of going to your Mansion house are you affraid of going to Christ Mark what the Apostle saith Phil. 1.23 I desire to depart and to be with Christ The Greek word is a Marriners Phrase and signifies as much as to set sayle from the shore I desire my time were come to be loosed that I might go to my Mansion There are three Cords or Bonds that do Intangle us the loosing from which doth sweeten Death to us 1. The Bond of the Cross I desire to be dissolved and loosed from the afflictions and miseries of this present life This is in it's place a lawful thing to desire in Gods time 2. There is a Bond of Corruption the body of Death this I desire to be loosed from O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this Death Rom. 7.24 There are pangs in the Best But if you have the new man in you you cannot bear them There is Vain-glory there and there is Impatience there and there is Envy there and Unspiritualness which

look after his Out-casts and care for us being Out-casts for the Truth Let it appear that we are such Out-casts to whom the calamity and temptations of Out-casts are sanctified Out-casts healed Out-casts that care for the truth and then Out-casts on which God will bring the blessing of his own people If this plaister findeth acceptance with you you shall finde esteem and acceptance and favour from God and man Let us all labour so to carry it as that we may have this Rejoycing of a good Conscience to sweeten that bottle full of tears shed in your Out-cast condition in this wilderness viz. That we came into it not onely with a Spirit testifying according to the Scriptures against the Inventions of men but also that we do come up unto the Institutions of Christ that as we have departed from Inventions Humane so we may not be found to be or here continue opposers against Institutions Divine that we are not negligent of but faithful to that Order of the Gospel which we are Out-casts for THE BELIEVERS CONSOLATION In the Remembrance of his Heavenly Mansion prepared for him by CHRIST BEING THE SECOND SERMON AND Preached on the LORDS-DAY MARCH XXIX 1663. John 14.3 And if I go to prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you to my self that where I am there you may be also THis Verse and the former holds forth a double Consolation to support the Disciples against the suffering which they were to conflict with either In the way of Truth or For the way of Truth This Verse holds forth the second Argument of Consolation the former you have in the second Verse it is taken from the Place they were to be taken to after Death And this Argument in this Verse is taken from the Company they shall have in that place and that is his Personal Presence his full and clear Presence Where I am there you shall be also Now this Argument of Consolation is described 1. From the Scope of Christ in preparing such a place for them and it was that he and they might be there together I go to prepare a place for you that where I am there you may be also 2. It is declared from the Time when they must expect their being taken to Christ and that is when he comes again I will come again and receive you to my self 3. It is declared from the Efficient of it the Undertaker of this and that is Himself I will come again and receive you to my self To open the words thus resolved 1. Touching the Presence of Christ and Believers together That where I am there you may be also you must understand this of his Presence emphatically so called of his Presence in the place of Blessedness In thy Presence is fulness of joy Psal 16.11 There is a double Presence of Christ but he means here his Presence in Glory where we shall see him as he is 1 Joh. 3.2 I said this Argument of their Consolation was declared from the Scope of it I go to prepare a place for you that where I am there you may be also it was one great end of his being a Fore-runner Secondly he should fail of his Fidelity and Ability if there should be a disappointment 2. From the Time When I come again Christs coming is either his last Coming or his coming by Death Of his last coming you reade 1 Thess 4.18 Of his coming by Death you reade Luke 23.43 To day thou shalt be with me in Paradice Now the Soul goes to Christ when He comes to us by Death at his last coming both Soul and Body shall be together with him 3. This Argument of Consolation is described by the Efficient of it or Undertaker I will receive you to my self We may doubt how our Souls when we dye shall come to Heaven why saith Christ I will come and receive you to my self They therefore say properly when they dye that say Into thy hands I commend my Spirit Psal 31.5 it is a proper saying so to speaks Acts 7.59 Lord Jesus receive my Spirit It is a blessed thing to commit our Souls by Faith to Christ when they go out of the Body He comes by the ministry of his Angels or otherwise as he please I will come again and receive you to my self You may remember the words of Steven he dying called upon God and said Lord Jesus receive my Spirit we receive Christ and we receive the Spirit of Christ Now to as many as received him to them gave he power c. Joh. 1.12 Christ receives our Spirits then If we receive his Spirit now he will receive our Spirits then I will receive you to my self Doct. That the effectual Remembrance that at Death Christ will receive our Souls unto Himself is a Soveraign Preservative to quiet our Souls throughout all the Sufferings we meet with either In the way of Truth and For the way of Truth during this life You shall finde in Iob 19.25 saith he I know that my Redeemer liveth He might say I know my Estate is gone and I see that my Friends are gone and my Children be gone and my Health and Strength is gone and the Grave is ready for me but what stayes Iobs heart now I know that my Redeemer lives This is a living truth for a dying man I know that my Redeemer lives and that he shall stand in the latter day upon the earth and I shall see him c. This was now In the way of Truth for you cannot say that Iob was persecuted For the way of Truth But you shall finde in a way of suffering for the way of Truth Phil. 1.23 I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ Having passed through many troubles I would be out of the body and freed from the body of death I desire to depart and to be with Christ 2 Cor. 5.8 We are confident and willing rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. You must either be absent from the body or absent from the Lord it is an hard thing to be absent from the body but not comparatively We desire rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord We shall meet the Lord and shall ever be with the Lord. What is the use of this 1 Thess 4 18. Comfort one another with these words what are these Comforts They are nothing but Promises Promises rightly applied these are the Comforts of the holy Ghost they hold forth more good then the affliction doth evil If you would comfort one another bring out the Promise that is comfortable and seasonable Comfort one another with what with these words for in them the Comforter doth come and apply comfort Reas 1. Because hereby we are made fit for this rest fit to be with Christ that is by our trouble by this remembrance Mixing this remembrance with our trouble doth fit us for this place 2 Cor. 5.5 He that worketh us

the Believer cannot bear I desire therefore to be loosed from the Body It is said of one * Mezentius that he would bind a dead Corpse to a living man and so he would torture them This new man is boudn to a dead Corps there is no part of the Understanding Will or Affections throughout the whole man but this dead Corpse is there 3. There is the Cord of our absence from Christ that he expresseth as if it did in an especial manner move with him to be with Corist which is the best of all Simeon speaking of death Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in peace Luk. 2.29 as if he should say Give me my dismission as we use to speak from one Church to another so here from a Society Militant to a Society Triumphant So you see here he calls it but a dismission it came to pass when the time was come that he should be received up Luk. 9.51 relating to his death if you did but think that this were the great business when you dye namely the receiving of your Soules you would not be troubled you cannot give up your Soules into better hands 〈◊〉 5.24 you shall there finde it is called a passage from one Room to another he is passed from death to life it is like a passing from one room into another Look at death as in the Curse and what more terrible But look at it in the Promise and it hath another kind of aspect 1 Cor. 15.43 you see there it is compared to sowing it is sown in weakness it is raised in power This is now with relation to the body it is but sowing of it it shall rise again and that with advantage you are not affraid of sowing your seed that will bring a glad harvest It is a going from those that are not our own people to those that are our own people 2 Cor. 5.6 8. it may be you have a friend here but it is not an ordinary thing to meet with a Jonathan here It is but a going from them who are not our people whom we cannot so fully close with nay you cannot close with your own souls fully while here but you are going from those who are not your people to those who are your people where you shall find perfect closing with this new man you are come to the spirits of just men made perfect Would you see what Peter saith concerning death 2 Pet. 1.14 I must put off my tabernacle it is a strange Phrase he makes no more of it then for Elijah to put off his mantle What a thing was it for Elijah to let his mantle fall he gets him up into his Chariot and le ts go his mantle I speak this that you may see what expressions the Scripture gives concerning death O let my last end be like his I tell you it is a lovely thing Let me dye the death of the Righteous let my last end be like his I tell you there is another good in their last end that the unbeleiver is not aware of It is but a going out of one place to another I have done with this when I have minded you of that place 1 Thes 4.14 They sleep and they sleep in Jesus They also that sleep in Jesus shall God bring with him you see two bodies lye by the wall and they look both alike but believe it they are not both alike in the Promise if one be a Believer and the other an Unbeliever one is gone to this Mansion place the other not Instr 4. The presence of Jesus is the place of blessedness So saith Christ here I will take you to my self and you shall be where I am We shall see him we shall be inlightned by him we shall be satisfied in him and blessed with him 1. We shall see him 1 Ioh. 3.2 We shall see him as he is 2. We shall see him so as to be inligtned by him Psal 36.9 In thy Light we shall see light They are marvellous Lights that are in the place of Blessedness 3. We shall be satisfied in him Psal 17.15 As for me when I awake I shall be satisfied with thy likeness A satisfaction there will be at our Dissolution though more fully at the Resurrection 4. We shall be Blessed with him Blessed are the pure in heart Mat. 5.8 for they shall see God Then you that hear me look to your hearts for it is not whether you are rich or poor but Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God But what is it to see God I shall see my Redeemer saith Iob and that is true the eyes of our bodies may see the body of Christ but you shall see God you shall see him face to face you shall see him as he it I tell you the soul of man is never at rest till it sees God Some shall never see God therfore never be at rest There is no peace no rest to the wicked Isa 57.21 saith my God But now the soul it rests when it comes to see God He is such an Object as nothing without him will satisfie our Souls may be they may be pleased as children with a Rattle for a while here but not satisfied without him therefore know it these Souls of ours are more worth then we are apt to think of prize them how you will Unto the seeing of God to speak plainly there are three things that are required 1. There is required an Object 2. There is required the Purifying and Perfecting of the Vnderstanding 3. There is required the Light of Glory which may enable the Soul to see that Object Now 1. The Object is God we shall see him I shall see God Job 19.26 not onely see his Redeemer but I shall see God whatever might be the meaning of Iob yet we shall see him as he is 1 Job 3.2 We shall see him face to face 1 Cor. 13.12 It is true we cannot see infinitely our capacities cannot be made infinite yet we may see him that is Infinite we may see him apprehensively though not comprehensively yet we shall see him so as to fill the Soul though not see him so as to comprehend him but we shall apprehend so much of him as we are capable 2. There is the Perfecting and Purifying of the Vnderstanding that must be purified from all Ignorance Sin and Darkness and Mistake 3. There is the Light which God doth communicate of Glory As we have here the Light of Grace so there is the Light of Glory which enables a Soul to see him according to the Vision of Glory But what do we see in the seeing of God We see his Being or Essence as the Object is united to the Faculty relatively not formally We shall see the Attributes of God they which are in Heaven you shall see what they are making mention of Rev. 4. Holiness Almightiness Eternity You know not what Omnipotency is now but then you shall know it more