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A13809	A sermon preached the 26. day of May. 1584. in S. Maries Church in Shrewesbury before the right honorable the Earle of Leicester, accompanied with the Earle of Essex, the Lorde North, diuers knightes, gentle-men of worshypfull callyng, the worshipfull bayliues, aldermen and burgesses of the towne of Salop. By Iohn Tomkys publick preacher of Gods word there: now first published by the authour. Seen, perused, and allowed accordyng to her Maiesties iniunctions.	Tomkys, John.	1586 (1586)	STC 24110; ESTC S118479	38,851	98

Heb 13 14 except we walke on continually in the loue of god of our neighbour wherefore as the author of the Epistle to the Hebrues exhorteth vs f 12 1 Let vs runne with patience the race that is set before vs. Let vs lift vp our handes 12 which hang downe and our weake knees and make straight steppes to our feete 13 least that which is halting be turned out of the way but let it rather bee healed Yea g Exo. 12.11 let vs make hast to the promised land with our loynes girte our shoes on our feete and staues in our hāds that we stay not in the way whiche leadeth from this worldly Egypt vnto the heauenly promised land And this much concerning the manner of walking in the way whiche leadeth into euerlasting life * 4. The end of the way is euerlasting life Now remaineth that we shew you the ende of the way which in order is the fourth circumstance The ende of the way wherein the Apostle exhorteth vs to walke is euerlasting life Neither is it without cause that I propose vnto you the ende of our walking For the end of all actions being first in intention and last in execution is by experience found to be of that force that it draweth vs on although it stand with our perill to accōplish that we intend in hope to atchiue the end in our minds first proposed And therfore Christ our Sauiour to incourage vs a Mat. 7.14 to enter in at the straite gate to walk in the narrow way of due obedience vnto God proposeth the ende which is life And on the cōtrary part to deterre vs b Mat. 7.13 from entryng through the wide gate and walking in the broa● way of licentiousnesse he proposeth also the end which is Destruction And what can bee more comfortable the● life and the same to bee inioyed eternally in the kingdome of heauen O● what can bee more fearefull then destruction and the same to be cōtinued for euer in hell Let vs then chearefully walke on in the way of obediēce so shall we receiue the promised reward But that we may with more courage runne our race in hope to obtaine the crowne let vs take a vewe of euerlasting life with the eies of our mynds as in gods word it is diuersly described * 1. Euerlasting life compared to the land of Canaan god in old time gaue vnto the aunciēt Israelites the land of Canaan a land for the fruitefulnes therof sayd a. Exod. 3.8 Num. 13.27 to flowe with milke and hony that they might not onely possesse it accordyng to his b Gen. 15.14 c. promise but also by the temporall benefites thereof to be put in mynde of the spirituall blessings in the land of the liuyng and by their earthly rest there inioyed after the bondage in Egypt to be stirred vp with the desire of the heauenly rest to be possessed by the people of god after their deliuerance frō the thraldom of Satan Read the fourth to the Hebrues and there shall you finde this doctrine waranted So is the land of Canaan a figure of euerlasting life Christ the wisedome of our heauenly Father * 2. Euerlasting life called saluation wel knoweth that this transitorie life of ours is subiect vnto many calamities and therefore for our incouragement he calleth euerlasting life a Mat. 10.22 Mat. 13.13 Saluation whereby vndoubtedly he would haue vs to know that euerlasting life is that blessed state wherein we shall be deliuered from all calamities of the body all griefes of the mynde all corruptiō of our nature from sinne from death from Satā So shall our bodies b 1. Cor. 15 which now are corruptible 42 become incorruptible which now ar ignominious 43 become glorious which now are weak 44 becom strōg which now are natural 54 become spiritual which now is mortal 73 become immortal And this Saluation is that life euerlasting which christ hath promised to giue to thē c Mat. 10.2 Mar. 13.13 which perseuere in patience vnto the end I therfore cōclude with the Apostle a 1. Co. 15.57 Thākes be vnto god which hath giuē vs victory through our Lord Iesus Christ 58. Therfore my beloued brethren be ye stedfast vnmoueable aboundaunt alwayes in the worke of the Lord for as much as ye know that your labour is not in vayne in the Lord. Christ our Sauiour regarding the grossenes of our capacitie in heauenly mysteries compareth euerlasting life els where to b Luc. 22 29 30. a kingdome wherein we shall eate and drinke at his table and sit on seates and iudge the twelue tribes of Israell By these earthly and corporall benefites Christ signifieth heauenly and spirituall blessinges assuring vs that in the world to come we shall haue the fruition of the Lord and with him the fulnesse of felicitie And this is euerlasting life But know this that this onely belongeth to them c Luc. 22 28. whiche continue with Christ in his tentations * 3. Euerlastting life compared to a kingdome To set foorth vnto vs the exceedyng glorie of eternall life d 1 Co. 9.25 2. Tim. 4.8 Paule e Iam. 1.12 Iames f Reue. 2.10 and the Spirite in the Reuelation liken it to a Crowne or Gar●and which was wont to be set in ho●ourable maner vppon their heades * Euerlasting life compared to a Crowne or Garland which in making masteries got the ●est But withal hereby they forewarne vs that except a 2. Tim. 2.5 wee striue for the maisterie and that lawfully we may ●ot looke to bee crowned b 1. Cor. 15.54 O noble ●ictorie atchieued for vs by Christ where Satan hell sinne the fleshe the world and all the enimies of our saluation at once were thoroughly subdued so that now he triumpheth ouer them in eternal blisse Let vs therfore fight manfully vnder his standard that we may bee crowned gloriously in his kingdome But since the ende is alwaies fresh in the eye of the minde c 1. Cor. 2.9 as is before sayd Paule vndoubtedly much meditated vpon the ende of our spiritual walking * Euerlasting life compared to ioyes not seene not heard not conceiued whiche is as I haue shewed eternall life And yet his excellent reuelation notwithstanding as one not able in wordes to describe euerlasting life he leaueth it to the meditations of our mindes shewing vs that c 1. Cor. 2.9 the thinges which God hath prepared for them which loue him are suche and so excellēt as the eye hath not seene neither eare hath heard nor hath come into the heart of man And to conclude we haue a moste excellent portrature of this eternall life in the 21. * 6. Euerlasting life compared to a goodly citie chapter of the Reuelation of Iohn where it is cōpared to a citie curiously built garnished with golde and pretious stones beautified within