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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43816	God's eternal preparations for his dying saints discovered in a sermon at Paul's, May the 7th 1648 / by Thomas Hill ...	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1648 (1648)	Wing H2022; ESTC R25713	29,286	46

not a joint in the mystical bodie of Christ shall bee lost for this is certain and it is a most sweet truth As by the death of Christ the hypostatical Vnion was not dissolved not the humane Nature separated from the Divinitie so by the death of a Saint the mystical Vnion is not dissolved neither bodie or soul are dis-jointed or separated from Christ the very dust of a Saint is still in Christ's keeping and though in a most mysterious way yet both soul and bodie are united to him though many of your friends may bee lost in the sea and eaten by fishes though many of them shot to pieces with bullets and torn with Cannon c. yet still the mystical Union is undissolved and though it is true Jesus Christ will send for wicked men at the day of Judgment as a Judg send's for a Prisoner the Sheriff or who ever the officer bee when hee intend's to execute him commanding that such a Prisoner bee brought to the place of Execution yet hee raise's his Saints not as a Judg but as an head hee raise's them by vertue of Vnion with himself as a father send 's for his Son home from the Vniversitie that hee may more refresh him and satisfie him and cloth him c. it may bee hee think's hee hath had short Commons there that now hee may com and bee entertained with the fatling even as the Father did entertain his Prodigal son and much more then wee are capable here upon earth but then 3ly There is a day of Judgment when they shall have possession of this eternitie Com yee blessed of my Father enter into the Kingdom heretofore the Kingdom of Christ hath been in them entered into them but now they must enter into the Kingdom heretofore som●joy entered into them but now they must enter into their Master's joy bee possessed of joy of a Kingdom and then fourthly and Lastly Jesus Christ himself hath prepared Mansions Joh. 14. 2. Mansions are not tabernacles but durable houses I go to my Father to prepare a place for you and thither you shall com and there are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you a most ingenuous melting speech room enough in heaven for all the Saints though God hath never so many children yet every one shall bee his heir and though Jesus Christ have never so many subjects yet every one shall bee a King why because hee himself is their reward hee himself is their Crown hee himself as Austine saith is their Inheritance every one an house every one a Mansion in heaven yes God himself is their habitation who is eternal Now the Grounds why it come's to pass 1. God and the Father hath resolved it from eternitie it is resolved from eternitie that it should bee so their names are written in the book of life thou John and thou Elisabeth and thou Mary and thou Zacharie you are book'd down there is the particularitie there is the certaintie your names are written in heaven rejoyce in it Luke 10. 20. 2. Jesus Christ hee likewise hath taken care to doe his part hee hath purchased this place for you it is a purchased possession Ephes. 1. 14. As hee did purchase it so hee possessed it hee kept it hee reserveth heaven for you as well as preserveth you for heaven the Crown is reserved for you in heaven 1 Pet. 1 4. 3. The Spirit which is an eternal Spirit a in concurrence with God the Father and God the Son hee hath been preparing and polishing b and fashioning his Saints that they may bee meet for heaven Col. 1. 12. and so you see a joynt concurrence that all their operations may bee of equal extent not as the Arminians would say and their followers that make the death of Christ larger then either the Decrees of God or the Application of the Spirit here the three glorious Persons in the Trinitie joyntly concur that all the Decrees may bee made good that all the promises may bee accomplished and that all your prayers may bee answered and so in this eternal house reserved for you you shall then see all these three effected Now for the nature of eternitie and there I shall onely hint that which is the description of the learned Boëtius Eternitie is such an unbounded possession of life as is perfect and altogether 1. There is a Possession a possession that is a tenure both firm and quiet In heaven you are not subject to any uncertainties to any intercisions to any interruptions you shall never bee turned out of that house it is above Thievs or Robbers Mat. 6. 20. 2. It is a possession of life nothing is properly eternal but that that is living Eternitie being a duration according to immanent acts as the School-men speak and those immanent acts do presuppose life now life for life or life upon life skin upon skin so som render that place in Job indeed the Anatomist's will tell you you have many skins three or four at least life upon life one after another You 'l venture all to save your life which you most esteem Life is most precious it is an high pitch of love when you com to venture it for God it being most dear to you and therefore the fitter to set forth Eternitie it is a possession of life 3. Interminabilis without bounds no end of this happiness God is absolutely eternal both without begining and without end but this shall have no end as much as creatures as much as Angels are capable off it is an unbounded an infinite possession as it were of life and that 4. Perfect whereas now the best of Creatures Angels have but onely an imperfect Eternitie onely an Eternitie à parte pòst for time to com 5. Altogether you are fully entirely and wholely possessed of it and all at once you have whole heaven the first moment you com to heaven Time is Nunc fluens but Eternitie is Nunc stans a standing moment that hath a co-existencie to time past time present time to com that is the nature of it and that house you shall have in heaven shall have this eternitie added to it to the happiness of having the fruition of God himself By way of Instruction Let poor carnal men that wallow in lust and take so much pains to gratifie the Devil in making provision for their flesh consider how dear they pay for them and what they lose Alas poor souls you pamper your bodie you paint your hous you adorn it but all this while you take a great deal of pains to very little purpose for you lose Eternitie Cyprian bring's in in the Devil triumphing over poor carnal people at the last day of Judgment Here are the souls that I never died for and in a way of upbraiding Jesus Christ here are the souls that thou laid'st down thy life for and under-went'st so much trouble

and contradiction of sinners for and now they are mine and not thine O what a sad triumph to you though the Devil will rejoice in it As all the Saints in heaven and Angels rejoyce at the conversion of a sinner at the return of a Prodigal Luke 15. so when any one is recovered into the snares of the Devil all the Devils in hell keep holy-day as it were triumph in it when they can get a man such a man especially that hath lived not in a Sodom and Gomorrah but in Capernaum in a London lifted up to heaven by the meanes of the Gospel and lived in godly Familie brought up under a godly Parent it may bee in a Universitie under a good Tutor and if hee can get such an one how will the Devil triumph But poor soul little do'st thou imagine what a looser thou art no less then the eternal happiness of an immortal soul and to make it more dreadful to thee that so thou may'st if the Lord please endeavor to rescue thy self out of those snares in which thou hast been entangled all this while do but think a little what hell is and what things are eternal in hell 1. There is an Eternitie of that which Divines call pana damni everlastingly destroyed from the power and presence of God everlastingly separated O that is a sad word Depart depart yee ursed How do many good women grieve and mourn when their Husbands are to go to sea or go a far journey or in the publick service in a Military way though they think it may bee it is but for som Months or for a year and have very probable hopes if not certain that by the blessing of God they shall return in ordinary course but what will you bee when soul and bodie shall com to part not onely themselvs by death but thou partest with thy Savior eternally though thou may'st own him as an husband and challenge him as thine and com and speak good words in a complemental way to him as they in the Gospel Luke 13. 26. 27. Wee have eaten and drunk in thy presence wee have been baptized wee have been thus often at thy Table wee have been kinde to our Minister and wee have don these and these things for the publick O but Christ will not own you you have not endeavored to finde a spiritual building in your souls and therefore you cannot expect an eternal building in heaven that is a certain Argument but this will bee your doom Depart everlastingly to turn the back upon Jesus Christ and to bee out of all hopes all the least possibilitie of mercie and to bee sent packing into hell and there chained up O then when that thou comest with that unprofitable servant to bee cast into utter darkness where is nothing but weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth then thou wilt weep over thy self bemoan thy remedile's condition and gnash thy teeth with envie when thou like Dives shalt see Lazarus in Abraham's bosom thy self being possibly an Alderman Common-council man Knight I speak not to any particularly but promiscuously to all or it may bee a servant of Christ whom thou hast scoffed shall bee in Abraham's bosom having judged thee to lie in hell eternally he●e is poena damni the loss of eternitie it self and is not this much but yet here is more 2. Here is the punishment of sense Besides the loss of God a Saint would count it a hell but to loose the sight of God to bee under eternal torments to frie in hell to bee everlastingly destroyed to bee everlastingly lashed to have stripes and it may bee many stripes everlastingly this is to bee truly miserable They that are ignorant shall have som stripes and one lash in hell will bee lamentable because it will bee eternal but to bee eternally lashed and that with many stripes O what a loss is here I cannot but pity you who scoff us poor souls for your sakes and bee charitable even to those that are without and desire heartily your deliverance from this miserie 3. But here is an Eternitie likewise as of fire without thee to torment thee so an eternal flaming conscience within a worm that never die's a fire that will never bee extinct What was that that made Caligula as great a man as hee was an Emperor run under a bed when it thundered there was a terrified conscience within and you hear much talk of Furies that the Heathens had that haunted them it was hell in their consciences and this will gnaw thee to Eternitie O how wilt thou check and chide thy self and bee upon a perpetual rack within I doubt som of us know what it means already by horrors and terrors of conscience to think I out-lived so many Ministers I persecuted so many Saints I trifled away so many Gospel-seasons I neglected the day of my visitation conscience tell's thee this was thy fault God will bee justified in thy confusion and though thou hast an eternal loss yet thou hast right from God and it is charged upon thy self that it is thy will not that did undo thee Why will you die O house of Israel Ezek. 18. 31. But you 'l say next by way of Question How can it bee just with God if wee dwell in houses of clay in brittle houses and fining but temporally to punish us eternally Take Gregorie's Answer if my memorie fail mee not Wee sin in our Eternitie and therefore God will punish men in his Eternifie yea let mee add this further Wee would sin eternally if God did leave us to our selvs there is not a wicked man in this congregation but hath that within him that would betray him to sin against God eternally if God should leave him Yea when thou comest to hell if thou shouldest lie there Millions of years thou can'st never satisfie God and therefore thou having offended an infinite God must undergo an infinitie of torments It would bee som comfort to a wicked man if after hee were there Millions of Millions of years there som hopes of recoverie out of it Origen had an opinion that all wicked men should bee saved at such a time som think the Devils at last but the Scripture is contrary therefore satisfie your selvs with this there will bee no interruption nor redemption what shall a man give for the change of his soul If a man win the whole world and loose his own soul what will it profit him what shall a man give for the change thereof If you could conceive that one of the numerous stars in heaven should fall at the end of a 1000 1000. years when all the stars are fallen that you should bee released there would bee som comfort Divines use these comparisons If at the end of 10. millions of millions of years you should but fetch one sand out of the Sea-shore or a Bird pick out but one drop of water out of