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B03760 Christ's last sermon, or, The everlasting estate and condition of all men in the world to come. Exactly describing the everlasting, blessed, and happy condition of the children of God in glory for ever: with the everlasting, endlesse, and caseless [sic] condition of wicked men in the world to come forever. Set forth for the comfort of the godly, and for the terror of the ungodly. / By a godly, able and faithfull servant of Jesus Christ, J.H. Hart, John, D.D. 1664 (1664) Wing H940B; ESTC R177841 23,456 47

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them out in death Fitting grace for heaven you see is no trifle your eternall estate depends upon it Sinners why do you put off this work as a trisle and why do you put it off till death I dare say that man would never be holy if be could help it that will not be holy till he die he would never have to do with Christ if he could avoid that will not be acquainted with him before he is ready to leave this world when death is fitting the soul for hell then and never till then to be looking after heaven Ah Lord that ever those men should have precious and immortall Souls to damn themselves they that look no after heaven till they come to their death-beds are usually crost in their folly they are then either surprized with infirmities of body and so disinabled to perform so great a work or else surprized in their souls and so unfitted and indisposed to it either they have no strength or no heart to it and so dye in their sins and perish eternally Wicked men would never leave sinning if they did not cease living and that is one reasont to justifie the infinitnesse or everlastingnesse of the punishment of wicked men in hell The damned in hell are under easelesse and endlesse sufferings because they would have sinned alwayes if they had lived alwayes wicked men would have no end of their lives here they would live ever that they might sin ever therefore the Lord giveth them a life not such a one as they would have but such a one as they deserve to have which is indeed a death for ever wicked men shall die eternally for sin because they would have lived eternally in sin In the third place I beseech you note from hence what a blessed thing it is to be a Child of God Is it so that there are mansions of Glory for Believers in Heaven hereafter then Believers are the onely happy Men and Women in the World Were it not for the hopes of Heaven the condition of Gods Children might be sad enough if in this life onely we had hope we were of all men most miserable 1 Cor. 15.19 But the hopes of Gods Children are in the life to come therefore they are of all men most blessed The happinesse of a Child of God is not in what he enjoyes here below but in what he shall enjoy hereafter in Glory The best things of a Child of God are unseen things Whilst we look not saith the Apostle at the things which are seens but a the things Which are not seen For the things which are seen are temporal but the things that are no●● seen are eternall 2 Cor. 4.18 And in 1 Pet. 〈◊〉 3 4. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to His abundance mercy hath begotten us again unto a lived hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dea● To an Inheritance incorruptible and undefiled that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through Faith unto Salvation The Apostle here excellent●● sets forth the condition of a Child of God and that in severall Regards First They are b● gotten again by Christ to an Inheritance possiblie they may lose all here below for H●● sake But yet here is the comfort of a Child 〈◊〉 God he is Heir to a great Estate in the ne●●● World There is an Inheritance for him an● that is a sure one In six Regards First I●●● not a corruptible but an incorruptible one S●●● condly it 's an undefiled one And thirdlie it 〈◊〉 a lasting yea an everlasting one it fadeth no●●● away Fourthly it 's reserved for them ti●● they come to age Gods Children in this life are not at full age therefore they are nor cap●ble of enjoying so great a happinesss which God will hereafter bestow upon them Fifthlie it reserved for them in a safe place Many mo●●● leave great estates here for their children whi●● they are often cheated of But the Inheritance of Gods Children is reserved by God for them in Heaven where neither Moth doth corrupt nor Theis steals away And lastlie as the Inheritance is reserved for the Children of God so the People of God are preserved for their Inheritance Henven if reserved for them and they are preserved for Heaven They are kept by the mightie power of God through faith unto Salvation Fourthly are there such Mansion of glorie for Believers hereafter then I beseech you try and examine your own souls whether or no ye be in the faith And let me exhort you in the Name of Christ seriouslie to set about the work of Salvation You see what great and glorious things there are laid in store for Gods Children hereafter Then I beseech you labour to get an interest in Christ here that so you may partake of those glorious Mansions hereafter How greatlie should the consideration of these things draw out our hearts in longings and pantings after God When shall I come and appear before God saith David Psalm 42.1 As the Hart panteth after the Water-brooks so panteth my soul after thee O God My soul thirsteth for God for the living God When shall I come and appear before God And if David and such longings after the enjoyment of God in his Ordinances here what desires thought we to have after the full enjoyment God himself in glory hereafter Are there 〈◊〉 mansions of glory to be had hereafter W●●● manner of persons ought we to be then in all maner of godlinesse And then lastly If there be such Mansi● of glory then let me exhort you all even now this your day to set your hearts at work seeking after those great things of Eterni●● Let every Soul of you thus reason with you selves Are there such glorious things hereafter and am I the man or woman that shall ●●joy them I remember a story of Gauls w●● having once tasted the sweet Wine of Ita●●● presently enquired after the Countrie and ●●ver rested till they had gotten it I have he●● given you as it were a fore-taste of that H●venly Wine which Believers shall drink hereafter in Glory now if you find any sweetne●● in it let not your hearts be at rest till you com●● to the Countrie it self where are Rivers those sweet Pleasures and that for evermore Martyr suffering death one asked him the cau●● why he suffered Saith he in the words of t●●● Apostle Eye hath not seen ear hath nor heart neither hath it entred into the heart of man●● conceive the things which God hath prepared f●●● them that love him The naming of wh●●● wrought so effectually on the mans heart that ●e immediately became a Christian and after ●ffered death of His Names sake You have ●ad not onely one but very many Scriptures ●pened to you I beseech you let not all be in ●ain We read in Mark 10.17 how the young ●an came running to Christ saying Good Mater what shall