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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78766	The city remembrancer. Or, A sermon preached to the native-citizens, of London, at their solemn assembly in Pauls on Tuesday, the 23 of June, A.D. MDCLVII. / By Edm. Calamy B.D. and pastor of the church at Aldermanbury.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1657 (1657)	Wing C228A; Thomason E1676_2; ESTC R208432	25,502	90

of men or Devils 10. It exceeds all other Cities in the work imployment which the Citizens of this City have In earthly Cities men turmoil themselves with wordly businesses and are troubled about many things drowning themselves in the cares of the world c. But in Heaven there is no work but to sing Hallelujahs and to be alwayes praising God and rejoycing in his Presence 11. It exceeds all other Cities in the durableness eternity of it The pleasures of this City are everlasting and the Glory Honor Riches and Privileges c. of it are everlasting Therefore it is said to be a City which hath foundations The Apost. tels us That Abraham looked for a City which hath foundations This expressiō is put down in oppositiō to Abrahams dwelling in Tents Tabernacles A Tent is an house wch hath a covering but no foundation A Tent is a moveable house easily reared up and easily pull'd down But now the heaven of the blessed is a firm and an enduring City a City which hath foundations This Phrase signifieth Two things 1. The unchangeableness unalterableness of this Heavenly City 2. The everlastingnesse and eternity of it Both of them are expresly mentioned by the Apost. Peter 1 Pet. 1. 4. Where he calls heaven not only an immortal and undefiled but an inheritance that never fadeth away All Farthly Cities decay in time and need reparation But this is a City which never fadeth A place which needs no reparation And is as a Flower that is alwayes sweet and never withereth as excellent after 10000000. years as at the first moment of its creation It is unchangeable and unalterable And so also it is eternal and everlasting Earthly Cities have no foundation and therefore are fading and perishing They are like Cities made of wax or snow which quickly melt away like Nebucadnezzars Image whose head was of fine gold and breasts of silver but the feet which upheld it were composed of brittle clay that is easily dissolved Earthly happinesse like the earth is founded upon nothing And as the Cities we dwell in so we that dwell in these Cities have no foundation unlesse it be in the dust as Job speaks Therefore the Apostle saith We have here no abiding City but we seek one to come Heaven is a Kingdom that cannot be shaken A mansion-house as Christ saith In my Fathers house are many mansions so called from their perpetuity But we have no {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} no abiding city here Nature saith Cicero hath not given a dwelling place to us here upon earth but onely a lodging place as a guest in an Inne for a night and away Therefore it is that the Saints of God in all ages have acknowledged themselves to be sojourners pilgrims and strangers in this world traveling thorough it as thorough a strange Country unto their mansion-house in Heaven In a word All earthly Cities Persons and happinesse are subject First to alteration and next to dissolution The longest day hath its night and the longest life its death The famous Monarchies of the World have had their periods Kings dye and Kingdoms dye And great and famous Cities are in length of time ruinated and demolished We in this Nation have seen strange alterations changes and dissolutions All earthly Cities are changeable and perishing but Heaven is a City which hath foundations It is an unchangeable and everlasting City Lastly This City excells all other Cities in the builder and maker of it Earthly Cities are built by men but the builder of this City is God so saith the Apostle He looked for a City which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God There are some who think that the Heaven of the blessed is an uncreated place But this a great error For every thing in the world is either the Creator or the Creature ●f heaven were an uncreated place it should he a God and not a Creature We believe in our Creed That God is the Creator of all things visible and invisible And the forementioned text tells us That God was the builder and maker of it Here are two words used {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the last word signifieth that God made it summo artificio to set out his skill and workmanship When great men build great houses for their own dwelling they build them according to their greatnesse When Ahashuerosh made a feast to shew the riches and glory of his Kingdom it was a most magnificent feast Solomons Temple built by him was justly accounted the glory of the World Pliny calls it Orbis miraculum The miracle of the World When Nebucadnezzar built a Palace for his own dwelling it was a sumptuous one The Heathens tell us of glorious structures made by earthly Kings of the Temple of Diana The Sepulcher of Mausolus The Walls of Babylon The Capitol of Rome c. and the Pyramids of Egypt one of which was twenty years building and three hundred threescore thousand men alwaies at work about it If all the Kings of the earth should joyn together to build a Palace surely it would be a rare building But if all the Angels in heaven should joyn and set their wisdom on work to build an house surely it would be an Angelical structure Much more when God himself who is an infinite Agent infinite in glory power and wisdom shall make an house to shew his skill wisdom glory and power this house surely must needs be superlatively excellent Such an house and such a City is Heaven whose Builder and curious Artificer was God And therefore it is said to be an house made without hands Not onely without earthly hands for so all the visible Heavens were made but without hands that is after a more excellent manner than the other Heavens The other Heavens are said to be made by the hand of God Psal. 19. 1. Psalm 102. 25. But this was made without hands that is after a more glorious and a more unconceiveable manner than all the other Heavens Q. But for what end did God build this glorious City A. For two ends First For his own dwelling-house Christ calls it His Fathers House God indeed dwells every where in regard of his Essence but in regard of the presence of his Glory he dwells onely in Heaven This sheweth the surpassing excellency of this Heavenly House It is an House fit for God to dwell in Secondly God made this City that it might be a place where the Saints of God shall live in the embraces of God for ever Come ye Blessed of my Father saith Christ inherit the Kingdom prepared for you c. It is a Kingdom of glory and happiness prepared for the Saints before the foundation of the world In a word God made this City to be the habitation of Angels and Saints after this life in which they shall see God face to