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A26342	The earthly and heavenly building opened in a sermon on 2d. Corinthians, Chap. V. Verse 1, at the funeral of the late ... Henry Hurst ... / by Richard Adams ...	Adams, Richard, 1626?-1698.	1699 (1699)	Wing A490; ESTC R20830	24,177	34

turn them out of it Man that is born of a Woman is of few days and full of Trouble t 〈◊〉 14.1 Every thing disturbs him and dissorders him The Fire the Aire the Wind the Lightning the Water the Smoak the Dust of the Earth a Fly a little Stone generated within our own Bowels our Meat our Drink our Physick our Passions our Griet our Joy our Fear c. May introduce Death and lead us to our Graves as they have done many before they were aware Two fits of an Ague could dissolve Tamerlane when they shak'd him to Death in the midst of his great hopes and greatest Power when he was preparing for the utter rooting out of the Ottoman family and the Conquest of the Graecian Empire The most Jolly and sprightful Commander is soon sent away if God do but change his Countenance u Job 14.20 Again 3. Experience proves that no Contribution of Creatures could free Men from their Dissolution No shift can secure us from Deaths Arrest unto Judgment The Confluence of all those things we are apt so much to desire yield but small comfort nay some times they prove Crosses Alas What can all the Profits Preferments Pleasures Priviledges of this World avail to the support of this Earthly House one day beyond it's appointed time All they who run Toyling Sweating Contriving and wearing out their Life with Labour in their grand Inquest after these things and so making themselves more Miserable out of fear of Misery will one day Subscribe to the truth on the Tomb of Sardanapalus who is said to have one hand in posture of Filliping reaching forth with this Motto Omnia nec tanti All is not worth a Fillip What profit hath a Man of all his Labour which he taketh under the Sun w Eccles 1.3 Thus we see the evidence of the point from Experience 2. From the Epithets given to Mans Life both in Scripture and Humane Story the point is further evident In Scripture What is your Life but a Vapour that appeareth a little time and Vanisheth away x Jam. 4.4 look in other places and what is it But a Shadow a Flood a Flower a Watch in the Night a Race a Cloud a Tale that is told a Bird flying a Ship sayling a Pilgrimage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Fight a Smoak a Sleep Yea a Dream a Vain-Shew In Humane Story saith Pindar Man is but the dream of Shadow and Ulisses in Sophocles While we live we are but meer Images or a vain inconstant shaddow saith Lipsuis in his own Epitaph shall I deal plainly with you All Humane things not Learning Excepted are meer Smoak shaddows Vanity or in short Nothings I need not add any more for Evidence only a little for Inference Inference 1. Learn To see what mistaken apprehensions they have who look for full Content in the Body Thereby misplacing their affections in suffering them to run out most upon those things which appertain to this tabernacle Alas how many even Professors of Godliness who say they have here no Continuing City yet sith their Conversation is so much below their Profession they shew that it is plain in their Practical judgments they are Terrae filij Sons of the Earth Citizens of the World and Terrae Filiae Daughters of the Earth now raising Puffie Pyramids on their heads after the manner of Aegypt They mind Earthly things They set their affections cheifly if not only upon their house of this Tabernacle They really prefer the Material to the Spiritual Building They indeed with the Sensual Israelites prefer Aegypt to Canaan And in their heart approve that Profane Cardinals saying who affirm'd He would not give his part in Paris for his part in Paradice I may appeal to what is written with legible Characters in many of your own Consciences for the proof of this Inference But let the Heathen Moralist * Seneca Major sum ad majora genitus quam ut mancipium sim corporis mei take us off saying I am greater and born to far greater things than to be a Slave to my Body Let us I beseech you for the Future If we may be here any longer not dote upon this perishing state But remember always whiles we blame Esau for prefering a Mess of Pottag above his Birthright we do Condemn our selves in setting our hearts upon these Earthly Tabernacles and prefering of them to the Heavenly And therefore Learn 2. To deaden our affections to the very best of these Transitorie things Let 's not be discontented and immoderately afflicted when we see any of our Friends Tabernacles are loosed and taken down Lay no claim to an abiding place in this present World Neither we nor our Friends have here any setled Mansions but only fleeting Tabernacles And therefore tho' we ought to be sensible of the departure of our Friends Let 's not think our selves undon when we see them taken in pieces And as we should not place our Contentment in our present state So neither should we be discontented when we find our Friends to be remov'd out of it Let 's therefore change our opinion concerning these outward things which we are apt to over rate see them as indeed they are Empty Unsatissing and Changeable and then we shall not cry and whine like Children without understanding or as Heathens without hopes either when we loose them or when we must leave them If then we be true Believers who pass out of this Changeable into an Vnchangeable state which leads me to A Second Observation Observ 2 That a future State of a Believer is of God Excellent and Eternal in the Heavens When the Soul of a Sincere Servant of God is loosed from this frail Tabernacle it enters into the Pallace of Glory there to remain in that Blessed State for ever Holy Saints leaving the Body they do in a Spiritual sence take the Wings of a Dove sly away and are at rest No sooner uncloath'd but cloath'd upon Mortality being swallowed of Life y Rev. 19.8 with v. 3 4. In the beauties of Holiness the Souls of the Saints departed are Gloriously cloathed with long white Robes which is the righteousness of the Saints here in their Pilgrimage God guides them with his Counsel and afterwards receives them to Glory z Psal 73.24 The time will not permit me so far as the Scripture reveals to give you a Prospect of this fair Building in its several parts otherwise I might in several particulars Illustrate the nature of this Blessed State which is a very large and a pleasant Subject For I might shew 1 How this Building is most Commodiously seated in the Continent of Compleat Hapiness the Kingdom of Heaven which was before the Earth was framed in a City that hath Foundations whose builder and maker is God a Heb. 11.10 2 How the Lord Jesus Christ doth receive the Spirit of the Believer as he did Stephens upon the dissolution of this