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B01382	Communion vvith God. in two sermons preach'd at Paul's: the first, Sept. 3, 1654, the second, March 25, 1655. / By Samuel Annesley L.L.D. minister of the gospel at John Evangel London.	Annesley, Samuel, 1620?-1696.	1655 (1655)	Wing A3227; ESTC R223508	33,565	54

an immediate enjoyment of God fruitur insigni gloriâ sed quae plena non est it enjoyes very great glory but not fulnesse of glory The soul is but a part of man and so cannot have its compleat perfection till its divorce from the body be cancel'd Now then suppose the body as before instanc'd and the soul as now compleated united together what must needs be the result The body to be spiritualized and the soul's capacities to be unconceiveably extended Surely then and there will be fulnesse of joy in Gods presence Psal 16.11 3. Soul and body thus united shall then be absolutely and eternally freed from any possibility of sinning Till the general Resurrection this is not compleated For should a dead person be restored to live again upon earth that person would sin again This is easily proved for we read of Elijah Elisha and Christ that raised persons from the dead but all which were raised I except only those that rose at Christs Passion or Resurrection for I affirme nothing of them but all the rest sinned And that they sinned again 't is clear for they died again and death passeth upon none but those that have sinned Rom. 5.12 once an absolute freedome from sin and for ever an absolute freedome from death Now that they died again 't is clear for 1 Cor. 15.20 Christs Resurrection was the fruits of them that slept That this freedome is a priviledge of the first magnitude you have a brighter evidence then a cloud of witnesses Isa 6.3 The fiery Seraphim cry one to another Holy Holy Holy is the Lord of Hosts How many hundred years after do you find the Ministers of the Gospel that lead the Gospel Worship ecchoing back the same celebration Holy Holy Holy Lord God Almighty Rev. 4.8 What other attribute do you finde thus admired 4. Union with Christ shall then be perfected There 's a very neere strong excellent union here 't is exprest by several metaphors Physically by head and members Politically by Husband and Wife Corporally by food and body But then comes the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then shall the Saints be his fulnesse that filleth all in all Then and never till then shall the fulnesse be mutual 5. Soul and body thus united unto Christ shall be caught up to him and then shall the Saints in their own persons sit with him in his last most glorious work of judgment they shall judge the world aye they shall judg the God of the world The principalities and powers that captive wicked men at their pleasure are themselves reserv'd in everlasting chains to be judged by those whom they formerly foiled 1 Cor. 6.3 plainly they shall appear in the glory of Christs Kingdom having thrones with him in the aire during the time of the judgement 6. All that ever the soul enjoyed before in being with God in Heaven till the Resurrection shall be swallowed up with what it shall enjoy at the Resurrection All before shall be as nothing though far greater then can be exprest 2 Thes 1.10 When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven in the glory of his power in that day he shall be admired in all them that believe Admiration is at some strange thing So that his glory then will exceed all former apprehension And there will be never a Believer to whom Christ will not be admirable And now we are come to the very threshold of Glory But one step further and then you are in the last period 4. In Glory in Glory and what hath this been all this while on earth if you will believe Scripture Believers are Princes in all lands Psal 45.16 not like worldly Princes that are but subjects in another Kings Dominion No they are higher then the Kings of the earth Psal 89.27 In death it may in some sort be said of all what was said of Moses Deut. 34.5 he died secundum os Domini so from the Hebr. God did by him as a fond nurse by her babe kist him laid him down to sleep At the Resurrection we shall meet the Lord in the aire And do you not call this Glory is there more yet aye yet All that hath been spoken is but a few green ears rub'd in your hands the full crop the harvest is yet behinde I am now beginning to tell you what it is to enjoy God in Glory 1. All the enjoyments of God upon earth are but earthly when compared with the perfection of heavenly enjoyments It is true Grace in the abstract is beautiful and glorious Faith whereby we have communion with God it is a precious Grace But Grace in the concrete Grace as it is in us is almost contemptible Faith as it is in us our faith what bracks and flawes and sick-fits hath it But the Text I refer you to is John 3.12 Christ calls Regeneration it self an earthly thing when compared with those heavenly things which he would afterwards communicate 2. We shall see God you know God is said to speak to Moses face to face that is Visions affrighted the other Prophets the state of their minde was changed they were wrapt with extasies but it was not so with him though compassed with the divine splendour Yet God saith to this Moses Thou canst not see my face And he favours him so far as to tell him the reason of it There shall no man see me and live q.d. no man in this life shall see me he must first die and be changed and then he shall have a peculiar Revelation of the Divine Majesty then 1 John 3.2 We shall see him as he is But how that is I know not The two amazing mysteries shall then be unveiled the Trinity and Incarnation We shall for ever take in glorious apprehensions of God without cloying and for ever give out glorious admirations of God without wearinesse 3. There shall be a neerer union between God and the glorified Saints then then ever there was between Christ and a gracious soul before The truth is we may say that of this union which Paul doth of the peace of God It passeth all understanding that is before a person feel it he is unable to feigne what it is and when he feeles it he is unable to expresse how excellent it is They shall be filled with all the fulnesse of God Our union with God shall be neerer then Gods with Angels for the humane nature is advanced to greater dignity then all the glory of the Angels put together by reason of Christs assuming our nature Christ is not ashamed to call us Brethren Spouse Co-heires where doth he say so of Angels But this particular I will turne over to the next to be more fully cleared 4. Our communion with God shall be immediate without so much as a Mediatour We shall go streight unto God and immediately participate his Glory and Happinesse There can be no immediate communion between God and the Creature while sin or any of the effects of

themselves as they are hamper'd and clogg'd in us the soul may even long to be rid of them I meane to be perfected that what they have but in part may be done away 2. What ever excellency there is in any thing it is originally eminently in God Rom. 11.36 of him and through him and to him are all things of him as the first Author through him as the Preserver to him as the last scope Every thing hath its degrees of perfection according to what of God is communicated 1 Cor. 3.23 All things are yours yee are Christs and Christ is Gods that is the world is yours for your use ye are Christs as his peculiar and Christ personally as Mediatour for the glory of God essentially that all may be swallowed up of Deity 3. There is nothing can enlarge and satisfie the souls capacities but God alone Poore low-spirited creatures may have some kind of satisfaction in the world as Esau I have enough my brother but then the capacities of the soul are not enlarged Others may have their capacities enlarged but then the eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the eare with hearing and these are but the most capacious senses but in God enlargedness and satisfaction meet Psal 81.10 Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it that is let thy just desires be never so large thou shalt have them 4. The designe of Gods worke and the order of his working renders a restlessenesse in all things on this side himselfe 't was never Gods intention that any enjoyment should be any more than an encouragement that any grace should be any more than a means to bring us to himselfe when his people grow fond of any thing he withdraws it Ther 's a worme at the root of our comfortable gourds Ther 's a Canker in our best graces We read of Lots purity Moses his meekenesse Jobs patience Peters forwardnesse Paul's raptures but if these will glory it must be in the Lord for we read also of Lots incest Moses his passion Jobs fretfulnesse Peters deniall and Paul's thorn in the flesh Those that have great graces have also great corruptions and corruptions in those things wherein consists their excellency I should now come to the application but that I am obstructed by the doubts and objections of tender Christians Yet I shall passe by all but one and that I must speak to for the honour of my Master Some may object Will not what was hinted of immediate enjoyment of God in heaven be derogatory to our ever adored Mediatour and we dare not entertaine any diminishing thought of him I answer first It is not that the Father personally but that the Diety essentially may be All in All. Why Christ should continue his inferiority when his worke is done cannot be imagined He shall be honoured for his mediation but with an addition Might I say any person in the Trinity receives more honour than other Christ should have most Rev. 5.13 Every Creature which is in Heaven heard I saying blessing honour glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever Particularly unto the Lamb for ever and ever 2. This will exceedingly advance Christ in the thoughts of all while 't was necessary he veiled his Deity and when his work shall be done he still continues his humanity to converse freely with his brethren in his Fathers house Oh the intimacie there will then be between Christ and Christians the Apostle tells us we shall ever be with the Lord Christ Oh what communication of glory will there be to each other Rev. 3.4 These shall walk with me for they are worthy Rev. 5.12 Worthy is the Lamb to receive honour and glory and blessing Oh the mutuall rejoycing and delight in each other Prov. 8.31 from eternity Christ rejoyced in the habitable part of his Earth to eternity will his habitable earth rejoyce in him in whom dwells the fulnesse of the God-head bodily In a word the eye can never be off Christ as mediator and God now the eye shall never be off Christ as God and mediator then This objection answered Christs honour vindicated we may the more boldly crave his help for the improving of the Doctrine Vse The first use shall be of information There are three lessons I would have you learn by heart that you may rather from your own hearts than from discourses and books be inwardly perswaded of these truths 1. That Heaven is extreamly subjected to carnall mistakes in the thoughts of most men 't is made a flexible imaginary fancyed I know not what most men conceive it to be a place of sensual happinesse That base Wizard can wish Num. 23.10 Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his Alas he understands not what he wisheth ther 's nothing in Heaven suitable to his covetous double-heart Those that desire heaven do it most as a reserve upon some peevish discontent wearines Elijah himself is frighted into the wildernesse and then presently 't is enough now O Lord take away my life 1. Kings 19.4 2. If God be thus incomparably desireable then all the time of our life that is not spent either directly or at least by reduction to promote the enjoyment of God 't is lost time the enjoyment of God is worth all our paines that you will grant And that our time is little enough to be employed about it this you cannot deny But what then should we turne Votaries and bring up a new Religious Order when there 's more than a good many already No I therefore added the word Reduction that though all our actions be not strictly Religious yet they must all be reducible to Godlinesse e.g. 1. Food and raiment are things naturally necessary and he that provides them not for his Family is worse than an infidel he that provides them not for himself is that and more for he is worse than a mad-man But stay a little never was text more wrested by wordlings than that of the Apostle pray therefore take another to keep it streight Mat. 6.23 Seeke you first the Kingdome of God and his righteousnesse And his righteousness mark that you must rather seek Conformity to God than food and raiment 2. Relative comforts sweeten our lives But yet brethren this I say the time is short it remaineth that those that have wives be as though they had none and they that rejoyce as though they rejoyced not and they that buy as if they possessed not for the fashion of this world passeth away Why what would you have us to do I would have you without carefulnesse that you may be holy both in body and Spirit that you way please the Lord. 1. Cor. 7.29 c. we must mind God more than relative comforts 3. Higher yet The time you spend in Gods immediate worship even in extraordinary worship 't is lost time if you cannot answer Gods searching