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A87177	The everlasting joys of heaven: or, The blessed life of a Christian, in grace here; and in glory here-after. Set forth for the comfort and encouragement of all those that desire to fear the Lord; / by John Hart, a servant of Jesus Christ. Recommended to the reader, by Obadiah Sedgewick, and Iohn Downam, ministers of the Gospel.	Hart, John, D.D.; Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.; Downame, John, d. 1652.	1656 (1656)	Wing H948; Thomason E1680_2; ESTC R209155	49,553	177

contained therein We know that in the day of our flesh all that we can have of Thee and of this Building is but a tast of thy gratious goodnesse and that eye hath not seen ear heard that it cānot enter into mans heart what thou hast done for them that love thee and fear before thee even before the sons of men much more in heaven But seeing thy spirit fearcheth all things even the deep things of thee our God who knowest the course with the height and breadth and depth and length of heaven and earth and canst set the rule thereof on the earth and canst by him reveal unto us what it pleaseth thee to make known of these unknown wonderfull things O Let thy good spirit guide and lead us along into this land of the living this heavenly building of thine and guide us from room to room joy to joy glory to glory astonishment to astonishment thereof in some ravishing astonishing way as our hearts may ever thereafter be taken up vvith delight admiration and vvonder so as the svveet tasts ravishments joies raptures and glory thereof though vve vvander upon earch into the vvildernesse of this vvorld may make us remove to dvvell in heaven vvith heavenly conversation and affections more then ever O discover somevvhat of the excellency thereof unto us and suffer us if it be thy good pleasure to peep a little into the eternity thereof vvhich may make us groan earnestly for the full manifestation of the same vvith a discovery of all those considerations which may bring and lead us aloft unto this high high and lofty place of eternity to dwell with thee for ever But now in the first place let us come to view The excellency of this Building in general In five particulars 1. In that it is said To be a Building prepared as here when Princes and Noblemen intend magnificent entertainment though they have divers houses of note yet they have one mansion house above all the rest which they furnish and prepare for entertaining of their choice and chief respected beloved friends as Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 5.27 of his Pallace is not this great Babel which I have built for the house of the Kingdome by the might of my power and the honour of my Majesty So God to shew forth to the Saints the glory and magnificence of his power hath prepared this magnifique Building to entertain them for ever wherein he hath shewed the strength power and invention to make it suitable to the Builders eminency most magnifique and excellent which must the more excell above all other structures and buildings which ever were or can be imagined as the Master builder thereof is beyond all others in art skill riches invention and power And then secondly The excellency hereof is shewed by The unvaluable price of that purchase that was paid for it such a ransome as nothing else could purchase it but the bloud of the eternal Son of God yea more than Heaven it self It was thought a wonder and a great matter whereat Israel was sore grieved when the King of Moab sacrificed his the King of Edoms eldest son for a burnt offering in his distresse 2 Kin. 3.27 Amos. 2.1 But oh here is more cause of admiration That God should become Man suffer and die incarnate in our nature be sacrified for our sins upon the Crosse that ignominious and cursed death and al by the appointment and dererminate counsell of God And therefore the Apostle may wel come 1 Iohn 3. ● with his admiration Behold what love the father hath given us that we should be called the sons of God no love like unto this which is further set forth by an unexpressible expression Iohn 3.16 For God so loved the world that he hath given his onely begotten son that whosorver heleeveth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life Thirdly the excellency thereof appears in this that here shall be The fulnesse extent and accomplishment of all the rich and exceeding precious promises for here we have many great and rich promises made the extent whereof in their promised fulnesse are not fulfilled in this life what then shall they be in vain oh no they must be fulfilled either here or in heaven for no word of God proceeding out of his mouth must return again untill it have performed that for which it was sent Isa. 55.10 Here then must needs be an excellent place where the full extent and accomplishment of all promises as they came from heaven shall all in a concurrence meet and fully be accomplished unto us in the largenesse of their extent whatsoever Again this is such a Building wherein we shall fully fill up all the powers and faculties of the soul and satisfie the same unto the height of contentment for here we cannot satisfie any one faculty of the soul but it hath emptinesse and some further desire the eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the ear filled with hearing Eccles. 1.8 nor is the heart with injoying but that it hath further inlargements But there the whole soul and all the powers and faculties thereof shall be filled with a satisfactory contentation Not like that enforced upon us in this life wherein in afflictions and crosses we look up unto God and sit down under the same i● patience because God we know will have it so therefore submitting our selves unto his good pleasure in all things But with a high joyfull free contentation satisfactory to fill up the utmost of all the powers and faculties of the soul so as it shall be impossible to have a thought beyond it And further in this glorious Building the soul shall not onely be satisfied unto the extent of all satisfactory fulnesse But it shall be also satisfied to wonder and admiration at the surpassing excellencies thereof as it is said 2. Thes. 1.10 of Christ that he shall come to be glorified in his Saints and to be made marvellous in all them that believe marvellous indeed for then we shall see marvells beyond admiration and beyond the disciples who wondered at the goodly stones of the materiall Temples a type hereof But yet more distinctly to describe this glorious Building we must instance them in divers particulars 1. In the Titles given unto it 1. Christ calleth it John 14.1 His Fathers House Travellers in hot countries have Tents and Tabernacles to rest in for a while where they stay nor long but here is a mansion house an abiding and resting place and therefore now we may well be bidden to arise to go hence for here is not our resting place untill we come unto this Mansion house our fathers house where we must needs expect all the free kindnesses whatsoeuer and to receive them abundantly for he who spared not his own son but gave him for us all to death how shall he not with him give us all things also Rom. 8.32 And then again it is called a City in opposition to our

Lord how excellent is thy Name in all the world which hast set thy glory above the heavens When I behold thine heavens even the work of thy singers the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained What is man say I c. And Psal. 19.1 There he shews that the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shews the work of his hands day and night uttering the same running through all speeches and langauges unto the ends of the world wherein he hath set a Tabernacle for the Sun which compasseth round the whole earth in a miraculous manner which earth now by the mighty power and word of God in the middle of the heavens stands supported and hanging upon nothing All which Gods wonderfull and marvellous works proclaim the miraculous dwelling place of the Almighty in heaven provided above all his visible works to welcome and entertain man in before and after the Resurrection for ever Wherein Faith whose nature is like a Vine to take hold of every little help besides the Scriptures even by strength of naturall reason takes advantage to fortifie it self by that Even Nature it self might lead us unto the God of Nature and of all things by a strong argument drawn from our mortality and change from whence it strongly concludes The Creation of man and consequently of The whole frame of nature thus Whatsoever hath a being independent of it self were able also by virtue of that independency and being to have kept if self in that being from mutability and change But no creature since the creation ever yet had that power by virtue of its being to have kept it self in being from mutability and change Therefore it had a Creator which is the Almighty Jehovah only able to give a being to his words the same for ever Alpha and Omega And thus we leave The Certainty of the building to draw near therefore unto the building it self and The Certainty of our knowledge of a future glorious estate therein for ever attainable by us God in Trinity blessed for evermore who had sufficiently from all eternity lived in all Glory and Contentation being that infinite wisedome set up from everlasting from the beginning and before the earth works thereof were made minding at length to have a Creature made which should bear his image be Lord of all the creatures to be made and able to conceive and reflect back again his excellēcies at length to be taken up from the earth into heavē for ever into the association participation of the heavēly Quire of Angels in his fulness of time even then rejoycing in the habitable part of the earth having his delight with the sons of men in resolution and intention created Prov. 8.27 prepared the heavens and set his compass upon the deep established the clouds above when he confirmed the fountains of the deep had given a decree to the Sea that it should not passe his Commandement and appointed the foundations of the earth having furnished the heavens with all the hosts of them and the earth with all usefull creatures therein fitted for recreation comfort and delight of his new guests to be created at length when all things were fitted for him created Man his last and greatest work of wonder for whose sake and for reflexion of his glory in inioying of his works of wonder all these things created before him were given to him these visible heavens with all the creatures shewed unto him with a use of and insight in them and manifestation and revelation after his fall of a Heaven of Heavens the mansion of the Beatifical vision revealed in the Scriptures wherein he should at length be received having finished his course upon earth called for the sublimity and exceeding height thereof Gods dwelling place The high and lofty place of him who inhabiteth eternity Isa. 57.15 and by St. Paul a building not made with hands but eternal in the heavens of the assurance whereof he speaks confidently For we know c. and this is put without all peradventure 2 Cor. 5.1 For saith he we know and therefore in this we sigh earnestly wherein there is a Certainty set down That in this life we may come to be assured of a future glorious estate to come saith he we know Therefore though alreadie we be come near and on our way to view this glorious Building not made with hands yet seeing wee are a prettie distance off it to comfort our selves in our way thither let us take a brief survey of this Knowledge St. Paul so confidently speaks of what it is For we know In unfolding whereof if I be not mistaken these four things will discover it 1. A Description of the Qualification and Subject wherein this knowledge resides 2. How this is known of us 3. How we may know that we know what we know 4. How to trie the truth of what we know from that which is but a counterfeit thereof By help whereof we may by Gods blessing attain to the knowledge here meant For the First The Subject wherein it resides usually Qualifleation thereof There commonly ushers the same A strong Conviction called by our Saviour Joh. 16.8 The Conviction of the Spirit which there is said to be Threefold 1. A Convincing of Sin 2. Of Righteousness 3. Of Iudgement then there is a full way opened unto this knowledge spoken of Wee know Now for this 1. Gonviction We must know That there is nothing in this world so difficult then to convince us of these two things 1. How wicked we are and how good God is which is the sum of the two first convictions to convince us of these two things 1. How out of measure sinful sin is How miserably besotted we are with it in this our depraved nature in how great danger we are thereby of everlasting damnation how dangerous it is to retein it how insupportable the burthen thereof would be without Gods great mercy to us and that the sooner we leave it is and will be the better for us But the second is greater then this for it is an easier matter to throw us down then to raise us up again being fallen the Divell will both help to pull us down and keep us so being dejected when he sees us a going But to convince us that notwithstanding all this misery that we are in That there is an everlasting righteousnesse attainable freely purchased for us and given unto us of free gift by Christ who hath redeemed us from death and condemnation satisfied the fathers Justice unto the full infinitely far in value beyond all the sins of the world who being the onely be gotten son of God assumed our flesh and in that nature hath appeased divine justice so as henceforth whosoever will lay down the weapons of their rebellion and ensigns of their disobedience beleeve in him and sue forth their pardon living and being hereafter governed by the laws of his Kingdome like