deales immediately with the soule himselfe fils it with his wrath no creature in the world is able to undergoe the same None can inflict punishment upon the soule but GOD onely Sathan may urge and presse arguments of discouragement and affright us with Gods displeasure but the inflicting of anger upon the soule issues immediately from the hand of the Almighty Wee must here therefore consider God as a righteous Judge sitting in heaven in his judgement seate taking the punishment of the sinnes of all his people upon Christ there was a meeting together of all the sinnes of the faithfull from Adam to the last maÌ„ that shal be in the world as it were in one point upon him and the punishment of all these was laid on his blessed shoulders who suffered for them in both body and soule But how could Christ bee forsaken of God especially so forsaken as to suffer the anger of his father being an innocent person I answer First the Paschall Lambe was an innocent creature yet if the Paschall Lambe be once made a sacrifice it must be killed though Christ were never so unblameable yet if he will stoope to the office of a surety he must pay our debt and doe that which we should have done If a Princes sonne become a surety though his father love him and pitty him never so much yet he will say Now you have taken this upon you you must discharge it Secondly as in naturall things the head is punished for the fault of the body so Christ by communicating his blessed nature with ours made up one mysticall body and suffered for us But upon what ground should Christ become our surety 1 Because he was able to discharge our debt to the uttermost hee was more eminent then all mankinde having two natures in one the manhood knit to the Godhead 2 Christ most willingly gave himselfe a sacrifice for us 3 He was designed and predestinated to this office yea he was anoynted set out and sealed for this businesse by God himselfe and is not this sufficient ground why he should become our surety especially if we consider 4 That Christ tooke the communion of our nature upon him for this very end that hee might bee a full surety that his righteousnesse being derived to us and our guilt to him Gods wrath might be satisfied in the self-same nature that offended You see in Societies and Cities if some people offend the whole City is oâ—tentimes punished though perhaps many are guiltlesse in it yet by reason of the communion all are punished so likewise a Traitors son that never had any hand in his fathers sinne but behaved himselfe as an honest subject should doe yet having communion with the person of his father being indeed a peece of him is thereupon justly dis-inherited by all Law But how could Christ take our sinnes upon him and not be defiled therewith He tooke not the staine of our sinnes but the guilt of them Now in guilt there is two things 1 A worthinesse and desert of punishment 2 An obligation and binding over thereunto Christ tooke not the desert of punishment upon him from any fault in himselfe hee tooke whatsoever was poenall upon him but not â—ulpable as hee was our surety so hee every way discharged our debt being bound over to all judgements and punishments for us Now wee owe unto GOD a double debt 1 A debt of obedience and if that faile 2 A debt of punishment And both these hath Christ freed us from First by obeying the will of his Father in every thing and secondly by suffering whatsoever was due to us for our transgressions Some Heretickes that would shake the foundatioÌ„ of our faith will grant Christ to be a Mediator to intercede for us and a Redeemer to set us at liberty from slavery c. but not to be a surety to pay out debt by way of satisfaction to God for us Let such remember that Gods pleasure to redeeme lost mankinde is not so much by way of power and strength as by way of justice and therefore Hebr. 7. 22. it is said Christ is become oâ—r sarety and Paul when he became a Mediator to Philemon for Onesimus a fugitive servant did it by way of surety If hee owe thee any thing I will discharge it And Christ Jesus our Mediatour blessed for ever so intercedeth unto GOD for us as that hee fully satisfies his justice for our offences But why was Christ thus forsaken of his Father To satisfie God for our forsaking of him Christs forsaking was satisfactory for all our forsakings of God beloved we all forsâ—oke God in Adam and indeed what doe we else in every sinne wee commit but forsake the Lord and turne to the Creature what are all our sinnes of pleasure profit ambition and the like but a leaving of the fountaine of living waters to fetch contentment from broken Cisternes But Christ was chiefly forsaken that hee might bring us home againe to God that there might be no more a separation betwixt his blessed Majesty and us Some shallow heretikes there are that would have Christ to be an example of patience and hâ—linesse in his life and death and doe us good that way onely Oh no beloved the maine comfort we receive from Christ is by way of satisfaction there must bee first grace and then peace in our agreement with God Sweetly saith Bernard I desire indeed to follow Christ as an example of humility patience selfe denyall c. and to love him with the same affection that he hath loved mee but I must eat of the Passeover Lamb that is I must chiefly feed oâ— Christ dying for my sinnes So every true Christian soule desires to follow Christs obedience humility patience c. and to bee transformed into the likenesse of his blessed Saviour Whom should I desire to be like more than him that hath done so much for me But yet the main comfort I receive from Christ is by eating his body and drinking his blood my soule feedes and feasts it selfe most of all upon the death of Christ as satisfying for my sinnes And what a comfort is it that Christ being our surety hath made full satisfaction for all our sinnes surely wee shall never bee finally and wholly forsaken because Christ was forsaken for us Now wee may thinke of GOD without discomfort and of sinne without dispaire Now we may thinke of the law of death the curse and all and never be â—errified Why Christ our surety hath given full content to divine justice for wrath and law sinne and câ—rse c. they are all linckes of one chaine and Christ hath dissolved them all Now sinne ceaâ—eth wrath ceaseth the Law hath nothing to lay to our charge deaths sting is pulled out how comfortabley therefore may wee appeare before Gods tribunall Oh beloved when the soule is brought as low as hell almost then this consideration will bee sweete that Christ was forsaken as a surety for mee Christ overcame sinne death
Gods wrath and all for mee in him I triumph over all these what welcome newes is this to a distressed sinner â— when ever thy souâ—e is truly humbled in the sense of sinne looke not at sinne in thy conscience thy conscience is â— bed for another to lodge in but â—t Christ if thou bee a broken-hearted sinner see thy sinnes in Christ thy Saviour taken away see what hee hath indured and suffered for them see not the Law in thy conscience but see it discharged by Christ see death disarmed through him made an entrance into a better life for thee whatsoever is ill see it in Christ before thou seest it in thy selfâ— and when thou beholdest it there see not only the hurt thereof taken away but all good made over to thee for All things worke together for the best to them that love God The Devill himselfe death sinne and wrath all helpe the maine the poyson and mischiefe of all is taken away by Christ and all good conveyed to us in him we have grace answerable to his grace Hee is the first seate of Gods love and it sweetens whatever mercy wee enjoy that it comes from the fountaine God the father through Christ unto us I beseech you imbrace the comfort that the Holy Ghosâ— affords us from these sweet considerations Againe in that Christ waâ— forsaken and not onely so but indured the displeasure and immediate wrath of God seazing upon his soul filling his heart with anguish at this time wee may learne hence 1 In what glasse to looke upon the ugly thing sinne to make it more ugly unto us Beloved if we would conceive aright of sinne let us see it in the Angelsâ—umbled â—umbled out of heaven and reserved in chains of darknesse for offending God see it in the casting of Adam out of Paradise and all us in him see it in the destruction of the old world and the Iewes carryed to captivity in the generall destruction of Ierusalem c. but if you would indeed see the most ugly colours of sinne then see it in Christ upoÌ„ the Crosse see how many sighâ—â— and groanes it cost him how bitter a thing it was to his righteous soule forcing him to weep teares of blood and send forth strong cryes to his Father My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee If sinne but imputed to Christ our surety so affected him that was God-man and lay so heavy upon his soul what will it doe to those that are not in Christ certainly the wrath of God must needs burn to hell he wil be a consuming fire to all such See â—inne therefore chiefly in the death of Christ how odious it is to God that it could bee no otherwise purged away than by the death of his beloved Sonne Al the Angels in heaven and all the creatures in the world could not satisfie divine iustice for the least sinne If all the agonies of al creatures were put into one it were nothing to Christs Agonie if all their sufferings were put into one they could not make satisfaction to Divine Justice for the least sin Sinne is another manner of matter than we take it to be see the Attributes of God his anger against it his justice and hâ—linesse c. Beloved men forget this they think God is angry against sinne indeed but yet his Justice is soone satified in Christ. Oh we must thinke of the Almighty as a Holy GOD separated from all staine and pollution of sinne whatsoever and so holy that he inforced a separation of his favour from Christ for becoming our surety and Christ underwent a separation from his Father because he undertooke foâ— us so odious is sinne to the holy nature of God that hee left his Sonne while hee strugled with his wrath for it and so odious was sinne to the holy nature of Christ that hee became thus a sacrifice for the same And so odious are the remainders of sin in the heaâ—ts of the Saints that all that belong to God have the Spirit of Christ which is as fire to consume and waste the old Adam by little and little out of them No uncleane thing must enter into heaven Those that are not in Christ by faith that have not a shelter in him must suffer for their transgressions eternally Depart yee cursed into everlasting fire so holy is God that he can have no society and fellowship with sinners Doe you wonder why GOD so much hates sinne that men so little regard not onely the lewd sort of the world but common dead-hearted persons that set so little by it that they regard not spirituall sinnes at all especially hatred malice pride c. cloathing themselves with these things as a comely garment Certainly you would not wonder that God hates sinne if you did but consider how sinne hates God what is sinne but a setting of it selfe in Gods room a setting the devill in Gods place for when wee sinne wee leave God and set up the Creature and by consequence Sathan that brings the temptatioÌ„ to us setting him in our hearts before God Beloved God is very jealous and cannot indure that filthy thing sinne to bee in his roome sinne is such a thing as desires to take away God himselfe Aske a sinner when hee is about to sinne Could you not wish that there were no God at all that there were no eye of heaven to take vengeance on you Oh I with all my heart and can you then wonder that God hates sinne so when it hates him so as to wish the not being of God oh marvell not at it but have such conceits of sinne as GOD had when hee gave his Sonne to dye for it and such as Christ had when in the sense of his Fathers anger hee cryed thus My God my God c. The deeper our thoughts are of the odiousnesse of sinne the deeper our comfort and joy in Christ will bee after therefore I beseech you work your hearts to a serious consideration what that sinne is that we cherish so much and will not be reproved for and which wee leave GOD and heaven and all to imbrace conceive of it as God doth that must bee a Judge and will one day call us to a strict account for the same If Christ cryed out thus My God my God why hast thou forsaken me as being our surety for our sinnes we may see what to conceive of sinne and of GOD the better But above all things I desire you to see often in this glasse in this booke of Christ crucified it is an excellent booke to study the mercy of God and the love of Christ the heighth and depth and bredth of Gods love in Jesus Christ which hath no dimensions What set God on worke to plot this excellent worke of our salvation and redemption by such a surety was it not mercy did not that awaken wisdome
our selves generally well in all our sufferings 2. In particular Wee must doe well to them that doe us wrong First I say in afflâ—ction our carriage must bee generally good in respect of God by a meeke behaviour under his hand without murmuring against him 2. In regard of the cause of God that wee betray it not through feare or cowardise through base aymes and intentions c. but indeavour to carry it with a good conscience in all things when wee make it cleare by managing any thing that wee are led with the cause and conscience of our duty it works mightily upon them that wrong us 1. It winnes those that are indifferent and 2. CoÌ„founds the obstinate and stops their mouthes Therefore let us carry our selves well not onely before but in suffering we may not fight against them with their owne weapons that is be malicious as they are malicious and raile as they raile Beloved this is as if a man should see another drinke poyson and hee will drinke too for company he is poysoned with malice and thou to revenge thy selfe wilt bee poysoned too What a preposterous course is this Ought wee not rather to behave our selves as befits the cause of Christ as becomes our Christian profession and as befits him whose children wee are Wee should have an eye to God and an eye to our selves and an eye to others and an eye to the cause in hand so wee shall doe well Wee must not commit our soules to God in idlenesse doing nothing at all nor yet in evill doing but in well doing We must have a care if wee would suffer with comfort not to study how to avoid suffering by trickes so to hurt the cause of Christ this is to avoid suffering by sinne to leape out of one danger into another Is not the least evil of sinne worse than the greatest evill of punishment What doth a man get by pleasing men to displease God perhaps a little ease for the present Alas what is this to that unexpressible horrour and despaire which will one day seise upon thy soule eternally for betraying the blessed cause and truth of Christ How can wee expect God should own us another day when we will not owne him in his cause and his members to stand for them now thinke on that speech of our Saviour Whosoever shall be ashamed of me or of my words in this adulterous and sinfull generation of him shall the Sonne of man be ashamed when hee commeth in the glory of his father Therefore avoid not any suffering by sinne see how blessed S. Paul carried himselfe in this case The Lord saith he hath delivered me and will deliver mee from what from death no from every evill worke What will God keepe him from evill sufferings No for immediately after he was put to death what then why hee will preserve mee from every evill worke that is from every sinfull act which may hurt the cause of Christ or blemish my profession this was it Paul chiefly regarded not whether hee will preserve mee from death or trouble I leave that to him but this I hope and trust to that he will preserve me froÌ„ every evill work to his heavenly kingdome Thus should it bee with every Christian in the cause of religion or in a cause of justice c. for there is not any good cause but it is worth our lives to stand in if wee bee called to it It is necessary wee should be just it is not so necessary wee should live A Christians main care is how to doe well and if hee can goe on in that course he is a happy man But I cannot doe well but I shall suffer ill Labour therefore to carry thy selfe well in suffering evill not only in the generall but even in particular towards those persons that doe thee wrong endeavour to requite their evill with good there is a great measure of selfe-deniall required to bee a Christian especially in matter of revenge to pray for them that carseus to doe good to them that persecute us c. and so heape coales of fire upon our enemies heads How is that There are 1 Coales of Conversion 2. Coales of Confusion You know Coales doe either melt or consume if they belong to God wee shall heape coales of fire to convert them and make them better by our holy carriage in suffering If they bee wicked gracelesse wretches we shall heape coales of fire to consume them for it will aggravate their just damnation when they doe ill to those that deserve wel of them Some will say Christianitie is a strange condition that enforceth such things upon men that are so contrary to Nature It is so indeed for we must be new moulded before ever wee can come to heaven wee must put off our whole selfe and he is gone a great way in Religion that hath brought his heart to this passe None ever overcame himselfe in these matters out of religious respects but hefound a good issue at last It is a sweet evidence of the state of grace none better when a man can love his very enemies and those that have done him most wrong it is an argument that such a man hath something above nature in him What is above nature if this bee not for a man to overcome himselfe in this sweet appetite of revenge Revenge is most naturall to a man it is as Sugar as the Heathen saith and for a man to overcome himselfe in that it argues the power of grace and godlinesse in such a one As Christianity is an excellent estate an admirable advancing of a man to a higher condition so it must not seeme strange for those that are Christians to bee raysed to a higher pitch of soule then other men Sâ—e how our Saviour dealt in this particular Father forgive them they know not what they doe and so likewise Stephen being led by the same spirit of Christ desired God not to lay this sinne to their charge and so all the Martyrs in the first state of the Church when the blood of Christ was warme and the remembrance of Christ was fresh were wont to pray for their enemies committing their soules to God in well doing I beseech you let us labour by all meanes possible to bring our hearts hereunto if any thing overcome this will doe it to suffer well The Church of God is a company of men that gaine and overcome by suffering in doing good Thus the Dove overcomes the Eagle the Sheepe overcomes the Wolfe the Lambe overcomes the Lyon c. It hath beene so from the beginning of the world meeke Christians by suffering quietly have at length overcome those that are malicious and have gained eveÌ„ their very enemies to the love of the truth What shal wee thinke then of the greatest part of the world who never thinke of suffering which is the first lesson in Christianity but study their ease and
thou wilt not be better thou art in league with some secret sinne thy heart riseth against those that reprove thee of it thine owne conscience tells thee that thy heart is naught for if thou wouldst set thy selfe to obey God in truth assuredly he would deliver thy soule And therefore the Apostle to prevent such doubts speakes of deliverance from evill workes as comming from God But some may object we sin every day and if we say we have no sinne wee deceive our selves and the truth is not in us You must not understand this Phrase Legally in the vigor of it as that God will deliver us from every ill thought or rising in the heart or from every outward slip and failing c. But by every evill worke the Apostle meanes every reproachfull sinne that breakes the peace of our conscience that swallowes up a mans salvation from such kinde of sins that bring a staine and discredit unto a mans profession that wound his soule and may discourage others the Lord will deliver his he will keepe them from greater sinnes altogether and from being in league with lesser You know in falls there are severall degrees there is a slip a falling and a falling on all foure as we say a flat falling Now God will deliver his children from falling so fouly Nay Sometimes he will deliver them from evill workes by not delivering them from evill workes Hee will deliver from great ill workes by letting them alone in losser ill workes God delivers from evill divers wayes he delivers from falling into ill and he delivers out of ill when we are fallen he delivers from ill likewise by supporting us nay which is more he delivers from ill workes by ill workes How is that How doe Physitians deliver from an Apoplexie â— from a Lethargâ—e Is it not by casting the sicke person into an Ague to awaken that dull sicknesse so God to cure the conscience of a man when he sees him in danger of security by those soule-killing sinnes Pride Covetousnesse Loosenesse Hypocrisie and the like suffers him sometimes to fall into lesse offences to awake his conscience that being rouzed up he may fly to Gods mercy in Christ so infinite is Gods care this way that he will deliver either from ill workes or from the evill of ill workes or if hee deliver not from ill workes yet hee will deliver us from worse workes by those ill workes Austin saith I dare presume to say it is profitable for some men to fall if a man be of a proud peremptory disposition or of a blockish dull and secure nature it is good he should bee acquainted what sin he carryes in his breast where his corruptions are c. that so he may know himselfe and his danger the better I beseech you make use of this to helpe your faith and thankfulnesse when we are delivered from evill workes it is God that doth it The consideration whereof mee thinkes should strengthen our faith against Satan and all his fiery darts and incourage us to set confidently upon any corruption that we are moved to by others or our owne naturall inclination It is Gods enemy and it is my enemy it is opposite to Gods will and it is an enemy to my comfort God will take my part against that which is opposite to him he hath promised me to assist me against every evill worke by his holy Spirit A Christian is a King and hee hath the triumphing Spirit of Christ in him which will prevaile over all sinne in time But some poore soule may object Alas I have beene assaulted by such a corruption a long time in a grievous manner and am not yet delivered from it God doth by little and little purge out corruption as every stroke helpes the fall of the oak the first stroke helpes forward so every opposing of corruption never so little helpes to root it out and it is weakned by little and little till death accomplish more mortification But to proceed God doth not onely deliver from evill workes but preserves us to his heavenly Kingdome We must take preserve here in its full bredth he preserves us whilst he hath any worke for us to doe in this life and when he will have us live no longer he will preserve us to heaven howsoever by death he takes us away yet even then the Lord still preserves us Hee will preserve us in our outward estate by himselfe and by under-preservers for there be many such under God as Angels that are his ministring spirits and Magistrates who are the shields of the earth they may preserve under God and likewise Ministers that are the Chariots and horsemen of Israel and good Lawes c. but God is the first turner of the Wheele we must see him in all other preservers whatsoever And therefore the Apostle in the language of the holy Ghost and of Canaan saith here The Lord will preserve me And rather than a man shall miscarry when God hath any thing for him to doe God will worke a miracle The three men could not be burned in the fire God so suspended the force thereof Daniel could not bee devoured of the greedy Lions c. rather than Gods purpose shall faile that a man should perish before the time that God hath allotted him the Lions shal not devoure and the fire shall not burn God hath measured our glasse and time even to a moment and as our Saviour Christ out of knowledge of this heavenly truth saith My time is not yet came so let us know that till 〈◊〉 houre comes all the Devils in hell cannot hurt one haire of our head And this is a wondrous ground of confidence that we should carry our selves above all threatnings and above all feares whatsoever Thou canst doe nothing except it were given thee saith Christ to bragging Pilate who boasted of his power alas what can all the enemies of Gods people doe except God permit them If a King or a great man should say to an inferiour Goe on I will stand by thee and preserve thee thou shalt take no harme what an incouragement were this Oh but when God shall say to a Christian walke humbly before me keepe close to my word be stedfast in the wayes of holinesse feare not man you are under my protection and safeguard what an incouragement is this to a beleeving soule But put case wee cannot bee preserved from death for so it was here with the Apostle hee dyed a bloody death Why let us observe his blessed carriage in all this and doe likewise I regard not that saith hee doe your worst God will preserve me still So it should be the bent of a Christians soule to come to God with this limitation in his faith and in his prayer Lord if thou wilt not deliver me from suffering ill preserve me from doing ill If thou wilt not preserve mee from death preserve me
from sinfull workes This we may build on that either God will preserve us in life or if we die he will preserve us in death to his heavenly Kingdome And sometimes God preserves by not preserving from death for indeed death keepes a man from all danger whatsoever hee is out of all gun-shot when he is once dead death is a deliverance and a preservation of it selfe it sends a man to heaven straite and therefore the Apostle knew what he said The Lord will preserve mee to his heavenly Kingdome That is he will preserve me til I be possest of Heaven hee will goe along with me in all the passages of my life he will cary me through all and bring mee thither at last As the Angell that strooke off Peters bolts shined in the prison and carryed him out into the City So God by his Spirit shines into our soules and carryes us through all the passages of this life never leaving us till he have brought us to his heavenly Kingdome And not to open unto you things that are beyond my conceit much more my expression what a state this heavenly kingdome is unto which S. Paul hoped to be preserved observe briefely thus much 1. It is a Kingdome of all conditions the freest 2. The most glorious 3. The most abundant in all supplies 4. It is a heavenly Kingdome 5. It is an everlasting Kingdome Things the neerer the Heavens they are the purer they are 1. heaven is a most holy Kingdome no uncleanenesse can enter there 2. it is a large Kingdome and 3. an everlasting Kingdome Other mens Kingdomes determine with their persons perhaps they may live to out-live their glory in the world as Nero did the king that Paul was under now when hee wrote this Epistle who came to a base end But this Kingdome can never be shaken Gods preservation shall end in eternall glory Here is a speciall ground to Gods children of perseverance in weldoing what doth God undertake even from himselfe to deliver us from evill works which might indanger our salvation and to preserve us untill he have put us into heaven where is the popish doctrine of falling away then Oh but I may sin and so fall away I but God will deliver us from evill workes he takes away that objection Hee that keepes Heaven for us keepes us for heaven till he have put us into possession of it We are kept we are guarded as the word is by the power of God to salvation Salvation is kept for us and we for that If we indanger heaven any way it is by ill workes and God keepes us from them what a most comfortable doctrine is this But to adde a second against that foolish vaine and proud point of Popish Merit we see what a straine they are in first before conversion they will have Merit of congruitie that it befits the goodnesse of God when we doe what we can that we should have grace 2. When wee are in the state of grace they will have Merit of condignity but how can that be when as free grace runnes along in all God preserves us from evill workes and preserves us to his heavenly Kingdome of his meere love and mercy where then is the merit of man Indeed wee doe good when we doe good but God inables us wee speake to the praise of God but he opens our mouth we beleeve but God draws our heart to it as Austin sayes we move but God moves us I beseech you observe further here How compleat Gods favours are to his He deales like a God that is fully and eternally with his children If he deliver it is from the greatest evill if he preserve it is to the greatest good Who would not serve such a master O the basenesse of the vile heart of man that is a slave to inferiour things and affraid to displease men never considering what a blessed condition it is to be under the government of a gracious God that will keepe us from ill if it be for our good for ever Outwardly from evill workes inwardly from the terrors of an il conscience that will preserve us here in this world and give us heaven when we have done I beseech you let this compleate and full dealing of God quicken us to a holy courage and constancy in his service And see here a point of heavenly wisdome to looke when we are in any danger with the Apostle to the heavenly Kingdome When we are sicke look not at death Paul cared not for that but sayes he The Lord will preserve me to his kingdome Hee looked to the bank of the shore as a man that goes through a river hath his eye stil on the shore so the Apostle had his eye fixed upon heaven stil I beseech you therefore in all dangers and distresses whatsoever if you would keepe your soules without discouragements as you should bee much in heaven in your thoughts minding the things above and conversing with God in your spirits Look to the Crowne that is held out to us let our mindes be in heaven before our soules It is a wondrous helpe to our weakenesse in the time of trouble not to thinke I am full of paine I must be turned into the grave and rot and what shall become of me then c. away with this carnall reasoning it much weakens faith and damps the hearts of Christians Againe How doth this arme the soule with invincible courage in any trouble God may call mee to trouble but he will preserve me in it that I shall not staine my conscience What a ground of Patience is this Patience is too meane a word what a ground of joy and triumphing is it We rejoyce under the hope of glory Rom. 5. 2. A Christian should triumph in soule over all evills whatsoever and be as the Apostle faith more than a Conqueror considering that God will be present with him all his life long and after that bring him to an everlasting kingdome what an incouragement is this Heaven is holy and shall we not fit our selves for that blessed estate There is much holinesse required for heaven the sinfull wicked malicious poysonfull world layes reproaches upon holinesse but without it no man shall see God Doth that man beleeve he shall obtaine a heavenly kingdome who never sits himselfe with holinesse for it Oh no Faith and hope have this efficacie in the breast wheresoever they are to frame the heart to the thing beleeved If I beleeve a kingdome to be where righteousnes and holinesse dwelleth this beliefe forceth me to carry my selfe answerable to the state there And therefore saith the Apostle Our conversation is in heaven from whence we looke for the Savioure c. because he was assured of heaven therefore he conversed as a Citizen of heaven before he came there Hee praised God kept himselfe undefiled of the world and conversed with the best people