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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26807	A short description of the blessed place and state of the saints above in a discourse upon the words of Our Blessed Saviour, John XIV, 2, in my father's house are many mansions, if it were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you / by William Bates.	Bates, William, 1625-1699.	1687 (1687)	Wing B1125; ESTC R25866	33,196	119

A blessed Doctrine In my Father's House are many Mansions capable to receive all his Disciples 2. Gives them an infallible assurance of it 1. From his inviolate Love and Truth If it were not so I would have told you 2. That his going away was not to reign alone in the Kingdom of Glory but to prepare a place for them The Point that I shall discourse of from these words is this There is a blessed Place Above prepared for all the faithful Disciples of Christ wherein they shall be glorified with him for ever In the managing this Argument I will endeavour 1. To represent the Excellencies of this Place specified by his Father's House and the state of Felicity that is inseparable from all that dwell in it 2. Consider the infallible Assurance we have of obtaining it 1. The Excellencies of this Place may be argued from the Maker of it and its Attributes specified in Scripture First God is said to be the artificial Builder of this City to signify a correspondent Excellency in the Work to the Divine Maker All the Works of God have a Divine Impression of his Power and Providence but in some are more conspicuous Characters of his Perfections For the wise Author of all Things hath ordered their several degrees of Excellence both in the Matter and various Art of adorning them suitable to the End for which they were design'd Now the supreme Heaven was made to be the Temple of the Divine Majesty wherein he would diffuse the richest Beams of his Goodness and Glory to his chosen Servants for ever and accordingly is a most noble Work of his Omnipotent Hand and there are two Remarks to be made in its Creation from whence we may infer its peculiar Excellency 1. 'T is the beginning of the Creation Amongst intellectual Beings the Angels are the First-Born of God's Power and in Natural and Divine Prerogatives excel Men. From hence it is that the Excellency of any praise-worthy Quality in Men is set forth by a resemblance of the Angels Excellent Wisdom in David My Lord the King is like an Angel of God Excellent Eloquence by St. Paul is stiled the Tongues of Angels Heroick Vertue and excellent Holiness in the Christian Church The House of David shall be as the Angel of the Lord for that which is highest in any kind of Perfection is the Rule and Measure of the degrees of that Perfection And thus in forming the material World the supreme Heaven hath the precedence in order and dignity before all the other Parts of it Indeed Moses only recites particularly the Creation of the visible World and by what gradations this great Fabrick with all its Furniture was compleated And the History of that is instructive of the Creation of invisible Things which is expresly specified in the Gospel But as Paradise was first made and then Man created to be the Inhabitant of it so we may infer that the highest Heaven the Seat of the Angels was made before they were created Now the Angels we are inform'd by Divine Revelation were present when the Foundations of the Earth were laid and God stretched his Line upon it Then the Morning Stars sang together and all the Sons of God shouted for joy They saw the rising World the variety and beauty of its Frame the admirable Order that distinguishes and unites its Parts that all Things were divinely done and transported with wonder and joy celebrated the praises of the Creator 2. The Supreme Heaven is the effect of God's immediat Creation The Earth with all its Ornaments was form'd of preexistent Matter the Chaos a confused Mass was the Embrio of the sublunary World but the Supreme Heaven is his more immediate and exquisit Workmanship and receiv'd its Being and Perfection at once You may illustrate this by the Account is given by Moses of the Creation of Man God made Man of the Dust of the Ground His Body derives its Birth from the low Element and the Wisdom of the Creator is wonderful in the artificial structure of it 'T is added God breathed into his Nostrils the Breath of Life and Man became a living Soul The Earth enters into the composition of his Body but his Soul was inspired by the Breath of God that is by his Divine Power immediately created and in nobility of Nature and its spiritual Endowments incomparably excels the Body And the third Heaven though not a spiritual Substance yet in the purity of its Nature far transcends whatever was form'd of gross Matter This being premis'd I will now consider what the Scripture reveals to us of that place that is eminently the House of God 1. The Amplitude of it Our Saviour tells us The Way is narrow and the Gate strait that leads to it to excite our diligence but there are many Mansions in the Celestial Pallace to encourage our Hopes 'T is therefore call'd a City a Kingdom If we look up to the shining Sky wherein are the Sun that by the computation of late Astronomers some thousands of times exceeds the Earth in its magnitude and innumerable Stars and some of that greatness that they eighty times exceed this Globe of Earth tho to the ignorant and therefore incredulous they are judged to be as they appear upon the account of that unmeasurable distance between the Firmament and us but glistering points of Light our Minds will be tir'd and lost in taking measures of that that seemeth boundless and this vast Expansion with all the glorious Luminaries is but the Portal of the House of God Therefore Solomon setting forth the boundless Greatness of God saith Behold the Heaven and the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain him that is neither the Airy nor Ethereal Heaven nor the Supreme Heaven that encompasses and exceeds it 'T is a spacious Pallace becoming the Divine Maker's Greatness the Image of his Immensity and the State of Felicity there is answerable The blessed God in whom there is an eternal Union of all Perfections perfections is all in all to his People The Sun in its brightness may be as truly included in a Spark as the Divine Excellencies be measur'd by created Contemplation There is an infinite variety in the Supreme Good that makes it always rare and new in the fruition The universal Love and universal Fulness of the Deity exceedingly satisfies all the Desires and perpetuates the Delights of the Saints He stiles himself in the gracious Covenant with his People I am God Alsufficient walk before me and be perfect He is sufficient in all things that are requisite to the compleat Felicity of the most comprehensive Spirits and is sufficient to make all that innumerable Company of Angels and Saints as happy as one Person God is Light and the Emanations of his Goodness are sensibly represented by it Heaven is call'd the Inheritance of the Saints in Light As the Sun his Almoner diffuses its Light and Heat so generally that every one indifferently enjoys it