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A43583 Meetness for heaven promoted in some brief meditations upon Colos. 1. 12. discovering the nature and necessity of habitual and actual meetness for heaven here, in all that hope for heaven hereafter. Designed for a funeral legacy. By O.H. an unworthy minister of the Gospel of Christ. Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702. 1679 (1679) Wing H1771; ESTC R216793 64,886 228

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Meetness FOR HEAVEN Promoted in some brief MEDITATIONS UPON COLOS. 1.12 Discovering the nature and necessity of habitual and actual Meetness for Heaven here in all that hope for Heaven hereafter Designed for a Funeral Legacy By O. H. an unworthy Minister of the Gospel of Christ Psal 73.24 Thou shalt guide me with thy Counsel and afterward received me to Glory Rev. 22.14 Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the City London Printed by J. R. for T. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside AN EPISTLE To my Dearly Beloved Hearers Friends and Neighbours and others that will be at the cost to buy or take the pains to read this small Treatise Dearly Beloved A Desire after Happiness is so ingraven in the Nature of Man that it was never put to the debate whether he would be happy or no This needs no choice all are agreed in this as the end of a rational Agent And therefore at last Felicity was accounted a Goddess among the Romans and St. Augustine tells us that Lucullus built her a Temple only he wonders that the Romans that were worshippers of so many Gods had not given Divine Honour to Felicity sooner which alone would have sufficed in stead of all the rest of their Deities which he reckons up and saith at last of Numa that having chosen so many Gods and Goddesses 't is strange he neglected this An eam forte in tanta turbâ videre non potuit but though they at last had got a notion of Felicity yet having no true Piety that veneration ended in the greatest misery and infelicity nothing but Wars ensued Vid. Aug. de civit Dei lib 4. cap. 23. This indeed is the case All men would be happy but few know the due object and true means leading to Happiness It is possible as the same Father saith there to find a man that is unwilling to be made King nullus autem invenitur qui se nolit esse foelicem that is loath to be made happy But indeed most men blunder in the dark and few find the thing they seek The same Father tells us de civ Dei lib 19. c. 1. that Varro in his Book of Philosophy that had diligently searched the various Opinions of men about the chiefest good reduceth them to two hundred eighty eight Sects or Sentences non quae jam essent sed quae esse possent and Augustine reduceth them to their several heads But I pass by Heathens that are bewildred in the dark and know no better Even professing or pretended Christians either do not understand or will not embrace the way of Peace and Rest The Lord looked down from Heaven upon the Children of Men to see if there were any that did understand and seek God They are all gone aside they are altogether become filthy there is none that doth good no not one Psal 14.2 3. All mankind is degenerate and few are regenerated We set out for Hell as soon as we are born and till converting Grace turn us Heaven-wards we go blindfold to the pit The whole World lyeth in ignorance and wickedness 1 Joh. 5.19 But no such ignorance as that which is wilful This is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darkness rather then light because their deeds are evil Joh. 3.19 No man perisheth but by his own will Men will sin and love death rather then life You will not come to me saith Christ that you may have life Joh. 5.40 He that rejecteth the means rejecteth the end All they that hate Christ love death Prov. 8.36 They do both not directly or designedly but interpretatively and consequentially Most men observe lying vanities and so forsake their own Mercies Jon. 2.8 as he leaves the East that goes to the West My people saith God have committed two evils Observe it it 's but one act yet there 's two evils in it what are they they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters and hewed them out cisterns broken cisterns that can hold no water Jer. 2.13 Oh what evil is in the bowels of one sin But especially in the sin of Vnbelief The evil of sin brings on the evil of punishment Miss of Heaven and you purchase Hell What mad man will refuse this gift that is better then Gold What beast will run into a pit or praecipice But some men make a jest of Heaven as that Bishop who when one said I hope to see you at your Diocess ere long replyed I fear I shall be in Heaven before that time come Others like Martha are so incumbred in the World that they are staked down to Terrene Objects and Answer as he that being asked if he saw the Eclipse answered No I have so much business on Earth that I have no leisure to look up to Heaven This is most mens ease Alas the World eats out many mens Religion as the Sun shining eats out the fire So that men are as dead to Religion as if Heaven were but a dream and as hot upon sin as if Hell had no fire or were all vanisht into smoke Nay it 's well if some look not on Heaven and Hell as if they were but a Fable or Romance a scar-crow to fright weak headed people or the meer invention of designing Priests to keep men in awe But they shall know one day to their cost that there is an Heaven by the loss of it and that there is an Hell by the torments of it Let these ask the rich man in torment whether there is an Hell or no Targum saith the dispute betwixt Cain and Abel was concerning a World to come And indeed this is the Controversie betwixt the faithful and unbelievers Though the wicked say the Creed wherein they profess a belief of the Resurrection Judgment and Eternal Life yet it s but notional not experimental practical They know nothing of it initially inchoatively by feeling the beginnings of it here and living to the rates of it It is to be feared that the greatest part of Mankind will fall to the Devils share How little are men concerned about a future state How many put away from them the evil day Some have a foolish imagination that Heaven is every where that there is neither Heaven nor Hell but in a mans own Conscience and then they can shift well enough for they can stop the mouth of a bawling Conscience and speak Peace to themselves But how long will either of these last When God arms a man against himself he shall be a Magormissabib a fear round about Witness Cain Saul Judas that thought Hell was easier then his own Conscience and therefore desperately leapt into it to the crushing of his Body and the damning of his Soul They shall find that there is an Heaven and Hell after this natural Life is ended It is recorded of Peter Martyr that he