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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

is to look upon 6. The Company we shall enjoy there Ill Company-torments our Spirits much Solomon says that it is better to dwell on the house top than with a contentious woman in a large house And David a holy man was weary of dwelling in Meshec and having his habitation in the Tents of Kedar And in Sodome their unjust conversation did vex Lots righteous soul And Ier. 9.2 He wishes for a Cottage of wayfaring men in the wilderness that he might leave his people being all Adulterers and Rebels rather than to live in such ill company But here in heaven The excellency of the Company far exceeds the building The presence of God himselfe in our Fathers house of Christ and the holy Ghost in Trinity not enjoying them as here onely in our assistance of the spirit but then an hundred times more clearly than now they shall dwell with us and we shall have full and clear immediate Communion with them and so with all the holy Angels who here are said to be ministring Spirits unti us Heb. 1. a very great favour but then we shall see much more clearly into their nature and excellency and know much better what they are and have done for us And so to have society with the Saints the Family of Heaven all of one Nature Will Affection Mind Desire Aim and Endeavour without any crossnes burthen or distemper to one another as here Though as it is said Ezek. 2.6 we dwell here amongst rebels thorns and scorpions yet there shall be no such annoyance where of all things that offend shall none trouble There shall be no Goats in that Fold no no Scorpions to bite no Thorns and Briars in our sides to prick no mockers slanderers or backbiters no tares or darnel or chaffe among that wheat no offensive or unclean thing can or shall enter there all shall be pure and holy Another Consideration is 7. Our employment there This also sets forth the excellencie of this building we shall not be idle there For even in the estate of Innocency Adam was set and appointed to dress and trim Paradise The soul it self is not capable of rest but must have some employment And though it be said Rev. 14. That the dead are fully blessed because they rest from their labours which is onely meant of their irksome toyling upon earth and is not said to bar us from an imployment in heaven suitable unto that estate we shall enjoy there For of those described Revel. 7.13 15. who had made their long Robes white in the blood of the Lamb having gone through many tribulations it is said That Therefore they are in the presence of the Throne of God and serve him day and night in his Temple and he that sitteth on the Throne will dwell among them So that as here it is our duty to serve God continually so there it shall be our honour reward and delight when all other relations services shal have an end to be perpetual spectators actors of so much ravishing excellency all which service shall be done and continued with much freedome and joy and without any pain or wearinesse unto us because as in the Lord Jehovah there is everlasting strength so we shall from him receive everlasting strength and perpetual refreshing from him so as we shal never be weary of our imployment but it shall be our delight joy to serve and praise God for ever For though he hath no need of our service yet we shall thus be perpetually honored delighted by it It shal be our ravishing delightful imployment to serve God in Christ continually The last main consideration of this Building which is a great one 8. The possession and enjoying For this makes up the pitch of all our Blessednesse not the possession onely but the comfortable enjoying of what we do possesse in a joyfull manner For in the middest of riches and abundant outward things yet a man possessed of them may live in want having no comfortable possession of them or quiet enjoying of them as it is one thing to live another thing to live joyfully and as a man may be old and yet not said to have lived long when he hath not injoyed his life comfortably So it is here in all which hath been said of this Building if we injoyed not what we possessed and that fully there were no blessednesse in it This is the Crown of all to injoy what we possesse But there in a speciall manner we shall enjoy the presence of God in Christ with the holy Ghost being present to our sight and understanding fully and clearly unto all eternity On earth the Saints have no Communion or fellowship with the Trinity God in Christ and his blessed spirit but what is joined with distractions and interruptions of their comforts and feelings having times of dissertions and withdrawing of their comforts But it shall not be so in heaven where we shall have a full ravishing intelectual understanding of the blessed Trinity as it is wicked mens misery to he without God in the world who know and can speak many good things but have no true taste and inioyment of the same wanting the heavenly influence and comforts thereof and as in this life it is a Godly mans affliction to want Gods presence being scanted in his favours so there on the contrary it shall be our everlasting blessednesse that we shall fully see and enjoy with all the whole powers and might of the soul with an actual intellectual full sight the fulnesse of God in fruition of the Beatifical vision for ever as it is 1 John 3.2 Dearly beloved now are we the sons of God but yet it is not made manifest what we shall be and we know that when be shall be made manifest we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is It is true indeed that God the father is invisible that no man hath seen God at any time and that he cannot be seen no not with our eyes glorified but we shall have a full clear distinct sight and understanding of the fulnesse of God in the Beatificall vision in Christ Jesus who is said to be the ●uage of the invisible God in whom dwelleth all the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily and in whom the fathers pleasure was that all fulnesse should dwell Colos. 1.15.19 and 2.9 A clear understanding of God in Christ with the fulnesse of an intelectual knowledge that we shall as it were be pitched and rolled upon the continual intuition of the satisfactory fulnesse of that our knowledge and enjoying of that beatifical vision for ever Which it seemeth is that which the Apostle aimeth at 1. Cor. 15.28 And when al things shal be subdued then shal the Sun himself also be subject unto him who did subdue al things under him that God may be all in all So resigning his Mediatorship to live as an heir with us in one body in the beholding