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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01900	The happinesse of the saints in glory, or A treatise of heaven, on Rom. 8. 18 For I reckon, that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. By Tho. Goodwin. B. D.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1638 (1638)	STC 12039; ESTC S118384	22,138	106

Oyntment and perfume rejoyce the heart so doth the sweetnesse of a mans friend by hearty counsell The same testifies David in his lamentation for Ionathan 2. Sam 1. 26. I am distressed for thee my brother Ionathan very pleasant hast thou beene unto me Thy love to me was wonderfull passing the love of a woman but I say though the love of friends bee great Ionathan exceeding lovely yet they are not so lovely as God it cannot be affirmed of them that they are love it selfe as God is on then how pleasant will it bee when this vase affection of love shall bee satisfied GOD will come into us and dwell with us and doe but thinke what a pleasant thing it is to have the great God of Heaven and Earth to dwell together with the creature in unity to have him who is love it selfe to dwell in us from all eternity it is said 1 Pet. 1. 8. Whom having not seene you love in whom though you see him not yet beleeving you reioyce with ioy unspeakeable and glorious Why if that bee a cause to make you rejoyce so unspeakably how much more joyfull will you be when you enjoy his presence not onely to kisse him through the lattice as here we doe enjoying onely his presence through his ordinances but to lie in the bosome of his love to bee enfolded in those everlasting armes of his mercy to be loved of love it selfe to be made partaker of all his goodnes and Gods love is free he loves us w th out any cause in our selves why thē brethren cōsider with your selves what is the height depth breedth and length of Gods love to bee filled with all fulnesse of God Eph. 3. 8. Oh what a bottomelesse sea of Gods love shall we be slung into one droppe of which is better than the gold of Ophir yea surpasseth the whole earth In the last place I will endeavour to shew the finall cause and demonstrate the greatnesse of Heaven by this that both the finis cui and the finis cuius that is the end why God hath prepared all this glory and the persons for whom Who is it for that God hath beene from everlasting preparing glory Is it not for his Saints Is it not for his friend and spouse Is it not for Sion Heb. 12. But you are come into Mount Sion and into the City of the living God the heavenly Hierusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels to the generall assembly and Church of the first borne which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant and to the blood of the sprinkling that speakes better things than that of Abel God hath reserved Heaven for us Heaven is made for the feasting of his first borne he hath in heaven all his children about him there shall bee called a generall assembly of them one will not bee away you know parents they bestow the most cost when they have their children all at once together they respect no cost looking at the joy which is set before them they have joy unspeakeable in the presence of their children together and therefore at times of rejoycing men will send for their children home Now my brethren God will have all his Children home hee will have a generall invitation the great Congregation of the Elect shall bee called together hee will have them all home and therefore hee must needs make great provision consider what he hath vouchsafed to wicked men the worst of men beloved these runne away with the blessings of the World even such as God hath set himselfe against to hate with an eternall hatred why then thinke with your selves what hee hath prepared for those that love him whom with an everlasting love hee hath loved in his Sonne for his Sonnes sake which is as great as himselfe certainly hee will communicate himselfe to the uttermost I say then thinke with your selves what God hath prepared for those that love him Secondly consider the end for which this is and that is to manifest his owne glory hee truely hath had a great deale of glory out of this World already The Heavens declare the glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his handy worke hee hath had a great deale of glory out of this World by justifying poore sinners and sanctifying their hearts and also by punishments inflicted upon wicked men but all this is nothing to that glory he meaneth to have not comparable to that he will have in Heaven 2 Thes 3. 10. When hee shall come to be glorified in his Saints and bee admired of all them that beleeve Wee thinke wonderfull things of God and yet all our thoughts shall come farre short of the excellency of his comming he will come beyond our expectation hee will come to purpose to be admired of all them that beleeve The matter of Gods glory the revenues of it must come out of you the chiefest of his glory as for the manifestation of his glory it must come forth of that he will come to be glorified in his Saints hee will then shew how glorious a God he is by manifestation of his glory it must come forth of that he will come to be glorified in his Saints hee will then shew how glorious a God he is by manifesting what glorious creatures he hath made it is not a little glory that will content GOD it is not a little glory that will content a King when hee meaneth to take state Rom. 1. Hee will glorifie himselfe as God or else he would never have begun he would never have gone about it unlesse he meant to doe it to the utmost And in what doth this his glory consist why in making us glorious and the manifestation of his glory as hee is God comes from us It is true indeed Gods essentiall glory can not bee added unto us but the manifestation of his glory shall arise to us we shall have it communicatively as when you see the Sunne reflect upon the waters though you see not the Sunne it selfe yet you see as perfect a manifestation of it as if you should see the Sun it selfe So likewise though you cannot have Gods glory essentially yet you shall have it perfectly communicated to you manifested in you 2 Cor. 8. 23. And therefore the Saints are there called the glory of Christ now thinke with your selves God hath had infinite vast thoughts of glorifying himselfe there hath beene a fountaine of thoughts in him for that cause and that unceasing spring which hath runne in GOD from all eternity must needs make a vaste Sea and who must be the vessels that must goe into this into whom all this must be emptied are they not those that love him those that hee hath loved with an everlasting love why then doe but thinke with your selves how unutterable are the joyes we shall have in Heaven I would adde something

us he will be all things to us himselfe and therefore it is said 1 Cor. 14. 18. That at the day of Iudgement when Christ shall give up the kingdome then all things shall bee put under him that God may bee all in all which implies two things First that God himself will be our happinesse hee will be happinesse enough for he is all in all Secondly That hee will be all unto us in a more transcendent manner than the glory of the creatures I may compare these joyes of Heaven to those receipts which containe the very spirits of things the very life and quintessence of things extracted out a little quantity whereof as much as will lie on a knives point is of more vertue and efficacy to work upon a mans body because they are the spirits than a great quantity of all other drugs so now these contentments which God gives are the very spirits of comforts which will adde more happinesse than all the drugs of worldly pleasures can administer unto us for all the happinesse that could bee had here nay further all the happinesse God could create to men as men here on earth are but as one drop to the bottomlesse Ocean of Gods glory and yet this fals short this is too scant a comparison for I say infinite millions of drops will at length make an Ocean but ten thousand millions of the glories of this World cannot make up one drop of the glory which is in God Thus God will be all things to us and all things in a transcendent manner Againe thirdly God will poure out himselfe unto us he will give us cōmunication with himselfe of this his infinite happinesse he will poure out all his glory unto us Ephes 3. 19. That yee might be filled with all the fulnesse of God which will give all comfort open thy mouth wide he is able to fill it for one drop of God will fill thee full I will fill thee with fulnesse fulnesse of the best kind oh what ineffable comfort will this be when the vessels of mercy shall be throwne into this bottomlesse sea of glory Therefore doe but thinke with your selves what a happinesse this will be when you shall be made partakers of Gods glory of all the blessednes that is in God for although he cannot giue us his glory essentially yet it shall as truly seeme to make us happy as it doth to make him glorious Fourthly we shall be made one with him they are Christs owne words Iohn 17. 21 22 23. That they all may bee one as thou O Father art in mee and I in thee even that they may bee also one in us that the world may beleeve that thou hast sent mee and the glory that thou gavest mee I have given them that they may be one as we are one I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me My brethren what is it that makes God happy but God himselfe and yet what is that which makes Christ so happy but that he is equall with God the Father Now if God make himselfe happy how happy shall wee be then when wee communicate with God in this his happinesse To bee one with him then must needs make us happy indeed wee cannot bee one with him as Christ is for hee is the brightnesse of his glory the expresse Image and character of his person he is the naturall Sonne of God and of the same nature with God but we shall be made one with him so far as the creature is capeable of and the next union to that which God and Christ have one with another we shall have that they may bee one even as wee are one And againe being made one with God we shall rejoyce in all that God rejoyceth in that God is so glorious a God it shall make thee glorious thou shalt have all those joyes by revenues of which hee now lives in Heaven thou shalt rejoyce more in Gods happinesse than in thine owne the more happinesse riseth to God the more riseth to thee that which is the matter of GODS glory shall bee the matter of ours it is the nature of love that it rejoyceth in the love of the person beloved Iohn 14. You are my friends if you doe whatsoever I command you Ioh. 3. And therfore saith Iohn in that he increaseth I must decrease in this my joy is fulfilled Our Saviour saith also to his Disciples If ye loved me you would have reioyced because I said I goe to the Father Now my brethren if wee shall rejoyce in the same God rejoyceth in both in that joy which is intrinsecus within him and in that joy which is extrinsecus whereby hee delights in all his workes and providence if both these I say shall be in us how glorious shall wee be Iohn 15. 11. Christ saith These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remaine in you and that your ioy might be full And this is not to be understood of our Saviours joy of the hopes he had of them but that the joy which is in Christ shall be in us that my ioy saith he may be in you 25. Matth. 25. We shall enter into our masters joy Rom. 5. 2. And reioyce in the hope of the glory of God and not onely so but we ioy also in God through our Lord Iesus Christ wee shall not onely rejoyce in a created glory which hee shall bestow upon us but further wee rejoyce in Gods owne glory I should come to shew you the subject of this glory namely the soule of man But my brethren I will first make some short use of this which hath beene spoken Let us therefore take God for our portion whatsoever else becomes of us whatsoever befals us let what will come what afflictions what throbs what miseries or crosses will come Heaven will make amends for all for thy pleasures of sinne and worldly contentments God will be better to thee than all put them all in one ballance and God with that glory he will bestow on you in another ballance and hee will over-waigh them all they are not worthy to be compared to this glory this was it that made the Martyrs runne through so many persecutions and tortures that with cheerfulnesse they tooke God for their portions so they had him they cared not what became of their bodies For saith Paul Wee looke not to things which are corruptible but to things which are eternall And because it is probable yea and more then probable that there are degrees of glory in Heaven that God will reward every one according to their workes why then doe not onely content your selves to goe to Heaven but endeavour to serve God more that you may have great glory in Heaven be abundant in good workes hoord up good works according to which glory shall bee waighed to