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A08578	An explanation of the generall Epistle of Saint Iude. Delivered in one and forty sermons, by that learned, reverend, and faithfull servant of Christ, Master Samuel Otes, parson of Sowthreps in Norfolke. Preached in the parish church of Northwalsham, in the same county, in a publike lecture. And now published for the benefit of Gods church, by Samuel Otes, his sonne, minister of the Word of God at Marsham	Otes, Samuel, 1578 or 9-1658.; Otes, Samuel, d. 1683.	1633 (1633)	STC 18896; ESTC S115186	606,924	589

eternall the Psal 90. 1 Cor. 13. wombe of the mother is nothing to the world and the world is nothing to heaven seeing one starre is bigger than the earth Iob 38. Againe the difference of the inhabitants maketh a difference betwixt Heaven and earth that is full of living men this of dead Luk. 9. 2 Pet. 3. 13. Rom. 3. men that of iust men this of sinners this of men Rom. 3. 24. that of Angels Dan. 7. here dwell the penitent there the perfect here dwell the militant there the triumphant here dwell friends and enemies there friends onely and the elect there Hebr. 12. 23. Iob 7. Apoc. 14. God shall be plenitudo lucis nostro intellectui fulnesse of light to our understanding Multitudo pacis voluntati multitude of peace to our will Et continuatio aeternitatis memoriae and continuance of eternity to our memory It is said of the Swannes that they sing dying Cantator Cignus funeris ipse sui And we like Swans in the assurance of the glory that shall bee revealed to us should live and die reioycing For we shall be made an eternall joy and glory from generation to generation salvation shall The happines of Heaven set out by comparison bee our walles and praise our gate we shall have no more Sunne to shine by day neither shall the brightnes of the Moone shine unto us for the Lord shall bee our everlasting light and our God our glory our Sunne shall never goe downe neither shall our Moone be hidde for the Lord shall be our Esay 60. 15 18 19 20 21. everlasting light and the dayes of our sorrow shall bee ended wee shall bee all righteous and possesse the land for ever Wee shall come with Israel from Mount Horeb where was nothing but thunder lightning and clowdes to mount Thabor where wee shall injoy the glory of Christ Iesus and say with Peter Bonum est hîc esse It is Mat. 17. good for us to bee here Let them make account of this life who make the world their friend and are not onely in it but of it whose eyes the God of this world hath blinded that they looke 2 Cor. 4. 3. not for future things wee are here pilgrimes our Countrey is Heaven our friends the Angels our companions Apoc. 21. the Saints our City the new Ierusalem how can wee sit among the rivers of Babylon and not weepe to remember the heavenly Sion O curvae in terris animae coelestium inanes O crooked soules on earth and devoid of heavenly things Wee marvell at the Pigmaeans that are but a cub it high and live but seven yeeres and yet our life to eternity is not seven yeeres nor seven dayes nor seven houres nor one houre it is but a moment 2 Cor. 4. 17. so S. Paul calleth it Saturne one star is thirty yeeres in motion in circuit and we may goe round about the world in three yeeres and odde dayes so little a space is it What is a drop of water to the whole Sea An acre of land to the mappe of the world the light of a candle to the brightnes of the Sunne the life of a child to the yeeres of Methusalah the conceite of a foole to the experience of Noah who saw two Worlds or one drop of raine to all the waters in the Clowds which drowned a whole world Such is our life to eternity and the glory of this world to the glory of Heaven a thousand yeeres are but a day nay S. Iohn calleth 2 Pet. 3. all the time since Christs comming but an houre he maketh sixteene hundred yeeres but an houre to eternity to the dayes 1 Iohn 3. everlasting Oh thinke oftner of heaven and the glory of it Oh seeke the things that bee above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of Col. 3. 1. God set your affections upon Heavenly things and not upon earthly Paul prayed for the Ephesians that they might see the hope of their calling Ephes 1 17. the riches of the glorious inheritance And pray you for it for as yet these things are hid from our eyes videmus tantum terrena we behold onely earthly things If in a golden game some should step aside and runne after flies and feathers would wee not count them mad so is it in Christianity our life is a race wee all are runners heaven is the goale eternall life the prize but many step aside after flies and 1 Cor. 9. vanity We tire our selves in the way of wickednes and destruction and Wisd 5. 7 8 9. wee have gone thorow dangerous wayes but we have not knowne the way of the Lord what hath pride profited us Or what profit hath the pompe One day in Heaven more ioyous than many in the greatest honour of riches brought us All these things are passed away as a shadow and as a poast that passeth by If a man knew the thoughts of Alexander Magnus when hee died of the poison of Styx after all his victories or the thoughts of Iulius Caesar receiving in the Senate 52. wounds and all deadly after that hee had conquered the world hee shall see that they tooke little pleasure in their former honors and victories Philip Mornay saith of Carolus quintus whom of all men the world judged most happy that hee cursed all his honors in his old age his victories trophees riches saying Abite hinc abite longè Get yee hence get yee away a sarre off hee found more joy in one dayes contemplation of Heaven than in all his Imperiall life Then then was his mourning turned into joy and his sacke loosed and hee girded with gladnesse Hee that knew the Psa 30 11. thoughts of the soule of the rich man in hell hee shall see that hee crieth Woe woe to all the wealth honour pompe and glory of the world and had rather bee one day in Paradise than tenne thousand yeeres in this world hee curseth gold house land credit and saith Vae domni lut●ae ob quam perdidi auream in coelis Wo to this house of clay that hath made me lose an house 2 Cor. 5. 1. of gold in Heaven In Saint Lukes Gospell wee doe reade that when some spake of the temple how it was garnished with goodly stones and consecrate things O saith our Saviour are these the things that yee looke upon The dayes will come when a stone shall not bee left upon a Luk. 21. 6. stone So say I O then looke up higher Againe in Heaven is the presence of glory As there is no light but that which is derived from the Sunne so there is no glory but that which is derived from the glory of God that is true everlasting glory As there is no right Balme but in Gilead no right incense but in Sheba so there is no true glory but the Heavenly glory Gloria mundi ut fumus The glory of the world is but

of the sea yet shall but a remnant bee saved The Atheists erre also who say Non est Deut There is no God no Divell no heaven no hell contrary to that of our Saviour Goe yee cursed into everlasting Hell fire The Lucianists and Epicures erre who place all happinesse in Mat. 25. 34. 41. the pleasures of this life contrary to that of the Apostle If in this life only we have hope in Christ wee are of all men the most miserable 1 Cor. 15. 19. The Philosophers and Pagans erre who define felicity to be the abundance of riches joyned with vertue and not the fruition of God in Christ Iesus contrary to that of our Saviour This is life Iohn 17. 3. eternall to know thee the only true God and Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent this indeed is felicity this is happinesse The Pep●sians erre who say that the heavenly Ierusalem is in this earth contrary to that of Paul who saith Ierusalem which is above is free which is the Gal. 4. 26. mother of us all The Origenists erre who say that the Divels shall bee saved contrary to Math. 15. The Chiliasts or Millinaries erre who say that Gods Kingdome shall last but a thousand yeeres contrary to that of the Apostle which saith That wee shall be ever 1 Thess 4. 17. with the Lord and indeed there shall never bee end of this life it shall be eternall eternall not in respect of beginning but in respect of ending it shall continue for ever and unto this end Paul saith That Christ hath abolished death and brought life of immortality 2 Tim. 1. 10. unto light by the Gospell they that have an entrance into this life shall never see end of it Suppose that the whole world were a Sea and every hundred yeeres expired a bird must drinke up one drop of it in processe of time it would come to Heaven set out by comparison of the Wombe and World passe that this huge Sea shall bee dryed up but yet many millions of yeeres must bee passed before this were done Now if a man should injoy this happy life but for the space of time in which the Sea is drying up hee would thinke his case most happy and blessed but behold the Saints shall injoy this happie life not onely for that time but for ever it is an everlasting life wee shall never see end thereof And as for the glory and happinesse of this life the quantity and quality may bee gathered from the situation of the place for Coelum Empyreum is higher than all the Heavens for Paul nameth it the third Heaven and it is called The Land of the living as if 2 Cor. 12. Psal 27. the Land which we now inhabit were a Land of dead men indeed We be dead but our life is hid with Christ in God Now if in this Col. 3. 3. Region of dead men the creatures bee so noble precious what are they in Heaven in terra viventium in the land of the living In this land of the dead behold the greatnesse of the Heavens the brightnesse of the Stars the beautie of the Earth the plainenesse of the fields the highnesse of the Mountaines the greatnesse of the Vallies the Flouds and Rivers running like the veines in a mans body Si omnia haec in terra mortuorum if all these things bee in the land of the dead what shall bee in the Land of the living Againe wee know that there bee three places in this life the first is the Wombe the second the World the third Heaven betweene these places there is a proportion For Heaven is so much greater than the World as the World is greater than the Wombe and the more excellent as well for continuance of time as greatnesse of place As touching continuance of time the first life is no longer than nine moneths the second life is fourescore yeeres the third is infinite and eternall Furthermore the diversity of dwellers in Heaven and Earth doe notably set forth unto us the difference of these two places Haec terra plena peccatorum this Earth is full of sinners 2 Pet. 3. 13. illa justorum that of just and righteous men for there dwelleth righteousnesse this of Men that of Angels for there are a company of innumerable Angels here penitents inhabit there such as have their sinnes forgiven them doe dwell Here men Hebr. 12. 22. militant there men triumphant here friends and enemies there friends onely and the elect If the inhabitants doe so differ how much doe the places differ There God shall be fulnesse of light to the understanding abundance of Peace to the Will Bern. continuance of eternitie to the Memory there the wisedome of Salomon shall bee ignorance the beautie of Absolon deformity the strength of Samson debility the treasure and wealth of Princes povertie Cur ergo in Aegypto haeremus Why doe we still sticke and stay in Aegypt Why doe wee not goe the direct way to Canaan Why feed we of acornes and not of the Tree of Eternall life the gift of God through Christ Life Why drinke wee of broken Cysternes and not of the waters of life If wee had but a little sight of this Heavenly Ierusalem wee would despise Babylon for in Heaven wee shall see God and bee equall with the Angels there wee shall partake of so great joyes as no Geometrician can measure so many as no Arithmetician can number and so wonderfull as no Rhetorician can utter had hee the tongue both of Men and Angels O ineffabilis delectatio O unspeakeble delight where God is their object a looking glasse for their eyes musicke for their eares hony for their taste sweet balsome for their smell a posie of all delights for their Heavenly hands Seeing then that there bee such and wee looke for such things Let us bee diligent to bee found of him in peace without spot and blamelesse 2 Pet. 3. 4. But to proceed As hee would have them to looke for eternall life so here he telleth them how they shall come by it namely by Christ for eternall life is the gift of God and commeth of meere mercy not of any desert of ours we never brought stone to this building The builder and worker is God we never brought one dish to this bāket Omnia parata sunt all things are ready we never spun 2 Cor. 5. 1. Mat. 22. one thread of this garment the garment is Christ alone therefore wee are willed to put on the Lord Iesus wee never deserved Rom. 13. 14. the least drop of the joyes of Heaven we be servi inutiles unprofitable Luk. 17. 10. servants Et quid possunt inutiles servi mereri nisi flagellum And what can unprofitable seruants deserve but the whip Quaeris merita quoth Aug. non invenies nisi poenam Doest thou seeke Merit thou shalt finde nothing but punishment if we stand at Aug. the