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glory_n	affliction_n	eternal_a	weight_n	10,184	5	9.3838	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28922	Eternity, or, The weightiness of the unseen concerns of the other world, from their duration opened, proved, and applyed in a sermon preached in Worcestershire / by Tho. Badland ...	Badland, Tho. (Thomas)	1676 (1676)	Wing B390; ESTC R37054	27,473	80

But Christ being incarnated and having satisfied justice and purchased a Gospel-Covenant we are now ●apable of escaping everlasting sorrow and ●erplexity and of triumphing eternally 〈◊〉 God's Love and Mercy And what a ●ich and glorious priviledg is this how ●appy are we if we knew and had wise●om to lay hold on the things of our peace ●nd comfort We may be happy for ever ●hrough Christ if we will look about us Eternal life through Christ's Blood is ob●ainable if we are not wanting to our selves ●nd that everlasting wrath which we have deserved will never be our portion if we do but ark our selves in Christ Oh! Christ ●s the greatest price that ever was put into ●he hands of mortals and they are the wisest Men that know his worth and prize him ●ccordingly And they are fools and mad-men that lightly esteem and neglect him 6. The Word and Ordinances of the Gospel are likewise an inestimable price in our hands for these help us to acquaintance with and security about these unseen concerns Alas notwithstanding all that Christ hath done for us if we had not the Word among us we should eternally without question perish and be undone How should we ever know the way to Heaven or an escape from the wrath to come without this how easily would Hell beguile the best of us cause us to make shipwrack of our eternal hopes and sow the seed of eternal misery had it not been for this Many poor Heathens are therefore in a lamentable condition that have nothing but the dim light of Nature to help them in this weighty affair though they know or have have some imperfect or superficial convitions of another life in the other world where it shall go well with the Good and ill with the Bad yet they do not know the way to true Happiness The Book of Nature preacheth not Christ or his Redeeming Love to sinners multitudes are in darkness and blindness in comparison of those that are priviledged with the Scripture Little do many that are only under the Tutorage of the Light of Nature know of their duty or of their sin and what wonder is it then that they walk not in the way of Life or forsake not the way of eternal death And those that now enjoy the Word and Ordinances of the Gospel if they should be deprived of them will be in no small danger of losing their eternal hopes In a little time they may forget those precious truths they are acquainted with or at least the constant preaching of temptations and the Spirit of seduction may in time wear off the impression the Word had formerly made upon them Experience tells us that the frequent pressing of the same truths is necessary to their effectual influence upon the hearts of mortals and to the prevention of the frauds and cheats of their Spiritual enemies Without the Word and Ordinances of Christ Men will not sow for eternal Life yea they will certainly sow the seed of eternal death And what a mercy doth this bespeak the Word and Ordinances to be And what enemies are they to a people that deprive them of these mercies considering the weightiness of eternal concerns that are before us 7. They are unworthy of unseen mercies that slothfully carelesly and indifferently prosecute them They bid too low a price for these stupendious Blessings and judge themselves unfit to enjoy them that faintly or lukewarmly mind them How righteously will they miss of everlasting Triumphs that think it much all the daies of their vanity here to sweat and labour to make them sure And how righteously will they be the Vessels of eternal misery that think not salvation from it worth their utmost endeavours during their short abode here Alas that there should be any so dismally unreasonable thus to undervalue Everlasting concerns and yet what more common general or epidemical malady in the world though these are the most weighty affair yet they are not at all or inconsiderably minded by the most Most seek after eternal life as if it were a matter of smallest moment Most prefer the trivial concerns of time before them Men's greatest care and most constant endeavours are about temporal enjoyments what they shall eat or drink or wherewith they shall be clothed or how they shall be Great or felicitous or happy here whereas Eternity is allow'd only those scraps of time care that the world or their earthly concerns can spare Oh! very few live like strangers here in the exercise of self-denyal and contempt of Creature-comforts and enjoyments 't is but a little flock that to purpose maketh it the business of their daies to work out their salvation and make sure their everlasting peace and comfort and how deservedly then is everlasting Life entailed and confined only to a little flock If never ending felicity be not worth the work and utmost diligence of a few daies and years 't is worth nothing and if salvation from Hell and the dismal miseries there attending the damned for ever more be not worth constancy in duty and utmost faithfulness during the little season of mortals abode here 't is worth nothing 8. The Unholy and Ungodly are unmeet and unfit to dwell in Heaven The enjoyments thereof are so much against their nature that they will soon be weary of them they cannot endure holy work or such a holy place a little while and much less for ever None but those that have Godliness for their element are meet for the everlasting mercies of the Paradise of God None else will delight to be housed in that eternal Dwelling Those that are enemies to holy love and praise and duty to God what should they do there where there is nothing else All that dwell in God's triumphant Kingdom must make holiness their delight and this the wicked do not and therefore are unmeet for these Eternal mercies 9. Afflictions and sharp providences that cause us to mind Unseen concerns most intensely and effectually are happy dispensations Alas 't is better to weep and groan dismally for a small season than for ever 't is better to be in heaviness and distress for a short moment than to eternity and Heaven's joy being everlasting will certainly fully make amends for all our temporal sufferings how great soever Though we should lye in extremity of misery during the age of Methusalah yet if all be sanctified to our never ending comfort and triumph we shall not ere long repent it but call our miseries happy miseries and our afflictions happy afflictions This was that which supported and caused our Apostle and the rest of his Brethren to rejoyce under all the most terrible providenc●es attending them in the exercise of their duty and faithfulness that they worked for them a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory Yea all that are bound for Heaven are more or less the Sons and Daughters of sorrow here God estrangeth them from the world and its vanities by many

loss of Heaven is irrecoverable and you must for ever be shut out of the Habitation of the Blessed And especially when you find that your temporal felicity is your eternal bane and for your short enjoyment of these fading comforts you must be miserable and roar under God's insupportable wrath for ever more The Rich man in the Gospel that here enjoyed his good things to full content when he had lost Heaven and his Soul and was tormented in these flames that were unquenchable could not chuse but dolefully repent of his madness in taking up with and doting upon such vanities as his portion Yea doubtless this doth fill Hell with roaring to think for what trifles they lost Eternal Life and purchased to themselves eternal death Take heed therefore of this desperate madness Prefer not in your practical judgments or estimation temporal concerns before eternal and suffer not the things of time to cause you to neglect or be cold or indifferent in your pursuit after Everlasting Mercies rather live like strangers here and trample under your feet all earthly enjoyments that you may be heirs of God's eternal Kingdom and not be punished everlastingly from his presence and the glory of his power 3. You that are Godly take heed of being discontented or discouraged with the portion of evill things here attending you considering that your reward is eternal Be not offended with the sorrows or miseseries way-laying you in your passage to Glory considering the weightiness of the Prize before you that will make amends for all This was the great encouragement the Apostles had to bear all afflictions and sufferings patiently even because their light afflictions which were but for a moment did work for them a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory Oh! think it not much to groan a few daies or years that you may eternally rejoyce be content to weep for a season that you may triumph for ever Yea think it no marvel if a Prize so glorious and weighty as Everlasting Life be attended with difficulties and cost you some sharp though very short afflictions Alas what is worth your toil and utmost suffering here if Heaven and its never fading consolations are not and what will uphold support and keep you from sinking under the pressures and afflicting sorrows of this life if the eternal weight of Glory which you have or should have in your eye will not Nay will you not judge your selves unworthy of this Glorious Prize whilst you cannot patiently bear small affliction in pursuance of it The Mariner and worlding will resolutely pass through many a dismal and perillous storme for the poor prize of temporal riches which they may lose as soon as they enjoy and they will suffer much contentedly in order to the obtainment of them And should not Christians much more willingly cheerfully and patiently endure all con●…cts in order to the enjoyment of a Prize ●…itely more weighty What should not 〈◊〉 hope of Everlasting Life be encourage●…●…ough to undergo and adventure on 〈…〉 you find in all Ages could 〈…〉 rejoyce under utmost suffer●… 〈…〉 of Eternal Life and why 〈…〉 Oh! you that are Christians learn of the Apostles learn of the Martyr● and Saints in all Ages patiently to bear th● crosses of this life which are but temporal and to glory and triumph in suffering● for CHRIST considering the end o● them which is Eternal Life 4. We come to speak something by way of Exhortation And is it so tha● Unseen things are eternal Then 1. Be exhorted to get sound convictions and believing apprehensions of the truth and weightiness of these Unseen things See that your judgment be fully satisfied about the verity and that you are to purpose sensible of the Unspeakable ponderousness of these great concerns Alas there are but very few that do really believe that an eternity of sorrow or joy will be their portion in the other world And there are but few that in any tolerable measure are sensible of the importance or consequence of eternity These things would otherwise influence their hearts and lives and be more visible in all their carriage and deportment How could they carelesly pursue these great concerns if they had sound and convincing apprehensions of their truth and weighti●ess how could they choose but live like ●trangers here and in the contempt of all ●errene enjoments in comparison of these ●hings if they did indeed look for the re●elation of them Could Men endure to ●pend their time for trifles or vanishing ●nd fading contents that knew that ever●asting life or death would be their portion ere long according to their deportment ●ere surely no. Oh! time would be more precious and the word and ordinances of the Gospel would be more precious and better husbanded if these things were soundly believed and to purpose considered Be careful therefore to get your Faith in these affairs strengthned labour to be soundly convinced that you shall be in Heaven or Hell for ever and be sure to understand and be sensible of the weightiness of these things This is the foundation of all Religion and practical Godliness You 'l never to purpose work out your salvation or lay hold on Eternal Life without this therefore see to it 2. Be exhorted to lament your hitherto slight care doleful lukewarmness in these weighty affairs Lament your heartless pursuit after Eternal Life and your lifeless endeavours to escape eternal death Lament your mispent time which might have been improved for your everlasting comfort Mourn over especially your misimproved Sabboths and golden opportunities and advantages for never ending felicity which you have been fruitless or unprofitable under Oh! let your sad neglects of the things of your eternal peace be your shame penitent confusion and heart-afflicting grief Alas what have you more reason to lament than your regardlesness of eternity wherein did you ever shew greater folly or madness than in your slighting this weighty concern Oh! what a mercy is it that you are not forced to lament with desperation by the convincing light of eternity what now you are called upon to lament in a day of Grace before hope is gone You do not know how soon you may be compelled to mourn over your folly in this affair in Hell if you mourn not over it now in order to your future advantage and comfort And alas who is there that hath not cause enough to be covered with confusion for their mindlesness of eternity in the daies of their present vanity the inconsiderable preparation they have made for their comfort in that Ocean We have too much reason to be ashamed for our dull prosecution of these weighty concerns 3. Be exhorted to make sure work for Eternal Life and to give diligence to lay hold on the everlasting Blessings of the Unseen world Oh! build firmly for your peace and triumph in that Kingdom which will last for ever spare no expense of time strength or cost in this