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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
A60684	A reply to the Observator together with a sermon preached on the 24th of August last past, on Gal. 6. 2. at St. Giles in the Fields : most unjustly reflected upon by him / by William Smythies ...	Smythies, William, d. 1715.	1684 (1684)	Wing S4370; ESTC R19686	22,281	48

anothers burdens there is joyning with one another in eternal Praises and Hallelujahs To God the Father who appointed us burdens in this World in order to our happiness in the next Afflictions work for us an exceeding weight of Glory We should very hardly find the way to Heaven if we were not loaded They that are light and at ease for the most part go another way To God the Son who himself bear our burdens and commands us to bear one anothers till we come to that Mansion which he hath taken up for us in Heaven To God the Holy Ghost who supported us under our burdens or else all the help from men had been too little It is God that Comforts those that are cast down although he employes men as his Instruments by whom he conveighs comforts There are no burdens in Heaven unless a Man could be weary of Perfection and Happiness The Pleasures there are not like the Pleasures on Earth wearisome and tiresome to them that are Lovers of them God intended these only that man should use them for his Recreation and then go on with his Burden If men exceed in them they are very wearisome and it is necessary they should be so because they are very unsuitable to the Nature of Man and to the best and most noble part of him If man had been all Body and no Soul sensual Pleasures could not have been tiresome to him but in regard he hath a Spiritual part there must be Spiritual Pleasures to refresh his mind On the other hand because man is Flesh as well as Spirit he is therefore apt to be weary of the long continuance of that which is pleasant to the mind Religious Services But in Heaven Pleasures can be no burden because the Soul is separated from this vile Body and hath nothing to clog it Corruptible doth then put on Incorruption and Mortal puts on Immortality that there may be all pleasure and no pain I will not farther enlarge upon this We are all bunglers when we come to give any account of that with our Lips of which it hath not entred into our hearts to conceive When we speak of Heaven it is not so necessary to give an account of the glory of it as of the certainty of it for whosoever believes such a State believes the Glorious Things that are spoken of it I might therefore make use of one Argument from the Text to prove that there is a future State of Happiness for if Good Men must bear burdens of their own and of other Mens certainly there is another State in which they shall be freed from them We can not think that the Children of God who are born again and made like unto their Heavenly Father are only born to bear burdens 2. It may make us patient in the bearing both our own and other Mens burdens whilst we are on this side Heaven Our lives are very short and inconsiderable and at the end of them we lay down our burdens and enter into the joy of our Lord who appointed us to bear them In the mean while if God sends us help from Heaven to bear them and requires we should have help on earth and will shortly wholly ease us of them we may well bear them with constant Patience III. I may infer somewhat concerning the Hellish State the place of Torments where the Scripture tells us there is Weeping and Wailing and gnashing of Teeth and likewise that there are many that enter in there If Good Men must expect to bear burdens in this World and they are sometimes very grievous to be born what must bad men expect in that State There the burden is intollerable Those that are forced to bear it or I may more properly say have brought it upon themselves would fain exchange it for that which is far lighter The Rocks and Hills Their burdens is the wrath of the Lamb which is far more intollerable Rev. 6.16 Their burden is the guilt of a gnawing Conscience which is as a thousand Tormentors as well as a Thousand Witnesses A heavy load which lies upon the naked soul stripped of all those coverings those vain conceits with which Sinners get some little ease to their guilty minds And as their burdens are intollerable so there is no help to bear them For every Man must bear his own burden v. 5. but every one rather adds to the weight of them There is no Solamen Miseris by the number of those that are in that State The Glutton in the Parable desired that his Brethren might not come into the place of Torments he had burden enough already The more there are to weep and waile the more doleful is that State But I will not enlarge any further upon this unpleasant head but only desire that Sinners would seriously and timely consider of it and that it may make them so serious as not to despise those reprooss which I am to give from what I have said on this Argument There are three sorts of Persons which I can not but reflect upon I. If every Christian must bear his Brothers burden they are very much to blame who take no notice of what others bear There are a great many in the World who are so far from bearing their Brothers burthens that they will not so much as see them or endure to hear of them They do no more concern themselves for the afflictions and miseries of others than if they were alone in the World They are like the Priest and Levite riding by and taking no notice of him that lies in misery Men are such lovers of themselves that if any complain of their burdens they ease them as the Chief Priests and Elders eas'd Judas of his burden What 's that to us see thou to that There are many in the World loaded with Sorrows who may complain with the Psalmist Psal 142.4 I looked on my right hand and beheld but there was no Man that would know me refuge failed me no Man cared for my Soul We may sometimes see that sorrowful sight which Solomon saw Eccle. 4.1 I beheld the tears of such as were oppressed and they had no Comforter The World is full of those who are so far from weeping with them that weep that if they can be merry themselves they care not who is sad like those whom we read of in the Prophesie of Amos 6.6 who were for Feasting and Drinking and Musick but not for bearing other mens burdens They were not grieved for the Affliction of Joseph If it be the Law of Christ that men should bear one anothers burdens what will become of those that take no notice of this Law but only fulfil the Law of Covetousness When men are required to relieve the necessitous their Language commonly is I know not what I may come to before I die I wish they would as well consider what they must come to after they die when they shall appear before him who hath declared that