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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
A62566	The last sermon of his grace John late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Preach'd before the King and Queen at White-Hall, February 25th, 1693/4/ Together with his Grace's sermon on Phil.3.20. For our conversation is in Heaven.	Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.	1695 (1695)	Wing T1199; ESTC R222272	34,275	55

our eternal happiness now lies at the stake And how should it quicken our endeavours to have such a reward set before us to have Crowns and Scepters in our eyes would we but often represent to our minds the glorious things of another world what fervours should we feel in our hearts we should be all life and spirit and wing and should do Gods will almost with the same readiness and delight as the Angels do who continually behold the face of their Father The consideration of heaven and the firm perswasion of our future happiness should actuate all the powers of our souls and be continually inspiring us with new vigour in the ways of holiness and vertue How should this thought swell our resolutions and confirm our purposes of obedience that if we have our fruit unto holiness our end will be everlasting life 3. To mitigate and lighten the evils and afflictions of this life It is no great matter how rough the way be provided we be sure that it leads to happiness The incomparably greater good of the next life will to a wise and considerate man weigh down all the evils of this And the Scripture tells us that there is no comparison between them The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us Rom. 8. 18. The evils of this life afflict men more or less according as the soul is fortified with considerations proper to support us under them When we consider that we have but a little while to be here that we are upon our journey travelling towards our heavenly Countrey where we shall meet with all the delights we can desire it ought not to trouble us much to endure storms and foul ways and to want many of those accommodations we might expect at home This is the common fate of Travellers and we must take things as we find them and not look to have every thing just to our mind These difficulties and inconveniences will shortly be over and after a few days will be quite forgotten and be to us as if they had never been And when we are safely landed in our own Country with what pleasure shall we look back upon those rough and boisterous Seas which we have escap'd The more troubles we have past through the kinder usage we shall find when we come to our Fathers house So the Apostle tells us that our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory When we come to heaven our happiness shall then be as real as our miseries were here upon earth and far greater and more lasting And what great matter is it though we suffer a while in this world provided we escape the endless unsufferable torments of the next though we have not our good things in this life if infinitely greater be reserv'd for us and we shall receive them with interest in the other Several of the evils and calamities of this life would be unsufferable indeed if there were nothing better to be hoped for hereafter If this were true Christians would not onely be of all men but of all creatures the most miserable But our Religion hath abundantly assur'd us to the contrary And the assurance of this was that which made the primitive Christians to embrace sufferings with so much cheerfulness to glory in tribulation and to take joyfully the spoiling of their goods knowing that in heaven they had a better and more enduring substance The seven brethren in the History of the Maccabees upon this perswasion would not accept deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection That storm of stones which was pour'd upon St. Stephen was no more to him than a common shower when he saw the heavens open'd and Jesus in whose cause he suffered standing on the right hand of God 4. To make us sincere in all our professions words and actions did men firmly believe the rewards of another world their Religion would not be onely in shew and pretence but in life and reality no man would put on a form of godliness that were destitute of the power of it we should do nothing for the opinion of others but all with regard to God and our own Consciences and be as curious of our thoughts and most retir'd actions as if we were in an open theatre and in the presence of the greatest assembly For in the next life men shall not be rewarded for what they seem'd to be but for what they really were in this world Therefore whatever we think or speak or do we should always remember that the day of revelation is coming when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclos'd when all disguises shall be laid aside and every ones mask shall be taken off and all our actions and designs shall be brought upon the publick stage and expos'd to the view of men and Angels There is nothing now hidden which shall not then be reveal'd nor secret which shall not be made known 5. To arm us against the fears of death Death is terrible to nature and the terrour of it is infinitely encreas'd by the fearful apprehensions of what may follow it But the comfortable hopes of a blessed immortality do strangely relieve the fainting spirits of dying men and are able to reconcile us to death and in a great measure to take away the terror of it I know that the thoughts of death are dismal even to good men and we have never more need of comfort and encouragement than when we are conflicting with this last Enemy and there is no such comfortable consideration to a dying man as the hopes of a happy eternity He that looks upon death onely as a passage to glory may welcome the messengers of it as bringing him the best and most joyful news that ever came to him in his whole life and no man can stay behind in this world with half the comfort that this man leaves it And now I have done with the two things implyed in this phrase of having our conversation in heaven viz. the serious thoughts and considerations of heaven and the effect of these thoughts and considerations upon our hearts and lives I crave your patience but a little longer till I make some reflection upon what hath been deliver'd concerning the happiness of good men after this life I have told you that it is incomparably beyond any happiness of this world that it is great in it self and eternal in its duration and far above any thing that we can now conceive or imagine And now after all this I am very sensible how much all that I have said comes short of the greatness and dignity of the thing So that I could almost begin again and make a new attempt upon this subject And indeed who would not be loth to be taken off from so delightfull an argument Methinks 't is good for us to be here and to let