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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67772	A serious and pathetical description of heaven and hell according to the pencil of the Holy Ghost, and the best expositors: sufficient (with the blessing of God) to make the worst of men hate sin, and love holiness. Being five chapters taken out of a book entituled, The whole duty of a Christian: composed by R. Younge, late of Roxwell in Essex, florilegus.; Whole duty of a Christian. Selections.	Younge, Richard.	1660 (1660)	Wing Y184A; ESTC R221317	29,019	34

wilt come surely As the Clock comes slowly and by minutes to the stroak yet it strikes at last That those are only true Riches which being once had can never be lost That Heaven is a Treasure worthy our hearts a Purchase worthy our lives That when all is done how to be saved is the best plot That there is no mention of one in the whole Bible that ever sinned without repentance but he was punished without mercy For then there would not be a Fornicator or prophane person as Esau who for a portion of meat sold his inheritance Heb. 12. 16. Then they would not be of the number of those that so doted upon Purchases and Farms and Oxen that they made light of going to the Lords Supper Luke 14. 18 19 20. Nor of the Gadarens mind who preferred their Hogs before Christ Then would they know it better to want all things than that one needful thing whereas now they desire all other things and neglect that one thing which is so needful They would hold it far better and in good sadness to be saved with a few as Noah was in the Ark than in good fellowship with the multitude to be drowned in sin and damned for company Nor would they think it any disparagement to their wisdoms to change their minds and be of another judgment to what they are CHAP. XXIII Sect. 2. SEcondly Are the Joys of Heaven so unspeakable and glorious How then should we admire the love and bounty of God and bless his Name who for the performance of so small a work hath proposed so great a Reward And for the obtaining of such an happy state hath imposed such an easie Task Yea more is Heaven so unspeakably sweet and delectable is Hell so unutterably doleful Then let nothing be thought too much that we can either do or suffer for Christ who hath freed us from the one and purchased for us the other Though indeed nothing that we are able to do or suffer here can be compared with those woes we have deserved in Hell or those joys we are reserved to in Heaven And indeed that we are now out of Hell there to fry in flames of fire and brimstone never to be freed that we have the free offer of Grace here and everlasting glory hereafter in Heaven we are only beholding to him We are all by nature as Traytors condemned to suffer eternal torments in Hell-fire being only reprieved for a time But from this extremity and eternity of torment Jesus hath freed and delivered us O think then yea be ever thinking of it how rich the mercy of our Redeemer was in freeing us and that by laying down his own life to redeem us Yea how can we be thankful enough for so great a blessing It was a mercy bestowed and a way found out that may astonish all the sons of men on Earth and Angels in Heaven Which being so let us study to be as thankful as we can Hath Christ done so much for us and shall we deny him any thing he requireth of us Nor can any one in common reason meditate so unbottomed a love and not study and strive for an answerable and thankful demeanour If a Friend had given us but a thousandth part of what God and Christ hath we should heartily love him all our lives and think no thanks sufficient What price then should we set upon Jesus Christ who is the Life of our lives and the Soul of our Souls Do we then for Christs sake what we would do for a Friends sake Yea let us abhor our selves for our former unthankfulness and our wonderful provoking of him Hearken we unto Christs voice in all that he saith unto us without being swayed one way or another as the most are Let us whom Christ hath redeemed express our thankfulness by obeying all that he saith unto us whatever it costs us since nothing can be too much to endure for those pleasures which shall endure for ever As Who would not obtain Heaven at any rate at any cost or trouble whatsoever In Heaven is a Crown laid up for all such as suffer for Righteousness even a Crown without cares without rivals without envy without end And is not this reward enough for all that Men or Devils can do against us Who would not serve a short Apprenticeship in Gods service here to be made for ever free in glory Yea who would not be a Philpot for a month or a Lazarus for a day or a Stephen for an hour that he might be in Abrahams bosome for ever Nothing can be too much to endure for those pleasures that endure for ever Yea what pain can we think too much to suffer What little enough to do to obtain eternity For this incorruptible Crown of Glory in Heaven 1 Pet. 5. 4. where we shall have all tears wiped from our eyes where we shall cease to sorrow cease to suffer cease to sin where God shall turn all the water of our afflictions into the pure wine of endless and unexpressible comfort You shall sometimes see an hired servant venture his life for his new Master that will scarce pay him his wages at the years end and can we suffer too much for our Lord and Master who giveth every one that serveth him not Fields and Vineyards as Saul pretended 1 Sam. 22. 7. c. nor Towns and Cities as Cicero is pleased to boast of Caesar but even an hundred-fold more than we part withal here in this life and eternal Mansions in Heaven hereafter John 14. 2. St. Paul saith Our light affliction which is but for a moment causeth us a far more excellent and eternal weight of glory 2 Cor. 4. 17 18. Where note the incomparable and infinite difference between the Work and the Wages light affliction receiving a weight of Glory and momentany affliction eternal glory Suitable to the reward of the wicked whose empty delights live and die in a moment but their unsufferable punishment is interminable and endless Their pleasure is short their pain everlasting our Pain is short our Joy eternal Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tryed he shall receive the Crown of life James 1. 12. folly is it then or rather madness for the small pleasure of some base lust some paltry profit or fleeting vanity which passeth away in the very act at the taste of a pleasant drink dieth so soon as it is down to bring upon our selves in another world torments without end and beyond all compass of conceit Fourthly Is it so that God hath set before us life and death heaven and hell as a reward of good and evil leaving us as it were to our choice Whether we will be compleatly and everlastingly happy or miserable with what resolution and zeal should we strive to make our calling and election sure not making our greatest business our least and last care I know well thou hadst rather when thou diest go to reign

any further exercise my self in things too high for me Psal. 131. 1. For as St. Paul tells us The heart of man is not able to conceive those joyes which being so How should I be able to express them in words And yet though we cannot comprehend this glory this far most excellent exceeding and eternal weight of transcendent glory yet may and ought we to admire the never enough to be admired bounty and goodness of God and our Redeemer in crying out O the depth c. O the sweetness of his love how unsearchable are his thoughts and intendments to man-ward once miserably forlorn lost and undone and his ways past finding out Rom. 11. 33. CHAP. XXI Sect. 1. BUt for the better confirming of this so important a truth in these Atheistical times see some reasons to confirm it As First If the Sun which is but a Creature be so bright and glorious that no mortal eye can look upon the brightness of it how glorious then is the Creator himself Or that light from whence it receives its light if the frame of the heavens and globe of the earth be so glorious which is but the lower house or rather the foot-stool of the Almighty as the holy Ghost phraseth it Isa. 66. 1. Mat. 5. 35. Acts 7. 49. How glorious and wonderful is the Maker thereof and the City where he keeps his Court Or if sinners even the worst of wicked men and Gods enemies have here in this earthly Pilgrimage such variety of enjoyments to please their very senses as who can express the pleasurable variety of Objects for the sight of meats and drinks to satisfie and delight the taste of voyces and melodious sounds to recreate the hearing of scents and perfumes provided to accommodate our very smellings of recreations and sports to bewitch the whole man And the like of honour and profit which are Idols that carnal men do mightily dote upon and take pleasure in though these earthly and bodily joyes are but the body or rather the dregs of true joy what think we must be the soul thereof viz. those delights and pleasures that are reserved for the glorified Saints and Gods dearest darlings in heaven Again Secondly If natural men find such pleasure and sweetness in secular wisdom lip-learning and brain-knowledge For even mundane knowledge hath such a shew of excellency in it that it is highly affected both by the good and bad As O the pleasure that rational men take therein It being so fair a Virgin that every clear eye is in love with her so rich a Pearl that none but Swine do despise it yea among all the Trees in the Garden none so takes with rational men as the Tree of Knowledge as Satan well knew when he set upon our first Parents insomuch that Plato thinks in case wisdom could but represent it self unto the eyes it would set the heart on fire with the love of it And others affirm That there is no less difference between the Learned and the Ignorant than there is between the living and the dead or between men and beasts And yet the pleasure which natural and moral men take in secular and mundane knowledge and learning is nothing comparable to that pleasure that an experimental Christian finds in the Divine and Supernatural knowledge of Gods Word Which makes David and Solomon prefer it before the hony and the hony-comb for sweetness and to value it above thousands of gold and silver yea before pearls and all precious stones for worth How sweet then shall our knowledge in heaven be For here we see but darkly and as it were in a glass or by moon-light but there we shall know even as we are known and see God and Christ in the face 1 Cor. 13. 12. Thirdly If meer Naturians have been so taken with the love of Vertue that they thought if a vertuous soul could but be seen with temporal eyes it would ravish all men with love and admiration thereof yea if the very worst of men drunkards blasphemers and the like though they most spightfully scoff at and back-bite the people of God yet when they know a man sincere upright and honest cannot choose but love commend and honour him in their hearts as it fared with Herod touching John and King Agrippa touching Paul Sect. 2. Or rather if Gods own people are so ravished with the graces and priviledges which they enjoy upon earth as the assurance of the pardon of sin the peace of a good conscience and joy of the holy Ghost which is but glorification begun What will they be when they shall enjoy the perfection of glory in heaven As see but some instances of their present enjoyments here below First if we were never to receive any reward for those small labours of love and duties we do to the glory of God and profit of others we might think our selves sufficiently recompensed in this life with the calm and quietness of a good conscience the honesty of a vertuous and holy life That we can do and suffer something for the love of Christ who hath done and suffered so much to save us That by our works the Majesty of God is magnified to whom all homage is due and all service too little For godliness in every sickness is a Physician in every contention an Advocate in every doubt a Schoolman in all heaviness a Preacher and a Comforter unto whatsoever estate it comes making the whole life as it were a perpetual Hallelujah Yea God so sheds his love abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost that we are in heaven before we come thither Insomuch that as the fire flieth to his sphere the stone hastens to the center the river to the sea as to their end and rest and are violently detained in all other places so are the hearts of Gods people without their Maker and Redeemer their last end and eternal rest and quietness never at rest like the Needle touched with the Loadstone which ever stands quivering and trembling until it enjoys the full and direct aspect of the Northern Pole But more particularly How doth the assurance of the pardon of sin alone clear and calm all storms of the mind making any condition comfortable and the worst and greatest misery to be no misery To be delivered of a child is no small joy to the mother but to be delivered from sin is a far greater joy to the soul But to this we may add the joy of the holy Ghost and the peace of conscience otherwise called the peace of God which passeth all understanding These are priviledges that make Paul happier in his chain of iron than Agrippa in his chain of gold And Peter more merry under stripes than Caiaphas upon the Judgment-seat and Stephen the like under that shower of stones Pleasures are ours if we be Christs whence those expressions of the holy Ghost The Lord hath done great things for us wherefore we rejoyce Be glad in the Lord and