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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77757	God all in all or The highest happines of the saints. Jn [sic] two parts. The I. Asserting this happiness to consist in the enjoyment of God. II. Enquiring into the quality of that enjoyment. Together with a short appendix, wherein is very briefly considered, the claim of natural reason, and private inspirations to a guidance of us in the things of God. Also what courses dishonour the Gospel, and what duties we owe it. By Edward Buckler, preacher of the Gospel.	Buckler, Edward, 1610-1706.	1655 (1655)	Wing B5349; Thomason E1442_2; ESTC R209631	53,023	167

thing so lively as a glasse doth So the happiest sight of God out of heaven is to see him in the Gospel because it is the fullest I hope men wil take heed how they carry themselves to such a Gospel as this is and I wil anon speak with them about it Secondly It is comfort for the Saints that their highest happinesse shal be in the ful injoyment of God your hungrings and thirstings after more of him shal one day end in a compleat satisfaction you shal have as much of him as your souls can hold here it is much of your happinesse to have some glimpses of his glory shining upon you and some drops of his favour distilled into your hearts hereafter it shal be all your happinesse to have it poured in til you shal be able to receive no more and because all your Lords joy cannot enter into you to be sure of having enough you shal enter into it Mat. 25. v. 21. SECT XI That the enjoyment of God in which our highest happinesse shall consist is to be everlasting ALL that we have said of the injoyment of God though it rise to very much yet were it of any shorter date then eternity it would not be enough for an absolute blessednesse He ce 1. The Scriptures do every where expresse it to be everlasting and without end We shall be ever with the Lord 1 Thes 4.17 and the pleasures at his right hand are for evermore Psal 16.11 our weight of glory shall be eternall 2 Cor. 4.17 and our inheritance incorruptitible which fadeth not away 1 Pet. 1.4 and you know it is called life eternal and everlasting in a multitude of Scriptures 2. Were it any thing short of this two things would prove it short of its perfection First There would be a possibility of being one time or another miserable and so every desire would not be satisfied Misery set it at what distance you wil is not onely what we do not desire to come under but what we cannot * Miseri esse non solum nolumus sed nequaquam velle possumus Aug. 2d There were then some places for fear and so for pain 1 Joh 4.18 and consequently for evil and that condition is not perfectly happy which is capable of this for every evil is not excluded SECT XII This briefly applied by way of exhortation and comfort WEE have seen the immediate injoyment of God that nothing may shadow our happinesse the sole injoyment of God that nothing may abate it the free injoyment of God that nothing interrupt it wee have seen it so full that there is no room for more and yet all this must and shal be eternal too that we may * Beatitudo non est de eujus eternitate dubitatur Aug. never see the expiration of it And shal we not hence 1. Be exhorted not to place our happinesse in any thing that shal have an end and not to nauseate you with particulars such are all that our eyes behold here below the things that are seen are temporal 2 Cor. 4.18 were there no other insufficiency in them yet would this prove their injoyment infinitely short of happinesse that they can bee injoyed but for a time and upon this account the Apostles did not think them worth the looking upon 2 Cor. 4.18 what a fool was he that comforted his soul with goods laid up in store for many years Luk. 12.19 it seems the enjoyment of God himself would not amount to an absolute beatitude were it not everlasting how much lesse the enjoyment of the creature which to the happiest man under the sun cannot be above a span long Psal 39.5 2. Is not here comfort for the Saints in all their afflictions these can be suffered but for a time God shal be enjoyed to all eternity are we a while groaning under a burthen of sin Rom. 7.24 we shall be loaded with an eternal weight of glory 2 Cor. 4.17 have we a spirit ful of wounds for a time Prov. 18.14 we shal have a soul ful of God for an eternity Doth God forsake us for a smal moment Isa 54.7 We shall be ever with the Lord 1 Thess 4.17 Doth heaviness endure for a night Psal 30.5 joy shal come in a morning that hath no night at all have we paines ever and anon Wee shall have pleasures for evermore Psal 16.11 do we die daily we shal live everlastingly Saints comfort your selves Comfort one another with these words 1 Thes 4.18 SECT XIII A brief Application of the whole FRom all that hath been said of the quality of our enjoyment of God when we shal come to be at the happiest We may learn First That not one of the Saints is perfectly blessed in this life because not one of them doth enjoy God either immediately but what we do is darkly thorow a glasse by such mediums as do eclipse much of what that Lumen gloriae the light we shal have in heaven wil discover unto us or solely but in conjunction with other enjoyments which call out much of our hearts and many Item's of our love which hereafter shal be totally summed up and all laid out upon one God or freely but are thwarted with a thousand impediments which shal all be left behind us when we go to heaven or fully they are but part of his waies that we trace him in and how little a portion is heard of him Job 26.14 wee shal never see the compleatment of our happinesse until we go hence and be no more seen Ob. Why then do some persons say that they are as happy and do enjoy as much of God as ever they shall Sol. Can I tell perhaps it is too true in reference to some of them others may bee under a temporary delusion but sure I am they bee none of the Saints who have their portion in this life Psal 17.14 See before Sect. 2. Ob. Saints are happy in this life But why do the Scriptures so frequently call the Saints blessed and happy Sol. I shall lay before you what I conceive of it in these 6 particulars It s because First 1 Pretio The price by which we have a title to the happinesse we have enquired into is already paid and accepted of the possession of God is a purchased possession Eph. 1.14 and the purchase is made to our use upon which account our names are written in the book of life to bee of those many children whom God by the sufferings of his son meant to bring unto glory Heb. 2.10 when a captives ransom is paid he may be said to have his liberty although his Manu-mission be a while delayed 2. 2 Promisso God hath made us a promise of this happinesse before the world began to Christ for us Titus 1.2 and since the world began to us in Christ John 3.16 to have any thing in a promise is to be as sure of it as if we had it in ful possession it being