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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41726	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall on Christmas-Day, 1684 Humfrey Gower ...	Gower, Humphrey, 1638-1711.	1685 (1685)	Wing G1459; ESTC R3870	19,094	36

then as if he had not received it But then again what proportion is there between finite Performances and infinite Rewards Nay tho we undergo the sharpest afflictions in the discharge of our Duties Rom. 8. 18. we are to reckon with St. Paul that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed as in one place 2 Cor. 4. 17. that far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory as he expresseth it in another So that it must be agreed as a thing evident both from Scripture and right Reason that Man has no Natural and Original Title to an happy Everlasting Life But yet for all that it is most certain that God did bestow on him an Immortal Soul not with a design to destroy it again but on purpose that he might live for ever with himself in Eternal Glory But the Apostate Seraphim envied so great a Privilege to a New-made Creature so far inferiour to himself and Man was presently cheated of it soon tempted to forfeit his Inheritance by violating an easie Precept that had been given him as a trial of his Obedience and the Condition of all the Happiness that was promised which leads to the Second Proposition contained in the Text. For to our Comfort we know that God did not desert Man miserable Man fal'n as he was helpless and hopeless in himself but immediately reach'd down his hand from Heaven and rais'd him from the groveling condition wherein he lay set him on his feet again and bid him look up and make a new Adventure for a Crown of Glory He remits the forfeiture of the broken Covenant and vouchsafes to enter on a new Treaty with his revolted Creature affording him a better Hope Heb. 7. 19. a better Covenant established upon better Promises Heb. 8. 9. Thus was it the happiness of the Creature that God still proposed and pursued in all his dispensations towards the Sons of Men. It is true indeed that under the Oeconomy of the Law the Kingdom of Heaven and Eternal Life were but imperfectly discover'd through Veils and Signs and Types Mysteries and Metaphors Shadows Clouds and Darkness suitable to the meaner genius of that Discipline which was but imperfect as Eusebius expresseth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Euseb Dem. Evang lib. 1. c. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Id. ibid. and agreeable to the weakness of that Childish People who were to be managed and conducted by it But it is absurd to conclude from thence That the utmost Felicity proposed to the Jews was only a fat Land and a long Life Milk and Hony Peace and Plenty and at the last the Burial perhaps of Men but the Death of Bruits If this were all the Swine they loath'd were as happy as themselves But they were Men a Nation highly favour'd and honour'd by God far above all other Families of the Earth a Peculiar and Chosen People to whom were committed the Oracles of God and to whom pertained the Adoption and the Glory and the Covenants and the giving of the Law and the Service of God and the Promises whose are the Fathers and of whom as concerning the Flesh Christ came They were our Elder Brothers as it were and the First-born of the World and that Inheritance which we now all so happily enjoy in common seemed for a good while to be entail'd only on the House of Jacob. The very Points in controversie between the Pharisees and the Sadduces sufficiently prove that the Expectations of another Life had been of old receiv'd and entertain'd by that People And our Saviour put to silence those that ventur'd to deny it by a plain proof of the Matter drawn from the very Pentateuch that small Portion of Scripture which the Sadduces would own for Authentick Canon Many places there are in the Books of the Prophets which cannot receive a full Interpretation without the supposition of a Future State amongst which Prophyrie himself cannot hinder but that of Daniel will still be one Dan. 12. 2 3. Many of them that sleep in the Dust shall awake some to Everlasting Life and some to Shame and Everlasting Contempt St. Aug. de Civ Dei lib. 20. c. 23. to which as the Father observes our Saviour makes a just Parallel in those words John 5. 28 29. All that are in the Grave shall hear his Voice and shall come forth they that have done good unto the Resurrection of Life and they that have done evil to the Resurrection of Damnation The famous Petition of the Thief on the Cross and our Saviours gracious Reply to it together with many plain and direct Passages in Josephus and the most Ancient Rabbins concerning a Future Felicity for the Pious and Misery for Irreligious Persons put it out of all doubt that the Doctrine of a Future Life was far from being so strange and unreceiv'd a Thing amongst the Jews as some would represent it We need not therefore wonder to find in the Catalogue of Old Testament-Saints recorded in the Epistle to the Hebrews Heb. 11. 35. Many that were tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better Resurrection But then these gracious Purposes of God for our Eternal Good were far more illustriously manifested in the Gospel through which Christ hath brought Life and Immortality to light ● Tim. 1. 10. And that makes way for our Third Proposition That the Life intended for and proposed to man could not be obtain'd by the Law of Moses and therefore all must be devolv'd on the Fourth the Mercy and Promise of God which by Faith of Jesus Christ is given to them that believe I need not lead you from the Text or Chapter of which it is a part to find abundant proof of the Impotency of the Law of Moses It is the Argument almost of every Verse Verse 10 11. As many as are of the Works of the Law are under the Curse No Man is justified by the Law in the sight of God The same had been avouch'd twice or thrice in the former Chapter Chap. 2. 16. It is needless to allege more Testimonies of the Truth of a thing so evident It is the Argument not only of this Epistle but in a manner of the whole Book of God It is the very Foundation of the Gospel If it be otherwise Christ died in vain Heb. 8. 2. and our Faith is vain For if that first Covenant had been faultless there should no place have been sought for the second Here therefore happily begins our Fourth Particular the Oeconomy of the Gospel Rom. 11. 32. For God hath concluded all under Vnbelief that he might have mercy upon All Or in the words of my Text The Scripture hath concluded all under Sin that the Promise by Faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe There was no room for Repentance for second Thoughts allowed by the Tenour of the former