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A66558	The vanity of mans present state proved and applyed in a sermon on Psalm 39.5. With divers sermons of the saints communion with God, and safety under his protection, in order to their future glory, on Psalm 73. 23, 24, 25, 26. By the late able and faithful minister of the Word John Wilson	Wilson, John, minister of the Word.; Golborne, J.	1676 (1676)	Wing W2905; ESTC R218560	137,734	239

is glorious Isa. 60. 13. I will make the place of my feet glorious Here to say nothing of Crowns Thrones Mansions the very Street is pure Gold Revel 21. 21. The twelve gates were twelve pearls every several gate was of one pearl and the street of the City was pure gold as it were transparent glass All these illustrious resemblances are but a shadow of the brightness and glory of Heaven To add no more How high is the account of the Apostle 1 Cor. 2. 9. As it is written eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him What could the Apostle have said more The eye hath hath seen great glory and magnificence the ear hath heard exquisite musick The heart may imagine a great deal more Rocks of pure Diamonds mountains of Gold a thousand Suns more glorious then it is yet neither can the eye ear or heart reach those glories that are prepared for them that wait for God 6. This glory is eternal and perpetual As for the glory of the world it s of a transitory nature What is the most glorious Potentate but grass 1 Pet. 1. 24. All flesh is grass and all the glory of man as the flower of grass the grass withereth and the flower thereof falleth away Man like grass flourisheth in the morning and is cut down before night Who hath not learned to say Sic transit gloria Mundi Thus the glory of the World passeth away What 's become of all the Triumphs and Jubilees that have been in the World How short was their continuance How quickly were they over and how soon forgotten 1 Cor. 7. 31. For the fashion of this world passeth away The world puts it self into this and that fashion but whatever fashion it puts it self into it s still in a state of fluctuation But now this glory is unchangeable it s not only lasting but everlasting 2 Cor. 4. 17. Some refer the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to eternal and then it is as if he should say Oh this weight of glory is transcendently transcendently eternal that is so eternal as never to have an end 1 Pet. 5. 10 The God of all grace hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus 3. How will God receive his servants to his glory after he hath guided them with his Counsel Answ. The Scripture sometimes represents this as done immediately by God himself Gen. 5. 24. God took Enoch That being an extraordinary case and perhaps he might proceed in an extraordinary manner and take him up to glory by his own immediate hand But the Scripture doth most frequently represent it to be done by the Ministry of Angels They minister to the faithful whilst they are here Heb. 1. 14. and they minister to them in their passage to glory 1 Some of them like a Guard do conduct and lead them thither 2 Kings 2. 11. A Chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared Elijah went up by a whirlwind into Heaven By this Chariot we are to understand Angels which appeared in the form of a Chariot and horsemen So Luk. 16. 22. The beggar dyed and was carried by the Angels into Abrahams bosom Oh the difference there is betwixt the esteem the world hath of Gods poor servants and the esteem that God hath of them The world looks on them as deserving no better company than the very dogs But God looks on them as not only worthy of the company but ministry of Angels Whilst Jehojakim and such like have the burial of an Ass are thrown into the earth without lamentation or honour God appoints his Angels to convey a poor despised Lazarus into Heaven 2. Others as Porters do admit and take them in open the gate wide that the poor servants of God may have an abundant entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven Rev. 21. 12. Heavenly Jerusalem hath twelve gates and at the gates twelve Angels They stand not here like the Cher●bims of Paradise with a flaming sword to keep us out but with stretched out arms to take and welcome us in Oh the wonderful grace and love of God! For a King not only to suffer his poor subjects to come into his Palace but to imploy his Nobles both in leading them to it and letting them in Oh what Princely favour is it What condescention and favour is it in God to make his Angels their guard unto eternal life the place of happiness and ready at heaven gates to receive those great guests Gods little ones that are of small account in the world 4. When is it that God receives the faithful to glory Answ. He doth it partly at death then he takes their souls up to glory Herein the Papists Socinians and some Anabaptists do oppose us all useing the same Arguments and Answers but the Scripture is very clear Luke 23. 43. To day shalt thou be with me in Paradise The soul neither sleeps nor calls at Purgatory but strait to Heaven 2 Cor. 5. 1. We know if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the Heavens The Apostle groans to be cloathed with the heavenly house and to be uncloathed of the earthly so saith the spirit Revel 14. 13. Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord from henceforth they rest from their labours But more compleatly and fully he do's it at the Resurrection when both soul and body being reunited he will take them both to glory Job 19. 25 26. I know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth And though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God Here is a plain account of the Resurrection of the dead the coming of Christ and beatificial vision of God So Isa. 33. 17. Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty they shall behold the Land that is very far off This may have relation to Believers being with Christ to behold his glory 1 Thes. 4. 14. If we believe that Jesus dyed and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him In the next place we shall give the reasons of the Doctrine Why will God take his people into his glory Reason 1. Is taken from his own good pleasure He may do what he will with his own Grace is his and Glory is his and he may dispose of it as he sees good He giveth his grace to whom and in what measure he pleaseth so may he dispose of glory Matt. 20. 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own As to the persons he chooses calls and saves Who can say unto him what dost thou The Potter hath power over his clay to make one vessel to honour another to dishonor Now we are told what the pleasure of God is Luk. 12. 32. Fear not

heaven we are taught in Scripture 1 Tim. 3. 16. God that was manifest in the flesh was received up into glory And that the head and members should be together is undeniable whether it be a body Naturall Politick or Mystical and so our Saviour seems to hold forth Joh. 12. 26. And for this reason he receives them up into glory that head and members that have suffered together may rejoyce together Rom. 8. 17. Being heirs of God joynt heirs with Christ if so be that we suffer with him that we may be also glorified together Reas. 6. May be drawn from the preparation that hath been made in order to the taking of them up to glory 1. God hath prepared glory for them Mat. 25. 34. Inherit the Kingdom prepared for you John 14. 2. I go to prepare a place for you Those invisible inexplicable things of glory God hath prepared for them that love him This is the City that God hath prepared for them that are not minded to take up with the Kingdom of this world or the glory thereof Heb. 11. 6. And this preparation was made partly by the erecting of this glory at the Creation partly by sending his Son to purchase it for them 2. He hath prepared them for it They are the vessels of mercy which he hath afore prepared unto glory Rom. 9. 23. He makes them meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light Col. 1. 12. What work doth God make preparing happiness for them by his goodness his grace and mercy and preparing them by sanctification of the spirit belief of the truth that they may pertake with those that are sanctified of the glory ordained and made ready for them Reas. 7. From their prayers they pray that they may be received up into glory And when they have finished their course here they have done the work appointed them to do how do they long to appear before God in glory There is no one who retains any thing of the nature of a man but he would when he dies enter into glory Numb 23. 10. Balaam saith let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his The greatest despisers of godliness the persecutors of the servants of God that were thorns in the eyes of them by their holy Conversation and stinging convictions of their own wickedness would desire to be like these that they bitterly hated and injured What then may be expected from those that are of better principles and affections we may well account that as they pray that God would guide them by his Counsel here so receive them into glory How doth Moses desire to see Gods glory the back parts of which he was only capable of beholding flesh for he could not see his face and live Exod. 33. 18. I beseech thee saith he to God shew me thy glory By the goodness they partake of now they are inflamed with earnest desire to see the face of God in glory and how glorious will the mercy and grace of God appear in heaven Last Reas. He takes them up into glory that he may recompence them for the service they have done They have done him service though all according to strictness of demand renders them no more than unprofitable servants that have but done and not fully what they ought to have done Yet God is not unmindful of the good wills and the labours of his servants Heb. 6. 10. God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed towards his name And he so remembers it as to requite it as in other ways so principally in receiving them up into glory Mat. 25. 34. Inherit the Kingdom prepared for you for I was an hungred and ye gave me meat I was a thirsty and ye gave me drink Hence it is called a reward Heb. 11. 26. He had respect to the recompence of reward Not that our service doth bear any proportion to it but that God hath promised glory thereunto Be thou faithful unto death and thou shalt have a Crown of life Use 1. of Information Of the wonderfull goodness of God What that he should be at the pains and care of guiding us here leading us by the hand teaching us to walk in his ways leading us in the ways of uprightness and after he hath done this take us up to glory oh what goodness is this Alas who or what are we that we should have to do with glory We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God Rom. 3. 23. That is of deserving it by any works or performances of our own We are not worthy of the least crumb of bread We have more reason to think of prisons gibbets flames and damnation than glory when we consider our deservings from God This is perfectly an act of grace and faithfulness grace in making the promise faithfulness in performing it 2. This informs us of the profitableness of Religion We may neglect blaspheme and persecute it but there is no way comparable to it Men may wonder and scorn at it and think strange that serious professors run not with them into the same excess bear patiently reproaches greatly esteem the reproach of Christ take joyfully the spoyling of their goods glory in tribulations not accept of deliverance but the servants of God see reason for it and great advantage in Religion though with persecution They have as much as heart can wish Whom have I in heaven but thee there is none on earth that I desire beside thee In the words immediately following 1 Tim. 4. 8. Godliness is profitable unto all things having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come Would you have honour pleasure length of days Prov. 3. 16 17. Length of daies is in her right hand and in her left hand are riches and honour Her ways are ways of pleasantness If these are not given in a carnal and sensual way they are in a nobler and better 3. This informs us of the happiness of the servants of God If we see a man that hath great things towards him we count him an happy man Mal. 3. 15. We count the proud blessed not because they are proud but because as it is said they have something to be proud of Happy then is the man that is in this case that hath God for his Lord that hath right to glory hath an expectancy of a Kingdom of glory which he shall not miss of or be in possibility to be dispossessed of A Kingdom that shall not be shaken There is abundance of difference betwixt the condition of worldly men and the servants of God As for the former their happiness is only for term of life but for the other their misery is only so Use 2. By way of exhortation 1. More generally To all you who would do well hereafter labour to be holy and the servants of God here Follow not your own understandings in