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glory_n	full_a	joy_n	unspeakable_a	3,596	5	10.3032	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74676	Quatuor novissma: Or, Meditations upon the four last things, delivered in four common-place discourses: by Thomas Longland ...	Longland, Thomas, 1629 or 30-1697.	1657 (1657)	Wing L3002; Thomason E1633_2	52,017	143

forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father And it may seem a Paradox That each Saint should be † Luk. 20.36 equal to the Angels and yet unequal amongst themselves in this state of Bliss unless we also averre different Orders amongst them ⸪ Vid. Wal. hanc opinionem refutantem cap. de Aug. off p. 198. Which is but to allow a Scruple in the Schools and that easier to assert than maintain rather than Resolve a Doubt in our own brests As for that Similitude of the Sun being more obvious to the ‥ Bellar. de aeter faelic sanct l. 5. ● c. 3. Eagles eye than to other Birds or the fire its diverse heat operating in a several manner upon many person Whatever this may clear yet it doth not necessarily prove this opinion If I were to give my judgement I had rather * Vid. Wal. optimè disserentem de hac re tit de Eccles trium pag. 451. Affirm though I say nor there is probable Reason to deny this Assertion But cautious Ignorance is better than rash Presumption therefore I leave this as I found it An Exercise of our knowledge and not by my decision to be determined as an Article of our Faith But to speak more strictly to the Measure of this Glory I have told you it is inconceiveable The Apostle speaking of the first-fruits thereof in this life calls it joy unspeakable 1 Pet. 1.8 and full of glory It is styled fulness of joy Psal 16.11 Glorious objects to the eye do usually affect the heart with joyful admiration and Scripture hath described the City of God by such things as are most affecting to sense that so we may see the inconceiveable worth of that estate of Bliss and by our necessity of Divine Condescention in this particular guess at the Jewel by the beauty of the Cabinet and have a transient view of the condition of the Saints in heaven by considering the New Jerusalem descending thence from God We see this City described Rev. 21.16 and whatsoever is glorious represented in it If for defence it hath a Wall and that not of Clay but of Jasper the foundation whereof is garnish'd with all manner of Precious stones If for Beauty even the streets are of pure gold Cant. 4.10 like Solomons Chariot the midst thereof being paved with love Thus God hath revealed Truth in a Mystery uttered Knowledge in Parables and what our understanding doth not comprise our senses by this description may apprehend of that estate Semper nobis in meatem veniat aeterne faelicitas de cujus excellentia si omnia dicta fuerint quibus omnium hominum linguae sufficiant vix tamen infima cjus particula delibata fuerit Calv. instit l. 4. c. 25. Let us then be contented to admire what we cannot comprehend to believe what we cannot concelve to consider what no tongue can express The Apostle Paul seems at a loss for words to express his thoughts of this glory he styles it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 4.17 Which phrase though we reade A far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory Yet Interpreters are at a loss to explain it Judge we then of that good land by the Grapes which are brought from Eschol of the excellency of the Honey by its taste upon the end of the Rod. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys ad Theod. laps Parae Have we ever discoursed with one who did lie in the bosom of God who hath eaten of the hidden Manna and to whom God hath given the White stone and did not such a ones face shine with Moses and by his speech we might know he was upon the Confines of the New Jerusalem Or have any of our Spirits been wounded with our Transgressions and hath the Sun of Righteousness afterwards risen upon us with healing in his wings The tempe of a mans Spirit in such a case is some dark Representation of that heavenly joy Yet this is but the twilight of Glory the dawning of that Everlasting Day Nay whilst we are speaking hereof should God open the windows of Heaven and give us a Steven's-sight of himself in Bliss set us upon Mount Nebo that we might behold this Land of Promise though this would strengthen our weak hands confirm our feeble knees and encourage us in our travel to that Rest which remaineth and with Peter * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost ad Theod. laps Paraen in verba Pet. Mart. 17.41 constrain us to say Lord it is good for us to be here yet this would but be as the Gate of Heaven our entrance would not be till with him we fell asleep We finde Gods people ravished in the contemplation hereof rapt up in an Extasie of heavenly joy with their believing apprehensions of it whispering forth what they understood or rather were ignorant of concerning Heaven in that of the Psalmist Psal 31.19 O how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee How happy are they whose Souls do lodge in goodness Psa 25.13 whose action is reflection upon by-past Misery to rejoyce because of its then being fled away whose labour is turned into leisure to praise their God! to whom no evil shall appear no good be hid when God shall be to them all in all Men look upon Religion usually as a Scare-Crow and upon the Professors thereof as so many Ghosts or Walking shadows but were they not ignorant of this heavenly joy with which a stranger intermedleth not they would then forsake their fading pleasures and with Moses Heb. 11.25 choose to suffer affliction with the people of God rather than to glut themselves with the most satiating contents of the creature which are but for a season Yea did Gods people live under deep impressions of those noble and lovely thoughts wherewith God hath exprest himself concerning this their Bliss their Souls would be drawn after him with that vigour and activity that the heavy Iron is by the Loadstone They would then no longer question suspect Gods willingness to entertain them but bathe their Souls in that Abyss of Love cast their selves into those Arms that are stretched out to receive them This purer joy would cause them to disrelish the fleeting pleasures wherewith Satan doth bait his hook and allure them to Transgression Stupefied Reason and inchanted Sense are the onely Caterers of earthly joy but the Sons of God derive their comfort from a more noble Spring The World as it cannot take away neither can it give that peace which they inherit from him Ioh. 14.27 who is styled The Everlasting Father and Isa 9.6 The Prince thereof No wonder then if the pious Father doth rather confess his ignorance Quanta erit illa faelicitas nescio Aug. de civ Dei l. 22. c. 30. than endevour a resolution of the greatness of that Heavenly joy Me-thinks when we poor Mortals do hear of this incorruptible