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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91900	The saints longings after their heavenly country. A sermon preached at St. Pauls church on Tuesday the sixth of June; 1654. At a solemn anniversary meeting of the Cheshire Gentlemen, and freemen of the City of London, born in the same county. / By that faithful and painfull servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Ralph Robinson late minister of Mary Wolnoth London.	Robinson, Ralph, 1614-1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing R1712; Thomason E848_3; ESTC R207320	21,164	43

the world as none of theirs They have ever acknowledged themselves Pilgrims and Forreigners on earth I am a stranger with thee saith that heavenly Saint and a stranger as all my Fathers were Psal 39. 14. The world accounts them as strangers and so do they account themselves They know Christ hath told them That they are not of this world as he is not of this world They are in the world but they are not of the world they disavow the world as much as the world disavows them As they disclaim the world so they lay claim to heaven We desire say the holy Apostles to be cloathed upon with our house which is from heaven 2 Cor. 5. 2. Beleevers thogh they have never so great an estate below yet are they indeed house-less and homeless though all the world be theirs in regard of the little they have to it yet do they account the world none of theirs Heaven is their home Heaven is their house heaven is their Country I shall by way of explication unfold these two particulars First Prove that Heaven is their Country Secondly Shew how they come to have a title to it That Heaven is the beleevers Country is clear if we consider these following particulars First From hence they have their Nativity The place of mens birth is that which is stiled their Country The beleevers birth as a beleever is from heaven though he be born again on the earth yet is he not born again from the earth The Scripture teacheth us that all that are new creatures are born from above John 3. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Regenerating-work is heavenly work The Holy Ghost which is the principal efficient of Regeneration is not from earth but from heaven No person would ever be renewed on earth if principles of Renovation were not infused from heaven The word of God which is the seed of the new birth as the Apostle calls it 1 Pet. 1. 23. is a heavenly word The dew of blessing by which the word is made successful is not from earth but from heaven Should all the Angels of God come down to plant grace in the hearts of men the work would certainly miscarry under their hands if the divine benediction did not concur The soul in its first creation is infused from heaven and the renuing of it when corrupted is from thence likewise The Elect are not born again of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God so the Holy Ghost tels us Joh. 1. 13. The child that is conceived in the womb may as well be said to beget it self as the soul that is dead in sins and trespasses to renew it self Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth So the Apostle tells us Jam. 1. 18. An unregenerate heart hath neither power to change it self nor a will to be changed untill it be given from above All the births of Grace are heavenly births we are said to be Gods Off-spring as we are men Act. 17. 28. Much more are we the Off-spring of God as renewed men This is the first particular 2 There are their spiritual Kindred A beleevers nearest Allies best acquaintance are in Heaven There is God who is his Father The Divine Essence is every where filling Heaven and Earth God is included in no place excluded out of no place yet the place of his chief Residence is in Heaven there he keeps his royal Court of glory Heaven is his Throne Earth his Footstool Isa 66. 1. We are taught in that holy model of Prayer to look up to God as dwelling above Our Father which art in Heaven As God the Father of beleevers is in Heaven so Christ their elder Brother is there likewise he did bodily ascend thither after his Resurrection and there he sits on the right hand of the Majesty on high Heb. 1. 3. The humane nature of Christ shall not stir from Heaven till he come to judge the World and to fetch his redeemed ones into Heaven The blessed Spirit who is the very soul of the beleevers soul that gives it life and preserves it alive is in Heaven also There also are the holy Angels the beleevers Life-guard and from thence they are sent down to wait on him as he stands in need of their service Heb. 1. 14. There is the general Assembly of the first-born Heb. 12. 23. The names of all those that shall be saved are inrolled there In one word all a beleevers spiritual Kindred either are or shall be there This is the second particular 3 There they have their Habitation A Beleevers fixed seat is Heaven here he is but a lodger there he is an Inhabitant there lies his Estate there are his Revenues a Beleevers Inheritance is above The Lord is my portion saith my soul this was the Churches claim Lam. 3. 24. Thou art my dwelling place saith David Psal 90. 1. The corruptible the fading possessions of the Saints are on earth but their Inheritance that is incorruptible that withereth not is reserved in Heaven 1 Pet. 1. 4. They have some annual Rents coming in in this life but the grand Estate lies there their Crown their Scepter their Robes all their Regalia their royal habiliments are lockt up in Heaven and thither must they be translated before they have the full possession of any of these This is the third particular 4 The language they speak is the language of Heaven Mens speech do discover what Country they are of Thou art a Galilean say they to Peter and thy speech agreeth thereto Mark 14. 70. The time was when there was but one lip in the world Gen. 11. 1. All the sons of Adam spake one and the same language but ever since God confounded the language of the World for that insolent attempt of men Nations have been distinguished one from another by their several Tongues As Nations have languages whereby they are known one from another so have the people of God a distinct language whereby they are known from other men A wicked man though he may sometimes have heavenly discourses in his mouth yet he doth but lisp the language of Canaan those that do observe him will find him at some time or other speaking the language of Hell his tongue cannot be so bridled but it will break out into wicked discourses or into vain communication Perhaps when he is amongst the people of God he may speak as a Saint but when he converses with his own Companions his speech is agreeable to theirs But now a Beleever speaks the language of Heaven wheresoever he is let him be amongst scoffers amongst prophane men yet he is still talking in the speech of his own Country something of God of Grace of Christ of Heaven he is uttering in every company If he do at any time let fall an unseemly word how is his heart troubled he cannot have peace till he hath wept out his sorrows by humble confessions