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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74852	The Christians desire, shewing, how and for what causes a man may desire death. / By William Houghton, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	Houghton, William, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	1650 (1650)	Thomason E602_4; ESTC R206406	20,817	23

sinfull corruptible frail and rotten tabernacle of our body shall be taken down for no other end but that by a blessed and glorious resurrection it may be restored advanced to perfect firm incorruptible and celestiall glory Lastly for our souls how shall those two faculties thereof understanding and will Soul be then enobled How perfect the operation of them Our understandings shall be wonderfully irradiated for the present they are blind and ignorant let a man be never so studious and labour for knowledge with all his strength yet all he knows is but the least part of what he is ignorant For now we see through a glasse darkly 1. Cor. 13.12 but then face to face now we know in part but then we shall know even as we are known The soul having been never so little a while in heaven shall get more knowledge then here it hath done in twenty or thirty years For we shall then see him as he is 1 Joh. 3.2 So for our wills what a sweet conformity shall there be between them and the will of God! We shall then follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth Rev. 24.4 Now we follow him too but 't is but lamely and 't is not wheresoever he goeth because as we follow Christ so the Devil follows us with his temptations whereby we are drawn aside and go astray Oh but then it shall not be so but our wills shall be wholly conformable and obedient to his blessed will we shall follow him wheresoever he goeth I have set before you the crown of life I have truly though imperfectly and very briefly described the nature of our future happinesse All is true that hath been said yet all that hath been said is nothing to the greatnesse of it You must remember that of the Apostle The glory that shall be revealed in us Rom. 8.18 it cannot be comprehended by us no not by the most enlarged understanding but hereafter it shall be revealed in us And this was it made Paul so desirous of his dissolution as Chrysostome brings him in speaking thus I have tasted of the joyes of heaven Chrys to 5. ad pop Antioch hom 5. therefore delay is tedious to me I have had the first-fruits of the spirit therefore I desire the whole harvest I have been caught up into the third heavens and have seen the glory which is unutterable I have beheld the splendor and glory of the court of heaven Oh I have learnt I have learnt what good things I want the fruition of staying here for this cause I sigh and groan within my self desiring to be dissolved To summe up all we see what reason there is to make us desire our dissolution whether we respect outward and bodily evils or spirituall evils the Devil and our own corruptions joyning with him and because our sanctification is imperfect here The world is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a dusty squalid filthy place no marvell if the feet of our affections be still gathering soyle while we are walking in it And lastly because our condition hereafter shall be far better then now it is free from sin and misery death will bring us to a far better estate both for place company body and soul even to such happinesse as eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor heart conceived We can say no more 1 Cor. 2.9 but we shall know more when Christ shall say to us Enter into thy Masters joy it cannot enter into us Mat. 25.21 therefore we shall enter into it and be filled with it Now for application of this Doctrine Death is a thing that may be desired I desire saith Paul to be dissolved and to be with Christ Vse 1 First I may from hence shew you the dotage of the Papists concerning Purgatory they say mens souls must have a purgation there before they come to heaven and the pains of that place some of them say are as sharp as the pains of hell save onely that they are not so lasting With what comfort then can a man desire death to go to such a place Nay I have heard of some whom this doctrine hath distracted and they have fallen mad at the very thought of it Secondly Christ tells the good thief Luc 23.43 to day shalt thou be with me in Paradise And I will saith he that those whom thou hast given me be with me Joh. 17.24 where I am I hope they dare not say that Christ is in Purgatory he is not in limbo Heb. 8.1 but in olympo not in purgatorio but in empyreo at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens there is he in glory and he will have us to be where he is the text is plain Thirdly the Scripture tells but of two places mens souls go to when they depart hence heaven and hell the beggar dyed and his soul went whither to purgatory no but 't was presently received into Abrahams bosome Luc. 16 22. that is into heaven and saith the Text the rich man also dyed and was buried and whether went his soul to hell the Text speaks plainly The rich man dyed and was buried and in hell stayed no where by the way but down to hell he went immediately So in Matthew he shall set the sheep on his right hand the goats on his left at his right hand is the kingdome of heaven at his left hand everlasting fire he that is not on his right hand shall surely be on the left therefore he that goes not into the kingdome of heaven shall doubtlesse go to hell and fire everlasting the Scriptures tell not of any third place Lastly the close union of death and Christs presence overthrows this dream of theirs I desire saith Paul here to be dissolved and to be with Christ there is no Medium between them But enough of this Vse 2 In the second place it may teach us how to take the death of our friends 1 Thes 4. Weep not saith the Apostle as men without hope these tears are unprofitable they do our friends no good but they may do us hurt Consider the necessitie of death it cannot be avoided all must dye 't is a debt our parents brought upon us and must be paid whensoever it shall be required and think likewise of the commonnesse of death 't is as common a thing for men and women to dye as to be born and to go out of the world as it is to come into the world why then should we wonder more at the one then at the other Anaxagoras when one came and told him his son was dead Spatio annorum 2256. comprehenditur aetas quatuor partium qui à mundi exordio hucusque vixerant Nam c. Bucolch chron 224. made him this Answer I knew my son was mortall as soon as I had begot him I knew he should die Death now in our dayes is a very common thing indeed in the time between