be taken up into those pure habitations into which no unclean thing may enter not to defile or clog them with sinne and guilt whereby they may be prest down and hindered in their flight and passage into the higher Heavens the glorious receptacles appointed for them Fifthly It is usefull for the overthrowing of that Limbus Patrum Limbus Infantum and other roomes and spacious places in the Fabricke of the Popish Purgatory which they have erected in their own imaginations for receptacles wherein they would lodge the souls of men when they are separated from their bodies there to remain for a long tract of time in prison and in pain till they be sufficiently purged and punished except there be some extraordinary means used for the reliefe or release of them or for the mitigating of their paine either first by a multitude of Masses dayly said and sung for them Or secondly By the suffrages of the living praying for the dead from whence all these Epitaphs upon their Graves and Tombes Orate pro animâ Pray for the soule of such a one Or thirdly By some munificence or eminent works of Charity done upon their account Or fourthly By applying unto them some of the works of supererogation taken out of the Treasury of the Church and by the Popes special favour confer'd upon them c. These imaginations before the truth in this Discourse declared fall to the ground while it teacheth That there is no such Limbus Patrum as they pretend to nor need there any but that their souls presently upon the separation of them pass into the Etheriall Heavens where they are in rest and peace in bliss happiness and glory that the blood of Christ shed in due time that was in the fulness of time was as effectuall to the purging washing saving and sanctifying of the souls of the Fathers that lived in the first generation of the world before his comming in the flesh as it is now for the purging washing saving and sanctifying of the souls of beleevers since his coming and will be to the end of the world that as to the vertue of his Death Passion Resurrection and Ascension He was a Lambe slaine from the beginning of the world and whose going out have been from the beginning and from everlasting as the Prophet Micah tells us and as the Apostle declares him Jesus Christ yesterday and to day and the same for ever Lastly It is usefull for the answering of that great question with which we are so frequently and so importunately urged by inquisitive people to shew them where Locall Hell is They cannot satisfie themselves where Locall Hell is and therefore they are apt to beleeve there is none at all This Discourse satisfies them where it is for the present it is where the evill Angells are confin'd and secur'd in chains of darkness It is where the souls of wicked men are imprisoned both reserved to the Judgement of the great day And where that is this Discourse tells and not this Discourse or Treatise but the Apostle St. Jude ver 6. St. Paul Ephes 6.12 Ephes 2.2 St. Peter 1 Pet. 3.19 Those places where those evill Angells and where the souls and spirits of wicked men are imprisoned and secured untill that day are the Locall Hell for the present If you ask further Where Locall Hell shall be after that great day I Answer What need you look any further for it then the vast space conteining this wretched and wicked inferiour world wherein we now dwell You know what St. Peter hath Prophesied concerning it with all the Elements in it all the Creatures and works upon it all the visible Heavens over it that they shall be consumed by fire 2 Peter 3.10 The Heavens shall pass away with a noyse and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat and the Earth with the works therein shall be consumed by fire Now when these things shall be destroyed consumed annihilated what need we look any further for a Locall Hell then this vast space which these mighty bodies took up when they were in being When there shall be no Sunne to rule the day nor Moon nor Starrs to govern the Night nor to divide the times there shall be no distinction between day and night but all shall be night without day when the Sunne shall be no more the Sea shall be no more time shall be no more the Earth shall be no more all these visible Heavens within the reach of the conflagration shall be no more there 's space enough for the Locall Hell so much enquired after I have described to you before the present Hell the Prisons in which the evill Angells and souls of wicked men with them are secur'd unto that day and so are already in the beginnings of that Hell kept for fire they shall be burnt up they shall pass away with a great noyse melt with fervent heat be dissolved and all this while and amongst them all not one word of purgation purifying or refining or reserving the substance of it It is clear St. Peter himself speaks not of a refining in respect of the qualities but an utter abolition of the substance it selfe of this old world As the Pageant being finished the Stage is taken away so all the Tragedies which are Acted upon the Stage of this world being ended the Stage shall be pulled down broken in pieces burnt with fire as an Engine or Fabrick of which there is no more use it shall be no more But what shall we say to the other Objection raysed out of the words of St. Peter ver 13. But we look for new Heavens and a new Earth according to his promise wherein dwelleth righteousness Which words seem to import That though this present old World shall then be dissolved consumed burnt up yet if there doe not spring up as a Phoenix out of the Ashes of it another World yet God will Create another new World in the room of it and then we are but where we were in respect of the space and place and room we should have for Locall Hell these new Heavens and Earth will take it up To this I Answer That indeed we doe look for new Heavens and a new Earth according to his promise and according to St. Peters words and shall enjoy them too and dwell in them But what are those Heavens but those highest Heavens the Celestiall Paradise the glorious habitations of the Saints and of Gods Elect which he hath prepared for them from the beginning of the world and into which he will receive them at that day when he shall say unto them Venite benedicti Come ye blessed enter into the Kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world and these are called New not in respect of their new making but in respect of our new taking possession of them by a most happy change for our new habitations So that New Heavens and New Earth in this place signifieth no more but a
Elijah's nunc Dimittis OR The Authors own Funerall SERMONS In his Meditations upon 1 Kings 19.4 It is now enough Lord take away my Soule for I am no better then my Fathers Where also is Treated Of the immortality of the Soule Of the state of it when separated from the Body Of the Destruction of this lower World by Fire Of Locall-Hell with the graduall Torments thereof Of the Heavens of the Superiour World and the Inhabitants of them their happiness and glory By Thomas Bradley D. D. one of his late Majesties Chaplains and Praebandary of York and Preach't in the Minster there and in his Rectory of Ackworth 1669. Aetatis suae 72. Oxon. Exon. Lord now let thy Servant depart in peace that mine Eyes may see thy Salvation Sic sic juvat ire sub umbras YORK Printed by Stephen Bulkley 1669. Elijah's Nunc Dimittis Or The Authors own Funerall Sermon In his Meditation upon the 1 Kings 19.4 the latter end of the Verse It is now enough Lord take away my Soule for I am no better then my Fathers THese Words are the Complaint or the Petition or the Suite the Wish or Request call it what you will of the Prophet Elijah now weary of his Life and desiring he might dye The causes and occasion of it you may reade in the context and in the Chapter immediately precedent where ye have the whole narration of the business the sum of all you finde in the 14th verse of this Chapter I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Hosts because the Children of Israel have forsaken thy Covenant cast down thine Altars and Slaine thy Prophets with the sword and I onely am left and they seek my life to take it away That wicked woman Jezabell in revenge of her Chaplains the Priests of Baal which he had lately so clearly and so powerfully convinc't and silenc't and proved to be false Prophets had sworn his death Warrants are seal'd and Pursuivants sent out to take him Upon this the Prophet flies for his life as farr as to Beersheba the utmost border of all Israel on the South as Dan was on the North yet not thinking himselfe secure there neither though at so great a distance he takes a farther flight a dayes Journey into the Wilderness supposing haply he might finde more kindnes there among the wild beasts then amongst men in Samaria more savage then they But here he meets with another enemy as dangerous as any of the rest Hunger and Thirst in danger to pine and perish through famine his fear and hast not allowing him either time or means to furnish himselfe with viaticum for such a Voyage nor the barren wilderness affording him supplies of sustenance in such a want The Prophet now compast about with so many deaths and dangers and not knowing which way to turn himself hungry and thirsty faint and weary layes him down under a Juniper Tree wishing That might might be the end of his Pilgrimage and with his Pilgrimage of his Life too Here in this Wilderness he makes his Will Wherein first He bequeaths his soule to God that gave it Lord take away my soule his body to the Earth from whence 't was taken wishing That spot of ground upon which he lay might be his Grave the Juniper Tree over him his Monument with no other Inscription upon it but onely this instead of an Epitaph I am no better then my Fathers It is now enough Lord take away my soule for I am no better then my Fathers In the Division of the Text I shall not use any curiosity at all the words neither require nor admit it For the summe of them you may call them if you please in old Simeons Language The Prophet Elijah's nunc Dimittis Or in St. Pauls his Cupio dissolvi In it these Parcels First The Dimittis it self in these word Lord take away my Soule Secondly Two Reasons perswading him to make this his Suite at this time The one prefixt and set before the Dimittis in these words Nunc satis est It is now enough The other annext and following after it in these words Nam non sum melior majoribus meis For I am no better then my Fathers In all reason we must begin first with the former Reason both because it stands first in the Text and because it stands in our way to the Nunc Dimittis and because it is a motive ushering it in therefore of it first of Nunc satis est before of Nunc Dimittis It is now enough And Elijah's satis est may be reasonably grounded upon these four Considerations or in four respects might he well say It is now enough 1. In respect of what he had seen 2. In respect of what he had suffered 3. In respect of what he had done 4. In respect of the years he had lived In all these respects the Prophet might reasonably say Nunc satis est It is now enough As if he should say Lord I have seen enough to make me weary of this World And I have suffered enough to make me weary of my Life And I have done enough in the faithfull discharge of my duty in the Office of a Prophet whereunto I was called And I have lived long enough even to desire to live no longer in this wretched World therefore now Lord I beseech yee dismiss me Lord take away my Soule So here are four enoughs and they are all grounded in the 14. verse of this Chapter and in this Text. For first He complains there The Children of Israel have forsaken thy Covenant broke down thine Altars and Slaine thy Prophets with the Sword There 's his Satis Vidi I have seen enough Secondly He complains That he onely is left and they seek his Life to take it away There 's his Satis Tuli I have suffered enough Thirdly I have been Zealous for the Lord God of Hosts There 's his Satis Feci I have done enough Fourthly Those three things before mentioned which he had Seen which he had Suffered and which he had Done were not the worke of a short time they were the worke of many years he was now grown old under his sufferings and doing his Duty and so willing to follow the Generation of his Fathers For I am no better then my Fathers There 's his Satis Vixi And in all these respects he concludes It is now enough and begs for a dismission Lord take away my Soule To all these enoughs we shall speak something briefly with the inferences from them And first of his Satis Vidi I have seen enough That is as himself Interprets himself ver 14. of the wickedness irreligion profaneness and Idolatry of the times and places that he lived in to make him weary of the world and of his life And that is the first ground of this his request to Almighty God to take away his Soule The inference from hence is this That to live in evill times and
hollowness of them What is it that sustains the Clouds in the Aire infinitely greater and more weighty then they so as they fly to and fro but as bottles in the Aire as Job speaks or like bladders full of winde that they fall not down in great dashes enough to make another Deluge but the hollowness of them That such a hollowness there is in them appears by the Lightning the Thunder and the Thunder-bolts and the spirituall vapour that proceeds out of them when they break of such force that it penetrates and burns and breaks and tears in peeces all that it lights upon And who can deny but it is agreeable to reason that there may be such a hollowness in the heart of the earth whereby it may by the power and providence of the Creator be susteined in the place which he hath appointed for it and also be a fit receptacle of evill spirits where they may be secured as in a Prison and reserved unto the Judgement of the great day In the Apostolicall Creed we profess to beleeve That Christ descended into Hell And St. Paul tells us He descended 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into the lower parts of the Earth This cannot be understood of the descent of his body by his buriall that scarce went into the Earth at all but was layd in the Sepulchre which Joseph of Arimathea had made for himselfe in his Garden which was above the ground or at least the most part of it if any part at all of it were under or within the ground it was not so low as that we may say of it It was in the lower parts of the Earth How then will you understand this Article of our Lords descent into Hell except you understand it of his Soule and of his Spirit And where will you finde this Hell more agreeable to Scripture and Reason then as I have described it and that by his Spirit he went to Preach to the spirits in prison there The third vast Prison wherein the evill Angells are secured unto the day of the generall Judgement is The Sea for there are Sea Spirits as well as Land Spirits or Aeriall Spirits When the Disciples being in a Ship saw Christ coming towards them walking upon the Sea the Text sayes They were troubled and thought they had seen a Spirit Mat. 14.26 whereby it appears That there were Spirts that did appear in the Sea as well as on the Land And in St. Mathew 8. we reade That the Devills being cast out of the man which they had possessed entred into an Heard of Swine and carried them headlong into the Sea by which it seems there was their abode And in Mark 5. which by many circumstances seem not to be the same story with this of St. Matthew we reade Of a whole legion of Devills entring into a Heard of no less then two thousand Swine and carrying them with great violence into the Sea these were Sea Spirits whose abode was in the Sea which is the third Prison wherein these evill Angells are secur'd and confin'd unto the Judgement of the great day and with them the souls of wicked men both to be brought in and judged at that general Assizes which though they be not till then cast into the Lake of everlasting burnings yet is their condition in the mean time woefull and miserable 'T is miserable to consider how wilfully they have forsaken their own mercy and what opportunity they have lost of preventing this their misery never to be recovered nor recalled 'T is miserable to lye in Prison in such a Prison and for such Crimes of which they know themselves they shall be found guilty at that day and condemn'd to suffer the vengeance of everlasting sire 'T is miserable to see Hell open before them and ready to receive them 'T is miserable in the mean time to lye under the wrath of the Almighty and under the torments of a wounded soule Yet neither are the torments of the souls of wicked men during this time of their separation from their bodies all aequall as neither shall they be after the generall Judgement as shall be shewed in the sequel of this Treatise but in the mean while having shewed you the state of the souls of wicked men It now rests that I should shew you What is the state of the souls of just men from the time of their separation from their bodies till the time of their re-union again with their bodies at the day of the Resurrection And in answering to this inquiry the Scripture gives us some light in foure expressions When the body returns to dust from whence 't was taken the spirit returns to God that gave it saith Soloman Eccles 12.7 The Angells receive it and carry it into Abraham's bosome saith St. Luke cap. 16.22 It is layd under the Altar saith St. John Rev. 6.9 It is carried into Paradise saith our Saviour to the penitent theese upon the Crosse Luke 23.43 All these are most comfortable and heavenly expressions setting forth the blessed and happy estate of the souls of the just which they enter into when they are delivered from the burden of the flesh the great impediment of their perfection yet they doe not all amount to this That upon their separation they pass into the highest Heaven and into the fruition of the immediate vision of God and that fulness of joy and glory that they shall enter into at the last day when it shall be said unto them Come ye blessed of my Father enter into the inheritance of the Kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world For we cannot imagine that these words are spoken onely in reference to the bodies then newly raysed out of their graves but to the whole man body and soule united together and so to the entire persons of them Come ye blessed enter into the Kingdom For that of Solomon That the soule returns to God that gave it it is true that is It is taken up into the higher Heavens and is in neerer communion with God then it was before it is admitted neerer into his presence it is taken into his more immediate care to dispose of it in a place and state of bliss and felicity of joy and glory even presently upon the separation of it from the body For that of Saint Luke That the Angells received the soule of Lazarus the meaning is That he was gathered unto the rest of the faithfull of which Abraham is said to be the Father and carried to a place of rest intimated by Abraham's bosome Sinus Patriarcharum recessus quidam est quietis aeternae Ambr. For that of St. John Rev. 6. Where he sees the souls of the Martyrs under the Altar the meaning is That they were in a place of security where no evill should touch them as in the third of the book of Wisedom The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God and no evill shall touch them v. 1. The Altar
was an Asylum a place of refuge and protection 1 Kings 2.28 The souls of these Martyrs were seen under the Altar to intimate their security their safety no evill might touch them As to that saying of our Lord to the penitent theefe upon the Cross This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise I give these two answers First That Paradise is not so limited to the highest Heaven where the Throne of God is but that it may comprehend some other place adjacent to it where he might be in joy and felicity with Christ who as to his Divine Nature is every where the word signifieth A place of pleasure and such are the places assigned to be the receptacles of the souls of the just when they are separated from their bodies I answer secondly That for the souls of Enoch before the Law and of Elijah under the Law and of this penitent theefe under the Gospel I doe not deny but they might have speciall priviledge in the translation of them that the Lord in their examples might give good assurance to all beleevers and to all the just that ever have or shall live in any Age of the World whether before the Law under the Law or since the Law as well of their ascension and glorification as of their resurrection As to this penitent theefe in particular dying with him upon the Crosse that he might shew a specimen of the power of his death in saving justifying and glorifying penitent sinners though never so great offenders but then we must remember withall that these were peculiar priviledges of singular persons And Privilegia sunt paucorum the Civill Law will tell us That Priviledges are the portion but of few This doth not weaken the truth of my ascertion That the souls of just men dying doe not immediately upon the separation of them from the body pass into the highest Heaven nor to the highest glory nor to that fulness of joy which they shall enter into at the Resurrection when they shall be re-united to their bodies and so both together shall be taken into the everlasting habitations and shall stand in the presence of God and enjoy the beatificall Vision in whose light they shall see light when they shall see God face to face in whose presence is fulness of joy and at whose right hand there are pleasures for evermore This the Royall Prophet by his spirit of Prophesie foresaw long agoe and rejoyced under the hope of it Psal 17.15 I shall behold thy face in righteousness and when I awake I shall be satisfied with thy Image When I awake that is in the morning of the Resurrection then I shall be satisfied with thine Image then and not till then shall I be fully satisfied with thine Image But then here ariseth another Question as there did of the souls of wicked men Where are the souls of the just in the mean while between the time of their separation from the body by death and the re-union of them with the body at the Resurrection Where are they What becomes of them In what state and condition have they their being What is their imployment What is their enjoyments To all these foure Quaeries I shall endeavour to give you some satisfaction as touching the Place the State the imployment and the enjoyments of souls separated And as to the first of these The place of the souls separation I shall not send you to the Elysan fields of the antient Poëts to seek them Nor to the Gardens nor Orchards of the Hesperides Nor to the Mahometan Paradises all these conceived and beleeved That the souls of vertuous and just men as soon as they were separated from the body did pass into some place of rest and joy wherein they were not deceived but for want of a more distinct knowledge of the Place where they had their being and their state in it they set it forth by comparing it to the being in those places which they conceived to be most happy pleasant and joyous But certainly that which is most agreeable to reason in this case and is no way repugnant to any Article of Faith nor to any discovery in Scripture made to the contrary is this That the souls of the just being separated from the bodies doe pass into those high Heavens which are above the Starry Firmament as the souls of wicked men doe pass into the Regions of the Aire below it For that there are Heavens above the Starry Firmament it cannot be denyed two we reade of before we come to the Empyrean Heavens where the Throne of God is and where the Lord of Hosts with all his holy Angells keeps his Court in Majesty and Glory The lower-most of these is called Caelum aqueum The watery Heaven from the clearness and the transparancy of it The other above that is called Caelum Crystallinum The Crystall Heaven from the purity and the pellucidity of it for still the higher the Heavens are and the neerer they approach to the Empyrean Heaven where the Throne of God is the more glorious are they and the more noble the Inhabitants of them Now between every of these Heavens there is a vast space of infinite capacity and it must needs be so by reason of the greatness of their circumference the least and lowest of them is of greater capacity and comprehension then all this space that is between the Earth and the Starry Firmament and the rest greater then it proportionably Now I would ask Of what use these vast and comprehensive Heavens are if this be not one to be the receptacle of the souls of the just when they are taken out of their bodies Natura nihil facit frustrà The God of Nature the Creator of all things hath made nothing in vain There is no part of the world which he hath made but he hath stor'd and stock't it with Inhabitants suitable to it The Earth he hath stor'd and stock't with Beasts and Cattell the Sea with Fishes the Ayre with Fowle and with Aeriall Inhabitants every of the Spheres above it with Starrs and Planets which by their light heare influence and motion divide the times and Governe this inferiour world The Starry Firmament that is spread out as a vaile between this inferiour and the superiour world between these lower and the higher Heavens it is peopled as it were with innumerable Golden Starrs of severall magnitudes specious to behold and pretious for their use and influence The Empyrean Heavens the highest of all the rest is stor'd and Inhabited with Angells and Arch-Angells Cherubims and Seraphims and the other Orders of those Heavenly Courtiers that stand in the presence of God waiting his pleasure and ready to execute his will and to fulfill his Word Thus the whole Universe is replenished with Inhabitants suitable to the places which the Great Creator and high disposer of all things hath appointed for them And doe these beautifull Heavens the Aqueall and Chrystalline Heavens so
specious and so spacious between the Starry Firmament and the Empyrean Heaven stand voyd and empty without Inhabitants No it cannot be but they have their Inhabitants too and they are the souls of the Just when they are separated from their bodies by death and dissolution who being next unto the Angells in holiness are placed in receptacles next unto them in glory The Chrystalline Heaven next and immediately under the Empyrean Heaven and the Aqueall or Watry Heaven next immediately under it and as they have atteined to the degrees of purity here in this life so are they disposed of into the one or into the other of them neerer or farther off from the Throne of glory for as after the Resurrection there shall be severall and different degrees of glory so in this state of separation the souls separated shall be in severall and different degrees of joy and happiness according as they are prepared for it and have atteined to severall degrees of holiness and purity in this life while they were in the body Secondly If you enquire into the state of those souls separated it must needs be blessed and glorious suitable to the glory of those Heavens wherein they are Where first They are delivered from the burden of the Flesh the body the very prison wherein they were deteined and sole impediment of their perfection Secondly They are freed from all sin and sorrow concupiscence and corruption from all temptations and sollicitations from the world the devill and the flesh and from all the evill of this lower world which they have left behind them and which now As that glorious Woman Rev. 12.1 they trample under their feet all tears are wipt from their eyes all sorrow and grief and pain are flowne away they dyed in the Lord they are blessed they rest from their labours and so they are in Abraham's bosome They are in the hand of God as Solomon speaks Wisedom 3.1 so that no evill shall touch them they are got above the reach of the malice of men or Devills 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Greek Proverbe hath it out of the danger of the dart And so their state agrees with that which St. John sayes of them Rev. 6. That he saw them under the Altar yet all this is but their privative happiness consisting in their freedom from all evill and their security from all danger but they are in present possession of a positive blessedness too in a great measure and high degree of present joy and glory Their very imployment is a part of their blessedness which is no less then Angelicall to laud and prayse and magnifie the living Lord to sing Hosanna to Hosannah's in the highest and Hallelujahs to him that sitteth upon the Threne to admire the glory and the greatness and the goodness and the power and the holiness of the mighty Lord God of which they have now a clearer sight and apprehension then before and in particular his singular and unspeakable grace and goodness unto them which hath done such great things for them as to bring them thither to triumph in the apprehension of it and to rejoyce and glory in the sence of it I know not whether I should rather ranke these things under their imployments or their enjoyments they are blessed duties which are both With what sweet contentation and selfe satisfaction doe they converse together in pure love and light With what joy and comfort can they now remember the difficulties and the dangers which they have past through in their comming thither What temptations what afflictions they have met withall What strong corruptions they have wrestled with What importunate lusts they have denied and subdued What sollicitations from the World from the Flesh and from the Devill they have resisted and rejected and how now they bless themselves that they have done so and God that gave them grace and strength to doe it With what joy and prayse doe they congratulate one another in their happy victories over sin and Satan Death and Hell and all the enemies of their salvation and in their safe passage through all the dangers and difficulties that stood between them and Heaven and that having escaped all the corruption that is in the world through Lust they are at length arrived to the Place where they would even to the top of Mount Syon the Place of their rest and joy where now they are taken into neerer Communion with God then they could be before they have more clear manifestation of him sweet influences from him and union with him they converse with Angels congratulating them in their happiness and with Euges of joy and prayse well-coming them into those Heavens the habitations of their happiness the Paradise of their joy and glory And now their Charity invites them to Pray for the whole estate of Christs Church militant here on Earth That the Lord would guide them and keep them in the way of Truth that he would bring them safe through all the dangers and difficulties that stand in the way between them and Heaven that the Gospel may have free passage through the world that it may runne prosper and be glorious that by it he would call in all that are yet uncalled that he would shortly accomplish the number of his elect and hasten his Kingdom that they with them and all others that shall depart out of this life in the faith and feare of his holy Name may have their perfect consummation and bliss both in body and soule in his eternall and everlasting glory Which is the third estate in which immortall souls doe pass their immortality which begins from the day of the generall Judgement and lasts from thence to all eternity Of which though we had the Tongue of Men or Angells it is impossible to speak to the full and as the subject requires O Aeternity Aeternity How is the Heart astonish't and the Mind swallowed up that enters into the thoughts of it with the state of the just and the unjust in it the joy and glory of the one and the misery and torment of the other both which being unexpressible I shall forbeare to enter into the description of them and in stead thereof onely referr you to the words of the sentences at the great day to be given upon them both the sentence of absolution to the just on the right hand and of condemnation to the wicked on the left both which the Judge himselfe that shall pronounce them hath told us before hand and left us in terminis upon record Mat. 25. And first The sentence of absolution because that shall be first pronounc'c that the wicked on the left hand may see Heaven opened and have a sight of the joy and glory of the Celestiall Paradise and see the just taken into it and set down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven and themselves cast out that they may see what happiness they have lost by wilfully forsaking