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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28856	No home but heaven A sermon, preached at the funerals of the right worshipful the Lady Sybilla Anderson, in the Church of Broughton, in the county of Lincoln. Octob. 30. 1661. By Edward Boteler, sometimes fellow of St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge, and now rector of Wintringham, in the county of Lincoln, and chaplain to His Majesty.	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1664 (1664)	Wing B3803; ESTC R217243	26,996	74

the revelation of Jesus Christ 3. Patience which can have no trial after this life It is a Grace which lives only in ill times Plin. It is the Bird that hatcheth in thunder When it comes to killing with the Sword Rev. 13.10 Rom. 5 ● here is the patience of the Saints Tribulation worketh patience and when tribulation worketh not patience is idle is not We cannot be patient in the day when we shall be impassible Be patient Brethren Jam. 5.7 unto the coming of the Lord till then longer you need not you cannot be When he comes he calls from work Rev. 22.12 and brings his reward with him When he comes he will cease both sin and suffering wipe away tears and bring in the times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. Acts 3.19 Patience is in season whilst we can be in suffering we shall be past both together It is good company whilst we are in our way in our Countrey there 's neither room nor reason for it Heb. 12.1 2. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us when that 's done we ha' no further use of it with the author and finisher of our faith we shall sit down on the Throne of God Patience is the contemporary of our pilgrimage we part when we enter upon our eternity And they are the three Graces which this reversion of our estate renders active which is the first particular 2. It makes affection ardent Suspense sets an edge on the soul as fasting begets appetite It makes a thirst after the waters of life an hungring after the hidden Manna a very greediness of glory to Tantalize as it were over immortal joyes to have happiness in view and yet be held off from it this wings desire and sets the soul on longing Let David be a while excluded from earthly Zion guess then what the heavenly Zion will do and how earnestly doth he breath how passionately express his longings after it Psal 42.1 2. As the Hart hunted say some or as one worth all the rest Annot. in Ps the invaluable Doctor Hammond feeding in a dry and parched wilderness finding no water going about and making a mournful noise for it as this Hart panteth after the water Brooks so panteth my soul after thee O God My soul thirsteth for God for the living God when shall I come and appear before God It makes Affection ardent That 's a second 3. It renders Possession welcome The forty years traverse in the wildernesse sweetens the peace and plenty of Canaan and when we have staid a while in the Tents of Kedar we admire the more the Curtains of Solomon As it is with an Heir apparent to some fair Estate whereof the greatest part hath been in the hands of Longaevous Parents and some other parcels possibly have strayed out into tough and durable Joyntures he huggs and applauds himself that at length the mouth of his expectation is made up and the desired All is come into his hands with such with more than such with infinite more than such delight do poor pilgrim Saints enter upon the Inheritance in light Col. 1.12 and the respited glory of the other world And this is by some Divines conceived one thing wherein the bliss of men may be called more than that of Angels because Angels shall be where they were and their estate not improved except any will say that Christ was this of advantage to the Angels that he did confirm them when he redeemed us in which I determine nothing but men shall have the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness after a wet seeds time Psa 126.5 They that sow in tears comes a fair Harvest Phil. 3.21 shall reap in joy There shall be a change of their vile bodies that they may be fashioned like unto Christs glorious body 1 Cor. 15.53 Their corruptible shall put on incorruption and mortality shall be swallowed up of life And this is that will make heaven more heaven Heb. 11.9 because they sojourned as in a strange Countrey dwelling in Tabernacles with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob the heirs with them of the same Promise This is that will make the Tabernacles of the Lord of Hosts more amiable because the soul hath been kept at a distance and looked after them with longing This City will be more welcome when it comes because it is to come the last Reason of the deteinure of our estates We seek one to come Give me leave now but to shew you a piece of spiritual good husbandry to tell you how you may improve this Estate in Reversion and I shall pass from this particular Thank God for it Value your selves by it Live sutably to it 1. Be thankful for this estate It is a rich one The reserves of heavenly glory are infinitely more than all the enjoyments of the treasures of the earth Psa 31.19 The goodnesse laid up for one Saint is much more than the goodnesse laid out upon all the world Isa 17 14. God might have given you a portion with the men of the age or world in this life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Seventy two render it in this life of theirs and possibly you had better ha' been without it it will be more easie for you in the day of your accounts A confluence of outward things is not always a kindnesse Wo unto you that are rich Luk. 6 2● for you have received your consolation What a sad Recordare doth Abraham set upon the rich mans Recepisti in the Gospel Son Luk. 16.25 remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things It is the very Emphasis of evil to have received all our good If in this life only we have hope in Christ 1 Cor. 15.19 we are of all men most miserable But God hath provided some better thing for us saith the Apostle sure something extraordinary it is that 's of Gods providing It is the invaluable advantage of a Believer that he hath his portion to receive when all the treasures of the Earth shall be exhausted that he shall enter upon his estate when all the inhabitants of the world shall turn out and be eternally dispossessed that he shall be on the taking hand when they ha' nothing to look for but those damnable debenturs of wrath and vengeance when all 's past and gone with others and they have not one atome of hopes left then 's his all to come We seek one to come Be thankful for this estate that 's the first improvement 2. Value your selves by this estate Account not what you are but what you shall be If you look as a Believer now Psa 68.13 Sionit aupud D. Hammond Ann. in loc you 'll find him it may be lying among the pots inter scobes as some give it from the Syriack among the broken pieces of Brick used to set the Pots on the