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B03760	Christ's last sermon, or, The everlasting estate and condition of all men in the world to come. Exactly describing the everlasting, blessed, and happy condition of the children of God in glory for ever: with the everlasting, endlesse, and caseless [sic] condition of wicked men in the world to come forever. Set forth for the comfort of the godly, and for the terror of the ungodly. / By a godly, able and faithfull servant of Jesus Christ, J.H.	Hart, John, D.D.	1664 (1664)	Wing H940B; ESTC R177841	23,456	47

Himself And then how Christ will come 〈◊〉 shall come in power and great glory Matth. 〈◊〉 30. And secondly He will come sudden●● even as a thief in the night First he sh●● come in power irresistible power against s●●ners I beseech you sinners consider you 〈◊〉 not be able to stand when He appears for as 〈◊〉 is all powerfull in himself so will He come at●●ded with an innumerable company of glori●● Saints and Angels Behold saith Jude 〈◊〉 Lord commeth with ten thousand of His Sai●● to execute judgement upon all and to convi●● all 1 Thes 1.7 8 9. The Lord Jesus shall 〈◊〉 revealed from heaven with his mighty Angles 〈◊〉 flamming fire taking vengeance on them th●● know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lo●● Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everla●●ing destruction from the presence of the Lord a●● from the glory of His power Though God b●● long suffering towards sinners yet will he no●● always suffer sinners to go unpunished The So●● of man shall come in His glory all the holy Angels with him Mat. 25.31 And second lie he shal ●ome suddenlie and swiftlie Swiftlie even as the ●●ightning And suddenlie as a thief in the night 〈◊〉 Pet. 3. Those scoffers there mocked and scof●●ed at the doctrine of Christs comming to judgement But saith the Apostle in the ninth verse Though the Lord be long suffering yet he is not ●●ack concerning his promise But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night Though sinners may think Christ long yet they shall find him sure The comming of Christ will be sudden to sinners in two respects Sudden in regard of their expectation He will come before they look for Him and sudden in regard of their unpreparednesse Christ will come to sinners before they are ready for Him they will be then to seek for Oyl in their Lamps Christ as one saith though he hath leaden feet yet he hath iron hands though God be long ere he does strike yet when He doth strike He will be sure ●●o strike home Yet a little while and He that ●●sh all come will come and will not tarry Now the use which I shall make of this point shall be onely this Will Christ come again and receive Believers then let me exhore you all to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ Would you be received by Christ into glory then I beseech you labour to receive Christ ●nto your souls by believing If Christ do not live in you by faith here you shall never 〈◊〉 with Christ in glory hereafter It is unbe●● that is the soul-damning sin He that believe not is condemned already Iohn 3.18 He that ●●lieveth shall he saved but he that believeth 〈◊〉 shall be damned Mark 16.16 He that believ●● on the Son hath everlasting life But he t●● believeth not the Son shall not see life but 〈◊〉 wrath of God abideth on him John 3. 36. Another Use which I must make of this poi●● might be this To comfort and encourage 〈◊〉 people of God in all their sufferings and loss●● Art thou in poverty Doth the world frown 〈◊〉 thee Are thy afflictions and losses many a●● great Let not your hearts be troubled Ch●●● is gone to prepare a place for you and Ch●● will come again and receive you Therefore 〈◊〉 not discouraged What though you meet w●● many rubs and stops in your way Yet you m●● be sure to get to glory at the last Consider th● through many tribulations we must enter i●● the Kingdom of Heaven The fourth and last Observation which I o●● served was this That those Mansions of Glo●● prepared by Christ for Believers in Heaven w●● abundantly recompense and make good all th● Losses and all the Crosses which Believers m●● here meet withall in the world Let not yo●● hearts be troubled in my Fathers house are m●● ●●y mansions Sell all saith our Saviour and follow me thou shalt have treasure in heaven For further prosecution of this usefull Point I shall proceed to handle it first doctrinallie and then Applicatorilie And for the Doctrinal part I shall endeavour to shew you first what those Mansions of glorie are which are laid up for Believers And secondlie what those losses are which Believers may here meet withall And ●●hen lastly how those Mansions of glorie do make good the losses and crosses which Believers meet with in the world And to begin with the first what those Mansions of glorie are which are ●aid up for Believers in heaven And all that ●●an be said of this will be but as it were the lighting of a Candle to the Sun For it comes infi●●telie short of the skill either of men or Angels ●●o expresse as the Apostle saith Eyes hath not ●●een ear hath not heard neither hath it entred in●● the heart of man to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 〈◊〉 9. The glorie of the glorified Saints in hea●●en is so exceeding glorious that it is not pos●●ble for all the tongues of men or Angels to ex●●ess it But by the way to give you some glimp●●s of this most excellent glorie consider a little ●●hese following particulars First in heaven we shall have the everlasting ●●refence of God Himself there we shall see God as He is not by faith but by sight clea●● and fullie I shall see him saith holy J●●● with these eyes Now we see as it were throug●● glasse darkly but there we shall see God fac●● face We shall see Him as we are seen Th●● and there we shall be ever with the Lord as 〈◊〉 Apostle hath it 1 Thess 4.17 We shall enjoy G●● in heaven freely and fully without let or in●●ruption Though the Saints may possiblie m●●● with many and great impediments and him rances in the way unto Heaven yet in Hea● there shall be nothing to hinder or inter●● their joy It is possible that a Child of G●●● may have his skin pulled over his ears as so●● of the Apostles had in their way unto Hea●● yet being gotten into Heaven nothing shall 〈◊〉 lest or trouble them at all What an unspe●●able inconceiveable comfort will it be Chri●●ans to have and enjoy the presence of 〈◊〉 God who is all and hath all and will be e●●lastinglie all in all to His people for ever Wh●● having not seen saith the Apostle we sire to love In whom believing we rejoice w●● joy unspeakable and full of glory And if 〈◊〉 fight of Gods presence by faith be so glori● what then will be full fruition and enj●●ment of God Himself be O! unspeakables 〈◊〉 full of glorie A second thing which I would speak to 〈◊〉 indeed I must but speak to it is the perfection of grace that shall be enjoyed in heaven O Christians when ye come to heaven then ye come to full age in heaven The spirits of just men shal be made perfect and the bodies of the Saints shal be made glorious even

them out in death Fitting grace for heaven you see is no trifle your eternall estate depends upon it Sinners why do you put off this work as a trisle and why do you put it off till death I dare say that man would never be holy if be could help it that will not be holy till he die he would never have to do with Christ if he could avoid that will not be acquainted with him before he is ready to leave this world when death is fitting the soul for hell then and never till then to be looking after heaven Ah Lord that ever those men should have precious and immortall Souls to damn themselves they that look no after heaven till they come to their death-beds are usually crost in their folly they are then either surprized with infirmities of body and so disinabled to perform so great a work or else surprized in their souls and so unfitted and indisposed to it either they have no strength or no heart to it and so dye in their sins and perish eternally Wicked men would never leave sinning if they did not cease living and that is one reasont to justifie the infinitnesse or everlastingnesse of the punishment of wicked men in hell The damned in hell are under easelesse and endlesse sufferings because they would have sinned alwayes if they had lived alwayes wicked men would have no end of their lives here they would live ever that they might sin ever therefore the Lord giveth them a life not such a one as they would have but such a one as they deserve to have which is indeed a death for ever wicked men shall die eternally for sin because they would have lived eternally in sin In the third place I beseech you note from hence what a blessed thing it is to be a Child of God Is it so that there are mansions of Glory for Believers in Heaven hereafter then Believers are the onely happy Men and Women in the World Were it not for the hopes of Heaven the condition of Gods Children might be sad enough if in this life onely we had hope we were of all men most miserable 1 Cor. 15.19 But the hopes of Gods Children are in the life to come therefore they are of all men most blessed The happinesse of a Child of God is not in what he enjoyes here below but in what he shall enjoy hereafter in Glory The best things of a Child of God are unseen things Whilst we look not saith the Apostle at the things which are seens but a the things Which are not seen For the things which are seen are temporal but the things that are no●● seen are eternall 2 Cor. 4.18 And in 1 Pet. 〈◊〉 3 4. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to His abundance mercy hath begotten us again unto a lived hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dea● To an Inheritance incorruptible and undefiled that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through Faith unto Salvation The Apostle here excellent●● sets forth the condition of a Child of God and that in severall Regards First They are b● gotten again by Christ to an Inheritance possiblie they may lose all here below for H●● sake But yet here is the comfort of a Child 〈◊〉 God he is Heir to a great Estate in the ne●●● World There is an Inheritance for him an● that is a sure one In six Regards First I●●● not a corruptible but an incorruptible one S●●● condly it 's an undefiled one And thirdlie it 〈◊〉 a lasting yea an everlasting one it fadeth no●●● away Fourthly it 's reserved for them ti●● they come to age Gods Children in this life are not at full age therefore they are nor cap●ble of enjoying so great a happinesss which God will hereafter bestow upon them Fifthlie it reserved for them in a safe place Many mo●●● leave great estates here for their children whi●● they are often cheated of But the Inheritance of Gods Children is reserved by God for them in Heaven where neither Moth doth corrupt nor Theis steals away And lastlie as the Inheritance is reserved for the Children of God so the People of God are preserved for their Inheritance Henven if reserved for them and they are preserved for Heaven They are kept by the mightie power of God through faith unto Salvation Fourthly are there such Mansion of glorie for Believers hereafter then I beseech you try and examine your own souls whether or no ye be in the faith And let me exhort you in the Name of Christ seriouslie to set about the work of Salvation You see what great and glorious things there are laid in store for Gods Children hereafter Then I beseech you labour to get an interest in Christ here that so you may partake of those glorious Mansions hereafter How greatlie should the consideration of these things draw out our hearts in longings and pantings after God When shall I come and appear before God saith David Psalm 42.1 As the 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 And if David and such longings after the enjoyment of God in his Ordinances here what desires thought we to have after the full enjoyment God himself in glory hereafter Are there 〈◊〉 mansions of glory to be had hereafter W●●● manner of persons ought we to be then in all maner of godlinesse And then lastly If there be such Mansi● of glory then let me exhort you all even now this your day to set your hearts at work seeking after those great things of Eterni●● Let every Soul of you thus reason with you selves Are there such glorious things hereafter and am I the man or woman that shall ●●joy them I remember a story of Gauls w●● having once tasted the sweet Wine of Ita●●● presently enquired after the Countrie and ●●ver rested till they had gotten it I have he●● given you as it were a fore-taste of that H●venly Wine which Believers shall drink hereafter in Glory now if you find any sweetne●● in it let not your hearts be at rest till you com●● to the Countrie it self where are Rivers those sweet Pleasures and that for evermore Martyr suffering death one asked him the cau●● why he suffered Saith he in the words of t●●● Apostle Eye hath not seen ear hath nor heart neither hath it entred into the heart of man●● conceive the things which God hath prepared f●●● them that love him The naming of wh●●● wrought so effectually on the mans heart that ●e immediately became a Christian and after ●ffered death of His Names sake You have ●ad not onely one but very many Scriptures ●pened to you I beseech you let not all be in ●ain We read in Mark 10.17 how the young ●an came running to Christ saying Good Mater what shall

I do to inherit eternall life O that you ever you that hear me this day would ●ow also come running unto Christ saying What shall we do to partake of these glorious ●hings here revealed Methinks those things ●hould greatly incourage you all old and young ●●ich and poor now to get an interest in Christ ●ou that are poor and have but little in this world consider there are as great things in ●he world to come for you as for others The ●●oorest Beggar shall have as great a portion in ●he world to come as the greatest Prince Nothing in this world can satisfie a chils of God ●ll the glory of the world it s but the portion of Reprobate and will a Reprobates portion ●erve you will a Dogs portion satisfie you I ●ccount all things in the world saith the Apo●le but as dung Phil. 3.4 There are other ●hings to be sought after See what our Saviour ●aith Mat. 6.33 Seek ye first the king dome of ●eaven and the righteousnesse thereof let that 〈◊〉 your first indeavour Strive to enter in at the strait gate though the passage benever so stra●●●● yet if it be the way to glory strive to enter 〈◊〉 thereat Consider God hath given you N●●tures capable of such glorious things as 〈◊〉 are God might have made you bruit Bea●● and then there had been an end of you 〈◊〉 God hath made you creatures capable of 〈◊〉 highest excellency and therefore being of 〈◊〉 a Nature it highly concerns you to seek af●● such things as may give satisfaction to you● souls Men live as if they were capable of 〈◊〉 things else but meat and drink and cloaths if there were no higher things which conce●● our souls hereafter The heathens could 〈◊〉 lieve that man was created for greater thing then these here below and if we who have 〈◊〉 great and glorious things revealed to us in 〈◊〉 Gospel shall we neglect the looking after then how just shall our condemnation be For 〈◊〉 shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation Heb. 2.3 I come now to the second Point and that 〈◊〉 this That Christs Ascension was to prepar●● place for Believers I go to prepare a place 〈◊〉 you As Christ came down from heaven to 〈◊〉 for sinner so Christ ascended up to Heaven that believing sinners might live with him hen●● after Had not Christ ascended into Heaven He had not finisht the work of our redemption and indeed the great support of a Child of God 〈◊〉 yes in his consideration It 's Christ that died yea rather that is risen again and now sits at the right hand of God making intercession for us Rom. 8.34 Father I will saith Christ John 17.24 that those whom thou hast given ●●me may be with me where I am If Christ be not risen saith the Apostle then is our preaching vain and our Faith is vain and we are yet in our sins But as sureas Christ died so the Apostle proves 1 Cor. 15. that he rose again and ascended up into heaven That 's an excellent Scripture Rom. 4.25 He was delivered for our offences and raised again for our justification Our blessed Saviour first appearing to Mary Magdalen after his Resurrection presently sends her to his Disciples with the joyfull news of his Ascension John 20.17 Go to my Brethren and say unto them I ascend to my Father and your Father to my God and your God O how joyfull is the consideration of Christs Ascension to a Child of God Now may a Child of God say he hath a friend in the Court and a friend in the Court we use to say is betcer then a penny in the purse Every Believer hath Christ for his friend in the Court of Heaven and that 's more worth to them then thousands of gold and silver Christ is in heaven pleading the cause for Believers If any man sin saith the Apostle 1 Ioh. 2.2 we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ righteous And it is good for Believers 〈◊〉 Jesus Christ is in heaven pleading their cause w●● God so it is good for them that he is there 〈◊〉 senting and perfuming all their Prayers to 〈◊〉 the Father Whatsoever it is that we want that may do us good Christ is ready to beg●● us of His Father Father saith Christ these may friends and for them I have shed my blo●● therefore O Father I will that they may with me to behold my glory That is an excel●● Scripture Heb. 7.25 Wherefore he is able 〈◊〉 to save to the uttermost those that come unto 〈◊〉 by him seing he ever liveth to make interces●● for them Is it so then that Christ Ascension was prepare a place for Believers then this short encourage Believers to be willing to do or 〈◊〉 any thing here for Christ What was that made the Saint suffer so joyfully 〈◊〉 Christ was it not this the assurance of God love in Christ to them What was it that 〈◊〉 up Iobs spirit so patiently under all his suff●●ings I know saith he though worms dest●● my body yet my Redeemer liveth and I sh●●● see Him with these eyes We know saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 5.1 if our earthly house of this berna●er nalce were dissolved we have a building of Jod an house not made with hands etrnall in the heavens The assurance of heaven will make as willing to do or suffer any thing for Christ There is that in heaven that will abundantly re●ompence and make good all our losses on earth O Christians I beseech you consider you can 〈◊〉 either do too much or suffer too much for the getting of heaven The Apostles were as great sufferers for the Kingdom of Heaven as ever any were and yet what account did they make of it We reckon say they that the suffering of this present world are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us Rom. 8.18 If we suffer with Christ we shall also reign with Christ 2 Tim. 2.12 A third point I noted was this That Christ wil come again and receive Believers to Himself The point is clear from the words themselves I will come again and receive you But a little to illustrate the Point I shall endeavour to shew you by Scripture that it is so And secondly how it is so First that it is so that Christ will come again see that positive Scripture in Acts 1.10 And while they looked stedfastly into heaven behold two men stood by them in white apparel which also said Ye men of Galileo why stand ye here gazing up into heaven his same Iesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye ha●● seen him go into heaven Here is the point y●● see confirmed by Scripture and that by 〈◊〉 mouths of Angles As sure as Christ is gone heaven and as sure as he now fitteth at Go● right hand in Heaven so sure will he come gain at the last day and receive Believers 〈◊〉