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A52387	The cross crowned: or, Short affliction making way for eternal glory Opened in a sermon preached at the funeral of Daniel Waldoe Esq; in the Parish-Church of Alhallows Honey-lane, May 9. 1661. By James Nalton, minister of the gospel, and pastor of Leonards Foster-lane London.	Nalton, James, 1600-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing N121A; ESTC R219314	34,657	97

worth in our esteem Nay yet more This glory is not only a weighty glory but an hyperbolical transcendent glory far surpassing the capacity and comprehension of such poor creatures as we are for such is the excellency beauty and sweetness of it that as one saith excellently * Bolton of the four last things No mortal man can describe it no created understanding can conceive it or comprehend it Eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 2.9 The eye has seene admirable things Solomons Temple and the glory of it which was so great That for the Temples sake at Jerusalem even Kings did bring presents unto God Psal 68.29 and Solomons stately house which was thirteen years in building 1 Kin. 7.1 and all the wonders of the world The ear has heard most delicious exquisite heart-ravishing musick the heart of man can conceive yet much more then either eye hath seen or ear hath heard for in conceit it can turn all the stones upon earth into pearls all the sand upon the sea-shore into Silver and all the water of the Sea into liquid gold yet the height and happiness of heavenly glory do's far surpass all this especially if ye consider these three things most worthy of our meditation 1. The place where this glory is prepared 2. The Properties wherewith it is adorned 3. The Priviledges wherewith it is attended For the first The place where it is prepared is Heaven The new Jerusalem The City of the great King this must needs be a glorious place it ye consider these particulars 1. God himself is the maker and builder of it Hebr. 11.10 The most goodly Palaces that ever were built on earth are but the work of mens hands but this is a house 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made without hands 2 Cor. 5.1 God himself made it without mans help 2. God built this house for himself for the honour of his Majesty to be the place of his residence where he will keep his court as if he should say Here will I dwell for I have a delight therein 3. In building this house he shewed all his skill it was his Master-piece therefore there are two words used in the Text Heb 11.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The former of them signifies an Artificer a curious workman or contriver God did not only build this house but he shew'd extraordinary workmanship in contriving it the frame or fabrick of this earthly globe ye see it is a goodly piece full of beauty but alas this is but a stage or scaffold set up for a while viz. for 5 or 6 thousand years which is but a moment in comparison of eternity but this heavenly house is to last for ever Now if the scaffold be so glorious how infinitely beautiful will the house it self be 4. It must needs be a glorious place because of the Glorious Company there residing viz. The great God of heaven and earth the Lord Christ with a glorified body and all the holy Angels and spirits of just men made perfect continually triumphing in the praises of the Holy One rejoycing in him and he in them For the Second The Properties wherewith this glory is adorned I will name but these three 1 It is a pure Glory without the least mixture of misery or infelicity There the Saints enjoy light without darkness mirth without mourning health without sickness wealth without wo beauty without blemish and honour without envy In this life all our comforts have some mixture of bitterness in them but there are unmixed joyes and delights without the least wormwood or gall mingled with them 2 It is a perfect glory nothing shall be wanting that the soul can desire Fulnesse of joy Psal 16.11 and a full Reward 2 Joh. 8. 3 It is a satisfying Glory The Saints shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatnesse of his house and he will make them drink of the River of his Pleasures Psalm 36.8 All the pleasures and treasures that this world can afford us will not give satisfaction to an immortal Soul They do not feed Esurientem animam but esuriem animae The hungry soul is not filled but the hunger of the soul is increased by them But this glory will so fully delight beautifie and satisfie the soul that it can desire no more For the third The Privileges wherewith this glory is attended They are of two sorts some are Privative Positive 1 Privative in the freedom from all evil For example The soul is here subject to temptations and corruptions desertions from God and provocations from wicked men Psal 120.5 Wo is me that I sojourn in Mesech c. These are so exceeding grievous to a gracious heart that they make a man cry out with holy Job My soul chuseth strangling and death rather than life Job 7.15 But when the Soul comes to enjoy that glory all these shall be removed All tears shall be wiped away from their eyes and there shall be no more death nor sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain Rev. 21.4 2. Positive Priviledges in the fruition of all good things that can be conceived or desired For the Saints shall have an Immediate Communion with God these three wayes viz. By Seeing God Enjoying God Being made like to God 1. The Saints shall see him as he is 1 John 3.2 This is that which is called the Beatifical or blessed-making vision for in his presence Hebr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in his faces is fulness of joy If a man had all the pains of hell upon him this vision were able to make a man rejoyce because totam amaritudinem Gehennae absorberet saith Chrysost It would swallow up the bitterness of hell it self 2. The Saints shall enjoy him as their Portion He shall be All in All that is as one sweetly expresseth it He shall be joy to our Souls Life to our Bodies Beauty to our eyes Musick to our ears Perfume to our nostrils Honey to our mouthes and Contentment to our hearts for what can be wanting to him that has that God for his Portion who has and does all and fills all things in heaven and earth 3. The Saints shall be made like to God and conformed to the Image of his Son Jesus Christ Rom. 8.29 1. Like him in Soul by perfection of Grace for they shall have perfect knowledg perfect holiness and righteousness as much as Creatures can be capable to receive 2. Like him in Body For he shall change our vile Bodies that they may be fashioned like unto his Glorious Body Phil. 3.21 Then shall our Bodies be Spiritual 1 Cor. 15.44 active lively and nimble as Spirits And they shall be Impassible such as are not capable of suffering and Immortal such as can never dye In brief they shall have such an admirable beauty and lustre put upon them that they shall shine forth as the Sun

The Cross Crowned OR SHORT AFFLICTION Making way for ETERNAL GLORY Opened in a SERMON Preached at the Funeral of DANIEL WALDOE Esq in the Parish-Church of Alhallows Honey-lane May 9. 1661. By JAMES NALTON Minister of the Gospel and Pastor of Leonards Foster-lane London 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 London Printed by D.M. for SA GELLIBRAND at the Golden Ball in St Pauls Churchyard 1661. To my Honoured Christian Friend Mris Anne Waldoe Relict of Mr Daniel Waldoe lately deceased IT was the desine of your dear Husband while yet living that I should perform the last Office of Love to a Deceased Friend in preaching his Funeral Sermon The honour that I bore to him not the ambitious humor of appearing in Print ha's made me willing against my own inclination to expose these poor worthless Meditations to publick view This I have done the rather that thereby I might be an Instrument to perpetuate the memorial of so worthy and mitable a Christian and to commend his practise to posterity And for so doing I look't on that passage of Solomon as a sufficient warrant Prov. 10.7 The memory of the just is blessed yea the righteous saith David shall be had in everlasting remembrance Psal 112.6 Wicked men though they be like Nimrod mighty hunters before the Lord Gen. 10.9 he great Oppressors and dare do this before the Lord as if they would provoke him to his face and though they have been the terror of the mighty in the land of the living as the Prophet speaks Ezek. 32.27 Yea though they use all means possible to perpetuate their memorial calling the lands after their own names Psal 49.11 as Absolom reared up a pillar and called it Absoloms place 2 Sam 18.18 and Cain built a Citie and called it after the name of his Son Enoch Gen. 4.17 and some men at this day can build Hospitalls with the money which they have got by force and fraud and crushing the needy Yet all this will not make their memory last the name of the wicked shall rot and their Remembrances shall be like ashes Job 13. 12. that is Those things by which they would be remembred and mentioned among the Sons of men as Wealth and Honour and Power and Greatness shall be but as ashes of no value but trodden under the foot of men but the remembrance of the godly even when they themselves are dead shall still be kept alive with men to be renowned and with God to be rewarded How precious is the memorial of Moses and Aaron though dead so many hundred years ago The Spirit of God sets a Star of Honour upon them Exod. 6.27 These are that Moses and that Aaron And certainly among all those Christian Vertues which do en balm the memorial of the dead there is none of a more sweet and fragrant savour then the Grace of Charity Witness the Speech of our Saviour concerning the woman that annointed his feet with precious ointment Matth. 26.13 Verily I say unto you Wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached in the whole world there shall also this that this woman hath done be told for a memorial of her Maries name now smells as sweet in all the Churches of Christ as her ointment did in the house where it was poured out such an honourable remembrance did blessed Paul leave as a Legacy to Onesiphorus and his family on the same account 2 Tim. 1.16 The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus for he oft refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain And Greg. Nazianzen speaking of Rahabs entertaining the Spies has this remarkable Passage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Her charitable hospitality conduced not only to her commendation but to her eternal salvatition I knew not to whom the Dedication of this Sermon so properly belonged as to your self who was so nearly related to that eminently charitable Citizen whose death occasioned the preaching of it Such as it is I here present unto you not that the view of this Monument should renew your sorrow but that the frequent Commemoration of those vertues wherewith God was pleased to enrich him and the pious fruitful and exemplary conversation wherin he walked before you might not only moderate your grief for the loss of so dear a Husband but also provoke you and all that knew him to tread in the same steps according to the counsel of the Holy Ghost Heb. 6.12 Be followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises The Lord Jesus reveal himself more fully and graciously to your soul fill your heart with joy and peace in believing sweeten your outward loss with those inward comforts of his Spirit which may enable you feelingly to say with the Psalmist In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul Psal 94.19 And this will be better to you then the comfort of all Relations yea it will be Marie's portion that shall never be taken from you And that it may be so is and shall be the hearty prayer of Your much obliged Friend and Servant in the Gospel James Nalton ●HORT AFFLICTION Making way for ETERNAL GLORY 2 COR. 4.17 ●●r our light affliction which is but for a moment The Text. worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory THe holy Apostle in the fore-going Verse layes down an excellent Lesson for us all to learn by his ●●ample though there be sew very 〈◊〉 that have learnt to write after 〈◊〉 Copie in these words For this cause ●…faint not as if he should say Though 〈◊〉 meet with sorrows and sufferings 〈◊〉 all sorts temptations afflictions persecutions reproaches fightings without and fears within yet we do not sit down in despondency and despair but we bear the burden that God hath laid upon us without fainting and without fretting It is true indeed our outward man doth perish that is our body together with our bodily health strength and welfare doth decay and decline but yet our inward man that is our soul together with the powers and faculties of it being renewed by the spirit of grace and strengthened by the graces of the spirit is in the midst of all these troubles and tryals more and more repaired and revived day by day this is strange may some say But would ye know how it comes to passe The Apostle answers in the words of the Text and renders a reason of his not fainting under all his sufferings For our light afflictin which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory The Text contains in it the twofold state or condition of a believer One in this life The other in the life to come And both these ballanced or compared one with the other in a threefold computation First The state of a Beleever in this life is a state of affliction his condition in the life to come is a condition of glory Secondly The afflictions of a beleever in this life are light and