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Invisible realities, the real Christian's greatest concernment in several sermons on 2 Cor. 4. 18 / by Henry Pendlebury ...
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Pendlebury, Henry, 1626-1695.
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and alluring Temptations as he came to our Saviour with all the Kingdoms of the World and all the Glory of them why an Eye set on unseen things sees greater things than all the Kingdoms of the World and the Glory of them Doth he come with terrifying and affrighting Temptations as Bonds or Banishment or Tortures why an Eye set on unseen things sees worser Unseen Glory in Heaven is greater than all the seen Excellencies on Earth and unseen Torments in Hell are worse than all the seen Tortures of this Life This is another Privilege of looking at unseen things would you be out of the way of Temptations Temptations that have cast many a one down and cost them much of their Peace and Comfort in the World then be much in this Duty keep an Eye on unseen things When a Temptation comes in its Power look before you as far as Death as Judgment as Heaven as Hell and while these are in your Eye they 'l keep your Heart and the Temptation asunder As long as the Bird keeps above in the Air she is out of the way of Snares her falling into these is by lighting on the Earth 6. A singular Remedy against Sin in these sinning Times wherein Iniquity abounds Solomon prescribes this to young Men Eccles 11.9 Rejoice O young Man in thy Youth and let thy Heart chear thee in the Days of thy Youth and walk in the ways of thy Heart and in the sight of thine Eyes but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee to Judgment Mark that they may be stopped in these Courses he calls them to look over their present ways to the unseen Judgment before them O Sirs these unseen unseen things have much weight in them if Christians would but carry them on their Hearts and look at them when Sin is at the Door I have read of a young Woman who being pressed by a Gallant to gratify his Lusts answered him if you 'l but grant me one request I will do what you desire What is that said he again why saith she it 's but this do but hold your Finger one Hour in the Blaze of this Candle he replied No then said she will you not for my sake hold your Finger one Hour in this Candle and would you have me throw my self into an everlasting Fire for you and this silenced him Why Christians pray try this Course when Sin is at the Door when you are ready to go out to any Evil take unseen things into your Eye look at Death Judgment Heaven and Hell and see if you can if you dare meet or meddle with that Sin with these in sight or while they are in sight Surely Sirs this would be a mighty great Preservative and if you would but walk more as seeing things invisible you should be more undefiled in the Way 7. It will make you more fit to live any where in any Place among any kind of Persons He that hath filled his Eye with unseen things is prepared to live among a Generation 1. Of profane Creatures without being drawn to run with them to the same excess of Riot 2. Among a Company of Worldlings that are crying up the Mammon of Unrighteousness without being enticed to approve their way by seeing them hurry and rake this World together by all means 3. Among Persons of mutable and temporizing Spirits that are off and on one thing at one time another at another time he that looks at unseen things has that in his Eyes which will keep him one and the same at all times and in all Places a Noah in the old World a Lot in Sodom a Job in Vz a God-fearing Person whereever he comes or is cast 8. Looking at unseen things will make you more willing to die and go to the seeing of unseen things whence is it that many Christians are so loth to leave and go from seen things to part with seen Relations and seen Possessions and seen Comforts is it not from a want of lively Apprehensions and believing Views of the unseen Provisions made for them in Heaven I remember I have read of a devout Pilgrim travelling to Jerusalem who in his way passing through many Cities and seeing many rare and choice Monuments yet took no content in any thing that he saw but would still say this is not Jerusalem this is not Jerusalem why so truly if we had but our Eye as the Apostle on things unseen we should among all our seen Comforts say this is not Heaven this is not seeing of God seeing his Face seeing him Face to Face this is not being before the Throne this is not the inheriting of all things and our Hearts and Souls would be more there more set on going thither Secondly This may serve to exhort us to prepare for unseen things for a seeing of things yet unseen are there such O then Sirs let it be your great Matter now Day and Night Night and Day to get into a readiness for a comfortable seeing of these things which are not seen This is the next word I would leave with you I pray take it up into your Practice and make it your Work Heb. 11.7 By Faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet moved with Fear prepared an Ark to the saving of his House My Beloved I may say to you 1. You have been warned of God this Day by the Hand of one of his Messengers of things not seen as yet 2. You have been told that these things not seen as yet are certain and great greater than the things that Noah was warned of and unavoidable and near and Eternal O do as Noah here in this Case did i. e. 1. Believe the coming of these things not seen as yet 2. Fear fear being taken unready by them at their Coming And 3. prepare an Ark to the saving of your selves make Provision timely Provision for the Coming of these things that as Noah and his House were saved when the Deluge came so you may be saved in the Day when these things begin to come to pass I might tell you 1. That you are warned of them for this 2. That you are called to this to prepare an Ark. 3. That you have Means and Helps betrusted with you for this 4. That you have your Time for this 5. That you must not tarry long with seen things 6. That dreadful things will come in sight and continue for ever in sight if you have no Ark no Provision ready 7. That glorious things will appear at th s Appearing of things not seen as yet to them that have made due and seasonable Preparation for them only let me give you a word by way of Direction If you say but how may we prepare an Ark to the saving of our selves How may we provide and get into such readiness as when unseen things come into sight we may see God Why in a word I would tell you 1st Negatively 1. That seen
the Heart and struck them with their Meat in their Mouths Numb 11.33 We see daily some die a natural others a violent Death some by this some by that and some by the other kind of Sickness some go out of the World by a Death that gives them long Warning others short Warning and others none at all and in this respect I say Death is an unseen thing with you and me we know not which of the many kinds of it whether this or that or the other is a coming to let us into another World Rev. 6.8 there we have Death riding on his pale Horse described in the 7th verse we may see whence he came And when he had opened the fourth Seal I heard the Voice of the fourth Beast say Come and see and I looked and behold a Pale Horse and his Name that sate on him was Death Mark he came from under a Seal broke out upon the opening of a Seal Death is sealed thy Death and my Death are remaining under the Seal of the Everliving God concealed from thee and me and all Mortals and not to be known till he open the Seal and send them out Death I say is sealed and as no Man knows what is in a Letter till the Seal be opened so no more do we know at what Time or in what Place or by what manner of Death we must go out of this World before the Lord break open the Seal and send Death on Horseback to our Doors 4. I might add the nature of Death is unseen we hear much of the Name but alas we see little of the Nature of Death we are acquainted with the word Death O but we have little Acquaintance with the work or thing Death now we talk of it and discourse of it at a distance but verily Sirs when that which is called seeing Death and tasting Death meets us Death will be another thing than now it 's commonly taken to be with many Deut. 32.29 O that they were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter End Well this is the first Death as I told you in the entrance on the Particulars is the Door the Way to things which are not seen and I tell you here again in the close of it that this Door to things unseen is also unseen Pray think of it you that are here to day 1. You believe you must die 2. This thing that you call dying or Death is I tell you a Door an Inlet to unseen things things behind all that have ever been seen in the World 3. This Death that is thus a Door to those unseen things is it self an unseen thing the Time of it is unseen and the Place of it is unseen and the Kind of it is unseen you know neither when nor where nor how it will come upon any of you Therefore certainly Sirs it concerns you to look at this and to look how you are provided to meet this unseen thing that is the beginning of unseen things Unseen Judgment is next behind this an unseen Heaven or Hell Salvation or Damnation is next behind that you know not when or where you may see Death but as soon as ever you have seen Death you must see Judgment and as soon as ever you have seen Judgment you must see Heaven or Hell for ever I pray you think of it art thou not a Drunkard why the next Time thou goest to the Ale-house thou mayst see Death there and so never see House more but Hell-house Art thou a Fornicator or Adulterer Art thou a Swearer art thou a Profaner of the Lord's Day O remember Death that is now unseen may surprize thee in the very act of thy Sin this is the Porch and Door to the unseen things of another World and it 's also an unseen thing a thing not seen that leads to things not seen an invisible thing that is an Introduction to invisible things that are Eternal the things of Death I say are unseen SERMON II. 2 Cor. 4.18 While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal SEcondly The things of the great Day of Judgment are unseen things things which are not seen There shall be such a Day as this a general Judgment of all Men Acts 17.31 Because he hath appointed a Day in which he will judg the World in Righteousness by that Man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given Assurance unto all Men in that he hath raised him from the Dead 2 Cor. 5.10 For we must all appear before the Judgment-Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his Body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad Mat. 12.36 but I say unto you That every idle word that Men shall speak they shall give Account thereof in the Day of Judgment There shall then be such a Day a Day of Judgment and I say the things of that Day are unseen are things which do not appear therefore it is called the Day of Revelation Rom. 2.5 But after thy hardness and impenitent Heart treasurest up unto thy self Wrath against the Day of Wrath and Revelation of the righteous Judgment of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Patefactionis the Day of the Manifestation of the righteous Judgment of God in this Day the righteous Judgment of God shall be fully manifested and appear to all Men in this World Eccles 8.14 There be Just Men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the Wicked again there be wicked Men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the Righteous And upon this the Justice and Equity of God is oft-times questioned and accused by the Rash and Preposterous Judgment of Men Good Men are apt to think they have hard Measure and ill Men are ready to think that God is such a one as themselves but there shall be such a Revelation of the righteous Judgment of God as shall set all Matters and Men too to Rights and it shall appear to all that the Judgment of God is Righteous and the Heavens shall declare his Righteousness for God is Judg himself Psal 50.6 i. e. as Diod. God's Justice shall in this Judgment of his be manifested to all the World as plainly as those things which from Heaven are seen here upon Earth And when these things are tried The Heavens shall record That God is Just and all must bide The Judgment of the Lord. It will be I say a Day of Revelation Ambae civitates terrena coelestis temporalibus vel bonis pariter utuntur vel malis pariter affliguntur donec ultimo Juditio separentur percipiat unaequaeque suum finem cujus nullus est finis Aug. De Civit Dei Lib. 18. Cap. 54. O the righteous Judgment of God shall be seen as clear as the Light at Noon-day in that