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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34944	Æternalia, or, A treatise wherein by way of explication, demonstration, confirmation, and application is shewed that the great labour and pains of every Christian ought chiefly to be imployed not about perishing, but eternal good things from John 6, 27 / by Francis Craven.	Craven, Francis.	1677 (1677)	Wing C6860; ESTC R27286	248,949	428

Nova Hispanio●a and ● am King of France He is King of the West Indies ●nd I said Henry am the King of France He thought ●he Kingdom of France only equivalent to all those Kingdoms how large and great soever how rich and ●eal thy soever they were so this Inheritance in Hea●en is more then equivalent to all the Inheritances in his world It is an inheritance infinitely large and ●at will satisfy all the children and heirs thereof ●ithout any occasion of e●vy or contention it is not ●e that Land that could not contain both Abraham ●nd Lot with their Substance whi●● was the occasi● of quarrelling to the Heardsmen Neither is it on● large but lasting even everlasting Inheritances ●ith Men last but for a season this endureth for ever ● Inheritance incorruptible and that fadeth ●t away 1 Pet. 1. 4. v. Many Inheritances seem ●● and glorious and it is a goodly thing to possess the inheritances of a Gentleman of a Knight a Lord an Earl or Duke but a Kings inheritance surpasseth all yet these inheritances may be taken from us whilst we are here even before death comes Mephibosheth's inheritance was given to Ziba and Naboth's Vineyard that was the inheritance of his Father was taken away by Ahab and Jezebel But this is called an Eternal Inheritance Heb. 9. 15. an inheritance we shall never be deprived of an inheritance to be injoyed world without end 5. The kingdom of Heaven is an everlasting kingdom A Kingdom is held to be the top of all worldly felicility but such honor have all the Saints they have all of them a Kingdom prepared for them Matth 25. 34. v. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand Come ye blessed of my Father Inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world Here is a Kingdom far excelling all worldly kingdoms what though any Prince should posses● twenty eight flourishing kingdoms as Charles the fifth did or that he ruled over an hundred and Twenty Nations as Darius King of the Medes did or that he injoyed an Hundred twenty and seven Provinces as Ahasuerus did or that he were actually Governor and Monarch of the whole world as Amurath the third styled himself and the great Cham of Tartar● reports himself yet what were all these Kingdom● and more then these to the Kingdom of Heaven But one Heaven is worth a thousand kingdoms The Kingdom of Heaven is an everlasting Kingdom it is called the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1. 11. v. The Kingdoms of th● world have their times and turns their ruines as wel● as their rise so that most of them now live but by fam● only to many Monarchs and somtimes flourishing Kingdoms there is left little more then their Name Not so the kingdome of Heaven we may write upon it the Venetian Motto Nec fluctu nec flatu movetur neither winds nor waves can move it It is therefore called a Kingdom that cannot be moved Heb. 12. 28. v. Wherefore we receive a kingdom that cannot be moved I may truly say of it what is said of that kingdom Dan. 2. 44. v. It is a Kingdom set up by the God of Heaven and it shall never be destroyed but stand for ever All other Kingdoms are but transitory only this kingdom shall remain for ever The kingdom of Israel was a long time very famous but at last came to decay It is observed somewhat to resemble the course of the Moon for alterations and change The Moon in 28. days finisheth her course fourteen days to the full and fourteen days to the wane so from Abraham to Solomon were fourteen Generations then the Moon was at the full from the end of Solomon's days to Zedekiah are fourteen generations and here the Moon decayed and waned but the kingdom of Heaven shall last beyond all time 6. The Crown worn in the kingdom of heaven is an Eternal Crown Such there are whose heads were long since destinated to a Crown Charles the Ninth was crowned at eleven years old Frederick the Second was crowned at three years old King James was crowned at ten Moneths old Sapores King of Persia was crowned whilst he was yet in his Mothers belly the Nobles setting the Crown upon his Mothers belly but the Saints and people of God were crowned in God's Eternal counsel before the world was founded What promises are there in Scripture of a Crown made 1. Gregem Christi bene poscentibus to such as feed the flock of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 5. 2 3 4. v. Feed ye the flock of God which is among you and when the cheif Shepherd shall appear ye shall receive a Crown of glory that fadeth not away 2. Deum amantibus to ●ho●e that love God Jam. 1. 12. v. He shall receive a Crown of life which the Lord hath promised to th●se that love him 3. Adv●n●um Christi dilig●ntibus to such as love the appearing of Jesus Christ 2. Tim. 4. 8. v. Henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge 〈…〉 ll give at that day and not to me only but unto all them that love his appearing 4. Tentationes sustinen●ibus to those who endure tribulation these shall have the Crown because they are brought to the strife to the fight of faith Jam 1. 12. v. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tryed he shall receive the Crown of life 5 Ad mortem usque fidelibus to those who are constant unto death Rev 2. 10. v. Be thou faithful unto death and I will g●●e thee a Crown of life those that persevere and hold on though meeting with persecutions and put to fight for a victory shall be crowned Clemen● Alexand●inus reports that there were in Persia three Mountains He who came to the first heard as it were a f●● off the noise and ●oice of them who were fighting he who attained at the second heard perfectly the crys and clamours of Souldiers ingaged in the fury o● a ba●tail but h● who attained u●to the third heard nothing bu● the joyful acclamatio●s of a victory This happens really with every Christian striving for Heaven who are to pass three mystical Mountains to wit Reason Grace and Glory He who comes at the knowledg of Reason gives an alarm unto Vice which he combats and overcomes by Grace and in Glory celebrates his victory with the joy and applause of all the Inhabitants of Heaven and is crowned a conqueror with an incorruptible crown 1 Cor. 9. 25. v. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown but we an incorruptible Crown The most Royal Diadems that are worn by Princes in the world are but corruptible ones that in Heaven is incorruptible Crowns are made of Gold though they be also inriched with Jewels Gold indeed is the most during Metal but Solomon's rich

evil There is mirth without moan joy without heaviness peace without perturbation blessedness without misery light without darkness abundance without want ease without labor eyes without tears hearts without sorrow souls without sin a life that never endeth and joy that never ceaseth for there is not the least shadow of matter for tears discontentments griefs and uncomfortable passions to work on What think you Christians of all these things are not the Psalmist's words true when he says Psal 87. 3. v. Glorious things are spoken of thee thou City of God What think you Christians of a Crown of Glory Of glittering thrones of Abraham's bosom of being admitted into the society of God and Christ and of Saints and Angels of injoying the company of the antient Patriarchs and Prophets of living with the holy Apostles and Evangelists of belonging to the noble army of glorious Martyrs and Confessors of being amongst all those eminent Saints whose holyness was by all Men magnified of walking with all those now in Heaven in whom either nature or grace have especially interested us What think you of dwelling for ever in the presence of God of lying in the bosom of his love of being infolded in the everlasting arms of his mercy of being filled with all the fulness of God then when God shall communicate himself beatifically to the uttermost and shall manifest what a glorious God he is and the souls of glorified ones find him to be a Sea of sweetness and an Ocean of unspeakable joys What think you of inhabiting in that Eternal Pallace of Heaven and blessedness where God and his blessed Saints inhabit when we shall be raised far above all the visible Orbs and starry firmament when we shall behold those Starrs under our feet which now are over our heads when we shall have all our spiritual sences feasted with unspeakable delights What think you of those treasures in Heaven more precious then Gold Pearl and Diamonds If all the earth were of Gold and all the Rivers there of the most precious Liquours and all the Rocks of precious stones who but would say here were a great treasure Well Christians yet know that a treasure which exceeds Gold as far as Gold does Dirt precious liquours water or precious stones pebles is laid up for Believers in Heaven Bona vitae aeternae tam multa ut numerum tam magna ut mensuran tam praetiosa ut estimation em omnen excedunt The good things of Eternal life are so many that they exceed number so great that they exceed measure so precious that they are above all estimation One leaf of the Tree of Life being far better then all the fruits that grow in this world But why do I promise my self to set forth the Excellency and worth of Eternal good things It was a good saying of Seneca Nusquam verecundiores esse debemus quam cum de Deo agitur Modesty never becomes us better then when we speak of God It will hold as true of Heaven for verily a Man may as well with a Coal paint out the Sun in all his splendor as with his tongue express or with his heart though it were as deep as the Sea conceive the Excellency and worth thereof and if any tongues can utter it or hearts conceive it they must be the tongues and hearts of those that are translated already thither and yet were an Angel from Heaven sent to set forth to us the excellency thereof he would sooner want words then matter What Tully said once concerning Socrates and desired his Readers concerning L. Crassius that they would imagine greater things of them then they find written So our highest apprehensions of Eternal good things falls infinitely short of the excellency thereof I deny not but that many things in this world are transcendent and ravishing but the best of them are no better then accessories to these principals drops to these Oceans glimps to these Suns and dunghill-felicities to these Eternal Injoyments The greatest pomp and glory of Kings and Emperors is but dust in comparison of these things It will appear that Eternal good things are the best Good things 1. Because only Eternal good things make those who injoy them to be good 2. Because only Eternal good things will do us good then when other good things will do us no good Now by making good these two things that Eternal good things make men good in this world as well as happy in another world and also that Eternal good things will do men good and stand them in stead when other good things will neither do them good nor stand them in stead I hope it will appear that Eternal good things are the best good things for surely those things may well be called the best things that make men good and that do men good when nothing else in the world will do them good I shall begin with the first 1. It will appear that Eternal good things are the best good things Because only Eternal good things make those who do injoy them to be good They make men to be good here in this world and happy hereafter in another world Even to be conversant about Eternal good things is of great moment to the bettering of the Soul for look what the object is such is the soul that is conversant about it high and Eternal Objects lift up the soul to God and towards Heaven and make the mind answerable unto them Eternal good things are high Objects and they will work in men conversant about them high minds they will draw the mind upward and raise it from Earth to Heaven But too oft is it otherwise with Temporal things Gold may make a man the richer not the better Honor may make a man the higher not the happier Says one of our own Land God hath no worse servants in our land then they that can live of their own Lands and care for nothing else none are so ready and apt to neglect the thoughts and care of Religion and Heaven as those who have most upon earth as being on every hand beset with temptations to sin and solicitations to forget God That veryly the more any man hath of Temporal things the more cause he hath to pray Lord lead us not into temptation I have to this purpose read it noted out of St. Hierome that antiently there were two most notable Proverbs in prejudice of Rich Men The first That he who was very rich could not be a good man The second That he who was rich had either been a bad man or was the Heir of a bad man Indeed two often Riches and Vice go together And therefore our Saviour when he taught the Beatitudes he gave the first of them to the Poor Luk. 6. 20. v. Blessed be the poor for yours is the Kingdom of God And in laying down of the Woes he gave the first of them to the rich Luk. 6. 24. v. But woe unto you that are rich for