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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52426	Practical discourses upon several divine subjects written by John Norris.	Norris, John, 1657-1711.	1691 (1691)	Wing N1257; ESTC R26881	131,759	372

that special and excellent Portion of it Glory and Happiness If we consider it according to the former sense then to have our Conversation in Heaven will be to be perpetually mindful of our Mortality and that we are Citizens of another World and must shortly take our leave of this to have a constant prospect into that other World which must be our last Home and to be always looking beyond the Horizon of Time to the Long Day of Eternity to dwell in the Meditation of the Four last things Heaven Hell Death and Judgment how great they are in their Consequence how certain in the Event and how near in their Approach and in consideration of all this to be always preparing for our great and final Change But if we consider it according to the latter and stricter Sense then to have our Conversation in Heaven will be frequently to contemplate the Infinite Perfections of the Divine Essence the First of Beings and the Last of Ends and the unconceivable Happiness of those who shall enjoy the Communications of his Blessedness to Contemplate and have always in view that weight of Glory that incorruptible Crown with which the Sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared no not to be mentioned To Meditate Day and Night upon that happy time when we shall be Partakers of Moses's Wish and be admitted to that intimate and naked Vision of that Mysterious and Incomprehensible Excellence which is too great for our Mortal Faculties and which none can See and Live When we shall see him not in Symbols and Figures not in Glories and sensible Manifestations but openly and clearly really and as he is and from seeing him be transformed into his Likeness To meditate upon the blessed Society of Saints and Angels upon the delicious repasts of Anthems and Alleluiahs and that more ravishing Harmony of Divine Love and intellectual Sympathy upon the elevated and raised Perfections of a glorified Soul the inlargements of its Understanding and the sublimations of its Will and Affections and upon the Angelical Clarity and Divine Temper of our Resurrection Body In sum upon all those glorious things which are spoken and which even he that saw them could not utter of the City of God and upon the infinite Consolations of that joyful Sentence Come ye Blessed of my Father Inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the World Lastly to contemplate all this not coldly and indifferently as a thing that is a great way off or as an uncertain Reversion or maginary Utopia but as a state that will shortly and certainly be and with that Faith and Assurance which is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen to Dwell Converse and have our Civil Life in Heaven for so the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies as if we were already Inhabitants of that Blessed Place and actual Members of that Sacred Policy and Community This is to have our Conversation in Heaven this is that Heavenly-Mindedness which the great Apostle who had personally conversed in the Third Heaven and seen there more than he could utter proposes to the imitation of his Followers and for which he esteemed himself fit to be an Example Which leads me to shew Secondly what a reasonable and becoming thing it is for a Christian thus to have his Conversation in Heaven and to convince him that it is so let him consider First That the other Life is the state we are chiefly intended for without respect to which there is nothing in this considerable enough to justify the Wisdom and Goodness of God in making the World that here we have no abiding City no durable concern and consequently what a folly 't is to let our Thoughts dwell where we but Sojourn our selves that this present state both by reason of its shortness and other Vanities is upon no other account considerable than as 't is an opportunity for and a Passage to the next that as it was not worth while for God to make it so neither is it for us to live in it if it were not in order and relation to something further that 't is a short Voyage and where the Haven lies always in sight that 't is the greatest short-sightedness imaginable not to see beyond so little a prospect as the Grave and the greatest stupidity and dotage to confine our Cares and Affections on this side of it if we do 'T is true indeed if there were no other state but the present 't would be our greatest Prudence to make as much of it as we could though 't were more vain and contemptible than 't is because 't is our All 't would then be as reasonable to have our Conversation on Earth as now 't is to have it in Heaven and the Epicure's Proverb would then be as Wise as any of Solomon's Let us Eat and Drink for to Morrow we Dye But since we are assured by him who brought Life and Immortality to light through the Gospel that there is another state and that our Death is but the beginning of a new and never to be ended Life this one would think should deserve and engross all our Thoughts and Affections our Meditations and Discourses and that we should be no more concerned with the things of this World than a Ghost is that only comes to do a Message of Providence and when his Errand is over vanishes and disappears Or if we did at any time condescend to interest our selves in the Affairs or lawful Entertainments of this Life methinks it should be only transiently and by the by as the Hungry Disciples pluck'd the Ears of Corn just to serve a present Necessity or as the Israelites ate the Passover in hast with our Loins girt our Shoes on our Feet and our Staff in our hand Secondly Let him consider that as the other state is the chief and proper state of Man so Heaven is the good and happiness of that state that 't is the true and natural Centre of our Rest our Home and Native Region that the Joys there are unspeakable and full of Glory such as the Senses of Man cannot tast such as his Understanding cannot at present conceive and such as it will never be able to comprehend Joys that are without example above experience and beyond imagination for which the whole Creation wants a Comparison we an Apprehension and even the Word of God a Revelation That Eternal Word of God which opened to us a Prospect of a future state and brought Life and Immortality to light yet he attempted not to give us a representation of the Heavenly Felicity but thought fit rather to cast that unexpressible Scene of Glory into a Shade For indeed to what purpose should the Son of God go about to reveal the Secrets of the Kingdom to us since if it were possible to describe it as it is yet 't is not possible for us to conceive it as