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kingdom_n	blood_n	flesh_n	inherit_v	5,014	5	11.6402	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91900	The saints longings after their heavenly country. A sermon preached at St. Pauls church on Tuesday the sixth of June; 1654. At a solemn anniversary meeting of the Cheshire Gentlemen, and freemen of the City of London, born in the same county. / By that faithful and painfull servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Ralph Robinson late minister of Mary Wolnoth London.	Robinson, Ralph, 1614-1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing R1712; Thomason E848_3; ESTC R207320	21,164	43

into the bosom of God Few there are that have any communion with a true Beleever but must give him this testimony that his speech is not like the speech of other men His heart is full of Heaven and his tongue is ever running out Heaven-ward he will draw spiritual inferences from worldly discourses whatever the text is the gloss which he gives upon it is spiritual and heavenly 5 There must be their eternal abode The Apostle speaking of himself and his fellow-beleevers saith Here we have no continuing City but we seek one toco me Heb. 13. 14. The people of God as other men do but take a turn or two on this great Stage of the world and then pass away The longest time we can any of us expect to live on earth is but seventy or eighty years our lease may expire in a shorter time the eternity that is beyond that time is the beleever to spend in Heaven The bodies of some beleevers dwel in the dust for thousands of years but at the Resurrection they shall take up their Quarters where the soul hath been all that while namely in Heaven So shall we ever be with the Lord 1 Thes 4. 7. The beleevers being with men in the flesh will be at an end perhaps sooner than he thinks though not sooner than he desires but his being with the Lord shall know no end the beleever shall be with God as long as God hath a being Thus I have shewed you that Heaven is the beleevers Country which was the first thing to be opened The second follows namely How he comes to have a right to it This I shall shew two wayes 1. It is prepared for him 2. He is prepared for it First Heaven is prepared for the Beleever he hath adouble right to it 1 It s his by donation God who is the great Owner and possessor both of Heaven and Earth hath by a free Deed of Gift settled Heaven upon Beleevers The gracious Charter is frequently published and proclaimed in the Gospel I will give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish the gift of God is eternal life Rom. 6. 23. Beleevers are through grace chosen to Heaven and Heaven is freely bestowed on them 2 It s his by purchase Heaven is called therefore by the Apostle a purchased possession Ephes 1. 14. Jesus Christ hath fully gone through with the bargain it is a free gift in respect of us in respect of Christ it is a dear purchase Christ hath bought and paid for it and every beleever is a joynt purchaser with him The Son of God when he made that eternal Contract with the Father did put into the Deed of Sale the name of every Individual person that should possess it In both these respects is Heaven prepared for the Beleever Secondly As Heaven is prepared for him so is he prepared for it The Apostle blesseth God for making us meet to be partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in light Col. 2. 12. The Election of God and the Purchase of Christ give the beleever a Right to Heaven but something else must intervene to make him meet for Heaven Nature that is corrupted must be changed Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of Heaven Sanctification must be wrought before a vessel of Election can be fit for glory This Christ doth by communicating his own image through the Holy Ghost he takes away the guilt of sin by imputing his own Righteousness for Justification he removes the filthiness of sin by imparting his own Holiness for our Sanctification He infuses the habits of saving Grace and so gives the soul a fithess for the participation of Glory Parisiensis hath a good saying to this purpose lib de virt cap. 11. Natura mentis humanae quantumeunquè perfecta naturalibus donis absque gratia non est susceptibilis gloriae The soul of man though never so perfectly inriched with natural Indowments till it be sanctified with grace is not capable of receiving glory The Apostle puts Calling and Justification as intermediate acts between Predestination and Glorification Rom. 8. 30. Whom he did Predestinate them he also Called and whom he Called them he also Justified and whom he Justified them he also Glorified A soul cannot immediately leap out of a state of sin into a state of glory though it be elected to life but must first pass into a state of holiness This purgatory every man must pass through that enters into life Could an unrenewed soul be admitted into Heaven it would be as weary of that place as a Saint would be of Hell the imployment the company of Heaven are unsuitable things to an unsanctified heart There is no coming to the Palace of glory but by the milky way of grace Thus I have shewed you that Heaven is a Beleevers Country and how he comes to have a right to it The Application First It lets us see that there is a spiritual relation between Beleevers True Saints are spiritual Country-men they are all descended from the same stock Ther eis a real affinity between Christians They are consanguinei of one blood They are all brethren They are all members of one Society They are co-heirs of one and the same inheritance They have the same common privileges the same common promises the same common interest the same common salvation I in them and thou in me that they may be all one in us Joh. 17. 23. I note this both to perswade the people of God to unity among themselves and to provoke them to be spiritually helpful to one another T is very sad to see clashing between them that are so neerly related Let there be no strife saith Abraham to Lot between me and thee and between my herd-men and thy herd-men for we are brethren Gen. 13. 8. Men of the same Country use to be cordially united especially when they are in a foreignland As its sad to see fallings out so t is very unnatural that they should refuse to serve one another These spiritual Countrymen should rejoyce to pray one for another to counsel one another to bear one anothers burdens they should be ready to perform all spiritual kindnesses one to another as becomes those that are bred and born in the same land It will be a comfortable evidence that you are members of this heavenly Country if you find upon your hearts strong affections and readiness of mind to serve the soul-concernments of one another Secondly It should perswade beleevers to do nothing unworthy of their heavenly Country A mans actings are to be answerable to his extraction and education The Apostle labours to deter the people of God from unholy deeds by the indecency and unsutableness of such practises to their high estate Fornication uncleaness or covetousnes let it not be once named among you as becometh Saints Eph. 5. 3. Noble actings are expected from such as are nobly born Many men have been preserved from unworthy miscarriages out of respect