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A65408 The practical Sabbatarian, or, Sabbath-holiness crowned with superlative happiness by John Wells ... Wells, John, 1623-1676. 1668 (1668) Wing W1293; ESTC R39030 769,668 823

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et gaudiorum percipiu●t corda eorum vix possunt capere divinam illam dulcedinem quid ergò de futura coeli dulcedine censeamus quando non primitias tan●ùm c. we shall love God and our blessed Saviour better then our selves and Christ shall love us better then we can love our selves or one another O how many joyes shall he possess who shall keep an eternal Jubilee in the enjoyment of so many and so great beatitudes and felicities of others as truly as of his own The Jewish Doctors call the pleasures of our heavenly Sabbath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 everlasting breathings our delight stirring up our desires and our desires feeding upon our delight The joyes above shall not onely be transcendent but universal filling all the faculties of our souls refreshing and ravishing all the parts of our bodies they shall be continued not interrupted most sweet most sincere elevated to the highest degree of pleasure extensively reaching to all eternity intensively wound up to the highest peg of satisfaction and delight Psal 36. 9. And the fountane of divine sweetness shall not distill or drop upon the glorified Saints as Gums from the Tree or Rose-water from the Still or Chymical drops from the Alymbeck but streams of delight shall gently dash upon them to fill them with joy unspeakable and full of Glory Rev. 22. 1. We may conjecture at the body of the Sun by the brightness of the beam so may we guess what those extasies of joy shall be which shall sweeten our eternal Sabbath by those fore-tasts and prelibations of joy which the Saints here sometimes feel 1 Pet. 1. 8. The first fruits of this joy how do they transport the believer and carry him even above the world Insomuch that he scarce knows whether he be in the body or out of the body 2 Cor. 12. 2. His sences and faculties are wrapt up to drench in unusual pleasures Now if the present clusters yield such generous wine what will the over-flowings of the Vintage yield What fruits shall we gather from an everlasting harvest This made Augustine Aug. de Civit dei lib. 22. Cap. 30. Quest Supr Exod. Quest 173. call our Sabbath above Sabbatum maximum our greatest Sabbath Plenitudinem Sabbati The fulness of a Sabbath Nay Sabbatum Sabbatorum The Sabbath of Sabbaths Indeed the sweets of our future Sabbath here they may be admired but they cannot be comprehended hereafter we may be filled with them but we shall not dive to the bottome of them The two Sabbaths differ in this the one is the representation of the other Our Sabbath upon Earth doth onely adumbrate Fuit illud Sabbatum typus aeterni illius sabbati in coelis in quo electi an●mâ et corpore a peccatis calamitatibus et miseriis hujus vitae requiescent Ger. and shadow out our Sabbath in Heaven On our Sabbath below the body rests from labour in our heavenly Sabbath both body and soul shall rest from sin calamity and misery and God shall rest in us and we shall rest in him In the legal Sabbath there was no Manna fell on that day Exod. 16. 27. In the Sabbath above there shall be no ministry that usefull and necessary ordinance shall wholly and for ever cease In our Sabbath below we leave the world and the affairs of it while we go up into the Mount and converse with Jesus Christ In our Sabbath above we shall Dies dominica est imago futuri seculi Bas get above the world and with Elijah let fall our mantle our loose garment of mortality and put it on no more but converse with God eternally on the Mount of joy and delight There are indeed many rare types and representations 2 Kings 2. 13. of our heavenly Sabbath Paradise which was a promptuary of beauty pleasure delight especially when mans innocency did accent the Paradisus univers● sensibilis venustati● inte●ligentiam excedit Damasc lib. 2. de Orthod fid cap. 11. sweetness of it How fresh the trees how sweet the flowers how musical the birds how lushious the fruits of this transcendent place till Adams fall folded up this land-skip and turned himself out of this Garden of God that he might dress it no more and since it is over-grown insomuch that the remains of it are not known to the most curious searchers after them But before this breach the pleasures of Paradise were so transcendent that the delights of our supernal Sabbath are called Paradise Rev. 2. 7. 2 Cor. 12. 4. Onely the Paradise of the Second Adam where he met with August Epist 112. Cap. 13. the saved Thief Luke 23. 43. transcendently surpasses the Paradise of the First Adam In that the presence of God is Clem. 5 Stromat Ansel Thom. Aquin. secunda secundae quest 175. Art 5. immediately in the Paradise above which inhanceth all enjoyments to the supreamest height And therefore Augustine Clemens Alexandrinus Anselme and Aquin as affirm that Paul when he was rapt up into the heavenly Paradise he saw the Divine Being entring the place of the blessed who eternally see God face to face So that when we 1 Cor. 13 12. mention or contemplate on the Coelestial Paradise we must cast a shade on Adams Paradise his pleasant Seat as falling short below all degrees of comparison Secondly It might be added that the fruits and delights of Adams Paradise were more calculated to please the sence and refresh the outward man But the delights of the upper Paradise are more refined and principally influence the soul mans better part The Tabernacle doth sweetly resemble our Sabbath above Psal 84. 1. Luke 16. 9. Psal 15. 1. Rev. 21. 3. especially Tabernaculum Mosaicum propter pelles hyacynthinas ipsam co●perientes coelum è long inquo aspicientibus representabat Joseph lib. 3. Antiq. Cap. 7. if we look upon the furniture of it First There was the Ark of the Testimony Exod. 40. 21. which as a learned man concludes denotes the blessed Trinity whose sight is our happiness above In the Ark there were the two Tables of the Law Deut. 10. 12. The golden Pot of Manna and Aarons blossoming Rod Heb. 9. 4. In our heavenly Sabbath the Father will govern us with most holy Laws which answers to the two Tables The Son shall be bread of life to us to feed upon John 6. 33. which answers to the pot of Manna The Holy Ghost shall Numb 10 33 eternally fill us with fresh and flourishing graces which answers Charitas ibi erit lex Filius dei erit rex et modus erit aeternitas to Aarons blossoming Rod. Secondly Over the Ark was the Mercy-Seat Exod. 25. 21 22. which expresses our dear Redeemer who hath promerited not onely grace but glory for us And from the Rom. 3. 25. Numb 7 89. Mercy-Seat answers were given which signifies that blessed familiarity which the Saints shall enjoy with the Lord in Glory Exod.