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A41543	A fair prospect shewing clearly the difference between things that are seen & things that are not seen, in a sermon preached at the funeral of the Honourable Lady Judith Barrington at Knebworth in Hertfordshire / by Tho. Goodwin ...	Goodwin, Thomas, d. 1658.	1658 (1658)	Wing G1270B; ESTC R40911	26,888	78

innumerable company of Angels and Spirits of Just men made perfect or with Cain and Pharaoh and Judas with the Divel and his Angels and Legions of unclean Spirits 't is said Acts 1. 25. of Judas at his death he went to his own place Brethren as sure as you have all places of abode here on earth which you call your own homes so shall every one of us have either in heaven or hell a home that shall be our own place In this world neither the wicked nor the Righteous are in their own places here for the most part the wicked and the ungodly have got the upper places the Children of God sit lower-most Dives sits at his table feasting and Lazarus lies at his Gate begging Beltshazars place here is a throne of Majesty and righteous Daniel a prison and a Den of Lions But it shall be quite otherwise when all by death enter into their own proper places in Eternity The worst places in the world are too good for sinners and the best in heaven are prepared for Saints who in Christ are blessed with all Spiritual blessings in heavenly places Me thinks this should be a very affecting meditation O my Soule where wilt thou be when thou art gone to thy own place when thou art removed from hence and shalt have left Husband and Wife and Children Neighbours and Friends and all these things that are seen where will thy abiding place be Where must I spend my Eternity which can indeed never be spent certainly if men would but use all diligence as the Apostle sayes they might come to know where their Eternal mansion shall be every man in this world may be said to chuse his own place in the world to come Joshua 24. 15. Chuse you sayes Joshuah to the Israelites whom you will serve but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord Psa. 119. 173. I have chosen thy precepts sayes David he that chuses Christ for his Lord and King to be ruled by his word to be Sanctified and guided by his Spirit he consequently chuses heaven for his future habitation But you that here refuse to serve the Lord that will not let Jesus Christ reigne over you you that chuse your lusts for your Lords and walke after the flesh as a servant after his Master you that chuse Mammon for your Master and the world for your portion you turn your back upon heaven and run head-long to destruction you make a Covenant with death and an agreement with hell That there shall be your habitation what a gnawing worme will this be in the Consciences of wicked men for ever in hell to consider This is a place of our own chusing here is the same Company we chose for our acquaintance on earth we cared not for Communion with Saints nor fellowship with God on earth here we are sentenced to an everlasting separation from them we are justly miserable being made so by our own choice and consent volenti non fit injuria O Israel thou hast destroyed thy self Lastly proceed a little farther in thy meditations concerning Eternity what provision and preparation hast thou made for Eternity The fool in the Gospel applauded himself in this that he had much goods laid up for many years but nothing was laid up for Eternity hast thou been any wiser Faelix quem faciunt c. hath his woful Example item'd thee into more Carefulness what art thou provided with for thy long home in Eternity It is a commonly known true saying Ex hoc momento aeternitas The great weight of Eternity hangs upon this small wire of time time hath an influence on Eternity a few drops of bloud will discolour a great quantity of water the well or ill-spending of this moment of time will colour the great sea of Eternity into a white of happinesse or blacke of misery Thinke seriously of it Christians every action word or thought of thine will make thy Eternity better or worse My houres preaching and your hearing at this time will adde either to both our eternal happiness or to both our eternal miseries All that we now do will rebound againe upon us in Eternity As when we put a lump of Sugar into a cup of wine or water it falls presently to the bottome out of sight but there it dissolves and diffuseth it selfe over the whole cup and may be tasted in every parcel of it thus do all our actions sinke as it were out of sight and out of memory into the bottom of Eternity there they operate and effect either our happiness or misery which will be felt and tasted by us throughout all Eternity Every wound which thou now givest thy Soule by sinne kept never so secret now will then fall on bleeding openly and smarting Eternally O what miserable abused Soules will then be to be seen most cruelly hackt and hewen with sin all over full of bruises and putrified sores every good action and holy duty will then be seen blossoming forth Peace and Joy and Consolation Consider that place of the Apostle Gal. 6. 7 8. Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap for he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting Every man is a sower his actions are his seed this life is his seed-time Eternity is his harvest his reaping-time The husbandman that sowes oates does not expect to reap wheate his crop depends upon his seed Sirs Whatever you do now is but sowing to Eternity when you are hearing and praying you are sowing when buying and selling you are sowing when you are swearing and lying you are sowing and all these several sorts of seeds will certainly come up in Eternity doest thou ravel out thy time in vanity and sensuality and sin and yet look to be happy Eternally This is to sow thy field with oates or tare and to look for a crop of wheate If thy seed be sin thy crop will certainly be misery O! what an encouragement should this be to Saints to be fruitful and abundant in good duties in Praying Fasting Repenting for sin c. Although no present difference appears between him that prayes and pray not The good husbands ●a●d that is well sown yields at p●ese●● no more profit then the sl●gga●ds that is unsown and over 〈◊〉 with thi●●les and nettles the Husbandman w●it● until the time of 〈◊〉 ●omes You Harvest ●s 〈◊〉 then you 〈◊〉 have been ●owing to the 〈◊〉 shall reap life 〈…〉 Be abundan● 〈…〉 of the Lord For 〈…〉 rally shall reap liberally and he that soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly And because all will rise again in Eternity ●o what you do accurately As that famous Painter Zeuxes being asked why he was so accurate in drawing all his pieces answered Pingo Aeternitati I Paint for Eternity You Pray and Hear and

amiss with him here among things temporal the Consideration of heaven and things eternal makes amends for all Thus a beleever looks at these things which are not seen which are eternal I come to Application This Doctrine that the things of this world are but for a season hath a double aspect as the Israelites cloud a darke side and a light side it looks very sadly upon all those whom the Scripture calls Men of this world men in this world we are all but not all I hope men of this world To men of this world I may call and say in the words of the Apostle James James 5. 1. 2. Go to now ye men of the world weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you your riches are corrupted and your garments moth-eaten Here is the Canker and the rust and the moth that is consuming all your treasure this one word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} they are all but for a season I'el give you 4 Characters of men of this world 1. Men all whose skill and dexterity is about things of this world shrewd men very knowing about worldly affaires but altogether ignorant about the matters of Eternity The world is the only book they study Therein they are soundly book-learned As David did on Gods law so do they herein meditate day and night This booke hath three leavs 1 John 2. 16. Riches Pleasures and Honours 1. The Covetous man's Genius or Lust carries him after wealth this leafe he is daily thumming beating his braine and studying new wayes to enlarge his est●te by adding house to house and purchase to purchase contriving new engines to draw more of the Riches of the world into his possession and to a notable perfection herein many of them attain being verstin all the Topicks and Common places of profit and gain having got in a readinesse all sorts of money-traps to catch it where-ever it is stirring and to be had per fas nefas Rem rem quocunque modo rem The voluptuous man his teeth water more after pleasures and sensual delights feasting and gaming and riotous living he gives his heart to seek and search out all manner of mirths and pleasures As Solomon describes his own Courses in the time of his vanity Eccles. 2. 1. 2. to the 10. v. Solomon shews there what large provision he made to satisfie this lust sumptuous diet stately buildings orchards Gardens Forests Parkes Fishponds Musick vocall and instrumentall he with-held not his heart from any joy that his eyes desired As a young prodigal Citizen of London I have read of who had a great longing to give all his five sences a pleasure at once and allowed to the delight of every sence a several hundred pound by which and such like practises within the space of three years he wasted an estate of thirty thousand pound in money left him by his father besides Land Plate Jewels and houses furnished very richly to a great value T is not a little cost and pains men of this lust are at to maintaine and give it satisfaction 3. The Ambitious man is of an aspiring mind he is climbing higher and higher after honours and preferments his head is never without a plot to promote this his design These three which one calls the worlds Trinity in serving of these men of the world are wholly taken up and many live under the Repute of notable wise men for the skill they have attained in these worldly businesses Poore Creatures the subject of our skill are things that are but for a while therefore for a while you l go for wise men wise for a time but fools Eternally How will these wiser men of the world see themselves shortly befool'd me thinks I hear the Noise of their cry at the day of Judgement in the words of Saul Behold we have played the fool and have erred exceedingly you have a Proverb Penny wise and pound foolish such are men of this world wise in temporalls fools in Eternals Looke to it Sirs that none of you be such wise to buy and sell and make bargains to Contrive wayes of enlarging your estates and raising your families but in the Mysteries of Godliness and matters of Salvation such as Regeneration union and Communion with Christ Living by faith having our Conversation in heaven c. grossly ignorant and void of understanding 2. Men whose labour and activity is wholly or chiefly for things of this world men whose practise is directly opposite to our Saviours precept John 6. 27. They labour for the meat that perisheth but they labour not for the meat which endureth unto everlasting life Great week-day Labourers in gathering the perishing things of this world but Lords-day loyterers when they should be gathering heavenly Manna for life Eternal Industry and diligence in an honest Calling though never so poore and mean in the Account of men is well-pleasing to God I would not be thought to reprove or reproach that I wish heartily many pretenders to Religion now a dayes would make more conscience of that duty I thinke it also one of the great sins and reproaches of our Nation that it abounds with so many vagrant beggers and extravagant Gentlemen living the one as if they were above the other beneath all honest calllngs But the sin I am now describing and disgracing is when men will toil and moil run and ride rise early and sit up late in pains-taking about the things of this life but will not be brought to like or practise any exercise in Religion in which pains must be taken although the profit and advantage of it be an Eternal good When Estates and preferments in the wo●ld which are but ●or a while are sought with the hazard of eternal Soules which are lost for 〈◊〉 of looking af●●r O ye Sons of men how long will ye love varity and seek after lea●●ng Psal. 4. 2 why labour you for that which 〈◊〉 not the dayes are Coming when you will reflect on your 〈◊〉 for these temporal things with Solomons words Eccles. 1. 3. what profit hath a man of all his labours which he taketh under the Sun so Eccles. 2. 11. you will look on all the works your hands have wrought and on the labour you have laboured to do and the Result of all will be vanity and vexation of Spirit there was no profit under the Sun You that now are all for profit and gain to whom dulcis odor lucri ex re quâlibet you will be miserably disappointed you 'l find there was no profit under the Sun pro●●t will be found to be amongst things that are not seen things eternal which you looked not after What a vain thing is it for a man to busy himself in drawing curious images or letters in the sand or dust which one blast of wind will suddenly deface and spoil and in a moment obliterate the pains of many hours or dayes O it