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B03760	Christ's last sermon, or, The everlasting estate and condition of all men in the world to come. Exactly describing the everlasting, blessed, and happy condition of the children of God in glory for ever: with the everlasting, endlesse, and caseless [sic] condition of wicked men in the world to come forever. Set forth for the comfort of the godly, and for the terror of the ungodly. / By a godly, able and faithfull servant of Jesus Christ, J.H.	Hart, John, D.D.	1664 (1664)	Wing H940B; ESTC R177841	23,456	47

Himself And then how Christ will come 〈◊〉 shall come in power and great glory Matth. 〈◊〉 30. And secondly He will come sudden●● even as a thief in the night First he sh●● come in power irresistible power against s●●ners I beseech you sinners consider you 〈◊〉 not be able to stand when He appears for as 〈◊〉 is all powerfull in himself so will He come at●●ded with an innumerable company of glori●● Saints and Angels Behold saith Jude 〈◊〉 Lord commeth with ten thousand of His Sai●● to execute judgement upon all and to convi●● all 1 Thes 1.7 8 9. The Lord Jesus shall 〈◊〉 revealed from heaven with his mighty Angles 〈◊〉 flamming fire taking vengeance on them th●● know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lo●● Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everla●●ing destruction from the presence of the Lord a●● from the glory of His power Though God b●● long suffering towards sinners yet will he no●● always suffer sinners to go unpunished The So●● of man shall come in His glory all the holy Angels with him Mat. 25.31 And second lie he shal ●ome suddenlie and swiftlie Swiftlie even as the ●●ightning And suddenlie as a thief in the night 〈◊〉 Pet. 3. Those scoffers there mocked and scof●●ed at the doctrine of Christs comming to judgement But saith the Apostle in the ninth verse Though the Lord be long suffering yet he is not ●●ack concerning his promise But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night Though sinners may think Christ long yet they shall find him sure The comming of Christ will be sudden to sinners in two respects Sudden in regard of their expectation He will come before they look for Him and sudden in regard of their unpreparednesse Christ will come to sinners before they are ready for Him they will be then to seek for Oyl in their Lamps Christ as one saith though he hath leaden feet yet he hath iron hands though God be long ere he does strike yet when He doth strike He will be sure ●●o strike home Yet a little while and He that ●●sh all come will come and will not tarry Now the use which I shall make of this point shall be onely this Will Christ come again and receive Believers then let me exhore you all to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ Would you be received by Christ into glory then I beseech you labour to receive Christ ●nto your souls by believing If Christ do not live in you by faith here you shall never 〈◊〉 with Christ in glory hereafter It is unbe●● that is the soul-damning sin He that believe not is condemned already Iohn 3.18 He that ●●lieveth shall he saved but he that believeth 〈◊〉 shall be damned Mark 16.16 He that believ●● on the Son hath everlasting life But he t●● believeth not the Son shall not see life but 〈◊〉 wrath of God abideth on him John 3. 36. Another Use which I must make of this poi●● might be this To comfort and encourage 〈◊〉 people of God in all their sufferings and loss●● Art thou in poverty Doth the world frown 〈◊〉 thee Are thy afflictions and losses many a●● great Let not your hearts be troubled Ch●●● is gone to prepare a place for you and Ch●● will come again and receive you Therefore 〈◊〉 not discouraged What though you meet w●● many rubs and stops in your way Yet you m●● be sure to get to glory at the last Consider th● through many tribulations we must enter i●● the Kingdom of Heaven The fourth and last Observation which I o●● served was this That those Mansions of Glo●● prepared by Christ for Believers in Heaven w●● abundantly recompense and make good all th● Losses and all the Crosses which Believers m●● here meet withall in the world Let not yo●● hearts be troubled in my Fathers house are m●● ●●y mansions Sell all saith our Saviour and follow me thou shalt have treasure in heaven For further prosecution of this usefull Point I shall proceed to handle it first doctrinallie and then Applicatorilie And for the Doctrinal part I shall endeavour to shew you first what those Mansions of glorie are which are laid up for Believers And secondlie what those losses are which Believers may here meet withall And ●●hen lastly how those Mansions of glorie do make good the losses and crosses which Believers meet with in the world And to begin with the first what those Mansions of glorie are which are ●aid up for Believers in heaven And all that ●●an be said of this will be but as it were the lighting of a Candle to the Sun For it comes infi●●telie short of the skill either of men or Angels ●●o expresse as the Apostle saith Eyes hath not ●●een ear hath not heard neither hath it entred in●● the heart of man to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 〈◊〉 9. The glorie of the glorified Saints in hea●●en is so exceeding glorious that it is not pos●●ble for all the tongues of men or Angels to ex●●ess it But by the way to give you some glimp●●s of this most excellent glorie consider a little ●●hese following particulars First in heaven we shall have the everlasting ●●refence of God Himself there we shall see God as He is not by faith but by sight clea●● and fullie I shall see him saith holy J●●● with these eyes Now we see as it were throug●● glasse darkly but there we shall see God fac●● face We shall see Him as we are seen Th●● and there we shall be ever with the Lord as 〈◊〉 Apostle hath it 1 Thess 4.17 We shall enjoy G●● in heaven freely and fully without let or in●●ruption Though the Saints may possiblie m●●● with many and great impediments and him rances in the way unto Heaven yet in Hea● there shall be nothing to hinder or inter●● their joy It is possible that a Child of G●●● may have his skin pulled over his ears as so●● of the Apostles had in their way unto Hea●● yet being gotten into Heaven nothing shall 〈◊〉 lest or trouble them at all What an unspe●●able inconceiveable comfort will it be Chri●●ans to have and enjoy the presence of 〈◊〉 God who is all and hath all and will be e●●lastinglie all in all to His people for ever Wh●● having not seen saith the Apostle we sire to love In whom believing we rejoice w●● joy unspeakable and full of glory And if 〈◊〉 fight of Gods presence by faith be so glori● what then will be full fruition and enj●●ment of God Himself be O! unspeakables 〈◊〉 full of glorie A second thing which I would speak to 〈◊〉 indeed I must but speak to it is the perfection of grace that shall be enjoyed in heaven O Christians when ye come to heaven then ye come to full age in heaven The spirits of just men shal be made perfect and the bodies of the Saints shal be made glorious even

them out in death Fitting grace for heaven you see is no trifle your eternall estate depends upon it Sinners why do you put off this work as a trisle and why do you put it off till death I dare say that man would never be holy if be could help it that will not be holy till he die he would never have to do with Christ if he could avoid that will not be acquainted with him before he is ready to leave this world when death is fitting the soul for hell then and never till then to be looking after heaven Ah Lord that ever those men should have precious and immortall Souls to damn themselves they that look no after heaven till they come to their death-beds are usually crost in their folly they are then either surprized with infirmities of body and so disinabled to perform so great a work or else surprized in their souls and so unfitted and indisposed to it either they have no strength or no heart to it and so dye in their sins and perish eternally Wicked men would never leave sinning if they did not cease living and that is one reasont to justifie the infinitnesse or everlastingnesse of the punishment of wicked men in hell The damned in hell are under easelesse and endlesse sufferings because they would have sinned alwayes if they had lived alwayes wicked men would have no end of their lives here they would live ever that they might sin ever therefore the Lord giveth them a life not such a one as they would have but such a one as they deserve to have which is indeed a death for ever wicked men shall die eternally for sin because they would have lived eternally in sin In the third place I beseech you note from hence what a blessed thing it is to be a Child of God Is it so that there are mansions of Glory for Believers in Heaven hereafter then Believers are the onely happy Men and Women in the World Were it not for the hopes of Heaven the condition of Gods Children might be sad enough if in this life onely we had hope we were of all men most miserable 1 Cor. 15.19 But the hopes of Gods Children are in the life to come therefore they are of all men most blessed The happinesse of a Child of God is not in what he enjoyes here below but in what he shall enjoy hereafter in Glory The best things of a Child of God are unseen things Whilst we look not saith the Apostle at the things which are seens but a the things Which are not seen For the things which are seen are temporal but the things that are no●● seen are eternall 2 Cor. 4.18 And in 1 Pet. 〈◊〉 3 4. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to His abundance mercy hath begotten us again unto a lived hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dea● To an Inheritance incorruptible and undefiled that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through Faith unto Salvation The Apostle here excellent●● sets forth the condition of a Child of God and that in severall Regards First They are b● gotten again by Christ to an Inheritance possiblie they may lose all here below for H●● sake But yet here is the comfort of a Child 〈◊〉 God he is Heir to a great Estate in the ne●●● World There is an Inheritance for him an● that is a sure one In six Regards First I●●● not a corruptible but an incorruptible one S●●● condly it 's an undefiled one And thirdlie it 〈◊〉 a lasting yea an everlasting one it fadeth no●●● away Fourthly it 's reserved for them ti●● they come to age Gods Children in this life are not at full age therefore they are nor cap●ble of enjoying so great a happinesss which God will hereafter bestow upon them Fifthlie it reserved for them in a safe place Many mo●●● leave great estates here for their children whi●● they are often cheated of But the Inheritance of Gods Children is reserved by God for them in Heaven where neither Moth doth corrupt nor Theis steals away And lastlie as the Inheritance is reserved for the Children of God so the People of God are preserved for their Inheritance Henven if reserved for them and they are preserved for Heaven They are kept by the mightie power of God through faith unto Salvation Fourthly are there such Mansion of glorie for Believers hereafter then I beseech you try and examine your own souls whether or no ye be in the faith And let me exhort you in the Name of Christ seriouslie to set about the work of Salvation You see what great and glorious things there are laid in store for Gods Children hereafter Then I beseech you labour to get an interest in Christ here that so you may partake of those glorious Mansions hereafter How greatlie should the consideration of these things draw out our hearts in longings and pantings after God When shall I come and appear before God saith David Psalm 42.1 As the Hart panteth after the Water-brooks so panteth my soul after thee O God My soul thirsteth for God for the living God When shall I come and appear before God And if David and such longings after the enjoyment of God in his Ordinances here what desires thought we to have after the full enjoyment God himself in glory hereafter Are there 〈◊〉 mansions of glory to be had hereafter W●●● manner of persons ought we to be then in all maner of godlinesse And then lastly If there be such Mansi● of glory then let me exhort you all even now this your day to set your hearts at work seeking after those great things of Eterni●● Let every Soul of you thus reason with you selves Are there such glorious things hereafter and am I the man or woman that shall ●●joy them I remember a story of Gauls w●● having once tasted the sweet Wine of Ita●●● presently enquired after the Countrie and ●●ver rested till they had gotten it I have he●● given you as it were a fore-taste of that H●venly Wine which Believers shall drink hereafter in Glory now if you find any sweetne●● in it let not your hearts be at rest till you com●● to the Countrie it self where are Rivers those sweet Pleasures and that for evermore Martyr suffering death one asked him the cau●● why he suffered Saith he in the words of t●●● Apostle Eye hath not seen ear hath nor heart neither hath it entred into the heart of man●● conceive the things which God hath prepared f●●● them that love him The naming of wh●●● wrought so effectually on the mans heart that ●e immediately became a Christian and after ●ffered death of His Names sake You have ●ad not onely one but very many Scriptures ●pened to you I beseech you let not all be in ●ain We read in Mark 10.17 how the young ●an came running to Christ saying Good Mater what shall

Christs last SERMON OR The everlasting estate and condition of all men in the World to come Exactly describing the Everlasting Blessed and Happy condition of the Children of God in Glory for ever With the everlasting endlesse and easelesse condition of Wicked Men in the World to come for ever Set forth for the Comfort of the Godly and for the Terror of the Ungodly By a godly able and faithfull Servant of Jesus Christ J. H. Col. 3 4. When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also upon with him in glory Mat. 25.34.41 Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world Depart from me ye Cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels EDINBVRGH Printed by ANDREVV ANDERSON Anno DOM 1664. Courteous Reader THere are lately published some useful and profitable Sermons viz. Christs first Sermon A Key to open Heaven-gate The true Christians Path-way to Heaven The Plain mans Path-way to Heaven Heavens Glory and Hells Horrour The dreadfull Character of a Drunkara There are also severall other small Books needfull to be bought and read viz. Bessie Clarkson of Lanerk The Lady Culrosse Dream The last Good-night The History of Doctor Faustus The History of Fortunatus The History of Roswall and Lillian The History of Guy Earle of Warwick No Jest like a true Jest or The History of Captain Hynd All which with variety of other Stories are to be sold by Andrew Anderson CHRISTS LAST SERMON OR The everlasting estate and condition of all men in the world to come John 14.2 3. In My Fathers House there are many Mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you And if I go I will come again and receive you unto my self that where I am there ye may be also OUR blessed Lord and Saviour having in the foregoing Chapter acquainted his Disciples with His departure from them out of this world He comes here in this and the three following Chapters to give them his last fare-well-Sermon and therein He endeavours principally to comfort the sad hearts of His Disciples who were now disconsolate and cast down in the spirits under the sense of so great and sad a los● as the losse of their great and only Lord an Master Jesus Christ For whom they had le●● and lost all Christ having acquainted them wit● His going out of the world they thereupon presently begin to be dejected and cast down at thi●● sad news Lord said they have we left all an● followed Thee and wilt thou now leave us shall we now be exposed to the difficultie and dangerous of the wide world No saith our Saviour bi●●● not discouraged let not your hearts be troubled it is for your good that I go away In my Fathers House are many Mansions I go to prepar a place for you And if I go I will come again and receive you You shall be no losers by My going away from you I will surelie make you a●● mends for all your losse There are Mansions of joy in Heaven that will abundantlie counter vail all your wordlie losses If I go away it is for your good for I go to prepare a place for you And though you have not my bodilie presence yet you shall have my spirituall presence I will send you another Comforter that shall abide with you for ever I will not leave you comfortlesse I will come unto you That is by My Spirit to guide you and direct you into all truth and to bear up your hearts under all those troubles and temptations which ye shall meet withall in the world Having thus briefly given you the scope of ●he whole I come now to the words themselves ●●com whence I raise these four Propositions first that there are mansions of glory in heaven for the people of God hereafter In my Fathers House are many mansions 2. I note from ●ence that Christs ascension was to prepare a place for Believers I go to prepare a place for you 3. That Christ will certainly come again ●●nd receive Believers to Himself I will come ●gain and receive you 4. and lastly which shall briefly insist upon I note from hence ●hat those mansions of glory prepared by Christ or Believers in Heaven will abundantly recomense and make good all the losses and all the crosses which Believers may meet withall in the world I shall begin with the first of these that there ●re mansions of Glory for Believers hereafter The point is so plain from the words themselves that I shall onely give you a place or two of Scripture in the 84. Psalm vers 11. The Lord will give grace and glory and no good thing will ●e withhold from them that walk uprightly Eye ●ath not seen ear hath not heard neither hath is ●●ntred into the heart of man to conceive the things which God hath provided for them that love him Cor. 2.9 Come ye blessed saith your Saviour inherit the kingdom prepared for you Mat. 25.34 Severall other Scriptures I might give you b●● I shall proceed to the uses of this usefull poin● Is it so then that there are Mansions of Glor●● for the godly hereafter then I note from henc● the unspeakable miserie of all wicked men bo●●● here and hereafter Is there glory in heaven f●● Believers What is there then in hell for Unb●●●lievers if glorie be the portion of the godly wh●● will the lot and portion of wicked men b●● The wicked saith Psal 9.17 shall be turm●●● into hell and all the Nations that forget Go●● Wicked men shall have no part nor portion those glorious Mansions they are prepated onl● for the godlie Wicked men may indeed whic● shall but further agravate their sorrow behold t●● Saints received by Christ into glorie as Dives b●● held La Zarus in Abrahams bosome but it w●●● afar off Wicked men may at the last day he●●● that blessed sentence fo Come ye blessed but the again also they shal hear I and that with a vengeance too that wofull sentence of Go ye curs● into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil an● his Angels It is impossible for wicked men I me● such as live and die in sin unrepented of to ent● into heaven Know ye not saith the Apostle 1 Co● 6.9 that the unrighteous shall not inherit 〈◊〉 Kingdom of God The Evangelist St. John Re●● 20.21 speaking of the world to come which 〈◊〉 foresaw in his heavenlie vision I saw saith he t●● dead small and great stand before God and the Books were opened and another Book was opened which is the Book of Life And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in those Books according to their works All the wayes of men both good and bad are exactlie written down both in the Book of Gods everlasting Rememberance and in the Book of mans own particular Conscience And the sea gave up the dead which were