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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07291	The sermon preached before the King, at VVhitehall, on Tuesday the eight of Ianuarie, 1604. By Anthony Maxey Bachelar in Diuinity and chaplaine to his Maiestie	Maxey, Anthony, d. 1618.	1605 (1605)	STC 17684; ESTC S102303	20,385	57

of Saluation in Christ by his word but after this knowledge to lay hould vpon Christ by a working faith and so to hould on and continue still an holy Christian and sincere course of life that at length as Solomon saith In water face aunswereth face so in this worke of Iustification our spirit may answere vnto Gods spirit that we are his Euen as the pure and Christall Glasse doth liuely represent the image which is set before it so the heart once Iustified by a liuely faith in Christ in some good measure doth expresse the image of God and striueth to come vnto this marke which is here propounded namely our Glorification Glorifying THe fourth Lincke of this Cheine is Glorifying Which Glorifying is the highest steppe of Solomons Throne it is that exceeding great reward which God promised vnto Abraham it is that eternall weight of Glorie whererof J neither know how to begin nor how to make an ende of speaking Aug. de sinib lib 3. In vita aeterna faciliùs possumus dicere quid ibi nō sit quàm quid ibi sit In describing the glorie of the world to come it is easier to expresse what is not there then what is there For there is no discontentment nor greife no faintnes nor infirmitie no mourning nor miserie no corruption nor death but ioy and fulnes of ioy for euer such ioy as if we had once tasted we wold dispise the pleasures of a thousād worlds in hope of assurance to enioy it For after we haue waded through the miseries of this life at length in the twinckling of an eye in a moment with the sound of a Trumpet wee shall be carried into the heauenly Paradise into Abrahams bosome thousand thousands of Angels and Saints shall receiue vs with ioy and singing Our meate shall be that breade of life and that Heauenly Manna which will tast like whatsoeuer thing we desire our drinke shall be the water of life which if we haue once tasted we shall neuer thirst againe our mirth and musicke shall be the songe of the Saints Reud 5.13 Alleluia honor and praise and glorie be vnto him that sitteth vpon the throne and vnto the Lambe for euer-more There shall we reioyce continually in the presēce of the holy ONE We shall be his Saints and he shall be our God neither shall wee feare death any more neither sorrowe nor crying nor feele any want againe The Lord of Hostes who is the King of gloriè he will take vs by the right hand leade vs to the garden of comfort to the fountaine of ioy where all our garments shall be washed pure in the bloud of the Lambe and all teares shall be washed from our eyes There shall wee see the Courts of the Lord of Hostes new Ierusalem the Citie of the great King Where there is no night nor any candle nor yet the light of the Sunne for the Lord himselfe shall be our light with him we shall shine as the starres in Heauen Here shall we be clothed with white robes the innocency of Saints we shall haue Palms in our hands in token of victorie We shall be crowned with a diadem of pure gould which is immortalitie and seruing God a while in this short life there shall wee haue riches without measure life without death liberty without thraldome solace without ceasing and ioy without ending O blessed are they Lord that dwell in thy house where the Sonne of God in glorie is light vnto their eyes musicke vnto their eares sweetnes vnto their tast and full contentment vnto their hearts where in seeing they shall know him and in knowing they shall possesse him and in possessing shall loue him and in louing shall receiue eternall blessednesse that blessed eternitie the Garland we run for and the Crowne we fight for Jn a word Here we shall come vnto the ende of all our desires for what els is our ende but to come to that ende-lesse glorie which hath no ende 1. King 10 6 The Queene of Sheba when she had seene the riches and royaltie of Solomons Court she said vnto the King It was a true word which J heard in mine own Land of thy prosperity and happinesse but now I haue seene it with mine eyes lo the one halfe is not tould me so concerning the glorious fruition of eternitie in the life to come whatsoeuer may possibly he deliuered by the tongues of men yet vndoubtedly the one halfe cannot bee tould vs. By this place of Scripture thus rising by degrees the Katharistes the family of loue and the Puritanes of our times would gather this conclusion For as-much as here are certaine degrees set down whervpon GODS Church is builded and whereby the members of the same doe growe vppe in Religion therefore now in this life by a godlye reformation we may attaine vnto perfection This selfe conceited and head-strong opinion of theirs hath beene the first cause ground of all the trouble some cōtentions which longe since haue beene raised now at this day are continued in our Church For diuers men while they take themselues as Iob saith the Onely-wise-men and pure in their owne eyes dreaming still of a certaine imagined perfection they neuer cease to bee clamorous to the Christian Prince troublesome to the the quiet state and diuers of them verie dangerous people to the whole Church of God Jn this verse of our text there is an ende propounded there is a marke set vp where-vnto euery Christian must labour to attaine and striue by all good indeuour to come But alas who can say that his heart is cleane and man that is borne in sinne conceiued in iniquitie while hee is clothed with sinfull flesh how can hee attaine perfection That the Militant Church of Christ hath had imperfectiōs in all ages it is a plaine an vndoubted truth For if euerie member be imperfect how can there be perfection in the whole Perfectio nostra magis constat remissione peccatorum quàm perfectione virtutum Our perfection consiseth rather in the forgiuenesse of our sinnes then in the perfection of our vertues In truth thus stands the estate of a Christian mans life in this world As a man traueiling a long iournie to a farre cittie he doth not continually go but he resteth here and stayeth there he baiteth in one place loggeth all night in an other yet still he is going forward houldeth on his iournie so in this life we are pilgrims we are traueilers and howsoeuer we do seeke an other country and striue to come vnto the cittie of rest yet in this iournie wee wander often out of the way we take many fallés we haue many impediments neither is it possible the light of our faith should still hold out and neuer be darkened in this pilgrimage till in the life to come wee bee made Citizens of that heauenly Ierusalem which is aboue We conclude then with the sweete and modest saying of good