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A90706	The fountain of life, or life in its derivation from Christ. In a sermon preached at the funeral of that honoured lady, the Lady Jane Reade, the relict of Sir John Reade, (sometimes whil'st he lived) of Sorangle in Lincolnshire, knight. By Edmund Pinchbeck, B.D.	[Pinchbeck, Edmund].	1652 (1652)	Wing P2244; Thomason E679_10; ESTC R206749	30,152	41

of this new Jerusalem tells us of gold and pearle and precious stones there was the Emerauld Jasper Saphir Berd Tophas things of highest estimate and price but how farre doth he extend these precious things why by these he only sets out the glory of the walls gates pavements of the same as for the inward furniture the delights pleasures state glory priviledges prerogatives of the blessed citizens he makes no resemblance no all the precious things in nature are not worthy to be tender'd for a shadow to that substance Glorious things are spoken of thee O thou City of God if God hath formed so many glorious things for the creatures why then that which he hath formed for himselfe for his own proper residence and mansion that must needs be compleated with surpassing glory indeed Now to be admitted as a citizen to live in such a place must needs be a priviledge of highest comfort Secondly from the glory of the inhabitants in whose communion we enjoy the same Now who these are the Apostle tells in Heb. 12.22 You are come to mount Sion c. there 's the place the resident Inhabitants follow the company of innumerable Angels the congregation of the first-born c. It 's related of Cato an old grave Roman that he advised in the purchase of a farme or the like inheritance that a man should consider of the vicinity or neighbour-hood there Ne malum vicinum haberet and to that purpose they relate the proclamation of Themistocles a famous Athenian captaine in the saile of his lands that if any man would deal with him he should be sure of a good neighbour Beloved there is a miserable neighbour-hood in hell none but wretched sinners impure spirits torturing and tormenting devils Oh take heed lest by your sinnes and transgressions you purchase that land of darknesse to your everlasting confusion But now in heaven O what a glorious what a blessed society is there for first of all there is God himselfe what a communion we have with him you may gather by that petition of our blessed Saviour in John 17.21 I pray c. that they all may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee even that they also may be in us there is not only a communion amongst themselves but with God too O what an honour is this to the nature of man What am I saies the Prophet David and what 's my fathers house to be the Kings sonne in law nay what are we poore creatures to finde this acceptance with the King of glory yea how justly may we admire it in the words of the Prophet David Lord what is man that thou art mindful of him c for in this communion of God what can we want why God shall be all and all unto us he shall be beauty for the eye musick for the eare honey for the taste the full content and satisfaction of our desires and that immediately from himselfe True it is God is all in all in this world In him we live and move and have our being but here he works by meanes and secondary cau●es here he gives wine to make glad the heart and oile c. but there all intervening means between God and us is removed With thee is the well of life and in thy ●ight shall we see light not in the light of the Sunne or the light of a candle there is no need of them Rev. 22.4 but in thy light the light of God himselfe yea the whole life of glory together with all the concomitants of it flows from him as the sole and original fountaine of it O how sweet must that happinesse be that is so derived Secondly as we have communion with God so with Jesus Christ the Mediator of the new Covenant We shall see him as he is 1 John 3. To see Christ in our natures he that was so despised of men a man of sorrowes that laid down his life for us whom we have served and profest against all the opposition of the world to see him I say so advanced sitting at the right hand of God farre above all principalities and powers must needs be an happy vision indeed If the wise-men upon his nativity so rejoyced to see the starre that led them to the place where he was although he was then in a state of humiliation in a stable amongst brute beasts what joy will it be to his servants whose soules are inamoured on him to see him in the highest Heavens In a word not to instance in particulars here 's a blessed communion with all the blessed company of Heaven Many shall come from the East and West and sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of heaven Now what that will avail the saints may appeare First from the purity and holinesse of that blessed company Without shall be dogs and inchanters c. there is no bad company there to infect or infest all such are turned down into the lake that burns with fire and brim-stone no there is none but saints they are all the servants of God and his name is in their fore-heads and therefore if holinesse be in acceptance there it dwells in its perfection Secondly from their state and quality there are no mean persons there to commerce with there 's none but Angels and Archangels none but Patriarchs Prophets Apostles none but Kings and Priests the meanest person there is possessor of a crown not an earthly corruptible crown but a crown of endlesse and immortal glory Thirdly from their charity Affection here is mutable and liable to alteration whom we love to day we may hate to morrow but there charity abideth alway every one rejoycing in one anothers happinesse as they are perfectly sanctified and have a full communion with God so their charity is summo gradu absolute and perfect indeed And thus you see what this life is in respect of the association and fellowship with it Lastly what this life of glory is you may conjecture from the immunities and priviledges of it for brevity sake I will referre them to these three the first is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the absence of all evil Blessed are they that die in the Lord c. As for deseases aches paines the labours of this life they have an eternal Sabbath there 's no teares The second is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the adjection of all good things Tell me what would you have for the body or the soul would you have this mortal to put on immortality this corruptible to put on incorruption would you have this natural body to be spiritual to be a glorious body to shine as the Sunne to be like the glorious body of Christ or for the soul what happinesse can you expect whereas she is depraved with actuall and original sinne would you have her pure and immaculate whereas she 's liable to infirmities imperfections c would you have her accomplisht with perfect righteousnesse perfect knowledge

horseman if an horseman he should have a chariot if he had a cottage he should have a village if a village he should have a city if he were Lord of a city he should be a Prince of a region or countrey and as for gold he would poure it out by heapes sans nombre But now the invitation that Christ tenders to the world runner in a quite opposite straine If any man will come after me let him deny himselfe and take up his crosse daily and follow me Luk. 9.23 and therefore the men of the world that have their portion in this life that minde earthly things and know no happinesse beyond the increase of corne wine and oile cannot brook such a master But herein for an antidote to this discouragement consider in the first place the vani●y and emptinesse of all earthly and terrene things to them that stand upon the top of the Alpes the great cities of Campania they say seem but as mole-hills in their appearance so were thy conversion in heaven were thine affections implanted on things supernal and above didst thou converse with God thou would●st then see no great matter in the world why thou should'st be so enamoured on it thou would'st then discerne not only how uncertaine those inferiour comforts are for their continuance betaking themselves to their wings and flying away like Eagles as Solomon speaks of riches Prov. 23.5 but likewise for their use and imployment how utterly unable they are to make thee an happy man Non domus aut sundus c. If neither house nor land nor heaps of gold or silver as the Poet observed can cure the diseases of the body what then can these things availe thee to the good of thy soul had a man all the Kingdomes of the world and the glory of them they could not purchase the least measure of faith of assurance of Gods love of grace or of spiritual comfort for us no oft-times they endamage and ●rejudice the souls welfare choak the seed of the word and steal away the heart from God Secondly consider how Christianity and Religion takes not away the comfortable use of the creatures but only regulates the same by its subjection to Gods glory and the good of our soules It 's reported of the Kings of Mexico that it was their fashion alwayes to be carried aloft and upon mens shoulders and never to touch the ground and it is related of the King of Japan that if he tread upon the searth he forfeits his regality and place God hath not dealt co strictly with us we may make bold with the earth we may comfort our selves in the desirable things of the world only out are must be this that we sink not into the earth that we ly not buried under it that we lose not the Creator in the creature our future happinesse in our present fruition it 's only the immoderate irregular love of the world that is inconsistent with the love of Christ according to that of our blessed Saviour He that loveth father or mother more then me is not worthy of me Matth. 10 3● Thirdly consider what a happy recompence betides such sufferings hadst thou such an eye of faith as the Israelites had in Egypt when through that house of bondage that iron furnace through the sea the wildernesse whole armies of the sonnes of Anak they could see a land of promise or as Job had that could apprehend a Redeemer a resurrection a restitution through a dunghill through the discomforts of his friends the temptations of his wife malice of Satan changes and armies of sorrowes or as St. Stephen had when through a tempest of stones he could see the heavens open then thou would'st rejoyce according to the paterne of the Apostles Acts 5.41 that thou art counted worthy to suffer rebuke for his name what an happy issue attends such afflictions you may see the Apostle tells us 2 Cor. 4.17 For affliction here 's glory for light affliction a weight of glory for affliction which is but for a moment a farre more exceeding and eternal weight of glory Or in the third place doth not the example of the world pervert thee and keep thee at a distance from him is not the unbeliefe of Rulers and Pharisees a ground of their infidelity Is not that opposition of Kings and Princes heathen and people the Psalmist speaks of in the second Psalme an argument to confirm and strengthen thee in thine enmity against him It was the saying of Hushai to Absolom 2. Sam. 16.18 Whom this people and all the men of Israel chose his will I be and with him will I dwell So in the matter of Religion men are resolved not to be singular but to apply themselves according to the way of the multitude It was said of Alcibiades a Noble man of Athens that he was omnium horarum homo a man for all companies all times and circumstances that he was laborious amongst the Syracusians but loosly carried amongst the more dissolute Athenians grave and sober amongst the Lacedemonians but intemperate amongst the Thracians effeminate amongst the Persians so in reference to religion corrupt nature that savours not the things of the Spirit knowes according to the same fashion how to garbe and apply her selfe to all factions all opinions all formes all times how opposite soever they be to the Scepter of Christ yea she deems it her wisdome never to professe more of Christ then may stand with the comprobation and allowance of popular acceptance well but what will this correspondency with the multitude availe thee when God comes to visite thee for thy sinne Though hand joyn in hand the wicked shall not be unpunished Proverbs 11.21 and when the wicked shall be turned into hell and all the people that forget God who will acquit thee the counsell of the ungodly may be pleasing the way of sinners delightful the chaire of scorners easie but he only is the blessed man that studies the avoidance of them Lastly art thou not offended at the interest and propriety he challenges in thee as the sole and only Monarch over thee because he requires all thine heart all thy strength all thy soul admitting no consort no corrival to share with thee in the same It 's said of the Ido atrous heathen that were placed in Samaria that they feared the Lord but served their own gods too 2 Kings 17.33 upon the like tearmes if Christ accepting some formality for himselfe would dispense with the sonnes or men to live to their former lusts to persist still in the service of sinne and Satan their old masters under whose jurisdictions they have been born and bred he would then with fairer acceptance be admitted but because he will be absolute and alone in his government because he affoards no place for covetousnesse to reigne drunkennesse to rage oathes and blasphemies to domineere the world cannot away with him this amongst others was the reason why when Taberius