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A43816	God's eternal preparations for his dying saints discovered in a sermon at Paul's, May the 7th 1648 / by Thomas Hill ...	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1648 (1648)	Wing H2022; ESTC R25713	29,286	46

and soveraign cordial under the bitterest troubles that can befall them Let us begin with the first and that I shall onely handle at this time but before I make any further entrance upon it give mee leave onely to premise this one thing The best of Saints dwell here in poor tabernacles the best of Saints all Adam's sons have no better a portion then to dwell in poor earthly Tabernacles Som men are very great so great that they are called Gods Psal. 82. yet even they must die like men It is appointed for all men once to die Hebr. 9. 27. And in the same Dialect doth the Psalmist speak in another place Verily man in his best estate is altogether vanitie not onely man when hee lie's sick under a great long Ague or a Feaver or the Stone or the Gout not onely under infirmities of old age which is a kinde of sickness but verily man in his best take him in flore take any young man when hee hath strength and vigor and marrow and all heat all advantages nature can afford him yet in his best hee is altogether vanitie Old men must die and young men may die I beleeve you have many instances of both it may bee it hath cost som of you many bitter and brinish tears wee are all poor Tenents at will it is true wee are Tenents for life but yet that life is but for a moment and so indeed our lease is but from moment to moment O that wee were so wise as to consider it and therefore to carry our selvs like Pilgrims and strangers here and abstain from fleshly lusts which war against our immortal souls as the Apostl●Peter beseecheth his beloved 1 Pet. 2. 11. Do not reckon your selvs at home make account you are but in a journey you are But {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in an Inn it is to no purpose to go build there to go plant there a garden to go furnish your chamber you are but for a nights lodging the very Stoïcks Epictetus and others could speak that language O that wee could bee the more active while our candles are burning because wee know not how soon they may bee extinguished God let 's not alwaies the candle burn out somtimes it is put out O that wee could bee active as our Savior Christ was I will do my Father's work while it is day while it is light the night cometh when no man work 's Joh. 9. 4. O that wee would so consider that wee dwell in these brittle houses of clay that wee would redeem time redeem precious opportunities Eternitie dependeth upon every moment there are many that sell away their time to the first temptation in the morning many young Gentlemen Citizens and others for whom their fathers have had many wearisom journeys and thoughts night and day to get good estates now they think themselves Gentlemen the first thing they do in a morning after they have spruced and powdered and combed and tricked up themselves then they sell themselves and their talent of time to the next temptation at the next tavern at the next gaming-gaming-house the Lord put it into the hearts of the honorable Governors of this Citie to look to those snares those pit-falls that have undon many thousand young men and where many of your estates after you have gotten them with a great deal of care and industrie are thrown away with the shaking of the elbow as they say they sell away their time so far are they from redeeming time little do they minde eternitie and and consider that at the best they also dwell in houses of clay and that in their best estate they are altogether vanitie this I premise There are three things will conduce if God please to help mee in the middest of many weaknesses to open this point That hee hath made eternal provision to entertain all his Saints in heaven 1. I 'le give you the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of it by way of demonstration that it is so 2. The {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or grounds of it how it come's to pass that it should bee so 3. What the Nature of this Eternitie is * For the first there are these hints which I hope will help to clear it If the Lord did not intend eternal provision for his Saints in heaven why hath hee given them immortal souls capable of etertie God and Nature saith the Philosopher never do any thing in vain let us say God and his wisedom and grace never doth any thing in vain There are many desperate disputes never did wee expect to hear such in England especially in these times of Reformation against the immortalitie of the soul in defiance to that cleer light of God's Word even here There is a house eternal in the heavens for what for a mortal bodie for a mortal soul what need 's an eternal house for a mortal soul Paul desired to bee dissolved and to bee with Christ it seem's Paul who was guided by the Spirit of God Philip 1. 21. hee thought hee had an immortal soul else why did hee desire to die that hee might bee with Christ hee had better have stayed here hee did enjoy much of Christ here why would Christ himself have given such an answer to the Thief Luke 23. 42 43. Lord remember mee when thou comest into thy Kingdom why saith hee this day shalt thou bee with mee in Paradise It is a poor evasion they have that Christ should say to him Verily I say unto thee to day there they would have the comma thou shalt bee with mee in Paradise then the answer is not full to the Thief's question for then they overthrow the Scriptures and make it nothing and withall manifestly pervert the original as the Spirit of God speak's it unto us but this is the first thing God hath given you immortal souls and therefore reserv's it for you 2ly The Lord hath proclaimed that hee hath appointed a day though it bee concealed that there shall bee a resurrection of all his Saints their souls and bodies shall bee re-united It is most desperate doctrine the Socinians have up and down in their books they have a delentur they tell you your souls shall bee blotted out Who would have thought wee should ever have so far complied with Socinians and Arminians as many people do I hope it is ignorantly but to speak the very Socinians language they reckon the soul shall bee blotted out no eternitie afterwards but why soul and bodie re-united Surely for som further end hath not Jesus Christ said Joh. 6. 39 44. hee hath it twice I came down to do my Father's will and the will of my Father is this that all that hee hath given mee shall com to mee and I will loose none of them so again ver. 44. and I will loose none of them not the least member not the least finger

grace of God which is a place they alledg for that purpose But 1. It may bee this grace here mentioned is chiefly the grace of Bountie 2. If it bee meant of spiritual gifts and graces and their exercise in prophesying I grant in Ecclesiâ constituendâ in a Church to bee constituted occasionally especially when upon triall by competent Judges of their abilities for the ministerie with learned Dr Ames somthing may bee don that way sine singulari vocatione without a singular call But that the admiration of som few ignorant though honest women who judg much by quick expressions which are often beyond the experience and judgment of the speaker himself being borrowed rather from others or that one young scholar applauding of another should bee the call of Christ I am not yet satisfied but shall welcom any light that shall clear up any truth of Christ though never so much against my present opinion I do not lay the strength of a Minister's call upon a Prelate's blessing of him nor upon a concurrence of all external circumstances and formalitie though I heartily love and desire order in the Churches neither must any judg of their call by their assistance Many dear Saints call that a spiritual desertion of God in prayer which is rather som darkness by the clouding of Melancholie Other Novices account that assistance from God in preaching oftentimes which is rather heat of phansie som warmth by applause mixed indeed with som stirring affections Bee whetstones to sharpen one another to raise som monument of your thanksgiving and thanksdoing for God's distinguishing goodness to Cambridg When other parts of the Kingdom were steeped in blood you were drie when destroying Angels swept away many in other places you were but scratched O never let it bee forgotten how God snatched Cambridge out of the fire in staying the plague these two last years should not you now provoke your Magistrates more to minde the sanctifying the Lord's day to restrain by their power those profane pollutions which cry for another more sweeping plague Because they may not do all but the Universitie must share in power therefore will they do nothing This I doubt will bee no satisfying answer when the Lord shall say to a Magistrate Give an account of thy stewardship I could likewise wish there were a greater harmonie of Judgments amongst you however let not difference of opinions breed difference of affections Love the meanest Saints more for that of God you see in them then you neglect them for what they differ from you that is not sinful Convers meekly together distance encreaseth difference you may possibly satisfie one another As long as wee nourish prejudices and take it for granted there is no possibilitie of reconciliation the devil blow's the coal more and exasperate's the flame till it may bee men bite and devour one anothers names and reputations at least do not suddenly excommunicate all you account carnal for Reprobates though you cannot embrace them with a love of Complacencie yet must you with a love of Pitie there is not onely Brotherly kindness but Charitie so will you commend Religion to them who judg more of it by what they see then by what they heare Finally as for my self when they speak evil of mee I will satisfie my self with that of the ancient Writer If the things thou producest bee true thou hast not hurt but advantaged mee whilest thou by reproving faults may'st procure reformation if they bee fals thou do'st more advantage mee for thou makest mee more watchful to abstain not onely from such actions but even from such thoughts onely the more vigilant others are over mee pray the more for mee because of my observers I must say with the Father I thank as wel God for the crueltie of my Adversaries as the love of Friends It hath been my portion to suffer much by tongues amongst you since my being Vice-Chancellor and to receive more unkinde and unjust censures from som of Cambridg then ever in all my life before my comfort is they are but few and men whose interest was crossed and therefore Self will bee angry and revenge often though never so injuriously yet nothing shall it discourage mee from serving your and their souls Let them mis-interpret the hand of God upon mee in my sickness and the effects thereof yet when ever God please's to restore my bodily health by preaching to promote the health of their souls I will beg by prayer the best good from God for them who cannot speak a good word of mee before men I had enemies enough because I appeared for Reformation which I would not decline if I know my heart out of love to my God though I had not been as I am under the bond of a solemn Covenant obliging mee thereunto When the competition comes between God's will and man's Peter hath taught how to resolve Act. 4. 19. yea that heroical Heathen Socrates which may make us blush being accused said If upon such conditions they being dishonorable you Athenians will absolve mee I embrance you I love you well yet I will rather obey God then you None need especially not such as I think fear God express more passion because I would not contrary to my oath betray which it may bee they expected from mee having been their preacher with more acceptance formerly then it is fit for mee to mention priviledges with which I was betrusted as Vice-Chancellor lifting up my hand to the most high that I would maintain the statutes which include's them so far as they were agreeable to the Statutes and Ordinances of the Kingdom which are or shall bee extant If the Parliament had altered them or when they shall please to bound them any way the matter of my oath being taken away I am at libertie In the mean while why may not the Vice-Chancellor act for the Universitie as well as Mr Major for the Town of Cambridg in pursuance of his Oath The Mighty God of Peace dry up the spring of these most unhappy and unseasonable differences when there are so many dissensions abroad which shall bee my prayer and endeavor till the Lord please to accomplish it If I must still suffer under the uncharitableness of any I shall desire to kiss the rod of my Heavenly Father who hath appointed it in this place where hee hath been good unto mee and earnestly labor that overcoming my self I may overcom evil with good and not suffer my self to bee overcom of evil that in so doing I may heap coals of fire upon their head not to destroy them by burning but coals of charitie to melt them and so mould them into an unfeigned love of all the Brethren who love the Lord Jesus Christ sincerely If this prevail not I will make use of Paul's soveraign cordial Rejoycing in the Testimonie of my conscience that in simplicitie and godly sinceritie and not in