the Angel Oh then when the whole Assembly of Saints shall be all such how will they fill one another with unspeakable joy How might this vision as it were be an heaven alone If Paul exprest so much satisfaction to be filled with his precious Converts company at Rome what satisfaction will it be when the Romans shall be filled with Paul's company and all other the Saints of God they and he now made perfect in glory Finally It will be no small security to the mutual love and complacency of the Saints that in Heaven they shall be set beyond all possibility of being mistaken in one anothers condition Here below how easily and how often are we deceived Behold a Judas amongst the Disciples whom none of them could discover but only their Lord that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Have I not chosen you twelve and one of you is a Devil John 6.70 Oh dreadful a Judas follower of Christ and yet a devil a Disciple and yet a devil a Preacher and yet a devil fast and pray and yet a devil do miracles and yet a devil cast out devils and yet a Devil yea once more Judas who for some time carried it so fair that when their Lord prophesied of one of their company that should be guilty of so horrid a treason as to betray his Lord they every man began to suspect rather than Judus and cried Lord is it I Is it I Lord c Oh dreadful mistake And such mistakes when discovered oh what a shame what condolency what grief what perplexity of spirit do they occasion amongst Gods upright ones But now are the Saints in Heaven delivered from all danger and fear of such charitable errors There shall be no Hypocrite in Heaven upon whom the Saints can lose their love Hypocrites shall be all lock'd up in one infernal dungeon together that they may never deceive any more Matth. 24.21 What an access of joy will this be to the Communion of Saints in glory Quest Whether or no in this blessed Vision the Saints shall see one another with a distinguishing sight i. e. see them so as to know them under such relations and respects as once they stood in one to another in this imperfect state Whether Abraham shall know Isaak as once his son and Isaak know Abraham as sometime his father Whether the Husband shall know his Wife and the Wife her Husband as once such that have drawn together in the same conjugal yoke Whether Kinred shall know their gracious Kinred and friend his friend Whether the godly Minister shall know his gracious People that were of his particular flock and the flock know him as once standing in that ministerial relation to them Et sic in caet This I say is a Question which seems neither difficult nor fruitless to be resolved Probability without doubt falls upon the Affirmative and that whether we consult Reason or Scripture Reason saith It is very likely we shall know them Reason whether by the secret impressions of former converse one with another or by revelation as some conceive is disputed some think that we shall remember what relation we have had one to another by circumstances and emergent occasions by comparing notes as it were but that discursive syllogistical way of coming into the knowledge one of another seems to be too mean and slow for the heavenly state and the reason is because the senses of the body and the faculties of the soul shall be elevated and refined to a kind of Angelical perfection for we shall be like the Angels Luke 20.36 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What although many Ages and Generations have passed over the Saints in their state of separation of the soul from the body and one from another wherein all the species and figures of sensible objects may seem to be totally obliterated or abolished Why may not those vestigia those impressions of sensible things which are granted to remain in the understanding be thought sufficient to reduce the species of those sensible objects themselves whereby the Saints did once converse each with other into the memory again by the sole help of that supernatural vigor and activity which the state of Glory superinduceth upon the faculties of the soul and corporeal senses Behold here in this dark region what quick and admirable recoveries of things past There shall no knowledg be wanting which now we have but only that which implieth imperfection And what imperfection can this imply To know one another as well in the glorified estate as we did in the state of mortality and better The good of this blessed state consisteth in the knowledg one of another communion one with another and mutual content in that knowledge and communion Baxtor do the senses of the body and faculties of the soul make sometimes The eye can distinguish its wonted object after many years separation the memory can presently recall the face and voice and gestures of an intimate friend after sleep which is deaths image yea after twenty years absence or more At the Resurrection the soul I make no question will know its own body at the first sight proportionably in the state of glory must the mutual knowledge and remembrance of old relations be more quick vive and if I may so say intuitive according to the admirable and glorious capacity which they shall then be invested with make but a just allowance for the vast disproportion between the regenerate state on earth and the glorified state in heaven and you may rationally conclude the affirmative And if we consult Scripture Scripture it votes no less for the Affirmative than Reason doth Did Adam know Eve in innocency Mat. 17.4 Did Peter and James and John know Moses and Elias at our Lords transfiguration whom they had never seen Tertul. contra Marcion No not so much as in a picture as Tetullian observes the Jews being great enemies to the use of pictures And shall not the Saints know one another at the first view whom they knew and mutually conversed with while they were here on earth Surely the knowledge of the beatifical vision shall excel not only the knowledge of Peter and John 1 Cor. 13.12 but even the knowledge of Adam in innocency as far as the state of glory excels the state of grace Did Peter and John know Elias on the Mount whom they had not seen and shall not Peter know John and John Peter whom they had mutually seen Again the Scripture tells us that Dives in hell knew Abraham and Lazarus in heaven Luke 16.23 shall the reprobate have better eyes in hell than the elect of God have in Heaven Shall Dives know Lazarus and shall not Lazarus know Paul and Peter c And yet again the Scripture tells us the poor Saints on earth shall know their rich benefactors when they come to heaven how else can they receive them in what sense soever into everlasting habitations shall
much as you know your labour is not in vain in the Lord. And accept of this imperfect Monument set up for your continual Inspection and the blessed Childrens Memorial By Your Faithful and most Affectionate Father-in-Law THOMAS CASE To the Reverend Author SIR THis Paper cometh to you with a design to beg a larger draught of that discourse of yours on 1 Thes 4.14 whereof in the other days converse you were pleased to give me a taste and to beg it not for my self only but a more common good what more profitable Argument can you recommend to the World than a discourse about those better things which are Reserved in Heaven for us You know better than I that all true Wisdome consisteth first in a fixed intention of the end next in a choise of apt meanes lastly in diligent pursuit our great End and scope is or should be to be for ever with the Lord which if men would more steadily fix and propound to themselves they would sooner understand their way for their End would shine to them all along their Course and level and direct all their actions yea not only become a measure to them but a motive to quicken them to seek what they hope for with Industry Vigilancy and Self-denyal and so cast off those many Impertinencies and Inconsistencies with which we usually sill up our Conversations and with all the Labours Sorrows and difficulties of the way would be the better overcome Sir what have we Ministers to do but to Convince people of the Truth and worth of things unseen We owe it to the inconsiderate part of the world the far greatest part of mankind is sensual and bruitish and blind and cannot see a-far off therefore live as if they only came into the world to Eat Drink and Sleep or to camber themselves with much serving That they may do well here We cannot enough awaken these sleepy Sensualists that they may remember Home and make earnest and serious preparation for the World to come We owe it to the Afflicted part of the World whose true and proper solaces and supports are to be drawn from the Everlasting Estate of the Blessed Comfort one another with these words saith your Apostle Yea we owe it to the better and more serious part of the World who need continually to be warned to open the eye of Faith and shut that of Sense to overlook things seen which are Temporal but to have always in the eye of their Faith and Hope things unseen which are Eternal and Glorious how little would Temptations make Impressions upon us could we learn to wink out both the Terribleness and Amiableness of the Creature and how would all present things be lessened in our opinion estimation and affection had we once but the Eagle-eye of Faith to look beyond the Mists and Clouds of this lower and vain World to that Blessed Estate above Sir Let your discourse go Abroad and try what it can do to the Cure of in Unbelieving and Inconsiderate World I know what you Object the many writings of this kind Extant But necessary things must be often enforced and every one hath his peculiar gift and way of Writing which if it relish not with all meeteth with an answerablâ—â—â—â—â—st in other Readers and surely discourses are most apt to edifie which come from them who have a deeper sense of the World to come than others have and where is that to be presumed to be but in them who are in the very Confines of Eternity where your Good Old Age and late soar Sickness have placed you and so given you a stronger sense and clearer Prospect of the things you write of Sir trust it with Gods Blessing and let the Church enjoy this increase of its Treasure I am Yours in all Christian Observance THOMAS MANTON TO THE READER The Author Wisheth Grace and Peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ Reader TO help the Weaker sort of Christians in the understanding of this more dark and difficult Context which containeth the Description of our Lords last coming and to quicken the more slow and drowsie Spirits to a greater vigour in the pursuit of the Glory which is to be Revealed at that Coming have I not without the importunity of divers Friends sensible of their need of the meanest helps put my self upon the Publishing of these more private Essaies Calculated only for the use of mine own Family Yet since they may by the blessing of God be of a larger Influence Bonum quò communius eò melius and knowing that Good is so much the more Good by how much it is a more diffusive Good I chose rather to adventure my name than be guilty of Sacriledg in not Casting in my Mite into the Publique Treasury of the Churche's Service I must confess had I consulted a Reputation to my self I could never have made choice of a more improper Season wherein endless Opinions and Interests do inevitably expose a man that will be writing to a necessity of Censure not the most gentle Condemnation of the times and the unskilfulness inadvertency of Mechanique Artists whom the Learned Montacute late Bishop of Norwich justly calleth Animalia ad perdendam Remp. Literariam nata Vid. Thean thropicon p. 6. doth not a little gratifie the malevolence of opposite parties who are glad of any shadow that may justifie their disparagement of others who are not of the same Sentiments with themselves As for me I can truly say Acts 20.24 none of these things trouble me But being by the good Providence of God hitherto spared and kept alive I have looked upon it as my duty the Death-Watch every night in my bed sounding in mine ears to leave some Watch-word behind me to awaken this sleepy and secure Generation wherein the most I would it might not be said the better part of Christians have lost the sight of Heaven and are digging hard into the Earth to search whether possibly they might not meet with a Summum Bonum between this and the Centre But oh that before they go off the Supersicies they would look back Rev. 2.5 to see from whence they are fallen and Repent and do their first works Behold I am here shewing you the thing which you are so eagerly pursuing It is risen it is not here Oh that you would with Moses get up into the Mount from whence you might take the Prospect of that good Land where only Blessedness dwelleth I must Confess the Vision is much darkned by the dimness of the Eye and the feebleness of the Hand which drew this imperfect Land-skip But this I dare be bold to say that by the Optick-glass of Faith upon the knee of Prayer a man may make such a discovery of glory here as when he cometh down from this Mount may serve quite to extinguish all the Glory of this neather World and to fix the eye with that * Act. 7.25 proto-Martyr
between Christ and believers how expressed in scriture 1.22 Opened in 7. distinguishing properties 1 Spiritual 1.23 2 Real 1.25 3 Operative 1.29 4 Enriching 1.30 5 Intimous 1.33 6 Total 1.35 7 Indissoluble ib. It is of Gods 1 Praeordination 1.36 2 Efficiency ibid. 3 Support ibid. No in and out in it 1.37 Death dissolveth it noâ—â— ibid. Unkindnesses to Christ great hinderances of assurance 3.128 W Waiting It is good for us to wait for God 3 133 Wicked great terror to such that Christ shall be Judge 2.73 They shall be dragged by Angels before the Tribunal to receive their sentence 2.164 No good that ever they did shall be mentioned to their honour 2.170 Wicked men how to be suffered 2.117 All they do is abomination 2.170 Will our wills will be like unto God in heaven 3.79 Witnesses their enemies confounded at their ascension 2.102 Word of Christ more authentick than tradition or revelation 2.63 The only foundation for our faith 2.66 Works a comparison between the Covenant of Works and the Covenant of Grace 3.81 Works reward encouragement to good works 3.91 World compared to a stage 3.70 World and the Devil have counterfeit Cordials 3.154 Worldly enjoyments not what we fancy them 3.70 Worldly felicities quickly grow old 3.74 Y Young the joyes of heaven alwayes young 3.74 Youth the Saints shall rise in youth and perfect strength and beauty 3.73 ERRATA Part I. 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conjecture that we should not too soon forget the Affliction and the Misery the Wormwood and the Gall but that our Souls having them continually in remembrance might be humbled in us Lam. 3.19 20. Possibly that the Children being every way alike both in Person and in Disposition one and the same Plaister might give ease and cure to the wound and one and the same Monument perpetuate their Memorial unto Posterity Truly they were a pair of lovely Babes Babes in Age though men in knowledg and understanding of whom we may in their Capacity sing as David once in his Funeral Elegies of Saul and Jonathan They were pleasant in their lives in their death they were not divided Their lives indeed were short so it seemed good to the Divine Wisdome after He had shewed two such excellent pieces in the Light for a while timely to lay them up amongst his Jewels lest they should receive hurt or stain from a present evil world But although their lives were short yet verily they were precious such as allowing them this Abatement that they were Children neither Parents nor Standers-by could rationally have wished they had been otherwise then they were And though there were some distance of years yet there was the greatest parity of Persons observed between them that though they were but the Brother 's and Sister 's Sons you could not had they been together have distinguished them from natural Brethren or Tynnes rather of the same Birth For Elegancy of Person Loveliness of Countenance Solidness of Judgment Acuteness of Wit Tenaciousness of Memory Sweetness of Disposition Vniversal Innocence and Modesty in behaviour Obedience to Parents Next or Remote Submission to Governours Observance to Superiours Love to Equals Condescention to Inferiours and candor to all And that which deservedly is of higher value with God Reverend Attention to his Word Read or Preached together with some suitable ability to give a methodical repetition of both Studious in learning Catechisms of which they were able to give such a rational account as if they had been Candidates for the Vniversity as many both of the Nobility and others in the Parish of Giles 's in the Fields can at this day witness Love to the best things and a due respect to the best men with a more then a Childish dislike of and adversness to what they understood to be evil c. These Desirablenesses according to yea and above the rate of Children rendered them so like one another as if one Soul had animated two bodies or one and the same Conception had been formed up into two Patterns though reserved to be seen successively to the end as it were that the Elder might out-live himself in the Younger Aut Utrumque putabis esse verum aut Utrumque putabis esse pictum You would have deemed them to be either the same Person or two Pictures one the Original the other a Copy Sic oculos sic ille manus sic ora ferebat He that had seen one might have known them both And as they were alike in their Lives so in their Death they were not divided or if a little in time not at all in the manner and Circumstances They both Lived with us but died with you they lived with the Divine but died with the Physitian to shew that neither Religion doth kill nor Physick can keep alive Nevertheless though they died with you they came not to dye any further than the hidden Decree of the Divine will had before determined They died alive as it were Death gave them so little warning Neither Parents or Children understood wherefore they came until within a very few days Death shewed his Commission and as soon Executed it They died both of them in the absence of their Trustees who though one step higher in the Parental line were not I am sure half a step lower in Parental affection which the Divine eye Saw and pittied and therefore out of Compassion hiding from us what he was about to do As he snatched us from the Elder by sending us abroad So He snatched the Younger from us by sending him Home to his Fathers House So pittying our Infirmity who otherwise possibly might not have parted with them so willingly nor have born their loss so patiently The loss of two such choyce Patterns of Divine workmanship could not but have been an heart-breaking object to us as it was to you but that their constant absence from you was a preparative whereby the terrour of death was somthing abated their very absence so long before was a little death That which sweetneth it to us all is that God hath not left us to mourn as men without hope that in the Context before us The Children are not dead but sleep they sleep in Jesus If any Stander-by shall judg possibly that my affection hath transported my Charity into their excess my Apology is this that I had rather be guilty of an Excess in Charity than a Defect in thankfulness I know we cannot expect such rational accounts of Grace in Children as may be found in Adult Saints but that that doxologie out of the mouths of Babes and Sucklings thou hast ordeined strength Psal 8.2 doth not exclude Children though not confine the meaning of the words so narrow is the judgment of the old St. Ignatius who from those Scripture instances of Samuel Josiah and others denieth not but that the Spirit of God working in young ones doth many times give out early discoveries of the Grace of the Covenant when Elder Persons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ignat. Epist ad Magn. do only carry their Gray-haires as a badg of their Ingratitude to God As for your dear Children God hath not left himself without fuâ—ther witness in their death of an interest in them Those heavenly whispers which the tender Aunt laying her ear to the pale lips of her dying Nephew as he lay upon his back with eyes fixed Heaven-ward when he wanted strength to make his heart audible God Christ Grace c. And her own dear Childs delight in that little Book A Guide to Heaven a book little in bulk but great in Excellency which as it caused him to make it his Vade Mecum while he lived his Golden Cup out of which he drank his Mornings draught every morning in his Bed So it caused him to take it with him as his Viaticum to Heaven when he came to dye For it was found with him when dead These I say are overplusses of Divine Grace and witnesses of Divine Love to those dying Babes from their Heavenly Father Wherefore Dear Children let not the Consolations of God seem small unto you but improve them for your own Comfort and quickning in the holy Education of the surviving Treasures of your Blood that if they live you may have comfort in their Lives or if they dye you may have hope in their Deaths Be steadfast and immoveable and always abounding in the work of the Lord for as