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A01900 The happinesse of the saints in glory, or A treatise of heaven, on Rom. 8. 18 For I reckon, that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. By Tho. Goodwin. B. D. Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680. 1638 (1638) STC 12039; ESTC S118384 22,138 106

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Oyntment and perfume rejoyce the heart so doth the sweetnesse of a mans friend by hearty counsell The same testifies David in his lamentation for Ionathan 2. Sam 1. 26. I am distressed for thee my brother Ionathan very pleasant hast thou beene unto me Thy love to me was wonderfull passing the love of a woman but I say though the love of friends bee great Ionathan exceeding lovely yet they are not so lovely as God it cannot be affirmed of them that they are love it selfe as God is on then how pleasant will it bee when this vase affection of love shall bee satisfied GOD will come into us and dwell with us and doe but thinke what a pleasant thing it is to have the great God of Heaven and Earth to dwell together with the creature in unity to have him who is love it selfe to dwell in us from all eternity it is said 1 Pet. 1. 8. Whom having not seene you love in whom though you see him not yet beleeving you reioyce with ioy unspeakeable and glorious Why if that bee a cause to make you rejoyce so unspeakably how much more joyfull will you be when you enjoy his presence not onely to kisse him through the lattice as here we doe enjoying onely his presence through his ordinances but to lie in the bosome of his love to bee enfolded in those everlasting armes of his mercy to be loved of love it selfe to be made partaker of all his goodnes and Gods love is free he loves us w th out any cause in our selves why thē brethren cōsider with your selves what is the height depth breedth and length of Gods love to bee filled with all fulnesse of God Eph. 3. 8. Oh what a bottomelesse sea of Gods love shall we be slung into one droppe of which is better than the gold of Ophir yea surpasseth the whole earth In the last place I will endeavour to shew the finall cause and demonstrate the greatnesse of Heaven by this that both the finis cui and the finis cuius that is the end why God hath prepared all this glory and the persons for whom Who is it for that God hath beene from everlasting preparing glory Is it not for his Saints Is it not for his friend and spouse Is it not for Sion Heb. 12. But you are come into Mount Sion and into the City of the living God the heavenly Hierusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels to the generall assembly and Church of the first borne which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant and to the blood of the sprinkling that speakes better things than that of Abel God hath reserved Heaven for us Heaven is made for the feasting of his first borne he hath in heaven all his children about him there shall bee called a generall assembly of them one will not bee away you know parents they bestow the most cost when they have their children all at once together they respect no cost looking at the joy which is set before them they have joy unspeakeable in the presence of their children together and therefore at times of rejoycing men will send for their children home Now my brethren God will have all his Children home hee will have a generall invitation the great Congregation of the Elect shall bee called together hee will have them all home and therefore hee must needs make great provision consider what he hath vouchsafed to wicked men the worst of men beloved these runne away with the blessings of the World even such as God hath set himselfe against to hate with an eternall hatred why then thinke with your selves what hee hath prepared for those that love him whom with an everlasting love hee hath loved in his Sonne for his Sonnes sake which is as great as himselfe certainly hee will communicate himselfe to the uttermost I say then thinke with your selves what God hath prepared for those that love him Secondly consider the end for which this is and that is to manifest his owne glory hee truely hath had a great deale of glory out of this World already The Heavens declare the glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his handy worke hee hath had a great deale of glory out of this World by justifying poore sinners and sanctifying their hearts and also by punishments inflicted upon wicked men but all this is nothing to that glory he meaneth to have not comparable to that he will have in Heaven 2 Thes 3. 10. When hee shall come to be glorified in his Saints and bee admired of all them that beleeve Wee thinke wonderfull things of God and yet all our thoughts shall come farre short of the excellency of his comming he will come beyond our expectation hee will come to purpose to be admired of all them that beleeve The matter of Gods glory the revenues of it must come out of you the chiefest of his glory as for the manifestation of his glory it must come forth of that he will come to be glorified in his Saints hee will then shew how glorious a God he is by manifestation of his glory it must come forth of that he will come to be glorified in his Saints hee will then shew how glorious a God he is by manifesting what glorious creatures he hath made it is not a little glory that will content GOD it is not a little glory that will content a King when hee meaneth to take state Rom. 1. Hee will glorifie himselfe as God or else he would never have begun he would never have gone about it unlesse he meant to doe it to the utmost And in what doth this his glory consist why in making us glorious and the manifestation of his glory as hee is God comes from us It is true indeed Gods essentiall glory can not bee added unto us but the manifestation of his glory shall arise to us we shall have it communicatively as when you see the Sunne reflect upon the waters though you see not the Sunne it selfe yet you see as perfect a manifestation of it as if you should see the Sun it selfe So likewise though you cannot have Gods glory essentially yet you shall have it perfectly communicated to you manifested in you 2 Cor. 8. 23. And therefore the Saints are there called the glory of Christ now thinke with your selves God hath had infinite vast thoughts of glorifying himselfe there hath beene a fountaine of thoughts in him for that cause and that unceasing spring which hath runne in GOD from all eternity must needs make a vaste Sea and who must be the vessels that must goe into this into whom all this must be emptied are they not those that love him those that hee hath loved with an everlasting love why then doe but thinke with your selves how unutterable are the joyes we shall have in Heaven I would adde something
you in Heaven let not pleasures hinder thee of the least degree of glory for to have but one pearle added to thy Crown is more than the whole World commit therefore no sinne that might hinder your attaining of glory for what though God pardon thy sin yet thou loosest glory thou mightest have gotten whilest thou wast in committing it the least shred of which glory transcends all the glory of the World Now wee come to the subject of this glory the Materia in qua the Vessell which shall receive this infinite masse of glory and that is the soule it is called the salvation of our soules the soule which will hold so much is the vessels of this glory the body shall be exceeding glorious but the soule is the receptacle which must receive this glory Rom. 9. 23. And that hee might make knowne the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which hee had before prepared unto glory And S. Peter calleth Christ the salvation of our soules the end of your faith the salvation of your soules My brethren your soule howsoever you value it is capeable of more glory than this world can afford the pleasures of which will fill your soule no more than one droppe will fill a Cisterne or a little shower the place where the Ocean stands Eccles 3. 11. Now it is said that in this life God will put a World into the heart of man and yet all that World will not fill it why my brethren your soules are narrow in this life in respect of that they shall bee hereafter they hold but little in respect of that they shall hold in Heayen they are but little bladders which there shall bee blowne up they are but dunge bladders in respect of that they shall be in Heaven hereafter which may appeare in this Salomon had a very large heart he had as many notions in him as the sands of the sea shore for number and yet the soule of the least child in heaven happily but new come out of his mothers wombe exceedes all the knowledge which Salomon had on earth our soules are capeable of more joyes than the senses can give they are not able to satisfie it it will drinke up more glory even in one houre than the senses can provide in many hundred yeeres it will drinke them all up at one draught My beloved your senses cannot let in the King of glory such narrow gates cannot receive such infinite great glory Psal 24. In Heaven the doores of your hearts shal be opened and when those dores are open I say the everlasting dores of your hearts are open they cannot containe this glory you must bee contained in it Enter saith Christ into thy masters ioy If the joy of the holy Ghost in this life passe all understanding and beleeving wee reioyce with joy unspeakeable and full of glory how much more in the world to come shal our joyes passe all understanding when wee shall have fruition of Gods presence which is life it selfe My brethren your soules have two great gulphs viz. the understanding and the wil which must and shall bee satisfied Now saith Salomon The eye of the body is not satisfied with seeing it can comprize halfe the World in it and if the eye of the body be so hard to be satisfied much more the eye of the soule and yet in Heaven this shall be satisfied this gulph shall be satisfied Psal 17. 15. I shall bee satisfied when I awake with thy likenesse hee was to lay his head in the grave for a while but hee should arise when the Heavens shall bee no more As Iob said I shall see him againe so David I shall awake and then I shall bee satisfied with thy likenesse Iohn 14. 18. Show us the Father saith Philip and it sufficeth us you will say if you could but see God it would suffice and indeed you may well say so for the sight of God will suffice you why you shall see God Iohn 17. 24. for Christ doth desire this especially those that are his to make thē happy to be with him to behold his face Father I will that they also that thou hast given me to bee with mee where I am that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me So Math. 5. 8. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God they shall bee able to behold him If the Queen of Sheba who had seene so much glory before and being a Queene had partaken of so much glory in her selfe if she I say was so astonished so amazed that shee had no spirit in her even to see Salomons wisedome and to see his magnificency in honour and riches how much more shall the glory of God ravish us part of which wee never saw no not the glimpse of it oh how wilt thou bee amazed with joy when thou shalt see his glory and see him as hee is when wee shall know as we are knowne and GOD knowes us as farre as can bee 1 Corinthians 13. 12. For now wee see through a glasse darkely but then face to face now wee know but in part but then we shall know even as we are knowne all our sight of him here it is but as in a glasse Now what a great difference is it to looke upon a man who is behinde us and to turne our face and to looke truely and sted fastly upon him why there is infinitely more difference betwixt that light wee have of God by faith on earth and that perfect light of him and fruition of his glory which wee shall have in heaven why as I said before the eye of a mans body as it is but a small thing and the apple of it much smaller and yet by the helpe of the sunne it is able to take halfe the World into it at once how much more shall the eye of our understanding conceive infinite joys pastour apprehension here when it hath the light of Gods glory shining about it Psal 36. 8 9. They shall bee abundantly satisfied with the fulnesse of thy house and thou shalt make them drink of the rivers of thy pleasures for with thee is the fountaine of life in thy light shall wee see light when as the Sunne of glory comes to shine about us we shall even draw God into our soules and thus you see the first gulph shall be filled The second gulph of mans soule is the will thou hast a will and amongst all the affections of it love is most comfortable now that shall be fully satisfied wee shall be satisfied with Gods loving kindnesse for Psal 73. all other affections bring paine with them but love is alwaies comfortable Phil. 2. 1. If there bee any consolation of Christ if any comfort of love Wee love things here on earth that cannot love us againe as money riches and the like how much more shall wee love love it selfe Indeed as Salomon saith The love of friends is very delectable Pro. 27. 9.