Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87177	The everlasting joys of heaven: or, The blessed life of a Christian, in grace here; and in glory here-after. Set forth for the comfort and encouragement of all those that desire to fear the Lord; / by John Hart, a servant of Jesus Christ. Recommended to the reader, by Obadiah Sedgewick, and Iohn Downam, ministers of the Gospel.	Hart, John, D.D.; Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.; Downame, John, d. 1652.	1656 (1656)	Wing H948; Thomason E1680_2; ESTC R209155	49,553	177

contained therein We know that in the day of our flesh all that we can have of Thee and of this Building is but a tast of thy gratious goodnesse and that eye hath not seen ear heard that it caÌ„not enter into mans heart what thou hast done for them that love thee and fear before thee even before the sons of men much more in heaven But seeing thy spirit fearcheth all things even the deep things of thee our God who knowest the course with the height and breadth and depth and length of heaven and earth and canst set the rule thereof on the earth and canst by him reveal unto us what it pleaseth thee to make known of these unknown wonderfull things O Let thy good spirit guide and lead us along into this land of the living this heavenly building of thine and guide us from room to room joy to joy glory to glory astonishment to astonishment thereof in some ravishing astonishing way as our hearts may ever thereafter be taken up vvith delight admiration and vvonder so as the svveet tasts ravishments joies raptures and glory thereof though vve vvander upon earch into the vvildernesse of this vvorld may make us remove to dvvell in heaven vvith heavenly conversation and affections more then ever O discover somevvhat of the excellency thereof unto us and suffer us if it be thy good pleasure to peep a little into the eternity thereof vvhich may make us groan earnestly for the full manifestation of the same vvith a discovery of all those considerations which may bring and lead us aloft unto this high high and lofty place of eternity to dwell with thee for ever But now in the first place let us come to view The excellency of this Building in general In five particulars 1. In that it is said To be a Building prepared as here when Princes and Noblemen intend magnificent entertainment though they have divers houses of note yet they have one mansion house above all the rest which they furnish and prepare for entertaining of their choice and chief respected beloved friends as Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 5.27 of his Pallace is not this great Babel which I have built for the house of the Kingdome by the might of my power and the honour of my Majesty So God to shew forth to the Saints the glory and magnificence of his power hath prepared this magnifique Building to entertain them for ever wherein he hath shewed the strength power and invention to make it suitable to the Builders eminency most magnifique and excellent which must the more excell above all other structures and buildings which ever were or can be imagined as the Master builder thereof is beyond all others in art skill riches invention and power And then secondly The excellency hereof is shewed by The unvaluable price of that purchase that was paid for it such a ransome as nothing else could purchase it but the bloud of the eternal Son of God yea more than Heaven it self It was thought a wonder and a great matter whereat Israel was sore grieved when the King of Moab sacrificed his the King of Edoms eldest son for a burnt offering in his distresse 2 Kin. 3.27 Amos. 2.1 But oh here is more cause of admiration That God should become Man suffer and die incarnate in our nature be sacrified for our sins upon the Crosse that ignominious and cursed death and al by the appointment and dererminate counsell of God And therefore the Apostle may wel come 1 Iohn 3. â— with his admiration Behold what love the father hath given us that we should be called the sons of God no love like unto this which is further set forth by an unexpressible expression Iohn 3.16 For God so loved the world that he hath given his onely begotten son that whosorver heleeveth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life Thirdly the excellency thereof appears in this that here shall be The fulnesse extent and accomplishment of all the rich and exceeding precious promises for here we have many great and rich promises made the extent whereof in their promised fulnesse are not fulfilled in this life what then shall they be in vain oh no they must be fulfilled either here or in heaven for no word of God proceeding out of his mouth must return again untill it have performed that for which it was sent Isa. 55.10 Here then must needs be an excellent place where the full extent and accomplishment of all promises as they came from heaven shall all in a concurrence meet and fully be accomplished unto us in the largenesse of their extent whatsoever Again this is such a Building wherein we shall fully fill up all the powers and faculties of the soul and satisfie the same unto the height of contentment for here we cannot satisfie any one faculty of the soul but it hath emptinesse and some further desire the eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the ear filled with hearing Eccles. 1.8 nor is the heart with injoying but that it hath further inlargements But there the whole soul and all the powers and faculties thereof shall be filled with a satisfactory contentation Not like that enforced upon us in this life wherein in afflictions and crosses we look up unto God and sit down under the same iâ— patience because God we know will have it so therefore submitting our selves unto his good pleasure in all things But with a high joyfull free contentation satisfactory to fill up the utmost of all the powers and faculties of the soul so as it shall be impossible to have a thought beyond it And further in this glorious Building the soul shall not onely be satisfied unto the extent of all satisfactory fulnesse But it shall be also satisfied to wonder and admiration at the surpassing excellencies thereof as it is said 2. Thes. 1.10 of Christ that he shall come to be glorified in his Saints and to be made marvellous in all them that believe marvellous indeed for then we shall see marvells beyond admiration and beyond the disciples who wondered at the goodly stones of the materiall Temples a type hereof But yet more distinctly to describe this glorious Building we must instance them in divers particulars 1. In the Titles given unto it 1. Christ calleth it John 14.1 His Fathers House Travellers in hot countries have Tents and Tabernacles to rest in for a while where they stay nor long but here is a mansion house an abiding and resting place and therefore now we may well be bidden to arise to go hence for here is not our resting place untill we come unto this Mansion house our fathers house where we must needs expect all the free kindnesses whatsoeuer and to receive them abundantly for he who spared not his own son but gave him for us all to death how shall he not with him give us all things also Rom. 8.32 And then again it is called a City in opposition to our

sufferings in his absence And lastly that we might long and groan to be in heaven where we shall enjoy for ever the fulnesse of his presence in all ravishing sense of surmounting joys in the inspection and sight of the beatificall vision for ever 4. In his absence he furnisheth us with variety of arguments enflamed love and spirituall strength in our endeavours in wrastling in prayer for his return then making large increase of our stock of grace beyond our expectation Isa. 60.16 howsoever increasing continuing and perfecting seasonably out of his infinite wisdome in all our vicissitudes and exigents our heavenly race and guiding us with his counsel in all things untill he bring us unto glory All which is for the witness of Gods spirit witnessing with our spirit in the first place That we are the children of God But there is yet further a second thing The immediate witnesse of the spirit as it were from heaven without the joint testimony and joining of the word c. Which is a more strange sudden joy comming and rushing into the soul with a surmounting contentation of delight causing in a fuller manner as it were then within his ordinary witnessing our spirits that peace of God which passeth all undÃ¨rstanding Phil. 4.7 With that joy unspeakable and glorious 1 Pet. 1.8 so that it causeth us as we read of Iacob Gen. 45.27 when he heard overcomming reports of Iosephs safety and entertainment he gave say I have enough Thus we read of St. Augustine in his Confessions that he had felt sometimes such astonishing ravishing joys that if they should have continued he knew not what should be added thereto in the life to come but there complains that they lasted not but vanished away again quickly for indeed the old vessels of our frail bodies were not able to contain such strong new wine but they would crack what a case were the disciples in at Christ transfiguration Mark 9.5 They would have Tabernacles built there they were afraid and knew not what they said And 2 Cor. 12.3 Paul saith of his rapture into Paradice whether in the body or out of the body he knew not God he knows This kind of witnesse and testimony is a sure one and more then all the testimonies of men and Angels when as David prayes Psal. 35.3 God doth therewith say unto our souls I am thy Salvatian This is that white stone of Acquittance accompanied with that new Name written therein which no man knoweth save he who hath it Revel. 2.17 And when God doth give unto any this joy as by the former witness of the Spirit with our Spirits he assures us of our Salvation and future happy estate to come so he doth hereby give unto us as it were Livery and seizing of the Everlasting joys of the blessed and maketh unto us a kind of Heaven upon Earth that as Paul was caught into Paradise and heard words unutterable so a man in this case feels joy unspeakable If we consider the Matter of this joy it is Certain no man can take it finally from us Ioh. 16.22 But if we look unto our apprehensions and feeling of the same with the clear manifestations thereof it comes and goes ebbes and flowes it lost and found We rejoyce in the hope of the Glory of God saith the Apostle Rom 5.2 and this Hope as he afterwards adds maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad by the holy Ghost which is given us If Hope then be an Anchor of the soul both sure and stedfast pitching within the Vail Heb. 6.19 If many waters cannot quench love neither can the flouds drown it Cant. 8.7 It the holy Ghost which is given unto us be not a Brook which may be dryed but a Wel of water springing up unto everlasting life then cannot the water of our joy ever finally fail though many never feel the same in that fulnesse again as at their first conversion and we must acknowledge it to be our own fault in not performance of that which God requireth at our hands that it ebbes and flowes comes and goes so often because as it is written Rejoyce evermore 1. Thes. 5.16 Rejoyce alwayes Againe I say Rejoyce Phil. 4.4 yet we labour not as we ought to be thankfull to maintain this joy being carelesse and ignorant how to recover the sweet sense thereof again when in appearance it is diminished lost and gone And thus not onely We know and may know that we know and be assured of the certainty of a future glorious estate to come for ever but now in he last place How shall we know that this knowledge is no counterfeit Illumination Seeing the Divell can transform himself into an Angel of light as Pharaos Magitians did for a while counterfeit Moses true miracles Exod. 7.11 Of this I suppose there are three sure trials 1. By what goes before it 2. By that which accompanieth the same when it enters into the soul with it 3. By those impressions this testimony and joy leaves behind it upon the soul For the first it is sure that usually long sore and great afflictions and sharp trials usher the same great sufferings and after much striving and wrastling as Iacob obtained his new name Gen. 32.28 after he had power with the Angel by wrastling weeping and prayer Hos. 12.4 2. How it comes into the soul when it comes into the soul it comes always in the ways of Gods Ordinances he will not shew himself but in his own ways otherswise it is not right with fasting and prayer striving and wrastling against sin meditation heavenly conference and the like Or it may come in the consideration of the great works of God as when David saith Psal. 8.3 when I behold thy heavens even the works of thy fingers the moon and the stars which thou hast ordianed What is man say I c. so this sudden joy and testimony may come into the soul also by good conferences as to the disciples travelling to Emaus when their hearts burned when Christ entred into conference with them Luke 24.32 So this joy may enter into the soul in some such meditations and conferences dwelling upon the excellency of heavenly things compared with earthly Or when as it fell out with Daniel that whilest he was a fasting and praying confessing his own sins and the sins of his people then the man Gabriel whom before he had seen in the similitude of a man chap. 8.16 came and touched him reporting how that his prayer was heard that at the beginning thereof the commandment came forth and saith he I am come to shew thee that thou art greatly beloved Dan. 9.23 Howsoever certain it is that it alwayes comes with the performance of holy duties in Gods ways 3. By what impressions it leaves behind upon the soul Extraordinary favors from God in the sense of the sweet feelings and ravishings thereof intimating Gods love by immediate reports of the spirit still leaves

of this infinite ravishing astonishing glory of the fulness of God the loadstone of heaven which shall fasten and draw the eys of this whole great body upon it as we see put IroÌ„ in the fire within a while it shews not Iron but red all fire being defused through the same So the love of God and those glorious influences of heavenly rays comming from him shall set the whole soul so a fire with the love of God as it shall shew all love to him with suitable returns of what continually floweth from him reflecting upon us As the Ocean out of its fulnesse filleth and floweth into the rivers which continually return of that fulnesse back again into the Ocean so shall it be continually betwixt God and us And to fill up the fulnesse of this blessed injoyment there shall be withal a ful report made unto the soul that all this joy and blessednesse shal be so for ever without any end It were else a dimunition of this fulness of joy and enjoyment thereof if therewith there should not be a report made unto the soul and assurance of the endless continuance of the same for ever in that same degree of fulness and ravishing joy But this is not all we have not yet done for this discovery of heavens blessednesse in that excellent estate to come yet summoneth us ere we passe from thence to consider of Five Particulars more for now having touched the handles of this door my pen must yet drop down myrrh and my fingers pure myrrh for a while First In this life we know understand and see many things we cannot enjoy attain or reach unto neither can we see enjoy or possess any thing but we may have a thought desire wish or reach beyond it to wish for more beyond any thing which may be attained in this life and still multiply our thoughts as may numbers for we cannot think of so high a number but there may be an addition unto it above it A man may see much but still there is somewhat beyond his sight that he cannot see neither can he injoy or possesse all he seeth But in heaven the soul shall have that which shall fill the understanding and all the powers and faculties of the soul to the outmost with that clearnesse and fulnesse of unerstanding that it shall possesse all it seeth and injoy all in that fulnesse that it shall not be able to have a thought wish or desire beyond that it seeth enjoyeth possesseth and apprehendeth without admission of any addition whatsoever even from that one end and coast of heaven to the other as the Lord said to Ioshua of Canaans possession Josh. 1.3 And secondly our actions in this life are all performed with some labour and wearinesse all things are full of labour man cannot utter it Eccles. all the works that are done under the Sun are vanity and vexation of spirit there is care its getting care in enjoying and keeping and sorrow in parting with them But in heaven all our actions shall be performed with freedome and ease without any wearinesse as we see the Sun shineth freely upon us and without wearinesse yea there is labour and some toil in our be stactions meditation and prayer some wrastling and striving therein but in heaven all shall be done freely with ease and without any care or wearinesse Thirdly In this life we injoy many temporal and spiritual blessings are not truly sensible of apprehending the full use of them as of our health life liberty maintenance besides many spiritual mercies we are encompassed with about and so not understanding them we have not a full enjoying of the comfort of them and so fall short of being thankfull for them But in heaven we shall see fully and clearly into round about and through all our mercies having a ful under standing and comfort of all if comfort be not to mean an expression for our estate in heaven where shall be nothing to interrupt lessen or make an addition unto that blessed estate where in we shall be above all coÌ„forts enjoying the God and fountain of all comfort and consolation when also shall be effected that prayer of the Apostle that being rooted and grounded in love we shall understand and be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height and the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that we might be filled with all the fulness of God Ephes. 3.18 understanding the mystery of that knowledge which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God and the riches of this glorious inheritance among the Saints Ephes. 1.18 Then we shall see into and know all this and the utmost reach of all our mercies distinctly and have an everlasting insight into them all And more fourthly here we hope or and have great expectation of many things having excellent and strong conceits of them al which when we possesse and injoy they answer not our hopes and prove far under our expectation giving us no suitable contentation but in Heaven we shal find al things far beyond and surmounting al our thoughts wishes hopes expectations and imaginations that like as the Queen of Sheba when she saw how far Solomons royalty and magnificence exceeded the report thereof that half thereof had not been told much more shall we find it so in heaven where al things shal far surmount that which now here we can imagine or think of for if eye hath not seen ear heard neither hath it come into mans heart what things God hath prepared for them that love him in this life 1 Cor. 2.6 A taste whereof if they be known unto us by Revelation of the spirit in this life how much more fully shall all be revealed in the strength of their excellency in the life to come when he who doth for us here abundantly above al that we are able to think or speak shall much more make heavenly things be and appear so in the life to come Fifthly all those mercies and comforts we do injoy here they are but successively and by peecemeal injoyed one after another But in heaven we shall have the full sight clear injoying and possession of all our mercies at once which shall superabundantly fill up the measure of our joys when all shall appear at once unto us never having any thing more present themselves successively by pieces unto us but a full clear understanding of all at once all which put together and thought of may well encourage and hearten us to look joyfully on the other side of death unto This Building given of God not made with hands what excellency may there be in this were not the heavens and earth we enjoy and see also made without hands yes But this expression adds wonderfully unto the excellency of this Building distinguishing it to be far before all the rest as being not made with hands this earth and heavens we enjoy being but as the

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