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B01382	Communion vvith God. in two sermons preach'd at Paul's: the first, Sept. 3, 1654, the second, March 25, 1655. / By Samuel Annesley L.L.D. minister of the gospel at John Evangel London.	Annesley, Samuel, 1620?-1696.	1655 (1655)	Wing A3227; ESTC R223508	33,565	54

an immediate enjoyment of God fruitur insigni gloriâ sed quae plena non est it enjoyes very great glory but not fulnesse of glory The soul is but a part of man and so cannot have its compleat perfection till its divorce from the body be cancel'd Now then suppose the body as before instanc'd and the soul as now compleated united together what must needs be the result The body to be spiritualized and the soul's capacities to be unconceiveably extended Surely then and there will be fulnesse of joy in Gods presence Psal 16.11 3. Soul and body thus united shall then be absolutely and eternally freed from any possibility of sinning Till the general Resurrection this is not compleated For should a dead person be restored to live again upon earth that person would sin again This is easily proved for we read of Elijah Elisha and Christ that raised persons from the dead but all which were raised I except only those that rose at Christs Passion or Resurrection for I affirme nothing of them but all the rest sinned And that they sinned again 't is clear for they died again and death passeth upon none but those that have sinned Rom. 5.12 once an absolute freedome from sin and for ever an absolute freedome from death Now that they died again 't is clear for 1 Cor. 15.20 Christs Resurrection was the fruits of them that slept That this freedome is a priviledge of the first magnitude you have a brighter evidence then a cloud of witnesses Isa 6.3 The fiery Seraphim cry one to another Holy Holy Holy is the Lord of Hosts How many hundred years after do you find the Ministers of the Gospel that lead the Gospel Worship ecchoing back the same celebration Holy Holy Holy Lord God Almighty Rev. 4.8 What other attribute do you finde thus admired 4. Union with Christ shall then be perfected There 's a very neere strong excellent union here 't is exprest by several metaphors Physically by head and members Politically by Husband and Wife Corporally by food and body But then comes the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then shall the Saints be his fulnesse that filleth all in all Then and never till then shall the fulnesse be mutual 5. Soul and body thus united unto Christ shall be caught up to him and then shall the Saints in their own persons sit with him in his last most glorious work of judgment they shall judge the world aye they shall judg the God of the world The principalities and powers that captive wicked men at their pleasure are themselves reserv'd in everlasting chains to be judged by those whom they formerly foiled 1 Cor. 6.3 plainly they shall appear in the glory of Christs Kingdom having thrones with him in the aire during the time of the judgement 6. All that ever the soul enjoyed before in being with God in Heaven till the Resurrection shall be swallowed up with what it shall enjoy at the Resurrection All before shall be as nothing though far greater then can be exprest 2 Thes 1.10 When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven in the glory of his power in that day he shall be admired in all them that believe Admiration is at some strange thing So that his glory then will exceed all former apprehension And there will be never a Believer to whom Christ will not be admirable And now we are come to the very threshold of Glory But one step further and then you are in the last period 4. In Glory in Glory and what hath this been all this while on earth if you will believe Scripture Believers are Princes in all lands Psal 45.16 not like worldly Princes that are but subjects in another Kings Dominion No they are higher then the Kings of the earth Psal 89.27 In death it may in some sort be said of all what was said of Moses Deut. 34.5 he died secundum os Domini so from the Hebr. God did by him as a fond nurse by her babe kist him laid him down to sleep At the Resurrection we shall meet the Lord in the aire And do you not call this Glory is there more yet aye yet All that hath been spoken is but a few green ears rub'd in your hands the full crop the harvest is yet behinde I am now beginning to tell you what it is to enjoy God in Glory 1. All the enjoyments of God upon earth are but earthly when compared with the perfection of heavenly enjoyments It is true Grace in the abstract is beautiful and glorious Faith whereby we have communion with God it is a precious Grace But Grace in the concrete Grace as it is in us is almost contemptible Faith as it is in us our faith what bracks and flawes and sick-fits hath it But the Text I refer you to is John 3.12 Christ calls Regeneration it self an earthly thing when compared with those heavenly things which he would afterwards communicate 2. We shall see God you know God is said to speak to Moses face to face that is Visions affrighted the other Prophets the state of their minde was changed they were wrapt with extasies but it was not so with him though compassed with the divine splendour Yet God saith to this Moses Thou canst not see my face And he favours him so far as to tell him the reason of it There shall no man see me and live q.d. no man in this life shall see me he must first die and be changed and then he shall have a peculiar Revelation of the Divine Majesty then 1 John 3.2 We shall see him as he is But how that is I know not The two amazing mysteries shall then be unveiled the Trinity and Incarnation We shall for ever take in glorious apprehensions of God without cloying and for ever give out glorious admirations of God without wearinesse 3. There shall be a neerer union between God and the glorified Saints then then ever there was between Christ and a gracious soul before The truth is we may say that of this union which Paul doth of the peace of God It passeth all understanding that is before a person feel it he is unable to feigne what it is and when he feeles it he is unable to expresse how excellent it is They shall be filled with all the fulnesse of God Our union with God shall be neerer then Gods with Angels for the humane nature is advanced to greater dignity then all the glory of the Angels put together by reason of Christs assuming our nature Christ is not ashamed to call us Brethren Spouse Co-heires where doth he say so of Angels But this particular I will turne over to the next to be more fully cleared 4. Our communion with God shall be immediate without so much as a Mediatour We shall go streight unto God and immediately participate his Glory and Happinesse There can be no immediate communion between God and the Creature while sin or any of the effects of