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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51834	The blessed estate of them that die in the Lord opened in a sermon at the funerals of Mistres Jane Blackwel, wife of Master Elidad Blackwel, pastor of Andrew Undershaft, London / by Tho. Manton.	Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1656 (1656)	Wing M518; ESTC R30511	23,515	42

love and by loving we come to know as light is so is love and so is injoyment here we love little because we know little if thou knowest the gift c. Joh. 4.10 and the more we love the more we know this is a fire that casts light But to speak more distinctly 1 There is the perfection of knowledge all the faculties must be satisfyed before we can be happy especially so noble a faculty as the minde is there is a natural inclination to knowledge the soul takes a great deal of contentment in the contemplation of any truth the knowledge of wisdom to thy soul saith Solomon shall be as the hony-comb when thou hast found it Prov. 24 13 14. right and cleer thoughts of God breed a rejoycing Psal. 19.10 Well then this is no small part of our happiness to have more light and knowledge of God and of his ways we shall know many mysteries of salvation that we are now ignorant of as the nature of God Psal. 17.15 I shall be satisfyed with thy image and likeness the union of the two natures in the person of Christ Joh. 17.24 they shall behold my glory our union with Christ and by Christ with God Joh. 14.20 In that day they shall know that I am in the Father c. the course of Gods Decrees and Providences for our good 1 Cor. 13.12 We shall know as we are known that is we shall be able to see how the unchangeable counsels of God for our salvation have been carryed on through all the Passages of the present life to bring us safe to the heavenly state These are the deeps of God and now there is darkness upon the face of these deeps the Church is but a Grammer-School heaven is the Universitie we shall have other eys and other light prophesie is but in part now our intuition shall be then immediate Joh 1.3.2 We shall see him as he is now we see him not as he is but as he is pleased to reveal himself now we see what he is not not corruptible not mortal not changeable rather then what he is Now we see him as he is in us and as he is in other creatures we track him by the effects of his power and wisdom and goodness but then we shall see him as he is in himself we shall see him face to face 1 Cor. 13.12 In the creatures there is vestigium the track and foot-print of God in the Law there is umbra a shadow in the Gospel imago an image a fair draught of God as in a picture but in heaven face to face we have excellent books to study the large manifestations of his Glory the Majesty of Christs person we shall always sit about the Throne and behold God in the face of the Lamb there God makes out himself ●n the highest manifestation that we are capable of 2 Compleat love there is a constant cleaving of hea●t to God without change and weariness a love that never ceaseth working and yet God in communion is ever new and fresh to us if we delight in any thing here we soon grow weary and have a change of objects here are distractions and startings aside to the creature but there is an eternal solace and complacency in God a continual Sabboth that never grows burthensom all the heart and bowels run out after Christ we never want the actual breathings of the spirit The Spirit came upon Sampson at times so it doth upon us here motions are fleeting and vanishing but there Christ is a more Lovely object and the delights of the soul are carryed out to him without any satiety they are outward things that cloy the appetite as soon as we have them we despise them we sip as the Bee doth of the flower and then goeth to a new flower but there is an eternal complacency in Christ here we are troubled when we want outward comforts and cloyed when we have them because curiosity is soon satisfyed and fruition discovers the imperfections of the creature so that the more injoyd they are the less beloved as Amnon hated Tamar c. Imperfections that before lay hid are then laid open to view and so our affections are confuted by experince but there the more we injoy God the more his infinite perfections are manifested and the pleasure is augmented by injoyment 3 Compleat union with God and fruition of God See 2 Cor. 5.6 Phil. 1.93 Here we are united by Faith but that is nothing to sight and immediate tuition we lay hold upon Christ but have not such an absolute possession of him he is a head that gives out himself not by necessity but choice and pleasure therefore our communion with him is not so high and sweet as then The iron that lyeth long in the fire seems to be changed into the nature of it we are then more conformed and changed into the likeness of Christ All the comforts that we have in this life we injoy in Gods absence and by the Ministry of the creatures now the creatures are not vessels capacious enough to convey so much of God to us as we shall receive when he is all in all immediately 1 Cor. 15.24 There is no Temple nor Ordinances but God is instead of all without means or the intervention of such supplies we feed among the Lillyes but it is but till the day break and the shadows flye away 3 In our company we must be blessed there is God and Christ and Saints and Angels Heb. 12.26 we shall see God in Christ The bodily eye that cannot look upon the Sun shall be perfectly sanctifyed glorifyed though it cannot see the essence of God yet it shall see greater manifestations of Glory How will the father welcom us as he welcomed Christ Psal. 2.8 Ask of me and I will give thee c. So well done good and faithful servant we shall not come into his presence with shame sin causeth shame and maketh us shye of God as the eye cannot endure the light if it be wronged so wronged Conscience makes us afraid of the presence of God but when sin is done away we shall have boldness in that day As we shall have the company of God so of Christ he cannot be contented without your company you should not be satisfyed without his Joh. 14 3. I will come again and receive you to my self that where I am you may be also Oh what a joyful meeting will it be between us and our Redeemer much sweeter then the interview between Jacob and Joseph Christ longs for the blessed hour as much as you do The wise men came from far to see him in a manger Zacheus climed up into a Tree to see him in the days of his flesh he is another manner of Christ in heaven then he was in the days of his abasement When Joseph discovered himself to his brethren I am Joseph it revived their hearts when Christ shall say I am Jesus your brother your Saviour