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A20158 A three-fold resolution, verie necessarie to saluation Describing earths vanitie. Hels horror. Heauens felicitie. By Iohn Denison Batchelour in Diuinitie. Denison, John, d. 1629. 1608 (1608) STC 6596; ESTC S109587 139,837 594

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not onely recouer her former beautie but obtaineth a farre more excellent glorie Num. 17.8 The budding of Aarons rod was verie admirable and the resurrection of our bodies is more wonderfull but it is the Lords doing and is maruellous in our eyes 1 The resurrection is comfortable in regard of the chaunge of the bodie which shall then in beautie asmuch exceede the former estate thereof as the bright Sunne doth excell the least Starre in glorie 1. Cor. 15.41.44 For the bodie which is sowne in corruption is raised in incorruption it is sowne in dishonour and is raised in glorie it is sowne in weak●nesse and is raised in power it is sowne a naturall bodie and is raised a spirituall bodie Thus shall the bodie become more excellent in foure principall respects It shall be immortall and so freed from corruption it shall bee glorious and so deliuered from dishonour it shall not neede the helpes of foode Phisicke sleepe or clothing and so bee exempted from weaknesse it shall bee bright pure and nimble and so shall differ from the naturall bodie For as birds being hatched doe flie lightly vp into the skies which being egges were a heauie and slimie matter so man which by nature is a massie substance being hatched by the resur●ection Zanch. de ●per Dei is made pure and nimble and able to mount vp into the heauens The sinne of our first parents in Paradise added shame to their nakednesse but in the resurrectio● this shame shall be abolished and in stead thereof the bodie shall in euerie part become glorious and beautifull If the Creeple which lay at the temple gate being restored to his lims by Peter and Iohn did come into th● temple walking leaping Act. 3.8 and praising God oh how much greater cause of reioycing and glorifying God shall the godly haue when all deform●ties and infirmities of the bodie shall bee taken away Aug de Ciu. lib. 22. c. 19 and they made not onely whole and sound but euen beautifull and glorious 2 As the beautie of the bodie doth of it selfe commend the felicitie of the resurrection so shall the reuniting of the soule with the bodie much enlarge the ●xcellencie thereof Two old friends that haue bene a long time and with great distance of place separated each frō other how glad and ioyfull are they when they meet together and embrace one another how doth the kinde father salute his sonne returning home Luk. ●5 20 and shall not the soule and bodie two old friends knit together in the nearest league be exceeding ioyfull and glad at their renewed vnion in the resurrection This cannot otherwise bee if either the forme or end of this reuniting bee considered The forme is glorious and angelicall Luk 20.36 for the godly are equall vnto the Angels and the sonnes of God since they are the children of the resurrection of life The end is blessed and happie for they that haue done good Ioh. 5.29 shall come foorth to the resurrection of life Thus in respect of the glorie and beautie bestowed on the bodie and the felicitie imparted both to soule and bodie vpon the vnion in the Resurrection the godly may well bee said to enioy a great measure of heauenly felicitie The consideration hereof may serue to asswage and sweeten the bittternesse of those miseries which happen to the childrē of God in this life This was Iobs comfort in the middest of his grieuous triall I am sure that my redeemer liueth Iob. 19.25 and that I shall rise againe out of the dust at the last day This was Dauids ioy in the dayes of his wonderfull afflictions Psal 16.9 My heart is glad and my tongue reioyceth my flesh also shall rest in hope for thou wilt not leaue my soule in the graue neither will thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption Yea the remembrance hereof hath made many to submit themselues willingly to martyrdome and to sticke to the truth to the death Heb. 11.35 For diuerse haue bene racked and would not accept of deliuerance that they might obtaine a better resurrection Though the redemption from the racke were a thing much to bee desired yet the redemption from hell and the resurrection to eternall life was much more to be sought for without which condition they wold not be deliuered For what though the racke should rent their flesh and disioynt their limmes they were assured that at the resurrection all should bee conioyned and perfected Here then wee may learne not to care for any ignominie that can bee done vnto vs nor bee much troubled for any infirmities that can befall our bodies knowing that the same must one day be eaten with wormes and consumed with rottennesse but especially being assured that the same shall be reformed and refined in the Resurrection SECT 2. The second steppe into heauen at the day of iudgement namely The ioyfull appearing before Christ AT the birth of our blessed Sauiour though it were base the heauenly quire chaunted it ioyfully Luk. 2. In his infancie when he lay swadled in a cratch in stead of a cradle Mat. 2. and tooke his Inne in a stable in stead of a stately pallace yet the Wise men came from the East to adore him In his riper years albeit he came attended only with poore fishermen Mar. 10. yet Rulers kneeled to him and when he rode meekely to Ierusalem vpon an Asse M●t. 21. the people cutte downe boughes and strewed their garments in the way to honour him at his passion the Centurion acknowledged him to be the Son of God Mat. 27. and Ioseph of Arimathea after his death honoured his corpes with a seemely funerall If our Sauiour in his birth life and death being the dayes of his weaknesse and infirmitie was thus honoured by men and Angels how glorious shall hee be in the day of power and maiestie when he shall appeare in the clouds sit vpon a glorious throne and bee attended by blessed Angels and decked with a Crowne of glorie Now shall the godly meete him in the ayre with great ioy and sing Hosanna in excelsis Blessed is the king that commeth in the name of the Lord. The Saints happinesse doth now consist in three principall points First in beholding the glorie of Christ secondly in being vnder his iudgement thirdly in being themselues honored with the dignitie of Iudges 1 When Iacob heard of the honour of his sonne Ioseph in Aegypt his heart failed him through distrust yet when he beheld the chariots which he had sent for him his spirit reuiued but when he saw him hee said vnto him Now let me dye Gen. 46.30 since I haue seene thy face So fareth it with the children of God in this life being hindred through their infirmities from the comfortable considerations of Christs exaltation yet when they shall see his chariots the blessed Angels whom hee shall send to gather the elect from the foure
from hell and from the second death euen the eternall death both of bodie and soule tenne thousand times more dolefull and dreadfull then the temporall and corporall death Now this hell and death shall bee cast into the lake of Reu. 20.14 fire Whereby albeit the propheticall Euangelist vnderstand The infernall spirits yet he saith Hell it selfe because they are both confined within the same miserable immutable bounds neither of them both hauing power ouer the children of God This thing Abraham tels the rich man Betweene you and vs there is a great gulfe set Luk. 16 20. so that they which would go from hence to you cannot Doubtlesse it can neuer come into the heartes of the elect that they should bee willing to go into hell and it is as impossible they should be able as that they should be willing if they could they would not and if they would they cannot Thus whilest the Elect are deliuered from the disordered passions of the soule the externall calamities both of soule and bodie the prouocations of the world the power of Sathan the slauerie of sinne the feare of death and the dread of hell they may very well be accounted blessed and happie and the meditation thereof should make euery one desirous to bee partakers of that happinesse If a man had a true sense of these miseries oh what would hee giue to be freed from them how much wold the worldling giue to redeeme himselfe from temporall death But how many worlds wold Diues giue if he had them to be deliuered from the intolerable paines of eternall death If thou desire to bee freed from all these miseries and calamities then sticke to the truth Io. 8.32.36 and it shall make thee free He that will raigne must conquer and hee that would conquer must fight valiantly Labour then very earnestly to conquer and subdue thine owne corruptions the worlds allurements and the diuels temptations and then assure thy selfe though the miseries of the damned were as many as the Locusts of Aegypt yet they shal haue no power ouer thee but thou shalt escape them all Reu. 2.11 For hee that ouercometh shall not be hurt of the second death SECT 2. The second degree of happinesse after the last iudgement namely The fruition of celestiall felicity IF Noah hauing escaped the floud Gen. 8.20 builded an altar and offered burnt offerings thereupon if the children of Israel sung ioyfully for their deliuerance from Aegypt Exod. 15.1 if Dauid were so glad for escaping the hands of his cruell enemies Psa 34.3 that he praiseth God and exhorteth others to ioyne with him in magnifying the Lord how much more had they cause to reioyce the one when hee had obtained a quiet habitation in the restored earth the other that rich possession of the pleasant land and the third the expected fruition of the princely Crowne So may it bee said of the children of God If they haue cause to offer the sacrifices of praise vpon the altar of a thankfull soule for escaping the inundation of sinne to sing Alleluiah with chearefull voyces for their deliuerance from the Aegypt of hell and to magnif●● the Lord for freeing them from the deadly assaults of al their infernal enemies how much more are they bound when they are seated in the heauens possessed of the celestiall Canaan and haue the crowne of eternall glorie set vpon their heades to magnifie the Lord for his mercie and to say with the blessed Angels Praise Reu. 7.12 and glorie and wisedome and thankes and honour and power and might be vnto our God for euermore For behold this is the highest pitch and perfection of their happinesse Whilest I am to take a view of the kingdome of heauen oh that I might with the holy Apostle bee taken vp into the third heauens 2. Cor. 12.2 And whilest I shall endeuour to blaze foorth the blisse of the celestiall Ierusalem oh that the light of that glorie might shine into my sinfull soule that my thoughts being winged with the contemplation of Angels Reu. 21.15 and the Angels golden reede being giuen mee to measure that citie withall I might be able to comprehend with the blessed Saints the excellencie of that glorious place which farre surmounteth euerie humane estimate that so my soule being rauished with the glorie thereof my pen might distill the Nectar of comfort to inflame the harts of those that shall ioyne with mee in this sweete meditation For how alas shall he that was euer in darknesse be able to describe this light how can he that is of the earth measure the heauens or he that hath alwaies liued in this vale of miserie know what belongs to the mountaine of true felicitie No more surely then hee which is a slaue by birth and base by his continuall habitation is able ingeniously to describe the thrones the state and maiestie of Princes How many workes of God euen in this life do surmount our reach Ioh 3. If Nicodemus vnderstand not the manner of our regeneration how shall hee be able to conceiue the excellencie of glorification The dearest seruants of God who had Eagles eyes and Angels meditations Esay S Paul 1 Cor 2.20 can tell vs that neither eye hath seene nor eare hath heard neither haue those ioyes come into mans heart which God hath prepared for those that loue him Though our eyes haue seene many glorious obiects and our eares haue heard report of greater matters yet our conceipt hath farre exceeded them both But behold the ioyes that God hath prepared for his elect do exceedingly surpasse the apprehensiō of all our senses both externall and internall Aug. de ciu Dei lib. 22. th●y may be obtained they cannot be valued Cott. in Cicer de n●t Deor. lib. 1. Hee in Tully said truly That it is an easier matter to know what God is not then to tell what hee is and so m●y I s●y in this case That it is much easier to tell what is not in heauen then what is there And therefore Saint Augustine in relating the blisse thereof taketh stand and demaundeth this of himselfe after a large discourse What shall I say surely I cannot tell Sed Deus habet quod exhib●at Aug. super ●oh hom 3. but I know that God hath such ioyes to bestow Yet forasmuch as the Lords pen-men haue according to our capacities described in sundry places diuerse particulars of this heauenly blessednes let vs briefly and according to the rules of sobrietie collect and consider the sam● for our instruction and comfort And in the consideratiō thereof wee will obserue three principall points first the wonderfull beautie of that habitation secondly the glorious view and vision of Almightie God thirdly the blessed condition of the Saints in glorie 1 If any one looke for a curious discourse of the matter or forme of the heauens I intend to faile his expectation My desire in these