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A43776 A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable Robert Earl and Viscount Yarmouth, Baron of Paston and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk by John Hildeyard. Hildeyard, John, b. 1662 or 3. 1683 (1683) Wing H1982; ESTC R28072 19,112 41

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Saviour makes Reply ver 28. Verily verily I say unto you that ye who have followed me in the Regeneration when the Son of Man shall sit in the Throne of his Glory you also shall sit upon Thrones Oh the high Dignation of God! and oh the high Dignity of Man Men are advanced to Thrones and that with God in Heaven what Imperial Majesty like this But to come closer these Thrones or Seats were about the Throne of whom of the Blessed Jesus certainly who is stiled in the Book of Wisdom Copartner with his Father in his Throne of Glory and so is the Holy Ghost the Glory of these three is equal the Majesty Coeternal the Godhead all one and the same and therefore the Throne upon which they are here represented is but one also Well therefore was that Portion of Scripture chosen by our Church for the Epistle on Trinity Sunday but of the three Christ is chiefly say the most Orthodox Interpreters intended in the Representation and therefore it follows in the 3 d ver That he which sat on the Throne was to look upon like a Jasper and a Sardine Stone and there went a Rainbow round about the Throne in sight like unto an Emrald The Rainbow fairly emblematizeth the Reconciliation which Christ wrought with God for Man being at the first placed in the Clouds as a Sign of the Covenant of that Reconciliation And it appeared here in sight like unto an Emrald more fully to explain that Christ was meant in whom and from whom we have our Spiritual Life The Emrald being of a most comfortable Colour and making all things look most fresh and lovely that are about it And all Divines I have met with have discerned the Face of Christs Divinity in the Green and Lasting Colour of the Jasper and the Face of his Humanity in the Sardine-stone which is of a Fleshly hew and complection All put together shew that it is Christ's Throne that gives Denomination to the other and his sitting upon that Throne that makes the Saints so Glorious The other in the circumference derived their names and splendor from the Throne that stood in the Center and that leads me to the second Circumstance in the first General of the Text their situation round about Situation The Glorified Saints were made conspicuous to St. John sitting in Heaven not in a square nor angular nor as some contend it in a semicircle but in a compleat and exact Circle which of all others is the most perfect and most capacious Figure well translated in our English Round about Round about the Throne of Christ from whom Beams of Glory are darted circumferentially and their Angle of Incidence being straight and directly level to the Angle of Reflection the Glory must needs glance upon all For Mathematicians tell us that the Center is Perpendicular to every Point of the Circumference Christ's Throne is represented here in the midst of the other as the Tabernacle of the Congregation the Symbol of God's Presence amongst the Jews set forward in their March Betoke Hamakanoth in the midst of the Camp And the Psalmist's saying Promise unto the Lord and keep it all ye his Rounds or all that are round about him as we render it hath Relation say Interpreters to that Encamping of the Israelites in the Wilderness And hereto it is thought also our Saviour alludes where he promiseth That when two or three are met together in his Name he will be in the midst of them And wheresoever Christ is in the midst these that are round about him must needs like the Woman that touched the Hem of his Garment draw Vertue from him For as the Children's sitting round about the Table argues their mutual participation of their Father's Love so the Saints sitting round about the Throne of Christ proves the Communication they have in their Saviours Glory with which they shine above Shine Yes and that with the same Glory that Christ himself shines withal How the same Not by way of Reflection as the Stars borrow their Light of the Sun but in their Measure with the same Essential Beams Otherwise the Saints would be so far from shining about Christ that they must vanish and disappear in his Presence as the Stars do at the rising of the Sun Again I cannot but observe that this Glory of Christ is communicated to the Saints glorified in a due Proportion but not in an equal Measure unto all though they all surround the Throne yet there is more than one Round about that Throne There are higher and lower Rounds of Saints as well as of Angels in Heaven Imagine several Vessels of several scantlings cast into the Ocean of which some hold a Pint some hold a Pottle some hold a Gallon they will all be filled but yet a respect must be had unto each of their Capacities Thus filled indeed are all the Saints in the Beatifical Vision but it is in the Apostles Phrase according to the Measure of the Fulness of which they are capable And yet you believe when both are in the Sea it is as true Water that fills the Pint as that which fills the Pottle No more is it a different Image which we stamp on a Penny from that which is stamp'd on a Shilling the Image of Caesar is on both and may be applyed by the meanest Logician to prove that there is a True community of the same Glory but no Equality which a good Bishop once of this Diocess reports thus In Heaven there is one Life one Felicity of all but divers Measures Our Heaven begins here on Earth and even here varies in Degrees one Christian enjoys God above another as his Grace his Faith is more And Heaven will be still like it self not another above from this beneath He that improved five Talents was more recompensed than he that improved but one yet both rewarded with their Masters Joy And why should we incur the check our Saviour gave to his Disciples asking Who shall be greatest in the Kingdom of God Let us all strive to get a Place about the Throne What would we more than to be Happy Though some may shine like the Sun others like the Moon others like the Stars and one Star may differ from another Star in Glory yet all about the Throne shall shine and that for ever and ever Nor need any despair of Room in Heaven of having a Seat about the Throne though the Text mentioneth but four and twenty the Third Particular or Circumstance to be spoken to Their Number twenty four Their Number This is a finite and certain Number put for an uncertain and infinite which is most frequent in the Holy Scriptures nor was there need of mentioning more Seats than Elders Who these Elders were and why no more you will see by and by In my Fathers House saith Christ are many Mansions Many how many Oh Blessed Jesus Nay that no Tongue can tell and therefore he expresseth them