1. That all those and only those that shall partake of the Heavenly inheritance in the other World must be made meet for it in this World All that I shall do in the Doctrinal part is 1. For Explication 2. Confirmation 1. To shew what this meetness is then prove the necessity of it CHAP. II. Distinctions about meetness for Heaven What habitual meetness is Both relative and real 1. FOR a more methodical proceeding in explaining this Subject I shall premise some distinctions by which you may understand what that meetness for Heaven is that I mean 1. There is an aptitudo Legalis Evangelica a Legal and Evangelical meetness Since the fall of Man no meer Man can fulfil all Righteousness or by his own power attain to any thing pleasing to God so a legal meetness is not attainable We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God See Rom. 3.23 24. ch 8.2 3 8. Gal. 3.10.13 2 Dist There is an aptitudo operum personae i. e meetness of works and of the person This explains the former in the Covenant of Works the person was accepted for the works sake but in the Covenant of Grace the work is accepted for the persons sake If the person be accepted in the beloved Eph. 1.6 God owns both person and offering as he did Abel Heb. 11.4 6. But what proportion can the best Services of the best Men bear to this Eternal Reward Luke 17.10 Nor can Humane Sufferings purchase this Glory to be revealed Rom. 8.18 3 Dist There is aptitudo perfecta progressiva a perfect compleat meetness for Heaven This is compatible only to the Spirits of just men made perfect Heb. 12.23 But who can say I have made my heart clean I am pure from my sin Prov. 20.9 Alas we know but in part and so love but in part 1 Cor. 13.12 Even Paul that was perfect in point of sincerity yet was not already perfect in point of degree but was pressing forward Phil. 3 12-15 Christians here below are but in via non in patria in the road to perfection singing the song of degrees and not in the height of Zion Sincerity is Gospel perfection and the Christians preparation together with a progressive motion 4 Dist There is aptitudo habitualis actualis an habitual and an actual meetness for Heaven or which may be thus distinguished there is a jus haereditarium and a jus aptitudinale an hereditary right and an aptitude or actual fitness for this Inheritance My Text includes both and I shall open both for they are both necessary in their kind and in this sense Gods Children are said to be counted worthy of Kingdom of God 2 Thess 1.5 and saith Christ They shall walk with me in white for they are worthy Rev. 3.4 And therefore are we exhorted to walk worthy of God who hath called us unto his Kingdom and Glory 1 Th. 2.12 It imports a conveniency suitableness answerableness in a limited Gospel-sence like Children of such a Father as Heirs of such an Inheritance as Candidates for such an Office and Honour There is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seemliness appertaining to every Calling Princes Magistrates Ministers must have a decency and suitableness to their Profession So here Well then I shall chiefly speak to this twofold meetness 1. Habitual meetness which is in opposition to perfect unmeetness i. e. a state of Nature Unregeneracy 2. An actual meetness which is contra-distinct from imperfect meetness and both are necessary in their kind Quest 1. What is that habitual meetness for the Inheritance of the Saints in Light without which Men can never attain to it or have eternal possession of it Answ This habitual meetness consists in a twofold change 1. Relative 2. Real 1. It consists in a Relative change This also is twofold viz. 1. Justification 2. Adoption 1. The poor sinner is standing at Gods Bar as a guilty Malefactor under the dreadful Sentence of a just Condemnation for all the World is become guilty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 subject to judgment before God Rom. 3.19 Not a Son of Adam can plead innocence It s well if we be as the blushing Rose the Lilly-whiteness is lost He that believeth not is condemned already John 3.18 and the wrath of God abides on him verse 36. It was on him when he was born and it abides still on him if not taken off him by Justification Who can think the Prince will promote him to Honour that is under an attainder for Treason He must be cleared of that charge or he is fitter for Execution then Promotion Pardon must precede preferment You must be first in Christ Jesus and then there is no condemnation to you Rom. 8.1 You must be received into Favour before you be promoted to Honour The sinner must be justified before he can be glorified Rom. 8.30 Never think of ascending to Heavenly Glory under the load of guilt That guilt will shut Heavens gates against thee The guilt of one sin will press a Soul yea millions of Souls to Hell for the wages of sin is death Rom. 6.23 O therefore what need is there of Justification as the introduction to Salvation You must be justified by his grace if ever you be made heirs according to the hope of Eternal Life Tit. 3.7 Never think your sins will be blotted out in the day of refreshing except you repent here and be converted Acts 3.19 You must be justified by faith that you may have peace with God here and so rejoyce in hope of the glory of God Rom. 5.1 2. You cannot think to leap from the Bar to the Throne But must be cleared by order of Justice through Christs satisfaction in the Court of God This this is absolutely necessary to a meetness for this Heavenly Inheritance 2. Adoption This is another Relative change Alas by nature we have quite lost our Filiation and so forfeited our Childs part of the Heavenly Inheritance We are exules a Regno banisht out of Paradice and there are placed Cherubims and a flaming Sword which turns every way to keep the way of the Tree of Life Gen. 3.24 Yea we are voluntarily gone into a far Countrey have wasted our substance disowned our Fathers house are feeding swinish Lusts and feeding our selves with poor husks of worldly things and till we be adopted and admitted again into our Fathers house we are not fit to eat the Childrens Bread or heir the Childs Inheritance God himself hath contrived a way how to settle the best Inheritance on such as he finds strangers Jer. 3.19 But I said how shall I put thee among the Children and give thee a pleasant land a goodly heritage of the hosts of Nations Then I said thou shalt call me my Father and shalt not turn away from me Oh blessed contrivance And will any think to cross Gods contrivance Shall Mens solly challenge infinite Wisdom Is not the Heavenly Inheritance Gods own to give And doth not
state and loves and lives in sin lyes and dyes in the old Adam That 's the sadest word in all the Bible pronounced twice in a breath by our blessed Lord Joh. 8.21 24. Ye shall dye in your sins i. e. under the guilt of your sins and sentence of condemnation This is surprizing from what he adds in the first place whither I go you cannot come that is to Heaven whither sinners cannot enter You 'l say then no man can enter into Heaven for all men are sinners even to the last breath When are men cleansed is it in Articulo mortis in the passage of the Soul out of the Body May not all be cleansed alike then Answ It s true all are sinning to the last gasp of breathing out their Souls but 1. You must distinguish betwixt a state of sin and having fin The best have relicks of Original corruption as long as they live The death of the body will only annihilate the body of death Death is not properly the punishment but period of sin It reigns not in Gods Children at present it shall not remain in them when dead The guilt of sin is already gone for there 's no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Rom. 8.1 and the filth yea being of sin is taken away as soon as death strikes the stroke 2. I see not but the mighty God can perfectly expel sin out of the Soul and also perfect defective graces in the instant of the Souls separation from the Body as well as he did infuse a principle of grace into the Soul in an instant at the Souls first conversion for by death the spirits of just men are made perfect Heb. 12.23 Mind it it is just men not wicked God will not infuse grace into men ordinarily in their passage out of the world qualis vita finis ita as men live so they dye and if men imagine God will put another principle into their hearts just as they pass out of this World as this is a daring presumption so they will be mistaken for how is a departing Soul capable of such receptions or reflections as are necessary in the work of conversion Alas the Eyes being set Lips quivering Memory failing and the Body in a cold sweat is unfit for any thing their hopes giving up the ghost as their breaths depart and it s a wonder that the Souls of wicked men go quietly out of their Bodies its strange they depart not as the Devils out of the Demonaicks rending raging tearing foming but if Conscience be asleep death will awake it could you follow their departing Souls a minute out of their Bodies you would hear howlings and roarings 3. Heaven will not receive any Souls but such as are made meet for it on Earth Rev. 21.27 There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither what soever worketh abomination for without are dogs Rev. 22.15 They say Ireland will not brook a Toad a Snake or venomous Creature to live and like in it I am sure Heaven will not admit but cast out an unsanctified heart The Legions of apostate Angels knew this who abode not one moment in that holy place after they left their innocency It is said of the Halcyons nest that it will hold nothing but its own Bird The same may be said of Heaven the Serpent could wind himself into the Earthly Paradice but none of the Serpentine brood shall once peep into this Heavenly Paradice For 1 The Text saith It is an Inheritance now an Inheritance is for none but Children its true all Gods Children are heirs Rom. 8.17 but none shall inherit Heaven except Children By nature we are Children of Wrath by grace and adoption Children of God All Gods Children are begot again to a lively hope for this incorruptible inheritance 1 Pet. 1.3 4. 2. It s the inheritance of Saints i. e. of holy sanctified Souls Persons must not think that Heaven is like Mahemets Paradice where there is delicious fare pleasant gardens fair women and all sensual delights fit lettice for an Epicures Lips No no Heaven is a state of perfect immediate and perpetual injoyment of God suited to the raised faculties of a sanctified Soul 3. It s the inheritance of Saints in light It s a bright and lightsome state suited to seeing Souls blind sinners can see no beauty there such as are not changed from darkness to light are not fit for that state see Acts 26.18 Alas a blind man can take no content in beautiful objects though the Sun shine never so gloriously Heaven and light are synonymous but light and darkness are directly contrary If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lye and do not the truth 1 Joh. 1.6 and such dark sinners are far from a suitableness to this state and place of light O therefore poor sinners consider this the holy God hates all the workers of iniquity the holy Heaven is no sanctuary for Rebels and Traytors God will not take such vipers into his bosom thou must either be renewed or never received into glory it is an undefiled inheritance 1 Pet. 1.4 a dirty sinner must not enter this would disparage and contradict all Gods Attributes as his Justice then God should give to the wicked according to the work of the righteous it would blemish his Holiness as though unclean were delighted in equally with the clean it would contradict his Truth as though God regarded not what he said or swore that no unclean thing shall enter there Every Attribute would have dirt cast upon it if God should save the unsanctified Soul Nay it contradicts the undertakings of Jesus Christ who came to save his people from their sins not in their sins It exposeth the office and operations of the Holy Ghost whose office it is to sanctifie sinners and prepare Souls for Heaven that sinner must surely be in a desperate case that must un God the infinite Jehovah God blessed for ever or else he cannot be saved 4. The unsanctified sinner would by no means like in Heaven Heaven would be an Hell to him except his Nature were changed and renewed Most Men mistake the nature of Heaven they only look upon it as a place of happiness it is so but withal it is a state of perfect holiness They are holy priviledges injoyment of God and what care wicked men for his company They say unto God depart from us and their choice shall be their punishment They are holy joys and delights how will they like that who were never pleased but with sensual laughter which is madness There 's holy company above of Saints but they cannot abide to be near them on Earth how then can they like to be associated to them in Heaven There is holy imployment above but alas they are not at all qualified for nor can they be delighted in the work of loving praising or taking pleasure in God Augustine hath a saying
towards that which suits the fancy but sound conviction and deep humiliation never prepared the Soul to a judicious relish of divine things nor do they produce those blessed effects in heart and life as in Gods Children Oh how many poor sinners are going on in a golden dream and fear no danger till they be past hopes of recovery Many think they are travelling towards Heaven and never question it till as they are stepping out of this world as they think into Heaven miss their footing and drop down into Hell That never see their errour till it be too late to retrieve it Oh that men were awakened in time If you stay till death have struck its stroke it will be too late Imparatum inveniet dies judicii quem imparatum invenerit â—â—es mortis The day of judgment must needs find him unready that the day of death finds unready Men have a conceit that the interval betwixt death and judgment may do great things to make them meet for Heaven but they are mistaken Death launcheth you into the boundless ocean of Eternity It is appointed unto men once to dye and after that the judgment Heb. 9.27 Ah Sirs what think you Is there an Heaven or Hell after this life or is there not And are you not certain whether you do enter by death into eternal happiness or misery and yet can you be quiet If you were not loose in your belief of future things you would be restlefs as long as you are doubtful You owe your ease to nothing but your Lethargy If you were not infidels you would be distracted What Man The next moment may be roaring in Hell and not repent on Earth He is worse then a Devil that trembles not under divine wrath What if it have not siezed on you as on Devils The flame is at next door wrath hangs over your heads the only reason you see it not is because you are blind The Lord open your eyes and I need not preach terrour to you your hearts will meditate terror Fearfulness will surprize you hypocrites and make you say Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire with everlasting burnings Isa 33.14 It s a wonder you do not run up and down like mad men surely you have taken some Opium to cast you in a dead sleep or intoxicate your Spirits Or as some Malafactors do that dare not dye sober Yea some wiser Heathens took great draughts of Wine saying That no voluptuous person can go in his Wits into an invisible state But is this a making meet for Heaven or Hell Can rational persons think to escape the ditch by winking Or will men say as it s reported of Robert Duke of Normandy William the Conquerours Father going on Pilgrimage to Jerusalem falling sick was born in a Litter on Saracens shoulders and said He was born to Heaven on the Devils back Alas will you trust the Fiend of Hell to bring you to Heaven Is he grown so full of charity to Souls Oh forlorn case of miserable sinners have you no better a friend then Satan That you can be content to be rockt asleep in his cradle and carried with ease to Hell rather then ride in our Lords chariot paved with Love to Heaven Is security your best fence against misery Can these poor fig-leaves of temporary Righteousness secure you from divine Vengeance Can you be content to stand by that another day that you dare not put to the tryal here Alas I am afraid 1. Some are ignorant sots that know not what is necessary to a meetness for Heaven Most think if they have but time to say at death Lord have mercy upon me God forgive me my sins Lord Jesus receive my Soul they think they have made their peace with God especially if they can say they forgive all the world and dye in charity with all and send for the Minister to pray with them and receive absolution and the Sacrament when perhaps they are little fit for such a solemn Ordinance then the Minister recommends their Souls into Gods hands commends them at their Funeral and now they are certainly gone to Heaven these poor wretched sinners blessed their Souls whilst living and men must praise them and account them blessed when dead Psal 49.18 2. Most are inconsiderate They consider nothing but meer objects of sense like the kine of Bashan go out at their breaches every one at that which is before her Amos 4.1 â—3 They never mind things out of their natural sight they put far away the evil day Am. 6.3 little thinking what will be in the end of their sensual ways Jer. 5.31 Either they say to morrow shall be as this day and much more abundant Isa 56.12 or else in Atheistical scorn and mockery Let us eat and drink for to morrow we dye 1 Cor. 15.32 Let us be merry while we may we shall never be younger when we are gone all the world is gone with us as if there were no reckoning or rendering day or retribution in the other world but let such study Eccl. 11.9 10. Rom. 8.13 Luk. 12.19 20. Psal 9.17.2 Thess 1.6 7 8 9. Job 3.18 Psal 50 23. Oh Sirs disappointments are dreadful It s sad with a witness to be confident of Heaven and yet doomed to Hell As Hamilcar dreamed he should the next night sup in Syracusa which indeed he did not as a Conqueror as he hoped but as a Prisoner Oh how will it double your damnation to live in confident hopes of reigning with Christ yet to be judged by him and banished from him for ever If you say Soul take thine case and God say Devil take his Soul Whether of these think you will prevail CHAP. XI An Exhortation to all persons to get meet for Heaven 2. THE latter Use is Exhortation 1. To Sinners 2. To Saints to get meet for this Heavenly Inheritance The former by an habitual the latter by actual meetness for this glorious state I shall need to say the less to move you to it having urged practical Reasons from our natural unmeetness divine ordination the design of ordinances providences the season of life for it the work and priviledges here require it the inconsistency of a contrary-frame to that glorious inheritance Most of these are levelled to the state of unsanctified graceless Souls therefore I shall say the less to that branch Oh that I had here the Tongue or Pen of an Angel The Bowels of blessed Paul to perswade sinners to look after a meetness for Heaven Consider 1. What else have you to do in the world Your very Children will tell you that Mans chief end is to glorifie God and injoy him for ever If you attain not these ends you live in the world to no purpose you are unprofitable cumber-grounds 2. You frustrate Christs undertakings in the world and do what you can to render all his merits useless you tread under foot the Son of God count the blood of the Covenant an
unholy thing and despise if not despight the spirit of grace Heb. 10.29 you say plainly I like not the purchase I will have none of it you call Heaven cabul a dirty thing as Hiram called Solomons twenty Cities he gave him And can you think much to be dealt without Heaven that thus judge your selves unworthy of everlasting life Acts 13.46 3. Every day sets you nearer Heaven or Hell It s reported of the Pious Lady Falkland that going to bed at night she usually said Now am I nearer Heaven by one day then never I was One day added to your time is a day taken away from your life Oh think when you have heard a Sermon or spent a Sabbath I am now nearer Heaven or Hell this word hath been to me the savour of life unto life or of death unto death 2 Cor. 2.16 It sets me forward some way if I bring forth meet and suitable fruit I shall receive a blessing from God if bryars and thorns I am rejected nigh to a curse whose end is to be burned Heb. 6.7 8. The word either hardens or softens Woe be to me if all that God doth doth further my more dreadful condemnation 4. Eternity brings up the rear of time If it were but a making fit for a days pageantry there would be no such great need of curiosity to get matters ready though it s said Jer. 2.32 Can a Maid forget her ornaments or a Bride her attire though oft it is for the short shew of a Marriage day Oh but this is for Eternity That curious Painter being demanded why he bestowed so much labour on his Picture answered Pingo Eternitati I paint for Eternity Indeed there 's nothing of value but what relates to Eternity Eternity gives an accent and emphasis to all created beings The Apostle thought all visible sublunaries not worth a cast of his eye in comparison of this Eternity 2 Cor. 4.18 See a Book called Glimpse of Eternity on that Text. Alas Sirs is Eternity nothing with you Oh my Friends this if any thing is worth preparing for to be for ever with the Lord to injoy God ten thousands of millions of years or to be banished from his presence and be tormented with Devils and damned Souls for ever Oh this word for ever is amazing A godly man in company sate in a deep muse and being demanded what he was thinking of Answered only with repeating for ever for ever for ever for a quarter of an hour together This is indeed a confounding consideration Oh that you would solemnly lay upon your hearts the great things of another world On the one hand the injoyment of God Christ the company of Saints Angels the perfection of your natures a crown of glory fulness of joy and pleasures at Gods right-hand for evermore through the perpetual Ages of a boundless Eternity This were worth praying groaning obeying suffering for a thousand years to get read for and possessions of at last On the other hand to think of the sting of Conscience the company of Devils and damned Souls the loss of God Christ Heaven your precious Souls the burning Lake the bottomless Pit the scorching Flames and this for ever and ever an endless duration Oh Sirs if you should but look down into that stupendious gulf what a change would it work in your hearts You would banish your vain company lay aside your worldly business cast off your sensual pleasures and mind nothing else till your Souls be secured to all Eternity This would be as the cry at midnight Behold the Bridegroom cometh go ye forth to meet him Matth. 25.6 As sleepy as they were this startled them so it would you as if you heard a voice as out of the Clouds Sinner thou art now summoned to appear before the dreadful tribunal of the all seeing Judge to receive thy final sentence and to be sent to an everlasting state of weal or woe stay not one moment in thy state of unregeneracy hast hast yea make post hast out of it fall to the work of Faith and Repentance as for thy life defer not one day now or never You 'l say can I make my self meet for Heaven What can I do The work is Gods I answer God is the efficient but he will make you instruments in this work Gods grace and Mans duty are very consistent Study Phil. 2.12 13. Up and be doing and God will be with you Though God must turn yet you must endeavour to turn your selves Ezek. 18.30 31. Though God make you a new heart yet he will have you make you a new heart Oh Sirs fall close to the work examine prove try your states by the rule of the Word attend the most piercing powerful Ministry search out all your iniquities and confess them before the Lord with grief hatred and shame beg converting grace as for your lives plead with God for pardon through the Blood of Christ solemnly renew your Paptismal Covenant in taking God for your God and giving up your selves to him and then read meditate watch and pray mortifie your beloved lusts obey the commands of God and do these things speedily seriously and constantly and see what the effect will be If you will fall to it well and good if not you are guilty of self-murder and remember you are this day warned 2. I turn me to truly gracious Souls that are in a safe state for the main as to habitual meetness but I fear are far short of that actual meetness that is requisite as to a lively exercise of suitable graces clear evidence of spiritual state dispatching work off their hands being mortified to time and longing for Heaven Alas the wise Virgins slumbered and slept I fear few of us are in that readiness we ought to be in might have been in or that others have attained to nay it s well if now our Souls be in that frame that sometimes we have been in What decays of love zeal tenderness what backslidings deadness hardness worldliness formality do Gods Children fall into What staggerings in our Faith of the reality of unseen things How uncertain about our Title to this Inheritance Doth not our slavish fear of death shew thee Our instability and variable motions in Religion our distractions in holy duties our frequent closing with temptations and too oft stepping aside into sin our intermitting duties of Gods worship and strangeness growing betwixt God and our Souls our unreadiness in our accounts our unwillingness to go to God All these too sadly demonstrate our unmeetness for Heaven Alas Friends are we not yet meet Let us be ashamed of our slackness what have we been doing with all that time these helps and priviledges we have had Have not many young ones and others out-stript us and are got to Heaven that set out after us Are we not ashamed of our loytering and lagging behind What 's become of the many warnings we have had in our selves and others Have we any greater
at the rate of that Inheritance he is heir to Thus the Christian gets everlasting Consolation because he hath good hopes through Grace 2 Thess 2.16 O saith the Believer Divine Revelations have so fully demonstrated the reality of future Glory that my Faith no more doubts of it then of going to Bed at night and why should not my Flesh and Spirit rest in hope Psal 16.9 Why should not then my heart be glad Why may not my glory rejoyce Yea I will rejoyce in hope of the glory of God for my hope will not make me ashamed Rom. 5.2 5. I dare venture my hopes and my all in this blessed Covenant-bottom My soul hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him and that for ever Psal 42.11 3. Love That 's a grace that shines brightest in its proper Orb above but the more it is exercised here below the more of Heaven Love resembles the Soul most to God and raiseth the Soul to an Heavenly Life God is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him 1 Joh. 4.16 The Soul that is carried out to God in pure flames of holy love hath mounted already into the highest Region and bathes it self in those pure streams that raise and ravish the Spirit in a continued extasie The more Love the more fittedness for Heaven If love be increased and abound our hearts are established unblameable at his coming 1 Th. 3.12 13. Yea the more Love the more of Heaven for what is our love but a reflexion of Gods love 1 Joh. 4.19 Oh saith the Christian I feel the sweet beams of the Sun of Righteousness warming my heart methinks those Heavenly sparks have set me in a flame that when I am Musing the fire burns when I am Praying or Praising God my Soul mounts up to my Lord as pillars of smoak and I love to be near him and to be acting for him Oh how sweet is every Love-letter that comes from him How pleasant are some tokens of love that come from the hand and heart of my beloved Here is the soul that is meet for Heaven 4 Humility and Self-denyal Will you believe it The lower the Christian casts himself down the nearer Heaven But this is a truth Matth. 5.3 Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven God makes his court in the humble and contrite Spirit Isa 57.15 Oh saith Christian this grace have I found in me that duty is performed by me this corruption have I mortified that burden have I born what say I That I have done this or that O no By the grace of God I am what I am I laboured yet not I but the grace of God 1 Cor. 15.10 I dare not say any thing is my own but sin and what 's performed by me is mixt with sin and imperfection Horreo quicquid de meo est I tremble for fear saith Luther at any thing that is of mine own I must not depend on mine own Righteousness O that I may be found in Christ I am nothing can do nothing deserve nothing but Death and Hell If ever I be admitted into Heaven it must be upon the account of Christ his Merits upon the Cross his Intercession in Heaven That 's an excellent Text Rev. 19.7 8. Let us be glad and rejoyce and give honour to him for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his Wife hath made her self ready But how is she ready Why to her was graunted that she should be arrayed in fine linnen clean and white for the sine linnen is the righteousness of Saints Indeed it s no other then Christs Righteousness imputed This is the upper garment that must not only cover our nakedness but the tattered rags of our own Righteousness whether that relate to a glorious state of the Church on Earth or in Heaven I dispute not But I am sure its the bravest suit that she can put on and she will look trim in that only and woe to them that appear in their best inherent Righteousness Let the proud self-justiciary say Coelum gratis non accipiam I will not have Heaven gratis or for nothing I will pay a proportionable rate for it then thou art like to go without it for it s not saleable Ware Rom. 9.31 But let a poor self-condemning Publican come and beg Pardon and Heaven for Christs sake and God will not deny him For he resisteth the proud but gives grace and glory to the humble Jam. 4.6 CHAP. IV. Meetness for Heaven in clear evidences of Title to it 2. THe next particular wherein a meetness for Heaven doth consist is Assurance or grounded evidence of our title to this Heavenly Inheritance for no Man is ready to go out of this World but he that hath solid grounds of his safe estate for another World for doubts breed fears and those lears beget unwillingness to go hence He dare not dye that knows not whither he must go and he is not meet for death that hath not used Gods appointed means to obtain assurance a thousand to one a Soul at uncertainties hath been a slothful negligent Soul for in an usual way diligence be gets assurance For so saith the Apostle Heb. 6.11 We desire that every one of you would shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope to the end that ye be not slothful ver 12. So 2 Pet. 1.10 Give diligence to make your Calling and Election sure And what then Why then ver 11. he adds For so an entrance shall be ministred to you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ A Ship may make an hard shift to get sneaking into the Harbor with Anchors lost Cables rent Sails torn Masts broken these get safe in but with much ado but oh how gallantly doth another ride in to the credit of her Master good example to others comfort and satisfaction to all in the Ship when she comes in with Sails spread Flags up Trumpets sounding and well Victualled surely these come in bravely This is just the difference betwixt a lazy Professor that wants assurance and an active Christian in his voyage to this blessed Haven God requires this assurance means are appointed for attaining it serious Christians have gained it so mayest thou and so must thou endeavour after it You 'll say how is it got By what means may a Christian come to the assurance of his title to this Heavenly Inheritance that he may be meet or fit to take possession of it at death I Answer in general it must be supposed that you have a title which is your habitual meetness or else how can you be assured of it You that are unregenerate you have a greater work to pass through before you are capable of obtaining assurance But supposing this I answer 1. An holy diligence in increasing exercising graces and performance of duty This I hinted before Acts evidence habits Improving grace is Gods way to
comforts of his Spirit from the best of his Saints yea he with-held them from his own Son and another thing what may and usually is the effect of Mans sloth and negligence which is too commonly our case as Mr. Dod answered him that complained of want of assurance why Man assurance may be had and what have you been doing all this while 4. Yet this will hold good that a clear evidence of our title is a great meetness and readiness for Death For though assurance be not necessary ad esse to the being of a Christian yet it s necessary ad bene esse of a Christian i. e. to his well being or comfortable passage through or parting out of this World for if we must draw near to God in a duty with full assurance of Faith Heb. 10.22 much more at death Oh what a vast difference i◠there betwixt a Soul carried 〈◊〉 the wing of Faith and flames o◠Love in an extasie of Joy and the poor doubting heartless disconsolate Soul The former is like some high Mountains that are above Storms and Clouds as they say Olympus is clear and beautiful Oh the calmness and serenity of the well assured Christian He hath a double Heaven well at present better presently it s but shooting this gulf crossing this Jordan passing this stile as Dr. Taylor said and I shall be in my Fathers house Death it self as terrible as it is in it self and to others is a stingless Serpent my Friend and Fathers Servant sent to fetch me home Angels shall guard me my Lord will bid me welcome my Christian Friends gone before will make Heaven ring with shouts of joy at my landing safe and my Soul shall ever be with the 〈◊〉 But alas the poor doubting Soul whose evidences are not clear cryes out Alas dye I must and dye I dare not I dare not say God is my God Christ my Saviour the Spirit my sanctifier Promises the Charters that convey the Inheritance to others I cannot apply whither I am going I know not God carries strangely to me I remember God and am troubled guilt stares me in the face I am conscious to my self of thousands of sins and though I have been long bungling about Faith and Repentance yet I am not sure they are sincere and saving and whether God will receive my sad departing Soul Anxius vixi dubius morior as that great Man said I have lived under fears I dye under doubts and God knows what will become of me and I may thank my self alas this is the fruit of my sloth security my slipping into sin backslidings from God intermittings of duty careless and heartless performances wo is me what will become of me These are the astonishing thoughts of a poor doubtful dying Soul And is this Man meet for Heaven He may be right for the main but he cannot make Death welcome CHAP. V. Meetness for Heaven in dispatching our work here off our hands 3. THE next thing wherein our meetness for this blessed Inheritance doth consist is in dispatching our main work in the world that God sent us to do whatever that is God expects we should dispatch it and get it done this we must all address our selves chearfully to do and be very diligent in doing it Eccles 9.10 Whatsoever thine hand findes and do it with thy might This is 〈◊〉 a time of working the other world is a day of retribution and when the Child of God hath wrought his days work it s a fit time to go to Bed Thus our dear Lord tells his Father Joh. 17.4 5. I have finished the work that thou gavest me to do And now O Father glorifie me with thy own self Quest What work is it that God sets before Men to dispatch and manage Answ There is a fourfold work lyes upon a Christians hands to manage in this world 1. Personal Spiritual work Soul work wherein God is more immediately concerned which is the glorifying of God and saving his own Soul God hath involved these in one they are inseparable companions and its a mighty business Our Lord saith I have glorified 〈…〉 on the Earth This in 〈◊〉 measure is required of us and the sincere Christian makes it his design Thou knowest Oh my dear Lord what is that which hath lain highest in my heart ever since thou openedst mine Eyes The earnest desire of my Soul hath been to be nothing in mine own eyes that God alone may have all the glory I will confess and give glory to God I will and through grace have desired to make it my business to give glory to God by believing repenting obeying fruit-bearing yea in eating drinking and whatsoever I do in natural moral or civil actions This this is the mark I shoot at my highest aim that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 4.11 And my business is in order thereto to study how to please God and to abound more and more 1 Thess 4.1 to obey Gods Commandments and to do those things that are pleasing in his sight 1 Joh. 3.22 and oh that my Person and Prayers might be accepted in Christ The salvation of my Soul is more dear and precious then this poor perishing Carcase My grand enquiry is what must I do to be saved This is the one thing needful other things are upon the by Oh that I could work out my own salvation I appeal to thee Lord how many griefs and groans prayers and pains fears and tears this main concern hath cost me I know there 's much of this work about my precious Soul yet undone but thou knowest the main is dispatcht I have fought a good fight finisht my course kept the faith 2 Tim. 4.7 And now my Land-business is done let me go to Sea and launch out into that boundless ocean of eternal happiness 2. Temporal work the business of our Callings and particular occasions This also the dying Christian is drawing into a narrower compass that he may voluntarily leave the world before the world leave him the Christian having had his head and hands full of business in his younger days when old age comes is glad of a quietus est or writ of ease that he may vacare Deo be at more leisure for God in holy duties Methink saith the good heart I have had my share both of the imployments and injoyments of this lower world and am well content to shake hands therewith I can behold with pity the laborious Ants and Pismires running upon this Mole-hill and busily scrambling for a little dust let them take it God hath made my hands to be sufficient for me I have what will bear my charges to the grave let it go I am glad I have so fairly parted with it I would not be to enter again upon this busie stage or put forth to this tumultuous Sea I have now other things to mind I have now the great work to mind of setting streight my accounts for another
from Hell to Heaven The Sunshine of Love comes to melt and thaw our frozen hearts that God may set a stamp upon us The loving kindness of God leads to Repentance Rom. 2.4 Oh what an influence will Gods native goodness have upon an ingenuous Spirit As the Sun attracts vapours from the Earth so this Son of Righteousness should and will if our sturdy hearts hinder not raise our hearts Heaven-wards It s pity we should stop here in the streams but that thereby we should be led to the fountain and follow the beams up to the Sun May this long-suffering of the Lord be your salvation 2 Pet. 3.15 May love constrain you to love God May these load-stones so attract you and these grapes of Canaan enamour you that you may never rest till you appear before God in Zion And what are all Gods rods and redoubled strokes for but to awaken you out of security Peat your fingers off from the world Weaken your corruptions and purge and furbish your Souls as vessels for the high shelf of glory For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory 2 Cor. 4.17 How is that Surely by working the Soul into a fitness for that glory This furnace melts away the dross of our Spirit Sea-tossings clear the liquor of grace this dark night fits for the pleasant morning these pangs prepare us for deliverance these blustering storms fit souls for the peaceable fruits of righteousness being sanctified by the Spirit and improved by Faith Affliction is Gods Physick which makes sick but prepares for sweet health and shall we frustrate Gods ends in this also What are you content with a Heaven here and an Hell hereafter Nay can you be content with an Hell in both worlds Must these be par-boilings for everlasting burnings God forbid Look at the Lords end in these sufferings and let it be yours 5. The time of this life is the only time men have given them to be made meet for Heaven This life is a praeludium to an eternal state It s a Seminary for another world Gal. 6.7 8. Whatsoever a man soweth that shall be also reap He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting Seeding is a preparatory to reaping yet men must expect only to reap that kind of grain that 's sown none can think to reap Wheat that sowed Oats and you know there 's more abundunce in the reaping then in the sowing So in this case Hell torments will be more exquisite and eternal then the profit and pleasure of the sinner in sinning Heavens joys will infinitely furmount the Christians labours and sorrows in this world and there is great equity in both for the object sinned against is infinite and satisfaction can never be made by a finite Creature and the grace from whence flows Eternal Life is infinite and will have an endless duration But the point I am upon is to demonstrate the necessity of making meet for Heaven in this world or it will never be done Now or never When the door is shut the gulf fixt and the Soul loosed from the Body and launcht out into that vast ocean of Eternity there 's no returning back to get the oyl of grace or be fiting the Soul for another world Eccl. 9.10 What soever thine hand findeth to do do it with thy might for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest Time lasts not but floats away apace but what is everlasting depends upon it Hic aut accepimus aut amittimus vitam aeternam In this world we either win or lose eternal Life The great weight of Eternity hangs on the small and twittered thread of time Now is the accepted time now is the day of salvation 2 Cor. 6.2 This is our working day our market time surely it becomes us to lay that Foundation well that bears such a Superstructure To cast that Anchor safely that is entrusted with a Vessel so richly laden Oh Sirs sleep now and awake in Eell from whence is no redemption Suppose by misdemeanour you had forfeited your Estate and Life and upon much intercession the King causeth an Hour-glass to be turned and set you a work to do or lesson to learn if you performed it you are pardoned and promoted if not tortured and executed Oh how diligent would you be What pains would you take The case is your own Sirs Heaven and Hell are before you according to your improvement or non-improvement of this hour of life so must you fare dream not of a Purgatory as the Tree falls so it lyes You enter by death into an unchangeable state only the Body at the Resurrection will be joyned to the Soul to be partner with it in weal or woe bliss or bane for ever The state here is tempus operis the time of working hereafter mercedis of reward Oh look before you leap into another world That 's the fifth Reason 6. The Christian must be made meet here for the Inheritance above because he hath abundance of work to do and priviledges to injoy in order to the full possession of this blessed Inheritance above We have many graces to exercise duties to perform corruptions to subdue temptations to resist burdens to bear mercies to improve that will never be managed to purpose without a qualification for managing them And observe it the same disposition is requisite for making a Christian meet for any duty that 's requisite to make him meet for glory the same habitual principle and drawing it forth into lively exercise Not only must the man of God be perfect throughly furnished unto all good works 2 Tim. 3.17 but every Christian that is a vessel unto honour must be sanctified and so meet for his Masters use and prepared unto every good work 2 Tim. 2.21 Alas an unsanctified heart is unfit for spiritual service Solomon saith The legs of the lame are not equal he halts and goes limping so is a parable in the mouth of fools Prov. 26.7 How aukwardly and bunglingly doth he go to work in sacred things just as an unskilful person handles a Lute a Viol or Instrument of Musick or as the men of Ephraim could not frame to pronounce Shibboleth aright Judg. 12.6 There must be a suitableness betwixt the Agent and Acts No carnal heart can do any one good work well materially he may do what is good but not formally as good in a good manner for a good end acceptably to God or profitably to himself For they that are in the flesh cannot please God and without faith its impossible to please God Rom. 8.8 Heb. 11.6 And can we think God will carry them to Heaven that never struck a right stroke or never did one hours work for God that he would accept A graceless sinner is like the fruitless
Vine tree Ezek. 15.3 4 5. that is not meet for any work but it is cast into the fire for fuel just so is that branch that 's professionally in Christ that beareth not fruit it s taken away and cast into the fire and burned Joh. 15 2.-6 The Divine Wisdom is seen in suiting means to the end object to the faculty back to the burden Now graceless sinners are not fit for Gods work and if they be not fit in this world they will never be fit 2. The Christian hath many priviledges to injoy which he must be meet for even in this world as Reconciliation Justification Adoption Joy in the Holy Ghost Peace of Conscience Communion with God Audience of Prayers c. All these God hath promised Christ hath purchased for his Children and they are Childrens bread and must not be given to dogs God will not throw away his Mercies on such as value them not but scorn them they set light by precious delicates of his Table Mat. 22 5. The whole slight the Physitian Mat. 9.12 The full soul loaths the honey comb The carnal heart will not thank God for pardon and grace and can we think God will force his Blessings on such ungrateful miscreants that scorn both him and his kindness No surely there are some that long for these Blessings and will thankfully accept them See Acts 13.46 48. and 28.28 Yea he will make you prize them and part with all for them or you shall never have them What think you doth not the great God take care to secure his own glory as well as Mans felicity And would it not be dishonourable to God to bestow his richest treasures and pleasures of grace on such as despise them and take more pleasure in rooting in the sordid dunghil of sensual delights then in seeking first the Kingdom of God which consists in righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost Rom. 14.17 Alas Honour is not seemly for a fool Prov. 26.1 As a Jewel of Gold in a swines snout so is a fair Woman without discretion Prov. 11.22 These silly fools are not meet to sit as Princes with the King at his Table because they want a Wedding-garment of suitable disposition for so high a priviledge Mat. 22.12 CHAP. VIII Another Reason drawn from the necessary consistency of a Christians meetness for so glorious an Inheritance 7. THE last Reason why souls must be made meet for Heaven is because other wise there would be no consistency or suitable harmony betwixt men and glory If their natures be not changed they will not have a suitableness of disposition to the glorious state above The truth of this I shall demonstrate in these 4 particulars 1. None but persons made meet for Heaven will have any mind to leave the world and go to God A carnal unconverted soul is totally unwilling to go hence they fancy to themselves an Eternity below Their inward thought is that their houses shall endure for ever Psal 49.11 Yea themselves for they put far from them the evil day and sing a requiem to themselves as the fool in the Gospel and no wonder for they live by sense and know what they have here but know not what they must have hereafter As the old doting Monk that shewed his brave accommodations saying These things make us unwilling to dye It was an usual saying among the Heathens soli Christiani sunt mortis contemptores that Christians only are contemners of death This is applicable to sincere Christians Stoical apathy will not do it but Faith will Julius Palmer the Martyr said To them that have their Souls linked to the Elesh like a Rogues foot to a pair of stocks it is indeed hard to dye but for him who is able to separate Soul and Body by the help of Gods Spirit it is no more mastery for such a one to dye then for me to drink this cup of Beer Nay when the Christian is upon good terms with God he desires to be loosed or dissolved and to be with Christ Phil. 1.23 Yea this is the disposition of a Soul meet for Heaven that he loves and longs for Christs appearing 2 Tim. 4.8 but the sincere Christian that is not actually meet son Heaven though through grace he be habitually meet often shrugs at the approach of death and is glad to chide himself out and say as that holy man Egredere mea Arima egredere Go out my Soul go out what art thou afraid of And surely that man is more acceptable to God and comfortable in death that hath set all things streight and hath nothing to do but surrender his Soul into Gods hands this man will make his Lord welcome any hour of the day or watch of the night but the other is like a Maid undrest and unready though for the main she love her Friend and desire his coming yet in the present juncture and under those circumstances she is surprized and troubled that he should find her in that pitiful pickle This is the case of the unmeet Christian 2. None but Souls meet for Heaven are fit for death through which all must pass It s true the Apostle doth discover to us this mistery which among the rest he might receive in the third Heavens 1 Cor. 15.51 We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed but this change is a peculiar dispensation in the end of the world and this change is equivalent to death This is certain the fruit of the curse the sting of death will fasten her fangs on the unconverted soul that 's under the covenant of works and is not in Christ It s only the sincere Christian that can sing that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Song of Triumph or can make that brave challenge 1 Cor. 15.56 57. O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory Only our Captain Jesus hath disarmed death and it is only for his members others are left to its rage Death feeds on them Psal 49.14 it hath a full morsel of them The first death kills the Body and the second death damns the Soul but blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first Resurrection on such the second death hath no power Rev. 20.6 Oh happy state of real Saints Christ our David hath conquered this Goliah The Ark of the Covenant hath driven back this swelling Jordan Tollitur mors non ne sit sed ne obsit This Serpent may hiss and hit not hurt strike down it may not strike home it may thrust Gods Children into the Grave not into Hell Nay our Lord sets his not only above the danger by death but fears of death that are thus meet for Heaven Heb. 2.14 15. that can say as that gracious Gentlewoman a Martyr written by me Anne Askew that neither wisheth for death nor feareth his might and as merry as one that 's bound for Heaven But oh the woful state of a graceless sinner that is in Natures
and the humbler the Soul is the fitter for God Isa 57.15 and 66.2 Thank God for that humility 3. You may and must be thankful for the Mercies which you have and cannot deny but God hath vouchsafed You have your lives for a prey are out of Hell which is more then you deserve you have abundant outward Mercies do not these deserve thankfulness Yea Christ hath purchased grace and glory for some nay further he hath put thousands into possession of this inheritance and should not this make you thankful Yea further Heaven is offered to you and you are under the means of grace and in a possibility of obtaining this happiness which Devils and damned Souls are not and is not this ground of thankfulness 4. Be sure you keep in mind the distinction of habitual and actual meetness for Heaven If you have not the former either relative or real be not adopted or justified are neither converted nor covenanted with God I say the Lord have mercy on you your case is doleful you have great cause of lamentation Oh man I am not now speaking to thee Be afflicted and mourn let your laughter be turned into mourning your joy to heaviness Jam. 4.9 Yea you graceless rich men weep and houl for your miseries that shall come upon you Jam. 5.1 I have not a word of comfort from the Lord to you Your eatthly inheritances shall be taken from you and you shall be thrust into the dungeon of Hell You may for a while kindle a fire and walk warm in the sparks you have kindled but faith God this shall you have of mine hand ye shall lye down in sorrow Isa 50.11 Stand you by while the Saints take comfort in their portion Read Isa 65.13 14 15. It is to you the heirs of promise to whom I am now speaking and bear you this in mind that its one thing to have right to this inheritance another to know you have right Many a gracious Soul is much in the dark about its relation yet its state safe for the main What sayest thou Hast thou not the things that accompany Salvation Heb. 6.9 Hath not God been dealing with thy heart as he useth to deal with such as he designs for Heaven Hast thou not seen thy woful state by Nature The necessity of Christ and grace Hast thou not experienced a change from Nature to Grace from Death to Life Hath not this new birth cost thee griefs and groans prayers and tears Dost thou not delight now in what thou didst disdain Is not thy principle rule end otherwise then formerly Hast thou not changed thy company courses manner of life Speak out man belye not thy self deny not Gods grace something like grace thou seest in thy self and to be sure Satan and World oppose it and man and thy self could not work it It is of God a seed sown by the hand of omnipotency And he that hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ Phil. 1.6 As to actual meetness for Heaven I refer you to what hath been laid down before look it over deal impartially see if your experience do not answer those heads hath not God helped you in the exercise of the graces of Faith Hope Love Humility Hath not God given you some grounded evidence of sincerity by diligence in duty reflection on your state appealing to God and pleading with God for the Spirits sealings Hath not God helpt you to be dispatching your work off your hands Spiritual Temporal Relative and Publick Are you not much mortified to corruption worldly injoyments and have you not spiritualized earthly things and got more intimate familiarity with God What say you to these things Do not your hearts eccho back with your probatum est setting your seal to these things I have not time nor room to inlarge further but I would have you diligently compare your selves now with what you were some years ago Is not your Repentance more Evangelical Doth not the sense of divine love extort from you more tears of godly sorrow and more vehement hatred of all sin purely it is offensive to God Hath not your Faith been more vigorous in its actings upon your dear Lord In closing more fully with promises Have you not been more frequent and serious in renewing your Covenant with God And have not such dayes and duties been solemn heart-melting opportunities Have you not been more constant and inlarged in the duty of secret Prayer with shorter intermissions and more favouriness Do you spend your time better then formerly Do you fill up every vacancy with some useful business for Earth or Heaven Have you not more incomes of grace and assistance in duties both as to matter and manner To knit your minds and raise your affections to God and sometimes suggest words to you Do you not more concern your selves for the Souls of Relations and others in Prayer and Discourse being more weighted with the necessity of their Conversion Are you not more endeared to Saints as Saints though poor or disobliging and of a different perswasion Have you not got power over your Passions to regulate them And if you feel unruly motions can you pray them down and through grace calm them Can you not put up injuries and affronts and not only so as not to revenge and forgive but pray more heartily for the repentance and remission of such as are most malicious against you Is it not more the grief of thy heart when God is dishonoured his Spirit grieved his Gospel reproached by the sins of profane or professours If thou think any body is offended by thee is it not more a real trouble to thee then formerly And thou canst not be quiet till thou seekest Reconciliation And if thou be conscious of giving them just occasion thou confessest thy fault and humblest thy self to them Hast thou not learned more faithfully and discreetly to manage the duty of private admonition of an offending Christian Drawing out bowels of compassion for and to such as are fallen Do not publick concerns of Church or Nation lye nearer thy heart daily Canst thou not more rejoyce in the gifts graces holiness usefulness of others though it obscure thine Art thou not more glad when corruptions are mortified then gratified When occasions of sinning are removed rather then afforded though it cost thee dear Dost thou not more sensibly understand the sweet life of faith in temporals Committing all to God thou findest provisions have been strangely made Are not thy affections more spiritualized towards dearest Relations Dost thou not love them in the Lord and the Lord in them and canst freely part with them upon Gods call Art thou not more taken up with Gods Mercies to give him the glory of them then any personal content thou hast in them Is not thy heart daily more weary of the world and longing for Heaven Yet after all this canst thou not say thou art nothing deservest nothing but Hell And if God glorifie his Justice in thy confusion thy mouth is stopped and thou must justifie him for ever with flames about thine Eares Dost thou not account thy self the greatest of Sinners least of Saints and by the grace of God thou art what thou art And this thou canst truly say that God is more thy exceeding joy and Christ more precious to thy Soul then ever Canst thou in thy sober solid setled frame answer these questions thy state is safe and sweet and thou art meet for Heaven yet not so meet but still breathing after more meetness till thy last gasp of breath for no man on this side death was ever meet enough and all must be ascribed to grace grace in the foundation grace in the topstone I shall conclude all with a part of a Poem in Mr. Herbert called Grace p. 52. Death is still working like a Mole And digs my Grave at each remove Let Grace work too and on my Soul Drop from above Sin is still hammering my heart Vnto an hardness void of love Let suppling Grace to cross his art Drop from above O come for thou dost know the way Or if to me thou wilt not move Remove me where I need not say Drop from above 2 Cor. 5.8 We are confident I say and willing rather to be absent frrm the body and to be present with the Lord. Amen FINIS Some Books to be Sold by Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside A Call to Sinners such as are under sentence of Death and such as are under any prospect of it from the long suffering and gracious but most righteous God Three Questions resolved briefly and plainly viz. 1. What Conceptions ought we to have of the blessed God 2. What are those Truths whereof the Knowledge appeareth most indispensably necessary unto our Salvation and therefore to be first and most learnt by us 3. What is the change wrought in a Man by Gods H. Word and Spirit before he can safely conclude himself passed from Death to Life Being the Summ of three Sermons The Christian Temper Or the Quiet state of Mind that Gods Servants labour for Set forth in a Sermon at the Funeral of Mrs. Vrsula Collins A seasonable Question plainly resolved viz. What are we to judge of their spiritual estate who neglect the Lords Supper And what is that discerning of the Lords Body in it without which men do Eat and Drink their own Damnation The Christians earnest Expectation and Longing for the Glorious Appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Set forth in a Discourse occasioned by the Decease of that Excellent Christian and Minister of Christ Mr. Noah Webb late of Sandhurst in the County of Berks. FINIS In Answer to this question see 3 Opinions in Dr. Tuckney Theses Praet Theol. ubi videa praeclare furius disputata p. 269. ad p. 292.