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spirit_n	aaron_n	apostle_n	body_n	24	3	4.0266	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86138	A three-fold cord to unite soules for ever unto God. 1. The mysterie of godlinesse opened. 2. The imitation of Christ proposed. 3. The crowne of afflicted saints promised. / As it was compacted by M. Richard Head, M.A. and sometimes minister of the Gospel, in his labours at Great Torrington in Devon. Published now, after his death, for publike profit.	Head, Richard, Rev.	1647 (1647)	Wing H1277B; Thomason E410_13; ESTC R204453	37,489	56

before him in his Temple for ever A sweet meditation especially in the time of sicknesse and in the houre of death against the crawling wormes and the place of silence I know saith Iob that my Redeemer liveth and that hee shall stand at the latter day upon the Earth and though after my skin Wormes destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my selfe and mine eyes shall behold and not another though my reines be consumed within me Iob 19.25 26 27. O what meanes doe many use to keepe themselves ali●e yea to preserve the bodies of their friends being dead from putrifaction they imbalme them in Spices and lay them up in Marble yet all will not do the bodies of Kings and Queens must yeeld to rottennesse onely a good life makes our bodies immortall Fifthly Our bodies shall bee spirituall 'T is sowne saith the Apostle a naturall body 't is raised a spirituall body For then they shall bee sustained by the Spirit without meat and drinke not as Moses on the Mount for fortie dayes onely but for ever and ever and whereas now the flesh lusteth against the Spirit there being a Law in the members rebelling against the law of the minde Then the body shall bee subject to the Spirit and in all things attend on him Sixtly and lastly This body saith the Apostle is sowne in weakenesse it riseth in power whereas now wee are weary of kneeling in prayer weary of Prayer it selfe Insomuch that Aaron and Hur must attend Moses to hold up his inseebled hands but then shall our bodies bee able to performe their owne actions without desatigation they shall then bee able to move themselves any way with ease upwards downwards backwards forwards more easily then now to lift up an hand and hee shall change our vile bodies and make them like unto his glorious body according to his mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himselfe Yea not onely man but the Heavens and the Earth shall in that day bee as it were new borne Behold saith God I create a new Heaven and a new Earth So it is likewise in 2 Pet. 3. Whereas the Heavens now give raine and snow c. then they shall exhibit Christ Matth. 26.64 Hereafter shall yee see the sonne of man sitting on the right hand of power and comming in the clouds of Heaven Whereas the Heavens are now ever whirling and wheeling about alwayes winding up the thread of mans life then they shall stand fast for ever the Heavens shall rest from their motion and receive a greater perfection of brightnesse and claritie The ayre shall be purged from obscurity the fire from consuming quality the water from putrifaction the earth from weeds and all hurtfull creatures yea from barrennesse she shall bring forth as before the Fall without labour and Husbandry And all this for the comfort of the Saints who are to passe this way into Heaven in their long white Robes as Princes through some Gallerie into their Chambers of Presence Then this Earth howsoever now a Valley of Teares shall be unto us a Doore of Hope in the Valley of Achor The wicked shall see this and by it as through a Crevise the glory of Heaven but themselves shut out of both But when shall this regeneration of the Creatures be When the Sonne of man shall sit in the Throne of his glory First Christ shall come to judge the quick and dead so it is said Acts 10.42 And he commanded us to preach unto the people and to testifie that it is hee which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead So againe in the 17. Chapter verse 31. Because he hath appointed a day in the which hee will judge the world in righteousnesse by that man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that hee hath raysed him from the dead And so wee beleeve Hee knowes all even our most secret thoughts Hell and destruction saith Salomon are before the Lord how much more the hearts of the sonnes of men All things are naked and broken up before him and as hee knowes all so hee is able to punish and that not the body onely hee can cast both body and soule into Hell Revel. 20. Whosoever was not found written in the Booke of the Lambe was cast into the Lake of fire First this should teach us feare and trembling Knowing the terrors of the Lord saith the Apostle Paul wee perswade men And saith the Apostle Peter if yee call him Father who without respect of persons judgeth every man according to his workes passe the time of your sojourning here in feare 1 Peter 1.17 Secondly learne from hence to looke to your Packes see what Wares you carry with you for in that Day all must be opened Thirdly learne hence to agree with your adversarie while you are in the way If you were to dye to morrow what would you doe to day how spend your time And yet you may dye sooner Take heed At the Tree falleth there it lyes Fourthly Art thou injured slandered mifused any way Remember a Day is comming wherein all must stand at Christs Tribunall You saith Corah with his Complices unto Moses and Aaron you take too much upon you Numb. 16. And what doth Moses answer To morrow saith hee the Lord shall shew who are his And 1 Cor. 4.3 4. But with me it is a very small thing that I shon'd be judged of you or of mans judgement yea I judge not mine owne selfe for I know nothing by my selfe yet am I not hereby justified but he that judgeth me is the Lord Therefore judge nothing before the time untill the Lord come who both will bring to light the hidden things of darknesse and will make manifest the counsels of the heart and then shall every man have prayse of God Fifthly Art thou afraid to appeare before the Judge Remember it is thy Saviour the dyed for thee If Pharaohs Butler feared not to got before him because Joseph had assured him of Libertie how comfortably then are wee to appeare before the Judge being alreadie assured all shall goe well with us Hee is our Judge who is our Saviour and Mediatour a most comfortable Meditation I am your Brother saith Joseph unto his Brethren I am your Brother Joseph This could not but comfort them howsoever conscious of their injuries done him So it is here Sixthly It Christ must be our Judge how warily then and holily are wee to live now that wee may not be ashamed at his Comming Peter being on the Seas and seeing his Master on the yonder shoare girds his Coat about him One would thinke hee should rather have cast his Coat from him No no hee was to appeare before his Master and hee would appeare comely 2 Cor. 5.10 For wee must all appeare before the Iudgement-Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body

according to that hea hath done whether it be good or bad Seventhly Happie are all they that are gone out of themselves into Christ for Rom. 8.1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christlesus who walke not after the flesh but after the Spirit Observe further As Christ shall come to judge the world so being come hee shall sit in the Throne of his glory Dun. 7.9 14. I behold and lee are like the Some of Man 〈◊〉 w●h the Clouds of Heaven and came to the Ancient of dayes and they brought him neere before him and there was given him Dominion and Glory and a Kingdome that all People Nations and Languages should serve hi● his Dominion is an everlasting Dominion which shall not passe away and his Kingdome that which shall not bee destroyed Match 34.30 And then shall appeare the signe of the Sonne of Ma● in Heaven What this signe is me thinkes may be gathered from verse the 27. As the Lightning commeth from the East and passeth to the West so shall the comming of the Sonne of Man be M● saith Christ 〈…〉 here is Christ and there is Christ 〈…〉 shall be the signe of my comming even the bright● and splendour of my Body obscuring all other Lights and awakening all the World That it shall be this is manifest Revel. 21.23 And the Citie had no need of the Sunne neither of the Moone to shine in it for the glory of God did lighten it and the Lambe is the light thereof If wee tell you of Christs Glory at his Transsiguration in the Mount you will tell us of that of Moses comming from his fortie dayes conference with the Lord But the difference is great First the glory of Moses was onely in his face that of Christ all over his Body secondly when Moses veyled his face none could see his beautle but that of Christ appeared through his garments Thirdly the glory of Moses made the people afraid but that of Christ was amiable and lovely Bonum est esse hit said they that were with him Fourthly Moses could not communicate his glory unto any but Christ saith the Apostle shall make our bodyes like unto his glorious Body Since the Glory of Christ was such at his Transfiguration what will his Glory be in that Day when hee shall sit in his Throne Hee came in the forme of a servant was a man of sorrowes knowning infirmities Our sinnes like continuall droppings of water putting out the Lumpe of his life But when hee comes againe O what beauty what resplendant Majesty But what of all this In that day they that have followed Christ shall sit on twelve Thrones and judge the twelve Tribes of Israel Observe First the Saints shall partake of CHRISTS GLORY Secondly They and none but they Thirdly Nor they till then First the Saints shall partake of Christs Glory God hath said it and you know hee is faithfull who hath promised All his promiser are Ye● and Amer See here what a good Master we serve The World payes his followers with trouble and carefulnesse the Flesh payes her followers with corruption and filthinesse the Devill his with despaire and wre●ednesse but Christ his with Glory and Blessednesse To hasten your desires homeward and to sweeten your affections by the way with Moses looke up to the recompence of Reward God gives you leave so to doe Secondly as the Saints shall partake of Christs Glory so none but they shall partake thereof Psal. 50.5 Gather my Saints together unto me● those that have made a Covenant with me by Sacrifice So Mal. 3.17 18. And they shall bee mine saith the Lord of Hosts in that day when I make up my Jawels and I will spare them as a man spareth his owne sonne that serveth him then shall yee returns and discerne betweene the righteous and the wicked betweene him that serveth God and him that serveth him not Againe Mal. 4.2 3. But unto you that feare my Name shall the Sonne of Righteousnesse arise with healing in his wings and yee shall goe forth and grow as Calues of the stall and yee shall tread downe the wicked for they shall bee as ashes under the soles of your feet in that day I shall doe this saith the Lord of Hosts This point like the Red Sea opens it selfe for the passage of Gods people into Heaven and then closeth againe on the ungodly to their destruction You that live prophanely c. you are lost men you are of the forlorne hope for 1. Joh. 3.2 3. Beloved now are wee the Sonnes of God and it doth not yet appeare what wee shall bee but wee know that when hee shall appeare wee shall bee like him for wee shall see him as hee is and every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himselfe even as hee is pure Gather hence a necessity of a godly life if wee will be happy wee must be holy Revel. 22.14 Blessed are they that doe his Commandements that they may have a right to the Tree of Life and may enter in through the Gates into the City This also the Glory promised and expected calls for 2 Cor. 7.1 Having therefore these promises dearely beloved let us cleanse our selves from all filthinesse of the flesh and spirit perfecting holinesse in the feare of God Alexander invited to a Race with Plebeians could answer That Kings ought not to run but with Kings So neither Christians but with Christians Thirdly as the followers of Christ shall bee partakers of Christs Glory and they onely so they onely in the Regeneration when Christ shall come in his glory not till then that is the day of our Redemption First therefore wee are to long and look out for this Day Job 14.14 If a man dye shall he live againe All the dayes of my appointed time will I wait till my change come Rom. 8.22 23. For wee know that the whole Creation groaneth and travelleth in paine together untill now and not-onely they but our selves also which have the first fruits of the Spirit even wee our selves groane within our selves waiting for the Adoption to wit the Redemption of our body Then is our Iubile the Trumpet having sounded and liberty proclaimed wee may enter into our possessions Secondly wee are to comfort our selves against all troubles in assurance and expectation of that Day Colos. 3.2 3 4. Set your affections on things above not on things on the Earth for yee are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God when Christ who is our life shall appeare then shall wee appeare with him in glory Recordatione temporum meliorum spero said a Roman beholding the rubbish of old Marble the ruines of ancient building But looke forward to the day comming and the glory thereof me thinkes this should much comfort us surely 〈◊〉 would if wee did beleeve How joyfull will it be to meet with our Saviour in that day when the thought of it is so refreshing Rabboni saith Mary unto Christ when her eyes were opened to see her Savicur whom before shee supposed to be the Gardner as if shee should have said What have I found thee whom I have so desired so longed for If thus it were with Mary then How exuberant beyond expression yea imagination great shall our joy in that Day bee when wee shall sit on Thrones with CHRIST and all partake of his Glory Thirdly wee are in the meane time to waite on in the use of all holy meanes Heb. 10.36 For yee have need of patience that after yee have done the will of God yee might receive the promise for yet a little while and hee that shall come will come and will not tarry 1 Ioh. 2.28 And now little children abide in him that when hee shall appeare wee may have confidence and not bee ashamed before him at his comming Amen Soli Deo Gloria FINIS 1 Tim. 3.16 Matth 19 28● Jam. 1.12 1 Obser● 1 Vse Instruction in Truth 2 Vse Instruction to D●ie 3 Use Comfort 2 Obser. 1 Vse Reproofe 2 Vse Exhortation Object Sol. Art 3.6 Job 2.10 4 Obser. Vse Counsaile Vse Conviction Counsell Vse Reproofe Advice Observ. Vse Reproofe Counsell Obser. Use Counsell Dub. Sol. Obser. Vse Quest 1. Note this ●ove arising from faith in Christ in whom alone ●s the accep●ance of per●ons and du●es Quest 2. Answ. Observ. Use Obser. Rom. 3. ● 1 Tim. 6.16 Heb. 2.16 Obser. Object Answ. 1 Vse 2 Vse Object