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A30579	Gospel-conversation: wherein is shewed, I. How the conversation of believers must be above what could be by the light of nature. II. Beyond those that lived under the law. III. And suitable to what truths the Gospel holds forth. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to Stepney and Criplegate, London. Being the third book published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simpson, Philip Nye, William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1650 (1650)	Wing B6076A; ESTC R213106	221,498	277

which was established upon better promises A better Covenant and stablished upon better promises or a better Testament Their promises I say were but low and mean and our promises are high and precious and we have a better Covenant a Covenant not of living in the Land of Canaan but of Heaven of which that Canaan was but a Type and therefore our Conversations should rise higher in holiness according as our Covenant and Promises are better than theirs Secondly Our Worship is more spiritual than their worship was As that known place in Joh. 4. 23. where Christ saith to the woman of Samaria You serve God in this place But the time shall come that they shall serve him every where for God is a Spirit and will be worshiped in spirit and in truth There is more spiritual worship in the time of the Gospel than was in the time of the Law The Lord carried them on in a carnal and a sensitive way and indeed this hath been a great design of Antichrist to bring men to a carnal way of worship To carnal Ordinances for so they are called in Scripture the Commandements of God by Moses are called carnal Heb. 9. 10. For their worship was in comparison of the worship in the Gospel but carnal I say it hath bin the design of Antichrist to darken the glory of Jesus Christ in the Gospel by bringing the Church to a carnal way of worship and to take away spiritual and therefore they are altogether about carnal Institutions whereas Jesus Christ hath instituted but only two Sacraments wherein there are outward carnal things wherein we worship God through the Creature otherwise His worship is altogether spiritual but now Antichrist he would bring in altogether carnal things he would ad a hundred inventions of his own as building sumptuous Temples railing in of the Communion Tables and then turning them into Altars with such kind of apish gestures foolish garments and Heathenish musick all which was carnal worship the devices of men to please children and fools with exceedingly much against the very life and soul of Godliness and the only rule of worship in the Word of God Besides this rediculous and carnal way of worship made the worshipers twofold more the children of Satan than they were before But now the more spiritual any worship of God is the more spiritual it makes the heart the lesse we stick to the creature while we are worshipping of God the more communion we come to have with Christ and so it doth raise holinesse to a more higher pitch Thirdly Vnder the Gospel our yoke is more easie You know what Christ saith in a Scripture that I have opened to you at large Come take my yoke upon you for my yoke is easie and my burden is light You are delivered from that heavy burden that they were under and therefore you should run the waies of Gods Commandements and follow after holiness more readily and freely than they could do Fourthly We have access with boldness to the Throne of grace as the Scripture speaks God doth not reveal Himself in that terrible way to his Saints now as in the time of the Law but would have them come with boldness and have libertie of speech for that 's the word as in the second of the Ephesians of the boldness that we have to come into the presence of God Through him we have access by one spirit unto the Father Access the word signifies a coming with freedom as it were being led by the hand of God In Ephes 3. 12. In whom we have boldness and access saith the text there with confidence by the faith of Him Three words here are together We have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of Him The word that is here translated Boldness it is liberty of speech we may come and speak our minds and unbosome our speech freely to God without any such terror and we may come to God without desiring Moses must go into Gods presence for them as he did Oh they durst not go themselves but Moses must go and speak with God We may come into the presence of God and speak our hearts freely with a holy boldness in the Name of Christ Fifthly We have the spirit of adoption more than they Rom. 8. We have not received the spirit of bondage to fear again but the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father There was a spirit of bondage under which even the people of God were in former times and now the spirit of adoption is more spread abroad and cōmunicated in the world to the Churches than it was before and therefore the Lord expects a Conversation sutable to the spirit of adoption As now take one that is a child and hath a servile spirit and is afraid to come into the presence of his father it may be he will do some works in obedience to his father but in a heavy dull way but afterwards when his father is fully reconcil'd to him comes speaks kindly to him there comes a spirit of adoption upon the child Oh then he goes lively on in duty to his father then he rejoyces in the presence of his father to do any thing that may please his father when he is acted by a spirit of adoptiō there 's more service done according to the mind wil of Christ than there was before So my Brethren we should exceed all under the Law with a more fillial obedience than ever there was in that time or else our Conversation it is not such as becomes the Gospel Therefore when you open the old Testament and reade of those excellent gracious spirits that were there especially in the Psalms what holy breathings and pantings after God there are and in the Prophets what exemplary holiness then liv'd and shined in the world Be ashamed of your selves if you do not rise to as high a degree as they and higher too Obj. Why you will say But they were eminent men they were the Prophets of God and so were extraordinary and can ordinary Christians rise as high as they did and be such burning and shining lamps as they were Ans I 'le give you one Scripture about that in Zach. 12. 8. it is a cleer Prophesie of the times of the Gospel In that day shall the Lord defend the Inhabitants of Jerusalem and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David and the house of David shall be as God as the Angel of the Lord before them Mark he that is feeble among them shall be as David who was a man according to Gods own heart Oh reade Davids Psalms particularly the 119. Psalm and see the holy breathings of David and observe that there is a Prophesie that those that are feeble shall be as David and those that are as David that is the eminent Christians the Lords Champions and the house of David shall be as God as the Angels of the Lord.

and to live to themselves and out of their Apprentiships then their lives are after another manner than when they were little children in their non-age now they come to have stocks in their hands to trade for themselves and not to be any more as servants a child before he comes of age is under Tutors and Governors in the family but when he comes to yeers of discretion then he lives like a man and commands rather in the family and is serviceable to none but his father and mother So we should live as becomes children of age that is manifesting in our Conversations a staiedness wisdom and gravity and now to live more above the things of this world than before we did as children of age And for the union we have with God that is That the Saints now are made one with God and with Christ his Son In 1 Cor. 6. 17. He that is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit It 's a very strange expression we are one Spirit with God and with Jesus Christ O what Conversation becomes this that we should be principled and acted with the same Spirit surely such a one as must manifest that we are crowned graced with the same Spirit that is Gods Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus Christ his Son now surely that must needs be a very holy spiritual Conversation 1 Cor. 3. 16. Yea the Spirit of God dwelleth in you saith the text and 2 Cor. 6. 16 I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my People See the neer union that we have with God that the Gospel holds forth to us Yea and there is another phrase which is very remarkable That as the Spirit of God is in Beleevers so Beleevers are in the Spirit Gal. 5. 25. If we live in the Spirit let us also walk in the Spirit saith the text The Spirit lives in us and we live in the Spirit what Conversation must there needs be here then Oh let us walk not in a fleshly way to satisfie the lusts of the flesh but in the Spirit the fruits that do become the Spirit of God You shall see them in this 5. of Gal. 22. vers c. But the fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance against such there is no Law And they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts of it If we walk in the Spirit then here 's the fruit of the Spirit Would you have your Conversations such as becomes the Gospel then mark but these three phrases 1. The Spirit of God is in you in a constant way taking up his habitation and residence in your bosoms 2. You live in the very Spirit as in the proper element of a Christian 3. You are one Spirit with God Put these three and Oh now how unbeseeming to these three expressions that we have in the Gospel and no where else is it for professors of the Gospel so satisfie the lusts of the flesh Oh how unsutable are fleshly lusts to a spiritual man Oh take heed of this for ever you that make profession of the Gospel do not wallow in the mire of uncleanness do not give liberty to the lusts of the flesh but mortifie the lusts of the flesh and the deeds thereof for you are joyned so neer to God himself ye live in God too Col. 3. 3. Your life is hid with Christ in God It 's a very transcendent phrase that the Saints do live in God you do not only live in the aire and breath in the aire but while you live here in the world you live in God Oh the wonderful mystery of the Gospel and the high things that are held forth in the Gospel That Gods Spirit is in us and we are in the Spirit and we are the same Spirit with God yea and we live in God Oh then what a Conversation should be sutable to these things seeing these things are thus what manner of persons ought we to be Yea and there is another expression and that 's more full than any of these and that 's in the prayer of Christ in the 17. of John 21. That they all may be one as Thou Father art in Me and I in Thee that they also may be one in Vs The Gospel discovers this union for the Saints to be one with the Father and Son as the Father and Son are one now those that are joyned so neer to God their Conversations had need be holy and blameless witnessing the glory of that God that they are so neer related to I remember in handling of that point in drawing nigh to God in his Worship There we shewed what holiness is required in those that are so nigh to God but those that are one with God and in God Oh how much of God of Jesus Christ should shine forth by their lives in the faces of others Reade these scriptures and by faith make them real to your souls and then let your consciences tell you what Conversations is required of you If you be a Beleever this is so Charge your souls with this when any temptation to evil comes What is it fit for such a one as I to live thus who have the Spirit of God dwelling in me yea and I dwelling in the Spirit of God and joyned so as to be one spirit with God yea and to live in God and to be one with God as the Father and the Son is one and is this conversation such as beseems one that is raised to such a height of honor as this is Christians remember this it wil be a mighty help to your holy Conversations to put you on to shine before men in a holy Conversation to walk in the Spirit considering the near union we have with God we should never have known these things had we not had them revealed to us by the Gospel Oh this glorious Gospel that hath revealed such glorious things to us as this is And then Our relation and our union with Jesus Christ You know the Scripture makes Christ sometimes to be the Root and we the Branches therefore we are to bring forth fruit seeing that we are Branches in Him that is the Root Bring forth fruit sutable to the Sap. You that bring forth sowr grapes grapes of Gomorrah that have bitter tart spirits and live in any wicked and sinful way Is this the Sap that is sutable to the Root You are graffed into Jesus Christ and not into a Crab-stock And do you receive this Sap from the Root Oh you are a dishonor to the Root you grow upon I am the true Vine saith Christ and every Branch in me beareth fruit and my Father purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit Christians should so live in their Conversations as to manifest the fulness of the sap and juyce that there is in the Root the Lord Jesus Christ it 's not

God 1 Cor. 1. 24. it brings a great deal of power with it to help men against strong corruptions to overcome violent temptations to carry them through in any difficulties Powerful corruptions powerful temptations powerful difficulties are overcome by the power of the Gospel and therefore it is said by faith that is by faith in the Gospel we overcome the world the Gospel certainly doth not only stir in some men and women some wishings and wouldings and faint desires but it brings a power to transforme their hearts to make a metamorphosis there when there comes the light of the Gospel there comes the light of life together with it as that Scripture in Heb. 10. 32. After ye were illuminated that is by the Gospel then he speaks of their great sufferings they were willing to endure any thing for Christ therefore a Conversation that becomes the Gospel is such an one as exemplarily demonstrates the very power of godliness that men and women should not be alwaies learning and never come to the knowledg of the truth not alwaies wishing and desiring and never come to any powerful resolutions and determinations for certainly where the Gospel hath the upper hand in a soul it doth bring power but I do not say it brings power so as to overcome all our lusts so as there should be no sin remaining for so long as we live we must be hungering after a further degree of righteousness and sanctification but certainly when the Gospel prevails there comes a great strength there 's the strength of Christ put forth the Spirit of power as the Apostle saith We have not received the spirit of fear but the Spirit of power of love and of a sound mind be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord. As if Paul had said to Timothy it 's true you meet with many difficulties but hath not the Gospel given you a Spirit of power There 's spirit of power and resolution when the Gospel comes in Timothy was a poor weakly sickly man in his body and Paul himself had no bodily presence with him a poor contemptible man in regard of his bodily presence but he had a Spirit of power given him by the Gospel so we should manifest a Spirit of power that is as becomes the Gospel of Christ Lastly The Gospel of Christ is a glorious Gospel 1 Tim. 1. 11. it is call'd there by the title of a glorious Gospel According to the glorious Gospel of the blessed God Mark what a title is here the Gospel is the glorious Gospel of the blessed God that is the glory of all the Attributes of God doth appear in the Gospel more brightly than they do appear in all the works that God hath made There doth appear indeed a great deal of the glory of God in the Heavens Earth and Seas and you have seen much of the glory of God there but I appeal to you in this Have you seen more of the glory of God in the Gospel than ever you did in all the works that God hath made that were a good argument that you have had a true understanding of the Gospel and that the Spirit of God hath shined into your hearts if you can say Lord I have seen much of thy glory in thy Works when I have been abroad in the mighty waters where Gods paths and foot-steps are Oh the Seas they are thy glorious creatures but thy Gospel that 's glorious beyond all there do I see thine infinite wisdom and infinite power and infinite justice and infinite mercy and infinite faithfulness and the Lord knows that all the glory of the creatures hath been darkned in my eyes since the Lord hath shewed me the glory of His Gospel Can you say so This is a good evidence that the Gospel is a saving Gospel to your souls if you stand and admire at the glory of God in the Gospel Certainly there 's none though never so weak in parts yet if so be that God hath revealed Himself in the Gospel to them they see that which makes them stand and admire at God and darkens all the world in their eyes have you seen the Gospel thus then it is to you the glorious Gospel of the blessed God and in the 2 Cor. 4. 4. In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which beleeve not lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ should shine into them Oh reade over this Scripture again and again The God of this world hath blinded their minds Mark compare this Scriptrue with that I said before of Christ that His Kingdom is not of this world but the Devil is called the God of this world note this he hath blinded the minds of them which beleeve not if any which live under the Gospel beleeve not it is because the Devil as he prevails in the world and by worldly things by the pomp and vanity of the world he hoodwinks the eyes of those which beleeve not lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the express Image of God should shine into them Oh the Devil is loth that the gloriou Gospel should shine into the hearts of men he is content that they should come and hear the Gospel but he labors to keep off the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ that it shine not into them for he know when once it hath shined into mens hearts then all the glory of the world will be darkned in their eyes and they will admire then at nothing but Christ Oh none but Christ none but Christ Whom have I in Heaven but Christ and there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of my dearest Saviour who is the fairest of ten thousand I never knew God before I saw him in the face of Jesus Christ and now I see God in the face of His Son I see him in another way than ever I did O the Gospel is a glorious Gospel there is more of the glory of God in one sentence of the Gospel than in all the Heavens and Earth beside this we may boldly aver Now our Conversations must be as becomes the Gospel then there must be a glory in our Conversations we must hold forth the Gospel in our Conversations therefor Professors of the Gospel they should shine as lights in the world I beseech you mark this one Note I remember in the close of all the last day I shewed you that the Saints and godly people are call'd the glory of Jesus Christ Himself surely you that are Professors of the Gospel should live so as to be the glory of the glorious Gospel and what manner of persons ought we to be then it's not enough that our Conversations be not defiled with the most filthy and abominable pollutions of the world but our Conversations should be such as should be a glory to the glorious Gospel Look in the Gospel there shine the Attributes of God in glory so in our

the world and as Christ saith Wo to the world because of offences so wo to the world because of this great offence Christs Kingdom being so spiritual hence it is that the world receives Him not in 1. John 10. And so in John 14. 17. Even the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive Mark the world cannot receive the spirit of Truth the world receives not Christ and it cannot receive the spirit of Truth If you speak of the world to men then they savor of those things come to a man and tell him of a good bargain on the Exchange he will listen to you and remember what you say but come and speak to him of the great things of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ of the glorious priviledges of that kingdom only there 's a sound in the air and it passeth away and takes no impression at all on the heart of one that is carnal 1 John 4. 5. there you have this exprest fully the very guize and way of a carnal heart They saith the text are of the world therefore speak they of the world and the world heareth them those that are of the world they speak of the world and discourse of the world and savor the things of the world and the world heareth them but now let a man come and tell them of things that are heavenly of a goodly Pearl of Jesus Christ they savor not those things and they hear them not Oh! 't is from hence that men come not into the Kingdom of Jesus Christ because it is not of this world What 's the reason that there are more comes into the Kingdom of Antichrist than into the Kingdom of Christ Revel 13. 3. The whol world wandered after the beast saith the text because they are of the world and Antichrist doth set up a worldly kingdom instead of Christs kingdom and men that are of the world they flock after Antichrist and hence it was that your great rich men in places where the Gospel hath not been they were Papists or Popishly affected so that therefore the Papists make outward prosperity to be one badge or sign of the true Church hence it is that Popery is so sutable to worldly hearts and the holy Ghost prophesied before hand that the whol world should follow Antichrist only here and there a few poor ones Jesus Christ chuses out of this world to follow him for His Kingdom is not of this world One Particular more in a word seeing the Kingdom of Christ is not of the world then a worldly heart is the most unbeseeming thing in one that professeth himself to be a Christian of any thing that can be in the world If Christs Kingdom be not there certainly thy heart should not be there Thou that professest thy self to be of the Kingdom of Christ which is spiritual and heavenly and yet thou a worldly earthly heart I say it is the most unbeseeming thing that possibly can be what for a Professor of Religion to have an earthly covetous worldly heart By that that I have already spoken in shewing the vanity and the evil of the world and the great evil of loving the world were enough to strengthen this use but now that that I intended should have been to speakesp ecially to those that are Christians that have hopes that God hath made them partakers of Jesus Christ and would be loth to lose their hopes in the good things of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ for 10000. worlds yet there doth remain much worldliness in their hearts to this day surely this not beseeming one of the profession that thou makest it is no honor unto thy King the Lord Jesus Christ worldly Professors they are great dishonors to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ when there shall appear no difference between those that we account to be men of the world and such as we hope are chosen out of the world Oh! how is Christ dishonored by this Look but upon the lives of Christians that profess Religion and one would think that the Kingdom of Christ were a Kingdom of this world rather than any thing else for I say to outward appearance though it may be Christ may see some integrity within the heart yet to outward appearance there is even almost no difference between them and the men of the world It doth become Christians to live so in their whol course as to make it appear that they are men and women above the world whose Conversations are in Heaven that they do beleeve the Kingdom of Jesus Christ that is not of this world SERMON III. JOHN 18. 36. Jesus answered and said My Kingdom is not of this world WHAT this Kingdom of Christ was and how different from the kingdoms of this world we have already opened unto you The fourth Use which we are to proceed in is If the kingdom of Christ be not of this world then of all dispositions a worldly spirit is most unsutable to those who profess themselves to be of the Kingdom of Christ Certainly then such as are Beleevers that are come under the Kingdom of Christ they must not be of earthly hearts We find the Apostle in the Epistle of the Ephesians doth rank Covetousness and Uncleanness together and saith of them both in the 5. Chapter 3. Verse Let it not be once named among you as becometh Saints So that a covetous heart after the things of the world it is such a disposition as it should scarce be named among Saints no more than whoredom they should abstain from it as from whordom as it becometh Saints It is the most uncomly thing for a Saint of God one of the Kingdom of Christ to have a covetous heart for the things of the world that possibly can be As it becomes them it doth not become you And Luther that was a great man for the promoting of the Kingdom of Christ he is bold to profess it That of all sins he was scarce ever tempted to that sin he found nothing tending almost that way though it 's true there 's no sin but we have the seeds of it in our hearts but yet he found his spirit most above that worldly sin because he was so much taken up with Jesus Christ And indeed the more any soul is taken up with the excellency of Christ and with the glorious things of His Kingdom the more vile will the things of the world be to them We look not at the things that are seen saith the Apostle they are not things to be looked at But at the things that are not seen And in the 6. of the Gal. 14. ver The Apostle Paul that was the great man for the promoting of Christ in the world and the setting up of His Throne he professes That he was crucified to the world and the world was crucified to him That is he look't upon the world but as a crucified thing What esteem would you have of a man that is hanging upon a

certainly Apostatize if their hearts take deep root in the earth If you find your spirits so glewed to the things of the world that you know not how to part with them that you know not how to live in a place and not to have your neighbors love and respect and to honor you and to have the countenance of the times in which you live Do you find your hearts thus cleaving to the things of the world like the Serpent that dust you eat and upon your belly you go Know that thou hast a worldly heart thou art like to be an Apostate from the Truth of God ere long In the 2. of Titus 12. the Apostle saith That the grace of God that hath appeared to all men teaches them to deny all worldly lusts Oh my brethren let 's labor to walk worthy of our Calling into the Kingdom of Jesus Christ 1 Thess 2. 12. There the Apostle with a great deal of earnestness speaks to the Thessalonians exhorting them that they would Walk worthy of God who hath called them into his Kingdom and Glory Are you converted to Christ you are called into this Kingdom walk worthy of Him And mark his earnestness in the verse before As you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you as a father doth his children We comforted you in shewing you the excellency of the Kingdom of God and the Priviledges of this Kingdom we exhorted you and we charged every one of you as a father doth his children And what did he exhort and charge them to it was this That they would walk worthy of God who had called them into his Kingdom and his glory Oh! 't is a great mercy that God hath revealed any thing of the Kingdom of his Son unto you walk worthy of it as it becomes those that are called to be the Subjects of such a glorious Kingdom as this is and above all things have a care and let me warn you of this worldliness in the hearts of the Saints Namely of a crafty cunning subtilness in the things of this life there is nothing more unbeseeming a Christian than a crafty cunning subtilness for the world many men bless themselves in this and they take abundance of content to think that by their craft and cunning sophistry they can fetch about things circumvent others so provide for themselves in this world I say there is nothing more unbeseeming a Christian than to be crafty and cunning in circumventing others and providing for themselves in the matters of this world In 1. Cor. 2. 12. saith the Apostle We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit which is of God it is that we have received There is many men you may plainly see that they have the spirit of the world that 's thus I have many times wondered at it some men come and speak to them about any matters of the Kingdom of Christ they speak so foolishly and childishly either they must hold their peace and say nothing or else if they do speak they discover so much ignorance and childishness that a man would wonder where the understandings of such men are that have liv'd so long a time in the world as they have done and heard so much of Religion and when one hears them speak so one would wonder how these men should have understanding to live in the world but now these in the businesses of the world they are as worldly politick no man can out go them there they can foresee all kind of dangers in any miscarriage and can judge of twenty things together in their thoughts and compare one thing with another see further into the world than other men so that a man would wonder sometimes I say when one hears them speaking of Religion whether these men have any wit or understanding but when one follows them in the things of the world you shall see them as witty as understanding as judicious and as cunning as any men almost can be they have received the spirit of the world and they are led by the spirit of the world the god of this world hath taken possession of them and it 's that that makes them so but they have not received the Spirit of Jesus Christ they may say quite contrary to the Apostle saith the Apostle we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit of Jesus Christ they may say we have not received the Spirit of Christ but of the world it 's true Christ would have us so long as we live in the world to be as wise as serpents yet innocent as doves the wisdom that is for the promotion of the Kingdom of Christ it is a wisdom that hath an upright plainess in it and is according to the simplicity of the Gospel indeed when they have to deal with wicked men they may exercise a natural wisdom to avoid the dangers of persecution or to avoid the circumventing of wicked men but when they have to deal with spiritual things there the wisdom is that that holds forth a simplicity of the Gospel that is carried on with plainess and simpleness of heart The Hebrews have the same word that signifies a naked man and a cunning subtil man You shall find where it 's said of Adam and Eve they were naked nakedness of spirit and subtilty may stand together they signifie the same thing to shew what kind of subtilty should be in those that are the People of God it should be that that may stand with a naked spirit so as if God would discover the secrets of all their hearts to all the children of men that they should not be ashamed to have all their secrets to be opened to them But now the cunningness that is the cunningness of the serpent is such a cunningness as men if they were but laid open would quickly be ashamed of And so much of the fourth use that it is unbeseeming those that are of the kingdom of Christ to have the spirit of the world because Christs kingdom is not of this world 5. Vse Hence we see the reason of the meanness of the outward condition of the people of God in this world why is it that Christ hath so ordered things that the people of God should be so outwardly poor in this world My Kingdom is not of this world saith Christ Therefore why should any that come under my kingdom look for great things in this world they must look to have their comfort and glory in things that concern my Kingdom and not in the things of this world in Psal 73. 12. Behold those that are ungodly prosper in this world saith the Scripture As for men that are godly and come under the Kingdom of Christ they must look for a prosperity that is beyond this world God gives the earth to the children of men and to the men of the world Let them prosper saith God here 's their portion here 's

will call for it all again but that which he gives to His Sons to His Children they shall have mercy for ever though not to enjoy it in the same way they shall enjoy the same good and comfort Eternally And then further Eighthly The portion that the world hath here you heard before it comes from Gods patience now there will be an end of the manifestation of the glory of patience in this world as thus As there are some graces of the Spirit of God in the Saints that shall have an end in regard of their exercise here in this world so there are some attributes of God that shall have an end in regard of the manifestation of them in that way that God doth now manifest them here in this world and that is the patience of God towards ungodly ones Now if they hold all upon patience when the time of the glory of that in this world shall come to be at an end then all their good is at an end Further Ninthly Ungodly men they shal have to deal with God immediately in the world to come I beseech you observe but this answer I 'le hasten they must have to deal immediatly with God in the world to come Now they have to deal with God through Creatures and while they have to deal with God through Creatures they may get a great deal and may make shift for much but when they shall come to deal with God immediatly then it will be otherwise with them As for example There are a great many hang-bies at great mens houses perhaps when they come to have to deal with the servants they get some bits and scraps and many things from the servants but if they know they can have nothing but from the very hand of the Knight or Lord of the house himself then they will expect no great matter So wicked men of this world they are as hang-bies that all that they have are but as scraps from the servants they have to deal only with creatures they look no further but hereafter things shall be setled another way and all things shall be weighed by God Himself in a ballance of Justice and distributed by the hands of God Himself immediately and now things will be carried after another manner the Lord Himself will come to dispose of things It was a speech of a German Divine though he were a good man and lived very innocently when he lay upon his sick bed and apprehended Death he was in great terrors of spirit mightily troubled and some of his friends came to him and asked him Why should you be so troubled that have lived so good a life as you have done This was his answer The Judgments of God are one and the judgments of men are another I am now to deal with God it is true I lived thus before Men and Men gave their Verdict of me as good and thought I was in a good condition but O I am now to go to God and to deal immediately with Him and Gods judgment and Mans judgements are different things when God shall come to weigh all mens portions out as it will be then So much Righteousness so much portion so much happinesse you will say then Lord what shall become of us all All our righteousness is as the menstruous cloath I but for the Saints the Righteousness of Christ will be put into one Scale and their Portion into the other and their Portion will be weighed by the Righteousness of Christ Now when thou comest to God thou must come to the Scale and thou wilt put in thy good servings of God and thy comming to Church and some good Civil actions and Natural and Moral things thou hast done thou wilt put them in the Scale saith God That which thou hast had already weighs down all those Hast thou nothing to put into the Scales but this thou hast had thy reward already for all this and much more than this then if there be nothing to but into the Scale but this thou art undone and there is nothing for thee for Eternity And here is the ground of the confinement of the Portions of wicked men These are the Two first things Thirdly I will give you some CORRALLARIES only from hence Is it so that wicked men have a portion here and here is all First Here we may see the Reason why the men of the world are so cunning in the things of the world why they can make so good shift for themselves in the world rather than other men can Why here 's their Portion their very happiness and good is here no mervail though they make such shift as they do here the Apostle in 1 Cor. 2. 12. We have not received the spirit of the world saith the Apostle we cannot tell how to shift in the world so as other men do for indeed we look further than these things and so cannot shift as other men can They that have the spirit of the world and have their portion in the world they can shift but we have not received the spirit of the world You know a Swine though it goes abroad all day wandring up and down it knows the way to the trough at night but a Sheep if it go a wandring a little way out of his place a Sheep doth not know how to come back again but wanders up and down till it be even lost and is as a lost sheep when it is once wandring up and down but Swine are not so So ungodly men though they go up and down wandring they know how to come to their trough at night they have better skil in the world they are more artificial in the things of the world they have better understanding as the Scripture speaks The children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light Why is it Their Portion is in this world That 's the first Corrallarie 2. Corr. Here we see the Reason Why there are so many great ones in the world that regard Religion so little as they do and the waies of God and the Church of God why 't is not their portion those things that concern another life is not any part of their portion they mind what it is that concerns the present life because this is their portion When many come into places of dignity and power What are their thoughts Now they think of gratifying their friends now they think of respect and honor that they shall have abroad in the world and be accounted some-body now they think of revenging al their wrongs of making up of all their broken titles c. This hath been heretofore I suppose very ordinary in men advanced amongst you these are all their thoughts as for doing service for God and for His Church and vindicating the Truth of God and Honor of God that is scarce in all their thoughts for they do not look upon that as part of their Portion Here is the reason