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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93110	Of the foure last and greatest things: death, iudgement, heaven and hell. The description of the happinesse of heaven, and misery of hell, by way of antithesis. With the way or means to passe through death, and judgement, into heaven, and to avoid hell. / By VVilliam Shepheard, Esquire.	Sheppard, William, d. 1675?	1649 (1649)	Wing S3196; Thomason E551_7; ESTC R205687	96,747	120

glorified bodies by the brightnes of God communicated to them outshining the Sun and Stars in brightnes shall there concur It is called therefore the inheritance of the Saints in light Collos 1. 12. Revel 21. 13. Mat. 17. 2. Dan. 12. 3. Phil. 3. 21. Collos 3. 4. Exod. 34. 29. 2. For the company the society company shall add much to the felicity of the Saints in Heaven For their company shall be God the Father Son and holy Ghost The Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles the Marty●● and Saints Abraham Isaac and Iacob and all our godly friends depa●ted for we shall all meet together and be for ever with the Lord and with these they shall have a familiar acquaintance they shall all rejoyce in each others happines and thereby increase each others joy This I say c. That yee may also have fellowship with us and that our fellowship also may be with the Father and with his Son 〈◊〉 Christ 1 Jo. 1. 3. 1 Thess 4. 17. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up c. and so shall we be for ever with the Lord. Jo. 17. 24 Father I will that they which thou hast given mee be where I am that they may behold that my glory which thou hast given me Hebr. 12. 22 2● 24. But yee are come to the mount Sion the City of the living God the heavenly Ierusalem the company of innumerable Angels the Congregation of the first born written in heaven to God the Judge of all to the Spirits of just and perfect men to Jesus the Mediator of the new Testament c. Phil. 2. 1. Psal 17. v. 15. Rev. 21. v. 3. 22. 33. Mat. 8. 1● Mat. 13 28. Luke 20. 36. 1 Thes 4. 13. And there shall be none but saints there Rev. 21. 27. 22. 3 ●4 15. 2 P●t 3. 1● So that then our Union and Communion with God shall be perfect Suppose we a wife that loves her husband dearly and desires his company much above all things in the world but hitherto his occasions have been such that she could not enjoy him now that he is resolved to live at home alwayes with her how comfortable and joyfull a thing will this be to her So now the Church of Christ and Christ heretofore kept a part shall for ever dwell together and be parted no more 3. For the time of enjoyment of this happines it shall be for ever ●nd ever It is therefore called an inheritance 1 Pet. 1. 4. Acts 20. 32. and everlasting life Mat 25. 46. If we ask why God should give an eternall reward for ●emporall service we must answer because it is his pleasure as it is his pleasure to give a Kingdome for to give an everlasting Kingdome And it is a gift like himself and ●●t for such a one to give Luke 12. 32. Iames 1. 6. 1 Tim. 6. 17. Now put all this together and then let us think what a state and condition heaven is and whether he be not a happy man that is born to inhe●it this May we not say of this O joy above all 〈◊〉 yes and without which there is no joy when shall I enter into thee to see my God that dwelleth in thee O everlasting Kingdome O Kingdom of all eternities O Light without end O Pence of God that 〈◊〉 all understanding in which the Souls o● Saints do rest with thee and everlasting joyes are upon their heads and all pain and sorrow is fled from them O how glorious a Kingdome is thine O Lord where in all Saints do dwel with thee adorned with light as with apparel and having Crowns of precious stones on their heads O Kingdom of everlasting blisse where thou O Lord the hope of all Saints art and the Diadem of all their perpetuall glory rejoycing the● on every side with thy blessed sight In this kingdom of thine there is infinite joy and myrth without sadnes health without sicknes life without death ease without pain light with out darknes and all good without any evill where youth flourisheth that never waxeth old life that knoweth no end beauty that never fadeth love that never cooleth health that never dimini●heth joy that never ceaseth where sorrow is never felt complaint is never heard matter of sadnes is never seen nor evill successe is ever feared For that they possesse th●e O Lord which art the perfection of 〈…〉 What Hell is IN the opening of this point we shall take the same course as w● doe in the opposite branch 1. What it is in generall 1. Wherein it doth consist in some particulers Hell is the miserable state and condition made and appointed by God for the eternall torment of the wicked and reprobate with the divell and his Angels after this life is ended beneath where the most lively sensible and terrible discovery of Gods wrath is A little taste whereof men have here a greater after death And the full and perfect suffering whereof they have after the resurrection of the Body and reuniting of Soul and Body together As touching this place and state also we must conceive the sorrows and pain thereof as inconceiveable and inutterable as the other If the weight of the little finger of Gods wrath herein be so heavy as insupportable what will his whole loyns be If the taste of it be so intollerable what will the full cup thereof be yet so it is For the Holy Ghost speaking of that little men do see and feel in this life expresseth it thus A wounded Spirit who can bear Pro. 18. 14. It is intollerable for so that manner of speech doth intend This weight made Christ himself though he knew he should get out of it wuickly yell and whiles he was under it was supported by a mighty strength to sweat drops of blood and cry out aloud Lord Lord Why hast thou forsaken me This is it that hath made the faithfull themselves though supported by Gods hand so heavily to lament and so bitterly to bemoan their estate Psal 77. This is that which hath made the wicked weary of their lives and to chuse death rather then life as Iudas Saul Spira and others It is but the apprehension of this state to come and neer at hand that mako● those kings and great persons Rev. 6. 15 16 17. To hide themselves and to say to the mountains fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the Thronc● and from the wrath of the Lamb For the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to sta●d like unto that Esay 33. 14. The sinners in Sion are afraid fearfulnesse hath surprised the hypocrites Who amongst us shall dwell with devouring ●ire Who amongst us shall dwell with with everlasting burnings If a glimpse and a glanse of this now and that seen a far of● be so dreadfull and horrid what will the weight and feeling of it present be then when the wrath of God shall for ever in all