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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72410	Two treatises, one of the latter day of iudgement: the other of the ioyes of Heauen	I. S.	1600 (1600)	STC 14058.3; ESTC S125046	52,691	137

and a fleshly paradice to inhabit and sensual men haue imagined the ioyes the heauen according to their sensual delights yet to them that haue any sence and reason it canot chuse but seeme to end all in a fable These ioyes are seene in Princes courts these ioyes are seene in the Turkissh kingdome but the ioyes of heauen are such that no eye hath euer seene them But to leaue these deceiued Turkes to their false and fained ioyes let vs consider what other haue imagined not much vnlike to this Which is expressed by way of cōparison of a poore mans miserable estate suddenly changed into most vnlooked for happinesse whereby the ioyes of an other life may appeare by the miseries of this life As if a poore man that were out of his way wandring alone vpon the mountaines in the midst of a darke and tempestuous night farre from company destitute of money beaten with raine terrified with thunder stiffe with colde wearied out with labour almost famished with hunger and thirst and neare brought vnto dispaire with multitude of miseries shuld vpon the suddain and in the twinckling of an eye This chāge is sudden and vnlooked for be placed in a goodly large and rich pallace furnished with all kind of cleare lights warme fire sweet smels daintie meates soft beds pleasant musicke fine apparell and honorable company all prepared for him and attēding his cōming to serue him to honor him and to annoynt crown him a king for euer Behold that miseries of this life the Ioyes of an other yet is this but an imagination and the wit and wisedome of man can deuice a great deale more and yet all are farre inferiour in degree to those true ioyes that hereafter shall be found See how the inuētiōs of mē blinded with their naturall conceits run all vpon outward comforts and sensuall ioyes all for the body and as for the soule that is not once remembred Now from the deuice● inuentions and imaginations of men all which come nothing neare to the effect of this matter let vs now come to the Reuelation of the Scripture and if any where this blessed estate be to be found we shall read it in the Booke of the Reuelation Wherein although many things bee hard and intricate and passing mans vnderstanding yet is this matter liuely described after a measure and in a sort vnder the name of the citie of God and the heauenly Ierusalē And strāge it is that those matters that neither eye hath seene nor eare hath heard nor euer entred into the heart of man should so much bee opened and reuealed as there we may read Reue. 21. First thē let vs speak cōcerning the place The description of the place where these ioyes are to be found vnder the name of Ierusalem then concerning the commodities therto appertaining The place is heauenly Ierusalem the citie of God the land of the elect which the Apostle describeth after this sort And I Iohn saith he sawe the holy citie new Ierusalem come downe from God out of heauen prepared as a bride trimmed for her husband Whereof the Prophet Isay speaketh in the person of God Chap. 65.17 For loe I will create new heauens and a new earth and the former shall not be remembred nor come into minde But bee you glad and reioyce for euer in the things that I shall create For I behold I will create Ierusalem as a reioycing and her people as a ioy And I will reioyce in Ierusalem and ioy in my people and the voyce of weeping shall be no more heard in her nor the voyce of crying Likewise in the Epistle to the Heb. 12.22 we may behold the blessed estate of those that shall enioy the life to come Ye are come to the mount Sion and to the Citie of the liuing God the celestiall Ierusalem and to the company of innumerable Angels and to the congregation of the first borne which are written in heauen and to God the Iudge of all and to the spirits of iust and perfect men and to Iesus the mediator of the new testament And how this heauenly Citie and new Ierusalem is described we may read it notably set downe in the Reue. 21. Where by diuers earthly similitudes the glory thereof is shadowed setting foorth the same by those things which make earthly Cities famous and admirable as the compasse and height of the walles and stately building the gorgious furniture thereof Iewels and precious stones pleasant riuers and the tree of life in the midst thereof no night in the Citie But let vs behold the order and frame of this citie as we may read in the aforesaid 21. chap. of the Reuelation whither still I referre you The matter declared is as followeth beginning at the 12. verse of the Chapter This Citie Ierusalem had a great wall and a high and had twelue gates The Church disperced through the wordld Therefore the gates East West North South and at the gates twelue Angels and the names written which are the twelue Tribes of the children of Israel On the East part there were three gates and on the North side three gates and on the South side three gates and on the West side three gates And the wall of the Citie had twelue foundations and in them the names of the lambes 12. Apostles And the citie lay foure square and the length is as large as the bredth of it and the length and the breadth and the height of it are equall And the building of the wall of it was of Iasper and the foundations of the wall of the Citie were garnished with all maner of precious stones And the twelue gates were 12. pearles and euery gate is of one pearle and the streete of the citie is pure gold as shining glasse The names of the precious stones are further there recited You see in these words how glorious this citie of God is the walles of Iasper the foundations of precious stones the gates of Pearles the pauement of pure gold And if the walles streetes and gates bee such how much more ioyfull comfortable and incredible are those things within the citie for wee must perswade our selues that there are many hidden treasures and matters of farre more account Many things spoken of the outward place but those things which are within are vnsearchable According to that we read Reue. 2.17 To him that ouercommeth will I giue to eate of the Manna that is hid and will giue him a white stone and in the stone a new name written which no man knoweth sauing he that receiueth it So secret and hidden are the things within the citie This Ierusalē is also called a kingdome Luk. 22.29 Therefore saith Christ I appoynt to you a kingdome as my father hath appointed vnto me that ye may eate and drinke at my table in my kingdome and sit on seates and iudge the 12. Tribes of Israel And to cōfort the godly in all wants distresses and