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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46806	Exodus, or, The decease of holy men and ministers consider'd in the nature, certainty, causes, and improvement thereof : a sermon preach't Sept. 12. 1675 : by occasion of the much lamented death of that learned and reverend minister of Christ, Dr. Lazarus Seaman ...	Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1675 (1675)	Wing J638; ESTC R18544	27,881	62

hath a Promise of Heaven is richer than he is that hath all the Performances of the World 2dly The Land of Canaan to which the people of Israel went was Terra Sancta it was the Holy Land and therefore it is called Gods holy habitation Exod. 15.12 and Hierusalem the beauty of the land of Canaan the type of Heaven is called the holy City Matt. 4.5 And therefore was Canaan an holy place because that Land God had separated from all Lands to afford the visible tokens of his gracious presence in it and to it and to settle his Worship and Sanctuary in it for Communion with himself and to have the Israelites that inhabited it a peculiar people and set a-part for his own Honour and Service But much more may the Heavenly Canaan to which the Saints go when dying be called a Terra Sancta a Holy Land 'T is separated and set a-part for the glory of a holy God for holy performances holy persons The God of Heaven is Holy Holy Holy All that live with him there are holy only holy Ones enter there Holy Angels Souls of just men made perfectly holy Nothing defiled or defiling can there be admitted no sin no Sinner no more of unholiness is there than of unhappiness sorrow and sin came and shall go together There as all tears shall be wiped away from the eyes so all sin perfectly washt away from the Soul there shall neither be sin in the Soul nor Sinner in the Company as compleat an Holiness as God will and we can desire 3. The Land of Canaan was terra desiderii so called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psalm 106.24 a pleasant delightful Land described to be a Land of milk and honey and to have an affluence of all things desirable to sense as Corn Wine Balm Oil Fountains Pastures But what a faint resemblance do all these carry to the pleasures of the Heavenly Canaan Here are the true full and everlasting pleasures fulness of joy pleasures for evermore Eternal satisfaction without any satiety and glutting An Eternal fulness and yet an eternal freshness of delights All comforts are centred in God All sweetness and delights meet in him In him there 's infinitely more than the Soul can want or wish and he is in heaven perfectly enjoyed even to the utmost extent of the Souls capacity but yet the Oyl will be infinitely more plentiful than the Vessels are capacious which cannot hold all that oyl of joy that God can give out of himself The people of God in Heaven are said to enter into their Masters joy for their joy cannot fully enter into them there In Heaven there 's that we call enough a thing never to be had in this world there is in that Life mors desiderii the death of desire and perfect joy is nothing but the cessation of all our wishes Vse The Application of all this shall only be to counsel you To labour that your departure out of this world may be an happy Exodus or departure as a going from the Land of Egypt to a happy an heavenly Canaan And for the making this Counsel the more effectual I 'le present it to you in these four branches 1. Be sure you be Israelites otherwise there is no entring into Canaan when you depart hence Canaan was a Land of Promise but promised only to Israel and for your entrance into the heavenly Canaan there is no promise unless you be Israelites Nor is it enough for you to be carnal Israelites I mean only such in regard of outward priviledges and enjoyment of outward Ordinances Outward priviledges put lust to no pain The most eminent for priviledges are oft under the prevalency of corruptions But you must be as Christ speaks of Nathaneel truly and indeed Israelites Otherwise Publicans and Harlots enter into Heaven before a meerly nominal Israelite How woful is that Hell into which men fall by presuming of Heaven The Valley of Vision hath the heaviest burden The deeper a ship is laden even with Gold the deeper she sinks God is most dishonour'd by the sins of visible Professours by these the power of Godliness is oft most bitterly opposed He that was born after the flesh was the greatest persecutor of him that was born after the spirit The priviledges of grace without the grace of the priviledg give no admission into Glory True holiness only is the way to true happiness No grace but tried grace enters into Heaven Many of the children of the Kingdom shall be shut out of the Kingdom He is not an Israelite who is one outwardly but he is an Israelite who is one inwardly Rom. 2.28 The children of the flesh are not the children of God Rom. 9.8 Luk. 16.25 I read of a Son of Abraham in Hell The children of Israel have oft been the children of the Devil No promise of salvation is made more to the Member of a visible Church unless he have a changed heart than to an Heathen 2dly Take heed of turning in your hearts back again into Egypt many that went out of Egypt did not go into Canaan the Holy Ghost tells us how forward they were to return back into Egypt Numb 14.3 4. Turn not from your professions imbrace not the present world take heed of being backsliders better you had never gone out of Egypt than to turn back again into it You must hold it out unto the death if you would have a Crown of life it is not he that sets out first but he that holds out last that shall be crowned 3dly Take heed of unbelief distrust not the promises that God hath made of entring into his rest Unbelief was the killing mother murthering sin of the Israelites they could not enter in Heb. 3.15 because of unbelief no difficulties in the way give a dispensation to distrust the promise of bestowing the happiness of the end Unbelief is the sin that of all other discredits God rejects mercy offered hinders from Salvation puts a necessity of destruction upon you other sins make us obnoxious unto death but Unbelief makes us opposite unto life 4thly Think not of entring into Canaan without your Joshua your Jesus there is no getting to the heavenly Canaan but by him He must be improved in these two regards 1. As your Conquerour one that is to conquer all the enemies you are to meet withall in your entrance into Canaan he only can overcome Death Devil Guilt it is he who by death overcomes him that hath the power of death he overcomes him by price in satisfying the Justice of God by force in the destroying of his works by his Spirit in the Souls of his Saints And 2dly You must improve Jesus not only as your Conquerour but also as your Leader to follow him they followed Joshua into Canaan Jesus must be our Captain as well as Conquerour Follow him as your Example If he be not your Pattern he never procures your Pardon You must follow him in the way unto