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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

things yet farther in some particulars As the misery of Hell so the happinesse of Heaven doth 〈◊〉 of two parts 1. in ●●exemption and 〈◊〉 of all ●●●ll 2. In a fruition of all good The righteous in heaven shall be freed from all manner of evill from evill spirituall for they shall not they cannot sin that which makes the holy man here to cry out O wretched man that I am c. Rom. 7. 24. they shall be freed off the Conscience shall not be unquieted any more corporall for there shall be no more offence to the body by hunger thirst cold wearines heat ●●ame sicknes death nothing shall annoy either soule or body it shall neither feel nor fear disturbance Otherice blessed condition that is so exceeding happy and whose happines is so infallibly secured Revel 21. 4. Esay 5. 8. It is said of this estate And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain c. And again Revel 7. 14 c. These are they which came out of great tribulation and they shall hunger no more nor thirst any more neither shall the Sun light on them nor any heat For the Lambe which is in the middest of the Throne shall feed them and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes And again Esay 57. 1 2. it is said The righteous are taken away from the evill to come He shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds And in Matth. 11. 29. Come unto me all yee that are 〈◊〉 laden c. you shall finde rest to your Soules of this time and state it is that Christ speaks Mat. 22. 30. They neither marry nor are given in marriage but are as the Angels of God in Heaven Hebr. 4. 9. There remaineth a rest for the People of God the which was signified by the rest the Jews had in the ●●nd 〈◊〉 Canaan Psal 95. 11. This is that also the whol creation wa●teth for Rom. 8. 22 23. For we know that the whole Creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together till now And not onely they but our selves also which have the first fruits of the spirit 〈◊〉 we ourselves gr●●n within our selves waiting for the Adoption to wit for the Redemption of our body Nay then shall do 〈◊〉 self be swallowed up in victory 1 Cor. 15. 54. So that the triumphant ●oulin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 our Lord Iesus 〈◊〉 So that here we see 〈◊〉 immunity and freedom from 〈◊〉 for Death and the 〈◊〉 shall be abolished and that last enemy shall be destroyed Coll. 3. 3. The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the Law Christ hath taken away the sin satisfied the Law and obtained eternall freedom for his own They are never to return into bondage o● to feel evill any more They are no more to come into this place for they are to dwell on high where no evill can reach them The Devil shall be shut up in chains of darknes in the prison of Hell Rom. 16. 20. no wicked perso● or thing shall be in Heaven for there dwelled righteousne●● there shall be therefore perfect freedom without any possibility of returning to bondage The second part of the happines of heaven is in the fruition of all good corporall and spirituall and albeit this doth consist of many particulars yet all these seem to be intended and contained in those three words in Rom. 2. 10. Glory Honour and Peace in opposition to the ●●ame Contempt and Trouble by which the misery of Hell is described The glory o● the Saints in Heaven 〈◊〉 wherein a part of then happines shall consist shall be in these things 1. in their bodies which being glorified shall be most beautifull and excellent either as it springs out of the blessed beauty and excellency of the soule or as it is ind●wed with an heavenly excellency originally implanted by God in it self For the Spirit of God and glory shall thou rest aboundantly upon them 1 Pet 4. 14. The body be●●●s the freedom that it shall have from all the evils thereof as lamenes mis-shapenesse sicknes hunger nakednes wearines cold and the like it shall be gloriously end●wed with many positive and wonderfull excellencies as 1. Immortality for it can never possibly die 1 Corinth 15. verse 54. but it shall live as long as God doth live so that herein their condition is a thousand times more happy th●n it was in the state of innocency in Paradise 2. Incorruptiblenes for every glorified body shall be for ev●r utterly impossible with any corruptive quality action or alteration and cannot be subject to any inward decay or dissolution 1 Cor. 15. 42. 54. 3. Power when to the Souls native strength there shall be an addition of glorifying vigour and Gods mighty spirits more plentifull habitation and it shall also put on a body which brings with it besides his own inherent power an exact ablenes and readines fitted to the Souls highest abilities how incredible mighty may we conceive a Saint in Heaven to be 1 Cor. 15 43. 4. Spiritualnes 1 Cor. 15. 44. The glorified body shall be more of the nature of the Spirit i. more active not needing food c. and more subject to the Spirit and be more fully possessed with the Spirit 5. Beauty and a shining amiablenes 1 Cor. 15. 43. The glorified body shall have an exquisite feature and stature a welfavoured and comly proportion and mutuall correspondency of all the parts thereof a sweet and amiable colour and a bright shining splendor of celestiall glory and a chearfull lively lightsome aspect and all this preserved in perpetuall freshnes with new supply of heavenly activenesse by a more glorious Soul yea the very nakednesse now the shame thereof shall be then the glory of it Phil. 3. 21. Who shall change our vile bodies that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious bodie A glimpse of which we have in Christs Transfiguration Matth. 17. 2 13 43 2 4 2. A second part of this glory shall be in the soul wherein 1. The understanding shall be abundantly and comfortably enlightened and enlarged to the uttermost that the creature can reach unto in all naturall things that may delight and especially in heavenly things as in Gods word the glorious misteries of the holy Trinity The union of Christs natures the union of his elect unto him Gods eternall councell in election and reprobation and the like 2. The will shall be conformable to Gods will 3. The memory shall still keep what it knowes 4. The affections shall be according to the perfect pattern And all this shall be in perfection 1 Cor. 13. 10 12. For when that which is perfect is come that which is in part shall be done away And it must n●eds be where there is so much grace there should 〈◊〉 to much Glorie

tha● follow There are also two parts of Hell as there are of Heaven 2 Thess 1. 9. 1. The pain of losse or an exemption from all good 2. The pain of sense or the enduring of all evill Matth. 8. 29. The damned in Hell are deprived of all good and means and hope of good Their Consciences shall have no more peace they can do nothing else but sin their bodies shall have no more ease nor rest but torments day and night 〈◊〉 14. 10. They shall hunger and have nothing to eat thirst and have nothing to drink be cold and have nothing to heat them hot and have nothing to cool them weary and cannot rest sick and dying and yet cannot be well nor yet dye And no marvell that they are deprived of all other good for they shall be deprived and for ever separated from that summ●on bonum the chiefest good and well spring of all good they shall be for ever driven out of and excluded from the blessed sweet and comfortable presence of the most glorious God blessed for ever the Lord Iesus Christ the blessed Spirit and all the blessed ones and those that were their dearest friends who shall then justly abandon them with all loathing and scorn and forgetting all neernes and bonds of nature shall rejoyce in the justice of God in their everlasting condemnation So that no eye of God or man shall then pity them no prayers promises or means be then heard or prevail in their behalf or any one in heaven or earth be heard to speak for them The serious thinking of this losse will then more afflict the understanding Soul then all the extream sufferings of Sense to be shut out everlastingly and unrecoverabl●ly and to be for ever banished of the blessed sight of God which had they ever had but a a taste of they would know to be an incomparable l●sse and greater then the l●osse of ten thousand worlds this renting of the Soule from God and the horrible sense of Gods forsaking and casting it of is incomparably more grievous then the renting of Soul and Body asunder And then withall they shall think of their shamefull negligence and wilfull folly in the neglect and refusall of the means of salvation how near they were to it how easily they might have had it how much they are deceived how these men are exalted that they thought fools and they proved fooles that thought themselves wise And in those and such like thoughts what then will be the gnawings of the never dying Worm what rage of their guilty Consciences what furious despair what horrour of minde what distractions and fears what bitter looking back upon their mispent time in this world what cursing of the day of their birth their Brethren in iniquity and even blaspheaming of God himself what tearing of the haire gnashing the teeth wayling and wringing the hands no tongue can tell no heart can think The second part of Hel is the pain of Sense or enduring of evill which though it doth comprehend many particulars yet perhaps also may be all intended and comprehended in the terms of Shame and Conte●pt in Dan. 12. 2 and th●● implyed in Esay 57. 31. in opposition to that Glory Honour and Peace by which the felicity of Heaven is set forth The unhappines of the wicked in Hell we must needs conceive to be in the contrary 1 that there shall be an uglines and lothsomnes in them and in their bodies and souls both for they shall have nothing in or upon them nor shall they come near to any thing that may make them glori●u● they are separated from God and all good●●●s as farr as Hel from Heaven they shall then be perfectly wicked and therefore perfectly fil●hy and unclean Rev. 10. 11. their fellowships is with unclean spirits Matt. 12. 43. and they 〈◊〉 like unto them Those therefore that are to be cast into the Lake of fire and brimstone amongst the rest are said to be abominable Rev. 21. 8. And in Esay 66. ●4 They shall be an abhorring to all flesh Their bodies shall be immortall also but this shall be their death that they cannot die they shall be ever dying but never dye It is called therefore an everlasting destruction so that they shall be an everlasting abhorring they shall be alwayes corrupting but not corrupted alwayes decaying but not decayed Their bodies shall be powerfull also but alas for this power there shall be an addition of suffering-strength for God will make them able to endure what else were intollerable and he will give them strength to bear that burthen which otherwise were insupportable for they shall be able to live so as alwayes a dying but so shall dye as that they shall alwayes live they who torment shall never be weary they who are tormented shall never be killed They may have also more power to sin for they shall be given up thereunto without restraint there shall be no grace nor means of grace thre the naturall ability or capacity of receiving or doing good shall be lost And if the light in them be darknes how great is the darknes Their vile bodies shall be yet more vile and as vile as sin and misery together can make them And because the body hath sinned therefore is the body to be vexed with corporall pains The damned body shall be more spirituall also but wo worth this spiritualnes for it shall be now immortall like the soul but happy were it for it if it could die Their bodyes also will be then much more deformed and ug●y if sin or misery the fellowship of Devils in a smoackie filthy Dungeon can make a man filthy and ignominious the persons of the damned must needs be so Gods Spirit hath forsaken them and Satan hath filled their heart 2. The understanding and memory of the damned soul shall also then without doubt be much greater and shall be so far forth enlarged and confirmed as it may thereby be made more capable of miserie for as grace shall be perfect in heaven so shall per●●bation in hell the mindes of those damned wretches shall be tormented with anger fury madnesse sorrow fear outcries and the like 1. With the sense of their sin which now they shall see in order before them Psal ●0 21. in quantity and in qualitie as it is in Gods eye and his words censure all which they shall now see and remember at once exactly 2. In the sense of the happinesse they have lost by the losse of Gods favour and presence the society of good Angels and men of the happinesse of which then they shall be doubtlesse far enlightened to see the extent for there shall be nothing wanting to make them perfectly miserable But they shall neither see nor remember any thing at all that may conduce to their ease or release the● of their mise●ie here they shall envy the happinesse of the Saints despair of help and mercie and be utterly destitute of all

doore of Heaven the ga●e of Life the entrance into perfect peace and security the day break of eternall brightnesse It is the consummation of a mans victory the beginning of glory to be perfected at the day of Judgment Here the law of the fle●● shall no more oppose the law of the mind Then shall be perfect rest settled peace a sure inheritance without any feeling of trouble or fear of l●sse Then shall be the buriall of all sinnes the raising of all virtues Then shall the soul fly out of the body as an Eagle above the Clouds where shall be neither nets nor snares to take it Who would fear or fly from this change Who would not be glad and desirous to embrace it 2 Cor. 5. 8. Esay 57. 1. 3. Ec●les 12. 7. The Spirit returneth to God that gave it being absent from the body we are present with the Lord. Rev. 14. 13. Blessed a●● the dead that die in the Lord for they rest from their labours c. Phil. 1. 23. I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ which is best of all Phil. 3. 20 21. Our Conversation is in heaven from whence we looke for the Saviour the Lord Iesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto hi● glorious body and 1 Thes 4. 14. 17. Luke 16. 22. When Laz●●●● died it is said the Angels carryed his soul into Abrahams b●some an all●sion as some would have it to the sweet delights and fellowship the Saints shall have with Abrham the father of the faithfull in Heaven as at a Feast whereat in the Eastern Countries they used to leane on one anothers breast Iohn 13. 23. others would have it a m●ta ph●● from Fathers who imbosome and hug their Children when wearied with long running about or have met with a knock and come crying to them By death the soul is marryed to Jesus Christ her dearest husband the which hath been here kept at a distance from him but then it shall be more neerly united to him and enjoy the beatificall vision of the Godhead the chiefest good and then is there but one step more and soul and body together shall have the compleat enjoyment thereof Then shall the beleever not only be brought into the bouse of his Father prepared from all eternity for him but he shall also there for ever have and enjoy the fellowship of all the blessed Saints and Angels and of his dearest fr●inds who died in the Lord before him Heb. 6. 20. 1● 23. 2 Sam. 12. 23. Who then would not be willing to die It is no ma●●ail● therefore i● Paul in the Contempl●tion or all these things desired to be dissolved Phil. 1. 23. and that the Saints desire to be u●cl●thed of their house of clay 2 Cor. 5. 2. And that the wicked do so much desire to di● the death of the righteous Numb 23. 10. And that the Maityrs loved not their lives unto death Rev. 12. 11. Acts 20. 24. but refused deliverance from death when they might have had it Heb. 11. 35. they were as willing to die as to live Out of all this we may then conclude upon the beleevers death with Salomon Eccle●● 7. 3. The ●a of death is better then the day of his birth But here it may be objected that death is a fruit of Gods curse the wages of ●●n the destruction of nature and a bitter and dreadfull thing To which we answer thus It is bitter and dreadfull in it self but it is the way all flesh do go and Christ himself went into glory and the nature of it is now changed as we have already shewed the sting of it is gone and it cannot hurt us and it is sanctified and sweetned by the death of Christ who will be with us and enable us to endure it Esay 43. 2. Oh! but you will say I am affraid of a long and strong disease and a painfull death To this we say Perhaps it may be otherwise for some die with little some without any pain at all But if it be so either god will lessen the pain or greaten thy strength and comfort 2 Cor. 1. 5. 10. 13. And very long the disease cannot be It is but like one swallow of a bitter pill and be cu●ed of all diseases one thrust out at a narrow gate and we are out of prison it is but one wink and all is past 2 Cor. 4. 17. Oh! But some will say the grave which followes death at the heels is a dreadfull spectacle To this we answer That the grave shall be no other to the Saints but as a sweet bed wherein they shall sleep quietly and feel nothing Esay 57. 1. 3. And Christ the members of whose body they still continue to be will be there with them and bring them from thence into heaven Ephes. 5. 30. Psal 16. 9. 0. Fifthly The ●ifth thing to which we are to be perswaded is that since we must shortly die and by death be for ever seperated from our worldly enjoyments that we do not overmuch desire them before we have them not to much delight glory please and content our selves or trust in them when we have them nor much be grieved for them when we loose them Riches Honours Offices Authority Command Friends Pleasures and the rest what are they What can they do Matt. 6. 19 20. Lay not u● for your selves treasures on earth c. Jo 6. 27. Labour not for the meat which perisheth c. 1 Cor. 7. 29. Let them that have wives be as if they ●ad none 1 Tim. 6. 1● Trust not in uncertain riches Psal 62. 10. If riches increase set not thine heart upon them Prov. 23. 4. Labour not to be rich But for the Cure of this consider these things 1. That all Silver Gold Pearls c. are but vile things Earth upon Earth Matth. 6. verse 19. Silver and Gold is but White and Yellow earth Pearls the guts and garbage of the Earth all of them but thick clay Hab. 2. 9. 2. Riches Honours and the rest reach no further then to this life Iob 17. 15 16. 3. They can do little for us while we have them they can procure us no spirituall or solid joy they cannot preserve or deliver us from any great evill Prov. 10. 2. Treasures of wickednesse profit nothing Prov. 11. 4. Riches profit not in the day of wrath Psal 49. 6 7. They that trust in their wealth c. none of them can by any means redeem his brother c. Luke 12. 15. 4. They are of a perishing vanishing nature they perish with the using they are but as heaps of Snow or Chasse they melt away between our singers as butter before the Sun and are gone we know not how they that lean upon and trust unto them are as men that trust to a hill●●k of Yee or heap of Snow Psal 30. 6 7. Esay 40. 6. All flesh is grasse and the glory thereof as the flower

own ends Jam. 1. 12. B●essed is the man that endureth tentation for when he is ●ried he shall receive the crown of life 2. Thess 1. 8. And this patience we shall know to be ●●ue by these things I when a man doth finde fault with the least inclination to impatiency 2 When he doth not go about to limit God 3 When a man doth more fear the evil of sin then he doth the evill of punishment 4. When a man is the better for the crosse Rom. 5. 8. Psalm 119 67. Dan 12. 10. 5. When he doth wholly resign up himself to God in it Heb. 12. 9. David 〈◊〉 El●e 15 In the earnest of the SPirit in their he●rts whereby they are sealed upto the day of redemption and assured of heaven 1 Cor. 1 22. Ephes 1. 14. 4. 30. Rom. 8. 16. 17. Which beareth witnesse with our spirits that we are Gods children and kn●w● by the fruits thereof as love joy peace long-suffering and the rest Galla. 〈◊〉 22. 16. In their Spirituall povertie or humbleheartednesse in the sight and sense of their own spirituall wants when a man is tamed by affliction so that he hath a lively feeling of his spirituall poveritie and want and is humbled and made low thereby Matth. 5. 3. Blessed are the poor in Spirit for theirs is the kingdom of God 17 In their holy mourning for their own and others sins and the miseries of Gods people Matth. 5. 4. Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted They that mourn for spirituall things in a spirituall manner and upon spirituall motives Luke 6. 11. Blessed are they that weep c. 18 In humility when a man looking on his worse● part hath a mean esteem of himself and a higher esteem of others and doth walk humbly before his God in a patient bearing of evil and doing of good Prov. 18. 12. Before glory goeth lowlinesse Phillip 2. 7. 8 9. Matth. 5. 23. 4. Matth. 18. 12. 3 4 5. Whosoever shall humble himself as a little childe the same is greatest in the kingdom of heven 19. In their mercy and pity to them that are in misery When we pity and help and succour them in their miserie Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtain mercy Matth. 5. 7. Esay 57. 1. Mercifull men are taken away c. Matt. 25. 34. I was hungry and ye fed me c. Sell that ye have and give alms make you bags which wax no● old a treasure that can never fail in heaven c. Luke 12. 33. Where no theefe commeth nor moth corrupteth 20. In a lively hope to an assured expectation of all goodthings promised Rom. 8. 14. We are saved by hope This is an anchor to the soul sure and stedfast Heb. 〈◊〉 19. And then true when 1 it ariseth out of faith Heb. 11. 1. 2 It followeth 〈◊〉 effedtuall cal●ing Ephes 1. 18. 3 It makes a man use all good means to have the thing hoped for 4 It makes a man sit himself for the thing hopes for he that hath this shall not be ashamed of it Rom. 5. 5. 1 Iohn 3. 3. 21 In a broken hearts and contrite Spirit when it is b●u●sed as it were to powder through deep grief from the apprehension of Gods wrath against him for 〈◊〉 Psal 34. 18 Psal 50. He 〈◊〉 such 〈◊〉 Psal 147. 3. Ezek. 6. 26. Rom. 7. 8 〈◊〉 P●ritie and 〈◊〉 of heart that have hearts partly freed from the 〈◊〉 and endeavouring 〈◊〉 to be more 〈◊〉 from the gu●lt and punishme●● of 〈◊〉 and from the power of sin by 〈◊〉 Matth. 5. 〈◊〉 Blessed are the pure●● heart for they shall see God Rev. 7. 14. These are the● which 〈◊〉 m●●e them white c. ver 9. Clothed with white Roles in 〈◊〉 of puritie 1 Tim. 1. 5. 23. In their 〈◊〉 their mutuall concord and agreement with their brethren Matth. 5 9. Blessed are the peace makers Gal. 5. 24. Fruit of the Spirit is peace 24. In their sinceritie and uprightnesse when the heart is right towards God and man studying to doe all things to please God and not for any by 〈◊〉 Esay 57. 2. Vpright men are taken away 25. In doing good in every state and condition of life Rom. 2. 6. 7 Go● will reward every one according to his work That is to them who through patience in 〈◊〉 seek glory c. Eternall life ver 10. To every man that doth good shall be Glory Honour and Peace 26 Especially by fruitfulnesse in well doing Matth. 7. 19. When we forget what is past and prosse forward to more not trusting to what who have done Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much fruit and he that honoureth him shall be honoured Phil. 3. 13. Iob. 15. 8. 1 Sam. 2. 30. Matth. 25. 37. 38. Christ shall say to them I was an hungrie and ye fed me c. And they shall say unto him Lord when saw we thee an hungry and fed thee c. 27 In picking close to God herein in improving all our talents and opportunities for this end and mightily opposing all that doth oppose us herein 2 Tim. 4. 7. 8. I have fought a good sight and have finished my course I have kept the faith From henceforth is ●aid up for me the crown of righteousnesse c. 1 Pet. 5. 4. Matth. 25. 21. 28 In labouring by their example and Counsell to convert others to righteousnesse Dan. 12. 2. And they that turn many to righteousnesse shall shine as the ●arres for ever and ever 29 In cherishing and furthering euerie good thing 30 In pers●vering in good Mark 13. 13. He that continueth to the end shall be saved Rev. 2. 10. Be faithfull to the death and I will give thee a crown of life 31 In loving and ●onging for the appearing of the Lord Iesus Christ 2 Tim. 4. 8. Luke 21. 8. Rev. 22. 17. 20. Rom. 8. 10. 23. 32 In embracing and reverencing the truth 2 Thess 〈◊〉 10. If now upon all this we shall begin to think that this way is impossible to be gone we must answer and tell you in Christs words the way t● heaven is a narrow and a straight way Matth. 7. 13. 1 Pet. 4. 18 For 1 It is a persecuted way 2 Tim 3. 11. 12. 2 It is a way through many troubles Acts 14. 22 Iames 〈◊〉 12. 2 Cor. 4 17. Typed by the travell of the Israelites through the wildernesse 3 It will admit of no turning Acts 13. 10. 4 It crosseth all a mans corruptions 1 Cor. 1. 23. Rom. 5. 5 There are many enemies against them that walk in this way But all this is but to make us to doe as Christ doth exhort Strive to enter in c. Luke 13. 24. Use all meanes and be at any charge to attain it Esay 55. 1 Prov. 23. 23. Matth. 13. 44. And that we may not go without it Let us 1. beginne bet●●es to deal upon this purchase 2 Labour earnestly neglect no time nor means 3.