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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

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

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

13. 2 Cor. 5. ●9 1 P●● ●●0 Esay ●8 14. Rom. 10. 14. They That call upon the Lord shall be saved 3. The steps of this way it self are in generall the conformity of a mans ways in righteousnes and holines to the will of God doing good and avoiding evill or a walking in holines and righteousnes before him Not every one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdome of Heavens but he that doth the will of my Father in Heaven Matth. 7. 2● They th●●efore for whom this place i● prepared and that shall be Inhabitants of this heavenly Jerusalem are said to be the righteous just Saints c. E●ay ●7 1. Righteous men are taken away from the evill to come Mat. 25 46. The righteous shall go into everlasting life Mat. 1. 43. Then shall the just shine as the 〈◊〉 the kingdome of their Father and heaven it self Col. 2. 1● It is called the inheritance of the Saints of them that are sanctified Acts 20. 32. Hebr. 12 14. Revel 21 27. For it is but reason that they that would have the wages of eternall life of God hereafter should do his work here Hebr. 12. v. 28 If yet you d●si●e to see this branched out further in 〈◊〉 we may observe it to be noted out unto us to ●ivers gracious works of Gods Spirit in us and by us as 1. In Sanctification that is the peculiar work of Gods Spirit creating in the elect converted souls that new quality of holinesse whereby they can in some measure truly hate their own sins with firm purpose to leave them and love Gods Law with resolution to do it in some good measure For al those those alone that are sanctified here shall be saved hereafter And this sanctification is one part of the will of God that must be done of all that will be saved 1 Thess 4. 3. This is the will of God even your Sanctification Rom. 8. 3. Whom he will glorifie he will sanctifie And this we know doth comprehend two things Mortification of sin and a quickening virtue to goodnes And the first or rather the Spirit in the first worketh by these degrees 1. it doth make a man labour to finde out his sin especially roo●-sin 2. It makes him loath it and be weary of it and desirous to be rid of it 3. It maketh him to fetch power from the death of Christ in the use of all the means of grace to kill it 4. It maketh him to apply this power as a corasive to proud flesh to eat out his sin The second worketh thus 1. It maketh a man labour to find out that righteousnes which God retquireth 2. To strive for a willingnes of heart ●o perform it 3. And that he may so do to fetch power from Christ in the use of all the means of Grace 4. A love to all good persons and things And by these pure motions as streams the fountain is known to be pure Io. 4 14. 5. A pure and a holy life sheweth the heart as the fruit doth the Tree to be good 2. In Regeneration That work of Gods wonderfull power begetting the Elect again to himself by the Word and Spirit thereby making them the children of God through 〈◊〉 in Christ who were the children of w●●th by 〈◊〉 which is one of the first steps in the way to salvation And all those and those onely that are regenerate here of God by his Spirit and Word by a spirituall birth and by that means made new creatures shall come to this happy place Iohn 3 3. Christs own words Verily verily I say unto thee except a 〈◊〉 be born againe he cannot see the kingdome of God Joh. 1. 13. 1 Pet 1. 23. 1 Pet. 1. 3. who hath begotten us again to a lively hope c. To an i●her●tance c. For flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdome of God 1 Cor. 15. 50. Jo. 1. 14. And this work where it is wrought doth shew it self thus 1. by the change their hearts are changed their stony heart is turned into a heart of flesh c. and their lives are altered they are other men as Paul and Manassah they have new thoughts words and works Gal. 1. 22. 2. They desire after and delight in the means of Grace 1 Pet. 2. v. 2. 3. They know how to work and do work in the work of God 3. In Repentance a fruit of sanctification which is where a man is sorely displeased with himself for his sins because they are offensive to God and against his Law and a true hatred of all sin a setled constant desire and endeavour to order his life by Gods Word For those only that turn from all sin to God in heart and desire and labour to shew the same by eschewing all manner of evill and doing all manner of good shall be saved It is called repentance unto life Acts 11. 18. Ezech. 18 21 Mat. 18. 3. Christs own words Verily I say to you except you be converted and become as little children yee shall not enter into the kingdome of God Acts 3. 19. Amend your lives therefore and turn that your sins may be blotted out when the time of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And this repentance if it be true hath these things in it 1. a hearty grief chiefly because we have offended a gracious God that hath been so good to us Psal 51. 4. 2. An unf●●ned hat●ed and detestation of all sin especially of that we have loved most Psal 119. 104. 3. A groaning under the burthen of it Luke 15. 17. he to whom sin is a burthen shall come to this rest Mat. 11. 28. Acts 3. 9 4. A constant resolution against all sin especially our own sin Psal 119 57. 5. An earnest striving all our life time against all that we know to be evill 6. A practise in some measure in now obedience Luke 1. 6. sin begins to be left corruption begins to work out 7. A daily examination of our selves judging and humbling of our selves for our sins Psal 32. Rom. 7. 8. A quick apprehension of Gods word against it self Acts 2. 37. 2 Kings 22. 19. 9. A love of the word of God and Ministers thereof as that by which we have had our healing as a man will doe the Physitian and Physick that cured his body 4. In an effectuall or inward calling the speciall and free work of Gods spirit singling and drawing the elect from the reprobates making them that they were not before Saints c. for they and they onely who are inwardly called by Gods Spirit as well as outwardly called by Gods Word out of the state of nature ot the state of grace to faith and repentance shall be saved And all such as are delivered into the ●ingdome of his deare Son Col. 1. 13. This calling is a sure signe that one is ordained to everlasting life Rom. 8. 30. Whom the Lord hath called them he hath also glorified For these

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.