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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59934	[Evangelion aionion eis t aionch] doxotaton, or, A glimpse of gospel glory. The first part together with a short but pithie treatise of Mr. E.D. shewing that Peter was never at Rome : to which is subjoyned as an appendix some pregnant collections by ... H. Nelson ... to a like purpose.	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?; E. D., Mr.; Nelson, H., 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing S3404; ESTC R25256	86,334	226

of our redemption the comforter of our souls the teacher of all our sound wisdome and knowledge the guider and orderer and preserver of our whole spirits soules and bodies in the way of truth peace and glory unto the appearing of Christ and from thence their preserver in and unto eternal life 1 Thes 3. 13. So that since grace is of such neer consanguinity yea of such Identitie and oneness of the same essence and nature with glory hereafter and glory being not only the perfecting and consummation of grace but the result recompence and reward of it too it is no wonder it is here dignified with the most excellent title of Glory in the text and that as proceeding from the most excellent author and fountain of it the Lord the glory of the Lord the greatest glory he hath manifested in this world or greater then to all other Creatures in the world save his true Church therein at least in that inward spiritual efficacious manner to their transformation into the same Image and even greater then to his true Church under the old Testament though transformed likewise yet in these gospel times it is more clear more excellent as we formerly declared and therefore such as now with those primative Saints spoken of in the Text behold it after the like manner must needs happily behold the glory of the Lord though but as in a glass yet with open face And thus much briefly of this particular likewise The Fifth Demonstration is from the consideration that it will be the everlasting fountain and never failing spring continually affording matter of the perpetual Halelujahs blessings and prayses of the glorified Saints and Angels unto the Lord God Almighty unto the Lambe and unto the Lord the Spirit for ever and ever In that perfect Estate of their happiness all the greatness of this glory in the particulars we formerly set before you besides what ever else may most display it I say the greatness of it above all others will then be most clearly unfolded most largely discerned most perfectly manifest unto them to the infinite praise and glory of the Author worker and dispenser of all grace and glory and their own happiness and glory will be so much the more inlarged as they know and feel and canperform this most glorious work of praise and as there are such multitudes of such exexcellent companions and consorts in this soule-satisfying celestial divine and perfectly happy harmony the profound depth the misterious secrecy the otherwise then by an infinite God insuperable difficulties the most certain sureness and most settled security of the laying of that foundation how will it be known and admired to the honour of him that from eternity had so laid it How will the glorious nature matter and forme thereof be in like manner displayed improved by them How will all that they shall observe or discern of the time durance and manner of raysing such a glorious structure be celebrated by them with their due praise How will then the infinite wisdome mercy grace compassion and riches of goodness with the power truth holyness justice and all the excellencies of God so gloriously shining out in the face of Jesus Christ chap. 4. 6. and by the holy spirit discovered before unto the Saints be continually in an happy measure obvious to the vision How will the knowledge of such poor yet suitable instrumental means that had such treasure in earthen vessels to convey such glorious grace unto such mean and unsutable objects as men in their lost Estate so wonderfully powerfully and graciously throughout all generations in the world spring out unto them with matter of continued renewed melodie in that most blessed and glorious heavenly harmony How will the uses then observed and improved by them to the uttermost be compleated How will the blessed operations and effects of this glory then be fully known noted declared celebrated by them with all due honor to the worker of them to all eternity Here Gods Saints according to their discoveries in such contemplations may adore and admire in some poor measure and by the eye of faith discerne such things as God hath both so wrought revealed and conferred in and by the Gospel of his Son But the most happy inlargements beatifical vision and perfect fruition of these things both for their own most secure and satisfying happiness and the infinite and eternal praise of the Almighty One will be then the everlasting imployment of all such glorified Saints and Angels to all eternity then will the unspeakable excellencies of this glorious grace fully appear unto such O that men would therefore labour above all things to get their part in it here that they may have their portion in that happy society hereafter everlastingly by these means to praise God with them and in so doing to be perfectly blessed with them And thus we have done with the proofe and illustration of this glorious truth Proceed we now to add some further improvements then what we have formerly touched upon and so to draw on to a conclusion of the point Vse First Let men above all turne their eyes I meane the eyes of their souls and minds to the beholding of Gospel glory glorious things are delightful things to every discerning faculty provided there be suitableness in a due proportion thereunto First For the senses it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the Sun saith Solomon Ec. 11. 7. Secondly For Reason The contemplation of Moral Natural and Metaphysical objects and subjects was so pleasing unto the ancient Phylosophers and Sages amongst the Heathen that they were so inwardly ravished with the excellency thereof that they conceived happiness consisted therein but that soul that by the eye of faith and by the efficacious grace of the Spirit of God comes once to behold in any good measure this Gospel glory finds by this a dim shade cast upon all seeming glories in the world besides as the sun shining in his glory at noon day upon the light of many small candles burning in the bright beams thereof Qu. But thou wilt say how shall I do this Blind men cannot see pleasing objects and deaf men cannot here delightful musick the Scripture tells me I am such by nature Ans And doest thou beleeve that is true If many others did so too they would be much neerer the cure and so art thou like to be for thou couldest not rightly have acknowledged that but by the holy Ghost But to help the good work forward and to point out unto others what course they should take give me leave to set down a few directions First Go to Christ the true Physitian of souls for his Collyrium his spiritual eye salve which he makes proclamation of Rev. 3. 18. and buy it of him by prayer by faith by the use of all his means Secondly To cure thy deafness let him put his fingers into thine eares and say Mar. 7. 33 34.

with that much more excellent discovery of Gospel glory though a truly regenerate and sanctified soul sees such beauty such loveliness such joy and sollace yea true happiness in those Gospel gracious discoveries that they not only like it and commend it but as some Ancients concerning some amorous persons were wont to phrase it perdite amant alias they love others to the looseing of themselves so it may be said of their loving of Gospel grace but in a good and necessary sence as our Saviour speaks Mat. 10. 5. If any love Father or Mother Wife or Children more then me he is not worthy of me perdite amant gloriam Evangelicam they destructively love Gospel glory that they will rather loose friends and credit ease and possessions liberty life and all then to suffer a divorce between that and their own soules But for all other men or any other man to desire it to pursue it upon a true Gospel account as beleeving or seeing it to be so excellent and glorious or upon such termes to pursue or retain it by purchasing or suffering for it the heathen Sages might much more easily have prevailed with any such beasts in the shapes of men then any sanctified soul or Embassador of Christ can prevaile with any to take right notice of or much less to be so enamoured of that most excellent object of soul sollacing grace untill they come to be transformed into the same image by the spirit of God Fourthly But this will yet further appear in the next demonstration namely In that such Gospel grace in the souls of the Saints differs not in nature from their heavenly glory but only in degrees A man that is in any good measure in heaven in his spiritual part here upon earth shall certainly inherite the kingdome of Heaven hereafter and such within whom as our Saviour speaks Luk. ●7 ●1 the kingdome of heaven is really here seated by Gospel grace they shall infallibly obtain a Crown of glory which will never fade to all eternity and indeed heaven would not be heaven unto them then when they should come to possess it if that kingdom of heaven had not taken possession of their souls before to fit them for it a blind man may as soon be affected with the meer placeing of pleasant sights before him or a deaf man delighted with the sound of any musick which he cannot heare as men or women truly rejoyce in the glorified Saints and Angels happiness hereafter if they have not here their Celestial frame of spirit wrought upon their souls yea the very society of glorified Saints would be a kind of hell to wicked men remaining such if they had no other hell to suffer for as it cannot be expected the wolfe should lye down with the Lambe untill Gospel grace have wrought the change of nature here as the spirit of God hath foretold Is 11. 6 7. 8. so until that nature be changed yea a contrary put into the soule of a man the Saints perpetual songs of prayse to God and the Lambe and the Lord the Spirit would not only be unsutable and unpleasant but a senceless subject to such a soule that never had followed Christ in the regeneration nor seen nor felt nor rightly known before-hand the Divine power of Gospel grace the mistery of the gospel then the matter of the Saints everlasting rejoycing would be such an hidden sealed mistery that such unbeleeving and disobedient souls would not understand it saving only so far as to have convinced and self-condemned consciences thereby little understanding what they may sometime seem to pray or hope for here concerning the kingdom of heaven who in their dispositions and depraved nature doe toto caelo deferre stand at the greatest distance from it but when that nature is once changed that Lions are at peace with the Lambes and the hurtful creatures lye down with the harmeless Is 11. 7. then grace shall appear glorious unto such and as their measure thereof shall be greater the more it will appear so and the more they grow in such grace the more they will delight in it and the greater measure they shall obtain of it the more heavenly glory hereafter will be allotted to them It is true indeed our heaven upon earth will have a mixture of vanity and corruption and weakness together with it till that which is perfect be come then that which is imperfect shall be done away 1 Cor. 13. 10. I shall not stand here to inlarge upon the many considerations which might to this purpose be produced in regard of the souls incapacity of glory till it be changed and of its unsutableness unto such glory besides the sence of the want of any right title or interest in such glorified Saints happiness with their own self condemnation upon it and the apprehension of that intollerable eternal infinite divine displeasure against them as also the utter detestation that perfected Saints with Angels will have of the hateful qualities of all devils and unsanctified souls of men or women and even the very heavens natural repugnancy and antipathy against them to the utter expulsion of all such as poyson out of them since into them no unclean thing shall enter Rev. 21 27. As Christal glasses rather then hold poyson will break asunder even so the most pure Chrystaline heavens would rather break then any devil or unsanotified persons should abide or inhabite in them Here indeed the Hony Bee and the toad or spider have both their places and imployments and their injoyments too together the one to gather up its hony the other to suck up their poyson the one to lurke in the nastie corrupted or noysome corners of the earth the other in their sweet and pleasant hives and hony the one inrich themselves or feed upon their own destructive poyson the other inrich themselves with and feed upon their own pleasant wholsome healing and strengthning hony which they have by diligent labour acquir'd But when that woofull poysonous destructive nature of such men is in any good measure subdued by the prevalent power of Gospel grace O how sweet will the spiritual kingdome of heaven be unto such souls how will the true Citizens of the spiritual Zion be owned and imbraced by them How will their portion their delicates be desired above all others How will grace and glory be then longed for sought for by them above other things yet these passibus aequis as we may say in their due proportions when they are in their right frame not glory more then grace but grace as the right promoter of glory and indeed that which is only truly glorious in its own nature and which will meet with glory as the consequent the result the reward of it by grace we have the first fruits Ro. 8. 33. the earnest penny Eph. 1. 14. of glory and happiness in the injoyment of that we injoy the sanctifying spirits residence the witness of our peace the sealer