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A62089	Being for ever with the Lord, the great hope, end and comfort of believers what it is, and how to be obtained and forethought of / preached by Matthew Sylvester ; and published at the publick request of Mr. Ri. Baxter, at the hearing of it.	Sylvester, Matthew, 1636 or 7-1708.	1688 (1688)	Wing S6329; ESTC R34636	31,001	96

of Christ Mat. 11.29 Heaven could not bear the Pride of Angels no more can Christ endure the Pride of Man. Please not your selves or others till you have answer'd all your Master's Claims Rom. 15.1 2 3. Gal. 1.10 Be knit to nothing but to your Lord in Heaven for why should he be made an Underling or Cipher here below Christ ours in Heaven a better Patrimony and Inheritance than States and Kingdoms here Be more sollicitous about the temper tendency and genuine Issues of your Hearts and Ways than about the Events of Providence 2 Cor. 5.9 10. Your best Concernments are with Christ if they succeed you cannot lose Treasures above and your exalted Head in Bonds in Power and in Possession to secure them speak you too safe and rich to be undone Be silent Prostrates at the foot of Christ if his presence be your Happiness he must needs be much above you every way therefore observe the Words the Looks the Steps of Christ and let them rule you And let his Dispensations here below be all admir'd by you and rested in Christ is in Heaven about your Work and that he be pleased by you doth most concern you and best become you And when you come to be with him for ever how deeply and quickly will he make you sensible of that great Wisdom wonderful Grace and mighty Power which brought you safely to himself in Glory 11. And O what a Figure will Christ then make in Heaven when that State is compleatly filled and when he hath gathered all his Family up to Glory 2 Pet. 1.11 If in those preparatory Scenes of Providence wherein the Redeemer addrest himself to Action and began his glorious Atchievements and was priviledged to open the Sealed Book there were such Acclamations and solemn Congratulations of this his peculiar Priviledg Prerogative by all in Heaven Earth and if there were such prostrate Venerations of him as we find in Rev. 4 8-11 5 9-14 and this conjunctly with his Father How will his Name and Glory be aggrandized when all his Favorites shall be with him All the Mysteries of Godliness relate to Christ and have their undoubted Aggravations from him 1 Tim. 3.16 and how wondrously glorious hath God represented him to us below Col. 1 15-19 2.2 3 9 10. Heb. 1 2-13 Rev. 1.5 6. John 14.6 And if these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these earthly things these shadowings forth of Christ and of his Kingdom to us even by Schemes accommodated to our Capacities in this our dark and distant State be looked upon as scarcely to be credited by Masters in Israel and yet so wonderful in the Eyes of the discerning Christian What would the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be then thought to be were they discovered to us in words more suited to their Excellency than to our Capacity John 3.12 with 1 Cor. 1.23 24. 2 9-14 2.12 2-4 We find great notices taken of him by the Heavenly State whilst in this outward Court ministring in the Port and posture of a Servant For as the Spirit of Prophecy foretold him Types represented him and the Word of Promise entitled us to the hopes and benefits of his Appearance and propitious Mediation So the Spirit forms his Body Angels declare his Birth Miracles attest his Dignity Doctrines and Authority and Ability to form us for and bring us to Himself Nature obeys him Devils fly before him Moses and Elias talk with him Souls come in by Multitudes and value nothing like his Person Conduct Government and Grace God owns him as his Son as his Royal Oracle and Agent by a Voice from Heaven 2 Pet. 1 16-21 1 Joh. 5 6-12 and all the Institutions and Transactions of the Kingdom of God amongst Men must have the Name of Christ enstamp'd upon them And when Christ had finished his Course and Work below God raises him from the Dead and shews him openly commands the Angels to worship him and to report his Resurrection makes this the great Base and Pillar of his Gospel-Kingdom carries him up to Heaven many hundreds of credible Witnesses beholding his Ascension and sets him at his own right Hand putting the Reigns of all Government into his Hands And then the Father sends the Holy Spirit in the Son's Name to glorify him as Christ had said before John 16 13-15 to seal this Truth to enable Persons to declare and prove it and to make the Gospel prosperous in its great Design But as to Christ himself he in the heavenly Places and Affairs for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imports both sits far above all Principality Power Might Dominion and every Name that is named in even the World to come having all things under his Feet because he is given as Head over all things to his Church which is his Body the fulness of him that filleth all in all Ephes 1 20-23 Hence the whole Family in Heaven and Earth is named of him Eph. 3.15 The Church in the compleatness of its Triumphant State is called his Everlasting Kingdom 2 Pet. 1.11 And when he shall have put down all Rule Authority and Power he will deliver up the Kingdom to the Father as a fit Present to the Majesty of Heaven as a clear Proof and Monument of his own Mediatorial Faithfulness and as fit Subjects of his own Paternal Government and Delight or as his acquired Inheritance to possess for ever 1 Cor. 15 24-28 For who can any way imagine that the delivery of these Subjects to the Father shall be the deposing of the Son from his triumphant Government that well considers Christ as placed by God upon the same Throne with himself Rev. 3.21 Is not Christ said to reign for ever and ever Rev. 11.15 O what a Pleonasm or fulness of expression is there in that passage Ephes 3.21 It is a Doxology richly phrased and that as in the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whereto I never yet read or heard of any Parallel in any Greek Author See also 2 Pet. 3.18 so vast is the reach of the inspiring Spirit so deep the Thoughts so full the Heart of the inspired Pen-man because so great the Dignity and Prerogatives of our enthroned and glorified Redeemer in this his Day and Kingdom What Eye so sharp and strong on Earth as to comprehend or tolerably to reach the sense of that great Passage in 1 Tim. 6.14.16 〈◊〉 Timothy is charged to keep the ●●●mandment till the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ mind now what follows which in his Times he shall shew who is the blessed and only Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who only hath Immortality dwelling in Light which no Man can approach unto whom no Man hath seen nor can see to whom is as well as be Honour and Power everlasting Amen And here O that my heart was equal to wha● poor purblind I discern in this great Passage as shewing what notice must and will be taken of Jesus Christ hereafter For tho

Work of Faith Labour of Love and Patience of Hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of God and our Father knowing your Election of God vers 3 4. It is not every one that is to be with Christ for ever The Subject must be suited to this State and Priviledg and that not by mere Miracle but by the fit improvements of those Means and Helps which God affords us for our preparation-work Means suited to their Ends are to be adhered to and used accordingly Nor can it be expected that God's Institutions will ordinarily be neglected by himself and that our neglect thereof should be to us as prosperous as our fit observation● 〈…〉 And yet mistake me not I do not say that outward Means and moral Swasions are all that Christian Converts are brought home by There is a powerful quickning Divine touch upon the Soul needful to make it throughly Christian and without this no Man becomes a real Christian And none can live with Christ for ever but he that is wrought and kept thereto by special Grace and Providence And excellent Persons must such be that are thus changed and kept for such a blissful State as this here in the Text The Apostle calls them the Children of the Light and Day 1 Thess v. 5. such as derive a new Nature from it 2 Cor. iii. 3 18. walk under the Government and Conduct of it Ephes v. 8. and are entitled to great Priviledges by it Acts xx 32. xxvi 18. John xii 35 36. Let me then close this Head with this 1. Consider who expresly are to be excluded and upon what accounts 1 Cor. vi 9 10. Galat. v. 19-21 Ephes v. 5. Mat. xxv 41-46 Rev. xxi 8 27. Hence then this We can take in no such Persons They that make nothing of discovering directive encouraging and transforming Gospel-Light that have not fetch'd their Principles therefrom and formed their Lives and Practices and Tempers thereunto nor made the greatest reckoning of these Privileges which are to be obtained thereby are no ways fitted and therefore not determined whilst such unto this blessed State. Consider 2. whom Christ expresly hath consigned and promised this Priviledg unto John xii 26. Luk. xii 31-37 xiv 26 27. xxii 28-30 2 Tim. ii 11 12. Luke xxi 36. 1 John iii. 1-3 Jude 20 21. 2 Pet. i. 5-11 iii. 14. 'T is not the Form but Power of Godliness that can entitle and adopt us to that State resolute Promoters of Christ's Interests patient Sufferers for it prudent Contrivers fruitful Walkers such as are observant of his Conduct obedient to his Laws submissive to his Providence and satisfied in and with his Care and Grace and that joyfully prepare and wait for his appearance and presence and duly represented him to themselves and others so as to value nothing like him no nor themselves but as in him and for him These are to be with him for ever see 2 Tim. iv 6-8 2. The State and Privilege whereto they are determined to be for ever with the Lord John xiv 2 3. Hence we are exhorted to seek those things above where Christ is Col. iii. 1. Hence Come ye Blessed and depart from me ye Cursed Mat. xxv 34 41. Present with the Lord 2 Cor. v. 8. They shall walk with me in White for they are worthy Rev. iii. 4. When Christ who is our Life shall appear then shall we also appear with him in Glory Col. iii. 4. When he shall come to be glorified in his Saints and admired at in all them that shall believe in that Day 2 Thess i. 10. Father I will that those whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold the Glory which thou hast given me John xvii 24. Christ with his Father are the only Temple of that Blessed State where all the Favorites of Christ must be Rev. xxi 23. Christ is our Life in Heaven Col. iii. 3 4. Our Hope from Heaven Tit. ii 13. Phil. iii. 20. Our Plea for Heaven Heb. ix 15. Our Way to Heaven John xiv 6. Our Head and all in Heaven Ephes i. 20-23 We are to be with him who is the greatest Friend Isa ix 6 7. Heb. i. 2-14 iv 14-16 Rev. i. 5 18. Col. i. 15-19 ii 9 10. The dearest Friend Gal. ii 20. Ephes iii. 18 19. Tit. ii 14. His aim at this our Exaltation and Advancement his sharp and costly Agonies and Engagements to effect it and the delight he took therein prove this And the fastest and most faithful Friend in Isa xi 5. Heb. iii. 1 2. x. 23. xiii 8. But now what it is to be with Christ none yet fully know 1 Cor. xiii 9-12 Christ himself tells us We shall behold his Glory John xvii 22. Now what is Glory but the luster of discovered Excellency and Perfection And O the excellence of the Lord-Redeemer in his exalted State his Transfiguration amazed Beholders When he appeared to Saul he struck him blind the distant sight or glance which Stephen got imprest no ordinary Majesty and Glory on his Countenance But Christ acquaints us with his three-fold Glory wherein every Eye shall see him Luke ix 26. There is his personal Glory as to his humane Nature a glorious Body Spiritual Immortal incapable of Sufferings lively and of the nearest alliance and approach to Spirit and every way fitted to subserve the Function of his compleated Soul and like a Chrystal Mirror to have his inward Glory transmitted through it to all Spectators A glorious Soul exerting all its vigours in and through this Body wherein every Gesture Look and Motion and Expression shall shew the excellent Temper Furniture and Beauty of his Soul. O the Wisdom Majesty Holiness and Vivacity of his Soul which then will have their fullest Explications and Appearances And then the fulness of the Godhead which dwells bodily in him shall have such great and clear Discoveries and Effects as shall delightfully entertain his Favorites with great varieties of discoveries for evermore What emblemmatical Glory may attend his Person as the Symbol and Signal of the extraordinary presence of his Father with him and complacency in him I dare not guess at nor am I wise or good enough to know nor arrogant and bold enough to determine but sure I am the physical Changes and the judicial Process and Conclusions of that Day with the evident yieldings and submissions of the whole Frame of Nature to his Will and the effectual bowing of every Knee and the confession of every Tongue to him will deservedly bear the Character of the Father's Glory Phil. ii 9-11 And all this shall we behold to everlasting Satisfaction And we shall see his Glory further in all his Rectoral Excellencies The Constitution and Administration of his everlasting Kingdom will declare his Eminencies How much he is above them in Excellencies and Prerogatives How excellently he governs them with such extraordinary Light and Love suited so

wherewith ye your selves are comforted of God 2 Cor. 1 3-5 And what now is it think you to comfort your selves herewith I will tell you as desiring labouring and hoping through your intreated Prayer for me and the supply of the Spirit to me thus to do It is 1. by close and solemn contemplation to represent this State unto your selves according to the Gospel-Scheme or Figure as great sure near and suited every way to make those happy who obtain it as yours by promise and in hope having been purchased and being now possest by Christ for you whose Spirit hath also sealed you thereunto and is your Pledg and Earnest of it and as of far greater consequence and concernment to you than all which you can meet with here can countervail And 2. it is pertinently and prudently to accommodate this your Encouragement and Support to every Exigence so as to make you calm and easy in your selves and sensibly and evidently pleased herewith whatever this your Hope may cost you here You must consider and apply it and regularly enforce it upon your exercised Souls and live upon it as your Food and Treasure and rest herein when little else but Toil and Sorrow here becomes your daily Entertainment But I have more largely handled this in my printed Sermon on Psal 42.11 in Dr. Anneslie's Morning Exercise and thither I refer you though ill printed 2. Comfort one another with these words Mal. 3.16 't is needful useful and delightful thus to do for God hath set this State thus characterised before us as our Directory to shew us what we are to be and do 1 John 3.2 3. as our Encouragement hereunto 1 Cor. 15.58 and as the Reward hereof Heb. 10 35-37 We are to give our Sentiments and Notions of this State and to represent it in its greatness each to other We are to confer about its certainty and so to shew and settle the reasons of our belief hereof to discourse the nearness of it lest otherwise the Midnight-Cry surprize us to talk about the Means and Evidence of our being entitled thereunto and of its suitableness to all our holy Principles and Instincts and to the Capacities and true Welfare of our Souls and of those great and glorious Purposes which it may subserve and to converse about the Snares which may be broken and of the Mischiefs which may be prevented by our lively Thoughts Belief and Hopes and Relishes of this blissful State and by our warm Discourse about it And we are to quicken one another to comparative Thoughts about it that is to consider it in its Transcendencies above all that rivals or opposes it Sometimes our Mouths or Palats have loste their tast and relish and then Discourse hereon must cure us and the great Excellencies of our Lord and of our abode with him for ever must be displayed afresh Sometimes our Hearts are out of hope and then Christ as our Advocate and Head in Heaven preparing all Things for our solemn meeting with him and as the Patron of this Hope may be the proper and fit Theme for Christian Conference about Sometimes our Minds and Thoughts are vagrant and like loose Garments rather hinder us than help us and then some warm discourse about this State may reduce our distracted Spirits to some advantageous composures Somtimes our Hearts are cold and careless and then some applicatory Conference about this heavenly State and Priviledg may make them burn again within us Sometimes the frame of Spirit and course of Life which is most congenial with this Lord and State is much neglected and we are degenerating into unchristian Principles Dispositions and Practices and then to speak of Christ in all those Glories where he and we must dwell together may recover us from our Decays and Lapses Sometimes our Devotions have not their proper Life and Spirit in them as Prayer Praise Thanks Sabbath-Solemnities and Sacramental Commemorations and Transactions c. and then right Words warmly delivered and enforced may make our Altars flame afresh And sometimes we are in the House of Mourning some sick some weak some dead and some twice dead all more or less lamenting the mournful State of Things Souls Persons c. and then for ever with the Lord closely discoursed may afford very great relief For Christ and all his Saints with him in Glory allays the bitterness of all such Cups makes all Conditions easy clears up the Brow and warms the Heart and adds new Life and Vigour to all our Winter and Summer-Graces Rom. 5.2 3. Jam. 1. 2-12 and fully reconciles us to all those Scenes of Sorrows and to Death it self through which we are to come to Christ Converse then more about this thing for no Salt like this to season Conversation with Col. 4.5 and nothing fitter to refresh the drooping Soul. And therefore Ye Beloved building up your selves and one another on your most holy Faith praying in the Holy Ghost keep your selves in the Love of God looking for the Mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto Eternal Life Jude 20 21. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our Father who hath loved us and given us everlasting Consolation and good Hope through Grace comfort your Hearts and establish you in every good Word and Work 2 Thess 2.16 17. And to him that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his Glory with exceeding Joy To the only wise God our Saviour be Glory and Majesty Dominion and Power both now and ever Amen Jude 24 25. FINIS