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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

Blood whereby we are consecrated to this so glorious and delightful State compare Luke xxiv 26. with Heb. x. 19-22 xii 24. If Christ then taught did suffered so much that we might be both fit and sure to be together How can we doubt thereof or miss it He knew what was in Man what most affected him and best became him and what was the likeliest way to suit Men to himself and to the Visions Services and Entertainments of that most glorious State and Kingdom where he himself now is and will abide enthroned for ever What Constitution Complexion their Souls and Persons were to be brought unto What Means and Helps would be most expedient hereunto What Doctrines Laws and Priviledges what Ordinances and providential Dispensations would best accommodate them in this Affair In what Ways and Seasons and to what Degrees they should be furnished and tried and what would most effectually engage and keep them for his Father and himself And hence we find his Name to be Wonderful Counsellor Isa ix 6. That in him are all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledg hidden Col. ii 3. That all the fulness of the God-head dwells bodily in him vers 9. And that he is made of God Wisdom to us 1 Cor. i. 30. Under the conduct of this Wisdom he acquaints them with himself John xvii 7 8. He shews them his Commission and Design John vi 38-40 Whither he was to go and their way to follow him Joh. xiv 4-6 with all that might help or hinder them in their proficiency and advances towards his exalted Self with all their needful Preparations for that State and Day wherein they should behold him and be with him in his Meridian Glory Luk. ix 23-26 xii 33-38 yea and the cost and gain of Christian Godliness Luk. xiv 33. xviii 29 30. His evidently great Love to them with all Expressions and Avouchments of it this seasons all his Doctrines and Instructions Joh. xiii 1-15 34 35. xv 8-17 He suffered long was kind vaunted not himself was not puffed up envied not never behav'd himself unseemly sought not his own was not easily provoked thought no Evil rejoiced not in Iniquity but in the Truth and in the welfare and advancement of his own unto himself He bare all things believed hoped and endured all things for thus doth Love 1 Cor. xiii 4-7 Thus having shewed them what Spirit he was of who was the brightness of his Father's Glory and how this Spirit stood and wrought towards them and thus how safely they might trust him and wherein their Tempers were to harmonize and accord with his that so his Presence might be their felicity and delight then is he frequently discoursing with them about the Jubilee which they and he must keep together in the Heavens Peter thou shalt follow me hereafter John xiii 36. Because I live ye shall live also and then you shall know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you Joh. xiv 19 20 28. And because I go to the Father you shall see me Joh. xvi 16 22. and I will come and fetch you to my self Joh. xiv 3. And having lived as bound for Heaven practically shewing His their way thereto he dies a Sacrifice for Sin a Ransomer of Souls a Purchaser of Heaven a Conqueror of Death and Hell a Martyr for the Christian Cause and Hope a Patern and Exempler of Patience Fortitude Holiness and Hope and Love to his and can Christ lose or leave us after all this 3. Why else should he in his raised and exalted State aim so directly at this thing for all that he hath spoken and done and is still doing looks this way Joh. xx 17. How pertinently and copiously might we improve that Paragraph Ephes iv 1-16 as the enforcement of this Truth and Hope did not the stated Limits of a single Sermon forbid it Was Life and Immortality brought to Light by him only to tantalize our Souls 2 Tim. i. 10. Is it illustrated by the Gospel to us as a State separate from Christ himself Must he as Man have it without us or we without him or must both have it in a State of Separation each from other Was not Christ raised by his Father that our Faith and Hope might be in God 1 Pet. i. 21. And what is the Hope that Christ and we should see each other's Face no more Christ rose not to continue here for he was not suited to this gross animal fading state and frame of Things and Persons And would Christ shew himself on Earth alive only to shew us what and with whom we never are to be as if he only came to raise our Expectations to our shame and horror What was the sense of that great Message which he sent by Mary to his Brethren Go tell my Brethren I ascend to my Father and your Father to my God and your God John xx 17. What! Sons of God and Brethren to Christ and not live together with the same Father and in the same Inheritance and State Heb. xi 16. If Children then Heirs Heirs of God and joint-Heirs with Christ and to be glorified together Rom. viii 17. What meant his entrance into Heaven as our Fore-runner Heb. vi 20. Was it to tell the glorious Inhabitants of that blessed World in all their heights of Wonderment and Expectation that he repented of this his glorious Enterprize or that he was baffled in it and that he cared not for having his Favorites and redeemed Ones in his sight What means his Intercession there Heb. vii 25. ix 24. whereby our Prayers and Pains and Hopes are so emboldned Heb. x. 19-25 35. ix 12. Prays he against what he appeared endeavoured and suffered for or can he not prevail with God for us or doth he trifle with his Father within the Veil or sport himself before his Courtiers there with our deceiving and deluded Hopes O such Blasphemy and Soloecism is there in these Thoughts when they are matter of suspicion and belief as that no sober thinking Mind can entertain them Why is he there enthroned Heb. viii 1. Mat. xxviii 19 20. Why made Head over all things to his Church see Ephes i. 17-23 Addrest unto by a dying Martyr for this thing and he too owned signally yea miraculously in this his Martyrdom and Address Act. vi 15. vii 55-59 And why commemorated by his own special Order at the Table of the Lord as one with whom we are to meet again as our Redeemer 1 Cor. xi 23-26 Is not this priviledg sealed and secured to us by the Covenant of Grace How can the Amen the faithful and true Witness cherish and seal to deceitful Expectations Heb. x. 23. 2 Tim. ii 10-13 What doth the Spirit of Jesus form and seal us to but this 2 Cor. v. 5. i. 21 22. Ephes i. 14. iv 30. The Notions which he forms the Faith which he works the Tempers which he frames the

Desires which he kindles the Prayers and Labours which he animates are all for this 2 Thess ii 13 14. How can it be the dreadful doom of all his Enemies to depart from him if it be not our determined priviledg to be with him Mat. xxv 41. 2 Thess i. 9. Luk. xiii 25-27 Did not Christ know that his most glorious Presence would be a great Ingredient into the felicity of his Servants as Jude 24 25. assures us and that our assimilation to him would be compleated and continued by the Visions of his State and Day as his inspired Servant hath informed us 〈…〉 Joh. iii. 2. and that our reckoning 〈…〉 ●nd longing after it are the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ory Fruits of his own sanctifying and sealing Spirit as we are told 2 Cor. v. 5-9 Rom. viii 16-23 we had never been informed of such a discriminating Accent in his final Sentence as he hath told us of Whence was it made the Charge and Business of his commissionated and inspired Officers to teach and enforce this grateful Truth upon us were it not certainly decreed by God and Christ 1 Cor. xv 15. Col. iii. 4. 1 Thess ii 19. iii. 13. Would he enjoin such special Officers so miraculously qualified and owned to inform us of prepare us for and comfort us with so great a Blessing and to represent it to us as the alluring and refreshing aggravation of that State to come that we should be with Christ for ever Did they preach falshood by special Order and with such Attestations to their Message and such assistance in their Enterprize from the God of Truth and from his eminently faithful and true Witnesses 2 Cor. xi 2. Why is this statedly to influence all our practical Christianity if no such Matter be designed for us Joh. xii 26. Tit. ii 12 14. 2 Pet. iii. 14. 2 Cor. v. 9. Our pressing Pleas and Motives that are to animate and enforce our Duties Sufferings and Consolations with all those exercised Graces which are to spirit such Performances Submissions and dutiful Rejoicings by the way do evidently bear themselves upon this Hope 2 Pet. i. 5-11 2 Thess ii 13-17 Heb. x. 32-37 How copiously and strongly might I improve these Scriptural Hints to prove this comfortable Truth had I but a better Head and Heart But to conclude this Demonstration lastly How could the Son of God himself obtain that Glory and Delight which he so reckons on in the success of what he undertook were not his purchased and redeemed Ones to be with him John xvii 22 24. 2 Thess i. 10 12. We find that Christ and his must go together in unto the Marriage Mat. xxv 10. And what is this going in together but the joint entrance and admission of Head and Members into that State of Royal Entertainments within the Vail Would Christ have begg'd of God both the discovery and impartment of his Glory to his Members had not both these been highly valued by him Joh. xvii 22 24. Will not Christ think we count it his Honour to have his own produced in open Court as Signs and Wonders Heb. ii 13. to bring his Sons to Glory vers 10. and to have that Church for which he gave himself and which he loved so dearly presented to himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but holy and without blemish Ephes v. 25-27 And to see us fixed in his own Presence as the eternal stately Monuments of his magnificent and victorious Grace Love What was the Plea wherewith he accented his dying Prayer for his that God would charge his special Providence with them but this that I am glorified in them John xvii 10. And will the Head be glorified by being eternally parted from his Members Where lies the Glory of a Teacher but in the Wisdom of his Scholars and could Christ be glorified in making his expert in the Doctrine of Lies and Forgeries What! bring Men to discern and credit rely upon what only was delusive How can we learn this as a Truth in Jesus that we shall live with him for ever when no such thing shall come to pass I have told you that when it comes to pass ye might believe Joh. xiv 29. The Signs which God gave of a false Prophet under the Law were either speaking what was absolutely false or Truth to countenance Irreligion or Idolatry And can either of these be charged on Christ and judged to be his Glory Wherein consists the Glory of a Priest but in the acceptance and success of what he regularly offereth to the determined Ends thereof And can Christ our great High Priest be glorified as a Priest for ever whose Sacerdotal Faithfulness could never bring up those unto himself in Heaven for whom and to which End he did declaredly offer up himself Heb. ix 12 15 24 28. And wherein is Christ glorified as a King if his Loyal Subjects must not abide with him for ever John xv 10 11. Heb. v. 9. 2 Tim. iv 6 8. When he delivereth up the Kingdom to the Father hath he no Subjects to produce fitted unto the Felicities and Employments of his own Glorious Presence And can he be glorified that hath no Subjects to adore him for his governing them so well And how can he be glorified as the Captain of the Hosts of God in the great War with Satan if he must sit in Heaven alone and have no victorious Followers to produce and shew therein as proofs of his heroick skilful faithful Conduct and Atchievements 1 Joh. iii. 8. Rom. viii 18 35-39 And how can Christ be glorified in and by his Saints unless they see what God hath done for him and in what Royal State he sits inhabiting the Praises and perhaps ordering the Affairs and darting forth that Glory which must diffuse it self through all the Regions and Inhabitants of that blessed World above He must be glorified and admired at and will be so when we are brought to see his Face to bear his Image to share in the Visions Services and Fruitions of that State all which shall to the Life express his Interest in God's Heart and ours in his Heart and what a Friend God is to him and he to us So that with Christ we are sure to be III. The Vsefulness of this Passage 1. O what Attractives have we to a Heavenly Mind and Life Christ and a Kingdom with him Who would not breath and strive to reach that blessed State 2 Cor. 5.8 9. O let that Passage in 1 Cor. 15.58 be well considered concocted and digested by you so as to make you every way greatly conformable thereto and let not Head Inheritance and Hearts be parted Did not Paul bear this Truth upon his Heart and court us all to follow him in the heavenliness of his Mind and Life Phil. 3.14 15. So lovely is the Lord of Glory and so eminently doth the great God transmit his Glory even through the Humane Nature of