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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57640	Balaams better wish delivered in a sermon / by William Rose.	Rose, William, fl. 1647-1648.	1647 (1647)	Wing R1940; ESTC R25527	34,950	42

works written in that book the dead shall be judged Apoc. 20.12 Not to enter into any nice School disputes concerning this book what it is how mens actions are therein registred and enrolled when the Holy Spirit is pleased to besilent I will not over-sawcily determine It is enough our actions are all therein recorded not a good work word alms-deed prayer but it is there noted not a tear of contrition for sin that fals to the ground but GOD latches it Put thou my teares in thy bottle are not these things written in thy book Psal 66.8 As on the other side not a wicked action idle word vile thought but they are there recorded likewise These things thou hast done and I kept silence and thou thoughtest I had been such an one as thy self but I will reprove thee and set them inorder before thine eyes Psal 50.21 He now unseen sees and observes what afterwards openly he will produce when he shall sit in righteousnesse to judge the world When hee shall come to try our actions and accordingly sever the good and bad with his discriminating fan in his hand parting the chaffe and soyle from the cleaner grains where the good wheat shall be layd up in Gods granery and the evill like the tares cast into the fire Having thus spoken of what betides man after death I now come to close with the ordinary reading and discover unto you the ultimate period the last end of the righteous man The LORD hath taken him unto himselfe to be with him eternally blessed blessed to eternity but the difficulty will be to describe unto you what blessednesse is p Futura beatitudo acquiri potest aestimari non potest Eus Em. though here wee must labour and lay earnest for it yet we cannot rightly esteem of it to say it is q Est status omnium bonorum congregatione perfectus Boet. de cons Phil. 3. lib. 3. pros 2. a perfectstate consisting in the aggregation and collection of all good things While we take it thus up in the grosse it lesse affects us And to take it up in particulars thinking thereby more fully to explain it wee shall fall as short When as Saint Paul who was rapt up into the third heaven sits down in an extasie neyther eye hath seen neyther eare hath heard neyther hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive the good things that GOD hath layd up for them that love him 1 Cor. 2.9 It were I think impudent temerity in any one to go about to determine None I am sure did ever yet by a Jacobs ladder scale Heaven and make fuller discovery of that land of the living that hee might make us a more perfect relation r App. ad Aug. tom 9. The kingdom of GOD is greater then all report it is better then it can be praysed it surpasses all knowledge it is more excellent then all glory that can be imagined neyther ought I therefore to be silent in what I can say because I cannot what I would neyther because we say GOD is ineffable therefore may we not speak of him what we are able so that we beleeve more then we speake And ever bound our words with fear and piety What we cannot conceive GOD hath revealed unto us by his Spirit 1 Cor. 2.10 But it is observable where the Spirit hath revealed unto us these unconceivable things condescending to our understanding to move us it hath set them forth under the notion of temporall goods which wee make great account of Which yet in our conceits thereof if we rest we are as far beneath them as earth is heaven The Spirit sayth the righteous shall have a Kingdom and weare upon their heads a crown of righteousnes they shall be clothed with long white robes of innocence they shall sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob at his table in that Kingdom which shall be richly furnished to do the will of GOD ſ Delectatio erit cibus Paris and our delight in him shall be our meat and he shall give us to drink of the rivers of his pleasure This kingdom shall be theirs by a sure inheritance being coheirs with Christ the eternall Son of GOD. They shall enter into their masters joy where they shall bear a part in that heavenly quire to sing perpetuall hallelujahs unto the Lambe that sitteth upon the throne Heaven shall be theirs a treasury of riches and all wealth and to adde to the perfection of these of that kingdom there shall be no end The crown of glory shall bee immarcessible it shall not breed like Jonahs gourd a worm to eat it our garment of immortality no moth shall fret it those riches no canker shall destroy them those joys shall have no alloy of grief to abate them Those delights shall breed no surfet Those streams of pleasures shall not run dry but be mayntained by a continuall spring that day shall know no night the Sun shall not be ecclipsed nor clouded by darknesse for the Lambe is the light of the new Hierusalem that eternall city affords all things eternall and they shall be for ever to enjoy them The righteous shall enter into everlasting life t Aug. Ser. 74. because men love to live here on earth life is promised them and because they are affraid to dye therefore eternall life is promised them What doest thou love to live thou shalt have it What dost thou feare to dye thou shalt not suffer it ô living life and everlastingly blessed where is rest without labour wealth without losse health without languishing abundance without want perpetuity without corruption life without death where is light without darknesse knowledge without ignorance understanding without errour reason without obscurity memory without forgetfulnesse where what ever is desirable is to be enjoyed and nothing shall be desired that is not meet Where GOD shall be seen without end loved beyond measure praysed without wearisomnesse who in that he is the perfection of being shall satisfie the understanding perfection of goodnesse shall satisfie the will and truly amiable shall fill our affections Wee shall be amazed at his justice admire his mercy be ravished with his goodnesse What shall I adde more The righteous shall sit at the right hand of Christ they shall not onely enjoy GODS presence but shall be ever happy in a gracious union and constant communion with the Godhead u De cons Phi. lib. 3. pros 9. Boetius rayses a high pitch because by the gaining of blessednesse men are made blessed and blessednesse is the divinity it self it is manifest men are blessed by obteining the divinity and as by obteining of justice men are made just and by obteining of wisdom men are wise so says he by obteining the divinity men are made gods every blessed man therefore is a GOD who though but one by nature it hinders not but that there may be many by participation GOD promises himselfe indeed to Abraham an

non in extasi mentis Epiph. l. 2. tom 1. haer 48. twofold extasie 1 From the outward and inward senses the minde temayning the more enlightned the more the soul is abstracted from sensitive objects l Conticescant mihi omnia anima mea sibi sileat Aug. Med. c. 37. as she is more full in her devotions so the more free for divine inspirations 2 From the minde it selfe when it understandeth not m Non excidebant mente prophetae Orig. hom 6. in Ezek 16. so never were they in an extasie but did utter all things n Epiph. ubi supra with firme reason and understanding and spake from the Holy Spirit with a perfect minde and body So that I ground not so much on the speech of this wicked man as his after advice proves him full Who seeing enchantment failed and divinations could do nothing because GOD had beheld no iniquity in Jacob nor perversnesse in Israel Numb 22.21 o Ioseph ubi supra counselled Balaac to tempt them by the Midianitish women to commit fornication And if the opinion of the Antiquary seems too light it may have allowance from that of Saint Iohn to the Church of Pergamus I have a few things against thee because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balaac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel to eat things sacrificed to Idols and to commit fornication Revel 2.14 For which wicked advice of his when God set Israel upon the revenge of Midian this Divinour as hee ran for the wages so hee had full paid the reward of iniquity They killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword Joshua 13.22 where wee will leave him in his unhappy end Though the originall runs in the futuretense yet is not to be interpreted as a prophecy that so it should but as it is translated in the sense of the optative mood which the Hebrews wanting expresse desires in the future of the Indicative signifying a wish or desire that so it might be To dye is Heavens heavy doom upon the sons of Adam An unrepealable Statute hath passed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is appointed for all m●n without any limitation once to dye Heb. 9.27 Other are the limits and bounds of nature other are the extraordinary ways of working with the Almighty He may if he please dispense with this law as hee hath done 〈◊〉 Enoch and Elijah and there shall be a more generall dipensation for them which shall be found alive at the last day We shall not all dye but we shall all be changed 1 Cor. 15.51 Which change shall be answering to a death though without any reall separation of the soul from the body Which I ground 1 On the term used by Saint Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wee shall not lye down to sleep in the dust or wee shall not dye as it is rendred which imports a dissolution of soul and body 2 On that circumstance of time in which this shall be done in a moment in the twinkling of an ere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in an atome an unconceivable instant of time Which I take to be an after copy of Adams condition had hee retained his innocency he had been translated not knowing death to a blessed immortality but he fayling in his obedience considerable not onely as a person but as the nature of mankind all transgressed in him p Rom. 5.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by one man and in and by the one sin of that one man all man sin and dyed So that as no man can acquit himselfe from the contagion of his unrighteousnes nor yet from the guilt of personall practice q 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Samon So none may expect to be exempted from the penalty due thereunto no not the righteous man who is now to be considered of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies to be right 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Chron. 13.4 And this was ●ight in the peoples eyes it did please them or they did approve of it so the righteous man is hee who is right in the sight of the LORD he pleases GOD and hee approves of him For the righteous GOD loveth righteousnesse his countenance doth behold the upright Psal 11.7 Hee looks on him with content as we eye the things we love with delight 2 It signifies the perfect man Whom that wee may the better describe wee must lay downe a rule of perfection according to which wee are to judge of him GOD being only wise and good and all perfection that absolute Idea must be in a r Mat. 5.48 conformity unto him this conformity wee held by the vertue of the Image of God stamped upon us in our creation so long as wee kept that Image undefiled and undefaced For the modell of our nature we were holy and just and good but soon was this happy condition forfeited by our disobedience and there followed such discrasie in our intellectuall such disorder in our practicall faculties that we could neither know nor will nor doe those things which were of God who in his gracious goodnesse that hee might repaire this unhappy losse gave us his Law a cleere manifesto of his ſ Rom. 12.2 perfect will that in our obedience thereunto we might recover our holinesse and reforme our lapsed nature by a rule of righteousnesse a Directory for the ordering of this present life to futured lisse and happinesse mans desirable end The L●w of God is perfect converting the soule Psal 19.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The summe or perfection of perfection Psal 119.96 Thus having found the rule of practicall righteousnesse for my Text leads not to speake any thing of imputative we must apply mans actions thereunto that so from his agreement therewith we may discover the righteous man Blessed is the undefiled or perfect in the way that walketh in the Law of the LORD Psa 119.1 this man from the manner of his conversation God himselfe in Job briefly describes The perfect and upright man is he who feareth GOD and escheweth evill Job 1.8 He feares honours loves and serves GOD and shuns and avoids whatsoever comes under the notion of sin these two turn ever one upon the other Yee that love the LORD hate evill Psal 97.10 t In odio mali dilectio boni comprobatur Arnob. in loc the hatred of sin is the best argument of our love to GOD. And no other testimony can we yeeld of our love to him if we neglect to heare his commandements and where may we better learn the love and service of GOD then from his Law for as it is necessary serve him we should so considering how disinabled we are in all our faculties it is not fit we should tak● upon us to determine de modo and state that service lest not knowing to doe what we ought we dishonoor him in our honour of him or set up an Idol of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉