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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95855	The way to true happinesse, or, the way to heaven open'd. In a sermon before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, Jan. 28. 1654/5 / By Ralph Venning.	Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.	1655 (1655)	Wing V232; Thomason E830_8; ESTC R207438	31,836	56

the Apostle James saith James 1.27 is pure Religion and undefiled before God the Father 2. A second demonstration is this None can enter the Kingdome of Heaven but they who are prepared for it and none are such but they that do the Will of God in the sense explain'd Heaven is not only prepared for them but they also are prepared for Heaven and the truth of it is This world is but a Purgatory for men that they may here be purified and refined and thereby put into a capacity as Hester was in another case to enter into the Kingdom of God for no unclean thing can enter there And that we must be made meet to be Partakers before we partake is clear from Col. 1.12 where the Apostle exhorts them having pray'd that they might give thanks to the Father who had made them meet to be Partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light who had fitted them for the Kingdome of Heaven for that 's the inheritance of the Saints in light and how that was done he tells us in v. 13. by delivering us from the power of darknesse into the Kingdom of his dear Son a man must be in the Kingdome of the Son which is the Kingdome of Heaven on Earth and be thereby fitted for before he can be admitted into the Kingdome of God and this translation is no other but the fitting us by enabling us to do the Will of God for being in the Kingdome of Christ is opposed to being under the power of Satan and therefore must carry in it a sense contrary to it Now when we were under that power we wereled by him at his Will as Eph. 2.2 3. We were at his beck and bidding his Will was our Law therefore to be translated from thence into the Kingdom of Christ can denote no lesse then our obedience to him or our doing his Will whereby we are made meet to be Partakers c. 3. A third demonstration is this None can enter into the Kingdome of Heaven but they to whom its promised They that have no promise can expect no performance Now it is promised to none but such as do the Will of God Hath not saith the Apostle James 25. God chosen the poor of the world rich in faith and heires of the or as the margin hath it of that Kingdome which he hath promised to them that love him * Love is the fulfilling of the Law and who they are we were told before such as keep his Commandments and to whom the keeping of his Commandments or the doing of his Will is not grievous 4. A fourth demonstration is this None but the friends of God shall inherit the Kingdome of God as for his enemies that would not that be should * Their enmity is seen in a non-subjection to the Law of God Rom 8 7. reign over them they shall never reign with him No saith he bring them forth and slay them before my face Christ will see execution done upon his enemies but his friends they and none but they shall inherit the Kingdome Abraham was Gods friend and Paradise it self is called Abrahams bosome and the state of our glory in one part of it is this we shall sit down with Abraham the friend of God with Isaac and Jacob and the rest of the friends of God in his Kingdome But who are his friends then that Christ will tell us Matth. 12.50 Whosoever shall do the Will of my Father which is in Heaven or as Mark rendens it the Will of God or as Luke hath it who hear the Word of God and do it which are all parallel expressions the same is my brother and sister and mother my nearest and dearest friends Yet a more if a more pregnant place may be produced John 15.14 where Christ saith to his disciples Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you So then none but friends can enter and none are friends but such as do his Will 5. A fifth demonstration is this None shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven but them that are * If a man be not new-born it had been good for him he had not been born borne again and none are borne again but such as the text mentions the Scripture is expresse in both these The Proposition is laid down by Christ himself John 3.3 with a double Verily Verily verily of most certain and undoubted truth I say unto thee except a man be born again or from above or as elsewhere of God he cannot see which is expounded v. 5. unlesse he be borne of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdome of God Now there are none borne of God but this is their character 1 John 2.29 Ye know that every one that 's borne of him doth righteousnesse and again 1 John 3. Whosoever is borne of God doth not commit sin because he is borne of God that is he doth not live in sin is not under the dominion or command of sin sin doth not reigne in him that he should obey it in the lusts or wills thereof 6. The sixth and last demonstration is this None can enter into the Kingdome of Heaven but holy ones for saith the text Hebr. 12.14 Without holinesse no man shall see God now what is holinesse but doing the Will of God This is the Will of God even our sanctification and He that hath this hope viz. of glory or the Kingdome of Heaven purifies himself as God is pure Thus I think I have fully proved and demonstrated this to be the truth of God according to the Scriptures that they and none but they shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven who do the Will of God That is that do believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and bring forth the obedience of faith But happily there may be this question moved if it be thus Who then can be saved when Christ had said that it was hard and it is no lesse hard to this day for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God They have so much bag and baggage as the camel hath his buneh on his back they said Who then can be saved the Answer was given and is now That which is impossible with men is possible yea very feasible with God But to this let me more distinctly lay down these few Positions 1. That all satisfying and all meriting work is done 't is all already done to our hands by the Lord Jesus Christ who offered up himself once for all and needeth not again to be offered up In burnt-offering and sacrifices for sin which are offered by the Law thou hadst no pleasure no content nor satisfaction therefore thou wouldest not have them any longer saith Christ to the Father but a body hast thou prepared me then said I Lo I come to do thy Will by which Will viz. done and accomplish't by him we are * Freed from sin and consecrated to the service of God sanctified by the