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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65287	The Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer by Thomas Watson.	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1654 (1654)	Wing W1113; ESTC R27057	106,135	340

upholds all things by the Word of his Power should himself be upheld that a Virgin should conceive that Christ should be made of a woman and of that woman which himself made that the creature should give a being to the Creatour that the Starre should give light to the Sunne that the branch should beare the Vine that the mother should be younger then the childe she bare and the childe in the womb bigger then the mother that he who is a Spirit should be made flesh that Christ should be without father and without mother yet have both without mother in the God-head without father in the Man-hood that Christ being incarnate should have two natures the divine and humane and yet but one Person that the divine nature should not be infused into the humane nor the humane mixed with the divine yet assumed into the Person of the Sonne of God the humane nature not God yet one with God Here is I say a chaine of Miracles I acknowledge the mercy of the incarnation was great we having now both affinity and consanguinity with Jesus Christ Christs incarnation is the Saints inauguration The love of Christ in the incarnation was great for herein he did set a patterne without a parallel in clothing himself with our flesh which is but walking ashes he hath sowed as it were sackcloth to cloth of Gold the humanity to the Deity But though the incarnation be so rich a blessing yet it is hard to say which is greater the Mercy or the Mystery It is a sacred depth how doth it transcend reason and even puzzle faith We know but in part we see this only in a glasse darkly but in heaven our knowledge shall be cleared up we shall fully understand this divine riddle 3. The Mystery of Scripture The hard knots of Scripture shall be untied and darke Prophecies fulfilled There is a sacred depth in Scripture which we must adore some places of Scripture are hard in the sense others dark in the phrase and cannot well be translated in regard of ambiguity one Hebrew word having such various and sometimes contrary significations that it is very difficult to know which is the genuine sense As it is with a traveller which is not skilled in his way when he comes to a turning where the way parts he is at a stand and knowes not which way to take I might give some instances It is true all things purely necessary in the Word of God are cleare but there are some sacred depths that we cannot fathom and this may make us long after Heaven when our light shall be clear So for Prophecies some are very abstruse and profound Divines may shoot their arrowes but it is hard to say how neare they come to the mark 't is dubious whether in such a particular age and century of the Church such a Prophecie was fulfilled The Iewes have a saying when they meet with an hard Scripture they understand not Elias veniet solvet nodos Elias will come and interpret these things to us we expect not Elias but when we are in Heaven we shall understand Prophecies our knowledg shall be clear 4. The great Mystery of Providence shall be cleared up Providence is Regina mundi the Queen of the world it is the hand that turns all the wheels in the universe Chrysostome calls it the Pilot that steeres the ship of the Creation Providences are often darke God writes sometimes in short-hand the characters of Providence are so various and strange and our eyes are so dimme that we know not what to make of Providence hence we are ready to censure that which we do not understand we think that things are very excentrick and disorderly Gods Providence is sometimes secret alwayes wise The dispensations of Providence are often sad judgement beginning at the house of God and the just man perishing in his righteousnesse Eccles. 7.15 that is while he is pursuing a righteous cause though his way be pious it is not alwayes prosperous and on the other side those that work wickednesse are set up yea they that tempt God are delivered Mal. 3.15 though now our candle be in a dark lanthorn and the people of God cannot tell what God is a doing yet when they are in heaven they shall see the reason of these transactions they shall see that every Providence served for the fulfilling of Gods Promise viz. that all things shall work together for good Rom. 8.28 In a Watch the wheeles seeme to move crosse one to another but all carry on the motion of the Watch all serve to make the Alarm strike so the wheeles of Providence seeme to move crosse but all shall carry on the good of the elect all the lines shall meet at last in the centre of the Promise in heaven as we shall see Mercy and Justice so we shall see Promises and Providences kissing each other Our light shall be cleare When a man is at the bottome of an hill he cannot see very farre but when he is on the top he may see many miles distant Here the Saints of God are in the valley of tears they are at the bottome of the hill and cannot tell what God is a doing but when they come to Heaven and shall be on the top of the mount they shall see all the glorious transactions of Gods Providence never a Providence but they shall see either a wonder or a mercy wrapt up in it A Limner at the first makes but a rude draught in the picture here an eye there an hand but when he hath limn'd it out in all its parts and lineaments and laid them in their colours it 's beautifull to behold We that live in this age of the Church see but a rude draught as it were some dark pieces of Gods Providence represented and it is impossible that we should judge of Gods work by pieces but when we come to Heaven see the full body and portraiture of Gods Providence drawne out in its vive colours it will be a most glorious sight to behold Providence shall be unridled 5. The Mystery of hearts We shall see an heart anatomy Eccles. 12.14 For God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing We shall see the designes and cabinet-counsels of mens hearts discovered then the hypocrites mask shall fall off O the black conclave that is in the heart of man The heart is deep it may be compared to a River which hath faire streames running on the top but when this river comes to be drained there lies abundance of vermine at the bottome thus it is with mans heart there are fair streames running on the top a civil life a religious profession but at the day of judgement when God shall draine this river and make a discovery of hearts then all the vermine of ambition covetousnesse shall appeare all shall come out then we shall see whether Iehu's designe was zeal for God or the Kingdome we

is the banquetting-house where are all those delicacies and rarities wherewith God himselfe is delighted while we are sitting at that Table Christ's Spiknard will send forth its smell There is the bed of love there are the curtaines of Solomon there are the Mountaines of Spices and the streames from Lebanon there are the Cherubims not to keep us out but to welcome us into Paradise there shall the Saints be adorned as a Bride with Pearles of glory There will God give us abundantly above all that we are able to aske or think Is not here enough what cannot an ambitious spirit ask Hamans aspiring heart could have asked not only the Kings royal Robe and the ring from his hand but the Crown from his head too a man can ask a century of Kingdomes a million of worlds But in heaven God will give us more then we can ask Nay more then we can think An high expression what cannot we think we can think what if all the dust of the earth were turned to silver what if every stone were a wedge of gold what if every flower were a ruby every pile of grasse a pearle every sand in the Sea a diamond yet what were all this to the New Hierusalem which is above It is as impossible for any man in his deepest thoughts to comprehend glory as it is to mete the heaven with a span or draine the great Ocean O incomparable place Surely were we carried away in the spirit I meane elevated by the power of Faith to the contemplation of this royal and stately Palace I know not whether we should more wonder at the lustre of heaven or at the dulnesse of such as minde earthly things How is the world adored which is but a Pageant or apparition It is reported of Caesar that travelling on a time through a certaine City as he passed along he saw the women for the most part playing with Monkies and Parrets at which sight he said What have they no children to play with So I say when I see men toying with these earthly and beggarly delights What are there not more glorious and sublime things to look after That which our Saviour saith to the woman of Samaria If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith to thee Give me to drink thou wouldest have asked of him and he would have given thee living water the same may I say Did men know these eternal Mansions and what it were to be digging in these rich Mines of glory would God give them a Vision of heaven a while as he did Peter who saw heaven opened Act. 10.11 how would they fall into a Trance being amazed and filled with joy and being a little recovered out of it how importunately would they beg of God that they might be adopted into this stately inheritance But what do I expatiate these things are unspeakable and full of glory Had I as many tongues as haires on my head I could never sufficiently set forth the beauty and resplendency of this inheritance Such was the curious art of Apelles in drawing of Pictures that if another had taken up the Pensil to draw he had spoiled all Apelles work Such is the excellency of this celestial Paradise that if the Angels should take up their Pensill to delineate it in its colours they would but staine and eclipse the glory of it I have given you only the dark shadow in the Picture and that but rudely and imperfectly Such is the beauty and blisse of this inheritance that as Chrysostome saith if it were possible that all the sufferings of the Saints could be laid upon one man it were not worth one houres being in Heaven Augustine is of opinion we shall know our friends in heaven Nor to me doth it seeme improbable for sure our knowledge there shall not be eclipsed or diminished but encreased And that which Anselme doth assert that we shall have a knowledge of the Patriarchs and Prophets and Apostles all that were before us and shall be after us our predecessors and successors to me seemes very rational for society without acquaintance is not comfortable and my thinks the Scripture doth hint thus much if Peter and Iames having but a glimpse of glory when our Lord was transfigured on the Mount were able to know Moses and Elias whom they had never seen before how much more shall we being infinitely irradiated and enlightened with the Sun of righteousnesse know all the Saints though we were never acquainted with them before And this will be very comfortable Certainly there shall be nothing wanting that may compleate the Saints happiness Now that this glorious inheritance is the Saints Prerogative I shall evince by two Arguments It is so 1. In respect of the many obligations that lie upon God for performing this As 1. In regard of his promise Tit. 1.2 In hope of eternal life which God that cannot lie hath promised Gods promise is better then any mans bond 2. In regard of his oath He who is truth hath sworne Heb. 6.17 3. In regard of the price that is paid for it Christs blood Heaven is not only a promised possession but a purchased possession Eph. 1.14 4. In regard of Christs prayer for it Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am Now God can deny Christ nothing being the onely favourite I know thou alwayes hearest me Joh. 11.42 5. In regard of Christs ascension He is gone before to take possession of heaven for us He is now making preparations against our coming Joh. 14.2 I go before to prepare a place for you We reade that our Lord sent two of his disciples before to make ready a large upper roome for the Passeover Mar. 14.15 So Jesus Christ is gone before to make ready a large upper roome in heaven for the Saints 6. In regard of the anticipation of the Spirit in the hearts of the godly giving them an assurance of and stirring up in them passionate desires after this glorious inheritance hence it is we read of the earnest of the Spirit 2 Cor. 1.22 and the first-fruits of the Spirit Rom. 8.23 and the seale of the Spirit Eph. 1.13 God doth not still his children with rattles Heaven is already begun in a beleever so that the inheritance is certaine You see how many obligations lie upon God and to speak with reverence i● stands not onely upon Gods mercy but upon his faithfulness to make all this good to us The second argument is in respect of the Union which the Saints have with Jesus Christ. They are members of Christ therefore they must have a part in this blessed inheritance the members must be where the head is Indeed the Arminians tell us that a justified person may fall finally from grace and so his union with Christ may be dissolved and the inheritance lost But how absurd is this doctrine Is Christ divided can he