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A01937	The man for heaven A sermon preached at the court to his Majesties houshold, anno Domini, 1637. By Iohn Gore, rector of Wendenlofts, and preacher of S. Peters in Cornhill, London.	Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex.	1639 (1639)	STC 12073; ESTC S103329	11,321	26

Charity Charity envieth not is not easily provoked seeketh not her own but hopeth all things beleeveth all things indureth all things c. all this reflects upon the heart and therein a poore man may abound as well as a rich In a word then if God have clipt thy wings and cut short thy estate that thou canst not have a charitable hand yet howsoever retaine a charitable heart and what thou wantest in substance make up in prayer This is the third way whereby a man that lives on earth may be truly said to have his conversation in heaven 4. The fourth and last way is per Claritatem by brightnesse and shining in Grace and good works Heaven is a shining place full of splendour lusture and glory and such are all the soules that dwell therein The Prophet tell us Dan. 12. 3. they that be wise shall shine as the firmament and they that turne many to Righteousnesse shall shine as the stars for evermore The firmament that shines by day and the stars they shine by night the meaning is that they which are truly vertuous and wise eruditi erudientes the practisers and the teachers of wisdome they that are wise themselves and they that make others wise shall shine as the Firmament in the day-time of their life and as the Starres in the night when they are dead and gone they shall shine in Grace here and in Glory hereafter Though for a time they bee over-clouded as it were with Crosses and Corruptions which darkens and obscures the lustre that is in them yet the time will come that all these Clouds these Crosses and Corruptions shall bee blowne away and they shall shine as the Sunne in the Kingdome of their Father When Moses conversed with God his face shined Exod. 34. there 's no good man that converseth with God but his face shines too that is hee hath a venerable aspect insomuch as they that will not imitate him cannot but honour him Iohn was a burning and a shining light saith the Gospell Iohn 5. 35. burning with zeale inwardly to God shining by a good life outwardly to the World You that desire to shine in Heaven must begin your shining here on Earth Let your light so shine saith our Saviour that men may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in Heaven True Faith is in the heart like a candle in a lanterne which must not nay cannot be altogether hid but discovers it selfe by its own shining light Astronomers observe that the Galaxia or the Milky way as they call it is a Glorious Circle and possesseth a great part of Heaven and yet is all of so little Starres as have no name nor knowledge taken of them by Astrologers So no doubt there are many Saints in Heaven that shine as the Starres in the Kingdome of God that were none of those great magnitudes that the World should take notice of them but good and blessed Soules that have honestly performed the duties of their inferiour calling and behaved themselves soberly righteously and godly in this World and so glimmered in a poore estate like a Diamond that glisters in the dust In a word as wee all beleeve and hope that God will one day change our vile bodies as the Apostle rightly calls them and make them like unto the Glorious of our blessed Lord and Saviour so let us now desire and beg of God to change our vile Soules that they may in some measure bee like the pure and precious Soule of our deare Iesus that all the fogges and fumes of our unsavoury noysome lusts may bee dispersed and done away that wee may so shine on Earth by a godly life and conversation that wee may bee rewarded with shining in Heaven in a state of immortallity and incorruption Which GOD of his mercy Grant for JESUS CHRIST his sake to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost bee given and ascribed all honour praise and glory bee done and performed all service obedience and duty from this time forth for ever-more Amen FINIS

the end and consummation of thy life You know what our Saviour said to those Jews which beleeved on him Iohn 8. 31. Si manserit is in me If ye abide in mee then are ye my Disciples indeed They that only come to Christ and make profession of Christianity for a time and then like Demas fall away and embrace this present World these are but disciples in name only like Labans Images that were called Gods when they were but blocks Those and none but those are disciples in deed and in truth that do as their master did of whom it is said Philip. 2. 8. that Hee humbled himselfe and became obedient unto the death He was not only obedient in his death submitting himselfe to all the cruelty all the infamy all the extremity of pain and shame that God or man could lay upon him but He was obedient unto death that is as Beza expounds it unto his Dying day from the beginning of his Incarnation to the very end of his dissolution Here 's the Load-star that wee must all bee guided by let us beare the same mind and hold the same resolution that our Saviour did to become obedient to the death or as Iob speaketh Cap. 27. 5. not to leave our innocency till wee die then may we take it as an undoubted evidence and assurance to our soules that wee even wee our selves are of the number of those blessed Saints that have their conversation in the Heavens This is the first circumstance to bee considered that a mans conversation is Res continuata not a sudden or a momentarie but a constant and continued thing 2. A mans conversation is Res manifesta an open and a manifest thing the Conscience of a man that is secret knowne only to God but his conversation that is evident and apparent to the word So the meaning of the Text is that it is not enough for a man to have a care of his conscience inwardly towards God but he must have as great a care of his conversation outwardly to the World That like as it is said of our Saviour Luke 9. 53. They knew what hee was by his face because saith the Text his face was as though hee would go to Ierusalem So should a good Christian be known by his face that is by his outward carriage and conversation to bee one that is going to Jerusalem that is above If thou beest such a one let it be thy principall care to lead thy life in such a way as God doth best accept in the way of Godlinesse and honesty in the way of temperance and sobriety in the way of truth and sincerity that the World may see by thy life that as thou dost live and move in God so thou dost also live and move to God As Alexander once gave order that the Grecians and Barbarians should bee no longer distinguished by their garments but saith hee let the Greciens be known by their vertues and the Barbarians by their vices thus should a Christian bee distinguished from a carnall man not by his habit but by his heart not by his estate and condition but by his wisdome and conversation being such as St. Paul speaketh as becometh the Gospell Philip. 1. 27. The works of the flesh are manifest saith the same Apostle and so should the works of the spirit bee also As it is said of the Kings daughter Psal 45. 13. She is all glorious within and her cloathing also is of wrought Gold so should every Christian soule which is the Spouse of Christ and the daughter of the King of Heaven bee all glorious or rather indeed all gracious and all vertuous both within and without And as it is said of the Arke of God Exod. 37. that it was over-laied with pure Gold both within and without so should every Christian pray that he may have a good conscience as the overlaying of gold within and a good conversation as the overlaying of gold without providing things honest not only in the sight of God but also in the sight of men Rom. 12. 17. And this is the second circumstance to bee considered in our conversation namely that it is or ought to bee Res manifesta a manifest thing 3. A mans conversation is Res familiaris a friendly or a familiar thing You know there is no one thing that breeds so much entirenesse so much familiarity and acquaintance among all sorts of persons as living and loving and conversing together So the only way to bring a man into an humble familiarity and acquaintance with his God is to bee conversant in holy duties and to have his conversation in the Heavens It is the phrase of Iob and I do not remember that I find it any where but in that book Iob 22. 21. Acquaint thy selfe with God and thereby good shall come unto thee Asuesce cum Deo that is Accustome and inure thy selfe to walke with God as Enoch did to talke with God as Moses did to seeke the face of God as David did make nor thy selfe a stranger to God now lest he know thee not lest hee own thee not at the later day when thou and all the world will bee glad to claim acquaintance of Him But some may say What am I or what is my fathers house that I should dare to thinke of being acquainted with so great a Majesty as is the Lord that is too familiar a word I answer according to the common proverb volenti nonfit injuria That which is an injury to our thinking is no injury to him that is willing and desirous of it Now you shall observe that all the persons in the Blessed Trinity are so farre from taking ill at our hands that they do even desire and wish for sinfull mans societie God the Father he desires it Esay 1. 18. Come saith God let us reason together let us parley let us confer let us be familiar as it were and renew our old decayed acquaintance which hath slept so long and been so unkindly laid aside In the originall it is Adeste increpemus come let us chide together as one friend chides another for being strange and aloofe taking distaste without a cause And this is it makes God to chide us as he doth partly by word of mouth in the Ministry of his Word and partly by Act and Deed by sending his reall Judgements into the World to plague us for sinne which David calleth Increpationem Domini the chiding of God Psal 18. 15. and all for our aversenesse and aloofenesse in this kind that wee will not come at him to renew our acquaintance with him by a sound and serious humiliation as his mercy and our dutie doth require God the Sonne Hee desires our acquaintance likewise as you may read Iohn 5. 39. Yee search the Scriptures saith Christ and in them ye looke to have eternall life and yet ye will not come to mee that yee might have life We deale just with our Saviour as one