Cbap. I .Sect.7. Loc·klng unt,;!fe[ru. Bciok.V. 1071 ·-----------'----- --------.----- uiumphanr; wirh a final overthrow have they- conquered Divels,clearh, and hell; and now mut1: rhey enjoy God, life, and heaven; fometimes I have with much wonder and admiration beheld fome regiments palling our H:ree.tes; but had I feen rhofe ' Romane armies, when rhey returned ViCl:ors, and made their folemne tryumphs in the rtreets ofR~me~ oh then how lbould I have admired ? never was the like fight to this of Chrit1: and his Army in this world. 0 the comely march they make, through rhe sky, and throuoh rhe orbs, and through all the heavens, till they come to the heaven of heavens ! . was ever fo many gliLl:ring Sunnes together in one clay? was ever fo many glories together on this fide the Kingdome ofglory ? not ro fpeak of Chrit1:, or his Angels, 0 who is foe that look.§th forth as the morn• ing, f"ir at the.Moon, clear as the Surme, and ter~ibfe as an Ar· Can:.6,H>•. my with 'Banners? are not in the head ofthofe re)?,unems Adam, and Abel,and Noah,andAbrahlfm,and I[alflc,ancl 'facob;and all the Parriarchs, and all the Prophets, and all the Apot1:les ? And (if thou art a Saint that readet1: this) art not thou one Sunne appointed by God amongfi the re!l: to foll~w ChriH:? here's enough ro fill thy heart with joy before-hand ; as fure as yond Sunne now Jbines in rhe Firmament, lbalt thou that beleeveH paffe by that Sunne in its very orb, and by reafon of thy glory it :lhall lofe its lbine; oh then what fpreading of beauty and brightne{fe will be in the heavens as all the Saints go along ! what lumps of darkneffe !ball rhofe glittering Starres appear to be, ~oyhen all rhe Saints ofCod !ball enter into their feveral orbes and fpheares? and rhus as they march along higher, and higher, till they come to the higheH, at !all: heaven opens unto rhem, and the Saims enter into their Mafl:ers joy ; what is there done at their firfl: entrance, I !ball difcover another time ; onely for awhile let us look behind us, and fee what b:::comes of this neather world. ' No fooner Chrifl: and his company in the Empi real heaven, bur prefenrly this whole worlCI is fet on fire ; To this, prophane At;.{hours feem ro affent; As, I. Philofophers,efpecially rhe Stoicks were of this mind:Humor primordium, exitm ignis, faid Seneca, 'moyfture wtu the be - ginning, t11nd fire jha/1 be the end of this world. And fpeaking of the Sunne, Moone, a.nd Starres ; mark ( fayes he) what-· r foe.ver ·
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