OftheRE suR RE c T 1 o N. Sermon Ir,'. their~-'!""'@- isbut too evident. Theyfoile us ; their foile wee brufh off ;p;----. wath offdaily : in Summer, dull: ; in Winter, dire; Thefe, and fundrylike;,' rub, 111en1a rntmdi: Nothing, in rhis region, but iubjeCl: tofoile. Why, theinher;/"111~' fclfe, we call irfoi/e;and how can it then, but foileus ~ or how cantherebet";"I)t anyundejiledinhcritance? ere '' 1 "f•d<tb.. f But, make them andkeepethem ascleane as you can, takethemeven at the bel! 1 y~tfadethey do fen!ibly: Iona's worme,oncea yeare,bites them by r~e root,andthe' wuher. Every yeare, at leafl:, theyfallmto a Marafm_m,!o[e tlow~rs and leavesao~ alll nll they be regenerateby arefurrcfiton, or rife agame,byaregeneratton, asitwere· ,Till thu time,the timeoftheJP ringcome about,and bring them forth new againe. · So, whatfoever, we (here)can inherit,is fubje& toone,nay,ro all ofthefe. It , 0 , rupts,t~kesfoile,fades. Is it not fo ~findewe not;Saint Peter faith true~ find we itno; by proofedaily~ One or orher,arewe not fiill complaining of, fpecially ofthe fa. ding? For,rhough theyfadenot ofthcmfelves;yer, tOm, theyfade. Thefading, to w ,even beforethemfelves fade. We archungry,and weeat : Eat we nor,till thatfad" and we as weary ofourfr~lnejfe,as wee were ofour/4ffing? Wee areweary, andw~ reft; reftweenot, till that fades, andwceas weary of ourrejl, aseverweewereof our IVearinejfe .? Rt{ervttl it: Heaven. yes indeed, fo it is :and that lo it is, is the very faithfulne!fe ofthe creatureto us • Thus by rhefe defects, ro tire us, and not firffer us to let up~ur refi up<?nthern, upod any Inheritance here; but to chafe us from themfdv~s,and force us up to Gon the Creator,with whom, there is an Inheritance lAid11p,in danger ofnone ofthefe. Butun– corrupt, that !hall hold theBeing, and none ever dij!Jmt or dtjfe,ze us ofit: •rndrft. ied, that 01all hold the aj{ay, and neve1 be embafed, by any bad mixture: 1 And that lhall never {t1deor fall intoany Marafmm,but hold out in rhe prime perfeClion it ever had. And ifrhere be, upon Earrh,a !latelikethis, it is now at this rime: N~w ill thingsgenerateanew ; theSoile of Winter is gone, and ofSurmner, is nor yetc~me: Now,nothing fades ; but all fprings freOJand greene. At this rime, here; btit at :ill times, there: A perpetual! fpring; no other Seafon, ~here, but that. For,fu;h;~i»· heritance, Blejfed.be Go n. - -- ' But, where may thisbe~ For,all this whil~, we know notthar: Onely, thiswe know; where ever it is, it is not here; upon Eanh,no fuch feat. All (here) fw~nrof the nature ofthe foile ; cormmpi, contamilMri, marcifcere, are the proper paf1ions of E;mh,and all earthly things: But,inHeaven, it may well be. ·There,isnoCintrAI)', to corr~tpt ; Nihil inqt~inatum,nothing to defile, there. And there,all things keepe and continue, to rhis day, in their firfl: efl:atc, the onginall beauty, they everhad. Thetc then, it is: and we thither to life up our hearts, whither the veryfwmofour 6olirs gives, as ifthere were fomewhat remaining for us there. . It is'th<>ughr, there is fomefurrher thing meant, by Saint Peter. Hewrites to the difperfed !ewes. And that, by, in C<"lo, he gives them an item, thislnheritanais·no new.Canaan, hereon earth; Nor C R a r s T, anyearthly Mefi,u, to fettle them ina new land ofpromife: No, that was for the Synagogue, "T"~'"nl.:}'"""'"'":>'fi""'"~'""' was it felfe mortal! (is dead and buried!ince) and fo had but mortall things, topro– mife to her children,whom fhe didgenerateto mortality.. ThechurchofC HA 1sT, theheavenly Ierufalem, harh other manner ofpromifes,to her children regenmteby the immorrall feed of the Word, and Spirit of Go n: To rhem Sheholdethfonb things immortaH,an'd heavenly ; yea, heaven, and imm~rtality it felfe. · In Heaven, then. There, itisfirfl; andthereitiskept: the btingrhere, one; the kuping, another. For, that there it is kept, is happie for us. Earth would. nor keepe it : Here, it would be in hazard, there is great oddes. For my parr, 1 give itforlofl:, if, inrhisScate.{wee werepo!feffedof it. It wouldgoethefame way, Pdradife went. Since it would bee loll: inEarth, it is kept in /leaven. And, a Bmeditlm for that, too : as, for the regenerating m to it here: on I::arr[,;
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