364. a Kati' ifirspCoXiv tic ffinpCoxir WO, dql1C. a. Cor. 447. Rom.8,ES. Generalldiraions for of teares ; the boforne of eAbraham, thearmes ofGod Al- mighty wide open, and flretched out to receive him at the endofhis Pilgrimage in his Mailers lay: I fay, fhall filch a happie foulenot have anHeaven in hisheart,but be beau ihear- ted ? Shall a veffell of'the Devitt laugh, and an heire ofHea- ven lookeheavy ? Monftrous abfurditie 2 Every Chriffian after his new creation, bath ever in- comparably more matter ofmirth thenmourning; infinitely greater caufe to beravi(hed with fpirituali joy,then tobeede- le6tedby griefe. Though this may feerie a paradox to the cleareft eye, and beft apprehenfion of worldly wifedome; yet in truth it is a true principle in the myaerie of Chrift.- I doe thus manifeft it, and take it good to the faddeft mour- ner inSion ; if bee doe not give more care to the lying mali- cious diaates of the Devil', and difirufis ofhis owne heart, then to the well-groundedcounfell ofthe Prophets, and im- pregnable truth ofGods bleffed Word. In the right eftimate and valuation , all theaffliCtions and fufferings ofthis life : whether of foule, body, outward frate, orany way, are but dull in theballance, in refped ofthat exceeding excejfizo cur- nail weight of glory, purchafed and prepared for him by the bloudofhis deareft Lord. In the a Original' it is, as a worthy Divines fayes well, a fuperlative tranfcendent phrafe of fpeech, which farre paffeth the height of all humane Oratory, and all theRhetoricke of the moil eloquent Heathens, be- caufe they never treated upon fuch alherne : they were not infpired with fuch a fpirit. Whereupon faith the Apoffle in another place, I reckon, that the itifferiggs of thio prefint time, arenot worthy tobee compared to the glorywhich fhali be revea. led in us. Whence it followed), that a very fore-imagination of that molt unconceiveable happineffe to be had hereafter; to wit, the fhining fplendour and fun-likeglory of our 130- dies; the unfpeakeable perfeetions and excellencies of our foules ; theadmirable beautie ofthe place, the glorious com- fort of our heavenly company, the begtificall fruition of the rnoft bleffed Trinity, &e. and that which crownes our bliffewith impofftbilitieoffurther addition, endleffeneffe of
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