58 hlefedneffe c,n('fis net in worldly things. Chan be bought to have preferment in the world ; No; bttc ttef ed are the poore , for theirs is the kingdome of Heaven there's nothing in this world,can make them bleffed, It is the kingdome of Heaven that mull make them bleifed : If you would be happy,you mull locke beyond the world:Thou doeft nor know what the true happinef e of an Immortali foúle is ca- table of, if thou doefl expect it here in this world. ph(: 3. In that it is laid in the prefent tenfe, their's ( Is )' tlk.. kingdome of Heaven ; From whence the note is this That the Saints of God live not only upon Comforts that they (Pall have hereafter, upon the durance of what they fhatl havei but upon prevent Comforts ; They have enough for the pre- fent to uphold their hearts, in all their poore and meane Gin; dicion in which they are in refpe& of the world. You will fay indeed for good people that are mean in the world , whatfo- ever they iuf£ r , Cod will reward them hereafter I bue poore foules, what have they to Comfort themfelves withal$ for the prefent, yea faith Chr ill, theirs (is) the kingdom of Heaven. Take all together now , and thou hall enough not _only to uphold thy foule in this thy poore Condition, but to Comfort It; and to make the Angelis in Heaven to looke upon. thee as a bleffed creature. It is faid of the pure in heart, that they ( Bali) fee God, but the poore in fpirit their's (is ) the kingdome of Heaven. And the realm why Chrifl purs It in the prefent tente is , becaufe he law that thofe that were poore in fpirit had need of prefent comfort. 06f 4. That Heaven is now tothe Saints,there is Comfort indeed, I but'Heaven they mull locke for afterwards : No they (hall have it now ; Heaven fhall come down to them, before they, goe up to Heaven. In the i 7 Luke 2 r. you have a notable Scripture for that ; The kingdome of Heaven is with- in you . It is within the Saints now for the prefent. This that I now ay, may feeme to be a paradox yet it is a certaine. truth : No foule than ever goe to Heaven, that hath not Hea- ven firft corne downe to it : There is certainly no man or wo- man upon the Earth, (hall ever goe to Heaven, but fuch as hath Heaven come downe to them ; There's nòne Chalhever be
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