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a to4tn a.Cor.s,r. ? 1.Per.I.4. e r.Pet.q.4. a Apoc.zi 6; lohn ?.16. f Match.6.ao. s Hcb.r:.a8. b:.Pet.S.lo. g.sct.x. Time ail defeat and wants in tbe fault fbaU d e prrfealy fup the abfence of all euill,the fecond is the pretenceofall good: ptted, for when we haue freedome from all thofe culls which trou- ble vs,and haue thefruition of all good things which may comfort and delight vs,then,and then alone,can we truly bee laid 84o Of the ioyefofhtaaen; effable glory, is plainly fignified by thole names and titles, which in Gods word are alcribed veto it. For it is called a a motion and dlbelling hour, wherein we are to remaine,and continually to inhabit in our own countr:e,and is herein op- poled to our earthly tents and tabernacles,out ofwhich wee are Ili ll flitting and remoouing. It is called, not a tenement at will,to be poffeffed and left at the landlords pleafure, but b anrnherirance,not like vnto our earthly patrimonies,which in a fhort time are taken away from vs,orwe from them, but an inheritance imrnortall,vndefiled,and that fader h not away. In which fenfe alfo his called an c incorruptible crowns, which cannoeperilh; a d founraine of'life,which is neuer drie; c eter- malllife,which is fubieCi to no mortalitie or end; f vncorrup- ted treafures,which neither can perilh, nor be Rollen away; i S ICingdomelbhsch cannot be (hake,: with any violence; and h e_ ternallglarie, which neither hath any limits, nor knoweth end.: Seeing therefore names wifely giuen doe lignifie the nature and.properties ofthe things named, how vnfpeakea- ble and infinit are there ioves of heauen in all goodnefre,glo- rie and happineffe,which the wifdome of God himfelfe hash impofed all thefenames vpon, as knowing that noone, or few of them;are fuflicient to expreffe, or fo much as darkelie to refetnble their infinitperfedìion,& furpafling excellencie? CHAP. IIII. Of the happinef ofthe foule in the ioietofheauen, and wherein it conftfieth. And thuswe fee in part,the excellency of there heauenly ioy es, by the names and titles which in the Scripturesaregiuen veto them. Now we are to fpeake of the parts of thefe ioyes, which are principally two: the firfl is