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Ofthelayesofheana/, with Godard ourSauiour Chrifl a thonfand yeeres : which is not to be vnd ierflood of the kingdome ofgloryn heauen, but of the kingdome ofgrace in earth, as the words imme- diately going before, fpecially limiting it to the firfi reflr- reElion, which is our regeneration, whereby in this world we rife from the death>offinne,toholincffe and newneffe of Apoc.:o4.6. life, doe plainely thew. Sá that ttotwithflanding their foo.. lith and vngrounded affertion we may conclude, that as the ioyes ofheauen are in their quantityand quality mofl ex- cellent and vnfpeakeable,.infnite and incomprehenfible; fo alto in refpea oftime they are eudleffeand eucrlaffing, not onely in themfelues, but alto vitro vs,feeing they fhallneuer be taken from vs, nor we from them; but after many thou- fand millions of yeeres expired, they !hall bee as farce from their end as the firff day when we entred into them. For o- thetw'ife wee fhould not =nine vnto perfeélfelicitie, and cotnpleat bieffedneffe,w-bich the Scriptures fo often do ro- mife voto vs; teeing it comprchendeth not onely an infinite quantitie and tnea !ureofhappineffe, but alfo aneucrlafling time and aperpctuall continuance of this glory and felicity, without the affurance whereofwe could neuer be fecure,not our hearts anti defrresfully fatisfied, and without ;vhich fe- cyritieandfatietietherecanbeno perfe& bleffedneffeand felicitie. CHAP. XII. Of the vfei of the former dot-trine concerning the toyes of heaven. Nd thus haue I darkely ihadowed'out the §.Sets. ioyes of heauen,vvhich no mortallmatt can That we fbniki detitibe according to their 'glory and full /pend ourrime perfeélion :'for as the Apòfife bath taught ratberinges- tfarnt vs, the things which God harhprepared for all ofttntbegafe beaaaet n: t hofe that lout him,are filch, de neither eye bathfeene,nor care lq tyer, -then in hathheard,. nor heart conceited. And as another faith, fo in-carious inqui- tm u erableand ineomprefienfrblc fie thefe euerlaflingroy 3i a = 9!