230 An Expojition of the Epiftle --~----~~~~~ ~ 5· He giveth us this Spirit as an Ear~ufl to a!fure us in the mean time, to Ser.XVll. comfort us. He doth not only.referveHeaven for us, (as it is 1 Pet.J +) but ~ he is careful to give us the C•mf•rter wlule we ate here, before-hand. You fee the Love of God. In :he Second place, do but obferve (from what bath been opened) iome Ar– guments of the greatncfs of the Glory of Heaven. 1, Heaven is an Inheritance given , and God's Inheritance. Great Men give Inheritances anfwerable to their greatnefs; what Inheritance then will God give? Himfelf, myBrethren, (as you heard before;.) Hnrs of God, mzdCo. heirs with Chrtf/, You cannot be more happy than God can make you, or than Jefus Chrift is, and you are Co-heirs with him. -z.. How great muf\ that Inheritance be, whenas Joy i1l the Holy Ghofi is but the Earnef\? The Earneft you know is but part in hand, it is bm a Sixpence (it may be) to a Thoufand pound; Then (as a Father well faith) How great is the Pojfojfio11, whm the Earnefl u thtlsgreat! Take Joy in the Holy Ghoft, it fil– leth your hearts fuller of joy than all the good things in the world will do. So Vavidtellethyou, more thanCoriJ, and Wilze, and Ott, Are you in dif\refs? It carrieth you above all thofe diftre!fes; We rejoyce i?J tributation, faith the Apo!l:le; they made nothing of Tribulation. Nay, faith he, rejq;ce whm yot< fall into dtvers of them. This the Holy Ghof\ doth. If the Ermufl do this, fhall a little piece of it do this, what will the po!fellion it felf bel If you muk it, the great Inheritance is to come. ~· It is called the pttrcha(ed pojfojfio11, (if you interpret it of Heaven;) pur– chafed by what? By the Blood of Chrijl. What think you will the purchafe of Chrif\'s Blood come to l do but think. A King's Ranfom is ufed to exprefs a great Sum ; what will the Ranfom by the Blood that was made a Ranfom, (fo the Text faith, 1 Tim.2.6.) what w!ll the; Ranfom by the lJioodof Godcome to? When Jefus Chrifl laid down his Blood, faith he, let my Heirs take out all that Blood of mine in Glory and Grace. What will that Glory come to think yoo? . 4· It is both a Redemptio11 and a Poffojfion, Two things in Hell makes men miferable, and Divines know not which is the greater; The one isPIE1UJ dam11i, that they have loft Heaven and Happinefs, and that wringeth them ; the other is P1E11afmfiu, the feeling of the W'rath of God, The Glory of Heaven arifwer– ably,which makes us happy,confifteth of two things; A redemption from Mifery, and the po!fellion of Happinefs. There is yet one thing more in the Text, which I muf\ fpeak fomething unto ere I conclude; They are the !aft words in the r4th verfe, V11to the prmfe of his glory. · It is a thing mentioned as the end of all. It is mentioned in the 6th verfe, as the end of Election, to tbt praije of theglory'of his Grace, It is mentioned in the nthVerfe,in his application to the Jews, That we jbottld be to tht pra1{i:of hug/01-y, who firfl trttfiedill Chrijl. It is mentioned here again in the 141 bverfe, when he maketh application of all unto the Gmtiles, In whom yt atjo t>·uFed, e§c. 1111to the praife of hisglory. You fl1all find, that in all the Enumerations of the benefits of God towards us, that thefe two things come in again and again, !11 Chrifl, and To the praife of b~ glory. That [!11 Chrifl] cometh in nine times ; To the prat[e of hir glory com· eth in thrice. There is a Trinity of Glory unto God, as there are Three Perfons whom he had diftindly mentioned as the Authors of our Salvation; both God the Father, and God the So1t, (In whom we have redemptio?J through his blood, at the7thverfe,) and Godthe Holy Ghofi, f:.Y whom ye are fealetl, who u the Earnefl of our ]tJheritance, verfe 1 ~- To the praife of hu glory.] It referreth firfl to the Perfons; when he had fpoken ol the Salvation of the Jewr, ver.11,1 2. there he mentioncth their Sal– vation to be to the praifeof hisglory. When he fpeaks it again to the Gentitu, there he founds it out again, To theprazfe of bis glory. That
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