l98 VE6AV.IIL fhall know them ; not fecle tthem. Take heed, that you clearly difiicguHh betwixt A fpeculationand experience. We arethenfarre out ofrho 'reachofevils. We may fe them to comfort us,nouo afllill us. Whodoubts that thef< eyes fhall fee, and kno' thegloriousmanhoodofour blefTC:d Saviour, advanced abo•e all the powers ofheaven!And ifone body,why not more~ Andifourclder brorher,why no more ofou1 f!;irituall fraternity~ Yea ifthe twelve thronesofthofe Judges of Ifratl fhall be conpicuous; how lbaUwe nor acknowledge them! And ifthefe, who lhall rdlraineus from more~ You will eali7, grant, thatour love can never faile: Faith and hope give place tofighr, to prefent ruition; for thcfe are oftbinr,snot feen: bot love is perpe. tuall, nor ofGod onely,bur his Saints: For nothing cea es, but our earthly parts, no• thingburwhat favoursofcorruption.Chriftian love is a grace, & may well ch•ller.ge aplaceinheaven:andwhatloveis then;, ofwhatwe nownot!More plainly; If B the three Difciples in 1.abor knew M•fes arut Elldt, ow mwch more fh•llwe know them in Gods Si•n ~ LaftiY; (for it is a ktter, not a volumo, that I intended in this not necdfary,but likely difcourfe)thar famous parable can tdl you,tlllt thofe which arc in hell, may know fingular and leverall perfons, 'though diftant in place.The rich Glutton knows LAz.artH and Abrabam. I heare what you fay; It is but a parable: neither will I prdl'e you with the contrary authoririe of Amhr~ft, Ttrtt~Uian, Grtg'J,• Himme, or any Father; norwith that univerfall rule of CIJTJfo.fl•mt, that thofe one y are parables,where examples are expreffed, and names concealed: I yedd it; yet all holy parables have theirtruths, at leaft their probabilities. Deny this, and you di fabletheirufc, wrong their Amhor. Our Saviouroever fJ id ought was done, that cannot be: and lball then the damned maine ought, which thcglorifiedlofc! No c man'ever held that the foule was advantaged by torment. Comfort you therefore in this; you lball know and be knowne. But farre be from hence all carnal! and eanhly thoughiS; as ifyour affellions fhould be (as below) doubled ro your wife or chi!de. Nature bath no place in glory: here is no refpell of blood, none ofmariage. This groffer acquaintance and pleafure is forthe Paradife of Tutkes, not the Heaven of Chriftians. Here is, as no moriage, (fave betwixt the Lambe and his Spoufethe · Church) fono matrimoniall affe.!tioas. You lhalf rejoyce in your glorified childe; nor as your child, but as glorified. In briefe, let us fo·enquire ofour company, that above all things we ftrive to be there our !elves, where we are fore, ifwe have not whatwe imagined, we fhall have more then we couldimagine. D ToM. 'T.L. EPI S T. V I I. Cowctrning the mAtter •f DivDrct in tA{i •f •pp•rtnt ~dulttry, advijing tht innmnt pmit iftht jitttjl <lorfiinthAI '•h•fJt. ALL intermedling is attended with danger 1 and ever fo much more, as the band ofthe parries cootending,is nearer and ftrairer : how can itthenwant p<· till,ro judge betwixt thofe which are, or fhould beone flefb~yet great neceffi . ties require hazard. My profellion would jollly checkme,ifl preferred not your con- , fcience to my own love.I pity andlament,thatyour own bofome is falfe to you; that E your felfe with fhame, and with finne, arcpulled from your felfe, and given ro whom you would not: An injury that cannot be paralleled upon earth ; and fuch as may without our wonder, diftrall you : ffcight croffes are digefted with ftudy,and refolu- ~ tion; greater with time; thegre:neft, not without fi:udy, time, counfdl. There is no extreme evill,whofe evafions are not perplexed. I fee hero mifchiefe on either hand: ~ Ifee youbef<t, not with griefes only, but dangers. No manever more truly held a Wolfe bythe<are; which he can neither ftay, norlet goe with fafety. Gods ancient Lawwould havemade a quick difpatch, and have determined the cafe, by the death ofthe offender,and the liberty ofthe innocenr;and nor it alone. How many heathen Law-givers have fubfcribed to M•fts, Arahianr,Grtcians,R•mam~yea very Gllhtr,the dregs ofBarbarifme, have thought this wrong not expiable, but by blood. With us, the 0
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