11~ . D The Parable of the Ten Virgins, and bad ; me 'world hates and perfec~res them as. Hypocrites ; civil m~lHhiRk th~m hke rhemfelv~s. ; worldlmgs rhmk themas l1ttle loved as any,rheir ef!ares thrive not; Hypocmes bear abafe efleem of them ; ~nd 1f they love them, 'tis becaufe they love them ; Sa1ms themfe lves many ttmes fufpeet them; or if nor,yetthey ;udgea~well of others as them ; nay it may be they are fo diffigured fometimes by rhofe Cores thar break out of them, that they knownot themfelves .; but now the Lord will openly declare his love eo them , -and to all the. world belides; Thefe are the men which I have born on my bref!, and earned on my fboulders; for whom I have built and planted Churches, and de!hoyed enem\es, and trod the wine-prefsalone , and prefered•bove mine own life, and blood and~lory; whofe hairs have been numbred by me, whofe wal_ls have been continually before me . No greate r mifery td a holy h~art than thts: P[al.42.Io. Whtre u now thJ God? So when confcience faith, aod men fay ir here : Oh what a mercy is ir that then it 11ull be heard, I am now come ro comfort thee ! , Founhly, Then they !ball be brought into aaual poffel!ion 'and fruition of .all the gl?ry prorr.ifed unto th~m, of .all their inhemance and ?Ortiun : Before manage there be prmmfes made of fuch an eHate; but when the d.1y is come, then they come to a&ual and full poffdlion of tt, a ~d become equal poffeffors of Jhe elhte; fo much in rh's life the Lord doth ~romife to F'Oilefs his people of; there be promifes of peace, redemf cio,n, VICtory, and triumph .over all enemies, fellow(hip with God, and all the Saints and Angel s together, ari incorruptible inheritance, and now they !hall ente r into polldiion of all thefe; r,ay, all that Chriflhath, lignified by that wo~d Kingdom, MJttth, :5. Come and tak!, rhe kingdom prepared for Jotl; I Cor. I i · )4· Then foalt he brought to pa(? the [apng wrimn, 0 de~ih rt~he.re u thj Jl ing,&c. Iftt,2)·1•8· So;that .reckqn what ChnH harh, you fball ha,•e \t then, Much me rcy the Lord .111ews to bis people now, but Pfal.p.19. how gr~t isr.hat which u L1id up! then it fball be brought fo,Jth; now ycm fball have an end of all your deii res, prayers, faith eo feel that which you have ~l ieved1&c. as irwaswith Jofhua Z<. ulr. Not o;,e thing whtreof6od hath failed. Here the poor hardly get bread; here many pr~yers g~t nothing, &c. but there, a Thef[. 1. 9, 1-o. God doth then wbar he can for them, and gives what ht~ can give to them; then all treafur<!S are broken open. · · . . . . . . . · F,fthly, Then there 11nll ever be cohab1tat10n and hv1ng !Vi!Phtm, .neverro be any more parted from him,or he from them; for while any-Wa Suitor to one in a fa~; Country, he comes and goes away again; but when mariage comes, then he carries her to his own houfe, and now hvcr they muH toge_ther; fothe Lord in this life is fomtime with his peopk, fomtime abfent from htspeople,buc thell they mufl cohabite t<?g\!ther,and 11ull ; r. Theff 4· ulr.And thm_we [hallevtr be with the Lord. If the Lord ·ihou!ddo all the former, and notthts, lt would be a bitter cut : When the Diiciples had ChriHs prefence for a rime, it was fweet; but w,hen parting came, chat was bitter; b1.t h~re is no more parting with the Lord; · to be in a'Kings cominon where peace rules, when otherplaces are !1aughce!~houfes, and Gol~otha 's, tis good; but to be with the K~~g, a;0d ever with htm, aod ro follow.htm where ever he goes, and tobe famllu rwuh him, this is wonderfal:; Husbands depart ~irhe r be:aufe_not ple3 f~d at homo:, or becaufe of bu!inefs abroad ; all fuch mouon argumg tmperfethon; but now there !hall be nothingin rhe Saints to difpleafe; and Chr iWs buGnefs l'nzll then be done, be !hall have no-more to do but only to give up th~ Kingd()m to_G~d the Father. that is the laH work ofChdlin tbts world: Tofe~ rheLord tnhts beauty of g~ace and love, will be wonderful; but for dufl aod worms to be with himforever; the poor things of rhe wor.ld eo be ' ' irh :1i;n, when thoufands arC? caH by ! we fay that's the beauty of a thmg whtch no ptCl:ure can exprefs; no"! to
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