I must; it is necessary, there is no remedy but I must lay down my Tabernacle. If heaven were to be had upon earth, Saints should not dwell in tabernacles. But it is observable of our Apostle, Saint Peter, at the transfiguration of CHRIST, Matth. 17. even whilst he had not knowledge enough to discern of CHRISTS kingdom, that it was in heaven: and was mistaken in the place; (It is good for […] to be here:) yet he knew thus much, that eternity was not to be had upon earth; and therefore he spake but of tabernacles; Let us build here three Tabernacles. Let us build; well, men may build: yea let us build here; but what? not mansions, but tabernacles. Even in the midst of that unspeakable glory, that little map of blessedness, that abridgement of joy, and glimpse of heaven; he speaks but of tabernacles: putting a difference between mount Tabor and mount Zion. 2 Cor. 5.1. If our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens. He calls it not the Man, but the House: not of stone, but of mud-walls, Earthly: not a mansion, but a Tabernacle: not such as God made, but our selves marred, Our house: not abolished, but Dissolved; then we have, not expectantly many years after our dissolution, but we presently have: not a tabernacle, but a Mansion: aedificatum, non adificandum; not to be built, but Built already: not by man, but by God; a Building of God, made without hands: not transient, but Eternal: not on earth, nor in the air, but in the supremest place; the heaven of Heavens. This leaving the Tabernacle, signifies a migration; not only Unde, from the earth, but Quò, to the heavens. The loss of mortality precedes, the ⟨p. 261⟩gain of immortality follows. Job 14.14. If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. The book of Job plentifully abounds with two things; Impressions of mortality, and Instructions of morality. It teacheth us that we must die, it teacheth us how we should live. Both are propounded and compounded in that verse. A man must die and live again, there is mortality: therefore all his appointed time, let him watch, there is for morality. There are four remarkable circumstances in it; A Dissolution, Restitution, Resolution, Revolution. If a man die, there is a Dissolution:
I must; it is necessary, there is no remedie but I must lay downe my Tabernacle. If heaven were to be had upon earth, Saints should not dwell in tabernacles. But it is observable of our Apostle, Saint Peter, at the transfiguration of CHRIST, Matth. 17. even whilest he had not knowledge enough to discerne of CHRISTS kingdome, that it was in heaven: and was mistaken in the place; (It is good for 〈…〉 to be here:) yet he knew thus much, that eternitie was not to be had upon earth; and therefore he spake but of tabernacles; Let us build here three Tabernacles. Let us build; well, men may build: yea let us build here; but what? not mansions, but tabernacles. Even in the midst of that unspeakable glory, that little mappe of blessednesse, that abridgement of joy, and glimpse of heaven; he speakes but of tabernacles: putting a difference betweene mount Tabor and mount Sion. 2 Cor. 5.1. If our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands eternall in the heavens. He calls it not the Man, but the House: not of stone, but of mud-walls, Earthly: not a mansion, but a Tabernacle: not such as God made, but our selves marred, Our house: not abolished, but Dissolved; then we have, not expectantly many yeares after our dissolution, but we presently have: not a tabernacle, but a Mansion: aedificatum, non adificandum; not to be built, but Built already: not by man, but by God; a Building of God, made without hands: not transient, but Eternall: not on earth, nor in the ayre, but in the supremest place; the heaven of Heavens. This leaving the Tabernacle, signifies a migration; not onely Vnde, from the earth, but Quò, to the heavens. The losse of mortalitie precedes, the ⟨p. 261⟩gaine of immortalitie followes. Iob 14.14. If a man die, shall he live againe? All the dayes of my appointed time will I waite, till my change come. The book of Iob plentifully abounds with two things; Impressions of mortalitie, and Instructions of moralitie. It teacheth us that we must die, it teacheth us how we should live. Both are propounded and compounded in that verse. A man must die and live againe, there is mortalitie: therefore all his appointed time, let him watch, there is for moralitie. There are foure remarkeable circumstances in it; A Dissolution, Restitution, Resolution, Revolution. If a man die, there is a Dissolution:
