The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

3. Suppose you saw the everlasting Glory which Christ hath purchased and prepared for his Saints: That you had been once with Paul, rapt up into the third Heavens, and seen the things that are unutterable: would you not after that have rather lived like Paul, and undergone his sufferings and contempt, than to have lived like the brain-sick brutish world? If you had seen what Stephen saw before his death, Acts 7.55, 56. the Glory of God, and Christ standing at his right hand; If you had seen the thousands and millions of holy glorious spirits, that are continually attending the Majesty of the Lord; If you had seen the glorified spirits of the just, that were once in flesh, despised by the blind ungodly world, while they ⟨p. 30⟩waited on God in faith, and holiness, and hope, for that blessed Crown which now they were: If you had felt one moment of their joys; if you had seen them shine as the Sun in glory, and made like unto the Angels of God; if you had heard them sing the song of the Lamb, and the joyful Hallelujahs, and praise to their eternal King: what would you be, and what would you resolve on after such a sight as this? If the rich man Luke 16. had seen Lazarus in Abraham's bosom in the midst of his bravery, and honour, and feasting, and other sensual delights, as afterwards he saw it when he was tormented in the flames of Hell, do you think such a sight would not have cooled his mirth and jollity, and helped him to understand the nature and value of his earthly felicity; and have proved a more effectual argument than a despised Preachers words? at least to have brought him to a freer exercise of his Reason, in a sober consideration of his state and ways? Had you seen one hour what Abraham, David, Paul, and all the Saints now see, while sin and flesh doth keep us here in the dark, what work do you think your selves it would make upon your hearts and lives?

3. Suppose you saw the everlasting Glory which Christ hath purchased and prepared for his Saints: That you had been once with Paul, rapt up into the third Heavens, and seen the things that are unutterable: would you not after that have rather lived like Paul, and undergone his sufferings and contempt, than to have lived like the brain-sick brutish world? If you had seen what Stephen saw before his death,