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CHAP. LIV. Gods people to be highly honoured.

CHAP. LIV. Gods people to be highly honored.

Seventhly, if there be such blessed things reserved ¹for the people of God: Hence let us look upon all the servants of God as honourable in our eyes, and let them be honoured in our thoughts, for great are the thoughts of God upon them and towards them, and therefore great and honourable should be our thoughts of them, though they be never so poor and mean in the world. We use to look upon great heirs with admiring thoughts, and blessing of them every time we look upon them. Do you see one walking in the ways of God? whatsoever he be for his outwards, let your hearts bless him, and say, Here is one indeed born to great things, other manner of things then any the world affords. Did we know what were the things that the people of God should be possessed of within a while, we would say in our hearts, O blessed that ever they were born, blessed is the womb that bare them, and blessed are the paps that gave them suck: Did we with a spiritual believing eye behold what things they should have, and saw them as now possessed of them, we would see cause to fall down and kiss the ground upon which they tread: The blessed Angels look upon them as great ones, as the glory of the world, and therefore do joyfully minister unto them, because they know they are the great heirs of Heaven, for whom such great things are prepared: Great things are spoken of thee, O thou City of God, says the Psalmist; Great things are spoken of you, O ye Saints ⟨p. 654⟩of God. If Heaven must be so glorious to entertain the Saints, how glorious are those for whom heaven is prepared? Says Ahasuerus, What shall be done to the man whom the King will honour? O what shall be done to those whom an infinite God hath set his heart upon to raise to honour, and to manifest to Angels, and to all the world, what his infinite power is able to do in raising of a creature to glory: In the Saints there is a meeting, as it were of the beams of Gods grace and goodness as in a centre, and that must needs be very warm and hot indeed. The beams of the Sun in the circumference scattered in the air, are warm; but in a glass, where they are united together as it were in a centre, there they warm after another manner, there they burn; so all the works of Gods grace abroad in the world, they are as the beams of the Sun in the circumference, that are scattered abroad;