Two discourses I. of the punishment of sin in hell, demonstrating the wrath of…

Neither is the terming the Glory of Heaven, and that as it is bestowed upon a separate Soul, an House, alien from the Scripture-Phrase, Luke 16. 9. That when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting Habitations. Death is a Failing, ('tis your City-Phrase also when a Man proves Bankrupt) a Statute of Bankrupts comes forth then upon your old House, (Statutum est omnibus semel mori) and upon all you have; and then it is a receiving or entertaining that otherwise ⟨p. 262⟩desolate Soul into everlasting Habitations, that is, into an House eternal in the Heavens, as the Text.

Nor yet is the Phrase of terming Heaven a City-House, remote neither: for, Heb. 11. 13. Abraham and the Patriarchs died in Faith, (Mark that!) In Faith or Expectation of what? He had told us, ver. 10. He looked for a City whose Builder is God. What is a City, but an Aggregation and Heap of Houses and Inhabitants? Multitudes had died afore Abraham, and gone to Heaven, from Adam, Abel, Seth, downwards; and God promiseth him Peace at his Death, and a being gathered to those Fathers, Gen. 15. 15. There was then a City built, and already replenished with Inhabitants; and amongst others, an House provided for him, that is, his Soul built of God, and ready furnished against this Removal.

Nor yet is the Phrase of terming Heaven a City-House, remote neither: for, Heb. 11. 13. Abraham and the Patriarchs died in Faith, (Mark that!) In Faith or Expectation of what? He had told us, ver. 10. He looked for a City whose Builder is God. What is a City, but an Aggregation and Heap of Houses and Inhabitants? Multitudes had died afore Abraham, and gone to Heaven, from Adam, Abel, Seth, downwards; and God promiseth him Peace at his Death, and a being gathered to those Fathers,