A44675:99
A discourse relating to the much-lamented death and solemn funeral of our incomparable and…
A discourse relating to the much-lamented death and solemn funeral of our incomparable and most gracious Queen Mary, of most blessed memory by John Howe.
London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1695
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The two great Commandments impressed, that are both fulfilled in Love, are of vast compass to this purpose, and with the certain connexa, comprehend all; Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, &c. And—thy Neighbour as thy self, &c. What an Heaven upon Earth, would these two create, reduced to practice! And when the impression is perfect, What needs there more?
The two great Commandments impress'd, that are both fulsill'd in Love, are of vast compass to this purpose, and with the certain connexa, comprehend all; Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, &c. And—thy Neighbour as thy self, &c. What an Heaven upon Earth, would these two create, reduc'd to practice! And when the impression is perfect, What needs there more?
But God knows, men too commonly measure their Heaven by their Christianity, on the wrong hand; a Christianity and an Heaven, both external and foreign to them. God deliver me from this so palpable and destructive a delusion of a Christianity, and an Heaven foreign to my Soul! A Religion, and a Felicity that touch not our Minds, that never impress our Inner Man; What can we be the better for them? What to be imposed upon by so absurd a misconceit, and so repugnant to Scripture? Which so expressly tells us that Glory we are finally to expect, is a Glory whereby we are to be glorified, made glorious, and to be revealed in us, and wherein we are to partake with Christ, Rom. 8. 17, 18. Or did the Son of God put on Man, and suffer so deeply for us, with a design upon us, less than this?
But God knows, men too commonly measure their Heaven by their Christianity, on the wrong hand; a Christianity and an Heaven, both external and foreign to them. God deliver me from this so palpable and destructive a delusion of a Christianity, and an Heaven foreign to my Soul! A Religion, and a Felicity that touch not our Minds, that never impress our Inner Man; What can we be the better for them? What to be impos'd upon by so absurd a misconceit, and so repugnant to Scripture? Which so expresly tells us that Glory we are finally to expect, is a Glory whereby we are to be glorified, made glorious, and to be revealed in us, and wherein we are to partake with Christ,