A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

but there we are wholly incorruptible. Yea, because Deformity in the Body is a Monument of God's Displeasure, one of the penal Events of Sin, introduced by Adam's Fall, it is done away; the Body riseth in due Proportion: Whatever was monstrous or misshapen in the first Edition, is corrected in the second, like the Errata's in a second Edition. And for Violence without, Heaven is a quiet Place; when there are Tumults in the World, God is introduced as sitting in the Heavens, a quiet Posture; Psal. 2.4. He that sitteth in the Heavens shall laugh. There is nothing to discompose those blessed Spirits, wicked Men cannot molest them nor abuse them. Here the very Company of wicked Men is a Burden; as Lot's righteous Soul was vexed with the filthy Conversation of the Wicked, 2 Pet. 2.7. David complains, Psal. 120.5. Woe is me that I dwell in Mesech, and sojourn in the Tents of Kedar. But there the Son of Man shall send forth his Angels, and gather out of his Kingdom all things that offend, and them which do Iniquity, Matth. 13.41. The Wicked shall be bound Hand and Foot, and cast into utter Darkness; as when Men will not be ruled, they are sent to Prison. Here poor Saints are subject to a Number of Infirmities, Labour, Thirst, Hunger, Cold, Nakedness and Want, which all cease then. It is a rich Inheritance, as well as a glorious one; Ephes. 1.18. That ye may know what is the Hope of his Calling, and what the Riches of the Glory of his Inheritance in the Saints. These Distinctions of Poor and Rich, as they are understood in the World, do not outlive Time; we shall have enough of true Riches, which is eternal Glory, and the full Fruition of God. Labour ceaseth, though there be a continual Exercise of Grace: all things rest when they come to their proper Place, so do they that die in the Lord; we still serve God, but without Weariness. Yea, we are freed from the Necessities of Nature, Eating and Drinking, and Sleeping, to which the greatest Potentates are subject. Though they are exempted from hard bodily Labour, yet they are not exempted from the Necessities of Nature: but there the Use of Meats and of the Belly and Stomach is abolished;