Sermons preached

(3.) It would produce a more heavenly Temper and Conversation. That is evident from the Apostle's words, Phil. 3. 20. Our Conversation is in Heaven, from whence we look for a Saviour. Looking for this Salvation, and this Saviour, it breeds in us the Heavenly Mind. He comes from Heaven to bring us thither, for he comes to receive us to himself; Jo. 14. 3. therefore if we be not heavenly, our Practice will be a Contradiction to our Faith. You believe that there is a God, and a Christ, and a Life to come; that this Christ came from God, to bring us to God, that we may enjoy him in the Life to come; and thereupon you renounce the Devil, the World, and the Flesh, and give up your selves to God, believing that this Christ will come again to lead all his sincere Disciples and penitent Believers into the Glory and Happiness of the Heavenly State. If you believe this, what follows? That your Conversation must be Heavenly, either you must live for Heaven, as seeking it with all diligence, that you may at length certainly obtain it, and not be excluded with the wicked; ⟨p. 134⟩or live upon Heaven, solacing your selves in the fore-sight and hopes of it: otherwise to profess this Faith, and yet to live as though your Happiness were altogether in this World, were to go about to reconcile Contradictions; to pretend you place your Blessedness in Heaven, and yet fly from it as a Misery; you profess to look and long for that you have no mind to. The second Notion is Patience.

(3.) It would produce a more heavenly Temper and Conversation. That is evident from the Apostle's words, Phil. 3. 20. Our Conversation is in Heaven, from whence we look for a Saviour. Looking for this Salvation, and this Saviour, it breeds in us the Heavenly Mind. He comes from Heaven to bring us thither, for he comes to receive us to himself; Io. 14. 3. therefore if we be not heavenly, our Practice will be a Contradiction to our Faith. You believe that there is a God, and a Christ, and a Life to come; that this Christ came from God, to bring us to God, that we may enjoy him in the Life to come; and thereupon you renounce the Devil, the World, and the Flesh, and give up your selves to God, believing that this Christ will come again to lead all his sincere Disciples and penitent Believers into the Glory and Happiness of the Heavenly State. If you believe this, what follows? That your Conversation must be Heavenly, either you must live for Heaven, as seeking it with all diligence, that you may at length certainly obtain it, and not be excluded with the wicked;