Thirdly, Other believers have in an ordinary way attained to a sweet assurance of their everlasting happiness, and blessedness. We know ⟨p. 7⟩(saith the Apostle in the name of the1 Saints) that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, •n house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens; for in this we groan earnestly, desiring to be clothed upon with our house, which is from 2heaven. Their assurance sets them in triumph upon the Throne. We have a house, a house above, a house in heaven, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens: We have a house, a heavenly house, a house made by the greatest wisdom, and the highest Love, a house that for honour, pleasures, riches, safety, stability, glory, and perpetuity, transcends all the royal Palaces in the world. It is a house not made with hands, but eternal in the heavens. So the Church3 in that Solomons Song, 2. 16. My beloved is mine, and I am his. I know says the Spouse, that Jesus Christ is mine; I can with the greatest confidence,4 and boldness affirm it, he is my head, my husband, my Lord, my Redeemer, my Justifier, my Saviour; And I am his. I am as sure that I am his, as I am sure that I live. I am his ⟨p. 8⟩by purchase, and I am his by conquest, I am his by donation, and I am his by election, I am his by covenant, and I am his by marriage; I am wholly his, I am peculiarly his, I am universally his, I am eternally his: This I well know, and the knowledge thereof is my joy in life, and my strength and crown in death. So the Church in that Isa. 563. 16. Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: Thou, O Lord, art our Father, and our Redeemer, thy name is from everlasting. David could say, The Lord is my portion for ever; And at another time he could sweetly sing it out, I am thine, save me. Job could look through the darkest cloud, and see that his Redeemer lives. Thomas cries out, My Lord, and my God; And Paul trumpets it out, That nothing 6should separate him from the love of Christ; and that he had fought a good fight, and finished his course, and that there was 7laid up for him a crown of Righteousness.
Thirdly, Other beleevers have in an ordinary way attained to a sweet assurance of their everlasting happinesse, and blessednesse. Wee know ⟨p. 7⟩(saith the Apostle in the name of the1 Saints) that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, wee have a building of God, •n house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens; for in this we groan earnestly, desiring to be cloathed upon with our house, which is from 2heaven. Their assurance sets them in triumph upon the Throne. We have a house, a house above, a house in heaven, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens: Wee have a house, a heavenly house, a house made by the greatest wisdom, and the highest Love, a house that for honour, pleasures, riches, safety, stability, glory, and perpetuity, transcends all the royal Pallaces in the world. It is a house not made with hands, but eternal in the heavens. So the Church3 in that Solomons Song, 2. 16. My beloved is mine, and I am his. I know sayes the Spouse, that Jesus Christ is mine; I can with the greatest confidence,4 and boldnesse affirme it, hee is my head, my husband, my Lord, my Redeemer, my Justifier, my Saviour; And I am his. I am as sure that I am his, as I am sure that I live. I am his ⟨p. 8⟩by purchase, and I am his by conquest, I am his by donation, and I am his by election, I am his by covenant, and I am his by marriage; I am wholly his, I am peculiarly his, I am universally his, I am eternally his: This I well know, and the knowledge thereof is my joy in life, and my strength and crown in death. So the Church in that Isa. 563. 16. Doubtlesse thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: Thou, O Lord, art our Father, and our Redeemer, thy name is from everlasting. David could say, The Lord is my portion for ever; And at another time he could sweetly sing it out, I am thine, save me. Job could looke through the darkest cloud, and see that his Redeemer lives. Thomas cryes out, My Lord, and my God; And Paul trumpets it out, That nothing
- 12 Cor. 5. 1, 2.
- 2Nec Christus, nee C•lum, patitur hyperbolem Neither Christ nor heaven, hyperbolized.
- 3Can. 2. 16.
- 4Eph. 1. 22, 23. 1 Cor. 1. 30. c. 6. 26. Ps. 110. 3. Joh. 10. 29. Joh. 5. 16. Ezek. 16, 8. Hos. 2. 19, 20,
- 5Jsa. 63. 16 vide Calvin. Psal. 73. 25, 26. Psal. 19. 94. Job 19. 25. Joh. 20. 28.Jsa. 63. 16 vide Calvin. Psal. 73. 25, 26. Psal. 19. 94. Job 19. 25. Ioh. 20. 28.
- 6Rom. 8. 38. 2 Tim. 4. 7, 8.
- 7Quicquid fie•i potuit, potest, that which hath been done, may be done.
