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Heaven and earth embracing; or, God and man approaching
Heaven and earth embracing; or, God and man approaching: showed in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons upon the day of their public fast at Margarets Westminster, January 28. 1645. By Joseph Caryl minister of the Gospel at Magnus near London Bridge.Heaven and earth embracing; or, God and man approaching: shewed in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons upon the day of their publike fast at Margarets Westminster, January 28. 1645. By Joseph Caryl minister of the Gospel at Magnus neer London Bridge.
London: printed by G.M. for George Hurlock book-seller, 1646
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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.
Fourthly, (A jucundo) It is joy and delight unspeakable to have God near us. The joy of heaven (as was touched before) is this, the presence of God: look how ⟨p. 36⟩much you have of the drawings nigh of God upon earth, so much you have of heaven upon earth. The grace of glory is this, We shall ever be with the Lord; The glory of grace is this, that God will ever be with us: that's the promise, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee; I vvill stick as close to thee as thy clothes to thy back, or, as thy skin to thy flesh.
Fourthly, (A jucundo) It is joy and delight unspeakable to have God neer us. The joy of heaven (as was toucht before) is this, the presence of God: look how ⟨p. 36⟩much you have of the drawings nigh of God upon earth, so much you have of heaven upon earth. The grace of glorie is this, We shall ever be with the Lord; The glorie of grace is this, that God will ever be with us: that's the promise, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee; I vvill stick as close to thee as thy cloathes to thy back, or, as thy skin to thy flesh.
Take the weight and blessing of this privilege, a little more distinctly and enlargedly.
Take the weight and blessing of this priviledge, a little more distinctly and enlargedly.
1. Consider who draws nigh to you, when God draws nigh to you. His descriptions (to help faith) are made to our senses. He is a sun, and a shield, a strong tower, and a deliverer. Then comfort and protection draw nigh us, when God draws nigh us. He is the God of battle for our Armies in the field; and he is the God of wisdom for our counsels at home. Whatsoever the creature is or wants, God is, and hath eminently. All the world will be nothing to us, or against us, if we have, and know we have God nigh us: For as when God looks into himself, he speaks of the whole world (though the work of his own hands) as vanity, or as nothing. All Nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less then nothing and vanity,