The Mystery of God, concerning all the transactions of his eternal purpose upon the Theatre of this World, throughout the whole time of time▪ being fully accomplished and revealed, (that of Jesus Christ himself excepted) in none of all the work which he hath gloriously done, will he be admired so much in that day, as in what he hath wrought in the lives and deaths of Believers, as Believers. The same object is as admirable now as then; that it is not so much admired, is, because it is not seen now so much as it shall be then. The greatest Object out of Heaven is the life and death of such upon Earth, who are now in Heaven. You may believe it, what God hath done for the Soul of the least Saint of some few years continuance, were it digested into Order, would make a volume full of temptations, signs, and wonders: A wonderful History, because a History of such experiences, each one whereof is more then a Wonder. No greater acts then their obedience, both Active and Passive unto the death. The sufferings of the Apostles may well be reckoned amongst the Acts of the Apostles. No greater Monuments then their Register: To live and die in the Faith of Jesus; to do things worthy to be written, and to write things worthy to be done, both is good, and doth good, 'Tis better with William Hunter, then with William the Conqueror. 'Tis better to have a name in the Book of Martyrs then in the Book of Chronicles. Martial Conquerors conquer Bodies, by destroying. Confessors conquer Souls, by saving. They overcame by the blood of the Lamb, and the word of his Testimony, and loved not their lives unto the death▪ Amongst these, as the Age that now is (through Grace) hath abounded with many worthies, so This Eminent Servant of God, the subject of our present meditation, may without wrong unto any be placed amongst the first Three. Had it pleased the only wise God to have put it into his heart to have imitated Junius, in leaving behind him the History ⟨p. 6⟩of his own Life, how many would have gladly received it, as Elisha did the Mantle which fell from Elijah, when he was caught up and carried from him into Heaven:
The Mystery of God, concerning all the transactions of his eternal purpose upon the Theatre of this World, throughout the whole time of time▪ being fully accomplished and revealed, (that of Jesus Christ himself excepted) in none of all the work which he hath gloriously done, will he be admired so much in that day, as in what he hath wrought in the lives and deaths of Beleevers, as Beleevers. The same object is as admirable now as then; that it is not so much admired, is, because it is not seen now so much as it shall be then. The greatest Object out of Heaven is the life and death of such upon Earth, who are now in Heaven. You may beleeve it, what God hath done for the Soul of the least Saint of some few years continuance, were it digested into Order, would make a volume full of temptations, signes, and wonders: A wonderful History, because a History of such experiences, each one whereof is more then a Wonder. No greater acts then their obedience, both Active and Passive unto the death. The sufferings of the Apostles may well be reckoned amongst the Acts of the Apostles. No greater Monuments then their Register: To live and die in the Faith of Jesus; to do things worthy to be written, and to write things worthy to be done, both is good, and doth good, 'Tis better with William Hunter, then with William the Conqueror. 'Tis better to have a name in the Book of Martyrs then in the Book of Chronicles. Martial Conquerors conquer Bodies, by destroying. Confessors conquer Souls, by saveing. They overcame by the blood of the Lamb, and the word of his Testimony, and loved not their lives unto the death▪ Amongst these, as the Age that now is (through Grace) hath abounded with many worthies, so This Eminent Servant of God, the subject of our present meditation, may without wrong unto any be placed amongst the first Three. Had it pleased the only wise God to have put it into his heart to have imitated Junius, in leaving behind him the History ⟨p. 6⟩of his own Life, how many would have gladly received it, as Elisha did the Mantle which fell from Elijah, when he was caught up and carried from him into Heaven:
