The crown of righteousness. Set forth in a sermon preached at Stephens Walbrook, May…

A true Saint hath a double Crown; one in this life, the other laid up. In this life he hath a Crown of Acceptance, Ephes. 1. 6. He hath made us accepted in the beloved. Some render the word [Greek or Hebrew], he hath made us favourites; ^*here is the Crown of acceptance, and in the life to come a Crown of Righteousness. The glory of heaven is represented in Scripture under various Similes, and Metaphors: Sometimes heaven is compared to a place of rest, Heb. 4. 9. it is the souls centre. ^*Sometimes to an house not made with hands, 2 Cor. 5. 1. Sometimes to an inheritance in light, Golos. 1. 12. and in the Text the glory of heaven is set forth by a Crown; the Circle is the most perfect figure. ^*This blessed Crown doth encircle within it all perfection. I shall first break up the ground of the Text by Explication, & then come to sow the seed of Doctrine.

A true Saint hath a double Crown; one in this life, the other laid up. In this life he hath a Crown of Acceptance, Ephes. 1. 6. He hath made us accepted in the beloved. Some render the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, he hath made us favorites; ^*here is the Crown of acceptance, and in the life to come a Crown of Righteousnesse. The glorie of heaven is represented in Scripture under various Similies, and Metaphors: Somtimes heaven is compar'd to a place of rest, Heb. 4. 9. it is the souls center. ^*Somtimes to an house not made with hands,