A96104:13
Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safety in eying the churches security, wherein is showed…Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safetie in eying the churches security, wherein is shewed…
Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safety in eying the churches security, wherein is showed the captives redress: being an invitation to all the different minded men in the world to become one; with the advantage of unity, and the danger of variety from the example of the saints and servants of God, as well in former as these latter times. Offered to the view of the 97 builders employed in that work, for the building of the true temple, and all others. / By Thomas Watson, a lover of peace.Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safetie in eying the churches security, wherein is shewed the captives redress: being an invitation to all the different minded men in the world to become one; with the advantage of unity, and the danger of variety from the example of the saints and servants of God, as well in former as these latter times. Offered to the view of the 97 builders imployed in that work, for the building of the true temple, and all others. / By Thomas Watson, a lover of peace.
London: printed by J.C., 1661
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And as for what any one is pleased to state me, either their friend or enemy, I have this hope, that as I shall not be much moved by any various manifestations in men, so likewise I shall endeavour to keep my self from deserving any envy from any one, knowing that truth may have many Batteries, yet the Fort will be resigned fully to it at the last; happy is he that is a Soldier in this undeprivable conquest, great will be his reward above all the endowments of this life, he need not press after the enslaving rudiments of this life, to serve where he ought to be served, so as to Captivate that noble grain of wheat, by any unseemly tares of mans inventions, but his delight is in a more higher and bright lustre far transcending any enjoyment in this ⟨image 4⟩life, or of this fabricating, what though his time here in this his earthly Tabernacle seem as it were a pilgrimage of distress to what others do enjoy, yet when he looketh homeward, he hath more cause to rejoice then to mourn; for what pleasure can any man assure himself of in any thing that is decayable, if he do but cast his eye toward the Rock from whence he was hewn. Suppose thou shouldst be made heir of all the promising delights that the whole earth could afford; yet if thou dost not improve them to the advantage of thy Lord and Master, it had been good for thee if thou hadst never known any thing of that nature, but suppose thou shouldest make a right use of them, yet canst thou not assure thy self of any continuance with them; for thou art not at thy own disposing, but must give up thy power to him of whom thou rentest or borrowest thy time since thy appearance in thy first State. O loose not the substance for a few fading vanities, which are but as dry Husks, that can never satisfy any, though they have never so many of them, it is the nature of them to breed desire, and not to quench desire, nor to enrich your Treasury of content that is but a Pearl; but that must be received from the Bridegroom, when he ⟨image 5⟩cometh to welcome his guests, and to adorn each of his friends with a Crown of glory and immortality, and eternal life, which every one shall receive that hath the wedding garment on, when he shall appear in his glory, to show us the heavenly mansions that he hath prepared for us;
And as for what any one is pleased to state me, either their friend or enemy, I have this hope, that as I shall not be much moved by any various manifestations in men, so likewise I shall endeavour to keep my self from deserving any envy from any one, knowing that truth may have many Batteries, yet the Fort will be resigned fully to it at the last; happy is he that is a Souldier in this undeprivable conquest, great will be his reward above all the endowments of this life, he need not presse after the enslaving rudiments of this life, to serve where he ought to be served, so as to Captivate that noble grain of wheat, by any unseemly tares of mans inventions, but his delight is in a more higher and bright lustre far transcending any injoyment in this