Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

V. The royal palace is Christ's Father's house, in which are many mansions, John xiv. 2. There shall the saints dwell for ever. That is the house prepared for all the heirs of glory, even these of them who dwell in the meanest cottage now, or have not where to lay their heads. As our Lord calls his saints to a kingdom; he will provide them a house suitable to the dignity he puts upon them. Heaven will be a convenient, spacious, and glorious house, for those whom the King delighteth to honour. Never was a house purchased, at so dear a rate as this, being the purchase of the Mediator's blood; and no less could it be afforded for to them: never was there so much ado, to fit inhabitants for a house. The saints were, by nature, utterly unfit for this house, and human art and industry could not make them meet for it. But the Father gives the designed inhabitants to his Son, to be by him redeemed: the Son pays the price of their redemption, even his own precious blood; that, with the allowance of justice, they may have access to the house: and the holy Spirit sanctifies them by his grace; that they may be meet to come in thither, where no unclean thing can enter. And no marvel, for it is the King's palace, they enter into, (Psal. xlv. 15.) The house of the kingdom, where the great King keeps his court, where he has his throne, and shows forth his glory, in a singular manner beyond what mortals can conceive.

V. The royal palace is Christ's Father's house, in which are many mansions, John xiv. 2. There shall the saints dwell for ever. That is the house prepared for all the heirs of glory, even these of them who dwell in the meanest cottage now, or have not where to lay their heads. As our Lord calls his saints to a kingdom; he will provide them a house suitable to the dignity he puts upon them. Heaven will be a convenient, spacious, and glorious house, for those whom the King delighteth to honour. Never was a house purchased, at so dear a rate as this, being the purchase of the Mediator's blood; and no less could it be afforded for to them: never was there so much ado, to fit inhabitants for a house. The saints were, by nature, utterly unfit for this house, and human art and industry could not make them meet for it. But the Father gives the designed inhabitants to his Son, to be by him redeemed: the Son pays the price of their redemption, even his own precious blood; that, with the allowance of justice, they may have access to the house: and the holy Spirit sanctifies them by his grace; that they may be meet to come in thither, where no unclean thing can enter. And no marvel, for it is the King's palace, they enter into, (