The Best Treasure, Chapter 21
CHAP. XXI.
The Heavenly Inheritance is the Fruit of Chriſt's purchaſe.
WE ſhall briefly add one particular more of the Purchaſe of Chriſt, that is, The Conſummation, and compleating of all the Believers happineſs, and comprehenſion of his chiefeſt treaſure, which is the purchaſed poſſeſſion of Glory, Eph. 1. 14. Ʋntil the Redemption of the purchaſed Poſſeſſion, unto the praiſe of his Glory: that is, unil we come to inherit this glory purchaſed by Chriſt: O what a bleſſing is this! All that have been treated of already, are but little parcels of this total ſum of a Believers happineſs: O when the whole treaſury of Chriſt ſhall be opened, and ſet forth to the view and enjoyment of ſaved Souls: When all Chriſt's perſonal Glory, as Mediator, ſhall be diſcovered to them, and become their Glory; when all his purchaſed Glory for them alſo, ſhall then be entred on by them; all that he hath received for himſelf, and all he hath procured for them, ſhall all be made over to them; This will be a bleſſed Eternity indeed; when their Crowns of Maſſy Glory ſhall be ſet upon their heads, and when they alſo ſhall be ſet down upon Thrones of dignity, honoured with the reflections of Chriſts Majeſty, and unconceivable grandure. This is a myſtery indeed, but a real truth to all Believers: O bleſſed purchaſe indeed! who can tell over this ſum, when the Saints ſhall be ſo enriched with the Riches of Chriſt, cloathed with the beautiful Garments of his praiſe? O wonderful Glory indeed! Deckt with the Jewels of the Graces of his Spirit; and fill'd with his holineſs brim full: When they ſhall be ſatiated with his pleaſures, but never tyred; ſit down at the Well head, and drink full draughts of pleaſure; Take in their fill of the higheſt conſolations; and unknown Sweetneſs, Love, and delight from Chriſt. O this muſt needs be wonderful enriching! when they be, ever, ever, ever with the Lord; where no clouds can darken their ſights, of their bleſſed manſion, and their bleſſed God; where no vail can intervene between them and their Beloved: Where Ruſt, Moth, Worms, Time, and Death can never come to wear out their enjoyments: O bleſſed Treaſure indeed! Where Eternity ſhall be the Date, Immenſity the Bounds, and Immutability the fixation of their happineſs. But ſo it ſhall be with ſaved Souls in Heaven, when they are got through the Sea of Chriſt's blood to Glory. O Believers, Do not your hearts leap within you? What no kind of affection at all to theſe things? Is all this as a dream to you? Where are your Hearts? O be affected at this wonderful bleſſedneſs Chriſt hath procured in Heaven for you. O bleſſed, bleſſed Eternity! where ſaved Souls ſhall wear a Crown, that fadeth not away; where their Garlands ſhall be ever freſh and green; their joys ever new; and their enjoyments never wearing; where all their ſown ſeed of Spiritual-Duties and Goſpel-ſufferings, ſhall ſpring up to Glory, to a full crop of bleſſedneſs, to an harveſt of pleaſure, proportionable to all the Love of God to them; to the utmoſt meaſures of their Graces, and acts of their Faithfulneſs; the large extent of divine promiſes, yea ſuited to the infinite deſervings of Chriſt for his ſaved ones, Glory, as much as can be claimed: This will ſet forth the Treaſures of Chriſt to be boundleſs, bottomleſs, endleſs, without all circumference; higher then all Altitude, broader than all Latitude, deeper then all profunditude: O treaſures indeed! Saints and Angels may look into them, but can never ſee the bottom: In compariſon of which Riches in Heaven, all the warmeſt Apprehenſions, all the ſweeteſt taſtes, all the higheſt enjoyments of Saints here, are no more than a drop to the Ocean; like one ear of Corn compar'd with all the fields in the world, cloath'd with fruitfulneſs; No more then a ſingle Duſt, to all the Beds of Sand in the whole Sea. O what is glory! Chriſtians▪ are theſe Jewels ſo valuable, that you can bear about with you here? O what a Cabinet then is Heaven? O what are the Treaſures laid up there! O wonderful large indeed! Weigh the utmoſt pleaſures, and delighting, raviſhing conſolations that all the Believers in the World can get by this ſide Heaven, all the graces, all the Joys of all the Saints in the World put together, compar'd with glory, is no more than a ſingle grain to a Maſſy weight of Glory: O 'tis that which Men and Angels cannot expreſs: All that Believers have here of Heaven, it is but as Bread and Water in the way, the choiceſt and richeſt feaſting is reſerv'd for the other World, for the Kings Table, where are all Varieties, all Rich Diſhes, all the choice Procurements, that may feed and ſatiate the moſt curious deſires of ſaved Souls: Doſt thou meet with high Comforts at a Sacrament? wonderful refreſhings in Ordinances? yet they are but a Morſel or two thy Father gives thee to chear thy Spirits, compar'd with the varieties he hath reſerv'd for thee in Heaven: Or as the ſhort allowance of ſome Rich Heir whiles in his Nonage, compar'd with the great Inheritance he is to poſſeſs when at full age; or as the firſt-fruits which are inconſiderable compar'd with the lump. This is glory, this is Heaven, there's the place where all Chriſt's Treaſures are laid up: O Chriſtians! could you but get a look into glory, you would ſay; O unſearchable riches indeed: Treaſures paſt finding out.
Thus have I diſpatcht the firſt aſſertion, and ſhewn ſomewhat of thoſe vaſt riches that are in Chriſt; and though ſometime hath been ſpent in opening them, yet it is but little of all thoſe Treaſures, which are prepar'd for them that are Heirs of the Promiſe.