Lufts and vile Affections, yea, and their own Wills to Him, and thefe GOD will hide in the Hollow of His Hand, and under the Shadow of His Wing. SECTION XI. QUERY XI. Whether they that deny the Locality. W. Penn's Rejoinder, p. 179. of Heaven and Hell, do not in effect deny the eternal Rewards and Punishments of the Life to come? ERE that our Faith, I would deny the Confequence; but we deny both the Premifes and the Confequences aforenamed: For we believe that Heaven is both a Place and State of inexpreffible and endless Joy for the Godly; and Hell, a Place and State of inexpreffible and endlefs Mifery for the Wicked, and fuch as forget GOD; an Earnest of each may be witneffed in this Life, but the Fulness in the World to come.. SCRIPTURE 4 F SCRIPTURE PROOFS. OR fince the Beginning of the World, Men. have not heard, nor perceived by the Ear, neither bath the Eye feen, O GOD befides thee. what He bath prepared for him that waiteth for Him, 1 Cor. In by Prefence is fulness of Joy, at thy right Hand there is Pleafure for Evermore. Ifa. 64. 4. 2. 9, 10. Mat. 8. 11, 12, Many fhall come from the Eaft, and West, and fhall fit down with Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven. But the Children of the Kingdom Jhall be caft out into outer Darkness, there fhall be Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth. Into Hell into the Fire that never shall be quenched; where their Worm dieth not, and the Fire is not quenched. 1 Mark 9. 43, 44. And thefe fhall go away into Everlasting Punish- Mat. 25. 46. ment, but the Righteous into Life Eternal. In my Father's House are many Manfions, I go to prepare a Place for you; and if Igo to prepare John 14. 2, 3, a Place for you, I will come again and receive you unto my felf, that where I am, ye may be likewife, Now being made free from Sin, and become Serwants to GOD, ye have your Fruit unto Holiness, and the End Everlafting Life; for the Wages of Sin is Death but the Gift of GOD is Eternal Life, through Jefus Chrift our LORD. To an Inheritance. incorruptible and undefiled, Rom. 6. 22, 23. and that fadeth not away; refery'd in Heaven Pet. 1. 1, 4, for you, who are kept by the Power of GOD through Faith. And to you that are troubled, reft with us, when the LORD JESUS fhall be revealed from Heavn, with His mighty Angels in flaming Fire, taking Vengeance on them that know not GOD. and that 1 8 2 Thef. J. 7, 8, 9. obey not the Gospel of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, who shall be punished with Everlasting Destruction from the Prefence of the LORD, and from the Glory of His Power. Authorities from our own Writers. S. Fisher's Velata T HE Heaven which is GOD's Throne, GOD's Houfe, GOD's Tabernacle, is hot only that bigh Place, locally fituated above the Skies; but that high and holy Place also of a low and Spirit the Heart, and a broken and contrite Spirit that trembles at His Word, there He delights to manifeft Himself, who is the High and Lofty One who inhabits Eternity. And writing concerning Hell, he adds, p. 21. This is a Burning within, kindled under all Men's Flefhly Glory; of which, mean while not denying it to be al. to a certain Local Place, as ye fpeak. we affirm, that it is within the Confcience of every Malefactor, or impenitent Rebel against the Light, where the Wrath of GOD is manifefted against Sin. G. Whitehead's We do not confine all our expected Attainments of Heaven and Glory to within us, in this Life, but the way to attain more thereof in that which is to come, is to partake of fome fhare thereof in Chrift Jefs, even in this Life, and where chrift is enjoy'd; there Heaven and Glory is in mealure Spiritually enjoy'd there being award and Spirithal Heavens, as well as Natu ral; here we enjoy Heaven of Hell But in part, bereafter in the Falnefs of Enlief Joy and Happihefs, or Woe and Mifery, Tho. Upfher's Tho both Heaven and Hell may in fome Senfe and Degree be in Men, that is, a Degree of Heaven, or Heavenly Places in the Righteous in Chrift Fefs, and fome Degree of Hell; Terrors, Tribulation, or Anguifh in the Wicked, even in this Life ; yet is Heaven not wholly within the one, nor Hell wholly within the other in this Life, but an Earneft thereof for Heaven is both wzbin and without, and fo is Hell; yet both are discover'd within, before fully enter'd into; both the Joy of the one. and unto many the Terror of the other Queftion, What is Hell? S. Hunt's Inftructions for Children, p. 18. J. Field's True Chrift Owned p.22. Anfer, A Pire and State of Mifery, where the Worm dieth not, and the Fire is not quenched, Mark 9. 41. We own the one Mediator betwixt G OD and Man, the Man Chrift Jefus, who maketh Interceffion for Man in Heaven without 粥。 We Truth Exalted. We believe that the Righteous fhall rife and afcend into Glory, and be glorified in Heaven with an Eternal Reward, and that the Wicked alfo fhall rife and come to Judgment, and be turn'd into Hell to receive an Eternal Punishment. William Penn's P. 305. Our Godly Refolution redoubles with ou Adverfaries Onfets, and whatever may befal us here, as our Hope, fo our Reward is from God in that high and heavenly Place, which is above the reach of Time, and every Affault of our implacable Adverfaries, p. 442. I did most exprefly tell him, Tho' we own the beginning of Heaven and Hell to be in this World (who charg'd us with the Denial of them any where else) yet that they were but Earnests of that complete Foy or Torment that Men fhould receive as their Eternal Reward or Recompence hereafter. Testimony to Au thority, 1685. In full Affurance that, when our Teftimony is finish'd, and this mortal Life ended, we fhall have a Dwelling-Place in that Kingdom of Glory which Chrift fefus hath prepared for us, and purchased by His own Blood; by whom we only expect to enjoy the fame, when we shall reft from our Labours and Sufferings, and give Glory to our GOD, and to the Lamb, who is worthy of Dominion for ever. Amen. REMARKS. ERE, Chriftian Reader, pleafe to obferve the bafe Forgery of him who first objected this to us, or would infinuate that to be the Creed or Opinion of W. Penn; for in the Page cited, we find W. Penn relating the Opinion of another, one Captain Norwood, who deny'd the Locality of Heaven, for which he was excommunicated by Sydrach Sympfon, with grofs Aggravations, which is a noted Intance of his former Brethren's Way of tretching Caufes and perfecuting Spirit. The Quotation runs thus: "For he (Captain Norwood) deny'd the Locality of Heaven and Hell, that is void of outward Place, "as looking upon them to have a more fpiritual Sig"nification, and that the other was too Carnal. Of which Opinion, though the learned Authors of the Athenian Oracle, Vol. I. p. 131. feem to declare themselves, yet would reckon it vile Ufage to infer thence their Denial of Eternal Rewards and Punishments; and much more might we, to have another's Creed palm'd on us, without either Leave or Knowledge, quite contrary to our own declared Faith and See Tomkins's Judgment; who have teftified against and difowned Jeffery Bullock, for denying a Future Judgment, and Eternal Rewards and Punishments, be afferting the Mortality of the Soul; whofe Eyes the LORD afterwards opened, that he faw his Error, recanted, and was received again into Fellowship. SECTION |