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A29488	A bundle of soul-convincing, directing, and comforting truths clearly deduced from diverse select texts of Holy Scripture, and practically improven, both for conviction and consolation : being a brief summary of several sermons preached at large / by ... M. Roger Breirly ...	Brereley, Roger, 1586-1637.	1677 (1677)	Wing B4659; ESTC R1288	256,743	378

content a life of joy and mirth And in a word a Heaven upon the earth A goodly golden Common-weal to see Through love each others Lord and Man to be But since not had on earth God hath ev'n here The better our Infirmities to bear Full well provided Common-wealths and States Masters and Servants Subjects Magistrates Such men as may the sword of Justice draw Wrongs to redress and keep lewd men in aw With other sundry means to end the strife And difficulties of this present life Which all are Rudiments and helps to lead Towards that life where none of these shall need Without the which who could remain an hour But violence would life and goods devour Which shews how much we here estranged be From that perfection of Eternitie I tearm it thus since most here if not all Is violent so not perpetual At least so far as God doth not reduce And recreat it for his nearer use Which I confesse the more that he shall d The less corruption it is subject to As being brought to that sweet calm and peace The very Center of all happinesse Yea sp'ritual made which how much more they be With this his nature nearer they agree For even these our Massie bodies shall Again be rais'd bodies spiritual Yet so as they must holy be and pure For otherwise he can them worse indure Hereof he natures goodly order set As shaddow though but of a portion yet In this that actions natural we see Furthest from violent coaction be Wherein the Creature doth it self intend Towards that calm and uncreated end In which fair Book are plainly manifested Gods power and purpose towards man regressed Who such a stamp on silly man can frame Like to himself I do not say the same For his pure Essence Infinite in blesse To Creatures in communicable is Two Infinits there cannot be for letting And bounds and limits each to other setting So Creatures he out of himself createth Whiles he his working outwardly dilateth Outward I say dilateth for within The Trinity hath each to others been Eternally most letles of destraction In some serene calm pure perpetual action Without all motion change or alteration VVhich is far otherwise in this Creation VVhich made of nothing daily doth intend Towards a Period and a final end And would accomplish it save that this power Upholds the former and matters every hour For this our world is but the younger brother So call'd by some a shadow of the other That spiritual and immaterial He The second ●erson in the Trinity And hath a temper said to be compound Of parts in nature quite contrary found A cause yet too why creatures it produceth Of sundry shapes and for so diverse uses For God forbid I should in any case Once seem Gods Works and Creatures to debase The least of whom that live the heavens under Than they have parts contain more cause of wonder But thus considered as we them compare With their Creator so they nothing are Who all their parts creats and frames and joyns Whose least parts bigger than the other loyns In whose wide womb all creatures lye unmolded Before all times unsearchably unfolded Whose spiritual nature is without exception Most infinite in Goodness and Perfection The very Heaven of a blessed Soul Though I a place grant too above the Pool These things to creatures never can agree Which only spiritual in a measure be And circumscript subject to time and place Motions exposes changes and disgrace By Nature save as it is said before As to perfection God shall them restore Which shall be once when they are purified And sp'ritual made their nature rectifi'd Extract into a quintescence so pure As meer created Natures can indure Lessons hereof some Artists seem to spell By Nature as in Mathematicks skill Who void of Rules in th' abstract through defect Place its perfection in the Intellect As that which is more spiritually intent And so by consequence more excellent For spirits do all bodies far exceed As forms above their matter have their meed I do not say with some all spirits be No substances but meer quality But this I say These are so near of kin That with one name they sometimes named been And what in us but qual ty men call In our Creator is essential From whose pure Fountain Streams still overflow To Creatures as from head springs Riv'lets do Love patience meekness peace ●nd righteousnesse Joy wisdom pittie truth and holiness No marvel then though a regenerate soul Down these clear Streams of Gods pure pleasure roul And bathe it self wi●h sweetest delecta●●●n Re-sold therein by wond●●us transmutation Re-sold I say l●ke th' air which some c●nclude Those cold moist concaves of the Earth include Till in that Kingdom having long conversed It 's turn'd to water and in springs dispersed Made fellow riv'let with the rest to be To run along in one fraternitie Or if it fitter seem like clouds of water From which the Sun extracting subtil matter Changeth them peice-male till the whole dilated Be into the air in time evaporated The aires kind kinsman 'twixt it self and water Becoming so a partial Moderator Thus doth the Soul most truly undergo Both generation and corruption so Though not for substance yet for quality Till in Gods Image it invested be The rather when this body too is made To the pure soul then subordinate Like those in Luke who bidden go did run Do this and it was incontinently done For bodies once their Souls must fitly suite It 's pure designs better to execute While both full blest eternally shall run Down those life Streams till Gods good will be done And as his Will is evermore a doing So shall that stream be evermore a flowing They needless of constraint herein for thriving As water is oft down the Channel driving Or as the Tree which doth by Nature grow Bears fruit and blossomes though none bid it so Which Kingdom here is actually begun So soon as one by faith is made a Son And as the Soul within the body lives And the●eunto both life and motion gives So doth Gods Spirit the soul therein abiding With endless pleasures and delight it giving Wherein the lesser violence doth need Nearer men are to happiness indeed As liker to the purest Nature which In all compleatness of perfections rich Who needs no labour nor no motions make For any business he doth undertake But is an Eye a Hand a Tongue and Ear On all occasions when he list and where Yea is that Ear that at one Instant hears Within without and far beyond the Sphears That Eye which doth most infinitely see What 's past what 's present what shall ever be A powerful hand where e're he list to shew it To hurt or help and when he list can do it That Wisdom deep that understanding might To whom all Secrets and all hearts are light That will which is a work and when it listeth No Creature in the Heavens

else the outward action little gains Which blessing yet I cannot look to finde Unless my self closs to the means I binde Yea when I feel my heart most backward bent Then most of all it needeth sore constraint As 〈◊〉 hardened 〈◊〉 and much unfittnesse In stocking duties bear me woeful witnesse F●r things in me are not yet brought about That th'inner man can bear the other out But still need unto all good means to presse As freely to Gods glorie I confesse But if that any as it may be some Conceives he is to such perfection come As that his life a holy Sabbath is Though he task work and time set dutie miss Yet mid'st of all his worldly vocation His heart is up in pray'r and meditation And that good thoughts in ordinary greet him Upon occassions still as any meet him So that his actions yea his thoughts and words Glory to God and good to men affords As in some measure novices in grace On others God may banquet for a space I say in measure for I do not hold Perfection here as I before have told I envy not his case happie man he Let him rejoyce in God and pittie me And were it not that men are bound to fear And reverence to Gods ordinance bear And might a Christian dangerlesse dispence With other Christians welfare or offence For ought I see I should go nere it I To think himself he might so edifie And with set times and duties to be bold And by his inward strength firm footing hold But seeing as aforesaid flesh is frail And cannot look at Heaven but through a vail Gods brightnesse being clearer than the light Which seen in strength would quite put out the sight That Rudiments much like our bonnets brim Will help our eye-sight though themselves be dim I dare not for a world of gold advise Men to forbear the least least exercise That any help or furtherance may afford To God-word and hath warrand from his Word No though they lived in the clearest light That ever yet enjoyed earthlie wight For were there no cause else Gods ordinance tho Neglect thereof no man could answer to The simplenesse whereof none may despise Since by those foolish things God daunts the wise There may be in Gods child I grant sometimes As in the top-branch of his first love-primes Feeling himself deep in Gods graces dyed His Soul in Gods pure streams well satisfied Through much conversing in that spiritual businesse In Bodyly lesse care and more remissness I call this Bodily the Churches order In things that Christian libertie afford her Set forms of duties yea the outward Letter Time person place all Rudiments the better There 's difference twixt bare actions as to live Or well or ill which form to actions give I only mean herein I do professe That very form which men call outwardnesse An accident which to the Subject clings And not the solid substance of the things Nor outwardness as 't is Hypocrisie For so it is an evil qualitie And everie act so qualified is sin Which I would no man should be fostered in But I mean that for which in every nature Its Subject doth receive its form and feature Which is the baser portion of the two That in Gods service here on earth we do Herein if any misse themselves shall finde it When deadnesse after shall give breath to mind it Which here I 'le not condemn nor commend it Let them who stir the controversie end it Only I say as I have said before Were we spiritual wholly then no more But instantlie these Rudiments withal Would of themselves even by their nature fall The Soul then from these outward things be freer Whereby it might enjoy its God th'nigher For to the Soul things earthly are a let Made Rudiments to serve our weaknesse yet This may be cause why in our spiritual home Our bodies too shall spiritual ones become Now of Gods presence what 's obtain'd below I take not on me to expresse it no. And whether or how far one may remit Or what in each degree is meet and fit Yet this I say if I in some man see Shew of more grace then e're was yet in me Whose life and carriage I cannot detect The same apparently to contradict For I 'le not plead for all who do professe By goodly words their own much holiness So be 't he climb no more but what the Word Saith God to his both may and do afford Do others as they please I dar not I That this their shew may be in truth deny For though Hypocrisie oft spins a threed Good corn can hardly be descern'd from weed Yet mark what way a man his cariage bends 'T will give good light whether his journey tends Captains love Camps Schollers attend the Schools Husbands the ground bab●es please babes fools This world was but King Alexanders walk Kingdoms and Crowns the subject of his talk Niggards do love to talk of niggardize And liberal men of liberal things devise Weak archers shoot but at a litle length For as the man's so likewise is his strength God hath his Davids from whose breast there springs Thoughts of great hearts like the sons of kings Of whom let this a special token be That their own worths they least of all do see I undertake not here to know or name Particular examples of the same Though whiles I see my self quite overrun VVith sundrie novices but new begun And thinks by them what more 't is like there be VVell grounded ones and of antiquity VVhereof some samples not to me unknown Have been who now do reap what they have sown VVhose testimony I dare well believe VVhich by occasion I have heard them give That they some late years of their h●r● abode Sweet comfort joy and fellowship with God Did constantly or for the most part keep Wherewith I doubt not but they fell asleep Of whose both life and death to testifie Let all who knew them speak as well as I. I say whiles that some such as these I knew I finde good cause to hope there are ●n●●gh But who of this thing would yet further know Gen. 5.22 Luke 4.6 Let him to Gods word and experience goe More yet I say who makes the King a feast And seeds him with the dish he loveth best Though in the mean time somewhat serviceable Be through that care neglected in the stable It shall not be so blam'd if blam'd at all As if it toucht the presence or the hall And Ordinances so in themselves accord That each to others time and turn afford Now 't may well be the spiritual mouth doth rest From chewing whilest the stomack doth digest Nature in man corrupt and finite too Cannot with all things have at once to do As for example hear and read and pray One me suffice to bear the mind away Since there is still as saith the wisest King A seasonable time for every thing The use whereof

Citie Whose souls down deep in Gods sweet secrets dive As fish in wholesome streams play live and thrive Whose sure presages oracles say I Gods light reveals his power doth ratifie Dear messengers whom God doth oft imploy To kill and quicken plant and to destroy Whose fatal Judgement justly to come under Is to be Butt for Gods bright bolt and thunder O let me Anchor underneath your Lee But ne'r spread ensignes of an enemie Now Gods will thus reveal'd is term'd commanding So call'd as seems for our weak understanding At leastwise as commandment doth imply Unaptness or inflexibility Which though by Angels done and out of hand Yet as but can with Angels Nature stand Whose absolutest Actions nev'r are such As to approach an uncreated pitch Yet is me thinks life to a free concurring Of Stream with Stream mov'd by the Fountains stirring Alwayes remembring that within the head Lyes all the life that 's in the members spread Yea Christ himself when once he hath put down Authority and Power shall yield the Crown To God the Father that the Deity May all in all his dear lov'd Members be Authority and Power thus much importing By Law and Ordinance a forc't extorting And thus Christs Prayer for his is verifi'de That he in them and they in him abide Who doth both will speak think and live and move In every soul unite to him in Love Like as the Soul still in the bodies senses Its executions outwardly dispences Thus God doth use to execute his will In such I say as he vouchsaves to fill Though he such Organs needeth near a deal But all is done for silly mans avail Needs not I say who to himself is store Of all rich Treasures as is said before Yet by a new and living way found out B●tter to bring his blessedness about That he might man his late lost treasure win His Jemm House Temple to delight him in He bowes his heart by love from him to draw What never could be wrung out by the Law Could not I say in reverence be it spoken For by Gods Power his will is never broken So be obtain'd till from himself first shedding His love He set a second love a breeding For such is Man for frowardness and teen As some crab'd dogged curr that I have seen Which you may take and all to beat and bang him To make him stoop and you shall sooner hang him Who with the Marigould shuts ' gainst a storm But ope's at-large when beams of grace shine warm This way God deals and takes delight in this That thus in him his spouse delighted is Like a most kind and tender hearted Lover Who his own dear hearts joy and grief doth suffer Or Friend on whom his friends content rebounding Is to his heart a double joy resounding As of a well mov'd lute the trembling strings Unto a well mov'd ears sweet murmurings Or as two souls by ligaments from either Within one body were unite together Thus well the Father with his soon agrees And thus the Son partakes his qualities Yet here but in a measure I confess For we are here but in a wilderness Where penurie of bread and water wring us Where foes assault and fiery serpents sting us Where lusting thoughts from Egypt store defile us Where Midianites entrapping snares beguile us Our health more resting for our Faith is small That we are known then that we know at all For were it full our joy would be so strong This mortal life could not continue long But here the best do but in little measure Enjoy that rich inestimable treasure As Vessels that contain not past their bearing Or bodies that endure not past their wearing Though I confesse a difference of degree Is here as well as shall hereafter be Some newly born and in the Mothers lap VVhich skill no more than sweetness of the pap VVho save in their desires do quite disclaim All hopes of Sonship to belong to them VVhose hate to sin is yet so wondrous sore Then yield to it they 'd rather dye before Some in the vigour of their you●hful prime Suffer and do by entercourse of time Now soy'ld their Arms not closely clasping on Yet Victors in the spiritual fight anon Some Fathers grow● both circumspect and wise In spiritual combats through long exercise By constant walking in a godly way Able for God both much to do and say For though our deeds do nothing add nor minish To God nor to what Christ not we could finish Yet that it may be better manifested That this life bread is thorowly digested It s look●d for ●hat it the eaters drive In courage strength and manly acts to thrive For sweet it is ones heritage to see But sweeter far to feel it so to be Now here through sanctitie we entrance make Yea sound possession of Gods kingdom take Our God being like some wondrous loving Father Who choosing an adopted Son the rather To let his Son his minde the better know That all is his and that he means it so Not only by his writings doth convey Or state him in his livings all he may That he far off in other Countreys being Might feed his hopes by seals and writings seeing But gives him leave and freely bids him come And in his life-time makes his house his home Allowing him his dyet at his Table And for his horse a standing in his stable Provision of his Chamber and his Bed To come and go and rest his wearie head This man can then by demonstration show That he is heir yea feels the same is so Now for our present case t' apply this to it I will forbear since every one may do it Only I say who truely is an Heir Of Christ his Kingdom makes his entry here Yea some enjoy it in a great degree Great in it self though not respectivelie What measure though I deal not here to say Meddle not with that who meddle with it may Wherein thou needs exceeding wary be Of judging others by what is in thee For shall I others gifts and graces stint Because my self can see no farther in 't And who art thou that d●rest so confine Gods bountie to that straitned breast of thine True grace still eminent of grace will own Admire and reverence where the same is known Not once disdaining to be thought to be Inferiour to another in degree For this one thing that we do somewhat think us To nothing in the pit of pride doth sink us Not that but shews sometimes for substance goes And that men ofttimes are deceived so But ignis fatuus never yeelded smoak Nor Owles long hidden lye within the poak Yet that no hinderance is why some indeed And verity may not in grace exceed Such mastery t' obtain against their sin Such constant feeling of Gods favour win So comfortable and so sweet abode Such fellowship and walking with their God That nature nay themselves shall much admire That e're they should continue or