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A27456 Historical applications and occasional meditations upon several subjects written by a person of honour. Berkeley, George Berkeley, Earl of, 1628-1698. 1667 (1667) Wing B1963; ESTC R8483 20,594 142

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HISTORICAL Applications AND OCCASIONAL Meditations UPON Several Subjects Written by A Person of Honour LONDON Printed by J. Flesher for R. Royston Bookseller to His most Sacred MAJESTY 1667. BOld is the man that dares ingage For Piety in such an Age. Who can presume to find a Guard From Scorn when Heaven 's so little spar'd Divines are pardon'd they defend Altars on which their Lives depend But the Prophane impatient are When Nobler Pens make this their care For why should these let in a Beam Of Divine Light to trouble them And call in doubt their pleasing Thought That none believes what we are taught High Birth and Fortune warrant give That such men write what they believe And feeling first what they indite New credit give to Ancient Light Amongst these few our Authour brings His well-known pedegree from Kings This Book the Image of his Mind Will make his Name not hard to find I wish the Throng of Great and Good Made it less eas'ly understood WALLER To the Lady HARMONIA MADAM YOur Ladyship was pleased to incourage me to write Religious Meditations therefore to you I dedicate the First-fruits of my obedience to your Commands in this particular Your Ladyship can experimentally say what high advantages pious Contemplations afford Some of which are a just Divertisement from both worldly and sinful Imployments a great Complacency and Delight in the present Composure besides the satisfaction to our Consciences the Improvement of the Divine Graces in us and a rendring our Souls alwaies in an Harmonious sweet temper in which your Ladyship does so eminently excell being alwaies in a praying capacity having a willingness to resign our Wills to God's in all things whether in Life or Death If this way of applying all our Discourses and Conceptions to a Religious sense were made more generally practical the Power of Godliness as well as the Form would so govern us in all our actions that in this present Age neither the Speculative nor the Practicall Atheists would dare with so much impudence to shew their faces nor maintain their detestable Principles so horridly and dis-ingenuously as now they do the Age would then be reformed and we should be good Company to our selves for when we converse with God we are never less alone then when alone Next to pious Meditations Godly Friends are to be made choice of for our Conversation such as is your Ladyship who without the least suspicion of Flattery I dare affirm it may justly be styled the Beauty of Society and Harmony of Friendship your Civility being so great and Carriage so gaining that you are able to convert a Barbarian into good manners and make a man of a reprobate nature become a good Christian. Your Example I confess is easier to be admired then imitated Your Precepts adequate and proportionable to so great a Pattern and those delivered to your Friends and Servants with such winning mildness and Concern as if it were your duty to be more ingaged for the welfare of our Souls and good Names then we ought to be our selves Madam I need say no more but pray for you that God would multiply upon you who are both Good and Great and upon yours all Temporal and Eternal Blessings increase the number of such Excellent Saints as is your Ladyship Then we should injoy a part of Heaven out of Heaven while we had our beings upon the Earth I had taken the freedome to have named you by a Title you are more known by but that I feared your so nice and scrupulous Modesty would have reprehended me disowning my celebration of this just Character And should I have given an account of my own Name it would not be difficult for very many to conjecture to whom I presumed to make this Address I am Madam Your greatest Honourer and most obedient Servant who as an admirer of your Vertues am ambitious to deserve of your Ladyship the Appellation of CONSTANS A Prayer O Lord God I confesse mine iniquities and my sins are ever before thee secret as well as known sins Create in me a new heart and renew a right spirit within me Cleanse the wicked and damnable thoughts of my heart by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit forgive my wicked thoughts as well as my evil vile words and actions Give me thy Grace that I may not onely leave sin for a time but that I may loath sin that I may look upon Jesus Christ not onely as a Saviour which the very worst of men would be glad to do at their Deaths but as a Sovereign to rule and reign in my heart It may be in vain for me with wicked Balaam to desire to die the death of the righteous if I do not live the life of the righteous While I live in the World let me not be of the World but be pleased to indue me with so great a measure of thy Spirit that I may make it the great pleasure of my life to doe thee service whose service is perfect freedome Make me humble charitable and obedient willing to doe good not onely to my friends but to my very enemies heartily forgiving them as I desire to be forgiven and returning to them good for evil But Lord to my Relations Friends return their kindness double into their own bosomes Take from me good Lord both in my health and sicknesse all that sinfull misbecoming Impatience which so much prevails over me Let not the fear of Death so much terrifie and discompose my spirits but so moderate my Affections that I may willingly and entirely submit to thy Divine will and pleasure whether in Life or Death natural or violent But I most humbly beseech thee Heavenly Father to prepare me for a better World before thou takest me out of this So prepare me O Lord by sealing to me a Pardon for all my sins past and giving me such an assured well-grounded Faith in Christ Jesus and such an application of his imputative Righteousnesse that when I come to die I may have nothing else to doe but to die and to surrender though a sinful yet a penitent Soul into the hands of a gracious Redeemer While I live here give me Grace that I may have dying thoughts that when I come to die I may have living hopes Grant I may live here in thy fear die in thy favour and at the end of my days attain the end of my hopes even the Salvation of my Soul in and through Christ Jesus my blessed Saviour and Redeemer Amen Amen Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost Our Father c. Historical Applications AND Occasional Meditations I. THE Society of Gresham Colledge is composed of very ingenious and eminent Persons whose Conversation is desirable in many respects their endeavours to improve Arts and Sciences Mechanical and Liberal their inquisition into the works of Nature may be both delightfull and profitable to themselves and others If this