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church_n	heathen_a	let_v	publican_n	2,742	5	10.9981	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11378	Holy discoveries and flames. By John Saltmarshe, Mr. of Arts of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge, and rector of West-Ileslerton in York-shire	Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.; W. F., fl. 1640, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 21637; ESTC S116513	54,761	236

LONDON Printed by R Y for Phillip Neuill And are to be sould att his Shopp in Juye Lane att the Signe of the Gun 1640 HOLY DISCOVERIE AND FLAMES By JOHN SALTMARSHE Mr. of Arts of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge and Rector of West-Ileslerton in York-shire Open thou my Eyes that I may behold wonderous things out of the Law Psal. 119. 18. My Heart is enditing a good matter Psal. 55. 1. LONDON Printed by R. Y. for P. Neuill in Ivie-lane 1640. TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES PRINCE OF GREAT BRITAIN Most excellent Sir DRawing my breath every day more happily by the favour I received from Your Royall Father if my Pen should forget You it had more Inke then either allegiance or loyalty or duty The Eyes that I here present Your Highnesse I confesse durst not looke his Majestie in the Face He hath so much of Caesar about Him as strikes me into a non possum ferre fulmen but Your Selfe being yet a divine spark and ray from Him and not ascended Your Meridian of Soveraigntie is not become so awfull nor so inaccessible We may see that Sun in his Rising whose Beames may at his Noone chide our weake eyes for the attempt This Sir I speake of You who is but now in Your East having Your Noone-point before You and may You drive on happily to Your glory both in Your Heaven and Kingdome below and the Kingdome of Heaven above And be pleased Gratious Sir to let these Eyes here light but a beame of Yours to the holy Scripture and to ayre but Your Bosome at these Flames and to suffer these Leafes thus seeded with divine thoughts to be a robe of holy Ermins to Your Soule I lay my selfe and papers at Your Royall feet and am A Beadesman for Your Highnesse J. Saltmarshe The Eye and Heart He that is spirituall discerneth My Heart was hot within me THese are the two onely parts wee have both for Soule and Body our faculty of discerning and affecting of knowing and loving And if these two be sanctified we are complete for it is not enough to be holy in our Eye onely to be enlightned in that Organ the single theorie and speculation of goodnesse lights us but to a brighter damnation and serves onely to gild a little our darke condition Dives in his Hell had a Heaven and the joy of it in his Eye yet he had not a ray more either of holinesse or blisse He that is onely a seeing Christian hath his salvation meerely in perspective and such is but Ethiopian holinesse that hath a bright Eye in a darke body the Heart then is the part must be affected as well as that and this must not be barely enlightned but enflamed many Hearts may have sudden illuminations and coruscations of grace and yet be no more truely holy then they were the Sun may shoot in at a Casement into a roome when a cloud or curtaine may put out all the light that is there but if he meete with such a place that his beames and light may combine and conspire you shall soone feele a strong warmth and an able influence It is thus with grace in the Hearts of the Saints the light of it is not saving till it create a heat and holy inflammation in the affections as well as a radiation till it scorch as well as enlighten Did not our hearts burne within us while hee talked with us and while he opened to us the Scriptures Therefore I present you an Eye a Heart the one for knowledge the other for affection the one in meditation the o ther in inflammation the one seeing and discerning the other kindling at the sight for though I understand all mysteries and all knowledge and have not charity I am nothing 1. Cor. 3. 2. that is though I were all Eye and had not an Heart enflamed I were not any thing yet my Heart cannot want this Eye for then I should have a zeale that is a flame as the Apostle sayes but not according to knowledge Therefore O my God let me never rest but with Eyes thus open and never die but by these flames Igne perire tuo clademque authore levari THE SCOURGE John 2. 15. And when he had made a scourge of small cords he drove them all out of the Temple Discovery I Discover that in the Church or Temple a scourge may be made and made use on for when he had made a scourge he drove them all out he made it and made use on it Neither made he it to cast by but hee put it into the hands of his Disciples and when hee gave them the Keyes hee gave them the Scourge too tied at the same string where the Keyes hung that is he gave them a punitive power a power of scourging in the Church and scourging out of the Church for he drove them and drove them out an excommunicative power Shall I come to you with a rod sayes Saint Paul the Apostle had a lash which hee took from Christs Scourge Yet I observe though Christ have a scourge it is but of small cords not too coursely spun nor too much twisted but of small cords that the offendours in the Temple may not bee beat like servants but whipt like sonnes of small cords where the punishments are easie and calme the scourge is of our Saviours twisting of small cords and with this they may be driven and driven out he drove them all out If one lash or rebuke will not serve they may bee scourged out of the Temple There are degrees for this holy punitive engine If hee will not heare thee tell it to the Church and if he heare not the Church let him be unto thee as a Heathen man and a Publican This is the power of the scourge to whip and to whip out of the Temple The Winds and the Sea Math. 8. 26. Why are yee fearfull oh yee of little faith Then he arose and rebuked the Winds and the Sea Discovery I Discover the temper and moderation of Jesus Then he arose and rebuked the winde Even now the Winde blew from himselfe Why are yee fearfull oh yee of little faith and this storme of his passion dash'd worse on his Disciples then that of the Sea but how soone he takes leave of it and cleares into a calme how soone are the waves of his soule his affections smooth'd and now a gentle gale of favour blowes upon them Hee arose and rebuked the windes and the Sea yet hee speakes not to the storme and passion of the Sea till his owne were over We cannot justly rebuke that passion in another which we bring in our selves Christ from his owne serenity to his Disciples instructs the Winde and the Sea to a calmnesse and the very Elements observe his moderation and temper they storm and are quiet at a word It is the honour of a tempest to set in a calme and of a Christian storme and passion to cleare into a