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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02513	The arte of diuine meditation profitable for all Christians to knowe and practise; exemplified with a large meditation of eternall life. By Ioseph Hall.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1606 (1606)	STC 12642; ESTC S118419	30,902	220

in Cottages of clay but in Royal Courts sit for their estate How much more shall the King of heauen who hath prepared for men so faire mansions on earth make himselfe an habitation sutable to his Maiestie Euen earthly Princes haue dwelt in Cedar and Yuory but the great Citie Holy Ierusalem the palace of the hiest hath her wall of Iasper her building of gold her foundation of precious stones her gates of pearle How glorious things are spoken of thee O thou Citie of GOD Wee see but the pauement and yet how goodly it is The beleeuing Centurion thought himselfe vnworthy that Christ should come vnder his roofe yet then wert thou O Sauiour in thine humbled estate in the forme of a seruant How then stall I thinke my selfe worthy to come vnder this roof of thine so shining and glorious O if this clay of mine may come to this honour aboue let it bee trampled vpon and despised on earth Chap. 23. SIxtly shall followe the Appēdances and Qualities which cleaue vnto the Subiect wherof we meditate As But were the place lesse noble and maiesticall yet the company which it affords hath enough to make the soule blessed For not the place giues ornament to the guest so much as the guest to the place How loath are we to leaue this earth onely for the societie of some few friends in whom we delight which yet are subiect euery day to mutuall dislikes what pleasure shall wee then take in the enioying of the Saints when there is nothing in them not amiable nothing in vs that may coole the feruor of our loue There shalt thou my soule thy selfe glorified meete with thy deare Parēts and friends alike glorious neuer to be seuered There shalt thou see and conuerse with those ancient worthies of the former worlde the blessed Patriarkes and Prophets with the crowned Martyrs and Cōfessors with the holy Apostles and the Fathers of that Primitiue and this present Church shining each one according to the measure of his blessed labours There shalt thou liue familiarly in sight of those Angels whom now thou receiuest good from but seest not There which is the head of all thy felicitie thine eyes shall see him whom now thine heart longeth for that Sauiour of thine in the onely hope of whom now thou liuest Alas how dimmely and a farre off doest thou now beholde him howe imperfectly doest thou enioy him while euery tēptation bereaues thee for the time of his presence I sought him whom my soule loueth I sought him but I found him not his backe is now towards thee many times throgh thy sins and therfore thou hardly discernest him Otherwhile and ofter thy back is turned to him through negligence that when thou mightest obscurelie see him thou doest not Now thou shalt see him and thine eyes thus fixed shall not be remooued Yet neither could this glory make vs happy if being thus absolute it were not perpetuall To be happie is not so sweete a state as it is miserable to haue beene happie Least ought therfore should bee wanting beholde this felicitie knoweth no end feareth no intermission and is as eternall for the continuance as hee that had no beginning O blessednes truly infinite Our earthly ioyes doe scarce euer begin but when they begin their ende borders vpon their beginning One houre sees vs oft-times ioyful and miserable Here alone is nothing but eternitie If then the diuine Prophet thought one day in Gods earthly house better than a thousand other-where what shall I compare to thousands of millions of yeeres in Gods heauenly Temple Yea millions of yeeres are not so much as a minute to eternitie and that other house not a cottage to this Chap. 24. SEuenthly our thoughts leauing a while the consideratiō of the thing as it is in it selfe shal descēd vnto it as respectiuely with others and therefore first shall meditate of that which is Diuers from it or Cōtrary vnto it What doest thou here then O my soule What doest thou here groueling vpon earth where the best things are vanity the rest no better than vexation Looke round about thee and see whether thine eyes can meet with any thing but either sinnes or miseries Those few and short pleasures thou scest end euer sorrowfully and in the mean time are intermingled with many grieuances Here thou hearest one crie out of a sicke bodie whereof ther is no part which affords not choice of diseases This man layes his hande vpon his consuming lungs and complayneth of shorte winde that other vpon his rising spleene a third shaketh his painefull head another roares out for the torment of his reines or bladder another for the racking of his goutie ioyntes one is distempered with a watery dropsie another with a windy Colicke a third with a fiery ague a fourth with an earthen Melancholie one grouels and fometh with the falling sicknes another lies bed ridde halfe senselesse with a dead Palsey Ther are but few bodies that complaine not of some disease and that thou mayst not looke farre it is a wonder if thy self feele not alwayes one of these euils within thee There thou hearest another lament his losses either his estate is impayred by suretyship or stealth or shipwracke or oppression or his childe is vnruly or miscarried or his wife dead or disloyall Another tormēted with passions Each one is some way miserable But that which is yet more irkesome thy one eare is beatē with cursings and blasphemies thy other with scornefull or wanton or murdering speaches thine eyes see nothing but pride filthines profanenesse blood excesse and whatsoeuer else might vexe a righteous soule and if all the world besides were innocent thou findest enough within thy selfe to make thy selfe weary and thy life loathsom Thou needest not fetch cause of complaint from others thy corruptiōs yeeld thee too much at home euer sinning euer presuming Sinning euen when thou hast repented yea euen while thou repentest sinning Goe to nowe my soule and solace thy selfe here belowe and suffer thy selfe besotted with these goodly cōtentmēts worthy of no better while thou fixest thy selfe on these see if thou cāst find any of these aboue and if thou canst meete with any distemper any losse any sinne any complaint frō thy selfe or any other aboue despise thine heauen as much as now thou louest the earth Or if all this cannot enough commend vnto thee the state of heauenly glory cast down thine eyes yet lower into that deep bottomles pit ful of horror full of torment where there is nothing but flames and teares and shrikes and gnashing of teeth nothing but fiends and tortures where there is palpable darkenesse and yet perpetuall fire where the damned are euer boyling neuer consumed euer dying neuer dead euer complaining neuer pitied where the Glutton that once would not giue a crust of bread now begs for one drop of water and yet alas if whole riuers of water should fall into his mouth howe should they