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A19494	A celestiall looking-glasse to behold the beauty of heauen. Directed vnto all the elect children of God, very briefly composed, and authentically penned, that it may be effectually gained.	Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.	1621 (1621)	STC 592; ESTC S115930	11,270	56

beauty a Kingdome of state a Crowne of glory a Throne of Maiesty life euerlasting it is desired of all hoped for of many but onely enioyed of the best All religions ayme at it the wicked doe wish for it the Iews expect it the schismatiques seeke for it the Turkes would enioy it and the Papists thinke to merit it But the true Protestant the regenerate Christian by faith and repentance begges it and he through the merits of Iesus Christ shall enioy it As Heauen is the highest place the Throne of God the Court of the great King the mighty Iehouah So it is the Citty of safety the harbour of the Iust the peculiar people the regenerate Christians the Children of Light the Elect by Gods Preordination where al are Kings and heires with Christ inuested with glory crowned with Maiesty clothed with security decked with delights replenished with pleasure garnished with all graces adorned with beauty furnished with the best company and flourishing with the flower of all Nations The chiefest reasons that the vnderstanding of mortall man can comprehend to the describing of Gods Kingdome are specially these foure First by the Titles Secondly by the Magnitude Thirdly by the Ioyes And fourthly by the Eternity Heauen is described by the titles To set forth heauen more fully to our vnderstanding it hath diuers glorious Titles and names in the holy Scriptures it is called an heauenly Kingdome a blessed and euerlasting Kingdome a Celestiall and heauenly Ierusalem a Kingdome of glory a Throne of Maiesty a Paradise of pleasure the glory of God and life euerlasting In the Kingdome of heauen are three sacred and most blessed orders or dignities The first of them is Supercelestiall containing Cherubins Seraphins and Thrones The second Celestiall containing Dominions Principalities and Powers The third Subcelestiall containing Vertues Arch-Angels and Angels Iohn to shew vnto vs in some measure the vnspeakable glory of heauen describes the place vnder the name of a great City comparing it with the most precious things of this world inuironed round about with a great wall for the safegard of the Citizens The wall is made of Iasper to note the riches therof in the wall are twelue gates which doe open vnto euery quarter of the world signifying the willingnesse of heauen to accept the Elect in euery place on euery side and from euery Countrey and Nation These gates are made of pearles and euery gate is a pearle vndiuided without blemish They are euer open signifying security to receiue with welcome all that enter in At those gates are twelue Angels whose names are written vpon the gates and they are the twelue Tribes of Israel They are porters to keepe out all strangers and to admit with welcom all Citizens Euery gate hath a porter to shew vigilancy Euery porter is a Tribe to shew the dignity Euery porters name is on the gate to the end that euery one should execute his owne charge The wall wherein those gates are hath twelue foūdations to betoken a sure firme established ground-worke In those foundations are writtē the names of the Lambes twelue Apostles implying that the foundation of the City is layde vpon the Rocke of Faith The foundations of the wall of the City are garnished with all manner of pretious stones The first is Iasper to figure prosperity the second Saphir in signe of truth the third a Chalcedony to note perfection the fourth an Emerald in to-of victory the fift Sardonix implying security the sixt Sardius to demonstrate fidelity the seuenth Chrysolite to expresse purity the eight Berill to marke out content the ninth a Topaz alluding vnto plenty the tenth a Chrysoprasus to designe beatitude the eleuenth a Iacinth to speake of Eternity the twelfth an Amethyst to manifest loue And thus is the wall garnished to shew vs the treasure and felicity thereof The City it selfe is all of pure gold both the buildings and streets are gold shining like cleere glasse the light of this City is Christ from his seate proceedeth a riuer as cleere as Crystall on both sides the bankes growes the tree of Life that yeelds continuall fruite it beareth twelue times euery yeare twelue manner of fruits to represent the quantity and variety of the pleasures and ioyes of heauen of which riuer and fruits all the inhabitants may eate and drink their fill The riuer is neuer drying nor the fruits fayling for the Lord maintaineth the same There is no winter to nip the fruits no sommer to consume the water nor fall of the leafe to disgarnish the tree of his beauty There is no heate to vexe nor cold to grieue no hunger nor thirst no malice nor strife no anger no pride no dissimulation nor deceit no couetousnes nor griping no whoredom or vncleannesse no swearing or profaning no disobedience There is no cosener to collogue no parasite to dissemble no foe to fight no inferiour to yeelde obedience no forrainers but brethren no strangers but all of the houshold of faith Children of one holy Father coheires with Christ their elder brother They shall not neede the helpe of any Doctor for Physicke nor any Lawyer to pleade for their right the whole Kingdome is their owne and their Letters patents of Donation are recorded This is the principal inheritance of the Saints and the habitation for all the Elect children of God prepared for them from the beginning of the world To conclude this point make vs O Lord to bee of the number of them whom thou hast ordained to reign with thee in thy heauenly Kingdome write vs in the booke of Life that we may bee in the assembly of thy righteous Saints and giue vs grace to bee sorrowfull for our sinnes fearefull of thy Iudgements thankefull for thy benefites louers of thy mercies and mindefull of thy presence that we may be diligent to please thee haue grace to know thee and hope to embrace thee through the merits of Iesus Christ our Sauiour Amen Secondly Heauen is described by the Magnitude AS Heauen is a most glorious Kingdome so it is a most spacious and large place the Angel measuring the same findeth it to bee euery way 12000. furlongs euery which furlong hauing in it twenty fiue Geometricall paces eight of them doth make a mile which is fiue thousand foote So that these twelue thousand furlongs are made fifteene thousand miles which beeing made square by addition there are thrice so many for the other three parts or three squares of the City This is that large Kingdome which containeth the innumerable multitude of all the Elect children of God Thousand thousands doe minister vnto him and ten thousand times an hundred thousand doe stand about the seate and Throne of God Of euery Tribe of Israel were sealed twelue thousand and great multituds which no

The Author to the Reader I Beseech you to peruse this little Booke of my owne making imprinted at my own cost charges Which I humbly intreat you to accept at my hands not weighing the worth but respecting my good will And deale therein in your vertuous disposition and Christian loue and charity as God shall moue your minde I. A. Minister and Preacher of Gods Word A CELESTIALL Looking-glasse To behold the beauty of Heauen Directed vnto all the Elect Children of God very briefly composed and authentically penned that it may be effectually gained PSAL. 87.3 Glorious things are spoken of thee O city of God PSAL. 107.43 Who so is wise will ponder those things LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes 1621. ❧ TO THE RIGHT HONOrable truly Noble vertuous and most worthy Lady the Lady CATHERNE Marchionesse Buckingham wife vnto the right Honorable GEORGE Marquesse of uckingham Vicount VILLERS Baron of Whaddon Lord High Admirall of England c. grace and peace from God the Father through our Lord Iesus Christ RIght honorable and vertuous Ladie so farre forth as the holy Scripture maketh mention of the Titles Magnitude Ioyes and Eternity of heauen the which I haue here intreated of or any other diuine matter whatsoeuer so farre I may bee bold either to speake write or intreate of and no further for the secret things belong vnto the Lord but the reuealed belong vnto vs and to our children for euer Deut. 29.29 But yet it may bee thought great boldnesse in mee that am altogether vnacquanted or knowne vnto your Honor being a Minister and Preacher of Gods Word to presume to shrowde from the preiudice of contempt this my small and vnlearned Treatise Intituled A Celestiall Looking-glasse to be patronized vnder your Honors protection beeing a Lady of such dignity and vertue and so in some sort I do my selfe acknowledge Yet as the Lord hath adorned you among other religious Ladyes with whō yee shine as a cleere Lamp of light in the world through your vnfeigned loue and sincere profession of the Gospell whereby you are an honor not onely to your house but vnto your whole degree and Sexe which as it is a sweete testimony to your owne heart that you are beloued of God and hath made you far and neere honored of all those that loue God so also as your religious zeale towards Gods Word doth exceed your honor or Greatnesse it likewise maketh me very confident that it will excuse my boldnesse the rather because I haue receiued the ground of my worke from the direction of the word of God but the method I submit to the correction of man and am sorry it is no more worthy your honorable view But although it bee rawly comprized in a fewe scattered leaues and as rudely composed in a sort of scribled and vnlettered lines as the fruit of whose outward husk being vnpolished may seeme vnpleasant yet no doubt the inward kernell once tasted and well digested may proue cordiall and right fruitfull Right Honorable and Christian deuoted Ladye like as the Moralists sheweth me that where only the quality of the affection and not the quantity of the present is to be attended Modicum non differt à magno it is no matter whether the present bee great or small So was it with Alexander who receiued a fewe harsh lines of verse from Choerilus Artaxerxes a handful of water from poore Sinaeta and our Sauiour Iesus Christ the poore widdowes mite In like manner I am loth to trouble your Honor with a treatise of long circumstance lest I should feare you with the losse of time and so make an end before I beginne But if the good liking of this Mite of my poore labours could winne the hope of your fauour to intreat you with patience to peruse the same and withall vouchsafe to grace mee with your honorable acceptance to patronize this small worke which I in all dutifull manner with as tender affection as euer mother or nurse gaue their brests to their children or the Pellican peckt out her blood to feed and cherish her young doe here as kindly dedicate and present then shall I if God spare me life be comforted and encouraged vnder so worthy a fauourer to proceede in the like studies and according to my bounden duty incessātly with al humility pray to Amightie God for his glory not onely to preserue your Honor in all happinesse to continue you honorable vpon earth but also to bee farre more adorned to reigne with a Celestiall Crowne of glory in the Kingdome of heauen Your Honors in all Christian duty to be commanded I. A. An Apologie of the Author to the Reader O Wretched man that I am What am I that dare vndertake being but dust and ashes wormes meate to enter into a description of the sacred and Coelestiall Kingdome of heauen which is in all things inscrutable and vnsearchable and in all respects infinite It exceedeth the power of our Eloquence the capacity of our Intelligence in so much that no mortall man can comprehend it Much lesse that I of men one of the meanest of a defiled heart and polluted lips of weak memory and of a shallow vnderstanding should attempt and presume to define or describe the vnspeakeable Ioyes or secrets of heauen Yet for as much as the Lords Pen-men haue according to our capacity described in sundry places diuers particulars of the heauenly blessednesse I haue briefly according to the rules of sobriety collected and considered the same for our instruction and comfort And as the authority of the speaker or writer is lost when as the voyce and life is not affected with the worke it selfe I doe therefore hartily desire al those although vnknowne vnto many that shall either reade or heare this short and briefe Coelestiall Looking-glasse and gather comforts vnto their soules our of these my labours to pray vnto our Lord Iesus Christ for mee to giue me his grace and direct mee with his holy Spirit that what I either preach or write I may both in life and doctrine expresse and performe the same vnto my liues end that whilst I endeauour to raise others I may raise my selfe from all my sinnes to the glory of Gods holy name and the saluation of my owne soule Amen I. A. Qui cessat esse melior cessat esse bonus Hee that ceasseth to be better ceasseth to be good Looking-glasse to behold the Beauty of Heauen OF all the workes of God Heauen is the most ancient it was made at the beginning of the world and it was the first of all Gods works the felicity thereof cannot bee imagined neither the blessings numbered so incomparable as cannot be equalled of such value as none can comprize it so great ae cannot bee measured and of such eternity as neuer can be ended The very name of heauen to all is louely because it is a hauen for rest a Paradise for pleasure a City for