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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63045	The soul's communion with her savior. Or, The history of our Lord Jesus Christ, written by the four evangelists digested into devotional meditations. The first part.	Traherne, Philip, d. ca. 1725.	1685 (1685)	Wing T2019A; ESTC R220906	52,296	223

be I magnify thy Glorious Name For speaking that Thou dost know and testifying that Thou hast seen tho we receiv not thy Witness I earnestly beseech Thee O Jesus how backward soever Thou findest us to believ when thou hast told us earthly things vouchsafe to tell us of hevenly things and to exhibit as wel the powerful Efficacy of thy whol Doctrin as the indisputabl Truth of the most abstruse parts of it help Thou our Unbelief That notwithstanding my inability to satisfy my Self or Others How the Birth from abov is wrought in my Heart yet I may palpably evidence to the whol World both in Word and Deed What it is to be a new Creature and make it appear that the Spirit of God hath breathed upon my Soul tho I cannot determin the precise Time nor describe the exact Manner of his graciousOperation §. 〈◊〉 O thou Son of Man which art in Heven whither no man hath ascended up but he that came down from thence who to convince us that whatever thou hast suffer'd upon Earth was of thine own voluntary Resolution and Praescience didst expresly foretel as wel the particular Circumstance as the gracious Design of thy Death in these plain Tearms As Moses lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderness even so must the Son of Man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but hav eternal Life I prais and magnify thy Name Becaus God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but hav everlasting life I humbly beseech Thee O Jesu since God sent not his Son into the World to condemn it but that the World throu him might be saved establish my Soul in this Faith and qualify me for that happy End of it by an unblamabl Conversation that Impiety may not temt me to Infidelity and Unbelief consign me to Damnation for as thy unerring Truth assures us he that believeth not is condemned already the preposterous Occasion of the Guilt being justly applied to aggravat and ascertain the Condemnation That Light is com into the World and yet Men loved Darkness rather than Light becaus their Deeds were evil for evry one that doth evil hates and shuns the Light lest his Deeds should be reproved wheras he that doth Truth who rightly believs and acts according to the Principls of a sound Faith cometh to the Light wherby his Deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God Cap. VI. Of His Baptizing in Judea and the Dispute that arose therupon between St. John's Discipls and the Jews §. I. AFter these things the H. Jesus and his Discipls came into the Land of Judea where he tarried with them baptizing Prais thou the Lord O my Soul For perfecting the Design of S. John's Baptism by the succeeding Administration of Thine even whilst he was also 〈◊〉 in Enon near to 〈◊〉 becaus much Water was there Giving us therby a tacit yet significant Intimation of thy forwardness to prosecute the Work of our Redemtion which would rather shorten the Night by the hasty Approach of thy Day of Grace than 〈◊〉 the Rising of the Sun til the Setting of thy Morning-Star for 〈◊〉 was not yet cast into Prison I humbly implore thee O Christ let us draw near unto thy 〈◊〉 Ordinances with a tru Heart in ful Assurance of Faith having our Hearts sprinkled from an evil Conscience as wel as our Bodies washed with pure Water And Oh! that whol Rivers of Waters might be employ'd and 〈◊〉 for the baptizing great Multitudes of 〈◊〉 from amongst all Nations and Kindreds and Peepl and Tongs throu out the World to accomplish the Number of thine Elect and hasten thy Kingdom §. 2. Upon this Occasion there 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 between som of John's Discipls and the 〈◊〉 about Purifying and they came unto 〈◊〉 saying 〈◊〉 He that was with thee beyond 〈◊〉 to whom thou 〈◊〉 Witness behold the same 〈◊〉 and all men com to 〈◊〉 Wherupon thy Servant John gave this further Testimony 〈◊〉 Thee O Jesus publickly confessing in the audience of the peepl 〈◊〉 your 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 me Witness that I said I am not the Christ but that I am sent before him He that hath the Bride is the Bride-groom but the Friend of the Bride groom which standeth and heareth him rejoiceth greatly becaus of the Bride-groom's 〈◊〉 This my 〈◊〉 therefore is fulfilled He must increas but I must decreas for He that cometh from 〈◊〉 is abov all and altho He that is of the Earth is Earthly and speaketh of the Earth yet He that cometh from 〈◊〉 what He hath seen and heard that He testifieth tho no man receiv his Testimony But he that hath received his Testimony hath set to his Seal that God is tru for He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God which we may boldly rely upon in regard God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him nay the Father so loveth the Son that He hath given All things into His hand and resolvs our Fate shal be according to the Faith we bear Him for He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting Life wheras he that believeth not the Son shal not see Life but the Wrath of God abideth on him I adore thy Sacred Name O thou whom my Soul loveth For the great Understanding this thy Servant had touching the Knowledg of thine Eternal God-head and the whol Mystery of thine Everlasting Gospel which he hath thus clearly expressed in this his excellent Sermon left upon Record for my Instruction Lord I. beseech Thee since a Man can 〈◊〉 nothing except it be given him from heven 〈◊〉 such a measure of thy Spirit and the Grace he conveys from 〈◊〉 into the Hearts of the faithful possess and affect my Soul that I in Communion with thy Servant John may likewise rejoice in hearing the Bride-groom's Voice audibly utter'd in His holy Word and be ravished with delight in the privat Contemplation of the happy Union solemnized between my Lord Christ and his Spous the Church So as at last thou mayst vouchsafe to admit me into the Fulness of that 〈◊〉 which doth attend the Marriage of the Lamb and impart unto me the Interest and Affection of a Friend in the Consummation of thy Glory which wil qualify me as wel to taste of the Pleasures as congratulat the Perpetuity of thine Eternal Lov. Cap. VII On the Imprisonment of St. John the Baptist. §. 1. O My only-wise God and Savior who to render thy Messenger S. John the more conformabl to the Author and Finisher of that Faith which he was sent to usher in by his Ministry didst permit Herod the Tetrach to lay hold on him and having bound him shut him up in Prison that he might as wel be a Precedent of thine undeserved Sufferings as the Precursor of thy divine Person and Doctrin I prais and magnify thy Name For that undaunted

the using §. 8. O Lord of the Univers All the Nations of the Earth are thy Fields wheron thou requirest thine Apostls and Ministers to lift up their Eys and lock and they are white already to Hatvest I giv Thee Thanks and Prais Becaus he that reapeth 〈◊〉 Wages and gathereth Fruit unto Life Eternal As my fleshly Eys behold the fields of Corn before my face Lord enabl me to view other fields far more excellent and glorious with the Ey of Faith even all the Cities and Kingdoms of the World ready to be gathered into thy Barn And let the hopes of such desirable Wages engage my utmost Industry to further the Welfare of Souls for which we upon whom the Ends of the World are com hav abundant Encoragement for other men labored and we are enter'd upon their labors whatsoever Christ our Lord and his H. Apostls hav don or suffer'd for the Promulgation of the Gospel redounding to our Advantage and Instruction be it improvabl either to our own Soul's health or to make us Instrumental for the Salvation of others So that in us that Saying provs tru One 〈◊〉 and another reapeth and the Benefit is so equally conveyed throu out all the Members of Christ's Body the Church in all Ages That both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoyce together §. 9. When the Samaritans went out of the City and were com unto him upon their Request that he would tarry with them he abode there two days I adore thy saving Name O Jesus For this thy gracious Condescension and the powerful Effect of thy Presence among them many mo having believed becaus of thy Word who said unto the Woman Now we believ not because of thy Saying for we 〈◊〉 heard him our selvs and know that this is indeed the Christ the Savior of the World Tho thy Spous O Christ which is the Church of the Living God the Pillar and Ground of Truth by the Catholick Profession of thy Gospel givs so rational an Invitation to the Apostat World as is persuasiv enough to win many Proselyts to enter into the Communion of Saints upon a general Conviction yet when throu the personal Experiment and Participation of thy Saving Ordinances they are once enl ghtned and hav tasted of the hevenly Gift the good Word of God and the Powers of the World to com they no longer rely upon the bare Credit of thy Church but are established in the Faith by the full persuasion of their own Conscience Let me not therefore at any time content my self with hearing the Operations of thy Grace or the Demonstration of thy Power reported at second hand but make my personal Address to the Ministry of thy Word and Sacraments that having heard Thee my self my Soul also may know experimentally that Thou art indeed The CHRIST the Savior of the World Cap. IX Of His Departure into Galilee and his Reception there §. 1. NOw after two days he departed thence and went into Galilee not directly unto his own City Nazareth for Iesus himself testified that a Prophet hath no honor in his own Country but He came again into Cana of Galilee where he had made the Water Wine I prais and magnify thy Name O my Gracious Redeemer for this prudential Dispensation of thy Ministry not brooking to mis-spend thy Doctrin and Miracls upon such as would render them useless by their Neglect or Dis-esteem but directing the Labors of thy Lov to those who by having du Regard therunto were most likely to reverence thy Person and reap the intended Benefit of thy marvellous Works for when thou wast com into Galilee the Galileans of those parts received thee having seen all the things that thou hadst don at Ierusalem for they also were there at the Feast Lord let not any prejudice of Familiarity which commonly breeds Contemt or Envy which unreasonably surmiseth the Advancement of our Equals or Acquaintance insupportabl or foolish Custom which is apt to set an higher valu upon any forein unknown Commodity than on the more useful Product of our own Growth and Neighborhood hinder my paying the du Respect or making a religious Improvement of those Gifts and Graces wherwith thou shalt think fit to qualify any of my Country-men or fellow-Citizens to do good in his Generation And render I beseech thee the manifest Evidences of thy Grace no less effectual at this day to creat in me that Esteem and Reverence which is du to Thee in thy Members than the supernatural Operations of thy Power exhibited before their Eys in former times were available to prepare a way for thine honorabl Reception among the Galileans that receiving those who bear thine Image as wel with a glad Heart as a cheerful Aspect thou mayst think or make me worthy of thy beätifick Presence for ever Cap. X. Of His Healing the Son of a certain Nobl-man §. 1. WHen a certain Noblman whose Son was sick at Capernaum heard that Iesus was com out of Iudea into Galilee he went unto him and besought him that He would com down and heal his Son for he was at the point of Death Then said Iesus unto him Except ye see Signs and Wonders ye 〈◊〉 not believ wherin He did only delay not deny the desired Answer to his Request reflecting on the gross Infidelity of his Countrymen together with the great End for which his Miracls were wrought for as soon as the Nobl man repeated his Petition in these Tearms Sir com down ere my Child dy the Holy Iesus made him this gracious Reply Go thy way thy Son 〈◊〉 I prais thy Sacred Name Becaus the man believed the word that thou O Iesus hadst spoken unto him wherof he gav an evident Demonstration in that he went his way as fully satisfied and contented in the Assurance of thy Goodness and Power Let not I beseech thee the transitory Affairs of this decaying Body take up all my Thoughts but make me deeply affected with the future State and Eternal Concernments of my diseased Soul I confess my Hope is weak my Charity faint and heartless and my Faith welnigh dead without those Works by which it should be made perfect Lord com down and heal my spiritual Infirmities say unto me Thy Soul liveth with that Word of Power which is abl to revive all its faculties to their du Use and Vigor And tho thou defer to grant the Request of my Lips yet wil I 〈◊〉 make my Prayer unto Thee and wil look up until thou hav Mercy upon me §. 2. His Servants that met him as he was going down having told him Thy 〈◊〉 liveth hr enquired of them the 〈◊〉 when he began to amend and they said unto him Yesterday at 〈◊〉 seventh hour the Fever 〈◊〉 him So the Father knew it was at the same hour in which 〈◊〉 had said unto him Thy Son liveth I prais and magnify thy Name O Christ For this exact Notice of the punctual Execution of