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A56539	Monsieur Pascall's thoughts, meditations, and prayers, touching matters moral and divine as they were found in his papers after his death : together with a discourse upon Monsieur Pascall's, Thoughts ... as also another discourse on the proofs of the truth of the books of Moses : and a treatise, wherein is made appear that there are demonstrations of a different nature but as certain as those of geometry, and that such may be given of the Christian religion / done into English by Jos. Walker.; Pensées. English	Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.; Walker, Joseph.; Perier, Madame (Gilberte), 1620-1685. Vie de M. Pascal. English.; Filleau de la Chaise, Jean, 1631-1688. Discours sur les Pensées de M. Pascal. English.	1688 (1688)	Wing P645; ESTC R23135	228,739	434

here on Earth was accepted and received of God in Heaven This is the State of things in our Blessed Lord Jesus now let us consider them in our selves When we are first admitted into the Church which is the World of the Faithful especially of the Elect wherein Jesus Christ entred from the Moment of his Incarnation by a peculiar Privilege belonging to the only Son of God we are Offered and Sanctified This Sacrifice continues through the whole course of Life and ends at Death wherein the Soul truly quitting all the Vices and love of the World with the Contagion wherewith it is infected during the course of this Life it finishes its Offering and is received into Bliss Let us not then grieve for the Death of Believers as Pagans do that have no hope When the Faithful depart this Life they are not lost We lost them upon a matter even from the moment they entred into the Church by Baptism from that instant they were Devoted to God their Life was Consecrated to God their Actions regarded the World only for God at their Death they were wholly freed from Sin and 't is then they were received of God and that their Sacrifice received its accomplishment and reward They did what they had Vowed they accomplish'd the Work God gave them to do they did the Work they were Created for the Will of God is fulfilled in them and their Will is swallow'd up into the Will of God Let not our Will separate what God has join'd together and let us stifle or restrain by understanding the Truth the instinct of corrupt and deprav'd Nature which only has false Glosses and that by its Illusions interrupts the Holiness of those Notions which the Truth of the Gospel doth inspire in us Let us not any longer consider Death like Pagans but like Christians that is to say with hope as St. Paul teacheth seeing it is the special Privilege of Christians Let us not consider a Body as a filthy Carrion for deluded Nature does so represent it to us but as the Living Temple of the Holy Ghost as Faith doth teach us For we know the Holy Ghost dwells in the Bodies of Saints till the Resurrection and that they shall be raised by the Power of the Spirit that resides in them to this effect This is the Opinion of some of the Fathers It was upon this account that the Eucharist was heretofore put in the Mouth of the Dead for knowing they were the Temple of the Holy Ghost it was thought convenient they should be united to this Holy Sacrament but the Church has changed this Custom not but the Bodies of Saints are decently buried but because the Eucharist being a Figure of the Bread of Life and for the Living it is not fit it should be given to the Dead Let us not look upon Believers departed in the Fear of God as ceasing to Live though Nature would suggest so but as beginning to live as Truth doth assure us Let us not look upon their Souls as lost and reduc'd to nothing but as vivified and united to the Sovereign Being and by hearkening to these Truths let us restrain the great Mistakes we are so inclin'd unto and those motions of horror which are so Natural to Men. 3. * God has Created Man with two Desires one for God the other for himself but with this restriction that the love for God should be infinite that is to say without any other end but God only and that the love for himself should be finite and referring to God Man in this State would not only love himself without Sin yea he could not but love himself without Sin. Since the Fall Man has lost the first of these Loves and the love of himself being only left in this great Soul capable of an infinite love this Self-love has extended it self and filled the space the Love of God had left and so he loves only himself and all things for himself that is to say Infinitely This is the Original of Self-love it was Natural to Adam and just in his Innocency but it became criminal and immoderate after his Fall This is the Spring of this Love and the cause of its defectiveness and of its excesses It is the same of the immoderate desire of Power of Sloath and of other things The Application is easie to be made upon account of the horror we have of Death This Fear was natural and just in Adam whilst Innocent because his Life being very pleasing to God it was the same to Man and Death would have been horrible because it would have put an end to a Life that was conformable to the Will of God. Since Man Sinned his Life is become depraved his Soul and Body Enemies to each other and both to God. This change having infected so Holy a Life the love of Life remains nevertheless and the fear of Death resting also what was just in Adam is unjust in us This is the Original of the horror of Death and the cause of its defectivenss Let us then clear the horror of Nature by the light of Grace The fear of Death is Natural but 't is in the State of Innocence because it could not enter into Paradise but in finishing an Innocent Life It was just to hate it when it could not happen but in separating a Holy Soul from a Holy Body but 't is just to love it when it separates a Holy Soul from an Impure Body it was just to shun it when it would have broke the Peace betwixt the Body and Soul but not when it calms the highest Dissention To conclude when it would have afflicted an Innocent Body when it would have depriv'd the Body of the liberty of honouring God when it would have separated from the Soul a Body that submitted to its desires when it had destroyed all the Good Man was capable of it was just to abhor it but when it puts an end to a wicked Life when it takes from the Body the liberty of Sinning when it delivers the Soul from a powerful Enemy that resists all the Motions to its Salvation it is very unjust to have the same Sentiments Let us not then quit this Love Nature has given us for Life seeing we have received it from God but let it be for the same Life for which God has given it to us and not for a contrary end And in consenting to the Love Adam had for his Life in Innocency and that Jesus Christ himself had for his let us strive to hate a Life contrary to that which Jesus Christ loved and fear only the Death that Jesus Christ feared which befals a Body well pleasing to God but not fear a Death that punishing a guilty Body and cleansing a Vicious Body should give us quite contrary desires if we have ever so little Faith Hope and Charity It is one of the chief Principles of Christianity that all that befel Jesus Christ should also be fulfill'd in the Body

condemn others kill and notwithstanding all opposition you see Jesus Christ in a little time Reigning over them all and destroying the Jewish Worship in Jerusalem which was the Center of it and which he had first chose for his Church and the Worship of Idols at Rome which was the Center of Idol-Worship Ignorant and unlearned Men such as were the Apostles and first Christians resisted all the Powers of the Earth they bring under Kings the Wise and Learned and destroyed Idolatry which had taken such deep Root all this was effected by the Word that had foretold it 8. * The Jews in putting Christ to death for not believing him to be the Messias gave him the greatest mark that could be of being the Messias in persevering not to believe in him they became the strongest Evidence of him And in killing him and persisting to deny him they fulfil'd the Prophesies 9. * Who can but know Jesus Christ in so many particular Circumstances as were foretold For it is said That he shall have a Forerunner That he shall be born an Infant That he shall be born in Bethlem That he shall be of the Familiy of Judah and David That he shall be principally seen from Jerusalem That he shall make the Wise and Learned become blind and preach the Gospel to the Poor open the Eyes of the Blind heal the Sick and ●ring those into light that lay in darkness That ●e shall teach the perfect way and be a guide ●o the Gentiles That he was to be a Sacrifice for the Sins of the World. That he was to be the Foundation and pretious Corner Stone That he was to be a Stone of stumbling and Rock of offence That Jerusalem was to stumble at this Stone That the Builders would refuse it That God would make it the chief Corner Stone And that this Stone should grow into a great Mountain and fill all the Earth That he should be rejected despised betrayed sold beaten mocked afflicted an infinite manner of ways made drink Gall have his Hands and Feet pierced that he should be spit on his Rayment parted and put to a cruel Death That he should arise again the Third Day that he should ascend into Heaven and sit on the Right Hand of God. That Kings should rise up against him That being on the Right Hand of his Father he should be Victorious over his Enemies That the Kings of the Earth and all Nations should Adore him That the Jews should subsist a People That they should be Strangers without King without Sacrifice or Altar c. without Prophets expecting Salvation and finding none 10. * The Messias himself would Create a great People Chosen Elect Holy would conduct feed and bring it into the place of Rest and Holiness would make it Holy to God would make it the Temple of God would reconcile i● to God save it from the wrath of God would deliver it from the slavery of Sin which so visibly reigneth in Man give Laws to this People write these Laws in their Hearts offer himself to God for them Sacrifice himself for them would be an offering without spot and himself the Priest he was to offer his own self and offer his Body and Blood and nevertheless offer but Bread and Wine to God. Jesus Christ doth all this 11. * He is foretold to come a Saviour that should break the Serpents Head that should free his People from their Sins ex omnibus iniquita●●bus that he was to have a New Testament which was to be Eternal that he was to have another Priesthood after the Order of Melchise deck that this should be Eternal That Christ should be Glorious Powerful Strong and ye● withal so mean that he should not be known that he should not be taken for what he was that he should be rejected that he should be put to Death that his People which had rejected him should not be his People that those who Worshipp'd Idols should believe in him and should come unto him that he should forsake Sion and Reign in the Center of Idolatry that nevertheless the Jews should subsist still that he should come of the Tribe of Juda when there was no more Kings 12. * Ever since the beginning of the World the expectation or Adoration of the Messias has continued without interruption that he was promis'd to Adam presently after his Fall that there has since many Men been found that have said God had revealed to them that a Redeemer should be born that should save his People That afterwards Abraham came and said ●hat it was reveal'd to him that he should be born of him by a Son that he should have that Jacob declared that of his twelve Sons it was of Judah that he should be born That Moses and the Prophets came afterwards declaring the time and manner of his coming that they said the Law they had was only till the Messias came that till then it should subsist but that Law which succeeded it should continue for ever that so their Law or that of the Messias whereof it was a Figure should remain for ever in the World that it had ever been and that in the end Jesus Christ came in all the Circumstances that were foretold If all this was so plainly Prophesi'd to the Jews might some say wherefore did they not believe Or why were they not utterly destroy'd for denying so clear a thing I answer Both the one and the other was Prophesi'd that they should not believe so plain and evident a thing and that they should not be quite destroy'd and nothing can be more Glorious for the Messias for 't was not sufficient there should be Prophets it was requisite their Prophesies should be preserv'd without suspition Now c. 13. * The Prophets did prophesie of particular things and of those of the Messias to the end that the Prophesies of the Messias should not be without Proofs and that the particular Prophesies should not be without fruit 14. * Non habemus Regem nisi Caesarem said the Jews Then Jesus Christ was the Messias seeing they had no other King but a Stranger and that they would have no other 15. * The Seventy Weeks of Daniel are equivocal for the time of their commencement by reason of the Terms of the Prophesie and for the time of the end by reason of the diversity of Chronologers But all this difference extends only to two hundred years 16. * The Prophesies which represent Jesus Christ Poor do also represent him Lord of all the World. The Prophesies which foretel the time do only foretel him chief of the Gentiles and suffering and not in great Power and Judg of all And those which represent him Glorious and Judg of all Nations do not mark the time 17. * When there is mention made of the Messias as Great and Glorious it is visible that it is to Judg the World

not in it self and out of God but out of it self and in the very Will of God in the Justice of his Decree in the order of his Providence which is the true cause of it without which it had not arriv'd by whom alone it is come to pass and in the very manner that 't is hapned We should adore with an humble silence the impenetrable height of his Secrets We should adore the Holiness of his Decrees We should praise the Wisdom of his Providence and joining our Will unto Gods Will we should with him in him and for him desire the thing that he appointed in us and for us from all Eternity 2. * There is no Comfort to be found but in Truth only Doubtless Seneca and Socrates have nothing that can perswade or Comfort us on these occasions they were in the Ignorance that blinded all Men at first they thought Death was Natural to Man and all the Discourses they grounded upon this false Principle are so vain and empty that they only serve to shew in the general how weak Man is seeing the greatest Productions of the Wisest Men are so mean and childish It is not so of Jesus Christ it is not so of the Canonical Books of the Scriptures Truth is therein plainly discover'd and true Comfort is as Infallibly join'd thereunto as Error is infallibly separated from it Let us then consider Death in the Truth taught us by the Holy Ghost We have this admirable advantage to know that truly and effectively Death is a Punishment of Sin imposed upon Man to expiate his Crime necessary to Man to cleanse him from Sin it is that alone can deliver the Soul from the Lust of the Flesh which Saints are subject to while they live in this World. We know Life and the Life of Christians is a continual Sacrifice which cannot determine but in Death We know Jesus Christ coming into the World lookt on himself and offer'd himself to God as a true Sacrifice that his Birth his Life his Death Resurrection Ascension and his Session at the Right Hand of God are but one only Sacrifice we know what befel Jesus Christ must happen to all his Members Let us then consider Life as a Sacrifice and that the Evils of our Lives make no impression on the Minds of Christians but in measure as they hinder or accomplish this Sacrifice Let us call that only Evil which makes the Offering of God the Offering of the Devil but let us call that Good which makes the Offering of the Devil in Adam the Offering of God and by this Rule let us examine the Nature of Death To this purpose we must have recourse to the Person of Jesus Christ for as God regards not Man but by the Mediator Jesus Christ so also Men should neither regard themselves nor others but by Jesus Christ if we do not pass the middle we find in our selves only true Miseries or abominable Pleasures but if we consider all things in Jesus Christ we shall find all manner of Consolation Satisfaction and Edification Let us consider Death in Jesus Christ not out of Jesus Christ out of Christ it is horrible detestable and the horror of Nature In Jesus Christ it is quite another thing it is Amiable Holy and the Joy of the Faithful All is sweet in Jesus Christ even Death it self it is for this he suffered and dyed to Sanctifie Death by his Sufferings and as God and as Man he was Great in the highest Degree and mean in the lowest degree to the end to Sanctifie in himself all things Sin excepted and to be the Pattern of all Conditions To consider what Death is and to die in Christ Jesus one should see what place it has in the continual Sacrifice and to this effect observe that in the Sacrifices the chief thing was the Death of the Offering The Oblation and Sanctification that went before were the Dispositions but the Substance is the Death wherein by the loss of Life the Creature gives to God all Obedience it can in becoming nothing in the sight of his Majesty and in Adoring his Sovereign Being which subsists alone essentially It 's true there is yet something farther after the Death of the Offering without which his Death is of no value it is Gods accepting the Sacrifice it is what is mention'd in the Scriptures Et odoratus est Dominus odorem suavitatis It is this indeed that crowns the Oblation but it is rather an action of God towards the Creature than of the Creature towards God and it don't hinder but the last Action of the Creature is Death These things were accomplish'd in Jesus Christ coming into the World he Offerr'd himself Obtulit semetipsum per Spiritum Sanctum Ingrediens mundum dixit Hostiam oblationem noluisti tunc dixi Ecce venio In capite libri scriptum est de me ut faciam Deus voluntatem tuam He offer'd himself by the Holy Ghost entring into the World he said Lord Sacrifices and burnt Offering thou wouldst not a Body hast thou prepared me And I said Behold I come as it is written to do thy Will O God and thy Law is written within my Heart this is his Oblation his Sanctification followed immediately after his Oblation This Sacrifice continued all his Life and was finished by his Death It was necessary that by Sufferings he should enter into Glory and though he was the Son of God it was requisite he should learn Obedience In the Days of his Flesh having with strong cries and tears offer'd Prayers and Supplications to him that was able to deliver him from Death he was heard according to his Obedience to God his Father And God raised him from the Dead and sent him his Glory figur'd under the Law by the Fire of Heaven that came down upon the Sacrifices to burn and consume his Body and to make it live with the Life of Glory It is what Jesus Christ obtained and has accomplished by his Resurrection So that this Sacrifice being perfect by the Death of Jesus Christ and consummated by his Resurrection where the Figure of the Flesh of Sin was swallow'd up in Glory Jesus Christ fulfilled all things on his part and there only remained that the Sacrifice should be accepted of God and that as the Smoak ascended and carry'd the sweet savour to the Throne of God also Jesus Christ should in that perfect State of immolation be offer'd carry'd and received at the very Throne of God and this was accomplish'd in the Ascension wherein he rose up by his own Power and by the power of the Holy Ghost that compass'd him round about he was raised up as the Smoak of the Sacrifices which was the Figure of Jesus Christ was carry'd up by the Air that supported it which is the Figure of the Holy Ghost and in the Acts it is said expresly That he was received up into Heaven to assure us that this Holy Oblation accomplish'd