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A45322	Susurrium cum Deo soliloqvies, or, Holy self-conferences of the devout soul upon sundry choice occasions with humble addresses to the throne of grace : together with The souls farwell to earth and approaches to heaven / by Jos. Hall.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. Soules farewell to earth and approaches to heaven.	1651 (1651)	Wing H420; ESTC R2803	81,778	407

raked up in the Embers of my soule and ravish my heart with a longing desire of thy salvation Soliloq XLI Deaths Remembrancers EVery thing that I see furnishes me with fair monitions of my dissolution If I look into my garden there I see some flowers fading some withered If I look to the earth I see that mother in whose wombe I must lie If I goe to Church the graves that I must step over in my way shew me what I must trust to If I look to my Table death is in every Dish since what I feed on did once live If I look into my glasse I cannot but see death in my face If I goe to my bed there I meet with sleepe the Image of death and the sheets which put mee in minde of my winding up If I look into my study what are all those books but the monuments of other dead authors O my soul how canst thou bee unmindfull of our parting when thou art plyed with so many monitors Cast thine eyes abroad into the world what canst thou see but killing and dying Cast thine eyes up into heaven how canst thou but thinke of the place of thy approaching rest How justly then may I say with the Apostle By our rejoycing which I have in Christ Jesus I die daily And Lord as I daily die in the decay of this fraile nature so let me die daily in my affection to life in my preparation for death O do thou fit me for that last and happy change Teach me so to number my daies that I apply my heart to wisdom and addresse it to ensuing glory Soliloq XLII Faiths Victory WEE are here in a perpetuall warfare and fight wee must Surely either fight or dye some there are that doe both That is according as the quarrell is and is managed There are those that fight against God these medling with so unequall a match cannot looke to prevaile Again The flesh warreth against the spirit this intestine rebellion cannot hope to prosper but if with the chosen vessell I can say I have fought a good fight I can neither lose life nor misse of victory And what is that good fight Even the same Apostle tels me the fight of faith this is the good fight indeed both in the cause and managing the issue Lo this faith it is that wins God to my side that makes the Almighty mine that not only ingages him in my cause but unites me to him so as his strength is mine In the power of his might therefore I cannot but be victorious over all my spirituall enemies by the onely meanes of this faith For Satan This Shield of faith is it that shall quench all the fiery darts of that wicked one For the world this is the victory that overcomes the world even our faith Be sure to finde thy self furnished with this grace and then say O my soule thou hast marched valiantly the powers of Hell shall not bee able to stand before thee they are mighty and have all advantages of a spirituall nature of long duration and experience of place of subtilty Yet this conquering grace of faith is able to give them the foile and to trample over all the powers of darknesse O my Lord God doe thou arme and fortifie my soule with a lively and stedfast faith in thee I shall not feare what man or Divell can doe unto me settle my heart in a firme reliance upon thee and turne mee loose to what enemy thou pleasest Soliloq XLIII The unfailing Friend NExt to the joy of a good conscience there is no greater comfort upon earth than the enjoyment of dear friends neither is there any thing more sad than their parting and by how nearer their relations are so much greater is our sorrow in forgoing them What moane did good David make both for Absalon as a Sonne though ungracious and for Jonathan as a friend Surely when our dear ones are pulled away from us we seeme to have limbes torne away from our bodies yet this is a thing must bee lookt for wee are given to each other or lent rather upon condition of parting either they must leave us or we them a parting there must bee as sure as there was a meeting It is our fault if we set our hearts too much upon that which may yea which must be lost Be wise O my soul and make sure of such friends as thou canst not be bereaved of Thou hast a God that hath said I will not leave thee nor forsake thee It was an easie sute and already granted which the holy Psalmist made Cast me not off in the time of old age forsake me not when my strength faileth And againe When my Father and my Mother forsake me in their farewell to a better world yet then the Lord will take me up It is an happy thing to have immortall friends sticke close unto them O my soule and rejoyce in them evermore as those that shall sweetly converse with thee here and shall at last receive thee into everlasting habitations Soliloq XLIV Quiet Humility HE is a rare man that is not wise in his owne conceit and that saies not within himselfe I see more than my neighbours For wee are all borne proud and selfe-opinionate and when we are come to our imaginary maturity are apt to say with Zedechiah to those of better judgement than our own which way went the Spirit of God from me to speak unto thee Hence have arisen those strange varieties of wilde paradoxes both in Philosophy and Religion wherewith the world abounds every where When our fancy hath entertained some uncouth thought our selfe-love is apt to hatch it up our confidence to broach it and our obstinacy to maintain it and if it bee not too monstrous there will not want some credulous fools to abet it so as the onely way both to peace and truth is true Humility which will teach us to thinke meanly of our own abilities to be diffident of our own apprehensions and judgments to ascribe much to the reverend antiquity greater sanctity deeper insight of our blessed Predecessors This onely will keepe us in the beaten road without all extravagant deviations to untrodden by-paths Teach me O Lord evermore to think my self no whit wiser than I am so shall I neither bee vainly irregular nor the Church troublesomely unquiet Soliloq XLV Sure Mercies THere is nothing more troublesome in humane society than the disappoint of trust and failing of friends For besides the disorder that it works in our owne affaires it commonly is attended with a necessary deficiency of our performances to others The leaning upon a broken Reed gives us both a fall and a wound Such is a false friend who after professions of love and reall offices either slinkes from us or betrayes us This is that which the great patterne of patience so bitterly complaines of as none of his least afflictions My Kinsfolk have

Creatures towards their Masters and towards their owne Mates towards their dammes and their young We have plentifull instances of those whom Death could not separate from their beloved Guardians some that have died for their Masters some with them some that have fearlesly hazarded their owne lives for the preservation of their young ones some that have fed their aged dammes with that food which they have spared from their own Mawes Amongst the rest how remarkable is that comparison of thine O Saviour wherein thou wert pleased to set forth thy tender care of thine Israell by the resemblance of an Hen gathering her Chickings under her wings how have I seen that poor Fowl after the patience of a painfull hatching clocking her little brood together and when she hath perceived the Puttock hovering over her head in a varied note calling them hastily under the wing of her protection and there covertly hiding them not from the Talons onely but from the eye of that dangerous enemy till the perill hath been fully over after which she calls them forth to their liberty and repast and with many a carefull scrape discovers to them such grains of food as may bee fit for them contenting her self to carve for them with neglect of her owne sustenance O God thou who hast wrought in thy silly creatures such an high measure of indulgence and dearnes of respect towards their tender brood how infinitely is thy love and compassion towards the children of men the great Master-peece of thy Creation How past the admiration of men and Angels is that transcendent proof of thy divine love in the more than marvelous work of our Redemption How justly glorifiable is thy name in the gracious and sometimes miraculous preservation of thy Children In the experience whereof if I forbeare to magnifie thee or dare not to trust thee how can I be but unworthy to bee owned of thee or blessed by thee Soliloq LXIX Choice of Seasons HOw regularly O God hast thou determined a set season for all thy Creatures both for their actions and their use The Storke in the heaven saith thy Prophet Jeremy knoweth her appointed times and the Turtle and the Crane and the Swallow observe the time of their comming Who hath seen the * Stork before the Calends of August or a Swallow in the Winter Who hath heard the Nightingale in the heat of harvest or the Bittern bearing her base in the coldest Moneths Yea the Fishes in the Sea know and observe their due seasons and present us with their Shoales only when they are wholsome and useful The Herring doth not furnish our Market in the Spring nor the Salmon or Mackerell in Winter Yea the very flies both have and keepe their daies appointed the Silke-worme never looks forth of that little Cell of her Conception till the Mulbery puts forth the leaves for their nourishment and who hath ever seen a Butter-flie or an Harnet in Winter yea there are Flies wee know appropriate to their owne moneths from which they vary not Lastly how plain is this in all the severall varieties of Trees Flowers Herbes The Almond tree looks out first the Mulberry last of all other The Tulip and the Rose and all other the sweet Ornaments of the earth are punctuall in their growth and fall But as for Man O God thou hast in thy infinite VVisdome indued him with that power of reason whereby he may make choice of the fittest seasons of all his actions Thou that hast appointed a time for every purpose under heaven hast given him wit to finde and observe it Even lawfull acts unseasonably done may turne evill and acts indifferent seasonably performed may prove good and laudable The best improvement of morality or civility may shame us if due time bee not as well regarded as substance Onely Grace Piety true Vertue can never be unseasonable There are no seasons in Eternity There shall bee one uniforme and constant act of glorifying thee Thy Angels and Saints praise thee above without change or intermission The more we can do so on earth the nearer shall wee approach to those blessed Spirits O God let my heart be wholly taken up evermore with an adoration of thine infinite Majesty and let my mouth bee ever sounding forth of thy praise and let the Hosannahs and Hallelujahs which I begin here know no measure but Eternity Soliloq LXX The happy return home EVery Creature naturally affects a return to the originall whence it first came The Pilgrim though faring well abroad yet hath a longing homeward Fountaines and Rivers run back with what speed they may to the Sea whence they were derived all compound bodies return to their first Elements The vapors rising up from the earth and waters and condenss'd into clouds fall down again to the same earth whence they were exhaled This body that we beare about us returnes at last to that dust whereof it was framed And why then O my soul dost not thou earnestly desire to returne home to the God that made thee Thou knowest thy Originall is heavenly why are not thy affections so What canst thou finde here below worthy to either withdraw or detain thee from those heavenly Mansions Thou art here in a Region of sin of misery and death Glory waites for thee above Fly then O my soul fly hence to that blessed immortality If not as yet in thy dissolution for which thou must waite on the pleasure of thy deare Maker redeemer yet in thy thoughts in thy desires and affections soar thou up thither and converse there with that blessed God and Father of Spirits with those glorious Orders of Angels and with the soules of just men made perfect And if the necessity of these bodily affairs must needs draw thee off for a time let it bee not without reluctation and hearty unwillingnesse and with an eager appetite of quick returne to that Celestiall society It will not be long ere thou shalt bee blessed with a free and uninterrupted fruition of that glorious Eternity In the meane time doe thou prepossesse it in thy heavenly dispositions and contemning this earth wherewith thou art clogged aspire to thy heaven and be happy Soliloq LXXI The confinements of Age DOst thou not observe O my soule how time and age confines and contracts as our bodies so our desires and motions here upon earth still into narrower compasses VVhen we are young the world is but little enough for us after wee have seen our own Island wee affect to crosse the Seas and to climbe over Alpes and Pyrennes and never thinke we have roved far enough VVhen we grow ancient wee begin to bee well-pleased with rest now long and unnecessary journeyes are laid aside If businesse call us forth wee go because we must As for the visits of friendship one Sun is enough to measure them with our returnes And still the older we grow the more we are devoted to our home there we

distraction free from all sorrow pain perturbation free from all the possibility of change or death A life wherein there is nothing but pure and perfect pleasure nothing but perpetuall melodie of Angels and Saints singing sweet Allelujahs to their God A life which the most glorious Deitie both gives and is A life wherein thou hast the full fruition of the ever-blessed God-head the continuall society of the celestial spirits the blissefull presence of the glorified humanitie of thy dear Saviour A life wherein thou hast ever consort with the glorious companie of the Apostles the goodly fellowship of the Patriarks and Prophets the noble Army of Martyrs and Confessors the Celestiall synod of all the holy fathers and illuminated Doctors of the Church Shortly the blessed Assembly of all the faithfull Professors of the Name of the Lord Jesus that having finished their course sit now shining in their promised glory See there that yet-unapproachable light that divine magnificence of the heavenly King See that resplendent Crown of righteousnesse which decks the heads of every of those Saints and is readie to be set on thine when thou hast happilie overcome those spirituall powers wherewith thou art still conflicting See the joyfull triumphs of these exsulting victors See the measures of their glory different yet all full and the least unmeasurable Lastly see all this happinesse not limited to thousands nor yet millions of years but commeasured by no less than eternity And now my soul if thou have received the infallible ingagement of thy God in that having beleeved thou art sealed with that holy Spirit of promise which is the earnest of thine inheritance untill the full Redemption of thy purchased possession if through his infinite mercy thou bee now upon the entring into that blessed place and state of immortality forbear if thou canst to be raised above thy self with the joy of the holy Ghost to bee enlarged towards thy God with a joy unspeakable and glorious See if thou canst now breath forth any thing but praises to thy God and songs of rejoycing bearing evermore a part in that heauenly ditty of the Angels Blessing and Glory and Wisdome and thanksgiving and Honour and power and might be unto our God for ever and ever SECT XIII ANd now what remaines O my soule but that thou do humbly and faithfully wait at the gate of heaven for an happie entrance at the good pleasure of thy God into those everlasting Mansions I confess should thy merits bee weigh'd in the ballance of a rigorous Justice another place which I cannot mention without horror were more fit for thee more due to thee for alas thou hast been above measure sinfull and thou knowest the wages of sin death But the God of my mercy hath prevented thee with infinite compassion and in the multitudes of his tender mercies hath not onely delivered thee from the nethermost hell but hath also vouchsafed to translate thee to the Kingdom of his dear Son In him thou hast boldnesse of access to the Throne of Grace thou who in thy selfe art worthy to bee a child of wrath art in him adopted to be a co-heire of Glory and hast the livery and seizin given thee beforehand of a blessed possession the full estating wherein I do in all humble awfulnesse attend All the few daies therefore of my appointed time will I wait at the threshold of grace untill my changing come with a trembling joy with a longing patience with a comfortable hope Onely Lord I know there is something to be done ere I can enter I must die ere I can be capable to enjoy that blessed life with thee one stroke of thine Angell must bee endured in my passage into thy Paradise And lo here I am before thee ready to embrace the condition Even when thou pleasest let me bleed once to bee ever happy Thou hast after a weary walk through this roaring wilderness vouchsafed to call up thy servant to Mount Nebo and from thence aloof off to shew me the land of Promise a land that flowes with milk and honey Do thou but say Die thou on this Hill with this prospect in mine eye and do thou mercifully take my soul from mee who gavest it to me and dispose of it where thou wilt in that Region of Immortality Amen Amen Come Lord Jesu Come quickly BEhold Lord I have by thy Providence dwelt in this house of Clay more than double the time wherin thou wert pleased to sojourn upon earth Yet I may well say with thine holy Patriark Few and evil have been the dayes of the yeeres of my pilgrimage Few in number evill in condition Few in themselves but none at all to thee with whom a thousand yeares are but as one day But had they beene double to the age of Methusaleh could they have been so much as a minute to eternity Yea what were they to me now that they are past but as a tale that is told and forgotten Neither yet have they been so few as evill Lord what troubles and sorrowes hast thou let me see both my owne and others What vicissitudes of sicknesse and health What ebbes and flowes of condition How many successions and changes of Princes both at home and abroad What turnings of times What alterations of Governments What shiftings and downfalls of Favourites What ruines and desolations of Kingdoms What sacking of Cities What havocks of warre What frenzies of rebellions What underminings of treachery What cruelties and barbarismes in revenges What anguish in the oppressed and tormented What agonies in temptations what pangs in dying These I have seen and in these I have suffered And now Lord how willing I am to change time for eternity the evils of earth for the joyes of heaven misery for happinesse a dying life for immortality Even so Lord Jesu Take what thou hast bought Receive my soule to thy mercie and crowne it with thy glorie Amen Amen Amen FINIS A Catalogue of the severall Bookes written by the Author in and since his Retiring Namely 1. THe Devout Soule and Free Prisoner 2. The Remedy of Discontentment Or A Treatise of Contentation in whatsoever condition 3. The Peace-Maker laying forth the right way of Peace in matter of Religion 4. The Balm of Gilead Or Comforts for the distressed both Morall and Divine 5. Christ Mysticall Or The blessed union of Christ and his Members To which is added An holy Rapture Or A Patheticall Meditation of the Love of Christ Also The Christian laid forth in his whole disposition and carriage 6. A modest offer tendred to the Assembly of Divines at Westminster 7. Select thoughts in two Decades with the breathing of the Devout Soule 8. Pax Terris 9. Imposition of Hands 10. The Revelation unrevealed Concerning The thousand yeeres raigne of the Saints with Christ on earth 11. Satans Fierie Darts quenched Or Temptations repelled In 3 Decades 12. Resolutions and Decisions of divers practicall cases of Conscience In 4 Decades Select Thoughts one Centurie with the breathing of the Devout Soul 13. Susurrium cum Deo c. This present Tract newly Reprinted 1 Cor. 13.12 Euthym in Praefat. Psalmorum Psal. 90.9 Gen. 5.2.24.27 2 Cor. 5.1 Exo. 16.13 Deut. 8.3 Exo. 16.31 Num. 11.6 Heb. 1. ult. Psal. 119.136 1 Kin. 19. Luk. 12.49 Mat. 6.23 John 1.9 Psa. 119.105 Clement de gestis Petri 1 Tim. 4.8 1 Cor. 9.27 Rom. 8.18 1 Sam. 30.6 Cato 1 Thes. 5.23 Hos. 9 7. Esa. 44.16 Exod. 32.4 2 Kin. 20.23 1 Kin. 18.28 2 Kin. 23.11 Cicer. de Natur. Deorum initio Heart bleedings for Professors abominations Set forth under the hands of 16 Churches of Christ baptized into the name of Christ p. 5.6 7. c. Joh. 18.28 Mat. 23.25 2 Chro 30.18 19 Rom. 7.19 Mat. 6.19 Pro. 13.12 1 Cor. 15.31 2 Tim. 4.7 1 Tim. 6.2 Eph. 6.16 1 Ioh. 5.4 Psal. 71.9 Psal. 27.10 1 Kin. 22.24 Iob 19.14 Psal. 41.9 Psal. 55.13 14. Psal. 61.7 Deut. 6.11 12. Deut. 32.15 1 Sam. 24.5 Iam. 1.17 Iam. 1.5 Prov. 13.7 Rev. 3.17 Psal. 81.16 1 Cor. 10. Heb. 9.12 Eph. 1.7 Rom. 5.9 Col. 1.20 Heb. 9.22 Heb. 13.12 14. 1 Pet. 1.2 Heb. 9.15 1 Sam. 14.29 Pro. 14.23 Pro. 25.16 Eph. 1.14 Mat. 24.35 Colos. 3. Psal. 119. Psal. 12.14 Mat. 8.24 25 c. Mat. 4.37 Luk. 8.13 Psa. 141.8 Gen. 4 14. Cant. 5.2.3.4.5.6.7.8 Eccle. 7.14 1 Cor. 12. Luk. 15.10 Psal. 5.8 Eccl. 9.1 2. Mat. 23.37 Ier. 8.7 * Oecolampad in locū Ierem. Eccl. 3.1 Psal. 55.17 Act. 2.1 1 Thes. 5.17 Rom. 8.26 Aeneas Sylv. de Reb. gest Alph. 2 Chro. 29.25 28. 2 Chro. 5.12 13. Mamonides in Cle. hamikdash c. 3 * Chro 29.25 28. Maymon in giath hamikdash Ier. 9.1 Mal. 3.2 Mal. 3.4 Beda Eccles. Hister l. 2. cap. 13. Ier. 44.17 18. 1 King 18.44 Esa. 63.15 Esa. 1.4 Dan. 9.8 9. Dan. 9.16 17. Dan. 9.19 Rom. 11.33 Ose 13.9 Rom. 8.33 34. 1 Pet. 1.12 Bernard Serm. de passione Domini Rev. 21.23 Nehe. 2.2 Luk. 8.31 Heb. 12.23 Mat. 8.11 Dan 4.30 Luk. 1.46.47 Eccl. 5.10 Cant. 1.4 2.5 8.14 Psal. 57.7 Psal. 145.19 Psal. 73.24 Num. 24.17 Ioh. 17.20 21. 22. 23. 1 Cor. 6.17 2 Pet. 1.4 Can. 6.3 Mar. 9.6 Luk. 9.33 Rom. 12.2 Eph. 4.24 Ioh. 17.10 2 Thes. 1.12 Eph. 1.13 14. 1 Thes. 1.6 Rev. 7.12 Psal. 59.10 Psal. 86.13 Col. 1.13 Gen. 47.9