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A45274	Holy raptures, or, Patheticall meditations of the love of Christ together with A treatise of Christ mysticall, or, The blessed union of Christ and his members : also, The Christian laid forth in his whole disposition & carriage / by Jos. Hall ...	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1652 (1652)	Wing H385A; ESTC R40927	65,290	228

our best then unholy creatures full of pollution and spirituall uncleannesse It is his most holy Spirit that must cleanse us from all the filthinesse of our flesh and spirit 2. Cor. 7. 1. and work us daily to further degrees of sanctification He that is holy let him be holy still Rev. 22. 11. neither can there be any thing more abhorring from his infinite justice and holinesse then to justifie those souls which lie still in the loathsome ordure of their corruptions Certainly they never truly learnt Christ who would draw over Christs righteousnesse as a case of their close wickednesses that sever holinesse from justice and give no place to sanctification in the evidence of their justifying Never man was justified without faith and wheresoever faith is there it purifieth and cleanseth Act. 15. 9. But besides that the Spirit of Christ works thus powerfully though gradually within us That he may sanctifie and cleanse us with the washing of water by the word his holinesse is mercifully imputed to us That he may present us to himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that we should be holy and without blemish Eph. 5. 26 27. so as that inchoate holinesse which by his gracious inoperation grows up daily in us towards a full perfection as abundantly supplyed by his absolute holinesse made no lesse by imputation ours then it is personally his when therefore we look into our bosoms we finde just cause to be ashamed of our impurity and to loath those dregs of corruption that yet remain in our sinfull nature but when we cast up our eyes to heaven and behold the infinite holinesse of that Christ to whom we are united which by faith is made ours we have reason to bear up against all the discouragements that may arise from the conscience of our own vilenesse and to look God in the face with an awfull boldnesse as those whom he is pleased to present holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight Col. 1. 22. as knowing that he that sanctifieth and they than are sanctified are all of one Heb. 2. 11. SECT 16. Christ made our Redemption REdemption was the great errand for which the Son of God came down into the world and the work which he did whiles he was in the world and that which in way of application of it he shall be ever accomplishing till he shall deliver up his Mediatory Kingdome into the hands of his Father in this he begins in this he finishes the great businesse of our salvation For those who in this life are enlightned by his wisdome justified by his merits sanctified by his grace are yet conflicting with manifold temptations and strugling with varieties of miseries and dangers till upon their happy death and glorious resurrection they shall be fully freed by their ever-blessed and victorious Redeemer He therefore who by vertue of that heavenly union is made unto us of God Wisdome Righteousnesse Sanctification is also upon the same ground made unto us our full Redemption Redemption implies a captivity We are naturally under the wofull bondage of the Law of sinne of miseries of death The Law is a cruell exactor for it requires of us what we cannot now do and whips us for not doing it for the Law worketh wrath Rom. 4. 15. and as many as are of the works of the Law are under the curse Gal. 3. 10. Sinne is a worse tyrant then he and takes advantage to exercise his cruelty by the Law For when we were in the flesh the motions of sins which were by the Law did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death Rom. 7. 5. Upon sin necessarily followes misery the forerunner of death and death the upshot of all miseries By one man sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned Rom. 5. 12. From all these is Christ our Redemption from the Law for Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law being made a curse for us Gal. 3. 13. From sin for we are dead to sin but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 6. 11. Sin shall not have dominion over you for ye are not under the Law but under Grace Rom. 6. 14. From death and therein from all miseries O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the Law But thanks be to God which giveth us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ 1. Cor. 15. 55 56 57. Now then let the Law do his worst we are not under the Law but under Grace Rom. 6. 14. The case therefore is altered betwixt the law and us It is not now a cruell Task-master to beat us to and for our work it is our Schoolemaster to direct and to whip us unto Christ It is not a severe Judge to condemn us it is a friendly guide to set us the way towards heaven Let sinne joyne his forces together with the Law they cannot prevail to our hurt For what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sending his own Son in the likenesse of sinfull flesh condemned sin in the flesh that the righteousnesse of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit Rom. 8. 3 4. Let death joyn his forces with them both we are yet safe For the Law of the spirit of life hath freed us from the Law of sin and of death Rom. 8. 2. What can we therefore fear what can we suffer while Christ is made our Redemption Finally as thus Christ is made unto us Wisdome Righteousnesse Sanctification and Redemption so whatsoever else he either is or hath or doth by vertue of this blessed union becomes ours he is our riches Eph. 1. 7. our strength Psal 27. 1. 28. 7. our glory Eph. 1. 18. our salvation 1 Thes 5. 9. Esa 12. 2. our all Col. 3. 11. he is all to us and all is ours in him SECT 17. The externall priviledges of this union a right to the blessings of earth and heaven FRom these primary and intrinsecal priviledges therefore flow all those secondary and externall wherewith we are blessed and therein a right to all the blessings of God both of the right hand and of the left an interesse in all the good things both of earth and heaven Hereupon it is that the glorious Angels of Heaven become our Guardians keeping us in all our wayes and working secretly for our good upon all occasions that all Gods creatures are at our service that we have a true spirituall title to them All things are yours saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 3. 22 23 and ye are Christs and Christ Gods But take heed my son of mislaying thy claim to what and in what manner thou ought'st not There is a civill right that must regulate our propriety to these earthly things

him his grave his linnen his winding sheet his sleep death the night the many days of darknesse and shortly he so composeth his soul as if he lookt not to wake till the morning of the resurrection After which if he sleep he is thankfully chearefull if he sleep not his reins chasten and instruct him in the night season and if sleep be out of his eyes yet God and his Angels are not Whensoever he awakes in those hands he finds himself and therefore rests sweetly even when he sleeps not His very dreams however vain or troublesome are not to him altogether unprofitable for they serve to bewray not only his bodily temper but his spirituall weaknesses which his waking resolutions shall endevour to correct He so applies himselfe to his pillow as a man that meant not to be drowned in sleep but refreshed not limiting his rest by the insatiable lust of a sluggish and drowzie stupidnesse but by the exigence of his health and abilitation to his calling and rises from it not too late with more appetite to his work then to a second slumber chearfully devoting the strength renued by his late rest to the honour and service of the giver SECT 11. His carriage HIs carriage is not strange insolent surly and overly contemptuous but familiarly meek humble courteous as knowing what mold he is made of and not knowing any worse man then himself He hath an hand ready upon every occasion to be helpfull to his neighbour as if he thought himself made to do good He hates to sell his breath to his friend where his advice may be usefull neither is more ambitious of any thing under heaven then of doing good offices It is his happinesse if he can reconcile quarrels and make peace between dissenting friends When he is chosen an Umpire he will be sure to cut even betwixt both parties and commonly displeaseth both that he may wrong neither if he be called forth to Magistracy he puts off all private interests and commands friendship to give place to justice Now he knows no cousens no enemies neither cousens for favour nor enemies for revenge but looks right forward to the cause without squinting aside to the persons No flattery can keep him from brow-beating of vice no fear can work him to discourage vertue Where severity is requisite he hates to enjoy anothers punishment and where mercy may be more prevalent he hates to use severity Power doth not render him imperious and oppressive but rather humbles him in the awfull expectation of his account If he be called to the honour of Gods Embassie to his people he dares not but be faithfull in delivering that sacred Message he cannot now either fear faces or respect persons it is equally odious to him to hide and smother any of Gods counsell and to foist in any of his own to suppresse truth and to adulterate it He speaks not himself but Christ and labours not to tickle the ear but to save soules So doth he goe before his flock as one that means to feed them no lesse by his example then by his doctrine and would condemn himself if he did not live the Gospel as well as preach it He is neither too austere in his retirednesse nor too good-cheap in his sociablenesse but carries so eaven an hand that his discreet affablenesse may be free from contempt and that he may win his people with a loving conversation If any of his charge be miscarried into an errour of opinion he labours to reclaim him by the spirit of meeknesse so as the mis-guided may reade nothing but love in his zealous conviction if any be drawn into a vicious course of life he fetches him back with a gentle yet powerfull hand by an holy importunity working the offender to a sense of his owne danger and to a saving penitence Is he the master of a family he dares not be a Lion in his own house cruelly tyrannizing over his meanest drudge but so moderately exercises his power as knowing himself to be his apprentices fellow-servant He is the mouth of his meiny to God in his dayly devotions offering up for them the calves of his lips in his morning and evening sacrifice and the mouth of God unto them in his wholesome instructions and al godly admonitions he goes before them in good examples of piety and holy conversation and so governs as one that hathmore then meer bodies committed to his charge Is he the husband of a wife He carries his yoak even not laying too much weight upon the weaker neck His helper argues him the principall and he so knows it that he makes a wise use of his just inequality so remembring himself to be the superiour as that he can be no other then one flesh He maintains therefore his moderate authority with a conjugall love so holding up the right of his sexe that in the mean time he doth not violently clash with the britler vessel As his choice was not made by weight or by the voice or by the hiew of the hide but for pure affection grounded upon vertue so the same regards hold him close to a constant continuance of his chast love which can never yeeld either to change or intermission Is he a father of children he looks upon them as more Gods then his own and governs them accordingly He knows it is only their worse part which they have received from his loins their diviner half is from the father of lights and is now become the main part of his charge As God gave them to him and to the world by him so his chief care is that they may be begotten again to God that they may put off that corrupt nature which they took from him and be made partakers of that divine nature which is given them in their regeneration For this cause he trains them up in all vertuous and religious education he sets them in their way corrects their exorbitances restraines their wilde desires and labours to frame them to all holy dispositions and so bestows his fatherly care upon and for them as one that had rather they should be good then rich and would wish them rather dead then debaucht he neglects not al honest means of their provision but the highest point he aims at is to leave God their patrimony In the choice of their calling or match he propounds but forces not as knowing they have also wils of their own which it is fitter for him to bow then to break Is he a son he is such as may be fit to proceed from such loins Is he a servant he cannot but be officious for he must please two masters though one under not against the other when his visible master sees him not he knowes he cannot be out of the eye of the invisible and therefore dares not be either negligent or unfaithfull The work that he undertakes he goes through not out of fear but out of conscience and would doe his businesse no