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A64745	The Mount of Olives: or, Solitary devotions. By Henry Vaughan silurist. With an excellent discourse of the blessed state of man in glory, written by the most reverend and holy Father Anselm Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, and now done into English.	Vaughan, Henry, 1622-1695.; Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109.	1652 (1652)	Wing V122; ESTC R203875	62,277	216

lost man Blessed be the hour in which thou wert born and the hour in which thou didst die Blessed and for ever hallowed be thy most comfortable and glorious name the name JESUS CHRIST at which every knee shall bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth for thy name is above every name and there is no other name by which we can be saved O most holy most humble and harmlesse Lamb how didst thou make thy self of no reputation and becamest obedient to the death of the Crosse for my sake And when thou wert to drink the cup of thy Fathers anger due to my sins didst instead of it ordain and bequeath to me the cup of life and everlasting salvation O Lord give me a heart to understand and eyes to see what thou hast done for me O never suffer me to crucifie thee again by returning to my former iniquities and pollutions but write thy sufferings and the price of my redemption in the tables of my heart set them for a signet upon mine hand and for a bracelet upon mine arme that by a continual and careful remembrance of them I may in the strength of this bread received to day at thy table travel to thy holy mountain and that this drink which I drank out of the spiritual rock may become a Well of living waters springing up in me to eternal life Grant this G God for thy glories sake and for that love and mercies sake which brought thee hither out of thy Fathers bosome to suffer so many things for his Elects sake Amen! Worthy is the Lamb that was slaine to receive power and riches and wisdome and strength and honour and glory and blessing for he hath redeemed us to God by his blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation and hath made us unto our God Kings and Priests and we shall reigne on the earth Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead my Lord Iesus that great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting Covenant Make me perfect in every good work to do his will working in me that which is well-pleasing in his sight through Iesus Christ to whom be glory for ever and ever Amen! A Prayer in time of persecution and Heresie MOst glorious and Immortall God the Prince of peace unity and order which makest men to be of one mind in a house heale I beseech thee these present sad breaches and distractions Consider O Lord the teares of thy Spouse which are daily upon her cheeks whose adversaries are grown mighty and her enemies prosper The wayes of Zion do mourne our beautiful gates are shut up and the Comforter that should relieve our souls is gone far from us Thy Service and thy Sabbaths thy own sacred Institutions and the pledges of thy love are denied unto us Thy Ministers are trodden down and the basest of the people are set up in thy holy place O Lord holy and just behold and consider and have mercy upon us for thy own names sake for thy promise sake suffer not the gates of hell to prevaile against us but return and restore us that joy and gladnesse may be heard in our dwellings and the voyce of the Turtle in all our land Arise O God and let thine enemies be scattered and let those that hate thee flee before thee Behold the robbers are come into thy Sanctuary and the persecuters are within thy walls We drink our own waters for money and our wood is sold unto us Our necks are under persecution we labour and have no rest Yea thine own Inheritance is given to strangers and thine own portion unto aliens Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever and forsake us for so long a time Turne thou us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned renew our dayes as of old O Lord hear and have mercy and be jealous for the beloved of thine own bosome for thy truth and for the words of thine own mouth Help us O God of our salvation and for thine own honours sake deal Comfortably with us Amen Amen A Prayer in adversity and troubles occasioned by our Enemies O Holy and almighty God full of goodness and compassion look I beseech thee with thine Eye of mercy upon my present sad sufferings and most bitter afflctions Behold O God I put my mouth in the dust and confess I have deserv'd them I despise not thy Chastenings but begge grace of thee that I may not faint and that they may yeild the fruits of righteousnesse unto me who am now exercised by them Thou seest O God how furious and Implacable mine Enemies are they have not only rob'd me of that portion and provision which thou hadst graciously given me but they have also washed their hands in the blood of my friends my dearest and nearest relatives I know O my God and I am daily taught by that disciple whom thou did'st love that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him Keep me therefore O my God from the guilt of blood and suffer me not to stain my soul with the thoughts of recompense and vengeance which is a branch of thy great prerogative and belongs wholly unto thee Though they persecute me unto death and pant after the very dust upon the heads of thy poore though they have taken the bread out of the childrens mouth and have made me a desolation yet Lord give me thy grace and such a measure of charity as may fully forgive them Suffer me not to open my mouth in Curses but give me the spirit of my Saviour who reviled not again but was dumb like a Lamb before his shearers O Lord sanctifie all these afflictions unto thy servant and let no man take away my crown Remember those that are in troubles for thy truth and put their tears into thy bottle Grant this O merciful Father for my dear Saviours sake and bring me quickly into thy Kingdom where I shall have all these tears wiped away from mine eyes Amen Amen! MAN IN Darkness OR A DISCOURSE OF DEATH Eccles. 11.7 8 9 10. TRuly the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is to behold the Sun But if a man live many dayes and rejoyce in them all yet let him remember the dayes of darknesse for they are many Rejoyce O young man in thy youth and let thy heart cheere thee in the dayes of thy youth and walk in the wayes of thy heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgement Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart and put away evil from thy flesh for childhood and youth are vanity Draw neer fond man and dresse thee by this glasse Mark how thy bravery and big looks must passe Into corruption rottennesse and dust The fraile Supporters which betray'd thy trust O weigh in time thy last and loathsome state To purchase heav'n for tears is no hard

and from the inward darknesse of their minds passe at last into the outward eternal darknesse O most miserable and undone soul to whom thy Sunne is set that everlasting glorious Sun which in thy holy Elects never setteth but is alwaies at the height full of brightnesse and Consolation A heavie night sits in the noone-day upon those souls that have forsaken thee They look for light and behold darknesse for brightnesse and they walk in obscurity They grope for the wall like the blind as if they had no Eyes They stumble at noone-day as in the night they are in desolate places as dead men But on those that walk with thee an everlasting day shines This Sun of the firmament hath his Course it riseth setteth comes up again and again goes down But thou Lord knowest no vicissitudes thou art the Ancient of dayes thou art the Rock of ages from Everlasting to Everlasting O thou the same to day and yesterday and for evermore Thou bright and morning Starre springing from on high illuminate me who am now sitting in darknesse and in the shadow of death O light of light the brightnesse of thy Fathers glory inlighten all inward obscurities in me that after this life I may never be cast into the outward darknesse O most blessed most merciful and Almighty Iesu abide I beseech thee with me for it is towards Evening and the day is far spent Luke 24. As long as thou art present with me I am in the light but when thou art gone I am in the shadows of death and amongst the stones of emptinesse When thou art present all is brightnesse all is sweetnesse I am in my Gods bosome I discourse with him watch with him walk with him live with him and lie down with him All these most dear and unmeasurable blessings I have with thee and want them without thee Abide then with me O thou whom my soul loveth Thou Sun of righteousnesse with healing under thy wings arise in my heart refine quicken and cherish it make thy light there to shine in darknesse and a perfect day in the dead of night A Prayer for the Evening MOst gracious Almighty God! full of loving kindnesse and long-suffering whose mercy is above all thy works and thy glory above the heavens whose truth reacheth unto the Clouds and whose words shall never passe away forgive me I beseech thee my transgressions this day my vain thoughts idle words and loose conversation my exceeding neglect and forgetfulnesse of thee my headlong inclinations and lusting after the world preferring this land of Cabul before the snow of Lebanon and a broken Cistern before the Well of life Justly O Lord might'st thou have shewed me thy back this day and cut me off from amongst thy people Ier. 18.17 but thou hast had mercy and not sacrifice thou hast shed upon me the light of thy Countenance and removed my sins farre out of thy sight I know O my God it is not in man to establish his own ways it is thy Almighty arme must do it It is thou alone that hast led me through this day and kept me both from doing and from suffering evill And now O thou preserver of men What shall I do unto thee What shall I render unto my Lord for all the mercies and loving kindnesses shewed unto thy servant this day and all the dayes of my life hitherto I will offer unto thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call upon the name of the Lord. I will ever love thee fear thee praise thee and trust in thee My song shall be of thee in the night season and in the day time I will be speaking of thy wondrous works thy most merciful and liberal arme I will make thee my Delight in the house of my pilgrim●ge and I shall alwayes with all my strength with all my heart and with all my soul ascribe unto thee all glory wisdome majesty dominion and honour this day and for evermore Amen A Prayer when thou art going into bed MOst glorious and onely wise God! to whom the light and the darknes are the same whose dwellings are eternal and in whose Kingdome there is no need of Candles nor of the light of the Sunne look I beseech thee upon thy servant who tarries in this place all night Gen. 28.11 And forasmuch as thou out of thy tender love and Compassion on thy Creatures hast ordained this time for their repose and refreshing that having past through the Cares and dangers of the day they might under the shadow of thy wings finde rest and security keep me I most humbly beseech thee from the hours and the powers of darknesse watch over me this night in thy Almighty providence and scatter all the rebellions and devices of my Adversaries Inlighten my soul sanctifie my body govern my affections and guide my thoughts that in the fastest closures of my eye-lids my spirit may see thee and in the depth of sleep be Conversant with thee Suffer me not O my God to forget thee in the dark or to say The Lord seeth me not The Lord hath forsaken the earth Ezek. 8.12 but so keep me in thy fear and sanctifie me with thy grace that all the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart may be alwayes of thee Make my soul to thirst for thee and my flesh also to long after thee And at what time soever thou shalt awake me from this bodily sleep awake also my soul in me make thy morning-star to arise in my heart and let thy spirit blow upon my garden that the spices thereof may flow out Quicken me O Lord according to thy wonted kindnesse so shall I seek thee early and make my prayer unto thee with joyful lips And now O my most loving and faithful Creatour take me I beseech thee into thy Almighty protection stretch over me the Arme of thy mercy let thine Eye be towards the work of thine own hands and the purchased possession of thy onely begotten and my most merciful Redeemer Iesus Christ Amen ¶ As often as thou dost awake in the night be sure to lift up thy heart unto God in this or the like short Ejaculation Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabbath heaven and earth are full of the majesty of thy glory By resorting thus unto God thou shalt finde a great furtherance and cheerfulnesse in thy spiritual exercises and besides it will keep always about thee the savour of life And because thou shalt not be unfurnished upon any incident occasions I have strowed here this handful of savoury herbs which thou mayest take up as thou findest them in thy way EIACULATIONS When the Clock strikes BLessed be the houre in which my Lord Iesus was borne and the houre in which he died O Lord Remember me in the houre of death When thou intendest any businesse or Journey O do well unto thy servant that I may live and keep thy Word When thou art persecuted Haste thee O God to deliver me

I sent the hornet before you which drove them out from before you even the two kings of the Amorites but not with thy sword nor with thy bowe And Isaiah Chap. 6 ver 18 19. And it shall come to passe in that day that the Lord shall hisse for the flye that is in the uttermost parts of the river of Egypt and for the Bee that is in the land of Assyria And they shall come and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys and in the holes of the rocks and upon all thornes and upon all bushes I say then do not we see that these birds and inferiour creatures which in the spring and summer continue here very merry and musical do on a sudden leave us and all winter-long suffer a kind of death and with the Suns warmth in the youth of the year awake again and refresh the world with their reviv'd notes For the singing of birds is naturalis musica mundi to which all arted strains are but discord and hardnesse How much more then shall Iesus Christ the Sun of righteousnesse rising with healing under his wings awake those that sleep in him and bring them again with a joyful resurrection Having then these prolusions and strong proofs of our restoration laid out in nature besides the promise of the God of nature who cannot faile let us so dispose of this short time of our sojourning here that we may with joy and sure comforts expect that day of refreshing Let us number our dayes and apply our hearts unto wisdome What ever happens here under our feet let it not draw down our eyes from the hill whence cometh our help Let not these sudden and prodigious mutations like violent earth-quakes shake our foundation let us hold fast the faith and presse towards the mark that whether absent or present we may be accepted of him for many are already gone astray and have slipt into the same damnable estate with those wretches whom a very Heathen could reprove Sunt qui in fortunae jam casibus omnia ponunt Et nullo credunt mundum rectore moveri Naturâ volvente vices lucis anni There are that do believe all things succeed By chance or fortune that nought's decreed By a divine wise will but blindly call Old time and nature rulers over all Let us consider him that is invisible and those that are righteous let them be righteous still let them have respect unto the recompence of the reward for he comes quickly and his reward is with him Let us endure unto ehe end and overcome that we may have right unto the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the City for Ex hoc momento pendet aeternitas Upon our little inch of time in this life depends the length and breadth the height and depth of Immortality in the world to come even two eternities the one infinitely accursed the other infinitely bless●d I remember saith a reverend Author that I have read and not without admiration of some Primitive Christian that considered with himself the eternity of the torments to be endured in hell after this manner What man living said he that were in his right minde and reason if he were offered the most spacious and flourishing Kingdoms of France Spain and Polonia onely for lying continually upon any one part of his body in a bed of roses for the space of forty yeers would accept of them upon that condition And though perhaps such a mad man could be found as would accept of the offer yet it is a thing most certain that before three pe●rs would come about he would get him up and beg to have the conditions cancell'd And what madnesse then is it for the enjoying of one minutes pleasure for the satisfaction of our sensual corrupt appetite to lie for ever in a bed of burning brasse in the lake of eternal and unquenchable fire Suppose saith the same Writer that this whole Globe of earth were nothing else but a huge masse or mountain of sand and that a little Wren came but once in every thousand yeers to fetch away but one grain of that huge heap what an innumerable number of yeers would be spent before that world of sand could be so fetcht away And yet alas when the damned have laine in that siery lake so many yeers as all those would amount to they are no nearer coming out then the first houre they entered in To the same purpose is this Hymne of the Ancients Ex quo poli sunt perfecti Audet numero complecti Stellas coeli still as roris Vndas aquei fluoris Guttas imbris pluvialis Floccos vellerisni valis Quot sunt vere novo flores Quot odores quot colores Quot vinacios Autumnus Poma legit vertumnus Quot jam grana iulit aestas Frondes hyemis tempestas T●tus orbis animantes Aër atomos volantes Pilos ferae pecus villos Vertex hominum capillos Adde littoris arenas Adde graminis verbenas Tot myriades Annorum Quot momenta saeculorum Heus adhuc aeternitatis Portus fugit à damnatis AEternum aeternum quanta haec duratio quanta Quàm speranda bonis quámque tremenda malis From the first hour the heavn's were made Unto the last when all shall fade Count if thou canst the drops of dew The stars of heav'n and streams that flow The falling snow the dropping showres And in the moneth of May the flowres Their sents and colours and what store Of grapes and apples Autumne bore How many grains the Summer beares What leaves the wind in Winter tears Count all the creatures in the world The motes which in the air are hurl'd The haires of beasts and mankind and The shores innumerable sand The blades of grasse and to these last Adde all the yeers which now are past With those whose course is yet to come And all their minutes in one summe When all is done the damneds state Out-runs them still and knows no date O Eternity eternity saith a holy Father whose strength is able to bear out thy torments And the smoke of their torments ascēdeth up for ever ever they have no rest day nor night O what is this same for ever and ever Gladly would I speak something of it but I know not what to speak All that I know is this That it is that which onely the infinitenesse of the Almighty God doth compasse about and comprehend Seeing then it is so that eternal pleasures or eternal pains do inavoidably and immediately overtake us after our dissolution with what unwearied care and watchfulnesse should we continue in well-doing and work out our salvation with fear and trembling How should we as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fl●shly lusts which warre against the soul What manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godlinesse With what Christian thrift and diligence should we dispose of every minute of our time that we