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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29649	The way to the Sabbath of rest, or, The souls progress in the work of regeneration being a brief experimental discourse of the new-birth in which many of the serpents wiles are detected, the mysteries of the Cross unvailed, the death of the old man, the life of the new man, the angelical dispensation, with the entrance to the divine / clearly laid open and discovered by Mr. Thomas Bromley.	Bromley, Thomas, 1629-1691.	1692 (1692)	Wing B4888B; ESTC R35790	39,085	70

a new Impression which more exciting the Powers of the Soul to a new Imbrace opens the way more for the King of Glory to enter with that power and unutterable force of Divine Love that the Soul becomes filled swallowed up and transported into a kind of Rapture not being able to express those Pleasures Gusts Imbraces Love-Extasies which then are piercing thorough it nor sufficient Praises and Hallelujahs to the great King of Saints who bestows such Royal tokens of Love upon it And as in this state there is such holy Commerce in pure Love betwixt God and the Soul so there is betwixt the Soul and other Saints who cannot but wonderfully own and love one another and delight in that likeness of God which they see in each other and bless him for those living Powers of Grace and Love that are communicated in the Worship of God by which they exceedingly refresh each others Spirits Now this mutual love chiefly flows from a sight and sense of Oneness which exceedingly enforceth this great closing and out-slowing of Spirit to delight comfort and refresh one another And here is that strength of Love that we could give our lives for the Brethren and endure much Affliction to flee them from sufferings Here we bear one anothers Burdens and so fulfil the Royal Law of Love for we can keep nothing as our own but what we heartily communicate and make our Brethren partakers of because they are part of our selves Here we come to practice that heavenly Law of loving our Neighbours as our Selves and of doing Gods Will on Earth as it is done in Heaven for which end Man and the visible World were brought forth For the breaking forth of sin and wrath was not according to Gods most pure and holy Will which is good and tends to Salvation and Blessing and the keeping of his Creatures in that primitive Harmony in which they came out of Gods hands as fitted to glorifie him through mutual Love and regular Obedience And this is the end of Christs Coming into the World of Mans Nature even to restore it from the Discord of Sin and Wrath to the Harmony of pure Love and Righteousness therefore 't is a happy state to have attained this Habit of Love before described which will not terminate within the Sphere of our Neighbours and Brethren but in some measure flow out to all causing us to breath after endeavour and pray for their Change for it is the Nature of true Love to communicate it self and to delight in propagating its own heavenly Image that so many may come to partake of Bliss and Happiness through it And in this Enjoyment if we find any that know and posses but little yet thirst much after God O how will our hearts burn within us How ready shall we be to employ our Talents for their good and to discover that Way which leads through Nature into the Kingdom of the Love What labour and pains could we take to be instrumental in changing and quickning them and in bringing them through the Cross to our ovvn state of Happiness so that this Dispensation abounds much in Love both to God and our Neighbour fitting the Soul for Ascention into Eternity there to see and know with Satisfaction and Delight those Wonders which the holy Angels and glorifyed Saints are continually viewing with Joy and Admiration Blest is that Soul which is arrived here Where quickning Love casts out dejecting Fear And gives that sweet Composure to the Mind That it lyes passive to that Holy Wind Which blowing from the highest Paradise Invites the Soul to come and Sabbatise In that bright day where the Arch-Angels sing Sweet Hallelujahs to our Christ their King CHAP. XVI Being the Conclusion to the Rest THE Soul being brought thus far in the Heart-Work by the Power of Jesus through the practice of the Cross in Self-denial and Resignation lives in habitual springings up of the Love in the Centre of it's Spirit where the work is near finished the Will being constantly drawn toward the Heart of God in the Chariot of Love And in this State the Soul is completely fitted for Ascension and the opening of the Eternal World which is part of the Head-work for in that the spiritual Eye is seated which is capable to see and know the wonders of Eternity And though some in a rapture may be taken up into that World long before the work in their Hearts Wills and Affections is finished yet such must afterward go through the work in Nature of rectifying all their Properties and of bringing their Wills into Death and pure Resignation that so they may be fitted for the Birth of the Love whence its clear that this State of Regeneration attained in the Will through the Death is far more considerable and nearer Perfection than the highest Rapture without such a foregoing work and the Ascension after this work of Regeneration in the Heart is more weighty and more tending to Perfection than any Rapture of Transportation before can be because by such a Work the Will is wrought up into a constant Union with Christ which by Ascension is more confirmed and established the Heart through that being more raised above all mortal corruptible Objects and more reduced into a passive silent waiting for the Opening of the Eternal Temple whence the infallible Voice proceeds and where the great High-Priest sparkles with the most bright Beams of divine Glory But the manner of the Souls Ascending from the Internal to the Eternal World is very remarkable and wonderful It cannot of its self move one degree upward That same hand of power which carried it downward to see the Wonders of God in the Depths must carry it upward to see his Wonders in the high places above So that in this the Soul is meerly passive The Spirit of Christ being the Agent which descending with an over-shadowing Vertue upon it wraps it up swiftly and in a strong force by which the Souls Acts are for a while suspended translates it as it were in a strait Line from the Inward toward the Inmost In this Translation or Ascension what Wonders are seen and felt I shall not particularly express But in general this I must declare That there is an unutterable Power transfusing the Soul in this Ascent which first comes into the Womb of the Invisible Worlds out of which they issue in which it finds an Universal Silence or Stilness and above which it discovers a great Glory inhabited by glorified Spirits who there live in perpetual Harmony and Joy singing Halelujahs to the Lamb of God and continually waiting upon the Infallible Voice proceeding from the Throne of God To be taken into this is a further degree of Ascension being the second Mansion in the Eternal World where Myriads of Angels attend those Commands which come out of the Most holy place which is the last and highest Mansion in that World answering to

Soul being now sensible of its present state and seeing that there 's no Safety where the Devils have such access and influence sinks down into the Mercy and Love of God and flies to the Cross imbracing and delighting in it that so the Blood of the Cross may be shed into it to cleanse it throughout and to take away those Stains which are the Devils Mansions And here it clearly finds there 's no way of triumphing over the Prince of Death but through Death so it dies daily to that the Evil One lives in and lives to that which is death to Sin In this way there may much Discouragement sometimes seize on the Soul through the strength of Satans working and the reluctancy of Flesh and the Outward Man which is loath to subject his Neck to the sharp Axe of Death But this Bitterness is recompenced with that Refreshment the Soul finds in its Constancy of Self-denial which is attended with many glances of Divine Comfort darting in upon the Soul to encourage it and though it should for a while remain in this Progress which is bitter to the Flesh without any sensible Comfort which may well be through that great opposition the Dragon will make at this remove of the Soul yet when Patience hath had its Work and the Soul is come to be wrapt up in Contentation and Passiveness as to any Change of its Condition and so fitted for Enlargement the showers of God's Love will seasonably and sweetly descend to the strength and blessed Support of the Heart so that it will be forced to cry out It is good that a Man should both hope and quietly wait for the Salvation of the Lord And what the Spirit sometimes now enjoys so sweetens the Cross that it cannot but thus break forth Why should the Soul refuse that Cross That Gold returns instead of Dross Why should it fear that piercing Nail Which rends away the fleshly Vail And gives a Prospect of that Place Which Time and Age cannot deface CHAP. VI. BY this time the Soul begins to delight in the habit of strong Self-denyal and watches diligently over its self to discover whatever is to be slain upon the Cross of God's pure Will and now it begins to be ashamed of all Passions and Affections that flow from the Animal Man and therefore much restrains it and keeps it in subjection to the Angelical which is according to that Order God himself set at the beginning Now it likewise sees how the Animal Mortal part with its Motions and Passions is too much imbraced by most few understanding how it was in the Beginning or how it is to be changed and again subjected to the Angelical Part in the Children of the Resurrection But the Soul having now some Sight and Enjoyment of the inward Spiritual Body raised from the dead is much ashamed of the outward Body which stands in the Curse under awakened Wrath seeing what Temptation Spirits are exposed to by Union with this which should continually be under the Law of Mortification till its Change lest through its Earthly Inclination it should infect the Intellect and draw the Immortal Soul into Defilement which now dares not hearken to the Allurements of the sensitive Spirit which as tempting Eve oft presents the Apples of Mortality as those which are pleasing to the Eye and good for Food But through the renewal of the Spiritual Body with its five Faculties or Powers answering to the five Senses of the External Body the Objects and Pleasure of the Outward begin to be forgot and to displease instead of alluring and affecting the Heart For by the Exercise of the Internal Senses we see Spiritual Objects as the Internal Light-World Visions of Angels and Visions of Representation In this state we likewise hear the Songs Voices and Harmony of Angels with the Harpers upon Mount Sion who there continually praise the Lord We smell the Perfumes of Christ's Garments and are oft entertained with Paradisical Odours We touch and feel the powerful tincture of Christ's Body which many times strongly affects the Heart with powerful delight We also oft taste the Heavenly Manna and those Dews of Paradise which are sweeter than Honey to that Part which receives them I could here more largely particularize the several Objects Delights and Enjoyments of the inward Spiritual senses but because there may be great Variety according to the different Gifts and Capacities of several Persons and in regard some for ought I know may pass far in the Progress of the New Birth without a particular knowledge of those Enjoyments I shall not instance in many particulars I could nor set down my own with some others peculiar and various Experiences Yet in general I cannot but affirm that the unlocking the Sences of the inward Man is a great Priviledge and that the Soul by it attains many great Supports and Refreshments to uphold it and give it incouragement to hold out to the end For truly this Communion it lives in now with the Angels of God and other Divine Objects continually minds it of Heaven and Paradise and exceedingly draws the Heart from all that is in the World where Death and Corruption is wrote upon every thing And the Dragon and Beasts bring forth their various Wonders But in this state the Soul blesseth God for that Constancy he afforded under the Cross and for that Death it hath undergone in Resignation to his Will which hath proved a passage into this Life in which the Soul beholds the opening of a New World with its glorious Hoasts And begins to feel the Sweetness of the Angelical Life and to see what we fell from by descending into the Spirit of Mortality and the sensitive Nature Now this state cannot be attained but by a Death to that which was the chief Ingagement of the Soul to the World and the primary Chain that hindred its gradual Ascent towards God And we may find there is something in every one which is the Souls Dalilah that shaves its Locks and betrays its strength and whilst this remains it cannot effectually grow in the Love of God and Conformity to Christs Death But when this subtle Harlot comes to be discovered and killed the Soul flies apace and very swiftly to Eternity for when this Wheel is taken away the smaller that depended on it lose their strength and motion and so cease with it giving Freedom to the Soul of tending towards its true Center which having regained this Liberty and attained in some Measure the Restoration of the Holy Powers of Sensation sings a Song of praise to God in this manner Blest be that Power which hath that Idol broke Which did so long depress me with her Yoke Blest be that Hand which hath restor'd to me An Eye within this World a World to see Where Angels and blest Spirits freely move As they are acted by the Laws of Love Whence they a Visit sometime deign