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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69012	A treatise of the Beatitudes. Or Christs happy men. By James Buck Bachelor of Divinitie, and vicar of Stradbrooke in Suffolke	Buck, James.	1637 (1637)	STC 3998; ESTC S117005	201,269	350

devotion all Booke j●yn'd with Hanpole p. 193. How much the more a man loves his neighbour here so much the more hee shall see there the majesty of God As though all bodies rise in glory yet they have their distinct lustres in the day of Revelation wherein the different conditions of the Soules in glory bee expressed in the body 1. Corinth 15. There is one glory of the Sunne and another of the Moone So albeit that all glorified soules doe see GOD yet in that sight there is one degree of them who in the burthen of the flesh made it their chiefe and constant worke to purge their soule to that intent another of them that incumbred themselves with worldly cares and hardly were divided from the world by the violence of death Likewise as there are divers orders of Angels among whom the higher exceed the lower in extent of knowledge as St. Chrysostome h 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 St. Athanas de communi essentia Patris filii spiritus Sancti reasons of that Ephes 13.10 If Principalities knew not much lesse did Angels know yet all of them see the face of God Thus when the day comes that men shall be equall unto Angels and the measure of a man be as the measure of an Angell Revelation 21 some more unlearned man that studied puritie may have the place of a Seraphin when a great Clerke that was more forward to reade then to pray may bee but in the ranke of an inferiour Angell CHAP. 8. CHAP. VIII Of the fulnesse of that blisse which Saints enjoy upon Earth in contemplation of God SO much suffice for the fitnesse weigh wee now the fulnesse of the reward they shall see God and he being the truth Prìmum verum summum bonum our minds were made to know the good our wills were made to enjoy the sight of him as intellegible in this and the other world is the utmost consummation of our intellectuall faculties in both as St Basil more largely prosecutes a In martyrem lulittā 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The knowledge of God to them that are counted worthy thereof is the supreame of all good things to which all intelligent nature aspireth which God gvie us to partake in purifying our selves from the affects of corruptible flesh And againe brethren b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epist 139. ad fin Thinke not the Kingdome of God to bee ought else then the true understanding of things that are which the Scriptures also call blessednesse for the Kingdome of heaven is within you But let us severally expend this fulnesse as it concernes Contemplation while wee live by faith and vision when wee shall live by sight For the former the highest happinesse of a traveller is to see God in CHRIST and to be made privie to his good holy and perfect will to apprehend in their proper Species and operations his divine verities such fight therefore is the ayme of a comtemplator And in this our pilgrimage wee never are in such a paradice as when wee be rapt up in holy meditations of God and the profound mysteries of our Lord CHRIST One could not be happie had hee all created good but all our Felicity stands in GOD c Thom. de Kemp. de imitatione Christi l. 3. 16. not as hee is seene and praised of the simple lovers of the world but as Christ's true beleevers looke to know him and as the Spirituall and pure hearted whose conversation is in heaven doe sometimes taste him Psal 65.4 O God of our salvation happie is the man whom thou causest to approach unto thy selfe it is heaven to be with God when God therefore drawes us neere to himselfe this is heaven upon earth When wee draw nigh to him hee gives peace and quiet to all our powers and affections in him and when wee are not nigh him there is nothing but perturbation and vexation in our mindes running wilde and distracted after endlesse varieties and vanities Wherefore for a Christian to sayle in full gusts of the Spirit and by divine contemplation to be advanced above sensible devotion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and have the minde drowned in the depths of God and his incomprehensible grace these are the plaine first fruits of heaven and the abundant recompence of our Practiques The divine light is as darknesse invisible for the excelling and supereminent 〈…〉 of and inapproachable for the 〈…〉 of supersubstantiall lustre flowing from it in which the drawer neere to God is overwhelmed 1. Tim. 6.16 That light cannot bee attained or guessed at by any argumentation or Art of man otherwise it had not bin affirmed inapproachable The Lord should have bin a finite God if wee could have fully conceived him therefore the lesse wee can comprehend him the more we have to admire and adore him and in that wee see him not we may touch him as discerning him to transcend all knowledge Psal 139.6 Darknesse is Gods pavilion in this life none see him in the other none comprehend all of him God appeared in a thicke Cloud Exod. 19.16 which cloud was to obscure all things that were not God that so God might be discerned 1. King 8.12 In the thicke darknesse GOD will bee seene when all the Creatures are out of sight and respect and the soule measures not God by them but perceives him without and above them an infinite beeing of which all the Splendour in the creature is but a darke shadow In this darke all things will be indifferent to us when wee judge not of God by ought in the Creature but finde him alike in all alike without all and therefore doe not distingui●● nor 〈◊〉 but let him afford us himselfe in what he please or remove the creature to reside in ●s 〈◊〉 This is a great priviledge in the time of 〈…〉 if wee draw ●igh unto 〈…〉 pure and humble Soules hee will draw nigh unto us and compasse us with his bright rayes and thereby inflame our affections and sublimate us above our selves and conjoyne us immediatly to himselfe to become one Spirit wih him as the Iron in the fire becomes fire yet remaines Iron a taste of which elevation is so glorious that Heaven and Earth are shadowed in comparison thereof which may induce us daily to set apart some space of time to recreate our Soules in ISAACS walkes and forget the world in the thoughts of God and cease not till wee can say My meditation of him is sweet Psal 104.34 and that wee have some relish and sence how gracious the Lord is The contemplation of God is like a glasse exposed to the Sunne transformes us more and more from glory to glory in his blessed Image 1. Corinth 3.18 Psal 57.17 I will attempt to translate another straine of e In Psalm 129. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 St. BASILS that is The true beauty and most desirable and visible alone to him who is purified in heart that is all