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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16740	Diuine considerations of the soule concerning the excellencie of God, and the vilenesse of man. Verie necessarie and profitable for euerie true Christian seriously looke into. By N.B. G.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1608 (1608)	STC 3647; ESTC S116485	38,586	191

Glorie who seeketh it shall finde it who findeth it shall loue it who loueth it shall liue in it who liueth in it shall ioy in it and who so ioyeth in it shall be blessed by it It is brighter then the Sunne purer then Golde sweeter then the honie and the honie combe and for the worth of it it is more worth then the whole worlde it beautifies nature it rectifieth reason it magnifies grace and glorifieth loue it loueth humilitie it aduanc●th vertue it enricheth knowledge and maintaineth honour it laboureth in heauen for such as from heauen are preserued for heauen to bring them to heauen in somme it is where it is the blisse of nature the honour of reason the light of life and the ioye of loue The elect loue her the Saints honour her God onely hath her in summe so much may be said of her and so much more good thē can be said or thought is in her that fearing with the deuine light of my praise to obscure the glory of her worthynesse I will onely wish the worlde to seeke her the godly to finde her the gratious to loue her the vertuous to serue her the faithfull to honour her and all the creatures in heauen and earth to praise her and so much touching the consideration of the wisdome of God The fourth Consideration touching the loue of God OH who coulde with the eyes of wisdome in the humilitie of the hearte looke into the vertue of that grace that liueth in the loue of the Almightie should finde that sence of sweetnes that should rauish the soule of vnderstanding but though it bee in it selfe so gracious and in grace so glorious as exceedeth the exceeding o● all praise yet as a Mole-hill t● a mountaine a Flie to an Eagle or an Ante to an Elephant le● me with the poore widdow put in my myte into the treasurie in humilitie of my hear● to speake of the life of my soule which being onely in the loue of the liuing God let me speake a little in the cōsideration of the same that the vngratefull world seeing their lacke of grace may blush at their blindnes be ioyful of a better light where beholding the beautie that rauisheth the soules of the beloued they shall find the loue that is the ioy of the blessed touching the which let me by degrees speake of such points as I find most necessarie in this consideration ●et vs first I say consider this first ●oint of the loue of God that ●efore we were created for his ●eruice wee were elected in his ●oue then to make an Image to it selfe yea as it were another it selfe for the first Romans 8. Iacob haue I loued euen before he had done good or euill There is election prooued in loue When the Angell saluted Elizabeth with the message of her conception was it not of Iohn the baptist who was sent to pronounce the word of the Lord to make streight his way before him and what greater proofe of loue then to electe him to such a message againe doth not Christ the Sonne of God praye to his Father that as hee is one with his Father so his maye be one with him Oh how can there be so greate a proofe of the election of loue in Christe as by his loue to be made one with him Looke I saie into the excellencie of this incomparable loue in God towards man first to make him to his Image and not onely by his worde as by which he made all other creatures but as it were by a consent or consultation of the Trinitie about an especiall worke to the pleasing of the Deitie as it is written Let vs make man in our owne Image according to our likenesse But well may it bee saide that Nullum simile est idē for though he were perfect in respect of our corruption yet by his fall it appeareth that the creature was farre shorte of the perfection of the Creator but being falne from that perfection by the venome of temptation into the state of damnation how greate was the loue of God to effect againe by himselfe the blessed worke of his saluation for as it is written GOD so loued the worlde that hee gaue his onely begotten Sonne to death that all that beleiue in him shal be saued againe looke into the admirable loue of Christe to his beloued to come from the bosome of his Father in heauen to his graue in the earth to leaue the seruice of Angelles to be skoffed of diuelish creatures to leaue the ioyes of Paradise for the sorrowes of the worlde to leaue his Throane in heauen for a maunger on the earth to leaue his seate of iudgemente to suffer death vpon the crosse well might hee say as in respect of his sorrowes for the sinnes of the worlde with the punishement that hee was to endure for the sinnes of others himselfe without sinne when hee felte the extremitie of those paines that in the sweate of Bloud and water prooued the passion of true patience and the life of true loue Vt non est dolor sicut meus sic non est amor sicut meus for indeede he knoweth not nor can he iudge what loue is that in his heart cannot saie in honour of his loue neuer such loue the freinde to die for his enemies the maister to die for his seruants the King to die for beggers the Sonne of God to dye for the sonne of man well maye it be saide neuer such loue to leaue all pleasures to bringe thee to all pleasures to endure all crosses to worke thee all comforts to leaue Heauen for a time to bring thee to Heauen for euer What art thou that in the thought of such loue canst not saie in thy heart in the ioye of thy soule as Nullus dolor sicut eius sic Nullus amor sicuteius as no sorrowe is like to his so no loue is like to his doth not hee truely saie that can say nothing but truth loue one another as I haue loued you greater loue then this cannot be for a man to lay downe lyfe for his beloued Oh let vs a little meditate vpon this excellent comforte that is vnspeakable in God towards man through his loue was man created the goodlest creature where al other creatures haue their eyes bēt downward to the earth where they seeke their foode man hath a face looking vpwards toward heauen where the soule seeketh foode aboue the flesh Againe through the loue of God was man made the wisest creature to know the varieties of natures to giue names vnto creatures to note the courses of the heauens to till the earth and make his pathes through the seas to deuide the times to distinguish of doubts to search into knowledge and to know the giuer and glory thereof Againe through the loue of God man was made commaunder of all creatures vnder the Sunne Lord of all the earth foreseer of after-times messenger of the worde of God