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A84659	Theion enōtikon, A discourse of holy love, by which the soul is united unto God Containing the various acts of love, the proper motives, and the exercise of it in order to duty and perfection. Written in Spanish by the learned Christopher de Fonseca, done into English with some variation and much addition, by Sr George Strode, Knight.; Tratado del amor de Dios. English	Fonseca, Cristóbal de, 1550?-1621.; Strode, George, Sir, 1583-1663.	1652 (1652)	Wing F1405B; Thomason E1382_1; ESTC R772	166,624	277

to defend him from the hurt or violence of the weather so that the love of the first is like that of the Strumpets all for reward or what will ye give me and by these means he makes the principall of what he should love God but the accessory to the thing he loves and the accessory indeed the things of the world and flesh he makes the principall part of his love Whereas the true lover makes God the prime originall principall cause and mover of all his love and all things else but subordinate and subservient to this love The regenerate and unregenerate children of God in this world make use of Gods blessings and so return their love to God as Isaac blessed his two sons Jacob and Esau where the father in blessing Jacob ver 28. begins with heaven Gen. 27. God give thee of the dew of heaven yet he after adds the fatnesse of the earth but in blessing Esau ver 39. he begins with the earth Behold thy dwelling shall be of the fatnesse of the earth and of the dew above In like manner God gives his truly beloved Israel the dew the desire and love of heaven in the first place but to the Edomite first the fatnesse of the earth and according as their desires are set so also are their loves this mans to the world and the others to God And by these their loves as by certain and infallible rules ye may know and discerne what they are CHAP. XX. The love of the heavenly Angels unto man IN this Chapter of Angels my Authour is very large and attributes mare unto Angels then I can finde sufficient ground for therefore I shall abbreviate and deliver no more from him then I conceive is warrantable Which is In Scripture we have no mention of an Angel untill the world was above nineteen hundred years old Gen. 16.7 and who that Angell was that appeared and talked with Hagar is questioned By the learned among which many are of opinion that it was God himself for that he said ver 10. I will multiply thy seed and that she answered v. 13. and called the name of the Lord that spake unto her Thou God seest me But if this were not God but a created Angell the question may be wherefore Moses so faithfully and fully speaking of Gods works in that great Creation neither then nor in all the time since till this of Genesis hath any word of an Angell Some are of opinion that Moses writing more especially to his Countrymen the Jews omitted the history of the Angels creation lest the Jews over apt as the most simple people are to Idolatry might by it have fallen into such an esteem of them as to have adored them Or Moses writing his history of the Creation in brief exprest onely what more directly concerned man to know concerning his duty and service to God yet when he finds a just and necessary cause he then omits not to speak of them as in this story of Hagar Now what they are though we have not in Scripture any exact discourse or definition of their natures yet the Psalmist hath exprest the end and office why they are created when he saith God shall give his Angels charge over thee Psame 91.11 to keep thee in all thy waies and this that they may the better do he adds in another Psalme He maketh his Angels Spirits Psalme 114.4 his Ministers a flaming fire or a flame of fire as the Apostle renders it Which summed up the result will be Heb. 1.7 that Gods good Angels are created for the good and benefit of Gods good servants on earth to whom under and from God they are in a kinde of ministery or service as is expresly spoken by the Apostle Are they not all ministring Spirits Hebr. 1.14 sent forth to minister for them who shall be heires of salvation And Psa 34.8 The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that feare him and delivereth them And that they may do God service for mans good God hath made them for their activenesse agile and swift as Spirits and for their fervency and zeale in discharge of their office as a flame of fire The Scripture is plentifull in the confirmation thereof therefore when Hagar is blessed in the promise of a great issue Gen. 16. it is done by an Angell and when she and her son were in a fami●hing distresse they receive their comfort by an Angel Gen. 21.17 and they were Angels that brought and delivered Lot out of the fire in Sodome Gen. 19. ●15 When King Hezekiah and the people of Judah were in eminent danger to be swallowed up and destroyed by the vast and potent army of the Assyrians 2 Kings 19. then the Angel of the Lord smote of the Assyrians in one night 185000. And we finde the three servants of God cast into the fiery Furnace when God sends his Angell and delivered them that trusted in him then Daniel cast into the Lions Den Dan. 3.28 we see in the same place the Angel of God shutting the Lions mouths Dan. 6.22 that they cannot hurt him And the blessed Babe Christ his Mother and supposed Father being in jeopardy of their lives by that blood-sucker Herod Matth. 2.13 behold the Angell of the Lord counsels and guides them forth from the malice and rage of that tyrant And an Angel of the Lord did as much for Peter Act. 12.8 when he was cast into prison and ready the same night to have been destroyed by another Herod Many rare examples have we of the deliverances of Gods servants out of great and imminent dangers and of other their helps and comforts in time of need and distresse by the hand and help of Gods ministring Spirits the good Angels To shut up all they were Angels who pronounced John the Baptist to be the light and forerunner of the Messias 〈◊〉 1.13 Mat. 1.10 They were Angels who proclaimed the birth of the Son of God Mat. 4.11 our for ever most blessed Saviour Angels they were that ministred unto him after his long fasting Luk. 22.43 and that comforted him in his sad passion Matth. 28.5 and Angels that preached the joy of his resurrection Joh. 20.12 Thus farre we may safely go and with the warranty of Sacred writ pronounce to Gods glory and his mercy the loving offices performed by Angels to Gods dear servants but to say as my Authour and diverse otherwise learned Divines do that every particular man hath his Tutelar guardian Angel to attend guide and protect him I cannot say for the two places by them cited to prove this where it is said of the little Ones Mat. 18 1● Their Angels in heaven do behold the face of God which is in heaven and that where it is said of Peter It is his Angel Act. 12.15 confirme not their Tenet For by their Angels and his Angel in those two

calling which is agreeable to the first foundation and building up of the world Where at first no sooner was the stage of the world reared but that our first father Adam was set to acting that is to speak plainly Adam was set to dress the garden and not only the children of Adam who were heires of the world spent their time in tilling and sowing the earth or in keeping and feeding sheep but the Patriarchs Abraham Isaac and Jacob though Lords of great possessions and masters of many servants and powerfull to fight with and conquer Kings yet these witness the holy writ lived not as our Gentlemen do but as the Apostle counsells and commands us they lived and exercised themselves in honest callings for they knew that as of idleness comes no goodness so he that lives idly to eate drink and play must be sure as the Apostle speaks that the judgement of God is according to truth Row 2.2.5 against them which commit such things and therefore that they do hereby treasure up unto themselves wrath against the day of wrath and the just judgement of God who will render to every man according to his deeds The Greeks as I am taught have a word which signifies to play the Stork whereby they understand that the love of parents to their children should beget in children a reddition and retribution of their duty to their Parents for it is storied of the Stork that as the old one hath been loving and tender to feed defend and cherish their young so the young will feed defend and carry the old when it is unable to help it self Now Christ himself Mat. 6.26 though in another case bids us behold the fowles of the aire and accordingly the Spirit of God by his pen-men grounds instructions to children in their duty to parents as S. Paul doth when he saith Children obey your Parents in the Lord Ephes 6.1 2. for this is right and again Honour thy father and mother which is the first commandement with promise and he adds a reason to his counsell on the childs behalf That it may be well with thee and that thou mayest live long and happy on the earth The Parents of Tobiah called their son implying what children should be to their parents the light of their eyes to guide and direct them Tob. 5.17.10.5 and the staff of their hand in going in and out to defend them and we have a story of a godly Christian Daughter to this purpose who in part rob'd her child that with the milk of her breasts she might nourish her father imprisoned and almost sterved by the merciless Tyrant Nor doth the Childs duty here end Eph. 6.1 but goes on to what S. Paul taught that children must obey their parents in the Lord that is in all just and lawfull things what ever they command so it be not repugnant to the word or law of the Lord which the same Apostle in an other Epistle commands saying Col. 3.20 Children obey your parents in all things that is as before in the Lord for this is well pleasing to the Lord for obeying them in all things in the Lord in so doing the children obey the Lord which commands this obedience And what the sin or punishment of disobedience is Prov. 30 17. the wise man in part hath told us when he saith The eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother the ravens those birds which of all others are least regarded as I told you by the old ones shall pick out and the Eagles shall devour them but the Apostle saying Obey and honour thy father and mother that thy days may be long and happy on earth implies no less then that he who doth not obey and honour them shall have but few or evill days while they live here besides the evill which shall follow after Our blessed Saviour hath pronounced the same plainly and fully saying God commanded Mat. 15.4 Honour thy father and mother and he that doth contrary let him die the death Prov 30.11 And yet such ungodly children have been found of whom the wiseman speaks there is a generation that curseth their father and such saith the Prophet are those who dishonour their parents Mie 7.6 and such was the accursed Cham Ge. 9.22 who proclaimed the nakedness of his father yea monsters of men have there been whom I am ashamed to name Nero who in an inhuman manner ripped up that womb of his mother where himself lay but I will tell you of the sons of S●nacherth 2 King 15.37 who fearing that their father would kill them in hope to prosper thereby as Abraham did in sacrificing his son slew their father Against which sin of paricide or killing parents the wise law-giver Solon provided no law because he thought no man could be so desperately wicked as to kill and destroy him that under God gave him life yet the Romans in detestation of this so unnaturall a sin decreed a death unheard of untill their times which was that such a parent-slayer should be closed up in a leathern sachell together with a viper art ape and a cock and so to be cast into the river to be gnawed upon to be drowned and to be sterved to death When God promised Abraham to be his exceeding great reward he replyed to Godand said Lord God wherein wilt thou reward me or what wilt thou give me seeing I am childless wherein he implyed all temporall goods and blessings were as nothing to him without an heire and then the word of the Lord came unto him saying thou shalt have an heire come forth of thine own bowells Hezekiah likewise when the Prophet told him he should dye wept that he should dye childless And barrenness or want of children is in holy writ often called a reproach yea and pronounced by God as a punishment but on the contrary a great blessing to have children Insomuch that David repining as it were at the prosperity of the wicked he reckons this as one of their greatest Psal 17 24. That they are full of children and that they leave their substance to their babes and in another psalme Ps 115.14 God will bless them that fear him and will increase them more and more them and their children and again Loe children are an heritage of the Lord Ps 127.3.5 and the fruit of the womb is his reward for they are as arrowes in the band of a mighty man and therefore happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them for they shall be able to speak with their enemies in the gate that is in the gate where the Judges sate where their children shall stand up to plead for their father and in the field they shall be as arrowes to defend him against his enemies It is storied that when Croesus was ready to be slain that his son who till that time was dumbe and never could

wished to forget their cunning if ever they forgat Jerusalem yea they wished that their tongue might cleave to the roof of their mouth and that they might never speak if they did not remember nay if they did not prefer Jerusalem above their Chief or choice joy And as their grief was such for the losse now see if as great joy were not conceived by them for the regaining of their beloved country for now they say being returned we rejoyce indeed and not only rejoyce but our joy is such as if it were a dream which coming suddenly and unexpectedly makes men l●ughor sing or exult as not knowing for joy what they do which we express when we say mad for joy and such was this joy of Gods Israel upon their return to their own country as the Psalmist there expresseth If you beleeve not me hear themselves speak their own joy when they say Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with singing insomuch that among the Heathen they said The Lord hath done great things for us that is our return home to Judea is such an act that none could have wrought for us but the Lord and thereof we are glad The Grecians held that to be their country where they thrived best and got most yea it was a Proverb among both Greeks and Romans That is a mans country where it is well with him or where he doeth well Now if this terrestriall country of smoaky unsavory earth below be so sweet and pleasing to the corporall what then must that other heavenly glorious country above be unto the spirituall man for man as he consists of two parts body and soul and in that regard man may be termed a double that is an earthly and a spirituall man which agrees with that of S. Paul 1 Cor. 15 so he hath two countries answerable and fitted to the double inhabitant therefore as for the earthly man God hath prepared this ea●thly hab●●ation so for the spirituall he hath p●●vided that heavenly and glorious country for to speak truth and as the Scripture speakes this below is not properly our country but as we are here but travellers strangers and pilgrims so we have here no abiding city nor place and therefore this cannot be our country but our Inne or guest-ch●mber wherein to lodge in the time of our passe or travail from this place of traffique or trade to our own country whence we came All this and much more will be evident to any ordinary understanding that will read the Apostle where he thus speaks Abraham when he was sent by God from his own to a strang country Heb. 11.9 obeyed for he looked for a city confessing himself a stranger pilgrim on the earth ver 10. ver 13. he declareth plainly that he sought a country and this country is called the better and the heavenly country and in this country God hath prepared for Abraham and all his faithfull seed ver 16. saith the text a city a City saith the Apostle which hath foundations as though this of the earth were instable and such foundations as whose builder and maker is God And if you will further know and see the glory of this city in this heavenly country with the excellent company and joy there to be found then read forward where the Apostle faith Yee are now in the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem Heb. 12.22 where you shall find an innumerable company of Angels the Spirits of just men made perfect yea God the Judge of all and Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant or testament whose bloud speaketh better things for us to the Judge then the bloud of Abel And this being our country indeed and that we may expresse our love thereunto Let us saith the same Apostle go forth out of this vale of misery Heb. 13.13 iniquity and country of Devils unto him Christ Jesus For here we have no continuing City but seek one to come And that this we may seek aright and so find God of his infinite mercy grant unto us for Jesus Christs sake to whom be all glory and honour Amen The End ERRATA PAge 39. Line 14. rea 3000. p. 115. l. 25. dele above l. 31. for to love him r. be loved p. 123. l. 18. for as r. for p. 125. l. 16. r. matter p. 126. l. 23. r. shew l. 34. r. no p. 129 l. 27. r. it is like the grav● p. 138. l. 19. r. he did cure and. p. 142. l. 7. r. to seventy p. 156. l. 13. r. to this p. 168. l. 17. r. for p. 170. l. 5. r. certain p. 183. l. 10. r. have p. 203. l. 16. r. who as p. 210. l. 1. r. and the new that p. 240. l. 21. r. man