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A66408	The perfection of the evangelical revelation a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Jan. 6, 1695/6, being the first of the lecture for this present year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1696 (1696)	Wing W2717; ESTC R38655	14,734	36

of three Years continued that Ejaculation Thy will be done in Time and in Eternity repeating it as often as he breathed God discovered to him that infinite Treasure of the pure and continued Act of Faith and Love and that during the 36 years he lived after he always continued that pure Act of Love without ever uttering the least Petition Ejaculation or any thing that was sensible So that all is by this means resolved into a spiritual and senseless frame and course a certain stilness and quietness as Molinos expresseth it when the Soul doth not know whether it be alive or dead lost or gained agrees or resists this saith he is the true resigned life Where there is no External Service for the Mind to be concerned in no External Object to be attended to A state of Perfection that is above what the Gospel doth describe and is another Gospel than what we have in Scripture received and which there needs an uncontroulable Evidence for the want of which increaseth the suspicion For 5. There is no Evidence for all this beyond their own simple affirmation And who is there without good Evidence that can believe that those Rapturous Ladies such as Santa Teresa and Donna Marina d' Escobar did in Molinos's Phrase hear and talk with God hand to hand when he reads the interlocutory matters that are said to have passed between them as for Example Whenever saith Teresa the Lord commanded me any thing if my Confessor told me another I turned to the Lord and told him that I must obey my Confessor This saith that grave man upon it is sound and true Doctrine which secures Souls or rather confounds and destroys them This puts me in mind of what the same Author elsewhere observes The desire of Revelations uses to be a great hindrance to the interiour Soul especially to women and there is not an ordinary Dream but they will christen it with the name of a Vision The World especially one part of it has been much imposed upon when credulous this way The Pretence abovesaid of Maria Visitationis is an Instance beyond all exception who imposed upon her Confessor no less a man than Lewis Granada the Inquisition and even on the Pope himself And yet notwithstanding she pretended to somewhat more than internal for her Converse with our Saviour c. was detected at last of notorious Imposture But most of the Visionaries we are speaking of pretended not to so much And therefore where there is no external Evidence attempted by them nor that we have the gift of Intuition to see into their inward and Self-evidence we have no reason to think otherwise of such Illuminations and Introversions and Interlocutions than at best the effects of an heated Imagination But of this before And so much the rather are we to be careful in these matters and not to be too easy of belief 4. Because it may be very dangerous in the consequence of it For if instead of a Star it should prove an Ignis fatuus whither may not Persons be led under the delusion of it For what will not be concluded to be lawful nay a duty which Revelation shall warrant And where will this end if it once be credited and that we commit our selves implicitly and blindly to such an uncertain Guide So that in the issue such a Spirit of Revelation as it is not promised by God and therefore not reasonable to be expected so it is not to be desired I shall conclude this with a Saying of one conversant in that way You must not think them holiest that have Consolations Visions and Revelations for many are great Saints that never had any of them and others that had Visions and Gusts are not therefore Saints for true Sanctity doth consist in solid vertue and true conformity of our will to the will of God in all things c. I freely acknowledge that there will be a great alteration in the present state of the Church before the close of the whole and before an end shall be put to Christ's Mediatory Kingdom upon Earth When the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains and all nations shall flow unto it When the wolf shall dwell with the lamb c. and that the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea that there shall be but one Church over all the World by the conversion of the Jews and the coming in of the fulness of the Gentiles and that by the coming down of the New Jerusalem from Heaven it shall be in a state of perfect peace and there shall be in that sense a new heaven and a new earth But that is a state in reserve and there will need no evidence for that which will be self-evident In the mean time if we according to his promise look for a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness let us according to the Apostle's Advice be diligent that we be found of him in peace without spot and blameless Amen FINIS Acts 15. Acts 11. 26. Phil. 2. 8 9. 1 Tim 2. 5 6. Hebr. 9. 14 15 23. 1 John 2. 1 2. * Breviar Rom. Octob 8. Bellarm. de Purg. l. 1. c. 11. de Eucha l. 3. c. 8. * Matth. Par. Hist An. Dom. 1255. Eymericus Direct Inquisit Gul. de S. Amore de peric noviss temp Prateolus de Haer. l. 4. V. D. r Stilling fleet Fanaticism of the Roman Church Deut. 29. 29. Ex. 12. 17. Lev. 23. 14. V. Spondani Annal Eccles Ann. Dom. 1204. de Almarico Heb. 8. 13. Ex. 7. 12. 2 Tim. 3. 8. Ex. 8. 18 19. John 15. 24. Hebr. 8. 7. Matth. 28. 19. Mark 16. 15. Jam. 4. 1. Jude 3. Hebr. 9. 28. Serm. 8. of the last Year Hebr. 9. 27 28. P. 10. Jesus Maria. Joseph Teresia composed by Paul of St. Ubald 1654. Part. 3. P. 65 71 86. P. 72. Legenda aurea Bolandus c. Ubald p. 14 16 41. 2 Cor. 12. 1 c. P. 57. n. 4. Spiritual Guide lib. 1. c. 17. n. 135. Ibid. lib. 3. c. 7. n. 63. Ibid. Preface n. 17. L. 2. c. 2. c. 9. n. 71. Ibid. l. 2. c. 6. n. 46. V. Lud. à Paramo de Orig. Inquisit Bp. Wor. Fanat of the Church of Rome P. 15. Ubald ibid. part 3. c 6. n. 11. Isa 2. 2 c. ch 11. 6 c. Rev. 21. 1 c. 2 Pet. 2. 13 14.