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A79541 Christian consolations taught from five heads in religion I. Faith. II. Hope. III. The Holy Spirit. IV. Prayer. V. The Sacraments. Written by a learned prelate. Learned prelate. 1671 (1671) Wing C3943A; ESTC R232695 66,056 242

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unthankfulness will undo us if we take not heed of it O rub over your memory and consider the noble works of the Lord especially this great work how he suffered for us unto Death Remember seriously this one thing as you ought and God will let you forget nothing that will do you good There is no grievous sin which we incur but for the present Christ is forgotten as if he had never come to charge us to keep our selves unspotted from the world But look upon his wounds which bleed for our transgressions and it will stanch the flux of sin and make our hearts bleed because we have forgotten obedience In our distresses our sickness and losses we cry out that God hath forgotten us he hath forgotten to be gracious and shuts up his loving kindness in displeasure But distrust him not a Mother cannot forget her Child much-less such a Father Every tribulation which he inflicts is but a Thorn in our sides to prick us and awake us because we have forgotten God And remember the Death of Christ not only casting your eyes back to the large Histories of it in the Gospels as if that would suffice but affectingly practically zealously and then every thing else will come to mind to perfect holiness When we remember his Death we are sure he is past Death and Risen again now to Die no more and that he is Ascended into Heaven and makes Intercession for us We have obtained that Faith that we partake in the New Testament of his Bloud and that our Names being found in the Testament we are heirs of God co-heirs with Christ The custom of the world will teach us that an Heir is bound to execute the Will of the Testator to see every thing perform'd that he hath charg'd and bequeathed Do your part like a true Executor with a righteous Administration in remembrance of him But forgetfulness cannot creep upon us when there is so visible a Monument before us to bring it often into our thoughts Luther says it will help a man more in the study of Piety to meditate profoundly upon Christ's Passion one day than to read over all the Psalms of David A bold comparison It will indeed ravish the Soul with trembling to consider how much Christ loved us by how much he suffered for us it will make us look upon sin with horror which begat such torment and ignominy to the innocent Lamb of God it will Comfort our weak Faith that he who hath done so great things for us will not abandon us and having subdued our Enemies will not let them renew the Battel to overcome us it will encourage us to lay down our life for him who hath laid down his life for us My meditation of him shall be sweet I will be glad in the Lord Psalm 104.34 He hath drunk up the Cup of sorrow that I might drink of nothing but the Cup of Salvation This is the Wine Prov. 31.6 which being given unto him that hath a heavy heart confutes all the objections of Infidelity Despair an evil Conscience or whatsoever the tempter can suggest against the Hope of my Glorifications Says the Son of Syrach Chap. 49.1 The remembrance of Josias was sweet as Hony in all mouths and as Musick at a Banquet of Wine If the Name of Josias was so precious for restoring Religion what melody is there in the remembrance of Christ's Name what Musick in his Banquet which is the very Mercy-seat from whence the voice of the Lord gives the principal Oracles of Consolation Whose Definition I have reserved to be the last words of all Consolatio est conveniens Vnio potentiae cum Objecto as our best Scholars have it Consolation is a convenient Vnion of any Faculty with its Object As when the Eye meets with light it is the Comfort of the Eye When the Ear meets with harmony it is the Comfort of the Ear. What is the most transcendent Consolation therefore but the Union of the Soul with God the best Object in a real and most significative manner the Union of the Spirit with Christ in the Sacrament of his Holy Supper To whom be Praise and Glory and Thanksgiving Amen ERRATA PAge 39. line 21. read taught us p. 54. l. 18. r. these p. 59. l. 18. r. wherefore p. 146. l. 5. r. God that p. 187. in the Title read the Sacrament of Baptism THE END Some Books Printed for R. Royston since the Fire A Paraphrase and Annotations upon all the Books of the New Testament The third Edition by H. Hammond D. D. Ductor Dubitantium Or the Rule of Conscience in Four Books Folio The second Edition by Jer. Taylor Chaplain in Ordinary to King Charles the First and late Lord Bishop of Down and Conner The Sinner Impleaded in his own Court The third Edition Whereunto is now added The love of Christ planted upon the very same Turf on which it once had been Supplanted by the extream Love of Sin in 4o. A Collection of Sermons upon several occasions by Tho. Pierce D.D. and President of St. Mary Magdalen-Colledge in Oxon. A Discourse concerning the true Notion of the Lords Supper to which are added two Sermons by R. Cudworth D. D. in 4o. The Vnreasonableness of the Romanists requiring our Communion with the present Romish-Church in 8o.
more than this the first time she came to our Saviour Luke 7.37 she came into a strange house without leave and admittance into the house of a Pharisee and those hypocrites would not admit suspected sinners she takes opportunity to come at dinner-time being a guest unbidden she gives no salutation to the company but falls down at our Saviours feet and lays her kisses thick upon them says a holy writer to it it is Gregory the Great Hast thou no forehead woman hath modesty quite lest thee And he answers himself Minimè pudor intus erat That which she was asham'd of was within her she was so ashamed of her sins that she forgat all other shamefac'dness You see that Zeal will pardon boldness and will give authority to prayer to expostulate with God and hath a toleration as it were to quarrel with his mercy Now a Christian sensible of many imperfections will cry out O that I could attain to some degrees of Zeal I am no Shunamite no Mary Magdalen no Paul fervent in Spirit I am carried away with distractions when I speak unto the Lord in Prayer and through the multitude of various thoughts I forget what I am about O Christ help our frailties and keep our minds fixed upon thee when we ask any thing in thy Name One body cannot be in two places at once and one heart cannot be in Heaven and Earth together O let us cover our faces with the wings of the Cherubims Isa 6.2 that we may not see enticements to distract us Watch and Pray watch this wandring heart that it may not be stoln away by fancies that move in our mind continually like motes in the beams of the Sun Defie Satan and bid him abandon As they that have committed a robbery run away from a Hue and Cry so the Devil will run away from the noise of your Supplications when you challenge him for sacriledge that he hath robb'd you of your Devotion To do more yet I will assay to prescribe a remedy to a disease I fear not quite to be cur'd But first feel your own pulse and your fitness for the Heavenly work of Prayer before you begin it See that you be not drowzy and slothful for a sluggard will be incumbred with various and recurrent thoughts Neither would I have you to protract Prayer to that length which otherwise you would have done when your mind and devotion fail you Short and pithy Prayers Collects well fill'd with words and matter and not protracted till they may be censur'd for babbling are more prevalent with God when Zeal doth manage them than to spend out time without a fervent and well fixt intention The Prayers of the great Saints in Scripture are compendious they are strong in sense and speak home A rose is sweeter in the bud than in the blown flower and what your abate at one time in length to anticipate distraction you may fill up the measure when you will by using them the oftner I have known some servants of God very circumspect in their ways that use for the most part to read their Prayers either Printed or Written that seeing the matter of them before their eyes they might the better contain themselves from all extravagancies To which end it is prescribed in the Church of Rome though a Priest can say the Mass by heart yet he must read it out of his book to keep the closer to the intention of his duty But when all is said happy are they that offend least in this kind for all offend And who can we blame but our selves that are remiss and not half so earnest as we should be to prevail with God which I demonstrate thus Let there be any thing in our Prayers which we are more eagerly set upon to obtain than all the rest we will never start aside nor run out of our circle when we come to that petition Animus est ubi amat The mind is with that and in that which it loves If we did long for every member of our Prayer as much as for that special thing which we did so eminently desire we would continue from the beginning to the end of Prayer with little or no diversion This bottom is not wound up till I give a warning to Zeal as it is Gal. 5.18 It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing Look that your petitions be modelled into such things as the Word and Spirit do appoint and stir you up to ask and you shall not be ashamed of your sacrifice Hos 4.19 But if you be frivolous the Prophet will tell you again Ye have sown the wind and ye shall reap the whirle-wind Hos 8.7 or the Apostle tells you plainly Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss James 4.3 Ask for the kingdom of Heaven for the maintenance of God's glory for newness of life and obedience to the will of God ask for pardon of sins in Christ Jesus for grace in the Holy Ghost to resist temptations ask our offended Father for mercy to be delivered from the wrath which we have deserved and let the seventh part of our Prayer be for the things of this life and for them with moderation according to that port and person which we bear in the world and be contented with the portion allotted to you aim by this level and you hit the mark What mighty blessings did fall upon Solomon because he desired not the advantages of pomp and luxury when God put it to him in a dream what to ask he desired an understanding and a wise heart and the speech pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing 1 Kings 3.10 3. Intercessions that is Prayers wherein we mediate to God for others must now be thought of and the Comfort redounding from them The duty is strictly commanded to Pray for one another James 5.16 And I will that Intercessions be made for all men for Kings and all that are in Authority 1 Tim. 2.1 when we do so we have done what we are bidden and having done that albeit we are unprofitable servants to God we are not uncomfortable to our selves For it is the first part of the reward of a good deed that we can say to our Conscience we have done it Beside the work of love is delightful to the Spirit and to help others in our Prayers is the largest and widest work of Charity willing to do good to all upon the face of the Earth and stretching forth its hands that the whole world may be the better for the calves of our lips Chiefly commending the whole state of Christs Church to Gods mercy yet also as may be seen in our Collect used on Good-friday not forgetting to remember Christ for Jews Turks Infidels Hereticks to take from them ignorance hardness of heart and contempt of the Word not only that the Sheep of Christs pasture might be blest but that it might be well with Nero and such as he that were