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A52564 Essays divine and moral by Bridgis Nanfan, Esquire. Nanfan, Bridgis. 1680 (1680) Wing N145; ESTC R22027 58,916 216

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Meridian of Glory These Suns shall never exhale an ungrateful Cloud to obscure them never be an interposition to eclypse each others light their joys shall not be levened with the least sorrow That clear Sky shall not contract the least spot and which is more time shall never wrinkle them 6. 'T is a conceit of the Poets that in Elysium their Goblets were always full of Nectar and Ambrosia and as they still drank their Cups were replenished to an over-flowing The Saints have better assurance for the Permanency of their Paradisian Bliss Mutabimur in immutabilitatem We shall be changed into an unchangeableness Our Crowns shall continue the same splendor our Robes the same Lillied Purity our Palms the same Verdure and Fragrancy Here we are in a continued fluxibility have Springs and Palls Summers and Winters Droughts and Inundations But in our final Estate there is neither Efforescentia nec canescentia no ebbing or flowing no extinguishing of that Vestal Fire no falling of that Golden Leaf of endless Glory Because our time is here short we cut it into shreds reckon by Minutes Hours and Days But when we have once cast Anchor in the Ocean of Eternity non est heri nec hesternum there shall be no distinction of Days no reckoning Lustres or Olympiads but have one perpetual Pentecost a never ending Jubilee 7. The Arithmeticians are so bold as to tell you they can set down how many Corns of Dust make up the Globe of the Earth They will go a strain beyond that and say they can give a number to as many Grains as shall fill the spacious Concavity betwixt this and the Firmament The Mathematicians take the height and dimension of the remotest Planet put a Girdle about the Heaven it self The Philosophers will tell you of what stuff the Stars and Spheres are made It would not only pose Archimedes but baffle the Angels themselves to draw imaginary Lines about the highest Heaven summ up the Calends of Eternity 8. Here you have a Picture with a Janus Face on the one side the Features shadowed with a black Coal a blubber'd Face dishelved Hairs but he that makes a curious inspection shall find though black yet she 's comly discover a life in that sorrow beauty in that carelesness On the other side there are only some few Lines drawn to shew that something more excellent should there be shadowed Zeuxis being hopeless of pourtraicting a comly Venus limn'd only the back parts leaving the rest to fancy and imagination At best we can draw but in Water-colours those incomprehensible Glories For if Paul a Star of the first Magnitude after he had been caught up into Heaven and viewed the splendid Equipage of that place confessed that he saw things unexpressible and heard things unutterable 't is not for Dust and Ashes to bedribble with a rude Pencil such superexcellent perfections But so much satisfaction we find as to discern a strange disparity betwixt the service and the reward affliction and Glory the one so light and momentany the other so weighty and e●●●nal that it is but as a dust in the Ballance an Atom to the Earth a drop to the Ocean the one a punctum the other admits not any Philosophical Commensurations 9. Let us then like wise Merchants lay out for that rich Pearl of eternal life There are saith the Prophet that buy much with a little For taking up the Cross of Christ enduring a few temporary outrages we shall sit with him on his Throne arrayed with a blaunched Vesture For if we suffer with him we shall also reign with him Jacob served his Uncle Laban seven years for Rachel and they seemed but as a few days for the love he bare to her If we desire the Espousals of Eternity we must cheerfully undergo a few Medicinal Corrections feed upon Husks since it brings us to the fatted Calf It was an earnest of a strange affection in Agrippina Occidar modò imperet I care not how they dispose of me so that Nero reigns But holy Job looked for a better return of his Imbitterments when he took up that stout resolve Though the Lord should kill me yet will I trusl in him And likewise S. Austin Domine hîc ure hî seca ut in posterum sanes 10. It matters not how soon we get upon this pale Horse since he transmits us into Abraham's Bosom though he sears us with an hot Iron heated in Nebuchadnezzar's Furnace so he marks us for his how soon he imbalms and conduits the Body in the Grave so he serve it up for a refection at the Supper of the Lamb. If he unskrew the Wheels and Gimmers of this Building 't is to give it like a foul Watch a new scowring Though he cut down the Trunck yet care shall be taken of the Root We may dispense with a transplantation when he gathers us from Briars and Brambles plucks us out of a barren soil to set us in a more fertile Land Though our Flower sheds his Beauties hangs down the Head and dies yet the Seed shall still be preserved like China Earth such stay in the Grave shall beget a transparency Though he undress the Soul throw the Body into the Valley of dry Bones and there lodge it for thousands of years yet they shall appear Tanquam somnus unius horae but as the sleep of one hour And though sent to that slate of Dormition such names as have not defiled their Garments shall be registred in his Ephemerides in such indeleble Characters as no Index expurgatorius shall ever blot out and in his good time he will visit the Sepulchres Coemeteries of those dead recal the Souls from their Widdow-hood put unctuous matter into every dry Bone cloath them with Sinews and Flesh and spread such a Covering of Skin upon them as Moses's Face when illustrated would appear but as a darkening Veil and all to meet our Redeemer in the Clouds that he may in this lovely Dress usher us to unspeakable Glories to Heaven the Haven of our endless Rest and Happiness FINIS Books Printed for and sold by William Leach at the Crown in Cornhil near the Stocks-Market THe Sphere of Gentry deduced from the Principles of Nature an Historical and Genealogical Work of Arms and Blazon By Sylvanus Morgan Folio price one pound five shillings Scepsis Scientifica or confessed Ignorance the way to Science c. By Jos Glanvil Fellow of the Royal Society Quarto price 6 shil Catholick Charity recommended in a Sermon by Jos Glanvil Rector of Bath Quarto price 6 d. J. Goodwin on the Holy Spirit Quarto pr. 7. s. The Genesis of the World Explicated and Illustrated a new Piece of Philosophy in English Quarto pr. 7 s. A Discourse of Infallibility By Viscount L. Falkland Quarto p. 4 s. A Sermon Preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London at Guild-Hall Chappel on January 30 1677. By Henry Hesketh Rector of Charlewood in Surrey and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty Quarto p. 6 d. A Sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London at Guild-Hall Chappel Feb. 17 1677. By Edward Young Fellow of New Colledge in Oxford Quarto p. 6 d. A Sermon Preached before the Right Honourable the Lords assembled in Parliament in the Abby-Church of S. Peters Westminster upon the Fast Day appointed April 10 1678. By William Lord Bishop of S. Davids The dangerous and almost desperate State of Religion Represented in a Discourse upon Ezekiel 37.3 By Henry Hesketh Rector of Charlewood in Surrey and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty Quarto p. 4 d. The Schools Probation or Rules and Orders for certain set Exercises to be performed by the Scholars on Probation Days Made and Approved by Learned Men for the Use of Merchant-Tailors School of London Octavo price one shilling six pence Joan. Buxtorfii Epitome Grammaticae Hebreae p. 1 s. 6. d. A Cap of Grey Hairs for a Green Head or the Father's Counsel to his Son containing wholsome Instructions for the management of a man's whole life The Second Edition Inlarged by Caleb Frankfield in Twelves Directions for true Writing in particular for such English Words as are alike in sound By Richard Hodges Octavo p. 1 s. 6 d. The Mystery of Rhetorick unveiled wherein above one hundred and thirty Tropes and Figures are severally derived from the Greek into English together with lively Definitions and variety of Latine English and Scriptural Examples pertinent to each of them apart eminently delightful and profitable for young Scholars By John Smyth Gent. Octavo p. 2 s. 6 d. An Apology for the Church of England in point of Separation from it By the Right Reverend Father in God William Lord Bishop of S. Davids Octavo ERRATA PAge 10. line 9. read make p. 29. l. 21. r. our p. 30. 11. r. distract and discourage p. 36. l. 11. r. hid p. 38. 17. r. functions p. 39. l. 13. r. temperantiae p. 42. l. 22. dele th● p. 50. l. 21. r. blazon p. 54. l. 21. r. dankness p. 64. l. 18. r. ea●ing p. 67. l. 8. r. destruction p. 81. l. 2. r. long sought p. 10● l. 12. r. winy p. 111. l. 7. r. this p. 132. l. 4. r. would die mo●● readily p. 136. l. 6. r. Ray. p. 163. l. 19. r. gawll p. 165. l. 21. ● sraight p. 177. l. 12. r. savour