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A31893 The art of divine meditation, or, A discourse of the nature, necessity, and excellency thereof with motives to, and rules for the better performance of that most important Christian duty : in several sermons on Gen. 24:63 / by Edmund Calamy ... Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. 1680 (1680) Wing C227; ESTC R952 107,034 224

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Principles not being able to hold out in meditation to keep themselves from wandring thoughts read in the Bible this in it self is not sinful but this is not sutable nor proper for certainly the proper way of meditation at the Sacrament is to be raised up in the Sacramental Elements the Sacramental actions the Sacramental promises and therefore thou must make the whole Sacramental frame and carriage to be thy Bible at the Sacrament and learn to be raised up by that to Heavenly Meditation The fifth Particular in order is the Materials of Meditation and here I am to shew you what are those Divine Truths that we are to meditate upon this is a subject of large comprehension for the truth is there is no divine object but it doth deserve our serious meditation Give me leave to make you a Common-place-book of Divine Meditation I will lay down some heads of Divinity that a Christian ought to spend his life in meditating upon sometimes upon one of them sometimes upon another of them as for example he that would avoid all sin and thrive in all godliness must meditate frequently and seriously of Death of Iudgment of Heaven and Hell these are called quatuor Novissima the four last things 1. You must meditate of death now I will not shew you how you should go about to meditate of death but I will give you some heads to help you 1. You must meditate of the certainty of death there is nothing so certain as that thou must die 2. You must meditate of the uncertainty of death there is nothing so uncertain as the time when we must die death comes certainly and death comes uncertainly death comes suddenly there is no Almanack can tell you when your death shall come your Almanacks will tell you when the next Eclypse of the Sun and Moon will be but they will not tell you when the eclypse of your lives shall be And death comes irresistibly it comes like pain upon a woman in travel it comes like an armed Giant that will not be resisted when it comes 3. You must meditate concerning your fitness for death whether thou hast got thy graces thy evidences ready for death whether thou art a wise Virgin or a foolish Virgin whether thou hast got oyl into thy lamp or no 4. You must meditate concerning death how you may so live as to be above the hurt of death that death might be an out-let to all misery and an in-let to all happiness 5. You must meditate how to live in continual expectation of and continual preparation for death 6. You must especially meditate how to be free from the slavish fear of death there are many of Gods children that live all their lives long under the bondage of the fear of death and it is the excellency of a Christian to meditate how to be above the hurt and fear of death and for that purpose you must look upon death with Scripture-spectacles you must look upon death as the going from the prison of this life to the palace of Heaven as disarmed by Christ as perfumed by Christ as a Serpent without a sting as a passage to eternal life Thus you see how you must meditate of Death 2. You must meditate of the day of Iudgment 1. You must meditate of the terribleness of the day of Judgment it is called the terror of the Lord 2 Cor. 5. 11. It is called by the ancient Fathers the great and terrible day of Iudgment In which Iesus Christ will come in flaming fire to render vengeonce upon all those that know him not 2. You must meditate of the great assizes that will be kept at that day in which all the men and women and children that ever have lived since Adam's time to the end of the world shall all appear before the Tribunal-seat of Jesus Christ. 3. You must meditate of the great account you are to give to God at that day the strict the exact the particular account it is a day in which we must answer for all our idle words for all our idle thoughts in which all our secret sins shall be made manifest 4. You must meditate of the great separation that shall be made at that day when the goats shall be placed on the left hand and the sheep on the right hand there will be a perfect separation In this life goats and sheep are mingled together but at that day there will not be one sheep on the left nor one goat on the right hand 5. You must meditate of the happy condition of a child of God at that great and terrible day of Iudgment it shall be a day of his Coronation in which he shall be crowned with glory and immortality it shall be a day of salvation to him 6. You must meditate of the cursed condition of an ungodly man at the day of Iudgment it shall be a day of perdition and everlasting destruction to him 3. You must meditate of Heaven 1. You must meditate of the joys of Heaven that are so great that eye never saw nor ear heard nor ever can it enter into the heart of man to conceive the greatness of them 2. You must meditate sometimes of the Beatifical Vision of the blessed sight of God the Father Son and Holy Ghost and of the happiness that that soul shall enjoy that is admitted to that blessed sight for because God is infinitely perfect and all perfection is in God whosoever is admitted to the sight of God beholds and enjoys all things in God 3. You must meditate of the perfection of the happiness of Heaven 4. You must meditate of the perpetuity of the happiness of Heaven there you shall have fulness of joy and pleasures at the right hand of God for evermore 5. You must meditate of your fitness for heaven whether you are made meet and fit to partake of that glorious inheritance you must meditate whether God hath sent Heaven down into thee for no man shall ever go up to Heaven but Heaven must first come down to him you must meditate whether that Christ that hath prepared Heaven for thee hath prepared thee for Heaven 6. You must meditate what you must do that you may be meet to go to Heaven how you may lead your lives so that you may be sure at last to obtain Heavens eternity 4. You must meditate of Hell as Bernard saith you must go often down into hell by your meditation while you live and you shall be sure not to go down to hell when you die Descendamus vivenles non descendemus morientes as Chrysostome saith excellently if the not thinking of Hell would free you from Hell I would never have you think of hell but whether you think of it or no hell-Hell-fire burns and your not thinking of it will bring you thither And the reason why so many go to Hell when they die is because they do not think of Hell while they live 1. You must study the
punishment of loss what a cursed thing it is to be excluded from the presence of God for ever and ever that is one great part of hell to be shut out of Heaven to be shut out from the Beatifical Vision from the glorious presence of God and Christ and the Saints of God 2. You must study poenam census the punishment of sense for the damned are not only shut out of Heaven but they endure endless easless torments you must meditate of the hell-worm and the hell-fire the Scripture speaks of a hell-fire and a hell-worm and of the eternity of the hell-fire and the eternity of the hell-worm Mat. 9. 44 46. Where the worm never dieth and the fire never goeth out What is meant by this worm nothing else but the gnawing of an awakened conscience Oh think of this hell-worm and this hell-fire that you may never come to be so miserable as to be made partakers of it These are the first four things In the next place to give you some more he that would thrive in all godliness and avoid all sin must meditate often of God of Christ of the Holy Ghost and of himself 1. He must meditate of God and that is a rare subject of meditation David saith Psal. 104. 34. My meditation of God shall be sweet 1. Sometimes you must meditate of the Attributes of God of his Eternity a God from everlasting to everlasting You must meditate of his unchangeableness a God in whom there is no shadow of turning You must meditate of his Omnipresence a God that fills Heaven and earth with his presence Of his Essence you must meditate of his Omnipotence a God that is able to do all things nothing is impossible with God You must meditate of his Omniscience a God that knows all things to whom all things are naked You must meditate of his Simplicity and the perfection of his nature of his all-sufficiency and his self-sufficiency here is a sea of matter What rare Christians should we be if we did often and often meditate on these things instead of meditating on vanities and follies 2. You must meditate of the works of God of the work of Creation of the glorious fabrick of Heaven and Earth and you must meditate of the work of Redemption that glorious work of God in sending Jesus Christ into the world this meditation is that which swallows up the Angels and Saints in Heaven You must meditate of the wonderful love of God in giving Christ to become a curse for us You must meditate of the incomparable goodness of God in giving the Son of his love his natural Son to die for his adopted Sons 3. You must meditate in what relation you stand towards God whether you stand in a Covenant-relation to God or no whether you stand reconciled to God or no whether God be your reconciled Father in Christ or no 2. You must meditate upon Christ. 1. You must meditate of the Divine Nature of Christ he is God from everlasting he is coequal coessential coeternal with his Father 2. You must meditate of the humane nature of Christ of God manifested in the flesh of God made man the union of two Natures into one Person 3. You must meditate of the Offices of Christ of the Kingly office the Priestly office the Prophetical office of Christ but more especially you must meditate of the Life the Death the Resurrection the Ascension the Intercession of Christ. 1. You must meditate of the Life of Christ and examine whether thy life be answerable to his life if thou dost not live as Christ lived thou shalt have no benefit in Christs Death and Passion thou must meditate of Christs life to follow the example of his life 2. You must meditate of his Death that is a rare meditation to prepare you for the Sacrament 1. You must meditate what Christ suffered what he suffered when he was in the Garden when he sweat drops of blood and prayed Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me Oh the bloody agony that Christ was then in And then you must meditate what Christ suffered when he was upon the Cross when he cried out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me When there was darkness for three hours together upon the face of the earth when there was darkness without and darkness within too when there was a withdrawing the light of Gods countenance from Christ. You must meditate what Christ suffered in Pilates Hall when he was whipt scourged buffeted Oh what love to Christ would this kindle in your hearts if you had serious meditation of these things 2. You must meditate for whom Christ suffered all these things for us when we were his enemies us wretched damned creatures not the blessed Angels but us us sinful men 3. You must meditate who he was that suffered all this even Jesus Christ the eternal Son of God 4. You must consider with what love he suffered all this infinite love the height and depth and length and breadth of the love of God in suffering all this for us 5. You must consider what interest you have in Christ crucified whether Christ was crucified effectually for thee or no 3. You must study the Resurrection of Christ. 4. You must study the Ascension of Christ. 5. You must study the Intercession of Christ the sitting of Christ at the right hand of God the Father where he lives for ever to make Intercession for you 3. You must meditate of the Holy Ghost and there are rare things to fill up your thoughts 1. You must meditate of the Divine nature of the Holy Ghost that the Holy Ghost is the third person in the Trinity that the Holy Ghost is God blessed for ever 2. You must meditate of the Office of the Holy Ghost it is the office of the third Person in the Trinity to bring us into the possession of all the Father hath decreed and the Son hath purchased to make us partakers of the decree of the Father and the purchase of the Son 3. You must study the Divine motions of the holy Spirit and we must meditate how often we have quenched the Spirit of Christ how often we have resisted these motions how often we have imbraced these motions 4. You must meditate of the grace of the Spirit this will open a door to a great deal of excellent matter you must meditate of the grace of faith the grace of repentance the grace of love to God and Christ and thy neighbour the grace of fear of God and the grace of humility that is you must meditate whether your faith be a right faith or no whether it be the faith of a Simon Magus or the faith of a Simon Peter whether it be an Historical faith only or a justifying faith and whether your repentance be a true repentance or no and whether your love to Christ be a true love or a counterfeit love 4. You must meditate of your selves 1.