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A36559	A spiritual repository containing Godly meditations demonstrated by 12 signs of our adoption to eternal glory / by H. Drexelius ; and now translated into English by R.W. of Trinity College Cambridge.	Drexel, Jeremias, 1581-1638.	1676 (1676)	Wing D2186; ESTC R31370	120,851	391

one who is ordained to eternall salvation is cast downe and depressed with continuall adversity is despised by all men and thought unworthy of that Grace and favour which the world dispenses to those men who have no bliffe and delight in any thing more then Riches and honour However the elect be contemned here on earth yet they are precious in the esteeme of God for that they shine inwardly with the lustre of grace and piety They feare to bee honourd and think not much to be dispis'd Their bodies may be pin'd with fasting and abstinence yet their soules are fat and replenishd with love and other vertues Their minds are alwayes prepared for suffering And being refolv'd to live and dye in their uprightnesse and integrity they rejoyce with exultation when they are loaded with scorne and Ignominy Truly the eternall and most provident Lord God uses not to pamper his servants with worldly pleasures and delights he tryes them by extremities hee hardens them by crosses and so fits and prepares them for himselfe yet so that in the meane time hee sustaines and upholds them with his promise VVhen thou passest through the waters I will bee with thee and the floods shall not overwhelme thee when thou walkest in the fire thou shalt not be burnt the flame shall not hurt thee Indeed God doth oft-tymes cast us into the water and fire he permits us to be dipt in the one and scorched in the other he makes a tryall of us by the summer heat of prosperity and the winter frost of adversity but yet those whom he has predestinated to life eternall he will not suffer to be drown'd in the water or consumd in the fire God is faithfull who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able 1 Cor 10. but will even give the issue with the tentation that you may be able to beare it Concerning this fifth note of predestination Ludov. Blosius in his book of spirituall Institution sayes excellently thus There is not one more certaine signe of Gods election then when one suffers affliction and whatsoever God shall inflict on him not with reluctancy but with patience and humility seeing that nothing can happen more profitable unto man then to be afflicted with any calamity This is that ring of inestimable price and value which God bestowes upon a soule betrothd unto him in a spirituall bond of Matrymony And it is a thing of so great worth to suffer the least trouble or persecution for God that St. Crys is bold to averre it for an undenyable truth that there is nothing better in the world then to suffer for the Glory of God Hom. 8. in c. 4. ad Ephes The Elect shall in this life drink of the Brooke in the way therefore shall they lift up their head with joy Now they are depressed and trod upon with scorne that hereafter they may be advanced to Glory in heaven like palme Trees which shoote up the higher in groth the more they are kept under and oppress'd God would have us understand with a cleare and settled knowledge that the good we seek and for which we take such paynes is not easily obtained but is hard and Infinite So that Marcus the Anchoret said not amisse God Almighty being conscious of our Imbecillity and knowing well the finfull infirmityes of our nature how that wee are prone to sloth and subject to fainting humours never bestowes any great blessing upon any unlesse he first sustaines the burthen of some calamity When Moses had obeyed Gods call and forsaken Pharaohs Court hee presently was assaulted as it were by Troopes with poverty contempt and treacheries from the King with the feare of death and therefore forced to fly for his life We see says St. Greg how that Gods elect live vertuously honestly and yet are persecuted they do well and suffer ill from whence we may collect with what severity the severe Judge of Heaven and earth will punish the ungodly and reprobate seeing that those whom he loves are by him so sharply correcttd Thou art much mistaken O Christian man if thou thinkst to goe to Heaven whole and sound without a bruise and not having a bone broken Looke about thee with an Eye of attentive observation and thou shalt perceive find that those who are rich in vertues abound for the most part in afflictions and those who abound in vices are stor'd with riches and other worldly Commodities T is true that those Beasts which are destin'd to the Shambles sport and tumble in fat-pastures whilst others are sweating under the yoke and toyling in other labours even so men who are assign'd by an eternall decree to heaven they sport not with wanton worldlings in the faire and pleasant medows of earthly delights but they lye here and there in corners bewailing their sins with sighs and grones Most true is that of Ludov. Blcsius whom God has decreed to translate to a better life and to crowne with glory and honour he uses not to wash with a soft and gentle hand but to plunge over head and eares in the salt Sea of Tribulation Galen and Hippocrates have taught us how to preserve life and maintaine it in health and strength Christ hath taught us to hate and lose it for his sake so that what Themistocles once said of himselfe all the the Saints and Martyres in heaven will hereafter confesse with joyfull and thankfull acclamation unlesse we had lost our selves we had beene lost and undone By loosing their lives for Christ many have obtaind salvation And undoubtedly many of those who are now at Gods right hand in Glory had for ever perishd and beene tormented in everlasting misery if God had not happily destroyed them here that they might be happy for ever and ever Hence it is that Paul when hee seemed lost to others found that he had made a great gaine by his losse I delight sayes he in my infirmities in reproches 2. Cor. 12. in necessities in persecution and in my distresses for Christ for when I am weak then I am strong Saint Bern. being as it were tired in his search and seeking for God at last brake forth into this expression I may O Lord with an unwearied diligence compasse heaven and earth the Sea and the dry-land yet I shall find thee no where but on the Crosse there thou sleepest there thou feedest there thou reposest thy selfe at noone-day Let us therefore follow Christ our Lord as servants do their Masters with constancy and patience in a holy Imitation of his heavenly vertues and we shall find to our everlasting joy and comfort that our light afflictions which we suffer here for a moment shall work for us an eternall weight of Glory When Athanasius was commanded by Iulian the Apostate to leave his Country he being ready to depart behoding his friends and fellow Christians to lament his banishment with bitter cryes and teares did solace them in these words Be

by his spirit which is the first union between God and us then that blessed spirit comes into the soule with discoveries The first union betweene Christ and a Soule it reveals unto it it 's maine sins the danger and filthiness of them It reveales likewise this truth that without Christ there is no salvation This discovery moves the soule to griefe and sorrow for it's sins it forceth teares from the eyes Gen. 1.2 and then the spirit of God moveth upon the face of these waters In this flood of teares the soule as I may so speak sailes to Christ and when it apprehend● it selfe by reason of it's Corruption to be in the suburbes or Iawes of Hell Gen. 8.9 it flies with the Dove to the Ark to the saving promises of the Gospell which are the Anchor and staie of our soules it takes hold on Christ and applies to it selfe for pardon of it's sins the merits of his passion Resurrection and Ascention The Application of which merits to our soules and Consciences The second Vnion between Christ the soule is the second union which is between us and Christ the Vnion of Faith And now having a tast of the goodness of God in the peace of Conscience and joy in the Holy Ghost a soule thus united to Christ is ready to cry out with that dying Martyr None but Christ None but Christ and with Saint Paul it counts all things but loss and dross in comparison of this great and incomparable purchase Phil. 3.8 This change in a soule thus trampling upon the World with scorn and contempt and prizing Christ above all earthly riches proceeds from that inward illumination of Gods Spirit proper only to the Elect convincing the soul of it's sinful wretchedness and discovering Gods Mercy reached out unto us in Christ who in his first approaches and accesses to an Elect soule to be sanctified breakes into it's dark roomes immittendo Spirituale lumen Note against the Illuminators to the time that this light neverdictates any thing repugnant to the Word by setting up as it were a Candle in it by clarifying it with spirituall * 1 Tim. 1.14.6.11 light and ravishing it with joy and Heavenly delight For when Christ is united to a Soule by his spirit and that soule to Christ by a justifying Faith which is ever attended with the band of * 1 Tim. 1.14.6.11 Love by vertue of this spirituall Vnion it being joyned to God in an holy Communion in a Communion of his Graces in a participation of his piety and Goodness in a Communication of his strength and comfort to siritaine it in all afflictions I say by vertue of that Vnion and this blessed Communion a Soule rejoyceth in God above all things with a * 1 Pet. 1. joy unspeakable and glorious a joy that can triumph and glory in the Cross rejoycing in tribulations Such a joy filled the brest and warmed the spirits of the Prophet David as appeares by that passage of his Psal 94.19 In the multitude of the Sorrowes which I had in my heart thy comforts have refreshed my soule Thus when Christ is in the heart wedded to it by Faith and love he turnes Water into Wine as he did at the marriage of Cana Ioh. 2.9 for when there are nothing but discomforts and terrors without then Christ cheares the heart within when there is nothing left but the water of affliction then Christ turnes that water into inward Consolation In the multitude of the sorrowes c. This was D●uids case and this is the happy condition of Christs servants They receive the word in much affliction with joy in the Holy Ghost Thes 1 6. They greatly rejoyce though they be in heaviness 1 Pet. 1.6 And as this joy is Divine and heavenly quoad originem in regard of the principall Author of it flowing from a divine and heavenly fountaine that is Gods blessed Spirit so it is also celestiall and divine quoad objectum because it fasteneth on divine and Caelestiall objects A soule thus filsed with joy rejoyceth in nothing more then Gods favour and in the smiles of his gracious countenance and greeves for nothing less then the loss of worldly goods so long as it enjoyes God reconciled to it in Christ Augus●nus so long as it finds Lucrum in conscientia it cares not for damnum in crum●nâ A sanctified believing Christian slights all losses whilst he hath God in his Conscience and is assured of this that he is Christ's and Christ is His. 1 Cor. 23. Aquin. 〈◊〉 Q. 28 1. Now because that Joy as the Schooles determine ariseth from the Conjunction or fruition of the thing or person we love it will follow that when this Joy which I have proved to be divine is setled in us it is accompanied with a perswasion on which it is builded that God is our God in Christ Jesus by an eternall Election for we cannot neither do we usually rejoyce in things that either are not known or are uncertaine being built upon conjectures which are ever attended with doubtfull feares When our Saviour in his instructions to the seaventy disciples willed them to rejoyce because their names more written in heaven Luk 10.20 He intimated thereby that a man may attaine to a certaine knowledge of his Election which our Divines call a certainty of Faith in opposition to the Papists assurance by Hope or a speciall certainty when by Faith resting on the merits of Christ as having satisfied his Fathers Iustice and fullfilled the Law for us we apply to our selves the promise of Salvation because we find in our selves by a reflexive knowledge the performance of the condition annexed to the promise and accordingly ●eleive without doubt or wavering that remission of sinnes and redemption from Hell purchased by Christs death or his passive obedience and life everlasting obtained by his Active belong unto us Particular Faith and its properties This particular faith is a Jewell of great worth for God and Christ Heaven and happinesse depend upon it and as it relates to the promises held forth in the Gospell unto us it is made up or compounded of these three Ingredients First a consident perswasion that if I be not wanting to my selfe not neglectfull of the meanes and so faile not on my part Christ will not faile in his Secondly a forceing of all the powers and faculties of Soule and Body to performe the condition on which the promise is made Thirdly an Applying the conditionall promise by way of comparison and selfe-examination to my particular present Estate and condition and thence drawing this sweet Inference upon sight of the condition in my selfe that I am such a one to whom the promise belongeth and shall have a part in it if I persevere in well-doing and doe in the profession of godliness as the Kine did which carried the Ark to Bethsh●mesh who took the strait way and