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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28945	The Christian virtuoso shewing that by being addicted to experimental philosophy, a man is rather assisted than indisposed to be a good Christian / by T.H.R.B., Fellow of the Royal Society ; to which are subjoyn'd, I. a discourse about the distinction that represents some things as above reason, but not contrary to reason, II. the first chapters of a discourse entituled, Greatness of mind promoted by Christianity, by the same author.	Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.; Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. Reflections upon a theological distinction.; Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. Greatness of mind promoted by Christianity.	1690 (1690)	Wing B3931; ESTC R19536	74,134	240

Nebuchadnezar but as parts of a Dream whereas the Kingdom promis'd to Christians is called in the Scripture A Kingdom that cannot be moved as the Believers Crown is in opposition to those fading Crowns of Lawrel that adorn'd the Heads of the Roman Conquerors called an unwithering Crown of Glory As if the Lawrel plac'd on the Christians Head could grow and flourish in the Wreath better than it did on the Tree But all that I have yet said is Inferior to this last Prerogative of the Coelestial Crown that it does not only confer a relative Dignity or Preeminence but an essential Worth and Excellency as if the Diamonds which adorn'd that Crown should impart their own Sparklingness Transparency and Incorruptibility to the Person that wears it The highest Preferments here below do raise a Man above others without raising him above himself By being at the top of a Ladder a Man comes to an higher Station but is not really taller than he was and a Vane by being plac'd on the top of the highest Steeple is not from Iron turn'd into Gold or Silver but remains still of the same base Metal it was and is but a Weather-Cock and so the Sport of the Winds But a Coelestial Crown is always attended with a Personal Improvement befitting so high a Dignity The Heavenly Coronation has a Virtue like That of the Unction of Saul who upon his being made King was inabled to Prophecy and was turn'd into an other Man And the Resemblance holds in this too that Christ is said to have made his Redeemed ones not only Kings but Priests to God and his Father as if the Kingly Dignity were not enough unless the Sacred Character of a Priestly Office were added Congruously to which St. Peter calls Christians in general a Royal Priesthood the Understanding the Will the Affections are all refin'd and elevated and the very Body itself is transformed into a Spiritual Body As if the Glorify'd Soul did shine with an undiminish'd Splendor through its happily chang'd Mansion And we may well suppose that this will be a Bright and Noble Structure if we remember that the Angels who in their Apparitions to good Men were wont to be very careful not to frighten them did yet appear with a Majestick Splendor and that Angel that the Apostles saw in our Saviours Sepulchre is represented as a young Man cloathed in a long white and shining Garment And we are told by St. Paul that in the future State our vile Bodies shall be transform'd into the likeness of his Glorious Body and how Glorious it is in Heaven we may guess by what it was at his Transfiguration here on Earth during which the Scripture relates That his Face did shine as the Sun and his Raiment was white as the Light And of Moses and Elias thô they came to speak to him of his Death 't is added by St. Luke That they also appear'd in Glory And since our Saviour has assured us That those shall be accounted worthy of that State shall be like or equal to the Angels And that then the Righteous shall shine like the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father who knows but that the Transfigur'd Soul and Body of some happy Saint may be as Glorious a Sight as that which appear'd to St. John in the Apocalyps when he saw an Angel standing in the Sun If it be said that these are very bold Hyperbolies I hope the Texts I have mention'd will keep them from seeming altogether groundless Conceits And when among other excellent Prerogatives that our Saviour promises the persevering Beleivers One is That he will give them Power over the Nations and to Rule them with a Rod of Iron and the Other which may well be the last is exprest in these words To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my Throne even as I evercame and am set down with my Father in his Throne And thô I readily yield that these Expressions are not to be and literally taken yet when I consider the infinite Power and Goodness of God and that for ought we know he may have numberless Dominions and Setts of Governable Creatures that we are yet strangers too I think God's Attributes and Christ's Expressions may warrant us to expect amazing things from him that is Able and has Declar'd himself Willing to do for us above what we can ask or in our present State so much as think And at least that will be allow'd me which I drive at in this Celebration of our future Happiness that the Christian Religion by proposing such inestimable Rewards presents Beleivers with far higher Motives to Heroick Virtue than Morality or Philosophy can afford other Men. Advertisement THe Author being desir'd to add yet something to the foregoing Discourses to give the Book they make Parts of a Thickness more proportionate to its Largeness he did among other Papers of his that he turn'd over in Compliance with that request light upon an Epistolary Discourse which by its very being unfinish'd seem'd by reason of its shortness the more fit to serve the present turn For this Tract having been drawn up in a Countrey whence the Author was oblig'd to remove before he had made any considerable Progress in his Work he was easily induc'd to put it up in a Bundle of other Writings which like this were laid aside till he should be at much leisure to compleat them But upon the newly mention'd occasion finding that among divers loose and lesser Memoirs that had been thrown together in order to the design'd Treatise there were 15 or 20 Pages at the beginning that were Coherent enough he was content they should attend the Christian Virtuoso because of the affinity of the things design'd in both the Papers which being to recommend the Christian Religion to worthy Souls 't was congruous enough that a Discourse which shews That the Christian Religion may very well consist with a Philosophick Genius should be accompany'd by another that tends to manifest That Greatness of Mind which comprizes uncommon degrees of Virtue is not only Consistent with Christianity but may be highly Promoted by it Those that reflect on this Aim will not 't is hop'd think it strange that the Style is a little Rais'd since tho' the Subject be Theological yet the Writer who was then many Years Younger than he now is being a Person of Honour and writing for a Noble Gentleman who like himself was a Layman 't was thought not only Allowable but Fit that the Style should not be altogether unsuitable to the Subject and to the Aim which was to make Impressions on an Illustrious Person not by dry Precepts or Languid Discourses but by exciting him to Heroick Virtue by the Noblest Patterns and Ideas and the most moving Incentives he could propose And tho' the Discouragements lately mention'd and since increas'd by the Authors not being able