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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33971	Par nobile two treatises, the one concerning the excellent woman, evincing a person fearing the Lord to be the most excellent person, discoursed more privately upon occasion of the death of the Right Honourable the Lady Frances Hobart late of Norwich, from Pro. 31, 29, 30, 31 : the other discovering a fountain of comfort and satisfaction to persons walking with God, yet living and dying without sensible consolations , discovered from Psal. 17, 15 at the funerals of the Right Honourable the Lady Katherine Courten, preached at Blicklin in the county of Norfolk, March 27, 1652 : with the narratives of the holy lives and deaths of those two noble sisters / by J.C.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.; Collinges, John, 1623-1690. Excellent woman.; Collinges, John, 1623-1690. Light in darkness.	1669 (1669)	Wing C5329; ESTC R26441	164,919	320

a people he is set out as turning his face toward them Hence in Scripture the people of God pray for the favour of God under this notion Psal 80. 3. Psal 80. 3. Cause thy face to shine upon us and we shall be saved Psal 31. 16. Make thy face to shine 31. 16. 27. 8. upon us Psal 27. 8. c. In this sense Cain spake Gen. 4. 14. From thy face I shall be Gen. 4. 14. hid id est from thy favour And it is by some learned Expositors observed that when the term favour is joyned with behold or shine c. it alwaies thus signifies Thus Psal 67. 1. God be merciful unto us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us i. e. shew us some token for good this is sometimes called the light of Gods countenance 2. The fear of God sometimes signifies Gods glorious manifestation to his Saints in Heaven 1 Joh. 3. 2. 2 Cor. 3. 16. where as the Apostle speaketh his people shall see him with open face face to face as he is c. I am inclined to understand the phrase in the utmost latitude I will or shall in righteousness behold thy favourable face in the influences of thy love in this life and thy glory in that life which is to come and accordingly it will not be different to interpret Davids beholding 1. In this life they behold the favour of God with the eyes of their mind apprehending the love of God in Jesus Christ to their souls and being perswaded of it according to that of the Apostle Rom. 8. 38. I am perswaded that neither life nor death nor Angels c. shall separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. In the life to come they shall behold the face the presence and glorious manifestations of God not only with the eyes of their minds but with their bodily eyes Job 19. 26 27. In my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and mine eyes shall behold and not another Then we shall see him face to face 1 Cor. 13. 12. and as he is 1 Joh. 3. 13. I have now opened the former part of the text which I called Davids resolution I will behold thy face in righteousness c. And you see it comes to thus much O Lord it pleaseth thee in the wisdom of thy providence to prosper my bloody and cruel enemies they are full of riches and children yet they walk proudly and dishonour thy name they have a large proportion of the good things of this life and they look upon them as their portion let them do so As for me I am indeed in a low condition poor and afflicted and persecuted but I will look after righteousness I will labour for the righteousness of Jesus Christ and endeavour to live an holy life and conversation having respect to all the Commandments and walking closely with thee Though I be used cruelly and unjustly yet I will walk innocently and manage a just and righteous cause and so doing I will look towards thee and hope in thee Let others look after the favour of the world my business shall be to contemplate thee to meditate to fix the eyes of my soul on thee that I may have the manifestation of thy love to my soul here and that I may enjoy thee in glory hereafter This shall be my aim this my study though I do not now see thee yet if my soul be clothed with the Righteousness of thy Son if I endeavour to walk closely with thee I shall one day either here or in glory behold thy face if I do not see thy face before I die yet in the resurrection I shall see it When I awake I shall be satisfied with thy likeness I come now to the Explication of the latter part of the text which I told you in those words I shall be satisfied The Septuagint reads it I shall be feasted 1. The word signifies a plentifull filling The word by which the Greek Interpreters translate it signifieth such a filling as the beasts are filled with eating grass you know they make themselves very full seeding meerly by sense and according to appetite under no regulation of reason Thus it is used Hosea 13. 6. According to their pasture so were they filled and their heart was exalted To this degree are souls sometimes filled in this life with manifestations of grace Thus are the souls of the Saints filled with Gods manifestations of himself to them in glory Such sometimes are the shinings of divine light upon the soul on this side of Heaven that it knows not how to bear any more it is filled with a joy unspeakable and full of glory But in the other life Eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor can it enter into the heart of man to conceive what things God hath prepared for them that love him Yet even then the glory of the Sun of Righteousness will be above the glory of the brightest Star They shall be glorified with the same glory as Christ and his Father are glorified as to the kind not as to the degree of it we can receive but according to our capacity In short they shall be so filled as they shall desire no more The word signifieth perfect fulness and therefore Criticks derive it from a word that signifies seven which in the dialect of Scripture is the number of perfection Seven times a day will I Psal 119. 164. Gen. 4. 15. Pro. 24. 16. praise thee that is many times Vengeance shall be taken on Cain seven-fold She that hath born seven languisheth Prov. 24. 16. The righteous man falleth seven times a day And so in many other texts But further yet the word signifies a filing as with dainties as a man is filled at a feast a man may be filled with bread but at a feast we are usually filled with pleasant bread as Daniel calleth it So then when David saith he shall be satisfied he in effect saith I shall be filled seven times filled brim full perfectly filled as at a feast And indeed thus shall the souls of Gods people be filled but when and how are two questions which by the remaining words must be resolved When I awake saith the text or in awaking 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or in watching or in being made to awake or to watch For the form of the words it admits this variety of interpretation The LXX read it When thou shalt appear unto me The Vulg. Lat. When thy glory shall appear unto me We will first consider the original word in its latitude of significancy and then weigh what it here importeth The word in the Hebrew comes from a roo which signifies three things 1. To make tedious 2. To watch 3. To awake The two latter alone can fit this text and betwixt those two interpretations I find all valuable interpreters divided The Hebrew properly is in watching or in awaking

see him and also in restoring life to our dead bodies in the Resurrection It is God who giveth spiritual life and who giveeth the aboundings of spiritual life who first quickeneth the soul and who further quickeneth it and keepeth it up in its spiritual operations and it is God who quickneth the dead Rom. 4. 17. The words thus opened afford us two things as grounds of Davids satisfaction in that dark condition in which he was Though his state was but at present sad and uncomfortable though lately he neither had seen God nor heard from him only had seen and felt the srowns and thunderings of his providence against him yet he would be satisfied 1. If he found God inabling him in this his sad perplexed persecuted state to wait upon him and exercise grace in watching for him 2. In the assurance he had that though as yet he were unsatisfied and might possibly fall asleep so in death yet in the resurrection of the just he should awake from that sleep then he should have enough of God and be fully satisfied with his likeness I have only that one term more to open With thy likeness The Hebrew word signifies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the imaginary form of a thing Job 14. 16. An Image was before mine eyes Sometimes the real form of a thing presented to the bodily eye Deut. 4. 16. You saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire that is God did not appear to you in any real sensible shape Sometimes it signifieth some real fignature of a thing presented not to the eye of the body but to the eye of the mind to the understanding So Numb 12. 8. The similitude of the Lord shall he behold That is I will make an impression of my divine Nature and Majesty upon him by which he shall be able in some measure to conceive of and to comprehend me We cannot see the divine Essence such glory is too great for mortal eyes we are not able to fix our eyes upon the Sun riding in the Firmament in its full triumph of light much less upon his Essence whose brightness is such that even the Sun in its fullest glory is darkness to him God told Moses he could not see his face and live but his similitude he should behold he would make upon his spirit an impression of his Majesty and Goodness But let us now inquire more strictly what this likeness of God in the text is The Septuagint interpret it The glory of God I shall be satisfied with thy glory that is a truth but whether the whole of the truth I doubt Some think the Ark of God is meant which the wife of Phinehas called the glory of Israel And that David in this his afflicted state comforted himself with this consideration that he one day should again see the Ark of God the power and the glory of God in his Sanctuary We read also that when he fled from Absolom and Abiathar brought the Ark after him he bid him carry it back again if the Lord had a pleasure in him he would bring him back and he should see it and his holy habitation But I think we shall find that glorious Symbol of Gods presence no where stiled Gods likeness Others think that by Gods likeness here David understands Christ who is indeed called the brightness of his Fathers glory the express Image of his person And that David here comforts himself as Job before him that he should see his Redeemer with those eyes Those who interpret the text as the words of Christ by Gods likeness here understand the glory of God wherewith Christ was glorified after his resurrection from the dead and ascension But I take all these senses to be too much forced upon the text There are three things which I think may be all comprehended under this term 1. There is a likeness of God in us Adam was at first created in Gods image or likeness Gen. 1. 26. And in our Regeneration the Gen. 1. 26. image of God is said to be renewed in us Col. 3. 10. And we are said to be created after Col. 3. 10. the image of God in righteousness and holiness Thus we are commanded to be holy as the Lord is holy This is now the image of God within us the impression of the spirit of Grace upon our hearts by which we are made partakers of the Divine Nature I take this to be much the sense of the place Lord if thou shalt inable me in my dark hours to study and to perfect holiness I shall be satisfied though I want comfort yet I shall be much satisfied ●f I be but inabled to watch for a further degree in holiness 2. Secondly We may take likeness for Gods manifestations of himself to us by his spirit of consolation In this life we do not see God as he is but he sometimes makes gracious manifestations of his love unto his people in the sensible consolations of his Spirit reflecting divine Love upon the souls of the Saints and sealing them up to the day of Redemption Now saith the Psalmist though I do not see the Lord in this likeness of his though I want the assurances of his love and comfortable manifestations of his gracious Spirit yet Lord it shall stay me if I find thy grace inabling me but to wait for these manifestations 3. Lastly Gods likeness may be taken for the glorious manifestation of himself to his Saints in another life and this I take to come fullest up to Davids meaning O Lord though while I live here I walk in the dark and see no light while I am beholding thy face in righteousness and watching for thee though I may go down to the grave and sleep my sleep in the dust not fully satisfied not seeing what of God I would do yet this I know that in the resurrection I shall awake and then I shall be made amends for all which my soul hath suffered in its dark and sad hours under the ecclipses of divine light I shall then be filled with God I shall see him as he is face to face and my vile body shall be made like to my Redeemers glorious body Thus I have largely opened the words take the substance of them shortly David was at this time in a sad condition both 1. In respect of the persecution against him from without And 2. The divine desertion which at this time clouded his inward man 3. And the temptations which attended him in these straits In this verse he takes up his resolution what he would do and also shews us what stayed his heart and gave him something of satisfaction in his perplexity That which he resolveth to do is to labour for the Righteousness of Christ in which to behold the face of God to live an holy life and conversation and to manage his cause against his enemies in a just and

of God but our bodies shall be rotting and putrifying in the graves but in the resurrection the whole man both soul and body shall see God and be happy in the enjoyment of him to all eternity In our flesh we shall see him 2. Secondly The degrees of satisfaction we shall have there are infinitely above what the souls of Gods people enjoy here Here we see but it is as in a glass darkly there we shall see face to face here if at any time God uncovereth his comfortable face to us yet we can but see him according to our present capacity but in that day the capacity of the soul will be inlarged and the soul to its utmost inlarged capacity shall be filled with the enjoyment of God Here we see him by the eye of faith sitting upon his Throne of Grace and that fight is full of glory there we shall see him by the eye of sense upon his Throne of Glory that sight will be infinitely more glorious and beatifical Here the child of God sometimes seeth God and though nothing be wanting ex parte objecti to make him perfectly happy in that vision God being an unchangeable fulness yet much is wanting ex parte subjecti our capacities not being able to receive in much of so glorious a light there is a deficiency in our sight and such a vastness of glory in the object that we can but comprehend a little of it In short the soul in that day shall be so filled with the likeness of God that it will be impossible for it to receive any further additions Yet to obviate the mistakes of some who know not what they say As in this life the measure of the fulness of the stature of Christ is but our mark not the attainment of any soul none so pure so holy so righteous as Christ so in that life which is to come none shall be so glorious as Christ The children of God shall like Joseph ride in the second Chariot but Christ who is the express Image of his Fathers person shall be greater in this Throne of Glory than any of Gods people can be he is of his Fathers Essence the brightness of his Glory the Word his Fathers express Image who so asserts an equality of the Saint either in grace or glory to the only begotten Son of God cannot avoid a double blasphemy The exalting a finite Being to the dignity of an infinite Subsistence or the degrading the Creatour and equalizing him with a creature But this is a digression Certain it is that the children of God in the resurrection shall be filled with the likeness of God though they shall not have so much of it as the only begotten Son of God The proof of this is evident from those many phrases in Scripture We shall see him as he is face to face we shall be like him in which I have before instanced I have now shortly opened those five Propofitions which I told you were implied in the Proposition I come now to what is expressed Here are two grounds of some satisfaction from Davids example according to the various sense of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for a child of God living under such a dark dispensation yea if God should call them to die under it 1. They should be satisfied in watching for Gods likeness 2. This should satisfie them that they shall in the resurrection awake and then they shall be satisfied with the likeness of God Let me shortly discourse the reasonableness of both these First I say Though a Christian should in his life time walk without the sense of divine love yet he ought to be satisfied in case he findeth God inabling him to resist sin and to hope in him and by faith and patience to wait for him and to order his conversation aright before him or in short to watch for him when he or she doth not see him Yea if God should call him to die without those sensible comforts which others have and he possibly thirsteth after I must first open to you how and how far forth he ought to be satisfied and then give you some reasons for it Methinks I hear a child of God thus replying upon me Ah Sir is this possible that a Christian should be satisfied without the sense of Gods love a child that tenderly loves his Parent satisfied under his frown a wife under jealousies of her husbands love Are these things possible Can a soul be satisfied so long as it is crying out where is my God become Can a soul awakened to a sense of eternity be satisfied to leave the earth and go it knows not whither This is an hard chapter an hard saying who can hear it 1. I answer when I say a Christian should be satisfied my meaning is not that he should be so contented with such a dispensation as not to desire an alteration of it This is indeed plainly impossible that a Christian awakened to consider what the love of God to the soul is worth should live without desires of the manifestations of it to him they may be thus satisfied that never felt any thing of Gods wrath nor were ever warmed with any beams of his special favour but he that hath ever lived under any feeling of the wrath of God or that hath ever been perswaded of the love of God or felt any thing of the warm influences of it can never be in this sense satisfied he must pant and breath and thirst after Gods manifestations of himself to his soul and use all possible means for the obtaining of it 2. But as there is a Satisfaction of complacence and delight exclusive of any motions any indeavours any desires for an alteration so there is a Satisfaction of content in opposition to murmuring repining distrust and unbelief and in this sense he ought to be satisfied that is 1. Not to murmure and repine against God as not just or wise or good 2. Not to distrust God not to give over waiting upon him crying to him doing his duty not to despond and cast away his hope in God as to his eternal salvation for want of these sensible manifestations he ought to be so far satisfied as to be thankful for such influences of grace as he hath and with a meek and quiet spirit to commit himself to the good will and pleasure of God to trust in the Name of the Lord and to stay upon his God to continue waiting upon God and praying and ordering his conversation so aright that he may see the Lords solvation Thus far satisfied a Christian under these circumstances ought to be 1. First Because he hath what may reasonably give him satisfaction notwithstanding his want of such more sensible and comfortable reflections If you ask me what that is I answer that which the Apostle calleth A sure word of promise a word which shall not pass away though Heaven and Earth pass away Gods word of promise is security