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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61672	Verus Christianus, or, Directions for private devotions and retirements dedicated to ... Gilbert Ld. Arch Bishop of Canterbury ... by David Stokes.	Stokes, David, 1591?-1669.; Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1668 (1668)	Wing S5724; ESTC R24159	135,214	312

hath moved us I know not But shall we recall to memory what we have read of our Saviour himself Jesus rising up before day went into a solitary place and there prayed Marc. 1. 35 So he did to preach too and the people flocked as early together to hear Him Luc. 21. 37. If he rose so early to pray for us and teach us shall not we sometime rise as early to pray for our selves and read and meditate upon that which he hath taught Nor must we forget that he hath done more then so For we find him Luc. 26. 23. continuing all night in prayer in our behalf That is more then our rising early in the morning to do it for our selves But without such a high Pattern may not even this of it self prevaile with us Now and then to see the beauty of the rising Sun which declares the glory of the Creator or to heare the Birds of the Aire betimes in the Morning melodiously chanting his praise While we then looke upon the Sun going forth as a gy●…nt to run his race it might prompt us with the memory of our race who run here for a crowne of Immortality And while we are taken with the melody of the chearfull Birds our selves might be provoked to call upon God that He would open our lips that our mouthes that are filled with more blessings may shew forth his praise IV. The entertainment of our selves at our waking looking up attiring washing c. IT were well done of us if we would se order our thoughts that every day they might first be initiated with some divine Meditation some ejaculation or expression of our Love and Service to God Upon that first good tincture and seasoning they might be the better preserved the whole day after And we may take a hint of good Meditations from some such passages as these 1. When we wake and looke up How long wilt thou sleep O sluggard A little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep c. Prov 6. 9. As a dore turneth upon the hinges so doth the slothfull upon his bed Prov 26. 14. Awake Aris●… be Enlightned Isai. 60. 1. For the true light is come the knowledge of thy Saviour the Sun of Righteousnesse that enlightens every man and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee Ephes 5. 14. before thou couldest wake and beg his grace to raise thee from death in sinne by the light of his countenance graciously shining upon thy dull and drousie Soule Arise for thou hast a great journey to goe I Kings 19. 7. and many obstacles in the way It is high time to awake out of our sleepe in sin For now since we have received the light of the Gospell our salvation is nearer then when we first believed Rom 13. 11. The Night is farre spent the Day is at Hand Let us therefore cast off the workes of darknesse and put on the armour of Light 1 Thess 5. 5. For we are all Children of the Light and Children of the Day We have free liberty to make our addresses to the Father of Lights and as great encouragement to expect help and succour from the power of darkness Yet a little while is the Light with us Let us walk while we have the Light Joh. 12. 35. Otherwise This will adde much to our sin and heavy punishment that Light is come into the world and men love darknesse rather then light because their deeds are evil But Open thou mine eyes O Lord that I may see the wonders of thy Law Ps. 119. 18. And love him that said I am the light of the world He that follows me shall not walk in darknesse but shall have the light of life Joh 8. 12. Open thou mine eyes O Lord that I sleep not in Death Ps. 13. 3. Let not ease and security flatter me into a dangerous sleep again nor any thing else be interposed betwixt me and the true light Rather Anoint thou mine eyes with that eye-salve that will make me see clearly Rev. 3. 18. Above all shew me the light of thy countenance and be merciful to me Ps. 67. 1. and remove from me the hazard of that blindnesse which I am apt to bring upon my self Shew me the true light which is the light and life of men The light that shineth in darknesse though the darknesse comprehend it not Joh. 1. 4. The Lord blesse me and keep me The Lord make his face to shine upon me and be gratious unto me The Lord lift up his countenance upon me and give me peace Num. 6 24. That is The Holy Blessed and Glorious Trinity three Persons and one Lord and God blesse me be favourable and merciful unto me and preserve me in his Peace the peace of God that passeth all understanding 2. When we put on our apparrel we may take some hints of holy ejaculations from these following places of Scripture Take not much thought for rayment but consider the Lilies of the field how they grow they toyl not neither do they spin and yet Solomon in all his glory which cost him dear is not arrayed like one of these in their natural attire saith our Saviour Mat. 6. 28. Therefore at least let us take no thought how to make that an Instrument or Accesse to our Pride which had no other end at first then to cover our shame after the discovery of our sin as the Hebrew words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may put us in mind that carry a memorandum of them both That may put us in mind to follow the advice of John the Divine Rev. 3. 8. to purchase the white Robe belonging to them that are willing to lay down their lives for Christ as he did his for them that so in that cloathing the shame of our nakednesse may not appear Then should we be secure though our Saviour himself should come suddenly upon us like a thief in the night Rev. 16. 15. that we should not be found naked to the discoverie of our shame This should be our chief aim for apparrell that apparell that will hide our fin rather then show it as pride doth So far should we be from too much adorning the bodie that may this day be committed to putrefaction And so much it concerns us to labour for the hope of being clothed hereafter with Immortalitie 2 Cor. 5. 2. To that end Let us endeavour more and more to put off the old man with his deeds and put on the n●…w man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him saith St Paul Col. 3. 9. And St Peter speakes to the same purpose Our adorning let it not be that outward adorning but let it be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible We that have been baptized into Christ let us every day put on Christ Gal. 3. 27. put on our Lord Jesus Christ with Him all Christian vertues making provision

may be more fully expressed I wish we may all know it by the happy fruition hereafter that we may see it a Fulnes both without defect and without end In the mean time we may chear up our selves with the speculation of it and sing with the Psalmist In thy presence O Lord is fulnes of joy and at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore Ps. 16. 12. XXII The same Happines expressed under the promise of the Vision of God ALL the Happines that we have named or that can be named by any farther enlargment may be epitomized in two words Visio Dei So much there is in that though hardly to be uttered or conceived by mortal men But it is reducible to these two branches of Felicity 1. The happines that we are here capable of by the eye of Faith in heavenly Contemplations 2. The Eternal Happines whereof we shall participate hereafter in the full fruition of the Deity These two wayes onely it may be conceived arcording to the two several states of a Christian here in Grace and hereafter in Glory 1 That here is in holy devotions and divine Speculations guided by the eye of Faith Such as we have especially at the Holy Table and other our highest Raptures after the exactest and best preparations of our selves which present us pure and holy before God A Type of this we had in the Legal purifying and hallowing before the entrance into the Temple where they accounted that they had a kind of Vision of God as appears by those phrases of the Psalmist Quando veniam apparebo ante faciem Dei When shall I come to appear before the face of God Ps. 42. 2. Videbitur Deus Deorum in Sion The God of Gods will be seen in Sion Ps 84. 7. So they expressed the happines of their holy approaches to him that dwelt between the Cherubims where sometime appeared a lustre that represented the Majesty of God But of all other their Priests and Prophets the Seers of Israel had the greatest share of this happines Their pure Souls were more taken up with such heavenly Visions wherein they became like pure looking-glasses that represented so much of the pleasure of God as the children of Israel could not have well seen but in them nor they themselves so well discovered if they had not like pure and holy vessels been fitted and made capable of so high a favour To have such an immediate divine influence upon the soul never came to any but upon a quiet and holy composure of themselves 2. This is all that can be thought upon here the other and clearer Vision of God is that which we expect in a better life To see God is the Epitome and Compendium of all Happines Our best Joyes and Delights here are but a blaze to that light and Splendor as our greatest sorrows and troubles here are but shadows of darknes to the horror that follows upon the loss of that sight For as all misery begins with shutting our o●… his presence so all happines begins with the light of his countenance with the Vision of God Hence it is that Moses longed for it Let me see thy face David was resolved on it Thy face O Lord will I seek Shew us the light of thy countenance and we shall be safe And Philip said well Ostende nobis patrem sufficit Shew us the Father and we will ask no more Joh. 14. 8. For who can be admitted to the sight of him and not be happy They that saw Moses that had seen God face to face had more glory to look on then they were able to behold Moses was saine to do them the favour to veile his face They that saw but a glimpse of this glory in the Transfiguration were presently at building of Tabernacles to stay by it bonum est esse hîc They that saw St. Stephens face in his Martyrdom while he then looked upon Christ saw it shine like the face of an Angel while the glory of Christ sparkled a little upon it What happines do you then think it is to see God in his glory when they have been so affected that have but seen them that have seen God and not in his full glory neither And what a heavy doom will they hear that shall be excluded for ever from seeing God from seeing him in that Jerusalem above which signifies the Vision of true peace and happines Where all the holy Lamps of Heaven the blessed Spirits there have onely the light of Gods countenance to kindle themselves withall Which He out of a gracious prodigality casts abroad among them as the Sun doth among the stars and that is enough to fill them all with Glory and Content The Vision of him being all their Felicity as it must be ours XXIII The first means of attaining the former Happines SOmewhat we have now heard of the Vision of God as we did before of the fulnes of joy in those termes wherein the holy Scripture is pleased to deliver them unto us Which cannot but enlarge our hearts with earnest desire to long after them But that is not enough toward the purchase of such Felicity For we must not think that such a Fulnes and the Vision of God the top of all Blessings will be given to wishers and woulders We must do somewhat that God proposeth if we aime so high And the sooner the better for Death followes us faster then we shall follow the way to our eternal Felicity As for the Fulnes which we named first if we desire such Happines as well we may we must look back p. 95. to what our blessed Saviour prescribed as the means to it out of Mat. 5. 6. in these words Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after Righteousnes for they shall be satisfied We must so long to lead a virtuous and godly life that our Longing may be like a hunger and thirst after a high degree of that Righteousnes which is there and in many other places of holy Scripture a word of a large compass extending it self over all virtues The use of it even in profane Authors to that purpose is so antient that Aristotle cites a verse for it out of an old Poet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In which sense the Scripture often calls him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a righteous or just man that is every way a good man in all the course of his life So St. Aug. and Greg. Nyssen and Leo and others take 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in that Beatitude to be meant de generali Justitiâ vitae sanctimonià which we call Evangelical Righteousnes And for the Vision of God which we named in the second place if we are truly affected with the desire of that the means to it is peremptorily set down in these words Follow after Peace with all men and Holines without which no man shall see God Heb. 12. 14. God himself hath joyned them all together and it is in vain for