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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

depart in that kind of Death and by that means which thou shalt appoint But so to be ever affected in Faith and Love as they that long to be delivered from this body of sin into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God In this Hope we rest and into thy blessed Protection and mercy this day we commend our souls and bodies Beseeching thee so to sanctifie and direct us in the wayes of thy Laws and in the works of thy Commandements and to give thine Angels such charge over us that through thy most mighty Protection both here and ever we may be preserved in body and soul to serve thee the onely true God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen XXI The Fulnes of misery here answered with the best Fulnes hereafter IN the close of the last Meditation I promised to say somewhat of a better fulnes that we might not be too much dejected by the fulnes of our misery and now I shall do it There is a happy fulnes proposed to our desires and endeavours if we will labour to be in the number of those that have no inordinate appetite to the things of this life but rather arden●…ly desire and long for an extraordinary pitch of a holie and virtuous life Never counting our selves to have apprehended nor looking back to those which are behind us but pressing forward towards the Mark that is set before us which is the way and means to the price of eternal glory Phil. 3. 12 13. To such our Saviour's promise is thus delivered with his blessing Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after Righteousnes for they shall be filled or satisfied Mat. 5. 6. But wherewithall with so much as cannot be fully expressed to our dull capacities Therefore it is left indefinite being far above our language or desire This Fulnes and satisfaction may seem to be the perfect expletion of all the natural desires of the soul and body and person of man with their own proper Objects as far as he is capable 1. The Soul In the Understanding with Truth it self In the Will with Goodnes it self 2. The Body 1. with Life in the true land of the living 2. With health and chearfulnes where all tears will plainly appear to be wiped away and all maladies cured 3. With Beauty where our Bodies shall be like to our Saviour's glorious body Phil. 3. 21. in some conformity to his now most glorious estate 3. The whole Person 1. With glory and honour which we earnestly expect and wait for St. Paul's word is most Emphatical 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. With the best society and conversation Innumerable company of Angels 10000 times ten thousand ministring Spirits and with them the glorious company of Apostles Prophets Martyrs Confessors Virgins and other Saints that make up one quire to sing Hallelujahs in Heaven 3. With such union with God as we are capable of For nothing else will satisfie the little triangle of the heart of Man but the Trinity it self Nothing but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all sufficient is our objectum adaequatum The height of saturabuntur must rest upon that Who can fully expresse these things But we are to be excused if we endeavour to expresse what we can For there is a blessed hunger and thirst after the knowledge of them Who is not delighted to heare that howsoever we are here dispersed and persecuted we shall be hereafter as Fellow-Citizens in the same heavenly Jerusalem Hebr. 13. 14. Hebr. 11. 10. as we are already Fellow-Citizens of a lower Jerusalem which is the Christian Church built upon the Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ Himself being the head corner-stone Ephes. 2. 19. 20. We shall be Fellow-Servants in the same glorious Family of the King of Glory as we are already Fellow-servants of the same Houshold of Faith Gal 9. 10. Ephes. 2. 19 We shall be as Children of the same Heavenly Father not only in filiall Love and Obedience but also in the fruition of an eternal Inheritance Hebr. 9. 15. We shall be as the Spouse of Christ. The Prophets speak of him as of our Lord and Husband Isai. 54 5. and St Paul makes mention of it as of a great Mysterie Ephes. 5. 32. It began in our Saviour's assuming our Nature and it will be consummate at the great marriage Supper of the Lamb when we see his new Bride prepared and adorned for her Husband Rev. 197. 21. 2. We shall all be members of the same mysticall body whereof Christ is the head And the Holy Spirit will diffuse Himself into every mystical member making us all of one Spirit Not by way of Éssence and Information but by way of Inhabitance and Participation In this divine Union to the Understanding we shall know God fully not extinsively but diffusively As we see the Sea distinctly from all other bodies and know it to be the Sea and see what the largenes of the Object will suffer In this Union to the Will we shall be filled with the love of God and find a divine influence of his favour Hence are those strange expressions in the holy Scripture wherein we are said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 partakers of Christ Hebr. 3. 14. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 partakers of the Holy Gh●…st Hebr. 64 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 partakers of the Divine Nature 2 Pet. 1. 4. Which one would think enough to expresse the fulnes of our Felicity All this Fulnes and Satisfaction cannot but strike a lustre upon the whole Person upon our very dark bodies as the splendor of the Sun doth upon the dark body of the Moon But if any man doubt how a spirituall Substance if I may so speak can thus sparkle and be visible in the Body Let him remember how the life of the Body can clear the looks of that when it is powerful within and the Heart well pleased Let him consider how a little glimpse of the divine Vision dressed the whole countenance of suffering Steven so that his face became as the face of an Angel Let him conceive how the sight of his new-born Saviour carried the heart of old Simeon into such an exstasie that the earth could hold him no longer he was presently come to his Nunc dimittis What should I strive to say more of this fulnes and satiety which hath a veile drawn before it and cannot be clearly discovered The Devil might undertake at a venter to show the glory of all the world in a Mountain and in a Moment but there is no Mountain high enough no Time long enough to show us the fulnes of this Joy and Glory God hath purposely concealed it that we might rather love Him for Himself then be ravished with the powerful love of any reward Therefore if I had the tongue of Men and Angels my words would be but like Counters that must stand for a greater Summe For there is no fulnes like this and yet there is nothing but

other wings touched each other 2. Chron. ●…1 So the two Testaments touched each other i. e. expounded each other and touched ●…e two sides of the House that is exten●…ed from in Principio to Veni Domine ●…esu from the Creation to the End of the ●…orld XLVIII Of short Ejaculations OUr private Reading and Meditation will easily furnish us with many short Ejaculatory Prayers which of all kind of Devotion are freest from the distraction of extravagant thoughts and therefore fittest to be often used●… especially such as are è re nat â that is such a●… our severall hints and occasions shall minister unto us from suddaine intensive Affections and quick vehement Desires like Darts thrown out with erect attention of mind or like speedy wings of vigilant prayer happily expressed in a piercing kind of brevitie These are carefully to be cherished and made use of But besides these It will not be amisse to have some praemeditate and in store that may raise our devotion when we are somewhat in disposed of our selves Such as these or the like O Heavenly Father teach me that Reverence Duty and Love that befits one who 〈◊〉 an Enemy is adopted a Son and Heire to a Heavenly crowne Sweet Jesu the life of my Soule by thy gratious indulgence and Inter●…ession assist me i●… following the pattern of thy holy life and teac●… me to know Thee and my selfe O holy and blessed Spirit Sanctifie m●… Soule and body enlighten my understandin●… with thy Truth And enrich my Heart with thy comfortable presence and assistance Most glorious and blessed Trinity Holy holy holy Lord God of Hosts whom none can see and not be everlastingly happy Grant that I may so live as longing for the blessed appearance of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by whom only we hope to attaine that happy sight But how long Lord Come Lord Jesu come quickly XLIX The recollection of our selves at Night and preparation to a Scrutinie THe severall dayes of Creation are closed up with God's owne review of the worke ●…f that Day which he saw to be very good Gen 1. 4. 12 31. We should all make such a review every Day that if we have done well we may be ●…hankefull to that grace and mercy of God ●…hat inabled us to do so and if we have done ●…l we may consider what sorrow for the pre●…nt what resolution befits us for the time to ●…ome Such a review hath been acknowledged very ●…t and practised by the light of Nature Hence have we that advice of Pythago●…as Non priùs in dulcē declinent lumina somnum Omnia quàm longi repetiveris acta Diei And Tully reports it to have been the practise of Cato Cato quicquid quoquo Die egerat viderat legerat audierat vesperi commemorabat tanquam diuturni negotii à se rationem exigens After this we may recall that which we had in the close of the first Section which gives general advice for every day L. A Preparative Meditation and Exhortation to such an Absteinious life as may fit us for a happy Death THat we be not mistaken when we suppose our selves in a right course of Christianity let us sometimes seriously recall to minde Saint Paul's advise to his beloved Corinthians and propose that question to our selves which he did to them Know you not that they which run in a race run all but one receiveth the prize So run that you may obtain And every one that strives for the Mastery is temperate in all things Now they do it for a corruptible Crown but we an incorruptible 1 Cor. 9 24 25. Wherein his meaning was that what they knew practised in common races and wrastlings should be applied to a spiritual race and Christian-like combate Which if we will do Three things will appear of apparent necessity 1. He that runs in a race must be admitted in stadium a spectator may run and be never the nearer to the prize 2. So admitted he must resolve of composing himself to run He that will prate or sit or fool away the time may loose the credit and the reward 3. If he aim at the victory he must so run that he may obtain in a right swift and continued course And as a means to all these he must use abstinence abstinere ab omnibus If we apply these to a spiritual race and conflict three things will be needful to a Christian in Analogy to them 1. He must be admitted into the list and number of those that be capable of a Crown incorruptible Which is done by free Justification apprehended by the Faith of a true penitent and afterward confirmed by good works For the Heathens that have no faith and Christians that have a dead faith have no claim to this brabaeum This Holy David expresseth well where he saith I will run the way of thy Command when thou hast set my Heart at liberty That which sets the heart at liberty is that wherein our sinnes are pardoned our persons accepted and so we fitted to a cursus Theologicus and then run where we will in God's Commandements we are still in the way to a heavenly Crowne If it had onely the name of a Crowne there is some Rhetorick in that It is the most eminent kind of reward and set upon the head the most eminent part of the body we may well use all the projects of the head to attaine that which is to compasse the head with honour But it is also Corona incorruptibilis we should not be loth to purchase it with a life uncorrupted 2. When we have thought well of the entrance and Admittance in stadium which makes us capable of that reward we must not stay there It is not called Stadium in that sence It hath another name which implies motion and a painfull motion too It is Curriculum and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a place of running and striving a place of sweating and toyling to all that are there without exception Qui in Stadio sunt currunt omnes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys●…ie Being come in we must be employed in such actions as befit the place Otherwise no priviledges no partaking of holy Mysteries will excuse us more then they excused the Jewes Who were all baptized to Moses in the clouds and in the red Sea and did eate of the same spirituall meate and drinke of the same spirituall Rock-But with many of them God was not well pleased For they were overthrowne in the wildernesse 1 Cor. 10. 1 2 c. And so overthrown were ensamples to us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. 6. If we exceed them in priviledges we may so in punishments 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys. Therefore St Paul that had as many priviledges as any saith of himselfe 1 Cor. 9. 27. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And he saith to us 1 Cor. 10. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i e. He that thinkes he stands sure enough intra stadium may be deceived Therefore Let