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heart_n	ear_n	eye_n	fat_a	2,377	5	10.2276	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06193	The mysterie of mankind, made into a manual, or The Protestants portuize reduced into explication application, inuocation, tending to illumination, sanctification, deuotion, being the summe of seuen sermons, preached at S. Michaels in Cornehill, London. By William Loe, Doctor of Diuinity, chaplaine to his sacred Maiesty, and pastor elect, and allowed by authority of superiours of the English Church at Hamborough in Saxonie.	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1619 (1619)	STC 16689; ESTC S105401	92,048	356

shee receyued a comfortable compellation from Christ for hee owned her and sayde Daughter bee of good cheare thy beleefe hath saued thee For the more vereeundious and modest wee are in this our hearing of God and in our comming vnto him the more bright and beautiful wee are in his sacred sight If wee would thus serue the Lord in feare and reioyce be fore him with trembling wee should not goe so often to Church and so often return againe neuer the better oft-times the worser wee should not so often heare in vain nor so often see and not discerne But the manner is now with many to come as sathan did for company or custom or worse came also when the sons of God were assembled before him to the diuels Chappell according to our English Prouerbe Where God hath his Church the Diuell hath his Chappell For euen in the great assemblies while some are there hearing the word attentiuely others sleepe profoundly while some reade others prate while some lift vp their eyes to heauen others point out the finger to note some vanity in the next pue while som pray othe●s scoffe while some sing others curse while some sigh for their sinnes others laugh at sinne while others sit hearkening to the Sermon vnto the end others make hast to bee gone and thinke euery houre two vntill they heare the Peace of God which they will scarce vouchsafe to take with them nor the Grace of GOD neither Cease therefore to maruell at our fruitlesse hearing the Word if this bee our demeanour when we present our selues before our God were we perswaded of God as wee ought and surely hee that will come to God must beleeue that God is and of his sonne Christ Iesus of whom the voyce from Heauen and not from men was this Heare him wee could not thus abuse our time when wee assemble our selues to heare this Word of faith preached vnto vs. But those that thus de●mean themselues the Prophe●ie of Esay is fulfilled which God in his iust iudg●ment ●ringeth vpon them for their neglect of him in making their hearts fat Their eares heauie and their eyes dimme that they may not see with their eies nor heare with their eares nor vnderstand with their hearts and should bee conuerted and God should heale them These are such that come into the house of God without feare and offer the sacrifice of fooles for albeit they liue wickedly yet they imagine that they haue made GOD beholding vnto them for sitting an houre or two in his seruice It was otherwise in Saint Iohn the Diuine who in heauenly meditations and seruice of God was rauished in the Spirite on the Lordes day and in that holy extasie heauen was opened vnto him and hee saw God the Angels the Elders and the soules of the Saints clothed in white robes whereas these diuelish hearers are ready to faint for water yet sit as Hagar Abrahams bondmaide did by the fountaines of waters and doe not see them are ready to perish for foode and yet doe not see the heauenly Manna that is reached out vnto them And as they thus abuse the holy meanes of their beleeuing so also they vse not the heauenly and orderly proceeding in the practise of their beleefe For a true Beleeuer at his very first awaking in bedde is present with God in his thoughts words and meditations as Dauid speaketh and after hee is vp hee taketh vnto him blessed wordes as ●head directeth eyther publike●y or priuately and offereth ●God his morning sacrifice in ●prayer and then addresseth and addicteth himselfe to his calling and therein abideth performing his earthly vocation with an heauenly mind And if a true beleeuer happen into any company he sits oft times still and retired to himselfe watching and waiting oportunity when hee may speake words that may minister grace vnto the hearers And if a true Beleeuer haue any leysure not that hee will bee at any time idle he sayth to himselfe Now will I retire myselfe into my closet and there will I powre out my heart vnto my God If a true beleeuer prosper in the worke of his handes he is thankefull and not proude If hee suffer aduersity hee makes his patience knowne vnto all men without murmuring or repining assuring himselfe that it proceedeth not of Gods hatred but of his singular loue t●ward him that hee is afflicted for God delighteth not in the misery of his Creatures for if hee did hee would neuer haue made man a Paradise to liue in euen in his innocency but God knoweth in his wisedome that by afflictions his dearest children are weaned from the loue of the World and take liking of the other world And thus hauing past the day recalling to mind Gods great mercies recounting his owne many and manifold infirmities and imperfections magnifieth Gods fauours in all craueth pardon for his great vnthankefulnesse and so reposing himselfe in bedde in his Sepulchre hauing now made as it were his last will to God acknowledging himselfe a stranger and Pilgrime here as all his Fathers were and beleeuing that the time will come that as he is awaked and riseth from bedde in the morning so shall he bee raysed from his graue and sleepe of death to liue with GOD in Christeternally But the vnbeleeuers and fruitles professors in their carriage are quite contrary For their awaking is to euill and that is euer present with them Their morning Mattens is cursing and swearing and that shall distill one day into their bowels as water like oyle into their bones Their vocation is to bee busie bodies in other mens matters Their society is to seeke out the riotous to runne with them to excesse their retirednesse is to study out mischiefe to complot against their brethren to circumuent by politique stratagems their harmelesse associates If these prosper no man is able to endure their pride their disdaine their curiosity their statelinesse If they bee afflicted the whole Countrie shall ring of their impatience murmuring rauing and blasphemie And thus hauing lost the day they couch themselues in their beds of beastlinesse at night as if they had made a couenant with death and the diuell neuer to be good This is the fruit of infidelitie and thus godlesse professors demeane themselues as if Barrahas had suffered and Christ had beene let goe as if Christ were yet in his graue ●nd that Caiphas should bee ●udge of quicke and dead But true beleeuers know that without faith it is impossible to please God let vs prate what wee will and whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne let vs doe what wee will and this faith must worke by loue or else all is in vaine let vs liue how we will let vs then begge this blessed boone of God that wee may beleeue and that hee would helpe our beleeuing that wee may haue both the groundworke of faith to builde vpon the trust of faith to resolue vpon the boldnes of faith

you peace My people sayth GOD shall sit in the beauty of peace and in the Tabernacles of my protection Desire you dainties You shall be satisfied when his glory shall appeare Desire you wine You shall bee filled with the plentie of this house and shall drinke of the riuers of gladnesse Doth Musicke delight you Here Cherubin Seraphin continually doe crie Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Saboth In a word what delectable thing soeuer can come into mans imagination It is here in full aboundance to be found For God hath spoke it Come and I will shew thee all good O wretched sonnes of men whose teeth are sette on edge with the crudities of this world that they cannot taste of the delicacies of that other world For the Fathers haue eaten sowre grapes and the childrens teeth are set on edge as Ezechiel speaketh Wee must therefore abstaine from the rawe and vnwholesome thinges of this Life if wee meane to confirme our teeth and conforme our taste to sauour Heauen and these glorious thinges of God The best of Gods people that euer were in the world could expresse the glory of this place but by Negatiues albeit they had an extraordinary inspection into it Aske the Prophet Esaias and Saint Peter the Apostle they will tell you That the things which eye hath not seene neyther hath eare heard neyther came it into mans heart are which God hath prepared for them that loue him And Saint Augustine sayeth That the things which God hath prepared for them that loue him Our faith cannot conceyue our hope cannot comprehend our charitie cannot apprehend for it surpasseth our thoughts our vnderstanding our desires Let this bee our comfort that this glory may be obtayned expressed or conceyued it cannot be Augustine sayeth that he can tell sooner what is not there then what is there When the Queene of Sheba came to Solomons Court and heard his wisedome saw the house which hee had built obserued his dyet viewed the dwellings of his seruants noted what seruants robes the manner of their service and recounted the whole burnt offerings which were offered in the house of the Lord euerie day The text sayth that shee stood amazed and there was no Spirit in her and when shee came to her selfe shee vttered these words It is true that I heard in mine owne land of thee O King howbeit I beleeued not the report vntill now I see it but the one half was not told me for thou hast more wisedome and prosperitie then I heard by report Right so O my soule shalt thou say when thou commest into this heauenlie Court and beholdest and knowest God as he is known and seest the new Hierusalem the Feast of the Lambe the Mansions prouided the milke white roabes of the Saintes their attendants vpon God and the continuall Alleluiah sung by the quire of Heauen thou wilt say O it was not the least particle of this glorie that wee heard of beneath when we were in the earth for this glorie farre surp●sseth all that euer wee heard or could imagine neyther indeed could wee beleeue the same but now O King of Heauen assuredly they are fully blessed that alwaies stand before thee and behold this thy Maiesty and surpassing glory Hence was it that Holy men of God oft sighed and earnestly desired when they meditated of this glory to be with Christ. I desire to bee dissolued and to bee with Christ sayeth Paul Aye mee that I am constrayned to dwell with Mesech sayeth Dauid And in another place When shall I come and appeare before the presence of the Lord If I haue found grace in thy sight O Lord shew mee thy face sayth Moses And to this purpose God sendeth his dearest children bitter pilles of affliction oft-times in this life to weane them from the pleasures of this world The world troubleth mee saith S. Augustine and yet I loue it what would I doe if it did not afflict me Surely it would befoole vs as it doth too many who rather then they would forsake any part or parcell of the World they will desperately and diuelishly forsake their God and the glory of heauen and in their hearts wish God to keepe it for him selfe and let them enioy their pleasures and pastimes in this present life O blinde and barbarous folly of the sonnes of Adam who hath bewitched you Would you see the inuisible things of God They are seene sayth Paul by the visible God being considered in his workes Christ is receyued vp in glory ascend thou by these degrees vnto Christ O my soule that he hath reuealed vnto thee Say vnto thy selfe when thou viewest the world and the glory thereof both in the frame of Heauen and in the fabrique of the earth If O Lord thou grantest vnto vs such goodlie thinges in this our prison what hast thou prepared for vs in thy pallace of Heauen If here thou affoordest so liberally thy blessings both to friendes and foes what hast thou prouided in heauen for friendes onely When thou beholdest the surpassing beauty of the heauens say O my soules How delectable are thy dwellings O Lord of Hosts my Spirite fainteth for desire to dwell in the Courts of thy house for euermore For all Nations are before thee as nothing and they are accounted lesse then nothing and vanity When wee consider again that there are three principall places in this vniuerse to witte Hell the World and Heauen The first vnder the earth the second aboue the earth the third aboue the visible heauens The first a place of darkenesse the second a place mixt both with light darknesse the third is altogether light The 1. a dungeon of despayre the second a vale of teares the third a Paradise of incomparable delights and delicacies whose heart desireth not after those water-brookes whose soule seeketh not after those ioyes of Heauen where is the fulnesse of ioy and happinesse for euermore For there is health without sicknesse youth without age fulnesse without famine plenty without penury g●ory without infamy peace without warre and in a word all good without euill Now therefore O yee sonnes of men Marke Sayth Saint Augustine Heauen is to bee solde and God requires no other price for thee to buy it but thy selfe it is worth so much as thou art giue God thy selfe and thou shalt haue it But obserue thou must not present thy selfe to God in this exchange a worldling a sinner a cast-away but thou must become iust good holy and worthy of the same not of thy selfe but beeing iustified sanctified and bettered by the holy faith and Spirit of thy God in Christ Iesus in whom wee all are accounted worthy so shalt thou by his merites obtaine a Kingdom where the fire dooth not burne nor the ayre infect nor the water drowne no● the earth tremble vnder thee where there is no commet to presage thee euill no thunder to terrifie thee no lightning to daunt thee no thunderbolt