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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06676	Paraphrasticall and devout discourses vpon the Psalme Miserere, composed by Ch. M.	Kellison, Matthew.	1635 (1635)	STC 17130; ESTC S102830	80,842	304

inflamed with charitie so he inflameth that he with an hot cole taken from the Altar may touch my mouth Isa c. 6 and purge my lippes from all filth of sinne See S. Thom. Lyra. Hector Pintus and Sāctius on the sixt chap. of Isai● that is that he vvith the burning cole of charitie taken from the Altar of the crosse or CHRIST his passion endured on the crosse for that is the source of all grace and charitie may purge my hart and lippes as gold in the fornace from all drosse of sinne that my hart may thinke nothing my mouth and lippes may speake nothing which is not pure chast and holie For then my mouth vvill be apt to shew forth thy praise Or else send ô Lord one of thy Priestes who by office is a Seraphin instituted and ordained to illuminate and inflame the heartes of the people by preaching and administration of the Sacramentes And let him either by the burning cole of thy word for thy word is fired exceedinglie or by that sacred burning cole of CHRISTS holie bodie in the Eucharist burning continuallie vvith the Diuinitie Ps 118. yet not consumed taken from the holie Altar vvhere it is offered daylie in the Church of God may inflame my heart purge first it and then my lippes vvhich are the interpreters of the heart from all filth of sinne Or else ô my svveet God send vnto me one of thy Seraphins one of thy Priests vvho ministeriallie by meanes of the Sacramēts vvhich he ministreth giueth the Holie Ghost that he by the hot cole of this holie Spirit proceeding as ardent loue from God the father and God the sonne coequall and consubstantiall vnto them vvho in the day of Pentecoste descending fom heauen in the forme of fierie tongues inflamed purged th' Apostles and first Christians may inflame purge my heart lippes from all filth of sinne and so may make me fitt to shew forth thy praise for vntill I be purged from sinne Ps 49. I am a sinner to the sinner thou sayst why doest thou declare my iustices and takst my Testament by thy mouth And Ecclesiasticus telleth me Eccleisastici 15. that praise is not comelie in the mouth of a sinner 3. But open my mouth ô Lord stopped by sinne and purge my lippes polluted by sinne and then not onelie my mouth shall be the trumpet to sound forth thy prayses vvhich thou ô penitent sinner must say after him but my soule shall say to her selfe Ps 102. My soule blesse thou our Lord and all the thinges that are within me my vnderstanding my vvill my memorie my heart and all that is in me shall blesse and prayse God yea my body and all the senses and partes of it as myne eyes myne eares the rest of my senses my heade my hādes my feete in imploying thēselues in thy seruice shall be so many trumpets to sound forth thy praise 4. And not onelie vvith bodie and soule I vvill praise thee but I vvill coniure all people and natiōs to ioyne vvith me in thy praise for I vvill crye vnto them Ps 1●6 Praise our Lord all the Gentiles praise him all the peoples yea I vvill coniure all thy creatures asvvell reasonable as vnreasonable sensible as vnsensible to praise thee and confesse thee to be their Creatour and to say as they doe say euerie day to those that haue intelligence He made vs Psa 99. and not we our selues I vvil vvith Sidrach Dan. 3. Misach Abdenago call vpon all creatures to praise thee I will sing daylie their Canticle and Benedicite All workes of our Lord blesse our Lord ye Angels of our Lord praise and superexalt him for euer ye Heauens blesse our Lord praise and superexalt him for euer All waters that are aboue the heauens blesse ye our Lord praise and superexalt him for euer Sunne and Moone blesse ye our Lord praise and superexalt him for euer In the like manner I vvill inuite the starres planets the showers and dewes the vvindes and tempests fire heate frost and cold yce and snovv and the rest vvhich are inuited to the praise of God in this Canticle for that all those creatures though many of them be deuoide of reason many also of sense doe praise God in exciting men by consideration and contemplation of these admirable vvorkes of God to the praise of him 5. For as vvhen vve see a picture vvell dravvne or a statue cunninglie carued we by and by commend not onelie the picture statue but also and especiallie the painter and Caruer so vvhen vve looke vpon the Heauens and those euer shining lights vvhich may be ouershadovved but neuer are put out and the goodlie order and disposition of the Heauens elemētes and creatures in thē vve praise not onelie them but much more the Creatour And in this fence the Heauēs though they haue neither reason nor sence are sayd to shew forth the glorie of God Ps 18. vvherefore hence forth with thy grace ô Lord all my actions shall be directed to thy honour glorie euerie morning so soone as I rise or awake both they and all I am haue shall be offered designed for thy honour and so by vvord and worke I will euer shew forth thy praise and I vvill neuer cease frō singing praises vnto thee till I come to sing Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus Holie Holie Holie vvith the quire of thy Heauenlie musicians thy Saintes and Angels Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium dedissem vtique Holocaustis non delectaberis Because if thou wouldest haue had sacrifice I had verilie giuen it with holocaustes thou wilt not be pleased 1. I Promised thee ô Lord saith Dauid that my mouth should shew forth thy praise Ps 4● because I take the sacrifice of praise to be more pleasing vnto thee otherwise if thou wouldst haue had sacrifice to vvit the materiall corporall sacrifice of brute beastes I would verilie haue giuen it And thou knovvest ô Lord that in such sacrifices I haue not beene vvanting but I know they are not pleasing to thee nay vvith Holocaustes vvhich were the best kind of externall sacrifices as being wholie burnt and consumed to thy honour thou art not delighted as they are taken in themselues vvithout the internall sacrifice of the minde Salomon in the dedication of the Temple 3. Reg. 2. offered of oxen tvvo tvventie thousand of sheepe an hundred tvventie thousand and yet all these sacrifices taken nakedlie in thēselues without the inward sacrifices of the minde were not pleasing to God Mich. 6. For as Micheas sayth Nunquid placaripotest Dominus in millibus arietum can our Lord be pacified with thousāds of Rammes Or as thou ô Lord thy selfe sayst will I eate the flesh of oxē Ps 49. ibid. or will I drinke the blood of buckgoats Immolate to God the sacrifice of praise and pay thy vovve to the highest 2. And vvhat

Saul who had disobeyed God and yet had offered an holocaust of the first of the preyes which he had brought from Amalec Why will our Lord haue holocaustes and victimes and not rather that the voice of our Lord be obeyed for better is obedience then victimes and to harken rather then to offer the fatt of rammes So that the externall sacrifice taken nakedlie by it selfe or as it proceedeth frō sinfull men is not pleasing to God The inward sacrifice is pleasing to God by it selfe without the externall sacrifice but this without that is not pleasing 3. The sacrifices then vvhich especiallie please God are the inward sacrifices of the minde such a sacrifice is the praise of God vvhich is called the sacrifice of praise in diuers places of Scripture Tob. 2. Psal 4.49.115 vvhich Dauid in his 49. Psalme preferreth before the sacrifice of oxen and other beastes for hauing reiected those sacrifices he saith Immolate to God the sacrifice of praise By this sacrifice of praise we humble our selues and make a kinde of sacrifice of our selues to God in acknowledging our selues to be nothing to haue nothing which we haue not from him and so taking away all matter motiue of praise frō our selues vve giue all thankes and praise to God onelie for all his benefites graces and vve say with Dauid not to vs ô Lord Psalm 113. 1. Tim. 1. not to vs but to thy name giue the glorie And with S. Paul To the King of the worldes immortall inuisible onelie God honour glorie for euer and euer of vvhich sacrifice S. Paul speaking saith Heb. 13. by him therefore let vs offer this hoste of praise alwayes to God that is to say the fruite of lippes confessing to his name 4. Such a sacrifice is obediēce by vvhich vve sacrifice not the bodies of brute beastes but our ovvne willes affections and iudgements which are the thinges most deare vnto vs. Gen. 22 Such a sacrifice Abraham offered to God when after God had commaunded him to immolate sacrifice his onelie and dearely beloued Isaac he tooke the vvood and layd it on Isaac his sonnes shoulders to prefigurat thereby CHRIST IESVS vvho carried the vvood of the crosse on which he vvas sacrificed for our Redemption and Abraham himselfe carried the fire vvith vvhich he thought to haue burned Isaac into an holocauste he built an Altar he bound Isaac and layd him on the pile of wood which was on the Altar and taking his sword stretching forth his hand he vvas readie to kill his owne sonne Isaac O obedience better then an holocauste or hecatōbe of all the oxen sheepe in the vvorld O noble sacrifice by which he sacrificed his paternall affection to so deare a sonne But God almightie was so pleased with this inward sacrifice of his obediēce by which he sacrificed his vvill and all naturall affectiō towards his onely sonne that he sent an Angell to cōmaund him to hold his handes saying by this ô Abrahā I see thou fearest God by this I haue tried thy loue obediēce towards me who wast readie to kill thy onelie thy so deare sōne to obey me Enough Abraham enough this internall sacrifice so pleaseth me that now I care not for the externall hold thy hands Oratio de diuinitate Filij Spiritus S. kill not thy sonne S. Gregorie Nissen affirmeth of himselfe that when on a time he sawe the picture of Abraham readie to sacrifice his owne sonne he could not passe by the picture vvithout shedding teares as indeed the picture the example would mooue any tender or generous heart 5. Such a sacrifice is Beneficence or Almesgiuing which S. Paul biddeth vs not to forget Heb. 13. because with such hostes God is promerited this sacrifice is on Almes which proceeding from the loue of God cōpassiō towards our neighbour is first offered to God because it is giuen principallie for his sake then is giuen to our neighbour or the poore and so is a sacrifice resembling those sacrifices of the old lawe of which not onelie the Priest but the people also vvas partaker 5. Such a sacrifice is prayer made to God with feruencie deuotiō the Priest who offereth this sacrifice is the deuout Christian his Altar is his soule or heart his sacrifice is his prayer the fire which burneth this sacrifice is Charitie out of vvhich prayer ascending mounteth vp to Heauen yea penetrateth it as a sweet perfume and sauoureth sweetlie to the diuine senses and perfumeth all the court of Heauen like a most sweete incense Psalm 140. according to that of Dauid Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight And as by sacrifice vve acknovvledge our ovvne basenes and vilitie God his souuerainitie maiestie our selues his creatures him our Creatour and Lord of our liues who could destroy and annihilat vs as by sacrifice beastes were vvont to be killed and consumed that vve hold out beeing of him as tēnants at vvill are of our selues nothing so by the spirituall sacrifices of prayer we acknowledge our selues beggers God the rich King of Heauen and earth our selues so poore that vve haue nothing and are nothing of our selues him so rich that he is the fountaine and source of all goodnes perfection yea and beeing on vvhom vve depend more then the riuer of the fountaine or the sunne beames of the sunne and so by prayer vve saccrifice all vve haue and are to God acknovvledging that of our selues we haue nothing are nothing but haue all of God and so doe liue precario by begging and at his vvill 6. Such a sacrifice is a contrit heart and this is the principall of all spirituall and invvard sacrifices and is of all the most pleasing to God because as Dauid saith in this verse a sacrifice to God that more pleasing then holocaustes in which he vvill not be delighted is an afflicted spirit and a contrit and humbled heart which God will not despise The externall and corporall sacrifices taken alone are neither profitable to God nor pleasing as in the former verse is declared the inward sacrifices alone are not profitable to God but yet they are pleasing to him They are not profitable for what is he the better for our praise vvhat the vvorse for our dispraise vvhat is he the better if vve honour him vvhat the vvorse is vve dishonour him vvhat the better is he for our good workes prayers and deuotion vvhat the vvorse for all the sinnes vve committ For as Eliphaz Themanites sayd to Iob. Iob. 22. What doth it profit God if thou be iust or what doest thou aduantage him if thy way be vnspotted And as Eliu sayd to the same Iob Iob. 35. If thou sinne what shalt thou hurt him if thy iniquitie be multiplied what shalt thou doe against him More ouer if thou doe iustlie what shalt thou giue him or what shall he re●eaue of thy hande yet