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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01645	Gerards meditations written originally in the Latine tongue by Iohn Gerard Doctour in Divinitie, and superintendant of Heidelberg. Translated and revised by Ralph Winterton fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge.; Meditationes sacrae. English	Gerhard, Johann, 1582-1637.; Winterton, Ralph, 1600-1636.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.; Gerhard, Johann, 1582-1637. Exercitium pietatis quotidianum quadripartitum. English. aut	1638 (1638)	STC 11778; ESTC S103073	189,715	520

The law of sinne in my members is repugnant unto the law of mâ— minde which is renewed But givâ— unto me the Spirit of thy grace that I may captivate the law of sinne and not be captivated by the old flesh The flesh within me lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh The spirit indeed is ready but the flesh is weak Grant therefore unto my spirit the riches of thy strength and vertue that it may overcome the evil concupiscences of the rebellious flesh That whorish Dalilah with her allurements doth daily set upon me But strengthen thou me by thy Spirit in the inward maâ— that at length she overcome me not O how grievous and hard a thing is it for a man to fight against himself that is against his flesh How difficult and hard a matter is it for one to overcome a domestick enemie Unlesse in this combate thou dost arm me with thy heavenly strength there is great fear that I shall be constrained to yeeld unto this enemie by reason of her secret and hidden treacheries Presse burn â—aunce mortifie the old man that I may escape his fawning deceit and seducement Grant unto me that I may daily die in my self that by the allurements of the flesh I be not separated from the life that is in Christ. Kindle in my heart the fire of the Spirit that I may sacrifice unto thee the beloved sonne of all my evil lusts and mine own will Flesh and bloud cannot inherit the kingdome of God Let them therefore die in me that I be not excluded from the kingdome of heaven They that live according to the flesh shall die But they which by the Spirit do mortifie the deeds of the flesh shall live They that are Christs do crucifie the flesh with the lusts thereof Therefore strike thorow and crucifie my flesh O Christ thou that wast upon the altar of the crosse pierced thorow and crucified for me Amen PRAYER II. He prayes for the conservation and increase of faith THou hast lighted in my heart thou living and eternall God the light of saving faith which I humbly beseech thee of thy goodnesse and clemencie to keep and increase I often feel weaknesse of faith I often waver and am tossed with storms of doubts and fears Therefore I humbly call upon thee with thy blessed Apostles that thou wouldest vouchsafe to increase it My heart propounds unto thee a good word Thou wilt not break the bruised reed nor quench the smoking flax I carrie my treasure in a vessel of clay The torch of faith I bear about me in a brittle vessel What else remains there but that with serious prayers and sighs I commend it unto thy custodie and daily pray unto thee for increase of the same In the darknesse of this life and present world make me partaker of the heavenly light of faith Thy word is light and life Grant unto me of thy mercie that by true faith I may stick unto thy word and be made by thee a sonne of light and life Against all the tentations of Satan against all oblocutions of the world yea against the cogitations of mine own heart let the comfort of thy word prevail in me One word of Scripture is of more worth then heaven and earth in that it is more firm then heaven and earth Effect in me by thy holy Spirit that I may firmly beleeve thy word and yeeld my reason and my senses to the obedience of faith Thy promises are of thy meer free grace neither do they depend upon the condition of my worth and merits I may therefore with most assured faith relie upon them and with my whole heart trust in thy goodnesse By faith Christ dwells and lives in my heart Conserve therefore in me the free gift of faith that my heart may be and alwayes remain the habitacle of Christ. Faith is the seed of all good works and the foundation of holy life Conserve therefore most bountifull Lord and confirm this in me that my spirituall harvest and dwelling suffer no losse Strengthen my faith that it may overcome the world and the prince of the world Increase the light thereof that it may daily cast forth more clear beams outwardly Conserve it in the midst of the darknesse of death that it may cast a light before me to true life Rule me by thy holy Spirit that I lose not this faith by consenting unto the lusts of the flesh and taking pleasure in sinne against my conscience But confirm in me that good work which thou hast begun that by perseverance of my faith I may obtain the inheritance of eternall life Amen PRAYER III. He prayes for the conservation and increasâ— of hope ALmighty eternall and mercifull God I beseech thee by the most sacred wounds of thy Sonne to uphold in me the prop of saving hope Sometimes my heart doth wave lik a ship in the midst of the sea But grant thou unto me the safe and firm anchor of immoveable hope Still the waves of tentations and doubts Thou that art the God of hope and all consolation As certain and immoveable as the truth of thy promise is so certain may the firmnesse of holy hope be in me I rest upon thy promises And thou wilt not leave me destitute of aid My confidence is in thy bountie And thou wilt not leave me destitute of comfort I know on whom I have beleeved and I am sure that he is able to keep that which is committed unto him by me against that day I am most certainly perswaded that thou which hast begun a good work in me wilt also finish it untill the day of Jesus Christ. There are three things that lift me up when I am prostrate that uphold me when I am falling that direct me when I am wavering to wit thy love in my adoption the truth of thy promise and thy power in performance This is the threefold cord that thou lettest down unto me into this prison out of my heavenly countrey that thou mayst lift me up and draw me unto thee unto the sight of thy glory This hope is the anchor of my salvation This is the way that leadeth unto paradise The meditation of thy command makes me hope The meditation of thy goodnesse suffers me not to despair of thy mercie the meditation of mine own frailtie suffers me not to hope and trust in my self or mine own power and merit By how much the lesse my hope is fastened on these frail and fluxible sands of present goods and humane aid By so much the more solidly and certainly it is stablished upon the firm and immoveable rock of thy promise and celestiall things Unite my heart unto thee that I may altogether withdraw my self from the woâ—ld and cleave unto thee with all my heart Unto thee I flee as unto the throne of grace and altar of mercie and ark of the covenant

Without the love of God there is no desire of eternall life How then can any one be partaker of the chiefest good which loveth not which seeketh not which desireth not Such as thy love is such art thou because thy love transformeth thee into it self Love is the chiefest couple because the lover and the thing loved become one What hath conjoyned the most just God and wretched sinners What hath conjoyned them being infinitely distant one from the other Infinite love And yet that the infinite justice of God might not be weakned the infinite price of Christ interceded Again what hath conjoyned together God the Creatour and the faithfull soul created things infinitely distant Love In the life which is eternall we shall be joyned to God in the chiefest degree Why Because we shall love him in the chiefest degree Love uniteth and transformeth if thou lovest carnall things thou art carnall If thou lovest the world thou shalt become worldly But flesh and bloud cannot enter into the kingdome of God If thou lovest God and celestiall things thou shalt become celestiall The love of God is the chariot of Elias ascending up into heaven The love of God is the joy of the minde the paradise of the soul it excludeth the world it overcometh the devil it shutteth hell it openeth heaven The love of God is that seal by which God sealeth the elect and beleevers God at the last judgement will acknowledge none to be his but those that are sealed with this seal For faith it self the onely instrument of our justification and salvation is not true unlesse it doth demonstrate it self by love There is no true faith unlesse there be a firm confidence and there is no confidence without the love of God That benefit is not acknowledged for which we do not give thanks and we do not give thanks to him whom we do not love If therefore thy faith be true it will acknowledge the benefit of our redemption wrought by Christ it will acknowledge and give thanks it will give thanks and love The love of God is the life and rest of the soul When the soul departs from the body by death then the life of the body departeth When God departs out of the soul by reason of sins then the life of the soul departeth Again God dwells in our hearts by faith God dwells in the soul by love because the love of God is diffused in the hearts of the elect by the holy Spirit There is no tranquillitie to the soul without the love of God The world and Satan do much disquiet it But God is the chief rest of the soul There is no peace of conscience but to those that are justified by faith there is no true love of God but in them that have a filiall confidence in God Therefore let the love of our selves the love of the world the love of the creatures die in us that the love of God may live in us Which God begin in us in this world and perfect in the world to come Meditat. X. Of our reconciliation with God Fear not my soul be not dismaid For Iesus Christ thy debts hath paid CHrist truly took our infirmities and bare our griefs and sicknesses O Lord Jesus That which in us merited eternall punishment thou tookest upon thy self That burden which would have pressed us down into hell thou hast undergone Thou wast wounded for our iniquities thou wast broken for our sinnes By the bluenesse of thy wounds are we healed The Lord hath laid upon thee the iniquities of us all Surely wonderfull indeed is this change Thou takest our sinnes upon thy self and bestowest thy righteousnesse upon us Death due unto us thou undergoest thy self and conferrest life upon us I cannot therefore by any means doubt of thy grace or despair by reason of my sinnes The worst thing that was in us thou tookest upon thy self How then canst thou despise that which is the best in us and thine own work to wit our soul and body Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption For he is truly sanctified whose sinnes are abolished and taken away Blessed is the man whose iniquities are forgiven and to whom the Lord imputeth not his sinnes How can God impute our sinnes to us when he hath already imputed them to another For the wickednesse of his people he hath smitten his best beloved Sonne By the knowledge of him therefore he shall justifie many and shall bear their iniquities How shall he justifie those that are his Heare and attend O my soul He shall save them by the knowledge of him that is by the saving acknowledgement and firm apprehension by faith of the mercie and grace of God in Christ. This is life eternall to know and acknowledge thee the onely true God and Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent And therefore if thou shalt confesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus and beleeve in thy heart that God raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved Faith apprehendeth Christs satisfaction He bare the iniquities of those that are his he suffered for the sinnes of many he interceded for the transgressours For he should have had very few just unlesse in mercy he had received sinners Thou shouldst have had few just O Jesus unlesse thou hadst remitted the sinnes of the unjust How then shall Christ judge according to severitie the sinnes of the penitent which he hath taken upon himself How shall he condemn him that is guilty of sinne seeing that he himself was made sinne for us Will he condemn those whom he calleth his friends Will he condemn those for whom he hath intreated Will he condemn those for whom he died Lift up thy self therefore O my soul and forget thy sinnes for the Lord hath forgotten them Whom dost thou fear as the punisher of thy sinnes but the Lord who himself made satisfaction for thy sinnes If any other had payed the price of my redemption I might have doubted whether the just Judge would accept of that satisfaction If a man or an angel had satisfied for my sinnes yet still there might be a doubt whether the price of redemption were sufficient But now there is no place for doubt How can it be that he will not accept of that price which he hath payd himself How can that choose but be sufficient which is from God himself Why art thou troubled O my soul All the wayes of God are mercie and truth Iust is the Lord and just are his judgements Why art thou troubled O my soul Let the mercy of God raise thee up let the justice of God also raise thee up For if God be just for one offence he will not exact double satisfaction For our sinnes he hath smitten his Sonne How then can he smite us his servants for them How can he punish our sinnes in us which

hands O God how liberall art thou to mankindeâ— All things thou createdst long ago for the use of man All things thou dost as yet preserve for the good of man Whatsoever thou of thine infinite goodnesse affordest to the other creatures thou affordest also unto me for as much as thou dost wonderfully form furnish and conserve them for my sake Some of the creatures serve to obey me some to nourish me some to clothe me some to cure me some to chastise me But all of them to teach and inform me Who can reckon up those divers kindes of nutriments which thou hast created and dost as yet produce out of the earth unto this day to nourish us Who can enumerate those divers species of herbs which thou dost every yeare cause the earth to bring forth to cure us Who can in words comprehend those sundry kindes of living creatures which were made for mans use and do yet all serve him To thee be praise and honour for ever who art the Creatour and Conserver of all things Without thee the true sunne I should vanish away as doth the shadow Without thee the true life I should presently depart out of this life Without thee the true being I should suddenly fall to nothing To thee onely is due that I live move and have my being Therefore to thee alone will I live and adhere for ever Amen PRAYER III. He renders thanks for our redemption wrought by Christ. I Ow unto thee O eternall and Almighty God most heartie thanks for that thou hast created me when I was nothing But much more for that thou hast redeemed me when I was lost and condemned I did hang in the jaws of hell And thou didst pluck me out by the bloud of thy Sonne I was the slave of Satan but thy grace hath delivered me out of the power of the devil and translated me into the kingdome of Christ. I ow my self wholly unto thee because thou createdst me wholly My tongue ought alwayes to praise thee because thou gavest it unto me My mouth ought alwayes to set forth thy praise because the aire and breath which it drawes is thine My heart ought alwayes to cleave unto thee with perpetuall love because thou didst form it All my members ought to be ready for thy service because thou didst wonderfully frame them how many and how great soever they be But if I ow my self wholly unto thee because thou createdst me What shall I repay unto thee for redeeming me out of slavery and captivity The lost sheep thou hast delivered out of the claws of the infernall wolf The fugitive slave thou hast pluckt out of the prison of the devil The lost groat thou hast sought out with great carefulnesse In Adam I fell and thou hast erected me In Adam I was captivated in the bonds of sinne but thou hast set me at liberty In Adam I was lost and again thou hast saved me What am I worm that thou shouldest be so solicitous for redeeming me What am I worm that thou shouldest be so prodigally bountifull for saving me If thou hadst altogether cast off our first parents after their fall and hadst thrown them with all their posteritie out from the presence of thy glory into the lowest pit of hell there is none of us could justly complain of any wrong done unto him For they had received and we had received for our deeds a just reward What else could we have desired or expected from thee who createdst us after thine own image and furnishedst us with power and sufficiencie to have kept our innocencie But in this thou didst manifest thy incomprehensible and unspeakable love towards us in that thou didst promise unto our first parents after their fall thy Sonne for their Redeemer and in the fulnesse of time didst send him unto us to call us from death to life from sinne to righteousnesse and from the infernall pit unto celestiall glorie O thou lover of man whose delight is with the sonnes of men who can worthily set forth the praise of thy love to man Yea who can in minde conceive the worthines thereof These are the incomprehensible riches of thy goodnesse This is the infinite treasure of thy gifts which the slendernesse of our capacitie and understanding cannot conceive Was a servant so deare unto thee that thy Sonne must be delivered to death for his redemption Was an enemie so much to be beloved that thou shouldest appoint thy most beloved Sonne to be his redeemer My soul is astonisht with the very consideration of this thy goodnesse â—nd doth wholly turn and dissolve it self into the love of thee Amen PRAYER IIII. He rendreth thanks for the incarnation of the Sonne I Render thanks unto thee Jesu Christ thou alone Mediatour and Redeemer of mankinde for that thou hast in the fulnesse of time personally united unto thee the true humane nature and hast vouchsafed to be born of a Virgin How great is thy love to man in that thou didst not assume the nature of angels but the seed of Abraham How great is the mystery of godlinesse that thou being very God wouldest be made manifest in the flesh How great is the inclination of thy pity that descending from heaven for my sake thou hast endured to be born of a Virgin For me most vile creature Creatour Almighty thou art become man For me most abject servant most glorious Lord thou hast put on the shape of a servant that by taking flesh upon thee thou mightest set my flesh at libertie To me thou art born Whatsoever celestiall good therefore thou bringest with thee in thy Nativitie shall be mine To me thou art given And therefore all things with thee My nature in thee is more glorified then it was in Adam dishonoured For thou dost assume it into the Unitie of thy Person whereas it was weakened with accidentall corruption onely by Satan Thou art flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone Thou art my brother And what canst thou deny unto me seeing thou art most nearly joyned unto me in the same flesh and affection of brotherly love Thou art the Bridegroom who according to the good pleasure of thy heavenly Father hast coupled unto thee by a personall league the humane nature as a spouse To the joy of those nuptials I do proclaim and thankfully acknowledge that I my self am invited I wonder now no more that the heaven the earth the sea and all things that are in them were made for man by God seeing that God himself would for man become man Thou canst not utterly divorce me and cast me away from thee seeing that thou canst not deny that thou art a man and therefore my brother Thou canst not altogether forget me because thou hast graven me in thine own hands For the very communion of the flesh doth daily and continually put thee in minde of me Thou canst not altogether forsake me seeing that it

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