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A45274 Holy raptures, or, Patheticall meditations of the love of Christ together with A treatise of Christ mysticall, or, The blessed union of Christ and his members : also, The Christian laid forth in his whole disposition & carriage / by Jos. Hall ... Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. 1652 (1652) Wing H385A; ESTC R40927 65,290 228

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our spirituall life Christ is the utmost and most perfect end of all our living without the intuition whereof we would not live or if we should our naturall life were no other then a spirituall death Oh Saviour let me not live longer then I shall be enlived by thee or then thou shalt be glorified by me And what rule should I follow in all the carriage of my life but thine thy precepts thine examples that so I may live thee as well as preach thee and in both may finde thee as thou hast truly laid forth thy self the way the truth and the life Joh. 14. 6. the way wherein I shall walk the truth which I shall beleeve and professe and the life which I shall enjoy In all my morall actions therefore teach me to square my self by thee what ever I am about to doe or speak or affect let me think If my Saviour were now upon earth would he do this that I am now putting my hand unto would he speak these words that I am now uttering would he be thus disposed as I now feel my self Let me not yeeld my self to any thought word or action which my Saviour would be ashamed to own Let him be pleased so to manage his own life in me that all the interesse he hath given me in my self may be wholly surrendred to him that I may be as it were dead in my self whiles he lives and moves in me SECT 13. The improvement of this life in that Christ is made our wisdome BY vertue of this blessed union as Christ is become our life so that which is the highest improvement not only of the ra●ionall but the supernaturall and spirituall life is thereby also made unto us of God Wisdome Righteousnesse Sanctification and Redemption 1 Cor. 1. 30. Not that he only works these great things in and for us this were too cold a construction of the divine bounty but that he really become all these to us who are true partakers of him Even of the wisest men that ever nature could boast of is verified that character which-the divine Apostle gave of them long agoe Rom. 1. 21 22. Their foolish heart was darkned professing themselves to be wise they became fools and still the best of us if we be but our selves may take up that complaint of Asaph Psal 73. 22. So foolish was I and ignorant I was as a beast before thee and of Agur the son of Jake Prov. 30. 2 3. Surely I am more brutish then man and have not the understanding of a man I neither learned wisdome nor have the knowledge of the holy and if any man will be challenging more to himself he must at last take up with Solomon Eccl. 7. 23. I said I will be wise but it was far from me But how defective soever we are in our selves there is wisdome enough in our head Christ to supply all our wants He that is the wisdome of the Father is by the Father made our wisdome In him are hid all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge saith the Apostle Col. 2. 3. So hid that they are both revealed and communicated to his own For God who commanded the light to shine out of darknesse hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4. 6. In and by him hath it pleased the Father to impart himselfe unto us He is the image of the invisible God Col. 1. 15. even the brightnesse of his glory and the expresse image of his person Heb. 1. 3. It was a just check that he gave to Philip in the Gospell Joh. 14 9. Have I been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me Philip he that hath seen me hath seen the Father And this point of wisdome is so high and excellent that all humane skill and all the so much admired depths of Philosophy are but meer ignorance and foolishnesse in comparison of it Alas what can these profound wits reach unto but the very outside of these visible and transitory things as for the inward forms of the meanest creatures they are so altogether hid from them as if they had no beeing and as for spirituall and divine things the most knowing Naturalists are either stone-blinde that they cannot see them or grope after them in an Egyptian darknesse For the naturall man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2. 14. How much lesse can they know the God of Spirits who besides his invisibility is infinite and incomprehensible only he who is made our wisdome enlightneth our eyes with this divine knowledge No man knoweth the Father but the Son and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him Mat. 11. 27. Neither is Christ made our wisdome only in respect of heavenly wisdome imparted to us but in respect of his perfect wisdome imputed unto us Alas our ignorances and sinfull misprisions are many and great where should we appear if our faith did not fetch succour from our all-wise and all-sufficient Mediator Oh Saviour we are wise in thee our head how weak soever we are of our selves Thine infinite wisdome and goodnesse both covers and makes up all our defects The wife cannot be poor whiles the husband is rich thou hast vouchsafed to give us a right to thy store we have no reason to be disheartned with our owne spirituall wants whiles thou art made our wisdome SECT 14. Christ made our righteousnesse IT is not meer wisdome that can make us acceptable to God if the serpents were not in their kinde wiser then we we should not have been advised to be wise as serpents That God who is essentiall Justice as well as Wisdome requires all his to be not more wise then exquisitely righteous Such in themselves they cannot be For in many things we sin all such therefore they are and must be in Christ their head who is made unto us of God together with Wisdome Righteousnesse Oh incomprehensible mercy He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousnesse of God in him 2 Cor. 5. 21. what a marvellous and happy exchange is here we are nothing but sin Christ is perfect righteousnesse He is made our sin that we might be made his righteousnesse He that knew no sin is made sin for us that we who are all sin might be made Gods righteousnesse in him In our selves we are not only sinfull but sin In him we are not righteous only but righteousnesse it self Of our selves we are not righteous we are made so In our selves we are not righteous but in him we made not our selves so but the same God in his infinite mercy who made him sin for us hath made us his righteousnesse No otherwise are we made his righteousnesse then he is made our sin Our sin is made his by Gods imputation so