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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11072	The heavenly academie	Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.	1638 (1638)	STC 21341; ESTC S114569	43,887	250

more skilfull in the word of righteousnesse better to discerne good evill to digest the stronger meat of divine mysteries As wee grow up in our stature in Christ Jesus toward a perfect man we leave our childish knowledge behind and grow up to him in all things therefore in knowledge which is the head even Christ. The head is Wisedome it selfe and they that grow in him growe ●n wisdome and still take higher degrees in the heavenly Schoole under this highest and most heavenly Teacher Thirdly seeing God teacheth thee by his Spirit and he is the Giver of the Spirit by which hee teacheth thee goe to the Giver himselfe for this gift Goe to him by prayer and goe to him publikely in the house of prayer and there joyne with the Church in prayer for the Spirit which hee hath promised to his Church The uniting of many hearts and voyces in one petition makes it the stronger and more powerfull with God And it may well be that when thou joynest with the Congregation in prayer thou mayst joyne with some who shall not only double the strength of thy prayer by an equall strength of Spirit added to thine but by a double portion of Spirit exceeding thine And so by this joyning of stocks in publike prayer thou mayest bee a double gainer both while thou art a partaker of many prayers and while thou art partaker of some more powerful than thine own And indeed Christ would not have spoken of two or three gathered together in his Name except there had beene some benefit and advantage in this gathering together and in two or three above one Therefore let us especially expect him as hee hath promised to be present where two or three are gathered together Now wee know that Christ is present with his Church by his Spirit even that Comforter which leadeth into all truth And accordingly wee find that when the Church was united in prayer they were filled with the Holy Ghost And because Christ is present with his Church by this Spirit to the end of the world illuminating and teaching both Pastours and people our Church prayeth for the Pastours That God would illuminate them with true understanding and knowledge of his Word and for the people That God who taught the hearts of faithfull people by the light of the Holy Spirit may give us by the same Spirit to have a right judgement in all things Joyne then with the Church in the offering up and receiving downe of such petitions and doe not by dividing thy selfe from the offering divide thy selfe also from the receiving But for so precious a gift as the Spirit make thy prayer as powerfull as thou canst and more powerfull mayst thou make it if thou get more power joyned together by a Communion of Saints Seeke God also by private prayer for this gift of the Spirit which Christ himselfe hath taught yea proved by undeniable arguments that God will give to them that aske it And the experimentall truth of this saying of our Saviour many excellent Saints have found and acknowledged professing that they received sometimes by prayer more light for the clearing of darke places than by study and reading And therefore wee shall find that the Fathers in their Homilies and Expositions doe often interrupt their preaching with praying and in prayer seeke to bee enabled by the Spirit for preaching But come to God with faith for the promise runs thus That whatsoever we aske beleeving we shall receive Come also with fervencie for Christ hath taught us That what friendship cannot doe yet importunitie may obtaine And it hath beene tried by the Canaanitish woman and many others since her time That where a denial will not be taken for an answer there the answer hath been turned into grant And the more to encourage us to importunitie for the obtaining of this grant of the Spirit let us take notice first That God doth chiefly like those prayers that are made for the Spirit God is a Spirit and as because hee is a Spirit hee likes best that worship and those prayers which are made by the Spirit so doth he highly love those Prayers which pray for the Spirit by which such agreeable and acceptable prayers are made Secondly God hath abundance of Spirit and this abundance and fulnesse of Spirit hath he delivered over to his son Christ Jesus whose humanitie is Uber Deitatis The Brest of the Deitie And as wee all must receive from the fulnesse of this Brest so this Brest being full is most apt to give and therefore most willing to meet with those that are most desirous and thirstie to receive It delights to bee drawne yea to be pressed by importunitie and is not onely pleased but as it were eased when hee meets with an hungrie soule and a mouth opened wide that hee may fill it Lastly joyne meditations with thy prayers As prayers sometimes do kindle thy meditations so sometimes meditations may kindle thy prayers While I mused saith the Psalmist my heart waxed hot For meditation doth stir and blow away the ashes even earthly and carnall thoughts and kindles the fire of the Spirit The soule of a Saint is a little Sanctuarie or Temple where God dwells by his Spirit and this Spirit being sought to in this Temple by the servants of God hath given them many times divine answers and resolutions So hath this little Temple beene turned into a Schoole where the soules of men enlightened have seen more than seven men upon the Watch-Tower of humane speculation And when thou goest to this Schoole let meditation purge thy soule from carnall drossinesse and fire it into a spirituall puritie Let this spirituall fire burne away that corporeall grossenesse which entertaines and makes carnall and bodily images Let the glasse of thy soule bee cleansed and made spiritually pure that it may be fit to entertaine a pure spirit and those spirituall sights which the Spirit shall present unto it And being thus pure in heart thou shalt see God in thy soule Hee who is light shall shine into thy soule and by this light the face of thy soule shall shine as the face of Moses on the mount In his light thou shalt see light and by this light shalt thou see that which all the naturall light in the world cannot shew thee God who commanded light to shine out of darknesse will give thee the light of the knowledge of the glorie of God in the face of Jesus Christ. And when the light of this knowledge doth appeare then know that thy Teacher is neare Then stand on thy Watch-Tower and heare what hee teacheth thee and see what hee sheweth thee A lesson of this Teacher and of this teaching is the best learning and makes the best Schollers because taught in Gods that is in the best Academie Yea sometimes in a minute thou shalt see that by this teaching which thou canst not attaine in