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A86450	The valley of vision, or A clear sight of sundry sacred truths. Delivered in twenty-one sermons; by that learned and reverend divine, Richard Holsvvorth, Dr. in Divinity, sometimes Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, Master of Emanuel Colledge, and late preacher at Peters Poore in London. The particular titles and texts are set downe in the next leafe.	Holdsworth, Richard, 1590-1649.; Holdsworth, Richard, 1590-1649. Peoples happinesse.	1651 (1651)	Wing H2404; Thomason E631_1; ESTC R202438	355,440	597

other mercies alway for generall mercies every day And it is a point now worth the considering in these times because the state of our times is so that every man almost is ready to let goe his confidence If things succeed not in every perticular according to our expectations and desires then we think the whole Chaine of providence is dissolved if one linck be loosed we think all the businesse is overturned and all our hopes disappointed if God answer us not in our time upon every occasion The reason is we know not what it is to wait on God Beloved it is true if God were tied to one way or meanes or to one time or to any one person or to any one instrument there were good cause that we should suspect our hold in the successe of the affaires of the Church at all times then we had good cause to be fearefull But God is not straightened so much he hath wayes that we know not and times that we understand not of and persons he can make to spring out of the Ashes of them that are taken away that are contemptible in our eyes and God can strengthen them though they be as the shaking of an Olive God will perfect this work if we be not the impediment if our sins stay him not if we wait It is true I confesse it pleaseth me exceedingly and I congratulate and rejoyce your desires almost as much affect me with joy as the other with sorrow to see men in amazement at such a time It is a signe of your love to the Church beyond the Seas yet how unacceptable was it upon the first relation No man knew what to speake or what to think It is a signe that Religion hath taken some impression It is a signe that you have a simpathy with the Servants of God it is a signe that you have the affections of Servants towards God But for all this take heed while you doe right to the Servants of God that you doe not injury to God himselfe because he is faithfull that hath promised Remember he orders the affairs himselfe God can raise up a Josuah in Moses room I rather use the word because I am very much delighted with the Simile of that noble victorious Prince he was a Moses Was said I O that is a wounding word that you cannot endure O that I could say he is and yet I cannot say the contrary we are kept betweene hope and feare though it be more to be feared then hoped in that particular I am afraid But whether was or is like Moses he was and if he be Is God was with him as he was with Moses in the leading of his People He came into Germany as Moses into Aegypt with a greater band but a small traine in respect of the Enemies but God turned his weaknesse to strength He was faithfull as Moses was he sought not himselfe as Moses did not Moses brought the Children of Israel out of the Furnace he brought the poore afflicted of Germany a good way out of the Furnace And now that all may be like Moses Moses Sepulcher is not known to this day and the life or death of that excellent Prince is not yet knowne to this day like Moses Sepulcher There is yet our perplexity yet there is our comfort there is some comfort in that word that it is uncertaine for that that is uncertaine may be otherwise O but I think that it may be Howsoever be it so or otherwise God hath done his part he hath not left us without a comfort See but how he hath tempered sad Tidings with a mixture of comfort he hath tempered the losse with gaine there is sorrow with joy there is feare with hope there is losse with Victory Why then if God doe thus to us and so feed us with his mercy and support our longanimity if he ply us thus have we not reason to wait upon him Let us now run to this word in the Text. Behold as the eyes of Servants wait on their Masters so doe our eyes wait on God till he have mercy on us and alwayes but esspecially then For did you but know the comfort that comes by hope and expectation innumerable comforts come from hope Hope holds life and soule together if thing● goe ill hope continues us still in life till things goe better Hope is the Pillar of the wavering soule hope is the Ladder that hath one end in Earth and another in Heaven hope waits for all the good things that God hath promised Hope is the Anchor of the soule as the Apostle compares it Nay not onely the Anchor sayth St. Chrysostome but the Ship to that good Anchor It must needs be well when it is both the Ship must ride safe for the Anchor is hope it must be safe it selfe for upon it is the Ship the Ark that carries the Saints through the troubles of this World it is the Anchor that makes us keep our riding that we dash not on the Shelves and Rocks that encounter us It is a better Anchor then other Anchors they are alway below the Ship at the ground but this Anchor is above it is not fastened in Earth but in Heaven How sure would a Ship be if it were fastened aloft to Heaven if God had the Tacle in his hand God hath the Cable of this Anchor in his hand Faith is the Cable hope is the Anchor the Ship will ride safe if the Anchor be in Heaven Let us waite we have good cause to wait he is powerfull and can doe more he is gracious and will doe nay further he is faithfull and hath done and will doe abundantly beyond our expectation and he that hath begun will perfect it O therefore let us acquaint our souls with waiting We are so impatient that if God give us not all at the first call what our hearts are prompt to suggest we think all is lost O if we had hope the nature of hope is to abide and stay Gods leasure Hope is never frustrate See it in the example of the Saints David I waited patiently on the Lord and God heard me It is confirmed and ratified by promises Solomon sets one Waite on the Lord and he will save thee David another Wait on the Lord and he will preserve thy soule Wait patiently on the Lord and he will bring it to passe We have it ratified by promise Nay in experience who ever waited and was frustrated Our Fathers trusted in God and were not ashamed he gave them their hearts desire and he hath exceeded ours therefore have recourse to that Anchor and learne what it is to wait on God that we may say as Job Though he kill me I will trust in him Though he disappoint all I will hope my hope and waiting shall be placed on God my trust shall be in him he never suffered that staid his leasure to be ashamed they were had in remembrance Therefore our eyes shall wait

THE VALLEY OF VISION OR A clear sight of sundry sacred Truths Delivered in Twenty-one Sermons by that Learned and Reverend Divine RICHARD HOLSVVORTH Dr. in Divinity sometimes Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge Master of Emanuel Colledge and late Preacher at Peters Poore in LONDON The particular Titles and Texts are set downe in the next lease 1 Sam. 3.1 And the word of the Lord was precious in those dayes there was no open Vision Habakkuk 2.2 Write the Vision and make it plaine upon Tables that he may run that readeth it LONDON Printed by M. S. and are to be sold by R. Tomlins at the Sun and Bible in Pye-Corner and Rob. Littlebury at the Vnicorne in Little-Britaine 1651. The particular Titles and Texts in the ensuing worke The Peoples happinesse One Sermon on Psal 144.15 Happie is that people that is in such a Case yea happie is that people whose God is the Lord. The Penitents Patterne Six Sermons on Hosea 14.2 Take with you words and turne to the Lord say unto him Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously so will we render the calves of our lips The Sufferers Crowne Foure Sermons on Jam. 1.12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tryed he shall receive the Crowne of life which the Lord hath promised to them that love him The Saints Heritage One Sermon on Psal 119.111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever for they are the rejoycing of my heart Davids Devotion One Sermon on Psal 119.48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy Commandements which I have loved and will meditate on thy Statutes The Vigilant Servant Two Sermons on Psal 123.2 Behold as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their Masters and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her Mistresse so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God untill that he have mercy upon us The Saints Progresse Two Sermons on Psal 84.7 They goe from strength to strength every one of them in Zion appeareth before God The Guest-Chamber Two Sermons on Luk. 23.11.12 And ye shall say unto the good man of the house the Master saith unto thee Where is the Guest-Chamber where I shall eat the Passeover with my Disciples And he shall shew you a large upper roome furnished there make ready Angels Inspection Two Sermons on 1 Pet. 1.1 2. Which things the Angels desire to looke into TO THE READER HOw eminent an instrument the Author of this Treatise was of Gods glory and the Churches good is unknown to none who in the least degree were acquainted with his person and profitable paines They knew him to be composed of a learned Head a gracious heart a bountifull hand and what must not be omitted a patient back comfortably and cheerfully to endure such heavy afflictions as were laid upon him The more pitty therefore it was that so worthy a man should dye issulesse without leaving any Books behind him for the benefit of Learning and Religion Considering what might be the cause thereof it cannot be imputed to any envy in him as grudging us the profit of his paines one so open handed of his Almes could not be close fisted of his labours for a generall good Rather it proceeded partly from his modesty having the highest parts in himselfe and the lowest opinion of himself Partly from his judicious observation that the world now a dayes surfets with Printed Sermons 1 Kin. 10.21 which like Silver in the reigne of Solomon are not respected by some they are so plentifull whilst they are abused by others who lazily imp their wings with other ●ens plum● wherewith they soar high in common esteeme yet have not the ingenuity with that son of the Prophet to confesse 2 Kin. 6.5 Alasse it was borrowed As for the private notes which he left behind him as Aristotle told Alexander of his physicks that he had written them as if he had not written them meaning that the language was so darke and obscure that few could understand it so his hand was onely legible to himselfe and almost uselesse for a● her Yet that the world might not totally be deprived of his worthy endeavours I trust his pains will meet with commendations in most with just censure in none who being exquisite in the Art of Short-Writing the onely way to retre●ve winged words and fix them to stay amongst us hath with all possible accuratenesse first taken and now set them forth by the permission as I am credibly informed of the Authors best friends to publike view I say possible accuratenesse seeing a candid Reader knowes how to make his charitable allowances in things of this nature It is said of Demosthenes that the best part of his Orations were wanting when they were read because the Orator when uttering them enlivened each sentence word and syllable with a true tone and proper accent in his pronunciation Two best parts then may be said to be wanting in Dr. Holsworths Sermons One because read and not spoken by him the other because not transcribed from his owne copy but taken from his mouth when he preached them as well as Art and industry can performe Indeed when the Mother looked upon the Babe which was laid by her 1 Kin. 3.21 Behold it was not the Son which she did beare But should this glorious Saint take a review of these Sermons as now set forth as he would probably wonder at the alteration of the clothes and dressing thereof not so fine and fashionable yea perchance m●●●t wonder at the complexion and colour thereof not so lively sprightfull and vigorous as he left it yet notwithstanding he would acknowledge an identity of feature and favour and his naturall sympathy would challenge a true relation in the same and owne it for a true off-spring of his owne a weake child but no changling How ever it is a happinesse when s●rviving Authors see their owne workes set forth to their 〈◊〉 contentment Various were the proceedings in Divine providence to two honorable Families the one in Ireland the other in Wales The Family of St. Laurence of Hoath by Dublin Camdens Brit. in the County of Dublin hath for some hundreds of yeares been observed never to have an Orphan or Minor the Son alwayes being of full age before the Fathers death Whereas amongst the ancient Earles of Pembrook for five descents together the Son never saw the Father The felicity of the former Idem in Pembrook-Shire is applyable to those who behold their owne Books perfected and finished in their life times Whilst I read the sad successe of the latter in such whose posthume bookes appeare in this world after their Authors are gone into a better To such books that want Fathers I wish good guardians as I hope this hath not light on the worst of them What remaines but that we wish the Reader all profit by the ensuing Treatise of so worthy an Author equalled by few exceeded by none in our age It

is a great help he will not profit by the word of God that calls not himselfe to account for his memory and his life and lays them according to the levell of the things he heares The world is full of imagination meditation is scarce it is a wonder to see how men weary themselves with imagination suffer their hearts to run after every vanity they think imagination is meditation when their hearts have wild roving thoughts sometimes sinful alway vain that is not meditation but vanity meditation is that act whereby the heart pours it self forth to God and is fixed on heavenly things and makes an impression of that heavenly act whatsoever it is upon upon it selfe by a reflexion of the soul upon it selfe in the exercise of those duties that are meditated Therefore if we will benefit by reading and hearing of the word let us oft times call our selves to account by meditation If we would be well acquainted with God conversant in heaven it must be done by meditation Meditation is that that makes the seede of the word take root in the heart that ●●gests and incorporates it and turns all to blood and spirits we can never profit and edifie by Sermons unlesse by meditation and rumination we chew the cudd after Admit it be but a weak Sermon that we hear some will say what should I meditate on that though it be a weake one there is matter still of meditation A man that hath love to another man will love every thing that belong to him if we have a love to the word of God there will be a love of all that belongs to it A love of that place where the Ordinances are handled a love of the time when the Ordinances are handled a love of the weake hand the earthen vessel that dispenseth it though through much infirmities and weakness Gregory Nazianzen observes of St. Bazile they loved him ●o much in his time they reverenced his vertues so much that they would imitate him in his infirmities it is true there are no infirmities or errours in the word of God to be loved there but if we have true love to the word of God we will imbrace it from an infirm hand though it be dispensed in a weake manner Always something may be gotten to edification and the application of it must be made by meditation it is that that is an excellent supply of privacy it is the sole companion of a retired heart A man addicted to meditation can leave earth and goe up to heaven and walk and converse with God with all the commandements of God he needs no booke he needs no teacher that can addict himselfe to meditation Meditation is that heavenly exercise that is the improvement of every grace if we would thrive in all we must addict our selves to it that was Davids order he was conversant in reading and hearing too but meditation is the act that he resolves on to improve both and as he would give God his outward man so he will his inward The testification of the outward man is in these words I will lift up my hands to thy commandements which I have loved And then because neither tongue nor hand nor feet nor eye can be acceptable to God without the heart the inward man he seconds his first resolution with another as I will lift up my hands to thy commandements so I will meditate in thy statutes THE Saints Progresse DELIVERED IN TVVO SERMONS BY That Learned reverend Divine RICHARD HOLSWORTH Doctor in Divinity somtimes Vice-Chancellour of Cambridge Master of Emmanuel Colledge and late Preacher at PETERS POORE in LONDON 2 Pet. 3.18 But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ LONDON Printed by M. Simmons in Alders-gate-streete 1650. SERMON I. PSAL. 84.7 They goe from strength to strength untill and every one of them appeare before God in Zion THEY goe from Company to company from Mansion to Mansion so some Translations read it as alluding to the solemn journeys of the Children of Israel to the Land of Promise Or to the annuall Travell of the Jews to appeare before God for the worship of his name in Jerusalem And if I should read the words so now to you it would be a faire and proper Lesson to us to learne that we are now in the state of Pilgrims We have here no abiding Citty As the Patriarchs of old we still look for a Countrey There is removing and Mansions and going from Countrey to Countrey It would very well fit my selfe too and be a good entrance to this new removing from Mansion to Mansion from Company to Company But I will not read the words so but take them as they are exprest in the Text From strength to strength So it is a short but an accurate modell of the spirituall growth of a Christian in this world from one degree of righteousnesse to another so breathing after perfection and it is a part of that excellent Psalme that the Prophet David made to let us understand the great comfort and benefit and priviledge that comes to us by our frequent repairing to the House of God One great priviledge is this that here it is that we get spirituall strength Here we not onely had our initiation to Christ and the first seeds of Piety sowne and the first Foundation laid but we get growth and goe on and make progresse in piety There are many excellent passages in the Psalme yet this is one of the most remarkable for there is somthing in it more then in the whole Psalme it selfe The Psalme it selfe is none of those that are called the Psalmes of degrees yet this is a Text or Verse of Degrees And those degrees are not such as relate to the steps of the materiall Tabernacle but shew the steps of our ascention the ascent that we make up to Heaven There are two passages in the Psalme that point at it One in Vers 5. In whose heart are thy wayes or as some read it thy ascentions the degrees of proficiency whereby Christians come to stature or great growth of piety are Gods ascentions Gods ascentions because they lead to him and ours because they carry us up to God Another place that points to these degrees or ascentions is in the Title of the Psalme it is one of those Psalmes that is ascribed To him that excelleth or to the End shewing that the onely way to excell is to hold out to the end and he that holds out to the end of all others will be the most excellent and both these are stamped and graved upon this Verse One part is to him that excelleth They grow from strength to strength Another part that is to the End Till every one appeare before God in Zion According to these two there are two parts There is the motion of Christianity And the rest The rest that is God in the last words Every one of them appeares before