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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45250	The great mystery of godliness laid forth by way of affectuous and feeling meditation : also the invisible world discovered to spirituall eyes and reduced to usefull meditation in three books / by Jos. Hall.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1659 (1659)	Wing H384; ESTC R28688	24,922	96

shewedst thy self in a glorified condition to the redeemed world of men After this when for the securance of thy Resurrection upon which all our faith justly dependeth thou hadst spent forty dayes upon earth I find thee upon Mount Olivet at thy most glorious ascension not seen only but proclaimed and fore-promised in thy certain and at least equally-glorious return by the blessed Angels And behold while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up two men stood by them in white apparel which also said Ye men of Galilee why stand yee gazing up into heaven This same Jesus which is taken from you into heaven shall so come again as ye have seen him go into heaven But O Saviour these views of thee by thine Angels hitherto were but speciall and visible even by bodily eyes How do I by the eyes of my soul see thee both attended up in that heavenly progresse and welcomed into thine Empyreall heaven by all the host of those celestiall spirits no small part of whose perpetuall happiness it is to see thee in thy glorified humanity sitting at the right hand of Majestie there they enjoy thee there they sing continuall Hallelujahs to him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever SECT. XI If thine Angels O blessed Jesu desired to look into this great and deep mysterie of the Gospell their longing is satisfied in the sight of thy blessed incarnation and the full accomplishment of the great Office of thy Mediatorship since now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places is made knowne the manifold wisdome of God in this wonderfull work of mans Redemption which from the beginning of the World hath been hid in God who created all things by thee But that the unsearcheable riches of Christ should be preached to the Gentiles how marvailous an accession is it to the greatness of this divine mysterie of godlinesse of old In Judah was God known his name was great in Israel In Salem was his Tabernacle and his dwelling place in Sion but in the mean while we miserable Gentiles sate in darknesse and in the shadow of death without God in the world exposed to the displeasure of heaven tyrannized over by the powers of hell strangers from the covenants of promise for lorn without hope of mercy That therefore O Saviour thou vouchsafedst in the tender bowels of thine infinite compassion to look down from heaven upon us and at the last graciously to visit us in the clear revelation of the saving truth of thy Gospell to break down the partition wal whereby we were excluded from any participation with thee to own us for thy people and to admit us unto the fellowship of thy Saints O the wonderfull mysterie of Godlinesse effectually manifested to us out-cast Gentiles to our conversion to our eternall salvation What a vail O God was spread over all Nations A dark vail of ignorance of errour of impiety How did our fore-fathers walk in their own wayes following the sinfull lusts of their own hearts worshipping dumb Idols sacrificing to all the host of heaven offering not their substance only but their sons and daughters to Devils It was thine own infinite goodnesse that moved thee to pity our woful and despaired condition and to send thine eternall Son into the world to be no lesse a light to lighten the Gentiles then to be the glory of thy people Israel How fully hast thou made good thy gracious promises long since published by thy holy Prophets It shall come that I will gather all Nations and tongues and they shall come and see my glory And again It shall come to pass in the last dayes that the mountain of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the mountaines and shall be exalted above the hils and all Nations shall flow to it And many people shall go and say Come ye let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us his wayes and we will walk in his paths And again Behold thus saith the Lord I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles and set up my standard to the people and they shall bring thy sons in their arms and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders And again Behold thou shalt call a Nation that thou knowest not and Nations that know not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord thy God and for the holy One of Israel for he hath glorified thee O blessed then ever blessed be thy name O God that thou wouldest vouchsafe to be made known among us Gentiles Give unto the Lord O ye kindreds of the people give unto the Lord glory and strength Give unto the Lord the glory due to his name All the earth shall worship thee and shall sing unto thee they shall sing unto thy name All the ends of the world shall remember and run unto the Lord and all the kinreds of the Nations shall worship before thee How did we O Saviour of old lye under the pity and contempt of those thy people which challenged a peculiarity of thy favour We have a little sister said thy Iewish Spouse and she hath no brests what shall we do for our sister when she shall be spoken for Take no thought for us O thou oncebeloved Synagogue of the Jews thy little sister is not only spoken for but contracted but happily married to her Lord and Saviour having been betrothed to him for ever in righteousnesse and in judgement and in loving kindnesse and in mercies so as we can now return our pity to thee and say We had an elder sister which had brests but her brests are long since wrinkled and dryed up what shall we doe for our sister in these dayes of her barrennesse and just neglect We shall surely pray for our sister that God would be pleased to return to her in his compassion of old and restore her to the happy state of her former fruitfulnesse We follow them with our prayers they us with malice and despight with how envious eyes did they look upon those first heralds of the Gospell who carried the glad tidings of salvation to the despised Gentiles what cruell storms of persecution did they raise against those blessed messengers whose feet deserved to be beautifull wherein their obstinate unbelief turned to our advantage for after they had made themselves unworthy of that Gospell of peace that blessing was instantly derived upon us Gentiles and we happily changed conditions with them The naturall branches of the good Olive tree being cut off we that were of the wild Olive contrary to nature are graffed in O the goodness and severity of God! on them which fell severity on us which succeeded goodness They were once the children and we the dogs under the table the crums were our lot the bread was theirs now

of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth Yet so wert thou made flesh as not by conversion into flesh but as by assumption of flesh to thine eternall Deity assumption not into the nature of the Godhead but into the person of thee who art God everlasting O mystery of Godlinesse incomprehensibly glorious Cease cease O humane curiosity and where thou canst not comprehend wonder and adore SECT. III. BUt O Savior was it not enough for thee to be manifested in flesh Did not that elementarie composition carry in it abasement enough without any further addition since for God to become man was more then for all things to be redacted to nothing but that in the rank of miserable manhood thou wouldst humble thy self to the lowest of humanity and become a servant Shall I say more I can hear Bildad the Shuhite say Man is a worm and I hear him who was a noble Type of thee say as in thy person I am a worm and no man a reproach of men and despised of the people O Saviour in how despicable a condition do I find thee exhibited to the world lodged in a stable cradled in a manger visited by poor shepheards imployed in an homely trade attended by mean fishermen tempted by presumptuous Devils persecuted by the malice of envious men exposed to hunger thirst nakednesse wearinesse contempt How many sclaves under the vassalage of an enemie fare better then thou didst from ingratefull man whom thou camest to save Yet all these were but a mild and gentle preface to those thy last sufferings wherewith thou wert pleased to shut up this scene of mortality there I find thee sweating blood in thine agonie crowned with thorns bleeding with scourges buffeted with cruell hands spat upon by impure mouths laden with thy fatall burden distended upon that torturing crosse nailed to that tree of shame and curse reviled and insulted upon by the vilest of men and at last that no part of thy precious bloud might remain unshed pierced to the heart by the spear of a late and impertinent malice Thus thus O God and Saviour wouldst thou be manifested in the flesh that the torments of thy flesh and spirit might be manifested to that world which thou camest to redeem thus wast thou wounded for our transgressions thus wast thou bruised for our iniquities thus were the chastisements of our peace upon thee and thus with thy stripes are we healed O blessed but still incomprehensible mystery of Godliness God thus manifested in the flesh in weakness contempt shame pain death Once only O blessed Jesus whiles thou wert wayfaring upon this globe of earth didst thou put on glory even upon Mount Tabor in thy heavenly transfiguration then and there did thy face shine as the Sun and thy raiment was white as thy light How easie had it been for thee to have continued this celestiall splendor to thy humanity all the whole time of the so journing upon earth that so thou mightest have been adored of all mankinde How would all the Nations under heaven have flockd to thee and fallen down at the feet of so glorious a Majesty What man in all the world would not have said with Peter Lord it is good for us to be here Or if it had pleased thee to have commanded Moses and Elias to wait upon thee in thy mediatorie perambulation and to attend thee at Jerusalem on the Mount of Sion as they did in the Mount of Tabor whom hadst thou not in a zealous astonishment drawn after thee But it was thy wil and the pleasure of thy heavenly Father that this glorious appearance should soon be over shadowed with a cloud And as those celestiall guests now in the midst of thy glory spent their conference about thy bitter sufferings and thine approaching departure out of the world So wert thou for the great work of our Redemption willing to be led from the Mount Tabor to Mount Calvarie from the height of that glory to the lowest depth of sorrow pain exinanition Thus vile wert thou O Saviour in the flesh but in this vilenesse of flesh mannifested to be God how did all thy Creatures in this extremity of thine abasement agree to acknowledge and celebrate thine infinite Deity The Angels came down from heaven to visit and attend thee the Sun pulled in his head as abhorring to look upon the sufferings of his maker the Earth was covered over with darkness and quaked for the horror of that indignity which was offered to thee in that bloody passion the rocks rent the graves opened themselves and sent up their long-since putrefied Tenants to wait upon thee the Lord of life in thy glorious Resurrection so as thou in thy despised and crucified flesh wert abundantly manifested to be the Almighty God of Heaven and Earth SECT. 4. O blessed Saviour thou the true God manifested in the flesh be thou pleased to manifest unto the soul of thy servant the unspeakable riches of thy love and mercie to mankind in that great work of our Redemption Vouchafe to affect my heart with a lively sense of that infinite goodnesse of thine towards the wretcheddest of thy creatures that for our sake thou camest down and cloathedst thy self in our flesh and cloathedst that pure and holy flesh with all the miseries that are incident to this sinfull flesh of ours and wast content to undergo a bitter painfull ignominous death from the hands of man that by dying thou mightest overcome death and ransome him from that hel to which he was without thee irrecoverably forfeited and fetch him forth to life liberty and glory O let me not see only but feel this thy great mysterie of Godlinesse effectually working me to all hearty thankfulnesse for so inestimable a mercie to all holy resolutions to glorifie thee in all my actions in all my sufferings Didst thou O Saviour being God eternall take flesh for me and shall not I when thou callest be willing to lay down this sinfull flesh for thee again Wert thou content to abridge thy self for the time not onely of thy heavenly magnificence but of all earthly comforts for my sake and shall not I for thy dear sake renounce all the wicked pleasures of sin Didst thou wear out the dayes of thy flesh in poverty toil reproach and all earthly hardship and shall I spend my time in pampering this flesh in wanton dalliance in the ambitious and covetous pursuit of vain honours and deceivable riches Blessed Lord thou wert manifested in the flesh not only to be a Ransome for our souls but to be a Precedent for our lives Far far be it from me thus to imitate the great pattorn of holiness O Jesu the author and finisher of my faith and salvation teach me to tread in thy gracious steps to run with patience the race that is set before me to endure the cross to despise the shame to be crucified to the world to work all righteousnesse