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A45322	Susurrium cum Deo soliloqvies, or, Holy self-conferences of the devout soul upon sundry choice occasions with humble addresses to the throne of grace : together with The souls farwell to earth and approaches to heaven / by Jos. Hall.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. Soules farewell to earth and approaches to heaven.	1651 (1651)	Wing H420; ESTC R2803	81,778	407

poverty of spirit under-values himselfe and makes no shew of ought but a bemoaned disability as wee have seen those grounds wherein the richest Mines are treasured bewray nothing but barrennesse in their outside O my soul what estimation soever others may set upon thee thou art conscious enough of thy owne wants be thankfull for the little thou hast and abased for the much thou lackest and if thou wilt needs bee advancing thy selfe above others let it be in the contestation of thy greater humblenesse and lower dejection Thy grace shall be no lesse because thou thinkst it so but shall rather multiply by a modest diminution And O Blessed Lord thou who resistest the proud and givest grace to the humble give me more humility that I may receive more grace from thee and thou whose gracious raine shelves downe from the steep mountains and sweetly drenches the humble vallies depresse thou my heart more and more with true lowliness of Spirit that the showers of thy heavenly grace may soke into it and make it more fruitfull in all good affections and all holy obedience Soliloq LIII The happiest Society I Finde O Lord some holy men that have gone aside from the world into some solitary wildernesse that they might have their ful scope of enjoying thee freely without any secular avocations who no doubt improved their perfect leisure to a great entirenesse of conversation with thee Surely I could easily admire the report of their holinesse and emulate their mortified retirednesse if I did not hear them say The Woolfe dwels in the Wood and that they could as soone leave themselves as the World behind them There is no Desart so wild no Mountaines or Rockes so craggy wherein I would not gladly seeke thee O my God and which I would not willingly climbe up to finde thee if I could hope that solitude would yeeld a spirituall advantage of more enjoying thee But alas I find our weak powers are subject to an unavoidable lassitude and wee can no more contemplate alwaies those divine Objects than our bodily eyes are able to fix themselves on the body of the Sun in his brightest splendor so as if our mindes should not bee sometime taken off with a safe variety of Cogitations wee should be overwhelmed with thy Glory and with too much light blinded by this meanes it comes to pass that these small interspirations set an edge upon our re-assumed speculations and renewed Devotions Although also in the mean time I should hate all secular diversions if they should take thee for a moment quite out of my sight If I did not finde that I may still refer them to thee and enjoy thee in them O God doe thou so fix my soul upon thee that what ever occasion shall take me up I may never be out of thy blessed society and make me so insensible of the noise of the world that even in the midst of the Market I may bee still alone with thee Soliloq LIV. Honey from the Rock O God thou didst miraculously refresh thy murmuring Israel of old with water out of the Rock in that dry wildernesse and now I hear thee say If they had hearkened to thy voice and walked in thy waies with honey out of the Rock thou wouldst have satisfied them Loe that which thou wouldest have done to thine ancient people if they had obeyed thee thou hast abundantly performed to thine Evangelicall Israel With Hony out of the Rock hast thou satisfied them The Rock that followed them was Christ my Saviour Lo out of this Rock hath flowed that hony whereby our soules are satisfied Out of his side saith the Evangelist came water and blood This Rock of our salvation affordeth both what Israel had and might have had Surely O my God there can be no hony so sweet as the effect of the precious bloud of my Saviour to the soul of the Beleever By that bloud we have eternall redemption from death and Remission of all our sinnes By that bloud are we justified in the sight of our God and saved from the wrath to come By that bloud we have our Peace made in Heaven and are fully reconciled to our God By that blood wee are cleansed and purged from all our iniquity By that bloud we are sanctified from our Corruptions By that blood we receive the Promise and possession of an eternall inheritance O the spirituall Hony so sweet that the materiall Hony is but bitternesse to it Jonathan of old did but dip his Speare in the honey of the wood and but with one licke of that sweet moisture had his eies cleared and his spirits revived O God let me but taste and see how sweet the Lord Jesus is in all his gracious Promises in all his mercifull and reall Performances I shall need no more to make me happy Thy Solomon bids me to eat honey Lo this is the honey that I desire to eat of Give me of this honey and I shall receive both clearnesse to my eies and vigour of my spirits to the foiling of all my spirituall enemies This is nothe honey whereof I am bidden not to eate too much No Lord I can never eat enough of this Celestiall honey Here I cannot surfet Or if I could this surfet would be my health O God give me still enough of this honey out of the Rocke so shall my soul live and bless thee and bee blessed of thee Soliloq LV Sure Earnest O My God what a comfortable assurance is this which thou hast given to my soule Thou hast in thy great mercy promised and agreed to give me heaven and now because thou dost not put me into a present possession thou hast given me earnest of my future inheritance and this earnest is that good Spirit of thine which thou hast graciously put into my soule Even we men whose stile is deceitfull upon the ballance think our selves sure when in civill transactions we have received an earnest of the bargaine and much more when we have taken that small piece of coine as part of the bargained payment How then can I fear to fail thee my God whose Title is faithfull and True whose Word is Yea and Amen It is ordinary with the World to cheat my soule with fair promises and faithlesse engagements of yielding me those contentments which it neither can nor meant to performe But for thee O Lord heaven and earth shall passe away but not one jot of thy Word shall passe unfulfilled Hadst thou then but given mee that Word of thine I durst have set my soul upon it with all firme confidence but now that thou hast seconded thy Word with thy Earnest what place can be left for my doubt What then what is it that thou canst sticke at O my soul Canst thou make question of the truth of the Earnest Thou knowest that thou canst not the stamp is too well known to be misdoubted the impressions are

full and inimitable this seale cannot be counterfeit the graces of the Spirit which thou hast received thou feelest to be true and reall thou findest in thy selfe a faith though weak yet sincere an unfeigned repentance joyned with an hearty detestation of all thy sinnes a fervent love of that infinite goodnesse that hath remitted them a conscionable care to avoid them a zealous desire to bee approved to God in all thy waies Flesh and bloud cannot have wrought these graces in thee It is onely that good Spirit of thy God which hath thus sealed thee to the day of Redemption Walke on therefore O my soule confidently and chearfully in the strength of this assurance and joyfully expect the full accomplishment of this happy contract from the sure hands of thy God Let no temptation stagger thee in the comfortable resolutions of thy future glory But say boldly with that holy Patriarke O Lord I have waited for thy salvation Soliloq LVI Heavenly Manna VIctory it selfe is the great reward of our fight but what is it O God that thou promisest to give us as the reward of our Victory even the hidden Manna Surely were not this gift exceeding precious thou wouldst not reserve it for the remuneration of so glorious a Conquest Behold that materiall and visible Manna which thou sentest down from heaven to stop the mouths of murmuring Israel perished in their use and if it were reserved but to the next day putrified and instead of nourishing annoyed them But the hidden Manna that was laid up in the Arke was incorruptible as a lasting monument of thy power and mercy to thy people But now alas what is become both of that Manna and of that Arke Both are vanished having passed through the devouring jawes of time into meer forgetfulnesse It is the true spiritual Manna that came down from the highest heaven and ascending thither again is hidden therein the glorious Arke of Eternity that thou wilt give to thy Conqueror That is it which being participated of here below nourisheth us to eternall life and being communicated to us above is the full consummation of that blessed life and glory O give me so to fight that I may overcome that so overcomming I may bee feasted with this Manna Thou that art and hast given me thy selfe the spirituall Manna which I have fed on by faith and the symbolicall Manna whereof I have eaten sacramentally give me of that heavenly Manna whereof I shall partake in glory It is yet an hidden Manna hid from the eies of the world yea in a sort from our owne hid in light inaccessible For our life is hid with Christ in God but shall then bee fully revealed for it shall then not onely cover the face of the earth round about the tents of Israel but spread it self over the face of the whole heaven yea fill both heaven and earth I well thought O my God that if heaven could afford any thing more precious than other thou wouldst lay it up for thy Victor for it is an hard service that thy poore Infantry here upon earth are put unto to conflict with so mighty so malicious so indefatigable enemies and therefore the reward must be so much the greater as the warefare is more difficult O doe thou who art the great Lord of Hosts give me courage to fight perseverance in fighting and power to overcome all my spirituall enemies that I may receive from thee this hidden Manna that my soul may live for ever and may for ever blesse thee Soliloq LVII The Hearts Treasure IT is a sure Word of thine O Saviour that where our Treasure is there our hearts will be also neither can wee easily know where to finde our hearts if our Treasure did not discover them Now Lord where is my Treasure Surely I am not worthy to bee owned of thee if my Treasure be anywhere but in heaven my lumber and luggage may be here on earth but my Treasure is above there thou hast laid up for me the richest of thy mercies even my eternall salvation Yea Lord what is my richest Treasure but thy selfe in whom all the Treasures of Wisdome and Knowledge yea of infinite Glory are laid up for all thine All things that this world can afford me are but meere pelfe in comparison of this Treasure or if the earth could yeeld ought that is precious yet I cannot call that Treasure Treasure implies both price and store of the dearest Commodities never so great abundance of base things cannot make a Treasure neither can some few peeces of the richest mettals bee so accounted but where there is a large congestion of precious Jewels and Metalls there onely is Treasure If any at all surely very little and mean is the wealth which I can promise my selfe here perhaps some brasse Farthing or light and counterfeit Coine meer earthy dross which may load but cannot enrich my soule my only true riches are above with thee and where then should my heart bee but there My hand and my braine too must necessarily bee sometimes here below but my heart shall be still with my Treasure in heaven It is wont to be said that however the memory of old age is short yet that no old man ever forgot where hee laid up his Treasure O God let not that Celestiall Treasure which thou hast laid up for me be at any time out of my thoughts let my eye be ever upon it let my heart long for the full possession of it and so joy in the assured expectation of it that it may disrelish all the contentments and contemne all the crosses which this World can afford me Soliloq LVIII The narrow Way O Saviour I hear thee say I am the Way the Truth and the Life and yet again thou who art Truth it selfe tell'st me that the way is narrow and the gate straight that leadeth unto life Surely thou who art the living Way art exceeding large so wide that all the World of Beleevers enter into life by thee only but the way of our walke towards thee is straight and narrow Not but that thy Commandement in it self is exceeding broad for Lord how fully comprehensive it is of all morall and holy duties and what gracious latitude hast thou given us in it of our Obedience and how favourable indulgence and remission in case of our faylings But narrow in respect of the weaknesse and insufficiency of our obedience It is our wretched infirmity that straitens our way to the Lo heaven which is thy All-glorious Mansion when wee are once entred into it how infinitely large and spacious it is even this lower contignation of it at how marvailous distance it archeth in this Globe of aire and earth and waters and how is that again surrounded with severall heights of those lightsome Regions unmeasurable for their glorious dimensions But the heaven of heavens the seat of the blessed is yet so much larger as it is higher in place and more

Hellish Hostility I Cannot but observe how universall it is in all kindes for one creature to prey upon another the greater fishes devoure the lesse the birds of Rapine feed upon the smaller Foules the ravenous wild beasts sustaine themselves with the flesh of the weaker and tamer cattle the Dog pursues the Hare the Cat the Mouse Yea the very Moale under the earth hunts for the worm and the Spider in our Window for the flye Whether it pleased God to ordain this antipathy in nature or whether mans sin brought this enmity upon the creature I enquire not this I am sure of that both God hath given unto man the Lord of this inferiour world leave and power to prey upon all these his fellow-creatures and to make his use of them both for his necessity and lawfull pleasure and that the God of this world is only hee that hath stirred up men to prey upon one another some to eat their flesh as the savage Indians others to destroy their lives estates good names this proceedes only from him that is a murtherer from the beginning O my soule doe thou mourne in secret to see the great enemy of mankinde so wofully prevalent as to make the earth so bloody a shambles to the sons of men and to see Christians so outragiously cruell to their own flesh And O thou that art the Lord of Hosts and the God of peace restraine thou the violent fury of those which are called by thy name and compose these unhappy quarrels amongst them that should be brethren Let me if it may stand with thy blessed will once again see peace smile ore the earth before I come to see thy face in glory Soliloq XI False Joy AMongst these publicke blusters of the World I finde many men that secretly applaud themselves in the conceit of an happy peace which they find in their bosom Where all is calme and quiet no distemper of passions no fear of evill no sting of remorse no disturbance of doubts but all smoothnesse of brow and all tranquility of minde whose course of life yet without any great enquiry hath appeared to bee not over-strict and regular I hear them boast of their Condition without any envy of their happinesse as one that had rather heare them complaine of their inward unquietnesse than brag of their peace Give me a man that after many secret bickerings and hard conflicts in his breast upon a serious penitence and sense of reconciliation with his God hath attained to a quiet heart walking conscionably and close with that Majesty with whom he is attoned I shall bless and emulate him as a meet subject of true joy For spiritually there is never a perfect calme but after a tempest the winde and earthquake and fire make way for the soft voice But I pitty the flatteries and selfe-applauses of a carelesse and impenitent heart This jollity hath in it much danger and without some change death Oh Savior I know thou cam'st to send fire on the earth yea fire into these earthen bosomes whereof the very best hath combustible matter enough for thee to worke upon and what will I thou saist if it be already kindled O blessed Jesu my will agrees with thine I desire nothing in the world more than that this fire of thine may flame up in my soul and burne up those secret corruptions which have lyen smothering within me Set me at full variance with my selfe that I may be at peace with thee Soliloq XII True Light THou hast taught us O Saviour that even the light of man may be darknesse and that the light endarkned causeth the greatest darknesse neither can it be otherwise since the very obscuring of the light maketh some kind of darknesse the utter extinction of it must needs make the darkenesse absolute Now what is darknesse but a meere privation of light There is but a double spirituall light the absence whereof causeth darknesse Thine Evangelist hath justly said of thee Thou art the true light that enlightnest every man that commeth into the world Thy Psalmist hath said of thy Divine Oracles Thy Word is a Lanterne unto my feet and a light unto my steps whosoever wants both or either of these cannot but be in darkness yea his pretended light cannot but be darkness it selfe I see O Lord there is much of this dark light in the World In one I observe a kinde of Glow-wormelight which in a Summers evening shines somewhat bright but he that should offer to light his Candle at it would be much deceived this is justly a darke light since it shines not at all by day neither is at all communicable to another no not to the bearer it selfe In another I see the light of a dark Lantern which casts out some Gleams of light but only to him that bears it even this mans light is darknesse also to all the world besides himselfe In a third I see a resemblance of that meteoricall light which appears in Moorish places that seems fire but is nothing but a slimy glittering exhalation causing both the wonder and errour of the Travailer leading him through the impulsive motion of the air into a Ditch and of this kind I find too much variety all of them agreeing in this that they pretend Visions and Revelations of the Spirit even for contrary projections O Saviour what light soever is not derived from thee is no better than darknesse Thou hast sufficiently revealed thy selfe and thy will to us in thy Word as for any new lights except it be a clearer manifestation of the old O Lord give me the grace not to follow them I finde a double light to proceed from thee one which is a generall light that enlightens every man that comes into the world the other a speciall light of thy spirit illuminating the soul of every beleever with a right apprehension of thee and heavenly things O do thou shine into my soule with this heavenly light of thine and if this bee not enough to make me happy without the acce●sion and with the rejection of other new lights let mee sit in perpetuall darknesse Soliloq XIII Bosome-Discourse O Lord if I had the skill and grace to be ever communing with my owne heart and with thee I should never want either worke or company never have cause to complaine of solitarinesse or tedious houres For there is no time wherein there is not some maine business to be done between thee and my soul one while finding my heart dull and stupid I should have cause to rowse it up by some quickning meditation another while finding it dejected with some inexpected Crosse I should be chearing it up with some comfortable Applications One while finding it distracted with some scrupulous doubts I should be labouring to settle it in just resolutions another while perceiving it to incline towards idle thoughts I should bee cheeking it with a seasonable reprehension One while finding it faint