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A56539	Monsieur Pascall's thoughts, meditations, and prayers, touching matters moral and divine as they were found in his papers after his death : together with a discourse upon Monsieur Pascall's, Thoughts ... as also another discourse on the proofs of the truth of the books of Moses : and a treatise, wherein is made appear that there are demonstrations of a different nature but as certain as those of geometry, and that such may be given of the Christian religion / done into English by Jos. Walker.; Pensées. English	Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.; Walker, Joseph.; Perier, Madame (Gilberte), 1620-1685. Vie de M. Pascal. English.; Filleau de la Chaise, Jean, 1631-1688. Discours sur les Pensées de M. Pascal. English.	1688 (1688)	Wing P645; ESTC R23135	228,739	434

Monsieur PASCALL'S THOUGHTS Meditations and Prayers Touching Matters MORAL and DIVINE As they were found in his Papers after his Death Together with a DISCOURSE upon Monsieur Pascall's THOUGHTS Wherein is shewn what was his Design As also another DISCOURSE On the PROOFS of the Truth of the Books of Moses And a TREATISE Wherein is made appear that there are DEMONSTRATIONS of a different Nature but as certain as those of Geometry and that such may be given of the Christian Religion Done into English by Jos Walker Licensed by R. M. LONDON Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judge's Head in Chancery-lane near Fleet-street 1688. TO THE HONOURABLE Robt. Boyle ESQUIRE A Member of the Royal Society Honoured Sir IT being my Fortune to Live some Years in a Port where your Immortal Brother for so his Deeds has made him the Earl of Orrery came to take Shipping for Ireland his Lordship was pleas'd to shew me a small Treatise writ I think by the Baron De Isola intimating it was worth Translating into English I on my part yielded a ready compliance and his Lordship was pleas'd to say it was done to his satisfaction The Approbation of so great a Judge incouraged me to set on farther Attempts of that kind so that hearing by a Judicious Person that Monsieur Pascall's Works would be well accepted I got one of the Books and have used my Endeavours about it and observing a Parity there is in some things betwixt your Honour and our Author I thought I could not commit the so much Admir'd and Esteem'd Monsieur Pascall and his Precious Remains into safer and better Hands than the Famous Master Boyle's nor recommend him to Travel the Kings Dominions under a better or safer Conduct than that of your Honours Favourable Approbation and Acceptance If the Translation has not the Advantages of Art and Elegancy it requir'd and deserves I cannot help it the Will must pass for the Deed much Silver cannot be expected out of a Lead Mine I have kept to the Authors Sense as near as I could and have given way that any one else might have perform'd it better if they pleas'd Monsieur Pascall was Nobly Descended and a great lover of Vertue and Learning from his Infancy Every body knows Sir you Eminently enjoy these Advantages He was call'd a Christian Philosopher and Mathematician who knows not but your Honour deserves these Epithets by the many Learned and Profound Treatises you have Compos'd He made all his Works and Actions of his Life tend to the Temporal and Eternal good of Men You have Employ'd your whole Life and Estate in Laborious Studying the abstrusest Recesses of Nature for the Glory of God of Religion and the good of Manking as appears by your Excellent Treatise of the Stile of the Holy Scritures c. Monsieur Pascall was Eminently Charitable Pious and Exemplary in his Morals hating and reproving Vice in himself and others wherein he surpast most of the Clergy These things Sir cannot be deny'd you to such a Degree that for disapproving Vice you acquir'd the Title of Lay-Bishop for those truly deserve double Honour who throughly Reform themselves and do sincerely reprove Sin and Vice impartially in all sorts of Persons whatsoever The Prophets Christ the Apostles and all Good Men have done so Those who are indifferent in this regard and that manage themselves and Interests with a kind of human Policy thinking thereby to scape in a whole Skin let such tremble for a Monsieur Pascall and a Master Boyle will Rise up in Judgment and condemn them such doings will not turn to Account in the End as appears by our next Neighbours sad Experience I observe and could Instance other particular Strains in Monsieur Pascall's and your Honours Works and Life which the World would be Proud to know but I hold my Hand and referr so weighty a Work to be perform'd by your Panegyrists It is very seldom such Vertues as were in him are found in those of the Communion wherein he Liv'd But when I consider and compare his Writings and Life with a Lord Treasurer Manchester a Master Herbert and many other Worthies that have liv'd and shin'd in the English Climate I will not presume but shall leave it to the Learned World to judge the apparent differences may be discern'd It is true Monsieur Pascall is Dead but his great Purity of Life and Zeal according to what he could discern through the Mists of Superstition and part of his Remains in this Treatise and you Illustrious Sir in the Numerous Issue you have enrich'd the World with I say the Pious and Learned Master Boyle and Monsieur Pascall in their Excellent Works do yet and Will for ever Live and Shine and speak aloud in the Temple of Fame and will be rever'd in the Memory of Good Men and thereby have acquir'd a Name better than of Sons and Daughters I know it is a common Practice to Expose Pieces as the Real Product of a Couper a Carrachio a Vandike c. and to impose on Men Spurious Brats for Legitimate Children because they may have some Features of their Parents I dare not assure the World that the Account here given us of Monsieur Pascall's Life and Works are a Lively and Perfect Representation of him on the contrary having seriously consider'd the Solidity and Design of his Book in most parts of it I am rather apt to believe there are many Strokes and Alterations made by other Hands through that which some call pia fraus that were never intended by him had he liv'd to have seen his own Works finish'd It is Recorded of Epaminondas that he earnestly desir'd he might obtain one of the Prizes at the Olympick Games that his Mother might partake with him the Pleasure of his Happiness What an exceeding great Contentment must it needs be to your Illustrious Relations to see you for so many years successively enjoy in the sight of all Europe greater Honours than that so Passionately desir'd by that Famous Graecian You were not Content to search into the Secrets and Nature of all things in the Elements over and under us but you at length lanched out into the Boundless Ocean not precipitately as it is said the Prince of the Ancient Philosophers did but by your Rare and Indefatigable Studies You I may say Inverted the Order for the Prophet made the Waters Potable by casting Salt into them whereas you make Salt Waters Sweet and Wholsom by taking the Fire and Salt out of them What Cause has all Europe to thank Heaven for the Blessing they do or may if they be not wanting to themselves receive by your Contriving and perfecting those Engines and Materials for making Salt 〈◊〉 water Fresh A Secret no less Profitable than Pleasant Almighty God was pleas'd you should discover and in this last Age of the World communicate to Men to refresh and Cherish them in their Sea Voyages with what Quantity of Wholsom Water they

one thing to another unless it be to give it ease and that too at a convenient time and not otherwise for those that would give ease unseasonably do but cause trouble One is displeas'd and then regards nothing so hard it is to obtain any thing of Man but by Pleasure which is the Money for which we part with any thing 44. * Man is a lover of Malignity but 't is not against the Wicked but against the Happy proud and 't is to be deceiv'd to judge otherwise Martiall 's Epigram upon the Blind is naught for it don't Comfort them and only gives a Point to the Glory of the Author What is not for the Author is worth nothing Ambitiosa recidet ornamenta those that have human and tender Thoughts should be pleased and not those who are barbarous and inhumane §. XXXII PRAYER To desire of God the right use of Sickness I. LORD thy Spirit is so good and so sweet in all things and thou art so Merciful that not only the Prosperities but even the sufferings which befal the Elect are effects of thy Love give me Grace not to act as a Heathen in the State whereinto thy Justice has reduced me but that as a true Christian I may own thee for my Father and my God in what condition soever I am for the change of my Condition makes nothing to thee for thou art always the same though I am subject to change and thou art the same God when thou afflictest and punishest as when thou dost comfort and shew compassion II. Thou gavest me Health to serve thee and I have converted it to a prophane use now thou sendest me Sickness to correct me suffer me not to abuse it to provoke thee by my impatience I have not rightly improved my health and thou hast justly punish'd me suffer me not to slight thy Correction And seeing the Corruption of my Nature is such that it makes thy favours pernicious to me Grant O my God that thy powerful Grace may make thy Chastisements profitable to me If my Heart has been full of Love for the World whilst it had any vigour abate this vigour for my good and make me uncapable of enjoying the World whether it be through weakness of Body or through Zeal of Charity that I might enjoy thee only III. O God before whom I must give an exact account of all my Actions at the end of my Life and at the end of the World O God who sufferest the World and all things in the World to subsist only to exercise thine Elect or to punish Sinners O God who leavest impenitent Sinners in the delicious but Criminal use of the World O God who killest our Bodies and at the instant of Death separatest our Soul from all that it loved in the World O God who wilt take me away at the last moment of my Life from all those things I delighted in and whereon I set my Heart O God who at the last day wilt consume Heaven and Earth and all Creatures therein contained that all Men might see that 't is thou only that subsistest and that therefore thou only deservest to be loved because nothing is permanent but thou O God who wilt destroy all vain Idols and all these wicked Objects of our Passions I Praise thee my God and will Bless thee all the days of my Life inasmuch as thou hast been pleas'd to prevent this dreadful Day in my behalf by destroying as to me all things by the weakness wherein thou hast put me I Praise thee my God and will bless thy Name as long as I live in that thou hast been pleas'd to make me unable to enjoy the Pleasures of Health and the Pleasures of the World and in that thou hast in some sort destroyed for my good the deceitful Idols which thou wilt absolutely destroy for the confusion of Sinners in the great Day of thy Wrath. Grant Lord that I may judge my self after this destruction which thou hast made in my regard to the end thou maist not judge me thy self after the general destruction which thou wilt make of my Life and of all the World For Lord as at the instant of my Death I shall find my self separated from the World stript of all things standing in thy Presence to answer thy Justice for all the Motions of my Heart grant that I may look on my self in this Sickness as in a kind of Death separate from the World depriv'd of all the Objects wherein I placed my delight standing in thy Presence to implore of thy Mercy the true Conversion of my Heart that so I may have and feel extraordinary Comfort that thou art pleased now to send me a kind of Death to exercise thy Mercy before thou sendest me Death effectively to exercise thy Judgment Grant therefore O my God that as thou hast anticipated my Death I may prevent the rigor of thy Sentence and that I may examine my self before thy Judgment that I may find Mercy in thy Presence IV. Grant O my God that I adore in silence the order of thy wonderful Providence in the conduct of my Life that thy Chastisements may comfort me and that having lived in the bitterness of my Sins during the time of Peace I may taste the Heavenly sweetness of thy Grace during the healthy Afflictions wherewith thou dost visit me But I acknowledge my God that my Heart is so hardned and full of Ideas Cares Molestations and Thoughts of this World that neither Sickness nor Health neither Discourse nor Books thy Holy Scriptures nor the Gospel neither Fasting Mortifications nor Works of Charity and Mercy nor Miracles nor the use of thy Sacraments nor all my indeavours nor those of all the World put together can contribute any thing towards my Conversion unless thou art pleas'd to accompany all these things with an extraordinary assistance of thy Grace Therefore my God I come unto thee Omnipotent God to demand that of thee which all Creatures together cannot give me I should not have the confidence to lift up my Voice unto thee if any body else could help me But O my God as the Conversion of my Heart which I beg of thee is a Work that surpasseth the strength of Nature I cannot but address my self to the Almighty Author and Master of Nature and of my Heart to whom should I cry Lord to whom should I go but to thee nothing but God can fill and satisfie my expectation It is God only that I seek for and that I desire and 't is to thee only O my God that I address my self that I might enjoy thee Open my Heart Lord enter into this Rebellious place which has been defil'd with Sin it keeps it in subjection enter thereinto as into the strong Mans House but first bind the strong Man that Rules in it and then take all the Riches therein Lord take my Affections which the World had stollen wilt thou accept this Treasure rather reassume it seeing

its own sake nor for the sake of any thing it has for there is nothing in it but deserves thine Anger but for the Pains it endures which alone can be worthy of thy Favour Love my Sufferings Lord and let my Sorrows invite thee to visit me But to finish the preparation of thine abode Grant O my Saviour that if my body has that in common with thine that it suffers for mine Offences my Soul may also have that in common with thine too that it might be in sadness for the same Offences and that so I may suffer with thee and as thou didst in my Body and in my Soul for the Sins which I have committed XI Grant me the Grace Lord to join thy Consolations to my Sufferings that I may suffer as a Christian I don't desire to be free from Sufferings that 's the recompence of Saints but I desire not to be abandon'd to the Sorrows of Nature without the Comforts of thy Spirit for that 's the Malediction of Jews and Infidels I don't desire to have a fulness of Consolation without any Suffering for that 's the Life of Glory neither do I desire to be in a fullness of Evils without Comfort this is the State of Judaism But I desire Lord to feel altogether the sadness of Nature for my Sins and the Comforts of thy Spirit by thy Grace for that 's the true State of Christianity Let me not feel sadness without Consolation but let me feel sadness and Comfort both together that I may at length attain to feel only thy Consolations without any Grief For Lord thou didst let the World languish without consolation before the coming of thy only Son now thou comfortest and softenest the Sufferings of thy Children by the Grace of thy beloved Son and thou wilt fill with perfect Happiness thy Saints in the Glory of thine only Son These are the admirable steps by which thou conductest thy Works Thou hast drawn me out of the First make me to pass through the Second to arrive at the Third Lord it is what I heartily beg of thee XII Suffer not that I may be in that distance from thee that I may consider this Soul sorrowful unto Death and this Body pressed by Death for my Sins and not rejoice to suffer both in my Body and in my Soul For what is there more shameful and yet more common in Christians and even in my self than whilst thou didst sweat Blood to expiate our Offences we live in Pleasures That Christians who make Profession to belong to thee that those who by Baptism have renounced the World solemnly in the Face of the Church to Live and Die with thee that those that make Profession to believe the World Persecuted and Crucified thee that those that believe thou didst expose thy self to Gods anger and to the rage of Men to ransom them from their Sins that those I say that believe all these Truths that consider thy Body as the Sacrifice that was deliver'd for their Salvation that consider the Pleasures and Sins of the World as the only Subject of thy Sufferings and the World it self as thy Executioner yet should seek to Pamper their Body with these same Pleasures in this same World and that those that cannot without horror see a Man imbrace and cherish the Murderer of their Father that gave himself to Death to restore them to Life how they can live as I have done with full delight in the World which I very well know was the Murderer of him that I acknowledge to be my Father and my God and that gave himself to the Death for my Salvation and that bore in his Body the Punishment due to my Sins It is just Lord that thou shouldst put a stop to such Sinful Delights as those were wherein I rested under the Shadow of Death XIII Take therefore from me Lord the sorrow which Self-love might give me for my own Sufferings and by reason that Worldly things don't succeed according to the Inclinations of my Heart that tend not to thy Glory But be pleased to cast me into a sorrow conformable unto thine let my Sufferings in some measure pacifie thine Anger Make them be an occasion of my Conversion and Salvation Let me not henceforth desire Health nor Life but that I may employ and end them for thee and with thee and in thee I don't ask Health nor Sickness nor Life nor Death but that thou wouldest dispose of my Health and Sickness of my Life and Death for thy Glory and my Salvation and for the good of thy Church and Saints of which I hope by thy Grace to make a part Thou only knowest what is expedient for me thou art the absolute Disposer of all things do what seems good in thy sight Give unto me take away from me but conform my Will to thy Holy Will and that in an humble and perfect submission and Holy confidence I may prepare my self to receive the Decrees of thine Eternal Providence and that I may equally adore all things that proceed from thee XIV Grant O my God that in a constant Uniformity of Mind I may receive all sorts of Events because we don't know what to ask for and that I cannot desire one thing rather than another without Presumption and without making my self a Judge and liable to answer the consequences which in thy Wisdom thou hast justly hid from me Lord I know I know but one thing which is That 't is good to serve thee and that 't is ill to offend thee besides this I don't know which is worst or best in any thing I can't tell which is best for me Health or Sickness Riches or Poverty or any thing else in the World these things pass the Skill of Men and Angels to discern and are hid in the secrets of thy Providence which I humbly adore and will not presume to pry into XV. Grant therefore Lord that such as I am I may conform my self to thy Will and that being sick as I am I may glorifie thee in my Sufferings without them I cannot attain to Glory and thou thy self my Blessed Saviour wouldst not arrive thereunto by any other way It is by the marks of thy Sufferings that thou wert known to thy Disciples and it is by Sufferings that thou dost also know those that are thy Disciples acknowledge me therefore for thy Disciple in the Pains which I suffer both in my Body and Mind for the Offences which I have committed And because nothing is well pleasing to God but what is offerr'd up by thee conform my Will to thy Will and my Sufferrings to those which thou hast suffered grant that mine may become thine unite me unto thee fill me with thy self and thy Holy Spirit Enter into my Heart and Soul to bring thither my Sufferings and to continue to maintain in me what is yet behind to suffer of thy Passion which thou dost fulfil in thy Members until the full consummation of thy Body