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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08035	A most learned and pious treatise full of diuine and humane philosophy, framing a ladder, wherby our mindes may ascend to God, by the steps of his creatures. Written in Latine by the illustrous and learned Cardinall Bellarmine, of the society of Iesus. 1615. Translated into English, by T.B. gent.; De ascensione mentis in Deum per scalas rerum creatorum opusculum. English	Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621.; Young, Francis.	1616 (1616)	STC 1840; ESTC S115760	134,272	612

may be forgotten What Prince in the world did euer promise rewardes to those that came to demand of him mercy or iustice And yet those which come to the Princes of the World are men and the Princes themselues also are men made of the same molde and subiect to the same Almighty God But albeit it may seeme much to reward those that aske yet ought it not seeme much to giue them free accesse to appoint faithfull masters of Requestes to keepe their petitions and to offer them vp and sollicite their speedy dispatch The third Office of Angels is to be sent as Ambassadours to denounce such thinges as God will haue denounced especiall concerning our Redemption and saluation So speaketh the Apostle to the Hebrewes Heb. 1 Are not all the Angels ministring Spirits Sent to minister for them which shall receaue the inheritance of saluation We reade also in many places of the olde Yestament Gen 18 how Angels appeared to the Patriarches and Prophets and manyfested to them such thinges as God would haue manifested Dan 9 We finde likewise in the new Testament that the Angel Ga●riel was sent as an Ambassador from God to Zacharie and to the virgin Mother of God Luke 1 Luk. 2 Angels also were sent to the shepheards to St. Ioseph and after the Resurrection of our Lord to the women that stayed at the Sepulcher Ioh 20 and after the Ascention Math 28 Act 1 to all the Disciples But if any aske why God who is euery where and can easily by himselfe speake in the hearts of men sendeth notwithstanding his Angels I answer because men may vnderstand that God regardeth their affaires and that all thinges are gouerned and ordered by him For otherwise they might perswade themselues that Gods inspirations did proceede from their owne discourse and counsaile But when they see or heare that Angels are sent by God and the thinges which the Angels foretold to come so truely to passe they cannot doubt but that God foreseeth mans affayres doth cheisely direct and dispose such thinges as appertaine to the saluation of his Elect. The fourth Office of Angells is to protect men both in particular and ingenerall For it pleased the mercy of God to commend vnto his strongest seruants the custodye of the weaker And to appoint them as Tutors ouer Children Gardians ouer Infantes Patrons ouer Clyents shepheardes our sheepe Phisitions ouer sicke folkes Defendors ouer Orphans and such as cannot defend themselues but vnder the winges of the more mighty Of the protection of particular men Dauid witnesseth He hath giuen his Angels charge rf thee Psal 90 that they keepe thee in all thy wayes And Christ himselfe is also a faithfull witnesse heereof See saith he that you despise not one of these little ones Math 18 for I say to you that their Angells in heauen alwayes doe see the face of my Father which is in heauen Touching their protection also of Prouinces and kingdomes Daniel witnesseth Dan. 10 Who calleth the Gardian Angel of the kingdome of Persia the king of Persia and the Gardian Angell of the Kingdome of Greece the King of Greece And the Gardian Angell of the Children of Israell he calleth by his name Michaell Apcc. 2 Saint Iohn likewise in the Apocalips writeth of the Angells Gardians of Churches and maketh mention Of the Angell of the Church of Ephesus of Smyrna and of others Therefore in euery Kingdome there are two Kinges the one a visible Man the other an inuisible Angell And in euery Church there are two Bishops the one a visible man the other an inuisible Angell And in the vniuersal Catholique Church there are two chi●fe Pastors appointed vnder Christ our Lord the one a vifible man the other an inuisible Angell which wee beleene to be St. Michaell the Archangell For ●s the Synagogue of the Iewes in times past So now the Church of the Christians doth reuerence him for her Patron Dost thou not see my soule how carefull that Maiesty who needeth nothing of ours is of vs his poore seruantes What could he doe more to manifest his great loue then hee hath donne He hath loaded vs with Benefites to make vs to stay wallingly with him He hath guarded vs w●th a Watch that we should not Fly from him and he hath appointed ouer vs Protectors least wee should be carried from him What would he doe if wee were his Treasure as indeed he is our onely Treasure Therefore my soule yeild at last to his Loue and being ouercome therewith Mancipate and giue thy selfe wholy by an irreuocable vow vnto his seruice Let not things which are seene moue thee but thinke of and sigh after the thinges thou seest not 2 Cor. 4 For the thinges that be seene are Temporall but those that be not seen● are Eternall The fift and last Office of Angells is to be as armed Captaines or Soldiours to work● Reuenge vpon Nations and Cotrection among the people They were Angells which burned the Infamous Cittyes Gen 19 with fire and brimstone Which kild the First begotten throughout all Egypt Exod. 12 Which at one Assault destroyed many thousand Assirians 4 Reg. 19 And they shall be Angells which at the day of Iudgement Mat. 13 Shall seperate the euill from among the iust and shall cast them into the Furnace of Fire Let good men therefore loue the holy Angells as their Country-men And let wicked men dread their power which are the Executioners of Almighty Gods wrath from whose handes none can deliuer them THE TENTH STEPP From the Consideration of Gods essence by the similitude of a Corporall quantity WE haue ascended by created sustances as high as we can Cap. 1. And yet we are not come to knowe God so perfectly as by Specularion euen in this Vayle of teares hee may be knowne It remaineth then that we consider if by the Dimensions of a Corporall quantity which we know we may ascend vnto the Breadth Length Height and Depth of Gods inuisible essence For among Creatures those are said to be great which haue foure great Dimensions And God in the Psalmes and in many other places is said To be Great and his greatnesse without end Psal 47 Truely St. Bernard a man excelling in contemplation in his bookes of Consideration which he writ to Pope Eugenius framed from these Dimensions certaine steppes to knowe God Yet was hee not the first Inuentor of a Ladder of this kinde but hee learned this manner of Ascention from the Apostle who was rapt into the third Heauen For so speaketh the Apostle in his Epistle to the Ephesians That you may be able to comprehend with all the Saintes Ephe 3 what is the Breadth and Length and Height and Depth For if any one consider attentiuely he shall finde indeed that there is nothing without God sound and substantiall But all is small short base vaine and superficiall But in God His immensity is