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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71231	Enter into thy closet, or A method and order for private devotion A treatise endeavouring a plain discovery of the most spiritual and edifying course of reading, meditation, and prayer; and so, of self examination, humiliation, mortification, and such most necessary Christian duties, by which we sue out the pardon of our sins from Heaven, and maintain an holy converse with God. Together with particular perswasives thereunto, and helps therein.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1666 (1666)	Wing W1495B; ESTC R217163	97,436	340

who was ever with God and ever God heir of all things by whom aell things were made he was made slesh O ths depth of the love of God and Christ Whose soul can well hold to contemplate it Besides this admiration and dissolution of soul the thoughts hereof cannot but be thus further useful to me First seeing from what an infinite glory to what a mean nature and condition the Son of God himself the infinite God stooped for the help and saving of men I cannot but see my self in duty bound to the like humility meekness and condescension not to stand upon mine own petty interests and consult nothing but self when I have opportunity to do good to any infcriour that wants my succour Had Christ done so he had never been made flesh for me Now let the same mind be in me which was also in Christ Jesus And again seeing to what an height of excellency the nature of mankind is now advanced it should prevail with me to put a due price upon it and never willingly to dishonour by any unworthy action what God himself hath so honoured Did God stoop to vindicate my nature from the contempt and tyranny of the devil and shall I notwithstanding all the condescensions of his grace still wilfully enslave and destroy my self Further God having united the nature of which I am a partner to him I should be ambitious of all meanes of uniting my self to him that is of doing all that may be on my part to further this union And especially the thoughts hereof should quicken me this day to a zealous participating his body and bloud Can I consider God made flesh for me God debasing himself to be one with me and is it possible that I can neglect what is so much for my honour and interest as the means of sealing my particular union with him How can I esteem my self doly to have celebrated the memory of his being made flesh if having means of partaking of that flesh which he took I neglect it And how much ingratitude must such neglect have in it Lastly seeing that one great end of our Saviours being incarnate was to be the true light to man in the pur suit of his happiness let me account it a noble degree of assimilation or being like my Saviour if I can in any measure be a light to any herein And if God have by office made me such let me prize and honour my imployment and manifest my value of it by my diligence in it The more light I give the nearer do I in my office come unto my Saviour Thus much then of incitement have I hence to my duty My other rules are not here so applicable Wherefore in the conclusion of my Maditations I consider what of new all that I have meditated doth suggest See Part. 11 ch 5. unto this dayes prayers And that I shall find to be matter of As to the first Praise Petition 1. The infinite goodness of God that he would at all think of restoring that nature which was now an enemy to him having wilfully fallen from him cannot if duly considered but melt my heart into thankful praise of him 2. That yet greater commendation of his goodness his infinite condescension his redeeming our nature in a way so glorious to it as was the assumption of it unto his own nature methinks should overcome my soul and wrap it into an extasie of praise and admiration In all likelihood infinite Wisdome might have thought of a course which would have been less honourable to man and would nor so much if I may so speak have humbled the Deity But he would not bring us to glory ingloriously The meer consideration therefore of the honour which our Lords Incarnation puts upon our ill deserving nature will not suffer me to be silent this day in his praises And as to matter of petition surely it cannot but be right seasonable to beseech 1. That all this may not be in vain unto me And 2. That to that end I may transcribe these Copies of goodness humility and purity which shone in our Saviours incarnation and walk in the light as well of his example as doctrine And all this I may do in some such words as these A Prayer to be added to my other daily Prayers on Christmas-day O God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who out of thy meer goodness and pitty having promised thy Son to redeem faln mankind didst in the fulness of time faithfully performe with thine hand what thou hadst spoken with thy mouth and send him into the world made and about this time born of a woman I one of that redeemed though vile nature humbly adore this thy Grace and faithfulness Eternity Lord is too little to bless thee for it But Eternal praise is the greatest that I can wish thee and maist thou to eternity receive due glory for this thine infinite Goodness and Mercy O Thou the onely begotten Son by whom thine eternal Father made the Worlds who wast ever with God and ever God the brightness of his Glory and express Image of his Person yet wast pleased in time to be made flesh and pitch thy Tabernacle in our nature I part of the purchase of thy bloud poor dust and ashes but such as thine infinite Glory was pleased for my sake once to wear and now to glorifie and set above Angels most humbly bless thee as well for this thy condeseension as for the honour done to man Thou tookest not upon thee the nature of Angels but the seed of Abraham thou did'st take Even so O Saviour for so it hath seemed good to thee Thou thoughtest not the Angelical nature low enough for thine Infinity to stoop to Most dear Jesus thou hast overcome me I would praise thee but I cannot further Accept my silent ravishment admiration and faith I believe Lord help my unbelief O holy Spirit the power of the most High who after an unconceiveable sort overshadowing the Virgin Mother did'st frame in her sacred Womb that Holy Thing which * That is was the Son of God For in Scripture many times being called and being word and thing are one and the same was called the Son of God For this thy most wonderful and fearful but to man most happy operation I unworthy man bless thee beseeching thee to inspire my heart that I may from this blessed Copy transcribe these Virtues of Goodness Humility Love Purity and what soever mine holy Saviour either by his Life or Doctrine hath caught me that so I walking in his light he may be to me life ever lasting to the praise of thee O Father Son and holy Spirit one undivided God Eternally Amen Chap. IV. An Exemplification of the former Rules in St. Stephen ' s day's With a Prayer which may be used on any Saints day FOr the Epistle Acts 7. 2. 55. to the end Which having read I find to be a narrative or relation of St.