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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65802	The state of the future life, and the present's order to it consider'd by Tho. White, Gent.	White, Thomas, 1593-1676.	1654 (1654)	Wing W1842; ESTC R15645	17,794	128

tenth Consideration The great Benefits Mankind has receiv'd by Christ's comming into the World The first Point COnsider first By this most wise Oeconomy and gracious dispensation of Christ great Steward of God's house the Church Mankind is made capable of admirable Secrets and high Mysterys and has attain'd a most certain knowledge of them for who so simple that cannot beleeve what is told him when nothing else is requir'd and what can be so firm and certain either to our Senses or Understandings as the Word of God for since by It all other things were made and from It had their Natures It doubtless in It self is far more securely constant and fixt than the very subsistence of all created Beings and those Causes à priore that give a cert●inty to our Demonstrations And hence 't is that now whole Nations of People learned and ignorant wise and simple every silly old Woman clearly conceives and most firmly believs the Immortality of the Soul the Condition of the good and wicked after Death the Eternity of Pains or Pleasures that attend us with other most important Verities concerning which we find very little amongst the Philosophers as whereat the greatest Wits of them but groap'd like blind Men The second Point AGain By Christ's Example wee are strongly encourag'd to all Vertue Can there be any so faint-hearted as not to dare Venture himself the same way he sees his Captain pass before him who he 's sure both knows the best and securest Path to salvation and is so perfectly good that even in his Voice he cannot deceive much less counterfeit in his Actions When we see him then choose for himself the same things he proposes to us and tread out the way which he would have us walk nay when we see him not only Live and Dye in this way but Rise again and enter the Possession of those Glories he woos us to hope for can we any lōger doubt whether we should follow his foot-steps and beat the same Path or shall we not confidently aspire to the Happiness he so faithfully has promis'd and so dearly purchas'd The third Point BUt above all By this Grace of Christ our Charity to God is extreamly heightned by degrees excessively strange and remarkable for First whereas God was invisible and inaccessible ev'n to our very thoughts before He 's now become a Man like us expos'd to the apprehension even of our senses that most easy and obvious way of our knowing Next by this gracious condescendence He has espous'd all the Titles that may endear our Affections having made himself our Master our Friend our Companion our Brother His Father to become ours and himself a Member of the same Body with us And knowing that as it is the greatest possible testimony of Love to suffer for a Friend so 't is the most effective means to beget a mutual Love our Heavenly Father desirous to settle a perfect correspondence in That betwixt his only Begotten and us his adopted Sons sent Him into this world to suffer for our sakes all kind of evils all manner of contempts all sorts of injuries miseries torments and a most shameful Death Sic Deus dilexit Mundum ut Filium suum unigenitum daret pro mundi Vitâ To such a point did God love us as to give up even to death for our Life his only his equal his coessential and consubstantial Son Nor was This Son less forward and willing to accept than his Father to enjoyn him all this for us but as his Apostle says Dilexit me tradidit seipsum pro me He lov'd me and so lov'd me as to Live in miseries and Dye with torments for me Nor did his love end with his Life Since though it was necessary to withdraw his Corporal Presence from our senses yet Love would not let him entirely be absent but wittily found out this stupendious Invention to remain with us in the Blessed Sacrament not only to be seen and ador'd by our Faith but really to incorporate and mingle his Flesh with ours making himself the nourishment both of our Souls and Bodies In fine by this his Oeconomy and the powring out of his Holy Spirit and changing in a manner the whole World at least so far as concern'd Mens Souls through the innumerable Miracles wrought by Himself and his Followers to the Conversion of Nations he has rendred those things easy to us by the custom of hearing and seeing them done by others which before seem'd almost impossible and not to be imitated and so taken away the greatest hinderances of our Love to him Conclusion COnclude therefore Now ther 's no excuse left but an absolute necessity impos'd on thee to live holily the means thereof being rendred both so easy familiar to thee and so laudable too amongst Men that 't is almost a shame and counted worthy of reproach to live otherwise What canst thou then pretend what allege to exempt thy self No Almighty God has so ensnar'd and hedg'd thee in on every side with obligations to be Vertuous that thou canst not now without great inconveniences ev'n in this world be Vicious All things invite thee All things allure thee All things in a manner compel thee to be good O follow and follow willingly The eleventh Consideration Meekness and Humility is the readiest way to Happiness not only hereafter but ev'n in this Life The first point Consider Though our Saviour was vouchsaf'd us both as a Master and Model of all Vertures and a perfect Pattern for all the Actions of our whole Life yet two Vertues we find especially particularly and in a manner only recommended to us Meekness and mutual Charity the first he enforces on us in these sweet words Learn of me because I am meek and humble of heart and you shall find rest for your Souls Behold therefore if thou wilt be a Christian thou must very carefully practise this Vertue nor indeed canst thou chalenge that name unless thou at least endeavour to become Meek and Humble and so far only thou mayst judge thy self to have profited in the School of Christ as thou find'st thy self advanc'd in the progress of this Vertue Now what is this humble Meekness so highly commended to us by our great Master but A sweetness of Disposition which makes us not seek Revenge or render evill for evill no not even in desire That then thou art here commanded is When thou sufferest an injury not to render nor wish any harm to the Person that did it unless by way of correction to such as are under thy charge and even then to be sure the punishment be inflicted for Love of them not thy self for their amendment not thy satisfaction The second point COnsider 'T is irrational and not becomming a Person of understanding to wish evill to another because he has offended thee For as if thou shouldst fall into a Ditch or a stone fall upon thee