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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19494	A celestiall looking-glasse to behold the beauty of heauen. Directed vnto all the elect children of God, very briefly composed, and authentically penned, that it may be effectually gained.	Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.	1621 (1621)	STC 592; ESTC S115930	11,270	56

The Author to the Reader I Beseech you to peruse this little Booke of my owne making imprinted at my own cost charges Which I humbly intreat you to accept at my hands not weighing the worth but respecting my good will And deale therein in your vertuous disposition and Christian loue and charity as God shall moue your minde I. A. Minister and Preacher of Gods Word A CELESTIALL Looking-glasse To behold the beauty of Heauen Directed vnto all the Elect Children of God very briefly composed and authentically penned that it may be effectually gained PSAL. 87.3 Glorious things are spoken of thee O city of God PSAL. 107.43 Who so is wise will ponder those things LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes 1621. ❧ TO THE RIGHT HONOrable truly Noble vertuous and most worthy Lady the Lady CATHERNE Marchionesse Buckingham wife vnto the right Honorable GEORGE Marquesse of uckingham Vicount VILLERS Baron of Whaddon Lord High Admirall of England c. grace and peace from God the Father through our Lord Iesus Christ RIght honorable and vertuous Ladie so farre forth as the holy Scripture maketh mention of the Titles Magnitude Ioyes and Eternity of heauen the which I haue here intreated of or any other diuine matter whatsoeuer so farre I may bee bold either to speake write or intreate of and no further for the secret things belong vnto the Lord but the reuealed belong vnto vs and to our children for euer Deut. 29.29 But yet it may bee thought great boldnesse in mee that am altogether vnacquanted or knowne vnto your Honor being a Minister and Preacher of Gods Word to presume to shrowde from the preiudice of contempt this my small and vnlearned Treatise Intituled A Celestiall Looking-glasse to be patronized vnder your Honors protection beeing a Lady of such dignity and vertue and so in some sort I do my selfe acknowledge Yet as the Lord hath adorned you among other religious Ladyes with whō yee shine as a cleere Lamp of light in the world through your vnfeigned loue and sincere profession of the Gospell whereby you are an honor not onely to your house but vnto your whole degree and Sexe which as it is a sweete testimony to your owne heart that you are beloued of God and hath made you far and neere honored of all those that loue God so also as your religious zeale towards Gods Word doth exceed your honor or Greatnesse it likewise maketh me very confident that it will excuse my boldnesse the rather because I haue receiued the ground of my worke from the direction of the word of God but the method I submit to the correction of man and am sorry it is no more worthy your honorable view But although it bee rawly comprized in a fewe scattered leaues and as rudely composed in a sort of scribled and vnlettered lines as the fruit of whose outward husk being vnpolished may seeme vnpleasant yet no doubt the inward kernell once tasted and well digested may proue cordiall and right fruitfull Right Honorable and Christian deuoted Ladye like as the Moralists sheweth me that where only the quality of the affection and not the quantity of the present is to be attended Modicum non differt à magno it is no matter whether the present bee great or small So was it with Alexander who receiued a fewe harsh lines of verse from Choerilus Artaxerxes a handful of water from poore Sinaeta and our Sauiour Iesus Christ the poore widdowes mite In like manner I am loth to trouble your Honor with a treatise of long circumstance lest I should feare you with the losse of time and so make an end before I beginne But if the good liking of this Mite of my poore labours could winne the hope of your fauour to intreat you with patience to peruse the same and withall vouchsafe to grace mee with your honorable acceptance to patronize this small worke which I in all dutifull manner with as tender affection as euer mother or nurse gaue their brests to their children or the Pellican peckt out her blood to feed and cherish her young doe here as kindly dedicate and present then shall I if God spare me life be comforted and encouraged vnder so worthy a fauourer to proceede in the like studies and according to my bounden duty incessātly with al humility pray to Amightie God for his glory not onely to preserue your Honor in all happinesse to continue you honorable vpon earth but also to bee farre more adorned to reigne with a Celestiall Crowne of glory in the Kingdome of heauen Your Honors in all Christian duty to be commanded I. A. An Apologie of the Author to the Reader O Wretched man that I am What am I that dare vndertake being but dust and ashes wormes meate to enter into a description of the sacred and Coelestiall Kingdome of heauen which is in all things inscrutable and vnsearchable and in all respects infinite It exceedeth the power of our Eloquence the capacity of our Intelligence in so much that no mortall man can comprehend it Much lesse that I of men one of the meanest of a defiled heart and polluted lips of weak memory and of a shallow vnderstanding should attempt and presume to define or describe the vnspeakeable Ioyes or secrets of heauen Yet for as much as the Lords Pen-men haue according to our capacity described in sundry places diuers particulars of the heauenly blessednesse I haue briefly according to the rules of sobriety collected and considered the same for our instruction and comfort And as the authority of the speaker or writer is lost when as the voyce and life is not affected with the worke it selfe I doe therefore hartily desire al those although vnknowne vnto many that shall either reade or heare this short and briefe Coelestiall Looking-glasse and gather comforts vnto their soules our of these my labours to pray vnto our Lord Iesus Christ for mee to giue me his grace and direct mee with his holy Spirit that what I either preach or write I may both in life and doctrine expresse and performe the same vnto my liues end that whilst I endeauour to raise others I may raise my selfe from all my sinnes to the glory of Gods holy name and the saluation of my owne soule Amen I. A. Qui cessat esse melior cessat esse bonus Hee that ceasseth to be better ceasseth to be good Looking-glasse to behold the Beauty of Heauen OF all the workes of God Heauen is the most ancient it was made at the beginning of the world and it was the first of all Gods works the felicity thereof cannot bee imagined neither the blessings numbered so incomparable as cannot be equalled of such value as none can comprize it so great ae cannot bee measured and of such eternity as neuer can be ended The very name of heauen to all is louely because it is a hauen for rest a Paradise for pleasure a City for

man could number of all Nations and Kindreds and people and the Inhabitants of heauen exceede in number the stars in the firmament or the sands by the Sea shore O Israell how great is the house of God and how large is the place of his possession In domo Patris mei multae sunt mansiones In my Fathers house there are many mansions sayth our Sauiour Iesus Christ Whereof this proportion may be made that as far as the whole world in greatnesse and compasse of place doth exceede the wombe of one priuat womā so much doth the place of blisse passe all the whole worlde in greatnesse and quantity And as much as a man liuing in this world doth passe a child in his mothers wombe in strength of body beauty wit vnderstanding and knowledge so much and so farre more doth a Saint in heauen passe men of this world in all heauenly knowledge This place is so great spacious as if wee compare the whole cōpasse of earthly things with the multitude of heauenly all that euer God made besides heauen it selfe is but as a prick or small point or period beeing matched with the workemanshippe of heauen This is that large and glorious Kingdom of God which he hath prepared to set forth his glory and to expresse vnto vs his mighty power To conclude this point though heauen be large and great which no tongue can expresse yet streight is the way narrow is the gate to goe into it Many seeke it and few finde it for the streitnesse of the way is affliction the narrownes of the gate is true contrition the Suburbs is the Church the dore is Christ by whō if we truly seek we shal surely enter in O let vs therefore striue to auoyd sin the our wayes may be verity our paths piety Gods holy spirit our cōductor his Word our director Our Faith holde the Anchor while Grace steeres the Helme Let our teares bée the seas and our sighes the gales of wind to arriue at Gods heauenly Kingdom which God hath prepared vs Christ hath merited for vs the holy Spirit doth assure vs and our godly life will witnesse the same vnto vs which the Father of mercy euen for his Sonne Iesus Christ his sake for euer grant vnto vs. Amen Thirdly Heauen is described by the Ioyes NOw as Heauen is a most glorious place a Kingdome which hath no end or measure either in power or glory So in the same are contained Ioyes vnspeakeable As a learned Father saith that it is an easier matter to know what God is not then to know what hee is It is much easier to tell what is not in heauen then to tell what is there the ioyes thereof are so great that all the Arithmeticians in the world cannot number the Geometricians measure nor Rhetoricians with all their eloquence vtter and expresse the same it doth exceede the power of our eloquence and the capacity of all our intelligence Saint Paule was rapt into Heauen and saw the ioyes thereof they were so exceeding great that his tongue was not able to expresse them Therefore he saith that neither eye hath seene nor eare hath heard nor the heart of man conceiued the greatnes of heauenly ioyes They which are there wish nothing but they haue it before them they desire nothing but they enioy it they dwell in loue they liue in peace and continue in the fruition of all blessednesse Blessed is their estate blessed their beginning their present beeing and their neuer ending They are crowned with ioy and gladnesse and remaine for euer in a most blessed estate As they haue beene here members militant there they are all triumphant all Kings reigning and all victoriously triumphing There the King is Verity and the law Loue and Charity the honor Equity the peace Felicity and the life Eternity If Peter said onely vpon Christ his transfiguration it is good to be héere O how much more shall the childrē of God reioyce in the Kingdome of heauen when they enioy not onely Heauens beauty and the beholding of Christ in his glory but shall themselues bée glorified and shine as the Sunne in the Kingdome of their Father All the Ioyes Pleasures Delights comforts that this worlde can yéelde are but shaddowes if they bée compared vnto the true Ioyes in the Kingdome of Heauen The ioyes of our bodyes shall be infinite the ioyes of our souls vnspeakable Our earthly and vile bodyes shall bée made like vnto the most glorious body of the Son of God like vnto the brightnesse of the Firmament like vnto the Angels like vnto the Sun in his strength We shall sée God face to face we shall sée him as hée is all the parts and powers both of body and soule shal be filled with the sight presence and fruition of God As the Lords glory reflected vpon Moses did make his face to shine vpon the Mount So will our Sauiour Jesus Christ refine and beautifie with the perfection of grace that they may bee like vnto his glorious body It was one of our Sauiors last requests in the behalf of his Church Father I will that those whō thou hast giuen me be with mee where I am that they may behold my glory For the glory of Christ is so delightfull to be séene so swéet to bée possessed and so pleasant to be inioyed and his continuall presence is so ioyfull vnto all the Saints in Heauen that if the least drop thereof should descend into hell it would sweeten all the paines of the damned The fountaine of Happinesse is called by Diuines visio Dei beatifica the sight of God which maketh vs happy Haec sola est summum bonum nostrum this onely sight of God is our cheefest happinesse which Christ also confirmeth whē he saith to his Father This is life euerlasting that men know thee the liuing God and Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent In seeing him wée shall know the power of the Father we shal know the wisdome of the Sonne and we shall know the goodnesse of the holy Ghost wee shall know the inuisible nature of the most sacred and blessed Trinity This sight of God is the full beatitude and glorification of man for in seeing him we shall possesse him in possessing him wee loue him in louing him we shall praise him and in praising him we shal liue and reigne with him for hee is the Inheritance of his people the possession of their Felicity and the reward of their expectation He is supereminent aboue all superexcellent beyond all and most abundant in Loue to all All persons generally haue the participation of ioy and euery one in particular the fruition of glory But this one thing let vs cōsider that there is a twofold equality of proportion quantity of glory which ariseth not from the Obiect Almighty God which is euer the same but from man the subiect which is