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A55474	Theologia mystica, or, The mystic divinitie of the aeternal invisibles, viz., the archetypous globe, or the original globe, or world of all globes, worlds, essences, centers, elements, principles and creations whatsoever by a person of qualitie, J.P., M.D.	Pordage, John, 1607-1681.; Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.; Hooker, Edward.	1683 (1683)	Wing P2968; ESTC R8838	181,392	278

hast put and set a Iewel a fair one evn of grea●e●● price and highest value O how far then from the right are unmercifulness uncharitablnes hardheartednes strife rancour envie judging censuring slandering backbiting speaking or whispering evil specialy of and against Persons and Things neither known to thee nor understood by thee How far I sai from right I dare not take upon mee to judg This onely I sai to such Practicers what Christ did to those Hypocrites who could discern the face of the Skies Yea and why evn of your selvs judg yee not what is right Now if such things be right then surely nothing's wrong Let 's all like Devils fight and damn i th' cursed throng God Christ and th' Spirit ' spite and mock'em in a Song Yet stil I shold beleev it to be the better safer and wiser waie to humbl our selvs under the mighti hand of God taking holi Iames for our council in the case and praepare to meet our God who is a God of Iudgment and a consuming Fire and everlasting too into whose hands to fall it is a fearfull thing Hee likewise beeing the living God and no Person-Respecter but recompensing everi one according to his work If wee therefore wold not fall short of felicitie here and hereafter let us fall out of hand upon dooing and mainteining good works and for ever abandon falling on or out with one another but if there be a wise man among us and one indued with knowledg let him be persuaded by and with blessed Iames to shew out of a good conversation His Works with me●kn●s of Wisdom evn tha● Wisdom from above which first truly chast and pure is further more pacific qui●t not rigid for its own right moderate obsequious p●rsuasibl yi●lding full of mercie and good fruits without disceptation o● controversie not doubting certen without Hypocrisie not stage-plaier like not dissembling its judgment not a●●ing ani waie counterfei●ly O that wee were thus wise a●d in the meeknes of this wisdom walk 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 simus let us go to a●d fro' one another pass things easily to and agen having such a praesence of mind alwaies as to becom all things to all men with the Doctor of the Gentiles that Omniformist who tho Hee were free ●rom all y●● Hee made himself a servant to all that Hee mought gain the moe by all means save som. This hee did ●or the ends of the Evangelie When s●al such glad Tidings befall us bless Church and State O what a glorious state shold wee and our Churchmen and women and Children and all things els be in Of this pure temper wa● the Autor as you mai see evn by that littl hee speaketh to the Reader b●fore this Discours yea renownedly clothed with the meek Spirit of our only Lord Iesus the Christ the Author and Finisher i. e. the Beginner and Ender not of our your or their but of the Faith with reference to all times and persons according to the tenor and T●stimonie of the Scriptures of Truth I must tell you it agen The Autor had the Spirit of meeknes with the Faith and Lov which is in Chri●t for the excellence the of knowledg of whom his Lord hee su●●ered like another Paul as is wel known to all sciz who knew him the loss of all things which hee reckoned at no higher rate than Dogs-meat but not such as is givn to dogs in ●hese daies which good Christians wold be glad of that hee mought win Chri●● a●d be found in Him not having his own Righteousnes but that which is by the Faith of Chri●t that Hee mought know him and the power of his Resurrection a●d the Fellowship of his Su●ferings beeing made conformabl to his Death if by a●i means Hee mought attein to the Resurrection of the dead Which undoubtedly Hee maugre all whisperings backbitings censures or praejudices of unbeli●f to the contrari did did follow after and to t●●●●●●citie of mortalitie atteined the nearest to ●● o● all that in this Age I have known or heard of Thus much I can testif● since mi acquaintance with him for Hee was not onely a bare liver by the Faith of Iesus but in the Work and Service of Love Faith's best demonstration and the Law 's Fullfiller a true Laborer and as to winged Mysteries if I mai speak mi sens witho●● essens a littl incarnate Cherub or rather S●raph or that I mai not excede the words of Truth and Holiness to the extending in the less'st the lines of Modestie a very highly mystic and transspiritualized Person A specimen of which not more great than just and due Eulogie and Encomium this Tract tho' a smal one is Which Writings Hee before his Asscension to the Spirits of Iust men perf●ctly sancti●ied advised and consulted with mee about as is sufficiently known not only to his Hous-keeper but to his most agreeabl and supersensual Companion and Fellow-laborer in the Evangelic-angelic Work viz. ● L. mi Praecursor or Prae-Epistoliz●r and a daili Exsp●c●ant to be clothed upon with the heavenli Bodie to com down from above waiting in the Spirit for the fullnes thereof and who hath not long since appeared in to or from the World pleace to take which Praeposition you best approv in an Heavenli Cloud A product fairly and fully meriting the Titl as is clear notwithstanding the Cloud to ani spiritual Discerner Favor mee with somuch freedom as once agen to affirm that the Autor excluding all other by what names or Titles soever dignified or distinguished or wheresoever praesiding or residing in Court Citie Camp or Countrie committed these Papyrs according to the certen knowledg of the Person ut supra hinted or lettered to the custodie and Correction so continued under correc●ion be it spoken and so confirmed was his confidence herein of Mee who highly ●steemed him in love for his Works sake not forgetting evn this which now thro the Divine Providence according to mi trust word or as som wil have words too is now com forth with an open face to public view from its recess or privacie ●ere hearken and heed hereto by the wholey unasked therefore freely of●ered benignitie and generositie of which I am a witness and which likevise witnesseth the dignitie and Divinitie of the Soul and Spirit of the Person so acting viz. W. B. that famous Anti-Satánic Athleta Anti-Daemoníac Pal●strita and Hell 's black Regiment's Antagonist yea moreover ●●●●aptive's Redeemer and the mani-mani poor and needi oppressed and distressed People's most readi and praesent Refuge and Asylum wheresoever hee resorteth tho' more principaly at the place of his Residence at Wilminton in Kent Where beside or rather about evn all the Countrie over Hee is wel known and wel nigh from everi quarter or corner thereof addressed unto as an honest diligent expert long experienced and very successfull ●hysician Let this brief Character of this gallant generous resolute

and religious man be I prai kindly admitted and accepted from mi welmeaning meanness til a larger and fairer appear which when it doth wil be but his due tho' his modestie I mai safely sai wil not be abl to suf●er it such is the tenderness of his Spirit v●sibl enough in ani thing that mai but verge toward his own advantage whom therefore I wold willingly more discover to the World to which hee doth so much good and in which hee hath done so great things and declare his Name in words at length and not as now in letters were I not afraid that his humili●ie wold be thereby highly o●●ended which doth and can endure all things except his own Eulogiums and Commendations To the Sun-●hine of which and his manifold virtues I have onely lighted or tinded tho' ex officio this my Rush-ca●dl which is one I must confess to mi shame of the shortest less'st and worss'●t For this do I here humbly crave his candid construction and heartily beg the boon of his pardon beeing too sensibl of the great need I have thereof albeit I mai haply go without it in that I have so openly and boldly as beeing without his leav or knowledg attemted tho' but this unless by the seasonabl request and importune intercession of som intimate Friend or other it mai happily com to be givn to mee I am not so sage as to foresee how hee wil handl mee for this mi fool-hardiness nor can I praesage what the event mai be His Resentment of this mi boldnes wil be so great I must now run the Risc the hazard jacta est alea. I must take mi Lot how fair or foul soever I be in his Books As to this praesent Book I am bold to sai I foresee such clearness there is in mi eies the Crystal Streams thereof going to be perturbed by the over diligent and silthily dirti feet of mani grim and ugli Satyrs which seem to mee to call for and to have already praevaled with several faln Angels ●o mingl with them and becom their Coadjutors ●nd Coagitators that so these purely fluent Wa●ers mai the more suddenly and surely be made mere stagnant and putrid Puddls or most foul stinking Pools Nevertheless I adventure herein to praedict tho' I be no Prophet nor the Son of a Prophet for all the possibilitie probabilitie or proximitie of the feat or fact the impossibilitie for all this of the accomplishment yea I am more than confident for I am Sure that the contamination thereof by their so complotted commixture wil prove no other than a Chimaera unless I mai add as I beleev it wil be a slurr and blurr or a basefoul Iilt upon themselvs Nai further shal conclude it never feacibl til that veri daie when I shal behold the dazling Beams of the glorious Sun in its Zenith darkned by the mere steams of som Dung-Hill lieing on the lowest ground But enough if not too much of this dirt and ●ilth Now not to be dirti miself however not so dung-hill-bred as to account so wretchedly of the Reader as if Hee were unworthi to have ani accompt of the Book or to giv a●i ●aus wher●by the Publisher thereof shold be thought so av●rs from Apologies as to judg all of lit●l value much less to condemn all evn the best with som G●andees as idl and useless at best at less'st far below Prudence by waie therefore of obviation praevention praeoccupation and anticipation in companie with a fair praesolution of som praemised objections which it is not improbabl mani ill-natur●d and ill-mind●d men mai make evn to the suspecting or at fair●st scrupling if not severely quaestioning first how honestly this worthi Writer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 came by these high Mysteries and grand Arcanums viz. Th● Knowledg of what in the ensuing Pages is argued and discoursed then What necessitie of th●ir beeing now or at ani time exposed and published This I here offer and praesent To the First mi Respons is tho' not dubious yet doubl h. e. Negativ and Affirmativ Thus Hee as a Philosopher not falsly so called and a Divine indeed came to the reception perception and cognition or rather introspection intuition and introreception of the praementioned Not by reading or poring on Books or Manuscripts nor by the teaching of men brethren or Fathers nor by ani conferring with Flesh and Blood but by the pure Revelation of the Holi and Blessed Spirit of God who is the Sercher and Reveler of the deep things of God as St. Paul testifieth Now in regard I have mentioned the Reve●ation of the Spirit I cannot apprehend it an imper●inence to speak somwhat of yea inlarge so much ●he more upon the several sorts and different kinds ●hereof as properly praelimina●i antecedaneous ●nd very requisitly assistent to the advance of the ●nquisitiv Reader 's judgment and belief of about ●nd concerning these divine rarities mysteries and ●ublimities The first waie is by Vision when the Spirit of God praesenteth the heavenli species or ideas to the ●ntern senses of the inward man Quid quaeris ●rudite Lector vin quid species vel Idea potiùs sci●e certiùs ut queas consulas Platonem velim cui ●uid esse videatur audi Idea est earum quae naturâ ●unt inviolabile immutabile immortale aeternum ●xemplar Vide porrò si dubius animi es Aug. L. lxxxi quaest 46. This of Vision I look upon as one of the ●owest Form or Degree The second is by Illumination when the Spirit of the mind is thorowly illustrated or enlightned by a Raie or Beam proceding from the Holy Spirit and purely apprehendeth the Truth and the veri Sens of the Blessed Spirit beside and without ani praesentation of extern Objects Of these kinds the glorious Apostle Paul maketh plain mention where Hee saith I wil com to Visions and Revelations 〈◊〉 the Lord. The third is by Transportation or if you wil n●● bear with that Term Translation When the Spir●● of the Mind is in veri deed truth and realitie rap● and caught up transported and translated tran●scendently and divinely into the veri Principl 〈◊〉 self there to view introspect and comprehend 〈◊〉 wel as apprehend the Wonders of Iehovah AE●●● him the ever adorabl holi and blessed Triune● Deitie Of this Degree the same glorious Apo●● telleth us when hee declareth that Hee was caug●● up into the third Heaven into Paradise whe● Hee heard wordless Words so the Graec most emph●●●●ticly Words unutterabl unexpressibl unspea●●abl un●●oidabl Nihil heic nisi vota 〈◊〉 persunt This is an higher Degree than either 〈◊〉 the former the pair praeceding beeing far inferior 〈◊〉 this for here as much as possibly you mai or can mi●● the veri Spirit of the Mind is elevated supersens●●●ly and superrationaly sublimed or lifted up to 〈◊〉 into that Principl where the things theirselvs do ●●aly subsist have

or suppositions of what are as cunningly as commonly called convenient contrivances innocent indifferences and orderli decences under the plausibl praetext placent notion specious name prudential guise and fair construction of that famous Euangelic Canon or Rule the grand Ecclesiastic Cynosura sciz Let all things be done decently and in order Which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at best is not so much an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which I humbly conceiv and offer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 purely for sweet dear holi hevenli Peace sake and in a sens and conscience of mi by mee as yet beleeved dutie omnibus singulis qibuscunqe fortassean seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu Sacerdotum seu Praefectorum nominibus titulis indigitentur insigniantur Which Words so rendred to procede in the waie of Peace and Truth a Conjunction which I wold ever call Copulativ and make if I could perpetuously Consummativ som Godli and learned Writers upon very probabl reasons Scholar like tendred which I like and wit● out ani bitter reflection which I love and not wit● out accurate retrospection inspection and circu●●spection as to the design of the Apostl's discour●● and their very serious meditation and ruminati●● on the scope of the Text with fervent supplicati●● after Consultation too of the best Commentators 〈◊〉 the place thro' the supplies of the Spirit of Grac● and in the name of Christ the Wisdom of the ●●●ther to God the Father of Lights and the Spiri● of all Flesh which I cannot neither mai loath hav● after all apprehended and thereupon do beleev That if the Reading were according to natural D●●cencie and Scripture-Order in the room place o● stead of decently and in order those foregoing word wold be much more consonant to and with the S●●gnificance of the Original and by consequen●● tho' stil under Correction of more illuminated Head● ● be assented and consented to specialy by the Church of Christ coming out of Mysterie-Babylon gathered or scattered as the fairest and best interpretatio● and exposition O who wil giv that our sight 〈◊〉 be happily cleared by this smal foretast or ani ●●ther as Ionathan's was by tasting a littl honie from 〈◊〉 end of his Rod and who can tell but it mai speci●● if wee look up for Eie-salv from Heaven whi●● our Eies are looking upon the letters and words and not be wholey taken up with the Letter without the Spirit which wil quicken us and put Life into our Spirit otherwise wee mai li dead at the letter til wee di The Word of Life wil be most welcom to enlivened Spirits O that the Spirit of Praier were raised agen from the dead as one mai sai what happi hopes then shold wee have of a glorious and spiritual Resurrection after so great a death hath passed upon the Churches Oh it is high time to begg as for Life that the Blessed Spirit wold come as Floods upon dri ground since the chois Gardins of the veri Saints for want of Spiritual dewes from Heven are withered that the Churches mai be as watered Gardins and the Saints and Servants of the most High mai at less'st at last like the Willows by the water-courses grow up evn into him in all things who is the Head of everi man and over all things to the Church which is His Bodie the fullness of him who filleth all in all and who wil make good His Great last Testament-Promiss of a doubl portion of his Spirit in a plentifull and powerful effusion thereof in the later glorious Ministration to counsil and comfort suppli and support the Saincts til the conspicuous apparence of his Personal Praesence without which his Praesence which can be no less wheresoever it be than Spiritual no Communions Ordinances or ani extern Administration can be effectual Let us all therfore look upon it as one main work of the daie to set Faith at work on the Promises and be earnest with the Father of Spirits to send down a special Unction from on High for the new spiriting of His Peopl e●n that other spirit which Caleb had Seeing a commune Spirit wil never carri them fully thorow in the work of their Generation Let us al prai that the Golden Pipes mai more and more empti their golden ill out of their selvs from the Olive-tree and that thei who desire and endevour to keep the Commands of God and the Testimonie of Iesus mai be anointed with the Oil of Gladnes in more abundant mensures Prai wee all that the Spirit of Glorie mai com down and rest among and upon us as a Refiner's fire to purifi us for our Gold is dim and our fine Gold changed considering Hee who hath the seven Spirits is too visibly turned aside from our golden Candlesticks that so wee mai offer up pure offerings in truth of Righteousnes and holiness beeing renovated in the Spirits of our minds which mai be placent to the Lord as in the daies of old Prai wee all for I praefer it before Preaching in this our Daie and set wee upon the Gates of Heavn with an holi violence knocking daie and night for the Devil is com down in great Rage wrath and violence throwing round about and that with grandest furie his fieri darts toward his Catastrophe or period Hee sadly foreseeing the short time hee hath to rant or rage in O Tri wee all what Power we have with the Father of Lights to set his Power on work to shake the Powers of Darkness in this hour of Tentation that is com upon all the Dwellers upon Earth and to help us in the Discoverie of that now above 5000 years experienced Master of the Black Art transformed too often into the most dangerous white Devil yea an Angel of Light tho' disguising himself and setting his face in secret so the Holi Mother-Toung to be then less'st in sight when without doubt most at work that so hee mai soonest defile and safest beguile us and wee not aware of him while wee shal like those mentioned in the Apocalyps be taken with the fine hair of the Locusts which asscended out of the bottomless Pit that stung them as Scorpions with their Tails O let the Remembrancers of the Lord who loveth to be put in Remembrance of the good thing promised make mention thereof before him that the Hyperpanonomous Iesus the Christ the Lord of Righteousnes the Lord of Lords Tzion's King and King of Kings mai be set upon this Holi Hill that the Heathen mai be His inhaeritance and the uttermost Parts of the Earth His Possession taking to himself his great Power and Reign and put the Government upon his shoulder and arise to shake the Earth yea and the Heavens terribly once

of a more sublime Origination or as wee vulgarly of an higher Descent Is it not so Why Do not the Golden Rules delivered by antient Philosophers seem to set forth as much How came those famous Lights of Wisdom set up almost all the World over Nai what issue is there of the pretious Dictates of our gracious Saviour and His holi Apostls who spake as never man or mere So●●● spake Nai what becometh of the Image of G●● impressed on Man at the first and wherein setti●● the Angels apart hee excelleth the whol Creation● NB. When the holi Iesus the Christ of God vouchsafed and condescended to be conversant among men Hee made it his chief Work what Christia● wil be against the ensuing Truth to improve the mind and spirit of man farr above the hight of the Soul's Reason and wee are so farr from conforming to our Blessed Lord's cours as Reason it self if 〈◊〉 sens almost is yet too sublime for us except so●● few who Apparent rari nantes in Gurgite vasto as the Poet singeth bravely looking up and beari●● up their Heads in this Universal Sinking towar● and I prai God it mai go down not wofully further ●● dolefully deeper than the Profundities of Sh●● out of which som are saved Com along with me● kind Reader if thou be not quite tired and ma●● use of the strongest legs of thi reason nai exercis● the Brains of it yea let the Head and Crown of 〈◊〉 asscend to that of AEternitie leaving farr below those effects of curiositie and accidental emergences the Arts and Sciences liberal falsly so called and highest natural Philosophie too upon which the Great Diana of this Mechanic Age h. e. Natural Theologie is reared buoied hoisted built up and let thi Reason I sai soar aloft evn if possibl up to AEternitie beeing environed with Time as it is a part of that Prius and Posterius without which the beginning and end of ani beeing cannot be conceived to be not as it is defined the Measure of Motion which had a Beginning on that Foundation that of an AEtern Beeing of Beeings nothing beeing abl to make it self Reason existeth subsisteth standeth buildeth and finisheth I mean concludeth That AEternitie it self is but what it is the imbecillitie of ani rational Facultie is such as it cannot possibly comprehend i. e. how ani thing shold have beeing without beginning and ending yet such a beeing there must be or no God there must or can be and where now wil Reason be I fancie and you know what hath been written already of Phansie that Reason notwithstanding all the sublimitie and vivacitie Phansie can afford or give to it in all its best conceptions like a sorri-silli Guide doth but lead mee with confidence and leav mee in confusion in a dull dark Labyrinth or Maze in a Maeandrous passage or Place Hence evn the most Metaphysic Subtilissimoes after that thei have fatigated or quite tired and wearied and but worsted themselvs with their Divisions and Subdivisions I must affirm thei have not arrived at so much of immodestie as to make Reason the adaequate measure of Truth but do ultimately resolv it into a Conformitie with the Divine Intellect which a Plat●nist wold after this manner as one more excellently expresseth and exactly humoreth than that ut supri lateiné by waie of an Exegemátic Character thus● That there is an AEternal Mind that comprehendeth th● intelligibl natures species and ideas of all things whether actualy existing or possibly only and that comprehendeth it self and all the extent of its own Power ●●gether with an Exemplar Platform of the wh●● World according to which Hèe produced the sam● What of all this Why dato concesso the Praemisses granted and allowed yet stil the Conclusion wil● and must be in spite of all our Reason assisted with the clearest imagination wee are no less in the dark for unless notice be vouchsafed to us by the AEternal Mind of what is conformabl to His infallibl and infinit Intellect there wil be littl or no certentie of Truth obteined by us Such is the peculiar Province of Revelation which is the tru or praetended foundation stil of all knowledg whatsoever Moreover it hath all the benefit of Philosophie and natural Religion's light in its best progress of Reasoning in its highest Zenith exaltation elevation sublimation and Acme to be silent as to a further and unfailing ratification from Divine Testimonie and the Transscendence of the Objects proper quarto modo to an Apocalypsie which giveth it freer admission and maketh a more solid valid and durabl impression upon our intellect Tho' wee acknowledg when all is don how magnificously soever wee bragg and vapor and taper of our Reason or Faith Intellect intelligibl Ideas and aeternal Verities these wil never conduct us to enter into Paradise or our Master 's joie but only as these are conjoined with our affections which commix co-incide and as it were identifi with that grandest and Divinest Mysterie of Love sciz God made Flesh which gave as one superexcellently the Angels new Anthems a new Scaene of Knowledg and consequently a new Heven So much if not too much of the distinction of these Powers and of that refined one of Soul and Spirit in man I sai Man who certenly is more than is conteined in that old definition Animal Rationale if hee were no more than Animans intellectuale tho' were I worthi to define Him it shold be rather by Religiosum than by either or both mentioned Nai seriously thinking considering and ruminating of the Rarities and Merits of his Creation by Iehovah AElohim who breathed into his Nostrils the Breath of Lifes and who as the Father of Spirits formeth that in man I can scarce forbear calling Him Animal Divinum tho' I be not such an Animal without the facultie to think nai and to foresee this definition deemed forthwith by the acute as unphilosophi● yea the Terms doomed o● however if not so adjudged yet to speak favorably impleaded as carri-ing in their veri Bowels a self-duelling by som chiefly those who have b● great Labors procured unto themselvs a deep-read● confusion of thought Let mee complete this Paragraph with the three constituent Parts of man according to the Apostl's Philosophie or Iudgment in that Praier of his where mention is made of Bodie Soul and Spirit which Spirit or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what it signi●ieth in the New Covenant or Testament the Places at the Bottom and mani mo do tell But to interpret it as most do by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Graces of the H. Spirit wold make the Apostl's Praier so impertinent improper strange if not ridiculous unless those Graces had at ani been found blame-worthi that I cannot but appear most exceedingly blameabl miself shold I add one Word to contra-argue it However let mee add the following words tending toward the conclusion of this prodigiously prolix

these a Great Divine's were but now Thine Thei 're great too Greater than I can divine These to translate in t ' English I 've a mind But the translated left'em so behind So I 'l be just to Him to mee prai you be kind Allow mee to be a smal Critic I dare not aim at beeing an Observator on the Word translated Evn til hee was not So temperate was Hee in all things that I have heard him sai Hee was never sick in all His Life and from this World in soundnes of Mind Memorie and Senses like another Moses Hee went away tho' by the waie discoursing all along Divinely to his very last minute and then this mighti man and as greatly meek did not di shold I sai that shold I not li but fall asleep in Iesus Tibi Domine qui velociter venis Amen Nae veni Domine O com and feed all thi Supplicants with the perpetuous influence of thi purest Divinitie Let thi Heavenli Highness sublime them to the Zenith of thi dearest and nearest Societie and here evn now not only raie beam and warm them with thi Ardors Flames and Powers but likewise ensoul-spirit-Heaven them in Thiself This all thi longing and humbl Petitioners at thi Throne of Grace crave beg prai beseeching that Thou who dwellest in Love and art Love wold condesscend and caus vehement-divine Love thorowly to penetrate transmute and transfigure them into it s●lf yea further convince and convert if it mai consist with the good pleaceur of thi holi Will all the Rational Powers of humane Nature into a Lov of that Lov which fullfilleth all thi Commandments as in heavn evn so on earth In the inter let all Thine wheresoever dispersed or howsoever distressed understand and beleev that it is their Strength not to make haste but to sit still and see the Salvation of God and that it is no more in their power to ●hange Kingdoms and Governments than the cours of the Luminaries which are set in the blu visibl firm Expans the Out-spread or to unhinge the Positure of the whol created World It is Thou and Thou onely who art Lord of Lords and King of Kings the Great and Mighti One who must doo these great and mighti things It is Iehovah AElohim the most high God who reigneth in the Kingdoms of men and who soley is Hee who giveth these to whom soever Hee pleaceth and who wil make all Adam know that all bold rashnes carrieth certen ruine within it self but overcoming Patience it is which perfecteth both God's and Man's Works Amen Now I exspect mi Reader to sai let mee prai to wit that you wold no longer Tantalize mee but giv mee the favor of the Great Person 's Name who was so translated Doubtless I am not worthi him to name But shold be counted worthi of great blame To bring this Person here to mee while I Chius ad Coum venture to stand by This needs must be a grand indignitie But seeing for all this need there is to get ou● of this lurking hole and to com abroad with hi● name for his Honor which shold be sacred to everi serious Soul as not beeing possibl to be spred abroad so much as his merits mai chalenge mo●● righteously Therfore it wold be injustice to withhold Him from you ani longer to conceal hi● Name by not answering to your Quaerie and Complieing with your Request It was then the truly Honor and and it wil be as tru and right if I sai rebus sic stantibus caeterisque non paribus which I judg none wil gain-sai the most Reverend Father in God or if that offend ani with God that is most sure ● ani be the most humbl Lord and meek Lord Bishop Sanderson of happi memorie more happi Iudgment and most happi Life and Death latel● put sorth by the elegant Penn of an excellent English Writer who modestly acknowledgeth the bold undertaking as beeing very unworthily inferior to the Merits of that Apostl of a Bishop certenly so hee was if ani such have been without ani Adulation I speak the truth before God and I not mi Conscience likewise bearing mee witness in the Holi Spirit Now seeing I have put mi Conscience so to it let mee put too this to Conscience and be so far his Abetter for want of a better therein as to conclude a better Resolver thereof in all cases England never saw never knew Whereupon I further venture and with all safetie to vouch that hee was the Non-such Casuist in all Christendom nemine certè Anglorum contradicente So great a Master of right Reason and sound Iudgment was hee which rendred him without dispute as inimitably judicious so incomparably pretious to all Posteritie nor wil his Works di while Worth shal liv Of which I mean his written Works that I mai speak som few words I humbly beg in regard of our miserably and uncharitably divided and subdivided Principles aud Practices but more particularly of Ceremonial Controversies which are so bandied about like a Ball to and agen and make such a nois and racket in our Nation O the sad circumstances sans ceremonèe that wee are now in How strangely tho' are wee converted into Wolvs which are far wors than Sheep or yet Dogs and that about the veri Worship of God! Monstrum horrendum O the Metamorphosis of our Manners O the Metempschosis of our Souls It is not a mere Acatastasis of our minds that marreth all the Beutie and Glorie of our Religion and Nation Mai wee not lamentably fear an Ichabod Mai I proov I prai God a Pseudoprophet But yee best of Professors tell mee truly what you think is not God going about to take away his Glorie Grace Euangelie Spirit and all with Him What said Herbert long agoe Religion stood on its Tiptoe Hee did mistake mai I do so O yee Professors can I have ani hopes that yee wil hinder his departure from our Land Mai hee not go fast and far away for all you Why Who or what staieth him sai yee save yourselvs I tell you truly his dear hidden littl ones who cri greatly after him daie and night An handfull it is as it were of wrastling Saincts who have been so spiritualy cunning that thei have got within Him and hold him with reverence and humilitie be it spoken upon the In-turn and wil not let him go but there keep him Els were hee got loos wo to you and us all How wold hee lai about and what a deal hand the living Lord hath where hee striketh let Heaven Earth and Hell trembl to think But blessed be God there are som few to whom hee hath said concerning the work of mi hands co●mand yee mee and these hold him to his word an● that so til Hee is readi to cri out as of old to Israel quondam Iacob Let me go As if hee shold have said I never met