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A27168	Claustrum animae, the reformed monastery, or, The love of Jesus a sure and short, pleasant and easie way to Heaven in meditations, directions, and resolutions to love and obey Jesus unto death : in two parts.	Beaulieu, Luke, 1644 or 5-1723.	1677 (1677)	Wing B1571; ESTC R23675	94,944	251

heaven and make our journey pleasant it will make us dear to God and to his Saints and blessed Angels and fill our hearts with peace and comforts it will abide with us when we are forsaken by the world and all our friends can do us no good it will accompany us when we go from hence and open heavens gate and enter in with us there to perfect our happiness which it here began to be there our reward as it was here our work and our duty I may now upon too too just an account use the words of S. Non quod ego ista faciam dico sed quod facere vellem c. Ber. Med. Bernard what I have written is not what I do but what I should do what I grieve that I do not what I indeavour to do and what I wish all others might do But withall I shall plead for my self the advice of a Greek Father not to judge too severely of those who teach excellent lessons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Joh. Clim grad 26. §. 18. great and profitable truths which they themselves learn and practise but very imperfectly because the usefulness of their instructions may make some amends for the defects of their performance Ephes 6.24 Grace be with all them that love our LORD JESUS CHRIST in sincerity Amen FINIS THE CONTENTS OF THE FIRST PART § 1. OF the Benefits of God to Mankind Page 1. § 2. Of Creation 2. § 3. Of Preservation 5. § 4. The positive Blessings of this life 8 § 5. What returns we should make for them 11. § 6. Of Redemption and first of the infinite miseries were redeemed from 12. § 7. How we were Redeemed 20. § 8. A consideration of the Cross in four dimensions 25. § 9. The Breadth 27. § 10. The Length 31. § 11. The Depth 33. § 12. The Height 36. § 13. What an infinite Love is exprest by the Cross 38. § 14. Of the eternal happiness JESUS merited for us by his Death 39. § 15. What all these benefits require from us P. 45. § 16. An invitation into the Cloister of Love 47. § 17. The Vow to be taken at the entrance of it 49. § 18. Of Love and first of Self-love 52. § 19. How they that will be profest Lovers of JESUS must mortifie self-love 57. § 20. Of the Love of God 61. § 21. Of the Properties of Love The First 64. § 22. The Second 66. § 23. The Third 68. § 24. The Fourth 72. § 25. A farewell to all sinful desires 73. § 26. Of the antipathy betwixt Sin and the Love of JESUS 78. § 27. Of outward helps and means 80. § 28. Meditation on the Passion 82. § 29. Protestations of Love to JESUS 85. § 30. Of a sincere amendment 86. § 31. Love will work the best Reformation 90. § 32. The Exercise of Repentance 94. § 33. Is made easie by Love 97. § 34. And proceeds not from Melancholy 98. § 35. Corporal Austerities may please God P. 102. § 36. Not to return again to our sins when temptations return 104. § 37. To do what we do chearfully 108. § 38. A Singular Example of Human Love 109. § 39. The design of Christian Religion is to make us better 113. § 40. A Protestation of being faithful unto Death 115. The CONTENTS of the Second Part. § 1. OF the Positive part of our Baptismal Vow P. 1. § 2. A Protestation of Obedience 3. § 3. How great a happiness follows our Obedience 5. § 4. We should often look on our reward 8. § 5. Love is noble and generous 11. § 6. We belong to JESUS and are not our own 14. § 7. Meditations on our obligations to serve JESUS P. 15. § 8. God requires our Love and Obedience 19. § 9. Incouragements to obey JESUS 23. § 10. Of Free-will-offerings 26. § 11. Of our Obedience to the Church 34. § 12. Of several Voluntary Oblations 37. § 13. That God should be loved above all things 45. § 14. 'T is most just and easie to love God 51. § 15. An Objection answered 55. Sect. 16. A second objection answered 59. Sect. 17. 'T is most pleasant and safe to love God 64. Sect. 18. Love brings a lasting joy and peace to the Soul 73. Sect. 19. The Close 82. ERRATA Part I. 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evil will be sufficient where love is and where it is not more would do no good and that little I shall say concerning the positive part of our duty doing that which is good will suffice also that Christian who knows what it is to love God The truth is my design is only to direct or beget love to shew its great power and the great advantages it brings Could I but teach thee often to repeat from thy heart as some Ancient Christians at the Celebration of the Lords Supper I love thee dear Jesus I love thee dear Jesus I should think to have profited thee more than if I had unfolded mysteries and display●d much learning in the fairest and most exact method For I am sure that love would soon teach thee to know and to do that which pleaseth God to know and to perform the whole of thy duty Praecipuam Christiana pietatis portionem docuit quisquis ad hujusinflammavit amorem He hath taught the best part of Religion and to the best purpose who hath taught others to love it 'T is certain that if we give our love to God we shall afterwards refuse him nothing where a man gives his heart he will not refuse his hands or his knees where he gives his soul he will not deny his bread or his goods God shall have all that he requires and all we can offer to him if he hath our love and affections No qualification but love will make us true Christians Alia virtus cum peccato sed dilectio tua omni peccato contrariatur omni temptationi resistit Idiot no other vertue but may consist with some sin love alone is contrary to all no other grace can resist all temptations love alone hath that unlimited power no other grace will enable us to discharge all our obligations love alone is the fulfilling of the law all gifts and vertues without love can not fit a man for heaven nor make him dear to God but love can do it of it self they that be faithful in love Wisd 3.9 shall abide with him As there are Dragons that are bright and glittering and have precious stones in their heads as there are Comets that have the light and the elevation of stars so there are vicious persons false Christians that are indow'd with excellent parts and are eminent in some vertues but it profiteth nothing without love If I speak the tongues of Men and Angels 1 Cor. 13.1 c. saith S. Paul If I have the gift of prophesie and understand all mysteries if I have all faith so that I remove mountains if I give my goods to the poor and even my body to be burn'd and have not charity I am nothing and it profits me nothing Of all other gifts and abilities it may be said 1 Cor. 8.1 as of knowledge that they all puff up but charity alone edifieth among those creatures which stand and worship before God there is not only a Man and an Eagle which may represent persons of great learning fitted for high speculations but also a Lion and an Ox whereby Christians of meaner parts and knowledge are signified for these are capable of love as much as the others and 't is love alone qualifies men to dwell with that God who is love it self as S. John calls him God is love 1 Joh. 4.16 and he that dwelleth in Love dwelleth in God and God in him God loves men that they may love him again saith S. Aug. Amat Deus ut ametur nil aliud vult quam amari c. he only requires that we would love him knowing that that love is of it self sufficient to make us eternally happy I have therefore all along fitted my discourse and meditations to every mans capacity and opportunities as much as I could because all may love and all must love that will be happy And though I may have recommended some things as means and instruments yet I have prescribed nothing as a duty but the great obligations which were laid upon us when we were baptized into Christ My Monastery as to the place is the Church as to the rule is the love of Jesus and the Orders of it are such as should be observed by all Christians I might indeed have mention'd many useful directions given by Ancient Fathers and Spiritual Guides to such as made profession of greater piety and stricter lives than others but they could not have suted with all conditions and callings therefore I have appointed no other rule to those that shall enter this Cloister but the love of Jesus in a sincere obedience to his holy precepts or a voluntary compliance with his Divine Counsels Not that I would deny that places for Religious Retirement might afford many great advantages in order to greater devotion and heavenly mindedness for I bewail their loss and heartily wish that the piety and charity of the present age might restore to this nation the useful conveniency of them Necessary Reformations might have repurg'd Monasteries as well as the Church without abolishing of them and they might have been still houses of Religion without having any dependance upon Rome Multi sunt qui possunt Religiosam vitam etiam cum saeculari habitu ducere plerique sunt qui nisi omnia reliquerint salvari apud Deum nullatenus possunt Greg. M. Ep. ad Maur. imp All men are not inclining to nor fitted for an active life some would be glad to find a place of rest and retirement for contemplation some who by melancholy or by the terrors of the Lord are frighted from their sins and from the civiliz'd world into Quakerism into an unhappy sullenness and Apostasie would perhaps exchange their silks and laces for the coarser garments of mortified professors of a Monastick life and find among them that happiness and peace of the soul which they vainly seek for in their wretched and deluded Brotherhood some who upon great afflictions and sudden changes of fortune fall into a state of sorrow and tedious sadness and are left in the world to struggle with the temptations of a discontented mind would perhaps take Sanctuary in a Religious house and give themselves up wholly to Jesus and forget their temporal sorrow by heavenly joys and meditations and at last bless that storm and shipwrack which cast them into that unknown land of rest and safety some that are forward and ready to promise well and take good resolutions have not strength enough to keep them but are prevail'd upon by the importunity of those temptations they meet withal in the converse of men who being fled from those occasions of sin might by the good example good instructions of a Religious Society secure themselves and stand to their holy ingagements some who never lov'd the world or that are grown weary of it or have passionate longings for heaven would willingly free themselves of the cumbrances and distractions of worldly business to

injoy the leisure and opportunities of meditation devotion and other spiritual exercises and some that are much taken with the strict lives and great piety of Papist-Friers would look home and spond their commendations on the purer Religion and better-order'd lives and devotions of those in this Church that should wholly devote themselves to God However 't is not to be denied but that men are much affected and influenc'd by the place the company the way of living and the outward circumstances wherein they are ingag'd and I believe it might be now as true a proverb as ever Bene vixit qui bene latuit he lives best and most safe who is least acquainted with the world and lives farthest from it But though we want some conveniences for withdrawing from temporal affairs to mind eternity and our souls the better yet we must go to heaven wherever we live Claustrum ubique portate interius Norb. Ab. praemonst we must live to God that we may live with God therefore if we cannot have a material we must have a Spiritual cloister which may defend us against temptations and guide and assist us in doing our duty Such a one is the love of Jesus it will protect us against all dangers and spiritual enemies better than the strongest walls of any Abbey and it will make us devout and zealous in God's service beyond what the exhortations of the wisist Abbot could do Greg. Mag. Dum crescit fortitudo amoris interni infirmatur fortitudo carnis whilst love is strong the flesh is mortified and its lusts are subdu'd August Amanti nihil est difficile nihil impossibile love can do all things of its self it passeth over all difficulties and there is no obstacle which it overcomes not Love can supply the want of all outward helps and advantages let it but be our care to secure love and it will secure us Let us therefore feed and entertain it by reading and meditation Coelum terra omnia quae in cis sunt non cessant mihi dicere ut amem Dominum Deum meum Aug. by frequent prayers and acts of love and by observing and tasting how gracious the Lord is in all his works all things in heaven and earth do incessantly cry to us that we should love God God draws us after him Hos 4.11 with cords of a man with bands of love therefore by love we can best follow him 1 Joh. 3.18 But let us not love in word or in tongue but indeed and in truth and hereby we shall know that we are of the truth and we shall assure our hearts before him Claustrum Animae THE Reformed Monastery OR The Love of JESUS §. 1. Of the positive part of our Baptismal vow MY former disobedience and rebellions against my Blessed Lord and dearest Master I have examin'd and bewailed I have consider'd that by sin I wound and crucifie him afresh and therefore have resolv'd to sin no more never to lift up hand or heart against him But will love be satisfied with this is it a sufficient demonstration of love not to abuse not to injure a friend No sure I must proceed further love requires more than this I must not only abstain from what would anger him I love but I should do that that will please him 'T is part of my duty as it was of my vow not only to renounce the Devil and all his works but also to believe all the articles of the Christian faith and to keep Gods holy Will and Commandments and walk in the same all the days of my life As for the Articles of the Christian Faith I believe them from my heart and resolve to own and confess them whilst I live I never will dispute or object against them and I hope I should chuse to die before I would renounce any of them as for other less necessary doctrines I will be guided by my Spiritual Governors in controversies I will submit to the judgment of that Holy Church in whose Communion I live and so I will read and ponder Gods Holy Word especially the New Testament that I may know my masters will and be incourag'd to do it not that I may find out new mysteries and maintain the private opinions of a party It remains then only that I should keep Gods holy will and Commandments and walk in the same all the days of my life And this I also undertake it shall be my daily and constant study and indeavour I resolve to obey to the utmost of my power and I also promise further to manifest my love by free-will-offerings as God shall enable me §. 2. A protestation of obedience But first my love is to appear by doing what is commanded 1 Joh. 5.3 This is the love of God that we keep his commandments saith S. John Joh. 14.21 and he that hath my commandments and keepeth them he it is that loveth me saith our Blessed Saviour There can be no love without obedience this is its first and chiefest Tryal 23. if a man love me he will keep my words Now then should my beloved Lord ask me as once he did Saint Peter N. dost thou love me Joh. 21.15 would not my heart answer with his zealous Apostle Yes Lord 13.37 thou knowest all things thou knowest that I love thee I would lay down my life for thee why to this he replies again if thou lovest me 14.15 keep my Commandments Every time a Christian tells Jesus Lord I love thee Jesus answers again if thou lovest me keep my Commandments So that without I observe this I can no ways pretend to love him Therefore I am to take notice of and to amend sins of omission which too too many among Christians mind little or not at all In the matter of sobriety I am commanded whether I eat or drink to do it as all things else to the glory of God and to be contented whatsoever state I am in for chastity I am commanded to know how to keep my vessel in sanctification and honor for acts of corporal and spiritual mercy I am commanded to be merciful as my heavenly father is merciful and to forgive injuries as I desire my self to be forgiven for reverence to my betters I am commanded to honour and obey my superiors Ecclesiastical and Civil in what concerns Divine Worship I am bound to read and pray and mediditate to instruct my self and family to receive the Blessed Sacrament to have a veneration and respect for all things that belong or relate to God and him to love and fear and trust and adore evermore All these and all other duties with the special precepts of the New Testament is the task I chearfully undertake and in the performance whereof I will approve my self a sincere lover of JESUS §. 3. How great a happiness follows our obedience His yoke is easie and his burthen light his Commandments are not