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A57736 Heavenly-mindedness, and earthly-mindedness in two parts : with an appendix concerning laying hold on eternal life / by John Rowe. Rowe, John, 1626-1677. 1672 (1672) Wing R2064; ESTC R17610 104,542 266

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a way of Faith we should covet after the knowledge of God which is to be had from the Word and is possible to be attained unto here on earth Here we walk by faith not by sight 2 Cor. 5.17 although we cannot know God in a way of vision as we shall know him hereafter yet we may know him in a way of Faith Now we should covet to know God in a way of Faith as he hath revealed himself in his Word we ought to prize and covet after the knowledge of every truth of God but especially we ought to covet after the knowledge of God himself who is prima Veritas the first original Truth The Scripture doth every where commend to us the knowledge of God Col. 1.10 Increasing in the knowledge of God 2 Pet. 3.18 Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ Then shall we know the Lord if we follow on to know the Lord Hosea 6.3 Jer. 9.23 24 Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom nor the strong man glory in his strength but let him that glorieth glory in this that he knoweth me saith the Lord. I have often thought that it is the great sin of Professors that they do no more press after the knowledge of God and Christ here on earth and that they are no more taken with the discoveries of God and Christ that are made to them we hear often of the great things of God and of Christ but alas these things are little valued and esteemed by us but it ought not to be thus with us Certainly if our ultimate and last happiness be to know God in the way of the beatisical vision the next happiness to this it is to know God as he may be known here on earth and this will be found in experience to be true that there is more true sweetness to be taken in from the knowledge of God that is attainable here on earth then there is from the enjoyment of any temporal thing And therefore holy souls are wont to bless God more for revealing himself and his Son to them then for the greatest temporal thing he ever gave them God is the highest and most Supream Object that the minde of man can converse with and the more the minde of man is taken up in the contemplation of this Supream Object the greater amplitude liberty and inlargement will it finde in it self Inferiour things do but limit narrow and confine the soul for this is certain that the soul it takes in liberty amplitude inlargement greatness I say the soul takes in amplitude or confinement according to the nature of the objects it doth converse withal Lower and inferiour objects do but narrow and confine the soul because they are beneath the capacity of the soul but if the soul did rise up to the knowledge and contemplation of God who is the first eternal Truth then it would finde liberty amplitude and inlargement then it would see it had a broad and spacious field to walk in Certainly if the greatest happiness of heaven be to know God so far as we are capable to know him our greatest happiness here on earth is to attain as great a measure of the knowledge of God as it is possible 13. If we would come up into the spirit and life of heaven Let us keep the eye of the minde as much as may be fixt upon God It is said of the holy Angels that they always behold the face of their Father which is in heaven The Saints and Angels are never weary of beholding the face of God The Saints in heaven as they do see God so they do always see him and they are never weary of seeing of him Nihil quod cum admiratione consideratur potest●esse sassidiosum Aquin. when we have beheld God never so long we may still see that in God which may draw forth our admiration It is a true observation Nothing which is beheld with admiration can be nauseous and wearisome to us and the reason is because as long as we are under the admiration of a thing so long our desire remains to that thing Now the Saints in heaven do always behold God with admiration and therefore they are never weary of the sight of him God is an infinite object and therefore cannot be comprehended by a finite understanding therefore the Saints in heaven when they behold God being never able to come to the bottom of his perfections are still detained in the admiration of him as they always see him so they always desire to see him The Saints in heaven are never weary of their happiness as they see God so they always desire to see him Now in imitation of the Saints above we should keep the eye of our mindes as much as may be fixt upon God When the eye of the soul is off from God it is off from its centre and when things are off from their centre they are never quiet and at rest if we consider it well we shall finde that the cause of all our trouble and disquietment is when our hearts are unhinged and when they are taken off from God when the eye of the minde is turned upon God then the soul is in its proper place and there it findes rest we should therefore keep our minde as much as may be at a point of rest in God if we keep the eye of the soul fixt and intent upon God we shall always finde that in God which will give rest and contentment to the soul It is said of Moses That he saw him who was invisible Heb. 11.27 Moses kept the eye of his minde fixt and intent upon God And David saith Mine eyes are ever towards thee Psal 25.15 So much as the Divine excellencie draws the eye of the soul towards it with admiration so much do we come up to the spirit of heaven an heavenly-minded soul thinks it much to have its eye taken off from God not but that there will be many things that will interpose to divert us while we are in our present state but then we ought to remember so far as we are grown up to Heavenly-mindedness we shall never think it well with us till we are returned and brought back again to the admiration of God The sense that is of God's excellencie in holy souls makes them thus to pray O that our souls may be eternally ravished with thine eternal excellencies 14. If we would get up into the spirit of heaven Let us desire nothing so much as God Isai 26. 9. With my soul have I desired thee in the night yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early This is the language of the Church the Church needed many things and she desired many things she needed liberty and deliverance and she desired liberty and deliverance for this Song as is conceived by judicious Divines is penned with relation to the Church in Babylon yea but when the Church was in the