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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96071	Divine meditations on acquaintance with God By E.W. Esquire.	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1653 (1653)	Wing W1045; ESTC R230808	35,949	68

soul that receives him is Scot-free from Terror and Fear of Divine displeasure for this Guest secures his Quarters yea the power of the Almighty overshadoweth those with Grace whose hearts are prepared to cry Veni Spiritus Sancte And till O man this be thy temper thou art as unfit for Acquaintance with God as for Heaven of which it is a real Type and to which it is the Baptist for as into Heaven flesh and blood quà such cannot enter so into familiarity with God can none be admitted who have not the Test of this Comforter who never beares witnesse that they are the sons of God who rest unreconciled to Christ unresigned to him But how may these Graces appear in me may the soul say God Christ and the Holy Ghost have their Court in Heaven I am in the Valley of Bochim in the frigid Zone of earthly vanities where dust and ashes wormes and no men live and acclamate the Diana of Pomp and splendid nothing my bucket is not deep enough my stature not high enough to reach Heaven my bulk will not bear those breadthy Sails which that Glory fils What shal I do How may I contract acquaintance with God by union with Christ and rendition to his Spirit To these the third Step is answer Adore his Ordinances Those are his Leidgers which here he leaves to negotiate about affaires of Heaven these are the Chariots in which Eliahs are whirled thither these bring forth and there is none barren amongst them the good will of him that was in the bush are upon these Deut. 33.16 which Atheism and Irreligion would separate and unbrother as rejectitious and illegitimate God hath appointed his Word for our Rule his Ministers for our Guide his Sacraments for our Comfort his Day for our Rest and Refection his Church for our Pillar and Ground of Truth and those who adore not these are not like to be Gods Acquaintance Soveraignty will have no limits prescribed by Subjects Heaven knowes no Method but that of its own dictation Those that will be beggars must not be chusers Interest with God is worth gaining by cap in hand and upon bended knee and they deserve not to be heard in their request who request any thing contra formam Statuti inde editi the Declarative Law is Search the Scriptures John 5.3 9. Luke 16.29 for they do testifie saith Christ of me And in another place If they will not hear Moses and the Prophets neither will they be perswaded if one rise from the dead Wander not then O soul after wild phansies and blazing figments exposed to view and set on broach of purpose to deceive and mislead ignorant and inquisitive worldlings who set the Crown on Coridons and believe Christ the Saviour of the world rather from his riding on an Ass-Colt and obscure parentage then from his glorious attestation from Heaven or his convincing conversation here on earth and judg nothing Sacred but what is indeed common and unclean But O soul keep thou close to the Ordinances of Christ which his servants have received from him by the unquestionable tradition of the Church to the Truth of which the lives and deaths of holy Martyrs and glorious Confessors have in all ages born witness and do not believe that any thing is so lovely and truly advantageous to thy peace and orderly conduct as to serve thy God in that manner which he hath appointed and adore thou these holy mysteries Psal 46.4 by which waters the City of God in thy soul ought only to be made glad 5 And though thus to do be to do more then many now will yet is it not the totum postulatum of thee God O man requires of thee some tribute of praise the quit-rent of Gratitude The Psalmist tells us in the person of God Psal 50.23 Whose offereth me praise honoureth me and to give God the glory of his Munificence is but to offer him of his own it is but to pay him our Fine in his owne Coyn 1 Cor. 4.7 for what have we that we do not receive And in no kind is this sense of our obligation to God better resented by him then by Admiration of his Works which is the fourth Requiry of God towards the perfection of our Acquaintance with him Admiration of his Works And here me thinks I am enforced to exclamate with the holy Pophet Lord what is Man What his Being Capacity Dignity that thou shouldest honour him with Contemplation of thee and of those Works which set thee out in thy back parts though not to the ineffability of thine Essence Who O who wishes not his tongue were untied and tipped with Eloquence excelling mortal Emulation Psalm 150.2 that he might give to God the glory due to his name and praise him according to his excellent greatness not only for that he is high not for that he is and there is none besides him but for that he vouchsafeth to look down upon us here below and calls us to contemplate his good Will as well as matchless Power in the Formation of things and the orderly production of them Here is Matter to amuse the Secretary of Nature and to puzzle the greatest Oedipus here is a full point to Plato's Eloquence and Plotinus his Profundity Who can search the Center of that Idea which was in God when he made the Sun Moon and Stars appointing them their seasons influences order and sweetly tuning them each to other Who knowes the Nature of Creatures animate and inanimate vegetive and sensitive and can say of their Natures as God doth of the Seas proud Waves Hitherto and no further this you can and this you cannot do Where is he that sees the abyss of Providence and penetrates into that privy Chamber of Divinity which is for Gods eye only daring to affirme what shall and shall not be and the consequences of things natural and contingent Sure no mortal man undementated dare so confide in Art and dote so fondly on his vain shadow as to boast of this which is Gods incommunicable Jewel and the Prerogative of his Crown Our portion Oman is to wait Gods discovery Secret things belong to God Deut. 29.29 Exod. 24.2 but things revealed to us and God forbid we should come neerer the Mount then is indulged us or endeavour after Wisdom beyond Sobriety Our duty is to acquaint our selves with God not by knowing him as he is for that 's impossible but by knowing him as he manifests himself in works of Power Providence Mercy and in the improvement of what light we borrow from this Lamp we may see enough to make us in love with him who made all things as and what they are and to what they shall be In him the Rich and the poor the wise and the simple the Brute and the Rational the Worm and the Angel the Flye and the Eagle the Ant and the Elephant the Mouse and the Lion the Eele and