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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64745	The Mount of Olives: or, Solitary devotions. By Henry Vaughan silurist. With an excellent discourse of the blessed state of man in glory, written by the most reverend and holy Father Anselm Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, and now done into English.	Vaughan, Henry, 1622-1695.; Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109.	1652 (1652)	Wing V122; ESTC R203875	62,277	216

the Swallow a nest for her selfe where she may lay her young even thine Altars O Lord of Hosts my God and my King Blessed are they that dwell in thy house they will be still praising thee For one day in thy Courts is better than a thousand I had rather be a doore-keeper in the House of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickednesse Let it be thy Care then when thou art there present to carry thy self like a true worshipper Give none offence neither outwardly to thy Brethren nor the Angels 1 Cor. 11.10 Nor inwardly to thy God whose Eyes shine within thee and discern thy reins and thy heart Look seriously about thee and Consider with thy self how many beauteous wittie and hopeful personages in their time lie now under thy feet thou canst not tell but thy turn may be next Humble thy self in this dust and all vain Imaginations will flie from thee Consider that thou art now in the Cave of Macpelah in a sacred Repositorie where the Bodies of Saints are asleep expecting that hour when those that are in the grave shall hear his voyce Do not then stop thy eares against the Charmer but give diligent attention and hear him while it is yet to day that in the day of thy death thou mayst rest there in the same hope When thy vessel is fill'd with this Manna and thy soul satisfied go not off without Thanksgiving Be not like those nine Leapers who never returned to give glory to God but come back with the thankfull Samaritane and receive another blessing Go in peace Saint Luke in the Acts of the Apostles making mention of the Ethiopian Eunuch who came up to Ierusalem for to worship tells us that in his returne he was reading in Isaiah the Prophet This blessed Convert I would have thee to imitate When thou hast fill'd thy Hin with this living water leave it not behinde thee at the Fountain spill not thy Milk and thy Wine because thou hast it without money and without price but carry it home and use it Thou mayest have need of it in six dayes and perhaps shalt not come to draw again untill thou drinkest it anew with thy Saviour in his Fathers Kingdom A Prayer before thou goest to Church LOrd Iesus Christ who out of thy Fathers bosome wert sent into this world to reveal his will unto sinners and to instruct them in the way of salvation behold I am now going to hear thy blessed word and these many yeers have so done expecting still thy good pleasure and the Consummation of thy sacred will in me I have come unto the bread of life and yet am hungry into the light and yet am blind unto the great Physician and yet my Issue runs The former and the later rain of thy heavenly Doctrine falls still without intermission upon my heart but this bad ground yeelds nothing but Thornes and Briers Many dayes many moneths and many yeers hast thou expected fruit and found nothing but leaves It is thy Infinite mercy O Lord that thou hast left unto us the seed of thy word and sendest into thy harvest such upright and faithful labourers but in vain O Lord shall they cry in our Ears unlesse thou openest and renewest our hearts Open then I beseech thee O blessed Jesu the eares of my heart that not onely the outward hearing but the inward also may be stirr'd up in me and what I hear with the eare I may understand with the spirit O thou most mild and merciful Lamb of God! the onely and the Almighty sower grant I beseech thee that the seed which falls this day upon my heart may never be choak'd with the Cares of this world nor be devoured by the fowles of the aire nor wither away in these times of persecution and triall but so Cherish it with the Dew of thy divine spirit that as in a good and faithful ground it may bring forth fruit unto eternal life to the glory of thy great name and the Comfort of my poor soul which thou hast bought with thy most precious and saving blood Amen Another when thou art come home or in the way if thou beest alone LOrd Iesus Christ my ever mercifull and most loving Redeemer I give unto thee most hearty thanks for this thy heavenly spiritual provision wherewith thou hast fed and refreshed my soul. Grant I beseech thee that this Celestial seed may take root in me and be effectual to my salvation Watch over my heart O Lord and hedge it in with thy grace that the fowles which descend in the shadows of the Evening may not pick it out But so prepare and fit me for thy love that I may never forget thy gracious words thy blessed and saving advice but may know in this my day what belongs unto my peace It is thy promise by thy holy Prophet That as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven and returneth not thither but watereth the earth and maketh it bring forth and bud that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater So thy word that goeth forth out of thy mouth shall not return unto thee void but shall accomplish that which thou pleasest and prosper in the thing whereto thou sendest it Isai. 55. 10 11. Even so Lord Iesus let it be as thou hast promised Let the words I have heard this day out of the mouth of thy servant the Dispenser and Steward of thy Mysteries prosper in me and make my life answerable to his Doctrine that I may not onely know what thy blessed will is but performe also and fulfill it so that at last by thy mediation and mercies I may attain to thy eternal and most glorious Kingdom Amen Admonitions for Evening-Prayer REmember that in the Levitical Law there is a frequent Commemoration and Charge given of the two daily Sacrifices the one to be offer'd up in the morning and the other in the Evening Exod. 30.7 8. These offerings by Incense our holie harmlesse and undefiled High-Priest hath taken away and instead of them every devout Christian is at the appointed times to offer up a Spiritual Sacrifice namely that of Prayer for God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth John 4.24 At these prescribed times if thou wilt have thy Prayers to ascend up before God thou must with-draw from all outward occupations to prepare for the inward and divine To which end thou hast here this following Meditation that thou maiest therewith season and invite thy soul from thy worldlie imployments to her proper vocation and so come not altogether undrest into the presence of the King of glory A Meditation at the setting of the Sun or the Souls Elevation to the true light THe path of the Just O my God is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto a perfect day of eternity Prov. 4. But the wicked neither know nor understand they walk in darknesse

divine Spirit refresh it with the streams of thy grace that I may bring forth fruit in due season and not cumber the ground nor be cut off in thy anger And to this end I do here resigne my body and my soul with all the faculties thou hast bestowed upon both into thy Almighty hands Guide thou them in the works of thy Law turne my eyes from all transitory objects to the things which are eternal and from the Cares and Pride of this world to the fowles of the aire and the Lillies of the field And now O my God seeing I am but Dust and Ashes and my Righteousnesse a filthy Rag having no deserts in my self but what should draw Everlasting vengeance and the Vials of thy bitter wrath upon my body and soul behold I have brought with me thy first-born and onely begotten the propitiation for my sins the Incense I offer up with my prayers Rev. 8.3 my Redeemer and Mediatour in whom thou art well-pleased hear thou him O look not upon my Leprosie but on his beauty and perfection and for the righteousnesse of thy Son forgive the sins of thy Servant Grant this for his sake to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all glory and majesty Dominion and power now and for ever Amen Admonitions when we prepare for any farre Iourney WHen thou art to go from home remember that thou art to come forth into the World and to Converse with an Enemy And what else is the World but a Wildernesse A darksome intricate wood full of Ambushes and dangers A Forrest where spiritual hunters principalities and powers spread their nets and compasse it about wouldst thou then escape these ghostly snares this wickednes in high places and return home if not better and holier yet not worse then at thy setting out Wouldst thou with Iacob passe over these Waters with thy staffe onely and in thy return become two bands Gen. 32.10 Why then do as he did begin thy Journey with prayer and say If God will be with me and keep me in this way that I go and will give me bread to eate and raiment to put on so that I come again to my fathers house in peace then shall the Lord be my God Gen. 28.20 21. This was his practise and the practise of his fathers The Lord God of heaven saith Abraham who took me from my fathers house and from the land of my kindred c. he shall send his Angel before thee Nor must thou pray only at thy setting forth but all the way and at all times Thus Eliezer prayed at the Well Isaac in the field and Elias in his journey to Mount Horeb under a Iuniper tree in the Wildernesse This also if thou wilt imitate these holy men thou may'st do and for that pious purpose thou hast here these following Prayers When we go from home ALmighty and everlasting God who art the Way the Life and the Truth look down from heaven and behold me now betwixt the Assaults of the Devil the allurements of the World and my own inclinations I cannot look abroad but these flock about me But O thou that leadest Ioseph like a sheep thou most faithful and Almighty guide lend me thy hand open mine Eyes direct my steps and cause me to walk in thy fear Thou that didst go out with Iacob from Beershe-ba unto Padan-aran guiding him in the waste plaines and watching over him on his Pillow of stones be not now farre from me Leade me O Lord in thy righteousnesse make my paths straight and strengthen my goings that having finished my Course here I may sit down in thy Kingdome an Inheritance undefiled purchased for me with the blood of my Saviour and thy beloved Son Iesus Christ Amen II. O Thou that art every where Thou that sittest upon the Circle of the Earth and all the Inhabitants thereof are as Grashoppers before thee Whose Eyes discover the deep things of the night before whom Hell is naked and all the Devices of my spirituall Enemies Thou that didst leade Abraham thy chosen from Vr of the Chaldees into a land flowing with milk and honey favour I beseech thee the present harmlesse Enterprise and innocent purpose of thy servant be unto me in my Journey a Comfort in the heate a shadow in stormes a shelter and in adversity my protection That having finished my intended course I may return in peace full of thy praises who art near to all those that call upon thee Grant this for Christ Iesus his sake Amen Meditate in the way upon the sojournings and travels of the Patriarchs and Prophets the many weary journeys of Iesus Christ in the flesh the travels of his Apostles by sea and land with the pilgrimage and peregrinations of many other precious Saints that wandred in Deserts and Mountains of whom the world was not worthy Admonitions how to carry thy self in the Church HOlinesse saith the Royall Prophet becometh thy house for ever When thou art going thither then carry not the world with thee Let vain or busie thoughts have there no part Bring not thy Plough thy Plots thy Pleasures thither Christ purg'd his Temple so must thou thy heart All worldly thoughts are but Theeves met together To Cousin thee Look to thy actions well For Churches are either our Heav'n or Hell These reverend and sacred buildings however now vilified and shut up have ever been and amongst true Christians still are the solemne and publike places of meeting for Divine Worship There the flocks feed at noon-day there the great Shepherd and Bishop of their souls is in the midst of them and where he is that Ground is holy Put off thy shoes then thy worldly and carnall affections and when thou beginnest to enter in say with Iacob How dreadful is this place sure this is none other then the house of God and this is the gate of heaven Such reverence and religious affection hath in all ages been shew'd towards these places that the holy men of God detain'd either by Captivity or other necessary occasions when they could not remedy the distance yet to testifie their desire and longing for the Courts of the Lord Psal. 84. they would always worship towards them Thus Daniel upon the Idolatrous Decree signed by Darius goes into his house and his windows being open in his Chamber towards Ierusalem he kneeled upon his knees and prayed and gave thanks before his God as he did afore-time Dan. 6.10 which fully proves it to have been his Constant manner of Devotion And of Iudith we read that about the time that the Incense of that Evening was offered up in Hierusalem she cried unto the Lord Iud. 9.1 But above all most pathetical and earnest is that crie of King David in the 85. Psalm How amiable are thy Tabernables O Lord of Hosts My soul longeth yea even fainteth for the Lord my heart and my flesh cryeth out for the living God Yea the Sparrow hath found an house and