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A14985	English paradise Discouered in the Latine prospect of Iacobs blessing. Preached at S. Buttolphs without Aldersgate at London, on the holy Sabboth commonly called Trinitie Sunday, in that ioifull season of the festiuall solemnities for the blessed creation of the most gracious Prince of Wales.	White, John, 1570-1615.	1612 (1612)	STC 25293; ESTC S119683	64,468	65

people He giueth pleasures vnto Kings pascit thronos Cyril potestates virtutes angelos who feedeth Patriarks Kings Prophets and the Princes of beleeuers Thus may you perceiue blessing and blessednesse well met in him who hath in himselfe such power of blessing that he can make others blessed This happinesse is the high crowne of immortality which wee all desire to reach as Hester did the top of her husbands Scepter The meanes whereby this blessing is inclined to vs Hester and the staires whereby wee climbe vp to it are mercies and graces gifts of Gods blessing In these the Lord beckneth to vs to come to him as Ahashuerosh held out the golden Scepter to the Queene So Hester drewe neere and touched the top of the Scepter Many naturall men haue troubled themselues in vaine with many examinations of this blessednesse to proue what it is I may not stand here to rip vp the secrets of profound Philosophers from whose curious eies were hidden those treasures which they neuer found Therefore they neuer had true peace Psalm 14.3 for the way of peace haue they not knowne they are all gone out of the way Their highest point neerest to our truth is this that man hath no true blessednesse vntill hee be ioyned to the first of all things that can be vnderstood This is an high flight and far beyond the sublunary thoughts of baser mindes yet far short of the mount of true Diuinity God is blessednesse it selfe and to bee vnited vnto God is the perfect blessednesse of man in Iesus Christ Emanuel to knowe him confesse him and delight in him But God is the obiect of mans faith not the subiect of his intellect the heart of man is too narrow a circumference to compasse God in his vnderstanding Therefore is Gods name incomparable I am that I am in the Present tence whom no power can shift out Some haue translated more properly I will be who I will be to shew that God is able of himselfe to hold his being and happinesse against all rebellion Stabilisque manet daens cuncta moueri To this purpose is that spoken of God Dei esse est Gregory dissimiliter nunquā esse with God is no variablenes Here then let vs acknowledge by faith more then all those deepe schollers could reach by reason that our blessednesse is in our vnion with God Phil. 4.7 our peace which passeth all vnderstanding Among the secrets in the reueiled word these two are great One the hypostaticall vnion of two natures that the word is made flesh The other is our spirituall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nisi vna persona esset Deus et homo non rectè diceretur Dominus gloriae crucifixus est our sure copulation with Christ without confusion That is a mystery beyond naturall capacitie only entertained by faith in the Church This is also a great mystery resembled in short patternes of the head and members knit of the husband and wife vnited In this exact and present worke there are two bonds one on Gods part the other on ours Ex parte Christi Sp. S. ex parte nostra fides nostra est vnionis vinculum Thus by the twist of Gods holy spirit and our hallowed faith we are made one with Christ and he is made vnto vs redemption sanctification wisdome and righteousnes 1 Cor. 1.29 Wherefore are these wonders come to passe but for our happinesse which cannot be had any where but in God the fountaine of blessednesse There doe wee daily tender vnto God that paiment of soueraigntie which we may not yeeld to any other God is sufficient so is none but he sufficient of himselfe so is none but himselfe sufficient for himselfe and for others so is none other sufficient for himselfe and for all and so are not all beside him put all together This is our God Lord who is like vnto thee Qui sedet in coelo repletiue that heauen and earth are full of the maiestie of his glory Psal 71.19 Ephes 1.23 This is our God worship him all yee gods who sits aboue and holdeth blessednes a faire marke in his hand for vs all to runne vnto 1 Cor. 9. We must all runne this life is the course heauen is the goale Expectat nos Deus pater vt haeredes filius vt fratres Sp. sanctus vt vnctos And here we are made a spectacle to the world to Angels and to men Will you behold two runners Iacob and Iacob both running after the Roe Christ is the Roe which runs before them both in the race of happinesse like a Roe on the mountaines of Bether So did Iacob runne and hath obtained by faith so doth Iacob runne that he may obtaine by faith Heb. 11.21 Lord let him so runne that he may obtaine O all yee vacant triflers of the world why stand you heere idle as the men in the market place What stand you for gazing one on another as Iosephs brethren We must all labour in the vine yard that we may receiue wages all striue that we may be crowned all bee exercised that we may be in breath non incipientibus sed proficientibus We must be I organimous that we may continue to the end be blessed Thus did the Apostle runne and continue to his ioy I haue finished my course qui amat ardentius currit velocius loue and great reward makes labour light the reward is blessednesse But it is high time to step out of this digression from the marke to the meanes from beatus to benedictus There are apparant vnto vs in holy Scripture diuers blessings of diuers kindes Some are of the Superiour to the inferiour some of the inferiour to the Superiour and some of the equall to the equall All these haue their speciall distinctions and vse When the vnderling doth acknowledge the goodnesse of the Superiour and sendeth vp to him thankes and praise for his kindnesse Psal 103 1 Psalm 148 this seruice is called the blessing of reuerence Thus the Prophet doth blesse God My soule blesse thou the Lord. And such a sacrifice of praise is that in the melodious hymme of our praier book O all yee workes of the Lord blesse yee the Lord. The other blessing betwixt equals is termed benedictio charitatis when one good christian doth pray for an other as Saint Peters counsell is blesse and Saint Pauls yea blesse I say and curse not But heere I may but touch and goe The first blessing of the Superiour to the inferiour hath this branch also as blessing of absolute power and blessing of authority committed more or lesse Blessing of absolute power hath in himselfe his preferment aboue all blessings as heauen which droppeth on the highest trees hath his preheminence aboue all effusions and drops of trees or mountaines Euery good and perfect gift discendeth downe from aboue to the parts below from heauen to earth as the precious ointment went downe from the