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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

and from the inward darknesse of their minds passe at last into the outward eternal darknesse O most miserable and undone soul to whom thy Sunne is set that everlasting glorious Sun which in thy holy Elects never setteth but is alwaies at the height full of brightnesse and Consolation A heavie night sits in the noone-day upon those souls that have forsaken thee They look for light and behold darknesse for brightnesse and they walk in obscurity They grope for the wall like the blind as if they had no Eyes They stumble at noone-day as in the night they are in desolate places as dead men But on those that walk with thee an everlasting day shines This Sun of the firmament hath his Course it riseth setteth comes up again and again goes down But thou Lord knowest no vicissitudes thou art the Ancient of dayes thou art the Rock of ages from Everlasting to Everlasting O thou the same to day and yesterday and for evermore Thou bright and morning Starre springing from on high illuminate me who am now sitting in darknesse and in the shadow of death O light of light the brightnesse of thy Fathers glory inlighten all inward obscurities in me that after this life I may never be cast into the outward darknesse O most blessed most merciful and Almighty Iesu abide I beseech thee with me for it is towards Evening and the day is far spent Luke 24. As long as thou art present with me I am in the light but when thou art gone I am in the shadows of death and amongst the stones of emptinesse When thou art present all is brightnesse all is sweetnesse I am in my Gods bosome I discourse with him watch with him walk with him live with him and lie down with him All these most dear and unmeasurable blessings I have with thee and want them without thee Abide then with me O thou whom my soul loveth Thou Sun of righteousnesse with healing under thy wings arise in my heart refine quicken and cherish it make thy light there to shine in darknesse and a perfect day in the dead of night A Prayer for the Evening MOst gracious Almighty God! full of loving kindnesse and long-suffering whose mercy is above all thy works and thy glory above the heavens whose truth reacheth unto the Clouds and whose words shall never passe away forgive me I beseech thee my transgressions this day my vain thoughts idle words and loose conversation my exceeding neglect and forgetfulnesse of thee my headlong inclinations and lusting after the world preferring this land of Cabul before the snow of Lebanon and a broken Cistern before the Well of life Justly O Lord might'st thou have shewed me thy back this day and cut me off from amongst thy people Ier. 18.17 but thou hast had mercy and not sacrifice thou hast shed upon me the light of thy Countenance and removed my sins farre out of thy sight I know O my God it is not in man to establish his own ways it is thy Almighty arme must do it It is thou alone that hast led me through this day and kept me both from doing and from suffering evill And now O thou preserver of men What shall I do unto thee What shall I render unto my Lord for all the mercies and loving kindnesses shewed unto thy servant this day and all the dayes of my life hitherto I will offer unto thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call upon the name of the Lord. I will ever love thee fear thee praise thee and trust in thee My song shall be of thee in the night season and in the day time I will be speaking of thy wondrous works thy most merciful and liberal arme I will make thee my Delight in the house of my pilgrim●ge and I shall alwayes with all my strength with all my heart and with all my soul ascribe unto thee all glory wisdome majesty dominion and honour this day and for evermore Amen A Prayer when thou art going into bed MOst glorious and onely wise God! to whom the light and the darknes are the same whose dwellings are eternal and in whose Kingdome there is no need of Candles nor of the light of the Sunne look I beseech thee upon thy servant who tarries in this place all night Gen. 28.11 And forasmuch as thou out of thy tender love and Compassion on thy Creatures hast ordained this time for their repose and refreshing that having past through the Cares and dangers of the day they might under the shadow of thy wings finde rest and security keep me I most humbly beseech thee from the hours and the powers of darknesse watch over me this night in thy Almighty providence and scatter all the rebellions and devices of my Adversaries Inlighten my soul sanctifie my body govern my affections and guide my thoughts that in the fastest closures of my eye-lids my spirit may see thee and in the depth of sleep be Conversant with thee Suffer me not O my God to forget thee in the dark or to say The Lord seeth me not The Lord hath forsaken the earth Ezek. 8.12 but so keep me in thy fear and sanctifie me with thy grace that all the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart may be alwayes of thee Make my soul to thirst for thee and my flesh also to long after thee And at what time soever thou shalt awake me from this bodily sleep awake also my soul in me make thy morning-star to arise in my heart and let thy spirit blow upon my garden that the spices thereof may flow out Quicken me O Lord according to thy wonted kindnesse so shall I seek thee early and make my prayer unto thee with joyful lips And now O my most loving and faithful Creatour take me I beseech thee into thy Almighty protection stretch over me the Arme of thy mercy let thine Eye be towards the work of thine own hands and the purchased possession of thy onely begotten and my most merciful Redeemer Iesus Christ Amen ¶ As often as thou dost awake in the night be sure to lift up thy heart unto God in this or the like short Ejaculation Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabbath heaven and earth are full of the majesty of thy glory By resorting thus unto God thou shalt finde a great furtherance and cheerfulnesse in thy spiritual exercises and besides it will keep always about thee the savour of life And because thou shalt not be unfurnished upon any incident occasions I have strowed here this handful of savoury herbs which thou mayest take up as thou findest them in thy way EIACULATIONS When the Clock strikes BLessed be the houre in which my Lord Iesus was borne and the houre in which he died O Lord Remember me in the houre of death When thou intendest any businesse or Journey O do well unto thy servant that I may live and keep thy Word When thou art persecuted Haste thee O God to deliver me

with a loud voice saying Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb. 3. And one of the Elders answered saying unto me Who are these which are arayed in white robes and whence came they 4. And I said unto him Sir thou knowest And he said unto me These are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 5. Therefore are they before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his Temple and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them 6. They shall hunger no more neither thirst any more neither shall the Sun light on them nor any heate 7. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them and shall leade them unto living fountains of waters and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes MAny men when a holy conversation and good works are proposed unto them and when they are advised to exercise themselves therein and not to follow after the vanities of this world are wont to question for what end reward or retribution shall they do so The answer to these men must be this Because it is written that Eye hath not seen not eare heard neither have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 2. Which words because they cannot plainly understand what is meant by them must be expounded to them by other circumstances and it must be told them that the reward which in the life to come shall be given unto those that serve God in this life is everlasting life eternal happinesse never-ending pleasures and a fulnesse and sufficiency of all accommodations to their own desires without any scarcity or want at all When these things are thus told them they seeme to be as they are indeed very great and very good But because that neither by this expression they do perfectly apprehend what those things are which they shall receive in the life to come nor can they of a sudden rightly perceive what is meant by a sufficiency of all accommodations without any want at all they continue still in a doubtful minde and are not effectually drawn to take any relish or delight in the things so told them What course then shall we take to render these eternal rewards more relishing and delightful to them I hold that the best way is to feed them as Nurses feed their little children who if at any time they give them a large faire apple which for the tendernesse of their teeth and the narrownesse of their mouths they cannot feed upon cut it according to the capacity of the child into several bits or parts and so give it them to eate by peece-meales We shall therefore divide this great sufficiencie of all accommodations in the life to come into several parts or portions that by so doing they may with those things we shall deliver be fed to eternal life And because they may appear more plainly to them we shall consider what those things are which the minde of man most affects in this life and by those as farre as we may we shall make it evident that they shall enjoy them after a more excellent manner in the life to come if being placed here in the midst of dangers and worldly temptations they stick fast to the precepts of Christ and when they have kept them they will of themselves quickly perceive that by no meanes they shall lose nor be deceived of the utmost of their desires This Course we shall take in the Explication of this Doctrine and beginning with the least passe on to our desired end That we may then in the first place briefly summe up all those things which have reference to the body I suppose them to be such things as are indeed desirable of themselves and for whose service or use all other things are desired of men and those are Beauty Activity Strength Liberty Health Pleasure Long Life But if amongst these we have reckoned there are some things which the servants of God have no respect to but take special care to neglect and avoid them as for instance sake beauty and pleasure are yet do they not therefore despise them because that naturally they affect them not but because they would not offend God in them for if they certainly knew that by caring for such things they could not offend God nor have their affections with-drawn from heavenly things without doubt they would take more delight in the fruition of them then in a contrary state These things being now thus premised I shall as briefly as I may treat of every one of them distinctly or by it self and labour to demonstrate unto you as God shall enable me after what manner they shall be enjoyed by us after the resurrection of the body To begin then Beauty is a certaine good which all men naturally desire to have But in the life to come the beauty of the righteous shall shine equally with the Sunne this the sacred Scripture testifies Matth. 13. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdome of their Father Adde to this that the body of our Lord Jesus Christ which none I hope will deny shall out-shine the brightnesse of the Sun But by the testimony of the Apostle we shall be made like unto him for he saith He shall change our vile bodies that they may be fashioned like unto his glorious body and this is the confession of that authority which to contradict is blasphemy Now if any man would have this proved to him by reason I beleeve it ought not to seeme incredible to any that the righteous in that life which is to come when this mortality shall be swallowed up of life shall shine as bright as the Sun seeing they are truly called and truly are the temple and the seat of God himself which as I remember is no where in sacred Scripture spoken of this visible Sun As for Activity which is every way as desirable as Beauty we shall be indued with such a measure of it as shall render us equall for swiftnesse to the very Angels of God which in a moment passe from the highest heaven unto the earth and from the earth again into heaven which swiftnesse if it were necessary to prove it so in the Angels we might for instance produce that place of Scripture where it is written that the Angel of the Lord took Habakkuk the Prophet by the haire of the head and carried him through the vehemency of his spirit when he was yet in the flesh from Iury into Babylon and having delivered the dinner unto Daniel brought him again immediately to his own place Therefore I say again that a swiftnesse every way equal to that which is in them shall be given to those who labour in their lives here to be like unto them The Apostle also who affirms