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A63045	The soul's communion with her savior. Or, The history of our Lord Jesus Christ, written by the four evangelists digested into devotional meditations. The first part.	Traherne, Philip, d. ca. 1725.	1685 (1685)	Wing T2019A; ESTC R220906	52,296	223

be I magnify thy Glorious Name For speaking that Thou dost know and testifying that Thou hast seen tho we receiv not thy Witness I earnestly beseech Thee O Jesus how backward soever Thou findest us to believ when thou hast told us earthly things vouchsafe to tell us of hevenly things and to exhibit as wel the powerful Efficacy of thy whol Doctrin as the indisputabl Truth of the most abstruse parts of it help Thou our Unbelief That notwithstanding my inability to satisfy my Self or Others How the Birth from abov is wrought in my Heart yet I may palpably evidence to the whol World both in Word and Deed What it is to be a new Creature and make it appear that the Spirit of God hath breathed upon my Soul tho I cannot determin the precise Time nor describe the exact Manner of his graciousOperation §. 〈◊〉 O thou Son of Man which art in Heven whither no man hath ascended up but he that came down from thence who to convince us that whatever thou hast suffer'd upon Earth was of thine own voluntary Resolution and Praescience didst expresly foretel as wel the particular Circumstance as the gracious Design of thy Death in these plain Tearms As Moses lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderness even so must the Son of Man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but hav eternal Life I prais and magnify thy Name Becaus God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but hav everlasting life I humbly beseech Thee O Jesu since God sent not his Son into the World to condemn it but that the World throu him might be saved establish my Soul in this Faith and qualify me for that happy End of it by an unblamabl Conversation that Impiety may not temt me to Infidelity and Unbelief consign me to Damnation for as thy unerring Truth assures us he that believeth not is condemned already the preposterous Occasion of the Guilt being justly applied to aggravat and ascertain the Condemnation That Light is com into the World and yet Men loved Darkness rather than Light becaus their Deeds were evil for evry one that doth evil hates and shuns the Light lest his Deeds should be reproved wheras he that doth Truth who rightly believs and acts according to the Principls of a sound Faith cometh to the Light wherby his Deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God Cap. VI. Of His Baptizing in Judea and the Dispute that arose therupon between St. John's Discipls and the Jews §. I. AFter these things the H. Jesus and his Discipls came into the Land of Judea where he tarried with them baptizing Prais thou the Lord O my Soul For perfecting the Design of S. John's Baptism by the succeeding Administration of Thine even whilst he was also 〈◊〉 in Enon near to 〈◊〉 becaus much Water was there Giving us therby a tacit yet significant Intimation of thy forwardness to prosecute the Work of our Redemtion which would rather shorten the Night by the hasty Approach of thy Day of Grace than 〈◊〉 the Rising of the Sun til the Setting of thy Morning-Star for 〈◊〉 was not yet cast into Prison I humbly implore thee O Christ let us draw near unto thy 〈◊〉 Ordinances with a tru Heart in ful Assurance of Faith having our Hearts sprinkled from an evil Conscience as wel as our Bodies washed with pure Water And Oh! that whol Rivers of Waters might be employ'd and 〈◊〉 for the baptizing great Multitudes of 〈◊〉 from amongst all Nations and Kindreds and Peepl and Tongs throu out the World to accomplish the Number of thine Elect and hasten thy Kingdom §. 2. Upon this Occasion there 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 between som of John's Discipls and the 〈◊〉 about Purifying and they came unto 〈◊〉 saying 〈◊〉 He that was with thee beyond 〈◊〉 to whom thou 〈◊〉 Witness behold the same 〈◊〉 and all men com to 〈◊〉 Wherupon thy Servant John gave this further Testimony 〈◊〉 Thee O Jesus publickly confessing in the audience of the peepl 〈◊〉 your 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 me Witness that I said I am not the Christ but that I am sent before him He that hath the Bride is the Bride-groom but the Friend of the Bride groom which standeth and heareth him rejoiceth greatly becaus of the Bride-groom's 〈◊〉 This my 〈◊〉 therefore is fulfilled He must increas but I must decreas for He that cometh from 〈◊〉 is abov all and altho He that is of the Earth is Earthly and speaketh of the Earth yet He that cometh from 〈◊〉 what He hath seen and heard that He testifieth tho no man receiv his Testimony But he that hath received his Testimony hath set to his Seal that God is tru for He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God which we may boldly rely upon in regard God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him nay the Father so loveth the Son that He hath given All things into His hand and resolvs our Fate shal be according to the Faith we bear Him for He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting Life wheras he that believeth not the Son shal not see Life but the Wrath of God abideth on him I adore thy Sacred Name O thou whom my Soul loveth For the great Understanding this thy Servant had touching the Knowledg of thine Eternal God-head and the whol Mystery of thine Everlasting Gospel which he hath thus clearly expressed in this his excellent Sermon left upon Record for my Instruction Lord I. beseech Thee since a Man can 〈◊〉 nothing except it be given him from heven 〈◊〉 such a measure of thy Spirit and the Grace he conveys from 〈◊〉 into the Hearts of the faithful possess and affect my Soul that I in Communion with thy Servant John may likewise rejoice in hearing the Bride-groom's Voice audibly utter'd in His holy Word and be ravished with delight in the privat Contemplation of the happy Union solemnized between my Lord Christ and his Spous the Church So as at last thou mayst vouchsafe to admit me into the Fulness of that 〈◊〉 which doth attend the Marriage of the Lamb and impart unto me the Interest and Affection of a Friend in the Consummation of thy Glory which wil qualify me as wel to taste of the Pleasures as congratulat the Perpetuity of thine Eternal Lov. Cap. VII On the Imprisonment of St. John the Baptist. §. 1. O My only-wise God and Savior who to render thy Messenger S. John the more conformabl to the Author and Finisher of that Faith which he was sent to usher in by his Ministry didst permit Herod the Tetrach to lay hold on him and having bound him shut him up in Prison that he might as wel be a Precedent of thine undeserved Sufferings as the Precursor of thy divine Person and Doctrin I prais and magnify thy Name For that undaunted

Corruptions to renounce no new Nature to put on and yet didst permit thy Fore-skin to be circumcised that we might learn therby to put away all 〈◊〉 and superfluity of 〈◊〉 tiness I prais thy H. Name For this Visibl Sign of that 〈◊〉 Grace we stand in need of Let this thine Infant-Wound O J su circumcise our Hearts purify our Hands and 〈◊〉 our whol Man blameless and undefiled And since there is a Fountain open'd to the Hous of David for Sin and for Uncleanness let the Blood of Christ who throu the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 offer'd himself without Spot to God 〈◊〉 our Conscience from dead Works to 〈◊〉 the living God that being 〈◊〉 from all 〈◊〉 of Flesh and Spirit 〈◊〉 may perfect Holiness in thy Fear To this end I beseech thee mortify the Deeds of my Body cut off the Occasions of Sin and disappoint the Temtations most apt to betray me 〈◊〉 for He is not a Jew which is one outwardly neither is that Circumcision which is 〈◊〉 in the Flesh but he is a Jew which is one inwardly and Circumcision is that of the Heart in the Spirit and not in the Letter whose Prais is not of Men but of God §. 6. O my Soul Who could imagin so small privat an Action in a Country so remote and an Age so long past should be of such marvellous Concernment to thee and evry Family in the Earth besides I prais and magnify thy Name O Christ for that 〈◊〉 Wisdom and Goodness wherwith thou hast enlarged my Joys in making all thine Actions conduciv to the Benefit and Instruction of the whol World Grant me Grace I beseech thee so to use those Faculties wherwith thou hast enabled me to reflect on and consider Objects so far distant in Time and Place that duly weighing the great Confequence and wide Concernment of evry Thought Word and Deed enrolled in the Volum of Eternity I may becom the more cautious of ordering my Conversation aright til Divine Lov Entire Obedience and Uniform Devotion compleat my Life in this World and prepare a delightful Spectacl for God Angels and Just Men made perfect in the next Cap. IV. Of His Epiphany §. 1. Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of verse 1 〈◊〉 in the days of Herod the King 〈◊〉 there came Wise men from the East to Jerusalem saying Where is he that is born King of the 〈◊〉 for we 〈◊〉 seén his Star in the East and are com to worship him I prais and magnify thy Name O thou Wisdom of the Father for the gracious and 〈◊〉 Influence of the Eastern 〈◊〉 whose Appearance and Motion being wholy 〈◊〉 did attract the Eys engage the Faith and guide the Feet of these Learned Sages in Quest of Thee In deed they are the only Wise men who use their Learning to find out Heven Lord as thou didst illuminat their Souls by a diviner Light to discern the Benefit and Design of that created Star so be thou graciously pleased to accompany the hevenly Oracls of thy Word with such a convincing Power and Demonstration of thy Spirit as shal be effectual to bring in the Fulness of the Gentils to whom thou hast extended the Scepter of thy Mercy as well as to the Jews having made both one and broken down the middl Wall of Partition between us §. 2. O Blessed Jesu who didst withdraw the Conduct of that Star as soon as the Wise men were com to Jerusalem leaving them to be informed by the ordinary Ministry of the chief Priests and Scribes of the Peépl whom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gathered together demanding of them where Christ should be born they said unto him In Bethlehem of Iudea for thus it is written of 〈◊〉 Prophet And thou Bethlehem in the land of Iuda art not the least among the Princes of Iuda for out of 〈◊〉 shal com a a Governor that shal rule my Peépl Israel I prais thy H. Name For the seasonabl Use of Miracls and the transcendent Excellency of the Means of Grace It is unreasonabl to look for Manna when we are once enter'd into the Land of Promise Reclaim therfore I beseech thee all pervers and ignorant Schismaticks from that gross presumtion of temting Thee for new Lights and needless Revelations now thy Will is so expresly revealed in thy Word and let the Priests Lips to whom thou hast committed the ordinary Dispensation of thine Oracls always preserv sufficient knowledg to direct thy peepl in the way of Salvation by that more sure Word of Prophecy which was of old written for our Instruction and is to this day a standing Record taken from the mouths of those holy men of God who spake as they were moved by the H. Ghost And as thou didst lead these honorabl Pilgrims by the Conduct of a Star to the Means of Grace and by the ordinary Preaching and Explanation of thy Word unto thy Self making both those Methods useful in their respectiv places so let thine ancient Miracls confirm and quicken us in the Use of such ordinary Means as are adapted to these later Times for the Light of thy glorious Gospel is as much more instructiv than the obscurer Language of a Star as the shining Splendor of the Day outvies the gloomy Shades of Night this being no less powerful to draw Men from all Quarters of the Earth to thy Worship than that was to invite these few from the East §. 3. The 〈◊〉 men having received so full and plain an Answer from the Priests in the 〈◊〉 of a Truth which neither their fear of Herod nor their own Enmity was abl to suppress continu their Progress toward Bethlehem nothing discoraged either with the disappearing of their Oriental Guide or by the Troubl which the bold and open Declaration of their Embassy had given Herod and all Ierusalem with him I magnify thy Sacred Name O Christ For this their Exemplary Corage and Resolution Be thou the delightful Object and Answer of all mine Enquiries the sole End and Recompence of all my Travel and let my Soul depend on Thee in the greatest destitution of all Outward Helps and Encoragements that those Obstacls which the World is apt to cast in my way being furmounted by a firm purpos of Mind to follow Thee I may throu a du Use of thine Ordinances be brought out of the Maze of Error and Ignorance 〈◊〉 the Knowledg of thy Truth and walk in the right way to thy saving Presence §. 4. O H. Jesu who to reward the Faith and Zeal of these devout Pilgrims didst not only signify to them the Birth of the Messiah in general but conduct them also to Jerusalem and at last when they departed thence attend them even to Bethlehem by the Star which they saw in the East that went before them til it came and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where the yong Child was to their great joy I bless and prais thy Name For being found of them that seek Thee according to thy faithful Promise I