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Desires after Jesus: or, Meditations upon the life and passion of our blessed saviour Jesus Christ. With short ejaculations and prayers drawn from each passage thereof. : Very proper to excite our love and affections towards him, and to help us in the expression of our desires for the imitation of his vertues, and to preserve a due and thankful remembrance of what he has done and suffered for us.
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are to our Saviour and how far yet from his Vertue of Meekness If we feel within our selves any bitterness or aversion towards our Neighbours or are backward in releiving the necessities of our poor Brethren when we are able if upon spying a little Fault in them instead of pitying and compassionating him we are forward to reprove him and apt to harbour hard Thoughts of him we have great Reason to think we are not yet become true lovers of our Neighbours or Disciples of Jesus But let not those be discouraged that are still very far from the perfection of his Vertues and yet find to their great trouble much opposition of their corrupt Nature and strong Temptations to the contrary for so long as they do not deliberately consent to them but strive against them to their utmost they may hope they are in a fair way in time to the attaining of it For tho' the Victory come on but slowly yet if they persevere in Fighting with their Enemies in acknowledging their Imperfections and Weakness and humbling themselves before God for them they shall infallibly come at last to the desired conquests of themselves and a true conformity with their dear Lord Jesus To this end they should often be laying hold of his Strength and raising themselves up to the contemplation of his divine Countenance and of the glorious Vertues and Graces shining in his Person and Actions in the several occasions of his doing or suffering the Will of his heavenly Father and from thence fetch every time fresh Vigour and stronger Motives to their desires and resolutions in following him and purifying themselves from all things that offend him And lest at any time they should lose Courage in approaching to him either by reason of their often failings or their former Ingratitude or perhaps out of aw to his Majesty or fear of their Indisposition to come into his Presence let them consider his gracious Invitations every where dispersed in the New Testament as this Mat. 11.28 Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy Laden and I will give you Rest And in another place his provoking them to come to him John 5.40 Ye will not come unto me that ye might have Life with many other such kind Expressions We have also the same loving Saviour who so freely conversed with Sinners and died for their sakes at the Right Hand of God with all the Vertue of his Merits to intercede with him on our behalf and is not only able but delights to bestow upon us if we will but come to him for it all manner of good Things that are essential to our true Happiness which is our Sanctification John 16.23 For whatsoever says he you shall ask the Father in my Name I will give it you Mat. 7.7 Ask and ye shall receive seek ye shall find knock and it shall be opened to you Mat. 7.11 And if ye being evil says he know how to give good Gifts unto your Children how much more shall your heavenly Father give good Things Or as it is in another Evangelist Luk. 11.13 The Holy Spirit to them that ask it Let us therefore who are so kindly invited go often and boldly to the Throne of Grace to beg his Holy Spirit with earnest entreaties in all our spiritual Wants and Necessities Let us fear nothing Have we sinned Let us return to him again We are his Sheep and he is our Shepherd and if we have straied let us hasten again into his Fold for he calls us and will be glad to find us there We are his Friends let us converse with him familiarly that we may partake more and more of the glory of his divine Nature to be fitted and qualified for his Company eternally in Heaven O what Happiness What Joy What Honour Rom. 8.35 Let nothing therefore in this World be able to hinder or separate us from the Love of Christ Neither Tribulation nor Distress nor Persecution nor any Difficulties we can meet with after this prospect of his Love and our Happiness in the knowledge of it No sure let every one of us say now nothing but Christ my Love is fixed upon Christ I cannot I will not for any thing take it off again I can have now no pleasure in this World but in and with my dear Saviour Jesus I will therefore now henceforward converse with none else All shall know now and bear witness by my Conversation my Sweetness my Meekness my Patience in bearing Injuries that I have been with Jesus and that I delight to have none for my Companions in this Werld but him and his Friends Now am I fully resolved to apply my self to the imitation of his Vertues and to become his true Disciple indeed too long have I been ungrateful to so merciful a Saviour and kind a Benefactor too much time have I spent in the vanities and fooleries of this World Luk. 15.18.19 I will therefore now arise and go to my Father and say to him Father I have sinned against Heaven and before thee and am no more worthy to be called thy Son I do not so much as deserve the lowest place in thy Houshold make me so happy if thou pleasest as to become one of thy hired Servants I am wholly purposed to leave all that 's displeasing to thee and from henceforwards to serve thee all the Days Hours and Moments of my Life whom I tast now and see to be so Gracious and Good With such Holy Resolutions as these should every devout Christian strengthen and confirm himself that hath been considering the effects of our Saviour's Love at the time of his Passion that they may rise again with him to newness of Life and continuing close and faithful to him in the denyal of themselves and in the forsaking the Pleasures and Vanities of this World may be made partakers of the inconceivable comforts of the Holy Ghost here in his due time and the incomprehensible manifestations and communications of the Sacred Trinity Father Son and Holy Ghost in the World to come To whom be all Praise and Glory for ever and ever Amen Meditations and Ejaculations on the Life and Passion of our Saviour JESVS CHRIST The Incarnation of Jesus PRaise Honour and Glory be to thee O Blessed Jesus who for my Sake hast vouchsafed to come down from the Royal Seats and from the Mellifluous Bosom of thy Divine Father into this Valley of Misery and to be incarnated and made Man by the Holy Ghost in the most chaste Womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary Make my Heart I beseech thee thy Dwelling-place adorn it replenish it with Spiritual Gifts and wholly possess it O that I were able by profound Humility to unite my self to thee and with an ardent Affection to receive thee and after having received thee to retain thee with me for ever O that I were so fastned to thee that I might never depart or turn away my Mind from thee The Birth of Jesus Praise