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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

Prayers and Meditations before receiving the Lords Supper p. 36 A Prayer for the Grace of Repentance with a Confession of sins p. 47 A particular Meditation before receiving the holy Communion p. 51 A Prayer when thou art upon going to the Lords Table p. 59 An Ejaculation immediately before the receiving p. 60 Admonitions after receiving the holy Communion p. 61 A Prayer after you have received p. 63 In time of Persecution and Heresie p. 66 In Troubles occasioned by our Enemies p. 68 MAN in DARKNESSE or a Discourse of Death p. 71 A Prayer in time of sicknesse p. 127 A Prayer in the hour of Death p. 130 MAN in GLORY or a Discourse of the blessed estate of the Saints in Heaven p. 133 FINIS ADMONITIONS FOR Morning-Prayer THe night saith Chrysostome was not therefore made that either we should sleep it out or passe it away idly and Chiefly because we see many worldly persons to watch out whole nights for the Commodities of this life In the Primitive Church also the Saints of God used to rise at midnight to praise the Rock of their salvation with Hymns and Spiritual Songs In the same manner shouldst thou do now and Contemplate the Order of the Stars and how they all in their several stations praise their Creator When all the world is asleep thou shouldst watch weep and pray and propose unto thy self that Practise of the Psalmist I am weary of my groaning every night wash I my bed and water my Couch with my tears for as the Dew which falls by night is most fructifying and tempers the heat of the Sun so the tears we shed in the night make the soul fruitful quench all Concupiscence and supple the hardnesse we got in the day Christ himself in the day-time taught and preach'd but continued all night in prayer sometimes in a Mountain apart sometimes amongst the wild beasts and sometimes in solitary places They whose Age or Infirmity will not give them way to do thus should use all Convenient means to be up before the Sun-rising for we must prevent the Sunne to give God thanks and at the day-spring pray unto him Wisd. 16. It was in the morning that the Children of Israel gathered the Manna and of the Just man it is said That He will give his heart to resort early to the Lord that made him and will pray before the most high Eccl. 39. So soon therefore as thou dost awake shut thy door against all prophane and worldly thoughts and before all things let thy God be first admitted offer unto him thy first fruits for that day and commune with him after this manner When thou dost awake O God the Father who saidst in the beginning Let there be light and it was so Inlighten my Eyes that I never sleepe in death lest at any time my Enemy should say I have prevailed against him O God the Sonne light of light the most true and perfect light from whom this light of the Sun and the day had their beginning thou that art the light shining in darknesse Inlightning every one that cometh into this world expell from me all Clouds of Ignorance and give me true understanding that in thee and by thee I may know the Father whom to know is to live and to serve is to reigne O God the Holy Ghost the fire that inlightens and warms our hearts shed into me thy most sacred light that I may know the true Joyes of Heaven and see to escape the illusions of this world Ray thy selfe into my soul that I may see what an Exceeding weight of glory my Enemy would bereave me of for the meer shadowes and painting of this world Grant that I may know those things which belong unto thee and nothing else Inflame me with thy divine love that with a true Christian Contempt I may tread upon all transitory Pleasures and seek only those things which are eternal Most blessed Trinity and one eternal God! as thou hast this day awaked me from this bodily sleep so awake my soule from the sleep of sin and as thou hast given me strength after sleep now again to watch so after death give me life for what is death to me is but sleep with thee to whom be ascribed all glory wisdome majesty dominion and praise now and for Ever Amen When thou dost arise ARise O my soul that sleepest arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light Arise O daughter of Sion O my soul redeemed with the blood of Christ sit no more in the dust of thy sins but arise and rest in that peace which is purchas'd by thy Saviours merits Christ Iesus my most merciful and dear Redeemer as it is thy meer goodness that lifts up this mortal and burthensome body so let thy grace lift up my soul to the true knowledge and love of thee grant also that my body may this day be a helper and servant to my soul in all good works that both body and soul may be partakers of those Endlesse Joyes where thou livest and reignest with the Faher and the Holy Ghost one true God world without End Amen As soone as thou art drest before thou comest forth from thy Chamber kneel down in some convenient place and in this or the like Prayer commend thy self for that day unto thy Creator's Protection ALmighty eternal God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ I blesse and praise thy holy name and with my whole heart give thee all possible thanks that out of thine infinite goodness thou wert pleased to watch over me this night to resist my adversary and to keep me from all perils of body and soul O thou that never slumbrest nor sleepest how careful hast thou been of me how hast thou protected me and with thy holy angels thy ministring spirits sent forth to minister for the heirs of salvation incompast me about yea with what unmeasurable love hast thou restored unto me the light of the day and rais'd me from sleep and the shadow of death to look up to thy holy hill Justly mighst thou O God have shut the gates of death upon me and laid me for ever under the barres of the Earth but thou hast redeemed me from Corruption and with thy Everlasting armes enlarged my time of Repentance And now O Father of mercies and God of all Consolation hear the voyce of thy Supplicant and let my cry be heard in thy highest heavens As I do sincerely love thee and beg for thy Protection so receive thou me under the shadow of thy wings watch over me with the Eyes of thy mercy direct me in the wayes of thy Law and enrich me with the gifts of thy Spirit that I may passe through this day to the glory of thy great name the good of others and the comfort of my own soul. Keep me O my God from the great offence quench in me all vain Imaginations and sensual desires sanctifie and supple my heart with the dew of thy

me a heart of flesh renew a right spirit within me cloath me with white raiment and anoint mine Eyes with Eye-salve that I may know and see how wretched and miserable and poore and blinde and naked I am and may be zealous therefore and repent O thou that didst cause the waters to flow out of the stonie rock and gavest to Magdalen such store of teares that she washed thy feet with them give to me true remorse and such a measure of repentance as may become a most miserable sinner I confesse dear God that I am not worthy of the least of thy mercies much lesse to appear at this great and solemne Feast this Feast of mercy and miracles where none but with holy hands pure intentions crucified affections and renewed spirits should presume to enter But as for me I am all uncleannesse a polluted vile creature and nothing belongs unto me at this great day but confusion of face and an utter separation from this glorions and saving Communion I have wasted thy stock consumed thy talents and destroyed thy goods I was restlesse and unquiet till I had found out wayes to offend thee I have broken thy Commandments laid open thine Inclosures and most grievously trespassed against thy truth and against the light of mine own Conscience I have preferred rottennesse and dust to the treasure of thy word and mine own voluptuousnesse to thy revealed will And now O thou preserver of men What shall I do unto thee Against thee onely have I sinned and my transgressions are ever in thy sight Lord God! I lay me down at thy footstoole and if thou wilt be extreme to mark what is amisse I shall from my very heart acknowledge and adore thy Justice But O my dear Creatour for Christ Jesus his sake have mercy upon me look not on my deserts but on thy glory O Lord do not refuse me but reforme and restore me O Lord hearken and do and deferre not but speak peace to my troubled soul and send thy loving spirit to strengthen and confirme me in the way of holinesse bring me home O Lord and leade me now unto these living waters incorporate me into the saving vine and purge me that I may bear more fruit O cast me not away like an abominable and withered branch but make me to flourish in the Courts of thy house where thy Children are like Olive-branches round about thy table O Lord hear and have mercy and forgive me and be reconciled unto me for Christ Iesus his sake To whom with thee and the holy Ghost be glory in the Church through all ages world without end Amen A Meditation before the receiving of the holy Communion HOly holy holy is the Lord God of Hosts the whole earth is full of his glory Behold to the Moone and it shineth not and the Starres are darknesse in his sight The Pillars of heaven do tremble and are astonished at his reproof O who then am I that I should appear before thee or what is man that thou shouldest regard him O light of light the all-seeing light that shineth in darknesse and the darknesse comprehendeth it not what will become of me when I shall appear before thy glorious and searching Eye What an habitation of darknesse and death wilt thou finde within me What abominable desolations and emptinesse What barrenesse and disorders wilt thou see there Many a time hast thou knockt and I have shut the doors against thee thou hast often called and I would not answer Sleeping and waking early and late day and night have I refused instruction and would not be healed And now O my God after all this rebellion and uncleannesse wilt thou come and lodge with me O Lord where shall I prepare and make ready for thee What communion can there be betwixt light and darknesse purity and pollution perfection and deformity O Rose of Sharon thou undefiled and everlasting flower the glory of the fields and the first fruits of the dead shall the wilde Asses and the beasts of the wildernesse feed now upon thee Wilt thou give the bread of life unto dogs and cast thy pearls before swine O Iesus Christ the lover and the redeemer of all humble and penitent souls Thou that feedest among the Lilies untill the day breaks and the shadows flee what is there in my heart where onely tares and thistles grow that thou canst feed upon Thy blessed body was wrapt in fine and white linen which is the righteousnesse of the Saints It was laid in a new and undefiled grave hewen out of a rock wherein never man was laid before But all my righteousnesse is a filthy rag my heart neither new nor undefiled but a nest of unclean birds where they have not onely laine but hatched and brought forth their viperous young ones I confesse dear God I confesse with all my heart mine own extrem unworthyness my most shameful and deplorable condition But with thee O Lord there is mercy and plenteous redemption Thou dost not use to reject and cast off those that unfeignedly repent and return unto thee the great design and end of thine Incarnation was to save sinners Thou hadst never come into this world but for thy love to thy lost sheep and those thou didst then love thou dost love still unto the end Thou didst not come unto the whole but to the sick The first had there been any such had no need of a Physician and the last hadst not thou come to restore them had perished for ever It was thy gracious pleasure while thou wert here in the world to receive Publicans and sinners and though thou art now ascended to thy Father yet hast not thou changed thy nature Thou art the same yesterday to day and for evermore Thy life here was nothing else but a pilgrimage and laborious search after sinners that thou mightst finde them out and make them whole And how willingly O blessed Jesus didst thou lay down thy robes of glory and cloath thy self with flesh that thou mightst afterwards lay down thy life a propitiation for our sins How many scorching and wearisome journeys didst thou undergo for our sakes How many cold and tedious nights didst thou watch and spend abroad in prayer when the birds of the aire lay warme in their nests and thou hadst not a place to put thy head in In the day time I finde thee preaching in the Temple and all night praying in the Mount of Olives a little after on thine own Sabbath travelling for me in the corne-field Another time wearied with thy journey sitting on the Well of Iacob and begging a draught of that cold water from the woman of Samaria Now again I meet thee on the Asse made infinitely happy by so glorious a rider by the God of Ieshurun who rideth on the heavens and in his excellencie on the skies Sure it was his simplicity and ordinary contempt with man that made him so acceptable in thy sight But Oh! with what language

felt with a little rigidnesse more then ordinary or wring him hard in any part of it he will presently cry out forbeare you hurt me What is this Did not he a little before affirme himself found and being now but moderately touched doth he cry out of paine Is this man thinkst thou in health Truly I think not It is not then such a health as this which is but a meere remission that they shall receive in the life to come whose salvation is expresly promised to proceed from the Lord Rev. 21. For God shall wipe away all teares from their eyes and there shall he no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more paine for the former things are past away Rev. 7. They shall hunger no more neither thirst any more nor shall the Sun light on them nor any heate for God shall cover them with his right hand and with his holy arme shall be defend them What then shall be able to hurt them whose covering and inclosure shall be the arme of God But what manner of health that shall be I know for a certain that neither I nor any man else either by my owne or anothers apprehension or experiment can possibly expresse If any man desires to know the qualities of Feavers and diverse other diseases I can quickly satisfie him as well by the experience I have had of them in my own body as by relation from others but that which neither by my own understanding nor sensation I have never perceived nor received any knowledge of it from another how can I say any thing of it Onely this I shall absolutely assert and I do verily beleeve it that this health of the life to come shall fill the whole man with such an immutable inviolable and inexpressible sweetnesse and solace as shall utterly repel and for ever drive away all thoughts of infirmities their accessions or revolutions And let this suffice to have been spoken of our health in the world to come The next branch that comes in order to be now spoken of is Pleasure which by another name or definition rather we shall call the Delectation of the corporeal senses And this truly most men are very much taken with because the corporeal senses in every man delight in those things which are adjudged proper or peculiar to them and withal beneficial or helpful For to instance in a few the sense of smelling is much recreated or pleased with the variety of sweet and comfortable odours the sense of tasting with the different relishes or gust of several meats confections and drinks And all the rest as every mans natural appetite carries him have their several and different delights But these delectations are not alwayes pleasing na● they prove oftentimes distastful and troublesome to their greatest lovers for they are indeed but transitory and bestial But those delectations or pleasures which in the world to come shall be poured out upon the righteous are everlasting and rational And for this cause I do not see how it is possible to expresse them so as to make them intelligible or subject to our understanding in this life especially because we cannot find in the pleasures of this life any example or similitude which hath in it any collation with them or can give us the least light or manifestation of them for those heavenly delights the more we enjoy them will be the more deare and acceptable to us for the fulnesse of those joyes breeds no surfeit And such delights as these are I beleeve no man ever in this world did so far perceive or taste as to be able to describe unto others the true state or favour of them Two blessed and two miserable states of man we know to be the greater and the lesser His great or perfect state of blisse is in the Kingdome of God his lesser is that which Adam forfeited the joy of Paradise As for his states of misery his great and endlesse one is in the lake of fire and brimstone and his lesser in the continual travels and afflictions of this present life Now it is clear that no man in this life after Adam did ever taste of either of those two states of blisse But if we had tried or tasted of onely that lesser state of blisse which Adam enjoyed in Paradise we might then perhaps by the mediation or means of the lesser conjucture or guesse at the greater As now being borne and bred up in the lesser state of misery we can give many plain and convincing demonstrations of our deplorable condition in the greater Wherefore seeing the pleasure we speak of is a branch or portion of that greater state of blisse I cannot conceive of any possibility to expresse it unlesse we may do it by some similitudes that are quite contrary to the greater state of misery and drawne from the lesser For example or instance let us suppose that there stood before us a naked man with hot and flaming irons thrust into the very apples of his eyes and into every part and member of his body his veines nerves and muscles so that neither his marrow nor his entrails nor any the most inward and tender parts were free from the anguish and immanity of the torment and that he were as sensible of the paine in every member as he must needs be in the very balls of his eyes What shall I say now of this man is he not miserably tormented And who amongst these dispersed and ubiquitary paines thus inflicted will be so irrational as to think that he can have any ease or pleasure In the same manner but by a quite contrary consideration may we conjecture or guesse at the delectations and pleasures of the life to come for as this man is filled and pained all over with torments so shall ineffable and endlesse pleasures be poured upon and over-flow the righteous Their eyes their eares and their hearts yea their very bones as the Prophet David saith shall be glad and rejoyce every part and every member of them shall be crowned and replenished with the fulnesse and the life of pleasures Yea their whole man shall be truly and abundantly satisfied with the fatnesse of Gods house and he shall make them drink of the river of his pleasures for with him is the fountain of life and in his light shall we see light Whosoever then is the happy man that shall be counted worthy to enjoy these heavenly pleasures I cannot see as to the comforts of the body what more he can desire The onely thing that in order to what we are to treat of shall be added to him is long life And this shall not be wanting there for our Saviour testifies that the wicked shall go into everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternal Matth. 25. Having done now with these blessings bestowed upon the body there remaine other more excellent gifts which are every way as desirable but these belong to the