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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16740	Diuine considerations of the soule concerning the excellencie of God, and the vilenesse of man. Verie necessarie and profitable for euerie true Christian seriously looke into. By N.B. G.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1608 (1608)	STC 3647; ESTC S116485	38,586	191

DIVINE CONSIDErations of the Soule Concerning the excellencie of God and the vilenesse of man Verie necessarie and profitable for euerie true Christian seriously to looke into By N. B. G. LONDON Printed by E A. for Iohn Tappe and are to be solde at his shop on the Tower-Hill nere the Bulwarke Gate 1608 To the right worshipfull and worthy Knight Sir Thomas Lake one of the Clarkes of his Maieiesties Signet health happinesse and Heauen WOrthy KNIGHT The longe affectionate duty wherin I haue followed your vndeserued fauour hath made me study how to prooue some parte of my protestation but finding my spirite by the crosses of fortune vnable to be it selfe in the best nature of thankfulnesse I haue yet by Gods greate blessing laboured in the vineyard of a vertuous loue where hauing gathered those fruites that are both pleasant and holsome bounde vp this little handfull I presente them to your patience knowing that your loue to learning your zeale in Religion and your wisdome in iudgement being able in diuine Considerations to finde comforte aboue the worlde will vouchafe to make that good vse of them that maie giue me comforte in your regarde of them but least tediousnesse maie prooue displeasing yea in matter of much worth I wil leaue my labour to your liking and my seruice to your imploimēt in which I humblye rest in heartie prayer for your much happinesse Yours deuoted and obliged at commande NICH. BRETON To the Reader MAnye reade they knowe not what too many they care not what but how necessarie is it for all men before they reade to consider what they reade and to what end they bestowe both time labour in that excercise I refer to the iudgement of their discretions who are able to finde the difference betwixt good euill you then that reade this little worke to your greate good if you well disgest the considerations contained in the same Let mee intreate you what you finde for your good to esteem of as you haue cause and what may be to your dislike to correct in your kinde patience in a little room is matter enough for the good consideration of a cōtemplatiue sperit which looking towards heauen and longing to bee there shall finde such comfort in these considerations as I hope shal giue cause to gloriefie God the Author of all good and not thinke a misse of me that by his goodnes haue set them downe for the good of all his Seruants of which number not doubting you to be one I leaue you in this and all your good labours to his onely gratious blessing Your well wishing friend N. B In praise of these Diuine Considerations GOe little Booke the Iewell of delight The heauenly organ of true vertues glory Which like a christall mirror sets in sight The truest tract of high Iehouahes story Which who so reades shall finde within the same Gods powerfull loue to those that feare his name I reading of it did much comfort finde And so no doubt may euery Christian doe That is to vertue any whit inclind Such right directions doth it lead him to Read then dear friend for heere I dare well say To know God truely is the ready way And more within this lttle volume heere Who so doth read with due consideration His owne estate most vilely will appeare If not reformed by heauenly meditation Consider then and doe aplaud his paine That thus directs true knwledge to obtaine And for my selfe as hauing gain'd therby These few lines of my loue shall specifie Pleasure attend the author that did write it Heauens happinesse the heart that did indite it True comfort be to him that loues to read it And ioy betide his soule that truely treads it I. T. A Diuine Poem O Lord that knewst me ere that I was knowne And sawst the cloath before the thred was spunne And framd'st the substance ere the thought was growne From which my being in this world begunne Oh glorious God that onely of thy grace Didst all and onely to thy seruice make me and hauing giuen me heere an earthly place Vnto the Guard of thy faire grace dist take me Of all pure bright and euer-seeing eye That seest the secret thoughts of euerie heart Before whose presence doth apparantlie Heauen earth Sea Hell in all and euerie part In wisdome more O then wit can comprehend That mak'st and iudgest gouern'st euerie thing power of all powers on whome all powers attend Spring of all grace from whence all glories spring From that high holy heauenly throane of thine Where mercy liues to giue thy glorie grace Looke downe a little on this soule of mine That vnto thee complaines her heauie cace Oh sweetest sweete of my soules purest sence That in thy mercie madst me first a creature And in the truth of loues intelligence The neerest image to thy heauenly Nature And hauing framde me to thy fauours eye Didst with thy finger fairely write me out In holy writ of heauenly Misterie How I should bring a blessed life about Forbidding onely what might be my harme Commaunding onely what might doe me good preseruing me by thy Almigtie arme and feeding me with a celestiall foode Thou madst the ayre to feede the life of nature That I might see how weake a thing it is The earth the labour of the sinfull creature Which beares no fruite but onely by thy blisse Thou madst the water but to clense or coole Or serue thy creatures in their sundrie vse That carefull wit might reason not befoole In vsing nature to the soules abuse The fire thou madst to c●eere the chilling colde With a reuiuing heate of natures ne●de That reason might in natures ruine holde How farre that Force might stand the life instead Thus vnder heauen thou madst these Elements To maintaine all those creatures thou hast made But so that nature with her ornaments shall haue a time to flourish or to fade But that same heauenly fire that doth enflame The heart and soule with a continuall heate Whose loue doth liue but in thy holy name Where faith doth mercy but for grace intreate Where that did kindle or that Cole to finde Or smallest peice or sparckle of the same I found the eye of nature was too blinde To finde the sence or whence thee secret came Till by the inspiration of that grace That to thy seruants doth thy goodnesse showe I found thy loue the euer liuing place From whence the substance of this sweete doth flowe And when I saw within this soule of mine How farre thy loue exceedes the life of nature and natures life but in that loue of thine Which is the being of each blessed creature Then I beg●n to finde the foile of sinne And onely long'd to liue in mercies grace and hate the world that doth their hel begin That doe not long to see thy heauenly face And thus perplexed in that passions griefe That hath no ease but in thy mercies eye To thee that art the faithfull

I cannot but with admiration speake of that grace that through his loue made him haue such a fauour vnto man as to elect him to his loue to frame him to his image to inspire him with his spirit to instruct him in his word to defend him with his power to preserue him in his mercie to dye for him in his loue and to receiue him to glorie all these and what euer other good wee receiue either through the loue or mercye of God are free guifts of his grace and not for any merrit in man How can this beame of glorious brightnes bee beheld with the cies of humilitie but that the soule wold be rauished with the contemplation therof and say with the Psalmist Psalme 103. verse 8. Gratious is the Lord and mercifull long suffering and of great goodnesse Furthermore of so great effect in the working of comfort in the hearts of the faithfull is this vertue of grace in God that wee finde the writings of the Apostles in their Epistles commonlye to begin with this word Grace Grace mercie and peace from our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ As if from grace came mercie and from mercie peace Oh consider the works of grace our election out of a speciall fauour our creation out of a gratious wisdome our vocation out of a gratious kindenes our sanctification out of a gratious holines our iustification out of a gratious merit our redemptiō out of a gratious loue our glorification out of a gratious mercy So that still we see that grace worketh in all thinges to the onelye glorie of God in whome it worketh to the good of man Oh how sweet a salutation was deliuered to the blessed Virgin Mary by the Angell Gabriell Haile Mary full of grace God is with thee So that if God be with any soule it is full of grace where the fulnes of grace is there is surely God but as it is written of Christ Iesus Psalme 45. vers 7. That hee was annointed with the Oyle of Grace aboue his fellowes So may wee well say of the Grace of God it is so excellent in working to the Glorie of God that as it is infinite in goodnes so must it haue the same measure in glorie I say to be glorified aboue all things Note a little the varieties of the guiftes of this grace of God vnto his seruants Moyses hee made a leader of his people and gaue him the tables of the law to Abraham he gaue the blessing that should follow in his seede in Isaack shall the seede be called at the prayer of Eliah hee sent raine after a long drought to Dauid hee gaue a kingdome and a treasure more worth then many kingdomes the enlightning knowledge of his holy loue the spirit of prophesie the confession of sinne the repentance of offence the passion of true patiēce the constancie of faith and the humility of loue To Salomon he gaue especiall wisdome to sit in the Throane of iudgement with the greatest maiestie and wealth of any earthlye creature in the world To the blessed Virgin Marie hee gaue the fulnesse of grace in the conception of his only Sonne but to him he gaue that grace that filled heauen and earth with his glorie Let vs then consider not only the vertue goodnesse and glory of grace but with all the height and glorie therof which being only in Iesus Christ our onely Lord and Sauiour let vs in him onely beholde the summe and substance the beautie brightnesse the goodnesse and glorie thereof forsaking our selues in the shame of our sinnes only flie to his mercie for the comforte of those blessings that receiuing onelye from him may make vs giue all honour and glorie to him And so much for consideration vpon the grace of God The seauenth consideration of the glorie of God HAuing thus considered of the greatnes the goodnes the wisdom the loue the mercy grace of God towards man I cannot but finde in this good God an admirable glory who containing all these excellencies in himselfe and beeing indeede the verie essence of the same doth in the vertue of his bountie appeare so gratious vnto this people But since to speake or thinke of the glory of God or the least part thereof is ●o farre aboue the reach of the power of reason as in all confession must be onely left to admiration Let me onely say with the Apostle Glory only belongeth vnto the Lord in his presence so glorious is his brightnesse as nothing can see him and liue and therefore in a bush of fire hee spake but not apeared vnto Moyses vpon the mount in a cloud and a piller went before his people in the wildernesse was as it were inclosed in the Arke in an Angell did appeare vnto his Prophets and in his Sonne Iesus Christ so farre as he would and might be seene to his Apostles and Disciples but for his glory his diuine essence cannot be seene of any but himselfe verified by his own word Iohn 1. chap. verse 18. No man hath seene the Father but hee that came from the Father euen the Sonne of man that hath reuealed him and againe verse 28 I came from the Father and I goe to the Father for the Father I am one with his glory he filleth both heauen earth as it is written Heauen and earth are ful of the Maiestie of thy glory and againe in the Psalme 19. verse 1. The heauens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy worke his workes speake of his glorie his Saintes write of his glorye his Angelles sing of his glorie and all powers doe acknowledge his glorie It is higher then the Heauens larger then the Earth deeper then the Sea purer then the fire cleerer then the skye brighter then the Sunne The power of strength the life of Loue the vertue of mercie the beautie of grace the honour of Wisdome and the Essence of Maiestie The Angelles tremble before it the Saintes fall at the feete of it the Prophets beholde it a farre off and the soules of the elected doe adore it and being then so farre aboue the power of man to come neerer the thought of it How can the heart of man but in admiration speake of it it liues in the wisdome of the wise in the vertue of the valyant in the liberalitie of the Charitable in the patience of the Temperate in the virginitie of the chaste in the constancye of the faithfull in the humilitye of the louing in the truth of the Religious it dyrects the will of the Trinitie in the vnitie of the Deitie it commaundes the seruice of the Angells it blesseth the prayers of the Saints it pardoneth the sinnes of the repentant it prospereth the labours of the vertuous and loueth the soules of the righteous in summe it is the Maiestie of Maiesties the power of powers the vertue of vertues the grace of graces the honour of honors the Treasure of treasures the Blessing