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A76384	A bright starre, leading to, & centering in, Christ our perfection. Or a manuell, entituled by the authour thereof, the third part of the Rule of perfection Wherein such profound mysteries are revealed, such mysterious imperfections discovered, with their perfect cures prescribed, as have not been by any before published in the English tongue: faithfully translated for the common good.; Règle de perfection. English. Part 3	Benoît, de Canfield, 1562-1610.	1646 (1646)	Wing B1867AC; ESTC R223949	72,498	265

confounded together Now that wee may see what place is meete for the one and what for the other these 2 Annihilations make to a two-fold Love The Passive to an enjoying Love i. to a naked beholding Union and enjoyance of God The Active to a practicke Love i. to our Outgoing Lively and faithful working whether bodily or spirituall So then the proper place of the Passive Annihilation is when wee lye prostrate to the Fruitive Love Because the Passive reduces all Motions and workings to nothing avants all forms and Images and so leads us to the fruition of God The Place for the active Annihil is when we are to follow the Practick Love For by this Annihil as by a certain transcendence of the Mind all our works acts operations as wel of the body as soul are nothing'd so going out without going out working without working Being without Being living and yet dead we transforme the practick Love into the fruitive change the Active Life into the Contemplative Enjoy God by Faith in working and Action as fully as in rest and ease which is the Top and spire of Perfection And these are the proper places of the two Annihilations They erre therefore that disorder them and alter their right courses using indeed a Passive Annihilatiō savoring Acts and Operations as some doe when they should faithfully worke in the Practicke Love And practising the Passive Annihilation producing Acts as many do when they should suppresse them and enjoy God by Fruitive Love The first run upon a false rest the other a hurtfull Activenesse Some thorow a too much Retirednesse hide their Talent Others through superfluousnesse of working fall short of God But that these two extreames may be combin'd and both the Mistakes amended it remaines that we now shew the times agreeing to these two Annihilations the not knowing whereof brings the two foresaid Errours There be three sorts of Active love or working Exteriour Interiour and Intimate Exteriour imployed in bodily labours Interiour in discourses and studies Intimate in renewing of workings and prayer For the first Though bodily works they be only yet are they not to be neglected when obedience engagement love or discretion ●alls and requires them In which thing we are to sticke close to the rule of the exterior Wil. And if that Rule require them not it shall be no wisedome to forsake the Fruitive Love to goe to doe them For though the Active Annihilation reduces all to Nothing yet such ● Liberty is not expedient as runs ●s wittingly upon Impertinencies He that loves danger shall perish therei● And hee that linkes hard tyes not ●rong Yea he that willingly sets himselfe aworke about needlesse things cannot duely practise this Annihilation But if on the other side hee refuse to doe such workes after the same Rule he incurres a dull rest the more to be feared because vailed with a false vizard of Contemplation concerning the Interiour working as Studies discourse or giving ones selfe to the Spirit The limits of necessity are not to be transgrest superfluities warily to be avoyded the which are never free from Passions Affections and Negligence wherein if we be not watchful no small Immortification vexation arises in the soul which encrease swel there the more the lesse we account them such being dawb'd over with a vain Tincture of perfection Whereout of necessity arises an inordinate dangerous liberty of Mind pouring it self forth into all kind of phantasticke thoughts and losing the bridle to fleshly Imaginations and ridiculous discourses whereout of necessity arises an inordinate and dangerous liberty of Mind pouring it selfe forth into all kind of phantasticke thoughts whereby all Passions have their free entry Pride Selfe-conceit Ambition Suspition Rash Judgment Contempt of our Neighbours the false Joy Sadnesse Feare Anger Envy and of Miseries what not which nathelesse a Dulnesse unsensiblenesse of the evill makes to be little troubled at all prick of Conscience being blunted wherto great heede is to bee taken But if it appeare by this Rule that the Wil of God requires his Industry in Studies Discourse c. and yet hee hangs backe therefrom 't is a sluggish faint-heartednesse though vail'd under pretext of of piety or addicting himselfe to the Spirit Touching the Intimate working as renewing of our practise in contemplation c. 'T is only then to bee produc't when by reason of Gods working withdrawn and our owne waxing faint or because of feeble and sluggish Nature the Minde is sunke as it were yawning and grows heavy and le ts fal from her memory this Blessed-making object Yet so long as by the Pul and Inworking of the Bridegroom or by strength or rowsing of the Minde or even by patient cleaving to God or by simple Remembrance she can persevere in Union with God in the Fruitive Love 'T is not best to forsake the Passive Annihilation and the Fruitive Love that depends thereon to take in hand by acts to practise the Active Annihilation provided that by simple Remembrance she stand to her part For there it is that the soule is so transported inlarg'd inlightned and united to God there she tasts the chaste embraces sweet entercourses and divine kisses there she sees her selfe sublim'd ennobled and glorified with Angels at the coelestiall Table There she relishes the fruits of her Mortification the treasures of her Repentance and the Comforts of all her Selfe-denyalls and of those weapons shee found out to make war upon her selfe for attaining the Kingdome of Heaven which is to be got by violence Let her not therefore I say forsake this Passive AnnihilatIon and the Fruitive Love descending therefrom No though she feel not those comforts but find this Fruitive Love so bare to her feeling that shee lose all her owne feeling and assurance of comfort which is the satisfaction of Nature And this is the true Rest wherein both her faithfulnesse is tryed and the soule is seated in a true poverty of Spirit patience and essentiall Resignation of her selfe There whatsoever of Man remaines in the soule is done away There the Death ended and the conquest atchieved There is the ghost given up betweene the hands of God and lastly there is the Man transformed whole into God For by this constancy and Death God lives and reignes in him and in him accomplishes all his workes By this Rest and ceasing from Acts is pure abstraction and Uncloathing of Spirit attained too wherein the Soule is spung'd of all errours and impurities and practises all vertues and perfections though essentially and without multiplicity For here is used a marvailous defence watchfulnes of heart which not only can endure no consent or delight but even not the least feeling or thought of Sinne they being open enemies to this Rest and Annihilation so that here all Passions are appeased Affections mortified and Motions restrained Here love is ordered Desire bridled Joy tempered Hate killed Sadnes mitigated Vain hope extinct

the second blemish of contemplation mentioned cap. 4. which Image was so impalpable and spritely that the soule in the Inner will could never discover the same but stood alway perswaded that she saw this will in his owne Being without any forme or vaile at all Yea nor could she ever perceive that Image till she was cleansed thereof there being no imperfect thing imputed to him for imperfect that knowes nothing more perfect But the soul there knew no better because this Image was the highest and pures● that ever she saw Whence it was that shee could never know the same for imperfect though now she sees it to be so when she 's purged of it If any aske How then can she winde her selfe out thereof if shee cannot know it Answer That must be done by fervour of Love which is Gods own worke and not the soules an● which consists more in suffering then in doing This working o● the love of God is so inward mighty and powerfull that it worke more livingly in the soule then ever she felt before And this pull i● so violent that it ravishes her mor● then ever without her selfe Thi● fire of Love is unquen chable tha● it consumes all her impurities And lastly so strict is this Union that shee is all exhausted in God in whom all her Imperfections be drown'd lost and brought to nothing And by the same worke shee gets a new Light and a far other Capacity then ever she had triall of and is thereby enabled to worke extatically and supernaturally without and above her selfe and all her naturall and humane Understanding wherein stands the second effect of this uncloathing Illumination For here she is made drunk and giddified with such abundance of Light that shee is covered therewith as with a garment transformed into it and made one with the Light it selfe For since in this most strict union God the fountaine and Well-spring of this universall inaccessible Light is more profound inward and nigh to the soule then shee to her selfe and that in this Lovely union no secret of the Bridegroom usefull for her to know is kept from her It followes that this mystery full of all joy and ravishment is revealed to her that her Bridegroome the Eternall God is found within her Him she beholds in her selfe after her hearts desire without vaile or Image seeing him as at full noon-day how he rests within her as in his owne Tabernacle exercising a sweet and familiar operation within her And whilst shee sees tastes and proves how he is nearer to her then her selfe and how she is more hee then shee is her selfe and that she possesses him not as something nor as her selfe but more then all things and more then her selfe According to this Light shee so demeanes her selfe that all her Joy Life Will Love and Sight are much rather in him then in her selfe and that because she knowes him farre more excellent and worthy then her selfe and hath found him more delicious and sweet then her selfe And lastly sees him more faire and glorious then her self And again having learned by proofe that he is all things and her selfe nothing and that in him is all beauty goodnesse and pleasure in her selfe nothing but bitternesse of evill In him alone she stayes in him she dwells in him she lives and nothing at all in her selfe Whence it followes that shee is all in God all to God all for God and all God but nothing in her selfe nothing to her selfe nothing for her selfe and nothing her selfe She all is conversant in the Divine Will Spirit Light and Power but nothing in her owne Spirit Will Light and owne or naturall working In that Power in that Spirit in that Light with an unmoveable eye shee beholdeth this Essentiall Will or Divine Being as 't is said In thy Light shall wee see Light Here she discovers hidden and unsearchable secrets Here lies her way open to Light unaccessible Here she unfolds unutterable Mysteries Here she viewes wonders Here she swims in endlesse joyes For being united with God none of these mysteries secrets and wonders can bee kept from her For since God hath shewed her himselfe how shall he hide any needfull secret from her And now having found within her selfe the fountaine of all sweetnesse and the Well-spring of all Pleasures Delights and Joyes how shall she but be drowned in the Sea of this spirituall Deliciousnesse and ingulft in the whirling torrent of this Celestiall Blisse Or how shall the abstrusest secrets of God be shut before her to whom he hath bared and laid open his Bosome Or how shall his Mysteries bee sealed up from her to whom he hath revealed himselfe face to face Who indeed is a secret God CHAP. VII The fourth Point Of the nearenesse or ever instant Vision and presence of the happy-making end THe fourth and last step of this Meane followes next after this Uncloathing of the Spirit i. The Propinquity or neare Assistance of this Being which is no other thing but the continuall presence or habit of Union passing between God and the soule where-through the soule being cloathed with God and God with the soule doe live mutually in themselves without any withdrawing back-sliding or interspace For he that dwells in Love dwels in God and God in him Where the soul followes her Bridegroom so light and swift so strong and eager and runs after him with such earnestnes thirst and unsatiablenesse clinging to him with a full Inclination of love and bond unloosable that they be as the body and the shadow she following the Lamo whithersoever he goes whose savour sweetnesse and lovelinesse have so enamoured ravisht and invincibly stole her away that in the depth of her heart she conceives a horror of herself utterly abandoning all her own thoughts of her self and all sense of sweetnes from her selfe that she may suck in the sweetnesse of this substance that she may eternally cast her self thereinto and lose her selfe there never to be found againe resting even there that for the naked love of the same Being Whence it is that she deadly hates all whatsoever brings therwith the least feeling of delight in her selfe or casts in so much as a thought of her selfe or that sayes shee 's one and her Bridegroome another In whom she so exposes her selfe to be dissolved wasted and annihilated together with all created things that in comparison thereof shee disdaines to live Here she opens her selfe and entertaines this Being not as a vessell receives what it holds but as the Moon does the shine of the Sun Here she throwes abroad her white and Lilly armes to fold and close-inchaine her Lover but much closer is shee embrac't and inchained by him Here she enlarges all the circumference of her Minde to draw in this Infinite but on the other side she feeles her selfe most ravishingly swallowed up in it Nor can she finde what to doe to rebound the assault and conquest of this Love but only yeeld