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heart_n	believe_v	ear_n	hear_v	2,313	5	5.3163	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11072	The heavenly academie	Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.	1638 (1638)	STC 21341; ESTC S114569	43,887	250

light looking within the veile of the mysterie shall see the wisedome of God and most excellent treasures contained in it presented and offered by it Wherefore that God in Christ may bee thy Teacher study this conformitie to God which by likenesse by covenant by friendship by marriage-love may draw him to teach thee And first put off the old man corrupt with deceivable lusts which cause in thee a deformitie yea an enmitie against God The uncircumcision of the flesh hath in it a contrarietie to God and his wisedome and makes thee adverse to Gods teaching and God unwilling to teach thee It is also a veile upon the eye of thy soule hides thy sight from his light his light from thy sight And untill a spirituall circumcision doe take off this veile thou art in the schoole of the Prince of darknesse and art not yet teachable by the Father of lights But if this veile of the old man be first removed by mortification thou shalt in the second place put on the new man wherein is the image of God light agreeable to his light and a love of him who is Love and of that which hee loves then God will delight in thee as a father in the son that resembles him and as a father his son he will delight to teach and nurture thee If thou keep this image cleare that God may see his face in it he will therein also see his covenant and seeing his covenant hee will take thee for his friend yea for his spouse and by all these as by so many cords of love hee will be drawne to teach thee Being thus pure in heart thou shalt see God thou shalt see him here guiding and teaching thee and hereafter in presentiall vision eternally blessing thee CHAP. IX A fourth step Conversing with God and diligent comming to his Schoole HEE that will bee taught of God must come diligently to his Teacher and meet him where when he useth to teach Now he teacheth both publikely in the great Assemblies and privately in the little Temples and Sanctuaries In the great Congregation his Spirit meets thee in the ministerie of the Word and in the seales of that Word and offers to write that Word in thy heart so that thou mayst see it plainly to be the wisedome of God and mayst see in it the wonderfull things of God Thou shalt see in the Word the mysteries which hee teacheth thee yea thine eyes in it shall see the Teacher himselfe for therein shalt thou see Christ lively set forth and offering his flesh his humanitie yea himselfe both God and man unto thee Such sights mayst thou see in this great Schoole of God being enlightened and taught by his Spirit which Spirit is a companion of the Word by the vertue of the New Covenant and by this Covenant we may claime and expect it from God Therefore is the New Covenant called The Ministerie of the Spirit in an excellencie above the Law which was called The Ministerie of the Letter And it is such indeed as it is called for while St. Peter taught the word to Cornelius and his friends the Spirit accompanied the Word and fell on them that heard it St. Paul also calls up the experience of the Galatians for a witnesse of this truth Received yee the Spirit by the works of the Law or by the hearing of Faith preached And indeed if this truth thus covenanted by God and actually made good by him were accordingly beleeved rested on thirsted after and expected God should bee more often heard speaking spirit and life with his Word in the inward eare and the Word should not dye so often in the outward eare or carnall heart for want of this Spirit It is an unvaluable losse that men doe so much divide the outward Teacher from the inward rest on the former without respect to the latter Whereas when wee goe to the outward Teacher which is man wee should set our eyes and hearts chiefly on the inward Teacher which is God wee should challenge him upon his covenant and promise saying and praying Remember thy promise to thy servant wherein thou hast made him to hope And therefore speake Lord that thy servant may heare for without thy speaking thy servant cannot heare Hee may heare the outward sound of the Word in his eare but he cannot heare the inward sense and power in his heart The outward Israel had seene the great wonders of God upon Aegypt they heard the thunders on mount Sinai yet neither did they see those wonders nor heare those thunders And Moses tells them how it came to passe when hee saith The Lord hath not given you eyes to see and eares to heare untill this day They thought their own eyes sufficient to see and their own eares to heare and resting in this insufficient sufficiencie God left them to it and so they did neither see nor heare for Gods works wonders and voyce can onely kindly and truely bee seene and heard by eyes and eares given of God from Heaven Know therefore thy owne insufficiencie yea the insufficiencie of the best Teacher in the world for who is sufficient for these things to teach thee inwardly what hee teacheth thee outwardly and know that the sufficiencie of inward teaching comes onely from God Therefore while thy outward eare expects the outward word of the outward Teacher let thy inward eare expect the inward teaching of the inward and highest Teacher For thus only may the planting though of Paul himselfe and the watering though of Apollos be made something even when God gives an increase which otherwise are nothing And being thus inwardly taught to profit and increase thou art taught according to the New Covenant for thou art taught of God Come therefore diligently to this schoole of his where hee useth thus to teach beleeve his Covenant and take it by beleeving And secondly That thou mayest the better beleeve and take it hee hath given thee seales of the New Covenant by which the New Covenant is presented unto thy faith sealed and confirmed By this confirmation and sealing thy faith should be increased and by the increase of thy faith thy union with Christ Jesus the Mediatour of the New Covenant will bee increased and by the increase of this Union there will bee an increase of the Spirit the promise of the New Covenant which knoweth the things of God and which will shew them more unto thee the more it is in thee When thou wast baptized into Christ thou didst put on Christ and when thou eatest the spirituall meat and drinkest the spirituall drinke in the Eucharist thou doest put him on more and more Thy being in Christ even thy new being which thou receivedst before thou doest now feed and nourish and bring forth into manhood And as thou growest into manhood thou knowest by the Apostles reason thou art enabled to grow in knowledge to be

THE HEAVENLY ACADEMIE Iam hic videte magnum Sacramentum fratres Magisteria forinsecus Adjutoria quaedam sunt Admonitiones Cathedram in Coelo habet qui corda docet Aug. Tract 3. in 1. Joan. LONDON Printed by Robert Young for Iohn Bartlet and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard neere St. Austins gate 1638. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN Lord ROBERTS Baron of Truco c. My Lord TO whom first as a Judge next as a Patron should a worke present it selfe that concernes both Universities but to a person that hath knowledge of both For the lower I thinke there are scarcely any that have more profited in it in no more time a diligent and apprehensive Learner having met with an able communicative Teacher And for the higher I thinke you know it well because you love it well Not to goe farre for a proofe the expressions of love which you have beene pleased to shew me did arise as I beleeve especially from this root because you thought me to be of that Universitie Now that for which another is loved must needs be loved it selfe and what is loved is knowne for what we know not we love not And in this love and knowledge I desire that your Lordship may still increase untill you come to the fountaine of knowledge and the finall full and transcendent object of all created love Towards this increase if the following work may give some advancement it shall adde much to the joy of him who is to Your Lordships especially spirituall service justly devoted F. Rous. The Preface IT is the just saying of an Ancient Prodere grata commemoratione decet scientiae patrem It is comely to acknowledge with thankfulnesse the Father of our knowledge If this be justly due from man unto man how much more due is it from man unto God For though man be called the father of those that are taught by him yet God is the Father of those fathers even a Teacher of those teachers and therefore by our Saviours judgement deserves only the name of Father in perfection and eminence Those then that have God to be a Father of knowledge to them should returne to this Father the praise and glorie of this knowledge The heavenly gifts of God when they move kindly and naturally doe move like the Heavens in a circular motion returning to that place and point from which they began first to move from God unto God They come from him as graces and returne to him in the shape of glorie Accordingly having received a measure of grace from this heavenly Teacher by which I am what I am I could not but acknowledge it and by this acknowledgement returne him glorie for grace And because I desire also that others may have the like grace that God also from others may have the like glorie I testifie to others that which I have felt and seene I have evidently seene and felt that men are taught of God and so there is a third school for the Students of Divinitie And as they passe from the Countrey-schoole to the Universitie so should they yet mount higher to a third even a Celestiall Academie And certainly as the second excels the first so much more doth the third excell the second Some perchance may answer with the Servant Son and Heire of the Great Elijah Hold your peace I know it already Yet those that know it will not envie that it be told to those that know it not There are sons of the Prophets that must grow up like young plants in the house of the Lord and those have a time when they know it not and this discourse may meet with that time Yea there may be some Masters in Israel into whose eares perchance it hath passed but not entered into their hearts that as a man must be borne so hee must be taught from above And if this naile be driven beyond hearing into knowledge experience and taste I hope no man will be sorrie for such a gaine Besides too true and common it is that the naturall heart of man willingly lies downe and takes up its rest in the abilities of Nature and fetcheth oracles from thence the cause of so many errours and differences the consequences of errours and therefore hath it need of such goads to awake it and to make it open the eye and eare to this heavenly Teacher It is most true that those who have not beene taught in this higher schoole of Grace but onely in the lower of Nature cannot well acknowledge that which they know not this schoole being best learned known and acknowledged by those whom it most teacheth And those who have beene well taught there doe well know that Christians are herein better than their neighbors even than the best of Pagans because they are taught by God the best most transcendent and infallible Teacher The heavenly Teacher teacheth them both what and how to beleeve he gives them his heavenly truths contained in his Word and gives them withall an heavenly mind to discerne beleeve and receive them And thus while a Christian holds his religion by an heavenly hand both are given him by an heavenly Teacher a Christians tenure of religion is far more noble excellent and assured than that of the Pagan A Christian thus taught from above beleeves and worships what he knowes whereas the Pagan worships what hee knowes not even that which be hath received only by the way of Nature from naturall deceived and deceiving men But the Christian hath a spirit from God in Christ Iesus for if any man have not the spirit of Christ he is not Christs and this Spirit gives him a spiritual eye which an Heathen hath not and yet this eye alone can truly and kindly discerne and see spirituall and heavenly truths And for this spirituall eye which the Christian hath from the Spirit of God the Heathens and Mahometans may say among themselves of a Christian as once an Heathen King said to his Heathen Subjects of Joseph Can wee find such a man as this a man in whom is the Spirit of God And that such Christians may abound is the end of this work which for ought I know hath not beene over-wrought nor thereby made superfluous and unseasonable for the present age I wish that fetching heavenly knowledge from carnall reason and humane wit have not made it too seasonable Yet to turn men back the more willingly from this counter-course I have brought forth patternes of some who have taught and professed a deniall of their own wits and reasons though acute and excellent and have as it were quenched their owne naturall lamps that they might get them kindled above by the Father of lights Yea thus did sundry of them even in those times when humane wit and reason had made too great a mixture with the mysteries of Divinitie Yet then did God preserve the soveraigntie of his owne light in eminence and glorie