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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58838	The life of God in the soul of man, or, The nature and excellency of the Christian religion with the method of attaining the happiness it proposes : and An account of the beginnings and advances of a spiritual life : in two letters written to persons of honour.	Scougal, Henry, 1650-1678.; Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1677 (1677)	Wing S2101; ESTC R2701	52,875	148

of the Eternal Son of God in taking our Nature upon him but only reflect on our Saviour's lowly and humble deportment while he was in the world He had none of those sins and imperfections which may justly humble the best of men but he was so intirely swallowed up with a deep sense of the infinite Perfections of God that he appeared as nothing in his own eyes I mean in so far as he was a Creature He considered those Eminent Perfections which shined in his Blessed Soul as not his own but the gifts of God and therefore assumed nothing to himself for them but with the profoundest humility renounced all pretences to them hence did he refuse that ordinary compellation of Good Master when address'd to his humane Nature by one who it seems was ignorant of his Divinity Why callest thou me Good saith he there is none good but God only As if he had said The goodness of any creature and such only thou takest me to be is not worthy to be named or taken notice of 't is God alone who is originally and essentially Good He never made use of his Miraculous Power for vanity or ostentation he would not gratifie the curiosity of the Jewes with a sign from Heaven some Prodigious appearance in the Air nor would he follow the advice of his Country-men and Kindred who would have had all his great Works performed in the eyes of the World for gaining him the greater fame but when his Charity had prompted him to the relief of the miserable his humility made him many times enjoyn the concealment of the Miracle and when the glory of God and the design for which he came unto the world required the publication of them he ascribed the honour of all to his Father telling them That of himself he was able to do nothing I cannot insist on all the instances of Humility in his deportment towards men his withdrawing himself when they would have made him a King his subjection not only to his Blessed Mother but to her husband during his younger years and his submission to all the indignities and affronts which his rude and malitious Enemies did put upon him the history of his holy Life recorded by those who conversed with him is full of such passages as these and indeed the serious and attentive study of it is the best way to get right measures of humility and all the other parts of Religion which I have been endeavouring to describe But now that I may lessen your trouble of reading a long Letter by making some pauses in it Let me here subjoyn a Prayer that might be proper when one who had formerly entertain'd some false notions of Religion begins to discover what it is A Prayer INfinite and Eternal Majestie Author and Fountain of Being and Blessedness how little do we poor sinful Creatures know of Thee or the way to serve and please Thee We talk of Religion and pretend unto it but alas how few are there that know and consider what it means how easily do we mistake the affections of our Nature and issues of self-love for those Divine Graces which alone can render us acceptable in thy sight It may justly grieve me to consider that I should have wandered so long and contented my self so often with vain shadows and false images of Piety and Religion yet I cannot but acknowledge and adore thy goodness who hast been pleased in some measure to open mine eyes and let me see what it is at which I ought to aim I rejoyce to consider what mighty improvements my Nature is capable of and what a Divine temper of spirit doth shine in those whom thou art pleased to choose and causest to approach unto thee Blessed be thine Infinite Mercy who sent thine own Son to dwell among men and instruct them by his Example as well as his Lawes giving them a perfect Pattern of what they ought to be O that the Holy Life of the Blessed Jesus may be alwayes in my thoughts and before mine eyes till I receive a deep sense and impression of those Excellent Graces that shined so eminently in him and let me never remit my endeavours till that new and Divine Nature prevail in my Soul and Christ be formed within me ANd now my dear Friend having discovered the nature of True Religion before I proceed any further it will not perhaps be unfit to fix our Meditations a little on the Excellency and advantages of it that we may be excited to the more vigorous and diligent prosecution of those Methods whereby we may attain so great a felicity But alas what words shall we find to express that inward satisfaction those hidden pleasures which can never be rightly understood but by those holy Souls who feel them a stranger intermeddleth not with their joy Holiness is the right temper the vigorous and healthful constitution of the Soul its faculties had formerly been enfeebled and disordered so that they could not exerce their natural functions it had wearied it self with endless tossings and rollings and was never able to find any rest now that distemper is removed and it feels it self well there is a due harmony in its faculties and a sprightly vigour possesseth every part the understanding can discern what is good and the will can cleave unto it the affections are not tyed to the motions of Sense and the influence of External objects but they are stirred by more Divine impressions are touched by a sense of invisible things Let us descend if you please into a nearer and more particular view of Religion in those several branches of it which were named before let us consider that love and affection wherewith holy Souls are united to God that we may see what Excellency and Felicity is involved in it Love is that powerful and prevalent passion by which all the faculties and inclinations of the Soul are determined and on which both its perfection and happiness doth depend The worth and excellency of a Soul is to be measured by the object of its love he who loveth mean and fordid things doth thereby become base and vile but a noble and well-placed affection doth advance and improve the spirit unto a confirmity with the perfections which it loves The images of these do frequently present themselves unto the Mind and by a secret force and energie insinuate into the very constitution of the Soul and mould and fashion it unto their own likeness Hence we may see how easily Lovers or Friends do slide unto the imitation of the person whom they affect and how even before they are aware they begin to resemble them not only in the more considerable instances of their deportment but also in their voice and gesture and that which we call their meen and air and certainly we should as well transcribe the vertues and inward beauties of the Soul if they were the object and motive of our love but now as all the