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A45630	Horæ consecratæ, or, Spiritual pastime. concerning divine meditations upon the great mysteries of our faith and salvation : occasional meditations and gratulatory reflexions upon particular providences and deliverances, vouchsafed to the author and his family : also a scripture-catechisme dedicated to the service of his wife and children, and now published, together with other treatises mentioned in the following page for common use / by Sir James Harrington ...	Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680.; Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680. Meditations upon the creation, man's fall, and redemption by Christ.; Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680. Noah's dove.	1682 (1682)	Wing H803E_PARTIAL; Wing H815_PARTIAL; Wing H831_CANCELLED; ESTC R4540	368,029	493

a Glass darkly and imperfectly taken a view of the Land of Promise the Inheritance of the Saints in light and presented to the Lord and to his Spouse the Church what discoveries he hath in great mercy given me as concerning Eternal Life that last and great Article of the Christian faith begun visibly in the Saints glorified condition in the new Heaven and new Earth and continued unto Eternity in the Heaven of Heavens Wherein concluding with the glorification and blessed use and exercise of our Tongues in that happy state I thought it proper both as to the general subject I have been upon as being the Vision exercise and Tryumph of Faith and as to the subject matter both lauditory to God and declarative to one another about which our Tongues shall in our renewed life be imployed to declare in this life with all humility and thankfulness of Heart and Tongue to both which my Pen is but the Secretary in the Ejaculatory part of that Meditation what by faith I behold and am assured from the Word of Truth shall come to pass here and be injoyed by me and all Gods Elect in the life to come and shall be there a blessed Subject of our praises to all Eternity In which Song of 12. parts or Jacobs Laddar of 12. Staves whose foot stands upon Earth and top reaches to Heaven we may by faith ascend beginning here upon Earth in this present Year of our Lord 1666. by twelve successive Steps wonderfull and most signal periods noted afore in the Margint to the last and highest ascent the Glorification of the Saints in the Heavens Being now come to Hercules Pillars the Ne-plus ultra of Faith beyond which all sacred Scripture the light of Faith is silent I can proceed nor walk any further in these Contemplations lest walking without a Light I fall into the Darkness of Error It being alike sinfull curiosity and presumption to inquire what God will do after this silence When time shall be no longer as to ask what he did before time was and before this World was Created Wherefore I shall here conclude these my imperfect Meditations and with all humility and reverence return all Honour Glory and Praise to thee O glorious Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity Father Son and Holy Ghost one God blessed for ever for thy most gracious assistance by the light of thy Word and Spirit in this great Work a subject too weighty for Angels how much more for me a simple sinfull and weak Worm Lord I acknowledge that whatsoever is good right and true in this Treatise is of and from thee who art Goodness Light and Truth and to thee alone belongs the praise and that whatsoever therein is Hay or Stuble is mine who humbly takes shame therefore and Petitions for thy free pardon in my Lord Christ Jesus beseeching thee that in the assurance of thy love and mercy in him and in the faith light and assurance of thy glorious Truths herein declared out of thy Word I may with Holy Job all the Days of my appointed time wait until my Change come And with zealous Paul desire to depart and to be with Christ that so my faith and hope may be swallowed up in the possession of thee and Vision may be changed into fruition Thy Spirit and thy Bride say come And let him that heareth say come Thou O Lord that testifieth these things sayest Surely I come quickly Amen Even so come Lord Jesus The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us all Amen Soli Deo Gloria An Advertisement by the Author to the Reader FOr the more cleer and fuller proof of the Twelve great things mentioned in the Conclusion of this Work I refer the Reader to my Treatise almost ready to be published Entitled An humble Exposition of most of the Scripture-Prophesies concerning Twelve great Periods to be fulfilled to the Church beginning to be manifested in the Year 1666. and concluding with the end of our Lords Mediatory Kingdome and the Translation of the Saints to the highest Heavens FINIS AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE Of the Things contained in the TREATISE Intitulated MEDITATIONS ON FAITH A. THe Affections lose their appetite if ye do but change the object viz. Spiritual for Temporal Page 4 Christs Agony as described should much act upon our spirits Page 27 The use and abuse of the Affections Page 45 46 All Arts and Sciences are in the Scripture as Metaphysick Phylosophie Astronomy Chronologie Rhetorick c. Page 71 Christs answer to the soul complaining of her Affections Page 81 The Antiquity of the Scriptures Page 102 Of the Affections glorified Page 151 Of holy Anger glorified Page 160 A Soliloquium upon it Page 161 An Ejaculation upon it Page 161 A caution against blotting Assurance Page 185 B. The Body of man like the pool of Bethesda with its five Porches Page 22 The curse and judgement of the Body Page 52 The Souls complaint against the Body with Christs answer Page 88 89. c. Of the Body glorified Page 164 Of the spirituality and swiftness of our Bodies at the Resurrection Page 169 A soliloquium and ejaculation on those two qualities of the Body Page 170 The glorious shining of the Body at the Resurrection Page 171 A soliloquium on that shining of the Body Page 173 Item an ejaculation upon it Page 174 Of the Immortality of the Body glorified Page 175 C. The Certain condition of man is to be uncertain Page 8 A man may be a Conduit-pipe to others and be a Vessel of dishonour himself Page 15 17 Of Christs Death and Burial Page 33 34 His victory over Hell Page 35 His Resurrection Page 36 His Ascension Page 38 Man in respect of Conscience is as one possessed Page 42 A Contemplation on love Page 47 A Contemplation on the insatisfaction in Riches Honours Pleasures Wisdom Page 49 A Contemplation on fear Page 51 A Contemplation on the sinfulness of the Eyes Ears Nostrils Taste and Touch Page 56 Of Christs Priestly Office Page 57 The occasion of Christs Priest-hood Page 58 A Contemplation upon Christs Priest-hood Page 60 Of Christs satisfaction Page 61 Christs answer to the poor soul complaining of his Conscience Page 75 The souls general Complaint answered by Christ Page 85 86 The souls Complaint against her Senses Tongue and Members of her body and Christs answer to it Page 88 89 A meditation on the excellency of Christs person Page 99 Against Coveteousness Page 123 An Ejaculation upon the glorious Change of the body at the Resurrection Page 185 D. Demas described Page 14 A Dialogue between Christ and the poor complaining soul in many particulars which Christ answers and satisfies Page 74 Our victory by Christ over Death Page 130 Our victory over the fear of Death Page 132 Our victory over the pain and separation by Death Page 133 All things fall short of the Duration of glorified Bodies and Souls and the high

principle thereof Page 180 181 A soliloquium upon that Duration Page 182 The Destruction of Christs enemies Page 242 E. An Ejaculation for Grace Page 21 An Ejaculation on Christs sufferings Page 30 The sinfulness of the Eyes Page 53 The sinfulness of the Ears with a contemplation on them Page 54 Of Eternal life Page 146 The destruction of Christs Enemies Page 242 F. The Fundamental graces Page 2 The definition of Faith Page 3 The means of Faith Page 21 Christ the Son of God the object of Faith Page 22 The palsie of Fear Page 50 A contemplation on Fear Page 51 Of Forgiveness of sins Page 63 Our victory over the Fear of Death Page 132 133 The affection of Fear glorified Page 153 G. Of the understanding Glorified Page 148 Of the will Glorified Page 149 A contemplation upon them both Page 150 Of the Memory Glorified Page 150 Of the Affections Glorified Page 151 Of Love Glorified Page 151 Of Fear Glorified Page 153 A soliloquium on Love and Fear Glorified Page 155 Item an Ejaculation upon them Page 155 Of Anger Glorified Page 160 Of Joy Glorified Page 162 Of the Body Glorified Page 164 Of the Senses Glorified Page 188 The destruction of Gog and Magog and the World by fire at Christs second coming Page 243 H. Honour distinguished and defined Page 5 Many good qualities spoyled by Hypocrisie exemplyfied in Saul Page 9 Hypocrisie deciphered to the life Page 13 Historical faith Page 4 A short History of the life of Christ Page 24 25 A senceless Hard-heart most dangerous Page 43 44 Christs answer to the complaint of a hard Heart Page 76 Honour one of the worlds Darts to wound souls Page 119 Of the sense of Hearing glorified Page 199 An ejaculation upon the glorification of the sense of Hearing Page 203 I. Judas described Page 16 Infidelity the first means of Death Page 20 Joy distinguished and described Page 48 No true Joy in riches Page 48 No true Joy in honours Page 48 No true Joy in pleasures Page 48 No true Joy in humane wisdom Page 49 The consolation in Christs Intercession Page 60 Of Justification Page 62 The necessity of It Page 68 Of Imputative righteousness Page 62 The Definition and Exposition of it Page 64 Christs answer to the Soul complaining against Joy Page 81 82 Christs Kingly-Office at the last Judgment Page 139 A short Application of Comfort against fear of the last Judgment Page 142 Of Joy glorified Page 162 The Conversion of Israel Page 240 The day of Judgment beginning with the rewarding of the Saints and ending with the judging of the wicked Page 244 K. The happiness of Divine Knowledg consists mostly in Fruition Page 7 Of Christs Kingly-Office now Page 93 Kings called Pastours and the Application of it Page 96 97 Of Christs Kingly-office at the last Judgement Page 139 Of Christ Victorious Kingdom Page 242 The end of Christs Mediatory Kingdom Page 246 L. Mans natural Light is comparatively darkness Page 12 A lawful and useful Love of Self Page 16 Gods Love infinitely excels mans Page 33 The commendation and corruption of Love Page 47 Christs answer to the souls complaint against Love ●1 The commendation of Gods Laws Page 101 Lust one of the Worlds darts to wound souls Page 117 Of Life Eternal Page 146 Of the affection of Love glorified Page 151 A watch to be set on the Lips Page 233 M. Miraculous faith Page 15 Mans Misery by Nature Page 41 His Mind dark as with Egytian darkness Page 41 The earthly-minded Man the only Melancholy man Page 49 Christs answer to the poor Souls complaint against its unfaithful Memory Page 78 79 Of the Memory glorified Page 150 The end of Christs Mediatory Kingdom Page 246 N. All Natural Mysteries and the Knowledge of them shall be discovered and hightened at the Resurrection Page 149 O. An Objection that God might have confirmed man as he did the fallen Angels answered Page 68 The weak Believers Objections answered Page 73 The souls Objection it cannot hear because dead answered by Christ Page 73 The souls Objection that the expressions of Comfort in Scripture are too general answered by Christ Page 73 An Objection that professors being forbidden sensual pleasures are of all men most miserable answered Page 125 P. Poverty distinguished and deciphered Page 26 Of Christs Priestly-Office Page 57 Of his Prophetical-Office Page 70 All Revelations flows thence Page 70 A Contemplation upon it Page 70 Our Protection by Christ Page 106 Persecution one of the worlds Darts to wound profession of Religion Page 120 An Expostulation touching Persecution Page 121 Against sensual Pleasures Page 124 The forbidding sensual Pleasures doth not as the Laodicean thinks make Professors of all men most miserable Page 125 An Antidote against Persecution Page 128 The ruine of the Papacy Page 240 Q. General Questions answered 1. Why God doth not in the same instant call justifie sanctifie and glorifie his Elect 2. Why God doth not build up that wide breach which sin hath made in mans Nature Page 67 R. Imputative Righteousness defined and expounded Page 64 Proofs of our right in Christs Imputative Righteousness Page 65 Riches is one of the worlds Darts to wound souls Page 118 Proofs and comfort in the Resurrection Page 135 Of the Ruine of Rome Page 239 S. The Soul is never unimployed Page 1 The sinful use of Smelling Page 54 Of Christs Satisfaction Page 61 The Souls complaint against the Senses answered by Christ Page 88 89 The commendation of the Scriptures from the Authour Antiquity and Holiness thereof Page 101 102 103 Christs protection of us from Satan Page 107 His protection of us from Sin Page 108 109 110 111 112 Against Sensual pleasures Page 124 A Soliloquium on the affections of love fear glorified Page 155 Of the Senses glorified Page 188 Of the sense of Seeing glorified Page 195 A soliloquium upon that Sense Page 197 An ejaculation upon that Sense Page 198 Of the sense of Smelling glorified Page 210 A soliloquium upon that sense of Smelling glorified Page 213 An ejaculation upon the sense of Smelling glorified Page 214 T. Temporary faith Page 8 The sinfulness of the Taste Page 55 The sinfulness of the Touch Page 55 The souls complaint against the Tongue and Christs answer to it Page 88 89 Of the sense of Tasting glorified Page 205 A soliloquium upon the glorified sense of Tasting Page 207 An ejaculation upon it Page 209 Of the sense of Touching glorified Page 215 ●n inference whether spiritual bodies as Angels may not be Tangible by spiritual humane glorified bodies at the Resurrection Page 215 216 A soliloquium upon the Touch glorified Page 218 An ejaculation upon the Touch glorified Page 220 237 Of the Tongue glorified Page 222 A soliloquium upon the Tongue glorified Page 232 Against cursing swearing and wicked or vain Talking Page 234 The destruction of the great Turk Page 241 The binding of the Devil for a Thousand years Page 241

The Saints peaceable Reign for a Thousand years Page 243 The Translation of the Saints to Heaven Page 246 U. Christs answer to the poor soul complaining of his Understanding Page 7● A Contemplation upon our Victory by Christ over Honours Covetousness Voluptuousness persecution Page 129 Of the Understanding glorified Page 148 Of Christs Victorious Kingdom Page 242 W. The excellency of the Word Page 1● The great dependance of the Will on other faculties Page 4● Against free Will Page 45 The souls complaint against the Will answered by Christ Page 8● Christs victory over the World Page 11● The Worlds darts by which it wounds souls Page 11● Of the Will glorified Page 14● A Watch to be set upon the Lips Page 238 Twelve Wonderful Works of God to be fulfilled Page 239 Of the raising of the Witnesses Page 23● X.   Y. The binding of the Devil for a thousand Years Page 241 The Saints peaceable reign for a thousand Years Page ●43 Z. Of Zeal glorified Page 15● Zeal not a simple grace but the intense degree of every grac● Page 156 A soliloquium on glorified Zeal Page 159 An ejaculation and commendation of glorified Zeal Page 159 FINIS Place this before the Scripture-Catechisme at Folio 259 THE EPISTLE TO HIS Entirely beloved Wife and Twelve dear Children and to their Childrens Children until the second coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. MOst affectionately indeared Wife and Children one with me by Nature and by Grace who therefore may challenge and lay claim to my especial care love and respects besides the discharge of my duty to God who hath placed you under my circumspection and government and commands my const●●t utmost and unwearied endeavours in order to your Eternal Salvation What my continued pains and frequent watching over you have been whilst I was present with you your selves and the rest of my Family will witness as to Weekly Catechizing Morning and Evening expounding the Holy Scriptures and praying with you besides my constant Repetition of Sermons preparation and particular examination of you on the Lord's Day and Monthly Sacraments and often remembrance of you 〈◊〉 to your Daily exercise of private Prayers reading of the Scriptures and the Works of God's faithful Ministers O let not my above Twenty Years labours be in vain to any one of you ●ay which is far worse be a great aggrevation both of your sin and punishment should ye offend and rebel against so much light and means and neglect so great salvation But most dearly beloved I believe and hope better things of you and things that accompany Salvation although I thus speak And therefore during my above Seven Tears Exile and separation from you I have not ceased to put you in remembrance of your duty to God and to stir you up by Letters to the continuance in well doing since you shall reap Glory and Eternal Life if you faint not but persevere and continue therein constant to the end Witness that large Epistle sent unto you dated from Antwerp January the first 1665. Wherein from the Mouth of our most blessed Saviour as being in a manner all his words you are exhorted to and instructed in what things you are to believe and to practise what you are to imbrace and what to eschew as to grace and vertue and as to vice and error which I earnestly desire you yea charge you as a Husband and a Father to read often over or at least once a Quarter Which were it not all Scripture and through the grace and mercy of God skimmed and digested for your edification I should not by this recommendation have presumed to put so high a value upon it Since which time having by God's gracious assistance finished this Treatise of Faith being destitute of Worldly gifts to bestow up on you That in discharge of my duty to God and to you I may still continue and express my conjugal and paternal affection respectively to the Souls of you all I have directed and dedicated it to you and yours desiring and requiring your frequent and serious perusal of it as being for the subject matter the most sublime and holding forth the glorious knowledge of the only Infinite and most high God and the wonderful and high Mysteries of Man's Salvation as they are manifested in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ who is here lively represented both to the eye and to the exercise of your faith begining with the promise to Adam and Man's fall and misery and proceeding to his Incarnation Life Death and Passion Resurrection and Assension and the exercise of his Three-fold Office as Priest and the Prophet and King with all benefits from them with his Kingdom considered in its several degrees and administrations first as it was legal and spiritual under the Law Secondly purely spiritual under the Gospel Thirdly as it shall be victorious over Sathan and Worldly enemies in this latter Age of the World Fourthly peaceable holy and righteous during the Sabbatisms the Saints Reign a thousand years upon Earth Fifthly glorious after the Resurrection of the Elect and their Reign with Christ personally a Thousand Years upon the renewed Earth Sixthly Judicial begining at Christ's second coming under which the Saints are rewarded and all the wicked raised judged condemned and cast into the Local Hell together with the evil Angels Seventhly Eternally glorious when Christ's Mediatory Kingdom being expired delivered up to the Father that God may be all in all the Saints shall be translated into the highest Heavens that they may there Reign live with God and Christ the Head of the Saints and Angels for ever and for ever As the subject matter hath a preheminence as being a discourse of things most excellent above others the knowledge beliefe and saving application thereof to your souls is of all exercises the most excellent profitable and delightful since without faith and the true knowledge of God in Christ there is no light joy peace rest happiness to your souls here nor in the life to come salvation And to have revealed to you the great misteries and secret counsel of God together with their wonderful products to the end of the World and Scripture-manifestation which are bid from the ungodly but discovered by the light of his Word in the Prophets in and by his spirit to those that fear him is of all speculative knowledge to Christians the most pleasant useful and encouraging as being through an assured hope that Helmet of Salvation which will carry you victoriously through all difficulties and opposition to triumph in endless glory together with what I have ●●re sum'd up as the substance and body of this Treatise I have ●lso intermixt methodically many Soliloquies and Ejaculatory Pe●●tions as necessary to conclude several principal heads in these Meditations which I earnestly desire you to make a frequent and sin●●re use and application of praying you to make them yours as well as mine and beseech the Lord that

of God for thy Salvation and the voice of God for thy acceptation Who but an experienced Christian can express the sweet of these yet how far short are his expressions of these streams of comforts which flow through the Priestly Office to every true Believer from the unexhaustible Fountain of Gods mercy What spots doth not this wash off What soares doth not this Jordan heal Yea what lameness and imperfection doth not this Bethesda cure O the consolation of Christs intercession in this imperfect state of grace Is my love weak and unstable as Water This love O Saviour is stronger than Death Is my obedience imperfect By thy obedience many are made righteous Is my zeal defective Lord Thy zeal of thy House hath eaten thee up Is my Faith small and subject to doubting O Saviour thou wilt give a blessing even to a grain of Faith as of Mustard-Seed And hast promised not to quench the smoaking Flax nor to break the bruised Reed Is my Prayer full of weakness ignorance and imperfection Thy Spirit it self maketh request for us with sighs which cannot be expressed Yea thou art entred into the very Heaven of Heavens to appear now in the sight of God ever living there to make Intercession for us To conclude Is my inherent righteousness imperfect And am I a transgressor of the Law Thy imputative righteousness is perfect and thou art a fulfiller of the Law For thou art the end of the Law for righteousness unto every one that believeth Yea that all further objections may be answered that all other defects may appear supplied behold here a gift as large as Mans wants and as full of mercy as he of sin Christ Jesus of God is made unto us wisdome and righteousness and sanctification and redemption Our Saviour Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life that Jacob's Ladder whose foot as expressing his humanity toucheth the Earth and whose top as respecting his Divinity reacheth unto Heaven This threefold office may be considered as the parts of this Heavenly ascent Upon whose first degree my faith which is the eye the hand and the foot of the Soul hath begun to ascend It remains now that I mount the next staff belonging to his Priestly office which is satisfaction the inseparable consequent of which is Justification The parts of which forgiveness of sins and imputation of righteousness do necessarily follow the former Our mercifull High Priest and Redeemer satisfying by suffering that our sins for which he suffered might be forgiven fulfilling the Law is continually interceding that his righteousness might be to us imputed So that to our comfort and confirmation be it spoken that when faith hath gaind footing upon satisfaction and intercession it must needs have hand-hold on remission and imputation Can the Lord be less righteous than Man Doth not the cancelling of the Bond succeed the absolving of the debt The satisfaction and releasement of the Prisoner follow the not guilty of the Jury O the perfection of all the ways of God especially of this his great work towards the Children of Men wherein mercy and justice do sweetly kiss each other He being just towards Man in his fall into Death that he might be mercifull in raising him to life And that he might spare his adopted Sons he spares not his only begotten Son O what is Man that thou art mindfull of him or the Son of Man that thou visitest him To proceed Justification by some Divines made an act of Christs Kingly office is that mercifull and yet just sentential act of God the Father whereby a believer is absolved from sin and death and the inherent righteousness of Christ is imputed unto the faithfull applyer for the attaining of life everlasting Hereby waving our debt and supplying our want at once delivering us from guilt and corruption Behold here is an Olive Branch which faith the Dove of the Soul brings home unto it in the time of Gods vengeance and in the midst of the great Waters of Sin Here 's a Golden Scepter held forth by the incensed King of Kings to every faithfull and humbled Esther Now I may say to my Soul as once the multitude to the blind Man See he calls thee Not in his strong Wind by which he rents the Mountains of pride Not in his Earth-quake by which he shakes secure and presumptuous sinners No nor yet in his consuming Fire with which he devours unexcusable Hypocrites But in his mercy even with a still small voice of compassion and pardon O my Soul Thou art not come unto the Mount that burnd with Fire and that might be touched nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest nor to hear the voice of those words which voice they that heard entreated that the Word should not be spoken to them any more But thou art come to Mount Sion and to an innumerable company of Angels and to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant and to the blood of Sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel and to God the Judge of all whom thou maist hear with comfort proclaiming Himself unto thee as once before Moses thus The Lord the Lord God mercifull and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity transgression and sin Forgiving sin O what good news is this unto my Soul How truly is this called the glad tidings of the Gospel Tell me yee which shall hereafter read my thoughts even from the testimony of your own Souls For only experience can make you fit Judges in this case If there be any joy like to the joy of a justified sinner Any blessing like that of David Can I consider into how fearfull an estate sin hath cast me and unto what punishment Justice hath condemned me and not from thence proportion out and acknowledge the greatness of this deliverance Doth not the truth-speaking Word of God which is neither cruel nor partial tell me that I am a sinner For there is no Man that sinneth not That I am a debtor Since we must all pray forgive us our debts That I am a condemned Person For by the offence of one judgment came upon all Men to condemnation That I am a bond-slave to death and to him that hath the Power of Death the Devil all my life time being subject to bondage That I am a dead Man For We are all dead in sins and trespasses That I am an enemy to God and Christ and lastly by nature a Child of Wrath And shall I account remission of all my offences Satisfaction of all my arrearages Liberty from servitude Life in stead of death Nay more resurrection from death no mercy Can my powerfull Enemy be made my friend and Father my irefull Judge become my Mediator and Saviour and I not highly favoured gratiously yea