Divine meditations and holy contemplations. By that reverend divine R. Sibbes D.D. Master of…Divine meditations and holy contemplations. By that reverende divine R. Sibbes D.D. Master of…

By this Gods Works of Creation are slipped over, even from the Cedar, to the Hyssop that groweth on the wall.

By this Gods Workes of Creation are slipped over, even from the Cedar, to the Hyssope that groweth on the wall.

The Sun, the Moon, the Stars, shine without admiration, the sea and the earth, the fowls, fishes, beasts, and man himself, are all esteemed as common ⟨image 12⟩matters in Nature; thus God worketh those strange creatures, without that glory performed which is due, and his children receive not that comfort by the secret meditation of Gods creation as they might. Hence it proceedeth that they are often in their dumps, fearing, as though they enjoyed not the light; whereas if they would meditate and judge aright of their estates, they might find they are the Sons of God, & heirs of that rich kingdom most apparently known, and established in ⟨image 12⟩heaven, and shall suddenly possess the same, even then most likely, when their flesh thinketh it farthest off; as the Heir being within a month of his age, maketh such a reckoning of his lands, that no careful distress can trouble him; but this consideration being partly through Satan's, and partly through their own dullness and over-stupidness, they fare like men in a swound, and as it were bereaved of the very life of the Spirit, staggering under the burden of affliction, stammering in their godly ⟨image 13⟩profession, and cleaving sometimes unto the world; through this they carry Christs promises like comforts in a box, or as the Chirurgeon his salves in his bosom.

The Sunne, the Moone, the Starres, shine without admiration, the sea and the earth, the foules, fishes, beasts, and man himselfe, are all esteemed as common ⟨image 12⟩