Ashrea: or, The grove of beatitudes: represented in emblemes: and, by the art of memory, to be read on our blessed Saviour crucifi'd: with considerations & meditations suitable to every beatitude.
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- Ashrea: or, The grove of beatitudes: represented in emblemes: and, by the art of memory, to be read on our blessed Saviour crucifi'd: with considerations & meditations suitable to every beatitude.
- Author
- Manning, Edward.
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- London :: printed by J[ohn]. M[acock]. for W[illiam]. Place, at Grayes-Inn Gate in Holborne,
- 1665.
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- Meditations
- Beatitudes -- Commentaries
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"Ashrea: or, The grove of beatitudes: represented in emblemes: and, by the art of memory, to be read on our blessed Saviour crucifi'd: with considerations & meditations suitable to every beatitude." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89495.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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To the Lady M. B.
Madam,
IT is but just, this little Treatise should be par∣ticularly address'd to you, since I am to ac∣knowledge, that the pub∣lishing of it, at this time, is, partly, an effect of that en∣couragement, which you sometime gave me to do it. The GROVE, into which I invite you, is the same you thought pleasant, even upon the first view of it. In one respect, it is indeed but a little one, as consisting, in all,
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but of Eight Trees; but when you shall consider them, representing to you the Eight great Lessons of Christian Resignation, and those a∣gain exemplifi'd upon that Tree, whereon the great Work of Man's Redemption receiv'd its period, you will haply think it a place, where though you retire into it every day, you may find new and fresh delights, which you may so improve here, as to attain eternal ones hereafter.
I know, Madam, how con∣stant a practiser you are of the Virtues here recommended to you, and to what a height of pious exercises you are ar∣riv'd
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thereby; and conse∣quently, that your Appre∣hensions of Sacred Mysteries need not the assistances of vi∣sible Objects, so much as those of some others may, who, moving in a lower Sphear, derive from what they see, a deeper and more lively reflection on what they do not. If these Endeavours of mine may have an influence onely on these latter; if these Em∣blematical Representations be of some benefit and advant∣tage to any, though the least of God's Servants: I shall nei∣ther think them mis-bestow'd, nor be asham'd of their mean∣ness; since what is done tends
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to the Acquisition of future BEATITUDE, the End, in order to which, we have our present Being. That Bea∣tifical State ought to be the Object of our Thoughts, Wishes, Words, and Actions; How much I wish it to all, let this little Work; how particu∣rarly to your self, Madam, let the addressing of it to you, be my Witness: with this fur∣ther assurance, that I am,
Madam, Your most humble Servant, E. M.