The narrow path of divine truth described from living practice and experience of its three great steps, viz Purgation, illumination & union according to the testimony of the holy scriptures; as also of Thomas a Kempis, the German divinity, Thauler, and such like. Or the sayings of Matthew Weyer reduced into order in three books by J. Spee. Unto which are subjoyned his practical epistles, done above 120 years since in the Dutch, and after the author's death, printed in the German language at Frankfort 1579. And in Latin at Amsterdam 1658. and now in English.

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The narrow path of divine truth described from living practice and experience of its three great steps, viz Purgation, illumination & union according to the testimony of the holy scriptures; as also of Thomas a Kempis, the German divinity, Thauler, and such like. Or the sayings of Matthew Weyer reduced into order in three books by J. Spee. Unto which are subjoyned his practical epistles, done above 120 years since in the Dutch, and after the author's death, printed in the German language at Frankfort 1579. And in Latin at Amsterdam 1658. and now in English.

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Weyer, Matthias, 1521-1560.

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London :: printed for Ben Clark in George-Yard in Lombard street,

1683.

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Letters -- Early works to 1800.

Christian literature -- Early works to 1800.

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"The narrow path of divine truth described from living practice and experience of its three great steps, viz Purgation, illumination & union according to the testimony of the holy scriptures; as also of Thomas a Kempis, the German divinity, Thauler, and such like. Or the sayings of Matthew Weyer reduced into order in three books by J. Spee. Unto which are subjoyned his practical epistles, done above 120 years since in the Dutch, and after the author's death, printed in the German language at Frankfort 1579. And in Latin at Amsterdam 1658. and now in English." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A96266.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• A. D. To the Reader.
• THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
• THE SAYINGS OF Mat, VVyer,
  • The First Book.
    • CHAP. 1.
    • CHAP. II.
    • CHAP. III.
    • CHAP. IIII.
    • CHAP. V.
    • CHAP. VI.
    • CHAP. VII.
    • CHAP. VIII.
    • CHAP. IX.
    • CHAP. X.
    • CHAP. XI.
    • CHAP. XII.
    • CHAP. XIII.
    • CHAP. XIIII.
    • CHAP. XV.
    • CHAP. XVI.
    • CHAP. XVII.
    • CHAP. XVIII.
    • CHAP. XIX.
    • CHAP. XX.
    • CHAP. XXI.
    • CHAP. XXII.
    • CHAP. XXIII.
    • CHAP. XXIIII.
    • CHAP. XXV.
    • CHAP. XXVI.
    • CHAP. XXVII.
    • CHAP. XXVIII.
    • CHAP. XXIX.
    • CHAP. XXX.
    • CHAP. XXXI.
    • CHAP. XXXII.
    • CHAP. XXXIII.
    • CHAP. XXXIIII.
    • CHAP. XXXV.
    • CHAP. XXXVI.
    • CHAP. XXXVII.
  • THE SAYINGS OF Mat. VVyer, The Second Book.
    • CHAP. I.
    • CHAP. II.
    • CHAP. III.
    • CHAP. IIII.
    • CHAP. V.
    • CHAP. VI.
    • CHAP. VII.
    • CHAP. VIII.
    • CHAP. IX.
    • CHAP. X.
    • CHAP. XI.
    • CHAP. XII.
    • CHAP. XIII.
    • CHAP. XIV.
    • CHAP. XV.
    • CHAP. XVI.
    • CHAP. XVII.
  • THE SAYINGS OF Mat, VVyer, The Third Book.
    • CHAP. I.
    • CHAP. II.
    • CHAP. III.
    • CHAP. IIII.
    • CHAP. V.
    • CHAP. VI.
    • CHAP. VII.
    • CHAP. VIII.
    • CHAP. IX.
    • CHAP. X.
    • CHAP. XI.
    • CHAP. XII.
    • CHAP. XIII.
    • CHAP. XIV.
    • CHAP. XV.
    • CHAP. XVI.
    • CHAP. XVII.
    • CHAP. XVIII.
    • CHAP. XIX.
    • CHAP. XX.
    • CHAP. XXI.
    • CHAP. XXII.
    • CHAP. XXIII.
    • CHAP. XXIV.
    • CHAP. XXV.
    • CHAP. XXVI.
    • CHAP. XXVII.
    • CHAP. XXVIII.
    • CHAP. XXIX.
    • CHAP. XXX.
    • CHAP. XXXI. Concerning the exercise of Prayer.
    • CHAP. XXXII.
    • CHAP. XXXIII.
    • CHAP. XXXIV.
    • CHAP. XXXV.
    • CHAP. XXXVI. Containing the last Exhortation of Matthew Wyer, and his Departure out of this life.
• title page
• TO THE READER.
• THE EPISTLES OF Mat. VVyer.
  • EPIST. I. By what means we may come to the clear perception of divine Grace.
  • EPIST. II. Concerning the most subtil craftiness of Hu∣mane Nature.
  • EPIST. III. A Preparation to the entrance into the pro∣mises of God.
  • EPIST. IV. That, by true internal poverty, we come nearer to the Lord, then by any imagi∣nary riches whatever.
  • EPIST. V. For what end the Scripture was given, and how we ought most exactly to satisfie con∣science, also concerning the difference between humane righteousness, and that which availeth before God.
  • EPIST. VI. Being a Christian exhortation, which con∣taineth many points, very useful and profitable to all Christians.
  • EPIST. VII. Which is the true way of coming unto Christ, very useful for Youth.
  • EPIST. VIII. How any one who is studious concerning the way of the Lord ought dayly to exercise himself.
  • EPIST. IX. How one may arrive and come at the best portion which is God himself, thorough many tribulations.
  • EPIST. X. A brief information, how a man who begins with zeal, is used to be lead thorough continual sufferings, and conflicts: and what kind of fruit are at last brought forth from those dolours.
  • EPIST. XI. An admonition how Youth may be put off from the world, and how it ought to seek the Lord with all modesty.
  • EPIST. XII. How all things are to be accepted from the hand of the Lord with true Submission.
  • EPIST. XIII. An Exhortation raised from that considera∣tion, that whatever is without God, tend∣eth to eternal death, and destruction, and how we ought always to set the di∣vine judgment before our eyes.
  • EPIST. XIV. A brief Instruction how any one may in due order arrive at Regeneration, and whence it is, the new creature may have its Original.
  • EPIST. XV. How Youth is to be supported during its weakness.
  • EPIST. XVI. A fair admonition to his Cosin German; wherein he very greatly demonstrates a most tender care of his Soul, hitherto had with solicitousness.
  • EPIST. XVII. A wholsome Admonition, in what steps the progress of the Just doth consist, with a Conclusion concerning Esau and Jacob.
  • EPIST. XVIII. Being a most excellent admonition concern∣ing the Education of Youth: together with that wide difference, wherein the old Philosophers are far distant from Christians.
  • EPIST. XIX. That there is a certain especial difference between the exalted rational Zeal, and the Zeal that is pure and Christian.
  • EPIST. XX. An acknowledgment concerning the disputa∣tion held at Francfort between John Calvin, and Justus Velsius, of the power of Man, or of free-will.
  • EPIST. XXI. The difference between Repentance and Re∣generation, in relation to a little book of Diederick Phillips, which was printed concerning the New Creature.
  • EPIST. XXII. Being a fundamental Relation, in what properly consisteth the Oeconomical Go∣vernment of the Family of Love.
  • EPIST. XXIII. A further consideration concerning the opi∣nion of H. N.
  • EPIST. XXIV. Being a brief argument, that the founda∣tion of the family of Love is laid and built upon carnal liberty.
  • EPIST. XXV. Concerning the Opinion of Plato.
  • EPIST. XXVI. A Christian consideration concerning the Re∣surrection.
  • EPIST. XXVII. A faithful Admonition concerning the Re∣surrection of the Flesh.
  • EPIST. XXVIII. Being a most beautiful Admonition, very pro∣fitable as unto the death and departure of Nature.
  • EPIST. XXIX. How a purified mind ought to bear without any commotion, the failings of his Neigh∣bour with all patience.
  • EPIST. XXX. How a Noble Plant springeth up out of the Dead Seed, through the Divine fuitful∣ness.
  • EPIST. XXXI. Concerning the right uncloathing of self, and of the yielding up of the soul in all sufferings.
  • EPIST. XXXII. Concerning the death of all created things, and of all those which are born out of them.
  • EPIST XXXIII. How ignorant Nature well stumble in much disputing, and will comdemn its neighbour: also how the sense of all Scriptures ought to be apprehended in our own selves un∣der the cross.
  • EPIST. XXXIV. Concerning a certain danger that hung over that place, by reason of persecution, un∣to which he was about to go.
  • EPIST. XXXV. An answer sent to his brother, concerning a woman that dyed, also concerning his own condition, together with a devout ex∣hortation.