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<P>SPIRITUAL FLOWERS FOR SAINTS AND SINNERS.</P>
<P>Gathered out of the Garden of the &s;acred Scriptures, and Writings of Men famous in their Generations.</P>
<P>By ROBERT PORT Mi|ni&s;ter of the Go&s;pel of JESUS CHRIST.</P>
<Q><BIBL>Eccle&s;. 12. ver. 11.</BIBL> <HI>The words of the wi&s;e are as goades and nayles fa&s;tned by the Ma&s;ters of A&s;|&s;emblies.</HI></Q>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>G. Daw&s;on</HI> for <HI>George Sawbridge,</HI> at the Sign of the <HI>Bible</HI> upon <HI>Ludgate-hill.</HI> 1655.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
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<HEAD>THE EPISTLE TO THE READER.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Courteous Reader.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Pre&s;&s;e (I confe&s;s) is overpre&s;&s;ed with &s;ome worthle&s;&s;e works (as I may call them) raw Eructa|tions of each petty Pamphle|tor, and Readers are cloy'd and &s;urfeited on variety in that kind. And Cen&s;ure being &s;o bu&s;ie
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every where (bla&s;ting hopeful labours in the very bud) might make me &s;u&s;pect this of mine. Yet at an adventure (among &s;uch a throng of Writers as pe|&s;ter the world) I'le croud in for company.</P>
<P>This Book, thus compos'd and dige&s;ted into heads, was intended to have attended my &s;ervice alone for ever, but that &s;ome worthy friends, who&s;e ju|dicious eye might becken me along to any good de&s;ign, atte&s;ted &s;eriou&s;ly, it would be very &s;erviceable to Church and Common-wealth, for the ad|vance of holine&s;s. Whereupon I began to think with my &s;elf (as the four Lepers, 2 <HI>King.</HI> 7. 8, 9.) I &s;hould not do well to hide or bury any thing, which might do others good, and
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therefore I have now adventu|red to publi&s;h it. Yet let it not render the mode&s;ty of this Book &s;u&s;pected, becau&s;e it pre&s;umes to appear in company unmaned by any Patron: if right, it will defend it &s;elf; if wrong, none can defend it.</P>
<P>And now I be&s;eech thee (as well by my Epi&s;tle, as by my Book) labour to keep clo&s;e to God in a loo&s;e Age; &s;pend not thy time in complaining of the licentiou&s;ne&s;s of the time, in the mean time &s;etting up a toleration in thine own heart and life.</P>
<P>Take heed in plea&s;ing thy &s;elf in a bare formall profe&s;&s;i|on; labour to be rooted in Chri&s;t, he who is but a vi&s;ible Chri&s;tian, may in a &s;hort time cea&s;e to be &s;o much as vi&s;ible,
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He who &s;peaks of Chri&s;t but notionally, may in time be won to &s;peak again&s;t him.</P>
<P>Lay the foundation of morti|fication deep.</P>
<P>Love not the world.</P>
<P>Re&s;erve no lu&s;t from the &s;troak of Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Beware of &s;candals; take them not where they are; make them not, where they are not (the common &s;in of our times, to black Religion and the Re|ligious, and then to fear and hate both.)</P>
<P>De&s;pi&s;e not the providences of God in the world; they are &s;igns of Gods mind, though not of his love.</P>
<P>Delight in the publick Ordi|nances, and highly e&s;teem of faithful Mini&s;ters; they and
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Religion are commonly bla&s;ted together.</P>
<P>Shun &s;educers; &s;it down un|der a Mini&s;ter as well as under a Preacher.</P>
<P>He who will hear every one, may at length be brought to hear none, <HI>Prov.</HI> 19. 27.</P>
<P>And he who will hear him preach, who ought not, may &s;oon be left to learn that which he ought not.</P>
<P>Pre&s;erve a tender con&s;ci|ence.</P>
<P>Every &s;tep thou take&s;t fear a &s;nare.</P>
<P>Read thine one heart in the wickedne&s;s of others.</P>
<P>Be not &s;light in Clo&s;et du|ties.</P>
<P>Oft think of God in thy par|ticular Calling, for therein thou thinke&s;t thou ha&s;t lea&s;t lei&s;ure,
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but &s;ure thou ha&s;t mo&s;t need to do &s;o.</P>
<P>In a word, I wi&s;h thee as much delight and benefit in the peru|&s;ing of my Book, as it hath co&s;t me paines in collecting, dige&s;t|ing, tran&s;cribing and reviewing of it.</P>
<P>And as this &s;hall find accep|tance with thee, I &s;hall (as God &s;hall give &s;trength and more lei&s;ure) yet further approve my &s;elf to be.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thy Servant in the Lord, to promots thy Faith and Comfort. R. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>THE PRINTER TO THE READER.</HEAD>
<P><HI>REader, be plea&s;ed to take notice, that the Author of the&s;e Col|lections (thus dige&s;ted) is preparing for the Pre&s;&s;e the&s;e Books following,</HI> viz.</P>
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<ITEM>I. The holy Bible opened in &s;everall Sermons upon choice Texts, out of every Book in
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the old and new Te&s;tament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Light and Darkne&s;s, or Truth by Scripture plainly confirmed, and error confuted.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 The Saints rich Cabinet opened and pre&s;ented to pub|lick view: Containing many choice and pretious Jewels, all which are reduced into Theo|logicall conclu&s;ions, Alphabeti|cally di&s;po&s;ed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 Phy&s;icall Gleanings, expe|rimentally propounded.</ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="6">5 Emmanuel or God with us, being an Annual Chronology from the year 1640. to 165<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> methodically compo&s;ed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6 The faithfull Shepheard guiding his flock to a con&s;tant walking with God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7 Evangelicall Legacies for Saints and Sinners, tending to &s;ettle the wavering, to &s;tay the wandering, and to &s;trengthen the fainting.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Spiritual FLOWERS. For SAINTS and SINNERS.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Admiring.</HEAD>
<P>_WE &s;hould ad|mire nothing for, or in it &s;elf; but ad|mire al things in God, and God in all things.</P>
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<HEAD>Action.</HEAD>
<P>A good aime doth not make a
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bad action good; but a bad aime makes a good action bad.</P>
<P>Many times there may be &s;in in the action, when yet the acti|on may not be &s;in.</P>
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<HEAD>Actions.</HEAD>
<P>A Chri&s;tian may u&s;ually &s;ay, that all is not ill in his evil acti|ons, nor all good in his good actions.</P>
<P>Good actions (well done) better our &s;elves, and benefit o|thers.</P>
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<HEAD>Acknowledge.</HEAD>
<P>It is good to acknowledge God to be ju&s;t, and 'tis ju&s;t to acknowledge God to be good in all his wayes.</P>
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<HEAD>Adver&s;ity.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis better to be pre&s;erved in the brine of adver&s;ity, then to rot in the honey of pro&s;perity.</P>
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<HEAD>Affections.</HEAD>
<P>When our affections and con|ver&s;ations are in heaven, we in|joy heaven upon earth.</P>
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<HEAD>Afflictions.</HEAD>
<P>Afflictions are then a ble&s;&s;ing to us, when we can ble&s;s God for afflictions.</P>
<P>Sanctified afflictions, as &s;ick|ne&s;s, cro&s;&s;es and lo&s;&s;es, are bet|ter than un&s;anctified health and gain.</P>
<P>Affliction &s;eldome comes without being a temptation, but temptation never comes with|out being an affliction to the Saints.</P>
<P>Being afflicted doth often di&s;cover Hypocrites; yet being afflicted is no di&s;covery of an Hypocrite.</P>
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<HEAD>Afflicted.</HEAD>
<P>We are then truly afflicted
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for &s;in, when 'tis more for di&s;|plea&s;ing God, than for the di&s;|plea&s;ure of God; more that he is di&s;plea&s;ed by us, than that he is di&s;plea&s;ed with us.</P>
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<HEAD>Alone.</HEAD>
<P>Some men are lea&s;t alone, when mo&s;t alone; when <HI>Jacob</HI> was left alone, he did wre&s;tle with God.</P>
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<HEAD>All in all.</HEAD>
<P>It is for none but him who is all, and the fulne&s;s which filleth all in all, to give to all abun|dantly.</P>
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<HEAD>Angry.</HEAD>
<P>The world is angry with Saints, that they are no wor&s;e; and the Saints are angry with them and them&s;elves, that they are no better.</P>
<P>It doth not become us to be angry with God, though God
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come to be angry with us.</P>
<P>He that is angry with his bro|ther without a cau&s;e, is in dan|ger of judgement; and he is likewi&s;e in danger of judge|ment, who is not angry with his Brother, when there is cau&s;e.</P>
<P>Anger can hardly be &s;ilent, but that anger is admirable, which &s;peaks and &s;ins not. Be angry, but &s;in not.</P>
<P>He that will be angry for any thing, will be angry for nothing. <HI>Antichri&s;t.</HI> See <HI>Maen of Sin.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Appearance.</HEAD>
<P>Appearance in good is too little, in evill 'tis too much.</P>
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<HEAD>Appearing.</HEAD>
<P>They for whom, and to whom God appears much, &s;hould ap|pear much for God.</P>
<P>Many men appear righteous, who are not righteous as they appear.</P>
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That which makes God ap|pear &s;o glorious in our eyes, is his &s;o gratious appearing, or appearing &s;o gratious to the &s;ouls.</P>
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<HEAD>Apo&s;tles preaching.</HEAD>
<P>The Apo&s;tles did preach to, and not lord it over the Lords inheritance; but &s;ince their dayes many lord it over, and few preach to the Lords inheri|tance.</P>
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<HEAD>Arguing.</HEAD>
<P>The be&s;t arguments that we can u&s;e with Chri&s;t, are to tell him, that we, whom he loveth, are &s;ick, that we are &s;ick of love for him.</P>
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<HEAD>A&s;hamed.</HEAD>
<P>Many men are a&s;hamed of that, wherein, or whereof, they &s;hould glory, and glory in that whereof they &s;hould be a&s;hamed.</P>
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<HEAD>Asking.</HEAD>
<P>Though God hath promi&s;ed to give to them that ask; yet many ask and mi&s;s, becau&s;e they ask ami&s;s.</P>
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<HEAD>A&s;&s;urance.</HEAD>
<P>There may be grace where there is no a&s;&s;urance; but there can be no a&s;&s;urance where there is no grace.</P>
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<HEAD>B</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Babes in Chri&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>Babes in Chri&s;t are but as car|nal men, yet are they not carnal as men that are but carnal; for &s;uch are not babes, nor as babes in Chri&s;t.</P>
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<HEAD>Baptized.</HEAD>
<P>A man may be damned, though he be baptized, if he do not be|lieve: and a man may be &s;aved, if he do beleive, though he be not baptized.</P>
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<HEAD>Behaviour.</HEAD>
<P>Its better to carry our &s;elves &s;o, that God may &s;mile, and the world frown upon us; than to carry our &s;elves &s;o, as that the world &s;hould &s;mile, and God frown upon us.</P>
<P>A Chri&s;tian &s;hould &s;o behave him&s;elf, as not to be a &s;hame to, nor a&s;hamed of the Go&s;pel.</P>
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<HEAD>Being in Chri&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis one thing to profe&s;s and to beleive our &s;elves to be in Chri&s;t; 'tis another thing to be in Chri&s;t, in whom we profe&s;s and beleive our &s;elves to be: for many may beleive them&s;elves to be in Chri&s;t, who are not; and many may be in Chri&s;t, who do not beleive them&s;elves to be in Chri&s;t.</P>
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<HEAD>Beleivers.</HEAD>
<P>Believers are all for Chri&s;t
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and Chri&s;t is all for Beleivers.</P>
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<HEAD>Better than others.</HEAD>
<P>When we &s;ee others better than our &s;elves, we &s;hould not grieve, but rejoyce, that they are better than our &s;elves; yet we &s;hould not rejoyce but greive, that we our &s;elves are no better.</P>
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<HEAD>Beauty-Spots.</HEAD>
<P>Chri&s;tians &s;hould not went Beauty-&s;pots (&s;eeing beauty-&s;pots are the &s;pots of beauty) for their beauty is to be without &s;pots.</P>
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<HEAD>Birth-day.</HEAD>
<P>Some have cur&s;ed the day of their fir&s;t birth, but never any cur&s;ed the day of their &s;econd or new birth.</P>
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<HEAD>Ble&s;&s;ing God.</HEAD>
<P>The tongue ble&s;&s;ing God without the heart, is but a tink|ling Cymbal; the heart ble&s;&s;ing
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God without the tongue is &s;weet, but &s;till mu&s;ick; both in con&s;ort make their harmony, which fill and delights heaven and earth.</P>
<P>Seeing it plea&s;eth the Lord to ble&s;s us, and that without cau&s;e given him, how much &s;hould it plea&s;e us to ble&s;s him, who hath given us &s;o much cau&s;e to ble&s;s him.</P>
<P>God doth not onely ble&s;s his people when they turn away from every one of their iniqui|ties, but God doth al&s;o ble&s;&s;e them in turning away every one of them from their iniquity.</P>
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<HEAD>Self-ble&s;&s;ings.</HEAD>
<P>When we begin to ble&s;&s;e our &s;elves in earthly enjoyments, God bla&s;teth them to us, either in taking them from us, or us from them: or if he leaves us
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the things, he takes away the comfort of them.</P>
<P><HI>Blood of Chri&s;t and Saints.</HI></P>
<P>The bloud of Saints is preti|ous in the &s;ight of Chri&s;t, and the bloud of Chri&s;t is pretious in the &s;ight of the Saints.</P>
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<HEAD>Blu&s;hing.</HEAD>
<P>Some men blu&s;h to be known to be wicked, who blu&s;h not to be wicked, though it be known.</P>
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<HEAD>Body of Chri&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>The body of the Lord was dead and buried, but not the Lord of the body.</P>
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<HEAD>Calling.</HEAD>
<P>Every man &s;hould have a Calling to follow, and follow his Calling.</P>
<P>Every man &s;hould &s;erve God in his vocation, and &s;ome, who&s;e vocation it &s;hould be to &s;erve God; as all &s;hould do it, &s;o
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&s;ome &s;hould doe nothing el&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>Called.</HEAD>
<P>The Apo&s;tle, though he &s;aith, not many, yet he doth not &s;ay, not any rich are called; thus, that none might de&s;pair. Though he doth not &s;ay, not any rich, yet he doth &s;ay, not many rich are called; thus, that none might pre&s;ume.</P>
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<HEAD>Saints Care.</HEAD>
<P>A Saint cares to keep him&s;elf in Gods way, yet leaves the care of him&s;elf, and his way, to God.</P>
<P>Men cannot enter into the cares of the world, but they mu&s;t enter into a world of cares.</P>
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<HEAD>Carnal men.</HEAD>
<P>Carnal men love the God that they make, and hate the God that made them.</P>
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<HEAD>Children.</HEAD>
<P>Stones cannot make them|&s;elves
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the Children of <HI>Abraham,</HI> but God can make &s;tones the Children of <HI>Abraham.</HI></P>
<P>A Child of light may for a time walk in darkne&s;s, and for a time a Child of darkne&s;s may walk in light.</P>
<P>'Tis one thing to be a Child under wrath, another thing to be a Child of wrath.</P>
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<HEAD>Chri&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>Chri&s;t is the Chri&s;tians patron, and the Chri&s;tians patern.</P>
<P>Chri&s;t was made like to us, that he might be tempted; and we are tempted, that we might be made like to Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Chri&s;t, who did our work for us without us, will al&s;o work his work for us within us.</P>
<P>They who make a prey of them that are Chri&s;ts, &s;hall them&s;elves become a prey unto Chri&s;t.</P>
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Chri&s;t by drawing neer unto the Saints, draws them neer un|to him&s;elf.</P>
<P>A gratious &s;oul &s;o longs to be with Chri&s;t, that he thinks it long ere he be di&s;&s;olved, that he might go to his long (his long'd for) home.</P>
<P>All the while Chri&s;t is with|out us, we are without Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>The wor&s;t of Chri&s;t is better than the be&s;t of the world; the afflictions of Chri&s;t better than the plea&s;ures of &s;in, and the re|proaches of Chri&s;t, greater rich|es than the trea&s;ures of <HI>Egypt.</HI></P>
<P>It was Chri&s;ts aba&s;ement to be like us; but 'tis our advance|ment to be like Chri&s;t.</P>
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<HEAD>Chri&s;ts work.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis better to have the work of Chri&s;t in our hearts, than the per&s;on of Chri&s;t in our hou&s;es.</P>
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Chri&s;t died that &s;inners might live.</P>
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<HEAD>Chri&s;t per&s;ecuted.</HEAD>
<P>Chri&s;t was fir&s;t per&s;ecuted by <HI>Paul</HI> in his members, and was afterwards per&s;ecuted in <HI>Paul,</HI> one of his members.</P>
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<HEAD>Chri&s;t our Mine.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis more worth than all the mines of the world, to be able to &s;ay, Chri&s;t is mine.</P>
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<HEAD>Chri&s;tian.</HEAD>
<P>One may be an hone&s;t man (as they &s;ay) and pay every man his due, &amp;c. and yet not be a Chri&s;tian; but one cannot be a Chri&s;tian, and not be an hone&s;t man, and pay every man his due, &amp;c.</P>
<P>A man &s;hould not be a Chri|&s;tian onely in &s;hew; yet in eve|ry thing a man &s;hould &s;hew him|&s;elf a Chri&s;tian.</P>
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<HEAD>Almo&s;t a Chri&s;tian.</HEAD>
<P>Mo&s;t of the all that profe&s;s them&s;elves Chri&s;tians, are ('tis to be feared) but almo&s;t Chri&s;ti|ans.</P>
<P>He that's but almo&s;t a Chri|&s;tian, will be but almo&s;t &s;aved, that is, may go from the gates of heaven to the belly of hell; though he be not far from the kingdom of heaven, yet the kingdom of heaven is far from him.</P>
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<HEAD>Civility.</HEAD>
<P>Civility and morality without &s;anctity, is but guilded infideli|ty.</P>
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<HEAD>Comfort.</HEAD>
<P>A Saint had rather have ho|line&s;s without comfort, than comfort without holine&s;s.</P>
<P>The Saints have more com|fort from Gods love to them,
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than they have from their love to God.</P>
<P>'Tis better to enjoy &s;oul-comforts, though one have none for the body, than to en|joy bodily comforts, and have none for the &s;oul.</P>
<P><HI>Jobs</HI> friends could do no le&s;s than come to comfort him, yet when they came, they did no|thing le&s;s than comfort him.</P>
<P>'Tis very rare that God takes outward comforts from them, who are not taken with their comfort; but if he take them, that &s;hall be their Comfort.</P>
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<HEAD>Company.</HEAD>
<P>Many are plea&s;ed with the company of them, who are good, that are not plea&s;ed with the good of the company.</P>
<P>'Tis to be feared, that they that love wicked men, doe not
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hate the wickedne&s;s of men: or,</P>
<P>That they that love the com|pany of the wicked, do not hate the wickedne&s;s of the compa|ny.</P>
<P>He that loves ill company, will learn it, if not the ill of the company.</P>
<P>No man &s;hould do ill for company, nor good onely for company.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Communion.</HEAD>
<P>Communion with God, is more in conver&s;ation with God, than in contemplation with God.</P>
<P>That God might have com|munion with us, Chri&s;t was made partaker of the humane nature; and that we might have communion with God, we are made partakers of the divine nature.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
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<HEAD>Complement.</HEAD>
<P>Compleat &s;peech is no Com|plement, if men &s;peak as they intend, and intend as they &s;peak.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Complaint.</HEAD>
<P>Saints have not &s;uch often occa&s;ion to complain, that what they have done is ill, as that what they have done is ill done.</P>
<P>Many complain of their &s;uf|ferings without a cau&s;e, wherein they &s;hould rather rejoyce; for 'tis better to &s;uffer without a cau&s;e, than that there &s;hould be a cau&s;e for our &s;ufferings.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Confu&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>That which is confu&s;ion to us, is no confu&s;ion to God; for God hath the ordering of, and an order in all confu&s;ion.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Commandements.</HEAD>
<P>All Gods Commandements are alike (holy, ju&s;t and good)
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and therefore we &s;hould like them all.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Condemnation.</HEAD>
<P>If that &s;ervant was condem|ned that gave God his own, what will become of them that rob God of his own.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Con&s;cience.</HEAD>
<P>A good con&s;cience without a good name, is better than a good name without a good con|&s;cience.</P>
<P>A Saint will hazard his cre|dit to &s;ave his con&s;cience, rather than hazard his con&s;cience to &s;ave his credit.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Contentation.</HEAD>
<P>We &s;hould be &s;o content with every condition, as to think the pre&s;ent be&s;t, yet many times it's be&s;t to think it &s;o but for the pre&s;ent.</P>
<P>Contentment without the
<PB N="21" REF="17">
world, is better than the world without contentment.</P>
<P>The lowe&s;t condition in the world, with the love of God, is better than the highe&s;t conditi|on in the world, without the love of God.</P>
<P>A Saint is content, not onely that the will of the Lord &s;hould be done, but that it &s;hould be al|&s;o done to Gods content.</P>
<P>How little &s;oever we injoy, there is great rea&s;on we &s;hould be contented, and how much e|vil &s;oever we undergo, there's no rea&s;on we &s;hould be di&s;con|tented.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Conver&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>Before conver&s;ion men are willingly willing to &s;in, but af|ter conver&s;ion men are willingly unwilling to &s;in.</P>
<P>There are many convictions without conver&s;ion, but there is
<PB N="22" REF="18">
no conver&s;ion without convi|ctions.</P>
<P>Before conver&s;ion &s;in hath dominion over us; but after conver&s;ion we have dominion over &s;in, and we lead that into captivity, which did before lead us captives.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Covetous.</HEAD>
<P>U&s;ually covetous men need money lea&s;t, yet mo&s;t affect it, and prodigals, who need it mo&s;t, do lea&s;t regard it.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Covenant.</HEAD>
<P>The tie of the Covenant is &s;ure, for Chri&s;t is the &s;urety of the Covenant.</P>
<P>In the Covenant of works, God did fir&s;t accept of the works, and then of the per&s;on; but in the Covenant of grace, God doth fir&s;t accept the per|&s;on, and then the work.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
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<HEAD>Contradictions.</HEAD>
<P>It &s;eems to many, that there are contradictions in the Scrip|tures, but they are not, but &s;o many &s;eeming contradictions.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Creation.</HEAD>
<P>In creation God gave us to our &s;elves, but in redemption he gave him&s;elf to us.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Creature-Comforts.</HEAD>
<P>When we take comfort in Creatures without God, he takes away the Creatures, or the com|fort of it.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Cro&s;&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>Chri&s;t did bear the cur&s;e, and therefore 'tis but rea&s;on that we &s;hould bear the cro&s;s.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD><HI>Cro&s;&s;es.</HI> See <HI>Afflictions.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Changes of conditions are but exchanges of mercy to a gra|tious &s;oul.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Crucified.</HEAD>
<P>If we be not crucified with Chri&s;t, Chri&s;t being crucified
<PB N="24" REF="19">
will not deliver us from death, for we may die in our &s;ins, and be damned notwith&s;tandihg, if we do not ri&s;e with Chri&s;t, Chri&s;ts re&s;urrection will not &s;ave us; it is not Chri&s;t without us, but Chri&s;t within us, who is our hope of glory, <HI>Col.</HI> 1. 27.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="d" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>D</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Death.</HEAD>
<P>That man can never die an evill death (at lea&s;t no kind of death can be evill to that man) who hath lead a good life.</P>
<P>Death comes in by &s;in, and &s;in goeth out by death.</P>
<P>The death of the body frees us from the body of death.</P>
<P>Death hath nothing terrible in it, but what our life hath made &s;o.</P>
<P>When Saints die, they leave all their bad behind, and carry all their good with them; but when a Sinner dieth, he leaves
<PB N="25" REF="19">
all his good, &amp; carries all his bad: the one goes from evil to good, the other from good to evill.</P>
<P>Our &s;in delivered Chri&s;t to death, and Chri&s;t's death deli|vers us from our &s;in.</P>
<P>Its appointed for all men once to die, and to &s;ome men its appointed to die but once; the re&s;t &s;hall have their &s;hare in a &s;econd death, wherein they &s;hall find no re&s;t.</P>
<P>The natural death is the &s;e|paration of the &s;oul from the body; the &s;piritual death is the &s;eparation of the &s;oul from God; and the eternal death is, the eternal &s;eparation of the &s;oul and body from God.</P>
<P>Think of death, as a thing thou mu&s;t meet with, and of life, as a thing thou mu&s;t part with; and therefore not to love that
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life too well, that keeps thee (if a Saint) from a better, nor at all to fear that death, that leads thee to a better life.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Deeds.</HEAD>
<P>That deed is ill done, wherein God is no &s;harer.</P>
<P>No evill action can be well done; but a good action may be ill done.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Debts paying.</HEAD>
<P>While we are paying Gods due debts, we make our &s;elves the more his debtors; Lord, let me be thus in debt.</P>
<P>The more we pay God, the more we owe him, &s;eeing we give nothing to him; but what he fir&s;t gives to us.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>La&s;t Dayes.</HEAD>
<P>A Chri&s;tians la&s;t dayes &s;hould be his be&s;t dayes, and his fruits at la&s;t more than at fir&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<PB N="27" REF="20">
<HEAD>Defie, Deifie.</HEAD>
<P>Many defie the devil, &s;in and the world with their mouthes, but deifie them in their lives.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Die.</HEAD>
<P>He that's fitte&s;t to die is fitte&s;t to live; and he that's fitte&s;t to live is fitte&s;t to die.</P>
<P>When a Saint comes to die, his greate&s;t grief is, that he hath done no more for God, and his greate&s;t joy is, that God hath done &s;o much for him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Dead-living.</HEAD>
<P>Some are alive and dead at the &s;ame time, for they that live in &s;in, and the plea&s;ures of &s;in, are dead while they live.</P>
<P>Saints are living dead men, <HI>Gal.</HI> 2. 19. 20. and &s;inners are dead living men, <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 2. 1, 2. yea, they are both dead and a|live, alive and dead at the &s;ame time.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<PB N="28" REF="21">
<HEAD>Delayes, Denials.</HEAD>
<P>Delayes are not denials, and denials are not alwayes refu&s;als of prayer. Sometimes Gods no, is no negative, God may delay long, and deny often, yet grant at la&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Deliverance.</HEAD>
<P>Many injoy deliverance from God, who yet do not injoy God in the deliverance.</P>
<P>Men are &s;ometimes delivered up to Satan, that they may be delivered from Satan, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5. 5.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Self-Denial.</HEAD>
<P>A Saint &s;hould &s;o deny him|&s;elf, as to be nothing at all, that Chri&s;t might be all in all.</P>
<P>They that deny not them|&s;elves, and their own ends for Chri&s;t, will deny Chri&s;t for their own ends; and will (wo un|to
<PB N="29" REF="21">
them) them&s;elves be denied by Chri&s;t in the end.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Deceiving.</HEAD>
<P>They that think (as all hy|pocrites do) to deceive God, will find that they deceive them|&s;elves.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>De&s;ert.</HEAD>
<P>He that de&s;erves nothing, &s;hould be content with any thing.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>De&s;ire.</HEAD>
<P>They can never want much, who de&s;ire but a little, nor they ever have enough, who&s;e de&s;ires are unbounded.</P>
<P>There will be no end of de&s;i|ring, till we de&s;ire that which hath no end.</P>
<P>Le&s;&s;e than one of the&s;e two de&s;ires granted, either that he may be with God in heaven, or that God will be with him
<PB N="30" REF="22">
on earth, will not &s;atisfie a grati|ous heart.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>De&s;pair.</HEAD>
<P>None &s;hould de&s;pair, becau&s;e God can help them; and none &s;hould pre&s;ume, becau&s;e God can cro&s;s them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>De&s;truction.</HEAD>
<P>It u&s;ually falls out, that they who &s;eek others de&s;truction, find their own.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Diligent.</HEAD>
<P>A diligent hand cannot make rich without God; and God doth &s;eldome make rich without a diligent hand.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Di&s;puting.</HEAD>
<P>The great end of di&s;putati|ons &s;hould be either to convince others, or to be convinced by others of the truth.</P>
<P>Many men, while they &s;pend their time in di&s;puting what
<PB N="31" REF="22">
they &s;hould do, do (too too of|ten) neglect to do the things which are without di&s;pute.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Doctrine and Life.</HEAD>
<P>When there is no Doctrine in the Life, there is but little life in the Doct<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ine.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Doing.</HEAD>
<P>Let Chri&s;tians do their be&s;t, and then let the world do their wor&s;t.</P>
<P>That cannot be done too &s;oon, which &s;hould be alwayes a doing, as &s;erving of God; yet better doing late than never, for 'tis never too late.</P>
<P>Mo&s;t mens doings turn mo&s;t to their undoing.</P>
<P>A Chri&s;tian &s;hould do no more than he may lawfully do, and he &s;hould not do all that he may do lawfully.</P>
<P>Some men undo them&s;elves
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by doing, and &s;ome are made by being undone.</P>
<P>A man may do the things which plea&s;e God, and yet not plea&s;e God in doing the things.</P>
<P>He that will forbear at no time to do &s;omething, which he may lawfully do, will ('tis ten to one) at &s;ome time or other do &s;omething, which he may not lawfully do.</P>
<P>A Chri&s;tian loves God, and fears God; he fears to do any thing again&s;t him, becau&s;e he loves him; and he loves not to do any thing again&s;t him, be|cau&s;e he fears him.</P>
<P>Rather fear to do ill, than to &s;uffer for thy ill doing.</P>
<P>There is little difference be|tween not doing what thou &s;houlde&s;t, and not doing it as thou &s;houlde&s;t; for to do thy
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duty onely in &s;hew, or onely for a &s;hew, is to do thy duty, and be &s;till undutiful.</P>
<P>To di&s;like what God doth, is to do what God di&s;likes. A double ball.</P>
<P>A Chri&s;tian &s;hould do no|thing, to which he would wil|lingly de&s;ire Gods ab&s;ence, or upon which he may not ask a ble&s;&s;ing and a&s;&s;i&s;tance from God, nor as neer (as he can) any thing, for which he &s;hould need to ask his pardon.</P>
<P>A man &s;hould do nothing, which &s;hould not be imitated, and a man &s;hould imitate no|thing, which &s;hould not be done.</P>
<P>If that which thou do&s;t be right, and the mind with which thou do&s;t it be not &s;o, all is wrong, and a man forfeits the
<PB N="34" REF="24">
acceptation of what was good, by the ill performance.</P>
<P>Be careful to do nothing that de&s;erves to be ill &s;poken of, and then thou neede&s;t not care if thou be unde&s;ervedly &s;poken ill of.</P>
<P>'Tis the height of wicked|ne&s;s to do ill, and think it well done.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Drunkenne&s;s,</HEAD>
<P>When men are drunk with wine, wherein there is exce&s;s, the wine doth not &s;o much a|bu&s;e the men, as the men do a|bu&s;e the wine.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Duties.</HEAD>
<P>Priviledges annexed to any duties or graces, are made good by God when the graces are acted, and the duties performed by us; &s;o that God is not behind|hand with us in performance of
<PB N="35" REF="24">
promi&s;es, if we be not behind|hand with God in performance of duties.</P>
<P>Free-grace calls for full du|ty.</P>
<P>Duties done for God, are no hinderance to duties to be done to God.</P>
<P>All the duty of men, the duty of all men is compri&s;ed in this, <HI>Fear God and keep his Comman|dements,</HI> for this is the whole of men, this is a mans all, the re&s;t being but vanity and vexation of Spirit.</P>
<P>Many men plea&s;e them&s;elves in the duties they have done, though in doing of them they have not plea&s;ed God, but we &s;hould not take content in any duty, wherein we do not give God content.</P>
<P>They that are mo&s;t full of du|ty,
<PB N="36" REF="25">
are not alwayes mo&s;t duti|full.</P>
<P>We &s;hould be willing to be like them (on earth) in duty, whom we would be like (in heaven) in glory; if <HI>Abra|ham</HI>'s bo&s;om be de&s;irable, why &s;hould not <HI>Abraham</HI>'s faith and obedience? &s;eeing, unle&s;s we be faithful (though not &s;o full of faith) as <HI>Abraham,</HI> we are not like to be glorified as <HI>Abra|ham.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="e" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>E</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Earthly things.</HEAD>
<P>Earthly things are &s;uch as the wor&s;t of men may have, and the be&s;t of men may be without; yet he that hath them not, may be happy without them, and he that hath them, may be mi&s;erable with them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<PB N="37" REF="25">
<HEAD>Election, Calling.</HEAD>
<P>Our Calling is the fir&s;t mani|fe&s;tation of our &s;ecret election, and a fore-runner of our glorifi|cation, and is the very voice of God, fore-telling us that he will &s;ave us.</P>
<P>Our election doth not depend upon our faith, but faith depends upon election; nor ju&s;tification upon works, but works upon ju|&s;tification.</P>
<P>We are not elected becau&s;e we are holy, but we are elected that we may be holy.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Enjoyment of God.</HEAD>
<P>The enjoyment of God is the joy of our life, and the life of our joy, whatever our fare be, that alone is our chear; how well &s;oever we fare, that alone is our welfare.</P>
<P>Some men have not lei&s;ure to
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enjoy what they have (yea, they forget what they have) for get|ting of more.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Enjoyning.</HEAD>
<P>They that forbid what God enjoynes, and they that enjoyn what God forbids, are both an abomination.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Error.</HEAD>
<P>There is a great deal of diffe|rence betwixt an error of love, and the love of an error.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>E&s;tates.</HEAD>
<P>If we cannot rai&s;e our e&s;tates to our mind, we &s;hould &s;toop our minds to our e&s;tates.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Evill good.</HEAD>
<P>Evill things work together for good to them that love God, but good things work together for evill to them that hate God.</P>
<P>Though a man &s;hould take
<PB N="39" REF="26">
more care, not to be evill, than not to appear to be &s;o; yet he &s;hould take care to ab&s;tain from appearing, and from the appear|ances of evil.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Exalting.</HEAD>
<P>God exalts &s;ome men to ca&s;t them down, and God ca&s;ts &s;ome men down to exalt them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Excellency.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis not excellency in any man to be ignorant of his excel|lency; but this is a mans excel|lency, that though he know him|&s;elf &s;o, yet he is not proud of it.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Excep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ions.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis a wonder to &s;ee how ma|ny exceptions the Chri&s;tian makes again&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">im&s;elf, and how few exceptions God makes a|gain&s;t the Chri&s;tian.</P>
<PB N="38" REF="27">
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
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<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
<P><PB N="40" REF="28">
A man &s;hould not willingly give, nor ea&s;ily take excepti|ons,</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="f" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>F</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Faith.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis not the work Faith, nor the work of Faith, but a working Faith, or rather he who works faith, by which we are ju&s;tifi|ed.</P>
<P>As without faith 'tis impo&s;&s;i|ble for works to plea&s;e God; &s;o 'tis impo&s;&s;ible for faith with|out works to plea&s;e God.</P>
<P>There are many poor in this world rich in faith, and many rich in this world poor in faith.</P>
<P>Faith gets mo&s;t, humility keeps mo&s;t, and love doth mo&s;t. The more full of faith, and the more painful men are, the more they plea&s;e God.</P>
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Though <HI>Abraham</HI>'s faith were not a faith of miracles, yet it was the more miraculous, for it was a miracle of faith.</P>
<P>Faith is the &s;ub&s;tance of things hoped for, and the evi|dence of things not &s;een.</P>
<P>Many mens faith is but fancy, and many men will fancy their faith to be but &s;o.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Faith glorified.</HEAD>
<P>God hath in this world glo|rified faith mo&s;t, above all other graces; and above all other gra|ces faith glorifies God mo&s;t in this world.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Faithfulne&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>Though our faithfulne&s;s to God doth often fail, yet Gods faithfulne&s;s to us doth never fail.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Faults finding:</HEAD>
<P>We &s;hould take care, that
<PB N="42" REF="29">
that which we find fault with in others, &s;hould not in others be found to be our fault.</P>
<P>Some men will be finding fault, when and where there's no fault to be found.</P>
<P>The rea&s;on why Chri&s;tians do find &s;o much fault with them&s;elves is, becau&s;e they find them&s;elves &s;o much in fault, or becau&s;e they find &s;o many faults within them&s;elves.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Fle&s;h, Spirit.</HEAD>
<P>Though the Saints live in the fle&s;h, yet they are not fle&s;h; for that which is born (as the Saint is) of the Spirit, is Spirit, and walketh in the Spirit.</P>
<P>As it &s;ads the Saints to find the fle&s;h lu&s;ting again&s;t the Spi|rit, and the law of the members warring again&s;t the law of the mind; &s;o it glads him to find
<PB N="43" REF="29">
the Spirit lu&s;ting again&s;t the fle&s;h, and the law of his mind warring again&s;t the law of his members.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Failing Falling.</HEAD>
<P>Saints may fail and fall in the way; but Saints cannot fall away.</P>
<P>Though Saints are not pre|&s;erved from failing, no nor al|together from falling, yet they are pre&s;erved from falling alto|gether. They may part with Chri&s;t for a time, but &s;hall not depart from Chri&s;t for ever.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Fool.</HEAD>
<P>He is not &s;o much a fool, who hath no wit to u&s;e, as he that doth not u&s;e the wit he hath, or he that abu&s;eth it by playing the fool in wit.</P>
<P>A fool &s;peaks with an open mouth, but a wi&s;e man open|eth
<PB N="44" REF="30">
his mouth and &s;peakes,</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Forgivene&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>God promi&s;eth forgivene&s;s of &s;ins to all that repent; but God doth not promi&s;e repen|tance to all or any that &s;in.</P>
<P>Its a greater vertue to forgive one injury, than to do many cur|te&s;ies, becau&s;e its harder and harder, becau&s;e more again&s;t nature, for many a man will do for another, that will not &s;uffer for him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Fear God.</HEAD>
<P>To fear God and keep his Commandement is all that we have to do, and that we all have to do.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Freinds.</HEAD>
<P>He is happy that finds a true friend in extremity, but he is happier, that knows no &s;uch ex|tremity wherein to try his friend</P>
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Though we prize our freinds much, we &s;hould prai&s;e them but little, and to their faces not at all.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD><HI>Find.</HI> See <HI>Heaven. Following God.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Many men follow God for the worlds &s;ake, but few men follow the world for Gods &s;ake.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Food.</HEAD>
<P>Man turns natural food into his nature, but &s;piritual food turns man into its nature.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Fortunes.</HEAD>
<P>High fortunes are the way to high minds, and high minds are the high-way to great fortunes, for pride goeth before, but not far before a fall.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Freedom by Chri&s;t,</HEAD>
<P>Je&s;us Chri&s;t hath delivered us from this pre&s;ent evill world,
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though we are not at pre&s;ent delivered from the evill of this world.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Friend&s;hip.</HEAD>
<P>That freind&s;hip will not in|dure to the end, which is begun for an end.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Fulne&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>The wicked in the fulne&s;s of their &s;ufficiency are in &s;traits; but the godly in the fulne&s;s of their &s;traits have a &s;ufficien|cy.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="g" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>G</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Getting Gain.</HEAD>
<P>All that a man gets is not gain, few men get profit by their getting; they will have but a bad bargain, that get the world, and loo&s;e their &s;ouls.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Gain, Lo&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>Men gain mo&s;t by loo&s;ing, and they loo&s;e mo&s;t by gaining, <HI>Mat.</HI> 16. 25.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
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<HEAD>Gifts.</HEAD>
<P>All the gifts and graces which God laies in our &s;ouls, &s;hould not be laid up as in a napkin, but laid out for Gods glory and others good.</P>
<P>Hypocrites are apt to think, that they have grace, becau&s;e they have gifts; and Saints are many times thinking, that they have no grace, becau&s;e they have no gifts.</P>
<P>No gift coming from God is &s;o mean, as to be de&s;pi&s;ed, nor is there any &s;o great as to be glo|ried in.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>God good.</HEAD>
<P>God is good to us when he &s;ends us evill, becau&s;e he &s;ends us evil for our good.</P>
<P>If God be good to them that &s;eek him, what is he then to them that find him? Oh how good!</P>
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God may as &s;oon cea&s;e to be God, as cea&s;e to be good; as &s;oon cea&s;e to live, as cea&s;e to love.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Gods indearing.</HEAD>
<P>This indears God to a Saint, and makes him pretious in his eyes, that he is &s;o dear and pre|tious in the eyes of God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>God lovely.</HEAD>
<P>God is lovely in all his Crea|tures, more lovely in his Ordi|nances, but mo&s;t of all lovely in Chri&s;t, who is altogether love|ly.</P>
<P>'Tis not mans loveline&s;s, but Gods lovingne&s;s, that engageth God to love and &s;ave him.</P>
<P>God loves his people when he &s;trikes them, as well as when he &s;troaks them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>God re&s;ting.</HEAD>
<P>God re&s;ted not till he had
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made man like him&s;elf, and man &s;hould not re&s;t till he be made like God, or partaker of the di|vine nature.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>God giving.</HEAD>
<P>God is a giving and a forgi|ving, an open-handed and open-hearted God: open-handed in giving to us, and open-hearted in forgiving of us.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Gods putting down.</HEAD>
<P>God u&s;ually puts down that which man exalts, becau&s;e what man exalts doth u&s;ually tend to the putting down of God.</P>
<P>All the world cannot put down an humble man, becau&s;e God will exalt him, and all the world cannot exalt a proud man, becau&s;e God will pull him down.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Men, Gods.</HEAD>
<P>The Heathen made Gods of
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men, and men of their Gods; attributing divine vertues to men, and humane vices to their Gods.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Good.</HEAD>
<P>He that thinks he was ever good, was never good.</P>
<P>He was never &s;o good as he &s;hould be, that doth not &s;trive to be better than he is.</P>
<P>Its a good proof that a man is good, when he labours to ap|prove him&s;elf good to God and to men, and yet approves of him&s;elf more according to Gods approbation, than mans appro|bation of him.</P>
<P>As we mu&s;t not attribute to God the ill that proceeds from man, &s;o we mu&s;t not attribute to man the good which proceeds from God.</P>
<P>Some men are unwillingly
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willing to do good, thats's bad; others are willingly unwilling to do good, that's wor&s;t; but &s;ome are willingly willing, and that's be&s;t.</P>
<P>'Tis not &s;o much a mercy to have wherewithall to do good, as to do good with what we have.</P>
<P>No man but he hath received more good than he hath done, and hath done more evill than he hath fir&s;t &s;uffered; and therefore &s;hould be content, though he receive but little good, and not di&s;content, though he &s;uffer much evill.</P>
<P>The good which we receive is not for our own &s;ake<HI>:</HI> and the good which we do is not by our own power, its the mercy of God that moves him to do any thing for us, and that enables
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us to do any thing for him.</P>
<P>A man &s;hould not omit good when he hath, nor commit evil, though he have an opportunity to do it.</P>
<P>Inward goodne&s;s, without an outward &s;hew of it, is like a tree without fruit, u&s;ele&s;s. And out|ward &s;hews of goodne&s;s, with|out inward &s;incerity, is like a tree without heart, livele&s;s.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Goods.</HEAD>
<P>Wicked men have their goods from the will of God; but the Saints have theirs from the good will of God.</P>
<P>Men are not more happy in having more goods, but in do|ing more good than other men.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Godline&s;s a My&s;tery.</HEAD>
<P>Though the my&s;tery of god|line&s;s be not without great con|trover&s;ies,
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yet great without controver&s;ie is the my&s;tery of godline&s;s.</P>
<P>Men that re&s;olve to make gain their godline&s;s, will never gain godline&s;s, unle&s;s they re|&s;olve counter, to make godline&s;s their gain.</P>
<P>Some men, in&s;tead of making godline&s;s their greate&s;t plea&s;ure and gain, make gain and plea|&s;ure their greate&s;t godline&s;s.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Gold a vanity.</HEAD>
<P>Gold is a &s;olid, well compact|ed and weighty metall: and yet gold (not onely leaf gold, or light gold, but gold) that's weighty is lighter than vani|ty.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Glory.</HEAD>
<P>In this life the glory of hea|ven is but revealed to us, but in the life to come it &s;hall
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be revealed in us.</P>
<P>The glory of all our hereafter glory, will be an onene&s;s of communion with the Father, Son and Spirit, Angels and one another in God, who is one in all, and all in one.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Glorifie.</HEAD>
<P>We cannot be &s;aid to glorifie God, though we do the things that glorifie him, unle&s;s we do the things to glorifie him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Go&s;pel.</HEAD>
<P>The Go&s;pel di&s;covers a ju&s;t God to be a friend to unju&s;t man, without being unju&s;t either to him&s;elf or man.</P>
<P>The Go&s;pel of peace is a great ble&s;&s;ing, but the peace of the Go&s;pel is a greater ble&s;&s;ing.</P>
<P>The Go&s;pel breaks hard hearts, and heals broken hearts.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Grace.</HEAD>
<P>One grain of grace is more worth than many pounds of gifts, or a gift of many pounds.</P>
<P>Grace makes a man more a man, and more than a man.</P>
<P>Grace is glory begun, and glory is grace made perfect.</P>
<P>Seeing God will turn grace into our glory hereafter, we &s;hould turn grace into his glory here.</P>
<P>The motions of grace are a|bundantly more excellent than the notions of grace.</P>
<P>That can never be a grace to the body, which is a di&s;grace to the &s;oul.</P>
<P>There are promi&s;es of grace, and there are promi&s;es to grace. The promi&s;es of grace are made good by working the grace of the promi&s;e in the &s;oul: But the
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promi&s;es to grace are not made good till the grace (to which the promi&s;e is made) be acted by the &s;oul.</P>
<P>Grace out-works, and works out, &s;in in Saints.</P>
<P>Grace is the be&s;t wear, for it wears not out in wearing, all other things peri&s;h in the u|&s;ing.</P>
<P>The God of all grace, and all the grace of God, is engaged to keep the Saints to eternal life.</P>
<P>We may well wait for the Lords grace, &s;eeing the Lord waits to be gratious.</P>
<P>'Tis one thing to be wanting in grace, 'tis another thing to want grace.</P>
<P>All Saints have all grace in &s;ome degree, but few have all grace in an high degree.</P>
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Going on in grace, is a kind of growing in grace; for grow|ing in grace is not &s;o much a new thing, as the &s;ame thing re|newed; 'tis acting the &s;ame gra|ces over and over, and better and better. Abounding is grow|ing in grace.</P>
<P>What could God do more for us than accept us of his grace<HI>:</HI> and what le&s;s could God require of us, than to accept of his grace?</P>
<P>Men may &s;peak of grace unto us, but God onely can &s;peak grace into us.</P>
<P>Saving grace is everla&s;ting grace.</P>
<P>A Saint feels the grace which he cannot expre&s;s, an Hypocrite expre&s;&s;eth the grace which he doth not feel.</P>
<P>The meanes of grace is but a
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mean thing if compar'd with grace, which is the main thing.</P>
<P>There may be an omi&s;&s;ion, but never an ami&s;&s;ion of grace.</P>
<P>A Saint doth not de&s;ire grace, onely that he may be glorified, but that he may glorifie God: not onely that he may be &s;aved, but that he may be &s;anctifi|ed.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Greatne&s;s and goodne&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>Goodne&s;s without greatne&s;s, is better than greatns&s;s without goodne&s;s.</P>
<P>'Tis not mans goodne&s;s, but Gods goodne&s;s, which makes a difference betwixt man and man.</P>
<P>To be very great and very good, is a very great good.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="h" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>H</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Heart.</HEAD>
<P>A thankful heart for all Gods
<PB N="59" REF="38">
ble&s;&s;ings, is the greate&s;t of all ble&s;&s;ings,</P>
<P>That mans heart can be but &s;eldome pure, who&s;e tongue is often impure, for out of the a|bundance of the heart the mouth &s;peaketh.</P>
<P>Some men &s;et their hearts on that, on which God would that they &s;et onely their feet, <HI>viz.</HI> the earth.</P>
<P>We have (alas!) but too often our hearts to &s;eek, when we come to &s;eek God, whom we &s;hould &s;eek and &s;erve with all our hearts.</P>
<P>When the heart is upright with God, he accounts all as well done, as if all were not well done, yea, he looks on that as done, which was never done.</P>
<P>The hearts of Saints are larger than their words, but the words
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of Hypocrites are larger than their hands,</P>
<P>God brings his people into various conditions, that they may know what is in their hearts towards him, and what is in his heart towards them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Worldly Happine&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>Corn, and Wine, and Oyle, is the worldlings happine&s;s, and but a worldly happine&s;s, for when the world is at an end, happine&s;s it at an end with them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Hatred, Love.</HEAD>
<P>The Devil doth not, nay, the Devil cannot hate a Saint &s;o much as God loves a Saint.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Heaven.</HEAD>
<P>While the Saints are on earth, Chri&s;t is preparing heaven for them, and them for heaven.</P>
<P>If we doe not find that in
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heaven which we did imagine, yet we &s;hall find more than we did imagine.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Helping-hand.</HEAD>
<P>It many times falls out, that that hand is farthe&s;t off from helping, that is neere&s;t at hand to help the helple&s;s.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Holy.</HEAD>
<P>Saints &s;trive to be holy, as God is holy, they know they cannot be as holy as God is ho|ly.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Holine&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>Our holine&s;s cau&s;eth not Gods love, but Gods love cau|&s;eth our love.</P>
<P>A Chri&s;tian &s;hould not onely be perfecting holine&s;s, but we &s;hould al&s;o be perfect in holi|ne&s;s.</P>
<P>He that loves not holine&s;s in the &s;eed time of his life, cannot
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expect to reap happine&s;s in the harve&s;t of eternity.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Hope, Patience.</HEAD>
<P>A Chri&s;tian &s;hould po&s;&s;e&s;s his &s;oul in the patience of hope, un|till his &s;oul po&s;&s;e&s;s that which he hath patiently hoped for.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Honour.</HEAD>
<P>To de&s;erve honour and not to have it, is better than to have honour and not de&s;erve it.</P>
<P>None honour God &s;o much, and God honours none &s;o much, as the humble &s;ouls.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Humbled ones.</HEAD>
<P>There are many humbled ones, that are not humble ones.</P>
<P>He that humbleth him&s;elf &s;hall be exalted, but he that ex|alteth him&s;elf &s;hall be hum|bled.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Hypocrites, Saints.</HEAD>
<P>The great difference between Saints and Hypocrites is this, that the Hypocrite hath but the expre&s;&s;ion of grace, the Saint the experience of it; the Hy|pocrite hath the notion, the Saint the motion; the one reads, hears, and &s;peaks of it, the other &s;ees, ta&s;ts, and feels it.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="i" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>I</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Idle.</HEAD>
<P>Its as great fault to be idle, as to work on a Sabbath day.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Je&s;t, Earne&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>As a man &s;hould not con&s;true that in earne&s;t which is &s;poken but in je&s;t, &s;o a man &s;hould not &s;peak that in je&s;t, which may be con&s;trued in earne&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Innocency.</HEAD>
<P>Good meaning and inno|cency
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are carele&s;s, and &s;eldome fore-think what an&s;wer to make to their accu&s;ers, whence Chri&s;t &s;aid, take no thought, what or how you &s;hall &s;peak.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Intention.</HEAD>
<P>Not to intend what thou &s;peake&s;t, is to give thy heart the lie with thy tongue; not to perform what thou promi&s;eth, is to give thy tongue the lie with thine actions.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Self-Intere&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>Self-intere&s;t carried on by policy, puts many civil men in|to civill (or rather uncivil) war.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>Je&s;us Chri&s;t is not the Son of God, becau&s;e he is the Me&s;&s;iah, but he is the Me&s;&s;iah, becau&s;e he is the Son of God.</P>
<P>Je&s;us Chri&s;t lo&s;t his own life,
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that he might &s;ave the life of his own. Though it grieves a poor &s;oul, that Chri&s;t was peirced by him, yet it releives a poor &s;oul, that Chri&s;t was peirced for him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Joy.</HEAD>
<P>The joy of the holy Gho&s;t is &s;uch as that there is both want in words, and want of words to expre&s;s it; for 'tis joy un&s;peak|able, and full of glory.</P>
<P>Our Ma&s;ters joy enters into us here, and we &s;hall enter into our Ma&s;ters joy hereafter.</P>
<P>'Tis the Saints greate&s;t joy to enjoy God, and to joy in God.</P>
<P>Joy is as trouble&s;ome in the time of &s;orrow, as &s;orrow is in the time of joy.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>I&s;raels God.</HEAD>
<P>The God of I&s;rael will doe
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them good, that do good to the I&s;rael of God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Judging.</HEAD>
<P>Men judge of our hearts by our words and works, but God judgeth of our words and works by our hearts.</P>
<P>Some mens judgements re|&s;ide more in their wills, than their wills do in their judge|ments.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Ju&s;tified.</HEAD>
<P>We are not ju&s;tified by be|lieving in Chri&s;t, but by Chri&s;t beleived in us; as a man is not healed by the applying of a plai|&s;ter, but by the plai&s;ter applied<HI>:</HI> faith is not our righteou&s;ne&s;s, for our righteou&s;ne&s;s is by faith.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="k" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>K</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Kingdom.</HEAD>
<P>The prophe&s;ies concerning
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Chri&s;ts kingdom, will not be compleatly fulfilled, till Chri&s;ts kingdom be fully compleat|ed.</P>
<P>A godly man is as willing that the kingdom of God &s;hall come into him, as he is willing to goe into the kingdome of God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>God knowing.</HEAD>
<P>God doth know not onely the meaning (the &s;en&s;e) of the words which man &s;peaks; but he al&s;o knows the meaning (the aim, the &s;cope, and the end) of the man that &s;peaks the word.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Knowledge.</HEAD>
<P>Knowledge may be without grace, but grace cannot be with|out knowledge.</P>
<P>'Tis better to have knowledge formed in one, than to have a form of knowledge.</P>
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Knowledge helps much to practi&s;e, and practi&s;e helps much to knowledge, for if any man do my will, he &s;hall know the do|ctrine whether it be of God.</P>
<P>We may &s;ometimes know that by others, which we would ne|ver care to utter; but we &s;hould ever take care how (if ever) we utter that which we do not know.</P>
<P>The mo&s;t perfect knowledge that we have of God, is that we cannot, or do not know him perfectly.</P>
<P>'Tis one thing to know Chri&s;t by a relation made of him to us, another thing to know Chri&s;t by a revelation made of him within us.</P>
<P>He that knows not God, knows nothing.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="l" TYPE="part">
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<HEAD>L</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Laity and Clergy.</HEAD>
<P>Among them that are called the Laity you may find many children of light; and among them that are called the Clergy, you may find many children of darkne&s;s.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Laugh.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis better that men &s;hould laugh at us for being godly, than that God &s;hould laugh at us for being ungodly.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Lea&s;t, mo&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>Men are then lea&s;t in their own eyes, when God is mo&s;t in their eyes.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Learned.</HEAD>
<P>A godly unlearned man is better than an ungodly learned man, and a better Scholler.</P>
<P>The greate&s;t Philo&s;opher that ever was, is but an igno|rant
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&s;ot to the &s;imple&s;t Chri&s;ti|an.</P>
<P>A man may know the hi&s;tory of Chri&s;t, and yet be ignorant of the my&s;tery of Chri&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Learning.</HEAD>
<P>Learning can onely a dorn re|ligion, but religion can onely ble&s;s learning; &s;o that learning is more beholding to religion, than religion is beholding to learning.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Leaving Saints.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis to be feared, that they, who leave the Saints of God, will not cleave to the God of Saints.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Light, Darkne&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>God is light, and in him is no darkne&s;s at all; and we are dark|ne&s;s, and in us is no light at all; for our light is darkne&s;s.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Liking.</HEAD>
<P>No man can either like
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all, or be liked of all.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Little, Much.</HEAD>
<P>Some have the art to make much of their little, but few have the heart to make but little of their much.</P>
<P>The little, which but one righ|teous man hath, is better than the riches of many wicked, <HI>P&s;alm</HI> 37. 16.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Like to God.</HEAD>
<P>Chri&s;tians are not onely like God, but they are al&s;o liked of God; and Chri&s;tians do not onely like God, but they &s;tudy al&s;o how to be like God.</P>
<P>Some men, in&s;tead of being like God in this world, are like the God of this world.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Mens Lu&s;ts.</HEAD>
<P>Mens lu&s;ts are their Gods on earth, but they will be their De|vils in hell.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Life &s;hort.</HEAD>
<P>So &s;hort and uncertain is our life, that we know not whether he that is born to day may live to day, for as &s;oon as a man is born, he begins to die.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Life eternal.</HEAD>
<P>Eternal life is begun in this world, for this is eternal life; to know God, and Je&s;us Chri&s;t, whom he hath &s;ent, <HI>John</HI> 13. 3.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Living by Faith.</HEAD>
<P>We live by faith, and not by &s;ight, yet faith is &s;eeing; it is the evidence of things not &s;een; for by faith we &s;ee the things that are not yet &s;een, but &s;hall be, when we live by faith and not by &s;ight.</P>
<P>Man lives by death, for his natural life is pre&s;erved by the death of the creature, and his &s;piritual life by the death of Chri&s;t.</P>
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<HEAD>Living to God.</HEAD>
<P>They that live to God here, &s;hall live with God hereafter, but they that live to the Devil here, &s;hall live with the Devil hereafter.</P>
<P>He lives long who lives well, for time mi&s;pent is not lived but lo&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Living in &s;in.</HEAD>
<P>They who live mo&s;t in &s;in, and in mo&s;t &s;in, are mo&s;t dead in &s;in.</P>
<P>All men live, move, and have their being in God; and yet mo&s;t men are without God, and &s;trangers to the life of God.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Live.</HEAD>
<P>A Saint had rather live at Gods determination, than at his own choice; his prayer is, <HI>Lord chu&s;e my heritage for me.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Lo&s;&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>A Chri&s;tian gaines by all his lo&s;&s;es.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Love.</HEAD>
<P>He doth not faithfully love, who loves not faithfulne&s;s.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Gods love.</HEAD>
<P>God loves his people, even in their &s;inful e&s;tate, though not with a love of well-liking in them, yet with a love of well-willing to them.</P>
<P>True love is not onely pleas'd with the beloved, but &s;eeks al&s;o how to plea&s;e the beloved.</P>
<P>The love of God is better than wine, and his loving kind|ne&s;s better than life and wine; yea, life is the better for the love, and the loving kindne&s;s of God.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Sick of love.</HEAD>
<P>To be &s;ick of love for God is
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&s;oul-&s;aving health; but to be &s;ick of love for creatures, doth oft de&s;troy the health both of body and &s;oul.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Lovely.</HEAD>
<P>There is nothing lovely but what is in Chri&s;t, and there is nothing in Chri&s;t but what is lovely.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Self-Love.</HEAD>
<P>Self-love makes a man lovely in his own eyes, but loath&s;ome in Gods eyes.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>M</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Magi&s;trates.</HEAD>
<P>What gain will it be to men to &s;ave them&s;elves here, and to lo&s;e them&s;elves for ever? To live and raign like Gods on earth, and not to live and raign with God in heaven.</P>
<P>Many men &s;eek other mens goods more than other mens
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good, and the wealth of the Commons more than the Com|mon-wealth: but &s;uch &s;hould con&s;ider, that other mens goods will never be good to other men.</P>
<P>When Mage&s;trates hearts are not towards the people, the peo|ples hearts will not be towards the Mage&s;trates.</P>
<P>It cannot be expected, that they will be careful of others good, who are carele&s;s of their own good.</P>
<P>Men &s;hould order their rea|&s;on of &s;tate by religion, and not religion by rea&s;ons of &s;tate.</P>
<P>Civill honours are very ne|ce&s;&s;ary in a State, for thereby the State it &s;elf becomes more honourable.</P>
<P>'Tis a &s;ad thing when State|men grow richer, but the &s;tates
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of men, and mens e&s;tates grow poorer thereby. Such States|men &s;hould rather follow the noble example of the <HI>Aelian</HI> family, who cho&s;e rather to live poor in a rich Common-wealth, than to live rich in a poor Com|mon-wealth.</P>
<P>'Tis but rea&s;on, that they who bring gain to a State, &s;hould gain by the State; provided, that what they gain by it prove not a lo&s;s to it.</P>
<P>Some men, when God lifts them up, are lifted up; and whereas advancement &s;hould make men lowly, it u&s;ually makes them (or rather they make them&s;elves) lofty: but men in high places &s;hould not be high minded, lea&s;t he that advanced them up to heaven throw them down to hell.</P>
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<HEAD>Mini&s;ters.</HEAD>
<P>Mini&s;ters &s;hould not preach &s;ounding words &s;o much as &s;ound word<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, lea&s;t &s;ound preach|ing be turned into a &s;ound of preaching.</P>
<P>They can but badly make God known, who know not God; or they teach Chri&s;t, who have not learned Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Men may &s;peak of grace un|to us, but God onely can &s;peak grace into us.</P>
<P>If the feet of them that bring glad tidings are &s;o beautiful, how beautiful are the glad tidings which their feet bring?</P>
<P>Many men, yea (alas!) too many good men do the Lords work negligently; but many others (bad men) do altoge|ther neglect to doe the Lords works.</P>
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Every man &s;hould &s;erve God in his vocation, and &s;ome, who&s;e vocation it &s;hould be to &s;erve God; as all &s;hould do it, &s;o &s;ome &s;hould do nothing el&s;e.</P>
<P>Its a great &s;hame, if all that are Prophets are not the Lords people, <HI>Rom.</HI> 10. 15. but its a gro&s;&s;er error to think, that all the Lords people are mini&s;terial|ly Prophets. Their being the Lords people makes them fit to hear, but not fit to preach; fit &s;heep, but not fit &s;hepherds, <HI>Heb.</HI> 5. 4; 5.</P>
<P>It was <HI>Jeroboam</HI>'s &s;in, to make Prie&s;ts of the lowe&s;t and ba&s;e&s;t of the people, 1 <HI>King.</HI> 12. 3. but it is a greater &s;in, to make Prie&s;ts the lowe&s;t and ba&s;e&s;t of people.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Man made, &s;aved.</HEAD>
<P>God that made man without
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him&s;elf, will not &s;ave man with|out him&s;elf.</P>
<P>Indeavours without God can|not, God without indeavours will not &s;ave any man.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Marriage.</HEAD>
<P>They that marry where they do not love, will love where they do not marry.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Man of Sin.</HEAD>
<P>Though the man of &s;in pray to others; yet the man of God will pray to none but to the God of man.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Men.</HEAD>
<P>The be&s;t of men are but men at be&s;t, <HI>Eccle&s;.</HI> 4. altogether va|nity.</P>
<P>Men are not onely heathen|i&s;h, but helli&s;h al&s;o by nature.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Meanes.</HEAD>
<P>Meanes without God can doe nothing, but God without
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meanes can doe any thing.</P>
<P>To tru&s;t in meanes is to neg|lect God, to neglect meanes is to tempt God.</P>
<P>The great meanes which God affords his people here, is but little to that which he means to give them hereafter.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Malice, Love.</HEAD>
<P>Love excu&s;eth what is ill done in another; but malice ac|cu&s;eth what is well done in ano|ther.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Meats.</HEAD>
<P>Meats were not forbidden becau&s;e they were unclean, but were unclean becau&s;e they were forbidden.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Ma&s;ters.</HEAD>
<P>If Ma&s;ters take none, or but a &s;mall account of their Servants, their Servants will make but a
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&s;mall or none account of their Ma&s;ters.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Living Martyrs.</HEAD>
<P>How many living Martyrs have willingly &s;uffered the lo&s;&s;e of all things, and yet have &s;uf|fered nothing in their &s;ufferings, but have taken joyfully the &s;poiling of their goods, know|ing, that they have in heaven a better and an induring &s;ub|&s;tance.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Mi&s;ery of great ones.</HEAD>
<P>This is the mi&s;ery of the great ones, that their greatne&s;s will not let them &s;ee, how little, how nothing, both they and their greatne&s;s are.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Meetings.</HEAD>
<P>Chri&s;tian meetings are things meet for Chri&s;tians.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Mercy.</HEAD>
<P>The price of mercy is to prize mercy.</P>
<P>He can never truly reli&s;h the &s;weetne&s;s of Gods mercy who never ta&s;ted the bitterne&s;s of his own mi&s;ery.</P>
<P>The depths of mans mi&s;ery are not &s;o deep as the depth of Gods mercy.</P>
<P>Many men take much mercy from God, who are but little taken with the mercies of God, and with the God of mer|cies.</P>
<P>Such men have no mercy up|on their own &s;ouls, who will not receive Gods mercy into their &s;ouls.</P>
<P>God doth not &s;hew mercy to his Creatures, becau&s;e they plea&s;e him, but becau&s;e mercy plea&s;eth him; the plea&s;uring of them is
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the plea&s;ing of him&s;elf.</P>
<P>'Tis a choice mercy to have the choice of mercies, as <HI>Solomon</HI> had.</P>
<P>Riches of mercy are not re|vealed to encourage men to the commi&s;&s;ion of &s;in, but that they may be incouraged to hope for the remi&s;&s;ion of &s;in.</P>
<P>Who&s;oever brings mercy, both the mercy and the bringer are both of Gods &s;ending.</P>
<P>They that will not in the day of mercy receive mercy without judgement, &s;hall in the day of judgement receive judgement without mercy.</P>
<P>God &s;hould be the dearer to his people for their mercies, and dearer than their mer|cies.</P>
<P>Almo&s;t all, or mo&s;t of all Gods ju&s;tice is but mercy, and all our
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mercy is but ju&s;tice; for we are all mutual debtors to one ano|ther, but God to none.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Mercies.</HEAD>
<P>We then &s;eek mercies right, when we &s;eek them more to plea&s;e God with them, than to plea&s;ure our &s;elves with them.</P>
<P>If mercies that come from God are &s;o &s;weet; how &s;weet is God from whom the mercies come? or if mercies that are &s;weetned by God are &s;o &s;weet, how &s;weet is God by whom the mercies are &s;weetned?</P>
<P>God doth not any time put off his people, becau&s;e he is not in a capacity to give mercy, but doth many times put them off, becau&s;e they are not in a capaci|ty to receive mercy.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Mercifull.</HEAD>
<P>He that is mercifull to the
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Saints for Chri&s;ts &s;ake, &s;hall be rewarded by Chri&s;t for the Saints &s;ake.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Miracles.</HEAD>
<P>God doth not alwayes bind miracles to faith, nor faith to miracles; God will &s;ometimes be beleived without them, and &s;ometimes &s;pends them upon un|believers.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Money.</HEAD>
<P>Onely money well and law|fully gotten is good and lawful money</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD><HI>Morality.</HI> See <HI>Civility. Mourning.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A godly man doth not one|ly mourn in &s;ecret for his pub|lick &s;innes, but he al&s;o mournes in publick for his &s;ecret &s;innes.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>N</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Nature, Grace.</HEAD>
<P>Nature teacheth us to prefer our lives before the world, and grace teacheth us to prefer our &s;ouls before our lives.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Naturall, Spiritual.</HEAD>
<P>Natural men will not do all they can; &s;piritual men cannot do all they will.</P>
<P>We call fools naturals; but we may (and more truly) call natural men fools.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Natural defects.</HEAD>
<P>Natural defects are not the Creatures fault, but the Crea|tors plea&s;ure, and therefore he that finds fault with them, finds fault with God.</P>
<P>That man hath a very ill na|ture who would have others be good to him, but he him&s;elf loves not to be good to others.</P>
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<HEAD>Nothing.</HEAD>
<P>There is a time when nothing, a time when &s;omething, but no time when all things are to be &s;poken.</P>
<P>That man hath nothing who wants Chri&s;t, and that man, who hath Chri&s;t, wants no|thing</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>O</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Obedience.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis obedience to di&s;obey parents, when we cannot o|bey them without di&s;obeying God.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Offring.</HEAD>
<P>The Offrings did not, nor doe &s;anctifie the Altar, but the Altar did and doth &s;anctifie the Offring.</P>
<P>Vain Offrings are offered in vain; or they that wor&s;hip God vainly do wor&s;hip God in vain,
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'tis to no purpo&s;e, 'tis nothing worth.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Omi&s;&s;ion, Commi&s;&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>Omi&s;&s;ion of good is comi&s;&s;i|on of evill.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>One of Chri&s;ts.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis a great mercy to be one of Chri&s;ts, though but one of his little ones.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Orders of Men.</HEAD>
<P>In all orders of men, the great|e&s;t part are out of order.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Ordinances.</HEAD>
<P>Many u&s;e the Ordinances of God, who make no u&s;e of them; 'tis indeed good to u&s;e them, but the gain and &s;weetne&s;s is in making good u&s;e of them.</P>
<P>Chri&s;t certainly &s;peaks to men in that mini&s;try which &s;peaketh men into Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>'Tis to be feared, that they, who turn their backs upon the
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Ordinances of God, will at la&s;t turn their backs upon the God of Ordinances.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Opinion.</HEAD>
<P>Mo&s;t men have a good opini|on of their own opinion, though the opinion be not good.</P>
<P>To maintain an opinion be|cau&s;e its thine, and not becau&s;e it is true, is to maintain thy &s;elf, not the truth, and &s;o to prefer thy &s;elf above the truth.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Opportunity.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis better to want opportu|nities for our hearts to improve, than to want an heart to improve our opportunities.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Over-valuing &s;elf.</HEAD>
<P>He that over values him&s;elf, is u&s;ually undervalued by o|thers.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Old, New Te&s;tament.</HEAD>
<P>In the old Te&s;tament the new was vailed, in the new the old is revealed.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="p" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>P</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Pardon.</HEAD>
<P>God doth not onely give pardon to them that believe, but he al&s;o gives faith to believe pardon.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD><HI>Parentage.</HI> See <HI>Vice. Parts.</HI></HEAD>
<P>'Tis not the be&s;t part of a Chri|&s;tians excellency, that he is of excellent parts.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Pa&s;s-time.</HEAD>
<P>That is the be&s;t pa&s;s-time, wherein the time is be&s;t pa&s;&s;ed.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Peace holding.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis better to hold ones peace, than by &s;peaking to offend, or to give an offence.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Phy&s;icians.</HEAD>
<P>Phy&s;icians of greate&s;t value are of no value in &s;ome ca&s;es; but one may &s;ay of them, mi&s;e|rable comforters are ye all.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Plea&s;ing God.</HEAD>
<P>As what Saints have plea&s;eth not God, if offered without them&s;elves; &s;o what they have from God doth not plea&s;e them without him&s;elf.</P>
<P>The be&s;t way to plea&s;e all, or di&s;plea&s;e any with lea&s;t danger, is to plea&s;e him, who is all in all.</P>
<P>There is nothing &s;o &s;weetly plea&s;ing, and plea&s;antly &s;weet to a gratious heart, as to plea&s;e God.</P>
<P>A Saint doth not onely &s;eek to plea&s;e God, but al&s;o to be plea&s;ed with God, not onely that his doings may be acceptable to
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God, but al&s;o that all Gods dealings may be acceptable to him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Pa&s;&s;ionate.</HEAD>
<P>When others are pa&s;&s;ionate towards Saints, Saints &s;hould be compa&s;&s;ionate towards them.</P>
<P>Pa&s;&s;ion makes them fools, which otherwi&s;e are not &s;o; and &s;hews them to be fools which are &s;o.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Poor, Rich.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis the mi&s;ery of the poor to be neglected of men, 'tis the mi&s;ery of the rich to neglect God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Pride.</HEAD>
<P>God will &s;tain the pride of all glory, for indeed all pride will &s;tain his glory.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>Prayers not felt by us are &s;el|dome heard by God.</P>
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In prayer a Chri&s;tian mu&s;t not tell God what he &s;hall give, but ask God what he will give.</P>
<P>A Chri&s;tian &s;hould watch unto prayer, becau&s;e of his ad|ver&s;ary the Devil, who watcheth him when and where&s;oever he prayes.</P>
<P>Prayer is like <HI>Jonathan</HI>'s bow, which &s;ent out the arrows, but faith is like <HI>Ionathan</HI>'s boy, which fetcht back the arrows.</P>
<P>The Saints fare the better, yea, are far the better for one anothers prayers.</P>
<P>Chri&s;t doth not dehort us from &s;peaking much, but from much &s;peaking in prayer.</P>
<P>A Chri&s;tian &s;ometimes pray|eth to have what he wants, and other times, yea, often at the &s;ame time he prayeth to want that he hath.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Wordle&s;s Prayers.</HEAD>
<P>An heart without words, is better than words without an heart, in the duty of prayer.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Prayerful, Prai&s;eful.</HEAD>
<P>He that is prayerful before mercy is received, &s;hould be prai&s;eful when he hath received mercy.</P>
<P>The returns of prayer call for the return of prai&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Prayerle&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>The prayerle&s;s man is a god|le&s;s man.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Prai&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>A man &s;hould not prai&s;e his works, but his works &s;hould prai&s;e him.</P>
<P>'Tis more a mercy to prai&s;e God for the mercies we have, than to have mercies to prai&s;e God for.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Practi&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis good to profe&s;s, but practi&s;e is better; yea, of the two, practi&s;e without profe&s;&s;ion is better than profe&s;&s;ion with|out practi&s;e.</P>
<P>Men cannot practi&s;e unle&s;s they know, but as good they knew not unle&s;s they practi&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Precept, Example.</HEAD>
<P>Precepts without examples bind more than examples with|out precepts, though examples are more prevailing than pre|cepts.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Proud.</HEAD>
<P>God re&s;i&s;teth the proud, but (giveth grace to, that is) a&s;&s;i&s;t|eth the humble.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Portion.</HEAD>
<P>The Lords portion is his peo|ple, and the Lord is his peoples portion.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Promi&s;es.</HEAD>
<P>God makes good all the good promi&s;es which he makes.</P>
<P>Wicked men may apply them|&s;elves to the promi&s;es, but godly men may apply the promi&s;es to them&s;elves.</P>
<P>God doth not onely give his people promi&s;es to believe, but doth al&s;o give them to beleive the promi&s;es.</P>
<P>Many good promi&s;es are made, which are not made good.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Profe&s;&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis not the onely profe&s;&s;ion of a Chri&s;tian, to make onely a profe&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>'Tis not the profe&s;&s;ion, but po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of Chri&s;t, which is our hope of glory.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD><HI>Prophet.</HI> See <HI>Mini&s;ter.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Prophet may teach us, but
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onely God can teach us to pro|fit.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Providence.</HEAD>
<P>Providence is creation conti|nued, or a creation in a new edi|tion.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="q" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Q</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Quarrell not with God.</HEAD>
<P>If God be better to others than he is to thee, yet while God is better to thee than thou de|&s;erve&s;t, thou ha&s;t no cau&s;e to complain.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Que&s;tions.</HEAD>
<P>Of all que&s;tions, there are two que&s;tions mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary for a people to ask, and mo&s;t com|fortable for a Mini&s;ter to re&s;olve them in.</P>
<P>The one is, what &s;hall I do to be &s;aved?</P>
<P>The other, how &s;hall I know, that I &s;hall obtain &s;alvation.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="r" TYPE="part">
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<HEAD>R</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Ra&s;h men.</HEAD>
<P>Ra&s;h men are commonly har&s;h men.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Receiving Chri&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>They who receive not Chri&s;t in the acceptable day of the Lord, will not be acceptable to God in the day of the Lord.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Religion.</HEAD>
<P>True religion takes mo&s;t from the Creature, and gives mo&s;t to God.</P>
<P>Men may differ in religion, and yet be of the &s;ame religion; for every difference in religion, is not a differing religion.</P>
<P>All other (which of a truth are fal&s;e) religions, teach &s;al|vation by the work of man to|wards God, but our (which indeed, and which onely is the true) religion, teacheth &s;alvati|on
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as a work of God towards man, and in man.</P>
<P>He is not learned in religion, who knows all the matters that ought to be known, but he who knows them in the man|ner, how they ought to be known.</P>
<P>The u&s;e of the world takes many a man off from religion; religion takes no man off from the u&s;e, but onely from the abu&s;e of the world.</P>
<P>In religion not to do as thou &s;aye&s;t, is to un-&s;ay thy religion in thy deeds, and to undo thy &s;elf by doing.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Rea&s;on.</HEAD>
<P>Rea&s;on it &s;elf will dictate &s;o much, that the my&s;teries of re|ligion &s;hould be above rea&s;on; for could a man by rea&s;on com|prehend God and his wayes,
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(which are un&s;earchable) he might think it rea&s;on, and no robbery, to think him&s;elf as much a God as God him|&s;elf.</P>
<P>Rea&s;on and faith may walk together, provided, that rea&s;on give faith the upper hand.</P>
<P>Rea&s;on is not equall in all men, nor perfect in any man, but &s;o weak, &s;ickle and incon&s;tant in the mo&s;t of men, that as there is no rea&s;on why any man &s;hould lean to his own under&s;tanding, and there is none or little rea|&s;on, why any man &s;hould impo&s;e on another, he being &s;o &s;eldome and &s;o little while con&s;i&s;tent with him&s;elf, who was as confi|dent of the opinion wherein he was, as he is of the opinion wherin he is.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Remi&s;&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>God doth not onely give remi&s;&s;ion of &s;in to them that repent, but he al&s;o giveth them repentance for remi&s;&s;ion of &s;ins, and gives them to repent of the &s;ins remitted.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Re&s;t laboured for.</HEAD>
<P>In this world the Saints labour for re&s;t; but in the world to come they &s;hall re&s;t from their labour.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Reproof.</HEAD>
<P>Reproof &s;hould not be with pa&s;&s;ion, but with compa&s;&s;ion; not with jearing, but grieving; I tell you the&s;e things (&s;aith <HI>Paul)</HI> not laughing but weep|ing.</P>
<P>He that reproves anothers fault, and approves his own, is an Hypocrite.</P>
<P>Reproofs &s;hould not be for|born,
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though they &s;hould not be born.</P>
<P>Many men are &s;o forward to reprove, that they reprove others for &s;inning, before they prove that that, for which they reprove them, is a &s;in.</P>
<P>'Tis the wi&s;dom of the re|prover to reprove well, that the reproof may take; and 'tis the wi&s;dom of the reproved, to take the reproof well.</P>
<P>'Tis the part of a good man to reprove, though his reproof &s;hould not be taken in good part.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Repentance.</HEAD>
<P>Some men there are, that repent of their &s;ins, but for&s;ake them not; others that for&s;ake their &s;ins, but repent not of them; others (who onely are truly penitent) repent of them,
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and for&s;ake them too.</P>
<P>Chri&s;t did die, not onely to give life to them that repent, but al&s;o to give them repentance unto life; not onely to give &s;alvation to them that believe, but al&s;o to give them to believe unto &s;alvation.</P>
<P>Some men &s;o repent of their &s;in, that they &s;in in their repen|tance, &s;o that their very repen|tance is to be repented of.</P>
<P>Repentance for &s;in is no|thing, without repentance (re|turning) from &s;in.</P>
<P>Many men do nothing el&s;e but make work for repentance, and yet do nothing le&s;s than re|pent of their works.</P>
<P>In the repentance of a grave Saint there is much in a little, but in the repentance of a Babe, there is but little in much.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Re&s;urrection.</HEAD>
<P>The glory of the Sun finds a re&s;urrection, how much more then the Sons of glory?</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Revenge.</HEAD>
<P>Though God &s;uffers his peo|ple not to &s;in in revenging their adver&s;aries; yet God &s;uffers not their adver&s;aries to &s;in unre|venged.</P>
<P>To revenge a wrong done, is to do a wrong to God; &s;o a man becomes guilty of that which he complaines of; and therefore unju&s;tly complaines of that which he him&s;elf doth.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Reward.</HEAD>
<P>Though we &s;hould not &s;erve God for a reward, yet we &s;hall have a reward for our &s;ervice.</P>
<P>Though our reward be not for our good works, yet we &s;hall have our good works rewarded,
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and have a good reward for our works.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Riches.</HEAD>
<P>Riches and the increa&s;e of riches are neither evils nor dan|gers, unle&s;s that when they are given to us we give our &s;elves to them.</P>
<P>If you can &s;ay, 'tis certain I am rich, I can &s;ay, 'tis more certain, that your riches are uncertain.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Rich men.</HEAD>
<P>Few rich men are godly, but all godly men are rich.</P>
<P>Its to be feared, that they that care not how rich they be, or how much riches they get, do not much care how they be rich, nor how they get their riches.</P>
<P>Its very likely, that they who enrich them&s;elves with other
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mens riches, will be ruined by their riches; for other mens goods will never be good to other men.</P>
<P>Rich men need poor mens labours, as much as poor men need rich mens money.</P>
<P>The rich &s;hould not de&s;pi&s;e the poor; for God made them both. And he that made thee the rich man, and him the poor man, could have made him the rich man, and thee the poor man.</P>
<P>'Tis more honour to be rich in goodne&s;s, than to be r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ch in goods.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Righteou&s;ne&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>Though beleivers are not to work for righteou&s;ne&s;s, yet they are to work righteou&s;|ne&s;s.</P>
<P>Chri&s;t is the righteou&s;ne&s;s of
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&s;inners unto God, and the righteou&s;ne&s;s of God unto &s;in|ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Rome.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Rome</HI> would prove the truth by miracles, when it &s;hould prove the miracles by truth.</P>
<P>It will not be long ere Je&s;us Chri&s;t makes <HI>room</HI> for him|&s;elf in <HI>Rome</HI> it &s;elf; and it will not be long after the de&s;truction of the man of &s;in, that the &s;in of man &s;hall be de&s;troyed, as &s;ome think.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Running after Chri&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>When we run after Chri&s;t, he doth not run from us, yet many times when we run from Chri&s;t, he runs after us.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD>S</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Sabbath.</HEAD>
<P>Man was not made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath was made for man.</P>
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Some per&s;ons do formally &s;erve God on the &s;eventh day, but do really &s;erve the Devil and &s;in all the &s;even dayes; they pretend to keep a Sabbath to God, but &s;pend the week, all the week in the devils &s;ervice.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Safe.</HEAD>
<P>No man is &s;afe among his friends without God, but with God a man is &s;afe, though without his friends, and among his enemies.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Saints excellency.</HEAD>
<P>All the Saints are excellent, and &s;ome are more excellent than others; yet the highe&s;t Saint is not &s;o far above the lowe&s;t, as the lowe&s;t Saint is above the highe&s;t of men.</P>
<P>Every Saint is like God in a degree, though not in a perfecti|on, and yet he is like God in a
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perfection of &s;incerity, though not of degrees.</P>
<P>God expects that Saints &s;hould do more for him than for others, becau&s;e God hath done more for them than for others.</P>
<P>Though it &s;ads us that he is no better, yet it glads him that he is no wor&s;e.</P>
<P>The world &s;ees not a Saint though they look him in the face, for the Saint is the hidden man of the heart, or the man in the Spirit.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Seeking.</HEAD>
<P>Though that which thou &s;eeke&s;t for be good, yet while the way by which thou &s;eeke&s;t for it be evill, thou &s;hame&s;t the end by the way and (by the way) wilt thou &s;hame thy &s;elf in the end.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Self-&s;eeking.</HEAD>
<P>Many men do but &s;eek them|&s;elves in &s;eeking God; and &s;erve him, that they may &s;erve them&s;elves of him.</P>
<P>Fle&s;h is the Anagram of &s;elf, and in Scripture its all one, to walk after the fle&s;h, and to &s;eek ones &s;elf; if then men walk after the fle&s;h they &s;hall die, for every mans perdition is of him|&s;elf.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Self-&s;earching.</HEAD>
<P>It concernes all men to &s;earch them&s;elves, and that quickly, but withall to take heed, they be not &s;o quick in &s;earching, as not to &s;earch to the quick.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Secret.</HEAD>
<P>They who are mo&s;t with God in Secret, know mo&s;t of Gods &s;ecrets.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Seeing God.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis good to &s;ee God in all things, and all things in God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Scriptures.</HEAD>
<P>We may do well enough with the Scriptures, though we had no traditions; but could not do well enough with traditions, if we had not the Scriptures.</P>
<P>The Scriptures &s;hew us what God hath done for man, and what man is to do for God.</P>
<P>Some men try the Scriptures by the Fathers, but men &s;hould try the Fathers and all other men by the Scriptures.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD><HI>Salvation.</HI> See <HI>Worki<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">g.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Their &s;alvation may be &s;ure, who yet may not be &s;ure of their &s;alvation,</P>
<P>Faith is as clear a proof, that men &s;hall be &s;aved, as &s;alvation is a clear proof that men have beleived.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Scorners.</HEAD>
<P>They who &s;corn others, are u&s;ually &s;corned by others.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Service.</HEAD>
<P>God takes that &s;ervice mo&s;t kindly, which is mo&s;t kindly &s;er|vice.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Sermon.</HEAD>
<P>To practi&s;e the Sermon we hear, is the be&s;t way of repeating the Sermon.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Servants.</HEAD>
<P>If we are unprofitable &s;er|vants when we have done our duties; how unprofitable are we when we do not do our du|ties?</P>
<P>When we have done our duty we are but unprofitable &s;ervants, for our be&s;t is &s;o bad, and our all &s;o little, that it is but little more than nothing at all.</P>
<P>Though the be&s;t of men
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(they being at the be&s;t but un|profitable &s;ervants) de&s;erve nothing at the hands of God, yet they may de&s;erve much at the hands of man, and if they have not the recompence which they de&s;erve, yet 'tis a kind of recompence to have de&s;erved.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Sanctified.</HEAD>
<P>The Saints even in this life are &s;anctified throughout, (that is) in every part, though every part be not throughout &s;anctifi|ed in this life.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Sufferings.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis an high &s;train of &s;piritu|alne&s;s in the &s;ufferings we bear, or in our bearing &s;ufferings, when we can &s;ay, though I love not that which I &s;uffer, and though I love not the burden I bear, yet I love to bear the bur|den.</P>
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There are many that &s;uffer long, who are not long-&s;uffer|ing.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Satan accu&s;ing.</HEAD>
<P>Satan the great accu&s;er, doth not onely accu&s;e the Brethren unto God, but doth al&s;o accu&s;e God unto the Brethren.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Sin.</HEAD>
<P>The indu&s;trious man hath no lei&s;ure to &s;in, the idle man hath no lei&s;ure to avoid &s;in.</P>
<P>Its one thing to &s;in, another thing to be overtaken with &s;in, another to be overcome by &s;in.</P>
<P>Private &s;ins are oft puni&s;ht with publick &s;hame.</P>
<P>Every man brought &s;in enough into the world to repent of all his dayes, though he &s;hould never actually &s;in, and &s;ins enough actually every day to &s;orrow
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for, though he had brought none with him into the world.</P>
<P>Sin will prove that &s;inners downfall, who falls not down to confe&s;s his &s;in, and to give glory to God.</P>
<P>The &s;in of man filled the Creature with vanity, and the vanity of the Creature fills man with vexation of Spirit.</P>
<P>Nothing di&s;graceth a man &s;o much as &s;in, and nothing honours a man &s;o much as grace.</P>
<P>Some men, when they have prayed again&s;t &s;in, go and &s;in again&s;t prayer.</P>
<P>The greate&s;t of &s;ins repented of is pardonable; and the lea&s;t of &s;ins not repented of is dam|nable.</P>
<P>Great &s;innes forgiven by
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God, mu&s;t not be forgotten by us.</P>
<P>God doth not onely take off &s;in from his people (which is ju&s;tification) but God takes his people off from &s;in (which is &s;anctification.)</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Sin, Sinners.</HEAD>
<P>It &s;tands with the ju&s;tice of God, to vi&s;it man with a perpe|tual penalty, who, if he might, would live perpetually in ini|quity.</P>
<P>The wicked &s;in but for a time, becau&s;e they live but for a time: By their good wills they would never die, that they might ever &s;in, for they &s;hew they would ever live in &s;in, becau&s;e they never leave &s;inning &s;o long as they live.</P>
<P>Although the lowe&s;t beleiver is above the power of &s;in, yet
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the highe&s;t beleiver is not above the confe&s;&s;ion of &s;in, becau&s;e not above the practice of &s;in.</P>
<P>Every &s;in again&s;t God is great, becau&s;e it is again&s;t a great God.</P>
<P>When our &s;in is increa&s;ed, Gods grace is not decrea&s;ed; though we may be wor&s;e than we were, yet God is as good as ever he was.</P>
<P>Nothing deforms a man &s;o much as &s;in; nothing reforms or adorns a man &s;o much as grace.</P>
<P>Many men &s;ee the evills of their &s;in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, who do not &s;ee the &s;in of their evils.</P>
<P>Many men &s;in with content, and are not content with &s;in.</P>
<P>By rea&s;on of our &s;ins we have cau&s;e to be &s;orrowful in the mid&s;t of our joyes; but by
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rea&s;on of Gods mercy we have cau&s;e to rejoyce in the mid&s;t of our &s;orrows.</P>
<P>A Chri&s;tian hates &s;in for &s;ins &s;ake, and for&s;akes &s;in for Gods &s;ake.</P>
<P>The evill of &s;in will never deliver us from, but alwayes deliver us to the evill of &s;uffer|ings.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Sinners.</HEAD>
<P>Scarlet &s;inners may by grace be made milk-white Saints.</P>
<P>The vile&s;t &s;inners, once con|verted, become the &s;tricte&s;t Saints.</P>
<P>'Tis better being in hell with Chri&s;t, than in heaven with &s;in.</P>
<P>If &s;inners ca&s;t not away their &s;ins for Gods &s;ake, God will ca&s;t them away for their &s;innes &s;ake.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Singing Saints.</HEAD>
<P>In heaven the Saints &s;hall &s;ing notes of the highe&s;t &s;trains, but they &s;hall not &s;train for the highe&s;t notes; here their pray|&s;es are noted with <HI>Selah,</HI> there their prayers &s;hall be a note above <HI>Elah.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Soul and Body.</HEAD>
<P>In this world the body was fir&s;t, and then the &s;oul; but in heaven the &s;oul is fir&s;t, and then the body.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Sorrow.</HEAD>
<P>Sorrow for &s;in is to la&s;t as long as there is any &s;in to &s;orrow for.</P>
<P>A true Chri&s;tian had rather that Chri&s;t &s;hould take away his &s;in, and leave his &s;orrow, than take away his &s;orrow, and leave his &s;in.</P>
<P>That &s;orrow for &s;in that
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keeps us from beleiving and rejoycing in Chri&s;t, is &s;inful &s;or|row.</P>
<P>Though it be a Chri&s;tians &s;orrow, that he hath &s;in to be|wail; yet his joy, that he hath an heart to bewail his &s;in.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Sons of God.</HEAD>
<P>Gods Sons are his Servants, and his Servants are his Sons.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD><HI>Speech.</HI> See <HI>Complement. Spending.</HI></HEAD>
<P>He that when he &s;hould not &s;pends too much, &s;hall when he would not have too little to &s;pend.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Succe&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>Succe&s;s is the ble&s;&s;ing of God on a good cau&s;e, and is cur&s;e on a bad cau&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Suffering.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis le&s;&s;e painful to &s;uffer than to &s;in, for one may &s;uffer
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without &s;in, but one cannot &s;in without &s;uffering.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Super&s;titious.</HEAD>
<P>Super&s;titious men do not fear God, but are afraid of God.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="t" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>T</HEAD>
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<HEAD><HI>Te&s;tament.</HI> See <HI>Old. Temptation.</HI></HEAD>
<P>He that can repell the tempta|tion of gain, gains by the temp|tations.</P>
<P>The Saints &s;hall not be tempted above what they are able; at lea&s;t not above that which God will enable them to bear.</P>
<P>If God do not take off temp|tations from his people, yet he will not &s;o keep them, as that temptations &s;hall not take them off from him.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Thanksgiving.</HEAD>
<P>In thank&s;giving heart-&s;trings and tongue-&s;trings &s;hould be tun'd to our &s;oules.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Things.</HEAD>
<P>He hath all things who hath God, though he have nothing el&s;e; but he hath nothing, who hath not God, though he have all things el&s;e.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e things which have much of our affections, when we have them, co&s;ts us much affliction when we are without them.</P>
<P>The &s;weetne&s;s of divine things, is not in the hearing, or praying for, or talking of, but in the having and enjoyment of them.</P>
<P>A Saint will part with any thing, yea, with all things for Chri&s;t, but will not part with
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Chri&s;t for any thing, no not for all things.</P>
<P>The be&s;t things ill u&s;ed be|come bad, and the wor&s;t things well u&s;ed become good.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Earthly Things.</HEAD>
<P>A Chri&s;tian is not unworthy to manage earthly things; but earthly things are unworthy to be managed by a Chri&s;ti|an.</P>
<P>Earthly things ravi&s;h more in expectation than in fruition, but heavenly things ravi&s;h more in fruition than in expecta|tion.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Time.</HEAD>
<P>If you would not have time pa&s;&s;e too fa&s;t, u&s;e not too much pa&s;s-time.</P>
<P>That which many think their lo&s;t time, a Chri&s;tian often finds his be&s;t time, and that is his
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thinking time.</P>
<P>The redemption of time is not in the recalling of it, but in repenting for mi&s;pent time, and in improving the pre&s;ent to be&s;t advantage.</P>
<P>Many men &s;pend their time and &s;trength in &s;eeking that, which when they have found, they find, that it had been better not to have found or &s;ought it.</P>
<P>Mans idle time is the Devils bu&s;ie time; therefore the De|vil hath more &s;ervice in one ho|ly day; than in many working dayes.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Ill Tongues.</HEAD>
<P>If ill tongues could make men ill, many, yea, many good men were in ill taking.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Traytors.</HEAD>
<P>Traytors alwayes become
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odious, though the trea&s;on be commodious.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Troubles.</HEAD>
<P>Worldly troubles cannot overcome an heavenly peace.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Tru&s;ting God.</HEAD>
<P>Our tru&s;ting of God &s;hould not exclude our endeavours, nor our endeavours exclude our tru&s;ting of God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Truth.</HEAD>
<P>We may and &s;hould go from men to follow truth, but we may not go from truth to follow men.</P>
<P>God doth not onely deliver truth unto his people, but he al&s;o delivers his people unto truth.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Truth receiving.</HEAD>
<P>Many men receive the truth, who do not receive it in truth.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
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<HEAD>Try, Tru&s;t,</HEAD>
<P>Men we try before we tru&s;t, but God we may tru&s;t before we try.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Types.</HEAD>
<P>The book of Types in the old Te&s;tament hath this common with all other books, that the words &s;ignifie things; but hath this particular end proper to it &s;elf, that all the things &s;ignifie other things.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="v" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>V</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Vanity.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Solomons</HI> Tautologies of va|nity, are no vain Tautologies.</P>
<P>All &s;in is vanity, yet (all that is vain, or) all that is vanity is not &s;in,</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Vertues.</HEAD>
<P>Vertues confe&s;t by foes, and vices confe&s;t by freinds are commonly true.</P>
<P><PB N="128" REF="73">
A man may love vertue, yet hate grace.</P>
<P>Though gold cometh from the earth, none de&s;pi&s;eth it; and though dro&s;&s;es come from the gold, yet none regardeth it: &s;o the vertuous coming from mean parentage are honourable; and the vicious coming from noble parentage are contemptible.</P>
<P>'Tis better to be famous from a contemptible family, than to be contemptible from a famous family.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Ve&s;&s;els, Va&s;&s;als.</HEAD>
<P>By nature we are the ve&s;&s;els of &s;in, and the va&s;&s;als of Sa|tan,</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>&V;ngodline&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>The time is coming, when ungodline&s;s &s;hall be as much pro&s;ecuted by ju&s;tice, as in times pa&s;t godline&s;s hath been
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per&s;ecuted by inju&s;tice.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>&V;nrighteou&s;ne&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>He that loves the wages of unrighteou&s;ne&s;s, will do unrigh|teou&s;ne&s;s for the wages.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD><HI>&V;nprofitable.</HI> See <HI>Servant. &V;n&s;ound men.</HI></HEAD>
<P>They are un&s;ound men, that cannot indure &s;ound preach|ing.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>&V;&s;e of.</HEAD>
<P>We &s;hould u&s;e that for Gods glory, which God gives us to u&s;e for our good.</P>
<P>Wicked men have but a right to u&s;e the Creatures, but godly men have a right u&s;e of the Creatures.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Voice of Chri&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>Chri&s;ts voice is &s;weet to the Saints, and Saints voice &s;weet to Chri&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
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<HEAD>&V;&s;ing.</HEAD>
<P>The non-u&s;ing, is the abu&s;ing of favours.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>&V;nwilling.</HEAD>
<P>Man would not when he could, and therefore could not when he would enter into para|di&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Vocation.</HI> See <HI>Calling,</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="w" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>W</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Walking.</HEAD>
<P>A gratious heart de&s;ires not onely to walk holily, but al&s;o to walk wholly with God.</P>
<P>He is the be&s;t Chri&s;tian (not who talks mo&s;t of God) but who walks mo&s;t with God.</P>
<P>He doth not enjoy much of God, who walks not much with God; nor doth, nor can he walk much with God, who doth nor enjoy much of God.</P>
<P><PB N="131" REF="74">
A Chri&s;tian need to walk circum&s;pectly, lea&s;t he give them that are without an occa&s;ion to offend, or them that are within an occa&s;ion of offence.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD><HI>Waiting.</HI> See <HI>Grace. Gods Warning.</HI></HEAD>
<P>God warns his people before he &s;trikes them; and warnes them that he may not &s;trike them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Gods Watching.</HEAD>
<P>If God watch not over us, and over our watchings, our watch|ing will be in vain.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Saints Wants.</HEAD>
<P>When God &s;eems to wink at, even then he &s;eeth his peoples wants; and when he &s;eems to be carele&s;s, he is then careful of his people warfare.</P>
<P><PB N="132" REF="75">
Some men find the want of comforts; and &s;ome a comfort in wants.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Warres.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis better to be at warres with men, and at peace with God, than to be at peace with men, and at warres with God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>War, Peace.</HEAD>
<P>The be&s;t way for Chri&s;tians to live in continual peace, is to maintain a continual war, and to be alwayes fighting the good fight of faith.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Weak, Strong.</HEAD>
<P>When we are weak, we &s;ee what we are in our &s;elves; when we are &s;trong, we &s;ee what we are in God.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Working Salvation.</HEAD>
<P>Man is to work out his &s;al|vation with fear and trembling;
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for God worketh in him, both to will and to do; which im|ploies:</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, that a man without God, neither can nor will &s;ave him|&s;elf.</P>
<P>And &s;econdly, that God without man doth not &s;ave any man.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Wickedne&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis the height of wickedne&s;s, to do ill, and to think it well done.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Wi&s;dom.</HEAD>
<P>Wi&s;dom is good with an in|heritance, yea, better without an inheritance, than an inheri|tance without wi&s;dom&punc;</P>
<P>The words of wi&s;dom &s;hould be more acceptable to us, than the wi&s;dom of words.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Self-Wi&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>The &s;elf-wi&s;e are alwayes
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mo&s;t ignorant of them&s;elves.</P>
<P>Many think them&s;elves wi&s;e, yea, wi&s;er than others, who indeed are otherwi&s;e; for the mo&s;t &s;elf-wi&s;e are very fooles.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Wicked, Godly.</HEAD>
<P>Wicked men are dead while they live; but godly men live when they are dead.</P>
<P>Wicked men have what they enjoy but from the providence of God; but godly men have what they enjoy from the pro|mi&s;e of God.</P>
<P>The wicked man &s;aith, what I will is lawful; but the good man &s;aith, what is lawfull I will.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Wife.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis better to have a Wife without a portion, than a porti|on without a Wife.</P>
<P><PB N="135" REF="76">
They who marry where they like not, and love not, are like to love where they marry not.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Will.</HEAD>
<P>God finds in every man a will to work upon, but he finds not (but makes) any man willing to be wrought up|on.</P>
<P><HI>Judas, Herod,</HI> and <HI>Pontius Pilate</HI> fulfilled Gods will, in be traying and crucifying Chri&s;t, and &s;o &s;inned not; but they did it not to fulfill Gods will&punc; but their own, and that was their &s;in.</P>
<P>That man hath no good will, that wills no good.</P>
<P>God will accept the will for the deed, when we are as wil|ling to doe, as to will the deed.</P>
<P><PB N="136" REF="77">
A Chri&s;tian may de&s;ire that which God wills not, and not &s;in in that de&s;ire; and he may &s;in in de&s;iring that which God wills.</P>
<P>'Tis not mans free will, but Gods free grace, which makes one man to differ from another in goodne&s;s.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD><HI>Women.</HI> See <HI>Young. Word of God.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Some can read the Word of God, who do not under&s;tand it, and &s;ome do under&s;tand it, who cannot read it.</P>
<P>The Word of God is not onely a pure, but purifying; not onely a clean, but a clean&s;ing Word.</P>
<P><PB N="137" REF="77">
'Tis not the word that man &s;peaks, nor the man that &s;peaks the word, which can convert a &s;oul.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Word, Works.</HEAD>
<P>The word of life is be&s;t held forth in the works of our life.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Word.</HEAD>
<P>In many their words are more than their intentions, and their actions le&s;&s;e than their words.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Word, Sword.</HEAD>
<P>The Word is Gods Sword, and the Spirit is Gods Arme; now (as that famous Captain, that had lo&s;t his &s;word, told his enemies) 'tis not &s;o much the
<PB N="138" REF="78">
&s;word as the arme, unle&s;s the arme of the Lord be revealed, the report will not be beleived. The Spirit can &s;ave without the Word, but the Word cannot &s;ave without the Spirit. Ble&s;&s;ed are they to whom the Go&s;pel cometh, not onely in word but in power, in the evidence and demon&s;tration of the Spirit.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Words fit.</HEAD>
<P>Fit words are better than fine, for fit words are alwayes fine, but fine words are not alwaye fit.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Writing.</HEAD>
<P>Men &s;hould rather do things worthy to be written, than write things worthy to be done, though both are worth the doing.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
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<HEAD>World.</HEAD>
<P>'Tis a &s;ad thing for a man to be taken out of the world by death, before he be taken out of the world by grace.</P>
<P>'Tis a mercy to have a porti|on in the world: but to have the world for a portion is a mi&s;ery.</P>
<P>He that loves the world much, can love God but little.</P>
<P>They will buy the world at too dear a rate, that pay but one &s;in for it.</P>
<P>The world is not an&s;werable to, nor able to an&s;wer our ex|pectations.</P>
<P>'Tis not the having the world, nor having an hand in the world, but having an heart in the world, which God di&s;|alowes.</P>
<P>Be wi&s;ely-worldly, be not worldly-wi&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
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<HEAD>Works.</HEAD>
<P>A Saint doth not &s;o much do good works to live, as live to do good works.</P>
<P>'Tis better that a mans own works, than that another mans words &s;hould prai&s;e him.</P>
<P>The works which many men do, do honour God, when yet the men that do the works may di&s;honour God: We work not our &s;elves into Chri&s;t, but Chri&s;t works us into him&s;elf.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Worth.</HEAD>
<P>That place is worth the look|ing after, which will make one lovely in the eyes of God.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="y" TYPE="part">
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<HEAD>Y</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Young Women.</HEAD>
<P>If young Women were cloth|ed but with the Silk of Piety, the Sattin of Sanctity, and the Pur|ple of Mode&s;ty, God him&s;elf would be a Suitor to them.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="z" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Z</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="entry">
<HEAD>Zeal.</HEAD>
<P>Many men have much zeal, and little knowledge: and ma|ny others, who have much know|ledge, have but little zeal.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P>AN HOLY ALPHABET FOR YOUNG CHRISTIANS.</P>
<P>Being the principall points of Religion, laid down in entire Propo&s;itions and expre&s;s words of Scripture for the more Authority.</P>
<P>Whereunto is annexed, THE FAITHFUL SHEPHEARD, Guiding his FLOCK in a way of walking with God dayly.</P>
<P>By ROBERT PORT Mi|ni&s;ter of the Go&s;pel of JESUS CHRIST.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>G. Daw&s;on</HI> for <HI>George Sawbridge,</HI> at the Sign of the <HI>Bible</HI> upon <HI>Ludgate-hill,</HI> 1658.</P>
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="text">
<PB REF="81">
<PB N="1" REF="81" MS="y">
<HEAD>AN Holy Alphabet For Young CHRISTIANS.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The Principles of Religion.</HEAD>
<P>_IT's onely asking the Que&s;tion, what is? ta|king thereto the fir&s;t words of the Propo|&s;ition, and the Propo&s;ition re|turns you the An&s;wer. In&s;tance.</P>
<P><PB N="2" REF="82">Q. What is Adoption?</P>
<DIV2 N="a" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A</HEAD>
<P><HI>A</HI> Adoption is an act of Godsfree Grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have right to all the pri|viledges of the &s;ons of God,</P>
<P><HI>Proofe.</HI> 1 <HI>John</HI> 3. 1. <HI>John</HI> 1. 12.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="b" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>B</HEAD>
<P>Bapti&s;m is a Sacrament, where|in the wa&s;hing with water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Gho&s;t, doth &s;ignifie and &s;eal our ingraf|ting into Chri&s;t, and partaking of the benifits of the Covenant of Grace, and our engagement to be the Lords,</P>
<P><HI>Matt.</HI> 28. 19. <HI>Rom.</HI> 6. 4. <HI>Gal.</HI> 3. 27.</P>
<P>The Body is the outward and earthly part of Man, made of
<PB N="3" REF="82">
the begining of the du&s;t of the earth, <HI>Gen.</HI> 2. 7. <HI>Ch.</HI> 3. 19.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="c" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>C</HEAD>
<P>Calling effectuall is the work of Gods &s;pirit, whereby convin|cing us of our &s;in and mi&s;ery, inlightning our minds in the knowledge of Chri&s;t, and renew|ing our wils, he doth per&s;wade and enable us to embrace Je&s;us Chri&s;t freely offered to us in the Go&s;pel, 2 <HI>Tim</HI> 1. 9. 2 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 2. 13, 14. <HI>Acts</HI> 2. 37. <HI>Chap.</HI> 26. 18. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 36. 26, 27. <HI>Joh.</HI> 6. 44, 45. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 2. 13.</P>
<P>Creation, is Gods making all things of nothing, by the word of his power, in the &s;pace of &s;ix daies, and all very good, <HI>Gen.</HI> 1. <HI>Exod.</HI> 20. 11. <HI>Heb.</HI> 11. 2.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="d" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>D</HEAD>
<P>Decrees of God are, his eter|nal purpo&s;e, according to the
<PB N="4" REF="83">
councell of his will, whereby for his own glory, he hath fore-ordered what&s;oever comes to pa&s;s, <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 1. 4. 11. <HI>Rom.</HI> 9. 22, 23.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="e" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>E</HEAD>
<P>Election, is the eternal and unchangeable decree of God, whereby of his free Grace and mercy he hath made choice of &s;ome rather than others, to be|&s;tow upon them eternal life and happine&s;s, and that for the glory of his free grace, <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 1. 4. <HI>Rom.</HI> 11. 2. 5, 6. <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 1. 5.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="f" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>F</HEAD>
<P>Faith in Je&s;us Chri&s;t, is a &s;a|ving Grace, whereby we rejoice and re&s;t upon him alone for &s;al|vation, as he is offered unto us in the Go&s;pel, <HI>Heb.</HI> 10. 39. <HI>Joh.</HI> 1. 12. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 26. 3, 4. <HI>Phil.</HI> 3. 9. <HI>Gal.</HI> 2. 16.</P>
<P><PB N="5" REF="83">
An holy Fa&s;t, is a religious ab&s;tinance from all the labors of our calling, and comforts of this life, &s;o far as comline&s;s and ne|ce&s;&s;ity will permit, that we might be more &s;eriou&s;ly humble before God, and more fervent in pray|er, <HI>Ecle.</HI> 4. 16. <HI>Levit.</HI> 23. 27. <HI>Dan.</HI> 9. 9. 11.</P>
<P>An holy Fea&s;t, is an extraor|dinary thanksgiving for &s;ome notable diliverance out of &s;ome de&s;perate danger, te&s;tified with fea&s;ting before God, with joy and gladne&s;s, &s;ending Pre&s;ents to our friends, and Portions to the needy, 1 <HI>Chron.</HI> 16. 8 <HI>Chap.</HI> 29. 10, 11. <HI>Neh.</HI> 8, 10. <HI>He&s;t.</HI> 9. 22.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="g" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>G</HEAD>
<P>God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wi&s;dom, power, holi|ne&s;s,
<PB N="6" REF="84">
ju&s;tice, goodne&s;s and truth, <HI>Iohn</HI> 4. 24. <HI>Iob</HI> 11. 7, 8, 9. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 90. 2. <HI>Ia.</HI> 1. 17. <HI>Exod.</HI> 3. 14. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 147. 5. <HI>Revel.</HI> 4. 8. <HI>Chap.</HI> 15. 4. <HI>Ex.</HI> 34. 6, 7.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="h" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>H</HEAD>
<P>Holy Gho&s;t, is a true and co-eternal God, with the eternal Father and the Son, and is gi|ven to me, to make me through a true faith, partaker of Chri&s;t and all his benefits, to comfort me, and to abide nigh me for ever, <HI>Phil.</HI> 5. 7. <HI>Gen.</HI> 1. 2. <HI>I&s;.</HI> 48. 16. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3, 26. <HI>Chap.</HI> 6. 19. <HI>Acts</HI> 5. 34. <HI>Gal.</HI> 4. 6. <HI>Mal.</HI> 23. 19, 20. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1. 22. <HI>Gal.</HI> 3 14. <HI>Acts,</HI> 9. 31. <HI>Iohn</HI> 14. 16. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 4. 14. <HI>Iohn</HI> 15. 26.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="i" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>I</HEAD>
<P>Je&s;us Chri&s;t is the eternal Son of God, who in time became Man for his Elect, <HI>Gal.</HI> 4. 4.</P>
<P><PB N="7" REF="84">
In&s;titution, is an Act of Gods free Grace, wherein he pardo|neth all our &s;ins, and accepteth us as righteous in his &s;ight, onely for the righteou&s;ne&s;s of Chri&s;t imputed to us, and received by faith alone, <HI>Rom.</HI> 3. 24, 25. <HI>Chap</HI> 4. 6, 7, 8. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5. 19. 21. <HI>Rom.</HI> 5. 17, 18, 19. <HI>Gal.</HI> 2. 16. <HI>Phil.</HI> 3. 9.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="m" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>M</HEAD>
<P>Mortification is that grace whereby our natural corruption is &s;ubdued; and vivification (or quickning) is that grace too, wherby inherent holine&s;s is re|newed in us, <HI>Ephe.</HI> 4. 22, 23. <HI>Rom.</HI> 6. 4. 11. 13. <HI>Col</HI> 2. 12.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="o" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>O</HEAD>
<P>Obedience now, is a care|ful endeavour to give unfeigned obedience to all Gods com|mands, according to that mea|&s;ure
<PB N="8" REF="85">
of &s;trength, wherewith God doth enable us, <HI>Luke</HI> 16. 74, 75. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 4. 2. 5. 1 <HI>Iohn</HI> 3. 3. <HI>Ch.</HI> 5. 3.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="p" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>P</HEAD>
<P>Petition is a prayer, where|in we de&s;ire the preventing or removing things hurtful, and the obtaining of things needful, ei|ther for this life, or that which is to come, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 37. 20. <HI>Mat.</HI> 6. 13. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 6. 1. to 5.</P>
<P>Prayer, is an offering up of our de&s;ires to God for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Chri&s;t, with confe&s;&s;ion of our &s;ins, and thankful ac|knowledgment, of his mercies&punc; <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 62. 8. 1 <HI>Io.</HI> 5. 14. <HI>Io.</HI> 10 23. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 32. 5, 6. <HI>Dan.</HI> 9. 4. <HI>Phil.</HI> 4. 6.</P>
<P>Gods Providence, is his mo&s;t wi&s;e, holy, and powerful
<PB N="9" REF="85">
pre&s;erving and governing of all his creatures, and all their acti|ons, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 145. 17. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 104. 24 <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 28. 29. <HI>Heb.</HI> 1. 3. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 103. 19. <HI>Matt.</HI> 10. 29. to 31.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="r" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>R</HEAD>
<P>Reconciliation, is that grace whereby we are freed from Gods cur&s;e, and re&s;tored to his fatherly favour. <HI>Rom</HI> 3. 10. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5. 8, 9. <HI>Eph.</HI> 2 16. <HI>Col.</HI> 2. 21.</P>
<P>Repentance, is a &s;aving grace, whereby a &s;inner out of a true &s;ence of his &s;in, and apprehen|&s;ion of the mercy of God in Chri&s;t, doth with grief and ha|tred of his &s;in turn from it un|to God, with full purpo&s;e of, and endeavour after new obedience, <HI>Acts</HI> 11. 18. <HI>Ch.</HI> 2. 37, 38. <HI>Icel.</HI> 2. 12 <HI>Ier.</HI> 3. 32. <HI>Ch.</HI> 31. 18. 19. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 36. 31. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 7. 11. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 1. 16&punc; 17.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="s" TYPE="part">
<PB N="10" REF="86">
<HEAD>S</HEAD>
<P>A Sacrament is an holy Or|dinance in&s;tituted by Chri&s;t; wherein by &s;en&s;ible &s;igns, Chri&s;t and the benifits of the new Co|venant are repre&s;ented, &s;ealed, and applied to believers, <HI>Gen.</HI> 17. 7. 10. <HI>Exod.</HI> 12. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 23. 26.</P>
<P>Sin, is any want of conformi|ty unto, or tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion of the law of God, 1 <HI>Iohn</HI> 3. 4.</P>
<P>The Soul is the inward and &s;piritual part of Man, which is mortal and never can dye, <HI>Eccle.</HI> 12. 7. <HI>Mat.</HI> 10. 28. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5. 8. <HI>Revel.</HI> 6. 9.</P>
<P>The Supper of the Lord, is a Sacrament, wherein by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Chri&s;ts appoint|ment, his death is &s;hewed forth, and the worthy receivers are (not after of a corporal and car|nal
<PB N="11" REF="86">
manner, but) by faith, made partakers of his body and blood with all his benefits, to their &s;piritual nouri&s;hment and growth in grace, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 23. to 27. <HI>Ch.</HI> 10. 16.</P>
<P>Sanctification is the work of Gods free Grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto &s;in, and live unto righte|ou&s;ne&s;s, 2 <HI>Th.</HI> 2. 13. <HI>Eph.</HI> 4. 23, 24. <HI>Rom.</HI> 6. 4. 6.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="t" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>T</HEAD>
<P>Thank&s;giving is a prayer, wherein we render thanks to God for his general goodne&s;s, and particular favours, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 2. 1 <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 136. 1. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 103. 1. to 6.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="v" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>V</HEAD>
<P>A Vow religious, is a &s;olem
<PB N="12" REF="87">
promi&s;e unto God, made by a fit per&s;on, of &s;ome lawfull thing which is in his choice, to re&s;tifie his love and thankfulne&s;s, <HI>Deut.</HI> 23. 21, 22. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 116. 12.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="w" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>W</HEAD>
<P>The word of God, is the ho|ly Scriptures imediatly in&s;pired, which is contained in the Books of the Old and New Te&s;tament. 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. 16.</P>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="treatise">
<PB N="13" REF="87">
<HEAD>THE Faithful SHEP HEARD, Guiding his Flock in a way of walking with God dayly.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. I.</HEAD>
<P>_INdeavour to be &s;en|&s;ible of thy original corruption dayly, how it inclines thee to evill, and indi&s;po&s;eth thee to good; groan under it, and be|wail
<PB N="14" REF="88">
it as <HI>Paul</HI> did, <HI>Rom.</HI> 7 24. tk<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;pecial notice of your actu|al &s;ins or dayly infirmities, in thought, word, and deed.</P>
<P>Indeavour to make your peace with God for them two waies.</P>
<P>I. By repenting them, and confe&s;&s;ing them to God, wor|king your heart to grieve for them, by &s;ome melting con&s;i|derations, as of Gods good|ne&s;s to you, thy unrea&s;onable|ne&s;s and unprofitablene&s;s of &s;in, the prejudice and damage there|of to the &s;oul, 1 <HI>Iohn</HI> 1. 9.</P>
<P>II. By believing or ca&s;ting your &s;elf wholly on Chri&s;ts righ|teou&s;ne&s;s, for the remi&s;&s;ion ther|of, and reconciliation with God, <HI>Rom.</HI> 3. 22, to 26. Cleaving to Gods promi&s;es of pardon and peace, <HI>I&s;a,</HI> 43. 25. <HI>Rom.</HI> 5. 1.
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waiting til the Lord &s;hal &s;peak to you, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 85. 8.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. II.</HEAD>
<P>GEt your union with, and intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, cleared and confirmed to you dayly more and more, that you are a branch in his vine, a member in his body, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 13. 5. This may be done three waies.</P>
<P N="1">I. By the dayly renewal of your faith in Chri&s;t, e&s;pecially of that act of faith, whereby the &s;oul knits or ties it &s;elf unto Chri&s;t, ca&s;ts or roules it &s;elf up|on Chri&s;t for &s;alvation. Cau&s;e your heart in a &s;olemn manner every day to act this part, or put forth this primitive act of faith in view of the whole &s;oul.</P>
<P>The dayly exerci&s;e hereof will
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increa&s;e and &s;trengthen the divine habit of faith in the &s;oul, and make the &s;oul &s;en&s;ible of the very act of it; by frequent believing, you &s;hall feel at your very heart, that you do believe, &s;o &s;hall you have a witne&s;s in your &s;elf that you are in Chri&s;t, 1 <HI>Iohn</HI> 5. 10.</P>
<P N="2">II. By examining your heart upon what grounds you take Chri&s;t to be yours, and they are five.</P>
<P N="1">1. A fight and &s;ence of your &s;ins, of the guilt, power, and pu|ni&s;hment of them, of your mi|&s;ery by them, <HI>Matt.</HI> 9. 13.</P>
<P N="2">2. Your want of Chri&s;t &s;een and felt at your very heart, to ju&s;tifie, &s;anctifie, redeem, and &s;ave you, or el&s;e you are utter|ly lo&s;t and undone everla&s;ting|ly, <HI>Luke</HI> 19. 10.</P>
<P N="3"><PB N="17" REF="89">
3. Gods free and general of|fer of Chri&s;t to any that will take him by faith, <HI>Iohn</HI> 3. 16. manifold promi&s;es to this pur|po&s;e. The ground of all Gods offers and donations of Chri&s;t, being free Grace, rich mercy, under&s;erved love, <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 2. 4. to 8. <HI>Tit.</HI> 3. 4. to 7.</P>
<P N="4">4. Chri&s;ts &s;weet and gracious invitation of &s;uch to come to him, as are weary of &s;in, <HI>Matt.</HI> 11. 28. to buy, as have no money, no righteou&s;ne&s;s to commend them to Chri&s;t, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 55. 1. no worth or de&s;ert in them&s;elves.</P>
<P N="5">5. As &s;infull vile wretches as you are, have been bought of Chri&s;t, and found in Chri&s;t, &s;ee 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 9. 9. to 12. 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 1. 13. <HI>Phil.</HI> 3. 7. to 10. why may not you? the more clearly you di&s;|cern
<PB N="18" REF="90">
upon what grounds you take Chri&s;t, the more clear is your title to Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="3">III. By &s;urveying and ob|&s;erving in what manner you take Chri&s;t dayly, and this by five re&s;olves, as</P>
<P N="1">1. Whether you do wholly renounce all opinion and con|ceit of your own righteou&s;ne&s;s and de&s;ert? <HI>Matt.</HI> 8. 34. <HI>Phil.</HI> 3. 7 to 10. So that you come to Chri&s;t empty of your &s;elf, ve|ry vile, yea nothing in your own eyes, unworthy to receive Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2. Whether you lay hold on Chri&s;t alone with an empty hand of faith, joyning nothing with Chri&s;t in the matter of &s;alvati|on.</P>
<P N="3">3. Whether you find the Fa|ther drawing your heart after
<PB N="19" REF="90">
Chri&s;t, <HI>Iohn</HI> 6. 44. in hungring panting de&s;ires, that will never be &s;atisfied without Chri&s;t; So that the &s;tream both of your judgment, <HI>Phil.</HI> 37. 8. and af|fections, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 2 2. <HI>Gal.</HI> 6. 14. run towards Chri&s;t?</P>
<P N="4">4. Whether you take Chri&s;t as a Lord to rule you, as a Je&s;us to &s;ave you, <HI>Col.</HI> 2. 6. As one that is all, to your all, your wi&s;dom, your righteou&s;ne&s;s, your &s;anctification, and redem|demption, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1. 30. your &s;piritual food, <HI>Iohn.</HI> 6. 36. Rai|ment, <HI>Rom.</HI> 13. 14. Strength, <HI>Phil.</HI> 4. 13. Life, <HI>Col.</HI> 3. 3. <HI>Gal.</HI> 2, 10.</P>
<P N="5">5. Whether you &s;eek and wait for Chri&s;t (out of the &s;ence of your &s;piritual penury) &s;acra|ments, prayer, meditation, conference, not as they are your
<PB N="20" REF="91">
own works of &s;anctification, but as they are Gods ordinances appointed of purpo&s;e for the manife&s;tation &amp; communication of Chri&s;t to the &s;oul? frequent peru&s;al hereof, will clear to you your manner of taking Chri&s;t, which wil evidence to you, your right in Chri&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. III.</HEAD>
<P>LAbour to draw, and derive from Chri&s;t, by the pulling attractive force of faith, abili|ty &s;ufficient for the day.</P>
<P N="1">I. To perform all duties, <HI>Phil,</HI> 4. 12.</P>
<P N="2">II. To exerci&s;e all the graces, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3. 5&punc;</P>
<P N="3">III. To re&s;i&s;t and over|throw all temptations and cor|ruptions, <HI>Rom.</HI> 8. 37.</P>
<P N="4"><PB N="21" REF="91">
IIII. To undergo all the trials &amp; afflictions thereof, <HI>Phil.</HI> 4. 13. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3. 5. <HI>Iohn</HI> 1. 16. Thus make your provi&s;ion of grace and &s;trength from Chri&s;t every morning, fetch &s;o much as you have occa&s;ion to u&s;e all the day long, yea and upon all occa&s;ions that fall out in the day. Go to Chri&s;t &s;till for the wisdom that mu&s;t direct you; for the holine&s;s that mu&s;t cha|racter you; for the &s;ouldier that mu&s;t bear them, if they be cro&s;|&s;es; for that &s;trength that mu&s;t re&s;i&s;t them, if they be tempta|tions; for ability to performe them, if they be duties. To this end, act your faith dayly in the promi&s;es of grace and &s;trength, as <HI>Iohn</HI> 1. 16. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 36. 26, 27. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 44. 3 <HI>Zack</HI> 10 12. which are both &s;ecurity given you by
<PB N="22" REF="92">
God, that you &s;hall receive grace and conduit-pipes, or in|&s;truments of conveying the &s;ame from Chri&s;t unto you. Loe, this is the manner to do all in the &s;trength of Chri&s;t, and to take forth a great deal of Chri&s;t into the &s;oul, that not you, but Chri&s;t may live in you, <HI>Gal.</HI> 2. 20.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. IV.</HEAD>
<P>Perform daily duties in fami|ly and clo&s;et, e&s;pecially the&s;e three, Prayer, Meditation, Reading, all with &s;erious affecti|on, heat of affection, deligence and delight, <HI>Ier.</HI> 48. 10. <HI>Mal.</HI> 1. 14. 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 21. 24. the&s;e three waies.</P>
<P N="1">I. Watch to the&s;e duties, <HI>H. E.</HI> keep thy heart in a good
<PB N="23" REF="92">
frame for them, <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 6. 18. un|defiled with &s;in, untainted with the world.</P>
<P N="2">II. Take the fitte&s;t time for the performance of them all, when you are the lea&s;t evil and &s;luggi&s;h: Begin the day con|&s;tantly with thoughts of God.</P>
<P N="3">III. Be very reall, &s;erious, and &s;ub&s;tantial with God in them.</P>
<P N="4">IV. Indeavour to feel all du|ties in your heart, inlivening, enlarging, infleming your af|fections<HI>:</HI> The&s;e be duties of mo&s;t importance and con&s;e|quence, commodity and com|fort to the &s;oul, becau&s;e they properly appear at, and reach at the &s;ouls good and caele&s;tial hap|pine&s;s, to train up a &s;oul of a Believer for heaven.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="24" REF="93">
<HEAD>CHAP. V.</HEAD>
<P>FOrtifie your &s;elf every morning a|gain&s;t your &s;pecial lu&s;ts, to which you are by nature mo&s;t prone, or &s;hall be mo&s;t tempted; be it pride, pa&s;&s;ion, cove|tou&s;ne&s;s, &amp;c. This mu&s;t be done four waies: As,</P>
<P N="1">I. By arguments and holy rea&s;onings within your &s;elves, drawn fom the &s;ad ef|fects thereof, as di&s;profit, di&s;comfort, di&s;grace &amp;c. to di&s;cover the unrea&s;on|ablene&s;s of your &s;in, and make your &s;oul a&s;hamed of it<HI>:</HI> For in&s;tance. Shall I be proud? Then I am &s;ure to fall, and God will count me for his enemie, for God re&s;i&s;teth the proud, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">am.</HI> 4: 6. Shall I be angry? If I let pa&s;&s;ion in, I cannot keep &s;atan out, <HI>Ephe&s;:</HI> 4: 26, 27. I &s;hall grieve thereby the holy &s;pirit of God, <HI>Ephe&s;:</HI> 4: 30, 31. Shall I be covetous? I cannot but be very &s;inful, &s;ith the love of money is the root of all evil, 1 <HI>Tim;</HI> 6<HI>:</HI> 10.</P>
<P N="2">II. By pondring in your minds pre|cepts in the Book of God again&s;t &s;uch &s;ins, judgments threatned, or inflicted <HI>Prov:</HI> 6: 23, 24. on proud <HI>Herod, Acts</HI> 12: 23. voluptuous <HI>Dives, Luke</HI> 16:
<PB N="25" REF="93">
28. churl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">h <HI>Na<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> 1 <HI>Sam:</HI> 25<HI>:</HI> 38.</P>
<P N="3">III. By applying promi&s;es of morti|fication clo&s;e to your hearts, as a plai&s;ter to the &s;ore, for &s;ubduing your iniquity, <HI>Mic:</HI> 7: 19. <HI>Rom:</HI> 6: 14.</P>
<P N="4">IV. By drawing vertue from Chri&s;ts death into the &s;oul, which hath in it a killing force of &s;in, <HI>Rom.</HI> 6: 4: 107. <HI>Phi.</HI> 4: 10.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. VI.</HEAD>
<P>GEt your heart &s;trongly fixt on God, by tru&s;ting on him; <HI>P&s;al:</HI> 112: 7. and &s;ubmitting to him, 1 <HI>Sam:</HI> 3<HI>:</HI> 18. again&s;t all the fears, cares, double trialls, affliction of every day, for &s;ufficient to the day, is the evill thereof, <HI>Mat:</HI> 6: 34.</P>
<P>This mu&s;t be done five waies.</P>
<P N="1">I. Be prudent to fore&s;ee your per&s;onal tryals and troubles, what ever they are like to be, <HI>Prov:</HI> 22: 3.</P>
<P N="2">II: Go hide and lay up your &s;elf in God, run unto his name, for God is a work of habitation, to which a poor &s;oul may continually re&s;ort, God will give commandment to &s;ave him, <HI>P&s;al:</HI> 71: 3. 1 <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">et:</HI> 4: 19.</P>
<P N="3">III. E&s;pecially commit that ver,
<PB N="26" REF="94">
thing to God, put it into his hands, what|&s;oever you de&s;ire to keep or fear to loo&s;e, 2 <HI>Tim:</HI> 1<HI>:</HI> 12. be it life, liberty, name, friends maintenance, &amp;c. what you would have re&s;olved if it be a doubt, <HI>P&s;al:</HI> 37<HI>:</HI> 5. or &s;upply'd if it be a want, removed if it be a cro&s;s, <HI>P&s;al:</HI> 50<HI>:</HI> 15. and together with the thing ca&s;t all your care, fear, &s;orrow, and trouble of mind about it, wholly up|on the Lord, <HI>Matt:</HI> 6: 31. 1 <HI>Pet;</HI> 5, 7: <HI>P&s;al:</HI> 55: 22.</P>
<P N="4">IV. Renew your faith in tho&s;e pro|mi&s;es every, day, which mo&s;t concerns your pre&s;ent &s;tate, As,</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. In promi&s;es of &s;upplyes if you be in want, <HI>P&s;al:</HI> 34<HI>:</HI> 8. &amp; <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 37: 3. &amp; <HI>P&s;.</HI> 84: 11. <HI>Matt:</HI> 6: 30.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 Of direction if in doubts, <HI>Iam:</HI> 1: 5.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Of deliverance if in trouble, <HI>Iob</HI> 5. 19. Of a good end and ductified u&s;e of all, <HI>Deut:</HI> 8; 16. <HI>James</HI> 5: 11. <HI>Rom:</HI> 8: 28. <HI>Heb:</HI> 12: 10.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="5">V. La&s;tly labour to &s;ee Gods hand, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 34: 9. Believe Gods love, <HI>Heb;</HI> 12: 6. <HI>Rev:</HI> 3: 19. and with all meekne&s;s &amp; patience to re&s;ign up your &s;elf wholly to Gods will in every affliction, <HI>Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t:</HI> 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">: 39.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="27" REF="94">
<HEAD>CHAP. VII.</HEAD>
<P>GEt and keep a &s;avory, reli&s;h continu|ally of your Chri&s;tian priviledges, wherewith you are inve&s;ted as you are new creatures in Chri&s;t<HI>:</HI> more e&s;pecial|ly of the&s;e &s;ix.</P>
<P N="1">I. Of your dignity, that you are Gods Sons, 1 <HI>Iohn</HI> 3 1, 2. Chri&s;ts brethren, <HI>Heb</HI> 2: 11. Heavens heirs, <HI>Iohn</HI> 20<HI>:</HI> 17. Partakers of an high and heavenly cal|ling, <HI>Iam.</HI> 2: 5.</P>
<P N="2">II. Of your liberty, that you are the Lords free men, <HI>Phil.</HI> 3: 14. delivered out of the hands of all enemies, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 7: 22. 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 17: 39.</P>
<P N="3">III. Of your victory, that you are through Chri&s;t more than Conquerors over all the world of creatures, <HI>Rom.</HI> 8: 37, 38. 1 <HI>Iohn</HI> 5: 4. of evils, temptati|ons, per&s;ecutions.</P>
<P N="4">IV. Of your &s;afety, that you have an almighty God for your place of refuge, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 18<HI>:</HI> 2. an hedg of providence, <HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h,</HI> 1<HI>:</HI> 10. a guard of Angels, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 91<HI>:</HI> 11. an inclo&s;ure of mercy, <HI>P&s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">:</HI> 32: 10. and Gods promi&s;e, as a writ of protection for defence, <HI>Heb:</HI> 13: 5. 6.</P>
<P N="5"><PB N="28" REF="95">
V. Of your riches as durable &s;ub&s;tance in heaven, <HI>Heb:</HI> 10: 34: an incorruptible inheritance, 1 <HI>Pet:</HI> 1. 4. a kingdom of glory, <HI>Luke</HI> 12: 32. and a crown of life, <HI>Rev:</HI> 2: 10. for you are heirs of God, and co-heirs of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="6">VI. Of your joy and plea&s;ure, pre|tious for kind and plentiful for mea&s;ure, <HI>P&s;al:</HI> 16: 11. peace unconceivable, <HI>Phil:</HI> 4<HI>:</HI> 7. joy un&s;peakable, 1 <HI>Pet:</HI> 1: 8. the Ma&s;ters joy: O<HI>!</HI> get your hearts affected with all the&s;e as being yours: Chew and &s;uck them by &s;erious meditation; work and warm them upon your hearts by clo&s;e applycation, rubbing them into your af|fections: Oppo&s;e the&s;e your &s;piritual pri|viledges to your temporal pre&s;&s;ures, &s;et|ting the one again&s;t the other, as your heavenly friends to your earthly foes; your high dignity in Chri&s;t, to your meanne&s;s in outward condition; your wealth above, to your want below; your future joy and re&s;t, to your pre&s;ent trou|bles and &s;orrows: This will not onely make you patient under your afflictions in this life, <HI>Rom:</HI> 12<HI>:</HI> 11. but joyful in them, <HI>Rom:</HI> 5: 3. and triumphant over them, 1 <HI>Cor:</HI> 15<HI>:</HI> 55. Thus did <HI>Paul,</HI>
<PB N="29" REF="95">
<HI>Rom:</HI> 8: 18. 2 <HI>Cor:</HI> 4: 17. <HI>Chap:</HI> 6: 8, 9, 10. The&s;e will provoke to duty, 1 <HI>Pet:</HI> 2: 9, 11, 12. and pre&s;erve from fainting, 2 <HI>Cor:</HI> 4: 16, 17. and from trouble of heart, <HI>Iohn</HI> 14: 1, 2.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>CHAP. VIII.</HEAD>
<P>SAnctifie God in your hearts dayly, 1 <HI>Pet:</HI> 3: 15. make him your fear, <HI>P&s;:</HI> 37<HI>:</HI> 4. To this end do the&s;e four things.</P>
<P N="1">I. Have often high and honourable thoughts of God, &s;erious meditations of his glorious attributes, as his wi&s;dom, po|wer, mercy, ju&s;tice, &amp;c. and work them up|on your hearts, that they may eccho to thee with pure and melting affections; this will encrea&s;e and nouri&s;h up the di|vine nature fa&s;t in you, 2 <HI>Pet&punc;</HI> 1: 4.</P>
<P N="2">II. Labour to be affected with all the works of God, As,</P>
<P N="1">1. To behold and admire the works of God, <HI>Iob</HI> 37: 14. in the Creatures, <HI>P&s;al&punc;</HI> 136: 5.</P>
<P N="2">2. To &s;ee and ta&s;t Gods goodne&s;s in every mercy, <HI>P&s;al:</HI> 34. 8.</P>
<P N="3">3. To take notice of, and tremble at the anger and di&s;plea&s;ure of God in eve|ry affliction or judgment, <HI>P&s;:</HI> 119<HI>:</HI> 120.
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<HI>Hab:</HI> 3: 16. That &s;o you might an&s;wer the di&s;pen&s;ations of Gods providence, with &s;uitable de&s;po&s;itions, your hearts carrying a countenance in affection to all Gods actions <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 26: 8.</P>
<P N="3">III. Wre&s;tle with God by praying and believing, for an heart of fle&s;h, <HI>Eze:</HI> 36: 26. which will receive impre&s;&s;ion from the very thoughts of God in the mind.</P>
<P N="4">IV. Apply promi&s;es to particular af|fections, as, 1. Of love, <HI>Deut:</HI> 30: 6. 2. of fear, <HI>Ier:</HI> 32. 40. 3. of delight, <HI>I&s;a:</HI> 58: 14. There is heat and life in the&s;e promi&s;es &s;ufficient to quicken and warm thy dead and frozen affections.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. IX.</HEAD>
<P>GEt a publick &s;pirit to mind things of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, as rationally as if they were your own things, <HI>Phil:</HI> 2: 30, 31. to look on the things of others, &amp; prefer <HI>Je|ru&s;alems</HI> welfare before your chiefe&s;t joy, <HI>P&s;:</HI> 137: 5<HI>:</HI> 6: &amp; the Go&s;pels liberty before your own, as <HI>Paul</HI> did <HI>Acts</HI> 21<HI>:</HI> 13. To mourn for the &s;ins of the times, as the godly in <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> did <HI>Ezek:</HI> 9: 4. E&s;|pecially lay to heatt,</P>
<P N="1">I. The Churches mi&s;ery, when Gods
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ordinance go down and heri&s;ie and &s;uper|&s;tition go up; when any thing fals out which gives a blow to Religion, or prove an impediment to the Go&s;pel, If the Ark be taken, call your comforts Icabods, 1 <HI>Sam:</HI> 4<HI>:</HI> 21.</P>
<P N="2">II. The afflictions of <HI>Jo&s;eph, Amos,</HI> 6: 6. the &s;ufferings of Gods &s;ervants' whether Magi&s;trates, Mini&s;ters, or peo|ple; O &s;impathize with them, <HI>Heb:</HI> 13: 3. <HI>Nehe:</HI> 1: 4. labour to feel their trou|bles and &s;orrows at your very hearts, and pray earne&s;tly for them as the Church did for <HI>Peter, Acts</HI> 12: 5.</P>
<P N="3">III. The &s;igns of the times, which Hipocrites cannot di&s;cern, though they be well ver&s;t in the face of the sky, <HI>h. e.</HI> The &s;ad &s;imptomes and pre&s;ages of approach|ing judgments, as the&s;e &s;even following &s;ignifies.</P>
<P N="1">1. The commonne&s;s of &s;in, for all &s;orts tran&s;gre&s;s, in all kind of open &s;inful|ne&s;s, with an high hand again&s;t light and nature, and meanes of grace, <HI>Gen:</HI> 15<HI>:</HI> 15. <HI>Ezek:</HI> 12<HI>:</HI> 3. <HI>Chap:</HI> 22: 4.</P>
<P N="2">2. Contempt of Gods ordinances, mi&s;u&s;ing of his Mini&s;ters, 2 <HI>Chron:</HI> 36: 16.</P>
<P N="3">3. The departure of Gods glory from his hou&s;e, <HI>Ezek:</HI> 9: 3.</P>
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4. Incorri&s;iblene&s;s after former, and under pre&s;ent judgments, <HI>Levit:</HI> 26: 15.</P>
<P N="5">5. The death of many righteous men, <HI>I&s;a:</HI> 57: 1. The carrying away of others to hiding places.</P>
<P N="6">6. The Vials of Gods wrath powred upon the Churches beyond the Seas, <HI>Ier:</HI> 17: 12: 14.</P>
<P N="7">7. An Inundation of &s;piritual judge|ments, as a &s;pirit of error, Appo&s;tacy, &s;uper&s;tition, &amp;c. which do commonly conclude and end in temporal plagues, <HI>I&s;a:</HI> 6: 10, 11. Now O Chri&s;tian! the Holy Gho&s;t is a publick &s;pirit breathing and acting in all the members of the body mi&s;tical, pray for it, <HI>Luke</HI> 11: 13. be|lieve for it, <HI>Gal:</HI> 3: 14.</P>
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<HEAD>CHAP. X.</HEAD>
<P>LA&s;tly get your heart renewed from the world, and from tho&s;e creature comforts in it, which are deare&s;t and &s;weete&s;t to you, wife, children, friends, goods, liberty, hou&s;e; life, this Chri&s;t re|quires of tho&s;e that follow him, <HI>Luke</HI> 14: 26, 27. <HI>Mark,</HI> 10: 29 30. This will prepare you either to &s;uffer or to die, el|ther of which may put you upon it to love all. To this con&s;ider &s;eriou&s;ly the&s;e four things: As,</P>
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I. All the world and all Creature comforts cannot &s;atisfie the heart, when thou ha&s;t injoyed them to the full, <HI>Eccl:</HI> 1: 8. <HI>Chap:</HI> 5: 9, 10. you &s;oon grow weary of them, or glutted with them, &s;o that you de&s;ire &s;ome new delights, or more of the old, or &s;ome over again.</P>
<P N="2">II. Nor can they &s;a&s;tisfie you, but expo&s;e oft to many lu&s;ts, 1 <HI>Tim:</HI> 6: 9, 10. temptations, de&s;tractions, to a &s;pirit of the world, and they hinder from follow|ing Je&s;us Chri&s;t, <HI>Matt:</HI> 19: 22.</P>
<P N="3">III. Nor can they &s;ave you from Gods wrath, from death or judgment, <HI>Prov:</HI> 11: 4. The wicked who&s;e portion is onely here, oft have the greate&s;t &s;hare of them, <HI>P&s;al:</HI> 17: 14. <HI>Iob</HI> 21: 7: to 14.</P>
<P N="4">IV. They &s;erve onely for this life, whil'&s;t we are on this &s;ide of the grave, they &s;hall not be the lea&s;t ingredients in|to our cele&s;tial happine&s;s.</P>
<P>O Chri&s;tians when we come to be happy in heaven, we &s;hall &s;tand in no need of food, raiment, phy&s;ick, marriage, <HI>Matt:</HI> 22: 30. for we &s;hall be like the Angels of God in heaven, we &s;hall then hunger no more, nor thir&s;t any more, <HI>Revel:</HI> 7: 16. we &s;hall then and there
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live by the al&s;ufficient &s;pirit of God, which needs no refre&s;hing; we &s;hall be cloathed then with long white robes of immortality, <HI>Revel:</HI> 7: 9. To Con|clude, when we come to heaven (the place of Gods habitation) we &s;hall en|joy the face and beatifical pre&s;ence of the mo&s;t glorious Jehovah (ble&s;&s;ed for ever) as an object wherein all the powers of our &s;ouls will be &s;atisfied with ineffable de|light and everla&s;tingne&s;s: God will be to us all in all, 1 <HI>Cor:</HI> 15<HI>:</HI> 28. O come LORD JESUS, Revel. 22: 20.</P>
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