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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65308	A plea for the Godly wherein is shown the excellency of a righteous person / by Thomas Watson ...	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1672 (1672)	Wing W1138; ESTC R10636	40,142	126

unsanctified fancy is Satans work-House Mic. 2. 1. But The thoughts of the righteous are right Prov. 12. 5. A righteous mans thoughts have got wings and fled to heaven Psal. 139. 18. When I awake I am still with thee God is a Saints Treasure and where should his mind be but upon his Treasure a righteous man is got upon the top of Mount Tabor solacing himself in Jehovah he contemplates the beauty of Holiness the love of Christ the felicity of Saints glorified his Thoughts are among the Cherubims The Soul while it is musing on Christ is filled with holy and sweet raptures it is caught up into Paradise it is in Heaven before its time Psal. 104. 34. My mediation of Him shall be sweet 5. A righteous mans desires are more excellent He spreads the sails of his desire to receive the fresh breathings of Gods spirit Cant. 4. 16. I deny not but a bad man may have some faint Velleities after the best things Those deserters of Christ cried Lord evermore give us this bread Joh 6. 24. But a righteous mans Desires excell 1. He desires Christ for himself not only for his Jewels but his Beauty not only as he is a Saviour but as he is the Holy One Act. 3 14. 2. He is unsatisfied without Christ not the most rich Viands not golden Chalices fill'd with Saphires or Diamonds will content him without Christ. The two Maries were not satisfied with the Linnen Clothes lying in the Sepulcre unless they had seen the body of Jesus So it is not the linnen on the Communion-Table or the Elements of Bread and Wine will satisfie a Believer unless he may meet with Christ whom his soul loves 3. He desires still more of Christ and would be swallowed up in the sweet Ocean of his love Behold here a desire which God himself hath raised in the Soul and he will open the breast of mercy and satisfie it 6. A righteous mans Discourse is more excellent His tongue is tuned to the language of Heaven What is the Discourse of the wicked about their wares and drugs like the fish in the Gospel that had a piece of money in its mouth He that is of the earth speaketh of the earth Joh. 3. 31. And too often corrupt communication procceds from the wicked their mouth being like a Sink where all the filth of the house runs out These Lepers had need have their lips covered Sinners in their ordinary Discourse bring forth Scripture as the Philistines did Sampson to make sport as if the Bible were the best Minstrel to play with and a jest were worth nothing unless it were seasoned with the salt of the Sanctuary 'T is a saying of Luther Whom God hath a mind to destroy he lets them play with Scripture But in this sense the righteous is more excellent The tongue of the just is as choise silver Prov. 10. 20 Gracious words drop as silver from him to the enriching the Souls of others Eccl. 10. 12. The words of a wise mans mouth are gracious In the Hebrew they are Grace His words are not as Vinegar to fret but as Salt to season others Col. 4. 6. The roof of the mouth is called Coelum Heaven a godly mans mouth is full of Heaven he speaks as if he had been already in Heaven The holy conference of the two Disciples going to Emmaus brought Christ into their Company Luk. 24. 15. While they communed together Jesus himself drew near and went with them Such savoury speeches drop from holy lips that God hath a table-Table-Book to write them down Mal. 3. 16. Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another and God harkned and a book of remembrance was written 'T is reported of Tamerlain that he kept a Register of the Names and good Deeds of his Soldiers God registers the speeches of his People that they may not be lost 7. A righteous man is of a more excellent Spirit Dan. 5. 12. An excellent Spirit was found in Daniel Numb 14. 24. My servant Caleb because he had another spirit with him A wicked man hath the spirit of the world 2 Cor. 2. 12. He is of an atheistical spirit Lucian is his Old Testament Machiavel his New but a person invested with Grace hath choiceness of spirit in him He is of a 1. Sublime Spirit 2. Noble   3. Invincible   1. He is of a Sublime spirit He savours the things of God a person sublimated by grace sets his feet where others set their hearts he being clothed with Christ the Sun of righteousness and crowned with the Graces as glittering Stars hath the Moon under him the world may have his look but Christ hath his love he dwells below but trades in the Hierusalem above A true Saint is taken up about higher matters getting the love and favour of God he aspires after Glory and Immortality he looks no lower than a Crown he feeds as the Birds of Paradise on the dew of Heaven he is imployed about Angels-work lifting up Gods name in the world he is a living organ of Gods praise 2. He is of a Noble spirit he hath the spirit of an Heir he scorns any thing that is disingenuous and sordid he can deny himself but not disparage himself he can be humble but not base he knows not how to palliate the sins of any which were to wash the Devil's face He cannot prostitute himself to the lusts of men or flatter to get Preferment Job 32. 21. A righteous man abhors to be byassed from the truth for Secular advantage It was said of Luther he cared not for Gold his spirit was more noble than to be bribed with money A good man will not purchase the liberty of his person by the insnaring of his Conscience Heb. 11. 35. Not accepting deliverance 3. He is of an Invincible spirit he bears afflictions without fainting or fretting Though the Archers shoot at him his Bow abides in strength Such as want a Principle of Grace faint in the day of adversity they cannot bear a frown from a great man or digest a reproach If the bough of a Tree be rotten the least weight hung upon it breaks it But the righteous hath the heart of a Lion he is not startled at the discourtesies of the world he looks upon reproaches for Christ as Ensignes of Honour 1 Pet. 4. 11. When the Roman Catholicks taunted at Luther for his Apostacy from their Church I confess said Luther I am an Apostate from you but a blessed one I am such an Apostate as a Magician is when he renounceth his compact made with the Devil and betakes himself to Christ. Grace steels the heart with courage and fires it with zeal Nazianzen said of Athanasius he was both a Loadstone and an Adamant a Loadstone for the sweetness of his Disposition and an Adamant for the invincibleness of