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A64283	Nathanael, or, An Israelite indeed lively portraied, and evidently proved to be an object most worthy both of our admiration and imitation, his priviledges and characters are also layd down : together with a discovery of the sinfulness and miserie of all hypocrites and strangers from the common-wealth of Israel / by Faithfull Teate ...	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1657 (1657)	Wing T613; ESTC R41538	79,460	204

oath and say Lord I have many enemies too strong and subtile for me but be thou my strong rock I have a deceitfull backsliding heart but thou art a true God purge out mine hypocrisie and heale all my backslidings Thou requirest that I should serve thee in holiness and righteousness without feare but thou hast bound thy self as wel to me as mee to thy self grant me thy grace and power to do thy will Da Domine quod jubes jube quod vis and banish far from me all slavish feare by planting thy love in mine heart for perfect love doth cast out slavish feare 1 Joh. 4.18 2. This covenant is established in the hand of a mediator Jesus Christ who hath paid our whole debt Heb. 12.24 though we cannot satisfie for the least farthing and he is able to work all our works in us and for us Isa 26 12. Adam indeed soon brake his covenant though he were in innocency because he stood by his owne strength but the second Adam God and man is our upholder who is bound in the covenant of grace with us and for us to whom the Lord hath said In an acceptable time have I heard thee and in a day of salvation have I helped thee and I will preserve thee and give thee for a covenant of the people to establish the earth to cause to inherit the desolate heritages that thou maist say to the prisoners go forth to them that are in darknes shew yourselves Isa 49.8.9 God promiseth to help and preserve him that he may help and uphold us Are we in darkness he will be our light Are we weak he the Lord Jehova wil be our everlasting strength Do we fall he will raise us up Psal 37.24 Though we break the covenant he hath kept it to the utmost Thirdly To render us yet more secure Act. 2.38 39. God hath confirmed this covenant that he wil be our God and guide unto death by outward seals commonly called Sacraments Baptisme and the Lords supper as circumcision is called the seal of the righteousness of faith Rom. 4.11 As also by the inward seal of his holy Spirit who beareth witnesse with our spirits that we are the children of God Rom. 8.16 as the Apostle saith 2 Cor. 1.21 22. Now he which establisheth us with you is God which words with you are added lest some weaker Christians should demur and surmise that the Apostle and strong christians may well say so but we may not be so bold Yes saith the Apostle you may avouch somuch as well as I or any other He who establisheth us with you in Christ and hath annointed us is God who hath also sealed us and given the earnest of the spirit in our hearts Here is a seal and an earnest both mentioned and annexed to Gods covenant and oath that we might have strong conso●ati●n who have fled for refuge to lay hold up●n the hope set before was Heb. 6.18 Argumen 2 Secondly That which mov d God to enter into covenant with them was his love God loveth them for the love of God is the original and fountaine of all the Saints blessedness and dign●●y which two may all along be distinguished but cannot be separated The primary product of this love is our election from all eternity Eph. 1.4 which is therefore called the election of grace Rom. 11.5 The object of this grace is the Israel of God as appeareth by the Lords compellation Isa 44.1 2. Heare now O Iacob my servant and Israel whom I have chosen Thus saith the Lord that made thee who will also keep thee Feare not O Iacob my servant and thou Jesurun Whom I have chosen The consideration hereof emboldened David against all his ranting enemies Psal 4.2 3. O ye sons of men said he to them how long will you turne my glory into shame But know or be it known to you that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself These only have their names written in the Lamb's book of life Rev. 21.27 whereas all others who have forsaken the Lord the fountain of living waters shal be written in the Earth Jer. 17.13 They are built upon the rock of ages the foundation of God which stands su●e 2. Tim. 2.19 all others shal be like the chaff which the winde driveth to and fro Psal 1.4 Secondly This love moved God to send his onely begotten son in the fulness of time into the world to die for them that whosoever beleeve on him might not perish but have eternal life Joh. 3.6 Here we have the privative part of our happiness they shall not perish but be delivered from hell and the positive part they shall have eternal life Reader stand here and meditate what the terrors and torments of hell are from whence Christ by his death hath freed us and what the joyes and glory of Heaven be which he hath purchased and prepared for us And when you can fully conceive how great these two are or how great Christs love is who hath done both these for us then and never before will you be able to conceive how great the beleevers honour and happiness shall be Thirdly As the love of the Father induced him to give us his Son Isa 9.6 so the love of the Son moved him to give himselfe for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour Eph. 5.2 and that he might redeeme us from all iniquity Tit. 2.14 and consequently from hell Now might the damned Spirits be certified that they should at last be released out of those intolerable torments which they suffer and we have deserved and in the end be invested in celestial glory thought it should be gra●●ed them not til after some thousand of yeares first expired what a great mercy would even they account it And will not you seek to know this how you may escape hell and attain everlasting glory Sect. 3 Argument 3 Thirdly On these his b●loved hath Iesus Christ conferred his S●cred spirit a gift of gifts that thereby we may know that he dwelle●h ●n us and we in him 1 Illumination 1 Joh. 3.24 By whom we 1. are enligh ened to know what is the hope of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inh●ritance in the Saints Eph. 1.18 How earnest was bl ssed Paul who rightly apprehended this mercy of illumination in praying for others that they might have it who wa●ted it and in rendering thanks for them who had obta●ned it And will not you be aff●cted therewith to seek it till you find it and to bless God for it when you have it 2 Vivification 2. By the operation of this Spirit are they q●ick●ned who were dead before in trespasses and in sins Joh. 6.63 Now put these two together Prov. 15.30 If the light of the body be so pleasant as Solomon averreth how much more delightfull is the light of the soul and if temporall

faithfull assertion promise for it who is able to performe and for their greater security they shall find it upon record Psal 37.16 A little that the righteous hath is better then the riches of many wicked Where a little is opposed to great riches and one mans modicum is opposed to many mens great revenues Againe Psal 112.1 2 3. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord that delighteth greatly in his commandements his seed shall be mighty upon earth the generation of the upright shall be blessed wealth and riches shall be in his house you see then I speak not any thing tending to your losse in disswading you from * Tim. 3.3 filthy lucre for a mans life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth Luk. 12.15 An heathen fitly illustrateth this by a similitude thus * Horat Sern l. 1. Satyr 1 A cleare fountain being a mans own will yeeld better water and sufficient for his use with more safety then a deep muddy river can do 6. I have a word to school-masters who have a fairer upportunity of enlarging the kingdome of Jesus Christ and the common-wealth of Israel if they be carefull to improve it to the best advantage than many I had also said any others for that end be pleased to study well this subject and take out this lesson and commend it to your schollers that they may also learne it throughly without which all humane learning will but increase their guilt and then will not you make marchandize of the precious time of the youth committed to your trust either through sloath or for sinister advantage and then shall they grow in wisdome and grace and favour with God and men to the great joy of their Parents and your no less honour 7. Let all that glory in the title and say they are Jewes Israelites or Christians and are not but doe lye as Iohn the divine speaketh Revelations 3.9 much more strive to attaine to the reality than vainely affect the * Ne nomen eis ad ignominiam ●it Cypr ad Cornel. Papam bare name which unless they be Israelites and Christians indeed will rise up in judgement against them And let all who are named Nathanael resemble this pattern in my Text and be put in mind of it as oft as they write or read their own names or hear others to call them thereby for for that end may we well conceive godly parents use so to call their children and then shall all these read their names registred in the Lambs book of life and they shall never be blotted out of it 8. Let the word of God prevaile with all martiall men and command them who in time of war use to command others by the sword to account it their highest honour to be able to derive their spiritual pedigree from Jacob sirnamed Israel from his prevailing first with God and afterwards with men and there see that you begin be sure to prevaile with God by prayers and then shall you be more then Conquerers over devils and evil men then will you not dare to do violence to any innocent person nor to accuse any falsely but you will be a defence under God to the godly and quiet in the Land and the Lord your God will be a strong and sure defence unto you you shall goe on and prosper against all the Enemies of God and his Church wherof you are lively members five of you shall chase an hundred and an hundred of you put ten thousand to flight and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword Levit. 26.8 for they are more with you then can be against you 2. Chron. 32.7 9. This greatly concerneth parents and Masters to traine up their Children and Servants in this holy profession and to be exemplary therein to them then will your Children be dutifull to you their Parents and acknowledge you to have been instrumentall to them under God of a double birth both of a naturall generation and of supernaturall regeneration Then will your servants account you their Masters worthy of all honour and be no more unprofitable but with Onesimus after his conversion * Ambros in Philem. Tam secularibus quàm divinis obsequiis profitable unto you Phil. 11. Then shall Parents and Children Masters and Servants be blessed of God and prosper Sect. 16 Vse 5th Use 5. So I come to the last use of consolation to all those Of consolation who though with much difficulty breaking through all impediments obstructing them in the way can peruse and find in themselves the forementioned Characters blessed are they that ever they were borne not of blood nor of the wil of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God Iohn 1.13 For 1. all they may truly challenge to themselves the Title of Israelites indeed which God never did nor will allow any others whether they be Jewes or Gentiles to do but very sharply reproveth them for it Isa 48.1 2. They are called by the name of Israel and againe Isa 48.1 2. they call themselves of the holy City and stay themselves upon the God of Israel and they sweare by the name of the Lord and make mention of the God of Israel but not in truth nor in righteousnesse Hence observe 1. in that wicked men usurpe this title and glory in it how glorious are all Israelites indeed their enemies themselves being judges 2ly it is a hainous sinne for any to challenge this title when it belongeth not to them as it is a Capital crime for a varlet to pretend to be a Kings son and heire 3ly the spirit of God accounteth it to be blasphemy Rev. 2.9 saith he I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jewes and are not 2ly This is not a bare and empty title but accompanied with so much honour and happinesse as none on this side heaven can expresse or fully conceive of 1. John 3.1 2. Behold what manner of love the father hath bestowed on us that we should be called the sons of God! Beloved now are we the sons of God and it doth not yet appeare what we shall be but we know that when he shall appeare we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is whence we collect 3ly That they and onely they shall surely enjoy all the honour and felicity which heaven can afford in the life to come who continue to walk aright in the good old way which hath been set before you as Christ hath certified all believers Joh. 14.1 2. In my fathers house are many mansions I go to prepare a place for you and I will come againe and receive you that where I am there ye may be also v. 3. and then shall you find experimentally and confesse that this glory doth infinitely exceed the fame which you have heard of it 4ly Yea even in this life having once received the first fruits of the Spirit in your hearts he will so certify you of the truth hereof and your propriety therein that you shall rejoyce with joy unspeakable and glorious 1 Pet. 1.8 even in the midst of manifold troubles temptations and persecutions v. 6. O therefore pray the Lord with all importunity to cause * Isa 30.21 your eares to heare a voice behind you saying This is the way walk ye in it when ye turne to the right hand and when ye turne to the left that Jesus Christ may say of you as here he did of Nathanael Beh●ld an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile Amen FINIS