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A dying fathers living legacy, to his loving son or, lively rules from the rule of life, to bee lived by every mothers childe. / By F.S. Gent.
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F. S.
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1660
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Wing S22; Thomason E2105_2; ESTC R210143
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time of peace hee will bee thy Tower in a time of trouble Those that are under the government of Christ are sure to bee provided for by Christ Unto whom Christ is a King to rule them he is a strong tower to secure them Christs power is beyond the distresses of his people Our difficult work is Christs work If thou wouldest not fear temporal judgements when they come strengthen thy faith and bee much in prayer before they come As faith gets up so fear gets down the strength of fear is from weakness of faith All our spiritual swouns come from unbelief The way for a Christian not to act his fear is to act his faith The creature is not much to bee feared You cannot fear man too much but you fear God too little The main sin that brings destruction upon men is trusting to men and not to God Fear addes much to our vexation nothing to our safety When fear prevails take a promise and plead it by faith If you go to the Father by prayer you need not fear peace through the Son Make the Lord of hosts your fear and you shall have him for your sanctuary You must sanctify God and make him your fear and your dread and he will sanctuary and safe-guard you In evill times God will have a special care of his own people That man is too big for all evils that is great in God Hee that dwells in God for sanctification shall dwell in him for preservation Hee that walketh uprightly shall dwell on high and his place shall bee in the Rock THe times of the Churches calamities are the times of wicked mens insolencies and blasphemies When the Church suffers there should be a veil of sorrow drawn over thy eyes Look not what the world doth but what God would have thee to do Be not afraid or discouraged though sometimes our Ark doth move upon very troublesome waters Victory in the end shall bee on the Churches side The Church is taken for the whole number of Gods Elect effectually called into a fellowship with Christ through sanctification and belief of the truth What ever the difference is between the enimies of the Church and the Church Christs party shall overcome On whose side dost thou think God doth ingage himself Is not the Sea able to quench a coal of fire One acting of a grace sometimes is sufficient to destroy an enimy Heb. 11.33 34. The Church of Christ in this life is like a ship upon the Sea The ship hath goodly sails the Church hath admirable graces If there bee not a gale the ship cannot stear so notwithstanding all the Churches graces it cannot move from faith to virtue without the fresh actings and breathings of God upon those graces The ship is a trading vessel and so the Church They are the great trades-men for heaven The ship is the onely safe place out of the Church there is no safety The Church of God though it bee tossed and tumbled yet it hath an Anchor the blood of Christ The ship in comparison of the sea is but a little thing yet it is above the water so the Church in comparison of the world is but a handfull of men yet it hath an Ark the Lord Jesus Christ In every new danger the people of God are apt to forget their former deliverance The proper time of fear is in thy prosperity and the time to believe when other helps fail There is all in God in the want of all The life of a Christian as a Christian is to live out of himself As the graft of a tree lives upon the root so a Christian by faith lives upon Christ You must provide for a troubling time as well as a healing time Prophane persons will make troublesome times with such David had to deal their words pierced nearer his heart than their swords When a people are not healed by their troubles they must expect to be troubled in their healings Observe this wheresoever there is faith there is a quiet soul first or last THe top of a Christians joy is not in outward earthly but spiritual things They which are most acquainted with carnal mirth are greatest strangers to spiritual joy Every grace as it is the expression of Gods love so it is the spring of our joy Wee may joy in these things below but they must not bee our spring and sea the spring from which they come and the sea to which they tend Joy it sets the soul upon wing for heaven what is the nature of your joy doth it make you fly up or fly out Cursed is that joy that makes God sad eat and drink and rise up to play and not rise up to pray and praise God and your table will bee your snare your death There is a desperate propension and active forwardness in the affection of joy to run out upon such things that are sinful Let not that bee the matter of your joy which is the fruit of your sin Do not make that the matter of thy joy which should bee the matter of thy humiliation The sins of others the calamities of others God allows us to rejoyce in creature-comforts and lawful liberties so it bee done lawfully It is not the thing rejoyced in but the manner of rejoycing that makes our joy criminal and sinful Though the Scripture allows thee to rejoyce yet it forbids sinful rejoycing It is a sinful thing to rejoyce in a creature for it self Joy sinfully acted is when the sweetness of the creature is not a means to lead thee unto God but as an object to satisfie thee without God Creatures are not given properly to bee injoyed but to bee used and directed to a further end You are not to bound and terminate your comforts in them You cannot joy in any thing for it self but you make it a God Delight is a glory proper to God as God Joy naturally centers it self in the things of this life A natural man doth not take occasion to rejoyce from the creature but hee rests his joy in the creature Do not you over-joy in the things of this life but joy in this that your name is written in the book of life Your heart cannot bee overmuch taken or best pleased with that which is not best without sin Though outward comforts are good in themselves and so occasions of joy yet they are not good enough for the joy of thy heart to bee taken up at or to bee taken up with As wee may quickly be more taken with these things than they are worth so our joy cannot but exceed Worldly comforts since the fall suit so well with our carnal humours that while wee deal about them wee cannot but feed too heartily on them and drink more deep of that cup than wee ought It is a lawful thing to take pleasure in lawful things but they are made unlawful to us when much of our time is eaten up in eating and drinking Time is short and time