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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89032	Good company being a collection of various, serious, pious meditations; Christian experiences, sayings, sentences; useful for instruction, consolation and confirmation. / By John Melvin, M.A. preacher of the word at Udimer in Sussex.	Melvin, John, M.A.	1659 (1659)	Wing M1656; Thomason E2124_1; ESTC R210169	44,421	139

natural corrupt weaknesse is a spreading deceit 4. If God at any time by any means restore thee to bodily health he can as easily give thee spiritual physick and soul-health 5. Praier hath the nature of violence in besieging God and taking him prisoner and bringing him to our conditions and God is as it were glad to be straitned by us in that siege 6. Little knows the Devil how much good he doth us when he tempts us exciting us to go to God who gives the issue with the temptation 7. God hath as many Antidotes as the Divel hath poisons as much mercy as the Divel hath malice 8. God is glorified in those victories which we by his grace gain over the Divel 9. An afflicted spirit and wounded soul dwell at the gates of atonement and restitution 10. A delicate and prosperous life is highly contrary to the hopes of a blessed eternity 11. He that considers himself well will find that for a secular joy and wantonnesse of spirit there are not left many void spaces of his life 12. Never any charitable man died an evil death for when other graces shall be useless this will bear up the soul upon the wings of Cherubims unto eternal bliss 13. Death to the Godly is the best of all evils and the end of all troubles 14. Impatience with a disease doth mischief by its self and mischief by the disease 15. They that bear the yoke with indignation and murmure gall their spirits fret the skin and hurt nothing but themselves 16. Faith is the life of just men the restitution of dead men the justification of sinners the support of the weak the confidence of the strong the magazine of promises and the title to eternal happiness 17. Faith will trust God's goodness and believe him to be a Father when the storm rises and the keels toss till the cordage crack 18. In all sufferings the cause makes it noble or ignoble tolerable or intollerable 19. Ignorant believers are soon swallowed up and rid over standing in an open field but understanding believers are in a fenced Town and have out-works reasons to lose before the Town be taken 20. No soul hath so prostituted her self but God can make her a Virgin again 21. In every sin we become prodigals but in the habit of sin we become bankrupts 22. He that knows not or takes no knowledge of an injury hath no injury 23. They that are too inquisitive what other men say of them disquiet themselvs 24. God warns before he wounds coming seldom to that dispatch a word and a blow but to a blow without a word to an execution without warning never 25. How many sell heaven and happiness for grains of dust 26. We are born in the last age of the world and died in the first 27. No meditation more serious then the worlds vanity no consideration more seasonable then the brevity of life and uncertainty of time no knowledge more wholesom then the diseases of the mind no contemplation more heavenly then humane misery 28. Poor Infants newly born not able to speak yet prophesie and the contents are lamentations mournings and woes by the tears they shed to fill up the vale of tears they enter 29. 'T is a sign of one nobly bred who first learns to hold his peace and afterwards to speak 30. Wise is that man that sets forth towards heaven in the morning of his daies giving God the first and best part of his time 31. Many old men at the instant of their dissolution desire the continuance of life their flesh being like the Peacocks which being sod grows raw again so after mortification by diseases and age desire to enthral themselves in earthly pleasures 32. No distinction in the grave all have hollow eier flat noses and ghastly looks and all is but dust 33. Seeing the fashion of the body is onely to be altered and the body to be worn again it 's fit we carefully lay it up in deaths Wardrobe the grave 34. On earth we labour for rest in heaven we rest from our labour 35. Water your plants at the departure of your dearest friends but drown them not for whatsoever we complain of here they are freed of in heaven 36. Never any died at London who never lived there so no man ever died in Christ who never lived in him 37. God seldom or never makes use of a godly man to be the scourge of his people 38. As water is powred into a garden-pot at one place but runneth out at an hundred holes so one coming into the world but an hundred waies of going out 39. It was a wise mans complaint that every man thought himself qualified either for Magistracy or Ministry two weighty burthens but now though in the declining age too many are undertakers of both 40. Ambition will to the pinacle of the temple for the glory of the world though it tumble for it to eternal ruine 41. Eminency is seldom sudden and permanent for they which in the dawn of fortune break so gloriously meet with a storm at noon or else a cloud at night 42. If destruction dog us wee are to thank our corrupt affections not blame our Maker he doth but leave us and they harden us 43. A busie prying into the Ark of Gods Predestination is accompanied with insolence and with danger to enquire the the cause of Gods will why this man is elected and not that is an act of lunacie not of judgment and the question is as guilty of reproof as the author 44. Make not curiosity the pick-lock of divine secrets knowing that such mysteries are doubly barred in the Coffers of the Almighty 45. Man's work is to contemplate God's works not to sift his mysteries to admire his goodness not blur his justice 46. In God's dark mysteries he that can see no reason if he see his own infirmity sees a sufficient reason why he should not see 47. Worm and no man take heed how thou struglest with thy Maker let it be thy happiness to be made his Steward though not his Secretary 48. O blessed Jesu though I have committed those transgressions for which thou maist condemne me yet thou hast not lost those compassions by which thou maist save me 49. Never a tear dropping in sincerity is unpitied or unpreserved 50. Outward percussion of the breast without inward remorse of conscience is rather an aggravation of sin then release 51. Study to be truly that what we seem to be and not seem what we are not 52. Meteors and false fires of Religion by-path the soul into blinded zeal leads others into steps of error 53. We may expect a blessing and an acceptance when God's ordinances are used in his order 54. God fills the hearts of his people according to the size and capacity of their vessels 55. As the Water which made the clean woman fruitful made the unclean swell and rot so as the receivers are so Sacraments prove either for good

whom the piety and zeal of those holy Martyrs are revived and doctrine continued 73. No mans calling must call him from God or godliness for particular callings must give place to the generall 74. The power command or example of great men is no warrant to sin 75. An unsound conscience is large and can swallow any thing but a sincere conscience is strait and the least thing sticks in her throat 76. He that takes custom for a safe rule of his actions takes a crooked rule and a blind guide by the hand 77. The falls of holy men in Scripture should teach us rather fear then boldnesse to sin 78. It denotes a sincere heart when it grievs for another man's sin 79 Adversity unites those many times whom prosperity divides 80. Sectaries cry Come out of Babylon and in the mean time fall into her substantial errours which are both her foundation and frame 81. It 's better many waies to swallow a Ceremony then rend a Church 82. Though Sectaries intend it not yet Antichrist and Hell have no better Agents 83. Death many times borders upon birth and the cradle stands in the grave 84. All the contentments of this life are as far from sincerity as contentment 85. O death if thy pangs be grievous yet the rest which follows thee is sweet 86. Let no Christian despise the means of his salvation when he knows the Author 87. The bread of the Sacrament was once the Bakers now it is God's the water was once every man's now it is the Laver of Regeneration 88. It is to thee O God we must powr out our hearts who onely can make our bitter waters sweet 89. Contentation is a rare blessing because it ariseth from a full fruition of all comforts or a not-desiring of some which we have not 90 No man so bare as not to have some benefits none so full as to want nothing yea as not to be full of wants 91 It is our faithlesness that in visible means we see not him who is invisible 92 Our greatest pleasures on earth are but pains in their loss 93 To whine in the midst of abundant riches is a shameful unthankfulness 94 When a heart is hardned with passion it will endure much e're it will yield to relent 95 God will be waited on and will give the consummation of his blessings at his own leisure 96 Let salvation be never so plentiful if we bring it not home and make it ours by faith we are no whit the better 97 Nothing so sovereign which being perverted may not annoy instead of benefitting us 98 Man would forget at whose cost hee lives if he wanted nothing 99 Lenity is ill-bestowed upon stubborn natures and it 's an injurious senslesness not to feel the wounds of our reputation 100 I care not how little or unpleasant a potion I find in this wilderness if the power and benefit of Christ's precious death season it to my soul Trino-uni-soli-Deo gloria FINIS Books lately printed for Thomas Parkhurst at the Sign of the three Crowns over-against the great Conduit at the lower end of Cheap side 1659. A Learned Commentary or Exposition upon the first Chapter of the second Epistle to the Corinthians by Dr. Richard Sibbs published for publick good by Thomas Manton Folio The Dead Saint speaking to Saints and Sinners living in several Treatises viz. The sinfulness and greatest evil that is in sin on 2 Sam. 24.10 The love of Christ to his Spouse on cant 4.9 Nature and Roialties of Faith on John 3.15 The slowness of heart to believe on John 1.50 The cause signs and cure of Hypocrisie with motives and helps to sincerity on Isaiah 58.2 The wonderful workings of God for his Church and people on Exod. 15.11 Never before published by Samuel Bolton D. D. late Mr of Christ Colledge in Cambridge Folio Four profitable Treatises very useful for Christian practice viz. The killing power of the Law The Spiritual Watch the New-birth Of the Sabbath by the reverend William Fenner late Minister of Rochford in Essex Folio There are going to the Press some new pieces of Mr. William Fenners late of Rochford in Essex never yet printed preserved by a special Providence one of which is a second part of his Wilful Impenitencie being five Sermons more that he preached upon the 18 of Ezekiel and the 32 Verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Divine characters in two parts acutely distinguishing the more secret and undiscerned differences between 1. The Hypocrite in his best dress of seeming virtue and formal duties And the true Christian in his real graces and sincere obedience As also between 2. The blackest weeds of daily infirmities of the truly godly eclipsing saving grace and the reigning sins of the Unregenerate that pretend unto that godliness they never had By that late burning and shining Lamp Mr Samuel Crook B D. late Pastor of Wrington in Somerset Folio Mr. John Cotton his practical Exposition on the first Epistle to John second Edition corrected and inlarged in Folio A Theatre of flying Insects wherein especially the manner of right ordering the Bee is excellently described with discourses Historical and Physical concerning them with a second part of Meditations and Observations Theological and Moral in 3 Centuries upon the same subject by Samuel Purchas M. A. in 40. Catechizing God's Ordinance in sundry Sermons by Mr. Zachary Crofton Minister of Buitolphs Aldgate London the second Edition corrected and augmented The Godly man's Ark in the day of his distress discovered in Diverse Sermons the first of which was preached at the Funeral of Mrs. Elisabeth Moore Whereunto is annexed Mrs. Elisabeth Moores Evidences for heaven composed and collected by her in the time of health for her comfort in the time of sickness by Edm. Calamy B. D. and Pastor of the Church at Aldermanbury 8. Peoples need of a living Pastor at the Funeral of Mr. John Frost M. A. by Mr. Zach. Crofton The Gale of Opportunity and the Beloved Disciple by Thomas Froysel in 80. The Wedding Ring fit for the finger in a sermon at a Wedding at Edmonton by Will Secker Enchiridion Judicum o● Jehosaphats charge to his Judges opened in a sermon before the right honorable the Judges and the right worshipful the Sheriffe of the County Palatine of Lancast Together with Catastrophe magnatum or King David's lamentation at Prince Abner's Incineration by John Livesey minister of the Gospel at Atherton 80. The Journal or Diary of a thankfull Christian a Day-book of National and publick personal and private passages of Gods providence to help Christians to thankfulness and experience By John Beadle Minister of the Gopsel at Barnstone in Essex large 8. Mr Robinsons Christians Armor in large 8. Book of Emblems with Latine and English verses upon Lights By Robert Farly smal 8. A most Excellent Treatise containing the way to seek Heavens Glory to flye Earths vanity to sear Hells horror with godly prayers the Bell-mans summons 12. Johnsons Essayes expressed in sundry Exquisite Fancies Sion in the house of mourning becaus of Sin and Suffering being an exposition upon the fifth Chapter of the Lementations by D S. Pastor of Vpingham in the County of Rutland Groans of the Spirit or a Trial of the truth of Praier A Handkercher for Parnets Wet-eyes upon the death of their Children or Friends The one thing necessary By Mr. Thomas Watson Minister of Stephens Walbrook 8. A Plea for Alms delivered in a Sermon at the ' Spital before a solemne Assembly of the City on Tuesday in Easter week April 13 1658. By Mr. Thomas Watson Minister of Stephens Walbrook Lond. 80. Moses Unveiled or those figures which served unto the pattern and shadow of heavenly things Pointing out the Messiah Christ Jesus briefly explained whereunto is added the Harmony of all the Prophets breathing with one mouth the mystery of his coming and of that redemption which by his death he was to accomplish To confirm the Christian and convince the Jew very profitable and full of comfort By Willam Guild Minister of God's Word at King-Edward in Scotland Holy things for holy men or the Lawyers Plea non-suited c. In some Christian reproof and pity expressed towards Mr. Prynn's book intituled The Lord's Supper briefly vindicated c. By S. S. Minister of the Gospel Divine Principles or a Scripture Catechism c. Good Company being a collection of various serious pious meditations useful for instruction consolation and confirmation By J. Melvin minister of the Gospel at Vdimer in Sussex A Religious Treatise upon Simeon's song or instructions how to live holily and die happily by Timothy Woodroffe B. D. Pastor at Kingsla●d in Herefordshire An Antidote against Henry Hagga●s poisonous Pamphlet intituled The Foundation of the Font discovered or a Reply wherein his audaciousness and sophistry in arguing against Infant-baptism discipleship Church-membership c. is detected his cavi●s against Mr. Cook Mr. Baxter and Mr. Hall are answered c. by Aylmar Houghton minister of the Gospel at Prees in Salop ●… Five sermon in five several styles or waies of preaching the first in Bishop Andrews's way the second in Bishop Hall's way the third in Dr Mayns and Mr. Cartwrights way the fourth in the Presbyterian way and the fift● in the Independent way of preaching by A. Wright minister of the Gospel The Reformation in which is reconciliation with God and his people or 1. Subjection to the State remonstrated viz. that all that receive protection ought to yield subjection to this present power the old Protestant's Doctrine opposite to that of the Fift-Monarchy c. 2. Church-Government reformed shewing that the Church should be governed by Scripture-Bishops Presbyters Pastors all unitedly subordinated under the supreme Magistrate 3. Faith in which all should be Baptized is cleared or a Catechism unvei●ing the Apostles Creed with Annotations in which Faith Ordinances and Government are professed as in the Primitive times in opposition to all Errors and Heresies by W. K. Minist FINIS