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A64835	Things worth thinking on, or, Helps to piety being remains of some meditations, experiences, and sentences &c. never published till now : and now are as an addition to them which were formerly made publick: together with a sermon entituled The beauty of holines / by Ralph Venning ...	Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.	1664 (1664)	Wing V227; ESTC R38004	77,776	241

externals but how sad will it be to go as I may say religiously i. e. hearing and praying to Hell Ezek. 33.31 James 1.23 27. Matth. 7.21 22 23 26 27 28. 4 Take heed of doing that in with or for company for which thy heart may smite thee and thou must repent when thou art alone Exod. 23.2 1 Sam. 24.4 5 6. 5 They are sad joys and displeasing pleasures which a man must repent of or be damned for and such are all the pleasures of sin or sinful pleasures such as sin puts us upon or such as flow from sin 6 Endeavour to maintain such thoughts of grace and sin heaven and the world as you have or seem to have when you are at prayer then we seem to look on sin as ugly and odious and on the world as vanity and emptiness on grace and glory as the most desirable things but how little doth our conversation say of this while at prayer we seem to be fervent in spirit but when off it like water taken from the fire cold again 1 Chron. 29.18 7 A Christian should and will endeavour to use the world and sin as they used Christ that is to crucifie them Gal. 5.24 and 6.14 8 If the Law of the Members do oppress thee cry out as Paul did Rom. 7.24 and God will hear the cry of the oppressed Psal 9.9 9 God sometimes suffers others to be dis-ingenious towards us to correct our dis-ingenuity towards him sometime by them of our own bowels 2 Sam. 12.11 and rather than fail a dumb beast shall speak and rebuke mans madness 2 Pet. 2.16 10 All our grace is from God who is the God of all grace of all kinds and all degrees of grace the Author the Preserver and Finisher of it 1 Pet. 5.10 11 The vanity and unsatisfactoriness of the things of this world appears in this that a fancy an humour an ungrounded fear will rob us of all the comfort of it and what are all these things without the comfort of them and how many deprive themselves of much good for fear of losing it which is Nabal like to die for fear of dying 1 Sam. 25.37 Thus many kill themselves while they are alive for worldly sorrow is good for nothing but to work death 2 Cor. 7.10 12 It is as great a mercy to want that patiently which God denies as to use that cheerfully which God gives Job 2.10 13 When we believe we receive Christ into our selves John 1.12 for he dwelleth in our hearts by faith Eph. 3.17 and when we love we give up our selves to Christ 2 Cor. 8.5 Faith then worketh by love or as the Greek hath it is effectually wrought by love the receiving of Christ into our selves by faith is warrantis'd by love i. e. our giving up our selves to Christ 14 Gods measure is ever best so much health and no more so much wealth and no more is best for thee as God sees good for though we beg for daily bread 't is fit that God should be our Carver Prov. 30.8 15 It 's a great evidence of pride and passion when the want of one thing robs us of all the comfort we should take in the rest Gen. 30.1 beside inordinate affection will chuse for it self though on hard conditions and is often punisht with having it's will as Rachel was who no sooner had her wish viz. Children but two and she died 16 God orders all our afflictions for the quality of them what they shall be for the quantity how much and how great they shall be and for the duration how long they shall be Gen. 15.13 A stranger afflicted 400 years there 's all three 17 There is not more comfort from Gods giving us any thing we want than there is safety in waiting on God for the supply of our wants Lam. 3.25 26. and surely there 's no mercy that 's worth praying for but is worth waiting for and if the mercy shall be ours 't is sit the time should be Gods who doth all in the best time even in due time 1 Pet. 5 6. 18 A mercy granted may not be in love though it be the return of a prayer for God hath granted some their desire in wrath Psal 78.29 30 31. compared with Psal 106.15 19 If we have never so many and good means to bring about an end it 's God must bless them if but a sew means God can multiply them if they be contrary God can use them if there be none God can create them or work without them When Jehosaphat knew not what to do his eyes were to God who is never at a loss but always knows what to do and is never out of his way 20 There never was man but died or was changed as Enoch and Elijah and never shall be man but must die or be changed it hath been the end of most mens stories and he died and 't will be of all mens to die or to be changed 1 Cor. 15.51 Let us therefore prepare for death and wait all the dayes of our appointed time till our change shall for it must come Job 14.14 21 God hath further designes than men can reach we see not all at once the best enjoyments do often issue from the greatest disappointments so that we have cause to bless God for crossing us Gen. 50.20 22 'T is a great sign that the rod is in love when thou dost not only bear but hear the rod so as to learn the lesson of growing the better for being beaten Psal 94.12 'T was a pretty one of a little child when corrected Kiss me Mother and whip me again Oh when a rod begets love 't is an argument that 't is from love 23 We should sear none but God and be afraid of nothing but sin and blessed is he that so feareth always Prov. 28.14 24 There are many Cordials that God will not give to his children till they be faint or sick strong consolations are reserved for great tribulations 2 Cor. 1.4 5. 25 If we will take a true measure and make a right estimate of good or evil it must be as it relates to the soul Matth. 10.28 2 Cor. 4.16 c. 26 Man is Gods Creature sin is mans and misery is sins Man was Gods Image sin is mans image and misery is sins image 't is only by Christ Jesus that we are freed from misery sin and our selves and brought to God and his Image 1 Pet. 3.18 27 We live by many Deaths our Natural Spiritual and Eternal Life is by death Many Creatures are put to death to keep us alive yea Christ Jesus died that we might live and we our selves must die that we may live Oh how good is God to us who hath made not only the Creatures ours but Christ ours and in and by him death ours Who makes every thing the worst as well as the best to work together for good to them that love him Rom. 8.28 and though we are less than the least

that they may be more than moral for though a moral man may seem too good to go to Hell yet if not godly which is by being in Christ Jesus he will not be found good enough to go to Heaven Acts. 26.28 29. Mark 10.21 and 12.3 4. 13 A Christian should not be secure when he is safe nor afraid when he is in danger but distrust himself and trust in God alwayes Prov. 3.5 6. 14 Though a man may be hated wronged plundered and persecuted yet he is never undone if he be not damned Math. 10.28 15 'T is worse for a man to be like a Beast than if he had been a Beast as to be lascivious like a Goat than to be a Goat for what 's natural and innocent in the Beast is sinful in the Man Oh but how much worse is it when Man is worse than a Beast Isa 1.3 16 Of all Fools a Fool in honour looks most unlike a man for he is like the Beast that perisheth Psal 49.20 17. An open hand is the Emblem and Argument of a soft and tender heart as a shut or close-sisted hand is the Emblem and Argument of an hard i. e. an uncharitable and covetous heart Deut. 15.7 18 They are the sorest punishments that are made of sins as an hardned heart which is the punishment of an hard heart as 't was in Pharaoh and being given up which is the punishment of them who give themselves up to sin Rom. 1.24 26 28. Eph. 4.18 19. 19 The hearts of men are so out of frame that mending will not serve the turn they must be new made or they will never be good Ezek. 36.26 20 The sins of those who are ours may quickly be our sins for where the Relation is nearer the Contagion is quicker and the Infection stronger As Deut 13.6 Exod. 34.15 16. 21 To meet with that evil we lookt not for will be as troublesome as to miss that good we did look for to go to Hell which few men as not to go to Heaven which most men think they shall Jer. 14.19 Math. 24.50 22 No man errs more than he that saith he cannot erre as no man lyes more than he that saith he never lyed If we say we have no sin we deceive and yet confute our selves for we sin in saying so 1 John 1.8 and do not only lye our selves but make God a Lyar who is the Truth and cannot lye 1 John 1.10 So that they who pretend to infallibility and perfection are in not being so a contradiction to God and themselves 23 They should hear the prayers of the poor who would have God hear theirs Psal 41.1 2. And as they should give to others who would have God give to them so they should forgive others as they would God should forgive them Math. 18.21 35. Math. 6.14 15. 24 Dead Trading on Earth calls on men to Trade for life in Heaven and of all Trades or Merchandise none like that of godliness if well followed for 't is not only great gain at present but for Eternity 1 Tim. 4.7 8. 6.6 25 They who act against their light and Conscience are like to lose their Light and make shipwrack of their Conscience 1 Tim. 1.19 and Rom. 1.21 John 9.39 26 'T is best to depend on him who is absolutely independent i. e. God 1 Tim. 6.17 27 None but holy ones shall see the Holy One so God is called and without holiness none shall see God Heb. 12.14 28 An hypocrite is one of the worst of sinners and will have one of the worst of punishments Fained sanctity is double iniquity and he like the First-born and Eldest Son of the Devil will have as it seems a double portion in Hell Mat. 24.51 not only Hell but the Damnation of Hell Mat. 23.33 29 Be not envious for 't is not only one of the worst Diseases of the Eye an evil eye but 't is to be like the Devil who is the evil one and the envious one So that thou wilt be alwayes troubled with sore eyes even with the sore and torment of the Devil and with such eyes thou canst never look upon God nor look up to God Psal 37. Psal 73. 30 Solitariness and living alone out of society is a sly enemy for it most separates a man not only from receiving but doing good which is one of the great ends of a mans coming into the World Eccl. 4.9 12. Beside the mind of man best knows its good or evil by practise Speculation is least acquainted with it and avoyding of company doth but make the passions more violent when they meet with fit Subjects 30 A mans happiness or misery is not so much from his condition as from his mind Some men have a Fortune sufficient to give content but are not content with a sufficient fortune Job 20.22 Eccles 5.10 and there are others who though they have but little yet want nothing having learned in all estates to be content Luke 22.35 Phil. 4.11 31 All is but Lip-wisdome that wants experience and 't is but Knowledge falsly so called What is' t to have religion in our books or heads or tongues if not in our hearts 't is nothing but a form of Knowledge Rom. 2.20 which reacheth no further than a forme of godliness The excellency of the knowledge of Christ is to know him in union communion and conformity Phil. 3.8 9 10. 32 The God of Nature never teacheth unnaturalness nor doth the God of Order teach or allow confusion 1 Cor. 14.33 33 Astrological predictions are either vain or infallible if that they are not to be respected if this they are not to be prevented and therefore on both accounts are not to be heeded Wisdome and Vertue are the best Prophets to be consulted and followed Isa 8.19 20. Isa 46.13 14 15. Eccles 11.4 34 We are beholden to God not only for supplying our wants but for chastising our wantonness Psal 89.31 32. His rod is the rod of the Covenant Ezek. 20.37 and his rebukes are from his love Rev. 3.19 't is in very faithfulness that he doth afflict us Psal 119.75 and we may therefore take evil at his hand as well as good Job 2.10 and bless him for taking as well as giving as Job 1.21 and say with David ' ●is good to be afflicted Psal 119.71 for it comes from a good root his love and the fruit is good too seeing it is for the taking away of sin Isa 27.9 and to make us partakers of his holiness Heb. 12.10 So that however severely God seem to deal with us we have cause to thank him 1 Thes 5.18 35 With contentment no estate without it any estate is miserable Phil. 4.11 Eccles 5.12 36 Woes make the shortest time seem long and joys make the longest time seem short oh Eternity Eternity is that which makes woes woes and joys joys indeed Mat. 25.46 37 'T is greater honour for any to be Gods servants than 't is that a great many and