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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

do in some things will excuse the bad we do in others 16. The Gospel requires truth and not perfection for sincerity is a Christians perfection 17. The want of wisdom and warinesse is the cause of many a Christians fall 18. A Christian may go very high upwards in good works onely with this exception that he never look to be justified by them 19. The Devill is busie at every good work either in the beginning to hinder it or in the end to defile it 20. No grace stronger then humility none weaker then the proud 21. So much faith as a man carries to Christ so much grace he brings from him 22. Wicked men may be freed from trouble onely the godly man hath grace to carry himself well in trouble 23. Holy men should know the strength of grace in their souls for confirmation of faith and bettering their obedience 24. The more grace the more a man is sensible of spiritual crosses 25. The life of grace is known by our spiritual appetites after the means of grace 26. God will set light by that man's salvation who sets light by his honour 27. Grace onely qualifies a man's actions and affections 28. Where there is no grace there is either all joy or all sorrow 29. Sorrow exceeds when it hinders in our callings as Christians and as men 30. Quietnesse is the stay of the soul to do or receive 31. Sorrow and sin agree in this to bring the soul of a poor man downward 32. The Divel since he cast himself down labours to cast all down 33. It'● no wisdom to go to the highest step of the la●de● to our election before wee come to the f●ults of it in our sanctification 34. Some seek too much for comfort in sanctification when it should be lookt for in justification 35. It 's vain to trouble our selves with the issue of things for the future and neglect the means for the present 36. Vanity at one time or another brings vexation of spirit 37. A godly man in the greatest trouble recovers himself 38. A godly man who hath laid up store of grace before hand can remove solitarinesse having God and himself to speak to 39. Set thy soul in a right frame when trouble comes and nothing shall hurt thee 40. Every man hath a Court in himself to cite try and condemne himself 41. He that cites and condemns himself puts the Divel and tormenting conscience out of office 42. It 's a miserable thing to desire to know all things and yet not to know our selves to look alwaies abroad and never at home 43. The best work of the new creature is within which the world cannot see 44. Ask sin the reason of this or that and thou shalt find it most unreasonable 45. He that believs God will give him everlasting life will trust him for his daily bread 46. Faith hath a quieting and comforting power with it 47. It 's a shame to see Christians live so unquiet and discontented as if there were no Father in heaven or providence on earth 48. A Christian may mourn like a Dove but not roar like a beast under affliction 49. It 's no matter what the disease be if God be the Physician 50. As in a City men account more of their own house then of all the City biside so more comfort in this word My God then in all the world 51. He that makes God his God makes all other things his also 53. Mercy flows naturally from God as water flows from a fountain 54. God shoot's not his judgments as children arrows at randome but wheresoever they light he hath his aim 55. Happy man who hath God's mind with his rod instruction with correction 56. It 's neither wisdom nor holinesse to allow or defend the least infirmity 57. It 's folly to venture upon fin at any time for we shall at one time or another hear of it 58. They that come not to the Father in Christ by the Sacraments know not his goodness and they that come irreverently know not his greatnesse 59. God the wise Physician who loves his patients alike doth not administer potions to all but according to the nature of the disease and exigent of the party 60. Sick souls make sick bodies God aiming at the cure of the soul in the touching of the body 61. It 's better to be God's prisoner on the bed of sicknesse then sinfully to use health 62. He that sins with company must look to be tormented with company 63. Every stubborn wilfull sinner is a double murtherer of soul and body 64. Every man is naturally willing to deceive and be deceived in the state of his soul 65. Judging of our selvs prevents God's judging for things done in one Court cannot be judged in another by equity 66. As they who have a Plant which bears venemous fruit dig it at the root So if thou wouldst kill sin go to the heart 67. It 's not the having of corruption which damns men but the affections they carry to their corruptions 68. It 's our comfort to groan under infirmities looking upon them as enemies and objects of mortification 69. He that makes no conscience of secret sins shall fall into open sins 70. Poison is dangerously taken in sweet gloves so corruption mingles it self with our best duties 71. When men regard not the manner of doing holy things God regards not the matter 72. The want of sound judgment in some men makes them lay a plaister on a sound place and condemne a true man for a traitor 73. Bless that soul who labours by good counsel to hinder thee from any sinful course 74. It 's the character of a good heart to desire to converse with better then it self 75. It 's wisdome to prevent the trouble of sickness with the trouble of Physick so to judge our sins by conscience here that they bee not judged by God hereafter 76. Christ is very sweet to that soul who is excercised in the search of his own heart 77. It 's an ill time to get grace when we should use it 78. Pardoning mercy and healing mercy go alwaies from God to the godly together 79. When man spares no sin God spares all 80. They that are taken from the evil of the world have aims and ends above the world 81. Inward affections where our joy or delight is are the best discoveries of the state of our souls 82. There 's a concatenation betwixt grace and glory grace is the gate and glory is the reward 83. All the time a carnal man lives is but the time betwixt the sentence and execution 84. It overcomes many tentations many times to have a good conceit of God 85. No flesh without its scum no garden without its weeds no Christian without his failings 86. There 's a vaste difference betwixt the broacher and drinker of Error the one is possest with obstinacy the other with facility lenity and credulity 87. Errors are so dangerous and infectious

of sin 91. Children must not be counted bills of changes for they are greater blessings then any outward thing else 92. Wo to those parents whose gain for their children is the loss of their own souls 93. Emptiness and poverty presseth hose most who once were full and rich 94. Great and good rich and holy are happy but rare conjunctions 95. To be extream poor or rich is one extream temptation 96. That man is rich in grace who is very poor but very holy 97. Temptations are greater and stronger upon the full and rich then the poor and empty 98. God never gives any thing evill in it self to those who are good nor the chief good to those chat are evill 99. There 's fire in all estates ill gotten which at last will consume them 100. The time we spend in spirituall duties is the time gained for secular therefore to turn poor if thou turn godly fear not CENTURY 8. 1. MUtual agreement amongst children is a comfortable blessing to parents 2. Nothing more uncomely and unnaturall as rents divisions and brawlings in a family 3. Prodigality of time is the worst and most dangerous prodigality 4. Faith is a glutinous monopolizing grace possessing Christ and by a close application making him wholly the soul's 5. The faithfull soul takes sure hold of Christ in the time of darkness and temptation 6. Christ lodged in the heart is as a bundle of myrrhe sweet and bitter at once preserving joy and trembling together 7. If thy heart swell too high and grow proud taste and chaw the bitter plant of Christ's death and it will break the imposthume 8. If thy heart fail thee in any conditon smell at the sweetnes of Christ and he will transmit life and comfort 9. The virtue of Christ's death never dieth but floweth down to ail ages for ever 10. God hath appointed that where the crosse is there also is the cordiall against it 11. Divine love is the caus of divine beauty and rejoyceth in it's own work 12. The beauty of the soul is the holiness of it being God's Image 13. Christ hath the truth and essence of beauty whereas earthly things have it only in estimation 14. The unquiet brains of men tossed with opinions rest in the scripture as in a bed 15. Our sins are thorns and so are temptations to sin and afflictions for sin 16. Heresies and schisms are worser then the sharpest stings and thorns to the Church 17. Women lose their good name not onely by keeping ill company but by keeping none 18. As weary travellers seek cool arbours and delight in them so doth the weary soul after and in Christ 19. Some men carry a thin shaddow of piety and zeal but no more 20. It 's neither losse nor dishonour to be vanquished in the field where Christ is General for at last we shall be conquerors 21. A holy soul is sick and weary and lives not in her self but in Christ in whom her life is hid 22. They are happy beyond expression who are transfixed with the wounds of Christ's love 23. It 's no waies befitting Christians to lye down and stretch themselves in sinfull pleasures 24. It 's our duty comfort to draw near to Christ in affection and conversation 25. Holy practise makes grace visible and brings out from the heart to the life 26. A parent may put money in a childs purse but he cannot put grace in his heart 27. Prayer which requires a holy heart many times makes a holy heart 28. None can come at the spirit of another but the Spirit of God 29. Moderate refreshing and recreation may well become holy men 30. The care of parents ought to live as long as they and their children live together 31. Children when grown in years must not think they have out-grown obedience and honour to their parents 32. The speciall care of a holy father is for the soul of his child 33. Such parents whose care is onely to make their children great not good in this world are themselves the Devils children 34. Grace is very attractive it desires to draw others into fellowship 35. He that doth ill by thy advice the ill shall be reckoned unto thee 36. All holy duties call upon us all for a holy preparation 37. It 's seldome the duty sanctifies us unless we be sanctified for the duty 38. It 's very bad to make a preparation and then to put off or neglect the duty 39. It 's God's due and our duty to give God the morning the first and best part of the day 40. As the morning is a friend to the Muses so to the Graces it being the best praying time 41. It 's not safe to let sin lie upon our consciences unrepented 42. He that hath guilt upon his soul hath a fire in his soul 43. Prayer is a lifting up of the soul and elevation of the spirit unto God 44. By distinguishing the times many Scrptures are made to agree 45. He that sacrificed offered up a beast but he that obeyeth offereth up himself 46. God in the Sacrament sees the death of his Son and that satisfies him and man sees the death of his Saviour and that justifies him 47 Actings of faith powering out of prayer makes Sacraments effectuall to man acceptable to God 48. Christ was ever and is and shall be the only remedy and cure of sin 49. Every one is saved by particular actings of his own faith and therefore every soul must believe for it selfe 50. We cannot converse in this uncleane and dirty world but some uncleanness will fasten upon us 51. To be without grosse sin is our holiness on earth to be without any sin is the holinesse of heaven 52. A good heart turns suspicious of others sinning into intercession that they may be pardoned not in accusations that they may be defamed 53. He that repents of those sins which he only fears he hath committed shall be sure to repent of those he doth commit 54. It 's too easie a matter to sin about holy things lawfull things often being the occasion of unlawfull 55. For a man to blesse God in his sin is a very high strain of wickednesse 56. Every sin is a turning from God but few sins are a farewell to God 57. The heart is to be kept with all manner of keeping for sinfull thoughts are dangerous sins 58. The heart of man is so wicked as to sin over one sin a thousand times 59. Renewed sin require renewed repentance and we must give over repenting when wee have don sining 60. That which men do out of conscience they will do it out of peresverance for nature may have good moods but grace is steady 61. Usually where God gives much grace he tries grace much 62. All things in heaven and earth are disposed by the unerring wisdom and limited by the Almighty power of God 63. Sleep is a short death and death is a long sleep 64. It should be the voice of every soul

or hurt 66. For a man to be stupid and sensless under spiritual afflictions argues a very ill temper 57. As all flowers wither when the Sun withdraws his influence so do all graces when Christ departs 58. Conscience kindles a fire upon the breach of integrity that burns inwardly and consumes the marrow and drinks up the spirits 59. Envie is an everlasting burning which nothing will satisfie but its own blood 60. It makes heavie afflictions light and long short to look where they end for the sight of the end shortens the way 61. Not to be warned by others is a sure presage of ruine for storms begin in one place and end in another 62. The greatest part of ourknowledge is the least part of our ignorance 63. The more worth is in any man the lesse self-conceitednesse and the lower in our own eies the higher in God's sight 64. The fire of heaven turns men into Saints and separates them from sinners 65. If bread fail feed on faith and thou maist make a good living of it for when meat is taken away God will take away the stomach and faith fears no famine it keeps us from diffidence in Gods promises and makes us possess our souls in patience 66. Our self-accusations in our confessions take out the sting and poison of Satan's malicious accusations 67. O! the deep sorrow our hearts should be filled withall when we see Christ bleeding upon the Cross 68. What soul-wound's so deadly that cannot or may not be healed by the death and healing wounds of Christ 69. The wo●k of faith is to make the soul betake it self to the wounds of Christ as the Dote to the clefts of the rock for shelter and security against all fears and distresses that wrath and guilt may put the Considence to 70. Our whole life is a continual warfare and we must look for the continual hail-shot of Satanical assaults and suggestions 71. Christians fight and faint not your reward is sure your armor is of proof the old serpent hath his head bruised 72. Many tempt Satan to tempt them by venturing on the occasion of sin or by inconsideration and security 73. A full belly and a foul heart seldom go uncoupled for in the Anatomy of our bodies the parts of gluttony and lust are linked together and so are the sins themselvs 74. Too much eating quite takes away our stomachs from all holy duties 75. Holiness becoms all men but best of all publick persons both for example of good and liberty of controlling evil 76. It 's a gross dull capacity that cannot or will not distinguish betwixt the work and the instrument the weakness of the person and the power of the function 77. The glory of Israel the Ark was no waies lessened by coming from the Philistins 78. Far be it from us to think if the sacrificer be unclean that the offering is so 79. Elias was a holy wise man yet he rejected not his meat because Ravens brought it 80. Learning will pine away if forced to officiate at the Tables end for the trencher 81. The Pulpit is a place that requires both learning and industry for Saint Paul found as great want of his books as his Cloak in winter 82. He gives twice who gives speedily for the more speed the more comfort 83 Many a man's Executor proves the Executioner of his Will and Estate 84. It 's a general complaint that the end of our daies out runs the begining of good works 85. The poor most times may thank the death or disease of rich men not their charity 86. Happy is he who makes his candle go before him not behind him for early beneficence hath no danger many joies 87. The use of riches is great if there be qualification in our desires 88 It 's as impossible to expresse the joies of heaven as put the sea into a bottle 89. It 's but justice that he who hath sinned out his own eternity should suffer out God's eternity 90. The object of repenting sorrow is sin not punishment and a good man fears more the committing of the one then suffering of the other 91. Pardoned sin disquiets a repenting heart and grievs him to have been such a beast to offend so gracious a God remembring the sins God hath forgotten 92. He that sheds a sea o● tears and drowns not his sins in that sea is never the better 93. He that sighs prays and begs for mercy and lives in sin deceivs himself having no truth in that repentance 94. Every grace which brings to heaven must be a tried grace 95. A man's wealth and will must both be good for if his hands be full and the heart empty he deservs pity more then commendation having riches but neither goods nor blessings 96. It 's said of the Divel he abode not in the truth because no truth is in him so Sectaries abide not in Religion because no Religion is in them 97. Truth once in the heart will dwell and rule there 98. A man may preach soundly and discourse judiciously and yet be unsound at heart 99. A Christian must be careful to avoid all blemishes but especially covetousness as being most contrary to his profession whose hope is in heaven 100. God's children have variety of conditions some more comfortable then others CENTURY 3. 1. THe love of God is constant in the variety of conditions and there 's no shadow of change in God howsoever the changes of our life be 2. How rugged the way to heaven be it 's no matter so we come there 3. A prudent Christian in the variety of conditions knows how to avoid the sins incident to that condition 4. Grace is above all conditions making a man patient in a mean estate and not proud when he doth abound 5. He that hath an inheritance in another world sets a light esteem upon all things below 6. Self-denial is the first lesson in Christs school learn this and thou shalt be content in any condition 7. He that hath God to be his Father hath a large portion in any estate 8. There 's poison in every thing without grace and grace pulls out the sting and finds good in the worst things 9. The best things of a Christian are not at the mercy of the world nor at the mercy of his several conditions 10. Rising and murmuring of corrupt nature in any condition becomes not a true Christian 11. The right use of our daily infirmities is to make them the subject of humiliation and the object of mortification 12. Customary sins are not sins of infirmitie except the ground of the infirmity be rooted in the heart as an inclination to be angry which holy men repent of and get victory over it at last 13. He that pleads for sin discovers a false heart for this is an enormity not an infirmity 14. Universality of obedience is the triall of a sincere Christian being a good man in all his relations 15. Let us not think the good we