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A40668	Good thoughts in worse times consisting of personall meditations, Scripture observations, meditations on the times, meditations on all kind of prayers, occasionall meditations / by Tho. Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1647 (1647)	Wing F2436; ESTC R7345	37,840	250

in the Eares of Heaven Grant Lord when Satan shall next serve me as Joab did the nameless Israelite I ma● serve him as the name lesse Israelite did Joa● flatly refusing his deceitfull Tenders XVIII Hereafter DAvid fasted prayed for his sick Sonn● that his life might be prolonged Put when he was dead this consideration comforted him I shall * goe to him But hee shall not returne to me Peace did long lie languishing in this Land No small contentment that to my poore power I have prayed and preached for the preservation thereof Seeing since it is departed this Supports my soule having little hope that Peace here should returne to mee I have some assurance that I shall goe to peace heareafter XIX Bad at best LOrd how come wicked thoughts to perplex me in my Prayers when I desire and endeavour onely to attend thy S●rvice Now I perceive the cau● thereof at other times I have willingly entertained them and now they entertaine themselves against my will I acknowledge thy justice that what formerly I have invited now I cannot expell Give me here after alwayes to bolt out such ill guestes The best way to be rid of ●uch bad thoughts in my Prayers is not to receive them out of my Prayers XX Compendium dispendiune POpe Boniface the ●th at the end of each hundred yeares 〈◊〉 a Iubilee at R●me wherein people bringing themselves and money thither had Pardon for their sinnes Put Centenary yeares return'd but seldome Popes were old before and ●vetuous when they came to their place Few had the happinesse to fill their Coffers with Iubilee-Coyne Hereupon * Clement the sixth reduced it to every fifteenth yeare Gregory the eleventh to every three and thirtieth Paul the second and Sixtus the fourth to every twentieth fifth yeare Yea an Agitation is reported in the Conclave to bring downe Iubilees to fifteenth twelve or ten yeares had not some Cardinalls whose policy was above their coveteousnes opposed it I serve my prayers as they their Iubilees perchance they may extend to a quarter of an houre when powred out at large But some dayes I begrutch this time as too much and omit the ●reface of my Prayer with some passages conceived lesse material and ●unne two or three Peti●ions into one so contracting them to halfe a quarter of an Houre Not long after this also seemes two long I decontract and abridge the Abridgement of my Prayers Yea be it confessed to my shame and sorrow that hereafter I may amend it too often I shrinke my Prayers to a m●nute to a moment to a Lord have mercy upon me SCRIPTURE OBSERVATIONS I. Prayer may Preach FAther I thank thee said our * Sav our being ready to ●aise Lazar●s that thou h●st hea●d me And I ●now that thou he 〈◊〉 me 〈◊〉 but because of the P●ople that stand by I said it that they may believe that thou hast sent me It is lawfull for Ministers in their publique Prayers to insert passages for the Edifying of their Auditors at the same time petitioning God informing their Hearers For our Saviour glancing his Eyes at the Peoples instruction did no whit hinder the stead fastnesse of his lookes lifted up to his Father When before Sermon I pray for my Soveraigne Master KING of great Britaine France and Ireland Def●nder of the Faith in all causes and over all persons c. Some who omit it themselves may censure it in me for superfluous But never more neede to teach men the Kings Title their owne ●uty that the simple may be informed the forgetfull remembred thereof and that the affectedly Ignorant who will not take Advice may have all ●cuse taken from them Wherefore in powring forth my prayers to God well may I therein sp●inkle some by-drops for the Instruction of the people II. The Vicious Meane ZOphar the Naamath●te mentioneth a sort of men in whose mouthes wickednesse is sweet * They hide it under their ton●ue they spare it and forsa●e it not but keepe it still in their mouth This furnisheth me with a Tripartite division of men in the World The first and best are those who 〈◊〉 sin out loathing it in their judgments and leaving it in their practice The second sort notoriously wicked who swa●low sinne downe actually and openly committing it The third endeavouring and expedient betwixt Heaven and Hell neither doe nor deny their lusts neither spitting them out nor swallowing them downe but rolling them under their tongues epicurizing theron in their filthy fancies and obscene speculations If God at the last day of judgement hath three hands a right for the Sheep a left for the Goates the middle is mos● proper for these third sort of men But both these latter kinds of sinners shall be confounded together The rather because a sinne thus rolled becomes so soft and suple and the Throat is so short and slippery a passage that insensibly it may slide downe from the mouth into the Stomach and contemplative wantonnesse quickly turnes into practicall uncleanesse III. Store no Sore IOb had a custome to offer burnt offerings according to the number of his Sonnes for * he said It may be that my Sonnes in their feasting hav● sinned and cursed God in their hearts It may be not it must be he was not certaine but suspected it But now what if his Sonnes had not sinned was Iob's labour lost and his Sacrifice of none effect Oh no! only their property was altered In case his Sonnes were found f●ulty h●s Sacrifices for them were propitiatorie through Christ obtained their pardon In case they were innocent his offerings were Eucharisticall returning thankes to Gods restraining grace for keeping his Sonnes from such sinnes which otherwise they would have committed I see in all doubtfull matters of Devotion it is wisest to be on the sures● side better both lock and bolt and barre it then leave the least doore of danger open Hast thou done what is disputable whether it be well done Is it a measuring cast whether it be lawfull or no So that thy conscience may seeme in a manner to stand Neuter Su● a conditional pardon out of the court of heaven the rather because our selfe-love is more prone to flatter then our godly jealousie to suspect our selves without a cause with such humilit● heaven is well pleased For suppose thy selfe over-cautious needing no forgivenesse in that particular God will interpret the pardon thou prayest for to be the praises presented unto him IIII. Line on Line MOses in Gods name did counsell Joshua Deutronomie 31. 23. Be strong and of a good courage for thou shalt bring the children of Israel int● the land which I sware to them God immediately did command him Josh. 1. 6. Be strong and of a good courage and againe v. 7. Onely be thou strong and very couragious and againe v. 9. Have I no● commanded thee be strong and of a good courage be not affraid neither be not dismaid

have cause enough to keepe ten but not care enough to keepe one monethly day of huiliation XVIII Law to themselves SOme 60. yeares since in the Vniversity of Cambridge it was solemnly debated betwixt the H●ads to debarre young Schollers of that liberty allowed them in Christmas as inconsistent with the discipline of Students But some grave Governours maintained the good use thereof because thereby in twelve dayes they more discover the dispositions●of Schollers then in twe ve moneths before That a vigilant vertue indeed which would be earely up at prayers and Study when all Authority to punish lay a sleepe Vice these late yeares hath kept open house in England Welcome all commers without any examination No Penance for the Adulterer stocks for the drunkard Whip for the petty Larciner Brand for the Felon Gallowes for the Murderer God all this time us tries as he did * Hezekiah that he might know all that is in our hearts Such as now are chast sober just true shew themselves acted with a higher Principle of Piety then the ●are a voyding of Punishment XX The new disease THere is a desease of Infants and an In●ant-disease having ●carcely as yet gotten a proper name in Latin cal●ed the Ricketts Wherein the Head waxeth too great whil'st the Legges and lower parts waine too Little Awoman in the West hath happily healed many by Cauterizing the Veine behind the Eare How proper the Remedy for the Malady I engage not experience oftimes out-doing Art whil'st wee behold the Cure easily effected and the naturall cause thereof hardly assigned Have not many now adaies the same sicknesse in their Soules their Heads swelling to a vast proportion and they wōderfully inabled with knowledge to discourse But alasse how little their Leggs Poore their Practise and lazy their Walking in a godly conversation Shall I say that such may be cured by searing the Veine in their Head not to hurt their hearing but hinder the itching of their eares Indeed his Tongue deserves to be burnt that tlekes of searing the eares of others For faith commeth by hearing But I would have men not heare fewer Sermons but heare more in hearing fewer Sermons Lesse Preaching better heard Reader lay the Emphasis not on the word Lesse but on the Word better would make a wiser and stronger Christian digesting the Word from his head into his heart to practice it in his Conversation MEDITATIONS on all kind of PRAYERS 1. Newly awaked BY the Leviticall Law the firstling of every cleane Creature which opened the * Matrix was holy to God By the morall Analogy thereof this first glance of mine Eyes is due to him By the custome of this Kingdome there accreweth to the Land-Lord a fine and Herriot from his Tenant taking a further Estate in his Lease I hold from God this clay Cottage of my Body An homely Tenement but may I in some measure be assured of a better before outed of this Now being raised from last nights sleepe I may seeme to renue a life What shall I pay to my Land-Lord even the best quick creature which is to be found on my Barren Copy-hold namely the calves of my lips praising him for his Protection over mee More he doth not aske lesse I cannot give yea such is his goodnesse and my weaknesse that before I can give him thankes he giveth me to be thankfull II. Family-Prayer LOng have I search't the Scriptures to find a positive precept enioyning or precedent observing dayly Prayer in a Family yet hitherto have found none proper for my purpose Indeed I read that there was a * yearely Sacrifice offered at Bethlehem for the Family of Iesse but if hence we should inferre Household holy dutyes others would conclude they should onely be Annuall And whereas it is said poure out thine indignation on the heathen and on the Families which have not called on thy name the word taken there in a large acception reproveth rather the want of nationall then domesticall service of God But let not propha● nesse improve it selfe o● censure family-Prayer for will-w●rship as wanting ● warrant in Gods word For where God injoyneth a generall du y as to ●erve and feare him there ●ll p●rticular meanes wh●reof Prayer a Principall t●nding thereun●o are commanded And ●urely the Pious House●olds of * Abraham * Io●hua and * Cornelius had ●ome holy Exercises to ●hemselves as broader ●hen their personall devotion so narrower then the publique service just adequate to their owne private family III. Selfe without Other-selfe SOme loving Wife may perchance be though not angry with grieved at her Husband for excluding her from his Private Prayers thus thinking with herselfe Must I be discommoned from my Husbands Devotion what Severall Closset-Chappells for those of the same Bed and Board Are not our credits embarqud in the same Bottom so that they swim or sinke together May I not be admitted an Auditour at his Petitions were it onely to say AMEN thereunto But let such a one seriously consider what the * Prophet saith The Family of the House of David apart and their Wives apart the Family of the House of Nathan apart their Wives apart Personall private Faults must be privately confessed It is not meet shee should know all the Bosom sins of him in whose Bosom she lieth Perchance being now offended for not hearing her Husbands Prayers she would be more offended if shee heard them Nor hath s●e just cause to complaine seeing herein Nathans Wife is equall with Nathan himselfe what liberty she alloweth is allowed her and may as well as her Husband claime the priviledge privately and Apart to power forth her soule unto God in her daily devotions Yet man and wife at other times ought to communicate in their prayers all other excluded IV. Groanes HOw comes it to passe that Groanes made in men by Gods Spirit cannot bee uttered I finde two Reasons thereof First because those Groans are so low and little so faint fraile and feeble so next to nothing these still-borne Babes only breath without crying Secondly because so much diversity yea contrariety of Passion is crowded within the compasse of a Groane In it is comprized sorrow for our sins joy in Christ fear of hell hope of heaven love of God hatred of sinne Now as when many men at the same time pressing out at a narrow Wicket all stick and stop each other so no wonder if so many passions at the same time striving to vent themselves at the na●row Outlet of a Groane are stayed from being expressive and the Groane become unutterable How happy is their condition who have God for their Interpreter who not onely understands what they do but what they would say Daniel could tell the meaning of the Dreame which Nebuchadnezzar had forgotten GOD knowes the meaning of those Groanes which never as yet knew their owne meaning and understands the Sense of those Sighes which never understood themselves V. 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