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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27153	The journal or diary of a thankful Christian presented in some meditations upon Numb. 33:2 / by J.B., Master of Arts, and Minister of the Gospel at Barnstone in Essex.	Beadle, John, d. 1667.; Fuller, John, b. 1640 or 41.	1656 (1656)	Wing B1557; ESTC R20752	111,367	248

The Preface wherein an entrance is made to the words and the duty of a Journall or Diary is propounded SUch is the corruption of all even the best men by nature that though in their adversity they seek God early yet in their prosperity they forget him commonly They that in a dark evening are glad of a little star light in the day are scarce thankfull for the Sun when he goeth forth in his strength It is observable that the Psalmist taking notice of Gods good hand of Providence over Travellers Captives Sick men Sea-men and divers others repeats this passage foure times in Psal 107. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble And he doth as often add Oh that men would prayse the Lord for his goodnesse Which is as much as if he had said I know they will perform the first duty I wish they may not forget the latter How many are there that on their sick dayes make new promises but being recovered forget God and follow their old lusts It is a most provoking ●in to forget God and the great mercies he hath bestowed on them How often did they provoke God in the wildernesse saith the Psalmist of the Israelites and grieve him in the desert But how did they provoke him As by many other sins there mentioned so by this especially They remembred not his hand nor the day in which he delivered them It so far provokes God that 1. There is scarce any other sin that God gives his people so great a charge to take heed of as this sin of forgetfulnesse So he charged the people of Israel by the hand of Moses divers times as Deut. 4. 9. Where having declared what God had done for them he adds this charge Onely take heed to thy self and keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen and lest they depart from thy heart all the dayes of thy life The like charge is given them Deut. 6. 12. Where having told them what they were like to enjoy in the Land of Canaan according to Gods promises and oath that which they never took care of nor bestowed cost for he chargeth them to beware lest they forget the Lord. 2. So far is God provoked by the sin of forgetfulnesse that as he takes special notice of it so he reproves it very sharply In Psal 78. where you have an history of Gods goodnesse to his people this sin of forgetfulnesse is two severall times noted They forgat Gods works and the wonders he had shewed them vers 11. They remembred not his hand nor the day in which he delivered them from the enemy vers 42. In Psal 106. this sin is thrice laid to the peoples charge as They remembred not the multitude of thy mercies vers 7. They soon forgat his works vers 13. They forgat God their Saviour which had done great things in Aegypt vers 21. How sharply doth our Saviour Christ reprove his Disciples for this sin Who when he bad them take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees though he had said that because they had taken no bread with them whereupon Christ takes notice of this sin and reproves them for it What saith our Saviour do ye not remember the five loaves and the seven loaves and how many baskets ye took up This forgetfulnesse p oceeds from your grosse ignorance and your great unbelief Were there not ten cleansed saith our Saviour of the Lepers but where are the nine There are not found that returned to give glory to God save this stranger 3. So far is God provoked by this sin that he often plagues it most severely So saith the Lord by the Prophet Isaiah to the people of Israel Because th u hast forgotten the God of thy salvation and hast not been mindfull of the rock of thy strength therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants and shalt set it with strange slips In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish but the harvest shall be an heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow Summa est omnia mala illis provenire ex impio Dei contemptu saith judicious Calvin on the words The summe of all that the Prophet had said is this That all manner of evills were like to befall them because of their wicked contempt of God And who contemns God so much as he that forgets God in whom is all our strength and salvation Let them sow and plant and fetch their seeds and slips from a far Countrey and therefore the most choyce and precious yea let them have great successe let them flourish betimes that is Initio omnia ●ibi succedant pro voto eruntque priora soelicia ac prospera at postea incides in summas aerumnas calamitates saith Vatablus on the place In the beginning let all succeed according to their desire let the first undertakings be happy and prosperous yet afterwards thou shalt fall into extreme miseries and calamities Or as Junius Regionem tuam colueris studiosissimè confirmaveris ut certum ex ea fructum percipias c. Take all care of thy Countrey and strengthen it what thou canst yet in one moment the Assyrian shall destroy all Luther had wont to say that three things would destroy Religion and if Religion be blasted what good can be expected carnall security worldly policy and forgetfulnesse of Gods benefits But more of this afterwards Are these things so How great is Gods goodnesse to us How singular his loving kindnesse towards us who knowing our mold best and how ready we are to forget him and his benefits hath in all ages and times afforded many speciall means for the helping of our dull memories that divine favour being remembred Gods glory might be advanced his judgements prevented and our comforts enlarged Hence a pot of Manna must be kept in the Ark that after ages might know and remember how God had fed his people with Angels food For the like use twelve stones must be set up neer the banks of Jordan other twelve stones in the midst of that River that they and after generations might remember that God had miraculously made way for the twelve Tribes of Israel through that flood to the Land of Canaan The same people were appointed to make fringes upon their garments with a ribband of blew that they might look upon it and remember God and his commandements For this purpose God set apart solemne dayes and appointed publick feasts as the feast of Tabernacles and Pentecost which as they were typicall resemblances of better things promised so were they memorandums of great mercies vouchsafed For this end God hath ordained Sacraments as that of the Passover under the Law and this of the Lords Supper under the Gospel that as at the celebration of the one Israel might remember their deliverance out of

was so notorious for this sin that they had the name of the Bygods given them and were so usually called I remember Mr. Fox in his History of the Acts and Monuments of the Church reciting many evidences whereby he proved the antiquity of Priests Marriage sets down the copy of a Release made by William Bygod Lord of Little Bradley to Henry Denardestone Clerk and Alice his Wife and questionlesse that name of Pigot was originally the same though in succession of time and very wisely it was changed Omne peccatum suam habet excellentiam Every sin hath some peculiar vilenesse wherein it may be said to excel other There 's not any sin that doth more plainly discover the great profanenesse of the heart as common swearing especially by the name of God for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh 3. Some times that are gone over our heads and therefore far behinde us have been infected with an itching humour after Superiority wherein persons not content to abide in the calling that God set them in have indevoured to go beyond their proper line and so broke their ranks Thus Absalom was not content with the place of a Son nor Hazael with the rank of a Subject nor Jezabel with the condition of a Wife whose desires should be subject to her Husband whose right it was to rule over her Thus the lowest of the people under the countenance of Jeroboam would be Priests and it was a small thing in the eyes of Corah and his company that God had brought them nigh unto himself to do service but they must seek the Priesthood also Thus Jeroboam the Servant of Solomon is not contented unlesse he may lift up his hand against his Master How sad was that time amongst the Scythians who whilest they made their third Expedition into Asia and tarryed seven yeers as Justin in his History reports were turned out of their beds and possessions by their servants that were left behinde to keep their cattle and at their return were kept out by force of Arms by those slaves who had taken their Wives and possessed their goods Not much unlike that of the people of Israel servants ruled over them and there was none to deliver them Caesar riding one day through a Towne was asked by one whether there were any striving for offices and places of honour in that place answered that he had rather be the chief man in that little Village then the second person in Rome an itching humour it is after greatnesse that hath run in a blood from Adam and Eve to this day who were not content with their standing but would be as Gods knowing good and evill Now as the root of this humour is extreme pride so the fruit is confusion first I say pride is the cause there are none that are so low in their deserts but are very high in their thoughts even the bramble hath great thoughts and high words too of his shadow and it was but a shadow Absalom and Hazael and Iezebel and Ieroboam thought they could manage the affairs of a Kingdome better then David or Benhadad or Ahab or Solomon Every simple Cobler thinks he can go beyond his Last and preach far better then his Priest Ye Sons of Levi saith he take too much upon you But the fruit of such ambition is mischief and confusion Some Countrey Pesants that behold the stars to glister in the horizon on the top of a mountain think if they were there they could reach the heaven order the stars but being exalted on that mountain they are as far to seek as before What became of Absalom the Rebel and Hazael the Traitor and Iezebel the Proud of Ieroboam the Servant and Corah and his company As none did so ill so none sped worse their mischief lighted on their own heads and like to Phaeton their violent dealing on their owne pates Those Scythian slaves though their Masters could not beat them with their weapons yet at the sight of their Masters rods and whips ran all away and at last perished But you will ask me What may be the sin of this time Somewood is more apt to breed worms and some cloth more ready to breed moths and some times have their peculiar sins But what is the sin of this age which is more considerable for us then the looking back to the times that are past 1. Some say our great divisions our most bitter contentions and that amongst Brethren is the sin And indeed this evill is grown to that height that they that should dye one for another can hardly live one by another Surely such divisions amongst those that professe godlinesse cause great thoughts of heart for the neerer the union is the more dangerous is the breach broken bones are not so soon healed nor sinews that are cut so soon knit as great gashes in the flesh may be cured if a cable rope be broken it is very hardly tyed together If the Father and the Son if the Husband and the Wife fall out they are hardly reconciled and as Solomon saith A brother offended is harder to be won then a strong City We do not finde that Paul and Barnabas ever met together again after they parted asunder through their sharp contention Which made Cosmus a Duke of Florence say We are commanded to forgive our enemies but we never read that we are bid to forgive our friends And that which makes our contention so much the more grievous is that one speciall means that God hath appointed for the uniting of Brethren is become a ground of the greatest quarrell The Lords Supper is a feast of Loves a communion ordained to nourish union and yet at this feast we have found a bone of contention and an apple of strife And it is observable that when any listen to seducing spirits and separate from this ordinance they grow sowre and sullen to their dearest friends Our Saviour Christ foretelling the evills of the latter dayes gives this as a badge of the last and worst the old and cold age of the world Iniquity shall abound and the love of many shall grow cold But what is the cause of both Many false Prophets shall arise and shall seduce many and surely the difference of judgement will ever cause a distance in affections Firebrands though they doe not smoak more when they are out of the chimney yet I am sure they offend more and may prove dangerous The novel opinions of these times kept within dores do too much harm but spread abroad by the boutefewes of these times through their burning charity are ready to set all on fire And most people either out of ignorance or easinesse are like foot-travellers who when they come to a stile that stands neer a gap leave the stile and go in at the breach take up any error that causeth division rather then take the pains to try the spirits to prove all