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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

But so simple was he that how to pray hee knew not Onely every morning humbly bending his knees and lifting up his Eyes and hands to Heaven he would deliberately repeate the Alphabet And now said he O good God put these letters together to spell syllables to spell words to make such sense as may bee most to thy glory and my good In these distracted times I know● what generalls to pray for Gods glory Truth and Peace his Majesties honour Priviledges of Parliament liberty of Subjects c. But when I des●nd to particulars whē how by whom I should desire these things to be effected I may fall to that poorepious mans A. B. C. D. E. c. XII The good effect of a bad cause GOd in the Leviticall Law gave this reward to the woman causelesly suspected of her Iealous husband that the bitter water which she was to drinke in the Priests presence should not onely doe her no harme but also procure her children * if barren before that water drunk by her to quench the fire of her husbands jealousie proved like the Spaw unto her so famous for causing fruitfulness Thus her innocence was not onely cleared but crowned His gracious Majesty hath been suspected to be Popishly inclined A suspition like those mushroomes which Pliny * recounts amongst the miracles in nature because growing without a Roote Well he hath passed his purgation a bitter Mornings-Draught hath he taken downe for many yeares together See the operation thereof his constancy in the Protestant Religion hath not onely been assured to such who unjustly were jealous of him but also by Gods blessing he dayly growes greater in men's hearts pregnant with the love and affection of his subjects XIII The child man Iohn Gerson the pious and learned Chancelour of Paris beholding and bemoaning the generall corruption of his Age in doctrine and manners was wont to get a * Quire of little children about him and to intreate them to pray to God in this behalfe Supposing their prayers least defiled with sinne and most acceptable to heaven Men now adayes are so infected with 〈◊〉 alice that little children are the best chaplaines to pray for their Parents But O where shall such be found not resenting of the faultes and factions of their Fathers Gersons plot will not take effect I will try another way I will make my addresse to the Holy child Jesus So is he stiled * even when glorified in Heaven not because he is still under Age like Popish Pictures placeing him in his Mothers armes and keeping him in his constant infancy but because with the strength and perfection of a man he hath the Innocence and humility of a child Him onelywill I employ to interceed for me XIIII Worse before better STrange was the behaviour of our Saviour towards his beloved Lazarus * informed by a messenger of his sicknesse he aboade two dayes still in the place where I was Why so slow bad sending him or to him on a dying mans errands But the cause was because Lazarus was not bad enough for Christ to cure intending not to recover him from sicknesse but revive him from Death to make the glory of the miracle greater England doth lie desperately sick of a violent disease in the Bowels thereof Many messengers we dispatch monthly fasts weekly Sermons daily Prayers to informe God of our sad condition He still stayes in the same place yea which is worse seemes to go backward for every day lesse likely-hood lesse hope of helpe May not this bee the reason that our Land must yet bee reduced to more extremity that God may have the higher honour of our Deliverance XV All sinne all suffer THE Mariners that guided the ship in the Tempest Acts 27.32 had a designe for their owne safety with the ruine of the rest intending under pretence of casting out an Anchor to escape in a Bo●te by themselves But the Soldiers prevented their purpose and cut off the cord of the Boate and let it fall into the Sea One and all all sinck or all save Herein their Martiall Law did a piece of exemplary Justice Doe any intend willingly without speciall cause to leave the Land so to avoid that misery which their sinnes with others have drawne upon it might I advise them better mourne in then move out of Sad Zion Hang out the * Scarlet lace at the casement eyes made red withsorrow for sinne but slide not downe out of the window without better warrant But if they be disposed to depart and leave their native Soyle let them take heede their Fly-boate meets not with such Souldiers as will send them back with shame and sorrow into the Ship againe XVI Eate worthily SAul being in full pursuite of the flying Philistines made a Law that no Israelite should * eat untill evening But it was the judgement of Jonathan that the Army if permitted to eate had done greater execution on their Enemies For time so lost was gained being layed out in the necessary refection of their bodyes Yea marke the issue of their long fasting The People at night coming with ravenous Appetites did eat the fles● with the * bloud to the provoaking of Gods anger Many English people having conquered some stes●ly lusts which fight against their soules were still chasing them in hope finally to subdue them Was it a pious or politique designe to forbid such the r●ceiving of the Sacrament their spirituall food I will not positively conclude that such if suffere● to strengthen themselves with that heavenly repast had thereby been enabled more effectually to cut downe their corruptions Onely two things I will desire First that such Jonathans who by breaking this custome have found benefit to thēselves may not be condemned by others 2ly I shal pray that two hungry yeares make not the third a glutton That Communicants two twelve moneths together forbidden the Lords Supper come not when admitted thereunto with better stomach then heart more greedinesse then preparation XVII Devotions Duplicat VVHen the Iewish Sabbath in the Primitive times was newly changed into the Christians-Lords day many devout people twisted both together in their Observation abstaining from servile-Workes and keeping both Saturday and Sunday wholy for holy Employments During these Civill Warres Wednesday and Fryday Fasts have been appointed by Different Authorities What harme had it been if they had been both generally observed But alas When two Messengers being sent together on the same Errand fall out and fight by the way will not the worke be worse done then if none were employed In such a Paire of fasts it is to be feared that the divisions of our Affections rather would increase then abate Gods Anger against us Two Negatives make an Affirmative Dayes of humiliations are appointed for men to deny themselves and their sinfull Lusts. But doe not our two Fasts more Peremptorily affirme and avouch our mutuall malice and hatred God forgive us we