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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

much of my life is lavisht away Oh the Intricacies Windings Wandrings Turnings Tergiversations of my dece●full Youth I have lived in the middest of a crooked Generation * and with them have turned aside unto * crooked wa●es High time it is now for mee to make Streight * Paths for my feet and to redeeme what is past by amending what is present and to come Flux Flux in the Germa●ne Tongue Quick Quick was a Mot●o of B●shop * Jewels presaging the approach of his Death May I make good use thereof Make haste Make haste God knows how little time is l●st me and may I bee a good Husband to improve the short remnant thereof VI Alwaies the Rising Sunne I Have wondred why the Romish Church do not pray to Saint Abraham Saint David Saint Hezekiah c. as well as to the Apostles and their Successors since Christs time For those antient Patriarks by the confession of Papists were long since relieved out of Lim bo soon out who were never in and admitted to the sight and presence of God especially Abraham being Father of the Faithfull as well Gentile as ●ew would according to their Principles bee a proper Patron for their Petitions But it seemes that moderne Saints rob the old ones of their honour a Garnet or late Bernard of Paris have severally more Prayers made unto them then many old Saints have together New Beesoms sweepe cleane new * Cisternes of fond mens owne hewing most likely to hold water Protestants in some kinde serve their living Ministers as Papists their dead Sa●uts For aged Pastors who have bor● the Heat of the Day in our Church are justled out of respect by young Preachers not having halfe their Age nor a quarter of their Learning and Religion Yet let not the former bee disheartened for thus it ever was and will be English-Athenians 〈◊〉 for Novelties new Sects new Schismes new Doctrines new Disciplines new Prayers new Preachers VII Charitie Charitie CHurch Storie reports of Saint John that being growne very Aged well nigh a hundred yeeres old wanting strength and voice to make a long Sermon hee was wont to goe up into the Pulpet and often repete these Words Babes k epe your selves from Idols Brethren Love one another Our Age may seeme suffi●iently to have provided against the growth of Idolatry in England O that some order were taken for the increase of Charity It were Liberty enough if for the next seaven yeeres all Sermons were bound to keepe Residence on this Text Brethren Love one another But would not some fall out with themselves if appointed to Preach Unity to Others Vindicative S●irits if confined to this Text would confine the Text to their Passion by Brethren understanding only such of their own Party But O seeing other Monopolies are dissolved let not this remain against the fundamentall Law of Charity Let all bend their heads hearts and hands to make up the breaches in Church and State But too many now a daies are like Pharaohs Magicians who could conjure up * with their Charmes more new Frogs but could not remove or drive away those multitude of Frogs which were there before Unhappily happy in making more rents and discentions but unable or unwilling to compose our former differences VIII The Sensible Plant. I Heard much of a Sensible Pl●nt and counted it a senselesse relation a rational Beast carrying as little contradiction untill beholding it mine Eyes ushered my Judgement into a beleef thereof My comprehension thereof is this God having made three great Staires Vegetable Se●sible and Reasonable Creat●res that men thereby might climbe up i●to the knowledge of a Deity hath placed somethings of a middle nature as halfe Paces betwixt the Staries so to make the Step lesse and the ascent more easie for our Meditations Thus this active Plant with visible motion doth border and confine on Sensible Creatures Thus in Affrick some most agil and intelligent Marmasits may seeme to shake fore feete shall I say or hands with the rudest Salvages of that Countrey as not much more then one remove from them in knowledg and civility But by the same proportion may not man by custome and improvement of Piety mount himselfe neere to an Angelicall nature Such was Enoch who whilest liveing on Earth * Walked with God O may our Conversation be in * Heaven For shall a Plant take a new degree proce●d Sensible and shall man have his Grace Stayed for want of sufficiency and not vvhilest living here Commence Angel in his holy and heavenly affections IX Christ my King I Reade how king Edward the first ingenuously surprized the Welch into subjection proferring them such a Prince as should be 1. The Son of a King 2. Borne in their owne Countrey 3. Whom none could taxe for any fault The Welch accepted the Conditions and the King tendred them his sonne Edward an Infant newly borne in the Castle of Carnarvan Doe not all these Qualifications mystically Center themselves in my Saviour 1. The King of Heaven saith unto him thou art my Sonne * this day have I begotten thee 2. Our true Countrey man Reall flesh whereas hee tooke not on him the nature of Angels 3. Without spot or blemish like to us in all things sin only excepted Away then with those wicked men who * Will not have this King to rule over them May he have Dominion in and over me Thy Kingdome come Heaven and Earth cannot afford a more proper Prince for the purpose exactly accomplished with all these comfortable qualifications X. Tribulation I Finde two sad Etymologies of Tribulation One from Tribulus a three forked Thorn which 〈◊〉 that such afflictions which are as full of Paine and Anguish unto the soule as a Thorn thrust into a tender part of the Flesh is unto the Body may properly be termed Tribulations The other from Tribulus the Head of a Flail or Flagell knaggie and knotty made commonly as I take it of a thick black-Thorne and then it imports that Afflictions falling upon us as heavie as the Flaile threshing the Corne are stiled Tribulations I am in a Streight which deduction to embrace from the sharpe or from the heavie Thorne But which is the worst though I may choose whence to derive the Word I cannot choose so as to decline the thing I must through much Tribulation enter into the Kingdome of God Therefore I will labor not to bee like a young Colt first set to Plough which more Tires himselfe out with his owne untowardnesse whipping himselfe with his mis-spent mettle then with the weight of what he drawes and will labour patiently to beare what is imposed upon me XI Beware I Saw a Cannon shot off The men at whom it was levelled fell flat on the ground and so escaped the Bullet Against such blowes falliug is all the fencing and Prostration all the Armour of proofe But that which gave them notice to fall downe