slight the cries The teares nor sighs of one that groaning lies Vnder the weight of some soule-wounding crime If he repent and turne to him in time But barely tell such as are proud in minde That they are wretched naked poore and blinde Tell them the best may mend and that I know The worst must mend or to the divell goe Tell such as shall my person laugh to scorne Vnwisely they but spurne against a Thorne And tell them that revile what I have writ I doubt not but they have more haire then wit More wit then wisdome for if they were wise To know themselves they would not me despise To the Generall Reader With judgement read in reading judgement get To judge and read in reading ever let Thy heart be free from scorne For thou art told Iudgements for scorners are prepar'd of old Prov. 19.29 The Soules Solace WEE may like * Gen. 47 â— Psal 119.54 Heb. 11.13 1 Pet. 2.11 Heb. 13 1â— Pilgrimes wander in our race And be constrain'd to fly from place to place Wild beast may meet us in the way and make Their prey of us robbers and theeves may take All that we have briers may teare and rend Our credits and good name a flattering friend With sugar'd words may winn our hearts Impia sub dulâ— melle venena latent Naso that so He with more ease might worke our overthrow Sore-biting dogs may at us snarle and snatch Hunters with snafes may seeke our soules to catch Adders and subtile Serpents as we passe Over fresh meads and fields of pleasant grasse May spit their venom at us death may sease Upon our bodies by some ill disease Yet this our hearts may still revive and cheare That God will save the soules of such as * Psal 33 18. Psa 43 21 Psal 121.7 2 Tim. 4 1â— Psal 97.10 Psal 31. â— Simâ—s sine veste sed non sine side sine Domo sed non sine Dominâ— sine ci bo non sine Châ—isto salvatore nostro feare His holy name so that live they or die They die and live to live to eternally Skie threatning waves our crazy barks may tosse Unconstant winds may oft our voyage crosse Syrens may tempt us with their pleasant notes That they with guilded knives may cut our throats Rocks may lie in our waies some little chinke If not the sooner stopt our barks may sinke Pilot and Barke may faile both waxing old Our anchor may be cast and take no hold We may presume and hoist up sailes on high As if with Icarus we meant to fly And crosse these brinish waters with a blast And in this Sea at length be headlong cast But grant our barks be strong and that the wind May favour us and Neptune should prove kind And lead us home with plenty pompe and store Yet may a Pirat come and make us poore Yea poorer then before and thus we see That in this life there is no * Omnia hic mihi cadâ—â—t praeter perfectam plâ—ra praeter vâ—t mâ—sed tutum nihil Per. 33 Serm Cant. certaintie Still yet are we sure that neither (d) Ro 8 35 36.37.38 39 Col 3.3 4. Sâ—mel elâ—ct â— semper d lectus Ioh 13 1 Ioh 10.27 28.29 Amittamus divâ—tias Dei sed nâ—nquam Deum divitiatum quid si amitte mus omnia dum habemus habentem omnia change nor all The chances that us may or can befall Shall seperate our soules from Christ above Because he (e) Ioh 13 2. Psal 89 34 Ier 31 3. never alters in his love The tender lilly with the thornes may grow Wild beasts may crop Christs vineyard here below Amongst devouring (f) Psal 120.4.5 Heu mihi quia incolatus meus prolongatus Psal 57.4.5 Quaâ—â—â—u lucta bor influctibus mortalitatis meae clamans ad te Dom. non ex audis August lions tigers beares The Spouse may be wheat may be mixt with tares Yet to our endlesse comfort this we know That God will one day manifest and show To all the world and that in open view That he in (g) Psal 103 6. P al. 89.15 Psal 98.10 word and deed is just and true We may and must expect a winter here As well the worst as best part of the yeare As well great (h) Psal 107.25 stormes as calme the () Psal 30.5 night as day Sorrow as (k) 2 Cor. 6 1â— mirth (l) Psal 126.5 a March as well as May. Sowing before reaping Aprill showres To make our gardens flourish with May flowers Ebbing as well as flowing want as wealth Weaknesse as well as strength sicknesse as health Some doubts (m) Et timent iperant Bern. Egredere anima mea quid timeâ— egredere quid treâ—ida Hilar. in midst of hope some losse some gain Some (n) Habeâ—us lactum cum gaudio mixtum Pet. Martyr in 2. Sam. 24. griefe in joy some pastimes mixt with paine Some darknes mixt with light some drosse with gold In our new robes some patches of the old Grace in the soule as sap within a tree May for a time from man concealed (o) Vt decidetanti jucundior sit valid oris pretii 2. ut majore vigilantia timore gratâ—am adeptam custodiemus Quod lachrimanter agemus ademptum vigilanter servamus adeptum te docuit lapsus magis vestâ—ga firmes ate â—agiâ— Christo consociere tuoâ—mâ—lier fetum conceptum non semper molitantem sentit Semper felicitaâ—em pâ—isuam non intelligâ—nt Sâ—neca dob tatioâ—iâ— in pâ—â—â—aâ—iâ— ando cadâ—nt 1 Sam 27.1 ita sâ—â—lâ—ae aliquando o â—caranâ—â—â—â—t lâ—câ—t in coelo extent non 〈◊〉 nostra appa ent siâ—eâ—e alâ—quando vaâ—â—â— teâ—tâ—tionihaâ—ita obâ—â—â— antuâ— pâ—oriuâ— extinct idcanâ—ur Psa 51.10 mergituâ— in erdum sed non sâ—bmeâ—gitâ—r â—â—â—â—â—m be An Autumne in our soules we oft may find A deadnesse both of spirit soule and mind Yet sure we are this cannot alwaies last A springtide comes when winters gon and past The Sun of (p) Mal. â— 2. righteousnesse shall then appeare And with his beame of grace revive and cheare Those sprouts of grace which winter with cold rimes And bitter blasts of trouble oftentimes To humane reason and a carnall eie Had made appeare as barren dead and drie Thick fogs and stinking mists with their black streams May for a time obscure the Suns bright beames But let these vanish into aire and then We with his beames shall bee reviv'd agen The knowledge of the first our hearts may rue For we have found it too too late too true Our Sun for many a day yea moneth and yeare We have observ'd as in another sphere Yea in so much that this strange observation In many men hath wrought great admiration How they could be but let us cease to wonder Me thinke the aire with lightning and with thunder Begins to cleare apace some of our fogs Are gone to Callis some to 'th Irish bogs Some into Spaine and
LOrd thou art good as well as great and this Happy commixture is the ground of blisse What comfort would it be to us if thou O great Jehovah shouldst the heavens bow And come in majestie alas thy might Without thy goodnesse would but us affright If thou wer't only good and hadst not might When we were wrong'd where should we go for right If thou hadst onely might and wer 't not good Thy very name would frighten flesh and bloud But blessed be thy name O Lord of hosts Thy goodnesse is declar'd through all our coasts Yea we thy greatnesse and thy goodnesse find In Church and State in body soule and mind But we the greater oft the worser grow In doing ill we oft our greatnesse show Lord rather make us good then great what will Greatnesse availe us if our waies be ill Greatnesse without goodnesse Lord we know Will but procure our greater overthrow Therefore great God thy goodnesse we entreat To make us good how ere thou make us great If thou wilt grace us gratious God with might Give us grace with it for to use it right Amen Of the wisedome of God Meditati 2 THy wisedome is O Lord past finding out What man thinkes strange with ease thou bringst about But we are fooles and neither understand The words nor workes of thy almighty hand O blessed God we humbly thee desire Into our hearts true wisedome to inspire Make us to know thee and our selves aright Then shall our waies be pleasing in thy sight Amen Of the holinesse of God Meditati 3 LOrd thou art pure and holy we implore Thy holinesse to clense us more and more Each good and perfect gift must come from thee Lord make us such as thou wouldst have us be Amen Of the justice and wrath of God Meditati 4 WHat man Lord can abide thy wrath and ire Which being kindled burns as hot as fire O make us fearfull to offend thy Law Lest we before thee be as hay or straw Before a furnace grant that we may praise Thy holy name and serve thee all our daies Amen Of the truth of God Meditati 5 LOrd thou art true in all thy words and waies Justice and equity thy Scepter swayes We should be like thee but alas we finde Our hearts too much to fraud and guile inclin'd Lord breathe thy Spirit of truth into our hearts And write thy Laws within our inward parts Then shall our hearts be upright towards thee And eke our lives from foule offences free Amen Of the mercy of God Meditati 6 LOrd thou art mercifull as well as just Or else what would become of sinfull dust We should be like thee but our hearts are evill In cruelty we imitate the divell Lord make us kinde and pitifull that so In time of need thou maist us mercy show Amen Of the love and kindnesse of God Meditati 7 LOrd thou art kinde thy love endures for aye Upon good grounds we can with reverence say Thou seemest for to doat on man for when He went astray thou broughtst him home agen When he had from thy holy Precepts swerv'd And thereby thy displeasure had deserv'd The penalty of death then didst thou give Thy Son to suffer death that he might live O that our hearts could understand aright The greatnesse of this love that so we might With body soule and minde strive to adore Thy holy name both now and evermore Amen Short Meditations and Ejaculations upon the Lords Prayer Medita ∣ tion 1 LOrd we are sinfull in our purest works Much pride hypocrisie and evill lurks We cannot hallow thee it is our shame That we may in us Hallowed be thy name Amen Medita ∣ tion 2 I cannot but my misery condole My heart my minde my body and my soul Have been slaves to the world the flesh and divell Nimble and prompt to run into all evill But in thy service lame dead deafe and dumb My soule release Lord Let thy Kingdome come Amen Medita ∣ tion 3 A constant pure and cheerfull sacrifice We know Lord is wel-pleasing in thine eyes Quicken our hearts that are of life bereaven And let thy will be done here as in heaven Amen Medita ∣ tion 4 Thou art Our Father where then should we go But unto thee for what we want below All creatures by thy providence are fed Give us good God this day our daily bread Amen Medita ∣ tion 5 Lord thou art full of kindnesse and of pity Loath to destroy the meanest Towne or City If they repent O helpe us to confesse And leave our sins forgive our wickednesse Remit our faults unlose our chaines and fetters Forgive our debts as we forgive our debters Amen Medita ∣ tion 6 Lord thou art full of Majesty and might Able to put our greatest foes to flight Subdue those lusts that tend to reprobation And let us not be led into temptation Amen Medita ∣ tion 7 Thou art the God of Hosts the King of Kings And hast command within thee of all things Let not the world the flesh nor yet the divell Reigne over us Deliver us from evill Amen A few short Meditations or Eiaculations upon the ten Commâ—ndements Mediti ∣ tation 1 THou art the Lord our God the God of all Our souls and bodies thou hast brought from thral Grant we in word and deed may all agree To have no other God but only thee Amen 2. Precept Mediti ∣ tation 2 Thy goodnesse largely Lord hath been exprest To us and ours when we have been distrest Yet we like fooles have aid and succour sought From Idols vaine which our own hands have wrought Open our eyes O blessed God that we May leave our folly and returne to thee Amen 3. Precept Mediti ∣ tation 3 Most blessed God thy sacred will and minde Fully set forâ—h in sacred Writ we finde Thou wouldst noâ— have us take thy name in vaine We of our selves cannot O Lord refraine O give us grace thy name for to adore In word and deed both now and evermore And if we call thee witnesse for to beare Lord make us carefull that the truth we sweare Amen 4. Precept Mediti ∣ tation 4 Because that we are ready to forget To keep the day which thou apart hast set For thy owne selfe and service we may finde A memorandum to put us in minde Yet we must needs confesse unto our shame We are too prone to violate the same Incline our hearts to keep this Law that so We may escape thy wrath and endlesse woe And in thy holy place may ever sing Sweet songs of praise to thee our worthy King Amen 5. Precept Mediti ∣ tation 5 Lord thou wouldst have us honour and obey Our Parents Pastors and such as beare sway O grant we may withhold no honour due That happy dayes for ever may ensue Amen 6. Precept Mediti ∣ tation 6 Life is thy only gift therefore ought we To have our hearts and hands from murther free Keep us from bloudshed
may be sould b e're long well to prevent Such doubts and feares let 's freely give consent To make our selves as merry as we can For what is life more then a blast or span And therefore will you sin rash youth take heed If life be fraile and brittle there 's more need Of watchfulnesse and care how can you hope For life eternall when you give such scope Unto your lawlesse lusts what do you thinke That at your follies God will ever winke Esay 30.13 14. 2 Pet. 39. No no besure c God will you call at last To give account for what is done and past And whil'st you strive d Charybdis for to shun You to your ruine upon Scylla run The melancholy humor For though your passage please you very well The haven at which you shall arrive is hell I cannot but admire to see how some As if no death or judgement were to come Will pawn their very soules the world to win As if they thought true blisse to be therein For want of understanding some a men thinke If they can eate good meate and drinke good drinke Afford to take tobacco drinke rich sacks And for to put rich raimenton their backs Then they are well and we say more then this When as we say such cannot doe amisse Alas poore silly men you in conclusion Will find the world to be a meere delusion When death appeares your wealth will not availe you Your stomacks and your palates both will faile you Those meats and drinks which pleas'd you best of all Will be as bitter to your taste as gall Your crazie bodies will be sore and tender Sicknesse will make your joynts so weake and slender That rich attire will then torment you more Then ever it did please you heretofore Some thinke if they can get a faire estate And put their wares off at a handsome rate Be it by lying b theft deceit or worse Then they are happy men although the curse Of God and man be upon them and theirs And to our view a c reason hence appeares Why many great and faire estates are brought So oft and soone to little or to nought Alas poore man I pitty much thy case And wish that God may give thee better grace What art thou better for a golden mine If that a d curse be upon thee and thine Leave off this evill course of life and pray God to forgive thy faults and not to lay This to thy childrens charge repent in time Of this thy crying crimson colour'd crime Hereafter let thy chiefest care be this To make thy selfe and them true heires of blisse Some place their happinesse in lofty Towers In walks and gardens deckt with dainty flowers The vanity of mens minds In orchards some and some in spatious grounds In cards and dice some some in hawks and hounds In horses some and some in cocks and bulls Some in their whores some in their drunken guls Some in a tennis Court and some in bowles And some to range abroad at night like owles To take the aire or else to seek their prey You know my meaning take it either way Some take delight in making foolish Plaies Others to act them some spend all their daies In foolish vanities untill at last The golden times of Gods free grace be past What comfort will it be to thee to thinke That thou hast eat good meat and drunke good drink That thou hast had the world as in a string And didst command thy tenants as a King To doe thee service Yea what comfort can All earthly pleasures yeeld to any man When pale and grim-fac'd death shall wound his heart And very soul with his al-slaying dart Thou tookest great delight in hawks and hounds To finde out sport to range about thy grounds The vanity of worldly pleasures But sicknesse now hath brought thy head so low That for a world one step thou canst not goe Thy head is weake and noise thy temples wounds What pleasure hast thou now in yelling hounds Alas I know they but torment thy minde Therein thou canst small ease or comfort finde But in what state now lies thy silly soule Alas I cannot but thy case condole Now thou hast ceas'd thy nimble hounds to follow And canst not heare thy huntsmen whoop or hollow Yea when thy paine through sicknesse most abounds Death will prevent thee with a packe of hounds I meane distracting cares thoughts doubts and feares Whose hellish yellings shall be in thy eares As long as thou hast life but is that all No still as if thy torments were too small Conscience as huntsman comes in with a crew Of cruell bloudy hounds which will pursue Thy fainting soule with so much force and might As if they had forgot to doe thee right No breathing space no law as huntsmen say Thou must expect and for to flie away It is in vaine for it hath been debated Whilst thou art living they will not be rated But will thy death give them content O no To judgement they with thee along will goe And never thinke themselves for to be well Till thou and they with hel-hounds meet in hell But will they let thee be at rest there No They daily will augment thy endlesse woe Those very dogs which thou hast choisely bred And at thy table plentifully fed Will surly grow and flie up at thy face Unto thy finall horrour and disgrace And as regardlesse of thy paines and groanes Will daily gnaw upon thy flesh and bones Object But some may say how should this come to passe We read in Judges how that Balaams Asse Did check his master and we know right well That dogs did lick the bloud of Iezabel When she was dead but that these dogs should strive To eat their master yea and that alive Yea and dogs that were daily fully fed And lodg'd with him upon a feather bed Of such a slaughter I have never heard That dogs their master should so ill reward Answ Their master dost thou say Had it been so They had not brought him to this shame and woe To all the world it might have been a wonder If he had sought in time to keep them under But seeing he permitted them to reigne It is not strange but you may say againe That they were still well kept 't is very true And hereupon this evill did ensue For had those dogs I mean his raging lusts Been as we say kept short with scraps and crusts Had they been kept but at an under rate They had not brought him unto this estate Of misery and woe well then from hence I may infer one use of consequence If earthly pleasures cannot long remaine And after end in everlasting paine If they have been abus'd let me advise You that have faulty been now to be wise From vaine delights your mindes and fancies weane From the extreame a excesse thereof I mean I know some pastimes b lawfull are and good Both to
some to Rome in hope They shall obtaine a pardon from the Pope Some into France Bermoodes and Barbadoes Who here have vapour'd with such great bravadoes As if that they had meant the heavens to bring Under their feet and to disthrone the King But blessed be the Lord yea blessed be His holy name to all eternitie These strange polluting mists are blowne away And we behold the dawning of the day Our Sun we hope with splendor will appeare Our frozen hearts againe to thaw and cheare Now God which made the q) Psal 104.19 Sun to rule the day Grant such like mists may never beare like sway Great buzzards little birds may sore afright And with their talons wound them in the night But when the Sun shall shine forth in his hiew The little birds great buzzards will pursue An old devouring fox may hurt the sheepe In a darke night when Shepheards are asleepe But when the Sun to Horizon doth touch Hee takes his den nay oft his feare is such That all his life lies in his heeles his bed And den he leaves he dare not shew his head Where he hath made his prey and mischiefe done But will into some other Lordship run Yet oft he leaves so strong a sent behind him That by his foot-steps wee know where to find him Fat bulls of Basan with their hornes may gore And hurt the lesser bullocks but the more They doe sooner to 'th blocke their heads are brought Because they are oft better fed then taught He that Elias could so strangely feed When he was pincht with poverty and need As by a (r) 1 King 17. â— raven can what way seemes best To him our bodies and our soules opprest Releive and comfort yea (s) Rom. 11 33 34 35. Psal 7â— 14 15.16.17 18 19 20. 2 King 14.26 27. and that oft by Those waies and meanes which to a carnall eye Seemes most unlikely and not onely so But altogether (t) Mat. 19.26 Apud homines hoc mpossibile apud Deum autem omnia sunt possibilia planè Deo nihil d fficile Tertull. ad Prax. Cui voluisse fecisse est Psal 115.3 135.6 7. Qui dixit facta sunt Psal 148 5.33.6 Vbi definit humaâ—um ibi incipit divinum auxilium ler. 32.27 Gen. 18 14. opposite thereto Hee that a sonne the Shunamite could give And after raise him up from death to live Can give us grace the life of grace and when Our soules seeme dead give (v) sal 66.8 Psal 71.18.19 2â— 21 22. life to them agen He that made * 2 Kings 6 6. iron swim and could of stones Raise children up and by Elisha's bones Revive the dead (w) Psal 7 18 24. Iude 24. can if it may please him Our drooping soules command aloft to swim He that could make (x) Qui modo Saâ—lus eâ—as in verso homine Salvus Factus est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qâ—i modo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 eras a persecuting Saul A lover of his Saints a preaching Paul And could convert Manasses from these crimes Whereby he had so many waies and times Offended God can in what way seemes strange To carnall reason worke in us a change He that could cleanse the (y) Exod. 4.7 Mat 8.2 Lâ—c. 10 14. Leper of his sore And men borne (z) Luc. 4.18 blinde to perfect sight restore Can cleanse our (a) 1 Ioh 17. Psa 51.10 Ezek. 36.25 Ioh. 15.3 soules from sins foule blot and stain And to their former sight restore again He that could give b limbs to the lame to walke To (c) Exod. 4.11 deafe and dumb eares tongues to heare and talke Strength to the impotent health to the sicke A quiet mind unto the d lunaticke For each disease and sore a salve can find Whether paines of the body soule or mind That God which could the (e) 1 Kings 1â— 10.11.12 13.14 widowes oile augment And by his grace f five hundred men content With five small loaves and two little fishes As well as with five hundred costly dishes Can both (g) Ephes 3.20 increase that modicum we have And satisfie our soules with what we crave What though thy house and dwelling be but small Was not thy Lord contented with a stall He that with Nimrod thinks to raise his name By building Babels or enlarge his same By shewes and titles shewes himselfe but vaine For he and * Qu câ—uâ—d altum est haud diu tatum manet Apollod they must both to dust againe Where is brave (h) Iam cinis est detam magno restat Achil. Nelcio quid par vam quod non bene compleat uâ—nan Ovid met Hector and his glory where Are those nine worthies whose name once was deere And dreadfull too alas they and their glory Lie now intomb'd within a little story Where 's grave Mecaenas and divine Apollo Loe these are gone and we their steps must follow What though thou art not dect with rich array The sage Futrape lus right wise y â—ad his 〈◊〉 sâ—ould have the â—icheâ—t clâ—â—thes he had Think ng he did them harme himselfe much g od For it made him more humble them more pâ—cud Hor. Beggars and (i) Pallâ—da mors aequo pede pullat paâ—petum tabernas regume â—urres Qâ—id superbis pulvis cinâ— quâ—d veste nitida gloriaris subter testernitur tinea operimentum tuum erunt vermes hectua vestis crit Chrysist Entrapelus cuicunque nocere volebat vestimentâ— dabat pretiosa beatus enim jam pro pulcheris cunicam â—â—met concilia nora Kings must both returne to clay Besides gay clothes which fooles delight so in Wise men esteeme but as the badge of sin What though thou hast not choice of dainty dishes Christ fed on barly bread and little fishes Besides those (k) Ebrietas geâ—eâ—at multos in corpore morbos ergo nulla potest esse salute Salus Vivere natuâ—ae si convenienter aâ—aâ—ent mortales medica nil opus essâ—t â—pe Sine cereâ—e libeto friget Venuâ— venter mero estuans sâ—umat Hierom things which best the palate pleases Oft fils the body full of foule diseases Doe not we dayly see that drunkenesse And lust provoking (l) Multa sercula multoâ— moâ—boâ— Quae nâ—si divitibâ—s nequeunt cont ngere mensis Hor. lib. 2. Sa. vr 4. Nascitur libido conviv is nutritur deliclis vino accâ—nditur Vnde hoc Annagram salutare Opto tibi multam nullam tibi poto salutem Est potior poâ—a sicca salute Salus Iob 1.5 Lu. 2.12 Ioseph Mat. Christ amiserâ—nt conviviis Eccl. 31.16.17 18 37 C. 29. meats eat with excesse Make men more wanton and more seeble grow More prone to vice to pious deeds more slow If thou hast meat and drinke clothes for thy back And Gods good blessing here can be no lack Note those that are in greater want and need As well as those that doe in wealth
wicked THe just and upright man shall joyfull be When he the vengeance of the Lord shall see For they shall wash their feet with triumph then Ev'n in the bloud of bloudy minded men And men shall say as cause they shall have just There is great fruit for such as in him trust Doubtlesse upon the earth a God there dwels That both in truth and righteousnesse excels Psal 58.10.11 As sheep go to the fold they to the grave And in that day the just shall Lordship have Their beauty shall consume when they shall goe From their owne dwellings to eternall woe But God will me preserve from endlesse paine Because he will receive my soule againe Psal 94.14.15 The just shall this behold and praise the Lord And laugh at him and say with one accord Behold the man that made not God his stay But trusted in his strength his mire and clay But I shall be like to an olive greene For in the Lord my trust hath ever beene Psal 52.7.8.9 Comfort for the godly in evill and dangerous times IN evill daies why should I feare though those That seek my life me cunningly inclose For they that put their trust in riches most And in the multitude thereof will boast Their brothers soule from hell can no way save Nor pay a price to free him from the grave Psal 49.5 6 7. Comfort for the godly against the conspiracy of the wicked AGainst the just the wicked may conspire And grash their teeth in madnesse and in ire But God shall laugh to scorne them and their way For why he sees the comming of his day They may draw out their swords and bend their bow The poore and needy man to overthrow But their owne swords shall pierce their wicked hearts Their bowes shall broken be in sundry parts He knowes the just mans daies and sees his way And his inheritance shall not decay Psal 37.12 13 14 15 18. The Lord will breake their counsells and disclose The plots wherein they do most trust repose Psal 33.10 Thou hast my table richly deckt although Mine enemies have sought my overthrow Psal 23.5 Comfort for captives strangers fatherlesse children and widowes THe Lord relieves the poore and fatherlesse The stranger and the widow in distresse He makes the solitary man to live In houses freedome he to slaves doth give Psal 146.9 Psal 68.5 6. Though godly men by tyrants are brought low And wanting harbor wander too and fro God raiseth them out of their troubles deep And makes them housholds like a flock of sheep Psal 107.39 When they did wander in the desart wide And found no place wherein they might abide Yea when their thirst and hunger was so great That death the faintnesse of their soules did threat Then did they crie to God in their distresse And he their grievances did soon redresse Psal 107.4 5 6. Though they were few their foes then to withstand Yea very few and strangers in the land And when they found no place for their abode But wandred too and fro the world abroad He suffered them no wrong at all to take But mighty Kings reproved for their sake Psal 105.12 13 14. Comfort for the godly in times of oppression OVer our heads thou hast made tyrants ride And us the raging fury to abide Of fire and water yet thou through thy grace Didst bring us forth unto a wealthy place Psal 66.12 13. The Lord 's with me I need not feare or doubt What man can doe though he be strong and stout Psal 118.6 Now for the great oppressures and the cries Of poore distressed men I will arise Saith God the living Lord and them restore Unto the liberties they had before Psal 12.5 I sought the Lord and he my suit did heare Yea he did free my soule from all my feare They shall both looke and run unto his name Their faces shall not be abash'd with shame But say this poore man to the Lord did call And he both heard and rid him out of thrall Psal 34.4 5 6. O praise the Lord his praise abroad display For he is good his mercy lasts for aye He thought on us yea in our base degree And from oppressors safely set us free Psal 136.1.23 I with my mouth will laud the Lord him I Amongst the multitude will magnifie For at the right hand of the poore he stands To save them from the bloudy tyrants hands Psal 109.30 31. God will avenge th' afflicted and the poore The just shall feare and praise him evermore Psal 140.12 Incline thine ears to me Lord when I pray And hearken to the words which I shall say For strangers up against me rise and they That pleasure take in blood seek to betray My soule with all the plots they can devise For God they have no time before their eyes Behold God is my helper straight at hand With them that stay my soule the Lord does stand Psal 54.2 3 4. Comfort for the godly in long affliction HIs chosen flocke he will not alwaies chide For ever they shall not his wrath abide For he knows well our molde and fashion just Our natures fraile and how we are but dust Psal 103.9.14 Though it for many yeares have been your lots To lie conceal'd amongst defiled pots Ye shall be like a dove whose wings like gold And silver shine when once she waxeth old Psal 63.13 For though the wicked ofttentimes by God To prove his Saints are used as his rod Yet shall it not their lot for ever be Lest they their hand put to iniquity Psal 125 3. The Lord himselfe hath chast'ned me full sore But never hath to death me given o're Psal 118.18 Comfort for the godly in any strait BLessed is he whom Iacobs God doth aid And he whose hope upon the Lord is staid Which did of nothing earth and heaven frame The sea and all pertaining to the same Which keeps his word and promises most sure From age to age for ever to endure Which doth proceed in justice to relieve His poore oppressed servants when they grieve Which gives bread to the hungry and sets free Such as are bound in chaines of misery Which does the blinde to sight and lame restore To limbs and loves the just man evermore Which helps the stranger in his great distresse And keeps the widow and the fatherlesse Psal 146.5 6 7 8 9. When as my parents deare did me forsake The Lord did me into his favour take Psal 27.12 When I in trouble am and heavinesse I 'le thinke on God my griefe I will expresse I will consider well the things of old And what in former times I have been told I will regard the workings of the Lord What he hath done long since I will record Yea whilst I live my tongue shall no time spare His counsells deep and wonders to declare Psal 77.3 5 11 12. The Lord hath mindfull been of our distresse And in his tender mercies will us blesse To Aarons house his blessings
he will show And to the house of Israel also Yea such as feare the Lord shall blessed be Both small and great of high and low degree To them the Lord will multiply his grace Yea unto them and to their stocke and race Psal 115.12 13. Our fathers have put confidence in thee And thou in mercy Lord hast set them free They were deliver'd when upon the name Of God they cal'd they were not put to shame That trusted in him Psal 22.4 5. God's just in all his waies his works are all Most pure he 's nigh to such as on him call Psal 145.17 18. Doubtlesse that man is blest whom God corrects And thereby in his holy law directs That he in evill daies may give him rest When sinners shall for ever be supprest For sure God will no time the just forsake Nor shun his chosen heritage to take Psal 95.12 13 14. Comfort for the godly in time of sicknesse VVHen we lie languishing upon our beds Of sorrow and of sicknesse God our heads And hearts doth hold he heals our griefes and sores And us at length to perfect health restores Pal. 41.5 When snares of Death me round about beset And paines of hell me caught as in a net Then on the name of God thus did I call Deliver thou my soule O Lord from thrall The Lord is mercifull unto the just And faithfull to all those that in him trust I was in wofull paine and misery And in his mercy he relieved me Psal 116.3 4 5 6. The foolish for by reason of their crimes Upon their heads great plagues heap oftentimes Their soules did loath all meats they wont before To hunger for they were brought to deaths door Than 〈◊〉 they crie to God for helpe and aid And he them heard according as they praid Psal 107.17 18 19 20. Though in the vale of death I walke I will No evill feare for thou art with me still Psal 23.4 Comfort for the weak ALL ye that trust in God be strong and bold Though ye be weak God will your hearts uphold Psal 31.24 The Lord your strength and courage will encrease The Lord will blesse you with eternall peace Psal 30.11 Hope in the Lord be strong and no way start And he will comfort and confirme thine heart Psal 27.16 My heart would faint should I not hope to see In life eternall thy felicity Psal 27.15 The fatnesse of the house the just shall feed To them thy pleasant rivers shall exceed Because the Well of life remaines with thee And in thy perfect light we light shall see Psal 36.8 9. The Lord hath bought the soules of all the just And none shall perish that in him do trust Psal 34.22 The Lord doth reigne then let the earth rejoyce And let his Saints triumph with pleasant voice Psal 97.1 I waited long and did with meeknesse beare And God at length to me inclin'd his eare He brought my feet out of the mire and clay Unto a rock he led me in his way Psal 40.1 2. The Lord upon the just doth fix his eyes His eares are alwaies open to their cries The godly crie and God in mercy hears And frees their soules from troubles pains and fears Unto the meeke the Lord is neare and kinde To save such as afflicted be in minde Great are the troubles which the good befall But God in mercy rids them out of all Psal 34.15 17 18 19. According to thy promises most just Thinke on thy servant for therein I trust In midst of troubles this my heart doth cheare This me revives when pains of death draw neare The proud of me have often made a scorne Yet shrinke I not from thee as one forlorn◠For I thy lasting judgements call to minde Therein O Lord I joy and comfort finde Psal 119.49 50 51 52. Such as trust in the Lord shall stand as sure As Sions mount for ever to endure And as the mighty mountains are about Jerusalem ev'n so without all doubt From henceforth and for ever God will those That trust in him with mercies great enclose Psal 125.1 2. Comfort for the penitent THe Lord is just and mercifull also Apt to forgive to wrath and anger slow Psal 103.8 We with our fathers Lord we must confesse Against thee have committed wickednesse The wonders thou didst work in Egypts land Our fathers did not rightly understand They did not call to minde the multitude Of thy great mercies to them but more rude And stubborne were yea in rebellion they Did rise and that at sea yea the red sea Yet didst thou save them for thine owne names sake That thou thy power to be known mightst make Still they provoked God to wrath and ire By their fond and inordinate desire Yet when he did behold their misery He heard in mercy their complaint and cry Psal 106.6 7 44. Thou hast O Lord been mercifull indeed To Israel yea thou hast Iacobs seed Restor'd from thraldome and O God we finde In holy Writ thou blott'st out of thy minde All their misdeeds and heynous wickednesse Whereby they did thy holy Laws transgresse My sins Lord I confesse with griefe of heart In this thy mercy let me have a part Psal 85.1 2. Of joy and gladnesse thou shalt make me heare That thou my broken bones O Lord maist cheare Psal 51.8 Give laud unto the Lord my soule let not The leaft of all his mercies be forgot That gave thee pardon and will give all times Pardon to such as will forsake their crimes After our sinnes with us he hath not dealt Nor forour sinnes have we his furie felt Psal 103.2.3.10 Comfort for the godly in time of dearth IN evill times they shall not danted be In times of dearth they shall Gods goodnesse see Psal 37.19 Behold the eies of God behold the just To helpe all such as in his mercy trust To free their soules while here they live on earth From the devouring jawes of death and dearth Psal 33.18.19 Comfort for the mariner in danger of shipwreck THey that in ships into great waters goe For and with merchandize both to and fro Observe and daily have Gods works in mind His wonders deep they in the deep do find For at his word the stormie winds arise Wherby the surges seeme to threat the skies They mount aloft and plunge the depth againe So that their soules consume with feare and paine They stagger like a drunkard to and fro Their skill is gone they know not what to doe Then did they cry to God for helpe and aide And he them heard according as they pray'd The boist'rous stormes he makes to cease the rage Of roaring waves his hand doth soone asswage Then are they glad then do they shout and sing When God doth them unto their haven bring Psal 107. from 23. to 30. A few short Meditations and ejaculations upon the ATTRIBVTES of God the Lords PRAYER and the ten COMMANDEMENTS Of the goodnesse and greatnesse of God Meditati 1