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A64835	Things worth thinking on, or, Helps to piety being remains of some meditations, experiences, and sentences &c. never published till now : and now are as an addition to them which were formerly made publick: together with a sermon entituled The beauty of holines / by Ralph Venning ...	Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.	1664 (1664)	Wing V227; ESTC R38004	77,776	241

so upright as not only not to commit the great transgression but that the thoughts of his heart the words of his mouth and the works of his hands may be all acceptable to his God Psal 19.12 14. 14 Oh what a sad life do they live who live in pleasures Life do I say No no they are dead while they live 1 Tim. 5.6 If we will say they live we must say that 't is but like Bedlams who and their pleasures also are run stark mad For to this purpose is that of Solomon Eccles 2.2 or else they are degenerated and metamorphosed into Beasts Jer. 5.8 15 Fondness is the sickness of love by which children are taught to rebel 1 Kings 1.5 6. If it proceed not so far yet they are very ill bred for such persons as som-body says teach their children to be Gentlewomen before they teach them to be women to bridie their chins more than their tongues or pride and passions how to behave themselves in a Dance better than in Company how to wear fine cloaths than how to do vertuously thus they are put off being puft up with shew without substance But let us learn to teach children to whom much reverence is due by word and deed by doctrine and example if ever we expect they should prove dutiful to God and to us and of any use to others while they are in the World 1 Sam. 3.13 Tit. 2.4 5. Prov. 22.6 and 23.13 14. 13.24 19.18 22.15 16 He that keepeth Israel doth neither slumber nor sleep Psal 121.4 And how safely and quictly may they sleep for whom God is pleas'd to wake and watch Psal 4.8 3.5 Prov. 3.24 17 Will-worship and Will-suffering are both bad as is clear from Col. 2.23 1 Cor. 13.3 18 'T is no cure of Passion to delay it For that which Athenodorus prescrib'd to Augustus to repeat the Alphabet between passion and revenge is but boyish and slight as diverting the mind to a trifle which is only to couzen and not to conquer the distemper 'T is like the cure of Empericks which may allay not free a disease 't is best to pluck it up by the Roots and how that 's done see Gal. 4.24 19 They dispute best and are mos● like to prevail who use hard arguments and soft words Prov. 15.1 and 25.15 John 7.46 20 An hypocrite is one who seems to be what he is not and would not seem nor be seen to be what he is Matth. 23.25 28. 21 All men offend in many things James 3.2 and many men offend in all they do Gen. 6.5 22 If sinners be damned 't is just with God to damn them if they be saved 't is mercy from God Rom. 6.23 23 When the Law of God is written in our hearts to teach us our hearts will be in the Law of God to do it Psal 40.8 Heb. 8.10 11. 24 If it be thy custome to sin know that 't is Gods custome to punish sinners as Rom. 8.28 2 Thess 2.11 12. 25 He that hath God for him need not fear what any Man or Devil can do against him Rom. 8.31 26 We can call nothing properly our own but our sins for all things else we owe and should pay an acknowledgment to God yea even for our very miseries they being not only less than our iniquity deserves Ezra 9.13 but though of sins procuring are design'd by God not only to correct us for our evil but to instruct us for our good Heb. 12.10 and It greatly becomes us to bear and concerns us to hear the Rod Mic. 7.9 Mic. 6.9 for Prov. 3.11 12. Psal 94.12 27 Conscience Credit and Friendship are three of the most valuable things in the World but Conscience above any 2 Cor. 1.12 28 All Divine Writings viz. the Holy Scriptures contain more matter than words they have an infinite unsearchable depth of sense and meaning but many humane Writings have more words than matter 1 Tim. 1.4 Tit. 3.9 2 Tim. 3.15 16 17. 29 Persons intelligent and pious will not be apt to value any Discourse for witty that cannot please the Fancy without offending the Conscience nor ever think it a demonstration of a mans wit that he will adventure to be damned to be thought one as they do that abuse the Scripture and turn the Grace of God into Lasciviousness and are wanton if not profane though but in Jest Jude 4. Eph. 5.3 6. 30 Self-love will make us admire and magnifie any one that will admire and magnifie us Gal. 4.17 31 The best use we can make of others dissolutions is to prepare for our own and the death of others doth naturally mind us of our mortality which calls upon us to live well seeing we dye daily and may dye to day before to morrow and if this night our soul should be taken from us without Repentance we shall not only dye but perish Luke 13.3 32 As for such as aspire to posthume Glory 't is to be admired to see their ambition projecting beyond the Grave but themselves it may be stepping short of Heaven Oh what Fools are they how much soever applauded for Witts who attempt things they shall never see and provide torments they shall ever feel Luke 12.20 21. Psal 49.11 12 13. 'T will be cold satisfaction to have a name recorded and celebrated in any Book for Beauty Wit Valour Riches c. if it be blotted out of the Book of Life Exod. 32.33 Rev. 13.8 or were never written in it Rev. 20.15 33 They who will not do themselvs the right to practise Religion should not do Religion the wrong to profess it Psal 50.16 34 Affected hardness is usually followed and frequently punished with inflicted hardness The harder mens hearts are the more they sin and the more they sin the harder their hearts are Heb. 3.13 35 Religion is no Book-craft nor Paper-skill Man indeed may teach the Tongues but God only the things Man may teach the Grammar and Rhetorick but God teacheth the Divinity of revealed Truths Man may teach the ear but God only teacheth the heart 1 Cor. 3.7 Heb. 8.10 11. 35 We are to do all we do to glorifie God and to do it so that God may be glorified 1 Cor. 10.31 which is not by communicating any glory to him for that we cannot but by receiving his grace into us that it may animate and act us and thereby we be like him and please him For 'T is all one in Scripture Phrase to glorifie and to please God Father glorifie thy self John 12.28 and Father thy Will be done Matth. 26.39 36 Light foolish and idle talk hath nothing of weight in it unless it be that 't is a burthen to the hearers and such men do best at last viz. when they make an end of talking Eph. 4.29 Prov. 30.22 29.11 Eccles 10.12 15. Prov. 26.7 9. Eccl. 7.5 37 Time and leisure is not given to any man that he might do nothing or which is worse that they

many great men are at their service When David would have built the Temple saith God to the Prophet Go tell my servant David 2 Sam. 7.5 but when David had sinned in the matter of Vriah 't is only said the Lord sent Nathan unto David 2 Sam. 12.1 the Title of honour my servant is left out Our honour dies when we live in and unto sin God will not honour them with the Name of his servants who dishonour him by serving their own lusts Rom. 6.16 20. 38 'T is clear and evident that it cost the Apostles as much if not more pains to preserve them in the truth whom they had converted than it did to convert them at first as by their Epistles is apparent and it is in it self as great an instance of the power of God Psal 110.3 compared with 1 Pet. 1.5 As wicked men need conversion so converted ones need strengthening Luke 22.32 and to be exhorted not to be high minded but to fear Rom. 11.20 and to take heed least they fall 1 Cor. 10.12 39 'T was Sauls sad complaint 1 Sam. 28.15 I am sorely distressed for the Philistines make war against me and God is departed from me So dolefully and more will sinners one day cry out sickness sin death and devils are upon me and God hath forsaken me and I know not what to do Oh forsake not God by sinning least God forsake you for sinning against him and his wrath come upon you Eph. 5.6 40 When God saw all that he had done to be very good he entred into rest Gen. 2.2 so when we can see what we have done to be good and well done we may enter into the rest of a good Conscience here 2 Cor. 1.12 and shall enter into the Rest the Sabbatisme of glory hereafter Heb. 4.9 10. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest and labour so that rest may be the end of our labour Heb. 4.11 Rev. 14.13 41 Next to impenitency take heed of late repentance for though true repentance is never too late yet late repentance is seldome true and if true as it may be yet it must needs be very uncomfortable because a man hath sin'd as long as he could and cannot live longer to give proof of his repentance Prov. 27.1 42 Some mens repentance is very near as crazed and faulty as their sin they repent of sin but sinfully for their very repentance needs repenting of as is implied 2 Cor. 7.10 seeing it flows but from a worldly sorrow they would make us believe they feel great remorse and are inwardly much displeased with sin but as to amendment they shew us none As for that Repentance of old age it 's for the most part but accidental for they leave not sin but sin leaves them and a sick-bed Repentance is too often like 〈◊〉 man i. e. sickly and the recovery of the man to life hath many times proved his Repentance dead because he hath not walkt in newness of life but returned like the dog to his vomit c. 2 Pet. 2.32 43 If the form of Godliness without the power cannot go to heaven surely the power of ungodliness must needs go to hell 2 Tim. 3.5 Kom 1.18 44 There is but one way to heaven Joh. 14.6 Acts 4.12 but there are many ways to hell as many as there are sins and 't is all one to the Devil so we go to hell whether we go in the common road of Profaneness or in the seemingly pleasant walks of hypocrisie Matth. 24.51 with Luke 12.46 45 He that would have his affliction short or have ease under it should quickly and quietly submit to God for when we subscribe to his wisdom and submit to his will 't is as if and as much and better than if we had had our own wills Psal 39.9 46 Self-penance is will-worship and meer Epicurisme where pain is pleasant for as long as people impose it on themselves they do not deny their town will but fullfil it and while they beat down the body they do but ●pusse up the flesh Col. 2.20 23. 47 A seared conscience an hardned heart a being given up is a kind of fore-runner and earnest of yea as it were a sealing up of men to damnation for whereas the damned are in hell hell is in these and would any think madness or the dead Palsie to be best because such men feel nothing having lost their senses by their disease which is a greater punishment than any other it being that of loss Rom. 1.28 Eph. 4.18 19. 2 Thess 2.11 12. 1 Tim. 4.1 2. 48 There is a necessity of disproportion and disparity between me● and men for were all persons equal● the world could not consist Superierity and Inferiority are the Pillan thereof and therefore we are so ofter called upon to obey them that are over us and that not for wrath sake but for conscience Rom. 13.5 49 Man seems to be one of the weakest parts of the Creation for there 's searcely a creature by which he hath not been conquered A flie the kernel of a grape c. hath overcome Conquerours Mice Lice c. were too hard for the Aegyptians We need therefore pray as David Psal 39.4 and with Moses Psal 90.12 and to think of what is said James 4.14 for though we know that there is but one way of coming into theworld yet none knows how many ways there are of going out 50 'T is a known Maxime that a Negative makes nothing known for we know things by discovering not what they are not but what they are and therefore to give only negative Characters of Christians is not to describe them nor can they only make them known to themselves or others Hence throughout the Scripture the Negative and the Affirmative are for the most part joyn'd together Rom. 12.2 1 Pet. 1.14 15. Eph. 4.17 25. 51 God in Scripture compares his Church to an Espoused Wife and himself to an Husband yea to a Jealous Husband how careful then must they be who are married to such an husband to abstain not only from all pollution but from all suspicion of sin 2 Cor. 11.2 3. 52 There is a natural over-charitable affection in most men to their own ways Prov. 16.2 and 21.2 and which yet seems strange the worse they are the more men are inclin'd to favour them but the reason is because the worse they are the more they are their own for mens sins are not so much from the Devil as from themselves and though he may tempt yet 't is they that sin James 1.14 53 He that by Grace is as good as the best was by Nature as bad as the worst Eph. 2.2 3. 54 Before the coming of Christ the Father trusted the Son that he would make satisfaction and since the coming of Christ he trusts the Father that he shall have satisfaction in seeing the travel of his soul safely deliver'd Isa 53.11 55 A Woman may sooner be deliver'd of a Child

externals but how sad will it be to go as I may say religiously i. e. hearing and praying to Hell Ezek. 33.31 James 1.23 27. Matth. 7.21 22 23 26 27 28. 4 Take heed of doing that in with or for company for which thy heart may smite thee and thou must repent when thou art alone Exod. 23.2 1 Sam. 24.4 5 6. 5 They are sad joys and displeasing pleasures which a man must repent of or be damned for and such are all the pleasures of sin or sinful pleasures such as sin puts us upon or such as flow from sin 6 Endeavour to maintain such thoughts of grace and sin heaven and the world as you have or seem to have when you are at prayer then we seem to look on sin as ugly and odious and on the world as vanity and emptiness on grace and glory as the most desirable things but how little doth our conversation say of this while at prayer we seem to be fervent in spirit but when off it like water taken from the fire cold again 1 Chron. 29.18 7 A Christian should and will endeavour to use the world and sin as they used Christ that is to crucifie them Gal. 5.24 and 6.14 8 If the Law of the Members do oppress thee cry out as Paul did Rom. 7.24 and God will hear the cry of the oppressed Psal 9.9 9 God sometimes suffers others to be dis-ingenious towards us to correct our dis-ingenuity towards him sometime by them of our own bowels 2 Sam. 12.11 and rather than fail a dumb beast shall speak and rebuke mans madness 2 Pet. 2.16 10 All our grace is from God who is the God of all grace of all kinds and all degrees of grace the Author the Preserver and Finisher of it 1 Pet. 5.10 11 The vanity and unsatisfactoriness of the things of this world appears in this that a fancy an humour an ungrounded fear will rob us of all the comfort of it and what are all these things without the comfort of them and how many deprive themselves of much good for fear of losing it which is Nabal like to die for fear of dying 1 Sam. 25.37 Thus many kill themselves while they are alive for worldly sorrow is good for nothing but to work death 2 Cor. 7.10 12 It is as great a mercy to want that patiently which God denies as to use that cheerfully which God gives Job 2.10 13 When we believe we receive Christ into our selves John 1.12 for he dwelleth in our hearts by faith Eph. 3.17 and when we love we give up our selves to Christ 2 Cor. 8.5 Faith then worketh by love or as the Greek hath it is effectually wrought by love the receiving of Christ into our selves by faith is warrantis'd by love i. e. our giving up our selves to Christ 14 Gods measure is ever best so much health and no more so much wealth and no more is best for thee as God sees good for though we beg for daily bread 't is fit that God should be our Carver Prov. 30.8 15 It 's a great evidence of pride and passion when the want of one thing robs us of all the comfort we should take in the rest Gen. 30.1 beside inordinate affection will chuse for it self though on hard conditions and is often punisht with having it's will as Rachel was who no sooner had her wish viz. Children but two and she died 16 God orders all our afflictions for the quality of them what they shall be for the quantity how much and how great they shall be and for the duration how long they shall be Gen. 15.13 A stranger afflicted 400 years there 's all three 17 There is not more comfort from Gods giving us any thing we want than there is safety in waiting on God for the supply of our wants Lam. 3.25 26. and surely there 's no mercy that 's worth praying for but is worth waiting for and if the mercy shall be ours 't is sit the time should be Gods who doth all in the best time even in due time 1 Pet. 5 6. 18 A mercy granted may not be in love though it be the return of a prayer for God hath granted some their desire in wrath Psal 78.29 30 31. compared with Psal 106.15 19 If we have never so many and good means to bring about an end it 's God must bless them if but a sew means God can multiply them if they be contrary God can use them if there be none God can create them or work without them When Jehosaphat knew not what to do his eyes were to God who is never at a loss but always knows what to do and is never out of his way 20 There never was man but died or was changed as Enoch and Elijah and never shall be man but must die or be changed it hath been the end of most mens stories and he died and 't will be of all mens to die or to be changed 1 Cor. 15.51 Let us therefore prepare for death and wait all the dayes of our appointed time till our change shall for it must come Job 14.14 21 God hath further designes than men can reach we see not all at once the best enjoyments do often issue from the greatest disappointments so that we have cause to bless God for crossing us Gen. 50.20 22 'T is a great sign that the rod is in love when thou dost not only bear but hear the rod so as to learn the lesson of growing the better for being beaten Psal 94.12 'T was a pretty one of a little child when corrected Kiss me Mother and whip me again Oh when a rod begets love 't is an argument that 't is from love 23 We should sear none but God and be afraid of nothing but sin and blessed is he that so feareth always Prov. 28.14 24 There are many Cordials that God will not give to his children till they be faint or sick strong consolations are reserved for great tribulations 2 Cor. 1.4 5. 25 If we will take a true measure and make a right estimate of good or evil it must be as it relates to the soul Matth. 10.28 2 Cor. 4.16 c. 26 Man is Gods Creature sin is mans and misery is sins Man was Gods Image sin is mans image and misery is sins image 't is only by Christ Jesus that we are freed from misery sin and our selves and brought to God and his Image 1 Pet. 3.18 27 We live by many Deaths our Natural Spiritual and Eternal Life is by death Many Creatures are put to death to keep us alive yea Christ Jesus died that we might live and we our selves must die that we may live Oh how good is God to us who hath made not only the Creatures ours but Christ ours and in and by him death ours Who makes every thing the worst as well as the best to work together for good to them that love him Rom. 8.28 and though we are less than the least