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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07678	A godlie mans guide to happinesse A manuell of necessary motiues, holy meditations, and godly prayers, to stirre vp the hearts of men vnapt to pray. To the great comfort of all, that with due and holy attention will practise this most godly and Christian dutie. Written for his owne, and published for the comfort of them that long for trv[e] happinesse. by I.N.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1624 (1624)	STC 18608; ESTC S100057	58,821	306

eye Lord hold vs euer vnder the shadowe of thy wings from them that seeke to oppresse vs For by thee alone Lord shall wee bee able to breake through an hoste of enemies And though we seeme by reason of the number of our aduersaries to walke as it were thorow the valley of the shadow of death yet will we not feare them for thou art with vs a strong rocke and a house of defence to saue vs. Thou redeemest the soules of thy seruants for when we were euen ready to be swallowed vp with a mercilesse multitude thou by the powre of thy strength didst deliuer vs. To thee be praise and glory for euer Amen Lord increase our faith in thee for euermore A necessary motiue to stirre vs vp to a holy desire to resort to the Temple of God to pray vnto him with the Congregation and to heare his word the knowledge and practise wherof is truest happinesse and he that is ignorant or negligent of this holy dutie bee he neuer so carnally wise or worldly glorious is a most vnhappy man WHat difference doth christian experience find between a carnall worldling and a man truely fearing God It can hardly be answered to the vnderstanding of the meere naturall man that hath as many desires as are pleasing delights offered to his senses and euery sense as many delights as the heart hath fantasies which are not to bee numbred and the fulnesse of euery delight esteemed a kinde of happinesse yet if each sense had as many pleasures as it could entertaine the desire were not satisfied And if all the senses had what they couet●d were it not a heauy burthen to the heart which ingrosseth them all And yet the more it apprehendeth the more desire increaseth for the eye is neuer satisfied with seeing nor the eare with hearing things of delight And thus with all the senses and yet but one thing necessarie This one thing Mary the sister of Martha made choyce of the hearing Christ preach a thing most needfull approued by Christ and that Mary ●n hearing Christ chose the best part which neuer could be taken from her Dauid desired this one thing namely That hee might dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of his life onely that hee might pray to God with the Congregation and heare God speake vnto him by the Prophets and men of God whom whosoeuer heareth attentiuely and profitably heareth God himselfe which is a sure token that he is of God For hee that is of God heareth Gods word The hearing of God speake vnto vs in his familiar word is the sweetest Musicke that the eare of the heart of a spirituall man can heare and acceptable also to God himselfe Jf yee will heare my voyce indeed saith God and keepe my Couenant then shall yee bee my chiefe treasure aboue all people Is not this chiefest happinesse to bee accepted of God as h●s onely Treasure No maruell then that Dauid d●sired onely this one thing a farre better request then Bathsheba his wise the mother of Salomon desired of her son which hee promised her to graunt but performed it not But Dauid the father of Salomon desired this one thing the thing most needefull of a King greater then Salomon and a matter of farre more moment then was Bathshebaes yet she was reiected and his request accepted Both their desires seemed to proceed of loue yet the one procured hatred and death the other life and happinesse Shee made her request to man in whome to put confidence is vaine The other in God the Holy one of Jsrael who is truth it selfe and neuer deceiueth But Dauids petition might seeme strange being a King to desire to dwell better then in a Kings palace where hee might sport at his pleasure take what delights hee would hauing a Kingdome to supply whatsoeuer hee desired But in these delights he found not the happinesse hee sought for it consisted in his loue to God and Gods fauour towardes him and therefore desired rather to bee one day in his Courts then a thousand in the Court of Saul or in his owne Court among his gallant Courtiers nay hee would choose rather to bee a Doore-keeper in the House of God then to command an earthly kingdome It is in d●ede a glorious thing to bee a King but that glory hath no long continuance many discontents distractions accompany worldly greatnesse But the glory that Dauid desired though seeming base was such as commonly greatest men desire last and least and yet desire as Balaam did To dye the death of the righteous seldome yet remembred but practise not the life of the righteous Yet fewe or none doubtlesse are so irreligious or barbarous in shew but they will loo●e into the House of God peraduenture once it may bee twice in a Sabbath and peraduenture thinke it long they would bee loath to spare their pleasures delights and vanities to liue a whole day in hearing God speake vnto them and praying vnto God nay but one required houre but to liue all the dayes of their liues as Anna did and as Dauid desired in the Temple of God they would thin● it as hard as taske as the bondage of Egypt or the captiuitie of Babylon But th●re are no doubt diuers and some as high in Office as Dauid that haue both Dauids desire and are comfortably conuer●a●t in the House of God and doe finde that in his presence is the fulnesse of ioy and happinesse This is that chiefe happinesse and delight that great men should desire and ayme at to the ende they might be examples vnto their inferiors going before them in well doing especially in Gods seruice For it is commonly found by experience that example doeth more good or euill then documents or dehortations The godly and religious life of a great man is as a towre seene a farre off And many especially his fol●owers will indeuour to immitate his steppes at least in shew and euen that shew of a godly life is a good motiue to others to liue godly in deed and as a good lif● giues comfort and incouragement to othe●s to bee good So the president of euill makes many euill If greatnesse and goodnesse goe together it is the sweetest harmonie that man can make in this life And the contrarie as h●●sh and hellish This holy desire of Dauid was not for a day for hee speakes of the time past J desired which implyes a continuall inward petition So our desire of well doing should not be but for a moment and then vanish like Ionahs Gourd that quickly grew vp and suddenly withered and like the seede sowne in stonie ground we must be constant heires and humble petitioners not wauering like waues but as we once desire to heare and practise we must continue therein with a godly and religious perseuerance still desirous according to oportunity to visite Gods Church not yet to thinke that there is no place to serue God in but the materiall Temple but