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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27153	The journal or diary of a thankful Christian presented in some meditations upon Numb. 33:2 / by J.B., Master of Arts, and Minister of the Gospel at Barnstone in Essex.	Beadle, John, d. 1667.; Fuller, John, b. 1640 or 41.	1656 (1656)	Wing B1557; ESTC R20752	111,367	248

Aegypt so we at the administration of the other might remember Christ by whom we are saved from our enemies and from the hands of all that hate us This Supper is not onely a representing a sealing and a conveying signe but a commemorative signe Do this in remembrance of me saith Christ There is no Gospell-ordinance whether prayer reading or hearing of the Word but there is such mention made of Christ as we ought to remember him But this ordinance of the Supper hath this signall note of excellency stamped upon it above all a speciall charge from Christ to remember him when that is administred Do this in remembrance of me for as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye shew that is ye make a commenoration of the Lords death till he come Sometimes that we may come to the subject matter intended God appointed Records and Registers of his mercies Histories and Journalls of the noble acts and loving kindnesses of the Lord to his people to be kept and conveyed to posterity that the generations to come might know them even the children that should be born who should arise and declare them to their children Thus the Lord commanded that the History of Amalek should be written in a Book their malice and Gods mercy their war and overthrow and it must be rehearsed to posterity that it might never be forgotten What this Book was we shall not much enquire Some say it was the Book of Jasher mentioned Josh chap. 10. which was a Chronicle of the acts of the people of the Lord which is lost Some say it was the Book of the Judges Some say it was a Book of the Battails of the Lord mentioned Numb 21. 14. Others and that most probably that it was no other but this Book of Exodus Junius and Calvin But why this History must be written in a Book is more worthy of our inquiry and more sutable to our purpose And the reasons may be these two 1. That a thankfull remembrance of so great a deliverance from so malicious an enemy might be continued in the generations following 2. That the people of God knowing what sentence was denounced against Amalek which should be executed in due time as it was in the Reign of Saul might be the better encouraged to fight against them and through faith expect the victory over them And thus in this Chapter God would have the Journals of the people of Israel from Aegypt to the Land of Canaan recorded that the great things God had done for them by the way might not be forgotten for so it is said in the Text. Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandement of the Lord. In this Chapter two parts are observable 1. An Israelitish Journall is recorded from vers 1 to v. 50. 2. A direction is given them concerning their proceedings in and with the Land of Canaan Which is threefold 1. That they should cast out the inhabitants v. 52 53. 2. That they should destroy their idols v. 52. 3. That they should divide the Land amongst them by lot v. 54. The two former whereof are seconded with a most sharp threatning that if they did not punctually observe Gods command therein 1. For the present that people should prove a continuall snare unto them 2. For the future what God had intended to these their enemies should fall upon their own heads all this to the end of the ch In the Israelitish Journall two things are to be considered 1. The duty is in generall propounded v. 1 2. 2. You have an Historicall enumeration of their severall Journeys in v. 2. In which three things are to be noted 1. The matter that stands upon record and that is their journeys according to their goings out 2. The Scribe that recorded them and that was Moses Moses wrote c. 3. The authority by which he did it and that was the commandement of the Lord he had very good warrant for what he did The first of these namely the matter that stands upon record their journeys is that which I shall principally take notice of In which Journall this is observable That there is not onely a particular relation of the place from which and the place to which they journeyed as from Rameses to Succoth c. but also a singular mention is made of all the great passages of Gods good hand of providence over them together with their murmurings and rebellions by which they provoked him All which are in this ch implyed and some particulars are expressed as you may finde v. 9 14 38 40. This ch being but a short Epitome or abridgement of the whole History So that in the Israelitish Journall you shall finde how here God gave them bread from heaven there water out of the rock in one place he delivered them from the violence of the mighty waters in another from the fury of their potent enemies Now he saved them from the cruelty of the Aegyptians at another time from the malice of the Amalekites and soon after from the sting of the fiery Serpents To day he gives them Manna and Quails good food for their hungry bodies to morrow he delivers them his Law with many divine ordinances and statutes for the good of their souls In all their goings out he afforded them plentifull pledges of his care of them bounty to them and patience towards them Who notwithstanding the many grievous sins by which they provoked him being full of compassion forgave their iniquities and destroyed them not yea many a time he turned away his anger and did not stir up all his wrath for he remembred that they were but flesh c. By this time we are come to the Observation that is intended and may hence be collected and that is this To keep a Journall or Diary by us especially of all Gods gracious dealings with us is a work for a Christian of singular use I say of Gods gracious dealings with us in a more especiall manner because it is good also to observe and keep a good account of the severall occurrences of the Times we meet with as they have reference to the Countrey and Nation we live in It is good to keep an History a Register a Diary an Annales not onely of the places in which we have lived but of the mercies that have been bestowed on us continued to us all our dayes This was the practice of David the Servant of the Lord who made a Psalm and Song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul Moses writes his Book called Deuteronomy which is nothing else but a repetition of the Journeys of the people of Israel and the great things God had done for them in their goings out to that day There was scarce any thing in Israel but was typicall their Meats their Drinks their Mann● their water out of

condition is sometimes the safest Iob on the dunghill speeds better then Adam in Paradise David with his sling and his stone hath better successe against Goliah then he could have expected in Saul's brave armour which he had not proved And I am sure a poor man on foot may get to heaven as soon as the rich on horseback God grant I may go to heaven on foot saith good Mr. Welsh when he saw the Bishop of London ride in all state to the Court I have seen a great Lord in his Coach drawn with six horses stayed at the turning of a street either by a Carman or a Colliar when many a poor man on foot hath slips by and got safe home We are apt to think those men that have most wealth are of best worth and we usually call them the best men of the Parish and our betters Like ignorant people that judge those Luminaries of heaven as the Sun and Moon to be the greatest because the lowest when stellae prime magnitudinis seem lesse but are not because higher The things of this world are such as commonly the best want them and the worst have them and they are often reserved for their owners to their hurt Dantur bonis ne videantur mala dantur malis ne videantur summa bona They are sometimes given to good men lest they should seem evil sometimes to wicked men left they should seem the chiefest good things Some have lost their fingers for their gold rings some their lives for their purses others their souls for their mammon Many Papists in the Parisian Massacre were butchered with the Protestants for their wealth which made them Naboth's vineyard was his greatest ●aul● not blasphemy against God and the King It was his land that cost him his life Sir Iohn Cornwall Lord Fanhope at his death d●rst say that not himselfe but his brave house at Ampthel was guilty of treason So●in told Croesus when he shewed him his great ●reasure of gold If your enemies Iron be better then yours he will carry away all your gold and so it fell out afterward Silver and gold I have none saith Peter to the ●ame man All these things will I give thee faith the Devil to Christ If these things were so very good as the world judgeth them to be Peter should not have wanted them nor would the Devil ever have offered them In sublimitate metus in mediocritate quiet A mean condition hath safety when high places are full of fears The poor of the Land of Judea are spared by Nebuchad-●ezzar and left behinde to till the land when Zedekiah the King had his eyes put out his Princes slain with the sword and the wealthy carried into captivity Medio●ria firma a middle estate betwixt poverty and riches food convenient for us which the Wi●e man prayed for is the more secure when excesse hath danger Which made Scipio Africanus say when he was required to joyn with the Priest who prayed for more encrease to the Romane State No our State is rich enough I will rather pray the gods to keep and continue what we have How many when they have found the● blood too rank have been at the char● with a Chirurgeon to let some out However God deal with you whether he give you more or lesse it will be your wisdome to hold these three conclusion● Fast 1. Conclude that if God did see you 〈◊〉 to use more he could and would afford more Are you straightned in outwar● comforts It is not because there is an● want in God the want is rather in you● selves So much God told David by N●than the Prophet I anointed thee to be Ki●● over Israel and delivered thee from the hand 〈◊〉 Saul and I gave thee thy Masters house and 〈◊〉 Masters wives into thy bosome and gave thee 〈◊〉 house of Israel and Judah and if that had bee● too little I would moreover have given thee 〈◊〉 and such things He saith to every childe of his as Ephron the Hittite said to Abraha● when he came to buy the field and the ca●● in Machpelah to bury his dead in The lan● is worth 400 shekels but what is that betwi● thee and me What are riches and honour and peace and liberty They are indeed o● great value but they are little betwixt yo● and me who am a great God and have given you my Son and can there be any limits in that love any bounds or bottom● in that bounty I am a great God and can do more for you then you can ask or think and that exceeding abundantly When one and he a poor man asked Alexander a penny he told him it was too little for him to give whereupon he asked a talent he then told him it was too much for him to beg But of God we may say he loves to give above our petitions yea our thoughts and that very bountifully Jacob confessed so much to ●oseph I had not thought to have seen thy face and loe God hath shewed me also thy ●eed 2. Conclude that it is a rich mercy when your mindes are conformable to your means and should your means come up to your mindes it might be a misery In every estate to be content requires not an ordinary measure of grace St. Paul attained to it but he had learned so to do It is an hard lesson we had need to take out that lesson betimes Yea it is hard to learn to be contented to be full and to abound for commonly they that have most are the most discontented persons and the more they have the more they would have He that loveth silver saith Solomon shall not be satisfied with silver and he that loveth abundance with encrease Whence one told Alexander that had he the Eastern Empire in one hand and the Western in another he would not be contented Whereas on the other side Diogenes the Cynicke housed in his tub and making even with his victuals and the day together being invited to a great feast could say I had rather lick salt at Athens then feast with Craterus It is ●●ported of one of the old Philosophen that when he saw a Prince going by with the greatest pomp and state that might be he said to some about him See how many things I have no need of He that hath food and rayment and is therewith content may say with Cato as Aulus Gelli● reports of him Si quid est quo utar ●to● si non scio quis sum mihi vitio vertunt qui● multis egeo ego illis quia nequeunt egere I have neither house nor plate nor garments of price in my hands what I have I can use if not I can want it Some blame me because I want many things and I blame them because they cannot want And it is not strange that herein a Heathen should go beyond a Christian 3. Conclude that God hath many wayes to throw