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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89032	Good company being a collection of various, serious, pious meditations; Christian experiences, sayings, sentences; useful for instruction, consolation and confirmation. / By John Melvin, M.A. preacher of the word at Udimer in Sussex.	Melvin, John, M.A.	1659 (1659)	Wing M1656; Thomason E2124_1; ESTC R210169	44,421	139

of sin 91. Children must not be counted bills of changes for they are greater blessings then any outward thing else 92. Wo to those parents whose gain for their children is the loss of their own souls 93. Emptiness and poverty presseth hose most who once were full and rich 94. Great and good rich and holy are happy but rare conjunctions 95. To be extream poor or rich is one extream temptation 96. That man is rich in grace who is very poor but very holy 97. Temptations are greater and stronger upon the full and rich then the poor and empty 98. God never gives any thing evill in it self to those who are good nor the chief good to those chat are evill 99. There 's fire in all estates ill gotten which at last will consume them 100. The time we spend in spirituall duties is the time gained for secular therefore to turn poor if thou turn godly fear not CENTURY 8. 1. MUtual agreement amongst children is a comfortable blessing to parents 2. Nothing more uncomely and unnaturall as rents divisions and brawlings in a family 3. Prodigality of time is the worst and most dangerous prodigality 4. Faith is a glutinous monopolizing grace possessing Christ and by a close application making him wholly the soul's 5. The faithfull soul takes sure hold of Christ in the time of darkness and temptation 6. Christ lodged in the heart is as a bundle of myrrhe sweet and bitter at once preserving joy and trembling together 7. If thy heart swell too high and grow proud taste and chaw the bitter plant of Christ's death and it will break the imposthume 8. If thy heart fail thee in any conditon smell at the sweetnes of Christ and he will transmit life and comfort 9. The virtue of Christ's death never dieth but floweth down to ail ages for ever 10. God hath appointed that where the crosse is there also is the cordiall against it 11. Divine love is the caus of divine beauty and rejoyceth in it's own work 12. The beauty of the soul is the holiness of it being God's Image 13. Christ hath the truth and essence of beauty whereas earthly things have it only in estimation 14. The unquiet brains of men tossed with opinions rest in the scripture as in a bed 15. Our sins are thorns and so are temptations to sin and afflictions for sin 16. Heresies and schisms are worser then the sharpest stings and thorns to the Church 17. Women lose their good name not onely by keeping ill company but by keeping none 18. As weary travellers seek cool arbours and delight in them so doth the weary soul after and in Christ 19. Some men carry a thin shaddow of piety and zeal but no more 20. It 's neither losse nor dishonour to be vanquished in the field where Christ is General for at last we shall be conquerors 21. A holy soul is sick and weary and lives not in her self but in Christ in whom her life is hid 22. They are happy beyond expression who are transfixed with the wounds of Christ's love 23. It 's no waies befitting Christians to lye down and stretch themselves in sinfull pleasures 24. It 's our duty comfort to draw near to Christ in affection and conversation 25. Holy practise makes grace visible and brings out from the heart to the life 26. A parent may put money in a childs purse but he cannot put grace in his heart 27. Prayer which requires a holy heart many times makes a holy heart 28. None can come at the spirit of another but the Spirit of God 29. Moderate refreshing and recreation may well become holy men 30. The care of parents ought to live as long as they and their children live together 31. Children when grown in years must not think they have out-grown obedience and honour to their parents 32. The speciall care of a holy father is for the soul of his child 33. Such parents whose care is onely to make their children great not good in this world are themselves the Devils children 34. Grace is very attractive it desires to draw others into fellowship 35. He that doth ill by thy advice the ill shall be reckoned unto thee 36. All holy duties call upon us all for a holy preparation 37. It 's seldome the duty sanctifies us unless we be sanctified for the duty 38. It 's very bad to make a preparation and then to put off or neglect the duty 39. It 's God's due and our duty to give God the morning the first and best part of the day 40. As the morning is a friend to the Muses so to the Graces it being the best praying time 41. It 's not safe to let sin lie upon our consciences unrepented 42. He that hath guilt upon his soul hath a fire in his soul 43. Prayer is a lifting up of the soul and elevation of the spirit unto God 44. By distinguishing the times many Scrptures are made to agree 45. He that sacrificed offered up a beast but he that obeyeth offereth up himself 46. God in the Sacrament sees the death of his Son and that satisfies him and man sees the death of his Saviour and that justifies him 47 Actings of faith powering out of prayer makes Sacraments effectuall to man acceptable to God 48. Christ was ever and is and shall be the only remedy and cure of sin 49. Every one is saved by particular actings of his own faith and therefore every soul must believe for it selfe 50. We cannot converse in this uncleane and dirty world but some uncleanness will fasten upon us 51. To be without grosse sin is our holiness on earth to be without any sin is the holinesse of heaven 52. A good heart turns suspicious of others sinning into intercession that they may be pardoned not in accusations that they may be defamed 53. He that repents of those sins which he only fears he hath committed shall be sure to repent of those he doth commit 54. It 's too easie a matter to sin about holy things lawfull things often being the occasion of unlawfull 55. For a man to blesse God in his sin is a very high strain of wickednesse 56. Every sin is a turning from God but few sins are a farewell to God 57. The heart is to be kept with all manner of keeping for sinfull thoughts are dangerous sins 58. The heart of man is so wicked as to sin over one sin a thousand times 59. Renewed sin require renewed repentance and we must give over repenting when wee have don sining 60. That which men do out of conscience they will do it out of peresverance for nature may have good moods but grace is steady 61. Usually where God gives much grace he tries grace much 62. All things in heaven and earth are disposed by the unerring wisdom and limited by the Almighty power of God 63. Sleep is a short death and death is a long sleep 64. It should be the voice of every soul

Ministry of the Word for it is accompanied with the internal power of the Spirit 82. Let not thy affections rove and the world or Divel can do thee no hurt 83. He that suppresseth sin at the first motion shall assuredly find comfort 84. If we mean to come to heaven we must not live in any known sin for it wasts grace 85. A Christian must mend his pace every day that grace may shine more and more to the perfect day 86. Every poor map is not a blessed man except his bodily poverty bring him to spiritual poverty 87. He that hath spiritual comforts hath them cheap if they cost him many a tear 88. The heart is never so chearful as when it powrs out it self in tears and sighs to God 89. Spiritual mourning secures the soul from hell-mourning 90. The way to divert too much bleeding is to open a vein and the onely way to stop unseasonable grief Is to turn our tears against our sins 91. All worldly sorrow must be sorrowed against but sorrow for sin is a sorrow never to be repented of 92. The adventure and the return of the stock of Praier is most certain to increase more and more 93. God forfeits not his Word but we our Praiers when we seek things which crosse God's nature or will or are hurtfull or not necessary in themselves 94. He that knocks at heavens door onely in death deservs to have the door knockt against his head 95. He that would speed in temporal things must first seek spiritual 96. He that desires to speed in praier must go to God with a knowledg and sense of his own insufficiency to succour himself 97. Cold praiers have cold answers for how should God hear us when we hear not our selves 98. They must look to be denied in their praiers who deny Christ in his members 99. The forgetfulnesse of received mercies makes God to forget us 100. He that will be sure to have his praiers heard must make a trade of praier being constant in it CENTURY 6. 1. WE must lay our hand on the plow and then pray that our endeavours may second our devotion 2. To ask grace and not to use the meant is to knock at heavens gate and pull it to us that it do not open 3. He that saies Lord forgive me my sins without a desire to leave them cannot be heard except God forfeit his Word 4. Things inconvenient and unnecessary are profitably denied us 5. If heavenly things were soon obtained they would be soon forgotten 6. He that puts in his petition at one door may willingly go about to another door to have an answer so let God appoint the way and means and deliverance shall be the more speedy 7. Nothing more humbls the child of God then to be buffeted with base temptations 8. When God laies a plaister to our wound we cry take it off when by holding it on the cure is done 9. He hath not lost his praiers but is doubly paid who with the crosses of the world hath his heart driven off from the world 10. He that hath most grace bath most work to do and greatest trials to buckle with 11. He that lets himself loose to any gross sin shall be sure to find it in his praier 12. Some are as unfit to pray as ever David was to march in Saul's armor 13. The bringing forth of a right praier is in a manner like the bringing forth of a child with many throws yet when the child is born there is joy 14. He that sees not the print of his imperfections is neither humble patient nor pitiful not knowing himself brother or God 15. A Verbal confession of frailty without humility mercy and use of the means is meer hypocrisie 16. Man's body in the grace is free from pain but not dishonor 17. Uprightnesse may stand with imperfection beauty with deformity some light some darknesse in the best 18. Our infirmities should be matter of humiliation not desperation 19. He that studies not to know himself will soon grow proud 20. Though the glory of a Saint be not obvious to every eye yet they have an excellencie in them in the midst of all deformities 21. He that see 's not a true Christian to be a glorious creature hath but a fleshly eye 22. It neither comes from good nor works any good to delight in speaking and hearing other men's enormities 23. Some people come to the means at first as children to the School very eagerly but afterward very hardly drawn to it at all 24 No company or comfort should put off the thoughts of death 25. Death will be very terrible to that man who dies not in his thoughts daily 26. It 's an easie matter to speak of death but to bring it home to the heart is very hard 27. Sin unrepented will bring a sting in the time of death filling the heart with sorrow the soul with amazement the conscience with horror 28. Our eies should be casements to let in fresh air not corruption 29. He that laies much upon natures back will break it and he that trusts to natural parts shall be disappointed 30. All carnal pleasures and delights are but poison if grace in the heart be not an antidote 31. Peace of conscience makes a man rejoice in sorrow and live in death 32. He that sees his own wants and weaknesse will often desire to communicate 33. An hypocrite shews sometimes a greater measure of profession then a Christian but is like corn on the house tops that quickly grows and is quickly down 34. All the hands and hearts on earth will do no good upon a resolute sinner 35. A child of God coming to Christ's Table eats judgment to avoid condemnation 36. He that would profit by heavenly mysteries must be knit to them not by the brain but by affection 37. Christ's prepared medicines minister no comfort unlesse applied to our soul 38. We cannot have Christs benefits unlesse we have himself 39. The signs seal no grace to the soul where there is no faith 40. We are very sensible of bodily hunger but soul hunger is hardly felt 41. He that will not be broken from sin shall have no portion in Christ's body broken 42. Gentlemen-like qualities pride pleasure intemperance bring souls apace to hell 43. He that makes a divorce betwixt his soul and corruption is in the state of grace 44. 'T is no presumption but duty to judge by our calling of our election 45. To know there is a Christ and not our interest in him is rather a punishment then a comfort 46. Faith and hope may be distinguished but not separated for faith hath ever hope 47. A fearful doubting soul lives vext in the suburbs of of hell 48. A weak and dumb evidence may be true as the strongest 49. As grace and glory so sin and shame go alwaies together 50. The more sanctified affliction on earth the more weight of glory in heaven 51. It 's all

one to Christ thy surety to pay thy great debts as thy small ones 52. Upon whom God bestows much cost there he looks for some answerable fruits 53. Sin may draw down judgment on a godly man but it shall not rest on him 54. The Church hath evermore received more hurt by discord then open enemies 55. In all diseases take away the proud and dead flesh and the plaister will fall off 56. When the fuel of sin is taken away Gods fiery wrath ceaseth 57. Saints by their great falls lose their communion but not their union with God 58. Of all burthens the absence of God's favour is most intollerable 59. Except healing and pardoning mercy go together man hath no comfort and God no glory 60. It 's very ill when small temptations makes us question the truth of God's promises 61. It 's sad to see carnal men contriving other waies of coming to Christ then ever he ordained or revealed 62. We must go to the promises for enlargement to duty our service requiring no portion but meer poverty and emptinesse 63. He that is content Christ should take all from him and dispose altogether of him hath a holy frame of heart 64. It 's Satan's policy either to let us see no sin or nothing but sin 65. Never any saved but rebells nor received mercy but such as opposed mercy 66. No Scripture saith the greatnesse of man's sin hinders the greatnesse of God's mercy 67. It 's not properly some men's unworthinesse but their pride which hinders them from Christ desiring something in themselves and not to have all from him 68. There 's no limitation of the riches of God's free grace but onely in the sin against the Holy Ghost 69. God shews mercy not because wee please him but because mercy pleaseth him 70. Whatsoever sight of sin unfits a man for mercy that sight is sinful 71. He that depends upon the power and mercy of God in his Ordinances shall find proportionable succour and success 72. When all means fail let the soul look up to God and out from it self being the fittest time to meet God and disappoint Satan 73. As a tree may want leaves and fruit not wanting sap or moisture so a Christian may want sense and feeling when there is faith 74. Sometimes some mens souls are like sullen children refusing their meat because they have not what they would 75. It 's a bad custome some men have never to be well but when judging rashly of their eternal being 76. Some men in hearing study how to find answers to put by their comforts 77. He ●hat listens to carnal pleas sins deeply and wounds his soul dangerously 78. He that enters the lists with Satan concerning God's Decrees will be carried into a wood where no body comes and no comfort to be had 79. We must not measure the riches of God's love nor sweetnesse of his grace by our own conceits 80. In self-judging observe the good as well as the bad and do not lie at the catch with thine own soul to take it at the worst 81. There 's a great deal of evil in that self-willed proud heart who hath all his objections answered yet renews them afresh 82. It 's a sin to reject mercy when God offers it as to kill a man which he hath forbidden 83. It 's better crosse our own humors then crosse God's Spirit 84. Stubborn peevish souls if saved in the end yet they are as it were in hell upon earth 85. Let souls hold to the Word in their dispute with Satan and he will be weary and go away 86. Look from one end of the heavens to the other and see if ever any man leaning upon God was disappointed 87. A soul leavs all other things for that which is chief with the soul 88. Faith gives a kind of being to whatsoever we do or speak 89. We must not think to bring any good to the promises but go to them for all good 90. We must not look for sanctification till we come to the Lord in vocation 91. O precious faith which brings all goodnesse with it grace here happinesse hereafter 92. There would be a sweet mutual peace in God's holy mountain if every one kept in his own limits knowing his duty 93. It 's an eminent and infallible mark of regeneration to have the violence and fierceness of our nature taken away 94. He that refuseth works of mercy to those in need is a murtherer 95. The doctrine of Christ is preached to many but the power thereof extended but to few 96. That man is holy and harmlesse who when opportunity of doing evill is offered can abstain 97. It 's a blessed thing when we are provok'd to forbear to revenge our selves 98. It 's a sign of a woful state when our tongues flie out in words and our hearts are set on mischief in small matters 99 No man can love a saint as a saint but a saint 100. Religion and Rebellion are inconsistent CENTURY 7. 1 NO man is turned unto God but he loves the society he formerly hated 2. It 's dangerous too much to admire fleshly excellency for those gifts of goodness which are in the same 3. As there is a cruell justice many times so there may be a cruel mercy 4. A heart set upon chafing brawling and raging is void of comfort 5. He may be assured of the remission of sin who is released from the bondage of sin 6. No sin so small but there 's an enmity against God in it and a dishonour to God 7. He that would make all comfort sure to himself let him make this sure first that his sins are forgiven him 8. The onely way to quiet our hearts is to hearken what God saies 9. All God's children must be plowed and have the clods of their corruption broken 10. Misery to the righteous is as a sojourner but it rests on the back of the wicked man 11. The means time and measure of afflictions is of God's own appointment 12. The wounds of a friend with holy reproof are precious but his wounds by sinful counsel are pernicious 13. There 's another life besides the natural life and the root of it is Christ our life 14. That nothing can suffice man coms from a divine instinct to make him seek out another life wherein consists happinesse 15. He that finds such an antipathy betwixt his spirit and sin as betwixt him and poison hath true grace in his heart 16. We must hate the conversations of such who hinder us in the growth of spiritual life 17. As without shedding of blood no forgivenesse of sin so without the Spirit sealing the promises to our souls we have no comfort 18. Christ is the fountain of spiritual life but faith is the pipe conveying it to us 19. Better for us to sleep in a house full of Adders and Serpents then in a state of sin 20. Happy practice when with the day we clear the sins of the day fitting