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A64283	Nathanael, or, An Israelite indeed lively portraied, and evidently proved to be an object most worthy both of our admiration and imitation, his priviledges and characters are also layd down : together with a discovery of the sinfulness and miserie of all hypocrites and strangers from the common-wealth of Israel / by Faithfull Teate ...	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1657 (1657)	Wing T613; ESTC R41538	79,460	204

who are so far transported with rage that in way of private revenge they commit the horrid sin of murther as Joab slew Amasa and Abner men more righteous then himselfe All these I say are farre from Jacobs spirit and consequently are none of his spirituall seed Sect. 9 Instance 12 12. Israel is a worthy pattern to all in oeconomical and family duties 1. He was a dutifull child to his parents he obeyed his father and mother his father when he was decrepi● by reason of old age and his mothe● though the weaker sex Genes 28.7 and for this among other his vertues his father blessed him and his mother loved him intirely Yea God also blessed him who hath made many great promises to all obedient children Eph. 6.1 2 3. Children saith the Apostle obey your parents in the Lord for this is right Honour thy father and mother which is the first commandement with promise that it may be well with thee and thou mayest live long on the Earth whereas God hath denounced grievous threats against stubborn and unruly children Pro 30.17 The eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother the ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young eagles shall eat it the meaning is In cruce Corvos pascere Horat. he shall come to a shamefull end as the common proverb importeth 2. When Jacob was grown up to be marriageable he was not Esau-like his owne carver to choose where he lusted but submitted himself to be disposed o● in wedlock as his father and mother ●hought good Genes 28.1.2 Thou ●halt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan said his father Isaac to him Arise go to Padan Aram and ●ake thee a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mothers brother and he did so Add to this the testimony of St Paul 1. Cor. 7.38 where he saith the father is to give his virgin in marriage 3. Iacob was a diligent and faithfull servant twenty yeares together to Laban a fraudulent and churlish master as he pleadeth with him for himselfe at their parting Genes 31.38 I have beene with thee 20. yeares they ewes and thy shee goats have not cast their young and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten that which was torne of beasts I brought not unto thee I bare the losse of all that was stolen whether by day or night In the day the drought consumed me and the frost by night and my sleep departed from mine eyes v. 40. And he appealeth to the knowledge of Rachel and Leah Laban's daughters to whom he thus spake Genes 31.6 ye know that with all my power I have served your father With this precedent agreeth the Apostolicall precept Servants be subject to your masters with all feare not onely to the good and gentle but also to the froward 1. Pet. 2.18 not with eye-service as men pleasers but in singleness of heart fearing God and whatsoever ye do do it heartily as unto the Lord and not unto men knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance for ye serve the Lord Christ Coloss 3.22.23 This may let all idle false purloyning servant who like Onesimus before his conversions do their masters harme instead of good or who Ziba-like slander deceive those who retained and do maintaine them for better ends to know that they feare not God nor be the servants of Iesus Christ yet will he pay them their wages even the wages of sin eternal death unless with Onesimus they repent 4. He reformed and cleansed his household and all that were with him and brought them to the publike place of Gods worship Gen. 35.2 Bethel As David went with his traine to the house of God Psal 42.4 and Joshuah professed as for me and mine house we will serve the Lord Josh 24.15 But how many may be found in our times who absent themselves from the assemblies of God Saints Hebr. 10.25 even upon the Lords dayes though no necessary impediment either of sickness or other justifiable cause detaine them or if they come yet their children or servants are left to themselves to goe whither they will and to do what they please contrary to the expresse commandement of God which requires all masters with their children and servants and all within their gates to sanctifie the sabbath 5. He taught them before they came how to prepare themselves charging them to cleanse themselves and to change their garments Genes 35.2 that they might come with reverence into so great a presence for holiness becometh thine house O Lord for ever Psal 93.5 So the preacher instructeth us to keep our feet when we go to the house of God and be more ready to heare than to give the sacrifice of fooles Eccl. 5.1 whereas many consider not that they do evil when they lend God their bodily presence in his courts though they lay not aside malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envies and evill speakings as God commands 1 Pet. 2.1 and that is the reason why many joyne with others in praying and hearing and it profits them not neither are they accepted with God as Cain offered up sacrifice as well as Abel but God had respect to Abel and his sacrifice but to Cain and his sacrifice he had no respect Genes 4.4 5. 6. Among other sins Iacobs care was that they should put away their idols Genes 35.2 put away saith he the strange Gods that are among you and they gave unto him all the strange Gods which were in their hands and all their ear-rings which were in their eares and he hid them under an oake that they might never be found againe v. 4. In like sort the Lord enjoyneth his people to abolish all the reliques of idolatry Deut. 7.25 26. The graven images of their Gods shall ye burn with fire thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them nor take it unto thee lest thou be snared therein for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thy house lest thou be a cursed thing like it but thou shalt utterly detest it and thou shalt utterly abhor it for it is a cursed thing O that this most strict charge were well regarded by all even such as are called protestants then would they quickly remove out of their houses and closets all popish pictures of Christ the Virgin Mary and other Saints and angels and sacrifice them to the flames before they be cast themselves into the lake of fire and brimstone Here let not any of them think that the sorry distinction of the Rhemists between the images and pictures of heathenish Gods and the true God and Christ Rhemish on 1 Iohn wil availe any thing Sect. 5 For the commandement runs Thou shalt not make to thy self the likeness of any thing in heaven above or the earth beneath And they are Christians to whom Saint John writeth 1 Joh. 5.21

the serpents seed Gen. 3.25 or as St. Iohn plainly telleth them children of the Devil 1. Joh. 3.20 Among all whom they fall under the heaviest censure who disclaime all duties of charity as if none could perform them but forthwith they must needes make a ladder for themselves to ascend to Heaven by whereas the Judg himself hath foretold us that they shal be placed on the left hand among the goats who neglect them Mat. 25.41 to whom he will say Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels for I was an hungred and ye gave me no meate c. v. 42. And when they shal answer when saw wee thee an hungred or thirsty c. v. 44. he shall reply In as much as ye did it not to one of these little ones ye did it not to Mee v. 45. And as for those who decry and explode the word Duty as contrary to or inconsistent with the free grace brought unto us by Iesus Christ let them but consult with these places of Scripture that they may see their error and be better informed The 1 place is Eccles 12.13 Feare God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man But some retort This is in the old Testament Answ 1. The old Testament is Gods word to which our Saviour refers us Joh. 5.39 Search the Scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life mark his reason which he backeth the charge with That is to be searched in which ye may have eternal life but in the old Testament ye may have eternal life Therefore the old Testament is to be searched The minor he takes to be granted by themselves ye think so whereto I may well add they who reject that wherein eternal life is to be had or found reject eternal life but they who reject the scriptures extant in our Saviours time which were the old Testament only reject that wherein eternal life is to had or found therefore they reject eternal life it self 2 The Church under the new testament is built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ himselfe being the chief corner stone Eph. 2.20 where by the Prophets we are to understand their writings contained in the old Testament for whatsoever things were written afore time were written for our learning as well as for our comfort Rom. 15.4 3 Let us passe over to the new Testament there is duty allowed commended and commanded also as in Luk. 17.10 When you have done all those things which are commanded you say we are unprofitable servants we have done that which was our duty to do where observe that Every command layed on us obligeth us to duty and the works of charity towards poore Saints is termed Duty Rom. 15.27 where the Apostle exhorting the Romans to afford liberal contribution to the poor Saints at Jerusalem drawes his argument ab officio thus If the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things their duty is also to administer to them in carnal things 4. By grace we are not exempted from duty but more obliged to Duty as you may reade Tit. 2.11 12. The grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live godlily righteously and soberly in this present evil world Sect. 6 Chara ∣ cter 9 The next mark is sincerity specified in the Text because it is one of the fairest flowers in the right Israelites garland Therefore I must insist more largely upon it than upon any of the former He is one in whom there is no guile For the better understanding whereof we must distinguish of guile 1. there is a lawfull and commendable guile as may be seen in St Pauls expression 2 Cor. 12.16 who being crafty as he affirmeth of himself caught the Corinthians with guil as the cunning angler covereth his hook whith some such bate as he knoweth the fish delighteth in and then he useth to draw back his line that the fish may lesse perceive the fraud and more eagerly snatch at the bait till it be caught so here this fisher of men forbore in policy to receive any maintenance of the Church of Corinth which otherwise he might have done that he might the better win them to the love of the Gospel it being thus unchargeable to them And I desire that there were more of this guile and less of the other in all Ministers and Christians which is nothing else but Christian policy seperate from hypocrisie tending to the spiritual good of such as we deale with 2ly There is a sinfull guile ever condemned as most odious to God and man and this againe is threefold 1. guile in heart as Solomon hath it Pro. 12.20 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil 2. There is guile in the tongue arising from that in the heart and both these are the Israelites branded for Psal 78.34.36.37 when God slew them they sought him and they returned and enquired earely after God Nevertheless they flattered him with their mouth and lyed unto him wi h their tongues For their heart was not r●ght with him neither were they stedfast in his covenant 3. There is deceit in act the wicked worketh a deceitfull work saith Solomon Pro. 11.18 From this threefold sinful fraud are our Heaven-borne Nathanaels acquitted 1. for they are upright in heart as they be described in that song of degrees Psal 125.4 Do good O Lord unto those that be good and to them that are upright in their hearts 2. There is no guile in their mouthes for so it was prophesied of those that should returne from the Babylonish captivity Zeph. 3.13 The remnant of Israel shall do no iniquity nor speak lies neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth The like is affirmed of the hundred forty and foure thousand which were redeemed from the Earth mentioned Revel 14.1.4 that in their mouth was found no guile for they were without fault before the throne of God vers 5. Thirdly there is no guile in their demeanour either towards God for him they worship in spirit and truth John 4.24 or towards men as Samuel after his many yeares goverment challenged all the people Whom have I defrauded and they all gave him this honourable testimony Thou hast not defrauded us 1 Sam. 12.3 4. and St. Pauls conscience enabled him to say no lesse truly then boldly We have defrauded no man 2 Cor. 7.2 for which cause Iacob also is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Aug de civit Dei L. 6. C. 37. Simplex sine dolo vel fictione à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fingo inquit Ludovicus Vives in comment a plaine man Genesis 25.27 But here a grand Question ariseth Is there any man under Heaven free from Hypocrisie and deceit when the Apostle condemneth all men to be lyers Rom. 3 4. There is none no not one Answ For proof of