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A13538	Dauids learning, or The vvay to true happinesse in a commentarie vpon the 32. Psalme. Preached and now published by T.T. late fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge. To which is prefixed the table of method of the whole Psalme, and annexed an alphabeticall table of the chiefe matters in the commentarie.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1617 (1617)	STC 23827; ESTC S118153	314,670	466

and wishes of the wicked 2 3. Vse 3. Meanes to be heard in prayer Doct. 2. All acceptable seruice must bee from mercifull men Reas. 1. 2. 3. 4. Quest. Answ. Vse 1. Motiues to mercy Rom. 12. 18. Use 2. Romish religion accursed because so cruell Obiect Answ. Iesuitisme the rebels Catechisme Obiect Answ. 1. 2. 3. Doctr. The true God must onely be inuocated in trouble Reas. 1. 2. 3. Vse 1. Obiect Answ. Obiect Answ. Vse 2. Obiect Answ. Biel in Can. Miss Lect. 8. Obiect Answ. Obiect Answ. Obiect Answ. Obiect Answ. Use 3. Vse 4. Obiect Answ. Doct. Praier is a seeking of God Quest. Answ. God is sought in his presence not in his essence Obiect Answ. Quest. Answ. 1. Conditions in seeking God 2. 3. Obiect Answ. 4. 5. Vse 1. Obiect Answ. Use 2. Doct. 2. There is a time wen God will not be found although he be sought Reasons When God is found Obiect Answ. Why the godly themselues alwaies find not God Quest. Answ. Gods delayes to be distinguished from denyalls Vse 1. Peccato grauescit oratio Vse 2. Vse 3. Obiect Answ. Doct. 3. There is a time wherein God will be found of euery godly man seeking him Reason 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Obiect Answ. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Use 3. Vse 2. Obiect Answ. Obiect Answ. Obiect Answ. Obiect Answ. Vse 3. Quest. Answ. Certain times when God will be found Motiues to seeke the Lord. Obiect Answ. Obiect Answ. Obiect Answ. Doct. The greatest iudgement cannot do the godly the least harme Reas. 1. 2. 3. 4. Obiect Answ. Sundry wayes of Gods deliuering of his seruants Psal. 125. 3. Obiect Answ. 1. Difference between the deliuerances of the godly and the wicked in three things 2 3. Vse 1. Vse 2. Vse 3. How to be safe in dangers Psal. 18. 24. Doctr. Assurance of deliuerance in trouble from remission of sinnes Reason 1. 2. 3. 4. Obiect Answ. Vse 1. Use 2. Nothing is a mercy but what proceeds from mercy Use 3. Difference betweene the hiding place of the godly man and of other creatures Doctr. God himselfe is the godly mans hiding place Quest. Answ. How God is so Vse 1. Use 2. Quest. Answ. 1. Sam. 23. 11 12. Note Quest. Answ. 1. How to make God our hiding place 2. 3. Quest. Answ. 1. How to know that God is our hiding place 2. 3. 4. Folly of many in danger who run from their hiding places 5. Quest. Answ. Doct. Experience the best teacher Reas. 1. 2. 3. 4. Obiect Answ. Vse Quest. Answ. Three things concurring to make vp experience 1. Knowledge Speciall grounds to be knowne for Christian experience 2. Obseruation 3. Memory Helpes of memorie Motiues to get experience of God Quest. Answ. Why none are more troubled then the godly Doctr. Godly not exempted from trouble but preserued in it Reas. 1. 2. 3. 4 Obiect Answ. How the Church is euer preserued in trouble yea from trouble Vse 2. Summers fruits not condemned for Winters stormes Use 3. Doct. 10 Times of ioy succeed times of sorrow to godly men Reason 1. 2. 4. Sorrowes of the godly like the sorrow of a woman in trauell why 5. Difference betweene Gods smiting of his children and his enemies Vse I. Vse 2. Doct. 2. Songs of praise beseeme seasons of ioy Reas. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Use 1. 1. Meanes and helps to thankfulnesse 2. 3. How to prize Gods mercies Meanes to recall Gods mercies into memorie Use 2. Obiect Answ. Obiect Answ. Motiues to thankfulnesse Many faile in not doing this dutie Enemies to thankfulnesse 1. Carelesnes 2. Slight regard 3. Discontentment 4. Abuse of mercies Others faile in doing it Failings in our best performance of this dutie 1. Thess. 5. 18. Doct. 3. The matter of the godly mans songs must bee spirituall Reasons 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Vse 1. Vse 2. Vse 3. Quest. Answ. Doct. True grace is cōmunicatiue Reasons I. 2. 3. Use 1. Motiues to forward one another in grace Prou. 10. 21. Prou. 31. 26. Use. 2. Doct. 1. No man naturally vnderstandeth the things of God without a Teacher See Psal. 14. 3. Reasons 1. 2. Vse 1. Use 2. Use 3. Vse 4. Doct. 2. Gods Word must bee applyed in speciall Reasons 1. 2. Tim. 3. 16. 2. 3. 4. Vse 1. Use 2. Vse 3. Why the godly course is called a way Doctr. Godlinesse is a going in Gods way Reasons 1. 2. 3. Gods way compared with all other waies 4. Use 1. Many by-waies beaten by many Use 2. Quest. Answ. Meanes to know the markes of Gods way Psal. 119. 33. The markes themselues Use 3. Directions how to go in the way of God What to bee done in our falls Doctr. 1. Teachers must make the people to vnderstand the Word and their owne way Vse 1. Use 2. Vse 3. Doctr. 2. A Minister must be a leader by his life and example Vse Doctr. 3. A Pastor must haue his eye vpon his flock to guide them Reasons 1. 2. 3. 4. Use. Quest. 1. Answ. Quest. 2. Answ. Quest. 3. Answ. Doctr. A brutish propertie not to learne by Gods Word Reasons 1. 2. 3. Use 1. Use 2. Vse 3. Meanes to get vnderstanding Motiues to get vnderstanding Doct. Euery man naturally is obstinate against God and his Word Reasons 1. Ephes. 2. Vse 1. Obiect Answ. Use 2. Motiues to lay aside obstinacy in sinne Obiect Answ. Notes of a man gotten out of obstinacie Doctr. God hath a bridle for vntractable sinners Quest. Answ. Gods bridles what Reason 1. Vse 1. Vse 2. Doctr. The state of an obstinate sinner is accursed Obiect Answ. 1. Difference between the godly and wickeds misery 2. 3. The kinds of the wickeds sorrowes 1. In this life 2. After this life Reasons of all these sorrowes of wicked men 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Vse 1. Vse 2. Quoad reatum omnia peccata sunt paria nisi fiat reconciliatio Luther A true glasse to see thy sinne in Vse 3. Why no wicked man can be happy Quest. Answ. Why God giueth outward things to wicked men Vse 4. Doctr. Hee that trusteth in God shall haue abundant mercie Reasons 1. 2. 3. 4. Mercies intayled to the godly 1. Temporal Obiect Answ. 2. Spirituall Obiect Answ. Godly neuer more compassed with mercy then when cōpassed with miserie God offreth to teach vs many things by the troubles of his seruants Mercies meeting vs in the life to come 1. Priuatiue 2. Positiue Similes non pares The absolute sufficiencie of future happinesse Reu. 21. 6. Use 1. Obiect Answ. Vse 2. Vse 3. Quest. Answ. How we reioice in the Lord. Doctr. Euery godly man is an vpright man Reasons 1. 2. 3. 4. Use. Reasons to looke to the vprightnesse of our hearts 1. 2. 3. Quest. Answ. Notes of vprightnesse Doct. Only the godly can soundly reioyce Reasons 1. 2. 1. True causes of sound ioy only among godly men 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Vse 1. Obiect 1. Answ. Obiect Answ. 2. 3. Godly in sorrow want not cause of ioy Why the godly haue lesse ioy in their estate then they neede Use 2. Wicked men haue often some ioy but neuer any sound cause Doct. All the reioycing of godly men ought to be in the Lord. Quest. Answ. How Gods wil limiteth our ioy 1. For the matter 2. Manner 3. Measure 1. 2. 3. Exod. 18. 9. Rom. 1. 8. Philem. 4. 5. Col. 1. 3. Phil. 1. 4. Use. Quest. Answ. Markes of spirituall ioy

their whole course How peruert they authoritie to iniustice wrong oppression How doe they by meanes of their wealth swell in pride and arme themselues to contentions to contempt of inferiours equals and betters and to tumble in all voluptuousnesse and lusts so strengthning themselues against God Some blaspheme GOD in his goodnesse in stead of thankes as the Israelites did Deut. 1. 27. saying Because the Lord hated vs hee brought vs out of Egypt to destroy vs What could bee greater blasphemie then this yet this is our horrible sinne also to receiue good things of God and repay euill Secondly as many of vs faile in doing the dutie First when wee can vse some common tearmes of thankefulnesse as many can thanke God for all but first without all affection beseeming the dutie there is no heartie acknowledgement nor glad entertainment of the mercie wee are farre from these Songs of deliuerance we tell not of Gods goodnesse as Dauid did Psal. 66. 14. Come and I will tell you what the Lord hath done for my soule and as Moses told Iethro what God had done for them Exod. 18. 8. If a friend should doe vs a kindnesse wee would reioyce in it and tell others what such a one hath done for vs and according to our ioy in it would our care be to testifie thankefulnesse and our sorrow and accusing of our selues to bee backeward herein Secondly without all action as though wee would pay all our debt to God with good wordes whereas soundnesse of thankefulnesse is seene in actions and the life of the dutie is not in a sound of wordes but in the carriage of the life and course Dauid did loue the Lord because he had heard him Ps. 116. 1. Euerie new mercie is a new testimonie of Gods loue and a nevv spurre of our loue to God as Dauid in the same place would pay his vowes to God which hee made in affliction to set forth Gods prayse he would keepe his iudgements and doe righteously alwayes Psal. 106. 3. see Psalme 111. 1. 2. to the 10. This is that which GOD requires of his people when hee hath giuen them the good land and accomplished all his promises that they should not forget him but feare him and walke in his wayes Deut. 6. 10. 11. If a Land-lord should come to demand his Rent and the Tenant thinke to please him with good words but neither pay him his due nor regard any of the conditions of his Lease agreed vpon should not hee both deceiue himselfe and cause the Lord to re-enter for not paying Would God we were so wise to acknowledge that the Lord lookes for another manner of Rent then words and that as wee will not let Leases goe for not paying of Rent to man so wee would giue the Lord no iust cause to straine vpon vs and all that wee haue for breaking our conditions with him To him that doth vs a great pleasure we professe our selues in his debt and acknowledge our selues at his command to the vttermost of our power Oh let vs blush and be ashamed to be so superficiall in actuall and substantiall thankefulnesse towards our God! Secondly a number make shew of many thankes but all is in pride and hypocrisie and can thanke God for that they neuer had and much lesse the sense of it The Pharise praysed God for that he neuer had Luc. 18. 11. Oh he was neuer so bad as the Publicā no Extortioner nor an vniust person like others Ciuill men will thanke God they doe no man harme come to Church liue in compasse and good fashion they thanke God they beleeue as well as the best without all doubting they be good subiects and they loue God with all their hearts Here is a Pharise iustifying himselfe but hee goes not away so he departs not iustifyed But the poore Leper fell downe humbly on his face at Christs feet praysing God and the Publican at the Church-doore Iaakob is lesse then the least of Gods mercies and Abraham before God is but dust and ashes The Papists make shew of thankes to God for their saluation which yet they can merit for themselues all one as to thanke God for nothing for they must come to Heauen by their owne good deeds and what needes then the mercie of God Some of our ignorant people thanke God they can serue God and say their Prayers as well as any but what Prayers the tenne Commandements and Creed the Aue-Mary A Popish thankesgiuing when there is not a word of prayer in them all Thirdly euen the best of vs are infinitely wanting in this dutie when wee set our selues to the best performance of it as appeareth by these things First in our prayses wee cast our eye chiefly on temporall things and are more feeling and feruent in our prayses for them then for spirituall mercies wee dote too much vpon them as the Israelites did Numb 11. 5. saying Wee remember the Fish which wee did eate in Egypt freely the Cucumbers Leekes Onyons and Garlicke that wee had there but now our soules are dryed away and there is nothing but this Mannah Whereas the Apostle counted all things but doung for Christ and in comparison of spirituall blessings wherewith he beginneth his prayses Phil. 3. 5. and Ephes. 1. 3. Blessed be God who hath blessed vs with all spirituall blessings in heauenly things and so he goeth on in this Argument as one that cannot get out of it Wee had cause of comfort in our affections if wee could forget the things that are below in comparison of heauenly blessings Secondly how partiall are wee in our thankesgiuing for a great blessing wee can giue some thankes but those that wee count smaller wee passe sleightly whereas were our eyes so cleere as they ought wee could not but see God in the least of them Besides wee can sometime giue thankes for a present mercie with some affection but wee forget eaten bread whereas Salomon gaue thankes as well for the promise made to Dauid as the accomplishment of it to himselfe 2. Chron. 6. 10. but the great workes of GODS mercie are to vs but nine dayes wonder Further whereas wee are bound to thankefulnesse euen for those mercies which GOD hauing promised hath in store for vs how doe wee confine our thoughts to the present not looking beyond the day to prouoke our selues to this dutie Dauid goes further and sayth Oh how great good things hast thou laid vp in store for them that feare thee especially seeing they are such as eye hath not seene nor eare hath heard neyther can enter into the heart of man to conceiue 3. When we set our selues to be thankful how sleight how short are we in this dutie part of Gods worship we can in the grosse lumpe turne ouer a great heape of mercies not willing to trouble our selues with the particular recounting of fauours which would bee a speciall helpe to the dutie Iaakob farre otherwise Gen. 32. 10. I am