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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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Serveth for exhortation Since then Christ our Lord inviteth you to behold an Israelite indeed imitate ye God Angels and good men turne the eyes of your mindes towards these excellent ones on the earth Psal 16.3 Gen. 23.6 princes of God children of wisedome the most glorious conquerors in the world rare new creatures cloathed with the Sunne perfect in beauty transcendently rich endued with honour and the spirit of glory partakers of the divine nature 2 Pe. 1.4 Having the glorious angels for their attendants This your sight will be well pleasing to God Motives for as all the works of Gods creation and providence are to be minded by us Ps 143.5 so especially are these first fruits of his creatures whom he hath begotten with the word of truth Psal 143.5 Eph. 2.10 Jam. 1.18 who are His workmanship created in Christ Iesus unto good works Eph. 2.10.2 There can be no danger in the contemplation of this beauty as there may be and too often is in gazing upon other faire objects as David found by experience and the sons of God in seeing the daughters of men that were faire Gen. 6.2 for he that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart as our Lord witnesseth Mat. 5.28 But thirdly this sight wil bring great profit with it to the spectators Here we shall see the beauty of holiness which will enflame our hearts with the love of it * Cic. offic l. 1. as the heathen said vertue would do if it could be seen with the eyes and we read that many who beheld Lazarus after he was raised fr●m death believed and thereby themselves were raised from the death of sin John 12.9.11 Joh. 12.9.11 St Peter affordeth us two remarkable instances of this the former is of Christians even under persecution living among heathens whom he counselleth to have their conversation honest among them that whereas some speak against them as evil doers others by their good works which they shall behold may glorifie God in the day of visitation yea by this meanes the very persecuters themselves may become true professors 1. Pet. 3.12 The other is of wives though the weaker vessels whose pious and meek demeanor may be an occasion of converting their ignorant and unbeleeving husbands on whom the word as yet cannot work 1 Pet. 3.1 2. Likewise ye wives saith he be in subjection to your own husbands that if any obey not the word they also may without the word be wonne by the conversation of the wives while they behold your chast conversation coupled with fear Vse 2 Secondly this serveth for our direction in two things 1. What are we chieffly to behold in this true Israelite Answ 1. his original he was borne in Zion the city of God whereof glorious things are spoken and which the highest himself shall establish Selah Psal 87.2.5 He is of the seed royal begotten not of corruptible but incorruptible seed the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever 1. Pet. 1.23 borne not after the flesh but after the spirit Joh. 3.5 more then a servant even a son and if a son then an heire of God through Christ Gal. 4.7 2. Observe his life and conversation Brethren saith Saint Paul mark them which walk so as you have us for an ensample Phil. 3.17 3. Mark him in his sufferings and the issue thereof Behold saith the Apostle we count them happy which endure ye have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord Jam. 5 11. How couragious have some been even under persecution daring and provoking their tormentors and crying out to them as Tertul. l. ad Scapulam Magis damnati quàm absoluti gaudent Tertull. relateth Crudelitas vestra est gloria nostra 4. View wel his catastrophe or the end of his life as it is in Psal 37.37 Mark the perfect man and behold the the upright for the end of that man is peace Again This directeth us concerning the manner how he is to be observed namely 1. with an eye of recognition he is to be known and acknowledged by us Isa 61.9 All that see them shal acknowledge that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed 2. With an eye of complacency and love As David was accepted in the sight of all the people and also in the fight of Sauls servants 1 Sam. 18.5 3. With a respectful eye as the prophet Elisha regarded the presence of king Jehosaphat who professed that had it not been for his sake he would not have somuch as looked upon Jehoram king of Israel nor have seene him 2 King 3.14 4. With a joyfull eye as they that feared God were glad when they saw David Psal 119.74 5. This fight ought to be joyned with a desire of adhesion as when Jonathan saw Davids valour his soul clave to him 1 Sam. 18.1 and when Judah and Benjamin and many other saw that the Lord was with Asa the king they fel to him out of Israel 2 Chro. 15.9 6. It must be accompanied with a desire of imitation in that which is right Those things saith St Paul which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me doe and the God of peace shal be with you Phil. 4.9 Lastly we should looke upon them with an eye of sympathy 1. If they be regular in their lives it should afford us occasion of joy as Paul absent in the flesh yet was present with the Colossians in the spirit and rejoyced to behold their order and stedfastnes of their faith in Christ Col. 2.5 2 If they be in prosperity we should congratulate with them so the Psal m●st prayeth Lord let me see the good of thy chosen that I may rejoyce in the gladness of thy nation that I may glory with thine inheritance Psal 106.5 3 If any of them be at any time in distress we must cast an eye of compassion and pitty upon them Heare all people and behold my sorrow saith the church in captivity Lam. 1.18 So when the father saw the penitent prodigal he had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him Luk. 15.20 Vse 3 Thirdly this may serve for discovery how purblind or squint-eyed the men of this world are who can see no excellency in the children of God The reason hereof is rendred 1. Joh. 3.1 the world knoweth them not because it knoweth not the father yea it was prophesied of Jesus Christ that he should be fairer than the children of men Psal 45.2 yet when he cometh into the world he hath no forme nor comeliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him which is spoken of the very elect as well as of others before they become beleevers 1 Pet. 2.7 and then is Christ indeed precious to them and not before How then can the unbeliever spie any beauty in the members of Christ