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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74655	Three treatises, being the substance of sundry discourses: viz. I. The fixed eye, or the mindful heart, on Psal. 25.15. II. The principal interest, or the propriety of the saints in God, on Micah 7.7. III. Gods interest in man natural and acquired, on Psal. 119.4. By that judicious and pious preacher of the gospel, Mr Joseph Symonds, M.A. late vice-provost of Eaton Colledg.	Symonds, Joseph.	1653 (1653)	Wing S6360; Thomason E1440_1; ESTC R209605	170,353	369

given Pag. 190 Chap. 17. What it is to live upon God as our God No other life appointed for Saints The fulness beauty and satisfaction of this life How Christians offer violence to their relation Pag. 199 Chap. 18. Heavenly life nearest at hand Christians are to live up to the height of it and to maintain it in every condition Pag. 208 Chap. 19. Further Considerations to promote the forementioned life of its incomparable worth Those that will not live the life of Faith shall not A firm belief of the Gospel the foundation of this Life Pag. 214 Chap. 20. Our Apostacy hath made us unapt for divine Life and Converse with God through a Mediator and willing to conform to the lowest Patterns Pag. 222 Chap. 21. Several Questions concerning the forementioned Doctrine answered Saints not always equally strong Some afflictions sweetened more then others Sometimes God will have his Rod smart Pag. 230 Chap. 22. How it comes to pass that deformities creep into the Conversation of Christians since they have so high a principle of life Whence it is that those which enjoy not God seem to go through afflictions with strength Pag. 239 Chap. 23. A Comparison of Interest and Enjoyment and the excellency of Enjoyment evinced from Interest What is requisite to make full Enjoyment An affectionate Close to all the foregoing Discourses Pag. 251 III. Treatise on PSALM 119. vers 4. Chap. 1. Gods Interest in man natural and acquired this latter twofold Of holy Resignation Of true and false Mourning Pag. 1 Chap. 2. The Will of God is the Bounds and Rule of a Resigned Spirit Pag. 21 Chap. 3. Resignation necessary in Prayer Prayer without it hath no truth in it is non-sence and imposeth upon God absurdly The true Advantage of a spirit of Resignation as to Prayer Pag. 34 Chap. 4. Wicked mens prayers not to be dreaded The sins of those that pray greatest Some out-live the contests of the Spirit Three things to be still done by those who have resigned themselves to God Pag. 41 Chap. 5. The knowledg of Interest in God doth much further our approaches to God It begets propensions carries the spirit in a due frame fits it for all divine determinations Pag. 67 Chap. 6. How the knowledg of divine Interest doth promote Holiness sets Judgment and Nature against Sin keeps the heart from inordinate reaching after and holding fast present things Faith binds the Soul and keeps it bound makes all a Christians ways easie Assurance gives a double advantage to our great meeting with God Pag. 82 THE FIXED EYE OR THE Mindful Heart PSAL. 25.15 Mine Eyes are Ever towards the Lord. CHAP. I. Eyes of Saints set upon God In what sence Ever and how many ways THis Psalm is a Psalm of speciall excellency and hath this mark on it that as some others its form'd in Verses of it according to the Hebrew Alphabet David was a man of a heavenly spirit and truly he breaths much life in every word This Psalm is a Prayer David complains of Enemies good men shal never want them but this is their advantage that as the world wil be sure to be their enemie so God wil be more sure to be their friend He had one to go to and could tel him how it was with him and how men dealt with him and that 's but a bad business to the world but it s a great relief to the Spirits of the Saints that they can go to God and speak their hearts And in his Prayer observe his spirit He doth not after the manner of the world breathe out Affections moved meerly from the smart of the stroke without sense of the cause but cries out more of his sin then of his suffering and speaks more against himself then against his enemies and begs more that he might walk in the sight of Gods countenance and have his favor then to be delivered from his enemies And as all Prayer the more spiritual the more argumentative it is Prayer that is full of Affection is full of Arguments so this But while David was drawing down mercy upon himself he was catcht up Love fires in Prayer His Faith is quickened in Prayer and then Love 's inflam'd In the midst of his Prayer he breaks out and tells God in the words of the Text that his eyes were ever towards him While he was begging the eye of God toward him he tells God Mine eyes are ever towards the Lord. Ever You cannot understand that actually and uncessantly his thoughts and heart were towards God and his mind taken up with him for by the necessity of this life and the Law of it he was sometimes to be taken up with other things But when he says Mine eyes are ever towards the Lord he means these three things 1. That the disposition of his Soul was such that he could be always looking upon God he could wish that when he is departed out of himself and got up that he might never come down more and never have any other work in the world but this to behold God Thus always is taken in the Scriptures In Acts 10.2 Cornelius is said to pray always that is he had a disposition his heart was ready to pray always Acts 7.51 It 's said of the Jews They were stiff-necked and hard-hearted always to resist the Holy Ghost this was their temper like a stone that resists the hand of the workman takes in no impression but is wholly shut up to it self 2. When he saith Mine eyes are always towards the Lord he means this That upon all occasions in every condition in all places his eyes were towards God In Luke 18.1 Christ teacheth to watch and pray always that is upon all occasions when ever Prayer is called for watch to see the season and have your hearts open Making mention of you Always in my prayer saith the Apostle Rom. 1.9 and not seldom elsewhere that is as I have occasion I do intercede for you as I pray for my self it s my dayly work So in Psal 88.9 Every day will I praise thee Psal 145.2 Every day will I bless thee So here Mine eyes are ever towards the Lord that is it 's my every days work 3. Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord that is continually it is not only my ordinary work and dayly course but it 's a work that shall last while I live a work for life 2 Sam. 9.10 David saith concerning Mephibosheth He shall Always eat bread at my table that is while he lives he shall sit at my table And in Psal 146.2 While I live he speaks in the sence of the Text I will praise thee So that now here you have the temper and practise of a godly man his eyes are Ever toward the Lord. The Text holds forth these three things to us 1. What it is upon which the eyes of Saints are set upon what they are terminated upon God 2. Their great diligence and assiduity in this work

they are separated from the love of God So I have done with the third Argument CHAP. XIV The Evil of Doubting as it is a denyal of the Truth of God a diminution of his Love and Favors and a mis-interpretation of his Dispensations The vexation of doubting to enlightened persons in an evil day A Fourth is this Doubts in this case are very sinful and grievous especially to a Soul in light and to a Soul in trouble To clear this I will shew first That they contain in them exceeding great evil against God in these things 1. They are contrary to the Truth and Faithfulness of God They are a denyal of the Truth of God manifested in the Promises and by the testimony and witness of his Spirit God hath made our way open to himself and we are apt to say most wretchedly as the Church in Lament 3.44 He covereth himself with a Cloud that our prayers should not pass through He hath left upon you perhaps some marks of his love he hath put into you some earnest of his favor what are these but the voyce of God from Heaven that God is your God and yet you say as the Church in her frowardness The Lord hath forsaken me and my God hath forgotten me Again It is not only opposite to his Truth but to his Love When a friend comes to one passionately affected in suspicion of his friendship and saith to him Sir I love you you are very dear to my heart and he will not beleeve him he takes it ill God may say to us in the matter of his Love as he said to them in the matter of obedience What could I have done more God may say I have given them the knowledg of my self I have given them a heart to love me I have given them all the pledges of my dear Love and yet they will sit down in corners and spend and waste themselves in mourning because I love them not What can I do more In Deut. 1.32 God took it ill when his Word could not be taken and when the manifestation of his Love was of no force Yet in this thing ye believed not the Lord your God who went in the way before you to search out you a place to pitch his tent in c. Surely saith God there shall not one man of this evil generation go to see that good Land that would not believe me It may be our hearts may be somewhat like Jobs in Job 9. saith he If I have called and he hath answered me yet I will not believe that he will harken to my voyce What a strange thing is this Though he hath heard me when I came to him and hath given me entertainment of a Father and I did receive pledges of his Love yet I will not believe that He loves me and that he will hear me Again They are diminutions of divine Favors He that doubts his Interest cannot so bless God in the enjoyment of wife children and estate and whatsoever carries sweetness in it but bitterness of Soul overflows and makes all things bitter and he is apt to overlook all who is not perswaded of his Interest in God In Esth 5.13 you read of the froward spirit of Haman and such a spirit is usually in him that feareth What is all this to me seeing Mordecai sits still at the gate Another evil against God is That these doubts cause mis-interpretation of all divine Actions They make a man mis-construe God in all things whatsoever he saith or doth God shall not be taken aright by that man that doubts his Interest in him O Job how wert thou mistaken and what meanest thou to speak those words Job 13.20 Wherefore hidest thou thou thy face from me and holdest me for thy enemy Why did God ever take thee for his enemy So many because God crosseth them in their desires and frustrates them in their hopes O say they God is angry with me he doth not love me I might tell you the same in other dispensations of God indeed that man cannot be pleased Now we may consider how painful and vexing doubting is in that man that is alive that is in a living state and especially in an evil day There are these three things that clear it 1. This is a matter of greatest consequence it 's a business of the greatest weight See you not a man sometimes how heavily he walks when his estate is in question but much more when his life is in question But what if his life and estate too be in question That man that knows God truly would rather endure the loss of ten thousand lives and estates then the loss of Gods favor 2. Another thing that makes it exceeding heavy is the loss of the sweetness of former experience David in Psal 42. complains of this When I remember these things I pour out my Soul in me for I had gone with the multitude I went with them to the house of God with the voyce of joy and praise with the multitude that kept holy-day And Job in Chap. 29.2 O that it were with me as in the days of old and in months past as in the days when God preserved me when his Candle shined upon mine head and when by his light I walk'd in darkness As I was in my youth when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle and when the Almighty was yet with me Thus that man that loseth the sweetness of his former experience remembers the days of old and that afflicts him Again God will have it so that where this thing is not yet driven home and the Soul hath not duly sought and so not found satisfaction concerning his Love it shall be bitterness to him I say God will have it so the Soul shall not enjoy it self He doth this partly to give a demonstration of his own Excellency and to vindicate it in the Soul that a man may surely know and find that there is none like him therefore saith he I will take away the light of my face from that man he shall have his house and land and estate and see what he will do with them what he can make of them And by this the love and favor of God appears to be excellent Besides this God loves his people he will have their love and will have his love sweetened to them therefore it shall be bitterness to them when it is lost Be perswaded then to make this your work and rest not till you know that you have Interest in God plead with David in Psal 35. Lord say unto my Soul thou art my Salvation not only be my Salvation but say thou art my Salvation And then though you may have many sad thoughts accompanying you yet this will refresh you in the midst of all as it did David in Psal 94.14 In the multitude of my thoughts thy comforts delight my Soul CHAP. XV. Interest in God more knowable then any other and yet unknown to most The