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Lemmata meditationum, or, The contents of a few religious meditations given as directive and incentive to that invaluable duty / by Philo-Jesus Philo-Carolus.
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Philo-Carolus, Philo-Jesus.
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Job 9 30. one of a thousand Nav sometimes (u) Psa 14.3 there 's none that does me good no not one Though they have all (x) Joh 10.30 one Father and in truth they and their Father are one For my very life I can't (y) Psal 61.31 trust in them at all times an least not securely For some times in my thirst they have given me (z) Joh 19.29 vineger to drink the conditions frightning me more than the grace comforting But oh my God thou knowest I wish I were (a) Mat 25.43 44 sick so they might visit me and in prison so they might but minister to me for they have instructed many (b) Job 4.3 4. and have strengthened weak hands They have upholdem him that was falling and strengthened feeble knees Dying souls have set down under their shadow (c) Can 2.3 and their fruit has been sweet to their taste From thy promises oh my God I have known those who have (d) Can 5.1 gathered myrrh and spice honey and honey-comb wine and milk when they had been (c) Lam 3.15 17. filled with bitterness and made drunk with wormwood when their souls had been removed from peace and they had forgot prosperitie (f) Psal 30.6 In my prosperitie I would say indeed I should never be moved and confidently bid (g) Luk 12.19 my soul take more ease than now it dares as having Goods laid up for many years yea for eternity I would remove (h) Ec. 11.10 sorrow from my heart could I but undoubtingly say of thy promises That (i) Joh 17.4 6 10. I have finished the world they gave me to do Could I but boldly tell thee oh my God That thine they were and thou gavest them me and all mine are thine and thine are mine and I am glorified in them But alas as oft as these are not my (k) Psal 33.1 2. shield my glory and the lifter up of my head Lord how are they increased that trouble me many are they that rise up against me many there be which say of my soul There is no help for him in God By night on (l) Can. 3.1 my bed when I seek the particular promises which I have chose for my joy when I seek them and find them not When (m) Can 5.6 I open my heart to them and they withdraw themselves and be gone when (n) Pro. 1.28 I seek them early too and can't find them though my coneeits before had been high (o) Oba 1.3 4. though I had exalted my self as the Eagle and set my nest among the Stars how am I brought down in a momenr How are my (p) 〈◊〉 2.7 lofty looks humbled and my haughtiness brought low My own former comforts (q) Job 30.10 15. abhor me They flee from me and spare not to spit in my face Terrors are turned upon me they pursue my soul as the wind and my welfare passeth away as a cloud For why 't is very true in all thy Laws and Threatnings (r) Psal 34.8 I see the Lord is good but 't is in the promises that I taste and see he is good I can safely say all thy words are sweet but 't is of thy (s) Psa 119.103 promises that I dare cry out Oh how sweet are thy words to my taste All their sweetness is lasting not onely giving my soul a feast but a continual one and that a physical not a diseasegendring one It doth good and that like a medicine it 's honey purges as well as pleases Were it sweet (t) Job 20.12 as sin only in the mouth I could not give it a good word Oh my God the (u) Pro. 9.17 stoln waters of it which my heart in musing takes secretly away the bread of it that I eat in secret places I can't say How sweet they are (x) 1 Co 15.41 there is one glory of the Sun another of the Moon that gives light and heat too and life this onely light There is one glory of thy commanding word that Moon rules in the night we are in throughout our life in this dark world There is another glory of thy promising word that Sun gives light and life to poor souls and makes (y) 2 Co 5.6 us present with the Lord even while we are absent And really (z) Mat 9.15 the children of the Bride-chamber can t mourn while in thy promises they have the Bridegroom with them When they sit at any time in the dark and see no light lo thy promises do make both (a) Josh 10.12 the Sun aforesaid to stand still upon their Gibeon and the Moon in their valley of Ajalon till the faces of their enemies are cloathed with (b) Psa 83.16 shame and the crown of their faith flourisheth on their own heads (c) Mat. 2.20 The Herods which seek the lives of my poor Infant-Graces and Comforts oh my God they are never stone dead I can never say They which sought my childrens lives are dead No they make and I am sure they keep war (d) Rev 17.14 with my Lambs Thy very promises (e) Psal 46.9 can't make their wars to cease but they can (f) Psal 68.30 and do scatter them that delight in war and that which they help me do makes me say experimentally (g) Ex. 15.39 The Lord is a Man of War But oh my God my God How to put on this armour 't is rare that I can tell Though thy promises be (h) Ro. 13.12 armour of Light yet sure 't is such dazling light that I can't tell how to wind and turn it From whence it comes to pass that I am daily (i) Lev. 26.25 delivered over into the hands of sin and sorrow doubt and fear and all enemies and didst thou not as an every dayes Emanuel rid me out and lead my (k) Re. 7.23 captive the sorrows of hell would not onely compass me but swallow me up and I should be not as my (l) 1 Isa 15.29 Saviour was rejected of men and a man of sorrows but rejected of God (m) Isa 53 3. and a man of sorrows How oft oh my God do I hear that voice (n) Luk 12.20 This night thy soul shall be required of thee How oft am I afraid to (o) Pro. 6.4 give sleep to my eies evenwhen I have much ado to keep it from them How few nights in a week can I sleep as do (p) 1 Th. 5.6 athers for they rest from their labours which I can't (q) Psa 40.12 innumerable evils compass me about my iniquities take hold of me so that I am not able to look up or lye down my conscience it self reviles me saying (r) Psa 42.3 Where is now thy God I am (s) Psa 29.9 dumb to my friends because they can't remove my stroak Nay I live (u) 2 Co 6.10 though as sorrowful yet as alwayes rejoycing
his friends (f) Psa 45.8 All thy garments smell of myrrh aloes and Cassia but they are fearfully (g) Jude 23. spotted by the flesh if look'd into Gifts which are (h) Job 1 14 15 thy oxen thou keepest ever plowing lusts which are thy asses thou keepest feeding till the righteous God send his Executioners of Justice to take both and slay them with the sword of vengeance (i) â— Ti 6.6 Thy godliness is no gain nor is it profitable to any thing (l) 2 Ti 3.5 with its form but to gnaw out the heart of the power (l) Heb. 5.7 The strongest cries of thy prayers are but idle clamorousnesses and stark sin it 's (m) Psal 109.7 strength is just as its length but for a (n) Mat. 23.14 pretence (o) Mat. 21.13 Thy House of prayers is but a Den of thieves lying in wait for the curse of being well spoken of by all men (p) Jam 2.18 Thou shewest thy faith by thy works I 'le say it is a faith of miracles which (q) Mat. 17.20 if one have of it no more than a grain of mustard seed one shall throw away mountains of the convictions of God on ones soul (r) Heb. 11.33 'T is a faith that subdues Kingdomes indeed For I call God to witness it subdues the Kingdom of Christ (s) Ro. 14.23 in the Gospel (t) Luk. 7.50 'T is a faith that whatever is of it is sin T is a saving faith with the vengeance for I confess it saves it self though it (u) 1 Ti 1.19 make Shipwrack of a good Conscience (x) 1 Jo 4.28 Thy love 〈◊〉 Pride is so perfect that it casts out all fear of the Lord (y) Exo. 20. and shewes kindness to thousands of those both men and things which love thee and keep thy Commands But 't is true for Gods Statutes which are thy (z) Mat 5.44 enemies thou canst not love them and for Gods Attributes which despitefully use thee thou canst not pray for them Thou dost indeed oh Pride (a) Col. 3.2 set thy Affections on those things which are above and to use thy own hearts dialect (b) Psal 113.6 thou dost humble thy self to behold the things that are done in heaven But having said in thy heart That (c) Isa 45.22 Thou art God and there is non beside thee 't is the plainest thing of ten thousand (d) Psal 53.3 that every of thy affections is gone back to thy self they are altogether become filthy there is none that doeth good no not one (e) Psa 57.4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent and they are deaf adders Let God (f) Job 2.11 but touch their bone or their flesh they will curse him to his face (g) Ex. 1.12 And the more they shall be afflicted the more they will grow Let Religion ask them for water they will (h) Jud 5.25 26 27. give her milk and butter promises in gay professions but they will put their hands to the mail and their right hands to the devils hammer with the hammer they will smite piety and smite off its head when they have pierced through its Temples (i) Job 10.14 12 13. They break down godliness with breach upon breach and rush upon it as a Gyant they take it by the neck and shake it to pieces and set it up for their mark Oh pride I do not wonder that God hates even the very (k) Pro 6.17 look of thee For I am sure thou and all thy fathers house do hate God with a (l) Psal 139. perfect hatred count him your enemy Thy natural language is (m) Eze 21.26 27. Remove God's diadem take off his Crown overturn overturn overturn him I have sworn by my self that unto me every knee shall bow Oh pride pride (n) Jer. 13.27 I have seen thine Idolatries thy Adulteries and thy Neighings the lewdness of thy spiritual whoredom and all thy abominations (o) Hab. 2.16 The cup of the Lords right hand be turn'd upon thee and a shameful spewing be on all thy glory in my heart and life (p) â—â— 3. 17 18 24. The Lord smite the crown of thy head with a scab and discover thy seeret parts The Lord take away the braverie of thy tinkling ornaments In stead of thy sweet smells let there be in my soul the stink of my own corruption In stead of thy girdles a being rent and broken in spirit In stead of thy well set hair baldness In stead of thy stomachers a girding of sackcloth and burning by the (q) Heb 11.34 fire of his spirit In stead of thy beauty How joyfully could I take the spoiling of rhy Goods Have thy (r) Mat. 5.29 40. right eyes bor'd out and thy right hands cut off and not onely have thy cloak but thy coat also took away God fire out thy (s) Lu. 9.58 Foxes out of their holes and thy unclean birds out of their nests that the Son of Man and Saviour of men may have where to lay his head within my (t) Eph. 3.17 heart May thy Sun thy Moon and thy stars be darkned (u) Eccl 12.2 3 6 1. May the keepers of thy House Tremble and thy strong men bow themselves may thy silver cords be loosed and thy golden bowls be broken may evil dayes come on thee and such wherein my Soul may say I have no pleasure in thee (x) Job 4.9 By the blast of God mayst thou perish by the breath of his nosthrils maist thou be consum'd (y) Rev 2.13 I know thy works and where thou dwellest even where Satans seat is in the hearts and manners of men I know thou (z) 2 Pe 2.1 bringest in damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought me Thou (a) Heb. 13.9 carriest men away with divers and strange doctrines thou makest the morality of the earth (b) Jam 3.15 earthly sensual divelish Cursed be the (c) Luk 11.27 womb that bare thee and the paps that gave thee suck (d) Psal 137.9 Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones (e) Job 20.9 May the eye of God which hath seen thee in my heart ways never see thee more nor those places know thee any more Maiest thou oh pride (f) Psal 132.18 be clothed with shame and upon all the graces of God that are thy enemies may the Crown flourish so even so (g) Psal 130.6 My soul shall wait for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning I say more than they that watch for the morning Amen Amen Amen 13. A Soliloquy with the soul about Hypocrisie MY soul my soul It is said (h) Eccl 6.7 All the labour of man is for his mouth But who had thought this could have been true of his religious labour For really though (i) Josh 1.8 the