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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12181	Divine meditations and holy contemplations. By that reverende divine R. Sibbes D.D. Master of Catherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Grayes Inne in London	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.; Culverwell, Ezekiel, 1553 or 4-1631.	1638 (1638)	STC 22490; ESTC S112642	60,923	350

events strange massacres and tragicall deaths which have from time to time pursued the drowsie heart and carelesse minde and in these our dayes is the butchery of all the mischiefes which have already chanced unto our Countrimen for whilst Gods judgements are masked and not presented to the view of the minde by the serious worke of the same though they are keene and sharpe it being sheathed they seeme dull and of no edge unto us which causeth us to pricke up the feathers of pride and insolency and to make no reckoning of the fearefull and finall rekoning which most assu redly must be made will wee nill wee before Gods Tribunall Hence it commeth to passe that our English Gentlewomen doe brave it with such out-landish manners as though they could dash God out of countenance or roist it in heaven as they carve it here so that thousands are carried to hell out of their sweete perfumed chambers where they thought to have lived and are snatched presently from their pleasant and odoriferous Arbours daintie dishes and silken company to take up their roome in the dungeon and lake of hell which burneth perpetually with fire and brimstone And for the want of this Gods children goe limping in their knowledge and carrie the fire of zeale in a flintie heart which unlesse it be hammered will not yeeld a sparke to warme and cheere their benummed and frozen affections towards the worship and service of God and the heartie embracing of his truth By this Gods Workes of Creation are slipped over even from the Cedar to the Hyssope that groweth on the wall The Sunne the Moone the Starres shine without admiration the sea and the earth the foules fishes beasts and man himselfe are all esteemed as common matters in Nature thus God worketh those strange creatures without that glory performed which is due and his children receive not that comfort by the secret meditation of Gods creation as they might Hence it proceedeth that they are often in their dumps fearing as though they enjoyed not the light whereas if they would meditate and judge aright of their estates they might finde theey are the Sons of God heires of that rich kingdome most apparantly knowne and established in heaven and shall suddenly possesse the same even then most likely when their flesh thinketh it farthest off as the Heire being within a moneth of his age maketh such a reckoning of his lands that no carefull distresse can trouble him but this consideration being partly through Sathans and partly through their owne dulnesse and over-stupidnesse they fare like men in aswound and as it were bereaved of the very life of the Spirit staggering under the burthen of affliction stammering in their godly profession and cleaving sometimes unto the world through this they carry Christs promises like comforts in a boxe or as the Chirurgion his salves in his bosome Meditation applieth Meditation healeth Medditation instructeth if thou lovest wisedome and blessednesse meditate in the Law of the Lord day and night and so make use of these meditations to quicken thee up to duty and to sweeten thy heart in thy way to the heavenly Ierusalem Farewell E. 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DIVINE Meditations THat man hath made a good progressein Religion that hath a high esteeme of the Ordinances of God and though perhappes he find himselfe dead and dull yet the best things have left such a taste and rellish in his soule that hee cannot be long without them This is a signe of a good temper A Wife when shee marries a Husband gives up her will to him So doth every Christian when hee is married to Christ hee gives up his will and all that hee hath to him and saith Lord I have nothing but if thou callest for it thou shalt have it againe When wee come to Religion wee loose not our sweetnesse but translate it perhapps before wee fed upon prophane Authors now wee feede upon holy truths A Christian never knowes what comfort is in Religion till hee come to bee downe-right as Austin saith Lord I have wanted of thy sweetnesse over long all my former life was nothing but huskes God takes care of poore weake Christians that are strugling with temptations and corruptions Christ carries them in his armes All Christs sheepe are diseased and therefore hee will have a tender care of them Esay 40. 11. Whatsoever is good for Gods Children they shall have it for all is theirs to further them to heaven therefore if poverty be good they shall have it if disgrace be good they shall have it if crosses be good they shall have them if misery be good they shall have it for all is ours to serve for our maine good Gods Children have these outward things with God himselfe they are as Conduits to convey his favour to us and the same love that moved God to give us heaven and happinesse the same love moves him to give us daily bread The whole life of a Christian should bee nothing but praises and thankes to God we should neither eate nor drinke nor sleepe but eate to God and sleepe to God and worke to God and talke to God doe all to his glory and praise Though God deliver not out of trouble yet hee delivers from the ill in trouble from despaire in trouble by supporting the Spirit Nay he delivers by trouble for hee sanctifies the trouble to cure the soule and by lesse troubles hee delivers from greater What are we but a Modell of Gods favours what doe wee see or what doe wee taste but matter of the mercyes of God the miseries of others should bee matter of praise to us the sinnes of others should make us praise God and say Lord it might have beene my case it might have befallen me God pitties our weakenesse in all our troubles and afflictions he will not stay too long least wee out of weakenesse put our hands to some shifts hee will not suffer the rodde of the wicked to rest upon the lot of the righteous Psal. 125. 3. Is it not an unreasonable speech for a man at midnight to say it will never be day and so it is an unreasonable thing for a man that is in trouble to say O Lord I shall never get out of this it will alwayes be thus with me Doe the wicked thinke to shame or feare good men No a Spirit of grace and glory shall rest upon them they shall not onely have a Spirit of Grace rest upon them but a Spirit of Glory So that their countenances shall shine as Stephens did when hee was stoned Act. 6. 15. If God hides his face from us what shall become of our foules wee are like the poore flower that opens and shuts with the Sunne If God shines upon the heart of a man it opens but if hee withdrawes himselfe we hang downe our heads Thou turn ' dst away thy face and I was troubled Psal. 30. 7. When wee have given up our selves to God let us comfort our