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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25421	The right government of thoughts, or, A discovery of all vain, unprofitable, idle, and wicked thoughts with directions for the getting, keeping, and governing of good thoughts, digested into chapters for the ease of the reader : whereunto are added four sermons / by ... John Angel ...	Angel, John, d. 1655.; T. B.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3162A; ESTC R13149	89,280	271

dead and gone Surely whether they were of high or low degree they were but vanity and now they are dead there is an end of their vanity rather then of themselves their vanity is gone but their excellency remaineth with them there is but one and that is the last piece of their vanity which remaineth which is the captivity of their bodies under the grave and the turning of it into rottennesse but yet they are insensible of it and feel no pain and being for ever blessed in the presence and fruition of God himselfe they do live in the certain and assured expectation of the re-union of their bodies with their soules and therefore I say with the blessed Apostle in the very same case 1 Thes 4. 18. Comfort your selves one another with these words and so for a time I will lay aside my Text and betake my self to the present occasion of which that very spectacle doth mind us And now give me leave for a conclusion of my Text a little to invert the words and what the Psalmist speaks of every Adam by way of contraries to apply to every true Christian and that is this Every true Christan even in his worst estate is altogether excellent this is the difference of our being in the first and second Adam In the one altogether vanity in the other altogether excellent excellent in their life excellent in their death Rom. 14. 8. for if they live they live unto the Lord and if they dye they dye unto the Lord whether then they live or dye they are the Lords take them in their worst estates even in afflictions and there they rejoyce under the hope of the glory of God and their affliction which is but for a moment worketh a far super-excellent and an eternal weight of glory 2 Cor. 4. 9. afflicted on every side but not forsaken cast down but they perish not come what can come come what may yet are they in all things more then conquerors and every thing turneth to their good Rom. 8. 23. And as it followeth in the same place neither life nor death nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers nor heighth nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate them from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord and therefore as Salomon in his Ecclesiastes after his large discourse of vanity for a conclusion of all Ecclesiastes 12. 13. brings in the remedy and the counterpoyse of vanity even so say I with him let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter Fear God and keep his Commandements for this is the whole duty of man Assure your selves there is nothing that eates up vanity but grace onely and so much the more grace ever so much the lesse vanity All things under the Sun are vanity but onely grace and therefore let all our prayers and endeavours be set on this to have Grace to serve God in this world that we may have glory the reward of our service in the world to come Now to God the Father God the Sonne and God the Holy Ghost be rendred all Honour and Glory both now and evermore AMEN A PREPARATION For the COMMUNION 1 Cor. 11. 28. But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. THe things whereof we are to examine our selves may be referred to two heads our Sins and our Graces The necessity of the examination of our sins appears in this That sins unexamined are unespied being unespied they will be unrepented being unrepented we shall bring them with us to the Sacrament and being brought along with us to the Sacrament or the Lords Table they will be a Bar to the confirmation of Gods Covenant with us whereof the Bread and Wine is a Seal and also to our reaping the comfort sweetnesse and benefits of that Ordinance for where there is no searching and trying of our waies there can be no turning unto the Lord Lam. 3. 40. Now there are four principal helps to further us in the examination of our sins 1. A distribution of our lives into certain portions according to our ages of childhood youth manhood old age and it will be useful for us severally to remember So much of my time I spent in my fathers family under the government of my parents so much time abroad under the care and tuition of others and these and these sins committed during that same time such a quantity of time spent in the service of others and such a portion being a free man at my own liberty so many years passed over in a single estate so many in Matrimonie or Wedlock This distribution of our lives into certain portions will help us to a discovery of our particular sins and the aggravation of them from our nativitie to the present moment wherein we begin to examine our selves Whereas without this our apprehensions and view of them will be but confused onely in grosse and in general But when we have thus quartered our lives and considered those special sins that have been committed by us in those several divisions the main sins of our lives will appear in a kind of order before us Yet we are still to remember that besides those greater and more eminent sins of our lives which appear there will be many unknown sins many omissions of good duties many slender performances of our best duties discharged which will escape our search The second help will be to set before us the glasse of Gods Law sum'd up in the ten Commandments for by the Law is the knowledge of sin Rom. 3. 20. in which glasse we must consider the latitude and extent of every commandment how far it reacheth in the several prohibitions of evil and precepts of good for Gods Commandments are exceeding broad Psal 119. 96. if thus we shall do with heedfulnesse then we shall see our faces in the glasse of Gods Law to the full and our own spots and wrinkles and we shall find those things upon our review to be sins which in acting of them it may be we deemed to be none and understand what Paul meant Rom. 7. 7. I had not known sin but by the Law for I had not known lust except it had been said thou shalt not covet The third help is a consideration of the heightning circumstances of sin the aggravating conditions whereby our sins may appear unto us as too often they are exceeding sinful for we ought to examine the heinousnesse of our impieties as well as the multitude This will cause our humiliation to be deeper our sorrow to be heartier and engage us more feelingly to be thankful unto God for his great love in pardoning of them through Christ See this pra●tise by Peter upon his denial Mark 14. 72. Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him before the Cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice The aggravating circumstances of his sin helped on to draw out his tears with