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A33343
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The saints nosegay, or, A posie of 741 spirituall flowers both fragrant and fruitfull, pleasant and profitable / collected and composed by Samuel Clark.
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Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.
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from him an act of patience the mind quietly contenting it selfe till God doth come and of submission if he should not come 198 Wee would so beleeve in God as if we used no meanes and yet as diligently use the meanes even as if our confidence were to be in them 199 Thistles are il weeds but the ground is fat where they grow so doubting in a child of God is a thing that resists faith it is bad but it is a signe that the heart is good where it is 201 Faith should bee in the soule as the soule is in the body which is not there in vaine but is still stirring and shewing it selfe by motion and action 202 As wine which is turned to vineger ceaseth to be wine So ineffectuall faith hath the shaddow and name of faith only but it is not faith and therefore not accepted of by God 203 As exercise begets health and by health wee are made fit for exercise So assurance grounded upon the promise enableth enlargeth and encreaseth sanctification and sanctification encreaseth assurance 204 The Saints that ascend high in obedience are like men gone up high upon Ladder the higher they are gone up the faster they hold and they are not without some passages of feare to slip downe 205 There is no darkenesse so desolate no crosse so cutting but the splendor of a sound faith and cleare conscience is able to enlighten and mollifie 206 In prayer it is faith that must make us successefull in the word its faith must make us profitable In obedience its faith must make us cheerfull In afflictions its faith must make us patient In trials its faith must make us resolute In desertions its faith must make us comfortable In life its faith which must make us fruitfull and in death its faith which must make us victorious 207 What we cannot beleeve by understanding we should labour to understand by beleeving 208 Downewards a mans eye hath something immediatly to fix on all the beauty and fruit of the earth being set on the outside of it to shew how short and narrow our affections should be toward it but outward the eye scarse finds any thing to bound it all being transparent and Diaphanous to note how vaste our affections should be towards God how endlesse our thoughts and desires of his Kingdome and how present to our faith heavenly things should be even at the greatest distance 209 As Husbandmen cast some of their corne back into a fruitfull soyle wherby in due time they receive it back again with encrease so should wee doe with worldly blessings sow them in the bowels and backs of the poore members of Christ and in the day of harvest we shall find a great increase 210 Charities eys must be open as well as her hands though she giveth away the branches yet not to part with the root 211 Almes in Greeke comes from a word that signifies to piety because they should proceed from a mercifull and pâ—tifull heart and in the Hebrew and Syriack it s called righteousnesse as being by right due to the poore 212 In workes of charity our scattering is increasing no spending but a lending no laying out but a laying up Prov. 11.24 Pro 19.17 213 Nothing can more effectually deliver a man from need then to be liberall to them that be in need 214 Duties must be discharged whatsoever difficulties wee meet withall 215 Christs obedience was meritorious for the redemption of his Church ours only ministeriall for the edificatioÌ„ of his church 216 Luther said that God loves curristas not quaristas wee must not reason but run 217 Wee bewray our love more by griefe in parting with any good then by our joy in partaking of it 218 Reward hath an attractive and punishment an impulsive but Love hath a compulsive faculty Reward drawes Punishment drives but love hales a man forward to the discharge of his duty 219 Love unto Christ is an holy affection of the soule carrying of us with full desire to the enjoying of him and making us to preferre our communion with him before all things in the world that may challenge our dearest respect 220 If God write a law of love in our hearts and shed abroad his owne love to joyne therewith it will worke so strongly that one graine of it will have more force to purge out sinne and to constraine and strengthen to obedience then a whole pound of terrors 221 How can God but love them that love him seeing he loved them when they loved him not 222 There is no affection freer then love as there is nothing more forcible so nothing that can bee lesse forced 223 As Rackets at tennis make the ball live in a perpetuall motion so doe repulses in love and reflect it stronger into one anothers bosome the best temper of it is that the communication of it bee neither too forward to coole desire nor too froward least it cause despaire 224 God delights more in his countrey cottage of a godly heart then in his courtly pallace of heaven 225 The triangular heart of man was intended for a mansion for the blessed Trinity and if wee could but looke into our owne heart we should find chalked upon the doore For God as the Kings Harbingers doe for the lodgings of the Courtiers 226 Nothing is difficult with God for his word is his will and his will is his worke 227 We can see no more then the back parts of God and live wee need see no more that we may live 228 Where God is absolute in threatning he will be resolute in punishing 229 God is the most glorious and most alluring object our minds can fasten on and therefore the thoughts of him should swallow up all other as not worthy to be seene the same day with him 230 Gods power is as much seene in pardoning sinne and over comming his wrath as in making a world Num. 14.17.18 231 A poore soule is not contented with ease pardon knocking of his bolts till hee enjoyes communion with God and sees his face in his ordinances 232 As the sunne is the fountaine of all light so that whatsoever the ayre hath it s derived from the sunne so whatsoever comfort is in the creature it s derived from God 233 As the fire that makes any thing hot must needs be hotter it selfe so the Lord since all that is in the creature is taken from him himselfe must needs have an al-sufficiency he must be full of al things 234 An host may entertaine strangers with better food then he gives his children yet hee keeps the best portion for his children so God may do much for those that are strangers to him yet he keeps the best portioÌ„ for his children which they shal have in the end though they fare hard here 235 We must principally love God for his excelleÌ„cies not for our own advaÌ„tages 236 When wee guidâ— our hearts to God hee gives them backe to us againe much better then