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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27153	The journal or diary of a thankful Christian presented in some meditations upon Numb. 33:2 / by J.B., Master of Arts, and Minister of the Gospel at Barnstone in Essex.	Beadle, John, d. 1667.; Fuller, John, b. 1640 or 41.	1656 (1656)	Wing B1557; ESTC R20752	111,367	248

are worst God is ever best when we are at our wits end then he makes the storm a calm and brings us to our desired haven When we know not what to do he knows how to deliver Three persons Christ is said in the Gospel to have raised from the dead one was dead but not carryed out and that was Jairus his daughter A second was dead and carried out and that was the widows Son of Naim A third was dead and carried out and buried in the grave where he had lyen foure days so that he began to stink and that was Lazarus All these he raised at his owne time and that the best time He works as wonderfully in raising converts from the grave of sin Some are dead but not carried out these are civill persons who are dead in sin but more modest and moderate whose disorders are not so notorious and in the publick view of the world if they be drunk they are drunk in the night Some are dead and carried out these with Absalom will play their pranks on the house top that are almost in all evill in the midst of the congregation and assembly Some are dead carried out and buried whose filthy lives stink in the no● strils of God and men And yet when Gods time is come if he speak but the word only Lazarus come forth they shall live in his sight Even Manasseh the bloody and Mary Magdalen the filthy and Paul the persecuter shall be converted In all our tribulations both Nationall and Personall it is good to wait on God who can and will at his owne time deliver our persons from trouble and our Nation from the grave of sorrow yea even when our bones are dead and dry and scattered he can then prophesie over us and cause a gracious resurrection but we must wait till his time come as the eyes of servants upon their Masters until he have mercy upon us We are all for the time present we would all be Masters no servants Wilt thou now say the Disciples to our Saviour after his resurrection restore the Kingdome to Israel Who answered them It is not for you to know the times and seasons that the Father hath put in his owne power And it is good to wait 1. It is bonum honorandum an honorable good Happy are these thy servants saith Sheba 's Queen that stand continually before thee O King Solomon But a greater then Solomon is here 2. It is bonum utile a profitable good The longer we wait the better we speed Abraham waited long for a Son Hanna waited long for a childe so did Zachary and Elizabeth and had they not all a most gracious issue When two Monkes came to King Will. Rufu● to buy an Abbots place and endevoured to out-bid each other a third Monk that came to wait on them was asked what he would give and answered Not a penny I came to wait on him that shal have the place upon which he gave the waiter the place 3. It is bonum jucundum a pleasant thing to wait For all Gods wayes are wayes of pleasantnesse and all his paths are peace 4. It is bonum aequum It is most just that we should wait upon that God that would wait upon us that he might be gracious unto us Some Historians have made this difference betwixt Charls King of Sicily and Fabius the Romane Generall the first staid till the opportunity was past and so lost all the second waited till the time came cunctando restituit rem by waiting the fittest season he restored the Common-wealth to her former beauty I had fainted saith the Psalmist unlesse I had believed to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the living But he adds by way of advice to others Wait on the Lord be of good courage and he shall strengthen thy heart Wait I say on the Lord. Waiting is nothing else but faith and patience and hope lengthened out to Gods time 3. Observe Gods wisdome and goodnesse to you in the choyce of the measure just so much comfort in the creature and no more He it is that gives us our daily bread that feeds us with convenient food that is an allowance fitted to our size and stature a proportion suitable to our condition A crust of Gods carving is better then a banquet of our owne providing I am sure that is true that the Psalmist hath taught us A little that a righteous man hath is better then the riches of many wicked ones Because that little is Gods allowance Plentifull provisions have oftentimes large bills of accompt How hard a matter is it to enjoy much with an Omnia bene Many rich owners are like weary Sumpter-horses who having travelled all day under the burthen of some great treasure at night lie down in a soul stable with gall'd backs so these at last are laid down in their graves with galled distressed consciences And if it so fall out that their spirits are quiet that the tears of the oppressed do not cry out against them yet high places are slippery and great estates lie open to the blasts of envy and malice It is as great a mercy to be able to want that patiently that God denies justly as to use that wisely that God bestowes bountifully Gods measure is ever best so much health and no more so much liberty and no more so much riches and no more so much content in a wife so much comfort in a childe so much love from a friend and no more It may be our neighbour hath ten talents and we but two Gods allowance is ever best beg we for our daily bread but let God be our carver Joseph thought that his good old Father had been mistaken when he laid his right hand on Ephraim's head who was the younger and his left on Manasseh who was the elder And we are ready to entertain hard thoughts of God who oftentimes layes an heavy hand upon his Saints that are his first-born and is very open-handed to others I was envyous at the foolish saith the Psalmist when I saw the prosperity of the wicked when all the day long I have been plagued and chastened every morning But God is wise and knows what is best Some live upon their lands and some by their labours and some by both some live upon their trades and some by alms and some upon their friends God often teacheth his by the want of some mercies how to value others and to be thankfull for them and fruitfull under them Fulnesse is the bane of thankfulnesse and want a good antidote against wantonnesse I am sure surfet kills more then famine more birds are taken with a net then slain with a gun The roaring of the Canon is good Rhetorick to commend peace and that Spring is usually most pleasant that is ushered in by a sharp Winter Yea further the meanest