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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90864	Spiritual flovvers for saints and sinners. Gathered out of the garden of the sacred scriptures, and writings of men famous in their generations. / By Robert Port minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.	Port, Robert, b. 1617 or 18.	1655 (1655)	Wing P2981; Thomason E1548_2; ESTC R209461	39,839	195

unwilling to do good that 's worst but some are willingly willing and that 's best 'T is not so much a mercy to have wherewithall to do good as to do good with what we have No man but he hath received more good than he hath done and hath done more evill than he hath first suffered and therefore should be content though he receive but little good and not discontent though he suffer much evill The good which we receive is not for our own sake and the good which we do is not by our own power it s the mercy of God that moves him to do any thing for us and that enables us to do any thing for him A man should not omit good when he hath nor commit evil though he have an opportunity to do it Inward goodness without an outward shew of it is like a tree without fruit useless And outward shews of goodness without inward sincerity is like a tree without heart liveless Goods Wicked men have their goods from the will of God but the Saints have theirs from the good will of God Men are not more happy in having more goods but in doing more good than other men Godliness a Mystery Though the mystery of godliness be not without great controversies yet great without controversie is the mystery of godliness Men that resolve to make gain their godliness will never gain godliness unless they resolve counter to make godliness their gain Some men instead of making godliness their greatest pleasure and gain make gain and pleasure their greatest godliness Gold a vanity Gold is a solid well compacted and weighty metall and yet gold not onely leaf gold or light gold but gold that 's weighty is lighter than vanity Glory In this life the glory of heaven is but revealed to us but in the life to come it shall be revealed in us The glory of all our hereafter glory will be an oneness of communion with the Father Son and Spirit Angels and one another in God who is one in all and all in one Glorifie We cannot be said to glorifie God though we do the things that glorifie him unless we do the things to glorifie him Gospel The Gospel discovers a just God to be a friend to unjust man without being unjust either to himself or man The Gospel of peace is a great blessing but the peace of the Gospel is a greater blessing The Gospel breaks hard hearts and heals broken hearts Grace One grain of grace is more worth than many pounds of gifts or a gift of many pounds Grace makes a man more a man and more than a man Grace is glory begun and glory is grace made perfect Seeing God will turn grace into our glory hereafter we should turn grace into his glory here The motions of grace are abundantly more excellent than the notions of grace That can never be a grace to the body which is a disgrace to the soul There are promises of grace and there are promises to grace The promises of grace are made good by working the grace of the promise in the soul But the promises to grace are not made good till the grace to which the promise is made be acted by the soul Grace out-works and works out sin in Saints Grace is the best wear for it wears not out in wearing all other things perish in the using The God of all grace and all the grace of God is engaged to keep the Saints to eternal life We may well wait for the Lords grace seeing the Lord waits to be gratious 'T is one thing to be wanting in grace 't is another thing to want grace All Saints have all grace in some degree but few have all grace in an high degree Going on in grace is a kind of growing in grace for growing in grace is not so much a new thing as the same thing renewed 't is acting the same graces over and over and better and better Abounding is growing in grace What could God do more for us than accept us of his grace and what less could God require of us than to accept of his grace Men may speak of grace unto us but God onely can speak grace into us Saving grace is everlasting grace A Saint feels the grace which he cannot express an Hypocrite expresseth the grace which he doth not feel The meanes of grace is but a mean thing if compar'd with grace which is the main thing There may be an omission but never an amission of grace A Saint doth not desire grace onely that he may be glorified but that he may glorifie God not onely that he may be saved but that he may be sanctified Greatness and goodness Goodness without greatness is better than greatnsss without goodness 'T is not mans goodness but Gods goodness which makes a difference betwixt man and man To be very great and very good is a very great good H Heart A thankful heart for all Gods blessings is the greatest of all blessings That mans heart can be but seldome pure whose tongue is often impure for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh Some men set their hearts on that on which God would that they set onely their feet viz. the earth We have alas but too often our hearts to seek when we come to seek God whom we should seek and serve with all our hearts When the heart is upright with God he accounts all as well done as if all were not well done yea he looks on that as done which was never done The hearts of Saints are larger than their words but the words of Hypocrites are larger than their hands God brings his people into various conditions that they may know what is in their hearts towards him and what is in his heart towards them Worldly Happiness Corn and Wine and Oyle is the worldlings happiness and but a worldly happiness for when the world is at an end happiness it at an end with them Hatred Love The Devil doth not nay the Devil cannot hate a Saint so much as God loves a Saint Heaven While the Saints are on earth Christ is preparing heaven for them and them for heaven If we doe not find that in heaven which we did imagine yet we shall find more than we did imagine Helping-hand It many times falls out that that hand is farthest off from helping that is neerest at hand to help the helpless Holy Saints strive to be holy as God is holy they know they cannot be as holy as God is holy Holiness Our holiness causeth not Gods love but Gods love causeth our love A Christian should not onely be perfecting holiness but we should also be perfect in holiness He that loves not holiness in the seed time of his life cannot expect to reap happiness in the harvest of eternity Hope Patience A Christian should possess his soul in the patience of hope untill his soul possess that which he hath patiently hoped for Honour To deserve

SPIRITUAL FLOWERS FOR SAINTS AND SINNERS Gathered out of the Garden of the sacred Scriptures and Writings of Men famous in their Generations By ROBERT PORT Minister of the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST Eccles 12. ver 11. The words of the wise are as goades and nayles fastned by the Masters of Assemblies London Printed by G. Dawson for George Sawbridge at the Sign of the Bible upon Ludgate-hill 1655. THE EPISTLE TO THE READER Courteous Reader THe Presse I confess is overpressed with some worthlesse works as I may call them raw Eructations of each petty Pamphletor and Readers are cloy'd and surfeited on variety in that kind And Censure being so busie every where blasting hopeful labours in the very bud might make me suspect this of mine Yet at an adventure among such a throng of Writers as pester the world I 'le croud in for company This Book thus compos'd and digested into heads was intended to have attended my service alone for ever but that some worthy friends whose judicious eye might becken me along to any good design attested seriously it would be very serviceable to Church and Common-wealth for the advance of holiness Whereupon I began to think with my self as the four Lepers 2 King 7. 8 9. I should not do well to hide or bury any thing which might do others good and therefore I have now adventured to publish it Yet let it not render the modesty of this Book suspected because it presumes to appear in company unmaned by any Patron if right it will defend it self if wrong none can defend it And now I beseech thee as well by my Epistle as by my Book labour to keep close to God in a loose Age spend not thy time in complaining of the licentiousness of the time in the mean time setting up a toleration in thine own heart and life Take heed in pleasing thy self in a bare formall profession labour to be rooted in Christ he who is but a visible Christian may in a short time cease to be so much as visible He who speaks of Christ but notionally may in time be won to speak against him Lay the foundation of mortification deep Love not the world Reserve no lust from the stroak of Jesus Christ Beware of scandals take them not where they are make them not where they are not the common sin of our times to black Religion and the Religious and then to fear and hate both Despise not the providences of God in the world they are signs of Gods mind though not of his love Delight in the publick Ordinances and highly esteem of faithful Ministers they and Religion are commonly blasted together Shun seducers sit down under a Minister as well as under a Preacher He who will hear every one may at length be brought to hear none Prov. 19. 27. And he who will hear him preach who ought not may soon be left to learn that which he ought not Preserve a tender conscience Every step thou takest fear a snare Read thine one heart in the wickedness of others Be not slight in Closet duties Oft think of God in thy particular Calling for therein thou thinkest thou hast least leisure but sure thou hast most need to do so In a word I wish thee as much delight and benefit in the perusing of my Book as it hath cost me paines in collecting digesting transcribing and reviewing of it And as this shall find acceptance with thee I shall as God shall give strength and more leisure yet further approve my self to be Thy Servant in the Lord to promots thy Faith and Comfort R. P. THE PRINTER TO THE READER REader be pleased to take notice that the Author of these Collections thus digested is preparing for the Presse these Books following viz. I. The holy Bible opened in severall Sermons upon choice Texts out of every Book in the old and new Testament 2 Light and Darkness or Truth by Scripture plainly confirmed and error confuted 3 The Saints rich Cabinet opened and presented to publick view Containing many choice and pretious Jewels all which are reduced into Theologicall conclusions Alphabetically disposed 4 Physicall Gleanings experimentally propounded 5 Emmanuel or God with us being an Annual Chronology from the year 1640. to 165● methodically composed 6 The faithfull Shepheard guiding his flock to a constant walking with God 7 Evangelicall Legacies for Saints and Sinners tending to settle the wavering to stay the wandering and to strengthen the fainting Spiritual FLOWERS For SAINTS and SINNERS Admiring WE should admire nothing for or in it self but admire al things in God and God in all things Action A good aime doth not make a bad action good but a bad aime makes a good action bad Many times there may be sin in the action when yet the action may not be sin Actions A Christian may usually say that all is not ill in his evil actions nor all good in his good actions Good actions well done better our selves and benefit others Acknowledge It is good to acknowledge God to be just and 't is just to acknowledge God to be good in all his wayes Adversity 'T is better to be preserved in the brine of adversity then to rot in the honey of prosperity Affections When our affections and conversations are in heaven we injoy heaven upon earth Afflictions Afflictions are then a blessing to us when we can bless God for afflictions Sanctified afflictions as sickness crosses and losses are better than unsanctified health and gain Affliction seldome comes without being a temptation but temptation never comes without being an affliction to the Saints Being afflicted doth often discover Hypocrites yet being afflicted is no discovery of an Hypocrite Afflicted We are then truly afflicted for sin when 't is more for displeasing God than for the displeasure of God more that he is displeased by us than that he is displeased with us Alone Some men are least alone when most alone when Jacob was left alone he did wrestle with God All in all It is for none but him who is all and the fulness which filleth all in all to give to all abundantly Angry The world is angry with Saints that they are no worse and the Saints are angry with them and themselves that they are no better It doth not become us to be angry with God though God come to be angry with us He that is angry with his brother without a cause is in danger of judgement and he is likewise in danger of judgement who is not angry with his Brother when there is cause Anger can hardly be silent but that anger is admirable which speaks and sins not Be angry but sin not He that will be angry for any thing will be angry for nothing Antichrist See Maen of Sin Appearance Appearance in good is too little in evill 't is too much Appearing They for whom and to whom God appears much should appear much for God Many men appear righteous who are not righteous as