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A64283	Nathanael, or, An Israelite indeed lively portraied, and evidently proved to be an object most worthy both of our admiration and imitation, his priviledges and characters are also layd down : together with a discovery of the sinfulness and miserie of all hypocrites and strangers from the common-wealth of Israel / by Faithfull Teate ...	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1657 (1657)	Wing T613; ESTC R41538	79,460	204

as an uncleane thing Isa 64.6 yet in a threefold respect their hearts may be truely said to be cleane 1. As they are justified by faith God imputeth not to them their owne sins but the righteousness of his sonne Rom. 4.6 by whose blood they are cleansed from all iniquity 1 Joh. 1.7.9 so that they confess their sins to God Christ interposeth his merits and telleth them they are cleane every whit Joh. 13.10 and this made David so confident in his prayer to God Psal 51.7 Purge me with hysop and I shall be cleane wash me and I shall be whiter then snow 2. In respect of regenerating or sanctifying grace God hath begun to purify their hearts by faith Act. 15.9 Thirdly Their unfaigned desires are to have their hearts cleansed as appeareth by Davids prayer Psal 51.10 Create in me a clean heart O God Fourthly Their constant endeavours are since they have received such promises and grace withal to clea●se themselves as the Apostle teacheth fron all filthyness not onely of the fl●sh but also of the Spirit and to perfect holiness in the feare of God 2 Cor. 7.1 And for that end 1 They hide the word in their hearts that they may not sin against God Psal 119 11 2 They keep their hearts with all diligence well knowing that from thence spring the issues of life Pro. 4.23 3 They suffer not vain thoughts to lodg in their breasts Jer. 4.14 but carefully expel all evil imaginations and disorderly affections which therefore are compared to strangers and wayfaring men who come into an other mans house but tarry not there long as Augustine interpreteth that passage in Nathans parable 2 Sam. 12.4 There came in a traveller unto the rich man A traveller not an Inmate 4. They are much afflicted and in great bitterness and sorrow of spirit when they seriously reflect upon their soules and find them out of order by reason of pride hypocrisy or any other obliquity they weep and mourne yea their laughter is turned to mourning and their joy to heaviness and they humble themselves before the Lord as St Iames commandeth Iam. 4.9.10 and though they enjoy outward health and prosperity yet are they wearie of their very lives by reason of their inward exorbitances and lusts Fifthly they are like to a living spring which worketh uncessantly day and night till it hath purged out the filth that by any means is cast into it so can not they rest till they have washed themselves in the fountain opened for sin and uncleannesse Zach. 13.1 Sixthly being jealous of their owne hearts which by nature are deceitfull above all things and desperately wicked so that none but the Lord who searcheth the heart and tryeth the reines can know it Jer. 17.9 10. And withall being conscious to them selves how unable they are to subdue their unruly passions and vile affections they pour forth many and fervent prayers to God in the name of Christ to discover to them their hidden corruptions and to clense them from their secret sinnes as may be seen in David Psalm 139.23 24. Search me O God and Know my Heart Try me and Know my Thoughts See if there be any wicked way in me and lead me into the way everlasting and Psalm 19.12 Clense thou me from secret faults Application Hereby it may appeare that such bebelong not to the Common-wealth of Israel who 1. boast of the goodnesse of their hearts 2. that hold thoughts to be free 3. who never watch over their hearts 4. that never are troubled about the filthynesse of their inward parts 5. never wash them in the blood of the immaculate Lamb 6. nor pray for wisedome to discover nor power from on high to purifie and order them aright This is one of the liveliest and surest Symptons whereby you may know whether your heart be right with God or no● It is true others cannot judge immediately of them but God can and doth and will one day bring to light the hidden things of darknesse and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts and then shall every man have praise of God 1 Cor. 4 5. Oh therefore judg your selves that you may not be judged of him to eternall condemnation Chara ∣ cter 5 5. As when Jacob personated his brother Esau yet his father though he were blind discerned his voyce Genesis 27.22 The voyce is Jacobs voice saith he but the hands are the hands of Esau So ordinarily may a true Christian be discovered by his dialect or language for he speaketh best his mothers tongue called the language of Canaan Isaiah 19.18 which consists 1. In abstaining from evill talk 1 Pet. 3.10 for he that will love life and see good dayes must refraine his tong●e from evill and his lips that they speak no guile But if at any time he over shooteth and breaketh out into distempered words either offensive to his God or infections to his neighbour knowing that evill communication infecteth good manners 1 Cor 15.33 1. he recalleth himselfe 2. confesseth his sin to God with selfe-abhorrencie and humbleth himselfe for it as Job did in his answer to the Lord Job 40.4 5. Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee I will lay mine hand upon my mouth Once have I spoken but I will not answer yea twice but I will proceed no further Thirdly he resolveth for the future to bridle his tongue better as David did Psalm 39.1 I said I will take heed to my wayes that I sin not with my tongue I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me Fourthly he prayeth the Lord to set a Watch before his mouth and to keep the door of his lips Psa 141.3 as unable to doe it himselfe Fifthly It is a dayly vexation to his righteous soul to hear others to dishonour God by their uncircumcised lips and prophane discourses Lot vexed his soul day by day as well in hearing the Sodomites unlawfull speeches as in seeing their unlawfull deeds 2 Pet. 2.8 and of old they used to rent their garments when they had heard any to speak blasphemie Secondly the Language of Canaan consists not onely in shunning of evill words but also in bringing forth good things out of the good treasu e of his heart as an evill man out of the evill treasure bringeth forth evil things Mat 12.35 For as the righteous bath the law of God in his heart so his mouth speaketh of wisedome and his tongue talketh of judgement Psalm 37.30 31 according to the Apostles charge Eph. 4.29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace to the hearers Now bring your selves to this test Application for by mens words they shall be justified and by their words shall they be condemned Tit. 1.10 Ma● 12.37 Hereby 1. all unruly and vaine talkers cursers customary swearers railers and scoffers that walk after their own ungodly

who are indeed comely yet withal are black whilest they remain here below Cant. 1.5 He can discern their blackness but not their comeliness if there be any infirmities or deformity in the Saints the world can soone espie the same and discover them to others as C ham looked on his fathers nakedness when he lay drunk in his tent and told his brethren without Genes 9.22 Here the wicked be as quicksighted as L●nceus to behold a mote in the best mans eye Mat. 7.3 and may fitly be compared to bats and owles that can see better in the dark then in the light or secondly the carnal man beholdeth the godly with an evil eye as of scorne and contempt as Michael Sauls daughter saw David leaping and dancing before the Lord and despised him in her heart 2 Sam. 6.16 or with an eye of envy and hatred as Saul eyed David 1. Sam. 18.9 Vse 4 Yet here the Saints may find matter of exceeding great consolation though the perverse world censure and unjustly condemn them and not only so but they be loathsome also in their own sight for their iniquities Ezek. 36.31 for the Lords eyes are ever upon them for good and his eares open to their cry Psal 34.15 yea though their dearest friends who loved them best while they were alive yet when they are dead can hardly brook to look on them as when Sarah was dead Abraham bought a burying place of the sons of Heth to bury his dead out of his sight Genes 23 4. yet precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal 116.15 yea and he will make them to be had in honour of all that have any spiritual discerning for many things for which the injudicious worlding condemneth them as David assureth M●chal who had despised him in her heart and rated him for dancing before the arke that he should be had in honour for that very cause of the handmaids of Israel 2 Sam. 6.22 and this their glory shal be like to the morning light Pro. 4.18 that shineth more and more until the perfect day even till Christ shal come to be glorified in his Saints 2 Thes 1.10 For they are already the sons of God and it doth not yet appeare what they shal be but this is most certaine that when he shall appeare they shal be like him and shal see him as he is 1 J●h 3.2 And then shall all that ever hated them and vilified them see it and be ashamed and be grieved and gnash with their teeth and melt away Ps 112.10 Vse 5 This serveth for a strong invitation to all to become true Israelites if they do but consider that the eyes of the Lord run to and fro through the earth to shew himselfe strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect towards him 2 Chron. 16.9 and that he will give them favour and respect not only in the eyes of good men such as David was but of moral though carnal persons as he made Joseph a servant to finde grace in Potiphars sight and afterwards of the keeper of the prison when he was his prisoner Genes 39.4.21 whereas on the other side all wicked persons are lothsome in God's eyes Psal 34.15 The face of the Lord is against them that do evil to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth for as he hath promised that they who honour him shal be honoured so he hath threatned that they who despise him shall be leightly esteemed 1 Sam. 2.30 for which end he sets Nigrum Theta an ignominious asterisk upon them as he did upon Doeg Psal 52.7 Lo this the man that made not the Lord his strength but trusted in the abundance of his riches and strengthened himself in his wickedness neither can the godly abide the sight of them He that worketh deceit saith David Psal 101.7 shal not dwel in my house he that telleth lies shal not tarry in my sight much lesse shal he reside in Heaven or tarry in Gods sight but be extruded from his presence for ever and from the glory of his power and be made an abhorring to all flesh 2 Thes 1.9 Isa 66.24 O then let this prevaile with you to enter into this honourable society your selves and to draw others with you into this happy and glorious estate then shall ye shine as the stars of the firmament for ever and ever Dan. 12.3 Vse 6 What a cogent argument should this be to enforce the Saints to look wel to themselves their inward thoughts and affections their words and actions since so many eyes are upon them even of God angels and men Oh! Mat. 5.16 let your lights deare christians so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven and pray continually with David Lead me O Lord Psa 5.8 in thy righteousness because of mine observers Vse 7 Use 7. How great cause have all they who are Israelites indeed to love the Lord Jesus Christ and to bless God for him For by his meanes are we advanced to all this excellency who when he found us in a most lothsome plight naked and in our blood none eye pittying us said unto us live Ezek. 16.5 6. And for that end he became man and was * Nazianz orat 1. in pascha Christus servi formam accepit ut nos libertatem accipiamus contemptus est ut gloriâ afficiat c. content to be emptied that we might be filled to fast that we might feast to be vilified that we might be dignified to be impoverished that we might be enriched to take shame to himself that hee might clothe us with honour and glory to be without forme and comeliness * Bern. de passione Domini c. 16. nostrâ charitate devinctus ad tempus corponis nostri deformitatem accepit for a time Isa 53.3 that we might be beautified for ever Behold our Lord Iesus I pray you in that dresse wherein Pilate presented him to his implacable enemies crowned with thorns and wearing purple in derision and all besmeared with his owne blood saying to them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 behold the man thinking by that ruthfull sight to have pacified their immense fury but to little purpose for they were the more enraged against him Now let us behold him and let Pilates counsel rejected by those bloody persecuters be acceptable to us that our love may thereby be enflamed towards him for it was for our sakes brethren that he was so pointed at by Pilate Behold the Man John 19.5 John 19.5 that it might be said of us behold Israelites indeed and happy art thou O Israel who is like unto thee O people saved by the Lord the shield of thy help and the sword of thy excellency Deut. 33.29 The Second Part. Sect. 1. HItherto I have held forth the flag or streamer to invite you all to take a right survay of the true Israelite

the serpents seed Gen. 3.25 or as St. Iohn plainly telleth them children of the Devil 1. Joh. 3.20 Among all whom they fall under the heaviest censure who disclaime all duties of charity as if none could perform them but forthwith they must needes make a ladder for themselves to ascend to Heaven by whereas the Judg himself hath foretold us that they shal be placed on the left hand among the goats who neglect them Mat. 25.41 to whom he will say Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels for I was an hungred and ye gave me no meate c. v. 42. And when they shal answer when saw wee thee an hungred or thirsty c. v. 44. he shall reply In as much as ye did it not to one of these little ones ye did it not to Mee v. 45. And as for those who decry and explode the word Duty as contrary to or inconsistent with the free grace brought unto us by Iesus Christ let them but consult with these places of Scripture that they may see their error and be better informed The 1 place is Eccles 12.13 Feare God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man But some retort This is in the old Testament Answ 1. The old Testament is Gods word to which our Saviour refers us Joh. 5.39 Search the Scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life mark his reason which he backeth the charge with That is to be searched in which ye may have eternal life but in the old Testament ye may have eternal life Therefore the old Testament is to be searched The minor he takes to be granted by themselves ye think so whereto I may well add they who reject that wherein eternal life is to be had or found reject eternal life but they who reject the scriptures extant in our Saviours time which were the old Testament only reject that wherein eternal life is to had or found therefore they reject eternal life it self 2 The Church under the new testament is built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ himselfe being the chief corner stone Eph. 2.20 where by the Prophets we are to understand their writings contained in the old Testament for whatsoever things were written afore time were written for our learning as well as for our comfort Rom. 15.4 3 Let us passe over to the new Testament there is duty allowed commended and commanded also as in Luk. 17.10 When you have done all those things which are commanded you say we are unprofitable servants we have done that which was our duty to do where observe that Every command layed on us obligeth us to duty and the works of charity towards poore Saints is termed Duty Rom. 15.27 where the Apostle exhorting the Romans to afford liberal contribution to the poor Saints at Jerusalem drawes his argument ab officio thus If the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things their duty is also to administer to them in carnal things 4. By grace we are not exempted from duty but more obliged to Duty as you may reade Tit. 2.11 12. The grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live godlily righteously and soberly in this present evil world Sect. 6 Chara ∣ cter 9 The next mark is sincerity specified in the Text because it is one of the fairest flowers in the right Israelites garland Therefore I must insist more largely upon it than upon any of the former He is one in whom there is no guile For the better understanding whereof we must distinguish of guile 1. there is a lawfull and commendable guile as may be seen in St Pauls expression 2 Cor. 12.16 who being crafty as he affirmeth of himself caught the Corinthians with guil as the cunning angler covereth his hook whith some such bate as he knoweth the fish delighteth in and then he useth to draw back his line that the fish may lesse perceive the fraud and more eagerly snatch at the bait till it be caught so here this fisher of men forbore in policy to receive any maintenance of the Church of Corinth which otherwise he might have done that he might the better win them to the love of the Gospel it being thus unchargeable to them And I desire that there were more of this guile and less of the other in all Ministers and Christians which is nothing else but Christian policy seperate from hypocrisie tending to the spiritual good of such as we deale with 2ly There is a sinfull guile ever condemned as most odious to God and man and this againe is threefold 1. guile in heart as Solomon hath it Pro. 12.20 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil 2. There is guile in the tongue arising from that in the heart and both these are the Israelites branded for Psal 78.34.36.37 when God slew them they sought him and they returned and enquired earely after God Nevertheless they flattered him with their mouth and lyed unto him wi h their tongues For their heart was not r●ght with him neither were they stedfast in his covenant 3. There is deceit in act the wicked worketh a deceitfull work saith Solomon Pro. 11.18 From this threefold sinful fraud are our Heaven-borne Nathanaels acquitted 1. for they are upright in heart as they be described in that song of degrees Psal 125.4 Do good O Lord unto those that be good and to them that are upright in their hearts 2. There is no guile in their mouthes for so it was prophesied of those that should returne from the Babylonish captivity Zeph. 3.13 The remnant of Israel shall do no iniquity nor speak lies neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth The like is affirmed of the hundred forty and foure thousand which were redeemed from the Earth mentioned Revel 14.1.4 that in their mouth was found no guile for they were without fault before the throne of God vers 5. Thirdly there is no guile in their demeanour either towards God for him they worship in spirit and truth John 4.24 or towards men as Samuel after his many yeares goverment challenged all the people Whom have I defrauded and they all gave him this honourable testimony Thou hast not defrauded us 1 Sam. 12.3 4. and St. Pauls conscience enabled him to say no lesse truly then boldly We have defrauded no man 2 Cor. 7.2 for which cause Iacob also is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Aug de civit Dei L. 6. C. 37. Simplex sine dolo vel fictione à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fingo inquit Ludovicus Vives in comment a plaine man Genesis 25.27 But here a grand Question ariseth Is there any man under Heaven free from Hypocrisie and deceit when the Apostle condemneth all men to be lyers Rom. 3 4. There is none no not one Answ For proof of