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judgement_n	heart_n	young_a	youth_n	1,501	5	9.4198	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96104	Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safetie in eying the churches security, wherein is shewed the captives redress: being an invitation to all the different minded men in the world to become one; with the advantage of unity, and the danger of variety from the example of the saints and servants of God, as well in former as these latter times. Offered to the view of the 97 builders imployed in that work, for the building of the true temple, and all others. / By Thomas Watson, a lover of peace.	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1661 (1661)	Wing W1131; Thomason E1856_4; ESTC R210370	59,985	120

it with their blood not by praying to Saints and Martyrs but to observe and do the things that they did I mean the works that they did and to praise God in the same way as they did and in the same thing and let us seek to press forward toward the price of the high Calling of God and ascribe honour to whom honour is due I desire you my beloved Friends yea every one to whom this smal Treatise shall come to seriously consider with your own hearts how far you are behind with the Lord in this Particular by reason of our unthankfulness that we have secured our selves with under the banner of forms and customary services and have not looked into the inside of things to eat the kernel of the Nut as well as gather the Husk and the Shell as the Nut can in no wise grow without the Shell and Husk so no man can experience the taste of the Kernel by eating and feeding of nothing but the Leaves and the Husk of the Nut God looketh as well to thy heart as to thy tongue therefore if thou prayest to God look that thy heart be joined to thy tongue and that thy tongue speak no more but the real Symptomes of thy heart and that thy heart be chiefly bent upon the doing of the Will of God and not upon the beggerly rudiments of the world for if thorow practice or custom of others you frame any Prayer only so learned as by Book and not by heart you might justly think your selves far short of the receiving any benefit by them from God I do not say but learning is very good take it in its place for we can be no servants of God but by utterance manifestation But this is my end that no man set a higher price of words than they should do but consider the word is chiesly to thy self in thy heart and therefore consider that thy heart be joined with thy tongue especially in Prayer and Praises to God for if thy Prayer or Praises to God be builded upon no more durable a Rock than formal or customary uses it will be in danger of being blown up by the incroaching gusts of covetousness and hopes of worldly honour and preferments of mens applause and these will get uppermost in thy agitations and so thou wilt cause the more noble and excellent Wheat corn to be choaked by the Tares and Thistles in thy more worthy Land or Vineyard for if thou hast no deeper root in Religion than this thou wilt soon be brought and easily be won to leave this upon any small occasion for if one must be left then farewell Prosession for I must leave thee to embrace honour riches pleasures I the good words of men thou shalt have the name so long as my better Friends can have their free entertainment but if one must be left then farewell Prayer and farewell Praises for I can Pray as well in another Dispensation but I shall get nothing but the ill will of men and the loss of honour and estate if I continue in this way it was good and honourable but now it is base I have have had the company of my Friends wealth and honour and applause but I must now follow them further or else they will leave me O it is a sad thing when Religion sayes God is one thing to day and a contrary the next day onely for money and self-ends This is one way of worshipping God so called but I fear it is no better than a worshiping of thy self and that in the worst sence too for thou dost but herein toyl to gather Coals Faggots to consume thy self in the last day without the great mercy of God for this manner of serving God or rather thy self it may be performed in any Dispensation or any sort of profession but if thou takest up thy rest in any such like abess or Centerest thy self in any fabrick of this nature know assuredly God will blast it in the end if it be builded upon no surer a foundation than self-ends and notional expressions it may be God may let thee alone for the time that thou hast to spend in this world but the end will prove the bitterer the wickedst of men may seem to have a rest yea a pleasant one to their minds and desires it may be but it is not lasting it is not abidable as the Prophet hath it Esay 48. the last verse There is no peace to the wicked sayeth my God That is no abiding nor continuing peace therefore value thy future peace beyond any present seeming content in this life for thou must give an exact account of all thy actions in the end do but mind what Solomon sayes of it Eccles 11.9 Rejoice O young man in thy youth and let thy heart cheer thee in the dayes of thy youth and walk in the wayes of thine own heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into Judgement therefore remove sorrow from thy heart and put away evil from thee Therefore I say look well yea narrowly to thy wayes lest whereas you think to build a Tabernacle fit to entertain the Holy Ghost in your Professions you deceive your selves and build an Altar to sacrifice to the Prince of datkness in deceit to thy Souls ruine and eternal torment But to-shew you more plainly the description of the Afflictions that Gods dearest and choisest Children are incident and lyable to in this life I shall onely give you as brief a definition as I can onely to give you an introduction into the rest it being my intention to speak more fully to the duty of a Christian in this life as well as in other things how to bear the afflicting trying scourge of Gods lovely chastisements but before I proceed any further give me leave to lay this down as a maxim undeniable that God never tryeth a Nation or a People generally with such tryals as to deliver them into the hands of their enemies unless it be for their sins but these tryals that I intend to enter further into are such which the Children of God are lyable to in particular when their Father doth withdraw his presence from them as in respect of shewing them what he hath done for them although his love may be as great to them at that time as ever these are many times in many things not only struke at but overturned in their expectation not that I ever read that God did ever hide himself to any of them so far but that ere long time was over they found it was not in vain to serve him but that he did appear one way or other to them to manifest himself a loving and a tender God as Solomon hath it in the Canticles 5. and the 6th verse speaking of Gods withdrawing himself from the Church for their high thoughts of their own Righteousness as you may read in

that is one outwardly neither is that Circumcision that is outward in the flesh but he is a Jew that is one inwardly and Circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of God so as I said before the people that willingly and joyfully do seek to repaire the breaches of Judah are such as must inherit the promises of God made to Abraham Isaac and Jacob and shall surely be Inhabitants in this Land where this song of Zion may be really and experimentally and truly sung in but I shall leave this perticular at this time and shall desire every one that is desirous to be an Inhabitant of this Land to take notice of what his duty must be in Zion or in Judah to which I shall speak more fully when I come to shew you the Lawes and the Ordinances that are in this Land And so I shall proceed to the fourth perticular by what meanes a people may be said to be made capable or learned in this school to sing this song I shall endeavour through Gods assistance to make manifest unto your view these two following Observations First It chiefly concernes us to search who is the Law-giver in Zion or who it is that instructeth Jacob or Israel Secondly What these Lawes or Statutes are that are taught or ought to be taught in Israel and how to be observed First Let us consider that God is made mention of in several places to be the Instucter of Israel as Psalm 78.5 He established a testimony in Jacob and a Law in Israel and in Isaiah the 48. and 17. verse Thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer the holy One of Israel I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit which leadeth the by the way that thou shouldest go And in the 51 of Isaiah and the 4. verse Hearken unto me O my people and give ear unto me O my Nation for a Law shall proceed from me and I will make judgement to rest for a light to the people If any one be not satisfied that it is spoken to Israel the foregoing words will certifie him better and as you have it in the 40 of Isaiah and the 9 verse O Zion and Jerusalem that bringeth good tydings lift up thy voice and be not afraid and say unto the Citys of Judah behold your God I might instance hundreds of places more to prove this truth to you but I suppose it to be needless for wherever there is any mention made of the Author of Israels Lawes and Statutes God is made mention of in some one degree or other to be the giver of them if it be mentioned of Israel as Israel or as I have defined Israel in my forementioning of them which is not Israel in name or shew but in truth verity it may be some one or other will be inquisitive to demand of me What God is as I have oftentimes had objected against me but I shall speak very little to that in this place but in case any one be desirous to know farther if I find him willing and desirous to be satisfied in this or any other particular that I shall make mention of I shall endeavour to satisfie him if it be possible at any time or in any place convenient First God is said to be the Alpha and Omega the first and the last Secondly God is said to feed his flock and that he is their Shepheard and in other places to be God of fury to the wicked it is one thing to look upon him as he is in himself and another to look upon him as he is in us or in his manifestations but I shall deferr this discourse in this place supposing the unfoldng of it would be rather a stumbling block then any thing of edification to many therefore I shall advise every one whatever to assure himself that there is no iniquity in him and that he is a hater of lyes and a destroyer of all the devices of the wicked Thus I shall proceed to the second particular What these Lawes or Statutes are that are given to Israel in Zion or the Holy Land as some read it or Judah or in Jerusalem and how to be observed First let us consider that as the Law-giver is holy so are his Statutes and Lawes holy also as you have it in the 119 Psal the 137 verse Righteous art thou O Lord and upright are thy Judgments thy testimonies that thou hast Commanded are Righteous and very Faithfull and as you have it in the 7 verse of this Psalme I will prayse thee with uprightness of heart when I shall have learned thy Righteous Judgments so that you see plainly that the Statutes and Lawes and Commandements of the Law-givers to these Inhabitants is Righteousness and Truth and Equity and Love and Faithfulness and as you have a Righteous Law-giver and Righteous Lawes so you must observe to serve him in Righteousness if you intend to be a Subject in this Land as you have it in the 118 Psalme and the 19 20. verses Open to me the Gates of Righteousness I will go into them praise the Lord this Gate of the Lord into which the Righteous shall enter Thou must not stand to frame a service to seek the bounty and gifts of men in it but the Commands of God happy is that people that is brought to that uniformity that it may be truly said of them that the Statutes of the Lord are duely observed in their land But before I proceed any further let us consider what danger may ensue upon those that are Inhabitants in this land if in case they should obey and keep the Statutes and Lawes in this land First I say That no man as man but is very apt to deserve the being cast forth from inhabiting in this land but the Law-giver is a God of Mercy as well as Justice but in case thou art as strict an Observer as may be yet thou canst assure thy self of no constant content in all things for whilst thou art in this thy decayable and frail Building or House of this world there will be strivings and turmoilings in the several revolutions and changes and whilst we are striving to conquer them by our more high aspiring the World the Flesh and the Devil will be striving to shew us their present seeming delights thinking to intermingle out more serious and reasonable undertakings with those things that have nothing but a shew onely of godliness in them and nothing of the power This is the great warfare in which you must engage as a Combitant if you come into this land for the flesh will be striving against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and those two are contrary So that if you will seek after any dutable riches any treasure that the moth and rust will not destroy but it will abide all trials that are of this life and will be the purer each time