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A52107
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Go in peace. Containing some brief directions for young ministers, in their visitation of the sick Useful for the people, in their state both of health, and sickness.
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Martin, John.
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1674
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Wing M840; ESTC R223744
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thoughts and intents of the heart Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do James 1.25 Whoso looketh into the perfect Law of liberty and continueth therein he being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work this man shall be blessed in his deed Rev. 3.1 2. I know thy works that thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead Be watchful and strengthen the things that remain that are ready to dye for I have not found thy works perfect before God Verse 17. Thou sayest I am rich and encreased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked Fourthly Calling upon God for assistance 1 Sam. 16.7 The Lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart Psal 139.23 24. Try me O God and seek the ground of my heart prove me and examine my thoughts Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me and lead me in the way everlasting Jer. 10.23 O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himself it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps Chap. 17.10 I the Lord search the heart I try the reins even to give every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings James 1.5 If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him The examination and Trial of his State must be governed by such rules of Scripture as relate to the consideration First Of his life past with respect First To the Law of God as it is opened and expounded by our Blessed Saviour in the 5th 6th and 7th Chap. of St. Matthew Secondly The duty of furnishing his soul with Divine graces and habits of virtue Psal 45.14 The Kings daughter is all glorious within her clothing is of wrought Gold Jer. 31.33 34. I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts For they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them Ezek. 36.27 I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and do them Mat. 5.3 to 13. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth Blessed are they which hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake Chap. 13.12 Whosoever hath to him shall be given and he shall have more abundance but whosoever hath not from him shall be taken away even that he hath Chap. 18.3 Verily I say unto you except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven 2 Pet. 1.5 to 11. Besides this giving all diligence add to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledg And to knowledg temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness And to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity For if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledg of our Lord Jesus Christ But he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins Wherefore the rather Brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye do these things ye shall never fall Thirdly The Performance of particular duties in his several Relations and Profession Acts 13.36 David after he had served his own generation by the will of God fell on sleep and was laid unto his fathers Rom. 12.4 5 6 7. As we have many members in one body and all members have not the same office so we being many are one body in Christ and every one members one of another Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us whether prophesie let us prophesie according to the proportion of faith Or ministry let us wait on our ministring Or he that teacheth on teaching Ephes 6.1 4 5 6. Children obey your Parents in the Lord. Fathers provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Servants be obedient to them that are your Masters Not with eye-service as menpleasures but as the servants of Christ Masters do the same things to them 1 Pet. 2.13 Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake Chap. 3.1 7. Wives be in subjection unto your Husbands Likewise Husbands dwell with their Wives according to knowledg giving them honour as unto the weaker vessel and as being heirs together of the grace of life Secondly His present condition in reference to their duties 1. Of Restitution and Satisfaction Gen. 43.12 Take double money in your hand and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks peradventure it was an oversight Exod. 22.5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten and shall put in his beast and shall feed in another mans field of the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard shall he make restitution Levit. 24.18 And he that killeth a Beast shall make it good Beast for Beast Nehem. 5.9 10 11. It is not good that ye do I likewise and my brethren and my servants might exact of them money and corn I pray you let us leave off this usury Restore I pray you to them even this day their lands their vineyards their oliveyards and their houses also the hundred part of the money and of the corn the wine the oyl that you exact of them Then said they we will restore it Isa 61.8 I the Lord love judgment I hate robbery for burntoffering Mich. 2.1 2. Wo unto them that devise iniquity They covet fields and take them by violence and houses and take them away So they oppress a man and his house even a man and his heritage Hab. 2.6 Wo unto him that increaseth that which is not his Zech. 5.1 3 4. I looked and behold a flying Roll. This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth and it shall enter into the house of the thief and into the house of him that sweareth falsly by my Name and it shall remain in the middest of his house