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Lemmata meditationum, or, The contents of a few religious meditations given as directive and incentive to that invaluable duty / by Philo-Jesus Philo-Carolus.
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Philo-Carolus, Philo-Jesus.
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much (b) Pro. 7.21 fair speech do cause me to yield with the flattering of their lips they force me But when they draw me from thy Book oh my Book I find my going after them is just a meer oxes going to the slaughter and a fools to the correction of the stocks Other books (c) Pro. 25.14 boast in Title pages of false gifts and are meer clouds and wind without rain but thine gives good and (d) Jam 1.17 perfect gifts coming down from the Father of lights (e) Pro. 23.35 They have stricken me with reproofs and 〈◊〉 was not sick they have beaten me with inculked rebukes and my conscience felt it not but in thy word the (f) Mar. 26.75 Cocks crow so loud that they will make one go out of â—â—n (g) Luk 22 62. and weep bitterly that one can go out no further The word (h) Mal. 3.2 is a Refiners fire and suffers some cleansing inside and out Theirs maketh Scribes and Pharisees painted sepulchres but no (i) Joh. 1.49 true Israelites in whom there is no guile (k) Isa 5.12 the harp and the viol are in their feasts the tabret and pipe of the excellency of mans wisedom pleasing words and tinkling cymbals But thy Book gives (l) Can. 15.1 the myrrh with spice the honey with the honey-comb the wine with milk Oh my God thou hast made great (m) Psal 136.8 9. lights in thy word the Sun the Moon the Stars of precepts promises and providences else would this world be (n) Joh 10.21 22 a land of darkness and the shadow of death A land of darkness as hells darkness it self of the shadow of death without any order and where the light would be as darkness Some deal with thy word as (o) Ru. 1.14 16. Orpah with Naomi go some part of the way with her kiss her and then leave her But oh may my soul as Ruth's cleave to it and for ever say Whither thou goest I will go where thou lodgest I will lodge thy wayes shall be my wayes and thy God shall be my God (p) psal 145.10 11 12 14 15. All thy works do praise thee O Lord and thy Saints do bless thee they speak sweetly of the glory of thy Kingdom and talk of thy power but 't is thy word makes known to the sons of men thy mighty Acts of Creation and Redemption and the glorious Majesty of thy Kingdom 'T is thy word upholds all them that fall and raises up those that be bowed down Out of thy word thou givest the best meat to them whose eyes wait upon thee Thy gracious providences often make me cry out (q) psal 136.1 10 15 16 O give thanks to the Lord for he is good But 't is thy Word onely makes me add His mercy endureth for ever For why 'T is by thy Word that thou smitest Aegyptian lusts in their first-born and overthrowest reigning sins and their hosts of snares and temptations in the Sea of thy grace red with the Bloud Royal of thy Son 'T is by thy Word thou leadest thy people through the valley of sin ond sorrow into the heavenly Canaan 'T is thy Word that in the wilderness of this world (r) Psa 105.41 opens very rocks that waters gush out yea (s) Psal 107.35 that turns my part of this wilderness into a standing pool of mercies and my dry ground into water springs 11. A Soliloquy with the Soul about its sloth O My soul my soul (z) Pro. 2.6 16. 'T is in thy own conceit That such a sluggard as thou is wiser than seven men that can render a reason Dost think it enough as (a) Mat. 9.20 the woman with the bloody Flux only to come behind Christ and touch the hem of his garment Hers was a Flux of Blood thine of such sins as made a Flux of Christs Blood Her disease but of Twelve years thine of almost twice twelve for thou wast conceiv'd in it (b) Mat 9.21 As she said of Christ darest thou say of Christian Religion If I may but touch its garment I shall be whole If not why standest thou idle hath not God sent thee to hotter work (c) Mar. 6.8 9 7. Is this like a Disciple of Christ to be projecting for scrip bread money in thy purse and two coats and not be caring for power of thy unclean spirit and being shod with the sandals of the Gospel Art thou my soul the Bethlehem wherein Christ is born or the Sodom wherein pride idleness and fulness of bread reigns (d) Pro 21.25 The desire of the slothful Christian to be saved damns him because his hands refuse to abound in the work of the Lord. (e) Mat. 19.20 All these things have I kept from my youth up was the word of an hypoorite and very likely an Apostate 'T is another diligence (f) 2 Pe 1.10 ensures Election and secures from falling Be not (g) Jam 1.22 Jam. 1.21 deceiv'd oh my soul with vain words It is the doing Christian onely that undoes not himself A mans own words are not as God's able to save his soul Salvation must be (h) Phil 2.12 work'd not talk'd out Examine thy self prove thy self oh my soul for knowest thou not that great industry is in thee (i) 2 Go 13.5 except thou beest a reprobate Not to do well or (k) Gal 6. to be weary of well doing is a manifest token of God's being weary of thee and thy being so of him and every such (l) Heb. 10.38 drawing back finally persisted in is to perdition ' Tell not me there is a lion or singularity in the way a lion of censoriousness in the streets I shall be bit Thou must be so but who can help it If Christ (m) Mal 10 16 25. will send forth his Disciples in the midst of lions and wolves 't is so much the better for you if you are bit soundly you will be the more like your Master (n) Heb 10. The sacrifice of thy fame the offering the burnt-offering of it on this account is such as God will not despise but has pleasure in Men indeed and of repute for piety too many won't endure (o) 2 Ti 4.3 sound doctrine much less convincing conversation But God will have us do more (p) Mat 5.47 than others either do or allow us to do Oh my soul look right before thee Were it not better that men should say to thee and thy graces Why do ye more than others by way of accusation than that Christ when he comes should say What do ye more than others by way of condemnation Christ (q) Mat 7.29 Read the four Evangelists thy Doctor teaches not as the Scribes but as one having authority Don't thou live as the Scribes but as one having activity Christ thy Saviour did and suffered nothing but miracles for thee double miracles to wit because he did
is well pleased and indeed the Devil is not so (p) Heb 6.10 unrighteous to them as to forget their labour of love to him No he gives them day by day (q) Mat 6. their daily bread (r) Pro 30.8 and feeds them with food convenient for them crying (s) Eze. 13.10 13. Peace peace where there is either none or but such as thou oh my God wilt rent with a stormy wind in thy fury and consume with-an over-flowing showre in thine anger and verily as these vile affections (t) Psal 109.18 have cloath'd themselves with cursing as a garment so let it come into their bowels like water and into their bones like oyl Through them oh my God through them oft have (u) Jer. 12.7 I forsaken my house ay my tower for so is thy Name I have left my heritage for so is thy Word and given Christ the dearly beloved of my soul into the hands of his enemies I have (x) Jer. 11.20 But oh Lord of Hosts that judgest righteously that tryest the reins and the heart let me see thy vengeance on them for unto thee have I revealed my cause Amen oh Jesu Amen for thy Name sake Amen Amen 15. A Soliloquy with God against self O My God! my self has (y) Mat 18.15 16 17. trespass'd against me and thee too I have gone and told it its fault between it and me It has not heard me nor have I gain'd it I have took with me two nay three witnesses the Three that bear record in heaven and it has refus'd to hear them What shall I do but count it a heathen and a Publican I profess were not Jesus a friend (z) Mat 11.19 to publicans and sinners all the manners (a) Mat 12.31 of its sin and blasphemy could not be forgotten Is not (b) Job 22.5 its wickedness great and its iniquities infinite Oh my God what soul (c) Job 34.7 8. is like it it drinks up scorning like water it goes in company with the workers of iniquity (d) Psal 1.1 2. and walks with wicked lusts It walks in the counsel of the ungodly it stands in the way of sinners it sits in the seat of the scornful its delight is great in the law of its members and in that law doth it meditate day and night (e) Pro. 17.1 Better to it is a dry morsel of temporal loss and dung and carnal quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifices to God with striving to be holy It (f) Ecc. 10.20 Mat. 9.20 curses the King of Heaven in its thought and thy rich grace in its Bed chamber and this issue of its mad blood has been more than of Twelve years Among them that are us'd by the Devil to devour me there hath not risen an agent greater than self For oh my God thou knowest from (g) Ge. 1.1 2 3. the beginning wherein thou createdst the little of heaven within me or from the very time wherein thou saidst Let there be light and there was light within me thou knowest it has been this my self which has made me without form and as it were void and has put darkness on the face of my soul making it as if the spirit of God had never mov'd on the face of it O Lord this self is (h) Jud. the Sampson which with its Asses jaws has slain many thousands of thy spirits motions and convictions in me It is the Herod which seeks the life nay it is the Judas which betrayes and the Pontius Pilate which condemns and the Jew which crucifies Christ within me it is the (i) Ex. 1.11 24. Pharaoh which oppresses my graces with Task masters and makes their lives bitter with hard bondage in mortar and in brick and in all manner of vile service (k) Phil 3.19 The end of which is destruction the God of which is the belly the glory of which is shame the nature (l) Jam. 3.15 earthly sensual devilish foolish disobedient deceiv'd serving divers lusts and pleasures malicious envious (m) T it 3.3 4. hateful and hating the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man O God this self which (n) Hos 12.1 so feeds on the wind and follows the East wind increasing lies and desolations what a (o) Job 10.22 land of darkness as darkness it self does it make my heart a place of the shadow of death without any order and where the light is as the darkness Lord if I know my heart at all sure (p) Job 42.6 I do abhor this self and desire to repent in dust and ashes Though all its pleas and arguments are (q) Pro. 30.26 27 30. a feeble folk yet make they their houses so in the rocks of my heart that I can't for my life get them out though its lusts have no King reigning in my heart as I know of yet so they go forth all of them by bands that I 'le say it I cannot dissipate them as I would for they are as a lion the strongest among beasts and which turns not away for any O my God! Selfs (r) Isa 1.13 14. vain oblations and its incense are an abomination to me its appointed feasts my soul hates they are a trouble to me I am weary to bear them (s) Pro. 23.3 I am not desirous of its dainties I know they are most deceitful meat But alas I too oft eat its (t) pro. 9.17 bread in secret places and though I know its wine is a mocker and its strong drink is raging (u) Pro 20 1. and whosoever is deceiv'd thereby is not wise yet wo is me (x) Pro 23.31 32. when it is red when it gives its colour in the cup when it moveth it self aright how do I forget that at last 't will bite like a serpent and sting like an adder Oh Lord my God! When shall I be able as my Love did to (y) phil 2 7 8. make my self of no repute and humble and empty my self Oh that to morrows (z) Ep. 4.26 Sun might go down upon my wrath against self for of a truth in selfishness dwells all the fulness of Antichrist and that bodily and 't is compleat in it which is (a) Col 2.9 the head of the Devil's principality and power (b) 1 Th 2.3 It s exhortation is of deceit uncleaness and guile It s lust opposes and (c) 2 Th 2 3. exaltsit self above all that is called God or is worshipped that it may sit in the Temple of God shewing it self that it is God Its rise and progress is after the working of Satan with all power and signes and lying wonders Oh my God if (d) 1 Ti 1.51 Christ came not into the world to save selfishsinners of whom I am chief (e) 1 Co 15.17 my faith is vain and as I live in I shall dye in my sins But through him strengthning me I hope I shall