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land_n	egypt_n	moses_n	pharaoh_n	2,863	5	10.3611	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10152	The righteous mans way Wherein are given certaine directions, how men may profitably meditate upon the Commandements of God: that so through such manner of meditation, the Lordes Commandements may finde place in mens hearts, to serve in them as guides unto all their actions and thoughts. Directions most needfull for these times, seeing most men laying the commandements of God aside, doe leade their lives in disobedience to Gods commandements; and this, not onely to the scandall of Christian religion, but also to the extreame hazard of their own salvation.	Proctor, Thomas, fl. 1621.	1621 (1621)	STC 20411; ESTC S110512	50,262	77

of their family to consider what a thing it is to haue such a thing as that done in this worlde For if this they use themselves unto then as on the one hand this will cause the ancient works of God to be still in the memorie of Gods people so on the other hand the works will work from the heart first a Confession of the power of God and secondly an Awe an● thirdly an inclinatiō to keep his Cōmandements Feare not neither doubt the producing these effects if thus you use your selves to speak of the antient wonders done of God for assure your selves that these workes were done and appointed to be told unto the sonnes and sonnes sonnes purposely to produce these effects Neyther are the workes of God so slight Neither is the Ordināce of God concerning telling them in family after family so vaine as that the relation of such workes of God will be fruitlesse as concerning the appointed effects 4. Chap. THe third Motive or inducement which I would note unto you is the observation of the Mighty workes of God in his greate and fearefull Iudgements inflicted heretofore upon those who have been disobedient To this end Moses Deut. 11 2. saith Consider this day the chastisement of the Lord your God which he did in the mids of Egypt unto Pharaoh the King of Egypt and unto all his lande And what he did unto the hoste of the Egyptians unto their horses and to their charets when he caused the waters of the red sea to overflowe them as they pursued you the Lord destroyed them unto this day And what he did to Dathan and Ab●am the sonnes of Eliab when the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up their housholds and their tents and all their substance that they had in the mids of all Israell Therefore shall ye keepe all the Cōmandements which I command you this day And the Prophet David Psal. 119 30 saith Thy iudgements have I layd before me Againe verse 118 Thou hast troden downe all them that depart from thy Statutes Thou hast taken away all the wicked of the earth like dross therefore I love thy testimonies Againe verse 120. My flesh trembleth for ●eare of thee and I am afraid of thy Iudgments Lastly verse 115 Salvation is farr from the wicked because they seeke not thy Statutes By these scriptures it may appeare that it were an error of no small importance to conceive that a feare brought upon us by the judgements of God is not a filiall but rather a slavish feare therefore also if any should so perswade men I hope these scriptures may serve to convince such of false doctrine But now seeing we haue this testimony from Scripture that to consider Gods judgements even upon others is a Motive or Inducement to the keeping of the Commandements ought not wee so much the more diligently to set alwayes before the eye of our mynd those ancient fearefull Iudgements which God hath inflicted upon others Therefore also haue I chosen this motive among others as a speciall Motive or Inducement advising Men also to the making a very careful and customary use of the same Which that you may the more profitably also doe chuse out unto your self some convenient time wherein thinking with your self of some one or two of the special Iudgements of God you may withall say thus or to like effect with your selfe This was or seemes to me to be as if here at this present I should before mine eyes see this or this as the story relates unto you Thus if you doe this will then help your perceiving or discerning well of that which once was done and the discerning furthers much the working of that upō our hearts which is discerned But if hereunto you add further saying Had I been in his or their steads to whō this was done how had it been with me how fearful had been then my conditiō This would help to bring the feare of God upō your heart For you making their case your own supposing how it would be now with your self if now the like should befall your selfe the fearfulness of the judgement would so appeare unto you as that a feare of the Lord that did it would fall withall upon your hearte Now feare is such a passion or affection of the minde as which taking holde of the heart and spirit of a man it will incline the heart to a care to doe that for the not doing whereof such punishmēts ●s it now feareth hath fallen upon others Yea from feare ●prings also Delight for wee cōmonly delight in doing that ●y which we avoide or escape such Iudgements as which our heart now feareth God for Be carefull therefore that you learne not onely to say God is to be feared or wee must feare God but to feele the passion of feare of the Lord in your hearte For there is great hypocrisy lurking in a free confessiō whilst what we cōfesse should be done our selves never doe Therefore to be sure to season your heart of this passion of feare doe by the judgements of God inflicted upon others as I haue aboue instructed you But it may be some will say this is very dangerous for men for men thus supposing themselves as in their steads will be ready to be deluded with a fancy that the same is done now unto themselves in deede I answere I direct men but to apprehend what was done therefore they must not fancy that now it is done And if any be so foolish yet a good thing must not be left undone by the wise for the foolish use which some may make thereof Neither in deede hurt you your selfe eyther by supposing what you should see if here in this place before your owne eyes you should see such a fearefull judgement as that whereof you reade or by supposing your selfe as in their stead considering with your self if the like judgement should befall your selfe now at the present for the judgement its selfe is nothing hereby the neerer you but rather the further off from you because you thus indeavour to teach your heart to apprehend what was done many hundred yeares since unto others for which you now through faith of the report would feare God that did it Whilst therefore this so good an intent or end of your meditation is in your soule you haue the lesse need to feare any the like judgment to be inflicted now of God upon you Wherefore be not caried away by any mans perswasion from the practising of that which aboue I haue directed you unto But indeed the Devill by his instruments will he ready to make opposition here against this to the end that you may to your owne hurt rest still in a saying onely God must be feared or we must feare God without ever feeling in your hearte the passion its selfe of ●eare And in deed all the while that you but thus doe the Divill knowes that you are still his in his