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lord_n	command_v	day_n	sabbath_n	10,415	5	9.9260	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57546	The rich fool set forth in an exposition on that parable : Luke 12, 16-22 ... / by Nehemiah Rogers ...	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1662 (1662)	Wing R1824; ESTC R5063	109,384	135

and Meditations as that he had neither room nor leisure for vain and sinful Thoughts to take place So Malach. 3.16 the Fear of God and Thinking upon his Name are joyned together for what we do indeed fear we most think upon Thus the thoughts that proceed from holy affections will eat up and devour our carnal thoughts and cares as the Apostle intimates Rom. 13.14 Wherefore keep spiritual Affections hot and lively in thy Soul suffer them not to cool and thou shalt soon be rid of many vain and sinful thoughts that now annoy thee Flies light not upon what is hot but upon that Vessel that hath cold Liquor in it Sixthly Begin the day with holy Thoughts and Meditations It was God's Command that the first that opened the Matrix should be his Exod. 34.19 So the first-born of thy thoughts daily are God's not thine but by Sacriledg When I awake saith David I am still with thee Psal 139.18 that is I no sooner open mine eyes but my thoughts are of thee and I am with thee in meditating of thy wonderful Goodness in preserving and keeping of me and of thy great Works and Wisdom So at the instant of you awaking let your hearts be lifted up to God in a thankful acknowledgment of his Goodness to you the Night past in giving you comfortable Rest for he it is that giveth his beloved Sleep Psal 127.2 In preserving of you from the dangers of the Night-past for it is he that hath kept thee Prov. 6.22 And he it is that reneweth his Mercies to thee every Morning Lament 3.22 23. This is to awake with God and to speak first with him till then no other thought nor business is to be admitted At your first awaking you shall find multitude of Thoughts attending on you to speak with you Dr. Tho. Goodwin's Vanity of Thoughts like Clients saith one speaking of this Subject at a great Lawyers Door in the Term time Now put Case some great Lord should be there amongst the rest Would he take it well if every inferiour Person should be admitted into the Lawyer 's Closet before him and he made to waite without doors till every Country Client were dispatched Judge then in this Case whether God will take it well at thy hands if every base and worldly thought shall be admitted into thy mind so soon as thou awakest and he last and least thought of who ought first to be heard and served It is good to consecrate a man's first awaking unto God In the Morning saith David I will direct my Prayer unto thee and will look up Psal 5.3 In so doing he knew his Prayer and Meditations should not be lost he would look after it as Suiters do after their Petitions which they prefer unto their Prince not doubting but to have a gracious Answer Certainly you shall find that religious Thoughts let into the heart in the Morning at our first awaking will keep it in better tune all the day after when worldly Thoughts are admitted they will but trouble us and distract us the more the whole day following or they stand about us but as Chesse-men to take up the Heart for the Use of the World Flesh and Devil and to draw away the Heart from the Service of our Maker The Wicked give their first Thoughts to those let us devote our first Meditations to God's Glory so if we be ready to praise him and till that be done we are unready he will be ready to bless us Seventhly Have a vigilant and watchful eye over thy Thoughts the whole day after for albeit thou season thy Soul with private and holy Meditations in the Morning yet a great care must be had the whole day following to keep them from Infection which in regard of our corrupt Nature we are apt so receive He that gives way to the suggestion of an evil Thought can hardly stop the Consent of a depraved Will or stay the working of an evill hand It is Wisdom's Advice above all keepings so keep the Heart Prov. 2.24 Set a strong Watch about that which if thou dost thou shalt be sure to take in thy Watch many wandring and roving Thoughts these must be taken up as Vagrants and corrected and sent away with a Pass to the place where they were born Others are stubborn and unruly Thoughts Thoughts of Atheism Blasphemy Infidelity dishonourable to God or Thoughts of Malice Revenge Pride Deceipt prejudicial to thy Neighbour These are like your sturdy Rogues that come unto your Doors and give ill Language use threatning words c. These lay hands upon and carry them to the next Justice even to the Lord chief Justice of the whole World and complain of them to him that they may be brought into Subjection 2 Cor. 10.4 Shew not the least favour to any of them and do it betimes at the very first appearance of them These are those Brats which must be dashed against the Scones whilest they are little ones Psal 137. if we would be freed from Babylonish Captivity of Sin Other Thoughts thou shalt apprehend in thy Watch which are lawful but unseasonable and in performance of Family Duties or private Devotions of which something was said before be assured that some Thought or other it may be of thy particular Calling will be jogging thee on the Elbow or pulling thee by the Sleeve and will thee to make haste thy Mother and thy Brethren are without to speak with thee let these stay a while put them by till another time Say as Abraham did to his Servants Abide you here at the bottom of the hill with the Asse whilst I and the Lad go to worship yonder and I will come again to you Gen. 22.5 Other thoughts you shall meet withall that can give you a good account whence they come and what they go about being good seasonable and necessary these relieve and succour according to Statute as God hath commanded And as this Watch much be daily kept so especially upon the Lord's Day above all other Dayes for then naughty thoughts like vagrant Rogues are prone to do us most mischief If we can but order our thoughts well this day we shall order them the better the whole week after but if in case you let your thoughts loose upon the Sabbath as some careless Masters do their Servants to go where they will and do what they will you shall not have them at so good command the six dayes following It is a day that God hath set apart for this end that we may be better enabled to keep our thoughts in order when we come to follow the works of our particular Calling and without we do it we cannot expect a blessing on our Labour Esay 58.13 14. Eighthly Avoid Solitariness and Idleness I joyn them because they are seldom separated and the Devil makes a like use of both taking occasion from both to fill the mind with dangerous and detestable thoughts When Eve was stragling