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A81485	A sincere believer, comforted, and encouraged. Or; a practical treatise, discovering the goodness of God to a sinful soul, in the enjoyment of Christ With the great benefit and comfort he hath thereby. Whereby as through a prospective, a true Christian may plainly see how to fit and prepare himself in such a manner, as his endeavours may not be in vaine. By R.D.M.A. and minister of the gospel in the Isle of Wight. Recommended to the serious perusal of all true Christians. By Thomas Goodwin, D.D. and Will Strong, M.A. deceased.	Dingley, Robert, 1619-1660.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Strong, William, d. 1654.	1656 (1656)	Wing D1500; ESTC R230249	203,361	369

of the foolish z Bad company will make thee bad and then declare thee so For qualiscunque quis suerit cum tali se conjung●t Amb. ad virg devotam 'T is not good to be at the Devils messe though ones spoon be never so long All sense in spirituals is curb'd if not extinguished by carnall and cooling company who as you shall see anon have learn'd of Satan to oppose beginnings of goodnesse See Ephes 5.11 intimating you cannot have fellowship with unfruitfull workers of darknesse but twenty to one you 'l have fellowship in their workes also For can a man touch pitch and not bee defiled The experiences of many Saints can witnesse that carnall company is cooling and ensnaring Next some are delivered up to a spirit of slumber God deales in judiciall wayes of blinding and hardening their hearts so that they are voyd of all spirituall senses as Rom. 11.8 Like those Asses in Hetruria that feeding upon Henbane would lye for dead Nay unregenerate men are not only fast asleep but a Ephes 5.14 dead in trespasses and sins and what taste hath one that is asleep or dead Lastly God doth reserve these tastes as the onely portion of his own children and therefore marvel not though the common multitude attain not to it b Vocat gustum doni coelestis qua supra naturam mundum Chr. Hosman in Heb. 6.4 Psal 36.8 They shall be satisfied with the fatnesse of thy House They and none but they who are Gods children to others God is a sealed Book or inclosed well Divine goodnesse is Childrens bread ●nd Dogges shall not eat of it 2. As it meets with such as taste not the goodnesse of God so with such as seek for c Blunts voyage to the Levant delight and satisfaction in earthly comforts The Turkes c musick is any sound so some patch up a delight out of every vanity This is certain except you relish Christ and his love in the creature you 'l d Joh. 6.6 find no more taste then in the white of an egge e Nescis quale tegat splendida vita malum Reynolds vanity and vexation of the Creature They that have skim'd off the very cream of the creature as Solomon did have been like those that have gone to a Lottery with a head full of hopes but returnd with a heart full of blankes And therefore as Samuel said to Saul Why should a Kings heart be set upon Asses So say I Why should a Christians heart be set upon trifles winged vanities They are Physitians of no value miserable comforters are they all when thou commest into distresse and yet how many seek for contentment in these perishing things nay oft think they find it like f Isai 29.8 them in the Prophet that dreamt they ate but all this while they are deceived embracing with Ixion a cloud in stead of Juno These taste how good the creature is not the Creator Others likewise come under this reproofe viz. 3. Such as are ever and anon tasting sin to see how goo● that is which may be sweet in the mouth as some poysons are but gall in the belly g 2 Sam. 2.2.26 Prov. 9.4 Knowest thou not O man that sinne will be bitternesse in the end People will be nibbling at Satans baits though with the mementany pleasure they swallow the hook of Gods eternall vengeance h Vide Aug. Ser. 231. de tēp Basil hom in Ebr Ludovici Cresollii Mystagogum lib 4. ca. 29. sect 5 pag. 2005. 2006. Let our good fellows that are ever tasting of the Cup remember Dan. 5.2.5 whilst Belshazzar tasted the wine fingers were seen writing on the wall Mene Mene Tekel Vpharsin i.e. Thou art weighed as in a ballance and thy kingdome is taken from thee And that very night was the sot slain God scores up every superfluous glasse that goes down thy throat and the same night thou mayst be sent to hell to beg for one drop to coole the tip of thy tongue Some will say they drink but a little Object c. But to sit and sip Sol. or but to taste the cup with Drunkards is unlawfull i Vide Harris in Isai 5.11 Prima cratera ad sitim pertinet 2ª ad hilaritatem 3ª ad voluptatē 4ª ad insaniam For loving to eat and drink between meales at unseasonable times is made a sinne of those Princes Ecclesiastes 10.17 Drinking is made one of the lusts of the Gentiles as well as drunkennesse and hee is accursed that eats and drinkes with the drunken in Matth. 24.49 viz. Such as sit by them and sip with them and but kisse the cup For this consents unto their sinne and countenances their villanies when you should reprove them and complain of them See 2 Par. 20.37 Next you that taste of those stoln waters for so k Ioh Downam treats of it and Preston on Col. 3.5 uncleannesse is called remember Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge Heb. 13.4 Nay he plagues them here spiritually Prov. 2.19 and outwardly Prov. 6.16.33 And their bones shall be filled with the sins of their youth Some cry Causê si non castè but God that is their Judge sees them l See the Casuists of Restitution You that by oppression taste of unrighteous gain remember God will plead the cause of the poore whose faces you grinde and that your monies so gotten shall perish with you Prov. 14.31 You that taste the sweet Name of God often in your mouthes but 't is by lewd and customary m See Lombard lib. 3. Jo. Downam and Walter Powel against Swearing swearing and cursing know the Lord will not hold you guiltlesse that dare take his Name in vaine Surely your tongues are set on fire of Hell This of all other sins the most unprofitable all Religions condemne it and therefore such shall be damned with a witnesse and then they 'l have their fill of cursing and blaspheming to eternity You likewise that unpreparedly taste the sacramentall Elements n See William Fenner of this sinne know 't is ill playing with edg'd tooles the Devill rides astride the bit of bread down your throats and you eat and drink your damnation not tasting nor discerning the Lords Body 1 Cor. 11.27.29 And so of all other sins you cannot taste the sin and escape the smart 4. And lastly terror to such as hinder others from tasting how good the Lord is And as some in a way of superstition speak of Gods creatures so others in a way of prophanesse speak of Gods wayes Touch not taste not handle not Col. 2.21 Have not thou to doe with precise ones and wayes let Ministers lungs saile in exhortation and their eyes in expectation but taste not if you love your peace purse or pleasure Thus as Herod endeavoured to kill the Babe Christ so these o Lulla an Hag that used to hurt little childrē which made the nurses cry Lulla abbi now by contraction

and delight in God! O that this day there might be joy in heaven over the conversion of some soul Wel a believer under the word falls a wishing too p Psal 119.15 and 55.6 O that my wayes were directed according to thy Statutes O that I had the silver wings of a Dove to flye into the bosome of Christ To conclude God and Christ fall a wishing over you too in whose will and power it is to doe you good q Deut. 5.29 O that there were such an heart in you that you would feare me and keepe my statutes r Luke 19.42 Oh that thou hadst known in this thy day c. Now I say when there is wishing on all sides what should hinder execution Sixthly repetition meditation and conference about the Word at home ſ Deut. 14.8 Levit. 11.7 Those beasts which chewed not the cud were unclean So here Psa 62.11 God hath spoken once twice have I heard this That power belongs unto God So here God speakes once to you in the Sermon you must heare it twice in repetition at home Thus the noble t Acts 17.11 Bereans searched the Scriptures daily whether the things they heard of Paul and Silas were so or no. And thus I have done with that poynt Sinners should be induced to taste God Doctr. 2 to venture upon him and make triall of him and his wayes Tasting implies trying In the Doctrinall part we shall inquire 1. What this tasting Gods goodnesse is 2. Whether unregenerate men may have this taste 3. Why all must strive for experimentall tastes of God First what this tasting is 1. Enquiry I answer there is a corporall and a mysticall taste 1. There is a Corporall taste 1 There is a corporal taste 1 Sam 14 43. It may be defined thus u Aristotle Tasting is one of the most necessary exterior senses distinguishing such sensibiobjects as are tastable So that to taste is to chew and consider what 't is we receive before wee take it down for nourishment The taste easily distingu●shes between that which is bitter and sweet stale or new It quickly gives sentence what is pleasant and what is offensive The curious palate serves to relish or disrelish things So 2 Sam. 19.35 to taste is to try and discern Now thus Gods goodnesse is not to be tasted unlesse occasionally by taking a rise from the creature to the Creator and by eying his love in outward mercies And so even in bodily food a Beleever tastes how good the Lord is he sees God as a Father providing food convenient for him and he tastes Divine goodnesse in every morsell of bread he eates Whether you eat or drinke saith the Apostle or what ever you doe doe w Intellectus comparatur gustui quia intellectus noster judicat de re ut sensus saporibus Erhard Schnepsius in Psal 34.6 pag. 204. all to the glory of God Mat. 6.31.32 1 Cor. 10.31 q. d. See and admire his goodnesse in these things and be sure you be sober and temperate in the use of them But this corporall taste is not meant here 2. A spirituall taste 2. There is a Mysticall and Spirituall taste which is to examine try consider and relish divine goodnesse and partake of its sweetnesse and joy How we taste Gods goodnesse But how be we said spiritually to taste the goodnesse of GOD I answer Five wayes 1. In Ordinances First in Divine Ordinances which God hath appointed for this end viz. 1. The Word 1. The Word by hearing or reading of it a beleever x Heb. 6.4 Gustus verbi nos suaviter delectat Calv. tasts God in the Word and findes a world of sweetnesse there See Psa 119.103 How sweet are thy words to my taste yea sweeter then hony to my mouth The Word is exceeding swest and none but beleevers can taste it For as Ezekiel ate the Roll Ezek. 3.3 Ezek. 3. which was in his mouth as honey so a beleever doth spiritually y In sacris Scripturis abūdat quod robustus comedat quod parvulus sugat Fulgentius Serm. de Confess feed on the Word and if the threatnings of the Word are sweet to them for that Roll was full of curses Ezek. 3.10 because they are assured they belong not to them and that God shall gain glory to his truth and justice by them Oh then how sweet are the promises which are called the unsearchable riches of Christ and exceeding great and pretious promises 2 Pet. 1.4 When all the world cannot cheere up a drooping heart the thought of a promise doth the work For the promise is full free and firm Now if the promise is so sweet how sweet is the performance How sweet is the enjoyment of Christ in whom all the promises are z Cor. 1.20 Yea and Amen 2. Prayer 2. Prayer A Saint tastes God and lives upon God in prayer by this he draws out of the well of salvation which is deep but very sweet David saith he is a Prope est omnibus qui ubique adest nec refugere eum possumus si offendimus nec fallere si delinquimus nec amittere si colamus Amb. in Psalm 119. I●lum maximè fovet qui appropinquat sibi Idem nigh but Paul he is rich to all that call upon him And Christ saith Your heavenly Father will give good things to them that ask him viz. by and in prayer they shall taste of his goodnesse For making their requests known to him the very peace of God which passeth understanding shall keep their hearts and mindes through Christ Jesus Phil. 4. I here appeale unto beleevers Have not you known the time that you have touched the hem of Christs garment and tasted of the joyes of heaven in prayer and holy enlargednesse of heart when thou hast wrestled with God Have you not seen heaven cleft Christ sitting at Gods right hand There is no beleever but frequently tastes the goodnesse of God in and by prayer For God saith not Seeke ye me in vain 3 The Seales 3. The Seales viz. 1. b In baptismo signū est aqua res autem ablutio animae per sanguinem spiritum Christs carnis mortificatio Calv. in 1 Pet. 3.21 That of Admission into the Church there we taste Gods goodnesse in c Baptismus pactum seu foedus gratiae quod init inter baptismum nobiscum Christus Bulling in Act 2.38 culling us out of the world planting us in the garden of his Church Thereby our sinnes are washed away and we are baptized with the holy Ghost and with fire 2. We taste divine goodnesse in ●he Sacrament of Confirmation the Lords Supper we feed upon Christ in those Elements of Bread and Wine There Christ crucified is emblematically set forth and sacramentally received and the heart raised 〈◊〉 to taste the goodnesse of God Mat. 26. d Quid igitur

P●nem vides praeterea nihil sed audis tesseram esse corporis Christi ne dubita impleri à Domino quod verba sonant corpus quod nequaquàm cernis spirituale esse tibi alimentum Calv. in Mat. 26.26 This is my Body and this is my Blood q. d. These outward Signes and Seales are most sure and certain pledges of my Body and Blood which I doe as truly give to be spirituall food as I give the Bread and Wine to be bodily food to every beleever 1 Cor. 10.16 This was long since promised Isai 25.6 The Lord will make a feast of fat things of wine on the Lees well refined So Prov. 9.5 Here Christ as the Master of the Feast bids us welcome saying Eat O friends yea drink abundantly my beloved Here the the hungring and thirsting Soule hath refreshment and strength from heaven here it is put in mind of Christ and all that he hath done and endured for us Here it hath heavings and violent liftings of heart towards God And Christ saith Open your mouthes wide and I will fill them with good things Here the Soule hath meetings with God and is convinc'd of his love and the truth of his promises For this is a Seale of the righteousnesse of Faith Rom. 4.11 It confirmes the covenant of grace to us You see how we taste the goodnesse of God in the Lords Supper 4. Conference 4. In Society and Communion and Christian conference with the Saints and speaking often to one another of the things of Heaven Mal. 3.16 For thereby we taste of others gifts which are given them for others to profit withall and they will be ready to comfort us with the comforts wherewith they have been comforted of God as 2 Cor. 1.4 Indeed much of God may be seen and tasted in communion with the Saints 'T is a piece of heaven upon earth 't is the joy of Christians All my delight saith David is in them that excell in vertue Communion with the Saints is often made a step to fellowship with Christ as 1 Iohn 1.4 c Haec itaque socletas cujus meminit Johannes est Ecclesia Christi quae in symbolo dicitur sanctorum communio habet autē maxima bona spiritualia c. Thomas Naogeorgus in 1 Johan 1.4 That yee may have communion with us and that also our communion may be with the father Throw a dead Charcoale among the living and it will soon sparkle and kindle Simile First indeed sparkle viz. Thou wilt dislike their wayes principles but afterwards kindle and glow with love to God and his truth when you have lookt better into them and tasted Gods goodnesse among them 5. Meditation 5. In f Gustare est cogitare Erhard Schueptius Comment in Psal 34.6 Meditation This is a Saints pastime it recreates and perfumes the tyred spirits 't is a Ladder by which the Soul-clambers up to heaven 't is a duty is ever at hand Prov. 6.22 When thou goest it shall lead thee when thou sleepest it shall keep thee when thou awakest it shall talk with thee When thou art alone nay in the darke when travelling c. On all occasions you may let out your soul in meditation when other duties cannot be performed Nay when you sleep you may be medling with this duty For having communion with God in the day and closing thy eyes with some meditation even thy dreames may be of the love of God and the glory of heaven as the experiences of the Saints can witnesse Meditation it enter● us into the first degrees of those heavenly joyes and imparts to us some beginnings of the vision and fruition of God It enables us with Moses to discerne as we are able some glimpses of God that our faces shine with purity and divine splendor By this we are ravished with Paul and are catcht up into paradise and in the twinkling of an eye are driven as in a fiery Chariot into heaven By this with holy g Soli Stephano conspicua fuit Dei gloria impiis enim qui eodem loco stabanc hoc spectaculum latebat undè sequitur non in coelis sed potius in Stephano editum fuisse miraculum Calvin in Acts 7.56 Stephen we see the heavens opened and Jesus sitting at the right hand of God Indeed admirable are the effects of divine meditation It confirms our knowledge Psal 119.99 It strengthens our memory Ps 63.6 It enflames our love as bellows the cynders Psal 119.97 and Psal 39.3 It cherishes affiance in God as Psal 119.147 148. It maintains a true and son-like feare of God Psal 4.4 It hushes and quiets the soule in afflictions Psal 119.23 1 Pet. 4.12 Thinke it not strange q. d. It matters much what our thoughts and meditations are in trouble It promotes prayer Psal 143.5 6. Eccles 5.2 and praising God This tunes the harp Psal 63.5 6. It weanes and sequesters the heart from the world It spiritualizes our discourse Psal 77.12 Mat. 12.34 If there be fire on the hearth some sparks will flie out at the chimney In a word it casts a secret influence on the life Josh 1.8 Psal 1.3 and 119.15 Purge the fountaine and the streames will run pure The life is easily transformed when the heart is new moulded What shall I say h Cogitare est vivere Tull. Acad. Quaest lib. 1. Meditation is the very life of our life as a Heathen could say and see by the light of nature It is the food of our soules the fuell of our zeale the spur of our devotion The soule that can meditate on God is never lesse i Nunquam minus solus quam cum solus alone then when alone for his fellowship is then with the Father and his Sonne Jesus Christ It delights to walke in these groves and fold the armes in these shadie bowers of solitary but divine meditation where it heares the Nightingale of a good conscience warble melodiousl● k Psal 104.34 My meditation of thee shall be sweet saith David and in the multitude of my thoughts thy comforts delight my soule q. d. I caste much of God in this duty and it feeds me with many sweet morsells of contentment Psal 104.34 But now doe beleever● taste the goodnesse of God in divine medication Quest Ans I answer 1. By meditating of all his glorious perfections especially the boundlesse dimensions of his sweetest attribute which is his mercy So l Hic locus hortatur omnes homines ut velint cogitare de bonitate Domini Erhard Schnepfius in Psal 34.6 Pag. 204. taste and see viz. consider a little with me saith David here how good the Lord is q. d. By meditating dive into the Ocean of divine sweetnesse and contemplate of him that is beauty and goodnesse it selfe 2. By meditating m Nolite omnia beneficia Dei sine gustu deglutire aut maligne perpetuâ oblivione sepelire sicut faciunt impii Sed adbibete palatum videte

non gustavit amara Hen. Mollerus in Psal 34. pa. 275. Bi●ter things are wont to do it You must feed on Christ the Paschall Lamb with the bitter hearbs of compunction and Gospel-contrition Make your moan to God grieve that you can grieve no more complain to God of your drynesse of eyes as Isaiah of his leannesse find out the Achan that stole this wedge of gold the Jonas that causes this tempest within thee O mourn for that sin especially that is the cause of Gods withdrawing These bitter hearbs may recover thy spirituall relish But now if this meet with the best that for a season are deprived of this taste how much more with p Intellectualibus amme sensibus non pollent Euthym. them that never had it The time is yet to come with many millions of souls that ever they tasted the Lords goodnesse in any mercy in any duty I have read of one that had no bodily q Lazarus vitrivorax vulgo dictus nullo prorsus gustu praeditus erat nullam in c●endo voluptatem persentiebat saith Realdus Columbus in his last book quoted by Nierembergius Iist nat ib. 3. cap. 9. taste at all Nay I knew one of a very strong and healthy constitution that had little or no taste This is the condition of thousands in spirituall things Now if you put this question to me why many cannot feele such sweetnesse in holy duties as others doe why they passe from duty to duty and taste nothing of God in the Ordinance I answer that indeed it will not be amisse to discover unto you the proper causes of this temper and they are six 1. Some want the Ordinances in the life and power They cry out for bread and there is none to give it them Rom. 10.14 Such as want the ordinances will never taste the sweetnesse of God For faith comes by hearing r Strab. Geog. Some live neere the Arcttick pole and six months together see not the light of the Sun These are to be pitied but much more such ſ Prov. 29.18 as enjoy not the sun-shine of the Gospel and will never taste Christ Not but that strong beleevers as David here in the want of ordinances enjoy most of God who is not tied unto meanes and then they lye down and drink at the fountain where the water is sweeter and plentifuller but mistake not I speak of unregenerate then who want the ordinary meanes of conversion and beleevers that neglect the ordinances Now if in these cases there is want of the ordinances Heb. 10.25 1 Thess 5.20 no wonder if people taste not as otherwise they might the sweetnesse and goodnesse of God Next others are guilty of sluggishnesse and t We must not make Gods service 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a lazie businesse This was a precept of Pythagoras Dulcia non meruit qui non gustavit amara Erubescat humana pigritia plus vult ille dare quam nos accipere Aug. Ser. 29. de ver Dom. Labor omnia vincit negligence under the meanes Many Christians are oft restrained in the tastes of the sweetnes of Gods favour and presence because they are not carefull enough to attend upon him in the use of ordinances They bestow little paines few strugglings with their hearts they heare and pray and read c. all in a lazie and perfunctory manner No wonder therefore some taste not such ravishing sweetnesse as others for they use not like paines and diligence to search out the comfort of the Word For as rich Minerals are not gotten on the superficies of the earth but men must sweat and dig deep into the bowels of the earth to finde them And as the sweetnesse of a kirnell is not rasted till the shell be crackt nor the goodnesse of marrow known till the bone be broken even so it is here The sweetnesse of God and the rich comforts of the word are not tasted nor felt by them that look but slightly and superficially into them but are at no paines to suck the breasts of Consolation which are the promises and labour would overcome allthings Again some have distempered and vitiated palats and no wonder Angelicall viands are not pleasant to them To a sick man that which is sweet seemes soure and ungracious so it is here For besides that some have the taste of pleasures and profits and the lusts of the world in their u Currus bovem trabit siratio pareat affectui Lucian mortuorum Dialogo tom 1. p. 257. hearts when they come to duty where they should relish divine sweetnesse to whom Christ saith they shall not because they cannot and will not taste of his Supper in Luke 14.24 and Matth. 13.22 Others dream of a seeming sweetnesse in formes and pictures and postures and superstitious worship which the Prophet calls Feeding upon ashes and now these are snatcht from them their religion which consisted in such things is also gone So that now they are as people that have lost their w Judg. 18.24 So here God they can relish nothing else nor discover any sweetnesse in pure ordinances Isai 65.11 you read of these They prepare a Table for the Troop and they furnish the drink offering unto that number q. d. There are Reliques of idolatry and superstitious doings and will-worship among them Now see the thirteenth verse Therefore thus saith the Lord my servants shall eat but you shall bee hungry they shall drinke but you shall be thirsty they shall rejoyce but you shall be ashamed q. d. They shall have communion with me and taste of my goodnesse whilst you are strangers altogether unacquainted w th me Others are so taken up with x Ascanius his Parrot could say all the C●eed and another Parr●t being seized on by a Kite could repeat that piece of his L●tany Sanite Thoma ●ra pro nobis How many nominall Christians doe thus stick in formes and play the Parrots with God These will never taste divine sweetnesse in any duty forms of godlines that they tast little of God in any duty they play the Parrots with God what is this but mocking of him cheating a mans own soule No greater strangers to God then formalists more hope of prophane ones then such saith Christ Matth. 21.31 Thus you see the palats of men may be vitiated and distempered and prepossest with other things so as they cannot taste the goodnesse of God in a promise which is compared to wine on the lees well refined Now as a man that hath eaten lushious food cannot taste nor relish the best wine so it is here c. 4. Many y Vide Ioseph Bentham of society with the Saints are engaged and intangled in wicked company in holinesse contemning and Christ-disrelishing society which is a snare and muzzle unto them that they cannot taste the goodnesse of God Prov. 9.5 6. There you 'l see there be some that taste not of Wisdomes banquet because they leave not the way