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A36221 Old Mr. Dod's sayings Dod, John, 1549?-1645. 1671 (1671) Wing D1784; ESTC R13671 4,513 1

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Old M r DOD's Sayings I. NOthing can hurt us but Sin and that shall not hurt us if we can repent of it And nothing can do us good but the Love and Favour of God in Christ and that we shall have if we seek it II. No man is in a sad condition but he that hath a hard heart and cannot pray III. So much Sin so much Sorrow so much Holiness so much Happiness IV. Make thy Sin thy greatest Sorrow so shall thy Sorrow never hurt thee Make Jesus Christ thy greatest Joy so shalt thou never want Joy V. A man that hath the Spirit of Prayer hath more than if he had all the World VI. Two things he commended to a Married Couple Cares and Strifes For the first Let your Cares be Which shall please God most For your Strifes let them be which shall love one another best So will your Cares and Strifes be to purpose so will all needless Cares and Strifes vanish VI. If you be in a Married Estate know and believe it Though you might have had a better or richer Wife or Husband yet sure enough you could never have had a fitter Because it was so appointed by God in Heaven before it could be accomplished here on Earth and therefore though mutual Love be not performed to thee yet do thou thy part in obedience to God and thou shalt be sure to have comfort in the end though God exercise thee with Chastisements for a time VIII There can no Afflictions and Miseries befall us but by Gods appointment and cannot hurt us but must needs do us good if we be Gods Children But first Be sure you mix not sin with them for that only makes them bitter Secondly Look not at the Rod but at him that smiteth for that causeth fretting and fainting both IX If thot desirest to be assured thy Sins be forgiven thee Labour to forgive Injuries and Offences done unto thee according to that in Mat. 6. 14 15. Four things consider to this end 1. Christs Example who forgave and pray●d for his Enemies 2. Christs Command When ye pray forgive if ye have ought against any man 3. Christs Promise If ye forgive ye shall be forgiven 4. Christs Threatning If ye forgive not ye shall not be forgiven X. In all Miseries and Distresses 't is best wisdom to go to that Friend that is most near most willing and most able to help such a Friend is God XI He would often say He had no reason to complain of his Crosses being they were but the bitter fruit of his Sins XII Where Sins lye heavy Crosses lye light and contrary Where Crosses lye heavy Sins lye light XIII Either Prayer will make a man give over sinning or Sin will make a man give over praying XIV Four things we may learn from Children 1. They take no unnecessary care 2. They sleep without malice 3. They are content with their condition 4. They are humble the child of a King will play with the child of a Beggar XV. There is no Affliction so small but we should sink under it if God upheld not and there is no Sin so great but we should commit it if God restrained not XVI If we be railed on or reviled or injuriously dealt withall by friend or foe we should be more troubled for the sin against God than for the offence done to our selves XVII A Godly man is like a Sheep every place is the better for him where he comes A wicked Man is like a Goat every place is the worse for him He leaves a stinking savour behind him XVIII Sanctified Afflictions are spiritual Promotions and are far better for a Christian than all the Silver and Gold in the world being that the tryal of our Faith is much more precious than of Gold that perisheth 1 Pet. 1. 6. XIX Directions for the Lords day Make the Sabbath the market-Market-day for thy Soul Lose not one hour but be either Praying Conferring or Meditating think not thy own thoughts let every day have its duties turn the Sermon heard into matter of Prayer Instruction into Petition Reproof into Confession Consolation into Thanksgiving Think much of the Sermon heard and make something of it all the week long XX. Directions for every day First For morning Every morning presuppose 1. I must dye 2. I may dye ere night 3. Whither will my Soul go to Heaven or to Hell Secondly For Night Every Night ask thy Soul these Questions 1. Have I twice this day humbled my self before God in private 2. How did I pray in Faith and Love 3. What have my thoughts been this day 4. What have I been in my place and calling 5. What have I been in company Did I speak of good things or did I hear and with Mary lay up 6. If God with the morning renewed Mercies was I thankful 7. If the day afforded me matter of sorrow did I fret or did I lye in the dust before God 8. When you have done where you have been failing confess it with sorrow the less work you will have to do when death comes Thus every night reckon right with thy God This hath been my daily course and shall be my practice till I dye XXI What we win by Prayer we shall wear with comfort XXII There is a twofold Assurance 1. A Sun-shine 2. A Moon-shine Assurance The first is that full Assurance in Heb. 10. 22. The Moon-shine is that of the Word to the which we do well that we take heed 1 Thess 1. 5. 2 Pet. 1. 18. The first is given but to few and that but seldom and that either upon some great duty to be performed or some new condition of life to be entred into or upon some great Sufferings to be undergone of which one saith The hours it comes is but seldom and the stay of it is short The second is that we must trust to A relying upon the sure Word of God by the Faith of Adherence when we want the other the Spirit of full Assurance XXIII For the comfort of Gods people he observed out of the 129 Psalm That though the wicked were the Plowers of the righteous and would plow deep make long furrows and even plow their hearts out if they could yet the righteous Lord that sits in Heaven laughs at them and cuts their Cords and they then can plow no more XXIV In case of Persecutions and other Sufferings Gods people should seriously consider these four things 1. God wills them and sends them Now God's will is a perfect Rule of Righteousness and what God doth is so well done that it could not be better done 2. There is need of them or else we should not have them 3. Their number measure and continuance is determined by God they are but for a moment and last but for a few days Rev. 2. 10. not too heavy too many or too long as the Devil would have them nor too few too short or too light as our corrupt