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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02731	Old Mr. Dods sayings	Dod, John, 1549?-1645.	1680 (1680)	Wing D1785A; ESTC R174684	4,606	13

OLD Mr. DODS SAYINGS LONDON Printed by A. Maxwell in the Year Anno Dom. 1680 OLD Mr. DODS SAYINGS 1. 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 ●hat we shall have if we seek it 2. No man is in a sad condition but he ●hat hath a hard heart and cannot pray 3. So much Sin so much Sorrow so much Holiness so much Happiness 4. Make thy Sin thy greatest Sorrow ●o shall thy Sorrow never hurt thee Make Iesus Christ thy greatest Ioy so shalt thou ●ever want Ioy. 5. A man that hath the spirit of prayer ●ath more then if he had all the world 6. Two things to be commended to a Married Couple Cares and strifes For the ●●rst Let your Cares be which shall please God most for your strifes let them be which shall love one another best So will ●our Cares and Strifes be to purpose so will all needless Cares and strifes vanish 7. If you be in a married estate know ●nd believe it Though you might have had a ●etter or richer Wife or Husband yet sure ●nough you could never have had a fitter be●ause it was so appointed by God in Heaven before it could be accomplished here o● Earth and therefore though mutual love 〈◊〉 not performed to thee yet do thou thy part 〈◊〉 obedience to God and thou shalt be sure 〈◊〉 have comfort in the end though God exerci●● thee with chastisements for a time 8. There can no afflictions or miseries b● fall us but by Gods appointment and cann●● hurt us but must needs do us good if we 〈◊〉 Gods Children But first Be sure you 〈◊〉 not sin with them for that only makes the● bitter Secondly Look not at the rod but 〈◊〉 him that smiteth for that causeth fretti●● and fainting both 9. If thou desirest to be assured thy sins 〈◊〉 forgiven thee labour to forgive injuries a●● offences done unto thee according to th● in Mat. 6.14 15. Four things consider this end 1. Christs example who forga●● and prayed for his enemies 2. Christs co●mand When ye pray forgive if ye have ought agai● any man 3. Christs promise If ye forgi●● ye shall be forgiven 4. Christs threatning 〈◊〉 ye forgive not ye shall not be forgiven 10. In all miseries and distresses it is 〈◊〉 wisdom to go to that friend that is most ne● most willing and most able to help such friend is God 11. He would often say He had no reas●● to complain of his crosses being they w●● but the bitter fruit of his sins 12. Where sin lyes heavy crosses lye lig●● and contrary where crosses lye heavy sins lye light 13. Either prayer will make a man give over sinning or sin will make a man give over praying 14. 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 begger 15. 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 commit it if God restrain not 16. If we be raised on or reviled or injuriously dealt withall by friend or foe we should be more troubled for the sin against God then for the offence done to our selves 17. 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 favour behind him 18. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions and are far better for a Christian then all the silver and gold in the world being that the trial of our Faith is much more precious then of gold that perisheth 1 Pet. 1.6 19. Directions for the Lord day Make the Sabbath the Market day for thy soul Lose not one hour but be either praying conferring or meditating think not t●● own thoughts let every day have its dutie● turn the Sermon heard into matter of pra●er Instruction into petition reproof in● confestion consolation into thanksgiving Think much of the Sermon heard and make something of it all the week long 20. Directions for every day First Fo● morning Every morning presuppose 1. I must die 2. I may die or night 3. whithe● will my soul go to heaven or to hell Secondly For night Every night ask at 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 thankfull 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 thus done where have you been failing confesse it with sorrow the lesse-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 die 21. What we win by prayer we shall wear with comfort 22. There is a twofold assurance 1. A 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 heab I Thes 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 in to or upon some great suffering to be undergone of which one saith The hours it comes is but seldom and the stay of it 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 23. For the comfort of Gods people he observed out of the 129. Psal 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 then they can plow no more 24. In case of persecutions and other sufferings Gods people should seriously consider these four things 1. God wills them and sends them Now Gods will is a perfect ●ule of righteousnesse and what God doth ●s so well done that it could not be better ●one 2. There is need of them or else we ●hould not have them 3. Their number ●easure and continuance is determined by God they are but for a moment and last for few dayes Rev. 2.10 not too heavy 〈◊〉 many or too long as the devil would h● them