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A02741	Tvvo treatises I. The purchase of Grace, shewing the excellency of Christ, and the graces of his spirit. II. The soules delight in Gods tabernacles, shewing the excellency of time, spent in duties of God's solemne service. Instances in the chiefe, viz. prayer, word, and sacraments. Motives and directions for right performance. Lastly, the chiefe usurpers of time discovered, with apt remedies against each of them. The contents of the booke are methodically exprest in the margent, which to the diligent reader may serve instead of a table. By William Harrison, Mr. of Arts, and minister of the Gospell at Canwicke neare Lincolne.	Harrison, William, minister at Canwick.	1639 (1639)	STC 12871; ESTC S103879	208,196	400

of age Fly the lustes of youth sayth the Apostle 2 Tim. 2. 22. There are certaine lustes which men are most subject unto in time of youth yea these lustes are noysome and dangerous and fight directly against the soule Abstaine from fleshly lusts which fight against the soule sayth another Apostle 1 Pet. 2. 11. These many times lye heavie upon the conscience of the best in time of age Hearken how holy David cryeth out Psal. 25. 7. Remember not the sinnes of my youth sayth that good man He knew what a wofull case he should be in if God should call him to account for the sinnes of his youth and yet doubtlesse he was a godly man even from his youth see what he sayth of himselfe Psal. 71. 5. Thou art my hope O Lord God thou art my trust even from my youth yea he was taught of God from his youth ver 17. Yea marke what the Lord himselfe sayth of him even in his youth 1 Sam. 13. 14. The Lord hath sought him a man after his owne heart He was a man after Gods owne heart yet cryeth out of the sinnes of his youth So consider Iob by the Lords owne testimony an incomparable man A man that feared God and eschewed evill yet see how he cryeth out of the sinnes of his youth Iob 13. 26. Thou writest bitter things against me and makest me to possesse the sinnes of my youth and yet he was religious and mercifull even in his youth see what he could speake of himselfe Iob 31. 18. where speaking of the widow and fatherlesse For from my youth he that is the fatherlesse was brought up with me as with a Father and I have guided her that is the widow from my mothers wombe Now marke it I pray you are the sinnes of youth thus bitter to such as David and Iob such godly persons What will they then be to them that draw iniquitie with cords of vanitie and sinne as it were with a cart-rope They must needs feele and finde one day that it is an evill thing and bitter to forsake the Lord and that his feare is not in them in their youth as the Lord himselfe speaketh Ier. 2. 19. They that have taken great paines and toyled and moyled in their youth are apt to cry out of Stitches and Aches in their age this is the very case of such as take great paines in the service of sinne and Sathan in their youth they will cry out of the bitternes of it in their age As Abner sayd to Ioab they will finde it bitternesse in the later end Thus wise Salomon disswadeth the yong man from whoredome Pro. 5. 8. Come not nigh the doore of her house Why so 1. Lest thou give thine honour to others and thy yeares to the cruell thy credits gone ver 9. yea and thy profit too Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth and thy labours be in the house of strangers it will emptie thy house of wealth c. But this is not all It will be bitternes in the end ver 11. Lest thou mourne at last and say How have I hated instruction c i.e. How have I mis-spent my precious time and neglected the service of God in my youth Now the way and chiefe meanes to prevent this is to set our selves to serve God even in our youth for this will bring sweetnesse and comfort in time of age Oh what an happinesse when a man can say with Paul Act. 23. 1. I have lived in all good conscience unto this day Or with the young man Mark 10. 20. All this have I kept from my youth See the respect that our Saviour had to him for this Then Iesus beholding him loved him He even loved him in some sort for his externall obedience how much more will he love them that truely and sincerely love and serve him Ich. 14. 21. 23. He that hath my Commandements and keepeth them is he that loveth me and he that loveth me shall be beloved of my Father and I will manifest my selfe to him yea my Father will love him and wee will come and make our abode with him O happie Companie what greater comfort It is heaven upon earth in stead of the bitter sinnes of youth we shall have fellowship with the Father and with his Sonne Iesus Christ sayth the Apostle 1 Ioh. 1. 3. Thirdly Time spent sincerely in Gods service in our youth will make us constantly religious in our age I know indeed that some that have seemed Saints in youth have proved devils in their age As Ioash c. but they did but seeme so they had onely a forme of godlinesse but denyed the power of it 2 Tim. 3. 5. But such as are truely and sincerely religious in youth will be constant in age that is the right propertie of a tree of Righteousnesse Psal. 92. that Psalme for the Sabbath day vers 13. 14. They that be truely planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the Courts of the house of our God They shall still bring forth fruit in their old age they shall be fat and flourishing To the same purpose is that speech of Salomon Pro. 22. 6. Traine up a childe or Catechise in the way he should goe and when he is old he will not depart from it Loe the benefit of a religious education in youth He that spendeth time in Gods service in his youth will hardly neglect it in his age He that is a Tymothy in his youth for the most part proveth a Mnaason an old Disciple in his age Act. 21. 26. An heart seasoned with the true feare of God in a mans youth will make him that he shall not depart from God when he is old Salomon indeed fell foulely and dangerously in his age but returned to God by repentance at last as is evident by his booke of Ecclesiastes yea see what warrant we have to thinke thus Ier. 32. 40. And I will put my feare in their hearts that they shall never depart from me He that once truely feareth God departeth not from him Fourthly The more time we spend and the more paines we take in Gods service in our youth the more comfort shall we have for the present and the more glorie hereafter this addeth still more weight and massinesse to our crowne of glory in heaven The small paines that we take in Gods service though in comparison they be but as for a moment yet worke unto us an eternall and exceeding weight of glory as the Apostle speakes 2 Cor. 4. 17. O how this should perswade us to beginne betimes The sooner wee beginne to spend time in Gods service the more time shall we spend in it and reape the more glory hereafter This is evident by that Parable of the Talents The more Talents we have and the better we employ them the more glorie in heaven See what is sayd to him that had five Talents well improved Luk. 19. 17. Well done thou good

the Lord be magnified which hath pleasure in the prosperitie of his servants He loveth to have them merry at meate and at worke and sing for joy of heart Isa. 65. 14. And withall he is constant in his love towards them if he be angry it is but for a moment but his love and mercie is everlasting towards them See a singular place for this purpose in Isa. 54. 7 8. For a small moment have I forsaken thee but with great mercies will I gather thee and ver 8. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment but with everlasting kindnesse will I have mercie on thee sayth the Lord thy Redeemer If he be wroth if he seeme to forsake or hide himselfe from his servants it is but for a moment but his love and kindnesse is everlasting his mercy endureth for ever having loved his owne which were in the world he loved them unto the end sayth our Saviour Ioh. 13. 1. not for a time but for ever his love like himselfe is constant and unchangeable it is an everlasting love Ier. 31. 3. With an everlasting love have I loved thee therefore with loving kindnesse have I drawne thee sayth the Lord. Yea his love to his servants is so constant that nothing shall be able to diprive them of it nothing can finally doe it and for ever Rom. 8. 37 38. For I am perswaded sayth the Apostle that neither death nor life nor Angells nor height nor depth nor things present nor things to come nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Yea sinne it selfe that is the most dangerous enemy of all for your iniquities have separated between you and your God Isa. 59. 1. cannot doe it yea rather then so your sinnes shall be pardoned and that for his owne sake Isa. 43. 25. for I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake will not remember thy sinnes Here is a gracious and a constant loving Master Tenthly and lastly This heavenly Master of ours is readie dayly to manifest and expresse his love towards his servants in hearing their prayers and revenging all such wrongs as are offered unto them See the proofe of this priviledge in both the branches of it First For his hearing prayers it is one of his titles of honour to heare prayers Psal. 65. 2. Especially the prayers of his servants and such as feare him Joh. 9. 31. If any man be a worshipper of God and a doer of his Will him he heareth Yea he will fulfill the desires of them that feare him he will heare their cry and save them Psalm 145. 18. And if any man delight in Gods service he shall have his hearts desire Psal. 37. 4. Delight thy selfe in the Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thy heart What greater priviledge Yea he is many times found of them when they doe not seeke him Isa. 65. 24. It shall come to passe that when they call I will answer and while they are yet speaking I will heare O how open is his eare unto their complaints when they are wronged by their adversaries and how readie is the Lord even speedily to avenge their wrongs Heare what the unjust Iudge sayth sayth our Saviour Luk. 18. 7. And shall not God avenge his owne Elect which cry day and night unto him I tell you that he will avenge them speedily True it is he will not allow his servants to be their own carvers and avenge themselves But what need they when he is ready to doe it for them Vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord Ro. 12. 19. He that toucheth Gods servants to hurt them doth touch the aple of his eye Zach. 2. 8 Hee taketh all their wrongs and injuries as done to himselfe and he will certainely and wisely avenge their wrongs 2 Kings 9. 7. Iehu shall smite Ahab and Iezabel but to what end Iehu's end was to get the kingdome but what was the Lords end that yee shall see in the place forenamed That I may avenge the bloud of my servants the Prophets and the bloud of all the servants of the Lord at the hands of Iezabell they must pay deare that shed the bloud of Gods servants the Lord himselfe will bee avenged of them Another place to this purpose is that we have Deut. 32. 41. If I whet my glistering sword and my hand takes hold on judgement I will render vengeance to mine enemies c. and I will make my arrowes drunke with bloud and my sword shall devoure flesh c. But whose bloud and flesh shall thus goe to wracke That ye shall see verse 43. Surely they that have shed the bloud of his servants for hee will avenge the bloud of his servants saith the Text. Who would not be abundant in his service that will not suffer his servants bloud to be unavenged CHAP. VIII Containing the three first Directions or meanes how to spend much time in Gods service FIrst If wee would spend much time in Gods service we must labour to have our hearts rightly fitted and prepared for that purpose There is a price in the hand of many a foole to get wisdome but he wanteth an heart to get wisdome saith Salomon Pro. 17. 16. How many blessed opportunities have we of spending time in Gods service which are let slip because wee want hearts rightly prepared for that purpose Hereupon it is that in the first place God requireth our hearts Proverbs 23. 26. My son give me thy heart and Ier. 14. 4. O Ierusalem wash thy heart from wickednesse A prophane heart can never endure to spend much time in God service but straight cryeth out behold what a wearinesse is it Mal. 1. 13. Hence it is that the Lord cryeth out most of all for want of a right and fit disposition of heart in the duties of his service Isaiah 29. 13. This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouthes and honour me with their lips but their hearts are farre from me Here was the defects of Ezechiels hearers Ezech. 33. 31. ver They come unto thee as my people commeth and they also sit before thee as my people and they heare my words but they will not doe them where was the chiefe fault Surely in the heart for with their mouthes they shew much love but their heart goeth after their covetousnesse A covetous and a vicious heart will soone make a man weary of time spent in Gods service and therefore when any man setteth himselfe to doe God any service the Lord looketh directly with what heart he doth it It is an excellent speech of God to Samuel when hee was to choose Israel a King 1 Sam. 16. 7. the Lord said to Samuel Looke not on his countenance nor on the height of his stature c. For the Lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord

of profitable and excellent use for Gods people that have occasion to joyne together in the celebration and participation of them First For publike prayer in the Congregation see how expresly the Apostle requireth it 1 Tim. 2. 1. I exhort that first of all prayer and supplication and intercession and giving of thankes be made for all men for Kings and such as are in authoritie Let no man despise the publike Lyturgie of our Church and the prayers that are used there as if God regarded not such prayers as are read upon a booke for certainly the most godly learned and wisest men that I have heard or read of have approved of set forme of prayers yea one of the wisest and ablest even of those that have disliked the Ceremonies of our Church hath yet highly esteemed of the prayers which are appointeh to be read in our publike Lyturgie yea and doth professe publikely that in his opinion no wise man will dislike such kinde of prayers eyther because they are read upon a booke or for their length or the multitude of them yea ye sheweth plainely that it hath beene the practice and custome of the best Churches to have bookes of publike prayers and approveth of and justifieth the practise of Gods Church in that regard yea see how highly that pious man hath approved of the Booke of prayers appointed by Authoritie for the keeping of publike Fasts concerning which this reverend Divine sayth thus concerning the sayd Booke of prayers That they are as ample holy effectuall and fit for the present occasion as ever were in any Lyturgie that he had seene Having therefore cleared this in the first place give me leave to shew you the worth and excellency of publike prayers in the Congregation in some respect above any prayers that are made in secret in our Closets or in private amongst our people in our families See it in foure particulars First In regard of the excellency of the company that is present there in a speciall manner which I will manifest unto you in these three particulars First The Church and people of GOD are present there in a most speciall manner and readie to joyne with us in these publike prayers Now it must needs be an excellent thing and very beneficiall unto us in this regard This made David delight in the duties of Gods publike worship and service yea and cary his whole hous-hold a multitude with him to the House of God because he was sure to meet with the Saints of God there in whom next under God himselfe was all his delight Psal. 42. 4. Psal. 16. 3. My goodnesse O Lord extendeth not to thee but to the Saints which are on the earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight This made him so glad when he was exhorted by any to goe to the house of God sc. in regard of the good company that he was sure to finde there Psal. 122. 1. 4. I was glad when they sayd unto me let us goe up to the house of the Lord. Why so That yee shall see ver 4. Thither the Tribes goe up the Tribes of the Lord c. to give thankes to the Name of the Lord and ver 8. For my brebren and companions sake I will now say peace be within thee Loe this is one strong Motive that should perswade us not onely duely to frequent the house of God our selves but to exhort and stirre up others to joyne with us therein sc. because of the people of GOD that are there present in a speciall manner Secondly Not onely Gods people are there present but also the holy Angells of God are present in our Church assemblies As they are at all times fent forth for the good of them that shall be heires of Salvation Heb. 1. 14. so especially then when we are the most seriously imployed in the duties of Gods publike worship and service they then pitch their tents about us to defend us Psal. 34. 7. and keepe us in all our wayes much more when we walke in the wayes of God they are then present with us in a most speciall manner This the Apostle intimateth in ●hat direction which he giveth to women ● Cor. 11. 10. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head that is to have her head covered in token of sujection because of the Angells i.e. The Angells are in a most speciall manner present in our Church assemblies and will dislike such disorders Yea this was also figured to Gods people in Salomons time and hence it was that the walls of Salomons Temple were full of Cherubims round about 1 King 6. 29. to intimate unto Gods people that the holy Angells of God were in a speciall manner present in the Church assemblies This should perswade us to make great account of the publike prayers in the Congregation Thirdly Not onely the Saints and Angells but also the Lord himselfe is in a most speciall manner present at our publike prayers in the Congregation Loe I am with you alwayes to the end of the world sayth our Saviour Mat. 18. 20. Especially at publike prayers for of such kinde of assemblies our blessed Saviour speaketh Mat. 18. 20. Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the middest of them Oh how this should perswade us not onely to spend time in Gods service our selves but also exhort others to doe so too in regard of the excellent company that we are there sure to meete withall the holy Saints and the Angels of God yea and the Lord himselfe Secondly Because publike prayers that are presented to God in the Congregation are usually most prevalent and powerfull and likely to prevaile with God eyther for the obtaining of some speciall blessing that we want or preventing or removing some heavie judgement eyther felt or feared for the Lord loveth the gates of Zion more then all the dwellings of Iacob Psal. 87. 2. Such prayers do usually finde speciall acceptance with him See what a promise our Saviour hath made to such prayers Mat. 18. 19. Againe I say unto you if two of you much more if two hundred shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall aske it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven For there the Lord commandeth his blessing and life for evermore sayth the Text Psal. 133. 3. Yea the Lord himselfe directeth to these publike and solemne prayers as those that of all others are the most effectuall to prevaile with God as appeareth in Joell 2. when he foretelleth a judgement future see what the Lord prescribeth as the meanes to prevent it V. 15. Blow the Trumpet in Zion sanctifie a Fast call a solemne assembly V. 16. Gather the people sanctifie the Congregation assemble the Elders yea gather the children yea the bride and bridegroome the Priests and Ministers of the Lord all must bestirre