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A64284	Rihgt [sic] thoughts, the righteous mans evidence a discourse proving our state (God-ward) to be as our thoughts are, directing how to try them and our selves by them, propounding schemes of right thoughts, with motives and rules for keeping thoughts right : in two parts / by Faithful Teat.	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1669 (1669)	Wing T614; ESTC R11474	173,501	302

saith the Text they thought upon his Name And as for Love And Love Levit. 2.7 Cacabus ● Rad. Hebr. ebullivit Psalm 45.1 as the Holy Fire under the Frying-pan made the Oyl of the Oblation to bubble and boyl up which is the Psalmists very word Holy Love is this Fire that makes Thoughts boil up for the very first word of that Psalm which is entituled a Song of Love is this My heart boileth up with a good matter Experience tells us Animus est non ubi animat sed ubi amat that the affectionate and tender Mother can leave her thoughts behind her at home with her sucking Child when she goes abroad Thus worldly Love will have worldly Thoughts and Gracious Love will have Gracious Thoughts O how I love thy Law it is my Meditation all the day Psalm 19.97 And 't is a sign Holy Love is but weak and feeble when holy thoughts are but faint and few Deut. 6.5 And here let the Reader most carefully observe that where Moses layes down the First and great Commandment thou shalt Love the Lord thy God only in three words with all thy Heart and with all thy Soul and with all thy Might or strength Mat. 22.37 Mark 17.30 Luke 10.27 Our Saviour repeating the Law adds a Fourth viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex omni Cogitatione so Bez. vulg c. with all thy Thought or Mind plainly enough suggesting unto us that the Strength of the Heart cannot be reckoned as engaged to the Love of God where the Thoughts of the Heart are not drawn Out by it And therefore labour to ascertain and to clear up thine Interest in God and Christ Mark 12.30 and Heavenly things daily more and more for Christ saith not where Anothers but where your treasure is Luke 10.27 there will your heart be also for as Interest raiseth Love Love hath power to levy Thoughts and to keep them in readiness for its use and service so that if thy Treasure be in Heaven there will thine heart be also Luke 12.34 IV. Last Practical Rule 4. Practical Rule Begin thy Days and thy Weeks with Right thoughts Exod. 12.1 John 20.2 Coloss 3.1 Revel 1.10 LAstly As the Israelites were to reckon their Beginning of Moneths from the time of their Deliverance so let the Thoughts of thy DELIVERER still begin both thy Weeks and thy Dayes for it was both upon the First of the Week and of the Day that our Blessed Lord Rose again from the Dead and We must imp our Thoughts if we would help their flight upon the wing of Our Saviours Resurrection S. John was in the Spirit on the LORDS-DAY that is on the First of the Week for it is generally confest that the First day of the Week was as well known by the Primitive Christians in the Apostolical Age by the Name of the Lords-day as any other day was or is by Jews or Gentiles known and distinguished by any other Name Thus did the dear Disciple begin the Week and thus did Holy David still begin the day whose constant course was to take his slight for Heaven on the wings of the Morning Psal 139.18 when I was awake saith he to God I am still with thee And thus should the First-lings of the flock of our Thoughts be for God still Gen 4.4 Matth. 6.33 still First seek the Kingdom of God that is not onely above All but also every Week and every Day first of All. Of all the Ten there is but One Commandment that begins with a REMEMBER O forget not that Exod. 20.8 Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy This is the standing Law commanding one Day or Seventh part of the Week blessed of God above all the rest to be set apart for God for so also the Commandment ends Verse 11. Hookers Ecclesiastical Policy the Lord Blessed the Sabbath Day and hallowed it The Perpetual obligatoriness of which Law is strongly asserted by the Learned Hooker and declaredly owned by the Church of England there being subjoyned to the publick reading of this fourth Commandment as well as of the rest a Lord have mercy upon us See also the Hom. of the Place and Time c. Titus 1.16 John 1.3 and encline our Hearts to keep this Law And if in Words we confess this Law O let not our Works deny it Now as the SON of God being Maker both of the First Creation and Sabbath for by Him were All things made and without Him was nothing made that was made as we have already seen First blessed that Day wherein He first Rested for the Commemoration of that First and Glorious work of his So after that He became the SON MAN Mark 2.28 being still LORD of the SABBATH He hath dignified the First Day of the Week with the glorious Title of the LORDS-DAY having Rested therein from a greater Work viz. the Suffering and state of Death which was the last and Finishing Work of his state of Humiliation and therein blessed and hallowed it for our Commemoration of the more glorious work of Redemption For as the glory of the later Temple Hag. 2.9 was greater then that of the former because Christ was more manifestly to appear in it it may be as truly and for the same reason said of Gods Workmanship Eph. 2.10 created in CHRIST JESUS unto good works that the glory of the New Creature excels that of the Old for the more manifestation of Christ still the more Glory till at last He shall come to be perfectly glorified in his Saints and admired in all them that believe 2 Thes 1.10 For herein hath he obsignated and given an undubitable pledge of that REST or SABBATISM that remains for the People of God Hebr. 4.9 when upon the general Resurrection of their Bodies they shall Eternally rest from Sin and Death 1 Cor. 15.20 for Christ is risen as the First Fruits of them that sleep and therefore saith He thy Dead Men shall live Isaiah 26.19 John 14.19 together with my Dead Body shall they arise for because I LIVE Ye shall live also To allude then to that Word of our Saviour John 12.31 When I am lifted up I will draw all men to me and indeed when the King is up and gone 't is not for the Courtiers to loyter and lag behind O me-thinks this Resurrection of Christ should DRAW All our Hearts and Thoughts to him Colos 3.1 If we then be Risen with Christ saith the Apostle Let us seek those things that are above Psalm 24.7 Psalm 110.7 and then especially when He arose Then Lift up your heads O ye Gates and be ye lift up ye Everlasting Doors for this Day did your dearest Lord lift up that head from the Conquered Grave John 19.30 which He bowed before upon that bitter Cross that as his Death was the Death of our Sins so his Resurrection might be the life of our Souls Psal 118 24. This this is the day that Our Lord hath made We will Rejoyce and be glad in it Every other Sun-Rising can make another Day Mal. 4.1 but it is onely the Rising of the Sun of Righteousness with healing in his wings that made the Day we stile the LORDS-DAY and therefore when the Burthen of the Week for sufficient to every day is the Evil thereof hath made our Shoulders shrink Mat. 6.34 and gall'd our back this blessed Day takes off the Burthen and layes on the Balm heals the aking Heart Relieves the weary Thoughts and in a word it brings Heaven half down to us and takes us half up to Heaven Wherefore good Reader let thine Early Thoughts and Spicie Meditations begin every morning of this blessed Day as the good Women in the Gospel with a gracious and holy visit of thy Saviours Sepulchre Luke 24.1 6. till the Heavenly Ordinances of that Day proclaim to thee as the Angels to them He is not here but is risen John 14.2 3. and is gone before thee to prepare a place for thee that he may come again and receive thee that where He is there mayest thou be also And as the First day of each Week thus employed will sanctifie unto thee the rest of the Week so will the First of each Day the rest of the Day when by a Sun-beam thou canst climb to God Herber● in Temple Close thy dayes with good thoughts as Divine Herbert most sweetly expresseth it And now having found thee with Him and Holy David in the Morning I would chuse to leave thee with Isaac in the Evening who was wont at that time to go out to MEDITATE That as God is Alpha and Omega of all things He may be the Beginning and the End of thy Thoughts for with Him it is that this little Book both designs and desires to leave Thee Amen Amen FINIS

Issue never so foul Mat 9.20 and 14.36 Mat. 5.25 Verse 17. Zach. 9 1● Mar. 9.27 so shameful so inveterate If thy desires be creeping towards him while that Issue of thine continues Running Break then O prisoner of hope through the throng of all thy contradicting Thoughts and steal 〈◊〉 ●he least one blessed touch till thou find virtue going one of him Come Come Chap. 9.30 The Spirit saith Come and the Bride saith Come and l●t him that heareth say Come And let him that is athi●st come and whosoever will let him take of the water of Life freely Rev. 22.17 Heb. 12.27 Now see that thou refuse not him that speaks from Heaven But alas thinks my Soul after all this I sadly fear that if Christ would indeed accept me I should never be able to accept Christ I find now 't is a hard thing to be a Christian Acts 26.38 Numb 13 28 31 33. I thought I had been almost perswaded but O the sons of Anak The walled Towns in the way the Cross the Yoke not a Lust not a Thought not a Word not a Look in all the remainder of my life but by Law Alas who can bea● it I dread to begin to draw least I should draw back and better then I had never known the way of truth Heb 10.38 Isaiah 38.14 I know thy Soul hath no pleasure in such O Lord I am now oppressed undertake for one I would believe my God but cannot help thou my unbelief I would take thy yoke upon me Mark 9.24 but I dare not for I have been a Bullock unaccustomed to the Yoke But turn thou me and I shall be turned Jer. 31.18 and thou shalt be the Lord my God I see O Lord I must have my yoke which way soever I turn my self Sins and Satans I have too long born And should I die under thine I cannot bear the thought of going back to theirs For I am sure to die under theirs I am indeed in a great straight 2 Sam. 24.14 let me now fall into the hand of the Lord for with the Lord there are mercies but as for Satan and Sin the mercies of these are cruel Prov. 12.10 Sect. IX CAst out then the Shete Anchor of thy hope O thou afflicted Isaiah 54.11 tossed with tempest and not comforted and cast it O my soul as near as thou canst into that within the Vail Heb. 11.19 If thou venture not on Jesus Christ thou perishest And if thou dost thou canst but perish 2 King 7 4. If he save thee alive thou shalt live And if he kill thee thou canst but die There hath been high and hainous and in their own eyes the very chief of sinners 1 Tim. 1.15 1 Cor. 6.11 washed ●ustified sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of God yea that hath been set forth even for a PATTERN to all that should afterward believe of him 1 Tim. 1.16 Isaiah 26.12 who not onely ORDAINETH peace for us but also worketh all our Works in us Wherefore O thou blessed Jesus with fear and with trembling I cast and ●oul my self upon thee Hester 4.16 And if I perish I will perish at those feet that were therefore p●●●ced that whilst I put my fingers into the print of the Nailes John 20.27 the weak hand of my Faith may have the better hold Sect. X. LO here the Restless Mind of Man toucht with the Load-stone of Divine Grace tremblingly wavering Numb 24.17 seeking rest but finding none till the thoughts fix upon the Star out of Jacob the Lord Jesus Christ Lo here the Heavenly conduct of Divine light newly arisen in the mind of man bringing his Thoughts from a far Country Matthew 2. Verse 5. and never leaving them till it leave them in the very place where the Holy Child lies The sweet bosom of the Fathers love Lo here the Celestial Call Isaiah 41.2 raising up the Righteous man from the East his Native Countrey or if you will natural condition Acts 11.23 Heb. 11.15 And bringing him to Gods foot with full purpose and fixed Thought of Heart should opportunity of returning into the old Countrey The old state The other Gods on the other side of the Flood serve never so fair yet never by the Grace of God to return unto them more cleaving to Christ for fear of leaving of him or being left by him Leaning on its beloved that it may not be lost any more in the old Wilderness Cant. 8.5 the perplexing maze of its old unbelieving thoughts fastening it self upon him that it may by no means be shaken off by him with such mental speakings as these Intreat me not to leave thee Ruth 2.14 or to return from following after thee neither say thou to me let me go Ah my Jesus I will let all go rather then let thee go for I should let infinitely more than the Worlds All go in letting thee go I should loose my self in loosing thee and be cast away Luke 9.25 and that too in the very sight of Harbour No mo my heart is fixed O Christ my heart is fixed whither thou goest I will go be it to thy Crown or to thy Cross and where thou lodgest I will lodge Ruth 2.16 17. be it a Paradise or a Prison Thy people shall be my people though the world hate them And thy God shall be my God notwithstanding all the ungodliness that is in the world and the world of ungodliness that is in my heart where thou dyest I will die Rom. 6.4 Verse 6. and there will I be buryed thy death shall mortifie my members that are upon earth My Lusts shall thy Cross kill and thy Grave bury Nay God forbid that death should part Col. 3.3 but more closely yea unseperably eternally unite thee and me And so shall I ever be with the Lord. And thus have you seen the returning Shulamite Cant. 6.16 and what will you see in the Shulamite but as it were the company of two Armies On the one hand the struglings of unbelief on the other the work of Faith with power till at length the house of Dav d grows stronger and stronger 2 Thes 1.1 Isaiah 23.33 Gen. 32.25 28. Isaiah 40.1 2. and the house of Saul grows weaker and weaker Old thoughts pass away and new prevail the lame divides the spoil the halting Jacob becomes a Prince with God the mourner is comforted the warfare accomplished the sin pardoned the bruised Reed lifts up its hanging head Chapter 42.3 the smoaking slax breaks out into a flame In one word ●n the multitude of the thoughts within Psalm 94.19 Gods comforts they delight the Soul And thus the soul falling into a place where all this while Acts 27.41 Psalm 143.10 two contrary Seas have met runs at length a ground on the and of uprightness where the sore-part the Thought

13. who did hinder thee Hath a Nation changed their Gods whi h yet are no Gods but thou hast changed thy glory for that which doth not profit Be astonyed at this and be horribly afraid yea be very desolate O my heart For thou hast committed two Evils Thou hast forsaken the Fountain of living waters and hewed thee broken Cisterns that can hold no water O prophane Heart Heb. 12.16 17. that for a morsel of meat hast sold thy Birth-right How sain wouldest thou now inherit the blessing couldst thou but find a place for repentance Ezek. 37.11 Lam. 3.18 Job 19.10 chap. 8.13 though thou shouldst seek it never so carefully with tears But alas for thy part thine hope is cut off thine hope hath God removed like a tree and indeed what else can be expected but that the Hypocrites hope should pe ish O false heart and flattering hope Exod. 14.13 must I be thus deceived by you both which I so much trusted I said with Moses of my strong corruptions when I thought I saw them drowned in the Red Sea of my Saviours Blood I shall see them again no more for ever and with David in his prosperity I shall never be moved Psalm 30.6 Luke 10.15 and must I now like Capernaum after I have been thus lifted up to Heaven be thrown down to Hell and so everlastingly seperated from the blessed presence of the dear Jesus whom I fondly thought I had loved better then my life but now find I did love him less than my laziness and my lusts and indeed I am convinced that if any man loves any thing more than Christ He is not worthy of him Mat. 10 37. But ah my dear and blessed Jesus must thou and I thus part part Eternally Oh no! not for a World no not for a World of Worlds Why then Psal 88 14. O Lord castest thou off my soul why hidest thou thy face from me Yea rather O Lord why hast thou made me to erre from thy wayes Psal 63.14 Job 10.1 and hardened my heart from thy fear yet will I leave my complaint upon my self and I will speak in the bitterness of my soul I know indeed that God cannot be tempted with evil J●m 1.13 14. neither tempteth he any man But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed Therefore Psal 42.6 7. O my God my Soul is cast down within me and deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy water spouts Verse 4. thy waves and thy billows are gone over me When I remember these things I powre out my soul in me For I had gone with the multitude I went with them to the house of God with the voice of joy and praise I call also to remembrance my song in the night Psal 77.6 and commune with mine own heart and my spirit makes diligent search Job 16.12 I was at ease but God hath brok●n me asunder He hath also taken me by the neck and shaken me in pieces and set me up for his mark Job 29.3 4 5. Oh that I were as in moneths past as in the da●es when God preserved me when his Candle shined upon my head and when by his light I walked through darkness when the secret of God was upon my Tabernacle and when the Almighty was yet with me Psal 42.3 But now alas my tears are my meat day and night while my returning Corruptions and prevailing Lusts say to me continually where is thy God As with a Sword in my bones do they reproach me Verse 9. while they say daily to me where is thy God But w●ll the Lord cast off for ever will he be favourable no more Is his mercy clean gone for ever and doth his Promise fail for evermore Hath God forgotten to be gracious hath ●e in anger shut up his tender mercies 2 Sam 23.5 Surely this is my infirmity but I will remember the ●ears of the right hand of the most High Although my heart be not so with God yet hath he made with me a Covenant an everlasting Covenant ordered in all things and sure I will therefore say unto God Psal 42.8 9. my rock why hast thou forgotten me why go I mourning because of the oppression of the Enemy Yet the Lord will command his loving kindness in the day-time and in the night his song shall be with mo Verse 11. and my Prayer unto the God of my Life Why art thou cast down O my soul and why art thou disquieted within me Hope thou in God for I shall yet Praise him who is the health of my Countenance and my God O Lord though mine iniquities testifie against me do thou for thy Name sake for my back-slidings are many Jerem. 14.7 Verse 20. and 21. Psal 42.2 Psalm 63.2 I have sinned against thee But I acknowledge O Lord my wickedness Do not abl or me for thy names sake Remember break not thy Covenant with me For truly my Soul thirsteth for God for the living God to see his Power and his Glory so as I have seen him in the Sanctuary Be watchful therefore O mine heart Rev. 3.2 and strengthen the things that remain and are ready to die for here is yet a Pillar of Fire before thee Neh. 9.12 19. Jer. 3.24 the token of a Divine presence with thee Hath not God said Return ye back-sliding Children and I will heal your back-sliding Behold I come unto thee for thou art the Lord my God But surely if God will allow me to set my hope on high He will yet have me to keep mine Heart low for though he be still saying H●sea 14.4 Jerem. 3.14 I will heal thy back-sliding and love thee freely and again Turn O back-sliding Child for I am married unto thee yet he still feeds me like the Israelites in the Wilderness as it were from hand to mouth The water of his Rock not my Cistern must supply me and I be undone if it do not follow me 1 Cor. 10.4 I must fetch my food by daily Faith my Manna out of the Heaven of his Promises not by Plowing for it is in the earth of my s●lf-Righteo●sness and legal performances and my Medicine too for all venomous bitings by all sorts of fiery temptations from him only who for that end was lifted up upon the Cross Joh● 3.14 and still is on the pole of the Gospel and still must be in the THOUGHTS of my heart as my only strength my health my life my All And if at any time he allow me but a touch or taste of the hoped for Clusters Numb 13.23 't is to feed not my high but my diligent Thoughts Phil. 3.12 13. and to mind me that I have not already attained either am already perfect but that I press forward forgetting the things that are behind towards the mark for the price of the high Calling of God