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love_n	faith_n	justify_v	work_n	9,708	5	7.3025	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90864	Spiritual flovvers for saints and sinners. Gathered out of the garden of the sacred scriptures, and writings of men famous in their generations. / By Robert Port minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.	Port, Robert, b. 1617 or 18.	1655 (1655)	Wing P2981; Thomason E1548_2; ESTC R209461	39,839	195

yet he is not proud of it Excep●ions 'T is a wonder to see how many exceptions the Christian makes agains●●imself and how few exceptions God makes against the Christian A man should not willingly give nor easily take exceptions F Faith 'T is not the work Faith nor the work of Faith but a working Faith or rather he who works faith by which we are justified As without faith 't is impossible for works to please God so 't is impossible for faith without works to please God There are many poor in this world rich in faith and many rich in this world poor in faith Faith gets most humility keeps most and love doth most The more full of faith and the more painful men are the more they please God Though Abraham's faith were not a faith of miracles yet it was the more miraculous for it was a miracle of faith Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen Many mens faith is but fancy and many men will fancy their faith to be but so Faith glorified God hath in this world glorified faith most above all other graces and above all other graces faith glorifies God most in this world Faithfulness Though our faithfulness to God doth often fail yet Gods faithfulness to us doth never fail Faults finding We should take care that that which we find fault with in others should not in others be found to be our fault Some men will be finding fault when and where there 's no fault to be found The reason why Christians do find so much fault with themselves is because they find themselves so much in fault or because they find so many faults within themselves Flesh Spirit Though the Saints live in the flesh yet they are not flesh for that which is born as the Saint is of the Spirit is Spirit and walketh in the Spirit As it sads the Saints to find the flesh lusting against the Spirit and the law of the members warring against the law of the mind so it glads him to find the Spirit lusting against the flesh and the law of his mind warring against the law of his members Failing Falling Saints may fail and fall in the way but Saints cannot fall away Though Saints are not preserved from failing no nor altogether from falling yet they are preserved from falling altogether They may part with Christ for a time but shall not depart from Christ for ever Fool. He is not so much a fool who hath no wit to use as he that doth not use the wit he hath or he that abuseth it by playing the fool in wit A fool speaks with an open mouth but a wise man openeth his mouth and speakes Forgiveness God promiseth forgiveness of sins to all that repent but God doth not promise repentance to all or any that sin It s a greater vertue to forgive one injury than to do many curtesies because its harder and harder because more against nature for many a man will do for another that will not suffer for him Fear God To fear God and keep his Commandement is all that we have to do and that we all have to do Freinds He is happy that finds a true friend in extremity but he is happier that knows no such extremity wherein to try his friend Though we prize our freinds much we should praise them but little and to their faces not at all Find See Heaven Following God Many men follow God for the worlds sake but few men follow the world for Gods sake Food Man turns natural food into his nature but spiritual food turns man into its nature Fortunes High fortunes are the way to high minds and high minds are the high-way to great fortunes for pride goeth before but not far before a fall Freedom by Christ Jesus Christ hath delivered us from this present evill world though we are not at present delivered from the evill of this world Friendship That freindship will not indure to the end which is begun for an end Fulness The wicked in the fulness of their sufficiency are in straits but the godly in the fulness of their straits have a sufficiency G Getting Gain All that a man gets is not gain few men get profit by their getting they will have but a bad bargain that get the world and loose their souls Gain Loss Men gain most by loosing and they loose most by gaining Mat. 16. 25. Gifts All the gifts and graces which God laies in our souls should not be laid up as in a napkin but laid out for Gods glory and others good Hypocrites are apt to think that they have grace because they have gifts and Saints are many times thinking that they have no grace because they have no gifts No gift coming from God is so mean as to be despised nor is there any so great as to be gloried in God good God is good to us when he sends us evill because he sends us evil for our good If God be good to them that seek him what is he then to them that find him Oh how good God may as soon cease to be God as cease to be good as soon cease to live as cease to love Gods indearing This indears God to a Saint and makes him pretious in his eyes that he is so dear and pretious in the eyes of God God lovely God is lovely in all his Creatures more lovely in his Ordinances but most of all lovely in Christ who is altogether lovely 'T is not mans loveliness but Gods lovingness that engageth God to love and save him God loves his people when he strikes them as well as when he stroaks them God resting God rested not till he had made man like himself and man should not rest till he be made like God or partaker of the divine nature God giving God is a giving and a forgiving an open-handed and open-hearted God open-handed in giving to us and open-hearted in forgiving of us Gods putting down God usually puts down that which man exalts because what man exalts doth usually tend to the putting down of God All the world cannot put down an humble man because God will exalt him and all the world cannot exalt a proud man because God will pull him down Men Gods The Heathen made Gods of men and men of their Gods attributing divine vertues to men and humane vices to their Gods Good He that thinks he was ever good was never good He was never so good as he should be that doth not strive to be better than he is It s a good proof that a man is good when he labours to approve himself good to God and to men and yet approves of himself more according to Gods approbation than mans approbation of him As we must not attribute to God the ill that proceeds from man so we must not attribute to man the good which proceeds from God Some men are unwillingly willing to do good thats's bad others are willingly

you or else you are utterly lost and undone everlastingly Luke 19. 10. 3. Gods free and general offer of Christ to any that will take him by faith Iohn 3. 16. manifold promises to this purpose The ground of all Gods offers and donations of Christ being free Grace rich mercy underserved love Ephes 2. 4. to 8. Tit. 3. 4. to 7. 4. Christs sweet and gracious invitation of such to come to him as are weary of sin Matt. 11. 28. to buy as have no money no righteousness to commend them to Christ Isa 55. 1. no worth or desert in themselves 5. As sinfull vile wretches as you are have been bought of Christ and found in Christ see 1 Cor. 9. 9. to 12. 1 Tim. 1. 13. Phil. 3. 7. to 10. why may not you the more clearly you discern upon what grounds you take Christ the more clear is your title to Christ III. By surveying and observing in what manner you take Christ dayly and this by five resolves as 1. Whether you do wholly renounce all opinion and conceit of your own righteousness and desert Matt. 8. 34. Phil. 3. 7 to 10. So that you come to Christ empty of your self very vile yea nothing in your own eyes unworthy to receive Christ 2. Whether you lay hold on Christ alone with an empty hand of faith joyning nothing with Christ in the matter of salvation 3. Whether you find the Father drawing your heart after Christ Iohn 6. 44. in hungring panting desires that will never be satisfied without Christ So that the stream both of your judgment Phil. 37. 8. and affections 1 Cor. 2 2. Gal. 6. 14. run towards Christ 4. Whether you take Christ as a Lord to rule you as a Jesus to save you Col. 2. 6. As one that is all to your all your wisdom your righteousness your sanctification and redemdemption 1 Cor. 1. 30. your spiritual food Iohn 6. 36. Raiment Rom. 13. 14. Strength Phil. 4. 13. Life Col. 3. 3. Gal. 2 10. 5. Whether you seek and wait for Christ out of the sence of your spiritual penury sacraments prayer meditation conference not as they are your own works of sanctification but as they are Gods ordinances appointed of purpose for the manifestation communication of Christ to the soul frequent perusal hereof will clear to you your manner of taking Christ which wil evidence to you your right in Christ CHAP. III. LAbour to draw and derive from Christ by the pulling attractive force of faith ability sufficient for the day I. To perform all duties Phil 4. 12. II. To exercise all the graces 2 Cor. 3. 5 III. To resist and overthrow all temptations and corruptions Rom. 8. 37. IIII. To undergo all the trials afflictions thereof Phil. 4. 13. 2 Cor. 3. 5. Iohn 1. 16. Thus make your provision of grace and strength from Christ every morning fetch so much as you have occasion to use all the day long yea and upon all occasions that fall out in the day Go to Christ still for the wisdom that must direct you for the holiness that must character you for the souldier that must bear them if they be crosses for that strength that must resist them if they be temptations for ability to performe them if they be duties To this end act your faith dayly in the promises of grace and strength as Iohn 1. 16. Ezek. 36. 26 27. Isa 44. 3 Zack 10 12. which are both security given you by God that you shall receive grace and conduit-pipes or instruments of conveying the same from Christ unto you Loe this is the manner to do all in the strength of Christ and to take forth a great deal of Christ into the soul that not you but Christ may live in you Gal. 2. 20. CHAP. IV. Perform daily duties in family and closet especially these three Prayer Meditation Reading all with serious affection heat of affection deligence and delight Ier. 48. 10. Mal. 1. 14. 2 Chron. 21. 24. these three waies I. Watch to these duties H. E. keep thy heart in a good frame for them Ephes 6. 18. undefiled with sin untainted with the world II. Take the fittest time for the performance of them all when you are the least evil and sluggish Begin the day constantly with thoughts of God III. Be very reall serious and substantial with God in them IV. Indeavour to feel all duties in your heart inlivening enlarging infleming your affections These be duties of most importance and consequence commodity and comfort to the soul because they properly appear at and reach at the souls good and caelestial happiness to train up a soul of a Believer for heaven CHAP. V. FOrtifie your self every morning against your special lusts to which you are by nature most prone or shall be most tempted be it pride passion covetousness c. This must be done four waies As I. By arguments and holy reasonings within your selves drawn fom the sad effects thereof as disprofit discomfort disgrace c. to discover the unreasonableness of your sin and make your soul ashamed of it For instance Shall I be proud Then I am sure to fall and God will count me for his enemie for God resisteth the proud ●am 4 6. Shall I be angry If I let passion in I cannot keep satan out Ephes 4 26 27. I shall grieve thereby the holy spirit of God Ephes 4 30 31. Shall I be covetous I cannot but be very sinful sith the love of money is the root of all evil 1 Tim 6 10. II. By pondring in your minds precepts in the Book of God against such sins judgments threatned or inflicted Prov 6 23 24. on proud Herod Acts 12 23. voluptuous Dives Luke 16 28. churl●●h Na●a● 1 Sam 25 38. III. By applying promises of mortification close to your hearts as a plaister to the sore for subduing your iniquity Mic 7 19. Rom 6 14. IV. By drawing vertue from Christs death into the soul which hath in it a killing force of sin Rom. 6 4 107. Phi. 4 10. CHAP. VI. GEt your heart strongly fixt on God by trusting on him Psal 112 7. and submitting to him 1 Sam 3 18. against all the fears cares double trialls affliction of every day for sufficient to the day is the evill thereof Mat 6 34. This must be done five waies I. Be prudent to foresee your personal tryals and troubles what ever they are like to be Prov 22 3. II Go hide and lay up your self in God run unto his name for God is a work of habitation to which a poor soul may continually resort God will give commandment to save him Psal 71 3. 1 ●et 4 19. III. Especially commit that ver thing to God put it into his hands whatsoever you desire to keep or fear to loose 2 Tim 1 12. be it life liberty name friends maintenance c. what you would have resolved if it be a doubt Psal 37 5. or supply'd if it be a want removed if it be a