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A36172 Divine meditations written by an honourable person ; whereto is adjoyned a determination of the question, whether men ought to keele at the receipt of the holy communion ; and an essay of friends. 1641 (1641) Wing D1723; ESTC R32791 36,040 168

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more will hee feare to displease him Thanks must bee Orall and reall also All that GOD requires is a cordiall Recognition of His Grace and Mercy My sonne give mee thy heart Prov. 23.26 our whole Duty is summarily comprehended in these words Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and love him with all thy strength and with all thy might and thy neighbour as thy selfe By this may wee know whether we love God if we love our neighbour For how can he love God whom hee hath not seene if he love not his brother whom he hath seene saith Saint Iohn 1 Ioh. 4.20 who as he had the Honour to bee stiled The disciple whom Iesus loved so doth he seeme to have appropriated to himselfe the preaching and teaching this doctrin of loving God and our neighbour above all the other Apostles as may be seene by his Divine Epistles I will set him up saith the Psalme because hee hath knowne my Name that is because he hath call'd upon me and worshipped me as may be collected out of the 76 Psalme 1.2 In Iury is God knowne his Name is great in Israel at Salem is his Tabernacle which was the appointed place of his Worship If then we desire to bee delivered and to be set up out of Gun-shot as here is promised we must not only love him and our Neighbour for his sake but worship Him also in such sort as hee hath prescribed in His most sacred Word These Religious duties are necessarily required of all those which expect the Comforts which this Psalm exhibites For all the Assistance and Protection promised from the first words throughout the Psalme have a connexion with this present clause Because he hath set his love upon me because he hath known my Name and a conditionall reference thereto So that whosoever loves not God * That is to the utmost of his power Evangelically not legally perfectly 2 Cor. 7.1 nor worships him truly * See Zech 7.12 13. deceaves himselfe if he think hee dwels under the defence of the most High or that he hath any part in the promises of Deliverance here specified because they are proper only to the godly who being assisted with his holy Spirit shall call upon him so effectually and knocke at Heaven gates so powerfully that he shall heare them and deliver them yea and satisfie them with long life which is more than Salomon desired when God gave him Carta vianca and shew them his salvation which is as much as any man can wish I confesse Sicknesse Poverty and all other temporall Mortifications render men contemptible and despicable to the Wicked N. B. and make them undervalued * See Iames 2.2 to 8. by ordinary Christians who passe their judgments of Men accordingly as they waigh after the Worlds opinion in the balance of Honour Reputation and Wealth But the Child of GOD is promised here not only a Preservative against all dangers so farre and so long as God shall judge expedient for him but also a Restorative when hee hath beene afflicted and humbled For if his enemies have markt him out as their custome is in the time of his Humiliation for one whom GOD lookt not after nor car'd for hee hath a promise here to bee advanced to Honour and which is the height of all temporall Blessings to be satisfied with long life so that hee shall over-live his enemies and be honord by those that despised him when the hand of God was upon him Let Ahaziah then send to Baalzebub the God of Ekron in the time of his sicknesse to enquire whether he shall live or dye Is it not because there is no GOD in Israel saith the LORD 2 King 1. Let gowtie Asa trust in his Physitians 2 Chronicles 16. Let the superstitious Papaline in his sicknesse dishonour the Blessed Virgin by vowing himselfe to her Quum nulla amplius in Medicis spes erat salutis non magna as he blasphemously said in Deo Let them vainly trust to the Oyle of the Lampe * Dignus morte perit qui mortua vivus adorat An experiment of Papists vaine confidence in Reliques against the Plague of Saint Carlo Borromeo the dispensation whereof I have seene with my eyes and my Soule hath grieved to see ignorant people abused by more ignorant Eriers In Iurea the trusting to that Imposture cost the lives of the most part of that Citie and Milan whence it was brought hath suffered beyond beliefe there having died in that state neere three hundred thousand soules Not without cause said the Prophet O bee thou my helpe in trouble for vaine is the helpe of man Psalme 60.11 and Psalme 77.1 In time of danger I will cry unto God yea to God will I cry and he shall hearken unto me I deny not but Physicall Antidotes and Praecautions may be used as secundary means but they must be used with Prayer to God to blesse them and our immediate Trust must be wholly in him and his protection For except the Lord build the house vaine is their labour that build it c. Psal 127.1.2 and therefore * Psal 130.7 O Israel trust in the Lord for with the Lord is Mercy and with him is plenteous Redemption Object Against the whole Tenour of this Psalme and the maine scope thereof there is an Objection not to be past over in silence For whereas David here promiseth great matters to the godly assuring them of the protection of God and his Angels and further that with their eyes they shall see the Reward of the ungodly Experience daily shewes the contrary and hath so done since the beginning of the world Innocent Abel lost his life for serving God truely and for Gods acceptance of his service and our Saviour Epitomizing the Scriptures in this point threatens the Iewes that upon them shall come all the righteous bloud shed on the earth from righteous Abel to Zacharias c. Matth. 23.35 The Church of GOD here on earth is therefore called Militant because it never hath peace but perpetuall Warre affliction tribulation persecution the enemies thereof being mightie viz. Principalities and Powers c. Eph. 6.12 Our Saviour expresly commands all his Followers to take up his Crosse Wicked most dandled in the Worlds lap and in the Book of Psalmes we finde David often complaining of the Adversities of the godly and prosperity of the wicked In the 73. Psal he was shrewdly startled at the contemplation of this point My feete were almost gone my steps well nigh slipt And why I was grieved at the wicked I saw the ungodly in such prosperitie for they are in no perill of death in no misfortune nor plagues as others are but lusty and strong c. Contrarily of the godly hee saith Thou feedest them with bread of Teares c. Psalm 80.5 and which is more For thy sake are we killed all the day long This difficulty is soone resolv'd