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A64283	Nathanael, or, An Israelite indeed lively portraied, and evidently proved to be an object most worthy both of our admiration and imitation, his priviledges and characters are also layd down : together with a discovery of the sinfulness and miserie of all hypocrites and strangers from the common-wealth of Israel / by Faithfull Teate ...	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1657 (1657)	Wing T613; ESTC R41538	79,460	204

faithfull assertion promise for it who is able to performe and for their greater security they shall find it upon record Psal 37.16 A little that the righteous hath is better then the riches of many wicked Where a little is opposed to great riches and one mans modicum is opposed to many mens great revenues Againe Psal 112.1 2 3. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord that delighteth greatly in his commandements his seed shall be mighty upon earth the generation of the upright shall be blessed wealth and riches shall be in his house you see then I speak not any thing tending to your losse in disswading you from * Tim. 3.3 filthy lucre for a mans life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth Luk. 12.15 An heathen fitly illustrateth this by a similitude thus * Horat Sern l. 1. Satyr 1 A cleare fountain being a mans own will yeeld better water and sufficient for his use with more safety then a deep muddy river can do 6. I have a word to school-masters who have a fairer upportunity of enlarging the kingdome of Jesus Christ and the common-wealth of Israel if they be carefull to improve it to the best advantage than many I had also said any others for that end be pleased to study well this subject and take out this lesson and commend it to your schollers that they may also learne it throughly without which all humane learning will but increase their guilt and then will not you make marchandize of the precious time of the youth committed to your trust either through sloath or for sinister advantage and then shall they grow in wisdome and grace and favour with God and men to the great joy of their Parents and your no less honour 7. Let all that glory in the title and say they are Jewes Israelites or Christians and are not but doe lye as Iohn the divine speaketh Revelations 3.9 much more strive to attaine to the reality than vainely affect the * Ne nomen eis ad ignominiam ●it Cypr ad Cornel. Papam bare name which unless they be Israelites and Christians indeed will rise up in judgement against them And let all who are named Nathanael resemble this pattern in my Text and be put in mind of it as oft as they write or read their own names or hear others to call them thereby for for that end may we well conceive godly parents use so to call their children and then shall all these read their names registred in the Lambs book of life and they shall never be blotted out of it 8. Let the word of God prevaile with all martiall men and command them who in time of war use to command others by the sword to account it their highest honour to be able to derive their spiritual pedigree from Jacob sirnamed Israel from his prevailing first with God and afterwards with men and there see that you begin be sure to prevaile with God by prayers and then shall you be more then Conquerers over devils and evil men then will you not dare to do violence to any innocent person nor to accuse any falsely but you will be a defence under God to the godly and quiet in the Land and the Lord your God will be a strong and sure defence unto you you shall goe on and prosper against all the Enemies of God and his Church wherof you are lively members five of you shall chase an hundred and an hundred of you put ten thousand to flight and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword Levit. 26.8 for they are more with you then can be against you 2. Chron. 32.7 9. This greatly concerneth parents and Masters to traine up their Children and Servants in this holy profession and to be exemplary therein to them then will your Children be dutifull to you their Parents and acknowledge you to have been instrumentall to them under God of a double birth both of a naturall generation and of supernaturall regeneration Then will your servants account you their Masters worthy of all honour and be no more unprofitable but with Onesimus after his conversion * Ambros in Philem. Tam secularibus quàm divinis obsequiis profitable unto you Phil. 11. Then shall Parents and Children Masters and Servants be blessed of God and prosper Sect. 16 Vse 5th Use 5. So I come to the last use of consolation to all those Of consolation who though with much difficulty breaking through all impediments obstructing them in the way can peruse and find in themselves the forementioned Characters blessed are they that ever they were borne not of blood nor of the wil of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God Iohn 1.13 For 1. all they may truly challenge to themselves the Title of Israelites indeed which God never did nor will allow any others whether they be Jewes or Gentiles to do but very sharply reproveth them for it Isa 48.1 2. They are called by the name of Israel and againe Isa 48.1 2. they call themselves of the holy City and stay themselves upon the God of Israel and they sweare by the name of the Lord and make mention of the God of Israel but not in truth nor in righteousnesse Hence observe 1. in that wicked men usurpe this title and glory in it how glorious are all Israelites indeed their enemies themselves being judges 2ly it is a hainous sinne for any to challenge this title when it belongeth not to them as it is a Capital crime for a varlet to pretend to be a Kings son and heire 3ly the spirit of God accounteth it to be blasphemy Rev. 2.9 saith he I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jewes and are not 2ly This is not a bare and empty title but accompanied with so much honour and happinesse as none on this side heaven can expresse or fully conceive of 1. John 3.1 2. Behold what manner of love the father hath bestowed on us that we should be called the sons of God! Beloved now are we the sons of God and it doth not yet appeare what we shall be but we know that when he shall appeare we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is whence we collect 3ly That they and onely they shall surely enjoy all the honour and felicity which heaven can afford in the life to come who continue to walk aright in the good old way which hath been set before you as Christ hath certified all believers Joh. 14.1 2. In my fathers house are many mansions I go to prepare a place for you and I will come againe and receive you that where I am there ye may be also v. 3. and then shall you find experimentally and confesse that this glory doth infinitely exceed the fame which you have heard of it 4ly Yea even in this life having once received the first fruits of the Spirit in your hearts he will so certify you of the truth hereof and your propriety therein that you shall rejoyce with joy unspeakable and glorious 1 Pet. 1.8 even in the midst of manifold troubles temptations and persecutions v. 6. O therefore pray the Lord with all importunity to cause * Isa 30.21 your eares to heare a voice behind you saying This is the way walk ye in it when ye turne to the right hand and when ye turne to the left that Jesus Christ may say of you as here he did of Nathanael Beh●ld an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile Amen FINIS

NATHANAEL OR An Israelite Indeed Lively portraied and evidently proved to be an object most worthy both of our Admiration and Imitation His Priviledges and Characters are also layd down Together with a Discovery of the sinfulness and miserie of all Hypocrites and strangers from the Common-wealth of Israel In that day shall Israel be a blessing in the midst of the Land whom the Lord of hosts shall blesse saying Blessed be Israel mine inheritance Isa 19.24 25. Haec lege fac itidem tuque beatus eris By Faithfull Teate D. D. Preacher of the Gospel in East Greenwich in Kent LONDON Printed for George Sanbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill 1657. To all my Worthy and welbeloved friends in the Lord and for some yeares Auditors in the City of Dublin both Magistrates and People And to all my deare and much respected Parishioners of East Greenwich in KENT Dearely beloved THe true Israelite you know is a stranger in the world marvel not therefore that he cometh unto you in a mean dresse yet being glorious within and bearing the lively image of God upon him he doubteth not to find acceptance with you his brethren and with all true Christians As for any other he needs not care what they either think or say I begin with you the inhabitants of the city of Dublin in Ireland Excuse me for not nominating any since your number is so great as by your voluntary subscriptions for my employment and maintenance amongst you in a booke yet kept by me may appeare that if I should name some and should pretermit others and misplace any not knowing after so long absence and at so great distance what alterations time hath wrought among you I might give some offence I believe I shall never forget your great and constant affection towards me since my first coming among you how cordially you embraced my person how readily and gladly you received the Gospel wherof I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God gi●en unto me for your sakes while I was with you how freely and plentifully you contributed towards my maintenance and since my removal from you by the clandestine practices of some who then seemed to stand for the English interest but since have beene discovered to be worse enemies within than any without could be how mindful you have been of me and still are as all that come hither from you do certify I cannot and hope you will not forget how many dayes of humiliation even once a weeke for two yeares space we kept together in publike during the time of our sad distresses when our onely weapons were prayers and teares when your city was environed round by hostile forces and in no lesse danger by reason of intestine foes when our enemies were furnished with dayly supplies of choise Commanders and Armes from forrein parts by popish adherents and in the meane time all help except from Heaven only which was thereby rendred more signal was denied us by the obstruction of long continued contrary winds out of England and by implacable dissentions which in that juncture of time was far worse falling out in the bowels of our native country from whence under God we could only expect reliefe what flockings were there then dayly by all sorts to the Courts of Gods house as of doves to their windowes in such abundance that diverse knowing men have been heard to say that they hardly ever saw so great a concourse the number and quality of the persons considered in all their lives in any other parts of the world And how often have we seen God in the mount a present help in the time of trouble What blessed returns did the Lord continually make to our humble supplications even to admiration what great successe did the Lord then graciously give to the word of his grace in converting some in strengthening others and in comforting all How great violence did the kingdom of Heaven suffer among you so that God heard your voice and you hea● Gods voice and in the end he adm●●istred to us many causes of publike thanksgivings turning all our prayers into praises for his audience and our wonderfull deliverances We have seene five to chase an hundred and an hundred to put thousands to flight It would seeme incredible to many if one should relate to them but one half of that which the Lord hath done for us which we have seene and know to be most true we can subscribe a probatum est to the soveraigne vertue of fasting prayer whereby Israel-like we had power with God and with men and prevailed Genes 32.28 But now Satan envying at our prosperity and having great wrath because he knew his time was but short found out new stratagems advantagious for his destructive ends First now was a new court of delegates erected by arbitrary power among you in the room of the high Commission formerly by authority dejected but this was the same with the former and far worse the name only being altered and rightly was it termed by some a spanish inquisition by others the Abomination of desolation The men authorized to be Judges in this delicate Court were such as professed themselves to stand for the interest of the Irish rebells one of them boldly affirming in the pulpit in your hearing and mine as by diverse sufficient witnesses can be proved that These Warrs are for us Bishops which Maxime had beene formerly divulged among the people but more secretly Whereupon Dr Beadle Bish of Kilmore a most worthy and learned man in a vehement indignation against the same when he first heard thereof burst out into this expression If we B ps be the cause of this horrible tempest let them take us and with Jonah cast us all over board Another of the inquisitors being an Irish man by birth in the same pulpit excused the discontented gentlemen meaning the rebels his countrimen disswading the Soldiers from vigorous prosecution of them and the Judges from condemning such of them as had beene taken prisoners in open hostility unless two or three witnesses should first depose that to their knowledge the said prisoners had before in cold blood committed things worthy of death whereas we all know that those bloody Canibals murthered man woman child except here one and there another escaped by Gods extraordinary preservation as one of Jobs servants escaped from the Caldeans and another from the sword of the Sabaeans onely to bring the sad tydings to their Master of what had been done to the rest of his servants and to his cattell At the same time did this merciful Orator directing his words to me who then sate before him with his fore-finger pointing at me condemne all bloody preaching and praying against them who he said were Christians and admonished me and all others from using the like for future time whereas our Preaching was to animate the soldiers Couragiously to prosecute so just a warre against such unparalleld

lusts Iude. 18. manifest themselves to be rather Pagans then Christians indeed as Peter was discovered to be a Galilean for his speech bewrayed him Mat. 26.73 And suppose a guilded Hypocrite may have his tongue tipt with Scripture expressions and holy discourses yet if he be well observed at other times he will be found to speak ordinarily the language of A●hdod and to trip and faulter in his most affected and best discourses As many Ephramites were detected to be what they were by the men of Gilead in pronouncing Sibboleth for Shibboleth for they could not frame to pronounce it right Iudg. 12.6 2. What may they thinke of themselves if they had any spiritual judgement who think or say words are but wind little regarding what the Judge of quick and dead hath fore-warned us of that men shall give account of every idle word which they speak in the day of judgement Mal. 12.36 Thirdly where shall they appeare that reproach and laugh them to scorn and shun their company whose tongues use knowledge aright as Solomon saith every wise man doth Prov. 15.2 If any do but once make mention of the Lords righteousnesse reprove sin or exhort to reformation of life or use any savory passages tending to the souls good they have done with them as too precise for their societie and jeere at them as ridiculous persons or tremble as Felix trembled when Paul reasoned of righteousnesse temperance and judgement to come but would give no further audience Acts. 24 25. Fourthly wo unto them who never call themselves to an account for preventing frothy obscene or noysome language nor yet for the omission of seasonable and holy conferences being far unlike to the Prophet Isaiah who cryeth out to God Wo is me for I am undone because I am a man of uncleane lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips Chap. 6.5 Sect. 5 Chara ∣ cter 6 As the Carpenter or Mason is known by his Rule or Plummet so are they who are born in Sion distinguished from all the Sons and Daughters of Babel Gods holy word is the rule by which they square all their principles and practises as the Apostle sheweth us Gal. 6.16 As many as walk according to this rule peace be upon them and mercy and upon the Israel of God Now it is well known that a Rule is very usefull for builders for the discerning of that which is straight from that which is crooked that there may be a symmetry and just proportion between the severall parts of his edifice This rule of the word must 1. be known by us 2. we must have it ever in readinesse 3. It is to be applyed to every doctrine of faith embraced by us and to all your imaginations affections and works that we may all walke by the same Rule Phil 3.16 Application But alas how little do many think of any such rule from one end of the day to the other nay from one end of the week or year to another how few of us know it and how doe most persons cast it behind their backs Do you when you awake every morning consider what affairs you are to goe about the ensuing day doe you contrive as architects use to doe that your undertakings may all be good for the matter and right for manner and ends thereof that all your works may be wrought in God that they may be carried on in faith and obedience to the glory of God then you build upon the Rock and your labours shall be accepted of God and rewarded by him But if you reject the word of God what wisedome is in you Jer. 8.9 God will bring upon you the fruit of your thoughts and doings Jer. 6.19 and in fine reject you as he did Saul for this very cause from being King 1 Sam. 15.26 Chara ∣ cter 7 He is a Jew as the Apostle saith which is one inwardly in the spirit whose praise is not of men but God Rom. 2. 29. He will neither forbear doing good or be drawn to evil for the applause of men or for fear of reproach * 2 Cor. 6.8 he can pass through good report and bad report both willingly and cheerfully knowing well that they are happy who are reproached for the name of Christ Luke 6.22 Quest How doth God praise his people Answ in his word he preferreth them before all others giving them this suffrage The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour Prov. 12. 26 Secondly in advancing them by his all ruling providence above others even many times in this life as he avouched Israel to be his peculiar people according to his promise and made them high above all nations in praise in name in honour Deut. 26.18 19. Thirdly by the approbation and commendation of the godly whose judgement is to be preferred before thousands of other men's as Jonathan pleaded for David against his father Saul 1 Sam. 10.4 Fourthly In their owne consciences by his spirit bearing witnesse to them that they are such as God approveth of in which sense the spirit of glory is affirmed to rest upon them Pet. 4.14 Fifthly in the consciences and confessions of wicked men sometimes even their worst enemies as Saul justified David whose life he had long sought acknowledging to him Thou art more righteous then I 1 Samuel 24.17 Sixthly by clearing up their innocencie from obloquies and slanders in this life and bringing forth their righteousnesse as the light Psalm 37.6 Seventhly in reviving their credits and estimations in the world after their bodies have been long dead and rotten So the Prophets who had been slaine by the Fathers had Tombes built them and their sepulchers garnished by their children worse than their Ancestors who justified the Prophets and condemned their own Fathers saying If we had been in the dayes of our Eathers we would not have been partakers with them in the bloud of the Prophets Mat. 23.29 30. yet even these men afterwards put to death the prince of Prophets Jesus Christ Eighthly at the last day in proclaming their innocency before God Angels and men when that one word Euge well done faithfull and good servant will countervaile all the calumnies and aspersions that ever were cast upon them in this world Mat. 25.21.23 Ob. But great men speak evil of me Ans So did they of David Psalm 119.23 Princes also saith he did sit and speak against me but thy servant did meditate on thy Statutes Where the word also imports that others did the like as else where he complains to God in prayer Let the lying lips be put to silence which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous Psalm 31.18 In this case there is need of the Patience and faith of the Saints Rev. 10. But doe as David did goe to God by prayer and keep close to his testimonies and mark as James speaketh of Job the end which God made with David and certainly in due time he