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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

himself by Impatience but committing himself and his Cause to God and crying out with a loud voice into thy hands I commit my Spirit and when he had so said saith the Evangelist He gave up the Ghost And as David was thus copions in the Thoughts of Christs Passion he leaves him not there Resurrection but pursues him with lively and comfortable Meditations of his Resurrection Psal 16.10 Thou wilt not suffer thine holy one to see Corruption from which the Apostle undeniably concludes the Resurrection of Christ from the Dead Acts 2.26 nay even from those words in the Second Psalm Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee Psalm 2.7 Acts 13.33 Psal 110.7 This God hath fulfilled saith the Apostle Paul in that he raised up Jesus c He shall drink of the Brook in the way may be meant of his Passion for Christ calls it a Drinking the Cup which my Father hath put into mine hand saith he shall I not drink John 18.11 and therefore shall be lift up the head in his Resurrection And as his Thoughts ran of his Resurrection so also of his Ascention When he Ascended up on high Ascention Psal 68.18 Eph. 4.8 and led Captivity Captive he received gifts for men yea even the Rebellious that God might dwell amongst them expounded by the Apostle as meant of Christ by the Psalmist Session and Intercession Psal 110.1 4. Heb. 7.21 So also of Christs Session at the Right hand of God and Intercession as an High Priest for ever after the Order of Melchizedeck All expounded of in Christ in the Hebrews Of his Kindome Throne and Scepter Kingdom Psalm 45.6 Thy THRONE O God is for ever and ever the Scepter of thy KINGDOM is a right SCEPTER Of his Prophetical Office in Declaring the Decree Prophetical Office Psalm 2.7 and 45.10 Success of his Ministry Psalm 110.5 Psalm 18.49 Rom. 15 9. Psal 117.1 2. Rom. 15.11 in Instructing the Church Hearken O Daughter and consider and encline thine ear c. And the wonderful glorious success of his Gospel Ministers Thy people shall be a willing people in the day of thy power c. and that not only as to the Election among the Jews but also the fulness of the Gentiles the Calling and Conversion of them by the Grace of the Gospel I will confess thee among the Gentiles And again he saith Praise the Lord all ye Gentiles and laud him all ye People c. for great is his loving-kindness towards us us Jews and you Gentiles therefore praise ye the Lord. Second coming to Judgment And finally his Powerful and certain second coming to Judgment for the compleating of the work of his Grace in bringing many Sons unto Glory and in gathering his people together his Saints and his Covenanted ones Psalm 50.1 5. even from the rising of the Sun unto the going down thereof And O how he triumpheth and brings in other Creatures exulting as it were at the thought of this his coming Psalm 96. for he cometh for he cometh to judge the Earth with Righteousness will he judge the World and the People in his truth Ver. 11 12 13. for in all this it is evident that his thoughts ran of Christ when he saith He hath remembred his Mercy and his Truth towards the house of Israel and all the ends of the Earth have seen the Salvation of our God and then it follows Let the Floods clap their hands Verse 8 9. and the Mountains rejoyce together before the Lord for he cometh to judge the Earth with Righteousness shall he judge the World and the people with Equity In a word as blessed Maryes Soul did magnifie the Lord though she were his Mother so Davids Spirit did rejoyce in God his Saviour though as to the Flesh he were his Father and O how precious was that thought unto David which is as it were the sum and quintessence of all the rest Thou spakest in a vision to thy holy One Psalm 89.19 thou saidst I have laid help upon one that is mighty that is to say in the New Testament-Language He is able to save to the uttermost Hebr. 7.28 all that come unto God by him 'T is proved that David understood and thought of Christ in all this Acts 2.30 31. But some one may say was David indeed so well studied in a Covenant of Grace and did he think of a Christ in all this The Apostle Peter saith he did because he was a Prophet and knew what God had sworn that of the fruit of his loins he would raise up Christ concerning the Flesh to sit upon his Throne and that knowing this before he spake of his Resurrection c. So that David did not Prophesy like wicked Caiaphas the High Priest of he knew not what Joh. 11 50 51. but understood what he Prophesied and thought of what he Prophesied and was in this respect a man after Gods own heart 1 Sam. 13.14 because his heart was so much upon what Gods heart was upon Prov. 8.30 the Mystery of Grace in the Lord Jesus Christ so that as Christ saith that he was alwayes before God so David saith of Christ I foresaw the Lord alwayes before my face Acts 2.25 Christ was ever in his eye But O how great is the advantage that our Thoughts may have of his His was but a foreseeing and a fore-knowing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore but a fore-thinking of a Christ that was to come Verse 31. but ours is a seeing before whose eyes Jesus Christ is evidently set forth Gal. 3.1 even as if he were Crucified amongst us and a knowing and a thinking of that which is already and fulfilled to a tittle in all that he fore-spake and fore-thought even eight and twenty Generations before it was accomplished for from David Mat. 1.27 untill they were carryed away into Babylon was fourteen Generations and from the Captivity to Christ were fourteen Generations What shall I say now Heb. 11.3 the time would be too short as the Apostle speaks to tell you of Moses and all the rest of the Prophets of the Apostles and particularly of S. Paul whose heart was so full of a Christ and his thoughts so big of him that they deliver themselves almost in every other Verse of his very Name and croud it in many times as if it were an ease to that Abundance that was in his heart to have his mouth speaking or his pen dropping that sweet smelling Name of THE LORD JESUS CHRIST Sect. XXXI THis this is also that 1 Pet. 1.12 Christ the Theme of Angelical Thoughts Luke 1.13 14. which the Angels desire to pry into for you may know what all their Thoughts run on by what their Tongues run of when they take to them Tongues saith the Evangelist there was with the Angels a multitude of the Heavenly Host Praising