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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

God is never the less conspicuous but indeed so much the more glorious being beheld as the Apostle speaks together with his Severity Rom 11.22 Goodness of God no less conspicuous for his severity as bright colours are the most resplendent when they are heightened from the darkest shadows Behold saith He the GOODNESS and the SEVERITY of God Lo here a Right Theme for Thoughts Behold his Goodness but Remember his Severity Think of his Severity but forget not his Goodness That the Thought of Severity without Goodness may not make thee desperate nor of Goodness without Severity make thee Malepart and wanton but that both together may make thee humble and hearty and dutiful and diligent fearful and yet chearful in all ways of Holiness and new Obedience Objection If God be so good why did he not make all mens condition such Jerem. 2.5 Answer God did so Eccles 7.31 Rom. 7.12 Gen. 2.16 Verse 17. Psalm 8.6 But mayest thou think again if the Lord be so good He might have made all Mens condition to be such 'T is true indeed He might do so and He did so And I may challenge thee yet again in His Name what Iniquity did thy first Father and all his Posterity in him find in God that he went far from him and they with him and walked after vanity and became vain Did not God make man upright and give Him a right Law a Commandment that was Holy Just and Good was it not Just that He that gave man all the rest of the Trees of the Garden should keep One to himself and that He that put all things under mans feet should appoint him a test for his obedience to His Supream Lord And was it not good Gods goodness in the first COVENANT that He gave Him a Law that He might keep and a Principle and Power that might keep it if he would that He forbad Him and forewarn'd Him what would hurt Him and promised Him Life in keeping a practical Law a Commandment that was fair and that was facile proper for Him and profitable for all Mankind in Him Must the great God to shew his goodness to poor man Gen. 1. to 26. Verse 26.27 Chap. 2.17 first build a world as a well furnished House before He brings in his Guest then call a Counsel as it were in Heaven about molding a clod of Earth into an Excellent shape and breathing therein a living Spirit and Imprint thereon a Divine similitude and place Him as his Vice-Roy upon Earth and to hold all as it were but by the payment of a Pepper-Corn the Forbearing of one Tree And when miserable Man after all this hath not made good his Allegiance but broken Faith with his Maker selling Himself and his Posterity for an Apple or some such like thing to the evil first of Sin and so of Suffering shall mans Impudent Posterity presume in their Hearts after all this to call in Question the goodness of God for no other reason but his making his Word good his Threatning good and so his Commandment good in the penal part of it which was that part which he undertook to make good if Man failed to make good the other part of Obedience Ah how truly may it here be said that the foolishness of man perverteth his way Prov. 19.3 and his Heart fretteth against the Lord When He that transgresseth a good Law judgeth that Law and pronounceth it Evil by His disobedience How can He that made that Law vindicate that Law or be good in his place without making of it good by punishing the Transgressor Think therefore vain Man what thou wilt but know that the Lord is well pleased for his Righteousness sake Isaiah 42.21 Gods goodness in rewarding the least good in the wicked and if a man vilify He will magnify his Law and make it honourable Thou wilt grant him to be a good Master that rewardeth the Good though He Punish the Evil Servant produce therefore thy Cause and bring forth thy strong Reasons If thou do well shalt thou not be accepted But and if thou do evil Is it Gods fault that Sin lyeth at thy door Gen. 4.7 An Ahabs Humiliation so good a Master is God though the Man was but an Hypocrite shall have a temporal Reward The Lord is so good As far as he is capable 1 King 21 29● Ezek. 29.18 20. Rewards spiritual good Mat. 10.42 With a spiritual blessing 1 Kings 14.13 that He will not set a Nebuchadnezzar a poor Heathen to work but He shall have his wages A cup of cold water given in his Name shall not want its Reward If any one perform any Spiritual good the good God shall give him a spiritual Reward yea will take great notice even of the least good thing as in the case of young Abijah in whom was found some good thing towards the Lord God of Israel in the wicked house of Jeroboam and will remunerate the performances● of outwardly good things with compensations suitable to the persons and performances as the removal of outward Evils and the Donation of outward blessings The Ninevites they Repent them of their Sins though it were but after a fashion as appears after by the Burthen of Nineveh in Nahums Prophesy And this good God Nah. 11 c. Jon. 3.10 He presently Repents him of the Evil that he had said he would do unto them and did it not till they repented them again of their Repentance Gen. 39.5 Potiphar and Pharaoh make much of Gods Joseph and God blessed their houses for Josephs sake And must God pervert Judgment Justice not derogatory to goodness in a Judge and not punish the wicked that he may have thy good word or be well thought of by thee Is his Justice derogatory to his Goodness Thou canst applaud the sentence of a Judge in Condemning the Injuries that have been done unto thee why canst thou not as well say unto God with the Psamlist Psal 119.39 thy Judgments are good Yea with many He is the best Man that will least bear an Injury but is most vindictive Heb. 10.30 and must not vengeance be the Lords and may not he repay without incurring thy evil thoughts A wrong thought of Gods goodness to think He will destroy none Isaiah 27.11 'T is an evil Thought of Gods goodness that some Ignorant Ones have or at least would fain have that he that made them will never destroy them nor indeed ever would he had they continued what he made them But this good God saith expresly and He knows what he hath to do It is a People of no understanding therefore he that made them will have no mercy on them and he that formed them will shew them no favour Sect. XXIX Gods goodness in the NEW COVENANT BUt and if thou thinkest hardly of Gods Dealing with Men fallen under the first Covenant the Covenant of Works O busie thy thoughts