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A64835	Things worth thinking on, or, Helps to piety being remains of some meditations, experiences, and sentences &c. never published till now : and now are as an addition to them which were formerly made publick: together with a sermon entituled The beauty of holines / by Ralph Venning ...	Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.	1664 (1664)	Wing V227; ESTC R38004	77,776	241

severely punish't mens transgressing positive Laws of Divine Institution called by the School-men Voluntary Precepts for in commanding them Gods absolute Authority and in obeying them mans obedience most clearly appears 94 'T is observed by the Lord Veralam that there was never a miracle wrought to convert an Atheist because the light of nature might have led him to confess a Deity but many have been wrought to convert Idolaters and superstitious persons because no light of Nature declares the true Worship and Will of God 95 All those things which we make so much of are but Mortality upheld by sense and fancy for a few minutes they are rather seen than felt courted than enjoyed and many times prove like baggage to an army impediment a Victoriae the hindrances of Victory Matth. 19.23 96 Some desire to know only to know that 's Curiosity some that they may be known that 's Vanity some to make profit of their knowledge that 's Covetousness some to edifie and profit themselves that 's Wisdom some to better others that 's Charity but some which is best of all being Godly Wisdom and Love that they may please God 97 Only God is not taught by experience all men both wise and foolish have it for their School-Mistriss God is so Wise and All-Knowing as to be above it and not to need it but no man so wise who may not be wiser than he is and none but fools think otherwise The best growing in experience is to grow in Grace and the Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour 2 Pet. 3.18 98 He who doth evil for a good end doth religiously serve the Devil and he who doth that which is good in it self for an evil end doth what in him lies make God to serve the Devil They both sin in the Name of the Lord and at the cost and charges of Divinity Rem 3.8 John 16.2 99 He that sinneth and looks without repentance to escape Hell scparates the end from the means and he that without faith and obedience looks for heaven doth separate the means from the end both pervert Gods Word and Providence Luke 13.3 Heb. 11.6 Heb. 5.9 100 In Heaven is only rest without labour Heb. 4.9 Revel 14.13 In Hell is only testless pain and torment Luke 16.23 and sin makes the Earth which is a middle state between both more like to Hell than Heaven it being a place of sore travel Eccl. 1.13 and 4.8 and 5.16 17. THE Fifth Century 1 MArtha's many things and Mary's one thing seldom consist together Luke 10.41 42. 2 God hath most usually brought judgement on the World when they have been indulging their genius and gratifying their sensual and carnal appetites in eating drinking c. As in Noah's and Let 's time on the Old World Sodom and Gomorrah on Job's Children Belshazzar c. See Isa 5.11 12 13. Jerem. 51.39 57. Amos 6.3 7. Zach. 1.15 and so he will come again just so Matth. 24.38 49 50. Take heed therefore to your selves least at any time your hearts be over-charged with surfeting and drunkenness and cares of this life and so that day come upon you unawares Luke 21.34 1 Thess 5.3 3 In all matters of pleasure and joy the more the union is the more is the delight The presence of afriend yields more content than the absence and the embraces more than the presence so in outward delights those of Incorporation are more than those of Adhaesion as 't is more natural to delight in our meat than in our garments the one being inward union to increase our strength the other outward and only to protect it This is evident in spiritual joys and pleasures which arise from union with Christ and the Truths of the Gospel which are more united to our Souls by Faith than by Sense and have an answerable joy 1 Pet. 1.8 Our Vnion with Him and his Truth here is that our joy may be full 1 John 1.4 but our union being not so close our joy is not so full as 't will be hereafter Psal 16.11 Matth. 25.21 here our Masters Joy enters into us who can contain but little of it quicquid recipitur recipitur ad modum recipientis but then we shall enter into it where our souls will have scope enough and an insinite Ocean of joy to swim in to all Eternity Then Sight will be a nearer Union than Faith is now and more above it than Faith is above Sense and when we see him as he is we shall be like him 1 John 3.2 4 God delighted more in his Vidit than in his Fiat that his Works were good than that they were and therefore the Day of his Rest or Sabbath was more holy than the Days of Working Gen. 2.2 3. and we our selves find that a Review and Contemplation of a goed Act affords more joy than the meer Action Let us therefore when we have done a good Work ask our hearts if and see that it be well done 5 Our mutability and affecting of Variety doth argue our imperfection That God who is all should not content us is not more strange than true We are compounded and all things but God are so which speaks both their and our defect We are in love and pursuit of many things and esteem not God more than Heaven and Earth we may say we do but the lowing of Oxen and bleating of Sheep to allude to that of Samuel to Saul our hankerings and honeings after other things doth but too plainly declare that in practice fruition and satisfaction it is not so 'T will never be well with us nor can we be at ease till our hearts and souls can and do say in truth as Psal 73.25 6 Philosophy tells us that the whole course of our life should be a Meditation of Death but Divinity tells us more that it should be a continual Living to God the best preparation for death that when we die we may live with God which is best of all Phil. 1.23 7 Though Believers are not all of them delivered from the Earth of the Grave yet they are from the Hell of the Grave 1 Cor. 15.54 55. 8 A man that is tender of his conscience will never be prodigal of his credit for as a good conscience is a continual feast to give a man a cheerful heart so a good Name is a precious ointment to give him a cheerful countenance 2 Cor. 1.12 Prov. 15.30 Eccl. 7.1 9 Words receive weight from manners and a mans speech is often better believed for his life than for his learning A man may preach his heart out before he can preach any thing into the hearts of the people if they do not like and love him As in Physick to have a good opinion of the Doctor doth incline us to look after the prescriptions and also advantages the operation of the Medicine so in Preaching and Writing of good Books which are a kind of Physick for the Mind a good opinion of the Man doth

18 A Wise Man may learn much of or by a Fool but a Fool especially the conceited one will not learn any thing of a Wise Man Prov. 1.7 and 26.12 19 Though we have learnt to call and celebrate the World and things thereof by the great Names of Grandure and Gallantry by the pleasing Names of Pleasure and Prettiness by the affected Names of Honour and Happiness by the taking Names of Beauty and Bravery yet we do but miscall and flatter it yea abuse out selves to boot for it's proper Names are far otherwise Vanity of Vanities being it's first Pronomen and Vexatiof Spirit it's second and Sirname Cognomen as the great and searching Antiquary found them to be Eccl. 1.1 2. 20 God will not be put off with a mouth full of good words 't is in vain to say to him Lord Lord by way of Profession Prayer and Appeal if we do not do his Will for though we may plead with him and quote our many preachments c. yet he will profess that he never knew us no not then when casting out Devils c. but will bid us depart as Workers of Iniquity even then when we pretended to preach up Holiness and to cast out the Devil and all his Works Matth. 7.21 22 23. 21 They mourn for sin on the best account who mourn for it as the worst of evils and herein the worst 〈◊〉 't is against God Psal 51.4 and they that do so will mourn for other mens sins as for their own for they are against God also and it may be fear'd they never truly griev'd for their own who can rejoyce at other mens 1 Cor. 13.6 22 When we make other mens sins our own they will make us smart as much as if they were our own And we may call other mens our-other mens sins not only when we command and counsel or take pleasure in their sin but when we do not reprove them for their sin and use all due means to prevent or to remove their sin 1 Kings 12.28 30. 1 Sam. 3.13 23 Philosophy and Moral Discourses may teach men the Art of concealing their Vices the way how to cu● off the luxuriant branches and excrescencies of corruption but the Scripture-Doctrine only teacheth the way o● subduing and putting them to death by laying its Axe to the root of the Tree the very Heart Moral Doctrine ma● kelp to make good men but ' twi● never make good Christians for w● are such only by learning of Chri●● Jesus Eph. 4.20 24. 24 Alas How often are many mens Vertues nothing else but the results and effects of their Vices 'T is Covetousness makes some Temperate and Ambition makes others Liberal and Just nay Lust makes some so religious as to pray James 4.3 but they either aske and miss or else are punished with the grant of their own desires Oh what a sorry thing is man how few are there that know themselves how often are the actions commendable and not the man Well-fare simplicity and godly sincerity which make not only the actions but the persons approved 2 Cor. 1.12 25 Of all the store of Vanities which are in the World Eccles 1.2 Man is one of the greatest Psal 39.5 and of all men the Irreligious Atheists who brain-sick that they are endeavour to be worse than they can for they offer violence to the faculties and inclinations of their own souls and wish that with and say that in their hearts which for their hearts they cannot stedfastly believe Psal 14.1 so that though they may have a great deal of security 't is impossible they should have any satisfaction 26 We should be very careful to behave our selves so as to give all persons occasion to love us at least to give none an occasion to hate or despise us Heb. 12.14 1 Tim. 4.12 27 What an uneasie and sickly condition is poor man in full of impatiency and discontent all about him is Vanity himself in his best estate is Vanity yea altogether Psal 39.5 Weariness attends not only his labour by day but his sleep and rest by night what of frights what of dreams what of very long lying the man 's not at ease in an easie bed 28 The most laborious and principal study is to study ones self to know ones self how to live at home and converse alone not only company but Books seduce us from it Meditation is a large and powerful study to them that can imploy themselves in it Too many peruse others more than themselves as some study Humane Writings more than Divine 't is more easie and a diversion and we being idle seek these things for pastime as if time lay heavy on our hands and we had not imployment enough in our selves Psal 4.4 and 39.3 4. 29 How many different and all very poor things do many persons entertain and comfort themselves with when they come to die either the great Name and Estate they shall leave behind them or the confidence of their childrens worth or the avoiding of this lives mischiefs or the revenge that hangs over their heads who have been procurers of their death such as these are the miserable comforts that many men have But on the other hand how many are tormented with the sting of sin and a guilty conscience with the fear of dying and shame of living or with solicitudes and thoughtfulness of what will become of that and them they shall leave behind Ah how few can meet death half way and welcome it as a friend Surely none but they who have kept faith and a good conscience 2 Tim. 4.6 7 8. How few are fit and willing to die Surely none but they who are in Christ Jesus Phil. 1.23 Rom. 14.8 30 Here below there is no satisfaction for any but disquietment for all but them that are of an heavenly and divine mind who live to and hope to live with God Psal 39.6 7. 31 In the Old Testament the Prophesies of the latter dayes were of good and glorious times but in the New Testament the latter dayes are foretold to be apostatizing and perilous bad for suffering and worse for sinning 1 Tim. 4.1 2 Tim. 3.1 32 'T is natural to own and acknowledge a God Rom. 1.19 but to own and acknowledge Jesus Christ to be Son of the Living God is supernatural Matth. 16.17 and to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent is Eternal Life and this only John 17.3 33 The very questions and debates about the Souls Immortality is a proof that 't is so for as none can distinguish between rational and irrational who have not a rational soul So none can distinguish between Mortal and Immortal who have not an Immortal Soul Even so the controversies that are about the Mystery of Godliness do prove that without Controversie great is the Mystery of Godliness 1 Tim. 3.16 33 Books that contain pleasure and profit are most likely to be lik't at least 't is most rational that