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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

many great men are at their service When David would have built the Temple saith God to the Prophet Go tell my servant David 2 Sam. 7.5 but when David had sinned in the matter of Vriah 't is only said the Lord sent Nathan unto David 2 Sam. 12.1 the Title of honour my servant is left out Our honour dies when we live in and unto sin God will not honour them with the Name of his servants who dishonour him by serving their own lusts Rom. 6.16 20. 38 'T is clear and evident that it cost the Apostles as much if not more pains to preserve them in the truth whom they had converted than it did to convert them at first as by their Epistles is apparent and it is in it self as great an instance of the power of God Psal 110.3 compared with 1 Pet. 1.5 As wicked men need conversion so converted ones need strengthening Luke 22.32 and to be exhorted not to be high minded but to fear Rom. 11.20 and to take heed least they fall 1 Cor. 10.12 39 'T was Sauls sad complaint 1 Sam. 28.15 I am sorely distressed for the Philistines make war against me and God is departed from me So dolefully and more will sinners one day cry out sickness sin death and devils are upon me and God hath forsaken me and I know not what to do Oh forsake not God by sinning least God forsake you for sinning against him and his wrath come upon you Eph. 5.6 40 When God saw all that he had done to be very good he entred into rest Gen. 2.2 so when we can see what we have done to be good and well done we may enter into the rest of a good Conscience here 2 Cor. 1.12 and shall enter into the Rest the Sabbatisme of glory hereafter Heb. 4.9 10. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest and labour so that rest may be the end of our labour Heb. 4.11 Rev. 14.13 41 Next to impenitency take heed of late repentance for though true repentance is never too late yet late repentance is seldome true and if true as it may be yet it must needs be very uncomfortable because a man hath sin'd as long as he could and cannot live longer to give proof of his repentance Prov. 27.1 42 Some mens repentance is very near as crazed and faulty as their sin they repent of sin but sinfully for their very repentance needs repenting of as is implied 2 Cor. 7.10 seeing it flows but from a worldly sorrow they would make us believe they feel great remorse and are inwardly much displeased with sin but as to amendment they shew us none As for that Repentance of old age it 's for the most part but accidental for they leave not sin but sin leaves them and a sick-bed Repentance is too often like 〈◊〉 man i. e. sickly and the recovery of the man to life hath many times proved his Repentance dead because he hath not walkt in newness of life but returned like the dog to his vomit c. 2 Pet. 2.32 43 If the form of Godliness without the power cannot go to heaven surely the power of ungodliness must needs go to hell 2 Tim. 3.5 Kom 1.18 44 There is but one way to heaven Joh. 14.6 Acts 4.12 but there are many ways to hell as many as there are sins and 't is all one to the Devil so we go to hell whether we go in the common road of Profaneness or in the seemingly pleasant walks of hypocrisie Matth. 24.51 with Luke 12.46 45 He that would have his affliction short or have ease under it should quickly and quietly submit to God for when we subscribe to his wisdom and submit to his will 't is as if and as much and better than if we had had our own wills Psal 39.9 46 Self-penance is will-worship and meer Epicurisme where pain is pleasant for as long as people impose it on themselves they do not deny their town will but fullfil it and while they beat down the body they do but ●pusse up the flesh Col. 2.20 23. 47 A seared conscience an hardned heart a being given up is a kind of fore-runner and earnest of yea as it were a sealing up of men to damnation for whereas the damned are in hell hell is in these and would any think madness or the dead Palsie to be best because such men feel nothing having lost their senses by their disease which is a greater punishment than any other it being that of loss Rom. 1.28 Eph. 4.18 19. 2 Thess 2.11 12. 1 Tim. 4.1 2. 48 There is a necessity of disproportion and disparity between me● and men for were all persons equal● the world could not consist Superierity and Inferiority are the Pillan thereof and therefore we are so ofter called upon to obey them that are over us and that not for wrath sake but for conscience Rom. 13.5 49 Man seems to be one of the weakest parts of the Creation for there 's searcely a creature by which he hath not been conquered A flie the kernel of a grape c. hath overcome Conquerours Mice Lice c. were too hard for the Aegyptians We need therefore pray as David Psal 39.4 and with Moses Psal 90.12 and to think of what is said James 4.14 for though we know that there is but one way of coming into theworld yet none knows how many ways there are of going out 50 'T is a known Maxime that a Negative makes nothing known for we know things by discovering not what they are not but what they are and therefore to give only negative Characters of Christians is not to describe them nor can they only make them known to themselves or others Hence throughout the Scripture the Negative and the Affirmative are for the most part joyn'd together Rom. 12.2 1 Pet. 1.14 15. Eph. 4.17 25. 51 God in Scripture compares his Church to an Espoused Wife and himself to an Husband yea to a Jealous Husband how careful then must they be who are married to such an husband to abstain not only from all pollution but from all suspicion of sin 2 Cor. 11.2 3. 52 There is a natural over-charitable affection in most men to their own ways Prov. 16.2 and 21.2 and which yet seems strange the worse they are the more men are inclin'd to favour them but the reason is because the worse they are the more they are their own for mens sins are not so much from the Devil as from themselves and though he may tempt yet 't is they that sin James 1.14 53 He that by Grace is as good as the best was by Nature as bad as the worst Eph. 2.2 3. 54 Before the coming of Christ the Father trusted the Son that he would make satisfaction and since the coming of Christ he trusts the Father that he shall have satisfaction in seeing the travel of his soul safely deliver'd Isa 53.11 55 A Woman may sooner be deliver'd of a Child

that they may be more than moral for though a moral man may seem too good to go to Hell yet if not godly which is by being in Christ Jesus he will not be found good enough to go to Heaven Acts. 26.28 29. Mark 10.21 and 12.3 4. 13 A Christian should not be secure when he is safe nor afraid when he is in danger but distrust himself and trust in God alwayes Prov. 3.5 6. 14 Though a man may be hated wronged plundered and persecuted yet he is never undone if he be not damned Math. 10.28 15 'T is worse for a man to be like a Beast than if he had been a Beast as to be lascivious like a Goat than to be a Goat for what 's natural and innocent in the Beast is sinful in the Man Oh but how much worse is it when Man is worse than a Beast Isa 1.3 16 Of all Fools a Fool in honour looks most unlike a man for he is like the Beast that perisheth Psal 49.20 17. An open hand is the Emblem and Argument of a soft and tender heart as a shut or close-sisted hand is the Emblem and Argument of an hard i. e. an uncharitable and covetous heart Deut. 15.7 18 They are the sorest punishments that are made of sins as an hardned heart which is the punishment of an hard heart as 't was in Pharaoh and being given up which is the punishment of them who give themselves up to sin Rom. 1.24 26 28. Eph. 4.18 19. 19 The hearts of men are so out of frame that mending will not serve the turn they must be new made or they will never be good Ezek. 36.26 20 The sins of those who are ours may quickly be our sins for where the Relation is nearer the Contagion is quicker and the Infection stronger As Deut 13.6 Exod. 34.15 16. 21 To meet with that evil we lookt not for will be as troublesome as to miss that good we did look for to go to Hell which few men as not to go to Heaven which most men think they shall Jer. 14.19 Math. 24.50 22 No man errs more than he that saith he cannot erre as no man lyes more than he that saith he never lyed If we say we have no sin we deceive and yet confute our selves for we sin in saying so 1 John 1.8 and do not only lye our selves but make God a Lyar who is the Truth and cannot lye 1 John 1.10 So that they who pretend to infallibility and perfection are in not being so a contradiction to God and themselves 23 They should hear the prayers of the poor who would have God hear theirs Psal 41.1 2. And as they should give to others who would have God give to them so they should forgive others as they would God should forgive them Math. 18.21 35. Math. 6.14 15. 24 Dead Trading on Earth calls on men to Trade for life in Heaven and of all Trades or Merchandise none like that of godliness if well followed for 't is not only great gain at present but for Eternity 1 Tim. 4.7 8. 6.6 25 They who act against their light and Conscience are like to lose their Light and make shipwrack of their Conscience 1 Tim. 1.19 and Rom. 1.21 John 9.39 26 'T is best to depend on him who is absolutely independent i. e. God 1 Tim. 6.17 27 None but holy ones shall see the Holy One so God is called and without holiness none shall see God Heb. 12.14 28 An hypocrite is one of the worst of sinners and will have one of the worst of punishments Fained sanctity is double iniquity and he like the First-born and Eldest Son of the Devil will have as it seems a double portion in Hell Mat. 24.51 not only Hell but the Damnation of Hell Mat. 23.33 29 Be not envious for 't is not only one of the worst Diseases of the Eye an evil eye but 't is to be like the Devil who is the evil one and the envious one So that thou wilt be alwayes troubled with sore eyes even with the sore and torment of the Devil and with such eyes thou canst never look upon God nor look up to God Psal 37. Psal 73. 30 Solitariness and living alone out of society is a sly enemy for it most separates a man not only from receiving but doing good which is one of the great ends of a mans coming into the World Eccl. 4.9 12. Beside the mind of man best knows its good or evil by practise Speculation is least acquainted with it and avoyding of company doth but make the passions more violent when they meet with fit Subjects 30 A mans happiness or misery is not so much from his condition as from his mind Some men have a Fortune sufficient to give content but are not content with a sufficient fortune Job 20.22 Eccles 5.10 and there are others who though they have but little yet want nothing having learned in all estates to be content Luke 22.35 Phil. 4.11 31 All is but Lip-wisdome that wants experience and 't is but Knowledge falsly so called What is' t to have religion in our books or heads or tongues if not in our hearts 't is nothing but a form of Knowledge Rom. 2.20 which reacheth no further than a forme of godliness The excellency of the knowledge of Christ is to know him in union communion and conformity Phil. 3.8 9 10. 32 The God of Nature never teacheth unnaturalness nor doth the God of Order teach or allow confusion 1 Cor. 14.33 33 Astrological predictions are either vain or infallible if that they are not to be respected if this they are not to be prevented and therefore on both accounts are not to be heeded Wisdome and Vertue are the best Prophets to be consulted and followed Isa 8.19 20. Isa 46.13 14 15. Eccles 11.4 34 We are beholden to God not only for supplying our wants but for chastising our wantonness Psal 89.31 32. His rod is the rod of the Covenant Ezek. 20.37 and his rebukes are from his love Rev. 3.19 't is in very faithfulness that he doth afflict us Psal 119.75 and we may therefore take evil at his hand as well as good Job 2.10 and bless him for taking as well as giving as Job 1.21 and say with David ' ●is good to be afflicted Psal 119.71 for it comes from a good root his love and the fruit is good too seeing it is for the taking away of sin Isa 27.9 and to make us partakers of his holiness Heb. 12.10 So that however severely God seem to deal with us we have cause to thank him 1 Thes 5.18 35 With contentment no estate without it any estate is miserable Phil. 4.11 Eccles 5.12 36 Woes make the shortest time seem long and joys make the longest time seem short oh Eternity Eternity is that which makes woes woes and joys joys indeed Mat. 25.46 37 'T is greater honour for any to be Gods servants than 't is that a great many and