Ministry of the Word for it is accompanied with the internal power of the Spirit 82. Let not thy affections rove and the world or Divel can do thee no hurt 83. He that suppresseth sin at the first motion shall assuredly find comfort 84. If we mean to come to heaven we must not live in any known sin for it wasts grace 85. A Christian must mend his pace every day that grace may shine more and more to the perfect day 86. Every poor map is not a blessed man except his bodily poverty bring him to spiritual poverty 87. He that hath spiritual comforts hath them cheap if they cost him many a tear 88. The heart is never so chearful as when it powrs out it self in tears and sighs to God 89. Spiritual mourning secures the soul from hell-mourning 90. The way to divert too much bleeding is to open a vein and the onely way to stop unseasonable grief Is to turn our tears against our sins 91. All worldly sorrow must be sorrowed against but sorrow for sin is a sorrow never to be repented of 92. The adventure and the return of the stock of Praier is most certain to increase more and more 93. God forfeits not his Word but we our Praiers when we seek things which crosse God's nature or will or are hurtfull or not necessary in themselves 94. He that knocks at heavens door onely in death deservs to have the door knockt against his head 95. He that would speed in temporal things must first seek spiritual 96. He that desires to speed in praier must go to God with a knowledg and sense of his own insufficiency to succour himself 97. Cold praiers have cold answers for how should God hear us when we hear not our selves 98. They must look to be denied in their praiers who deny Christ in his members 99. The forgetfulnesse of received mercies makes God to forget us 100. He that will be sure to have his praiers heard must make a trade of praier being constant in it CENTURY 6. 1. WE must lay our hand on the plow and then pray that our endeavours may second our devotion 2. To ask grace and not to use the meant is to knock at heavens gate and pull it to us that it do not open 3. He that saies Lord forgive me my sins without a desire to leave them cannot be heard except God forfeit his Word 4. Things inconvenient and unnecessary are profitably denied us 5. If heavenly things were soon obtained they would be soon forgotten 6. He that puts in his petition at one door may willingly go about to another door to have an answer so let God appoint the way and means and deliverance shall be the more speedy 7. Nothing more humbls the child of God then to be buffeted with base temptations 8. When God laies a plaister to our wound we cry take it off when by holding it on the cure is done 9. He hath not lost his praiers but is doubly paid who with the crosses of the world hath his heart driven off from the world 10. He that hath most grace bath most work to do and greatest trials to buckle with 11. He that lets himself loose to any gross sin shall be sure to find it in his praier 12. Some are as unfit to pray as ever David was to march in Saul's armor 13. The bringing forth of a right praier is in a manner like the bringing forth of a child with many throws yet when the child is born there is joy 14. He that sees not the print of his imperfections is neither humble patient nor pitiful not knowing himself brother or God 15. A Verbal confession of frailty without humility mercy and use of the means is meer hypocrisie 16. Man's body in the grace is free from pain but not dishonor 17. Uprightnesse may stand with imperfection beauty with deformity some light some darknesse in the best 18. Our infirmities should be matter of humiliation not desperation 19. He that studies not to know himself will soon grow proud 20. Though the glory of a Saint be not obvious to every eye yet they have an excellencie in them in the midst of all deformities 21. He that see 's not a true Christian to be a glorious creature hath but a fleshly eye 22. It neither comes from good nor works any good to delight in speaking and hearing other men's enormities 23. Some people come to the means at first as children to the School very eagerly but afterward very hardly drawn to it at all 24 No company or comfort should put off the thoughts of death 25. Death will be very terrible to that man who dies not in his thoughts daily 26. It 's an easie matter to speak of death but to bring it home to the heart is very hard 27. Sin unrepented will bring a sting in the time of death filling the heart with sorrow the soul with amazement the conscience with horror 28. Our eies should be casements to let in fresh air not corruption 29. He that laies much upon natures back will break it and he that trusts to natural parts shall be disappointed 30. All carnal pleasures and delights are but poison if grace in the heart be not an antidote 31. Peace of conscience makes a man rejoice in sorrow and live in death 32. He that sees his own wants and weaknesse will often desire to communicate 33. An hypocrite shews sometimes a greater measure of profession then a Christian but is like corn on the house tops that quickly grows and is quickly down 34. All the hands and hearts on earth will do no good upon a resolute sinner 35. A child of God coming to Christ's Table eats judgment to avoid condemnation 36. He that would profit by heavenly mysteries must be knit to them not by the brain but by affection 37. Christ's prepared medicines minister no comfort unlesse applied to our soul 38. We cannot have Christs benefits unlesse we have himself 39. The signs seal no grace to the soul where there is no faith 40. We are very sensible of bodily hunger but soul hunger is hardly felt 41. He that will not be broken from sin shall have no portion in Christ's body broken 42. Gentlemen-like qualities pride pleasure intemperance bring souls apace to hell 43. He that makes a divorce betwixt his soul and corruption is in the state of grace 44. 'T is no presumption but duty to judge by our calling of our election 45. To know there is a Christ and not our interest in him is rather a punishment then a comfort 46. Faith and hope may be distinguished but not separated for faith hath ever hope 47. A fearful doubting soul lives vext in the suburbs of of hell 48. A weak and dumb evidence may be true as the strongest 49. As grace and glory so sin and shame go alwaies together 50. The more sanctified affliction on earth the more weight of glory in heaven 51. It 's all
better then a silken suit 42. He doth not God's will but his own who doth no more then himself will yea such a man takes pains to go to hell 43. God will find flaws in that for which wee look for thanks 44. If to do well cause discontent wee then offend not against men but their errours 45. He that doth no more then he is bound to do is rather wary then good 46. Adam notwithstanding the dignity of his condition variety and plenty of provision was set to work in Paradise 47. He that strikes deadly chooseth a sharp weapon so Satan chooseth the sharpest wits for instruments of mischief and seducement 48. It 's not company simply but good company which is good for man or woman 49. As it is not safe to be at Satan's mess though our spoon be never so long so it is not safe to lend an ear to a seducer 50. A sinful conscience which seeks to shun Gods presence discovers as much folly as faultiness and is like the fish which swims to the length of the line with the hook in the mouth 51. Satan can hurt a Saint but in the heel which is far from the head and though painful yet it is not mortal 52. Sin is the wicket that let death into the world 53. Fine apparel is a reproach to him that wears it being as a scarfe to the arme put out of joint 54. They are profane Niggards who think any thing too good for the servants and service of God 55. Wee are loth with Cain to confess our selves our brothers keeper and too willing to be his executioner 56. They that cannot forbear to sin cannot bear what is due to them for their sin becoming injurious to God's Mercy by diffidence and to his Justice by impatience 57. Self-guiltiness in some is the chief motive to suspition in others 58. Wicked men turn divine patience into humane presumption 59. Generation in the flesh and regeneration in the Spirit proceed from different principles 60. Man's head is a mint of evil imaginations his heart a sink of inordinate affections his memory a closet of sin full of fancies and impressures 61. God many times wills a change yet never changeth his will 62. God who made man without his help will not destroy him without his fault 63. As the Carpenters who built Noahs Ark were not saved in it so some preach others into the Church and live themselvs out of it 64. It 's as proper for sin to raise fears in the soul as for rotten flesh and wood to breed worms 65. Christians must labour as well to see God in his works as to believe him in the Scriptures 66. To break the bruised reed to trouble the grieved spirit to strike the breath out of a mans body who is giving up the ghost is cruelty upon cruelty 67. It 's the duty piety and humanity of the living to see their friends and relations fairly interred 68. Sincerity and safety go together 69. Gods commands are just in themselvs and justly commanded unto men nothing so great but we are bound to do it nothing so small that we may be allowed to sleight it 70. Whatsoever God commands there 's weight and worth in it to make it regarded 71. He that obeys not God in all things but with choice and exception obeys him not at all 72. Gods promises how fair or fierce soever never fail of an answerable effect he being immutable in his counsel unresistable in his power 73. It 's safer to go against the stream with godliness then to be carried along with ungodlinesse and overwhelmed in it 74. Every sin casts another shovel of brimstone upon the sinners soul in hell 75. The Saints in heaven onely keep holy day 76. Every cessation from sin is not a resurrection from sin 77. They that forget God in their life forget themselvs in death 78. He that watches not his first in clinations to sin but feeds them with the honey and milk of Gods mercy shall be drawn from presumption to desperation in God's mercy 79. Sin which comes in forma pauperis or pretends reason is very dangerous 80. Every man hath so many Gods as he hath habitual sins 81. Grace is no grace to me till I know I have and would have more of it 82. It 's strange God should think man enough for himself and man should not be satisfied with God 83. That mans heart is not sincere who loves God by the proportion of temporal blessing 84. It 's sin to distrust God in necessary things and to press him in superfluous things 85. No man ever lost his faith but hee that thought it not worth the keeping 86. It 's a powerful Sermon to see a man leave his ill-gotten goods and cast off his beloved sin 87. He that hath least of this world hath enough to weigh him down from heaven by an inordinate love of that little and he that hath most hath not too much to give for heaven and happinesse 88. Heaven will cost a rich man more then a poor man because he hath more to give for it 89. Rich and poor are alike in this that they must leave all which retard their present and constanâ— following of Christ 90. True repentance is when the sad soul weeps more blood at more pores then the weak body sweats drops of water and that more for the displeasure of God then the stripes of his displeasure 91. Not at all to be punished is a great affliction better be called Satan with Peter then friend with Judas 92. He is an imprudent man who disposes of years to come when he is not lord of to morrow 93. If any thing quenches the heat of sin the desire of money or the rise of sin it 's the consideration of death present 94. In the raging fits of sin and in the midst of their madnesse some have physick from God and are reclaimed 95. He that defers his repentance because of the thiefs example deludes his own soul for he was called at the first call not at the last and it is not for our imitation but to keep us from desperation 96. If there be any defect of joy in heaven it 's this that we cannot longer express our love by suffering for God 97. Faith in Christ is a full evidence yet suffering is a new seal upon that faith 98. They that neglect the good opinion of others neglect those virtues which should produce that good opinion 99. All the world never joined to deceive one man nor was ever any one man able to deceive the whole world 100. Better have no being then be without Jesus CENTURY 2. 1. ACcustome thy self to affliction before it comes and it will be no stranger when it comes 2. As long as I have God by the hand and feel his loving care of me I can admit any weight of his hand any furnace of his heating 3. To flatter our selvs in any licentiousnesse with an opinion of
or hurt 66. For a man to be stupid and sensless under spiritual afflictions argues a very ill temper 57. As all flowers wither when the Sun withdraws his influence so do all graces when Christ departs 58. Conscience kindles a fire upon the breach of integrity that burns inwardly and consumes the marrow and drinks up the spirits 59. Envie is an everlasting burning which nothing will satisfie but its own blood 60. It makes heavie afflictions light and long short to look where they end for the sight of the end shortens the way 61. Not to be warned by others is a sure presage of ruine for storms begin in one place and end in another 62. The greatest part of ourknowledge is the least part of our ignorance 63. The more worth is in any man the lesse self-conceitednesse and the lower in our own eies the higher in God's sight 64. The fire of heaven turns men into Saints and separates them from sinners 65. If bread fail feed on faith and thou maist make a good living of it for when meat is taken away God will take away the stomach and faith fears no famine it keeps us from diffidence in Gods promises and makes us possess our souls in patience 66. Our self-accusations in our confessions take out the sting and poison of Satan's malicious accusations 67. O! the deep sorrow our hearts should be filled withall when we see Christ bleeding upon the Cross 68. What soul-wound's so deadly that cannot or may not be healed by the death and healing wounds of Christ 69. The woâ—k of faith is to make the soul betake it self to the wounds of Christ as the Dote to the clefts of the rock for shelter and security against all fears and distresses that wrath and guilt may put the Considence to 70. Our whole life is a continual warfare and we must look for the continual hail-shot of Satanical assaults and suggestions 71. Christians fight and faint not your reward is sure your armor is of proof the old serpent hath his head bruised 72. Many tempt Satan to tempt them by venturing on the occasion of sin or by inconsideration and security 73. A full belly and a foul heart seldom go uncoupled for in the Anatomy of our bodies the parts of gluttony and lust are linked together and so are the sins themselvs 74. Too much eating quite takes away our stomachs from all holy duties 75. Holiness becoms all men but best of all publick persons both for example of good and liberty of controlling evil 76. It 's a gross dull capacity that cannot or will not distinguish betwixt the work and the instrument the weakness of the person and the power of the function 77. The glory of Israel the Ark was no waies lessened by coming from the Philistins 78. Far be it from us to think if the sacrificer be unclean that the offering is so 79. Elias was a holy wise man yet he rejected not his meat because Ravens brought it 80. Learning will pine away if forced to officiate at the Tables end for the trencher 81. The Pulpit is a place that requires both learning and industry for Saint Paul found as great want of his books as his Cloak in winter 82. He gives twice who gives speedily for the more speed the more comfort 83 Many a man's Executor proves the Executioner of his Will and Estate 84. It 's a general complaint that the end of our daies out runs the begining of good works 85. The poor most times may thank the death or disease of rich men not their charity 86. Happy is he who makes his candle go before him not behind him for early beneficence hath no danger many joies 87. The use of riches is great if there be qualification in our desires 88 It 's as impossible to expresse the joies of heaven as put the sea into a bottle 89. It 's but justice that he who hath sinned out his own eternity should suffer out God's eternity 90. The object of repenting sorrow is sin not punishment and a good man fears more the committing of the one then suffering of the other 91. Pardoned sin disquiets a repenting heart and grievs him to have been such a beast to offend so gracious a God remembring the sins God hath forgotten 92. He that sheds a sea oâ— tears and drowns not his sins in that sea is never the better 93. He that sighs prays and begs for mercy and lives in sin deceivs himself having no truth in that repentance 94. Every grace which brings to heaven must be a tried grace 95. A man's wealth and will must both be good for if his hands be full and the heart empty he deservs pity more then commendation having riches but neither goods nor blessings 96. It 's said of the Divel he abode not in the truth because no truth is in him so Sectaries abide not in Religion because no Religion is in them 97. Truth once in the heart will dwell and rule there 98. A man may preach soundly and discourse judiciously and yet be unsound at heart 99. A Christian must be careful to avoid all blemishes but especially covetousness as being most contrary to his profession whose hope is in heaven 100. God's children have variety of conditions some more comfortable then others CENTURY 3. 1. THe love of God is constant in the variety of conditions and there 's no shadow of change in God howsoever the changes of our life be 2. How rugged the way to heaven be it 's no matter so we come there 3. A prudent Christian in the variety of conditions knows how to avoid the sins incident to that condition 4. Grace is above all conditions making a man patient in a mean estate and not proud when he doth abound 5. He that hath an inheritance in another world sets a light esteem upon all things below 6. Self-denial is the first lesson in Christs school learn this and thou shalt be content in any condition 7. He that hath God to be his Father hath a large portion in any estate 8. There 's poison in every thing without grace and grace pulls out the sting and finds good in the worst things 9. The best things of a Christian are not at the mercy of the world nor at the mercy of his several conditions 10. Rising and murmuring of corrupt nature in any condition becomes not a true Christian 11. The right use of our daily infirmities is to make them the subject of humiliation and the object of mortification 12. Customary sins are not sins of infirmitie except the ground of the infirmity be rooted in the heart as an inclination to be angry which holy men repent of and get victory over it at last 13. He that pleads for sin discovers a false heart for this is an enormity not an infirmity 14. Universality of obedience is the triall of a sincere Christian being a good man in all his relations 15. Let us not think the good we
of sin 91. Children must not be counted bills of changes for they are greater blessings then any outward thing else 92. Wo to those parents whose gain for their children is the loss of their own souls 93. Emptiness and poverty presseth hose most who once were full and rich 94. Great and good rich and holy are happy but rare conjunctions 95. To be extream poor or rich is one extream temptation 96. That man is rich in grace who is very poor but very holy 97. Temptations are greater and stronger upon the full and rich then the poor and empty 98. God never gives any thing evill in it self to those who are good nor the chief good to those chat are evill 99. There 's fire in all estates ill gotten which at last will consume them 100. The time we spend in spirituall duties is the time gained for secular therefore to turn poor if thou turn godly fear not CENTURY 8. 1. MUtual agreement amongst children is a comfortable blessing to parents 2. Nothing more uncomely and unnaturall as rents divisions and brawlings in a family 3. Prodigality of time is the worst and most dangerous prodigality 4. Faith is a glutinous monopolizing grace possessing Christ and by a close application making him wholly the soul's 5. The faithfull soul takes sure hold of Christ in the time of darkness and temptation 6. Christ lodged in the heart is as a bundle of myrrhe sweet and bitter at once preserving joy and trembling together 7. If thy heart swell too high and grow proud taste and chaw the bitter plant of Christ's death and it will break the imposthume 8. If thy heart fail thee in any conditon smell at the sweetnes of Christ and he will transmit life and comfort 9. The virtue of Christ's death never dieth but floweth down to ail ages for ever 10. God hath appointed that where the crosse is there also is the cordiall against it 11. Divine love is the caus of divine beauty and rejoyceth in it's own work 12. The beauty of the soul is the holiness of it being God's Image 13. Christ hath the truth and essence of beauty whereas earthly things have it only in estimation 14. The unquiet brains of men tossed with opinions rest in the scripture as in a bed 15. Our sins are thorns and so are temptations to sin and afflictions for sin 16. Heresies and schisms are worser then the sharpest stings and thorns to the Church 17. Women lose their good name not onely by keeping ill company but by keeping none 18. As weary travellers seek cool arbours and delight in them so doth the weary soul after and in Christ 19. Some men carry a thin shaddow of piety and zeal but no more 20. It 's neither losse nor dishonour to be vanquished in the field where Christ is General for at last we shall be conquerors 21. A holy soul is sick and weary and lives not in her self but in Christ in whom her life is hid 22. They are happy beyond expression who are transfixed with the wounds of Christ's love 23. It 's no waies befitting Christians to lye down and stretch themselves in sinfull pleasures 24. It 's our duty comfort to draw near to Christ in affection and conversation 25. Holy practise makes grace visible and brings out from the heart to the life 26. A parent may put money in a childs purse but he cannot put grace in his heart 27. Prayer which requires a holy heart many times makes a holy heart 28. None can come at the spirit of another but the Spirit of God 29. Moderate refreshing and recreation may well become holy men 30. The care of parents ought to live as long as they and their children live together 31. Children when grown in years must not think they have out-grown obedience and honour to their parents 32. The speciall care of a holy father is for the soul of his child 33. Such parents whose care is onely to make their children great not good in this world are themselves the Devils children 34. Grace is very attractive it desires to draw others into fellowship 35. He that doth ill by thy advice the ill shall be reckoned unto thee 36. All holy duties call upon us all for a holy preparation 37. It 's seldome the duty sanctifies us unless we be sanctified for the duty 38. It 's very bad to make a preparation and then to put off or neglect the duty 39. It 's God's due and our duty to give God the morning the first and best part of the day 40. As the morning is a friend to the Muses so to the Graces it being the best praying time 41. It 's not safe to let sin lie upon our consciences unrepented 42. He that hath guilt upon his soul hath a fire in his soul 43. Prayer is a lifting up of the soul and elevation of the spirit unto God 44. By distinguishing the times many Scrptures are made to agree 45. He that sacrificed offered up a beast but he that obeyeth offereth up himself 46. God in the Sacrament sees the death of his Son and that satisfies him and man sees the death of his Saviour and that justifies him 47 Actings of faith powering out of prayer makes Sacraments effectuall to man acceptable to God 48. Christ was ever and is and shall be the only remedy and cure of sin 49. Every one is saved by particular actings of his own faith and therefore every soul must believe for it selfe 50. We cannot converse in this uncleane and dirty world but some uncleanness will fasten upon us 51. To be without grosse sin is our holiness on earth to be without any sin is the holinesse of heaven 52. A good heart turns suspicious of others sinning into intercession that they may be pardoned not in accusations that they may be defamed 53. He that repents of those sins which he only fears he hath committed shall be sure to repent of those he doth commit 54. It 's too easie a matter to sin about holy things lawfull things often being the occasion of unlawfull 55. For a man to blesse God in his sin is a very high strain of wickednesse 56. Every sin is a turning from God but few sins are a farewell to God 57. The heart is to be kept with all manner of keeping for sinfull thoughts are dangerous sins 58. The heart of man is so wicked as to sin over one sin a thousand times 59. Renewed sin require renewed repentance and we must give over repenting when wee have don sining 60. That which men do out of conscience they will do it out of peresverance for nature may have good moods but grace is steady 61. Usually where God gives much grace he tries grace much 62. All things in heaven and earth are disposed by the unerring wisdom and limited by the Almighty power of God 63. Sleep is a short death and death is a long sleep 64. It should be the voice of every soul
natural corrupt weaknesse is a spreading deceit 4. If God at any time by any means restore thee to bodily health he can as easily give thee spiritual physick and soul-health 5. Praier hath the nature of violence in besieging God and taking him prisoner and bringing him to our conditions and God is as it were glad to be straitned by us in that siege 6. Little knows the Devil how much good he doth us when he tempts us exciting us to go to God who gives the issue with the temptation 7. God hath as many Antidotes as the Divel hath poisons as much mercy as the Divel hath malice 8. God is glorified in those victories which we by his grace gain over the Divel 9. An afflicted spirit and wounded soul dwell at the gates of atonement and restitution 10. A delicate and prosperous life is highly contrary to the hopes of a blessed eternity 11. He that considers himself well will find that for a secular joy and wantonnesse of spirit there are not left many void spaces of his life 12. Never any charitable man died an evil death for when other graces shall be useless this will bear up the soul upon the wings of Cherubims unto eternal bliss 13. Death to the Godly is the best of all evils and the end of all troubles 14. Impatience with a disease doth mischief by its self and mischief by the disease 15. They that bear the yoke with indignation and murmure gall their spirits fret the skin and hurt nothing but themselves 16. Faith is the life of just men the restitution of dead men the justification of sinners the support of the weak the confidence of the strong the magazine of promises and the title to eternal happiness 17. Faith will trust God's goodness and believe him to be a Father when the storm rises and the keels toss till the cordage crack 18. In all sufferings the cause makes it noble or ignoble tolerable or intollerable 19. Ignorant believers are soon swallowed up and rid over standing in an open field but understanding believers are in a fenced Town and have out-works reasons to lose before the Town be taken 20. No soul hath so prostituted her self but God can make her a Virgin again 21. In every sin we become prodigals but in the habit of sin we become bankrupts 22. He that knows not or takes no knowledge of an injury hath no injury 23. They that are too inquisitive what other men say of them disquiet themselvs 24. God warns before he wounds coming seldom to that dispatch a word and a blow but to a blow without a word to an execution without warning never 25. How many sell heaven and happiness for grains of dust 26. We are born in the last age of the world and died in the first 27. No meditation more serious then the worlds vanity no consideration more seasonable then the brevity of life and uncertainty of time no knowledge more wholesom then the diseases of the mind no contemplation more heavenly then humane misery 28. Poor Infants newly born not able to speak yet prophesie and the contents are lamentations mournings and woes by the tears they shed to fill up the vale of tears they enter 29. 'T is a sign of one nobly bred who first learns to hold his peace and afterwards to speak 30. Wise is that man that sets forth towards heaven in the morning of his daies giving God the first and best part of his time 31. Many old men at the instant of their dissolution desire the continuance of life their flesh being like the Peacocks which being sod grows raw again so after mortification by diseases and age desire to enthral themselves in earthly pleasures 32. No distinction in the grave all have hollow eier flat noses and ghastly looks and all is but dust 33. Seeing the fashion of the body is onely to be altered and the body to be worn again it 's fit we carefully lay it up in deaths Wardrobe the grave 34. On earth we labour for rest in heaven we rest from our labour 35. Water your plants at the departure of your dearest friends but drown them not for whatsoever we complain of here they are freed of in heaven 36. Never any died at London who never lived there so no man ever died in Christ who never lived in him 37. God seldom or never makes use of a godly man to be the scourge of his people 38. As water is powred into a garden-pot at one place but runneth out at an hundred holes so one coming into the world but an hundred waies of going out 39. It was a wise mans complaint that every man thought himself qualified either for Magistracy or Ministry two weighty burthens but now though in the declining age too many are undertakers of both 40. Ambition will to the pinacle of the temple for the glory of the world though it tumble for it to eternal ruine 41. Eminency is seldom sudden and permanent for they which in the dawn of fortune break so gloriously meet with a storm at noon or else a cloud at night 42. If destruction dog us wee are to thank our corrupt affections not blame our Maker he doth but leave us and they harden us 43. A busie prying into the Ark of Gods Predestination is accompanied with insolence and with danger to enquire the the cause of Gods will why this man is elected and not that is an act of lunacie not of judgment and the question is as guilty of reproof as the author 44. Make not curiosity the pick-lock of divine secrets knowing that such mysteries are doubly barred in the Coffers of the Almighty 45. Man's work is to contemplate God's works not to sift his mysteries to admire his goodness not blur his justice 46. In God's dark mysteries he that can see no reason if he see his own infirmity sees a sufficient reason why he should not see 47. Worm and no man take heed how thou struglest with thy Maker let it be thy happiness to be made his Steward though not his Secretary 48. O blessed Jesu though I have committed those transgressions for which thou maist condemne me yet thou hast not lost those compassions by which thou maist save me 49. Never a tear dropping in sincerity is unpitied or unpreserved 50. Outward percussion of the breast without inward remorse of conscience is rather an aggravation of sin then release 51. Study to be truly that what we seem to be and not seem what we are not 52. Meteors and false fires of Religion by-path the soul into blinded zeal leads others into steps of error 53. We may expect a blessing and an acceptance when God's ordinances are used in his order 54. God fills the hearts of his people according to the size and capacity of their vessels 55. As the Water which made the clean woman fruitful made the unclean swell and rot so as the receivers are so Sacraments prove either for good
heart at first doth tremble at the least sin or error but through custome and continuance will bear up any sin or error 14. The more sensible the soul is of outward things the lesse 't is of spiritual things 15. He that sets his love upon the creature loseth the very strength of his soul 16. Wise men when they go about spiritual duties cut themselves short of the use of the creatures 17. Conscience hardned in some great sin makes no stop in fin 18. A heart will not easily be kept tender that is not under the means of grace 19. A Reprobate hath joined with his heart security insensibleness obstinacie and contempt of the means 20. A Christian may have hardnesse of heart and yet feels it as a man that hath the stone and know it 21. If God take away the grace a man hath he becoms worse of himself then he was by nature 22. They that are not bettered by Religion under the means are so much worse by their use of the means 23. Spiritual grief for sin though it be not so vehement as outward grief for losses yet it is more constant 24. If there were no weaknesse in us what need Christ continue making peace for us in heaven 25. They that have a tender heart from God have also a tender heart for God 26. A tender heart is fit to run any errand of God's sending because its pliable 27. Tender hearts lay to heart other mens estates weeping over the misery of the wicked rejoicing at the good of the godly 28. A cerimonial hypocrite is more hard to be wrought upon then Turk or Pagan 29. It 's a disposition not unbefitting the greatest Monarch to humble himself before the great God 30. It 's the glory of a Christian that he hath got grace to humble himself 31. Many are humbled who are not humble and cast down who have proud hearts 32. True sorrow cannot speak distinctly for broken hearts speak but broken words 33. Justification of God and self-condemnation go with true humiliation 34. Hee that thinks highly of himself robs God of his glory and makes himself an Idol 35. An humble heart is a vessel of grace for so much humility so much grace 33. After the measure we empty our selvs in that measure we are filled with the fulnesse of God 37. All grace flows in upon the humble soul as water from the hills into the valleys making the soul rich in God 38. Seeing humble fouls are onely safe and secure we must either humble our selvs or God will 39. God works many times by graceless persons but he doth not work in them 40. Thunderclaps over our heads are feared but not those which are far off so wicked men fear judgment near but regardless if far off 41. If humiliation have not faith and hope to raise the soul to some comfort it turns to desperation 42. True humility makes a man nothing and yet fills the soul in God 43. A wicked man may be sensible of his judgment but not of the cause 44. Adversity will never hurt where there 's no iniquity 45. Outward expressions of sorrow are no further good then when they come from inward grief and affection for God must have inward affections or else he abhors outward actions 46. It 's an easie matter to force tears but it 's hard to afflict the soul 47. It 's the sin of many in stead of renting their cloaths in coming before God come to shew their bravery and to be seen 48. That man is falsly humble and truly proud who while he afflicts the body omits the soul 49. Tears for sin proceeding from inward grief is a temper becoming any Christian 50. All expression and manifestation of devotion is little enough so it be without hypocrisie 51. Magistrates who are tenderly affected with the condition of the people shall have a people carry a tender affection to them 52. It 's great cause of weeping to a gracious heart that it cannot weep 53. It 's a bad sign when we itch to hear of another man's fall thinking thereby to hide our own wickednesse 54. Praier begs blessing from God and thankfulnesse continues them with man 55. Many times there 's most grief where there are fewest tears 56. Spiritual sorrow is a great deal better then naturall for it fats the soul 57. God puts all his children's tears in a bottle But wicked men spare him a labour for they seldom weep though they have most cause 58. A broken heart expresseth it self more in sighs and groans then in words which the Spirit onely understands 59. It 's our wisdom to observe how God hears our prayert that so we may be suitably thankfull 60. He that prayes with a resolution to fin goes to God with a petition in one hand and a dagger in another 61. Whatsoever the crosses of a good man be his last end shal be assuredly blessed 62. God takes notice of every good word and work the godly do and will reward it 63. Hypocrites are recompenced because God will not be in their debt and it 's all their desire 64. When a Christian lookes onely on the ill that 's in him he robs God of his glory and himself of comfort 65. The good are scattered amongst the bad in their life but in death they shall be gathered to God 66. He that joins himself in love and affection to wicked men on earth shall be also joined in torment and destruction in hell 67. God sometimes reservs men in this life to worse miseries then death it self 68. One death is better then many and a sudden sometimes better then a lingring 69. A man may out-live his happinesse so that life it self may prove a judgement 70. Sight of misery works deeper on the soul then the hearing of it 71. Death indeed is the King of fears very terrible but that which is at the back of death is more terrible hell and damnation 72. Some men's death is like Josiahs a mercy and a correction 73. Many times good parents are taken away that they may not see the ruine of their children 74. Good Christians like good corn will sooner be ground to powder then yield either to the rough blasts of persecution or the smooth flattering gales of error and heresie 75. The chief care of the chief Magistrate is for the good of Church and State 76. Man is freed from the Law as it 's his Judge but not as it 's his Counsellor 77. If a godly man go out of the way he shall smart for it and be whipt home again 78. He that hath stuck long in the mire of sin must be haled and pulled out by violence and must not look for peace and comfort presently 79. Wee walk by faith in this world sense and sight is reserv'd for another world 80. No good is to be done to the soul by praiers and cries so long as we are carelesse of purifying the heart 81. Despise not the outward
whom the piety and zeal of those holy Martyrs are revived and doctrine continued 73. No mans calling must call him from God or godliness for particular callings must give place to the generall 74. The power command or example of great men is no warrant to sin 75. An unsound conscience is large and can swallow any thing but a sincere conscience is strait and the least thing sticks in her throat 76. He that takes custom for a safe rule of his actions takes a crooked rule and a blind guide by the hand 77. The falls of holy men in Scripture should teach us rather fear then boldnesse to sin 78. It denotes a sincere heart when it grievs for another man's sin 79 Adversity unites those many times whom prosperity divides 80. Sectaries cry Come out of Babylon and in the mean time fall into her substantial errours which are both her foundation and frame 81. It 's better many waies to swallow a Ceremony then rend a Church 82. Though Sectaries intend it not yet Antichrist and Hell have no better Agents 83. Death many times borders upon birth and the cradle stands in the grave 84. All the contentments of this life are as far from sincerity as contentment 85. O death if thy pangs be grievous yet the rest which follows thee is sweet 86. Let no Christian despise the means of his salvation when he knows the Author 87. The bread of the Sacrament was once the Bakers now it is God's the water was once every man's now it is the Laver of Regeneration 88. It is to thee O God we must powr out our hearts who onely can make our bitter waters sweet 89. Contentation is a rare blessing because it ariseth from a full fruition of all comforts or a not-desiring of some which we have not 90 No man so bare as not to have some benefits none so full as to want nothing yea as not to be full of wants 91 It is our faithlesness that in visible means we see not him who is invisible 92 Our greatest pleasures on earth are but pains in their loss 93 To whine in the midst of abundant riches is a shameful unthankfulness 94 When a heart is hardned with passion it will endure much e're it will yield to relent 95 God will be waited on and will give the consummation of his blessings at his own leisure 96 Let salvation be never so plentiful if we bring it not home and make it ours by faith we are no whit the better 97 Nothing so sovereign which being perverted may not annoy instead of benefitting us 98 Man would forget at whose cost hee lives if he wanted nothing 99 Lenity is ill-bestowed upon stubborn natures and it 's an injurious senslesness not to feel the wounds of our reputation 100 I care not how little or unpleasant a potion I find in this wilderness if the power and benefit of Christ's precious death season it to my soul Trino-uni-soli-Deo gloria FINIS Books lately printed for Thomas Parkhurst at the Sign of the three Crowns over-against the great Conduit at the lower end of Cheap side 1659. A Learned Commentary or Exposition upon the first Chapter of the second Epistle to the Corinthians by Dr. Richard Sibbs published for publick good by Thomas Manton Folio The Dead Saint speaking to Saints and Sinners living in several Treatises viz. The sinfulness and greatest evil that is in sin on 2 Sam. 24.10 The love of Christ to his Spouse on cant 4.9 Nature and Roialties of Faith on John 3.15 The slowness of heart to believe on John 1.50 The cause signs and cure of Hypocrisie with motives and helps to sincerity on Isaiah 58.2 The wonderful workings of God for his Church and people on Exod. 15.11 Never before published by Samuel Bolton D. D. late Mr of Christ Colledge in Cambridge Folio Four profitable Treatises very useful for Christian practice viz. The killing power of the Law The Spiritual Watch the New-birth Of the Sabbath by the reverend William Fenner late Minister of Rochford in Essex Folio There are going to the Press some new pieces of Mr. William Fenners late of Rochford in Essex never yet printed preserved by a special Providence one of which is a second part of his Wilful Impenitencie being five Sermons more that he preached upon the 18 of Ezekiel and the 32 Verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Divine characters in two parts acutely distinguishing the more secret and undiscerned differences between 1. The Hypocrite in his best dress of seeming virtue and formal duties And the true Christian in his real graces and sincere obedience As also between 2. The blackest weeds of daily infirmities of the truly godly eclipsing saving grace and the reigning sins of the Unregenerate that pretend unto that godliness they never had By that late burning and shining Lamp Mr Samuel Crook B D. late Pastor of Wrington in Somerset Folio Mr. John Cotton his practical Exposition on the first Epistle to John second Edition corrected and inlarged in Folio A Theatre of flying Insects wherein especially the manner of right ordering the Bee is excellently described with discourses Historical and Physical concerning them with a second part of Meditations and Observations Theological and Moral in 3 Centuries upon the same subject by Samuel Purchas M. A. in 40. Catechizing God's Ordinance in sundry Sermons by Mr. Zachary Crofton Minister of Buitolphs Aldgate London the second Edition corrected and augmented The Godly man's Ark in the day of his distress discovered in Diverse Sermons the first of which was preached at the Funeral of Mrs. Elisabeth Moore Whereunto is annexed Mrs. Elisabeth Moores Evidences for heaven composed and collected by her in the time of health for her comfort in the time of sickness by Edm. Calamy B. D. and Pastor of the Church at Aldermanbury 8. Peoples need of a living Pastor at the Funeral of Mr. John Frost M. A. by Mr. Zach. Crofton The Gale of Opportunity and the Beloved Disciple by Thomas Froysel in 80. The Wedding Ring fit for the finger in a sermon at a Wedding at Edmonton by Will Secker Enchiridion Judicum oâ— Jehosaphats charge to his Judges opened in a sermon before the right honorable the Judges and the right worshipful the Sheriffe of the County Palatine of Lancast Together with Catastrophe magnatum or King David's lamentation at Prince Abner's Incineration by John Livesey minister of the Gospel at Atherton 80. The Journal or Diary of a thankfull Christian a Day-book of National and publick personal and private passages of Gods providence to help Christians to thankfulness and experience By John Beadle Minister of the Gopsel at Barnstone in Essex large 8. Mr Robinsons Christians Armor in large 8. Book of Emblems with Latine and English verses upon Lights By Robert Farly smal 8. A most Excellent Treatise containing the way to seek Heavens Glory to flye Earths vanity to sear Hells horror with godly prayers the Bell-mans summons 12. Johnsons Essayes expressed in sundry Exquisite Fancies Sion in the house of mourning becaus of Sin and Suffering being an exposition upon the fifth Chapter of the Lementations by D S. Pastor of Vpingham in the County of Rutland Groans of the Spirit or a Trial of the truth of Praier A Handkercher for Parnets Wet-eyes upon the death of their Children or Friends The one thing necessary By Mr. Thomas Watson Minister of Stephens Walbrook 8. A Plea for Alms delivered in a Sermon at the ' Spital before a solemne Assembly of the City on Tuesday in Easter week April 13 1658. By Mr. Thomas Watson Minister of Stephens Walbrook Lond. 80. Moses Unveiled or those figures which served unto the pattern and shadow of heavenly things Pointing out the Messiah Christ Jesus briefly explained whereunto is added the Harmony of all the Prophets breathing with one mouth the mystery of his coming and of that redemption which by his death he was to accomplish To confirm the Christian and convince the Jew very profitable and full of comfort By Willam Guild Minister of God's Word at King-Edward in Scotland Holy things for holy men or the Lawyers Plea non-suited c. In some Christian reproof and pity expressed towards Mr. Prynn's book intituled The Lord's Supper briefly vindicated c. By S. S. Minister of the Gospel Divine Principles or a Scripture Catechism c. Good Company being a collection of various serious pious meditations useful for instruction consolation and confirmation By J. Melvin minister of the Gospel at Vdimer in Sussex A Religious Treatise upon Simeon's song or instructions how to live holily and die happily by Timothy Woodroffe B. D. Pastor at Kingslaâ—d in Herefordshire An Antidote against Henry Haggaâ—s poisonous Pamphlet intituled The Foundation of the Font discovered or a Reply wherein his audaciousness and sophistry in arguing against Infant-baptism discipleship Church-membership c. is detected his caviâ—s against Mr. Cook Mr. Baxter and Mr. Hall are answered c. by Aylmar Houghton minister of the Gospel at Prees in Salop â—… Five sermon in five several styles or waies of preaching the first in Bishop Andrews's way the second in Bishop Hall's way the third in Dr Mayns and Mr. Cartwrights way the fourth in the Presbyterian way and the fiftâ— in the Independent way of preaching by A. Wright minister of the Gospel The Reformation in which is reconciliation with God and his people or 1. Subjection to the State remonstrated viz. that all that receive protection ought to yield subjection to this present power the old Protestant's Doctrine opposite to that of the Fift-Monarchy c. 2. Church-Government reformed shewing that the Church should be governed by Scripture-Bishops Presbyters Pastors all unitedly subordinated under the supreme Magistrate 3. Faith in which all should be Baptized is cleared or a Catechism unveiâ—ing the Apostles Creed with Annotations in which Faith Ordinances and Government are professed as in the Primitive times in opposition to all Errors and Heresies by W. K. Minist FINIS
Lord what wilt thou have me doe 65. No creature but left to it self but will quickly undo it self 66. There 's no trusting to any estate whatsoever out of Christ 67. Sin despoils every creature of honour and comfort at once 68. He that is wicked will be an adversary no sooner a sinner but a Satan 69. All opposition of goodness is a spice of the Devil 70 The height of holines is not only to do good but oppose evill 71 To be a Satan against Satan is the glory of every Christian 72. The intention of one spirit is as plain to another as the voice of one man to another 73. Though the Devil goe up and down he is in a double chain of Justice and Providence Being under the wrath eye of God 74. Satan is as full of discontent now as he can be but not so full of torments as he shall be 75. They who once depart from God can never find rest in any creature 76. It 's a joy to some to have companions in sin and sorow 77. Cloysters are as open to Satans temptations as the open fields 78. Wicked men though never so great are scarse worth looking upon 79. Let those look for the hottest assaults who are most eminent in grace 80. There 's a kind of joy in hell and wicked men when the godly man sins 81. As it 's our honour to be God's servant so he hath servants of all statures and degrees 82. It 's a holy ambition to labour to exceed all others in grace and goodness 83. God will give to every man a testimony according to his utmost worth 84. No matter if all the world be silent or slander if God speak well of us 85. It 's mans duty when God enlightneth and giveth joy to warble his praises 86. The great and grievous groanings of a contrite heart are musick in Gods ears and sweet evidences of his spirit in us 87. There are secure trenches and fortifications to desend Gods doves when hunted and persecuted 88. God is never more troubled then as that good Emperour was said to be when his servant will aske him nothing 89. The incense of a wicked man is dung his sweet canes from a farr country are unsavoury 90. Never did the Church suffer more from the blindest and maddest heathens then from hereticks and schismaticks 91. Every faithfull soule is Gods garden and every grace an immarcessible Lilly 92. Places of rest and sleep are unquiet without Christs divine presence 93. The first and last work and whole business of a convert is to seek Christ 94. The conversation of saints is in heaven before themselvs 95. Church men should be valiant for the faith not like the sword-fish which carries a weapon but no heart 96. The sweet peace and tranquility of a calme and pacified conscience excelleth all treasures 97. The application and tincture of Christ's blood is not only our glory but also our protection 98. It 's a most pregnant testimony of folly and idlness to consume estate and time in dressing the hair of the head 99. A faithfull Minister is white and innocent in his reproof and purged from all blood-thirstiness and ferocity 100. A Ministers speech must not swell with vain and empty words nor yet be loose or negligent but prepared with care and purity CENTURY 9. 1. FAith like the neck knits the head and body together and upholds the soul in persecution 2. Regeneration is an in tire work of the whole man and renders him all fair 3. The purest Christians have some scars and stains inevitable failings which do not deface or disessence them 4. A bashfull blush in a woman is not only her ornament but defence also 5. The wound of love towards us which Christ had from all eternity made him neglect all the wounds and reproaches of the Croâ—s 6. A good name is like colours drawn and laid in oyle not fading but enduring for ever 7. A laborious Minister travels through all the gardens of learning to fill his vessels full of joy and comfort 8. A lewd woman hath honey in her lips but no milk pleasure but ho profit and that pleasure short and dangerous 9. All the world is a wilderness but the Church a garden full of flowers and fruits 10. No outward blessing can change the heart or bring it about to God 11. the excellencyes of God and the sweetness of his wayes are the wayes of his dear servants 12. God makes many promises to his people but no bargains his obey him freely 13. Politicians serve God for the gain of godliness not for any delight in godliness 14. It 's no small wickedness to accuse a mans intentions when his actions are fair 15. Love excuseth what is ill done and malice accuseth what it well done 16. The more outward blessings we receive the more service God looks for at our hands 17. Satan the father of lyes and seducers sometimes speak truth for their owne advantage 18. It 's very seldom to see any industrious hand and not a blessing upon it 19. He that brings up an evill name upon any of Gods ordinances is a blasphemer 20. He that quarrels and is angry with providence reproacheth the wise God 21. Satan knowes not what is in a mans heart It 's God's peculiar Cabinet 22. Affliction is the touch stone and great discoverer of sincerity 23. Some goe a fishing with holiness and when they have their ends there 's an end of their profession 24. When religion and prosperity go together It 's hard to say which a man follows but when separated professors shew their mettall 25. It 's not alwaies an argument of God's love to have our desires granted 26. Satan nor none of his instruments can meddle with the persons or estates of men without God's permission 27. It stills the soul with unspeakable joy to remember whilst it suffers the will of God is doing 28. That which evill men desire sinfully God may grant holily there being a vast disproportion betwixt his end and our intention 29. It 's limited how far every affection shall go and how far every instrument shall prevail 30. When a man is brought from extream joy to extream comfort suddenly it rather amazeth then comforteth the spirit 31. The clearest day of outward comfort may be clouded before the evening 32 Riches makes themselves wings to flee away when we are making doors and locks to keep them in 33. A judgment sometimes takers us in the midst of our best and honest endeavours 34. A wicked man is Saâ—ans captive at his will whilst he rideth tryumphing doing his own will 35. Whilst the sword is making itself fat it hath famine in the belly of it 36. Sad and grievous are those afflictions wherein God appears to be against us 37. In the worship of God whilst men are upon the knee their minds ought to be upon the wing 38. To mourn in our deaths and laugh in our sleevs is both sinfull and
base 39. In our straits consider what we were and shall be ere long and it will work the soul to contentation 40. wicked men thrive often but they are never blessed their prosperity is their curse 41 He that blesseth God in his affliction his affliction shall be a blessing to him 42. That man is full of grace who is composed in word and thought under affliction 43. To be good when we suffer evil is the height of goodness 44. Nature teacheth a man to value his life above the world and grace teacheth to value the soul above the life 45. It 's a woful thing to put off repentance to a pained body which pain is powerful of it self to disquiet the mind 46. He lives miserably who lives by medicines and most miserable who is beyond the help of Physick 47 It 's an holy man's comfort to bee alone and yet they are never alone having an invisible friend to visit them 48. Wicked men think by Satan's perswasions that death is an end of outward trouble 49. Satan makes Duellists most willing when they are most unfit to die 50. Look upon evil as coming from the hand of God and it will quiet thy heart in bearing evil 51. If men did consider that the milk of the Word is the food of the soul they would rather their bodies be without souls then their Churches without Preachers 52. They who carry away the principal Tithes from the Church had rather lose their inheritance in heaven then let Christ have his inheritance on earth 53 If the buyers and sellers in the Temple deserv'd whipping the buyers and sellers of the Temple deserve hanging 54. Church-robbers on their death-beds or in hell will see that sacrilege is the worst of thefts and murthers 55. Church-goods prove as unfortunate to many as the gold of Tholossae to the followers of Scipio 56. Some men think to go to heaven by giving their Ministers the hearing which is all they give them 57. Wit and poverty seldom make up an honest man 58. That man is never truly thankful to God who is unthankful to the means 59. God's glory will make a good man speak when terrour it self hath commanded silence 60. Our Pharisees are worse then the Pharisees of old for they paid Tithes of all they had 61. Some mens shoo-ties cost them more in a year then their souls 62. Great is the affection of a Convert to a Minister who hath been the means of his conversion 63. The Lord hath committed the souls of Magistrates to their Ministers but the bodies of Ministers to the Magistrates 64. Our love to God is best known by our respect to his messengers and usage of his members 65. If persons were prized according to what is in them the world would be rightly ranked 66. The favour of God goes out for nothing in man but the wrath of God goes forth alwaies for something in man 67. The sins and afflictions of men are swiftly carried upon the wings of same and posted about by reports 68. A man then sets his seal to it that he is a friend when he willingly shares in his friends affliction 69. Some friends are like the swallow to come and sit and sing with us in summer but when winter comes they seek for a hotter climate 70. To visit the sick is not a complement but a commanded duty 71. It 's good manners to be an unbidden guest at the house of mourning 72. A suitable end is the grace and beauty of all our undertakings 73. No sicknesse or affliction can wear out the marks by which Christ knows us 74. Silent mournings are the sorest when lifting up the voice vents the sorrow 75. In great sorrows the mind is unfit to take in comfort 76. A talkative comforter is another disease to a sick man 77. Let sorrow have it's way a while and it will make way for comfort 78. Cursing is now made the common weapon of anger and wrath wishes the evil it cannot work 79. Eternity the day of glory is one continued triumph for our birth-day in grace 80 Grace doth not take away sense it heightens nature and doth not abolish it 81. The comfort of every day depends onely upon the blessing of God 82. Honor is but an higher unhappiness â—â—ches are golden thorns and strength ability to bear a heavier burthen 83. The same creature comfort may prove to us a curse or a blessing 84. No man on earth in so sad condition but he may be in a worse 85. Much of the comfort of our lives is brought in by the society of good friend 86. They who have no treasure in heaven cannot but be enraged when the hope of their gain is gon upon earth 87. He that is a knowing christian can hardly sin without a smart upon conscience 88. To commit sin against light is not so great an argument of an evill heart as to be troubled at the light which rebukes them 89. That man's damnation sleeps not who awakes the Devill to shew him sinning opportunities 90. He that loves wages will not stick to do that work which brings in wages 91. In sad times small comforts passe for great merits and in such times the removing of small comforts is a great affliction 92. Disappointment of expectation is no small provocation in the day of trouble 93. That hell is such a night as never shall see the dawning of the day hath more torment and pain then all the pains of hell 94. If God turn not the key of the womb the poor infant must lye in prison making his mothers womb his grave 95. We should consider there 's more of God's power in bringing us into the world then in bringing us out of any trouble in the world 96. Every step of life stands in need of a step of mercy 97. Life is a tempestuous sea-voiage and death brings us to our harbour 98. Paul had an ear to hear those word which his body had no tongue to express 99. To wish things otherwise out of tenderness that God should be offended is both lawfull and commendable 100. Secretly to surmise or openly to complain that the world is not well governed is plain blasphemy CENTURY 10. 1. IN things which we cannot understand let us adore God's secret Justice and unsearchable wisdom 2 Powr out your complaints into God's bosome and let second causes be look't upon but in the second place 3. To bear our crosse is the patience of necessity but to love to bear it hath in it the height of affection and the depth of subjection to Christ 4. Men may put riches with them in the grave but they cannot keep them one moment out of the grave 5. They who fall from God by impiety will quickly fall upon man by cruelty 6. It 's the character of an extream wicked man to be a troubler of the place and peopl where he lives 7. He that followeth sin and serveth pride and ambition serves a hard master