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A95616	Mans master-piece: or, the best improvement of the worst condition. In the exercise of a christian duty. On six considerable actions. Viz. [brace] 1. The contempt of the world. 2. The judgement of God against the wicked, &c. 3. Meditations on repentance. 4. Meditations on the Holy Supper. 5. Medita. [sic] on afflictions and martyrdom. 6. With a meditation for one that is sick. / By P.T. Kt.	Temple, Peter, Sir, 1613 or 14-1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing T632; Thomason E1886_1; ESTC R210134	91,034	280

we shall blesse our lives and magnifie our miseries Fear not then the wolves who have power but over the wooll but fear God who hath puissance over our ●ouls Let 's fear God who saith that he ●ho taketh not his Crosse and cometh ●ot after him is not worthy of him who foretold Mat. 13.13 Mat. 10.33 that we shall be hated for ●is Names sake but he who shall ensure to the end he shall be saved who saith that he who shall deny me before ●●en him shall I deny before my heavenly Father If after having received the cognizance of the truth we abandon Christ there remaines no other sacrifice for our sinnes but a horrible expectation of the judgment of God and a servent and violent fire that must devoure his adversaries if any man had contemn'd the Law of Moses he died without mercy upon the testimony of two or three Deut. 19.15 how much more rigorously shall he be punisht who hath abandon'd the Sonne of God and the Blood of his Covenant to him belongeth vengeance It is a terrible thing to fall into the hand of the living God Go to then let 's take felicity as St. Paul in our infirmities rendering our bonds celebrous and manifest let 's rejoyce for that our names are written in the heavens let 's watch let 's be firm in the Faith fortifying our selves 2 Cor. 12.10 that our light may shine before men Phil. 1. and 13. to the intent that they may glorifie the mighty God of Jacob 1 Cor. 16.13 who is our strength and our retreat Declaring that oppression that persecution Mat. 5.16 that the perill and the sword cannot separate us from the love of Christ Rom. 8.54 shewing that neither death nor life nor Principalities nor Powers nor things present nor things to come can separate us from the love of the Saviour of the world who hath given his life for all 2 Cor. 5.15 to the intent that they who live may not longer live to themselves but to him who is dead and who is risen again for them Let 's be without reproach and harmlesse children of God Irreprehensible in the midst of a crooked and perverse Generation among whom we shine as lights who hold forth before them the word of life Phil. 2.15 we are the children of God Heires of God Co-heires with Christ let 's endure then with him let 's dye for him to the intent we may be glorified with him And esteem with St. Paul that the sufferings of this present life are not comparable to the glory to come Mat. 7.25 After that we have built on the Rock if the Rain descend the torrents encrease and the winds bluster we shall not fail to abide firm and stedfast as the mountaine of Syon let 's persist in one same spirit let 's strive together all with the same courage for the faith of the Gospel Phil. 1.27 without being at all dismayed by our adversaties and not being never so little removed from the love of Christ whom God hath Soveraignly raised up to whom he hath given a name Phil. 2.9 which is above every name to the end that at the name of Jesus every knee might bow of them who are in heaven and in the earth and under the earth and that every tongue shall confesse that Jesus Christ is the Lord to the glory of God the Father The Kingdome of heaven is that Precious Pearle to acquire which the Merchant sold all his substance it 's his rich stone for the which we ought ●o cast our selves hood-winck't into the Jawes of death for the which we must alwayes direct our countenance right toward heaven and contemn and neglect the sultery heat● and the stormes the sword and th● fire and for the which men must trample underfoot the Pride of al● the thunderings of men Not regarding then things visible which are for a time but the invisible 2 Cor. 4.17 which are eternal Our light affliction which doth passe away produce● in us an eternal weight of excellent glory 2 Cor. 5.1 If our earthly habitations are destroyed we have a heavenly dwelling which is not of humane structure How many of the faithful o● whom the earth is not worthy have wandred in Desarts and Cavernes 〈◊〉 cloathed with skins of sheep or of Goats afflicted tormented Heb. 11.37 and in conclusion are stoned sawed scorch't and burnt at a gentle fire not regarding to be extended with torments to th● intent to obtain a better life The request made to God by Elias 〈◊〉 is it not enough Rom. 11.3 Lord they have slain thy Prophets Demolisht thin● Altars I onely remain and they hunt to take away my life Saint Paul foretold what should befall him saith he not I am ready not onely to be bound but also to dye in Jerusalem for the Name of the Lord Jesus Act. 21.13 It 's then most certain that all they who will live according to piety in Jesus Christ shall suffer persecution 2 Tim. 3.12 It is certain that the faithful shall have afflictions in great number Psal 34. but the Lord shall deliver them We are in the Furnace 1 Pet. 4.12 2 Cor. 1.5 but the Spirit of God shall rest upon us The sufferings of Christ shall abound in us and so also shall his consolation Men augment our torments and he will multiplie his graces and at the end of the race our afflictions shall determine and our souls shall dance with perpetual consolations These are the promises of God this is his Word The Holy and the Just the Omnipotent and Eternal appearing to Saint John having his aspect like the Sun when he shineth in his full strength Rev. 1.16 holding the seaven stars in his hand and his voice was like the noise of mighty waters hath pronounced it with his mouth you shall have sufferings the Devil shall cast you into prison to the intent you may be terrified but be thou faithful even unto death and I will give thee a Crown of life He who overcometh shall not be hurt by the second death Rev. 2.10 To him who overcometh I will give him to eat of the Tree of life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God To him who overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden Manna and to him will I give a white stone Rev. 2.7 and on the stone a new name written which name none shall know Rev. 2.17 Rev. 2.26 but him who receives it To him who overcometh and shall keep my sayings even to the end to him will I give puissance over the Nations and will give him the morning star Who overcometh shall be cloathed with white vestments and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life Rev. 3.5 but will confesse it before my Father and before his Angels Rev 3.10 Who overcometh him will I ordain a Columb in the

transgression upon transgression thou multipliest the acts of clemency Be not then My God inexorable to my fault pursue me not unto extremity The Nurse forbears not to give the breast to her child because it disturbs her repose and sleep Thou art to me more than a Fosterer be not then deaf to my plaints and deny not the milk and the sweetnesse of thy grace to thy infant whom thou hast imbellish't for an high designe and whom thou hast redeem'd with the life of thy onely Son I have forfeited thy grace my God but thou never losest thy goodnesse behold me in thy clemency not in thy justice my hopes survives in thee alone swallow my transgressions in thy compassions and the fruit shall remain to thy glory Lord my braines dissolve into teares my haires are full of ashes my visage heavy my eyes are hollow sunk and dull But Lord if my teares can render thee more gentle if they can move thee to extinguish the flames of my crimes set open the Fountaines of my weeping and cause me to bathe in the waters of my penitence untill that by the merits of the Saviour of the world thou hast overturned my transgression and impure desires under the power of thy compassion Lord I am nothing but Rottennesse and Corruption But the very ashes of a rich substance want not their value I am ransom'd by the stripes of thy Sonne I am cleansed by his blood I speak to thee by hismouth be mindful then of that sweet smelling sacrifice which Jesus Christ offered on the Crosse and do me the honour I may participate in the Triumph of his perfect and compleat Ministry Thou promisedst to Abraham not to destroy Sodom if so be that there thou couldst finde ten just persons and I Lord Gen. 15.36 I am holy I am enclosed I am a member of the just one without spot of one just justifying who hath swallowed my transgressions in the Ocean of his merits of one Just who is the light from whence I borrow the rayes of splendor Of one Just who hath cherish't me in his bosome and who makes me to draw the breath of his mouth Accept then the offerings my God of my humble acknowledgment which I bring to thy Altars with all the zeal and devotion whereof I am capable Psal 51. I beseech thee with the Psalmist David O God have pity upon me according to thy loving kindnesse according to the multitude of thy compassions efface my offences wash me from mine iniquity and purge me from my sinne I acknowledge my transgressions and my faults are ever before thee I have sinned against thee purge me with bysop and I shall be clean wash me and I shall be whiter than snow Turn thy face away from mine iniquities O God create in me a clean heart and a stedfast spirit east me not away from thy presence neither take from me the Spirit of thy holinesse Restore me to the gladnesse of thy salvation open may lips and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise Lord cause thy graces to abide with me conduct and lead me in thy wholsom paths by a divine inspiration touch to the quick my spirit and my sense and fill me with an ardure to thy service Open my lips which my transgressions have closed make to spring in me piety integrity the love of my neighbours modesty and that my vices after having so long time abused thy creature may in conclusion quit and surrender the place to a blessed to a reformed estate Effect it that my very countenance may answer for me that one may read in my eyes and voice the integrity of my intentions Enable me that I may fructifie as Trees planted by the streames of waters Enable me to walk worthily as it is requisite before thee increasing in all sweet savour and declaring that I am a member of thy Church instructed in thy Gospel and that thy Word dwelleth in me Lord thou hast unto this day conserved me thou hast born me upon thy wings Enable me then to be obedient to thy Voice that I may keep thy Covenant and that I may be of the Kingdome of thy Priests and of thy holy Nation Engrave thy holy Ordinances in my spirit cause my eares to resound the sweet and gratious ayres of thy Word Bring to passe that my tongue may sing a perperual song and be an eccho to thy heavenly voice and for the time to come I may ever addresse most ardent supplications not idle drowsy words unto thee then when as carried away with a Designe or Slumber and that I speak and understand not my self Establish my heart in thy fear retain my inclinations in obedience to thine fill my soul with charity which is the Complement of the Law the establishment of grace the preparative to glory which as the influence of the Sunne enables me with a vertue to fructifie and increase Lord receive me into thy favours wholly blot out my sinne temper and aslwage the scaldings of my wounds Encamp thy Angels round about me dispel and scatter all evil farre from me Be thou my Guide through the perisous straights of the World and the turbulent stormes of the violence of my passions suffer me not to da●h against the rocks of this Sea of the world and under the conduct of thy Holy Spirit cause me to arive at the Port of thy salvarion and cast anchor in the midst of thine Love me my God to the intent I may love thee that I may seek thee serve thee pray to thee that I may give thee glory and honour for ever A Meditation upon the Holy Supper UP then my Soul continue not longer buried in the delights and vanities of the World Arise awake thee rouze thy self and lend an attentive ear to the sacred voice of the well-beloved Sonne of God who invites thee to take place at his feast to sit down to the Banquet of eternal life Arise recollect all thy strength and lift thy self up toward this Fountain of light who by his Sunne illustrates all the Starres of heaven and illuminates all the parts and corners of the earth He is the only Physician on whom depends all thy deliverance He is the onely Authour of grace who can conserve thee against darknesse against hell he onely is Omnipotent who can carry thee for ever into heaven Up then my Soul prostrate thy self before him fortifie thy zeal follow thy God who calleth thee to participate of that great divine mystery which he hath instituted and ordained in his Church which is the Sacrament of his body of which one must take part to obtain eternal life The Sacrament of his body by the which he is united unto thee to convey thee into his glory whereby he removeth he abolisheth he effaceth all that is in thee of sin of cursing and of death and there replanteth his grace his life and his felicity All whatever he has brought from heaven all the grace which is