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A62529	Crums of bread for the dove in the clefts of the rock, and the secret places of the stairs, Cant. 2.14, or, Helps to meditation on conversion, mortification, sanctification, the Christians daily walke, reading the scriptures, and good practicall books : for a friend / by J.T.	Tickell, John, d. 1694.	1652 (1652)	Wing T1156; ESTC R6990	32,989	81

5.43 and 4. keep then a good courage Math. 10.28 SECT XI Of Spirituall Retirements REtirements are sometimes from necessity through the providence of God Cant. 2.14 Is 26. ult the rage of Sathan and the malice of the World Rev. 12.6 14. and sometime from choice for privacy in duty and freedome from distraction Math. 6.5 6. Improve such for meditation prayers reading and maintaining communion with God Leave the world behind you desire God's presence and believe his promise SECT XII Of Meditation MEditation is necessary comfortable but difficult Take these Directions for it 1. Make conscience of the duty Ps 1. Ps 119. not only occasionally but solemnly and frequently 2. Take the fit and freest times for it 3. Lay aside for that time worldly occasions and thoughts 4. Set your self in God's presence 5. Begin with Prayer to God for direction presence and blessing 6. Pitch your thoughts on some suitable and seasonable heart-affecting subject as the excellency and use of the Scriptures the Attributes of God the state of Innocency Sin state of nature covenant of grace Christ his Offices excellencies c. death satisfaction c. the love of God the love of Christ faith and other particular graces c. Meditate often of the sinfulness of sin the vanity of the creature the love of God the excellency of Christ death the resurrection judgment heaven and hel● sometimes When you would meditate on these understand first the doctrine of them and what is considerable in them for that purpose read in some doctrinall book on such a subject and after that by meditation consider and work upon your hearts to affect them without this help you will be able to do little on most subjects For subjects and books on those subjects Dr Wilkin's Ecclesiastes may direct you for this use as others for another 7. Observe if you can a good method for which see directions in books If you cannot follow their methods follow Davids in the Psalms Ps 116.5 Ps 42. Sometimes let it be prayerwise sometime by way of Soliloquie or discourse with your selves or take some good bock and work what you read upon your heart 'till you have discerned the truth tasted the sweetnesse and felt the power of it The briefe Notes in these Sections are intended for your help on those heads and are left to your inlargements on purpose or take the Scriptures and meditate on what you read 8. Keep your hearts to the work quicken them when dull 9. Intend heart-work especially in this exercise the quickning of grace strengthning of faith and stirring of affections 10. Close up with prayer and as opportunity is afforded solemne and with respect to the subject of your meditation Read Bp Hall's directions for meditation and Baxter in his Everlasting Rest and Whites and Ambrose in his Middle things SECT XIII Of Prayer I Need not set before you its necessity and excellenny Rom. 8.15 16. the spirit of Adoption will reach you to cry Abba Father Gal. 4 6. 1. 1 Thes 5.17 Be frequent in prayer often in solemne and even constantly in ejaculatory and occasionall 2. Be fervent and spirituall Rom. 8.26 Rom. 15.30 3. Be humble and lowly Gen. 18.27 Ezr. 9.6 4. Believing 5. Importunate Luk. 18. More particularly 1. Keep your hearts in a praying frame Eph. 6.18 Ps 5.3 Math. 6.9 2. Mind the occasions and opportunities 3. Prepare your selfe to it by meditation 2 Sam. 7.27 4. Take right apprehensions of God as your father in heaven as a spirit great and glorious but your God and Father in Christ take up suitable apprehensions to your occasion as God shall direct 5. Humble your soules in sence of sin to be confessed 6. Affect your hearts with the mercies to be desired 7. Jacob. Hos 12.3 4. Wrestle with God with Arguments proper 8. Content not your selfe with the bare performance without affection of heart and enjoyment of God 9. Keep close to the duty as near as you can without distraction Math. 6.7 Eccl. 5.2 Rom. 8.26 Phil. 4.6 Math. 6. Eph. 6.19 10. Affect not words nor length 11. Joyn praises with praiers 12. Be not private spirited in prayer but remember others especially the Church of God 13. Take delight in this duty 14. rest not in prayer but in Christ Eph. 3.12 John 14.13 through whom present your person and prayers unto God with faith 15. Look after your prayers Ps 5.3 and God's answers to them Read Cobbet of Prayer Gee of Prayer Ambrose his Directions ia his middle things T. Goodwins return of prayer Ford of Adoption Cripplegate exercise 14.17.19 SECT XIV Of Sanctification of the Lords day 1 BE setled in the doctrine of the Morality of the Sabbath 4th Comm For this purpose read Sermon Notes and books especially Cawdry and Palmer Shepheard and Whites appendix to his directions for reading the Scripture 2. Prepare for it desiring the day Exod. 20. composing your worldly affaires and laying them aside in the evening before set your heart in order towards a Sabbath and desire God's presence and blessing for the day approaching 3. In the morning awake with God proceed to private and family duties be more large and solemne in them then at other times spend intervals in meditation holy conference reading and prayer 4. Is 2.3 Ps 122.1 Ps 100. Hasten to publique ordinances lay aside prejudices and take care to give God your hearts See Burroughes of Gospell worship and other treatises of that Nature 5. Lev. 26.42 If you want publique opportunity enquire into the cause if sin be in it humble your soules justify God and accept of the punishment of your sin pray for pardon act repentance with faith in the bloud of Christ lament after the Lord. 1 Sam. 3. Ps 42.84.63 6. Rev. 12.14 Ps 42. Make up your want in private worship 1. Begin with prayer confession of sin and supplication for a blessing with praise to God 2. Read much of the Scripture Psalmes Old and New Testament Meditate upon it draw your observations and worke them on your hearts observe Gods teachings and impart them to any with you 3. Pour out your hearts more largely in prayer 4 Take some good Sermon Notes or some choice book and spend a Sermon time in it and suppose you were hearing it in the publick congregation 5. Close up with prayer and praises desiring a blessing In intervals of time take refreshments naturall with spirituall affections thoughts discourses Let the rest of the time be spent as in the morning in meditation reading Is 56.6 Is 58.13 conference and prayer In the afternoon at the solemn time do again as in the morning After that as in the intervals reflecting on what you read observed and were taught of God that day renew your family and your closet duties as in the morning and be much in Thanksgiving Let the day be improved for God and with him Keep out the

of all that 's done before us or upon us 12. Acquiescence in him as our God in Christ Ps 116.7 our God in Covenant our All in All resting our selves in our relation to him Ps 73.25 enjoyment of him whatever else we want and whatever our condition be Ps 17. ult Ps 16. ult 'till we come to glory to see him as he is to be perfectly like unto him and for ever with him Read Mr. Strong of Communion with God and Dr. Owen of Communion with God Brinsly SECT VI. Of Assurance THat you may not want any needfull directions for the hightning of your Comfort peace of conscience and joy in the holy Ghost excuse the brevity and take these notes of Assurance 1. It is the ordinary as the desireable priviledge of holy persons mortifying corruptions exercising graces 1 Pet. 1.8 Ps 36.7 Rom. 5.5 walking daily before the Lord and in communion with him to have comfortable assurance of the love of God interest in Christ 1 Pet 1.3 4 5 6. pardon of sins state in grace title to the promises and their inheritance in the Kingdome 2. If it be otherwise with any 't is probable Ps 51. Cant. 5.2 there are some unmortified corruptions neglected graces disordered conversations estrangements from God or something extraordinary in the way of God's dispensation Is 50.10 the prevalency of temptation distemper in constitution which are to be enquired after However it be 1. 2 Pet. 1.5 Practise the methods in the former Directions with care and diligence in truth and in sincerity 2. Ps 51. Rom. 16.16 Eph. 1.17 18. Beg the spirit of Adoption to enlighten our understandings shine upon our graces and make the application 3. Reflect upon your selves your state and your exercise Rom. 16.16 1 John 3.19 20. Gal. 2.20 and comparing them with the word in the light of the spirit your consciences bearing witnesse in the holy Ghost of sincerity upon the tryall accordingly passe the sentence for your Assurance and make the application cast off your doubts give glory to grace and make progresse to glory 4. Where things are doubtfull upon enquiry Hab. 2. Is 50.10 Cant. 5. the best way is to put it out of doubt by practice in the actings of the graces and performance of the duties waiting God's time and keeping his way and trusting in his mercy through Christ Jesus till he be pleased to answer your doubts to rebuke your temptations to give his spirit and to cause the light of his countenance to shine upon you 5. Learne moreover not to question the goodnesse of the father the merits of the son the power of the spirit 1 Joh. 5.11 12. the truth of the promises the probability of your interest if any way likely much lesse the hopes of arriving safe to glory being found in the sincere discharge of duty Cant. 8.7 leaving the wildernesse of the world and sin in our affection and conversation and leaning on our Beloved 6. Expect not considerable measures of comfort but in proportions of Duty Ps 84.7 and some progresse made in practicall Christianity 7. 2 Cor. 1. beg 1 Pet. 1.5 6 7 8. There are speciall seasons for speciall Assurances as entrance upon of discharge of some great undertakings in the life of Religion or some great tryall and exercise suppose of suffering and the best is alwaies reserved for the needfull and proper season 8. Having gotten it keep it and that with humility thankfulnesse and diligence Jude 20 21. Cant. 5.2 with progresse in the way where in you got it Take heed of abusing it by security wantonesse or worldlinesse 9. Look and long for heaven Rev. 22.20 there all is perfected Most Sermons have somewhat towards this in their Vses of Examination and Consolation and some more especially on this subject search out your Notes and study them Besides these there are diverse Treatises a● Baxter's Directions Bolton's Instructions Sibbes his Soules Conflict Symonds desert●● Soules case and cure Roberts Evidences Ambrose middle things Ford of Adoption Cripplegate Exercise SECT VII The Life of Faith 1. IN the life of Faith are considerable 1. the purposes 2. the object and 3. the actings of Faith 1. The purposes of it are usually for justification mortification sanctification consolation and salvation 2. The Objects are God's love truth power c. Christ's person relations offices life death resurrection and ascension c. 3. The Acts of faith are apprehension of the object assent to the truth consent to the gift application of the whole with affyance and working in love and obedience as at first in closing with Christ 2. Rom. 4.20 The life of faith is highly acceptable with God comfortable honourable and necessary to the Christian 1. Gal. 2.10 Phil. 3.9 Act. 3.19 To live the life of faith for justification 1. Renew thy repentance daily for commissions of sin and omissions of duty in sorrow confession and supplication to God in Christ 2. Rom. 3.25.26 Rom. 5.12 c. Let Faith first apprehend the grace of God and look on Christ as thy Second Adam Head Surety and Sacrifice meditate his perfect obedience and his death therein Gal. 3.13 the pacification of wrath the satisfaction of Justice the removall of the curse Dan. 9.24 Heb. 10.16 Heb. 9.24 1 Joh. 2.2 Luk 22. Rom. 3.25 Gal. 2.20 Joh. 3.3 sin taken away in its guilt everlasting righteousnesse brought in and a Covenant of Grace established see this pleaded in his intercession and tendered in the Gospell sealed in the Sacraments and to be applied by faith 2. Apply it 3. Assent unto it 4. Rest upon it 5. Speak peace to thy conscience 6. If the sence of it make thee thankfull cheerfull and fruitfull to God and Christ Rom. 5.1 Heb 10.2 Psal 103.1 2. 2 Cor. 5.14 c. Ram. 8.34 c. 1 Cor. 15.55 56. Acts 3.19 Rom. 7.13.14 7. Reject the temptations of Sathan to unbeliefe silence the accusations and condemnations of thy conscience lay aside the slavisn feares of the wrath of God the terrors of death and judgment And 8. Long for the publick and solemne declaration of all in the last day 2. Live the life of faith for Mertification of sin 1. Set home upon thine heart the sinfullnesse of sin Rom. 7.13 14. and the necessity of its destruction Be willing to it and resolved for it 2. Be sensible of thine own weaknesse and inability to performe it Rom. 7.24 Rom. 7.25 Rom. 6. beg 3. Act faith on Christ for it 1. Let faith b●hold Christ Jesus upon the Cross procuring and purchasing thy freedome Rom. 7. Ezek. 36.26 from the dominion power and presence of sin in Gods time and Gods way 2. Let faith see the promises of Mortifying and cleansing grace in the blood of Christ established Rom. 6.9 10. Psal 51.7 Rom. 6.12 Rom. 8.34 Gal. 5.25.26 3. Let faith apply them 4. Let Prayer