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A34992	A practical and polemical commentary or exposition on the whole fifteenth Psalm wherein the text is learnedly and fruitfully explained, some controversies discussed, sundry cases of conscience are cleared, more especially that of usurie : many common places succinctly handled ... / by Christopher Cartwright ... ; the life of the reverend and learned author is prefixed.	Cartwright, Christopher, 1602-1658.; Bolton, John, 1599-1679. Life of the author.	1658 (1658)	Wing C693; ESTC R18318	282,330	382

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Jacobs Seed or the excellency of seeking God by prayer by Jer. Burroughs 19. The sum of Practical Divinity or the grounds of Religion in a Catechistical way by Mr. Christopher Love late Minister of the Gospel a useful Piece 20. Heaven and Earth shaken a Treatise shewing how Kings and Princes their Governments are turned and changed by J. Davis Minister in Dover admirably useful and seriously to be considered in these times 21. The Treasure of the Soul wherein we are taught by dying to sin to attain to the perfect love of God 22. A Treatise of Contestation fit for these sad and troublesome times by J. Hall Bishop of Norwich 23. Select thoughts or choice helps for a pious spirit beholding the excellency of her Lord Jesus by J. Hall Bishop of Norwich 24. The Holy Order or Fraternity of Mourners in Zion to which is added Songs in the night or chearfulness under afflictions by J. Hall Bishop of Norwich 25. 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The no less exquisite than admirable Work Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum containing several Poetical Pieces of our famous English Philosophers who have written the Hermetique Mysteries in their own ancient Language faithfully collected into one Volume with Annotations thereon by the Indefatigable industry of of Elias Ashmole Esq illustrated with Figures Excellent Treatises in the Mathematicks Geometry of Arithmetick Surveying and other Arts or Mechanicks 46. The incomparable Treatise of Tactometria seu Tetagmenometria or the Geometry of Regulars practically proposed after a new and most expeditious manner together with the Natural or Vulgar by way of Mensural comparison and in the Solids not onely in respect of Magnitude or Dimension but also of Gravity or Ponderosity according to any Metal assigned together with useful experiments of Measures and Weights observations on Gauging useful for those that are practised in the Art Metrical by T. VVibard 47. 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daily Then I said I will not make mention of him nor speak any more in his name But his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones and I was weary with forbearing and I could not stay Jerem. 20.8 9. So the people of God make their complaint unto him saying Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours a scorne and a derision to them that are round about us Psal 44.13 See also Psal 123.3 4. So David in like manner complaines Thou hast known my reproach saith he unto God and my shame and my dishonour mine adversaries are all before thee Reproach hath broken mine heart and I am full of heaviness Psal 69.19 20. Mockings are reckoned among the grievous persecutions which the godly endured Heb. 11.36 Ismaels mocking of Isaac is called by the Apostle a persecuting of him Gen. 21.9 with Gal. 4. vers 29. 2. Such as reproach others are foolish Make me not a reproach to the foolish saith David Psal 39.8 Why do any reproach others Is it for wel-doing What more ab●urd and unreasonable then to reproach any for that for which they should praise them Wo unto them that call evill good and good evill that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter Isai 5.20 Such as speak evil of others and revile them because they will not run with them to the same excesse of riot they shall be sure to give an account to him that is ready to judge both the quicke and the dead Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quàm quod ridiculos homines facit Horat. 1 Pet. 4.4 5. Do any reproach o●hers because they are poore and of low estate This also is against reason Whoso mocketh the poore reproacheth his Maker Prov. 17.5 For it is God that both maketh rich and maketh poor as he pleaseth The rich and the poor meet together the Lord is the maker of them all Proverb 22.2 The Lord maketh poore and maketh rich 1 Sam. 2.7 God might have made thee poore and the other rich yea for ought thou knowest he may yet doe it So if thou re-reproachest others because of any affliction that they are in consider that God might have sent and yet may send the like affliction or worse upon thee Besides such as are poore or any way afflicted ought to be pitied and succoured if it may be To him that is afflicted pitie should be shewed c. Job 6.14 Do not then by reproaches adde more affliction unto such as are afflicted enough already See what bitter imprecations David not by his own spirit but by spirit of God doth powre out against those that persecute him whom God hath smitten and talke to the grief of those whom he hath wounded Psal 69 22 26. Is it for sin that any reproach others Yet even that is no just cause why they should do it If others sin we should mourne and pray for them and as we have opportunity admonish and reproove them but not reproach them For 1. This is the way to make them worse and not better It is true God can bring light out of darkness and make a reproach work for the conversion of a sinner as Austine relates that his mother by this meanes was reclaimed from a vice with which she had been infected Aug. Conf●ss lib. 9. cap. 8. but the nature of reproach is such as that it is more apt to work a quite contrary effect They that are reprooved are ready to construe it so as if they were reproached Master said one to Christ thus saying thou reprochest us also Luke 11.45 This makes people so to distast reproof how much more will they distast it when it plainly appears that they are reproached Salomon therefore requires wisdome in a reproover as well as obedience in him that is reprooved As an ear-ring of gold and an ornament of fine gold so is a wise reproover upon an obedient eare Prov. 25 12. Now the wisdome of a reproover consists much in this that he reproove so as that it may appeare to be a reproofe but not a reproach that his aime and indeavour is to reforme not to defame 2. Either thou hast falne thy self into as great sin or mayest fall and this consideration should keepe from reproaching others though it be for sin We ought to speak evil of no man to be no brawlers but gentle shewing all meekness unto all men For we our selves also were sometimes foolish disobedient deceived serving divers lusts and pleasures c. Titus 3.2 3. If a man be overtaken with a fault ye that are spiritual restore such as one with the spirit of meekness considering thy self lest thou also be tempted Gal. 6.1 Especially if it appeare that one hath repented of his sin he is not to be reproached for it nor upbraided with it If the wicked will turne from all his sins c. all his transgressions that he hath committed they shall not be mentioned unto him Ezek. 18.21 22. God will not mention them so as to impute them therefore much lesse should we mention them so as to reproach for them It is observable that Matthew mentioning himself among the Apostles calls himself the Publican Matth. 10. vers 3. So magnifying the grace of Christ towards him in making him an Apostle who had been a Publican but Mark and Luke rehearsing the names of the Apostles never terme him so Mark 3.18 Luke 6.15 lest they might seeme to reproach him So Paul after he was converted and called to be an Apostle for the same reason acknowledgeth what he had been namely a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious 1 Tim. 1.13 But Peter speaking of him saith Our beloved brother Paul 2 Pet. 3.15 And so Paul speaking of Onesimus who had been a fugitive one that had run away front his master and as it seemeth had also purloyned from him yet now that he was become a convert Paul speaks most respectively and affectionately of him I beseech thee saith he to Philemon for my son Onesimus c. Philem. v. 10. And vers 12. Thou therefore receive him that is mine own bowels And vers 16. Not now as a servant but above a servant a brother beloved specially to me but how much more unto thee both in the flesh and in the Lord 3. Reproaches are many times a cause of much mischief Grievous words stirre up anger saith Salomon Proverb 15.1 Now reproachfull words are grievous words and so apt to stir up anger and consequently to cause much mischiefe For wrath is cruel and anger is outragious as the wise man also observes Prov. 27.4 The men of Ephraim reproaching the Gileadites and saying Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites and among the Manassites the Gileadites were so exasperated against them that they slew forty and two thousand of them Judg. 12.4 and 6. Thus a fools lips enter into contention and his mouth

appear to be perfect Remember that of S. Peter Ye are kept by the power of God unto salvation 1 Pet. 1.5 Believers are not kept by their own power but through the power of God and therefore notwithstanding all their Adversaries and Opposers they are safe Object Yea but may some again object God doth hide his face from us and doth not reach forth his helping hand unto us Answ It is true God may deal thus with his people to let them see their dependance upon him that of themselves without him they are nothing We would not brethren have you ignorant said Paul of our trouble that came unto us in Asia that we were pressed out of measure above strength insomuch that we despaired even of life But we had the sentence of death in our selves that we should not trust in our selves but in God that raiseth up the dead 2 Cor. 1.8 9. But though God with-hold his hand from his people so as not to deliver them for a while from their troubles yet he doth not with-hold it from them so as not to support them in their troubles The eternal God is their refuge and under-neath are the everlasting arms Deut. 33.27 Object But may some yet further object God is wroth with us and doth turn his hand against us Answ God may deal thus also with his people to correct them for their misdoings Yet the Lord will not cast off for ever But though he cause grief he will turn again and have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies Lam. 3.31 32 For a small moment saith he have I forsaken thee but with everlasting mercies will I gather thee In a little wrath I had my face from thee for a moment but with everlasting k●ndness will I have mercy on thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer Isa 54.7 8. Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees And make straight paths for your feet lest that which is lame be turned out of the way but let it rather be healed Heb. 12.12 3. Again Use 3 If the condition of the Godly be so safe and sure How should this incite and provoke all to follow after godliness the gain whereof is so certain and so durable Other things that men do so pursue are First Not sure to be obtained Many seek the profits and preferments of the World and that with all earnestness that may be and yet miss of them God doth often frustrate their labours and disappoint their expectations that so it may appear that promotion commeth neither from the East nor from the West nor from the South But God is the Judge he putteth down one and setteth up another Psal 75.67 And secondly If the men of the World do obtain those things which they seek after yet it may be they have little joy of them What joy had Ahab of Naboth's Vineyard when the Prophet Eliah said unto him Thus saith the Lord Hast thou killed and also taken possession In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood even thine 1 King 21.19 What joy had Gehezi of the gifts that he got of Naaman when the Prophet Elisha said unto him The leprosie of Naaman shall cleave unto thee and to thy seed for ever 2 King 5.27 Thirdly These things at the best can afford no true content no solid comfort He that hath these things in most abundance still finds an emptiness in himself and remains unsatisfied He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver nor he that loveth abundance with encrease Eccles 5.10 So he that loveth honour or pleasure or whatsoever the World doth afford See 1 King 21.4 5. Esth 5.11 12 13. If the men of the World do feel a kinde of content for a while in those things which they enjoy yet it lasts not when trouble and affliction comes the things wherein they solace themselves cannot support them and bear up their spirits but they sinke under the burthen that is upon them When Belshazzar was in the midst of his pompous but profane jollity no sooner did the hand-writing appear in the Wall but presently his countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him so that the joynts of his loyns were loosed and his knees smote one against another Dan. 5.6 Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the Lords wrath saith the Prophet Ezekiel Ezek. 7.19 and so also the Prophet Zephany Zeph. 1.18 Fourthly Worldly men have no sure hold of those things which they enjoy they may be deprived of them every hour and must ere long be deprived of them Lo saith Job their good is not in their hand How oft is the candle of the wicked put out and how oft commeth their destruction upon them Job 21.16 17. In this respect the Mammon of this World is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that which is anothers because he that hath it knoweth not how soon another may deprive him of it Luk. 16.12 It is called that which is not Prov. 23 4. because there is no solidity nor stability in it But Grace and Godliness is quite of another nature For 1. They that seek it shall be sure to obtain it I love them that love me and they that seek me early shall finde me Prov. 8.17 Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled Mat. 5.6 God will give his holy Spirit to them that ask him Luk. 11.13 2. As they that seek Grace and Godliness shall obtain what they seek so they shall have joy of that which they obtain For godliness is great gain 1 Tim. 6.6 Godliness is profitable unto all things having the promise both of the life that now is and also of that which is to come 1 Tim. 4.8 3. They shall be satisfied with it so as to rest content though they have nothing besides Godliness with contentment bringing with it contentment is great gain 1 Tim. 6.6 As having nothing yet possessing all things 2 Cor 6.10 4. Grace and Godliness will support the soul and afford it comfort in the midst of greatest troubles and distresses As sorrowing yet always rejoycing 2 Cor. 6.10 We glory in tribulations knowing that tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and experience hope And hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost which is given unto us Rom. 5.3 4 5. 5. Grace and Godliness is not transient and fading but permanent and lasting When the woman of Samaria thought much that Christ should ask her some of the water of that Well that she drew of he said unto her Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him it shall be in him a Well of water springing up unto everlasting life Joh. 4.13 14. Therefore as he also exhors Labour not for the meat that perisheth but for that