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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90067	An hundred and six lessons or Christian directions, composed together by three godly divines, for the benefit of all those which desire to walk according to Gods word. Occasioned and begun by Mr. Newman, encreased and enlightned [sic] Mr. Johnson, multiplied and ordered by Mr. Breercliffe. Also, a briefe and profitable exposition on Psal. 119. 9. 39	Newman, Mr.; Johnson, Mr.; Breercliffe, Mr.	1646 (1646)	Wing N923; Thomason 669.f.10[73]; ESTC R210565	3,372	1

An hundred and six Lessons or Christian Directions composed together by three godly Divines for the benefit of all those which desire to walk according to Gods Word Occasioned and begun by Mr. Newman encreased and enlightned Mr. Johnson multiplied and ordered by Mr. Breercliffe Also a briefe and profitable Exposition on Psal 119. 9. IT is of absolute necessity to be a Christian B that is to dwell in Christ and Christ in you 2 Be assured that can never be till you hate deny get out of your selves and prize Christ above all 3 This cannot be attained till you truly know your selfe and Christ 4 It is the safest to forbeare the search of any or all knowledge till thou knowest thy selfe 5 The better you know your selfe the greater will your terrour be 6 That terrour will whip you to confesse the necessity of a Christ and compell you to seeke and long for him be restlesse tremble despaire be in Hell till you finde him 7 Let every lust of thy heart stand back I to make roome for Christ 8 Let self-righteousnesse be odious to thee when Christs Righteousnesse comes 9 Welcome the spirit of Christ into thy heart with joy 10 Hunger after Christ in the purest way of revealing himselfe 11 Use no ordinance without some advantage or growth 12 Soake thy heart often in the feeling natures misery 13 Breake not prison from under the Spirit of bondage till God set you free 14 Dwell continually in the thoughts of thy sins till they appeare thy greatest ill and Christ thy greatest gaine 15 Stand loose from all earthly comforts 16 Chuse any suffering rather then the least sin 17 Let sin lie heavie that affliction may lie light 18 Get solid proofe of your interest in Christ 19 Take heed you blot not your evidence for heaven 20 Keepe close with God in your generall and particular callings 21 Evidence your title to Christs Legacies 22 Take heed of that N that breeds estrangement between God and you 23 Eye God that eyes you in all your enterprises 24 Goe any whither rather then lose Gods company 25 Thinke nothing too deare for God when he calls for it 26 Reckon that your gainfullest and sweetest time by Gods communion I 27 Labour to keep in long the fire of heat which Gods presence hath kindled 28 Resolve to eat the bitterest Roul God reacheth you 29 Be most in the duty you finde God most in 30 In all Companies keep Company with God 31 Account thy selfe most honoured in Gods honour 32 Let every injury to God and his cause injure you 33 Let neither God nor Devill find thee idle 34 Be in daily expectation and readinesse for Christs comming 35 Serve God as heartily as ever you served sin 36 The nearer-home the more long for it 37 Prize the least mercy of God at the highest rate N 38 Employ every talent received to the utmost advantage for God 39 In every duty go out of your self into Christs strength I 40 Let the inlargement of Christs Church inlarge thy heart 41 Bewail the Churches misery above thine own 42 Affect no perferment but such as may perfer you into Gods favour in the Court of Grace 43 Account no pains or cost great to please God and his children B 44 Contempt for Grace and Christ will certainly end in honour beleeve it 45 In the least tempest think not thy self safe in any labour but in Christ 46 You shall never be free from horrour if you yeeld to sin horribly against God 47 Welcom God into thy house and thou shalt be welcome into his not otherwise 48 For Commerce Prov. 11. 1 For Converse Prov. 11. 42. 49 Leave the savour of grace in every company 50 Let them be dearest to thee that are dearest with God I 51 Desire no delight in the friendship or fellowship of the godlesse B 52 Fear their friendship who are great without God 53 You shall finde more losse and hazard then comfort gain I in the tillage of great mens favour 54 Countenance grace in the meanest member 55 Remember them to God that you desire should remember you N 56 Make great account of them who are in Gods stead to you B and declare it faithfully 57 Seek not friends for earthly but heavenly ends 58 Be as willing to get friends on whom you may sow as from whom you may reape 59 The brighter thy vertues be the greater are thy sins 60 Thinke thy soule to be as a God inhabiting humane body use it not as a beast 61 That God will require an exact account of thy particular calling 62 That all persecutions wee suffer are seeds whose fruit is glory 63. That grace and glory shall once meet 64 Be resolved it is a sweet thing to want the sweets of this world 65 That if you would be content with hearbs you need not flatter a Dyonisius 66 Having bags of bread i. e. Scriptures know not a stint-stone i. e. humane curiosity 67 A holy man is for a good infinitely above earth it selfe and delights in that good 68 Take heed of a snare even in every lawfull pleasure I 69 Pleasures in ill B renders thee unpleasant to God and good men 70 It is observed for him that hath a soule to affect practise beyond the body birth or earth 71 Desire and get learning and grace too and so possesse all that excellency in heaven and earth 72 Desire not to have for possession but for dispensation to God and his children Of a steward be not a theife 73 Chuse the fattest pasture for thy soule I 74 Determine to be trusty desire not to bee trusted B 75 Esteeme of sinne by its parting I not by its comming 76 Be sure you prize not credit nor any thing else at a higher rate then godlinesse B 77 Esteem no price too great for truth and wisdome 78 Know that an uncleane body cannot be the harbour of a chaste and loyall soule 79 Be not disposed to sloath which is the losse of health wealth grace and glory 80 Encline not to anger but love which brings ease gaine and safety 81 A meek spirit is the best preserver of Christian peace and Christian communion 82 To be enclined to curiosity in search of our own faults is a vertue a sin in search of others 83 Stand a loofe from appearance of sinne and the practise must needs stand farre from thee 84 Get ground daily of your corruptions 85 Be ashamed to commit the least sin I that the master of great sins may be affraid of thee B 86 Give not liberty to any passion in natures way without God 87 Godly and righteous living will bring esteem in despite of malice and envie 88 Confider how much worke thou hast to doe in so small a time I 89 The earlier you begin the easier will thy dayes work be B whether in generall or particular calling 90 Resolve to make the decay of thy body or estate the renewing of thy soule 91 Resolve not to goe one step out of the way to heaven 92 Resolve next to thy heart to keep thy tongue from straying 93 Be sure no excellency is attained where humility temperance and diligence make not the way 94 Credit got by seeming graces will not last 95 A sincere heart gives the best relish to any holy duty 96 Performe holy duties aswell as doe them and marke the successe 97 Attend holy duties though they bring not present profit cease not though thou speed not be not like a Cripple that followes a little way and falls off 98 Resolve the higher you are the nearer you will be to Heaven 99 Great wings ought to take high flights not like Swans having feathers enough flies nought 100 Having got a gracious spirit let it not run out in extravagance we let water out and not wine 101 Be sure better fruit is expected in a garden then in a wildernesse from the tree of life then from the corrupt roote of nature 102 Know that selfe-love will make thee hatefull to either 103 Few hate them who hate none and truely love all 104 Resolve to begin at the beginning of Christianity or never looke to attaine to the end 105 Resolve to be a through Christian or never begin it to deceive thy selfe and displease God 106 Consider what Christianity will cost thee and resolve to beare it or never beginne to professe it Davids Question and Answer in Psal 119. 9. very briefe and profitably expounded IN that place he puts forth this Question Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his wayes Hee answereth in generall By taking heed to Gods Word I suppose it may be resolved in seven severall particulars thus There is a way 1. Of the minde 2. Of the tongue 3. Of the affections 4. Of the actions 5. Of the relations 6. Of our Vocations 7. Of our Conversations It s necessary to cleanse all these wayes according to Holy Scripture 1 For the way of your minde take heede your thoughts concerning God be holy high and thankfull concerning others sparing impartiall and respectfull concerning your selves true lowly fruitfull 2 For the way of your discourse let your words be few gracious pertinent 3 For the way of your Affections let them bee rightly fixed well ordered fully exercised 4 Concerning your Actions see they have a good ground a straight rule the best end 5 As for the way of your Relations let the duties of them all be destinctly knowne diligently practised and faithfully discharged 6 In the way of your visible Calling expresse the purity power and priviledge of the Gospell 7 In the way of your Vocations whether Christian or Civill let it be consciencious industrious and unwearied FINIS Printed at York by Tho Broad 1646.