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A64283	Nathanael, or, An Israelite indeed lively portraied, and evidently proved to be an object most worthy both of our admiration and imitation, his priviledges and characters are also layd down : together with a discovery of the sinfulness and miserie of all hypocrites and strangers from the common-wealth of Israel / by Faithfull Teate ...	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1657 (1657)	Wing T613; ESTC R41538	79,460	204

2 As Iacob was in covenant with God Levit. 26.42 where God promiseth to remember his covenant with Iacob with Isaac and with Abraham with Iacob first because it was established with him last and the blessings of Iacob prevailed above the blessings of his progenitors Genes 49.26 So must you take hold of his covenant and keep it that all his pathes may be mercy and truth to you Psal 25.10 All then Isa 56.4 that are not under this covenant or refuse to bring their children to it in due time and manner or that despise Baptisme the token of it as circumcision was of old Gen. 17.11 are not yet in this rank and they who have listed their names in this holy Catalogue but profane and violate this Covenant made with the fathers Malach. 2.10 shall certainely be cut off their iniquity shall be upon them and they shall be found among the rabble mentioned Rom. 1.31 Instance 3 3. Jacob was humble and lowly in Spirit and esteemed himselfe utterly unworthy of the least of all Gods mercyes and all the truth which God had had shewed him By truth understand the Promises which God had made and performed unto him as * Luth. in Gen 32. veritas est promissio Luther interpreteth it Gen. 32.10 was Jacob thus humbled and Jesus Christ who was equall to his Father lowly in spirit and will you be proud what have you that you have not received 1 Cor. 4.7 why should dust and ashes be proud There can be no shreuder signe of an approaching fall then elevation of spirit This dead Flie will soon infect the whole box of the Apothecaries precious oyntment and God hath engaged himselfe in due time to exalt them who humble themselves before him Jam. 4.10 Away therefore with a proud heart and high looks which otherwise will render you abominable to God Prov. 6.16 17. Instance 4 Fourthly Jacob desired above all things whithersoever he went Gods presence to goe a long with him Gen. 28.20 and better it were for us never to stir one foot further than to proceed without it as Moses desired of God if thy presence goe not with us carry us not up hence Exod. 33.15 Let this teach us to acknowledge him in all our wayes and he shall direct our pathes Prov. 3.6 As for them who say to God depart from us we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes Job 21.14 God shall in like manner abandon and dismiss them for ever with a malediction and say Depart from me ye accursed into everlasting fire and then shall they know whether God had more need of them or they of him and be enforced to confesse We are justly served But who be they that say to God depart from us Answ All that desire not the knowledge of his waies Consider this all you that refuse to frequent the places where his honour dwelleth the assemblies of his people and that neglect to read and meditate on his word to get the true knowledge of his will that you may do it you doe as much in effect as if you had said Depart from us and he that knoweth the meaning of your dealings toward him will let you know his mind towards you that he is well agreed to grant you your desire in your life time even when you are dead depart you did and depart you shall for ever and ever See who will have the worst of it Instance 5 Fifthly Israel was both instant and constant in prayer to God Gen. 32.24 25 26. he wrestled with God till the breaking of the day and would not let him goe till he had blessed him and by his prevalency he obtained the Sirname Israel By his strength the prophet saith he had power with God yea he had power over the Angel and prevailed Ambros Arma nostra sunt preces Lacrimae he wept and made supplication to him Hos 12.3 4 5. Right prayer is an infallible cognizance of a genuine Christian for whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved Rom. 10.13 1 All here required for salvation is the right calling upon the name of the Lord 2. far we need not to goe the Lord is in all places 3. none are debarred from this liberty whosoever he or she be that call shall speed 4. the rewards of so small a service as calling on his name is no lesse then salvation 5. Gods willingnesse to hear and help us is seen in this that he calleth upon all to call upon him that they may be saved by him We need not to awaken him but he wakneth us to aske him he is more ready to hear us then we are to aske of him Quest But what is right prayer Answ This is duly to be considered for the work is honourable and profitable 1. the party that performeth this service aright must 1. be righteous for the fervent effectual prayer of the righteous availeth much Jam. 5.16 But if I regard wickednesse in my heart God will not hear my Prayer Psalm 66.18 * Greg. Moral Tum cor nostrum fiduciam in oratione accepit cum sibi vitae pravitas nulla contradicit 2. he must pray according to his will 1 John 5.14 This is the confidence that we have in him that if we aske any thing according to his will he heareth us 3. our suits must be commenced to God in the name of our mediator Jesus Christ John 16.23 for so runneth his direction and promise joyned together verily verily I say unto you whatsoever you shall aske the Father in my name he will give it you 4. acceptable prayer proceeds from Faith coupled with charity Mark 11.24 25. whatsoever ye desire when ye pray believe that you receive them and he shall have them And when ye stand praying forgive if ye have ought against any that your Father which is in Heaven may forgive you your trespasses On the contrary all they that do not call upon God are wicked and shall be accursed Psalm 14.4 for God hath threatned to pour out his fury upon the Families that call not on his name Jer. 10.25 2 All they that worship Idols instead of the true God Ier. 10.25 shall be sent by him to their Idols for help if they will have any for God will afford them neither audience nor assistance in their time of need Judg. 10.13 14. ye have forsaken me and served other Gods wherefore I will no more deliver you Goe and cry unto the Gods which ye have chosen let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation 3. He that prayeth not in faith hath no ground to thinke that he shall obtaine any thing of the Lord Jam. 1.6 7. 4 He also that wanteth charity shall want successe in his supplications Prov. 21.13 Who so stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor he also shall cry himselfe but shall not be heard and unlesse you forgive others neither will your Father forgive your trespasses Mat. 6.15

who call not upon God dayly and duly in private and with their families upon whom the Lord hath threatned to poure out his fury Jer. 10.25 and yet alas how many families are there in every Town City that make little or no conscience of family prayer 6 covetuous and malecontented murmurers 7 unthankfull soules 8. rash false-swearers and such as swear by creatures instead of God 9 who put the evill day far from them 10. such as are contentious and injurious much more Murtherers Raylers Cursers 11 Stubborn and Disobedient Children with all false purloyning servants 12 neglecters of Gods publick worship with all Idolaters 13 unnaturall parents and bitter and cruell husbands 14. Apostates and backsliders All these together with all sorts of men women and children by nature of what nation or condition soever they be are as yet forreigners to the Common-wealth of Israel Eph. 2.12 and have neither part nor portion in all or any of the honour or happinesse which appertains to true Christians and if they continue in the state wherein they are till death the wrath of God shall surely seize and abide upon them for ever Branch 2 Secondly This might serve though I know nothing can serve to convert any till the Lord take away the scales from their eyes and hardness from their hearts to take downe the pride of all unbelieving and carnal Jewes who call themselves the holy seed the people of God Israelites and the children of Abraham whom Iohn Baptists reproves Mat. 3.9 for haveing so much as a thought to say we have Abraham for our father and our Saviour proves them to be degenerate Ioh. 8.39 by this demonstrative argument If ye were Abrahams children ye would do the works of Abraham But ye do not the works of Abraham therefore you are not Abrahams children but of your father the devil v. 40 41 42. And Saint Paul in sundry places disproveth them by distinguishing between right and titular Iewes Rom. 2.17.25 26 27 and between children according to the flesh and children according to promise Rom. 9.6 They are not all Israel which are of Israel saith he neither because they are the seed of Abraham a e they all children v. 7. But the children of the promise are counted for the seed And this distinction is held forth in the old Testament as a most certain truth from the beginning for king Saul an Israelite according to the flesh of the tribe of Benjamin 1 Sam. 9.1 2. is yet by the spirit of God termed an heathen Psal 59.5.8 compared with the title of the Psalm for Saul was an Israelite by descent but an heathen in his manners On the other side Ithra was an Ishmaelite by birth for so he is called 1. Chron. 2.17 and yet is he termed an Israelite because he was a proselyte or an Israelite by grace 2 Sam. 17.25 And unless all the rest of Abrahams posterity can demonstrate their descent from Abraham to be spiritual as well as carnal all the benefit they shall gaine thereby will be the greater indignation and wrath as Paul hath foretold Rom. 2.8 9. Tribulation and anguish shall be upon every soul of man that doth evil of the Iew first and also of the gentile Vse 3 3ly This serves for direction and consolation to them who among Iewes or Gentiles will follow this direction Direction Quest If any here demand Is there not then any door of hope left for all those who are excluded out of the number of true Israelites as yet by the foregoing characters and instances Answ Yes there is hope in Israel concerning these not onely the Iewes but also the sinners of the Gentiles by nature as scripture stileth them Gal. 7.15 But this hope and consolation is propounded only conditionally To begin with the Iew there is hope layd down for him that he may be graffed into Christ upon this condition that he become a true believer on his name as the great Apostle of the gentiles declareth Rom. 11.23 They also Rom. 11.23 if they bide not still in unbelief shall be graffed in for God is able to graffe them in again Then come to the gentiles yea take the worst in all the series or pack of them who is alive or hereafter shall live in this world there is a conditional ground of hope comfort for every one of them except they have committed that unpardonable sin against the holy Ghost for they may become Israelits by grace and so be made partakers of the highest priviledges and forementioned glory For blessed be the Lord of the whole earth as he is entituled Psal 95.5 He hath 1. Prophesied of the conversion of the Gentiles that they shall come unto him from the ends of the Earth Jerem. 16.19 2 Sam. 22.44 45. 2. He hath invited all the ends of the earth to looke unto him and be saved Isa 45.22 3. He hath promised that in Abrahams seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed Genes 22.18 and that all the ends of the world shall remember and turne unto the Lord and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him for the kingdom is the Lords and he is governour among the nations Psal 18.27 28. and in him shall the Gentiles trust Isa 11.10 4. Many fervent prayers have beene made on our behalf for this end recorded in the oracles of God witness Noahs prayer God perswade Iaphet to dwell in the tents of Shem Genes 9.27 and the Churches supplications in after ages Psal 67.2 3 4 5. Cantic 8.8 c. 5. From the beginning the Lord gave to his son Iesus Christ the heathen for his inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession Psal 2.8 6. Some of the Gentiles in all ages have beene brought in to embrace the faith as Rahab the harlot Jam. 2.25 Ruth the Moabitess Ruth 3.11 and the widdow of Sarepta Luk. 4.26 with many others forerunners of the residue of the heathen in the fulness of time to be brought home to Christ 7. God gave his son to be a light to the Gentiles as well as the glory of his people Israel Luk. 2.30 8. When our Saviour Christ the Lord was newly born the Angel brought to the shepheards glad tydings of great joy appertaining to all people Luk. 2.10 9. The precious blood of the Lamb of God was shed to take away the sin of the world Joh. 1.29 and he is the propitiation for our sins saith Saint John and not for ours onely but also for the sins of the whole world 1 Joh. 2.2 10 By the death of Jesus Christ the middle wall of partition is broken down who abolished in his flesh the enmity for to make in himself of twain one new man so making peace Eph. 2.14 15. This is to be accounted an unspeakable mercy to us sinners of the Gentiles 1. It is such a mercy as was denyed to all nations that ever lived before Christ excepting some few persons whom

incense Gods displeasure against them but Jesus Christ ever lives to make intercession to God for them therefore is he able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him Heb. 7.25 They need not care who is the accuser that have such an advocate to plead for them 8. He is alwaies prepared to hinder their prayers especially when they make intercession for Jerusalem as he did Joshua the high Priest standing before the Angel of the Lord for that end * Ministrantem Christo agentem typum ipsius in ecclesia Tremel Satan stood at his right hand to resist him Zach. 3.1 But the Lord said unto Satan the Lord rebuke thee O Satan even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee verse 2. 9. He dayly tempteth us to sin against God that thereby our peace with God and our own consciences might be interrupted so he buffeted Paul who upon that occasion betook himselfe thrice to prayer to God who answered him that his grace was sufficient for him his strength should be made perfect in weaknesse 2 Cor. 12.7 8 9. and when he desired to have the disciples to sift them as wheat Christ told Simon Simon I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not Luke 22.31 32. 10. When the devil hath drawn any soul into sin he will labour to drive them to desperation even after their repentance as if there were no possibility for such to obtaine pardon Thus he dealt with the incestuous Corinthian who had been swallowed up of overmuch griefe had not this Lord provided a remedy against the greatest of evils by Pauls second Epistle written to the Corinthians Chap. 1.7.11 wherein he requireth them to forgive and comfort him and againe he beseecheth them to confirme their love toward him verse 8. as he himselfe forgave him in the person of Christ adding a cogent reason for his and their so doing verse 11. lest Satan get an advantage over us for we are not ignorant of his devices Now Satan hath a double end in all his slye and hellish contrivances against the Saints not only to tire them out but also to make others to take up hard conceits of the yoak of Christ as an insupportable burden whereby he drives many to consult how they may break his bonds asunder and cast away his cords from them Psalm 2.2 Antidotes Against this impediment therefore I oppose these following Antidotes 1. Jesus Christ hath overcome the devil for he took our nature upon him that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the devil Heb. 2.14 and * Aug. de agone Christiano Hunc adversarium Dominus noster prior vicit ut etiam nos in illo permanentes vintamus per ipsum Christs victory is ours 2. He hath biddeth us to resist the devil and hath promised that he shall flee from us 1 John 4.7 3. He hath provided the whole Armour of God that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil Eph 6.12 4. He that is begotten of God keepeth himselfe and that wicked one toucheth him not 1 John 5.18 he cannot give him one blow 5. Neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come shall be able to seperate us from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ Nay in all these things we are more then conquerers through Christ that loved us Rom. 8.37 38. 6. The true believer is built upon the Rock against which the gates of hell cannot prevaile Matthew 16.18 7. As the evil angels infest us so God hath given charge to his holy angels to keep us in all our wayes to bear us up in their hands lest we dash our foot against a stone Psalm 91.10 And they according to this charge are all ministring spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heires of salvation Heb. 1.14 no lesse doth the devil himself confesse Math. 4.6 8. If this be not sufficient behold God himselfe is the keeper of Israel who neither slumbreth nor sleepeth Psalm 121.4 9. If ye fight not under Christs banner against this enemy according to your vow in Baptisme you are his Captives and he will torment you for ever but if you overcome him in this life the time will come when you shall be made judges of these wicked spirits which now annoy you know ye not saith the holy writ that the Saints shall judge Angels 1 Cor. 6.3 to wit in the day of the generall judgment What confusion will theis be to those proud spirits 10. The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly Rom. 16. 20. It shall certainly be so yea and that shortly too 5. 5. Impediment the world The world also will not be wanting to play her prizes against this our true Israelite 1. By raising up troubles against him as already hath been declared for Christ hath forespoken it but withall hath enjoyned him to be of good comfort Iohn 16.33 In the world you shall have tribulation but be of good comfort I have overcome the World 2. By her various and dangerous allurements of profit honour and pleasure First the world will bespeak all mankind as Saul did the Benjamites 1 Sam. 22.7 Hear now ye Benjamites will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and Vineyards and make you all Captains of hundreds and thousands so say the Hypocrites and wicked It is in vaine to serve the Lord and what profit is it that we have kept his Ordinance and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of Hosts As if they should say Here is sorrow but no gaine great cry but little wool But let us not hearken to this Enemy but to wisedome and she telleth you the truth Prov. 8.18 Riches and honour are with me yea durable riches and righteousnesse and godlynesse with contentment is great gaine 1 Tim. 6.6 Further this Delilah the world will set the snares of pleasures before our feet thereby to entangle us and betray us to our spiritual enemies thus was our mother Eve inveagled when she saw that the forbidden tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the Eye she did eat of the fruit thereof and gave also unto her Husband with her and he did eate Gen. 3.6 Here was delicious food as they thought before trial but they paid dearly for the sawce for for this fact were they driven out of Paradise verse 24. yet multitudes of their posterity by the like inticement are brought into a fools Paradise imagining the bread of deceit to be sweet till they find their mouths to be filled with gravell Prov. 9.17.20.17 And many there be who when they have heard the word are afterwards choaked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life and bring no fruit to perfection Luke 8.13 Any one of these baits are over-prevalent with us yet some are sooner caught with one some with