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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65308	A plea for the Godly wherein is shown the excellency of a righteous person / by Thomas Watson ...	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1672 (1672)	Wing W1138; ESTC R10636	40,142	126

was dear to God Job on the dunghil was more excellent than Pharaoh on the throne God boasts of Job to Satan Chap. 2. 3. None like him in the earth The Lord esteems not the worse of the righteous because he makes them pass under the Rod. A Goldsmith esteems his Gold though it be in the furnace God sees an excellency in the Saints when they are bleeding under their sufferings A piece of Plate is of great value though it be battered Grapes are precious though they are in the Winepress Jesus Christ was on the Cross yet proclaimed to be Gods beloved Son by a voice from heaven Mat. 3. 17. 3. It is comfort when the righteous are humbled by desertion Job 6. 4. The arrows of the Almighty are within me The Hebrew word for arrow 〈◊〉 comes from a radix that signifies to cut to show that the poyson'd arrow of desertion cuts to the heart Heman crys out Psal. 88. 7. Thy wrath lieth hard upon me like a mountain of lead it even sinks my spirits in this for●…orn state the Saints think God esteems them vile and hath cast them off Psal. 88. 14. Lord why castest thou off my soul God holds his deserted ones as it were over the fire of hell and they think they are ready to drop in But Christian thou mayst be sorely deserted yet God may judg thee excellent Sion thought she was quite forsaken Isai. 49. 14. Sion said the Lord hath forsaken me But at that time God had a dear respect for her Ver. 16. I have graven thee upon the palms of my hand God may have the face of an enemy yet the heart of a father The Lord deserts his people 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for their profit Heb. 12. 10. While he is humbling them he is healing them he seems to put them away from him but it is to draw them nearer to him he would exercise their faith and prayer the more God is all this while preparing the Saints for the sweet embraces of his love Desertion is like purging-physick the Lord will purge out some ill humour of sin and afterwards will manifest his love to his Children The Cordial is kept till the working of the Physick is over The Conclusion THus Good Reader I have with all convenient brevity endeavoured to vindicate the true Saint and take him out of the fogg I have set before thy eyes a child of light Mark the perfect man and imitate him If notwithstanding all this surpassing excellency of the righteous any shall be so wicked as to persist in unrighteousness they love death Prov. 8. 36. If they shall glory in their unrighteousness it is as if beggars should boast of their sores If they shall disparage Holiness it is like a blind man's reproaching the Sun let the righteous bi●…d reproaches as a Crown about their head and be no more troubled then they would be to have mad men laugh at them Psal. 37. 7. Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him The time is shortly coming when God ●…ill clear the innocency of his Servants after he hath wiped off tears from their eyes he will wipe off reproach from their name and then this Text shall be universally subscribed to The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour FINIS Books to be sold by Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and three Crowns in Cheapside A Commentary on the Hebrews By John Owen D. D. fol. Mr. Sedgwick's Bowels of Mercy fol. Tho. Taylor 's Works the first vol. fol. 2. An Exposition of Temptation on Matth. 4. verse 1. to the end of the eleventh Forty-nine Sermons upon the whole Epistle of the Apostle St. Paul to the Colossians●… in three parts By that famous Minister of the Reformed Church in Paris Mr. John Daille Translated into English by F. S. An Antidote against Quakerism wherein these following questions are opened the truth concerning them proved the contrary arguments examined and confuted 1. Whether the Scriptures or the light in every man be our rule to heaven 2. Whether the Light in every man be a saving Light here something also concerning immediate teaching 3. Whether Perfection viz. a state free from all sin be attainable in this life 4. Whether Baptism with water be an Ordinance of Christ binding us 5. Whether the Supper be an Ordinance of Christ binding us 6. Whether Justification be by the Righteousness of Christ imputed By Stephen Scandret Minister of Gods Word These Treatises next following are written by Mr. Tho. Watson The Doctrine of Repentance Heaven taken by storm The mischief of sin it brings a person low A Divine Cordial A word of Comfort for the Church and people of God A Plea for Alms in a Sermon at the Spittle The Holy Eucharist or the Sacrament of the Lords Supper briefly opened All Seven by Tho. Watson The Immortality of the Soul explained and proved by Scripture and Reason To which is added Faith's Triumph over the fear of Death By Tho. Wadsworth The Childs Delight together with an English Grammar By Tho. Lye The Practical Christian or a summary view of the chief heads of Practical Divinity By J. Bartlet of Exeter The inseperable Union between Christ and a Believer opened in a Sermon at the Funeral of Mrs. Dorothy Freeborn By Tho. Beck The Life and Death of that eminently learned pious and painful Minister of the Gospel Dr. Samuel Winter sometime Provest of Trinity Colledg near Dublin in Ireland Path-way to Prayer and Piety By R. Hills The Royal Robe or a Treatise of Meekness By J. Barker Comfortable Crumbs of Refreshment by Prayer Meditations Consolations and Ejaculations with a Confession of Faith and summ of the Bible The difference between the Spots of the Godly and Wicked in four Sermons By J. Burroughs FINIS * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nazian * Dicimur infandi incestus r●…i c. Tertul. Apol. * i. e. In tempore Judicij quantum diversa sit sors Pii impii Grotius * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 1 King 4. 33. a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Septuag b Sordet in conspect●… judic is quod fulget in conspectu operantis Imputata a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c Impertita a Qualitates sunt in subjecto extensivè * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 b Praestat proximo suo Dru●… * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Excellentior est illo qui justus non est Cart. in loc Doct. * 2 Tim. 3. 5. * Deific●… Professio Ambros. * Pro. 4. 7. a De essentia salutis * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost. * Quo pejus se babet mi●…s sentit a Augustine b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c Id●…o est Christi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 incognita quic est 〈◊〉 Calvin Psal. 119. 126. * 1 Joh. 3. 9. Ob indolem divinae similem Grot. Isa. 40. 31. Prov. 28. 1. * Psal. 110. 3. * 2 Pet.