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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45432	Daily thoughts, or, A miscellany of meditations holy & humane by Jos. Henshaw.	Henshaw, Joseph, 1603-1679.	1651 (1651)	Wing H57; ESTC R25711	25,049	128

thy comfort that thou shalt one day dye to wish thy selfe ever upon earth is to wish thy selfe ever out of heaven BE imploy'd onely in such waies as thou wouldst not blush to bee met in Thamar goes disguis'd when to play the harlot tell nothing of another which thou wouldest not have told him believe nothing of another which thou mayest not tell doe not construe seriously what is spoken but in jest and forbeare those jests which may bee construed to earnest heare no ill of a friend but reply and speake no ill though of an enemy IN thy house let thy entertainement be free not costly bid thy friends welcome to thy ability not beyond it never make one meale so as thou must bee faine to fetch it up out of many bee hospitable but provident thinke nothing too much for thy friends which is not too much for thy estate hospitality bids thy friends welcome and providence makes thee able to bid them welcome if hospitality bee the life of neighbourhood providence is the life of hospitality hee is not thy friend that expects more than thou art well able thou art not thine owne friend if thou doest lesse to live above thy meanes is folly to live too far below thy means is a disparagement doe all like thy selfe so as may neither weaken thy respect nor thy estate LOve not ill company lest thou learne the ill of the company it is hard not to be like the company thou keepest it is rare if we deny not Christ in Caiphas his house with Solomon it is hard having the Ethiopian without her Idols wee see people change their complexion with the Climate Vessels smell of the liquor they containe by ordinary communication in the wayes of sinners without a great deale of care you will communicate with their sinne With the froward thou wilt learne frowardnesse he that goes to the meetings of wicked men will come a wicked man out or to say the best worse than he went in for thy conversation let this be thy rule if thy company be better imitate them if worse convert them if equall and as thou art joyn with them FEed the poore often at thy dooro sometime at thy Table whatsoever thou givest to Christ in his members hee will one day give backe againe to thee in thy person it is but just if God deny thee thy daily bread if thou daily deny him the crums LEt it not trouble thee what is talk'd of thee when thou art absent more then what will be talk'd of thee when thou art dead an ill report doth not make thee an ill man be careful to do no nothing that deserves to bee ill spoken of let it not trouble thee to be ill spoken of undeservedly LEt thy prayers bee frequent thy wants are so and thy thanksgivings frequent thy blessings are so pray daily at home and if thou canst at Church God is every where but there hee hath promised to be misse not the confession and abosolution unlesse thou hast no sinnes to confesse or carest not to bee forgiven them THinke not the worse of the ordinances of God for the sinnes of the Preacher those that are ill themselves may yet be instruments of good to other s God hath promised his blessing to the thing not to the person the sacrifices of Elies sonnes were effectuall for the people it is not the peoples fault that the Preacher is wicked and as it is without their fault so it is without their prejudice it was our blessed Saviours of the Pharisees After their sayings doe ye we must follow their sayings whose deeds we may not thou mayest not refuse the word of God from any if they teach what they should though they doe not what they teach the wickednesse of the messenger doth not abate the power of the meanes as the intemperance and debauchednesse of the Physician doth not hinder the working of the Physick REmember often that thou art a Christian and do nothing that may disprove it be not a law to thy selfe but bee regulated by that which is a law to us all the Word of God study not how much to make thy life longer but better consider that the longer thou art here here the longer thou art from God let it be thy care rather to lead a good life than a long endeavour to thy ability to doe well and grieve that thou canst not doe better doe not wrong to others forgive the wrongs which others doe thee strive what thou canst to keep a good name but rather a good conscience if men mistake thee comfort thy selfe that God which shall reward thee doth not looke upon the necessities of others not as a stranger but a member as thou wouldest have God looke upon thine be good to all God is so but with a difference Especially to the houshold of faith cherish no sinne in thy selfe and countenance none in another acquaint thy selfe rather with the commandements of God than the decrees and conclude of thy salvation to thy selfe rather by a diligent observing of his revealed will than by searching into his secret will let not the changes of this World to preferment or want make thee either sond of thy life or weary of it be contented to live but bee desirous to die To bee dissolved and to bee with Christ And though thy body bee not yet in heaven let thy heart be there LEt thy first care bee to bee good thy selfe thy next care to make others so be not a Christian in shew only yet in every thing shew thy selfe a Christian doe nothing but what is good and speake nothing but what is truth hee is the best Christian that speakes well and doth as hee speakes He is the true and reall Christian whose Most holy words are seconded with deeds Who lives Religion over and well knowes Christianity consists not all in creeds Pinns not his life nor faith to others sleeve Beleeves what 's writ and lives as hee beleeves Slow to revenge a wrong not to forgive Whose goodnesse is not onely to the eye Thinks rather how to die than how to live And yet is dead to sin before he die And who lives here on earth and dies to sin When he is dead his life doth but begin Who doth not what he likes but what he may And asks what may I to not of himselfe But of Religion and the Scriptures say Who is his own rule runs upon a shelfe Who though he might he would not bee deboise Is good not of necessity but choice That makes not opportunity his bawd Occasion sometime doth invite a sin To may and will not is the Christians laud He 's guilty that is out and would be in But being tempted or but not withstood Not to be evill it a double good That can revenge a wrong but doth forbear it And to be slow to malice is not sloth Speaks only what is truth but will not sweare it Nor second every trisle with an oath That

DAILY THOUGHTS OR A MISCELLANY OF MEDITATIONS Holy Humane The third Edition much enlarged By Jos Henshaw Dr of Divinity LONDON Printed by W. H. for T. A. and are to be sold by G.B. at his shop in S. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street 1651. TO The READER IT is not out of desire of being known nor out of a desire to bee thought to know that I doe commend this small Tract to the world but to take up the roome of worse thoughts in thy head and of worse Bookes in thy hands it is the work of younger yeares and the fruit of idle times not of a serious study and no otherwise do I publish it to view though I am perswaded it would conduce much to the peace of the Church if Bookes of this nature were more in use it were to bee wished that inferiours would imploy their time rather in holy Meditation of those truths which are already received in the Church than in making themselves or shewing themselves able to defend them not that I would commend an ignorant devotion to any or desire men to know lesse good but more to practice that good which they know nor turne Religion into disputation but turne their disputation into action and obedience they shall finde in the last day that it is holinesse not knowledge I doe not say holinesse without knowledge that must bring them to Heaven Supremo illi judici non scripta approbanda sed facta not the disputer but the doer of Gods will shall be justified men while they spend their time in disputing what they should doe they too often neglect to doe even those things which are without dispute in this Book if there be little paines yet there is no hurt nay it is thy owne fault if there rise not some good to thee from it which if thou second with practice will bring thee to an eternall good which I wish thee IOS HENSHAW Daily Thoughts MAke the Word of God the Rule and God himselfe the Paterne of all thy actions contemplate God and thy selfe what He is what Hee requires thee to be like Him in a degree though not a perfection in a perfection of sincerity though not of degrees Do nothing against thy word and let thy word be regulated by God's Word do not ill for company nor good onely for company LEt thy talke not bee much and that profitable be sparing of oaths and promises and performe both shun jests in holy things and abhorre lies though in jest speake to the capacities but not to the humors of men so frame thy talke as one that is going shortly to give an account of his words detract from no man but thy selfe speake well of all men till thou knowest otherwise and where thou canst not speake well be silent meditate often upon the shortnesse of thy life and be carefull so to imploy it as that thou doest not make thy account long measure the length of it as the Scripture doth by a Bubble and a Shadow and a Flower light and vanishing but yet to comfort thy self in this present state with the remembrance of the future that if this life which thou hast bee short yet that which thou hopest for is eternall My life is like a Bubble but a blast At first God breath'd into me and I live And like a Bubble I doe daily wast and am like water powr'd into a sive Lord since I am thy bubble when I die Like to a bubble let me ascend on high Or if you will my life is like a Flower And like a Flower for a while I stand I am and am not in an other ●owre For I am gather'd by the owner's hand Since I am so why am I so corrupt That do not know how soon I shal be pluckt But of all Flowers most of all me thinks Resembled in the Marigold am I And like the Marigold that wakes and winks Still as it sees the Sun am borne and die But her 's my comfort with that flower when The Sun appeareth I shall blow agen AFfect not to set out thy selfe to the world nor to thy selfe speake not thine owne praise nor greedily heare it from others nor too easily beleeve it spend thy time rather in pressing forward to what thou shouldst be then in idly contemplating or contenting thy selfe with what thou art thinke meanely of thy selfe and that thought will both make thee modest for he that suspects himselfe is not bold and eager in the pursuite of that goodnesse or knowledge wherein thou supposest thy self defective be ready rather to give then to take an applause and if thou art apt to thinke thou deservest well check it with thinking how many deserve better LEt thy thoughts be such to thy selfe that if it should be suddenly ask'd what thou think'st on thou mightest not blush to tell stifle sinne in the first warmth and quickning before it shape too farre a twig may be pluckt up with one hand which the whole body cannot wag when it is a tree even evill thoughts are evill and though yet they bee not yet cherished will spread into evill actions BE not easily provoked and easily be friends give no occasion of exceptions thy self and doe not easily take exceptions at others and be ready to make satisfaction to those that have just exceptions against thee it is a greater vertue to forgive one injury than to do many courtesies because it is harder and it is harder because more against nature for many a man will doe for another that will not suffer for him therefore it is a greater perfection to bee contented to suffer than to be willing to do unlesse it be to do for those of whom wee have suffered for our enemies which is the highest AFfect the company of those who are abler then thy selfe and desire rather to partake of others sufficiency than to publish thine owne in meaner company thou maiest bee admired more but in this thou shalt profit more it is better to learne wisdome from those that are wise then to be thought wise by those that are ignorant be studious rather of being able then of being so accounted not to picke up thy knowledge especially thy opinions from other mens discourse but with paines and industry rather to search out the knowledge of truth thy selfe then lazily to take it up from others IN Religion examine but not broach opinions ever incline to Antiquity and suspect novelty in middle things ever submit to the Authority thou livest under and let the Churches opinion be thine MEasure not equity and right by friends and profit nor do wrong either to get or to doe a courtesie not upbraid others with the kindnesses thou doest for them nor forget the kindnesses which others doe for thee be sparing of receiving a curtesie where it is an ingagement and of doing one where it is dishonourable BE not wilfull nor wavering not change but upon good reason not obstinate against reason not beleeve every