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A64284	Rihgt [sic] thoughts, the righteous mans evidence a discourse proving our state (God-ward) to be as our thoughts are, directing how to try them and our selves by them, propounding schemes of right thoughts, with motives and rules for keeping thoughts right : in two parts / by Faithful Teat.	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1669 (1669)	Wing T614; ESTC R11474	173,501	302

as a Builder and as an In-dweller to mortifie and to quicken to Convince and to Comfort to teach and to bring to remembrance to guide into the way to uphold in the way and lead to the end to be the earnest of their Inheritance and the Witness of their Son-ship the seal and the sealer wherewith and whereby they are sealed unto the day of Redemption by whom they have an access to the Father who are also an habitation of God through the spirit Such are the undoubted Operations of the Spirit in those that shall be saved for hereby we know that we dwell in Him and He in us because He hath given us his Spirit And therefore take heed good Reader of reviling any of these workings or of scoffing at the words for surely we cannot but think that the Holy Ghost knows best how to express his own workings O think of this Hebr. 10.62 that despight done to the Children of Grace supposeth a Trampling under foot the Son of God And truly one would think one might say in this Case as Ahasuerus did in another who is he and where is he that durst presume in his heart to do so Hestr 7.5 O Tremble good Christian at the very Thought of such a thing that the Holy Spirit of God should be grieved or vexed by the sons of Men Eph. 4.30 Isaiah 63.10 but especially that any should presume to Blaspheme him And let this serious thought dwell with thee That it is the Sin against the Spirit of Grace that excludes from Grace to Repent of SIN Thou therefore that bowest the knee at Our Father and at the Name Jesus Remember that there is a Third who together with the Father and the Son is to be worshiped and glorified Sect. XLIII High thoughts of our Obligations to the Spirit TO proceed He that hath Right Thoughts of the Spirit thinks himself alike beholding to the spirit as to the Father and the Son in the business of his salvation for to the working of the Father and the Son both which are Great and Glorious in Mans salvation there must be added the supply of the spirit For God hath chosen us to salvation Phil. 2.19 as well through sanctification of the spirit 2 Thes 1.13 John 14.16 as through the Belief of the Truth And therefore saith Christ I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Comforter that He may abide with you for ever even the spirit of Truth c. And again It is expedient for you that I go away And 16.7 that I may send Him to you It is expedient that 's a great word He saith not onely it will be as well for you if He come to you as if I had stayed with you but it is expedient for you that I go that He may come As in works that must pass through more hands then one it is Expedient that the First hand be taken off that the Finishing hand may come The finishing work in mans Salvation the Spirits work And therefore the Finishing work is the Spirits work The Father by his Mercy The Son by his Merit and Mediation and the Spirit of the Father and the Son by his Indwelling as these Three are One in themselves so in Mans salvation which Scripture saith is in the Son 1 John 5.11 John 3.16 John 15.21 given us by the Father but sent us home by the spirit When the Comforter is come saith Christ whom I will send to you from the Father even the spirit of Truth He shall testify of Me. The Grace of Our Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 13.14 and the Love of God is brought home to us and We to it by the Communion of the Holy Ghost The Son by his Incarnation which was the Work which his Father gave him to do brought Heaven Down to us John 17.4 and the spirit in our Regeneration wherein we are said to be Born of the spirit makes us his Temples and Gods Habitations and builds us up to Heaven John 3.8 Eph. 2.21 22. Hebr. 9.14 Ephes 1.6 The Son Offers up himself and makes us acceptable to a just God through his comliness that is to say his Righteousness put upon us And there is also an Offering up of us a making of us amiable to an Holy God by the Holy Spirit Rom. 15.16 That the Offering up of the Gentiles saith the Apostle might be Acceptable being san●tified by the Holy Ghost 2 Cor. 6.8 Hebr. 8.6 The Maker of the New Covenant is the Father The Mediator of it is the Son And the great Matter of it is the Spirit for this is the sum of All I will put my spirit within you Ezek. 36.2 who is therefore called the holy spirit of Promise Eph. 1.13 Holy Spirit the great New Testament promise Luke 2.25 Acts 1.4 Verse 7.8 For as the Coming of the Messiah was the Great Hope and Expectation of the Fathers of the Old Testament which is therefore called a waiting for the Consolation of Israel so the coming of the Holy Ghost in the New and therefore called a waiting for the Promise of the Father And therefore when the Primitive Disciples were curiously inquisitive and desirous of the Knowledge of the Times and Seasons Our Gracious Saviour who best knew what was best for them confines them to and comforts them with this Expectation that the Holy Ghost should come upon them And Oh that many whole vehement Desires run out that way viz. after knowledge of times and seasons would endeavour more for the sweet Influences and Incomes of the Holy Ghost Fruits of the Spirit Gal. 5.22 23. whose Fruits saith the Apostle are Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness Faith Meekness Temperance against which there is no Law Sect. XLIV Blessed fruit O Blessed Fruit of the thrice-Blessed Spirit for this was the Blessing of Abraham come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ Gal. 3.14 even that we might receive the Promise of the Spirit through Faith The Fruit that undid us was Forbidden Fruit Gen. 3.17 Chap. 2.17 Rom. 8.2 and 6.22 Fruit against Law but against such there is no Law Man Eating of that Fruit was to die the Death but this Spirit of Life makes us free from the Law of Death so that now We have our fruit unto holiness and the end Everlasting Life Sweet Fruit. 2 Cor. 3.17 Sweet Fruit may I well say if Life be sweet or Liberty for where the Spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty or if Peace be sweet or Love lovely or Joy joyous Or if these be not enough here is Temperance Meekness Faith Goodness c. We may say here as 't is said in the Canticles at our good are all manner of pleasant fruits Cant. 7.13 Here I am sure I may say and not beguile my Reader Gen. 3.6 are fruits pleasant to the Eyes and good for Food for the Kingdom

saith In all he saith Psal 119.160 He saith in Truth Thy Word is true saith David from the beginning and every one of thy Righteous Judgments endureth for ever Psalm 19.9 Revel 19.9 In all he doth Psalm 33.4 Psal 111.7 8. Psal 80.7 8. The Judgments of the Lord are truth saith the Hebrew These are the true sayings of God Whatever God doth He doth it in Truth All his works are done in Truth The works of his hands are verity and Judgment they stand fast for ever and ever and are done in truth and uprightness Therefore God is greatly to be feared in the Assembly of the Saints and to be had in Reverence of all them that are about him It follows O Lord God of Hosts who is like unto thee or to thy FAITHFULNESS round about thee So that as the Girdle goes round about All and encompasseth and encloseth All so Gods Truth and Faithfulness doth surround all the rest of his Excellencies and therefore if our Thoughts of God be Right We shall have most awful and Reverend Impressions on our Hearts not onely from the SEVERITY but from the VERITY of God not onely from his Justice and Righteousness but also from his TRUTH and Faithfulness Sect. XXVIII Thoughts of God must be Right Psalm 2.11 BUt then again if our THOUGHTS of GOD be Right and Scriptural they must be CHEARFUL as well as FEARFUL There must be a Rejoycing with our Trembling Divine Thoughts must be awful but delightful as a Son thinks of his Father not as a Slave thinks of his Taskmaster Chearful as well as fearful or a Condemned Prisoner of his Executioner for God is LOVE and how can LOVE be Rightly thought of unless it be thought LOVELY 1 Joh. 4.8.16 Rom. 5.5 or how can this precious box or rich perfume the love of God be shed abroad in the heart and the thoughts thereof not be sweet-sented and indeed the sweeter as perfumes are for being held to the Fire of holy Fear Our fear not a fear of torment 1 John 4.18 There is a Fear that hath TORMENT which Love labours to cast out but again there is a Fear that gives temper to true LOVE of God and strips it self of its All as it were to the service of it as Jonathan did by David even to its Sword and to its Girdle and to its Bow 1 Sam. 18.4 Our God is a CONSUMING FIRE Here is Trembling Heb. 12.29 and good cause why but this God is OUR GOD as the Psalmist speaks for ever and ever Psal 48.14 He will be OUR GUIDE even unto death here is rejoycing with our trembling And O how amiable is this Chequer-work of Mans thoughts in the sight of God surely things are not as they should be with us when we Remember God and are troubled what Psalm 77.3 Harbour hard thoughts of the Father of Mercies Think evil of the Fountain of all Goodness 2 Cor. 1.3 Good thoughts of God Ezek. 18.32 and 33.11 ah wherein hath God deserved this at mans hands Is it because he swears as he lives that he hath no pleasure in the death of him that dies But that the wicked turn from his way and live that is but rather that sinners should Repent and live Is it because he cryes out to you turn ye Chap. 33.11 turn ye from your evil wayes for why will ye die or because he cryes out of you John 5.40 ye will not come to me that ye might have life or because he cryes out over you how shall I give up how shall I make thee as Admah Hosea 11.8 Chap. 6.4 Psal 81.13 Isaiah 48.18 Luke 19.42 and set thee as Ze●●im O sinners what shall I do unto you or because he cryes out for you when it is too late O that ye had harkened unto my voice that thou hadst known at least in this thy day the things that belong unto thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes Wretched Miscreant Wilt thou go on to hate Wisdome and to love Death Prov. 8.35 as indeed thou dost and then think that God is an Enemy to Mankind and takes delight in making Creatures meerly to destroy them O spit out thy Gall and Venom and clear thy Thoughts of prejudice against thy faithful Creatour and most merciful Preserver and account his long-suffering to be Salvation that he 2 Pet. 3.15 that reprieves thee would pardon thee didst thou sue for his pardon as thou wouldst beg for thy Life for he is so Gracious that he waits that he may be gracious Isaiah 30.18 Hosea 12.6 Gods thoughts not to be measured by ours Prov. 12.10 Therefore turn thou to thy God and wait on thy God continually And think not to measure his pardoning Mercies by thine which are cruelties nor by thy frowardness and passions nor by thy hard Thoughts and evil surmises as if God was altogether such a one as thy self till thou canst measure the space betwixt the Heavens and the Earth for so high are his thoughts above thy thoughts or till thou canst find in thy heart to follow thine Enemy Isa 55.7 8 9. moment by moment all the dayes of his life with thine unwearied care for his safety and providence for his supply and by that time that thou hast done for thine Enemy as God hath taught thee by what he hath done for thee Gods challenge to Man 't is like that thou wilt have better thoughts of thy God or if thou have not come and testifie against him If thou darest or if thou canst for 't is a challenge of Gods own making Micah 6.3 O my people what have I done to thee testifie against me and I as his Herauld proclaim this his challenge to thee But if thou keep silence let me speak and tell thee plainly what he hath done unto thee He made thee a Man that might have made thee a Brute and gave thee a Soul endued with Reason Jer. 38.16 Psalm 139.14.15 Improveable by Grace and so capable of Salvation He gave thee thy shape that might have made thee a Monster and made thee desirable to others who might have made thee a burthen to thy self The Hand of his Providence took thee out of thy Mothers womb and hath ever since suffered thee to hang upon it though thou Psalm 22.9 like a Viper hast fastened thy teeth so deep in it that thy venomous biting hath often gone as it were to his very heart and he with more ease might have shaken thee off into the Fire of his wrath Acts 28.5 Psalm 71.6 He kept thee from ten thousand Deaths and Dangers in thy fearless Infancy careless Childhood hardy and adventrous youth and troublesome Manhood to the very moment that thou art reading this He made thy Bed in thy last sickness Psalm 41.3 Psalm 36.6 Psalm 107.30 bare thee up in his everlasting Arms the last time that thou fellest

God and saying Glory to God in the highest on Earth PEACE and GOOD WILL towards men On Earth Peace no Peace for Hell Goodwill towards Men Yet Christ is for fallen men not Angels Hebr. 2.16 but not Devils for Christ took not on him the Nature of Angels but the seed of Abraham O this is that the thought whereof is such matter of Admiration to the good Angels and such horrour and Confusion to the fallen Angels whose eye towards us is so much the more Evil because Gods hath been so good And shall not all this procure God thy good Thought of him Why were there no more but this that Salvation is Possible for Thee but not so for Them this were something to be thought of But now that Salvation is Proffered and laid in thy very way that thou canst not if thou wouldest step towards Hell without trampling upon Gods bowels of Mercy Hebr. 10.13 and treading under foot the Son of God and blood of the Covenant where all is Free to Thee Covenant of Grace gives what it requires Isaiah 1.16 Ezek. 35.25 and 18.31 with 13.26 how ever dear to Christ and the Yoke easie the Covenant being GRACE Requiring onely what it hath to give and giving what it requires saying Wash you and make you clean c. and again I will powre clean water upon you and you shall be clean and from all your filthiness will I cleanse you c. Saying make you a new Heart and a new Spirit c and again a new heart also will I give you and a new Spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh and I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my Statutes and ye shall keep my Judgments and do them c. Having such Grace Slighting of Gospel-Grace a sin of Men not Devils I say proffered us as the Devil never had let us think what will become of us if we sin such a SIN as the Devil never did who never had a pardon tendered him to sling it back into God's face who never had a Christ or a Covenant of Grace preached unto him but was forced to speak truth in that though he be a lyar that he hath nothing to do with Jesus Matth. 8.29 Isaiah 9.6 except it be to his Torment But saith the Scripture To us is the Child born to us is the Son given It saith not to Angels but to us Though we may well think that Elect Angels 1 Tim. 5.21 as the Apostle calls them are so in Him but if Christ be their Head yet not so as he is Ours Men otherwise concerned in Christ then Angels 1 Pet. 1.12 A head of Confirmation to them of Redemption to us and so born to us And shall He be so much thought of by Angels and not thought of by us Nay 't is our Concernment that the Apostle saith the Angels do so much desire to prie into Dan. 9.23 Eph. 3.10 and They are advantaged herein by the Church as the Angel Gabriel by Daniels Prayer To the intent saith the Apostle that now unto the Principalities and Powers in beavenly places might be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God Sect. XXXII COncernment is wont to be the greatest Conducement to thoughts Our concern Men will mind their own Business when anothers shall be out of their Thoughts and this is our great nay our onely Concernment for there is but One thing needful Luke 11.42 Christ Ours Heb. 1.12 Luke 9.2 Matth. 1.23 Immanuel God with us Make all ours Greatness John 20.17 for thus we may think if Christ be not Ours there is nothing Ours for Christ is Heir of all things nay We have lost our selves and are cast away But if Christ be Ours All is Ours for his Name is Immanuel which is by Interpretation God with us and if God be with us well may our Thoughts be with God and surely they cannot but be well if they be with God Gods greatness is amazing but when his goodness hath made it Ours how comforting I go saith Christ to my Father and your Father and to My God and Your God Gods JUSTICE is terrible Justice but his Justice paid off satisfied attoned reconciled Justice befriending how amiable God is faithful and JUST to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from unrighteousness 1 John 1.9 if we confess our sins what a word is there If we burthen our selves with them ●s the matter is ordered in the Covenant of Grace Justice it self will befriend us by discharging us of them if we be but so honest and candid as to own them and to own him that hath owned them and paid for them who is mentioned there by the Apostle but a verse or two before God is so just as to pardon them 1 John 1.7 Deliver him Job 33.24 saith God I have found a Ransom Justice disclaims a double payment Holiness The holiness of God what a dreadful thought is it and how may it make a poor sinful man to cry out as the men of Beth-shemesh 1 Sam. 6.20 Rom. 8.3 Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God But then to think again that this Holy God is become Man and in the likeness of sinful Flesh and for Sin that he might condemn Sin in the Flesh 1 Cor. 1.30 and that He is made unto us of God not onely Righteousness but Sanctification this may make us to give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness Psalm 30.4 as it is in the Psalmist Highness Gods HIGHNESS what an awful thought is it to Us that are at such an infinite distance from Him But to think withall that though the Lord be high yet He hath respect to the lowly Psalm 138.6 and 136.23 and regard to our low estate and hath so far humbled himself as to embrace our Dunghil to cloth himself with our Flesh to lodge in a Womb without abhorrence in a Manger in a Grave nay by his Spirit in a Sinners heart so that We may say with the Psalmist Psalm 113.5 6 7. Who is like unto our God who dwelleth on high yet HUMBLETH himself to raise up the Poor out of the Dust and the Needy out of the Dunghill for Christ's HUMILIATION and Condescention is our Exaltation O what cause is here to rejoyce in his highness as the Prophet speaks And if greatness Isaiah 13.3 Cant. 1.3 Cant. 2.4 and holiness and justice are made such Repast by a Covenant of Grace to our Thoughts well may We remember his LOVE more then Wine Here O here Wee should muster up our Thoughts and bring them into a Full Body and lay Gods Commands upon them to stand to their colours for the BANNER over us is LOVE Sect. XXXIII ANd here let me charge thee O Reader LOVE 1