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A52107
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Go in peace. Containing some brief directions for young ministers, in their visitation of the sick Useful for the people, in their state both of health, and sickness.
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Martin, John.
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1674
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Wing M840; ESTC R223744
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thoughts and intents of the heart Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do James 1.25 Whoso looketh into the perfect Law of liberty and continueth therein he being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work this man shall be blessed in his deed Rev. 3.1 2. I know thy works that thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead Be watchful and strengthen the things that remain that are ready to dye for I have not found thy works perfect before God Verse 17. Thou sayest I am rich and encreased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked Fourthly Calling upon God for assistance 1 Sam. 16.7 The Lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart Psal 139.23 24. Try me O God and seek the ground of my heart prove me and examine my thoughts Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me and lead me in the way everlasting Jer. 10.23 O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himself it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps Chap. 17.10 I the Lord search the heart I try the reins even to give every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings James 1.5 If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him The examination and Trial of his State must be governed by such rules of Scripture as relate to the consideration First Of his life past with respect First To the Law of God as it is opened and expounded by our Blessed Saviour in the 5th 6th and 7th Chap. of St. Matthew Secondly The duty of furnishing his soul with Divine graces and habits of virtue Psal 45.14 The Kings daughter is all glorious within her clothing is of wrought Gold Jer. 31.33 34. I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts For they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them Ezek. 36.27 I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and do them Mat. 5.3 to 13. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth Blessed are they which hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake Chap. 13.12 Whosoever hath to him shall be given and he shall have more abundance but whosoever hath not from him shall be taken away even that he hath Chap. 18.3 Verily I say unto you except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven 2 Pet. 1.5 to 11. Besides this giving all diligence add to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledg And to knowledg temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness And to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity For if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledg of our Lord Jesus Christ But he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins Wherefore the rather Brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye do these things ye shall never fall Thirdly The Performance of particular duties in his several Relations and Profession Acts 13.36 David after he had served his own generation by the will of God fell on sleep and was laid unto his fathers Rom. 12.4 5 6 7. As we have many members in one body and all members have not the same office so we being many are one body in Christ and every one members one of another Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us whether prophesie let us prophesie according to the proportion of faith Or ministry let us wait on our ministring Or he that teacheth on teaching Ephes 6.1 4 5 6. Children obey your Parents in the Lord. Fathers provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Servants be obedient to them that are your Masters Not with eye-service as menpleasures but as the servants of Christ Masters do the same things to them 1 Pet. 2.13 Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake Chap. 3.1 7. Wives be in subjection unto your Husbands Likewise Husbands dwell with their Wives according to knowledg giving them honour as unto the weaker vessel and as being heirs together of the grace of life Secondly His present condition in reference to their duties 1. Of Restitution and Satisfaction Gen. 43.12 Take double money in your hand and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks peradventure it was an oversight Exod. 22.5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten and shall put in his beast and shall feed in another mans field of the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard shall he make restitution Levit. 24.18 And he that killeth a Beast shall make it good Beast for Beast Nehem. 5.9 10 11. It is not good that ye do I likewise and my brethren and my servants might exact of them money and corn I pray you let us leave off this usury Restore I pray you to them even this day their lands their vineyards their oliveyards and their houses also the hundred part of the money and of the corn the wine the oyl that you exact of them Then said they we will restore it Isa 61.8 I the Lord love judgment I hate robbery for burntoffering Mich. 2.1 2. Wo unto them that devise iniquity They covet fields and take them by violence and houses and take them away So they oppress a man and his house even a man and his heritage Hab. 2.6 Wo unto him that increaseth that which is not his Zech. 5.1 3 4. I looked and behold a flying Roll. This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth and it shall enter into the house of the thief and into the house of him that sweareth falsly by my Name and it shall remain in the middest of his house
she loved much Chap. 23.42 43. And he said unto Jesus Lord remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdom And Jesus said unto him verily I say unto thee to day shalt thou be with me in Paradise 1 Tim. 1.15 16. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering for a pattern to them who should hereafter believe on him to everlastinglife Sixthly Examples of fear and desertion in holy men 1 Sam. 27.1 And David said in his heart I shall now one day perish by the hand of Saul Job 7.13 14 15. When I say my bed shall comfort me my couch shall ease my complaint Then thou scarest me with dreams and terrifiest me through visions So that my soul chooseth strangling and death rather than my life Chap. 14.16 17. Thou numbrest my steps dost thou not watch over my sins My transgression is sealed up in a bag and thou sowest up mine iniquity Chap. 30.20 I cry unto thee and thou dost not hear I stand up and thou regardest me not Thou art become cruel to me with thy strong hand thou opposest thy self against me Lam. 5.20 21 22. Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever and forsake us so long time Turn thou us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned renew our days as of old But thou hast utterly rejected us thou art very wroth against us Mat. 27.46 Jesus cried with a loud voice saying my God my God why hast thou forsaken me Fifthly When the Minister doth think there is cause to suspect the considence of the sick person as not safely grounded for greater caution and searching out the truth thereof those passages of Scripture are useful that point at First The deceitfulness of mans heart Job 18.5 14. The light of the wicked shall be put out and the spark of his fire shall not shine His confidence shall be rooted out of his Tabernacle and it shall bring him to the king of terrours Isa 5.21 Wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight Chap. 58.2 They seek me daily and delight to know my ways as a Nation that did righteousness and forsook not the Ordinance of their God they ask of me the Ordinances of Justice and take delight in approaching unto God Chap. 59.6 Ther webs shall not become garments neither shall they cover themselves with their works Jer. 17.9 The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it Luke 16.15 Ye are they which justifie your selves before men but God knoweth your hearts Rom. 10.1 2. My hearts desire and prayer unto God for Israel is that they might be saved For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God but not according to knowledg 1 Cor. 3.3 Whereas there is among you envying and strife and divisions are ye not carnal and walk as men Gal. 6.3 4 7. If a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself But let every man prove his own work and then shall he have rejoycing in himself alone and not in another Be not decieved God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap James 1.26 27. If any man among you seem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart that mans Religion is vain Pure Religion and undefil'd before God and the Father is this To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world Secondly The subtilty of Satan Gen. 3.1 The serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field And he said unto the woman ye shall not surely dye For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as Gods knowing good and evil 1 Chron. 21.1 And Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel Job 1.7 The Lord said unto Satan whence comest thou Then Satan answered the Lord and said from going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it 1 King 22.22 I will go forth and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his Prophets Mat. 16.23 Get thee behind me Satan for thou art an offence unto me for thou savourest not the things that be of God but those things that be of men Acts 16.16 17. And it came to pass as we went to prayer a certain damosel possessed with a spirit of Divination met us which brought her Masters much gain by soothsaying The same followed Paul and us and cryed saying These men are the servants of the most high God which shew unto us the way of salvation 2 Cor. 2.8 11. I beseech you that you would confirm your love towards him Lest Satan should get an advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices Chap. 11.3 14 I fear least by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty So your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ For Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light 1 Thes 3.5 For this cause when I could no longer forbear I sent to know your faith lest by some means the tempter have tempted you and our labour be in vain Thirdly Admonition to make a strict search into our hearts Psal 77.6 In the night I commune with mine own heart and search out my spirit Jer. 6.14 They have healed the hurt of the Daughter of my People slightly saying Peace Peace when there is no Peace Malac. 3.2 3. Who may abide the day of his coming and who shall stand when he appeareth for he is like a Refiners fire and like Fullers soap And he shall sit as a Refiner and purifyer of silver 1 Cor. 3.13 Every mans work shall be made manifest For the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall try every mans work of what sort it is Chap. 4.4 I know nothing by my self yet am I not hereby justified but he that judgeth me is the Lord. Chap. 11.28 Let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup. 2 Cor. 13.5 Examine your selves whether ye be in the faith prove your own selves know you not your own selves that Jesus Christ is in you except you be reprobates Phil. 4.8 Brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue if there be any praise think on these things Heb. 4.12 13. The word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the