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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55570	Tsofer bepaḥ, or, The bird in the cage, chirping four distinct notes to his consorts abroad I. of consideration, counsel and consolation, II. some experiences and observations gathered in affliction ..., III. the lamentations of Jeremiah ..., IV. a true Christians spiritual pilgrimage setting forth his afflicted and consolatory state in another metre : and as a preface hereto, an epistle to the Welsh churches, and a brief narrative of the former propagation and late restriction of the Gospel ... in Wales ... / by Vava. Powell.	Powell, Vavasor, 1617-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing P3078; ESTC R19436	71,339	204

Profession and Practice of him Persecution Clear knowledge of Christ in the understanding begets fervent love in the heart and both Godliness in the life When a man is imprisoned and shut up from men he is the more shut up with God Account it not restraint as long as thy heart can goe out towards God and his people and waies in affection and Prayer Retiredness and close imprisonment drives a man to hold closer Communion with God and to a stricter Search of himself I would be glad to be out of the World when I have no Service to do for God in it He that would live for himself only or chiefly in the world is not worthy to live a day in it If I may not have Liberty to serve Christ I would have the Glory to Suffer for Christ Never fear Death but when sin is in the way to it either as a cloud hiding thy assurance or as a provoking Cause pulling death as a punishment upon thee Com. I would not have God pluck me to heaven in Anger As a master seeing his Servant sleepy or sloathful turns him out of the field and from his work to sleep and take his rest at home I would willingly work for Christ to eternity if I could without asking any more wages then I had already and skill power and delight to do his work If an Earthly Jubilee or outward deliverance come to Gods people whilst thou live here be rosolved to give both thy Ears to be bor'd through and to abide with him and return no more to sin or the world Never reckon what thou hast of outward and wordly things unless it be to Praise God for them or to Serve God better with them Compar Take heed that preparatory meditation to prayer doth not prevent Prayer it self or put you beside Prayer Secret Prayer is either a familiar Speaking to God and with God or a pouring out of the heart before God through his Son our Saviour by his Spirit Sometimes ejaculations or short and suddain Pantings and breathings out of desires to God may be more acceptable to him and prevailing with him then long prayers One of the three Radicall sins spoken of in 1 Joh. 2.16 is every man's master-sin My strongest greatest and most fervent frequent desires were to be found in Christs reghteousness to convert sinners to be Holy in all manner of Conversation and to have my lot and living among and with the people and Saints of God There may be great difference between the temper of a Christian one time and another yea in the excercising of his gifts in Praying Preaching c. I often found my heart in dayes of humiliation more affected and melted by the Prayers of weaker then stronger Brethren And likewise observ'd that sometimes in matters of counsel and advice in the Church God hath given out his minde more clearly and convincingly by such as were less esteemed in the Church then those that were most esteemed Even as the hindermost Hound hits upon the Scent when all the pack besides lose it True Godliness and Hypocrysie are best discern'd in turnings and changes either when they change their conditions by Marriages or are exalted to offices or when new opinions begin to grow Com. Mark when you see a Professor that hath been careful to walk with other Christians and to follow the Ordinances of God constantly and closely if he begin to lagge behind and to with-draw he is surely under some sore temptation or hath faln into under some sin or which is worse may be dangerously suspected for a Hypocrite The like of one that hath been very confident and cheerful and is grown doubtful and sad Com. As the sappyest wood will hardlyest take fire so the Spiritualest Christian is hardlyest overcome with temptation and corruption 1 do not remember that ever fear and threatning did as mnch prevail with me as love and kindness or that I did atempt to overcome any man so much by might and cruelty as by perswasion and mercy I never repented me since my Conversion of any thing I said did or suffered for Christ or for walking in his way of joyning with his people nor resolved to goe on in any sin or turn back from the way of God or aside from the Commandements of God or to leave Church-Society One sin hath cost me more Sorrow then all my Sufferings It is happy to dye in the Lord and honourable to dye for the Lord. A Prison or persecution is to a Christian as some scaring thing that one sees in the night at a distance but when he comes near it and to know it he is not at all afraid of it Com. A man should hold sin as one would hold a hot-iron ready to fling it out of his hand but hold the Gospel and his Profession as a man would hold a Silver-cup that hath dainty meat in it which though it be hot yet he will not let it fall or like a glass that hath wine in it which a man will not willingly let slip out of his hand Com. Seek to find out your own Errors before another find them out and to write your own Errata's Com. It is now with all or most Christians as with men that had been at a very great and full feast who have Surfeited thereby and are stomack-sick and willing rather then to continue so to take a vomit and cast up all to the dogges so Christians had rather cast up all the sweet Morsels and mamocks of worldly things which they have swallowed down to the wicked againe then have them lye as guilts upon their Consciences or blocks between their Souls and Christ The Kings of the earth will ere long be Fanaticks that is wise fools and see their folly and madness in joyning with the Beast against the Lambe But first the Lamb must give one sound overthrow and fall to the Beast Rev. 17.14 16. When the Lord is trying his People they should be trying themselves I never remembered that I had such a hard thought of God as to think he did wrong me in or by any thing he layd upon me Com. Christians should not desire deliverance before the time appointed for that is as if a woman should desire to have her child born before the full and due time Com. Some mercies are big-belly'd mercies that have many mercies in their wombes as Election Redemption c. Com. Election is like the conception Redemption like the quickning in the womb Conversion like the birth and Perseverance in holiness like growth Com. A man that goes up stairs step by step may come to the Top at last as well as he that strides two or three steps of the stairs at once so a soft-pac'd Christian by continuance and perseverance will reach heaven at last It is a commendable thing in a Traveller so to travel in the mornning as to continue or mend his pace in the Evenning Soe for a Christian to run faster the