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A76270 A nosegay of divine truths; wherein the chief points of religion are ingeniously discussed, and also the doctrines of predestination, reprobation, &c. rightly determined Highly necessary for all Christians to peruse. And digested into 50 chapters; both French and English, for the benefit of those who are desirous to improve themselves in the French or English tongues. By P.B. formerly of the order of S. Francis, now a convert to the Church of England P. B. 1687 (1687) Wing B152A; ESTC R230839 97,134 289

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you ought to respect and obey them If J. Christ the only Son of God your Lord and Saviour was willing to pay Tribute unto Caesar and be Subject unto him why shall a Man of the Common People refuse to obey the high Powers You are not to be the Judg of them that are Established from God to Rule If what they Command be not an Evident Sin you must obey and you are not to dispute and argue to know whether what they ordain be Just If you do not clearly see that their Ordinances are opposite to those of God you ought to Judg of them Charitably and cleave thereunto If you idly spend your time in hearkening either to your Passion or Discourses of Wicked and Seditious Persons they will persuade you that white is black and that the Magistrates Ordinance made and Publish'd for the Glory of God the Salvation of your Soul and Common good is but to ensnare your Conscience and for the utter Ruin of the good Government Consider that all Misfortune of Mankind came because Eve spent idly her time in Discoursing with the Serpent He said unto her yea hath God said the shall not eat of every Tree of the Garden she said unto the Serpent we may eat of the Fruit of the Trees of the Garden but of the Fruit of the Tree which is in the midst of the Garden God hath said ye shall not eat of it neither shall ye touch it lest ye Dye and the Serpent said unto the Woman ye shall not surely Dye for God doth know that in the Day ye eat thereof then your Eyes shall he opened and ye shall be as Gods knowing good and Evil Gen. 3. She suffered he● self to be persuaded by the Serpent She did not obey God who commanded her not to eat of the Fruit of the Tree of the knowledg of good and Evil. And this is the spring of all our Miseries Your King and Superiors make and publish an Ordinance in nothing contrary to Gods Law you busie your selves in hearkning unto your Passion and talking and arguing with Wicked malecontent and Seditious Persons they make you believe that that Ordinance tends to the Total Destruction of your Religion Liberty and Priviledg of the Subject you transgress this Commandment and so loose your Life Goods Honor and very often you are the cause of all the troubles and miseries which afterwards unfortunately happen in a Kingdom CHAP. XLVIII How Men ought to behave themselves in their troubles WHither you be rich or poor old or young in health or in disease you must not expect to be without troubles Did you ever hear of any Man that was freed from ' em Are there not daily complaints made in our Streets I do not believe that there is any Man in the World more unhappy in Wife and Children than I am saith one Do not you hear others saying that they know not how to maintain their Family and that they are so perplext that if Death should present it self it would be pleasant to them Doth not the Wise complain of her Husband and the Husband of his Wife the Father of the Child and the Child of his Father the Master of his Servant and the Servant of his Master To make it short where will you find a Man that can say I am free from all troubles and afflictions The Disease is general and this is the Remedy When you are in troubles you must not say 't is long of this Man or of that Woman so did the Israelites spake they murmured against Moses they would have stoned him saying that it was long of him that they were afflicted You must not do as the Dog doeth who when any Man throws a stone at him is wont to run after it and bite it instead of assaulting and biting him that threw it You must let the Creature alone and run strait unto God acknowledging that he being a Father altogether good and wise if he will have you to be in troubles 't is certainly for your advantage though it seems to you otherwise You must submit your selves to his Will saying Lord if thou wilt have me to be poor I will be so if thou wilt have me to be sick I am content if deprived of my Wife Children or Estate nay of my Honour I wholly submit my self to thy holy Will fretting will but increase your miseries submission onely easeth you Suppose that you live in time of War or Famine that they ravish your Children that to one they cut off his Arms to the other his Legs and chop them to the pot that would be very difficult for you to bear scarcely could you see this cruelty without dying Weep Lament Pray to the end that what happened formerly in other Countries may never happen in this Land. But suppose the same should happen what must you do then You ought not to blame this Man nor that Woman you ought to accuse your selves and confess that your sins have deserv'd such Punishments kiss the Rod that strikes you and pray to God with tears to remove his Flail In whatsoever affliction you be you must turn to God for as the Water is in the Sea and the Light in the Sun so Comfort is in God. If you be Poor Pray if Sick Pray if Sorrowfull Pray Prayer is a Key that openeth any Lock 't is a Medecine that healeth any Wound a Weapon that will prevail in any Place Prayers have prevailed in dens and dungeons Men have made Prayers for Captives for Prisoners for poor Men sick dying persecuted tempted sorrowfull afflicted by Beasts Men and Devils and have holpen them Peter was kept in Prison bound with two Chains and the Keepers before the door kept the Prison but Prayer was made of the Church unto God for him and behold the Angel of the Lord came and delivered him Act. 12. The effectual fervent Prayer of a Righteous Man availeth much saith St. James Elias was a Man subject to the same Passions as we are and he Prayed earnestly that it might not rain and it rained not on the Earth by the space of three years and six months and he Prayed again and the Heaven gave rain and the Earth brought forth her fruit Jam. 5.16.17 CHAP. XLIX A necessary Preparation to every one that desires whorthily to receive the Lords Supper LET a Man examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup saith Paul 1 Cor. 11.28 examine whether your Sins be bloted out and therefore Examine whether you are truly Penitent Cease to do evil and learn to do well and though your Sins be as Scarlet they shall be as white as Snow though they be red like Crimson they shall be as Wool. Isa 1.17 True Repentance contains three parts Contrition Confession and Satisfaction To the end that Contrition may be good it ought to be Respective Universal supernatural It must be like a Janus with two Faces by one it must