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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27153	The journal or diary of a thankful Christian presented in some meditations upon Numb. 33:2 / by J.B., Master of Arts, and Minister of the Gospel at Barnstone in Essex.	Beadle, John, d. 1667.; Fuller, John, b. 1640 or 41.	1656 (1656)	Wing B1557; ESTC R20752	111,367	248

bloody Amalekites and fiery Serpents were in their way So falls it out with any Christian who though whilest he walked in the broad way that leads to more then an Aegyptian darknesse and bondage he had no cause of complaint but all went well with him yet when he set his face to heaven and walkt in that narrow way that leads to life then found that his wants were many and his temptations great The best even in the midst of their abundance have their just complaints and he that hath most hath not all One man hath wealth but no honour he is under a cloud another hath wealth and honour but not a dayes health scarce in a moneth a third hath all these but not a childe The life of the best is like a shuttle-cock kept up a while betwix● two battle-dores and at the last falls to the ground Betwixt prosperity and adversity good dayes and evill light and darknesse our lives run on and at the last we are laid in the grave The Germanes have a proverbiall saying of the three Princes Electors that the Pal●sgrave hath the honour Brandenburg the land but the Duke of Saxony the money No man hath all Even Adam in Paradise was taught to want something he must not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evill Moses one of the five grand favourites of heaven called in one chap. five times the servant of the Lord. And to be a servant of God is a great honor Deo servire regnare est To serve God is to reign And yet Moses must not go into the Land of Canaan though he begg'd hard for it Let it suffice thee saith God to him speak no more to me of that matter I know no man that enjoys that abundance of all good things but I may say to him as our Saviour to the young man in the Gospel One thing thou lackest If the possession of many things make us proud God knows how by the want of one thing to keep us humble Oh be sure that one thing be not that one thing necessary namely faith by which we may see God in all enjoy God with all and love God above all 3. In the midst of all our wants reckon how many wayes those wants are supplyed with other comforts God usually makes us a good amends as David said to Abisha when Shimei railed on him It may be God will requite me for this cursing this day If Adam may not eat of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the Garden yet of the fruit of every tree in the Garden besides he might freely eat If Moses may not goe into the Land of Canaan yet his body shall have the most honorable buriall that ever man had the Lord buried him and no man knows of his sepulchre unto this day and his soul went to heaven which was far better If we be straightned in outward comforts and enlarged with spirituall graces if we be weak in body and strong in the Lord if poor in the world and rich in faith if forsaken of friends and God stands by us we have no great cause to complain Travellers into forain parts will tell you that those Countreys that are most Paganish are most stored with gold and silver and that those lands that are without those rich mines have more of the knowledge of Christ and his wayes One man hath little to live upon but his labours but he hath a very strong and healthy body Many times the poorest men have most children which some esteem a great blessing though others look upon it as a burthen and put it into the bill of charges Even Haman when he boasted before his wife and friends of his great wealth and honors reckons the multitude of his children amongst his great preferments If one childe be a blessing then ten children are ten blessings Children of youth saith the Psalmist are like arrows in the hand of a mighty man happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them And certainly many a man would willingly part with half his estate for the fruit of the loyns and wombe If God send mouths he will provide meat Ashur's blessing was children but God will provide for him and them Ashur shall be blessed with children saith Moses but let him be acceptable to his Brethren and let him dip his foot in oyl his shoes shall be iron and brasse and as his dayes be so shall his strength be His bread shall be fat saith Jacob and be shall yeeld royall dainties Every childe that cometh into the world commonly hath two breasts The like may be said of any other wants and the several wayes by which God is pleased to supply them very graciously to his yea sometimes to those that are without It is said of Galba the Emperor of Rome that he had a crooked body but a good head insomuch that one said of him Galbo's great wit had but an homely habitation Aesop was much deformed but very wise and Erasmus a plain man but a great Scholar Such a man and blessed be God there are many such is but one story high in the world but a very godly man and high in Gods favour and esteem of all his people To conclude could any man live the dayes of Methuselah and should all his way lie by Weeping-crosse God reconciled in Christ with the enjoyment of heaven at the last would make amends for all 4. Take great notice of the singular peculiar excellency of all Gods dispensations towards you above the world Your waters are become wine your gleanings are better then the vintage of the world God dealeth with you as with Sons the Servant shall have his wages and it may be a livery but the Son shall have better He is the Saviour of all but especially of them that believe Every passage of providence towards you if you be the Lords hath something more speciall in it God hath choyce mercies for a chosen generation peculiar favours for a peculiar people hidden comforts for his hidden ones that which eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor can enter into a carnall heart to conceive See this made good in three passages 1. Such have ever what the world hath and something more an overplus the meanest Christian may vie comforts with the greatest men of the world as Paul sometimes with the false Apostles Are they Hebrews So am I. Are they Israelites So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham So am I. Are they Ministers of Christ I am more in labours more abundant c. So a gracious heart Are the men of the world honorable So am I that am a Son of God and a partaker of the divine Nature Have they friends So have I that have union to and communion with Jesus Christ and his members Are they rich So am I that am rich in faith and an heir of heaven as poor

things and keep that which is good Unity is the highest mystery in heaven and would be the greatest happinesse on earth could we enjoy it Union is from God division from the Devil who where he comes with his cloven feet separates chief friends and surely such are factors for hell that cause divisions that observe Machidvel's rule they divide that they may rule but surely the end of such wayes will be their owne confusion The champion Mile when he thrust his hands into the clefts of an Oak thinking thereby to make the breach the wider was caught and there held till he was devoured by wilde beasts God grant that such envyous persons that do sow the tares of division may reap the fruit of such labours even confusion He graciously fulfill his promise and give us one heart and one way He hear the prayers of his dear Son and grant that we may be one He turn our heart-burnings into heart-breakings and unite us fast together in the unity of the spirit with the bond of peace This I contesse is one of the sicknesses of these times which alone is enough to make a gracious heart weary of his life and long to be at home in heaven out of the reach of ●o mischievous an evil Melanchthon when he lay on his death-bed discovered not only much willingnesse to dye but much joy ●t the thoughts of his approaching end and being asked by one the reason of it answered that it was because he should then see Christ and his Church above where he was sure there was no such contentions amongst brethren as was here which he often ●amented with tears This I say is our sicknesse but yet my finger is not upon the plague-sore 2. Some peradventure will think Hypocrisie to be that sin and indeed much profession of Religion without the power of godlinesse is common in these dayes wherein men have learned the art of looking one way and rowing another pretending one thing and doing the quite contrary These are like not onely Apothecaries boxes that have golden titles and nothing in them but like painted sepulchres full of rotten●esse and noysome filthinesse There are seven abominations in such mens hearts These men are like curious pictures of men and women drawn to life but if you look behinde them you may see store of dust and cobwebs Or they are like to some of our Innes in Market-towns where you may see a Crown for the Signe and a Begger for the Host an Angel at the dore and a Devil for the Hostess who under the glorious profession of sanctity dare act the greatest villany Jehu his pretence is zeal for the Lord of Hosts but his plot is the Kingdome Ahab and Jezabel proclaim a Fast pretending the punishment of blasphemy but they intend thereby to take away Naboth's both life and vineyard And though all hypocrites have not attained to this height of hellish iniquity yet they are like some children that are sick of a disease they call the Rickets who have great heads and big bellies but shrimpled hands and weak knees They are men of great parts but no gifts not one of many are given to good works whileft they live and when they dye something is given to the poor by their Testament but not by their Will It is said that Isaac digged more Wells and found more water then Abraham and questionlesse the knowledge of most men is this latter age of the world exceeds that of former times The earth is full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters that cover the earth Nay mens knowledge is profound like waters that came out of the Sanctuary it is grown deeper from the ankles to the loyns but it is to be feared the water● of the Sanctuary have put out the fire that should burn in the Sanctuary and that our great knowledge hath quite drowned our zeal so that all those mens religion is run out of the heart into the head The world is full of such who are like the heads that Jehu caused to be laid at the gate of Jezreel a great many heads but never an heart amongst them all The Toad some say hath a pearl in the head I am sure it hath poyson in the belly These speak like Cato but live like Lucullus Leah had bad eyes but she was fruitfull Rachel had a better sight but she was barren Our Fathers saw lesse but did more these men professe they know God but in works ●deny him being abominable and unto every good work reprobate such knowledge will end in ●utter darknesse and this tree of knowledge rob them of the tree of life Quis non iraseatur saith St. Aug. videns homines ore Deum confitentes negantes moribus Quis non iraseatur videns homines secuio verbis non factis renunciantes Who can choose but be angry that shall see men that confesse God with their lips and deny him in their lives that shal see men renounce the world and the lusts thereof in words but not in deeds Such men are like rogues that use to lye in the Church porch whilest others make it but the way to their attendance upon divine ordinances and religious duties These men rest in an outward profession of religion and a very form of godlinesse and go no further I wish some men were called as these be Hypocrites or be as they are called solid and judicious Christians But questionlesse many such are miscalled they have a name to live but are dead Like many of the Popes of Rome if the man were a Coward they called him Leo if a Clown Vrbanus if a Tyrant Clemens Such hypocrisie is hated of all The Cardinal of Lorreign a bitter enemy to Geneva and the reformed Churches when Bernardinus Ochinus offered him his service in writing against the Protestants slighted him with the greatest scorn because he knew he had dissembled and played the hypocrite And Trajan that wise and worthy Emperor professed that he had reason to hold himself discharged of all debts to those that offended more by prevarication then they ever deserved by industry But yet this is not the sin 3. There are others that will say that Apostasie is the sin of this age and certainly there may be some reason for it for we are a people given to backsliding and how hath the secret hypocrisie of many broken out into open apostasie in these times These are like gallant ships with glorious titles as the Bonaventure the Triumph c. but in a storm are ventorum ludibrium if the temptation come from the fears or flatteries of the Times they are taken with many foolish lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition and so they make shipwrack of faith and a good conscience There are three sorts of persons that are most dangerous I wish all to take great heed of them First such as might have been good but are not as the children