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A64283	Nathanael, or, An Israelite indeed lively portraied, and evidently proved to be an object most worthy both of our admiration and imitation, his priviledges and characters are also layd down : together with a discovery of the sinfulness and miserie of all hypocrites and strangers from the common-wealth of Israel / by Faithfull Teate ...	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1657 (1657)	Wing T613; ESTC R41538	79,460	204

I will spare them as a man spareth his own Son that serveth him Isaac was no lesse dear to Abraham because he had many servants to one Son so God set his love upon Israel though they were the fewest of all people Deut. 7.6 7. 2. 2. Impediment their outward meaness Neither let their outward meaness offend you for then as many of the unbelieving Jewes were offended with Christ Jesus their head for this very cause Mark 6.3 so if you had lived and seen him in the daies of his flesh you would have been offended at him also As the evangelicall prophet foretold Isa 53.2 3 he shall grow up as a root out of a dry ground he hath no forme nor comelinesse and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him He is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrowes and acquainted with griefe and we hid as it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteemed him not Are they poor in the world Hearken saith James my beloved brethren Jam. 2.5 Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in Faith and heires of the Kingdome which the Lord hath promised to them that love him Jam. 2.5 Doe they seem to you to be simple weak and base give eare to another Apostle See your calling brethren how not many wise men after the flesh nor many mighty nor many noble are called 1 Cor. 1.26 not many wise mighty and noble saith he yet some such are called and therefore are they wise mighty and noble because God hath called and chosen them Right Noble are they as the Bereans are called more noble then others because they received the Word with all readiness of mind Truly wise are they in as much as Jesus Christ is made of God to them wisedome And no lesse m●ghty be they for the Lord Jehovah is their everlasting strength who trust in him for ever Isa 26.4 3. The worlds contrariety to them 3 Let none like worse of them because the world hateth them speaketh evil of them and persecuteth them for so did the wicked of old Psalm 83.4 Come said they and let us cut them off from being a nation that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance 1. Hatred 1. Doth the world hate them marvell not at it 1 John 3.13 2 Christ hath foreshewed his disciples that it must needs be so and the Scripture must be fulfilled Mark 13.13 ye shall be hated not of some but of all men for my names sake but he that shall indure to the end the same shal be saved 3. he rendreth the reason of it in his prayer to his father John 17.14 I have given them thy word and the world hath hated them because they are not of the world as I am not of the world 4. for their encouragement he giveth them to understand that it hated him before it hated them John 15.18 and can we expect better entertainment then our Lord 5. none hate them but such as are the children of the devil as God hath revealed to his elect from the beginning Gen. 3.15 I will put enmity saith God to the Serpent between thee and the woman between thy seed and her seed 6. they that hate the righteous shall be cloathed with shame dishonour Psalm 35.26.7 God hath sworn to deliver all that fear him out of the hand of all that hate them Luke 1.71.74 8 The Lord shall appear one day to their joy and their enemies confusion Isa 66.5 Secondly 2 Reproches be not deterred from entring into the way of holinesse for fear of cruel mockings grievous reproaches calumnies of wicked men for 1. their tongues are set on fire of Hell Jam. 3.6 and they cannot but run when the devil driveth them 2. They are a generation of Vipers how then can they being evill speak good things Mat. 12.34 3 Christ hath made it a note of an execrable person when all men speak well of him saying to such wo unto you when all men speak well of you for so did their fathers to the false prophets Luke 6.26 4 Christ himselfe escaped not the scourge of the tongue nor was there ever any more lashed therewith than he who is most-worthy to be praised for all eternity 2 Sam. 22.4 whence he inferreth Mat. 10.24 25. The Disciple is not above his master nor the servant above his Lord It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master and the servant as his Lord if they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub how much more shall they call them of the household 5. Fear them not therefore for there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed and hid that shall not be known verse 26. that is God in due time will set all to rights The Apostle having respect to this distinguisheth between Gods judgment and mans judgement or day as it is in the greek Text saith with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you or of mans judgement but he that judgeth me is the Lord. Therefore he exhorteth us to judg nothing before the time untill the Lord come who both will bring to light the hidden things of darknesse and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts and then shall every man have praise of God 1 Cor. 4.3 4 5. 3 3. Suffering from Gods immediate hand Be not discouraged by reason of the sufferings of Gods chosen in this life either from Gods immediate hand but consider in your hearts that as a man chasteneth his son so the Lord chasteneth his people Deut. 8.5 for blessed is the man whom he chasteneth and teacheth out of his Law Psalm 94 12. and If you indure chastening God dealeth with you as with his sons but if you be without chastisement whereof all are partakers then are you bastards and not sons Heb. 12 7 8. That which moveth God to correct his children is love and his end is their own profit for though afflictions seeme for the present not to be joyous but grievous neverthelesse afterward they yeeld the peaceable fruit of righteousnesse to them that are exercised thereby Or from men Or men as Gods instruments permitted for their tryall either to deprive them of their meanes outward comforts and relations but readily forgoe all for Christ who hath assured u s that every one that forsaketh houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands together with liberty and life it self for his names sake shall receive an hundred fold and shall inherit everlasting life Mat. 19.29 Usurers put out their mony after the rate of an hundred for six to the great hazard of their souls but here you may have an hundred for one from a sure hand with the salvation of your souls to boot Quest But how do those who lose any thing especially their lives for Iesus Christ receive an 100. fold in this

another of them as Judas was hanged upon the silver hook of profit Herod was blown up with the blast of applause and Dives sunk in the gulf of voluptuousnesse but when they all joyne together in one there is hardly any avoiding of their sollicitations which take with us the more easily 1. when they are suitable to any of our inclinations 2. be●ause they yeeld present contentments ● are in some sort necessary without which we think we cannot well be ● and in themselves they are not ab●●lutely prohibited and therefore are ●ot altogether unlawfull * Licitis perimus omnes but onely ●nfull profits are destructive witnesse Achan who seeing among the spoyls ● goodly Babylonish garment and two ●undred shekles of silver and a wedg of Gold c. coveted and took them ● the ruine of himself and his family ●os 7.21.25 and Gehazi who took ●wo talents of Silver with two chan●es of garments from Naaman the Sy●an whose leprosie also clave unto him ●nd his seed for ever 2 Kings 5.26 27. ●he former of these exchanged his life for filthy lucre the latter lost his health to gaine wealth to whom let us add wicked Ahab who sold himselfe for Naboths vineyard 1 Kings 21.25 and that you may not make the like bargain remember the Question in the Gospel Mark 8.36 what shall it profit a man to gaine the whole world and lose his owne soule So vicious pleasures termed the lusts of the flesh war against the soul 1 Pet. 2.11 And when they are extinct leave weeping and howling behind them Jam. 5.1.5 as inordinate affectation of worldly credit and dignity keepeth out true honour and bringeth in everlasting shame and infamie for truth it selfe hath spoken it If any man desire to be first the same shall be last of all and servant of all Mark 9.35 and he that exalteth himself shall be abased Luke 14.11 All these three are condemned together 1 Iohn 2.15 16 17. Love not the world neither the things that are in the world for all that is in the world the lusts of the flesh the lusts of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the father but is of the world which doom is backed with a threefold argument 1 These things are not of the Father 2. they are inconsistent with the * Grynaeus in hunc locum Cyprian Cum mun dus oderi● Christianum quid amas eu● qui te odit Serum 4. Demortalitate Love of the father 3. the world passeth away and the lusts thereof Lastly all these three were contemned by Moses that worthy servant of God for which he is highly commended Heb. 11.24 he 1. despised the honours of the world he refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter 2. he rejected worldly pleasures chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sinne for a season verse 25. 3 He vilified the pelfe of the world esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches then the treasures in Aegypt if it be demanded What enabled him to do so The Answer is given they did all this as you also may doe by faith for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward v. 26. This life is the time of doing service in the close of the day will be a time of receiving wages Sect. 1 Hitherto the outward Lets now the inward impediments are to be discussed which are more difficult and dangerous yet because some of them are of the same alloy with the former I shall ●e briefer in them Inter●ll im●dment ●●norance 1. Ignorance keepeth off thousands from joyning themselves to this small number of Israelites indeed Pharoh did not know who the Lord God of Israel was Exod. 5.1 2. And therefore the world knoweth us not because they know not the father whose sons we are 1 John 3.1 Every true Israelite hath Manna given him to eat of but it is hidden and a white stone with a new name written thereon but none knoweth it saving he that receiveth it Rev. 2.17 2. Prejudice is a great remora many take the true Israelites 2 prejudice for so many Gypsies I meane hypocrites and the less wonder is it because they are too prone to take one another for no better As Jobs friends adjudged that upright person to be such one after another Aske Bildad the Shuit what he thinketh of Job he concludeth he is an hypocrite Job 8.13 Zophar the Naamathites verdict agreeth with the foreman 's Chapter 20 5. But Eliphaz the Temanite it may be will be more charitable no he answers both like an Echo and styles him an hypocrite Job 15.34 yet all this while Jobs conscience acquitteth him Chap. 27.5 6. and the Lord when he cometh to decide the controversie doth not onely acquit him but preferreth him before all three of them Job 32.7 8. But what will the men of the world thinke and say when they hear true Israelites themselves not only questioning their estates but crying out as the church did in great extremities my hope is perished from the Lord Lam. 3.18 3. 3. Vnbeliefe As faith maketh those in whom it is children of Abraham and blessed with him Galat. 3.7.9 children of the promise Chap. 4.28 children not of the bondwoman but of the free v. 31. yea children of God Gal. 3 26. and heirs according to promise v. 29. so by unbeliefe were many even of the Jews broken off Rom. 11.20 And what hindereth them now above sixteen hundred yeares from being graffed in again nothing but unbeliefe for the Apostle foresheweth that they also if they bide not still in unbelief shall be graffed in for God is able to graffe them in againe v. 23. A 4th internal obstacle is Inconsideration 4. Inconsideration when a man beginneth in part to be convinced and almost perswaded with king Agrippa to be a Christian Act. 26.28 yet waveth such thoughts and suffereth not the word to sink down into his heart and dwell there til it hath wrought a thorough change in him and doth become an engraffed word which is able to save his soul Jam. 1.21 but quencheth the motions of the holy Spirit in him and so proveth abortive 1 Thess 5.19 5. Prophaness A 5. Hinderance is Prophaness of Spirit without which outward objects of pleasures and profits could not bewitch poore soules so far as to make them to prefer lying vanities before their owne mercy Jonah 2.8 Esau-like who for one morsel of meat profanely made an irrecoverable sale of his birth right Heb. 12.16 6. Sloath. 6. * Otium est hominis vivi sepultura Senec. l. 1. Ep. 82. Slothfulness casteth many into a dead sleepe Pro. 19.15 and then neither can they heare good counsell nor embrace any good offers nor see nor feare any mischiefe nor shun any enimies or imminent dangers though the house be on fire over their heads or the ship wherein they are sleeping be in extreame perill of