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A64284	Rihgt [sic] thoughts, the righteous mans evidence a discourse proving our state (God-ward) to be as our thoughts are, directing how to try them and our selves by them, propounding schemes of right thoughts, with motives and rules for keeping thoughts right : in two parts / by Faithful Teat.	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1669 (1669)	Wing T614; ESTC R11474	173,501	302

very Death of Death but the believers Life So that their dying is but an entring into peace Isa 57.2 a resting in their beds and from their labours of Sins Sorrows Cares Fears Temptations Afflictions Persecutions Sicknesses Pains Wants Weaknesses Wearinesses Doubts Difficulties nay of Duties of Fastings Watchings Tears which shall then be wiped away and done away Revel 14.13 as to the Labour not the Reward for so their Works follow them Sect. XIV Of judgment Psal 49.14 Mat. 25.19 IN thinking of JUDGMENT As that glorious morning wherein the upright shall have Dominion shall sit with Christ on Thrones judging the World being openly justified themselves and set as Sheep on the right hand of God 1 Cor. 6.2 and Proclaimed by Christ the Blessed of his Father As that glorious meeting of that spiritualized body with its blessed Soul and so with Christ Mat. 25.34 To the sheep and with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the Saints to be dissolved divorced divided dissipated dispersed no more 1 Cor. 15.44 Math. 8.11 Mat. 25.33 and 41. To the Goats Psal 1.5 Mean while those Goats on the left hand that burned with Lust shall burn with horrour inwardly shall be accused accursed sentenced and condemned openly And as they would not indure the Sheep to live by them in the World they shall go by themselves shall not come into the Congregation of the just and as they loved Cursing It shall now come into their Souls and like Oyl in their Bones And so their miserable bodies made vessels of wrath fitted to Destruction ●ide to receive it without spilling Rom. 9.22 strong to hold it without breaking being re-united to their tormented Souls shall together be partakers of Misery as they formerly had been of Sin unto all Eternity Sect. XV. IN thinking of ETERNITY Of Eternity Right thoughts of it as that which is so shortly approaching and nearly concerning every one that he thinks it strange that any one should almost think of any thing else for thinking of Eternity But that he thinks again of that World of Atheisme that is in the World never fully to be confuted But by Death and Judgment and oh thinks he Atheists in this world what a sad thing it is that they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we read without God in the World but the word is Atheists in the World Eph. 2.12 No Atheists to Eternity yea but as soon as ever they go out of the World they continue Atheists no longer Those that would not believe that there was a God and a Christ by his patience and providence by his preserving them and proffering to save them Shall see there is a God and Christ Rev. 1.7 Mal. 3.19 shall then see that there is a God and a Christ too every Eye shall see him and feel that there is a God by his terrours taking hold upon them Then shall they return and discern though they would not see the Lord when his hand was lifted up in his Word and Works in the World they shall see God and be ashamed Isa 26.11 Psal 58.11 So that a man shall say verily there is a GOD. And those that would not believe that there was a Devil by their daily conversing with him and his influencing them by his filling their hearts because they say they never saw him Feel there i● a Devil shall then certainly know they are with him as he knows now that he is with them for as he shares stakes with them in sin they have their part and he hath his part In Hell share stakes with him so shall they be forc't to share stakes with them in Hell for they shall have their portion with the Devil and his Angels Mat. 25.41 As he with them here in sin And Oh thinks he how will the dainty Dives and the careless and delicate Daughters do to spend that Eternity That must have so many devices and divertisements Misery of the wicked Playes and Pastimes Ah! wretched word that thinks he and all to wear out the tediousness of a little time To spend that Eternity when the smoak of that bottomless pit Rev. 14.10 11. must be their only Air to breath in Fire their Food Brimstone their Perfume full Viols of Divine wrath their Drink Astonishment their Wine Bitter weeping and flowing Fountains Mat. 22.13 and ever Running Rivers of Tears in stead of their Rich Baths and pleasant Springs Luke 16.28 and artificial Fountains And wailing yelling and howling their only Musick And so other mens torments an accession to their pains As they had taken pleasure in other mens sins which made Dives so loath of his Brethrens Company Rom. 1.32 as we may well think The Books must be opened in stead of their pleasing Play-Books and Romances Gods Book and the Book of their Consciences Rev. 20.12 that they never could endure in all their lives to look into must now be pored upon by them by the Fire of Hell without intermission recreation or other diversion and the wanton Eye that busie and unsatisfied Gazer upon every thing but the Bible must be otherwise imprisoned in utter darkness for ever Mat. 25.30 Psalm 12.4 And the Lordly tongue that must needs be their own shall be their own to torment them as formerly set on Fire of Hell with a world of wickedness James 3.6 so now of woes Red hot then with Rage against God and revilings of his Saints now burning with flames and not receiving so much as one single drop of cold water Luke 16.24 that was wont to swim in Wine and for that bewitching sence of touch its dalliances and delights there shall only succeed those hideous gnashings of teeth and gnawings at Heart in the woe that never ceaseth and by the worm that never dies Josh 8.7 16. And thus Ah thinks he as Joshua taught the men of Succoth with the Thornes and Bryars in the wilderness The Hebrew is He made them to know to know who he was and to know what they had done jn despising his Messengers in rejecting his motions c. so will Jesus teach the Atheistical world with tortures to Eternity 2 Chro. 36.16 Psal 50.17 Prov. 1.3 and make them to know who He is whose Messengers they mocked whose Laws they cast behind their backs whose Councels they hated and would none of his Reproofs But thinks He on the other hand Eternal happiness of the Saints of those in whose Hearts are the wayes of them that are holy Pilgrims the true Travailers that declare plainly that they seek a Countrey viz. an Heavenly that can say of a good Sermon John 6.34 Lord evermore give us of this Bread of a lively stirring Sacrament a Soul-humbling Confession and Prayer an Heart-raising Meditation 't is good to be here that think the present time too short and their Hearts too narrow to hold enough of

RIHGT THOUGHTS The Righteous Mans EVIDENCE A DISCOURSE Proving Our state God-ward to be as Our Thoughts are Directing how to try them and Our Selves by them Propounding Schemes of Right Thoughts With Motives and Rules for keeping Thoughts Right In Two Parts By FAITHFUL TEAT For as a man THINKETH in his Heart So is He PROV XXIII VII Let the Unrighteous Man forsake his Thoughts ISAIAH LV. VII Doth not He that Pondereth the HEART Consider PROV XXIV XII London Printed for George Sawbridge dwelling on Clerkenwell Green 1669. The Preface Little Book I Am very sensible that thine Entertainment in the World is likely to be the same with His on whose Errand Thou art sent who is said to have endured Hebr. 12.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the contradiction of Sinners against Himself For to tell men of making Conscience of THOUGHTS for Setting and Keeping them RIGHT when the most do even hate to be reclaimed from the most Outward Enormities in Words and Actions Psal 50.17 Gen. 27.9 compared with Gal. 4.28 29 is likely but to tickle the Spleen of too many Ishmaels to an Impious scurrility and prophane Derision But whether they will hear Ezek. 2.4 5. or whether they will forbear Go Thou and tell the wicked WITS that thou dost meet with Dan. 5.3 That whilst they are Quaffing Themselves into a drunken merriment in the Vessels of the Temple Verse 25. Verse 27. Verse 26. making sport of things Spiritual there is a tremendous MENE TEKEL upon the Wall Their wit is weighed in the Ballances of the Sanctuary and found wanting Their Dayes are numbred and themselves shortly to give up the Ghost and a sad account therewith to God that gave them their active Phansies for better use And here I could tell thy Reader that I have been lately an Eye-witness of some taken for Wits of prime magnitude in the Orb of Prophaness who upon their Death-beds could allow no rest to themselves or those about them without procuring the Visits and Prayers of such as themselves had by a mimical way of Praying and Theatrical mock-Preaching been wont to expose to Derision among their Companions Unhappy Partners in their prophane LIFE and again unhappy in that they were not Spectators of their penitent DEATHS Exod. 10.16 Chap. 8.8 28. and 9.27 Hebr. 11.26 When Gods Plagues are upon Aegypt Oh then call for Moses and Aaron in hast O Pray pray pray s●r us Yet this Moses is the man that at other times must bear the Reproach of Christ in Aegypt as the Apostle to the Hebrews testifieth For though the Hearts of the Sons of men are fully set in them to do Evil and Madness is in their Hearts whilst they Live as Ecclesiastes observeth yet Eccles 9 3. Job 28.22 compared with Verse 28. saith the Holy Ghost Destruction and DEATH say We have heard the Fame of Wisdom with our Ears that is of the true fear of the Lord as the Text expounds it self Now Mr. W●●ler quoted by Mr. R. B●yl 'T is not that which first we Love But what Dying We approve 2 Cor. 5.11 Go thou therefore and tell the World that thine Author knowing the Terrour of the Lord and in the many years leisure he hath had for Thinking finding no more Noble Theme than Thoughts hath sent thee forth to perswade Men to be so far from daring to adventure Their Souls in naked and open Prophaness as not to rest under the fairest Fig-leaves of superficials or the best of OUTSIDES whatsoever but to consider seriously That there is a Sanctifie the LORD GOD in your HEART 1 Pet. 3.15 Eccles 10.12 Hebr. 4.22 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a Curse not the KING no not in thy Thought That the word of God is quick and powerful a critical discerner of the Thoughts of the Heart And therefore thou canst be unfit for the Hands of none for that all have HEARTS Discourses of other sorts may more particularly concern some one sort of Readers Prov. 27 2● and some another but that Counsel of Solomons Be thou diligent to know the state of thy FLOCKS concerns every one if that of Holy Herbert be true My Soul 's a Shepheard too a Flock it seeds Herbert in Temple Of THOUGHTS and Words and Deeds Let all sorts therefore be diligent to know the state of their Thoughts As for the Poor in this World they have the more need to be rich in that which our Saviour calls the good treasure of the Heart that is Mat. 12.33 amongst other things good THOUGHTS and as for the Greatest go thou and tell them that as the Bereans were the More Noble for wearing the precious Pearl of Gods Word at their Ear So Thoughts regulated by that Word Acts 17.10.11 are the best Jewel that can sparkle upon the most Honourable Brests Mal. 3.16 Verse 17. to make them orient in his Eye who hath said of those onely who so THINK upon his Name They shall be Mine in that day when I make up my JEWELS 1 King 8.38 But if the sick of the Plague of the Heart which Scripture speaks of as the worst of Plagues and whose Cure thou designest will not receive thee because the Divine patience doth as yet suffer them to walk abroad free from Outward and bodily Maladies Then go thou and visit my old Neighbours in Doleful Colchester and other such sad places where the Plague in their Houses hindring their freedome of converse with others doth the more oblige and may perhaps the more dispose them to turn in to Themselves Psalm 4.5 to stand in aw and not to sin but to commune with their Own HEARTS And the God of all Grace go along with thee and succeed thee for the effectual Turning of many Hearts from Darkness to Light and from the Power of Satan unto God CONTENTS OF THE FIRST PART CHap. 1. Of Self-discovery its Nature and necessity Chap. 2. Dams this Principle That Thoughts are Free The less so in Gods Eye because free from Mans. Evil Thoughts sin to us Abomination to God Damn'd in the old World Exclude from Salvation like Devils and worse Chap. 3. Thoughts the Souls Pulse In Churlishness Liberality Envy Goodness Impatience Patience Uncleanness Chastity Covetousness Pride Humility Purity Judge we Our selves by what we would others if we could Chap. 4. God chiefly eyeth mens Thoughts they have Feet Tongues and Hands Thought-Adultery Prophaness Presumption c. Evil and Good Characterized from their Thoughts known to God afar off Our Possessions Companions c. 1. God made us for Thinking Gods Good will towards us and Ours to Him set out by Thoughts so Our Ill will by not thinking of Him c. 2. Grace first stirs in Thoughts 3. Thoughts can reach further then our Deeds can and God requires our utmost 4. Thoughts are the Hearts first-born Gods part Mans Heart a Fountain Mint-house God-eyes our hearts first setting out 5. God

and therefore Pray without ceasing give thanks in every thing is put into the front and Despise not Prophesyings comes up in the rear of that Apostolical grand Caveat Quench not the Spirit 1 Thes 5.17 18 19. Revel 5.10 Rather let us as made by Christ Priests unto God keep alwayes burning upon our Hearts this holy Fire and stir it up by meditation How to cherish the Spirit Psalm 39 3. Psal 143.10 Revel 1.10 while I was musing saith David the Fire burned and blow it up by Prayer Teach me to do thy will O God thy Spirit is good c. Especially let us Pray and watch and wait as the Primitive Disciples for the Lords Spirit on the Lords Day And let us add the Fewel of diligent and industrious Observation to all his fervent motions when we hear the sound of his goings 1 Sam. 5.24 Heb● 5 3. then let us bestir our selves When the Holy Ghost saith to day if ye will hear his voice let us not harden our hearts nor put him off till to morrow for the Spirit is as the Wind that bloweth where and when he listeth John 3.8 Rev. 2● 17 Harbour no base thoughts of the Spirit Acts 8.19 20. Acts 5.9 when the Spirit saith Come let the Bride say Come and let him that heareth say Come Let us not harbour any Carnal Low base Thoughts of this glorious Spirit this was Simon Magus his sin Especially let us not by close Hypocrisie or secret dissimulation agree to lie to the Holy Ghost and so to tem●t the Spirit of the Lord this was Ananias and Sa●hira's sin and it cost them dear and they are peculiarly said to tempt the Spirit because it is his peculiar work to search All things 1 Cor. 2.10 Sect. XLVI The wonderful condesce●tion of the Holy spirit in the work of Mens salvation Mat. 6.9 3. Rom. 16.24 1 Cor. 16.23 Gal. 6 13 Ph●l 4.23 ANd now to shut up all what Holy Fear and Love of this Holy Spirit may at once fill Our THOUGHTS when we consider that although HOLINESS be the ●eculiar Attribute of the Spirit from which he receives his Denomination even as Greatness is peculiarly ascribed to the Father who is therefore said to be in Heaven and Kingdom Power and Glory to be his and Grace to be the Son● in respect of which special property of the Spirit All sin against God is said in a special manner to Vex the Spirit 2 Thes 3.18 yet such is the rich Mercy of this Holy Spirit in Condescention to poor mans Salvation that He undertakes it as his peculiar Office and Work to come into mans Heart unsitted and unfurnished when Zijm Ochim and lim have dwelt there when vain Thoughts have lodged there into a very sink of sin a house without windows a heap without order a very Hell of cursed Confusion and of every hateful and hurtful lust and that when there was none to go before him or to prepare for him Whereas though herein God commended his love to us in that while We were Enemies Christ dyed for us yet would not the Son be born to die or lodge in a Womb or come into the world till this Spirit went before him Hebr. 10.5 As in the Margin to prepare a place for him and to fit a Body to him for so may the word be rendred a Body hast thou prepared me or a Body hast thou fitted me O sweet spirit what Tongue can praise or heart prize thee according to thy glorious Grace to poor sinners Genesis 2.7 When God first breathed into man the breath of Life He was a lump of innocent Clay but when thou comest to breath the breath of New Life into sinful man thou breathest into a noysome Carkasse an heart full of Rottenness 1 King 8 28. 2 Chron. 6.29 and takest up thy Dwelling in that very part where his Plague sore runs And now seeing Thou dost not shun those that have the Plague of the heart Come in thou blessed of the Lord to this Heart of mine Mat. 3.11 Isaiah 44.3 Thou art a Fire that can purge my Dross and not be impaired a Water that can wash away all my filth and not be defiled Now to thee Blessed spirit with the Father and the Son be Glory for ever Amen Sect. XLVII FINALLY As our Thoughts of God Thoughts for God must be by Scripture Rule See Bp. Andrews on the second Commandment Image and Imagination Cogitation Col. 2.23 Mat. 15.9 S●e Bishop Taylors Dissuasive pag. 48. Isa 29.13 14. 2 Sam. 7.2 2 Chron. 3.3 and 29 25. so our Thoughts For God are onely Right when agreeable to Scripture Rules For as the second Commandment forbids all IMAGES so also all IMAGINATIONS in the things of God that are not warrantable by the Word of God The Hebrews express both by one word for Thoughts are the Images of things in our minds What the Apostle calls Will-Worship Our Saviour calls Vain-Worship though the things may have a shew of wisdom and humility where the fear towards God is taught as in Popery by the Precepts of Men. When David took up thoughts of Building God an House he consulted Nathan the Prophet which when Solomon was allowed to accomplish it is said Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the Building of the House of God which when Hezekiah did restore 't is said also he set the Levites in the House of the Lord with Cymbals with Psalteries and with Harps according to the Commandment of David and of Gad the Kings Seer and of Nathan the Prophet for so was the COMMANDMENT of the LORD by his Prophets Rom. 10.2 Zeal without Knowledge is Heat without Light which is so like Hell that it cannot be pleasing to the God of Heaven Mark 9.44 Mat 25 3● for Hell is a Fire that never goes out and yet Outer Darkness Wherefore Reader when ever thou thinkest to do any thing for God Ask his Word first whether it will be well taken How lamentable is it to think how perniciously Our Thoughts for God may miscarry for want of this John 16.2 Acts 26.9 2 Sam. 6 6 7. Bp. Taylors Preface to his Dissuasive The Roman Church can never justifie her self from Idolatry yet if it were but suspitious God is jealous and will not endure any causes of suspition or motives of jealousy Things like Idolatry can no wayes be excused Bp. Tay ors Diss●asive from Popery pag. 57. Some kill Gods Saints yet think they do God good service and saith Paul I verily thought with my self that I ought to do many things contrary to the Name of Jesus of Nazareth Poor Uzzah no doubt thought to do God a good piece of service when He put forth his hand to stay the Ark when the Oxen shook it but God smote him for his Errour that he died A severe punishment may some man think and a slender errour especially considering that the Man