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JOURNAL 
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 THANKJ>VL CHRISTIAN. 
 
 Prefented ia fome Meditations upon 
 
 Numb. 33. 2. 
 
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 ding to their Journey /, by the cowman* 
 dement of the Lord. 
 
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 Gofpel at Barnfione in Efllx. 
 
 Whofoiswije, and will obfave tf.efe things* even they fhall 
 underftand the loving kjadnefi of the Lord) Pfa], 107.43. 
 
 Who hath dejpifedthe day of [mall things ? Zach. 4. 10. 
 
 Nihil tarn conveniens Deo quam beneficentia, rib'dautem tarn alienum 
 quamutfit ingratiu homo. La&an. de ira Dei ad Donar. cap. 16. 
 
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 diam ; quod tarn multa deliquerimur, quod tarn 
 
 fragile* & nihil fumusi quod tarn plerw ille^fr 
 
 fufficiens ftb'h nee bonorumnofirorum egent. 
 
 Bern. Serm. 3. De adventu Domini, 
 
 Curat$rem mei rerumq> mearum ex path Veutn 
 babeoi illi bent notum eft quid mihi fufficit^ & 
 quando conduceret ; baSentts non fefellit^ quando 
 dubitare inciperem, & mnfimul Ingram ejje mi- 
 teum* Foxius. 
 
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 To the Right Honorable, 
 
 truly Noble and Religious Lord 
 
 Robert Earl of Warwic\ y 
 
 Baron of Lee% y &c. 
 
 And to the Right Honorable the Lady 
 
 Eleanor Countefs of Warwick , 
 His moft Pious and Vertuous Confortj 
 
 Such an encreafe of Grace on Earth , 
 
 as may bring them to fulnefle of 
 
 Glory in Heaven. 
 
 Right Honorable, 
 
 AS there is no Grace that 
 giwett more glory toGod, 
 I lb there is no Grace that hath Rom.^. 
 i A 3 more 
 
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 more honour from God then 
 Faith : Who though he doth 
 all our work for us, and there- 
 fore fhould have all the glory 
 from us j yet is pleafed that 
 Faith fhould go away with the 
 praife of that which himfelf 
 
 Mark y. 34. on ty doth. Daughter thy faith 
 hath made thee whole, faith Ghrift 
 to the woman, that by the touch 
 of his garment received virtue 
 
 Heb.n. 1? , fr° m him and was haled.By faitif 
 s°-the Ifraelites faffed through the 
 Red-fea^ as on dry ground. By faith 
 the wals of Jericho fell down. When 
 we know that the 'Waters of 
 the one, and the Bulwarks of 
 the other obeyed the foveraign 
 authority of the Word of Gods 
 command. Yea further, as there * 
 is no Grace that brings more 
 glory to God, fo there is no I 
 
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 Grace that yeelds more benefit 
 to us then Faith : It is a Grace 
 as the moft ufefull, To the moft 
 fucceflefull, and of the largeft 
 capacity for our good. As thon^x. ».«j. 
 hafi believedjo be it done unto thee s 
 faith our Saviour to the Centu- 
 rion. He that is inlarged in his 
 faith cannot be ftraightned in 
 his comfort* Through Faith 
 God the Father is our portion, 
 
 # God the Son is our pledge, God 
 the Holy Ghoft our earneft ; 
 Heaven our home, Holincfle 
 our way, the Angels our gard, 
 the Saints our company, the 
 World ourfervant,and the Pro- 
 mife under fcal our fecuri ty> 
 And what would we, what can 
 we have more ? yea fuch is the 
 
 .large capacity of this Grace of 
 
 Faith, that conld we be rich in 
 
 A 4 • that 
 
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 that grace, we might have our 
 wils even with an overplus. Ob 
 Mu.is.*t.iwman 7 faith our Saviour to the 
 woman of Canaan, great is thy 
 faith, be it unto thee even as thou 
 wilt. Luther was £o ftrong in 
 faith, and therefore fo powerful! 
 inPrayer^ that when Frederick 
 Mycouim his dear friend was fick, 
 he prayed for his recovery, and 
 ufed thefe words, Hoc peto &* 
 wolo^ <& fiat voluntas mea 9 This 
 I aske, and this I will, and let my ' 
 will be done ; a while after My- 
 conius recovered according as he 
 had prayed. Whereupon Jnftus 
 Jonas faidof Luther y Iflemr po- 
 tuit quod voluit^Thzt man could 
 have what he would. 
 
 Now the reafons why through 
 faith we may have what we will^ 
 and more then we will, are thefe 
 three, Firft, 
 
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 Firft,Becaufe by Faith we live 
 the beft life in this world ; From 
 life to life, how vaft a diftance is 
 there?irom the life of the higheft 
 Angell to the life of the loweft 
 Mulhrome, how great a diffe- 
 rence ? i There is the life of 
 Vegetation, and that is the life of 
 Plants. 2 There is the life of 
 Senfe, and that is the life of 
 Beads. 9 There is the life of 
 Reafon , and that is the life of 
 Men. 4 There is the life of 
 Faith, and that is the life of 
 Saints, Now according to the 
 kinde of life, fuch is the capa- 
 city of the creature. The life 
 of a Bead is more excellent then 
 the life of a Plant, and there- 
 fore more capable of good. The 
 lite ofa Man is better then the 
 life of a Beaft ; and the lite of 
 
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 a Saint far above the life of a 
 Pt&f.nM meet Man . The righteous is more 
 . excellent then his migbbonr , faith 
 Solomon ; and therefore more 
 capable of good, the good of the 
 body and the foul, the good of 
 this life and of that which is to 
 come. As we have believed, fo 
 (hall it be done unto us, much 
 faith, and much comfort, whilft 
 we live : rich in Faith, and rich in 
 Glory, when we (hall go hence 
 and be no more feen. 
 
 Secondly , Becaule other 
 Graces make us like unto God, 
 as Wifdome, Holincfle 3 and 
 Righteoufneffe ; but Faith makes 
 JA'1.11. us Sons of God t As mamas re- 
 ceived him, to them he gave power 
 to become the Sons of God, even 
 to them that believe in his name. 
 And if we be Sons } we are capa- 
 ble 
 
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 ble of an inheritance incorrup- 
 tible and undented, and that fa- 
 deth not away, referved for us 
 in the heavens; For if Sont^ om - ix 7. 
 Heirs, Heirs of God, and co-heirs 
 with Cbrijt, vebo is heir of all 
 things. Such a man is capable of 
 being heir to an Efquire of a 
 vaft eftate; not becaufe he is 
 like him, but becaufe he is his 
 Son 4 Other graces make us like 
 unto Chrift, as Humility, Zeal 
 for G6ds glory, and Love to the 
 Brethren : but Faith makes us 
 members of Chrift .* and it is our 
 memberfhip,our union to Chrift, 
 our communion with Chrift,thac 
 makes us capable of all that grace 
 and glory that he hath for us, 
 for he is only the Saviour of his 
 body. A, painted arme and a 
 woodden legge are like thofe 
 
 members, 
 
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 members, but they draw no vir- 
 tue from the head. It is, becaufe 
 we by faith live in Chrift, and 
 
 joh. 1. 1*. grow up with Chrift , That of 
 his fulnejfe we receive grace for 
 grace. 
 
 Thirdly, Becaufe Faith is a 
 grace by which we venture upon 
 the willingnefle and power of 
 Chrift to fave and fuccour us. 
 Every true believer is a Mer= 
 chant adventurer, who fe returns 
 muft be greater then his vens 
 tures, or he cannot live 5 even 
 fo it is with every believer , if 
 God whofe thoughts are above 
 our thoughts, fhould not fend 
 in to our Faith more then we 
 come for, we friould live but 
 
 >uik 1. j. barely. The believing Palfie man 
 and his friends, venture upon 
 Chrift for health ', but when 
 
 Chrift 
 
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 Chrift faw their faith, by which 
 they brake through all difficul- 
 ties ( for they would uncover the 
 roof of the houfe where he was, 
 rather then not come to him) 
 he gave him health , and the 
 pardon of his fins too, which 
 was more then they came for. 
 The Prodigal fon ventures fata*.-**.'* 
 upon his Fathers love, yet craves 
 no more -but the place of an his 
 red fervant ', but he is entertain 
 ned as a Son, he is clad with the 
 beft robe,and fed with the fatted 
 Calfe; he hath a Ring for his 
 hand, and Shooes for his feet, 
 very rich fupplies not only for 
 neceflity, but fober delight, 
 which was more then he defired, 
 Jacobs fons venture into Egypt 'Gen.4j.1s 
 for Corn in a time of Famine, 
 and they return with Corn, and 
 
 Money 
 
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 Money in their fecks, yea with 
 very good news at laft, Jofeph 
 is alive and Governonr of all 
 Egypt. Even thus it is with a 
 believer that can in a ftraight 
 venture upon God in Chrift ac^ 
 cording to a promife 5 his re- 
 turns are often above his ven- 
 tures. Faith is the greater!: gas 
 thergood in the world 5 for it is 
 not only according to our faith, 
 but often abo ve our faith. When 
 the prayers offai th are anfwered 
 mercies are multiply ed* When 
 Solomon through faith beg'd of 
 God for a wife and undemand- 
 ing heart, by which he might be 
 able to judge his people j God 
 gave him wifdome,and more- 
 over riches and honour more 
 then any King had before him, 
 or mould have after him, fo that 
 
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 his returne was far above his 
 venture. 
 
 Are thefe things fo ? what an 
 happy condition are they in then 
 that believe in the name of the 
 Lord Jefus ? and who would not 
 upon theie terms make it good 
 to their own fouls,that they have 
 obtained this precious grace of 
 Faith ? And that they have this 
 grace, I know no better evidence 
 then this, That they have high 
 
 . thoughts of it, and fet a great 
 price upon it. Now undoubted- 
 ly fuchas have a true efteem of 
 faith, will improve all times and* 
 talents, will imploy all means 
 for the fervice of their faith, 
 that they may abound therein. 
 And what better means can be 
 ufed for the advancement of 
 
 . faith in the growth and ftrength 
 
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 of it, then a rich treafure of ex- 
 perience ; every experiment of 
 Gods favour to us, being a good 
 prop for our faith for the fu- 
 pfei.74.14.ture. Tbon break$(t the heads 
 of Leviathan in -pieces ( faith 
 the Pfalmift ) and gaveft him to 
 be meat to the people inhabiting 
 the wildermffe: that is, Thou 
 (O Lord) didft overthrow Pha- 
 raoh and his Hoft in the Red- 
 fca : which experiment of thy 
 power and goodnevTe , was as 
 meat to the people in the Wil- 
 dernefle, which might uphold 
 their hearts in the midft: of 
 thofe many evils that were ei- 
 ther feared by them, or inflis 
 ted on them in that vaft, and 
 howling defert 4 God hath, and 
 doth, and will, is the language, 
 andfhouldbe theconftant totife 
 
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 of faith amongft all the Saints 
 of God. So did Jacob plead 
 with God when he was ready to 
 meet with his brother Lfaw, 
 With myfkaffe 1 pajfid over tbts Gin i l - xo > 
 Jordan, and now I am become two 
 bands. Deliver me 1 fray thee 
 from the hand of my brother, from 
 the hand of Efau, So did Da* 
 vid argue before Said, I flew the ' Sam 'j 
 Lion and the Bear, and this nncir- 
 cumcifed Fhitifiine (ball be as one 
 Vf them. So did aged Paul rea - 
 fon, I was delivered out of the"- Tim. 4 
 month of the Lion y and the Lord 
 Jhatt deliver me from every evill 
 work, and will preferve me unto 
 his heavenly Kingdoms, to whom 
 be glory for e^er and ever, Amen, 
 ^ Now doubtleis fuch as will be 
 well ftored with fuch a treafure 
 of experiments, had need keepa 
 a con* 
 
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 conftant Diary by them of 
 all Gods gracious dealings with 
 them. 
 
 To commend which duty to 
 fuch as defire to grow in this 
 grace of Faith, and abound 
 therein with thankfgiving , is 
 ( Right Honorable ) the main 
 {cope of this prefent Subject, 
 which I have taken the boldnefs 
 to dedicate to your Honors ; and 
 do humbly pray that it ma, 
 pafTe abroad under your Name 
 and Patronage* If any aske why 
 I trouble the Prefle, that in thefe 
 dayes is Co oppreft with a glut 
 of Books. I anfwer , that it 
 was not out of any vaia humor 
 of mine to appear in Publick , 
 who am Co far privy to mine 
 own wants and weakness, that 
 I may tiuly fay, not onely is 
 
 St, Taut, 
 
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 St. Pauly I am leffe then the teaft Ephcf. j. 
 of all Saints ; but as Ignatius 
 once faid of himfelf, Non fnm 
 digntts dici minimus, I am not 
 worthy to be called the leaft: 
 So that I could never judge my 
 felfable towriteany thing thac 
 might endure the teft of your 
 judicious eyes, or the cenfureof 
 this critical! age. But indeed, 
 that which principally hinted to 
 this iervice, was partly a defirc 
 "1 had to promote a common 
 good ; being very confident that 
 fuch Chriftians who walk much 
 with God 3 and oblerve him in 
 the waves of his Providence, 
 may be provoked to this duty, 
 and reap much good thereby. 
 > For without doubt, this work 
 here commended, is very ufe- 
 Yulljthough the duty be feldome 
 2 pracY;fed, 
 
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 pra&ifed, becaufe the fubjedl is 
 rarely handled. It is as untrojs 
 den a path, as ever I have gone } 
 who have had fcarce a little day 
 hole of light todire& me, much 
 lelTe a Cloud of witnefles, or a 
 Pillar of fire* ot a Star to guide 
 me. Partly, and indeed, that 
 which chiefly incouraged me 
 hereunto, was the memory of 
 thofe great favours which I 
 have received from both your 
 Honors ; the one my moft SS T o-° 
 ble Patron, Qm. curat eves o<vi» 
 umpie Magi/irojy A true friend 
 to the Church of God, and the 
 Minifters or it. The other, my 
 moft bountifull Benefacbr 4 Nor 
 would I give your Honor* 
 thanks in amtm *vel in angu o . but 
 fo publickly that I may have as 
 many eye-witneffes of my hear^ 
 
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 ty acknowledgment of your 
 good/ieis; as there may be cour- 
 teous Readers of this Book* And 
 do prcimne that if your Honors 
 ifi be p.'eafed to throw away 
 an hour or two in the perufall of 
 thefe lines, you may be hence 
 encouraged more and more to 
 obferve God in the wayes of his 
 povidence, and keep fomeme^ 
 morials by you ot his goodnefle 
 to you and yours , which may 
 much encreafe your faith in him, 
 enlarge your love to him, and 
 forcitie your hearts againft the 
 evils of thefe times. Confidius a 
 Senator of 7 K ome y one day boldly 
 told Crffar, thai the Senators 
 dur/i not come to Conncell for fear 
 of his Souldiers^ He replyed, 
 fVby then doefi thou goe to the 
 Senate ? He anfwered, Becaufe 
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 pty age tak,es away my fear, Anti- 
 enc Chriftians fliould be very 
 bold and couragious in evill days, 
 becaufe they are or fliould be 
 flored with much experience, 
 which will much encreafe their 
 faith, and abate their fears. God 
 in rich mercy to you and many 
 others, hath added to your lives 
 many daieSjandyour hoary heads 
 area crownof glory to you, be- 
 ing found in the way of righte- 
 oulnefs ; and therefore you are by 
 this time I hope above the fears 
 and flatteries of all the world. 
 Now that the God and Father of 
 our Lord JefusChrift, who hath 
 abounded toward you bothjnot 
 only in the outward comforts of 
 Honor and Wealth in the eyes of 
 men, but that which is far bet- 
 ter, in the knowledge of Goj 
 
 and 
 
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 and pra&ife of holinefie before 
 his Saints, would make you per- 
 fect to do his will, and work in 
 you an encreafe of all thole 
 graces of his Spirit, that do un- 
 doubtedly accompany falvati- 
 on *, that you may live in his 
 fear, die in his favour, rfft 
 in his peace, and rife to his 
 glory 5 is, and fhall be the pray- 
 er of 
 
 Your Honors 
 
 Much obliged, 
 And 
 Moft humble Servant 
 
 John 'Beadle. 
 
 a 4 To 
 

 TO THE 
 
 READER. 
 
 Cbriftian Reader, 
 
 OUR blefled Saviours caveat a- 
 boutwhat, and how we hear of Mark 4. 14. 
 the things written by God, as Lu k #? , Ig . 
 how to hear and read alfo Books written 
 by men, is now moft feafbnably needfull; 
 when many foul-iick ftomachs are foiTim.<J.4. 
 childifhly weak, they know not how to a '^* ***** 
 refufe the cvill, and choofc the found and ^ a * 7 '"iJ" 
 good food for fouls. 
 
 To quicken then thy appetite to this 
 favory meat , held forth in this Pious 
 Tract (that thy foul may eat, walk in its 
 
 faength, 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 $rength, blefleGod,and the drefler of 
 it) let me walk with thee a while in the 
 withdrawing room of a Preface*, about 
 fomc few things concerning the Author 
 and work it felf. 
 
 I prefume not my fingle teftimony 
 to add to the credit or value of either (the 
 Surety (hould be of more note and 
 worth then the Principally yet my duty 
 ofhonourandlovetohim, my Zealand 
 defire to advance fuch a defigne, embol- 
 Pr«#. deh- dens me beyond my ability, with a lear- 
 gtatis — nec j pious Ancient, in a fubjed: notun- 
 ^n n j uin like this, Of the ungratefull enemies of 
 tt^mihui Grace, in his time, the Pelagians. 
 Qm ah aito. Concerning the Author of this 
 ™o! a pZ * $*»rnatl of a Thankfull Chrifiian, my 
 prias exce- knowledge 1 hath been above twenty 
 dere vires years ftanding 5 we were of an intimate 
 iociety and vicinity tor many years, we 
 tookfweet counfell together, and wal- 
 ked unto the houfe of God in compa- 
 ny. He was my guide, and my acquain- 
 PftLj^li tance, as Davtd hath it* We oft brca- 
 x * thed and powred out our fouls toge- 
 ther in Prayer, Fading, and conferen- 
 ces. When walking after the Lord in 
 a wildenuffe, we had lefle allowed li- 
 berty, 
 
II. 
 
 To the Reader. 
 
 berty^ but more inward enlargcdneffe 
 of Spirit. At which time he had .the 
 happinefle of a youoger EUJha ( not ro % King. i. 
 po wre water on the hands, but) to be wa- 
 tered by the droppings of that great £//- 
 ]ah,i\nt renowned man of God in his ge- 
 neration^Reverend Mr. Thomas Hooker , 
 arid hath had ever fince the bleffing and 
 favour of much of his fpirit refting on 
 him, as was faidof Ehjha. And having chap.a.ij, 
 mentioned that Name of precious me- 
 mory, Worthy Mr. Hooker, now at reft 
 with the Lord ( Saint Hooker, I may 
 call him as Latimer, Sam*- Bilmf) it is 
 a reall pra&ife of this Chriftian Diur- 
 rall, to acknowledge with all hearty 
 thankfulncfle to God in Chnft, before 
 the world, that great mercy, and un- 
 fpeakable blefliig, which E(jex chelmf- 
 jord, this Author, my felf, and many 
 ethers then enjoyed, in the labours of 
 that Powerfull , Soui-faving , Heart- 
 fearching Minifter of jeftis Chrift : for 
 which rxh grace and companion to- 
 wards us, we hope feme of us (hall blefle 
 and praiie his glorious Name, in a better 
 world, to all eternity. 
 
 As 
 
To the Reader* 
 
 As for this Authors painfulncfTe^rr 
 faithful neffe, it's well known to ail 
 know him , how greatly they (hined 
 forth in him, whilft in a very fmall place., 
 and now fince advanced (by the bounty 
 of his truly Noble and Honorable Pa- 
 tron, to a higher, and but neceflary fub- 
 fiftence) they have continued and in- 
 creafed-, In Catechizing, Preaching on 
 the Lords dayes, and working dayes, 
 holding up the ufe of thofe foul-feifting 
 Sacraments, even unto thefe our dayes ; 
 wherein thefe Wcls have been either 
 flop: up, or lefle drawn at ^ thefe choice 
 difhes, either fct off the table quite, or 
 feldome fed on, to the leanneffe of many 
 fouls. 
 
 Neither is he only a Pra&icall, but 
 in life and pra&ife a Preacher as in o- 
 thcr particulars, fo in the fubje<ft of this 
 Treatifc, Tharikfulnefle ; which as he 
 hath put forth a monument and memo- 
 riall of herein to God and Man -, fo I 
 hope, his name fliall live in it, and I 
 heartily define, thy foul and mine might 
 live more thankfully by it. As David 
 towards the end of his Book of P films y 
 fo this finger oflfratl towards the end 
 
 of 
 
T6 the Reader. 
 
 of his dayes, fummons a confort of all, 
 to bleffc the Lord 5 for which thank- 
 fulneffe info many gratulatory Pfalms, 
 fome have thought the former, and we 
 may in charity hope the latter, a man 
 after Gods own heart. 
 
 Which facrifice of Thanksgiving and 
 Praife , exciting others aIfo ? and calling 
 them toit,isnow the more figndly ex- 
 emplary in him, as his outward eftate is 
 not overmuch, (he being rich efpecially 
 in Ajhers biefling. many children) andpeut^jo^ 
 while ft he with many other burning 
 and (hining lights, once rejoyced in, yet 
 now are become Lamps defpifed, by job u. 7. 
 many ateafe, andtrodenout as fnuffes, 
 before God put on the extinguifher of 
 death. 
 
 I fay now , to fet himfelf over the 
 Thankfgiving, and fet out fuch a Pfalm 
 ot praife, is thankfulneffe in deed, andNch.11.17. 
 worthy of an Higgaion Selah. Pfal. & I1#8 ' 
 9 16. 
 
 For the work it felf, as Solomon of 
 the virtuous woman, Let it praife ic felf 
 in the gates ^ its fubjed: being Praife 
 and Thankfulneffe, it will carry its 
 commendation in its Name and Title, *«p<Jrw«. 
 
 as 
 
To the Reader] 
 
 as fome Emperours,C0#?w^//#, P/V#,did; 
 a work worthy of thanks and praife. 
 
 Bcfides the ground (or plain fong, as 
 I mayphrafe it) and matter of it, the 
 forme and de learning about it, fet off 
 with many Hiftoricail applications a<d 
 Scripture allufions, yea minding us of 
 fome duties obfokte and quite ofit of 
 faflbion ^ all thefe as graces, may render 
 this, a new fong; and fo not only pro- 
 fitable , but more pleafurable and accep- 
 table to the Reader* 
 
 In a word, the whole is a Pillar of 
 
 jSam.7.11. Praifc, an hben-t\tr fet up to the name 
 
 jofo 21.34. °f r ^ e mo ^ ^g' 1 ^od 5 an £ A- a Stone 
 
 of witneffe , both of Gods goodnc ffe to 
 
 us, and of our cvill and unthankfulnefle 
 
 agalnft him. 
 
 "PVaife and thanlcfgiving is a fervice 
 becoming the upright, proper to the 
 Saints, a work ot pure grace when pure- 
 ly offered •, Confeffions,petitions,nature, 
 outward wants may excite to •, but as 
 they fay of vain (wearing, curfing, it's all 
 Devill, no profit, pleafure tempts to it; 
 Of Dw&o//,a.nd as one of murmuring, called itthe 
 Irenes. D cv [\ s mouth: fo -«mtrari!y bL fling, 
 praifing is all God, fuch a mouth is the 
 
 mouth 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 mourfi of God ; it's the fervice of tri- 
 umphing Saints, and fph its of men made 
 perfedt 5 Angelicall, Heavenly, moft 
 ipirituall, and of higheft divine extrad* 
 The fire muft come from above that 
 kindles this Sacrifice. Chrift alone is the 
 Mafter and teacher of this mufick, who 
 only can teach it, and tune our hearts 
 fork, Pfal. y 1. 17. & 119. 7. 
 
 2. Yeatis a better bleffing (a thank- 
 full praifing heart) then the bleffings 
 for which we commonly bleffe God 5 
 thefe arc earthly, temporal!, moftly$ this 
 is a giftofefpeciall grace, anunfpeaka* 
 ble gift. 
 
 Praife compared with petitionary 
 Prayer, that excellent piece of Divine 
 worfhip, excels it as far, as it is better to 
 give then toreceive, 
 
 3. It is the moft proper homage and 
 fervice to God $ therefore by God fty- 
 led. Glorifying bim^ Pfal. 50.23. Who 
 though he be in his name exalted above Nehi ?•*• 
 all bleffing and praife 3 yet it iui:s him 
 beft to receive, and is the higheft 
 we can give, and therefore is 'called, 
 A blesftng of God on ear part^ fo 
 much as man a vvorme, fo far the leffe, 
 
 can 
 
tech* 
 
 To the Reader*. 
 
 can bleffe him that is fo infinitely the 
 greater. 
 vrfin. ca- Some Divines make the third 
 part of Divinity, Gratitude, Thankful- 
 ncfle. 
 
 It's not only to continue in eternity, 
 the only fervice, when believing, con. 
 fcfling, and mourning for fin (hall be no 
 more 5 but here in this world, it's ever 
 needfull,as fait to every facrifice, for all 
 things, at all times, Ephef. 6. 
 
 I will fraife the Lord at all times, 
 whileU I have any being , faith Da- 
 vid. 
 
 Thou art my fraife , faid weeping 
 Jeremy. 
 
 Paul in fufferings above many , in 
 Doxologies above all. 
 
 The Church confuming, faw mercy 
 to bleffe God for. 
 
 zfob blcfled God taking away, as gi- 
 
 ving. 
 
 — o . • 
 
 Jefus Chrift who lived under the 
 CrofTe,3nd died under the Curfe,yet had 
 oft, Father I thank thee, in his blefled 
 lippes. 
 
 4. It's 
 
19 toe ncaacr. 
 
 4 It's moft profitable to our (elves: 
 as a finfull oath is fitly called a word E«ius,t$. 
 compafled about with death, fo this ,I » 1 *- 
 blcfling with life, and many bleffings* Jobj6 - *'. 
 the mowres or heavenly bl t flings dc- *&<*&' 
 fcend, upon the afcending of thefe va-jggg" 
 Jiorsj wegiye forourfelves in thankf- grui«. J 
 giving, as the Italian forme of begging 
 15, Dogvodforyeur felvgs; vsc are the 
 greateft receivers. We manifeft Gods 
 goodneffe herein, but procure our 
 own, yea bleflc our feives, in blefiing 
 him. 
 
 Now this Treatifc is a help to this 
 heavenly exercifc. A facred Epheme- 
 . rides, The Annales, Chronicles of the 
 glorious Ads of the King of glo- 
 ry, The Court-Rolles and Regiftcr-; 
 book for Confcience to keep Courts 
 fay. 
 
 Which Records well kept , and di- 
 ligently read, would not only procure 
 reft ( as his Chronicles did to him in 
 Eflher) to our fouls, in this reftlefTe 
 night of our life 5 and as by paft boun- 
 ty did caufe David to-return to refts in 
 x ,the plurall, Pfal. 116. 7. But m ^ htP r S;" h % 7 ; 
 alfo ftir us up to honour our deliverer , reJ '' v r '- 
 b the 
 
to the Reader. 
 
 the God of our mercies and falvatrons, 
 as Ahajuerus advanced Mordecai. 
 
 This Book affords wood, call thou to 
 God for the Lamb and fire 5 for this fa- 
 crifice, the matter and heads in it are 
 fuell for our Faith and Thankfulnqffe. 
 
 We have our State Diurnals, relating 
 the Nationall affaires. Tradefmen keep 
 their fhop books. Merchants their 
 Accompt books. Lawyers have their 
 books of prefidents* Phyfitians their 
 Experiments. Some wary husbands 
 have kept a Diary of dayly disburfe- 
 ments. Travellers a Journal! of all 
 they have feen^andhath bet lien them 
 in their way. A Chnft an that would, 
 be cxa& hath more need, >>nd may 
 reap much more good by fuch a Jour- 
 nal! as this. We are all but Stewards, 
 Fj&ors here, and muft give a (bid ac- 
 count in that great day to the high Lord 
 of all our wayes 5 and of all his way es to- 
 wards us. 
 
 This Journall is now (in our genera* 
 tion fo ungratefully and unmindfull of 
 
 Prcv. 1?. Gods judgements and mercies) a word 
 u.Heb. i n feafon running on its wheels. We, 
 
 Wl "'I 1 *' muft be holy Antipodes to finfuli times. 
 
 * Wc 
 
to the Reader. 
 
 We like froward children, cither caftan 
 way what we have, if riot all we defire ; 
 or dote on What we have received, and 
 neglcft to return acknowledgement 
 and obfervance 5 our owne glory we 
 feek , not the glory of God that gives 
 all. 
 
 Many earthly Lords in thefe dayesof 
 overturning, lofing their Rentals, have 
 loft their Qjut- rents. The mofthigh 
 heavenly Lord Jefus Chrift, is the 
 greateft fufferer and lofer in our dayes, 
 he hath loft his quit-rents of Praifeand 
 Thankfgiving from men 3 yea he hath 
 loft and fuffered in his name, glory, 
 day r worfhip, law, government, offices, 
 officers 3 well and timely then ought 
 his Stewards and Bailiffs to demand, Aihoion to 
 and call for by new rentals, thofc old thc A V ]0 J S 
 
 n . ■/ , 5 , name Esdlcs 
 
 Quit-rents and arrears long agoe due -an officer 
 which if denyed, we may well fear his o^Comk, 
 ftrainiitg for his right, and taking forfeit l vr ^f Q 
 
 Of ^11. wfvZ.v. 
 
 Satan that cunning wraftler hath ™ n fr™ s 
 twitched us, or rather bewitched us in Dr. <;•»*/« 
 our prefent age, from one fide and cx- 1 *^?^^ 
 tream to another $ the whole fabnekof 
 Religion Cwhichwe cxpc&ed to be re- 
 b z paired 
 
To the Reader* 
 
 paired and reformed ) is alffloft quite 
 cait down t, many are fallen from For- 
 mality to ProphancnefTe, from Supersti- 
 tion to Atheifmc : which was the Pro- 
 Mr. Gran- phefie of Worthy Mr. Greenham of 
 ^ 5Works thcfe dayes,long fince expreffed in his 
 "*'" 3 ' works , when he iriftanceth of a Papift 
 that fell to Familifme, and thence to A- 
 theifmeinhisdayes. 
 
 Many by idolizing fome preferred 
 formes,now caft off all formes of prayer? 
 and too marry from Cathedrali chanting, 
 are come to reject that fwect heavenly 
 Gofpel fervice of finging of Pfalms : 
 yea fo far from keeping a Diary of by- 
 p ft mercies, that they flight and omit 
 daylybleffing of God in their families, 
 and at their meals, for their dayly bread 
 and prefent mercies, though contrary 
 to Sciipture precepts and prefidents; 
 as if their food fuited not their ftomachs 
 unleflfe it were profane, (like themfclves^) 
 that is, not fanclificd by the Word and 
 Prayer. 
 
 Thefacrificeof Thankfgiving was to 
 B.HiK?i«wbe eaten on the fame day, as one well 
 carcch. fa, notes-, and in well ordered families fin- 
 roL V7 8 i< ging Pfalms,as Prayers,hath been a day- 
 ly exercife. 'Twas 
 
 • ^ 
 
5V tfo Reader. "■' "~ 
 
 JTwas a grave and juft reproof of a 
 right Reverend Father in this City ? Dr.Gw*?. 
 prefent with his Brethren on their days 
 of Humiliation aod Prayer, he commen- 
 ded their large Confeffions and Petiti- 
 ons, but difcommerded their failing in 
 Thankfgiving. 
 
 And 'twas well anfwered by ano- 
 ther, to one complaining of many wants 
 and weaknefles , Be thankful), be thank- 
 full. 
 
 We look more after our priviledges 
 by Chrift, then our duty we are to 
 pra&ifc towards him ; like Tenants, not 
 lb ready with their Rents, as to fee their 
 Covenants from the Landlord be made 
 good to them. 
 
 But Ingratitude is a fin condemned 
 by the light of nature •, the Heathen had 
 their Hymns to their Gods. Lycurgus 
 made no law againft it: man in re- 
 quiting kindnefles being a law to him- 
 felfe. 
 
 In >*/A*»/afcrvant ungratefull after J^* ?^ 
 manumiffion, his Matter had an aftion 
 againft him, and might reduce him to 
 bondage. 
 
 bz The 
 
to the Redder. 
 
 w 
 
 z Tin), j. The unthankfull and unholy goe to- 
 gether in the Word 5 and are parallel 
 with the evill. 
 
 Unthankfulneffe is the grave , the 
 hell of benefits y the curfe of bleffings 5 
 
 Luk..tf.3f.jfl wind that dries up mercies. Let 
 
 frfdnur. ^4Mfc5 Barnard applies it to favour from 
 few. God* 
 
 SStr ' Nor only mercies and fignall wocft 
 perafc/i*, of gracious providence, but judgements, 
 ^"^ : - 5 gr^at changes, overt urn\ngs, and the 
 fc!&^i*tii*jof^ # fgfi are to be regiftred. in 
 inamiic. this Chriftian Journal^ as this Author 
 6fm r * well mixes the ingredients of this , 
 Diary. 
 
 As we have two ear%.to hear the 
 
 rod thrcatning, as the .Word promifing- 
 
 fo tivoeycs, to fee fins and fufFerings, 
 
 bleffings and mercies. Some; would 
 
 have us note the works and operations 
 
 of God, wherein God hath exceeded tp 
 
 then^but we inuft alio confider, wherein 
 
 they and others have exceeded againft 
 
 Job 3* 9 :f God in their tranfgreffions 5 as $ob 
 
 ^ hath it $ and the judgements both fpi- , 
 
 a * 2 \* rituall and temporal! of our times , 
 
 cite we may be equally deftroyed, 
 
 and 
 
To the .Reader. 
 
 and Aire fhall not keep a faithfull 
 Journall. 
 
 There isa book of three leaves thou 
 ihouldeft read dayly to make up this 
 Diary; the black leaf of thy own and o- 
 thers fins with (hame and forrowj the 
 white leaf of Gods goodnefle 5 mercies 
 with joy and thankfulneffe; the red leaf 
 of Gods judgments felt, feared, threat- 
 fled, with tear and trembling. 
 
 But what needs this waHe^ may forae 
 fay,*/ time andpaines> it's tooftritf 
 and precife a pratfice, a bard fay- 
 ing^at Ieaji a duty too legallfor Go- 
 pel liberty. 
 Anfrv. i. Gods law is a law of liber- 
 ty to a gracious heart. None of his AmhuUrh 
 commands grievous; yea* and each J^^ J 4- 
 command requires not only the du- viam Regi- 
 ty it felf, but the help and means J*- B -££ 
 to that duty tobeobferved> as Divines tech.V/-*.. 
 generally hold. Now .this Diary is a?*- 
 Dire&ory and help to praife and thank* 
 fulneffe ; yea indeed to the whole pr3&i- 
 call part of Religion. The Pharifec 
 was thankfull for fpirituall mercy, and 
 our righteoufheffe by Chrift muft ex- 
 ceed Scribes and J?harifees 5 upon thepe- 
 §. h 4 nalcy 
 
to tht Reader* 
 
 iialty of the loflTe of heaven, Luk. 1%. 
 Mat. 5. 20. 
 
 a. Nor is this impofed on all upon 
 pain of damnation, of fo exacted as the 
 totall of all mercies, providences muft 
 yrai. 40. %. be regiftred. Who can number the ftars, 
 *J I,,J * or fands 5 Gods bleflings, or our fins? 
 the moft eminent of the firft magnitude 
 are to be noted down •, a$ all our fins are 
 to be laid to heart , but efpecially the 
 moft haiflous. 
 Qui nmet 3. If thou feareft to be overftrift in 
 £'*m P ra<aicail godlineiTe, fure without fear 
 eje maim, thou wilt be foon over loole and carc- 
 leffe : thou feareft not to be ftricl: for 
 thy eftate and outward concernments , 
 why art thou leffr carcfull for thy foul > 
 many not exatf in cafting Up their 
 books, they have- caftthemup 5 thy Au- 
 dit will be drift , fo mould thy ac- 
 counts be. 
 
 4. Laftly, the ingenuity of grace in 
 the foul,cals for thus much, not only to 
 fcndcvour what may fafely carry thee 
 to heaven, bur that which may moft 
 advance- Gods glory, and thy fouls pro- 
 fpcrity *od happineifc. 
 
 God 
 
T$ the KeAdtr. 
 
 God kept a Diary in the Creation of 
 the world. Gen* i. to president thispra- 
 &ife to us. 
 
 Yea he keeps a Book of Remem- Mai. j. i$. 
 brance for us that think upon his name, 
 he numbers our hairs, bottles our tears, 
 writes us upon the palms of his hands, 
 forgets not any of our works of love 
 to his name $ Regifters our names in 
 heaven, and (hall we write down his 
 name , wotks , love, in water, in the 
 duft on earth ? Shall he lay up our droffe, 
 and not we his gold? Shall he remem- Neb Iji# 
 bring us, bleffe curfes to us $ and (hall 
 we by ingratitude and forgetfulneffe of 
 him, curfe his bkffings to us? He hath 
 Called us to inherit a bleffing, and to 
 bleffe them that curfe us 5 and mall not 
 we bleffe our bleffed God, that bleffes 
 us < So much the more now as we ex- 
 pect and defire fome fettlement of truth 
 and peace. 
 
 Bring in your tallies of old, if you 
 lookfor new mercies to be put upon your 
 account. 
 
 But why do I detain thee fo long 
 without in the portall of a Preface ? go 
 in, fet thee dofc to this divine Anthme- 
 
 metick ; 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 metick 5 fums are bcft caft up in folitari- 
 rcflq retire into thy felf, fet thy heart on 
 Godswayesto thee, and on thine own 
 wayestohim. I heartily dcfi re thy thri- 
 ving in this fpirituall foul- trade. 
 
 Study , not only the notionail Nu- 
 meration, Addition and Multiplication 
 of particulars recited and fct down in 
 this Chriftian Journal! • but above all 
 look to the rule of Pra&ife, which in 
 this is the true Golden rule indeed. 
 I may fay (to conclude,) of this Book 
 rtftavf* as Qne of the Scripture, They are words 
 vcnda,ncnie-to be lived and pratfifed, not read only. 
 
 ^Aug. And a$ another Qfthe Iip ? ^ lm ^ 
 
 FgidiujAb- They are good and true Catholtcks indeed 
 timber^ ' who follow both found faith and good 
 BonUaibo- manners. Thismuficall lefTon of Praifc 
 !?£ , * li -a»d Thankfulncfie muft be well pra- 
 
 integrum fe Ctlled. 
 
 qunnir& Which that thou maycft do^ both 
 
 oaJ5mom ' make thy Journall, and thy life and 
 
 journey to heaven, anfwerablcto fuch a 
 
 Journal!, go to him and fet out in his 
 
 Dan. 8. 15. ftrength Who is the wonderfull num- 
 
 m * )g - berer^ as Daniel ftyles him 5 who can 
 
 teach thee to number thy dayes, fins* 
 
 Gods diff enfations to thee and others • 
 
 yea 
 
7> the ReAdtf. 
 
 yea and how to profit by all, even the 
 Lord Jefus Chrift , who is the Way, 
 Truth and Life, without whom we can 
 do nothing, and by whom we can do 
 all things ; In whom craving thy pray- 
 ers and praifes for him that is lefle then 
 then the lead of all his fervants and 
 mercies ; yet is, and refts thy foul-friend 
 and fervant in him our common Sa- 
 viour. 
 
 Irenmcnger-lane 
 hmdon.OUob. 
 12.1655. 
 
 John Fuller. 
 
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THE 
 
 JOURNALL 
 
 OR 
 
 DIARY 
 
 Of aThankfullChriftian. 
 
 Num B. JJ. 1. 
 
 And Mofes wrote their goings out 
 according to their journey j, by 
 the commandement of the Lord* 
 
 CHAP. I. 
 
 "The Preface^ wherein an entrance is made 
 to the words ^ and the ditty of a ^ournall 
 er Diary is propounded* 
 
 lllch is the comfptton of all, ev£n 
 
 the beft men by nature., that though 
 
 in their adverfity they feek God 
 
 early 3 yet in their profperity they 
 
 forget him commonly. They that in* dark 
 
2 fhe fiur'niB or Diary 
 
 evening are glad of a little ftar- light, in the 
 day are fcarce thankfull for the Sun, when be 
 goetb forth in his ftrength. It is obfervable, that 
 the Pfalmift taking notice of Gods good 
 hand of Providence over Travellers, Cap- 
 tives, Sick men, Sea-then, and divers others 5 
 repeats this paflagefoure times in Pfal, 107, 
 Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble* 
 Ifol.107.rf, And he doth as often add, Oh that men would 
 &prayfe the Lord for his goodneffel Which is as 
 much as if he had faid, I know they will 
 perform the firftduty, I wifh they may not 
 forget the latter : How many are there that 
 on their fick dayes make new promifes, but 
 being recovered, forget God, and follow 
 their old lufts? It is a mo ft provoking fin 
 to forget God, and the great mercies he hath 
 beftowed on them. How often did they prwofy r 
 God in the wildernetfe, ( faith the pfalmift of 
 the Israelites ) and gieve him in the defert / 
 But how did they provoke him ? As by ma- 
 ny other fins there mentioned, fo by this 
 Ka.78.40, t^tcidMy^lheyrimembrednot hi* band^ nor the 
 4 1- day in which he delivered them. 
 
 It fo far provokes God, that, 
 
 t. There is fcarce any other fin that 
 God gives his people fo great a charge to 
 take heed of, as this fin of forgetfulncfle : 
 So he charged the people of Jfrael 9 by the 
 hand of Mofes^ divers times, as Deut. 4. 9. 
 Where having declared what God had done 
 for them, he adds this charge, Onelytahf beecf 
 to thyfelf^vd^ thy [qhI diligently Jtfitbou for get 
 
 the 
 
of d ThankfuU CbriJUan. | 
 
 the things which thine eyes have feen, and left they Dcur. 4. gl 
 depart from thy heart all the dayes tf thy life. 
 The like charge is given them, Deuc. 6.12.8c 6. \x\ 
 Where having told them what they were 
 like to enjoy in the Land of Canaan, accor- 
 ding to Gods promifes and oath; that which 
 they never took care of, nor beftowed cod 
 for 5 he chargeth them to beware, left they 
 forget the Lord. 
 
 a. So far is God provoked by the fin 
 of forgetfulnefle, that as he takes fpecial no- 
 tice of it, fo he reproves it very iharply. In 
 Pfal. 78 . where you have an hiflory of Gods 
 goodnefle to his people, this fin of forget- 
 fulnefle, is two feverall times noted ; They 
 forgot Gods wor\s, and the wonders he had (b erred 
 r&wf,verf.i 1. %hey remembrednothk handy mr Pfal.7 8 . IT 3 
 the day in which he delivered them from the enemy, 4 * # 
 
 verf. 42. In Pfal. 1 06. this fin is thrice laid 
 to the peoples charge 5 zs,7bey nmembred not & i° 6 - 7* 
 the multitude of thy mercies, verf. 7. They fion x ^ 
 
 forgat his works, v^ 13. "they forgat God their 
 Saviour, which had dime great things in JEgypt $ 
 verf. 2i. How (harply doth our Saviour 
 Chrift reprove his Difciples for this fin > 
 Who, when he bad them takg heed and beware 
 of the leaven of the Fbarifees ; though he had 
 faidthat, becaufethey had taken no bread 
 with them : whereupon, Chrift takes notic? 
 pf this fin, and reproves them for it. JPbat, , 
 £ faith our Saviour ) do ye not remember *6*Mat. if. *, 
 five loaves, and tbefeven loaves, and bow many 4i 
 
 brnVfis ji took* *p f Thi* forgetfulnefle pro- 10 * 
 
 & % ftcdf 
 
4 T'he^curmllor Diary 
 
 ceeds from your groflTe ignorance, and your 
 tuk.17.17, great unbelief. Were there not ten cleanfed? 
 faith our Saviour of the Lepers, but where 
 are the nine? There are not found that returned 
 to give glory to Gcd> fave this granger. 
 
 3. So far is God provoked by this fin, 
 that he often plagues it mod feverely. So 
 faith the Lord by the Prophet ljaiah to the 
 Ift. 17. 10, people of Ifiaely Becaufe thcuhaji forgotten the 
 11. God of thy falvation, and baft not been mindfull 
 of the roch^ of thy Strength; therefore fhalt thou 
 plant pleafant plants and {bah" fit it witbflrange 
 flips. In the day {halt thou m<th$ thy plant to 
 grow, and in the morningfhalt thou makg thy feed 
 to fiourijb : but the barveft {ball be an heap in the 
 day of grief and ofdefperate for row • Summa eft % 
 omnia mala illisprovenireex impioVei conUmpiu y 
 faith judicious Calvin on the words- The 
 fumme of all that the Prophet had faid is 
 this: That all manner of evills were like to 
 befall them becaufe of their wicked con- 
 tempt of God. And who contemns God fo 
 much as he that forgets God, in whom is all 
 our ftrength and falvation ? Let them fow, 
 and plant, and fetch their feeds and flips from 
 a far Gountrey, and therefore the mod 
 choyce and precious; yea let them have great 
 fuccefle, let them flourish betimes; that is, 
 Initio omnia tibi fuccedant pro voto y eruntq\ prior a 
 falicia ac profpna y at pofiea incides in fumwat 
 trumnat & calami tates ; faith Vatablas on the 
 place : In the beginning Jet all fucceed ac- 
 cording to their defire 3 let the firft underta- 
 kings 
 
of a thankfull Chriffoh. -£ 
 
 takings be happy and profperou?; yet after- 
 wardsthou (halt fall into extreme miferies 
 and calamities. Or as Junius > Regiomm tuam 
 coluerir, & ftudiofijjime confirmaveris^ ut certum 
 ex ea frutium fercipias, &c. Take all care of 
 thy Countrey, and ftrengthen it what thou 
 canft, yet in one moment the 4H)Tian (hall de- 
 stroy all. 
 
 Lw^rhad wont to fay that three things 
 would deftroy Religion,, ( and if Religion 
 be blafted, what good can be expe&ed? ) 
 carnall fecurity, worldly policy, and forget- 
 fulnefle of Gods benefits. But more of thrs 
 afterwards. 
 
 Are thefe things fo? How great is Gods 
 goodnefle tons ? How lingular hrs loving 
 •kindneffe towards us ? who knowing onr 
 mold beft, and how ready we are to torgec 
 him and his benefit?, hath in all ages and 
 times afforded many fpeciaU means for the 
 helping of our dull memories ; that divine 
 favour being rcmenrbred, Gods glory might 
 be advanced, his judgements prevented, 2nd 
 our comforts enlarged. Henceapot of Mm- Exo.1'33. 
 mmuftbe kept in the Ark, that after ages 
 might know and remember how God had fed 
 his people with Angels food. For the like 
 ufe twelve ftone* rouff be fet up neerthe 
 banks of Jordan^ & other twelve ftones in the j fli/ 4% $ f . 
 midftof that Riv*r 5 that they and after ge- 
 nerations might remember that God had 
 miraculoufly made way for the twelve 
 Tiibes of J/faW) through thac flood, to the 
 
 B 3 Land 
 
£ The JeurnaU or Diary 
 
 ijtfumb. if. Land of Canaan. The fame people were 
 i*>3*. appointed to make fringes upon their gar- 
 ments, with a ribband of blew, that they 
 might look upon it, and remember God and 
 his commandementt. For this purpofe God 
 fet apart folemne dayes, and appointed pub - 
 lickfeafts; as, the feaft of Tabernacles, and 
 Pentecoft 5 which, as they were typicall re- 
 femblances of better things promifed, fo 
 were they memorandums of great mercies 
 vouchfafed. For this end God hath ordained 
 Sacraments, as that of the Paflbver under the 
 Law, and this of the Lords Supper under 
 the Gofpel ; that as at the celebration of the 
 
 Ktod.i3.Jione, Ifrael might remember their deliverance 
 out of JEgftty fo we at the adminiftration 
 of the other, might remember Chrift, by 
 
 £uk; 1. 74; whom we are favedfrom our enemies-, andjrm 
 the bands of all that hate us. This Supper is 
 not ohely a rcprefenting, a fealing, and a 
 conveying (igne,but a commemorative figne. 
 
 JtCorl ix. Do this in remembrance of me, faith Chrift. 
 Mi**- There is no Gofpell-ordinance, whether 
 prayer, reading, or hearing of the Word, 
 but there is fuch mention made of Chrift as 
 we ought to remember him. But this ordi- 
 nance of the Supper hath this fignall note of 
 excellency ftamped upon it above all, a fpe- 
 iciall charge from Chrift to remember him 
 when that is adminiftred; Do this in remem- 
 hrance of me ; lor, as often as ye eat this bread y and 
 drink this cup, yefhew y that is, jem^ke a com- 
 tnerwtaiion of the Lads death till he come. 
 
 Some- 
 
cf a rUnhfuUChrtftdru g 
 
 Sometimes (that we may come to the fuK 
 jeft matter intended ) God appointed Re- 
 cords and Regifters of his mercies, Hi/lories 
 and Journallsof the noble afts and loving 
 kindneffesof the Lord to his people, to be 
 kept and conveyed to pofterity, that the ge- 
 nerations to come might know them, even 
 the children that fhould be born, who fhould Pfa.78 fc*. 
 arifi and declare them to their children, Thus 
 the Lord commanded that the Hiftory of 
 Arnalek, fhould be written in a Book, their 
 malice and Gods mercy, their war and over- 
 throw; and it muft be rehearfed to pofterity, Exo, 17,14. 
 that it might never be forgotten. What this 
 Book was , we (hall not much enquire. 
 Some fay it was the Book of Jajber> men- 
 tioned Joflh. chap. io. which was a Chro- 
 nicle of the ads of the people of the Lord, 
 which is loft. Some fay it was the Book 
 of the fudges. Some fay it was a Book 
 of the Battails of the Lord^ mentioned Numb. 
 21. 14. Others, and that mo ft probably, 
 that it was no other but this Book of Exodus - y 
 Junius and Calvin. But why this Hiftory muft 
 be written in a Book is more worthy of our 
 inquiry, aad more fu table to our purpofe. 
 And the reafons may be thefe two : 
 
 i. That a thankfull remembrance of fo 
 great a deliverance from fo malicious an ene- 
 my, might be continued in the generations 
 following. 
 
 2. That the people of God knowing 
 
 what fentence was denounced againft Arm- 
 
 B 4. jet 
 
The tfournallor Diary 
 
 lt\-> which (hould be executed in due time, 
 fas it was in the Reign of Saul) might be 
 the better encouraged to fight againft them, 
 and through faith cxpeft the viftory over 
 them : And thus in this Chapter God would 
 have the Journals of the people of Ifrael 
 from Mfyfl to the Land of Canaan recorded, 
 that the great things God had done for them 
 by the way, might not be forgotten ; forfo 
 it is faid in the Text. Mofes wrote their 
 goings out according to their journeys > by the com* 
 fnandement of the Lord. 
 
 In this Chapter two parts are obfervable, 
 
 i. An Ifraelitijh Journall is recorded, 
 from verf. i, to v. 50. 
 
 2» A direfltion is given them,concerning 
 their proceedings in and with the Land of 
 Canaan. Which is threefold : 
 
 i. That they (hould caft out the inhabi- 
 tants, v. 52, *>3- 
 
 2. That they (hould deftroy their idols, 
 p. 52. 
 
 3. That they (hould divide the Land a- 
 mongft them by lot, v. 54. 
 
 The two former whereof are feconded 
 with a moft (harp threatning, that if they 
 did not pun&ually obferve Gods command 
 therein ; 
 
 1. Fortheprefentj that people fliould 
 prove a conjinuall fnarc unto them. 
 
 2. For the future, what God had inten* 
 dc$ to thefe their enemies, fliould fall upon 
 thpir own heads: all this to the end of the ch. 
 
 la 
 
of a Thank fuS ChriftarT* P 
 
 In thcljraelitifk Journall two things arc to 
 be considered j 
 
 i # The duty is in generall propounded, 
 
 v. 1,2. 
 
 2. You have an Hiftoricall enumeration 
 of their feverall Journeys, in v. 2. 
 
 In which three things are to be noted > 
 
 1 . The matter that ftands upon record, 
 and that is their journeys, according to their going* 
 out. 
 
 2. The Scribe that recorded them, and 
 that was Mofes, Mofes wrote, &q. 
 
 3. The authority by which he did it; 
 and that was the commindemmt of the Lord, he 
 had very good warrant for what he did. 
 Thefirft of thefe 5 namely, the matter that 
 ftands upon record jheir journey s,\$ that which 
 
 > I (hall principally take notice of. 
 
 In which Journall this is obfervable. 
 That there is not onely a particular rela- 
 tion of the place from which 3 and the place 
 to which they journeyed, as from Ramefes to 
 Succoth) &c. but alfo a fingular mention is 
 made of all the great paflages of Gods good 
 hand of providence over them 5 together with 
 their murmurings and rebellions^by w cb they 
 provoked him. All which are in this ch. im- 
 plyed,and fome particulars are exprefled, as 
 you may finde , v. 9, 14, 38, 40. This ch* 
 being but a fhort Epitome or abridgement of 
 
 \ the whole Hiftory. So that in the Ifraelitifh 
 Journall you (hall finde how here God gave 
 them bread from heaven^ ihere water oat of 
 
 the 
 
$6 The $ our nail or J>Urj 
 
 the rock * in one place he delivered theq? 
 from the violence of the mighty waters ; in 
 another, from the fury of their potent ener 
 mies : Now he faved them from the cruelty 
 of the Mgypxians^ at another time from the 
 malice ot the Amalekjtes 5 and foon after, 
 from the fting of the fiery Serpents. Today 
 he gives them Manna and Quails , good 
 food for their hungry bodies; to morrow 
 he delivers them his Law, with many divine 
 ordinances and ftatutes, for the good of their 
 fouls : In ail their goings out he afforded 
 them plentiful J pledges of his care of them, 
 bounty to them, and patience towards them. 
 Who , notwithftanding the many grievous 
 fins by which they proyoked him, being 
 full of compaffion, forgave their iniquities, 
 pfa.7j.58, and dertroyed them not ; yea, many a time he 
 p. turned away hit anger ^ and did not fiir up all hit 
 math) fox her emembred that they were but flefa 
 &c 
 
 By this time we are come to the Obfcrva- 
 tion that is intended, and may hence be col-* 
 Jc&ed, and that is this, 
 
 Doft. To keep a Journal or Diary hy «/, efpecially of aQ 
 Gods gracious dealings with «/, is a work, for a 
 Cbrifiianof fingularufe. 
 
 I fay, of Gods gracious dealings with us, 
 in a more cfpeciall manner; becaufe it is 
 goodalfo to obferve and keep a good ac- 
 count of the feverall occurrences of the 
 
 Tiroes 
 
tf a Thanh full Chrjflidnl ft 
 
 Times we meet with;, as they have reference 
 to the Coun trey and Nation we live in. It 
 is good to keep an Hiftory, a Regrfter, a 
 Diary, an Annalcs* not onely of the places 
 in which we have lived; but of the mercies 
 that have been bellowed on us, continued to 
 usallourdayes. This was the pra&ice of 
 David the Servant of the Lord, who made a 
 Pfalra and Song in the day that the Lord de- 
 livered him from the hand of all his enemies, Pfa. xS.ritf. 
 and from the hand of Saul. Mofes writes 
 his Book called Deuteronomy, which is no- 
 thing elfe but a repetition of the Journeys 
 of the people of Ifrael 9 and the great things 
 God had done for them^ in their goings out 
 to that day. There was fcarce any thing in 
 Ifrael) but was typicail; their Meats, their 
 Drinks, their Manna, their water out of the 
 rock,their Prince,Prieft,Prophet;their facri- 
 fices, their whole fervice 5 yea,the very Land 
 of Canaan was a type of heaven, and was not 
 their voyage a type of our pilgrimage? 
 their journey from Mgjft to Canaan, a figne 
 of our paflage from bondage to liberty ,from 
 darknefle to light, from a vale of tears to 
 thee joyes of heaven ? See this parallel in 
 fixpaflages. 
 
 1 . They were brought out oiJEgypt with 
 mighty hand, and we are delivered from the Etod.14 .8; 
 flavery of fin & Satan,by the arm of the Lord. 
 The Creation of the world, Sun, Moon,md Pfal. S. j. 
 Stars are the work of Gods fingers; and all 
 the great things he doth for us in the world, 
 
 are 
 
5ti The $ourn*U *r Diary 
 
 IfMj.it arc but finger-work in comparifon of our 
 Redemption by Chrift, that is indeed the 
 work of his arm. 
 
 2. They had many and mighty enemies 
 that flood in their way t and oppofed them. 
 The JEgyptiatiSy and the Jlmalekjtes , Sihon the 
 King , and Og the Giant ; and we in this 
 
 Epb. 6. 11. w*y fight not witbflefh and blood alone > but againft 
 principalities and powers^ againft the rnlers of the 
 darkpeftofthit world^againftfpiritual wictydneffes 
 in high places. 
 
 3. They had a red Sea to pafle thorough, 
 and we our temptations and tryals to pafle 
 
 frTiiE.jiz. over ; for y all that will live godly in Cbrift Jefus 
 frail [uffer perfection. 
 
 4. They had a bunch of grapes in the wil- 
 derneffe, and wc a tafte of Gods goodnefle 
 in this prefent evill world. It is fometimes 
 fair weather over head, though foul under 
 feet; we have peace with God D though trou- 
 ble in the world. When Jofeph dealt roughly 
 with his Brethren,yet even then theycarryed 
 home corn and money in their Sacks: As it 
 is never fo well with u*, but we have caufe 
 to be humble; fo it is never fo ill with us, 
 but we have caufe to be thankfull. 
 
 Esco.11.38. 5* They had a mixed multitude went up 
 with them; and we have (heep and goats in 
 the fame fold, wheat and tares in the fane 
 field, corn and chaffe en the fame floor, go~>d 
 fifhand bad in the fame ftream, Saints and 
 Hypocrites in the fame vifible Church. la 
 the Ark amongft eigt t, there was a Cham <> 
 
 in 
 
of a Thank full GhripUrT. 3$ 
 
 in Ch rifts family amongft' twelve', there 
 was a fudas; in the primitive times, amongft 
 the feven Deacons, there was a Nicholas. Our 
 beft Congregations are mixt companies , 
 in heaven only the Aflembly(hall confiftof 
 holy one?, the fpirits of juji mm made per* 
 fett. 
 
 6. Laffly, they had a Journal! of all 
 Gods mercies, and why not we a Diary of 
 all Gods gracious dealings with us ? If this 
 lafthath nothing of type in it, lam fure 
 it hath of prefident ; for, whatever was writ* 
 tm before^ was written fir m learning. 
 
 ,KAP» 
 
ij The four nail or i>iary 
 
 Chap. II# 
 
 The matter whereof a -pournall or Diary 
 is compounded^ and firji NationaU and 
 fublitk. 
 
 IN the profecution of this Subjeft in 
 hand, I would do thefetwo things : 
 i. Difcovcr the materials whereof this 
 Journall doth confift. 
 
 2. Shew the manner how it is to be ufccL 
 For the materials, they are twofold : 
 i. Either National!, and more pub- 
 lick. 
 
 2. Perfoiiall, and more private. 
 For thofe that are National!, and of pub- 
 lick concernment, they may be reduced to 
 thefe five heads. 
 
 I. Take notice what Kings and Princes, 
 what Magi ftrates and Governors have ruled 
 over us ; for commonly, Such Prince, fuch 
 people. They that come of the yeelding 
 Willow, and not of the fturdy Oak fas a 
 MarquefTe of Winchefitr had wont to fay j) 
 will yeeld with the Time, and ever beof the 
 Religion of the King their Mailer : They 
 &UJ be Pagans under Viccletian the Heathen 
 
 Emperor, 
 
if 4 ThJnkfuIl chrifUtP. i y 
 
 impcror , and Chriftians under Confiantine 
 he Reformer : Such again will turn Adam 
 inder Confiantius the Heretick, Backfliders 
 jnder Julian the Apoftate,and wxthjovinianus 
 or preferment turn Orthodox. Hence the 
 \ncients were wont to place the ftatues of 
 their Princes and Patriots neer their foun- 
 :ains; intimating thereby, that if their Ma- 
 giftrates were good, they were the fpring- 
 beads of much happinefle to the people; 
 but if wicked, the original! of mifery and 
 mifchief. If wicked Jeroboam fet up idols, i KIng.i*. 
 Regis ad exemp!um> illlfraelarc made to fin 30. 
 
 through his example. If Hezek^ah be for- % Chr.31,:, 
 ward in reforming Religion, fo are the Peo* 
 pie. When certain EmbafTadors praifedthe 
 Lacedemonian Souldiers for their good order, 
 in being well regulated by Martial difcipline 
 who were before mutinous and injurious ; 
 one of them anfwered, Not iidem fortius qui ut 
 nufer y fed alius nunc nobis eft t)ux : We are 
 the fame we had wont to be, but now we 
 have another General!. That Nation is 
 happy, that can fay of their chief Governor, 
 as one of Saul's Courtiers fpake of David, 
 when he commended him to his Mafter 3 H<?/r 1 Sam: t£. 
 a cunning player on the Harp, a mighty valiant man y x I. 
 
 and a man of war >and prudent in matters ; a comely 
 perfon, and (that which made all excellent J 
 the Lord ii vith him. He is a great Souldier, 
 and a good Scholar, like another fafir, that 
 did as much by Arcs at by Arms ; he is a 
 wifeScatef-man,anda$ religious as noble; 
 
 fo 
 
%4 The $ our nail or Diary 
 
 Co ruling over men that he is juft, ruling in 
 the fear of God, Goodneffe and Greatntfle, 
 when they meet together in the Grandee* of 
 the World , huge fwelling titles in their 
 Coynsand Charters are accompanyed with 
 grace arid godlinefle, are like a ring with a 
 rich Diamond, that raifeth the price of ic 
 very high. Oh ! how winning and preva- 
 lent are fuch mens examples ? He that car- 
 ries a light in a dark evening in London, fel- 
 dome goes alone 5 and that (hip in the Navy 
 that hath the Lanthorn, and fets out the 
 light, (hall not want followers. It is fo in a 
 good example, though given byameanper- 
 fon ; but if the light of Magiftrates fo fhine 
 before men that they may fee their good 
 works, how do they glorifie God^ and inde- 
 vour by all means to walk in thofe wayes ? 
 And the reafon is, hecaufe Subjefts ftudy 
 the lives of their Princes more then their 
 laws, and efteem their examples as currant 
 as their coyn: Hence it is, that as their per- 
 fonall virtues are publick ornaments , fo 
 their proper vices are a Kingdomes inju- 
 ries. 
 
 2. Obferve what that Religion is, that by 
 thofe Magiftrates is imbraced , and how 
 the truth is countenanced or oppofcd by 
 them. 
 
 Charlf the Great was wont to fet hh 
 Crown upon the Bible, asCamttus fometimes 
 put his Diadem upon the Rood, both there- r 
 by intimating, that as all honor was due co 
 
 God* 
 
»f[a rhankfull Chriftian. if 
 
 God, fo true Religion was the bed bads for 
 Government, and that Piety was the befl 
 Policy. The Lions that upheld Solomon'* 
 throne were of pure gold. A Princes Reli- 
 gion fhould be pure,not polifbt; it fhould be 
 undcfilcd before God,as well as pretended in 
 the fight of men. And indeed the beft way 
 to facilitate the affairs of State, for the beft 
 advantage of a Common-wealth, is to carry 
 on Religion, andfeekthe glory of God in 
 the firft place. It is obfervable, that the 1/- 
 raelites in their journey to Canaan, went no 
 fafter^nor no farther then the Ark. And when 
 they returned from Babylon to their owne Ezr^j. M* 
 Land, they firft fet up the Altar, and offered IO « 
 
 Burnt*offcrings,they kept the feaft of Taber- Nchcm - * 
 nacles, and built the Temple before they fee 
 up the Wall. And had we in our generation 
 been as wife, and obferVed Gods and his peo- 
 ples method; that is, firft fought the King- 
 dome of heaven,and the righteoufnefle there- 
 of, then all outward good things had Matt 6.3*. 
 been added to us. Had we fought Gods glory 
 before our owne grandure, we had better 
 provided for our owneand the Kingdomes 
 fafety.lt is obferved,that the Difciplesat fea, 
 ih theabfenceofChrift,by reafon of a ftorm, 
 rowed flowly and dangeroufly 5 but as foon lob. 3. ir. 
 as they willingly received Chrift into the 
 (hip immediately,they came to the land whi- 
 ther they intended. The moft politick Pilots 
 that ever fate at the ftern of any Common- 
 Wealthy were never able through the depths 
 G of 
 
of State to drive on their defigr^s with fuo 
 cefle, unlefie they took Chrift along with 
 them. They that truft much to t^eir owne 
 partes and poises, without an eye to God, 
 are like Boys that (land on their heads, and 
 fling up their h^ls again ft heaven ; as this 
 tiandinj* is dangerous to the ftate of th? Eb- 
 cfy, fo that trufting to carnall policies, with 
 a negle&of Religion by forae, and a con- 
 tempt ofreall oppofition againft the truth 
 by others, are asdtftruttiveto the body of 
 any State in the world. The Bifhop of Mottle 
 tufciano told Charts the Emperor in the 
 Counceli of Trent, thajt it was one of the 
 chief inftru&ions Pope Paul the third gave 
 to his Legatjto commend to that Affembly, 
 lhat Principalities canmibe preferved where Re- 
 H^ion is loft : And it was a good Law that a 
 Vanifh King of this Land made, That at the 
 generall Court of every Shire, the Bifhop of the 
 Vioceffe fhould accompany the Sheriffe; that the 
 one might countenance Gods law, the other wans. 
 Much like the pra&ice of good Jehofapbat 9 
 whofe heart was lifted up in the ways of the 
 % Chr.17.8. Lord. He fent with his Princes the Levites, 
 to teach in the Cities of Judab. The Princes 
 are (aid to teach ; that is, either by the Lo 
 vites, whom they did company 3 counte- 
 nance^and encourage in the work; or rather 
 the Princes taught the La xs of the Land,, the 
 LevitestheLawof God, and both did mu- 
 tually help each other. 
 
 ?. Keep 
 
§f 4 rhtnkfnJl Cbrifiianl / J> 
 
 3. Keep an account of the various and 
 changeable condition of the Times in 
 the Countrey where we live , either fer 
 profperitjr oraqiveriuy, with the fruits 
 and effetts of both. Omnium rerum ejl viciffi- 
 tudo. There are no fublunary comiorus but 
 are fubje&to change. We have ibme times 
 fun-fhine 3 and form times rain-, we have foroe- 
 time day, andfometimeit isr.ighc with us. 
 The Church of the fews under the Old Te- 
 stament had fomctimes War, and fometious 
 Peace. Jabin King of Canaan mightily op- 
 preffed Ifrael twenty yeers ; but the Lord 
 difcomfited Sifera his Commander in chief Judg. £4. 
 with all his hoft before Baruch> and the Land & 3- ■ ?. 
 had reft forty yeeri. How pun&uall is the & *''*? 
 holy Ghoft in obferving the very circum- 
 ftances, notonely of perfon and place, but 
 of the very time, how long they had War, 
 and how much longer time they injoysd 
 Peace ? Under the reign of Solomon, that 
 people en joyed much peace. Judah and Ifrael 
 Were many, as the fond which u by the Sea (bore 
 in multitude, eatings and drinking, and making 1 Kin.4.1^ 
 merry. But in the dayes of Abijah his Grand- 
 childe, Ifrael and Judah fought one againft 
 another, fo that there fell down flain of Ifrael 
 five hundred tboufand ehofen mm at that battle. 
 I challenge any man that is tnoft verft in aChro.rj. 
 Hiftory, to give me a parallel. *i m 
 
 The Church of the Jews under the Go- 
 fpel, about the time that Stephen was ftoned, 
 through the heat of perfecution was fcatte* 
 
 C z red 
 
[ za r the spMntdB or DUrj 
 
 red abroad^ throughout the Regions of fa* 
 dea and Samaria : But when Satil became Paul y 
 and of a Perfecuter turn'd a Preacher, Then 
 
 Aft. S.i. tod the Churches reft throughout Judea and Gali- 
 
 £t ?. 3 1. ? ee > ^d Samaria, &c. 
 
 This one thing amongft other b recorded 
 in the facred Journall of the Ifraelites^ 
 fometimes they had plenty , and fometimes 
 they wanted bread and water ; fometimes 
 they had peace, and fometimes their enemies 
 made war again ft them f fometimes they 
 enjoyed healthy and fometimes the plague 
 brake out amongft them ; And thus it hath 
 been in all the generations and ages of 
 the world. England* thatfome have called 
 terra Florida, or the fortunate Ifland, that, with 
 Capernaum, hath been lifted up to heaven, in 
 the enjoyment of peace and plenty, the Go- 
 fpel of peace, and the peace of the Gofpel 
 together, for many yeers ; fo that enough 
 cannot be fpoken upon this fubjett, to the 
 praife of God, the envy of our enemies, and 
 the blot of our ingratitude. But we have 
 had our changes. We have finned away all 
 our comforts. Our peace brought plenty, 
 cur plenty nourifht pride, our pride begat 
 Contention ,our contention drew the fword, 
 and the fword a civil! fword, the fharpeft 
 and foreft of all Gods judgements , hath 
 turned our peace into war, our plenty in- 
 to penury, our friends into enemies; Co 
 that our blood hath been fpilt, and our 
 treafure fpent, and our glory ftained, 
 
 almoft 
 

 ef a ThdnhfuU Cbrtjthiu j % 
 
 almoft beyond all example. Where every 
 
 Marie caelum fuhitopr mutua vulnerafratres. 
 
 In a battle betwixt SylJa and Harm, both 
 Romane Commanders, a Souldier having 
 (lain one, and afterward underftanding thac 
 it was his Brother , in anguifh of fpirit 
 thruft his fword into his own bowels. Titus 
 Vefpafian'Exnverov of Rome, wept when he 
 faw thedeftru&ion ofjerufatem&nd the great 
 Slaughter of the Jews> chiefly cccafioned 
 through their owne civiil diflenfions; but 
 that which hath heigh tned our mifery, and 
 I fear aggravated our fin very much, we grew 
 to that height of heat and bitternefs,that we 
 rejoyced over our brethren when we obtained 
 any viftory againft them. Pliny reports this 
 of the Dragon* that fighting with the Ele- 
 phant; he got under the belly of that mighty 
 bcaft, where he fuckt out the blood fo far, 
 that atlaftthe Elephant fell, but with his 
 fall crufht the Dragon to death. He thac 
 winsmoftby a civiil war, will be a great 
 lofer at the laft. Thilip Duke of Burgundy 
 his emblemc of a flint-ftone and a fteel (hi- 
 king one again ft another fo long till both 
 areconfumed, doth lively fet out the mi- 
 feries of that fire that is made by domefticall 
 arms. A forain enemy cannot with us z 
 greater mifchief , nor themfelves a greater 
 advantage, then our inteftine wars. Hence 
 C 3 the 
 
$£ The SfouytM&w Diary 
 
 tltc Turfy ufc to pray uftlo God, to keep the 
 Chritfians at variance ; which caufed one 
 of their Emperors to lay to his Councell, 
 dl^adiflg him from maktog war with the 
 Germanes, becaufe of their multitude and 
 Jorthuck; that he feared them not, becaufe 
 ( faith he ) fooner would his fingers bs all 
 of a length) then their Princes be all of one 
 rfiincte. 
 
 4. Keep a Diary of thefererall andmoft 
 remarkable judgements that God hath in 
 our time inflifted upon notorious offimder*, 
 whether perfons in high places, or fbch as 
 moved in a lower orbe. The holy Ghoft 
 takas fpeciall notice of fuch in the Scri- 
 ptures* Few men went to the grave in 
 peace, that by their xiioftflrous impieties 
 made War againft heavefc aftd his Church. 
 As, what became of Fharaob thebloody^and 
 Achhofhel the crafty ? of Balaton the cote- 
 tous, and Corah the rebell ? of Human the 
 proud, and Herod the fox? A$ their lives 
 were wicked, fo their endswefe fearful. In 
 like manner, v. hat became of Abfalm the 
 difobediertt, and Ela the drunkard? of 
 Zimri and Cosbi the unclean > of Ananiat 
 and Saphira thofe lyars ? Were not all thefe 
 taken away with a ftroke in their fin ) What 
 became of thofe Romane Nimrods, as Maxen- 
 tiise the Tyrant, and fkliart the Apoftate,with 
 other?, who hunted the Saints of God to 
 death in thofe ten perfecutions mentioned 
 m Ecclefiafijcall Hiftories > How few of 
 
 their 
 
§f » thtokfktt ChrifUn. . 23 
 
 their hoary heads went to the grave in 
 peace? 
 
 Tocomeneerertoourowne times. What 
 became of tvily Winthefier^ and bloody hormer Q 
 with many others that ruled the rofte in 
 thore Dog-dayes of Q^ Marf$ reign? Few 
 of thofe bloody and deceitful 1 men lived out 
 half their dayes ; But when the fcumthe was 
 at the hfgheftjit fell into the fire ; for though 
 God did bear them up For fome time in their 
 eflfence,yet he would not bear them out at all 
 in their malice. God hath leaden feet, but 
 iron hands; though he comes flowly, yet 
 he ftrikes furely. It is good to mark the 
 crds of men. ffiar\ the ferfeU man ( faith 
 the Ffalrmjl ) and behold the upright, for thetnd Pfal. 37.37; 
 of that man k feace. Balaam did fo as Wicked 
 as he was, which made him wifh that he 
 might dye the death of tbe righteous, and Numb, 23. 
 that his latter end might be like his. In like 10. 
 
 mannermark the end of the tranfgreflbr*, 
 forthe} (hall be deftroyed together, the end Pial.37.3f- 
 cf the rrickfd (ball be cut off ; that is, they 
 (hall not dye the common death of all men^ 
 but (hall be cut off in the midft of their 
 dayes. If their lives be tragical, their deaths 
 are feldome comicall. Zoroafier the in venter 
 of Magick (fas fome Hiftorians affirm of 
 him) laught at his birth, but dyed a wo- 
 full, and a lamentable death, being baniftied 
 from his Countrey. Alphonfus VyaziUs a 
 Spaniard, arigid Papift, procured a notori- 
 ous Gut-throat to munhcr his Brother John 
 C 4 Vyaz'm 
 
2~£ The *f»utn*B or BUrj 
 
 Vyaziuiy a fincere Proteftant, becaufc he 
 could by no means turn him from the truth; 
 but the righteous Lord would not fuffer 
 fuch an unnaturall villany to go unpuni- 
 fhed; for not long after he was haunted by 
 the terrors of his owne confidence, that 
 being at Trent when the Councel fate there, 
 (Tor he was one of the Popes Lawyers ) he 
 hanged himfelf about the neck of his owne 
 Mule. How have fome godly Divines taken 
 good pains in writing the (lories of Gods 
 judgements upon notorious malefa&ors, as 
 Drunkards, Swearers, Sabbath -breakers, and 
 fuch like > Would others be perfwaded in 
 their generation, to take fpeciall notice, and 
 keep fome account of fuch memorable acci- 
 dents,the benefit would be fingular. The righ- 
 teous Jhall fee and fear ( faith the Pfalmift ) 
 What fhal they fee ? That God deftroyes the 
 mighty man, that boafts himfelf in mifchief, 
 that pod takes him away, and plucks him 
 pfal* 51. u out of his dwelling place, and roots him out 
 ^7. 4 of the lane) of the living. 
 
 A Serving-man being at a Tavern in Ejfex y 
 and threatning to fwear the Gonftable out 
 of the Town, if he came there • in a drun- 
 ken fit tunning after one to make him pledge 
 him a pinte of fack at a draught, fell down 
 the flairs, and dyed inftantly, Nwemb. t. 
 1626. 
 
 A Fifher-man ( that I knewj bringing 
 Mackerell to a Port-town in Suffolk, where 
 |&hc people (beeaufe they were new, and the 
 
 firft 
 
tf 4 Thanh full ChriJIUth g J 
 
 0rft that came that ycer to Town ) prefllng 
 eagerly to buy them, and Come againft his 
 will being entred into his boat, he took up 
 a ftone, and fware by the name of God he 
 would make them ftand further off/inftantly 
 funk down, and foon after dyed. 
 . How many in my time have I noted ! 
 Would others do the like, how would men 
 confider fuch things, and underftand the 
 righteous judgements of the Lord ? 
 
 5# Finally, confider ferioufly,and obferve 
 very ftriftly, what the Nationall Epidemi- 
 call fin of the time and prefent generation 
 may be. Where iniquity abounds,it is hard 
 to determine, but queftionleffe every age 
 hath a peculiar diftemper. In times of com- 
 motion, when the bands of love are broken 
 into feverall parties and fa&ions, as they 
 have been lately arnongft us, it is more eafily 
 difcerned. 
 
 A noble Gentleman of lingular abilities, 
 and one much employed in affairs of State 
 in his time (whom I knew well) advifed 
 his friends at fuch a time to buy up all the 
 Pamphlets that were printed, if of any con- 
 fiderable worth ; for when people fall out, 
 they commonly fpeak out; and if they be 
 pneedrunk with paflion, and their diftera- 
 pers boyl to any height, the raoft fecrcc 
 venome will fwim on the top : By which 
 means you may eafily feel the pulfe of 
 the prefent time, and discover what is the 
 Nationall and moft predominant finne: 
 
 and 
 
\S The $c»rn*ll er Ditry 
 
 and it will be worth our praife to ltnoW 
 it. 
 
 Which that we may the better do*, let 
 us look back a little to the generations be* 
 trinde us. 
 
 i . Some times have been more noto- 
 rious for drunkenncfle. Scaliger in his Book 
 Je Lingua Latina, obferves this of the Ger- 
 mans in his time, that their tivere was bibere^ 
 not onlyin their pronunciation's he notedf; 
 but in their pra&ice, as other well obfer- 
 ved, who lived that they might drink. 
 
 Seneca foretold fo much of feme times, 
 that men (frould be fo drowned With this fin 
 of drunkennefle, thztpfarirmm mm fumpfijfe 
 pirtuseffet* itfbouldbe eftecmed a virtue to 
 ftrive with the Brewers horfe who fhould 
 carry more liquor ; and with fome it hath 
 been of that cfteem, that not as drunk^a? a 
 Begger^ but as drunks as a frince y bath been 
 a kind of proverbial commendation of fome. 
 When JEfcbines commended? hilip King of 
 Maceden, for a Joviall man, who would 
 drink freely; Vemofihenes being by, told 
 him, that this was a good quality in a 
 Spunge, but not in a Prince. 
 
 Drunkennefle is i fin that layes men open 
 to all iniquity more then any fin. Ebxietap 
 infe culpa* compleft it ur omnes. What fin is not 
 Prov.ij 33. a Drunkard fubjeft to ? Their eyes (hall behold 
 ftrange women, (faith Solomon} and their hearts , 
 Jhati utter perverfe things. And a fin it is than 
 God hath more frequently and fuddenly 
 
 plagued 
 
ef »Th*ntfit& cMfM aj 
 
 plagued with death in the very aft then any 
 otter fin. 
 
 Edgar a King of inland, obfervinginhis 
 time that excefiive drinking abounded in 
 the Land, through the example of the Vanes 
 that dwelt in divers parts of the Kingdome ; 
 to prevent that evill,ordained that their cups 
 they drank in (hould have certain pins or 
 nails put in therti, bfeyond which if any 
 drtnk *t one draught, he (hould pay fa 
 much money. 
 
 2. Some generation hath been more infa- 
 inonafor that fin of Swearing, and that by 
 thenamsof God, even at every word here 
 in England. Infortiach that a family in this 
 Land, and that no mean one, was fo noto- 
 rious for this fin, that they had the name of 
 the Bygtds given them, and were fo ufually 
 cailed. 
 
 I remember, Mr. fox inhisHiftory of the 
 Afts and Mowmentf cf the Church , reciting 
 many evidences whereby he proved the anti- 
 quity of Pricfts Marriage , fets down the 
 copy of a Releafe made by William Bygod, 
 Lord of Little Bradley, to Henry Dewtrdeftone 
 Clerk, and Alice bis Wife ; and queftion- 
 kfle that name of Pigot was originally the 
 fame, though in fucceflion of time, and very 
 Iffifely it was changed : Omne peccatumfuam 
 babet excellentiam : Every fin hath fome pecu- 
 liar vileneffe, therein it may be faid to ex- 
 cel other. There's not any fin that doth more 
 plainly dilTcQver the great profanencfTe of 
 
 the 
 
$$ Tfc $ our n All or HUrj 
 
 the heart, as common fwearing, efpecially 
 piaMi.34.by the name of God, for out of the abundance 
 of the heart the mouth fieatyth. 
 
 3. Some times that are gone over our 
 head?, and therefore far behinde us, have 
 been infe&ed with an itching humour after 
 Superiority,wherein perfens not content to 
 abide in the calling that God fet them in, 
 have indevoured to go beyond their proper 
 line, and fo broke their rank*. Th\i$Abfa- 
 torn was not content with the place of a Son, 
 nor Hazael with the rank of a Subject, nor 
 Jezabel with the condition of a Wife, whofe 
 defires fhould be fubjeft to her Husband, 
 whofe right it was to rule over her. Thus 
 the loweft of the people under the counte* 
 nance of Jeroboam would be Priefts, and 
 it was a fmall thing in the eyes of Corah and 
 his company, that God had brought them 
 Num.x*.j.BU5* 1 ! 3nt ? himfelf to do fervice, but they 
 muft feek the Priefthood alfo. Thus^ro- 
 boum the Servant of Solomon is not contented, 
 iKi.n.i£ unlefTehe may lift up his hand againft his 
 # Mafter. How fad was that time amongft the 
 Scythians , who whileft they made their 
 third Expedition into Afia y and tarry ed 
 (even yeers (as JufiinXn his Hiftory reports^) 
 were turned out of their beds and pofleffions 
 by their fervants that were left behinde to 
 keep their cattle, and at their return were 
 kept out by force of Arms by thofe Oaves, 
 who had taken their Wives , and poflefled 
 their goods* Not much unlike that of the 
 
 people 
 
•/ 4 rhinhfnll cbrijtidgl *9 
 
 people of lfrael 9 fcrvants ruled over them, Lam. y. $. 
 and there was none to deliver them. 
 
 Ctfar riding one day through a Towne, 
 was asked by one, wnether there were any 
 (hiving for offices and places of honour ii) 
 that place, anfwered that he had rather be 
 the chief man in that little Village, then the 
 fecond perfon in Rome ; an itching humour 
 it is after greatncfle,that hath run in a blood 
 from Adam and 'Eve to this day, who were 
 not content with their (landing, but would 
 be as Gods, knowing good and evill : Now 
 as the root of this humour is extreme pride, 
 fo the fruit is confufion ; firft I fay pride is 
 the caufe, there are none that are fo low in 
 their deferts, but are very high in their 
 thoughts; even the bramble hath great 
 thoughts and high words too of his fliadow , Judg. 9 * J. 
 and it wasbut a (hadow. Abfakrn, andHazaely 
 and Iezebel, and Ieroboam thought they could 
 manage the affairs of a Kingdome better then 
 Vav'uf? or Benbddad> or Abab y or Solomon. 
 Every •fimple Cobler thinks he can go be- 
 yond his Laft, and preach far better then bis 
 Prieft : Je Sons of Levi (faith he) ta\e too 
 much upon you: But the fruit of fuch ambi- 
 tion is mifchief and confufion. 
 
 Some Countrey Pefants that behold the 
 ftarsto glitter in the horizon on the top of 
 a mountain, think if they were there they 
 could reach the heaven 3 & order the ftars,buc 
 •being exalted on that mountain, they areas 
 far to feek as before. What became of Abfa- 
 
 lorn 
 
$0 7U zfournall or D/a/f 
 
 km the Rebels and Hazael the Traitor, and 
 Jezebel the Proud? of Unborn the Servant, 
 and Corah and his company ? As none did fo 
 ill 3 fononefpedworfe, their mifchief ligh- 
 ted on their own heads^nd (like to Phaeton) 
 their violent dealing on their owne pates. 
 Thofe Scythian flaves, though their M^fters 
 could not beat them with their weapons, 
 yet at the fight of their Mailers rods and 
 whips rarf all away , and at laft peri- 
 shed. 
 
 But you will ask roe. What may be the fin 
 of this time ? Some wood is more apt to 
 breed worms, and fome cloth more ready to 
 breed moths,and fome times have their pecu- 
 liar fins.But,what is the (in of this age? which 
 is more considerable for ui, then the lookiog 
 back to the times that are paft. 
 
 1 . Some fay our great divifions , our 
 moll bitter contentions, and that amongft 
 Brethren, is the fin. And indeed this cvill 
 is grown to that height, that they that 
 fhould dye one for another, can hardly live 
 one by another. Surely fuch divifions a» 
 mongft thofe that profcfle godlinetfe, caufc 
 great thoughts of heart, for the nccrer the 
 Union is, the more dangerous is the breach; 
 broken bones are not fo foon healed, nor fi- 
 news that are cut fo foon knit, as great gafiies 
 in the flefh may be cured ; if a cable rope be 
 broken, ic is very hardly tyed together. If 
 the Father and the Son, if the Husband and 
 the Wife fall out, they are hardly reconci- 
 led,- 
 
of dThankfull ChrifiUn. $i 
 
 led j and, as Solomon Crith, A brother offendeflto. i8.*#; 
 is harder to be won then a hrong City. We do 
 not findethat Paul and Barnabas ever met to- 
 gether again after they parted afunder, A& t 15,39. 
 through their (harp contention. Which 
 made Cofinus a Duke of Florence fay, We are 
 commanded to forgive our enemies, but we 
 never read that we are bid to forgive our 
 friends. And that which makes our con* 
 untion fo much the more grievous, is, thac 
 one fpcciall means that God hath appointed 
 for the uniting of Brethren, is become a 
 ground of the greateft qu3rrell. The Lords 
 Supper is a feaft of Loves, a communion or- 
 dained to nourifii union, and yet at this feaft 
 We have found a bone of contention, and an 
 apple of ftrife. And it is obfervable, that 
 whenanyliftentofeducing fpirits, and fe- 
 parate from this ordinance,they grow fowre 
 and fallen to their deareft friends. Our Sa- 
 viour Chrift foretelling theevillsof the lat- 
 ter dayes, gives this as a badge of the laft and 
 worft, the old and cold age of the world : 
 Iniquity (hall abound^ and the love of many (hall 
 growcold- Bat what is the caufe of both? 
 Many falfe Prophets fall art ft, and (hall f educe 
 many ; and furely the difference of judgement 
 will ever caufe a diftance in affeftions. Fire- 
 brands though they doe not fmoak more 
 when they are out of the chimney, yet lam 
 fure they offend more, and may prove dan- 
 > gerouj. Th* novel opinions of thefe times 
 kept within dores do too much harm; but 
 
 fpreacf 
 
jt The ^ourmttor Dhrj 
 
 fprcad abroad by the boutefewes of thefe 
 times through their burning charity ire rea- 
 dy to fet all on fire. And moft people either 
 out of ignorance or eafincflTe, are like foot- 
 travellers, who when they come to a ftile 
 that ftands neer a gap, leave the ftile and go 
 in at the breach ; take up any error that 
 caufeth divifion, rather then take the pains 
 to try the fpirits, to prove all things, and 
 keep that which is good. Unity is the higheft 
 myftery in heaven, and would be the greateft 
 happinefle on earth >could we enjoy it. Union 
 is from God, divifion from the Devil, who 
 where he comis with his cloven feet, 
 (eparates chief friends ; and furely fuch are 
 faftors for hell that caufe divifions, that 
 obferve Macbiavel's rule, they divide that they 
 may rule • but furely the end of fuch wayes 
 will be their owne confufion. The cham- 
 pion Mile when hethrufthis 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 beads. 
 God grant that fuch envyous perfons, that 
 do fow the tares of divifion, may reap the 
 fruit of fuch labours, even confufion. He 
 
 Jer.31; gracioufly fulfill his promife, and give us 
 one heart and oneway ; He hear the prayers 
 
 Job. 17* Q f his dear Son, and grant that we may be 
 one ; He turn our heart-burnings into heart- 
 breakings, and unite us faft together in the 
 unity of thefpirity with the bond of peace. This 
 I conftfle is one of the ficknefles of thefe 
 
 times, 
 
of a Thankfull Chrijli'dn. 55 
 
 times, which alone is enough to make a- 
 gracious heart weary of his life, and lon£ 
 to be at home in heaven, out of the reach of 
 to tnifchievous an evil. Melanchthon y when 
 he lay on his death-bed, difcovered not only 
 much willingnefle to dye, but much joy 
 at the thoughts of his approaching end 5 
 and being asked by one the reafoh of It, 
 anfwered, that it Was becaufe he fhould 
 then fee Chrift and his Church above,where 
 he was fure there was no fuch contentions 
 amongft brethren,as washere,which he often 
 lamented with tears. This I fay is our fick- 
 nefle, but yet my finger is not upon the 
 plague-fore. 
 
 2. Somependventure will ih'.nk Hypo- 
 crifie to be that fin; and indc :i much pro-, 
 fefllon of Religion without the power of 
 godlinefle is common in thefe dayes, where- 
 in men have learned the art of looking one 
 way, and rowing another 5 pretending one 
 thing, and doing the quite contrary. Theft 
 are like not onely Apothecaries boxes, that 
 have golden titles, and nothing in them, 
 but like painted fepulchres, full of rotten- 
 nefle and noyfome filthinefle. There are fe- 
 ven aborninations in fuch mens hearts. 
 Thefe men are like curious piftures of men 
 and women, drawn to life ; but if you look 
 behinde them, you may fee (lore of duft 
 andcobwebs. Or, they are like to feme of 
 our Innes in Market-towns, where you 
 Eiay fee a Crown for the Signe, and 1 Beg- 
 D " gee 
 
34 ihefouYMttor Diarf 
 
 ger for the Hoft ; an Angel at the dore* and 
 a Devil for the Hoftefs : who under the glo- 
 rious profeflion of fan&ity, dare aft the 
 
 aKuio.i^greateftvillany. Jehu his pretence is zeal 
 for the Lord of Hofts, but his plot is the 
 
 J Ki.12.13. Kingdome. Ahab and Jezabel proclaim a 
 Faft, pretending the punishment of blafphe- 
 my, but they intend thereby to take away 
 Naboth's both life and vineyard. And though 
 all hypocrites have not attained to this 
 height of hellifti iniquity, yet they are like 
 fome children that are fick of a difeafe they 
 call the Rickets, who have great heads, and 
 big bellies, but flirimpled 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, 
 foraething is given to the poor by their Te- , 
 lament, but Hot by their Will. 
 
 It is faid that Ifaac digged more Wells, 
 and found more water then Abrahams and 
 queftionlefle the knowledge of moft men in 
 this latter age of the world, exceeds that of 
 
 Ifa. 11. 9; former times; 'Xht earth if full of the kpm m 
 ledge of the Lord, as the waters that cover the 
 earth : Nay, mens knowledge is profound, 
 
 E'zsk, 47. like waters that came out of the San&u- 
 ary; it is grown deeper, from the ankles to 
 the loyns ; but it is to be feared ; the waters 
 of theSan&uary have put out the fire that 
 fhouldburnin the Sanftuary, and that our 
 great knowledge hath quite drowned oui & 
 £eal, fo that all chofe mens religion is run 
 
 put 
 
cf 4 Yhartkfttll Chip Ml 3 5 
 
 otit of the heart into the head. The world % Kin.io.8. 
 is full of fuch, who are like the heads that 
 jWwcaufed to be laid at the gate of fezreeh* 
 great many heads,but never an heart amongft 
 them all. The SWfome fay hath a pearl in 
 the head, I am fure it hath poy fon in the bel- 
 ly.Thcfe fpeak like G*to,but live like LucuHm. 
 Leah had bad eyes, but {he was fruitfully 
 Raebelh&d abetter fight, but (he was bar- 
 ren. Our Fathers faw Iffle, but did more; 
 thefe men profefle they kpow God> but in work? 
 deny him, being abominable, and unto every good Tfc i.wfo 
 rvork^ reprobate ; fuch knowledge will end in 
 utter darknefle, and this tree of knowledge 
 rob them of the tree of life. Qui* non irafcatur 
 (faith St. Au£.) videns homines oreVeum confi- 
 tentes> negantes moribm? Qum non irafcatur videns 
 homines ficttio verbis & non faftif remtmiantes ? 
 *Who can choofe but be angry, that Qiall fee 
 men that confeflfeGod with their lips, and 
 deny him m their lives; that dial fee wen re- 
 nounce the world, and the luft thereof, in Aug. inP& 
 words, but not in deeds ? Such men are like 3°- 
 rogues that ufe to lye in the Church porch, 
 whileft others make it but the way to their 
 attendance upon divine ordinances, and reli- 
 gious duties. Thefe men reft in an outward 
 profeffion of religion, and a very form of 
 godlinefle, and go no further. I wifh fome 
 men were called as thefe be Hypocrites; ot be 
 as they are called, folid and judicious Chri- 
 ' m ftiana : Butqueftionlefle many fuch aremif* 
 called^ they have a name to live, but are dead.. 
 t> a £i!w 
 
3 6 The ~f$urndU or Didry 
 
 Like many of the Popes of Rorne> if tire mat* 
 were a Coward, they called him hto\ if a 
 Clown , Vrbanus-y if a Tyrant* Clemens. 
 Such hypocrifie is hated of all. 
 
 The Cardinal of Lorretgn a bitter enemy 
 to Geneva % and the reformed Churches, when 
 Bernardiim Oshinus offered him his fervice 
 in writing againft the Proteftants, flighted 
 him with the greateft fcorn, becaufe he knew 
 he had diflembled and played the hypocrite. 
 And Irajan that wife and worthy Emperor, 
 profefled, that he had reafon to hold him- 
 felf difcharged of all debts to thofe, that 
 offended more by prevarication, then they 
 ever deferved by induftry : But yet this is 
 not the fin. 
 
 3. There are others that will fay, that 
 Apoftafie is the fin of this age ; and certainly 
 there may be fome reafon for it, for we are 
 a people given to backfliding; and bow hath 
 the fecret hypocrifie of many broken out 
 into open apoftafie in thefe times ? Thefe 
 are like gallant (hips with glorious titles^as 
 the Bonaventure, the Triumph^ &c. but in a 
 ftorm are ventorum % ludibrium 3 if the tempta- 
 tion come from the fears or flatteries of the 
 Times, they are taken with many foolifh 
 lufts, which drown men in deftruftion and 
 perdition, and fo they make (hipwrack of 
 faith and a good confeience. 
 
 There are three forts of perfons that are 
 mod dangerous, I wifh all to take great* 
 heed of them. 
 
 Fir^ 
 
•/. a rUnhfuR Chiffon. 37 
 
 Firft,fuch as might have been good^but arc 
 not ; as 3 the children ofreligous parents, [ervants 
 that have lived much in religiom families , and 
 people that have lived long under a powerful! 
 fruit full Minrftery;, but are not bettered. 
 
 Secondly, fuchas feemto be good, but 
 are not ; that can transform themfelves into 
 the fhape of Saints, who have the voyce of 
 Jacob&nd the hands of Efaw, that fpeak like 
 the Lamb, but are ravening Wolves, Oh ! 
 how hath Religion fuffered under the pre- 
 tence of Religion in later times? 
 
 Thirdly, fuchas have been good (atleaft 
 in the hopes of many ) but are not. Thefe 
 are trees whofe fruit withereth, without fruity Jude Y; ft* 
 twice dead) and plucked up by the roots. 
 
 The firft are civill perfons that have no 
 faith, too good for the Devil 1, but not good 
 enough for God. The Lord deliver us from 
 fuch, for they may prove unreafonable, be- 
 caufe they have no faith. 
 
 The fecond fort are Hypocrites, and the 
 third Apoftates, the molt bitter enemies to 
 holinefle^and the power of godlinefle. Such 
 was /«//<*« the Apoftatc. 
 
 It is faid 3 that tame Foxes, if they break 
 loofe, and turn wilde, will do more mif- 
 chief then any. lulian was once a Chriftian, 
 and a forward profeflbr 5 but turning back to 
 Hcathcnifme, drew more from the Faith by 
 fraud, then any of his prcdeceffors did by 
 force. Baldwine and Bolfac^ turned Apo- 
 ftaceSjand were hired by thePapifts to write 
 D 3 the 
 
g$ <Tht $ottrpa8or Diary 
 
 the Life of Calvin^ and proved defperate acj- 
 verfaries to the truth. Parfons and Harding 
 hadfometimesaufie ot the truth, but fal- 
 ling away, proved moft bitter enemies to the 
 Church ot God. The greateft enen)ics that a- 
 ny man can have, are thofe of his own houfe. 
 He was of the fociety of Jefus that betrayed 
 him. Such Apoftutes are not onely inju- 
 rious to "others but in conclusion are the 
 greateft enemies to their owne foul*. To 
 iallbackivard iy, more dangerous tothebo- 
 dy, and to apoftatize h moft dangerous to 
 the foul. What became of Iulianthe Apo- 
 ftate hhViciJii GaliUe? which taking a hand- 
 ful} of blood and flinging it up into the 
 air againft Ghrift, told all the world that 
 Heb. 10.38 his end toastniferable. If any man draw bac\{ 
 ' ( faith the Apaftle ) my fouljball have no plea* 
 fare in fuch. 
 
 Henry the fourth, King of france y after 
 his revolt to Popery, was perfwaded by a 
 great Duke about him, not to readmit the 
 Jefuites into the Land, who had been juftjy 
 banifhed by the State. He anfwered. Give 
 tne then fecurity for my life ; and thereupon 
 admitted them, and gave them one of his 
 owne houfesfor a Colledge ; but did that 
 fecurehim? certainly it did not; the Je- 
 fuites would never truft him, for firft one 
 by their procurement ftabM him in the 
 mouth, end after that another to the heart, 
 and that was the end of fo great an Apo- ' 
 flate. And furely he that draws back from 
 
 the 
 
if a Thanh full Chrijlito. sjf 
 
 the God of truth muft needs embrace error ; 
 If from the God of wildome, will be a fool ; 
 if from the God of happintfle, cannot but 
 be miferable. 
 
 This is a great fin, but not that fin. 
 
 4. So that if I may take liberty to expreflc 
 my thoughts , with humble fubmiffion to 
 better judgements, I am of opinion, that not 
 onely an unwillingnefie to fubmit unto, 
 but a moft violent oppofition againft the 
 Kingly government of Jefus Chrift in his 
 Church, byhisowne officers and ordinan- 
 ces, is the fin of this prefent generation. It 
 is very obfervable, that the offices of Chrift 
 have met with ftrong oppofition, fome in 
 one age, and fome in another, more appa- 
 rently. 
 
 Some times have been more notorious for 
 the oppofition that was made againft his 
 Propheticall office, as when the CircumaUians 
 defaced and burnt the Scriptures : So did the 
 fapifls, who made it death for any Protc- 
 ftant to have and read any part of the Old 
 or New Teftament. The fame grand Here- 
 ticks have made their Injunftions, Precepts, 
 Traditions, of equall authority with the 
 Word of God : So did the Councel of Trent 
 at their fourth Seflion. 
 
 Some timeshtve been more infamous for the 
 
 oppofition that was made againft the Priefl- 
 
 hood of Chrift,who made peace for us by his 
 
 1 Death, andftill maintains our peace by his 
 
 Interccflion. Thus the Fafitfs have mightily 
 
 D 4 oppo- 
 
4\p The tfeuyftall or Diary 
 
 oppofed Chrifts Priefthood , by their doc- 
 trine of Jnftification by Works, their fig- 
 ments of Purgatory, works of Supereroga- 
 tion, prayers to Saints. Every man f fay 
 they) muft fuflferforhis owne particular; 
 yea, the works of one may fuffice for ano- 
 ther : So fay the Rhemifts in their Annota- 
 tions, Rom 8. 17. Col. 1. 24. 
 
 But thefe times are fuch as do morecleer- 
 ly fighc againft the Kingdome of Chrift; 
 and herein cunningly they ftrike at the 
 root, and undermine ail his offices, the end 
 wheFeof, viz. his Kingly office, being to 
 fupport the Priefthood and Prophefie of 
 Chrift in their vigour and efficacy, that as a 
 Prince and Captain of falvation to the Elefi:, 
 hs might bring them to God. A pra&icall, 
 vigorous, open oppofition of Chrifts King- 
 ly office exercifed in his ordinances, was ne- 
 ver more eminent then in thefe days. Where- 
 \ in there'are fo many Gd ! ioes } or Gctdarens 5 
 
 GallioeS) that care not for thofe things, as 
 either too far below their greatneflfe, or too 
 heavy a yoke to put their necks under ; or 
 GadarenSy who fay plainly, We willnotbave 
 this man reign over tu> but dtfire him to depart 
 out of thvCountrcy; who are not only an 
 unwil ling, but a rebellious people in the 
 jday of his power. 
 
 The reverend and learned Mini[}er$ of 
 London met together in their ProVinciaTl Af- 
 fembly, in their Vindication of this go- ' 
 V^rnmcnt, to ufe their owne words, fay as 
 
 much : 
 
cf a Thankful I chrifidn. 4| 
 
 nauch : We are not ignorant that thk government 
 hatb many adverfaries. The ignorant perfoa 
 bates it, becaufe it will not fuffer him to 
 go blindfold to hell ; the profane perfoa 
 hates it, becaufe it will not fuffer him to 
 eat and drink his owne damnation, by un- 
 worthy coming to the Lords Supper ; the 
 Heretick hates it, becaufe after two or three 
 admonitions it reje&s him; the Jefuite 
 hates it , becaufe it is an invincible bul- 
 wark to keep out Popery; the Schifma tick 
 hates it, becaufe the main defigne of it is 
 to make all the Saints of God to be of 
 one lip, one heart, and one way. And a- 
 bove all, the Devill hates it, becaufe if 
 rightly managed, it will in a fhort time 
 blow up his Kingdome. 
 
 And indeed, hence are all our miferies 
 and mifchiefs. Church-difcipline is like 
 the hem to the garment, rend off that, and 
 how foon will all Religion raveli out to 
 nothing? It is like the hedge to the Vine- 
 yard,, if that be pluck tup, how foon will 
 the Boar out of the Wood, and the wilde 
 beafts of the field devour iO What a com- 
 pany of Hereticks and Schifraaticks break in 
 upon it ? all that pafle by the way pluck it: 
 % Anxiifimtanam^ Antinomiam , Antifc<ipturi[ls> 
 SocinianSi Familifif §hak{rs, &c. would dig 
 up this Vineyard by the very roots. How 
 are drifts ordinances defpifcd,t!ie authori- 
 • ty of the Scriptures queftioned,Gods faith- 
 foil Minifters mifufed? tThey were never 
 
 more 
 
qi The yourmll er Diary 
 
 more learned, more pious, or more pain- 
 full 5 and yet never more fcorned and un- 
 dervalued then at this day. All Se&aries 
 and Schifmaticks, though they differ much 
 amongft themfelves, yet agree all in this, 
 an irreconcileable hatred of, and a bitter 
 oppofition againft a godly faith full Mini- 
 ftery. 
 
 But it is no wonder, for if the Cart- 
 wheel turn round, it is itnpoffible that the 
 fpokes fliould ftand ftill ; if the Church and 
 her discipline fuffer under fo many turnings 
 and changes, furely her officers can have no 
 reft. 
 
 Now, if any ask what the reafon is that 
 thisgovernment,former!y fo much commen- 
 ded, fo much defircd, is now fo mightily 
 oppofed,as the moft tyrannicall. 
 
 I anfwer : It is not becaufe we have at- 
 tained to more light then our Forefathers 
 had, as is pretended; but, 
 
 1. Partly, becaufe the inftruments are 
 changed, the aftors upon the ftage that 
 oppofe it are new men. It was notable 
 advice that BwWrf^sCouncelofWargave 
 him after that Akab had beaten him in that 
 firft battle. fakf the Kings away every one out 
 1 Ki.10.14. of hif place, and put Captains in their roomes. 
 It is an old and a moft politick device, If 
 adefigne receive a check, it may eafily be 
 driven on by changing the inftruments, and 
 hath often prevailed, where God hath not 
 ftept in and prevented it, as he did here. 
 
 That 
 
ef d Thank fuB Chrijliatu 4 J 
 
 That which is unfufferabIeinaPrince 3 may 
 be commendable in a Captain. The fame 
 errors that were formerly taught, and as 
 generally loathed., becaufe the broachers of 
 them were Prelaticall, are now embraced 
 gladly, and fwallowed downe greedily, 
 becaufe taught by fuch as have a name of 
 Sanftity. Take away the Bifbops every o*P 
 out of bis place, that fo mightily oppofed 
 this difcipline - and fit up fome rare gifted 
 men in their room, that (hall as much perfe- 
 cute and oppofe it* and then the fame people 
 that earneftly laboured for this government, 
 will now as violently rcfift it. 
 
 2. Becanfe of the wickednefle and per- 
 verfnefle of mens fpirits, this being thelaft 
 andworft age of the world, and weare fain 
 upon the very dregs of time. This govern- 
 ment is very ftri&, and mens fecure lives 
 will not eafily fubmit to Chrifts fevere 
 laws: We are become their enemie»,becaufe 
 we tell them the truth. 
 
 3. But chiefly, becaufe of the croffe and 
 Irow^rd difpohtionof moft men : If they 
 
 be commanded any duty, they peremptorily N 
 
 reply, Tkre is no hope, we will wa\afier our Jer 4 i8^u. 
 owne devices, and we will every one do the ima- 
 ginations rf bis eviU heart. If they be forbid- 
 den any thing, nititur in vetiturn> they eagerly 
 purfue what before they ftubbornly refu- 
 sed : Let people be deny ed what is petitio- 
 • ncd, they grow the more boldly importu- 
 nate, even to akinde of violences let their 
 
 dcfires 
 
44 W* fournafl or Diarj 
 
 defires fee granted, they not onely loath 
 what before they liked, but grow higher 
 m their demands. 
 
 Whence francifcus Sodorinm Cardinal! of 
 Trenefte was heard to fay to Pope Adrian 
 the hxth, that to grant to fome people 
 their petitions was but the way to flight 
 the grant, and prepare for more. How many 
 inftanccs may we give of this ? 
 
 When God commanded Circumcifion, 
 though under the fharpeft penalties, how 
 unwillingly did people fubmitto it? The 
 Exod 4.i4, nc gl c & whereof had wel-nigh coft even Mofes 
 26. his life. And now the Lord hath taken it 
 away^both fern and Gentiles will be circum- 
 dried. 
 
 Time was when Chriftians met in Lanes 
 and Woods to hear the Word, even with the 
 perill of their lives, being wholly reftrai- 
 ned from all places of publick meetings. 
 Oh! how much did they defire that Tem- 
 ples might be granted to them ! And what 
 coft were they at, when they had liberty 
 given them to enjoy them ! But in our 
 dayes, when weaflemble freely in fuch pub- 
 Jick places, every thing is too much that is 
 beftowed on them ; with J ud& and Jeroboam 
 we cry out. What needs thit vrafie ? and, It 
 it too much. And with what fcorn and con- 
 tempt do many turn their backs againft 
 thofe places, and creep into corners } 
 
 The fame people, when they were reftrai- 
 fied from hearing Sermons, efpecially the 
 
 Sermons 
 
of a rUnhfnll Chriftian. 4$ 
 
 Sermons of fomernen; Bow did they theft 
 flock to oar Congregations, as Doves to 
 the windows 1 they went from ftrengch^ 
 notwithstanding the many penalties they 
 endured: But now they have liberty to at- 
 tend the fame perfons and places, they fay^ 
 Depart from us, we defire not the knowledge of 
 tbofe wayes. 
 
 Time was when Baptifme was willingly 
 and generally embraced by raofl, provided 
 that their children might not be baptized 
 with the figneofthe Crofle, which wasthea 
 enjoy ned; but now when that offenfive cere- 
 mony is removed, manj of thefe care not 
 whether ever their infants be admitted into 
 the Church by that Sacrament or no. 
 
 Heretofore people came moft willingly 
 and frequently to the Lords Supper, provi- 
 ded they might not be brought up to the 
 Rail, at which moft (tumbled, and be di- 
 fpenfed with as touching their gefture ; but 
 now, when what was defired is granted, and 
 that burthen ( that neither we nor our Fa- 
 thers were able to bear ) is removed, they 
 loach that fpirituall Manna, and ordinarily 
 turn their backs upon that royall feaft and 
 company. 
 
 Thefe people,when they were forbidden to 
 meet tog ether in private, where they ufed to 
 affiift their fouls before the Lord, for their 
 own (ins,andtheevilsofthetimes,by prayer 
 •and fafting ; and that notwithftanding the 
 fevereft ceniures of thofein power ; who con- 
 demned 
 
q6 The zfournatlorDUry 
 
 detuned fuch meetings as unlawfull Con- 
 venticles ; yet did rrteet, andthatfrcqtiently^ 
 and fit is hoped) fruitfully : Now having 
 free liberty granted, fo to aflemble them- 
 fclves, feldome come together for fueh a pur- 
 pofe. Martyrs have formerly gone more 
 willingly to the ftake to be burned, then 
 thefe to this excellent ordinance, where 
 their hearts may be warmed and refreftied. 
 
 Even fo, when this government was 
 ftrongly oppofed by the State, and all hopes 
 of enjoying it, altogether fruftrate, how did 
 our Fore-fathers pray for it, preach for it, 
 difpute for if, print for it; yea, fuffer 
 even to bonds and imprifonmerit for it? 
 Infomuch that divers loft their liberties* 
 and fonle hazarded their lives. Amongft 
 the reft, Mc.Vdall a learned and godly 
 Minifter, was at a generall Afllzes con- 
 demned to dye for writing in defence of it : 
 the Story of whofe Imprifonment,Examina- 
 tions 5 and Arraignment, I have feen : Yea, of 
 fo high account it was with fome in thofe 
 days,that the King of Venmar^nd the King 
 of Scots wrote their Letters in his behalf to 
 Quetn Elizabeth, requeftine that he might 
 not differ for that Cau fe: Yea, King James 
 then King of Scotland, in a Speech of his to 
 the Generall Aflembly, sold th^m that he 
 bleffedGod that he was bom m Scotland, and 
 was a member of fuch a Church; his rea« 
 fon was, becaufe theChurchof Scotland ex- 
 &\Yd other Churches in difcipline; Erg- 
 land 
 
cf tThMkfull ChrifUfT. %1 
 
 landbzd true do&rinc,but wanted truedifci- 
 pline. And now that we may enjoy it> the 
 State in a full Parliament declaring for it, 
 men loach and abhor it asthemoft tyranni- 
 call and Antichriftian, and cry out, Not him 
 hut Barabbas, and choofe rather to put their 
 necks under any heavy yoke, then fubmit 
 to this gracious difcipline,formerly fo much 
 defired. 
 
 Now the God and Father of our Lord Je« 
 fus Chrift advance the Kingdome of his dear 
 Son > that he may be Governor amongft us, 
 that he may rule in us, and reign over us * 
 even he that is the Prince of peace, that came 
 into the world with a fong of peace^that going 
 out of the world left us a legacy of peace, 
 whofe government is a government of peace, 
 whofe Minifters are Embafladors of peace ; 
 tvhofe wayes are wayes of pleafantnefle, and 
 all whofe paths are peace. He unite our 
 hearts together in the unity of the Spirit, 
 with the bond of peace. That God that 
 could find out a way to make peace be- 
 twixt himfelf and mankind, He that can ne- 
 ver come too late in any danger, that can 
 never be to feek in any ftraight ; heal our 
 wounds that grow fo deep, repair our brea- 
 ches that grow fo wide : He in his good time 
 give us one heart, and one way, that we may 
 fear him for ever ; for the good of us>and our 
 children after us* Amen. 
 
 Chap? 
 
The ^ our nail or Diary 
 
 Ch a*. III. 
 
 What ferfondll and private parages of 
 Providence thofe are which ought to bt 
 recorded in ourffournall or Diary * 
 
 Ti 
 
 s Hus far of our National and more pub- 
 lick concern ments>that arc to be remem- 
 bred : I come now to (hew what Perfonall 
 and private occurences are to be recorded ; 
 And they are thefe five that are moft obfer- 
 vable. 
 
 1. Let every man keep a ftrifl: account of 
 his effe&uall calling, and of his age in 
 Chrift ; and ( if it may be ) fct down the 
 time when, the place where, and the perfori 
 by whom he was converted. 
 
 I know every one cannot relate it, as Paul 
 
 /ift.zi.^7. Could,in all the circumflances : It came topajfe 
 
 Of 1 made my journey .and was nigh unto Damafiuf^ 
 
 about noon, [uddenly there did Jbinefrom heaven a 
 
 great light roundabout rhe^ and I fell to the ground-, 
 
 andhe<trdavoyce,&c. But yet fome can with 
 
 1 Tim. 1. the fame Apoftle fay, 1 was a perfecutir, a 
 
 13**4. blajfbemer, andhijurims, but. I obtained mercy* 
 
 Job, 5. 2$. Or, with the blinde nun whom Jefus cured $ 
 
 One thing I kyow, that whexem I was blind, now 
 
 I 
 
of a ThankfnU Cbrijiidn. & j 
 
 t fee. I was an ignorant, proud, profane 
 perfon, and without God in the world, buc 
 by his grace I arfi that lam. There are fome 
 cfueftionleffe th3t can moft punctually fe: 
 down the feverall circumftances of their 
 converfion. It was a prophefie of the times 
 Under the GofpeL It (hall be faidof forne 
 in Babylon that they knew God, and this 
 and that man was born there ; and of Zion> 
 this man was born in her : Yea, Ibe Lord^^ *7*1>*1 
 bimfelf fhall count when he miteth up the peo- 
 ple, that this man wis bvcn there. Onefimus Phil. 10. 
 could tell that Taul was his Father, he 
 could tell the time when, and the place 
 where he was converted, for he begat him 
 in his bonds* 
 
 Cypriarih&d wont to call Crteffiuty novi vit£ 
 parentem, his fpirituall Father. St. Pitt/Rom. x*7. 
 could fay that Andronlcus and Junia were in 
 Chrift before him. There is a feniority a- 
 mongft the Saints. God hath his elder and 
 his younger children.lt is good to know our 
 age in Chrift. 
 
 TolycarpM could fay, Thas many yeers 
 have I fcrved my Matter Chrifl, and hitherto 
 hath he dealt well with me. KemmSer this ^ X ^ J 3 h 
 day, faith M&fes to the Israelites. What day 
 was that > The day that they came out of 
 JEgypt* fromthettcufeof bondage. So I 
 fay, Remember the day wherein God took 
 you, not from toyling in brick and clay, 
 t>ut from the flavery of fin and Satan ; not 
 from following the (heep, as he did D^vi^ 
 E whom' - 
 
54 Thefomnatlor Diary 
 
 whom he made a King 5 but from following 
 the world and your own unruly lufts. You 
 keep an account of the day wherein you 
 were born, and why not of the day wherein 
 you were born again? You remember your 
 Marriage-dayes, and why not much more 
 the day on which you were married to 
 Chrift* You have your Regifter-books 
 for the one, and why not Diurnalls for the 
 other? Would you be perfwaded to do thus, 
 it might provoke you to fay as fometimes 
 Sarah i'a!d when Ifaao was born, Who would 
 <Sen.n # 7. have faid ( that kpew my age) that Sarah Jhould 
 have given children fuc\? Who that knew me 
 in the dayes of my vanity and vilenefle 3 that 
 knew me in the School, or at the Univerfity, 
 or when I was an Apprentice, when my 
 fife was as full of diforder, as a toad was of 
 poyfon; who would have faid that Chrift 
 fhouid ever have been formed in me ? But 
 by his grace 1 am that I am, and God hath 
 tfnademe/<wg&. 
 
 Some afts of God, are afts of common 
 providence, and fo he feeds us, and cloaths 
 ns, he doth as much for the creatures; for 
 he feeds the Ravens, and cloaths the Grade. 
 Some afts of God, are afts of fpeciall pri- 
 viledge • and thus he gave Abraham a childe 
 in hisold age, and made David of a Shepherd 
 a King. Some afts of God, are afts of pat- 
 tern ; and thus he fhewed mercy to Manajfeb, 
 and Mary Magdalen^ Paul For this caufe (faith 
 thatApoftle) I obtained mercy, that in me fir ft 
 
 Jefm 
 
of d Thank full Chrijliatj] 5 1 
 
 Jefas Cbrift wight fhew forth all long-fu firing, xTinu.itf.; 
 for a pattern to them that fhould hereafter believe 
 6n him tolifeeverlafiing. 
 
 Soroeafts of God are afts of wonder : Ic 
 \ is a wonder thac any foul is faved; I am 
 fare it is a wonder that ever God (houJd 
 think of me, look after me, ftrive with me* 
 wait upon me, that he might be gracious to 
 me; nay, it is notonely matter of wonder 
 now, but will be caufeof admiration unto 
 all eternity ; Who am I, and what am I, that 
 Qod hath brought me hitherto ! It is the 
 Lords doing, and it is Wonderfull in mine 
 eyes. 
 
 Amongfl many things that Beza in his laft 
 Will and Teftament, gave God thanks for, 
 this was the firft and chief, th i t he at the age 
 of fixteen yeers,had cr lied him :o the know- 
 ledge of the Truth, Let every one that can 
 knowhisageinChrift, fetdown this in his 
 Journal 1. 
 
 2. Take fpedall notice of all divine aflj- 
 fiance, and that either in the performance 
 of the duties that are required of us 5 orin 
 bearing thofe evills that are inflifted up- 
 on us. 
 
 For the firft. we know that all our fuf- 
 ficiency is from God, all our frefh Tarings 
 are in him, and therefore all our full ftreams 
 of prayfe (houJd run to him. It is our fin, 
 and fhould be our fhame, that though the 
 . Oxe kpows his mner, arj the Affe hit Mifters I'fa, t.j. 
 erib\*s the Prophet faith) that is, by a cow- 
 ls t mori 
 
:e 
 
 52 The four mil or Dkry 
 
 mon inftinft of Nature, they acknowledg 
 that as all their provifion is from him, ib 
 all their ftrength to draw or bear is due to 
 him: Tetwedonotconfider; that is, we doe 
 not foknow God, as to acknowledge, that 
 as we have all from God, fo all is due to 
 Ifa. 40. tr God. He it is that giveth pover to the faint, 
 and to them that have no might, he encreafetb 
 ftrength. But the youths {hall faint and be weary, 
 and the young men (hall utterly fall. If David 
 will go out ib the Name of the Lord, in the 
 ftrength and by the afliftance of God, he 
 
 1 Sam 17 & al1 return a viftor over the mighty Gi- 
 
 " ant : But if Goliah will go out againft Da- 
 vid with a fword and a fpear, trufting onely 
 Exod.j.ii, to his own ftrength,he fhall fall. Mofes had 
 *3 a great charge to go to Pharaoh, and to bring 
 & 4 *<M3* the people of Tfrael out of the Land of JEgypt; 
 
 2 j # 1% ' andhowoftdothhe through unbelief cayii 
 
 M °'at that call, as unfit for that fervice > ftven 
 or eight times he replyes upon God as un- 
 willing, becaufe unfit to go: But through 
 Gods moft gracious afliftance, he finifhed that 
 work to the glory of God, the comfort of 
 his people, and the frame of that proud 
 a Tim 47 enemy ; aad this is recorded. I have fought 
 " the fight, ( faith St. P*u!) 1 have finifhed my 
 course, I have kept the faith; and this is writ- 
 ten down in a book. 
 
 Secondly, afliftance in whhdanding vio- 
 lent temptations, in undergoing heavy bur- 
 thens, and confliaing with lundry evills, 
 fhould not be fbrgdit*. There is a time 
 
 when 
 
if a ThtnkfuU ChriftUn. 5 ? 
 
 when Kings go not forth to War, but no 
 time wherein Chriftians have not fome corn- 
 bate with temptations, but God either pre- 
 vantsthera, orafllfts us in them, and makes 
 us viftors over them, and gainers by them. 
 It is written of St. Jugufline, that after his 
 converfion to the Faith, he was much vexed 
 with inward confli&s ; and after long ftrug- 
 ling with them in theufeof means^ and not 
 prevailing as he defircd, he heard a voyce 
 faying to him, In te flat &nonfiaSj where- 
 by apprehending, that the way to fall was 
 to ftand in his owne ftrength ; by faith in 
 prayer he did fly unto God in Chrift, and 
 his tree grace, and fo obtained viftory. 
 
 At myfirft anftrer (Taiih St. Tcut) no man flood l Tim - *• 
 by me> all fvrfoo\ me ; 7 pray God it be not laid to 1 * y l7 < 
 their charge. But God flood by me, and ftrengt li- 
 ned me, and 1 war delivered out of the mouth of 
 the lion* And indeed at fuch a time a gracious 
 heart can better bear Gods ftroke, then en- 
 dure his abfence. St. Paul makes fpeciail 
 mention of this : Faith it the gift of Gods 
 and amongft many lingular benefits that we 
 have by that grace, this is notrhe lead, It 
 hath a (insular dexterity in helping the heart 
 at a fudden pinch ; in mufteriny up fpiri- 
 tuall, and thofe prcfent forces againft an 
 unexpected temptation. A lively faith is 
 the beft leaver 2ta dead lilt. See it in the 
 cafe of Jofeph, fiercely and unexpe&cdly af- 
 faultedby hisbtaftly Mifiris. IVhny argu- 
 ments are brought in of a fjddcn by wh'»<~h 
 E 3 he 
 
5^ The fourndUpr Diary 
 
 he is fenced (o impregnably again ft her fol- 
 licitations, thac he comes off more then a 
 conqueror. 
 
 1, It is a fin (faith he) againft the great 
 truft my Matter hath in me, He hath committed 
 all into my hand*>&c. 
 
 2. h is a fin againft my place and dig- 
 nity 5 There is none greater in thehoufethenl. 
 
 g. It is a fin againft my Matters intereft, 
 lou are his wife. 
 pen. 39. 8, 4. It is a wickednefle, a great wicfydnetfe 
 9. againft God. 
 
 The like you flhal! read of David, who 
 when he was reviled by Shimei> with thofe 
 words. Come out thou bloody man> thou man of 
 Belial, &c. which Co far pruvoked Abifha, 
 and edged his fpirit againft him, that he 
 could hardly hold his hands ; yet bare all 
 patiently, being armed againft fuch an af- 
 faulc. 
 
 Three arguments are fuddenly rouftred 
 up by Faith, by which he comes off with 
 yiftory. 
 
 j. My Son rebels, and he is more vio- 
 lent againft me. My Servant takes away my 
 good name 5 my Son would not only take 
 the crown from my head, but my head from 
 jny Ibouldera. 
 
 2. TJbr Lord hath bidden him curfe me, and 
 therefore let him alone. 
 
 3. The Lord will look on me, and not 
 aSim.KS.7, onely cJomegcpd by this, but for this af* 
 IjUji^, fli&ion. 
 
 a 
 
if a Thank full Chriftitnl 55 
 
 It is good to fet down every affl;#ion we 
 have met With in our time, and to obferve 
 Gods carriage towards us in them, with the 
 benefit we receive from them* 
 
 3* Remember, and for that end put into 
 your Journal all deliverances from dangers, 
 vouchfafed to you or yours. And indeed, 
 what is our whole life, but a continued 
 deliverance ? We are daily delivered, either 
 from the violence of thecreature,or the rage 
 of men,or the treachery of our own hearts; 
 either our houfes are freed from firing, or 
 goods from plundering, or our bodies from 
 danger, or our names from reproaches, or 
 our fouls from fnares. This being the dif- 
 ference betwixt a gracious and a gracelefle 
 heart; a godly man is delivered, a wicked 
 man is but referved. God knows bow to 
 deliver the godly out of temptations, and 
 to rcferve the unjuft unto the day of judge- x p er# a ; 9% 
 ment, to be puniftied. 
 
 Jacob is delivered from the treachery of 
 his Uncle Laban atone time, and from the 
 fury of his Brother at another 5 both are re- 
 membred. 
 
 David is delivered from the paw of the 
 Bear, and the mouth of a Lion 5 both of 
 them are mentioned before Saul. 1 Sam. if I 
 
 firemiab cannot forget the dungeon out of 
 which he was faved; nor Variid the Lions 
 den, out of which he efcaped ; nor Jentb 
 the Whales belly, out of which he was de- 
 livered. Read their Prophefie? , and you foal 
 E 4 iinde 
 
k$ The $quymII or J)Ury 
 
 finds the (tone*. Mr. Eeza in his I aft Will 
 bequeaths thanks unto God, that being in* 
 fefted with the plague at Lu^nm^ and afper- 
 fedby his enemies with grievous calumnies* 
 God delivered him from both. 
 
 2, That being toffed up and down in 
 the fir/t Civill wars of France^ for many 
 rooneihs, Gcd had preferved him from fix 
 hundred dangers. 
 
 Our deliverances are more then we can 
 number, greater then we can value. Who 
 fo is wife, and wiilobffrve them 3 even they 
 fhall underftand the loving kindneflcof the 
 Lord. Every night God fetteth/his watch 
 about u?, and every day he commands his 
 AngeJs to pitch their tents for our fafeguard. 
 /\ndalas, \#hatis all our care and prudence, 
 without his watchful eye of providence over 
 Pfal. 117.x. us 1 Except the Lord hjep the City, the watch- 
 man wakjtb but in vain. 
 Gcr",7. **• When Noah and all his train went intp 
 the Ark, it is faid tta Lord (hut him in. It 
 is good to open the dore in the morning* 
 and to fhut the dore in the evening by 
 prayer: pray when we open them,that God 
 would dwe I with us ; and when we lock up 
 our dores,that God would (hut us in, other- 
 wise we cannot be fafe. 
 
 Take but a little notice oftheprcfervation 
 
 of our children ; nay, but oi one childe, 
 
 and you will fay that all our care is nothing 
 
 without his warchfull eye. I will give you 
 
 rr.erflorJ")le inftance of a Ctuldes deliyp- 
 
 rance 5 
 
cfa ThdnkfuUchrifiidrh 57 
 
 ranee; who, whileft divers in the family, 
 with many other friends were mer togethejf 
 to faft and pray, went out to a pond very 
 much frozen, (for it was in an hard cold 
 Winter J either to fiide,or to whip his top, I 
 remember not which; where two holes were 
 made in the ice for the fafety of the fi/h, and 
 the taking up of water, into one of thefebe 
 fell up to the arm-holes ; the childe was 
 foon mill, and fearch being made, he was 
 found there : Had the hole been wider, or 
 he not fpread out his arms : or he not (eafo- 
 nably found out ( for it was about the time 
 the company brake up) he bad perifted. 1 
 was then at the houfe, an eye-witnefle cf 
 that deliverance. 
 
 Another example I (hall give you of a 
 Man. 
 
 A certain Englifb Captain in the Wars of 
 France, under Henry the fourth, whom 
 Queen Elizabeth aflifted againft his own fub- 
 jtfts ; being quartered in a Town lately ta- 
 ken from the enemy, carryed himfclf with 
 that civility toward his Landlord, as became 
 an ingenuous Gentleman 5 and yet with that 
 fidelity too, as fuited with the honor of his 
 command in chuf; that he won very much 
 refptft from the Mafter of the family : Info- 
 much, that fomc time after, the enemy ha- 
 ving taken tht Towne again, beaten the 
 JCings party. Gain many, and vv ounded more 
 even unto death* at the end of the day, 
 when the Armyes were rctireck the Townf- 
 
 men 
 
5 3 The foMrnall er Diary 
 
 men came ouc to cut throats,and to take th c 
 pillage : By providence this Landlord be- 
 fore mentioned, came to this Gentleman, 
 forely wounded, and ready to dye ; whom 
 he beftrides, and drawing his fword protefts 
 he would there dye, rather then his friend 
 fhould fuffer any further harm: And fo by 
 the help of others, he brought him home 
 to his own houfe, where by chirurgery 
 and good diet, with all carefull attendance, 
 he recovered. This ftory I heard the Gen- 
 tleman relate to me and others. 
 
 Thus God creates deliverances ; and in- 
 deed, prefervation from danger, is nothing 
 elfe but a continued creation. There is fcarce 
 any thing in the wayes of God more re- 
 markable then Deliverances. And indeed, 
 it is neceflfary that God fhould take the 
 charge of us at all times ; for our dangers 
 are fo many and great, that none are wife 
 enough, or ftrong enough to deliver us, but 
 the Lord. 
 
 4. All the inftruments, all the men and 
 means that God hath in providence at any 
 time ufed for our good, muft not be forgot- 
 ten : As, 
 
 1. What Parents we have had, how 
 godly they were, and how religioufly ten- 
 der they were of our eternall welfare ; what 
 care they took of us,what coft they beftowe4 
 upon us, what prayers they made for us, , 
 ^ what pains they took with us, in corre&ing, 
 in inftru&ipg us for our temporall and eter- 
 nall 
 
efaThankfuB Chrijiiar^ 5g 
 
 aallgood. It is a very rich priviledge to 
 come of godly and religious parents, to be 
 heirs of fo many promifes which they daily 
 laid up for us, and fo many prayers that 
 they continually ni'de in our behalf, is a 
 very rich portion. The Jews would often 
 boaft that Abraham was their Father, and Job. 8. 5P» 
 Mofes chofe rather to owne him, yea though 
 he fuffered with bis pofterity, then to be 
 called the Son in law to Fbaraoh's daughter, 
 and enjoy the pleafures of fin for a feafon, 
 Solomon keeps an account of this mercy : J 
 vas my Fathers Son; that is, I was his dar- 
 ling, his beloved Son } and 3 J was tender andVzow+s^l 
 dear in the fight of my Mother: And thus he 
 taught rwe, and {aid unto me > Let thine heart re* 
 tain my words, &c. The like honorable men- 
 tion he makes of his Mother ; The words of 
 King Lemuel^ tbepropkefie that bis Mother gave &$\.i,i>i. 
 him. Lima?/ is a. name given to Solomw, as 
 Mercer obfervesupon the place. He is called 
 alfo fedidiah Jjeczuk the Lord loved him; and 
 here Lemuel by his Mother, becaufe {he had 
 dedicated him to the Lord- 
 
 2. Remember what Schoolmafters we 
 have had. 
 
 Dr. Andrews W\(hop of Winchester was fo 
 thankfully afftffrd with the care that 
 Mr. Mulcafier had of him whiieft he was his 
 Scholar, that when became to great prefer- 
 ment in the Church, he placed hispitture 
 over his ftudy dore. 
 
 Mr. Calvin did fo far acknowledge the love 
 
 and 
 
to The tfourmll or Diary 
 
 and care of Miturinus Corderius his School- 
 mafter, that he dedicated his Commentary 
 upon the firft Epiftle to the Tbeflalonhru to 
 him* And Perfius had (o honorable an efteem 
 of his Mafter Cornulus y that he writes his 
 fifth Satyr to him, and exprefleth his thank- 
 fulneflTe to him in very high language. 
 
 B'mc ego centenas aufim depofcere voces* 
 Vt quantum rnihi tefmuofo in peSorefixi 
 Voce txaham pura^ &x. 
 
 3. What noble Mec£nas 9 what bountiful 
 Benefe&orwe have had, by whofe coft and 
 kindnefle our good education hath been fur- 
 thered, and our comfortable maintenance 
 enlarged. 
 
 St. Augufline thankfully acknowledged, 
 that by the liberal! contribution of Rome- 
 wan a noble Gentleman, his ftudies in the 
 Li^erall Arts were much cheriftied and ad- 
 vanced. 
 
 4. To conclude : It will be of fingular 
 ufe to put intqgiur Diary, what Times we 
 have lived in, whatMinifters we have lived 
 under, what Callings we were of, whac 
 Wealth was bellowed on us, what places of 
 Authority and Command were committed 
 tou?. 
 
 Plato when he was ready to dye, gave God 
 thanks for three things : 
 
 1. That he was made a Mm. 
 
 2, That he was boi n in Greece. 
 
 3. That 
 
of a Thank full chriftiM. & 
 
 3. That he lived in the time of Socra~ 
 tes. Bleflewc God, that fuch a Kinfman 
 brought us up in our younger ycers, that 
 iuch a Scholar was our Tutor in the Uni- 
 vcrfity, fuch an one relieved us> fuch a friend 
 preferred us. 
 
 The Lord give mercy to Onefiphoritr, faith *Tim.i 16, 
 Taul to Timothy, for he oft refreshed me>> and * 7# 
 
 rras not afhamed of my chain- When he was at 
 Homejbe fought we out diligently. The Lord grant 
 unto him that he mayfinde mercy from the Lord in 
 that day ; and in h ow many things he miniftred unto 
 me at Efbefusjbou kpoweft very welL Yea, let not 
 the meaneftor loweft inftrument of our good 
 under God be forgotten. Whohath deffifedthe Zach. 4 to. 
 day of [mall things? Even a Raven may fume- * King 17- 
 times bring bread and meat to a poor 6 > 9 * 
 
 Prophet, and a poor Widow fuftain a Mef- 
 fengerofGod. A wicked Phyfitian, or a 
 drunken Chirurgeon, may inftrumentally 
 under Gd fave our lives. Even a cypher.as 
 very a nothing as it is, if joy ncd to 1 o> make 
 it 1 co; it added to 100, makes it iood. Poor 
 defpifed Vavid> that flood but as a cypher in 
 Kings &w/Vacccount, & his Brothers judge- 
 menr,in the name oUhe Lord flays Goliak^nd 
 wrought a great falvation for JfraeL The 
 Lord Cromwell^ K Henry the E : g'u« favourite, 
 did not onely remember Friftobald the rich 
 F/6n»m//;^that was fo bountiful to him in his 
 traveUbut he considered a very poor nun,and 
 gave him maintenance to his^/^day.whofe 
 Taiher had givcu him many a mu!s meat. 
 
 5. And 
 
ft The $ournatlorI>i*ry 
 
 5. And finally, mark what returns,, 
 what anfwers God gives to your prayers, 
 and fet them down with a Selab, as moft 
 
 Deut.?.'i8. remarkable pledges of his love, Mofes did 
 
 I ^"fo; who having faftedand prayed for the 
 
 people, who had made them a TOolten- 
 
 calfe 3 and he received a gracious anfwerj 
 
 writes that down- the Lord heardme at that 
 
 & io. 10/ tim a i[ , it feems Mofes took fpeciall no- 
 tice of fuch anfwers to prayer, for he re- 
 cords a like paflage, when God feparated 
 the Tribe of Levi for his fervice, he prayed, 
 and the Lord (faith he) heard meat that time 
 alfo. 
 
 Hannah did fo ; flie told Eli that fhe had 
 received a man-childe from the Lord by 
 prayer ; for this childel pra)td(fahh (he) and 
 
 1 Sam. \xf. fa £ ^ h ai b g WeH me t j je petition 1 att^d of 
 
 him. 
 
 All a Chrlfttans happincfiTe is laid up in 
 promifes, and all thofe promifes hang upon 
 the pin of prayer. The prayer of faith is 
 the great engine of the people of God, by 
 which promifcs are trade out into eviden- 
 ce? j and fuch returns of prayer ftould be 
 recorded. 
 
 What grace JefusChrift had either to do 
 or fuffer the will of God, he had by pro- 
 ihife, as you may fee, Ifa.ii. 2,3,4. & 
 42. 1,2,3,4. &61. 1, 2, 3,4. and the good 
 of all thofe promifes he fetcht out by 
 prayer. He had a word of command as welt 
 Pal. 1. s. as we, Ask^of me; and he had a word of 
 
 promife, 
 
#/ a ThtokjulYCbrtfliM. €$ 
 
 promife, and I wiU give thee, &c. And he 
 prayed very much, he fpent whole nights 
 in prayer, and was heard in what he prayed; 
 and he takes fpeciall notice of it, I kpew 
 that thou hearefi we alwayes ( faith he to his Joh. 11.4*; 
 Father, when he raifed Lazarus.') In the dayes 
 of his fiefh ( faith the ApoftleJ when he had Heb f . 7/ 
 ofered up prayers and fu} plications, with firong 
 crying and tears to him, that was able to fave 
 him from death, and he was heard in the thinghe 
 feared ; and this is recorded. Now this God 
 is our God, he will hear us and deliver us 
 as he hath faid. Undoubtedly if he give as 
 an heart to pray, he will encline an ear to 
 hear ; who delights as much to grant his 
 peoples petitions, as they can to receive his 
 grants. As King fames (aid once to a greafc 
 Courtier, to whom he gave a great fumme of 
 money, I am better pleated that I can give* 
 then you are fatisfied that you nuy re- 
 ceive. 
 
 Tiberius was fo in love with Sejanus his 
 favourite, that he never denyed him any 
 thing that he asked; he often prevented his 
 asking by his bounty: But our God is fo 
 willing to grant our defires, that he doth 
 notonely give us what we ask, but more 
 then we ask, nay more then we fhould ask* 
 more then we can ask or think, and that 
 exceeding abundantly. 
 
 Give us this day ««r daily bread, is the rule Eph. 3, zc£ 
 by which we are direfted to ask for neceflTary 
 'and convenient comforts ; and certainly* 
 
 whac 
 
$4 T&c tfourwtll or Diaty 
 
 Prov. 23 4. what we may not labour for, we may not 
 pray for; but We muft not labour to be 
 tick. 
 
 Now though Nature is content with lit- 
 tle, Grace with lefle, y^tGodisfo bounti- 
 
 Aa#I4I7- full as to afford usexceedings; bemtifillour 
 bearu with food and gladnejfe: He will give us 
 not oncly ahoufeto dwell in, butaftately 
 one ; not onely a coat to cover us,but a cofl> 
 lyone; not onely a table to fit at, butata- 
 
 Pfal, ii . <M e we ^ Spread, and a cup running over, and 
 that in the fight of our enemies 5 which is 
 more then we (hould ask for. 
 
 So high was R^rBifliop of Salisbury la 
 favour with King Stefben, that he would fay 
 of him, Let that man beg of me what he 
 will, I will grant him, though it be half of 
 the Kingdome ; and fooner {hal he be weary 
 of asking, then I (hall be of giving. 
 
 God will give in mercy, as long as we 
 ask in faith. 
 
 When Sir Walter Raleigh asked a favour of 
 Q^Elizabethy fhe faid to him, Raleigh , when 
 yrill you leave your begging ? he anfwered , 
 When your Majefly leaves givirg. God is 
 much more bountiful! ; who did not givd 
 over granting Abraham his requefts for 
 Sodorne y till he left 'asking; and who can 
 tell, but that if he had gone on, and prayed 
 that if five perfons that were righteous had 
 been found in Scdorrie, the City might have 
 
 Oen.18.33. been fpared for their fakes, according to hig 
 rcqueft I Cm we think that God will heaf 
 
 this 
 
of a Thank full Cbriftian. 6% 
 
 the young Ravens when they cry, and neg- 
 
 left the Doves that mourn in the valleys? 
 
 That he will hear the young Lions uhen 
 
 they roar, and forget the Lambs that bleat 
 
 after the Sheep ? That he will hear Hagar Gen. ai. , 
 
 and her Ifmael, varlets and vile ones, that 16, 17. 
 
 cry unto him in their extremities; and will 
 
 he turn his back upon the tears, or ftop his 
 
 ear to the prayers of his owne children that 
 
 cry unto him daily, m the name of Jefus 
 
 Chrift ? Undoubtedly he cannot. St. Am- 
 
 Irofe was wont to fay, the better to comfort 
 
 Monka St. Aufiltit Mothenwho prayed often 
 
 for him, even with ttar? , Impojjibile eft ut filius 
 
 tantarum kchr)marum periret, It is impoffible 
 
 that a Son of fo many tears fhould periiTi. As 
 
 long therefore as God gives us an heart to 
 
 pray for any mercy, let us not be out of 
 
 heart. And why fo ? Becaufe then we beg 
 
 no more but what God hath commanded us 
 
 to ask, and we ask no more then what he 
 
 hath promifed to give, and he hath promi- 
 
 fed no more but what he is able to perform, 
 
 and he (hall perform no more but what he 
 
 (hall have glory for, and we know his glory 
 
 is dear to him. 
 
 Let me therefore advife every believing 
 foul to be much in prayer, and with the 
 Tfalmift to hearken what the Lord will Pfrl, &j.*. 
 fpeak, for he trill fpeal^ peace unto bk people. 
 And what returns of thofe prayers they 
 meet with. If they can fay, for this Wife I 
 prayed, for this Childe, this deliverance, 
 
 F this 
 
66 The journall or Diary 
 
 this fuccefle I prayed, and the Lord hath 
 granted me therequeftl put up unto him. 
 Let fuch experiments be put upon this ac~ 
 count, with zSelah. 
 
 Chap. IV. 
 
 ( The manner how a journall or Diary is to 
 
 be ufed, andfirft what is to he done by 
 way of obfervation. 
 
 THus far of the materials whereof a 
 Journall may be compounded : Now 
 in the next place I (hall fpeak of the manner 
 how fuch a Journall is to be ufed. And here- 
 in two things would be commended to the 
 Chriftian Reader. 
 
 i. Rules of Obfervation : And, 
 2. Rules of Praftice. 
 For obfervation take notice of thefe three 
 Rules : 
 
 i. Labour by faith to fee and obferve 
 God in all things that are beftowed on you, 
 aKin.1.14. continued to you; fay as Elifba, Here if the 
 mantle, but where is the God of Elijah ? Here 
 is health, and pe^ce, and liberty ; buc where 
 is the God of thefe comforts ? The Name 
 of God ; that is, the wifdome of God, the 
 power and faithfulnrile of God, is written 
 
 'upon 
 
ef a rhanhfuU thrift**: G} 
 
 upon every fpire of grade, upon every drop 
 of rain, in fuch great letters* that he that 
 runs may read. Let the fame minde be in us 
 that was in Jacob, the Ifrael of GW, who when 
 he told his Wives his refolution to leave his 
 Uncle Lab an, ufeth this language, Godbatb6sn.si.s* 
 taken away your Fathers cattle, and given tbem to 
 me. And when he met with his Brother 
 Efau 7 who asked hira of the children whofe 
 they were j he anfwered, they are the children 
 which God of bis grace hath given me. At the 
 fame time urging his Brother to accept the 
 bkffing that he had fent him, he ufeth this 
 argument, 1 have fern thy face, at though I*33t Q **^ 
 bad feen the face of God. And again, takf 
 what k brought thee , hecaufe God bath dealt 
 gracioufly with me. He that cannot fee God 
 in a judgement, will never be truely hum- 
 ble ; and he that cannot fee God in a mercy, 
 can never be truely thankful 1. Check your 
 felves therefore often for this negleft, as this 
 Jacob did, who when in his journey to LJban 
 he had in a vifion a fight of a Ladder, whofe 
 toot ftood on the earth, and whofe top did 
 reach to heaven, and the Angels of God were 
 afcending & defcending upon it,and theLord 
 ftood above it : All which was a lively difco- 
 very of Gods provident care of himj faid f 
 God was in this place, and t knew it noU .So & 18, it. 
 fay you, God was in this friend that relieved 
 me, in this ordinance that refrcflied me, 
 in this creature that comforted me, and I 
 obferved him not* There are none of the 
 g af Wayes 
 
6% TbefOHMAUor Diary 
 
 wayes of God, wherein he ufeth either the 
 miniftery of Angels,or the wifdome of men, 
 or the ftrength of any creature; but God is at 
 the top of the Ladder, and orders all, though 
 we obferve him not. 
 
 We may by an eye of reafon fee a man in 
 his works, though his perfon be not prefent: 
 As, when we fee a piece of ground well 
 ploughed) the fences well made, the cattle 
 well ordered, we fay, Here is a good Hus- 
 band, though we do not fee the Farmer : 
 When we fee a houfe built very well, and 
 every room well contrived, we fay, Here is 
 a good Work -man, though we do not fee 
 the Carpenter. And may we not as well by 
 an eye of faith behold the wifdome, good- 
 nefle, and power of God in his works, 
 though he be invisible. Say you therefore, 
 Here as fo much of the prudence of a 
 Prince, fo much of the policy of a State, 
 fomuch of the valour and faithfulnefieof 
 a Governouf 5 but how much do you ob- 
 ferve of God, Who rules the hearts and 
 wayesof all men? Here is fomuch of the 
 coft of a Father, fo much of theaffe&ion of 
 a Mother, fo much of the faithfulnefle of 
 a Friend, but how much of the mercy and 
 wifdome of God? 
 
 A great Cardinall ft hat I have read of J 
 writing down in his Diary what fuch a 
 Lord did for him, how far fuch a Prince 
 favoured him, what incouragement he had 
 from fuch a King, and how fuch a Pope pre- 
 ferred 
 
of A Thank full Chifidn. , 4$ 
 
 ferr'd him, but not a word of God ; one 
 reading of it, faid , This man remembred 
 his friends, butforgat God. Like another 
 Haman, who when he told his friends, and 
 Zerefh his Wife, of the glory of his riches, 
 and the multitude of his children, and all 
 the things wherein the King had pro- 
 moted him, who had advanced him above 
 all the Princes and Servants at the Court, 
 and what honor Queen Efiber did him, who Eft. f. ti; 
 invited him onely with the King to the ban- 
 quet, never made any mention of God* Do 
 you rather as David; who when he had 
 told King Saul how he had (lain the Lion 
 and the Bear, faid moreover, The Lord that i Sam. 17. 
 delivered me, &c> He comes over with it a- 37t 
 
 gain, rather then not mention the Name of 
 the Lord, and let Saul know he obferved 
 Gods great power in that viftory. 
 
 All the letters in the Alphabet, without a 
 vowel,will not make one word ; nor all the 
 ftars in the firmament, without the Sun,will 
 make a day; nor all the world, the profits 
 of it, or pleafures in it, can make a man 
 happy withoutGod. 
 
 The Jews (fome fay) when they read the 
 Book of Efiber, let the book fall on the 
 ground, and they give this reafon for that 
 ceremony, though they efteem it a Canoni- 
 cal! piece of Scripture, yet they (bmewhat 
 undervalue it, becaufe the word of God is 
 not found in all the Story. Though a man 
 have as much health, ftrength, and beauty 
 F 3 as 
 
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 as Nature can afford him ; and to that at 
 much wealth* honor, and friends, as the 
 world can bring him ; and to all thefe as 
 much learning as Tutors can put into him; 
 yet if he be a man without God, he falls in 
 the thoughts and eftimation of fuch as arc 
 fpirituall, and can difcern him though they 
 may acknowledge him a very difcerning 
 man. 
 
 2. Labour by faith to fee and obferve all 
 thefegood things in God. For as omniamala 
 may be feen in fummo malo : All evils in the 
 world may be feen in fin, the chief evil! ; 
 as blindnefie, nakcdncfie, poverty, death, 
 hell ; for he that is ignorant,is blind indeed? 
 he that is without God, is naked indeed; 
 he that hath no grace, is very poor; he that 
 is dead in fins and trefpaffes, is truely dead ; 
 he that is under the power of fin, and given 
 up wholly to his hearts lulls, is in an hell 
 above ground. So omnia bona are in fummo 
 bonoy all good things are in God the chiefeft 
 good. All creatures may be feen in the 
 Creator,as all the ftars may be feen in the fun. 
 iCor. 13. So the Apoftle thought, who called God 
 the God of all comfort. Honor is not the 
 God of comfort, nor liberty, nor health, or 
 wealth ; nor hath honor the comfort of li- 
 berty, nor liberty the comfort of health, 
 nor health the comfort of children or 
 wealth, &c. But the comfort of all thefe 
 Pfel.g4.11. may be found in God. Hence be is called' 
 our Sfh, He yrilltt a Sm and a [hi eld to tbofe 
 • ' A that 
 
of a ThdnkfuU ChriJtUn. f\ 
 
 that walk* uprightly. The light and com- 
 fort of all thefc thing? may be found in God, 
 at the light of all the ftars may be teen in 
 the Sun: As a Sun he gives 2 11 the light, fo 
 as a (hield he gives all theprote&ion to all 
 men, and means of our good : The fhield in 
 ancient times (to which the holy Ghoft 
 teems, as fome think, to allude ) was made 
 fo big, as it covered the whole man, and all 
 his armour; as appears by that fpeechof 
 AjdX) to or of VfyffeS} when he contended 
 him about the armour of Achilles : 
 
 Oppofui rnolem clyfei^ texiquejacentem. 
 
 In his flight he came to me, and I covered 
 him with my (hield, and fo faved his life. 
 So I fay, as a Sun and (hield all comfort is 
 from him. Hence he that can call the Lord 
 his God, may call God any thing that at 
 any time he ftanda in need of. As David fome- 
 times didjWhileft compaiTed about with ma- 
 ny enemies. The Lor J U m) roch^ andmy for- pf a j x g % 
 treffejny deliverer ', my high tower jmy buckler: and 
 why fo ? He k myGod>znd in that all If he be 
 my God (faith a believer^ he is my Father, 
 and no father like him for afie&ion ; if my 
 God,j my Friend, and no friend like him for 
 faithfulnefle 5 my Phyfician, and none like & 
 him for skill; nay, my Bed-maker, and 4 
 none can make my bed lb eafie as he. So 
 that if we lofe the comfort of any creature 5 
 as, the comfort of a wife by death, of health 
 by fickncfle,of liberty bv a prifon,of wealth 
 F 4 by 
 
j4 The fournaller Diary 
 
 by poverty 5 they may all be found in a 
 God ; who is health in fickneffe, liberty in 
 prifon ; yea, all things in the want of all. 
 He that is the Alpha and Omega hath faid it, 
 Rev. fti. 7. He that overcometh (ball inherit all things: But 
 how fhall that be > I will be (faith the Lord) 
 hit Gob and he fall be my Son. AH comfort 
 is divided amongft the creature*, as by fe- 
 verall channels, but united in God as the 
 fountain. 
 
 The King of Bohemia fas feme have re- 
 ported ) when he was beaten out of Prague, 
 and therefore almoft out of all in that King- 
 jjonie, was encouraged by fome great Com- 
 manders about him, that he had many Prin- 
 ces his friends; and Allien that were potent, 
 and would readily affift him ; to which he 
 made no anfwer, but wrote the word 
 VEVS in great letters; implying thereby, 
 that all thefe muft be found in God, or they 
 could do him no good ; whence fome pickt 
 out his meaning, and found Denmark^ in D, 
 England in E, Hungary in V y and the Swedes 
 in S. 
 
 But I have read that Herod in a fpeech 
 that he made in the head of his Army that 
 was ready to joyn battle with the enemy, the 
 better to encourage his Souldiers, had this 
 paffage : Where juftice i$> God if \ and where 
 God is 9 there ism want of men or fortitude. God 
 is a perfeftgood, as well as a folid good. 
 Id bonum perfefium dicitur ( faith Laftantius) 
 cm nil accedere, folidum cui nil decedere pQteft : 
 
 That 
 
tf~*?hAnkfuU Chrtfiian. 7J 
 
 That is a perfeft good, to which nothing can 
 be added; that afolid, from which nothing 
 can be fpared.Henceiti*,thatGod in wifdom 
 and mercy plucks thefe ftools from under 
 us, that we fit fo fecurely upon, that we may 
 look up to him, and finde that comfort in 
 him that we loft in them. When T>avid't *Sam.jo.& 
 Captains and Commanders, that fo long had 
 ftuck fo clofe to him, fpakeof ftoning him, 
 he comforted himfelfe in his God. When 
 Halbakjik^ could finde no bloflfbme in tht ilg- 
 tree, nor fruit in the vines ; when he could 
 finde nothing in the fold,nor in the field,nor 
 in the ftall ; yet he would rejoyce in the Lcrdftfa j, I7f 
 andjey in the God of his falvation; becaufeall iS, 
 
 might be found in a God. When Micah 
 looked upon the miferable face of the Time 
 in which he lived, wherein there was fcarce a 
 good man to be found, nor a friend to be 
 had, thebeft was but as abryar, and a mans 
 enemies were thole of his owne houfe ; fo 
 that neither the childe of amansloyns, nor 
 the wife that lay in his bofome were to be 
 trufted; he refolves to look up to God. 
 Therefore 1 will loo\ unto the Lord, 1 mil wait Mic.7. t ,*J 
 for the God of my falvation-> there 1 (ball finde 3, 4> S > 7- 
 all comfort* How happy is he then that hath 
 the Lord for his Gad ! He is one of St. Paul's 2 Cor.^.fo, 
 rich men , at having nothing, yet pojfeffing aU 
 things. So that I (hall conclude this paffage 
 with that of the Prophet, Let not the wijejev. %*$. 
 'man glory in his wifdome, neither let the mighty 
 man glory in his Jlrenglb^nor the rich man in his 
 
 ricber> 
 
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 riches, hut Ut him that gloryetb > glory in this* 
 that be hjioweth tne,&c. Not the wife man 
 in his wifdome, Satan is wifer then he, and 
 yet a Devill ; nor the ftrong man in his 
 ftrength, for the Horfe is ftronger then he> 
 and yet a Bead ; nor the rich man in his 
 wealth, tbe Earth is richer then he, and yet 
 he treads upon it every day; but let him that 
 glory eth, glory in this, that he kporretb tbe Lord 
 to be his God. Happy is tbe piople that is in 
 W'MW-fuch a c*fe ( faith the Pfalmiftj yea, happy is 
 that people that hath the Lord for their God That 
 any of us have the cap and the knee from our 
 inferiours, is our priviledge, but not our 
 happinefs; that any of us have the uppermoft 
 feat in the Church, or chiefeft room at a feaft, 
 is our honor, but nos our happinefle ; that 
 any of us eat the fat, and drink the fwcet, 
 when others eat aftics as bread, and mingle 
 their drink with their tears, is our comfort, 
 but not our happineffe ; but happy is that 
 people that is infmb a cafe ; yea, happy istbatjoul 
 that can fay, The Lord is my God. 
 
 Thirdly, obferve well the mediums, the 
 choyce wayes and means by which all good 
 things are conveyed to us. It is good to 
 know how we come by what we have. 
 
 Thefe three wayes take fpeciall notice of 
 as moft obfervable. All good things come 
 to us : 
 
 i. By Chrift, favingly. 
 
 2. By the promife, certainly. 
 
 3. By the creatures, fenlibly. 
 
 1. Ob- 
 
$f a Thankful I Chrift dif. 7 J 
 
 1. Obferve how all good things come in 
 fey Jefus Chrift favingly. God gives all 
 good things to his through Jefus Chrift. If 
 God feared not his ovrne Son, but delivered him Rom. t.ja. 
 up for us all, how fhall he not with him alfo 
 freely give u& all things ? Peace with him, and 
 liberty, and riches, and honor with him, 
 are a good portion indeed. All things are 1 Cor.3.11, 
 yourSy faith the Apoftle to the Corinthians, ** 
 
 Paul and Afollos, things prefent and things to 
 come, &c. But how come they in ? Te are 
 Chrifts (faith the Apoftle) andCbrift is Gods. 
 Allcoraes to us by Jefus Chrift, as all the 
 corn in M%ypt came through Jofepb's fin- 
 gers, fo all comforts come to us by Jefus 
 Chrift, who is our Mediatour; who hath 
 not onely by his blood purchafed all things 
 for us, but fanttifiedall to us$ he turns 
 our waters into wine, and makes our bitter 
 waters fweet. Hence as all our duties are 
 prefented from us to God by Jefus Chrift, 
 and therefore are accepted ; fo all things 
 arc conveyed to us from God by Jefus 
 Chrift, andfoarefan&ified. Chrift is not 
 onely our Mediator, but our Husband alfo, 
 and (owe enjoy all good things with him 
 and by him; we have conjugal communion 
 with him; fo that we may fay as Humor 
 and Sechem faid to their people (the better to 
 perfwade them to be circumcited, and to 
 marry into Jacob'* family ) Shall not all their Gen. 34.13. 
 • cattle^ andfubfiance, and every beafi of the field 
 be ours? So, if we be married to Jtfus 
 
 Chrift, 
 
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 Chrift, and become one with him, (hall Hot 
 all be ours through him who is heir of all ? 
 Not onely his wifdome to inlighten us, and 
 his power to uphold us, but the world to 
 fupply us; fo that if this Husband of ours 
 he honorable, we cannot be mean 5 if he b» 
 rich, we cannot be poor; and fo a little 
 with him is a great portion , when the 
 whole world without him is nothing. 
 Hence the Saints of God, out of their love 
 to Jefus Chrift, do ufeto fet JefusChrift 
 above all 5 bis name alfo (hall be above every 
 name. Princes in their Proclamations, 
 Charters, and Grants, fet their names in the 
 beginning, on the top, as garnet by the grace 
 cf God King of England, &c. Subjefts do al- 
 >vayes ufe to fubferibe their names to their 
 Wills, Letters, Leafes in the bottome : Both 
 the Old Teftament and the New , wherein 
 the Will of God is contained, have the 
 name of God fet down in the beginning, as 
 
 Gen. 1/ In the beginningGod created 9 &c. Gen. i # i. In 
 the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
 
 Job. 1. wW God, and the Word was God, Joh, 1 . 1 . It 
 is good to fet Jefus Chrift above all, for he 
 is the fumma totalis of all our comforts. The 
 Grecians fet the fumma totalis of their bills of 
 accompt in the top of the page, as we do in 
 the bottome. Chrift and riches, Chrift and 
 honors, Chrift and liberty is the totall fum 
 of all we enjoy. Let us make JefusChrift 
 our Generaliffimo, Commander in chief, Pri- « 
 mate,Supreme, All in all,fec him above all. 
 
 1. A- 
 
$f d Thankfull Cbriffah 77 
 
 i. Above all comforts and outward con* 
 tents. Like thofe brave Germane Ladies in a 
 fiege* who when the Emperor at the fur- 
 render of the Town gave them liberty to 
 carry with them what they could, but ex- 
 cepted the men) who were to fland to his 
 mercy; left all their gold andfilver, with 
 their rich jewels, and took up their Hus- 
 bands, and carryed them out with them. Let 
 us leave all, fo we may enjoy Chrift. Let ^ Sam. 19. 
 Ziba have all (faith Mephibofbetb to Vavid) $*< 
 
 fo that the King return. Let the men of the world 
 have all the wealth, though we ;be impove- 
 rished; let them have all the honour and 
 friends, though we be difgraced and forfa- 
 ken, fo Jefus Chrift may rule in us, and 
 rejoyce over us, and be all in all to 
 us. 
 
 2. Set Jefus Chrift above all the men and 
 means of any good. Men are apt to make 
 idols of fuch as have been inftruments of 
 their outward peace and happinefle : Chrift 
 will admit of no corrivals, he will be all 
 or none. When Tiberius the Emperour of 
 Home fent to the Senate, and required that 
 the Image of Chrift might be fee up in the 
 Capitoll, they returned this anfwer from 
 their Priefts, that if he were fet up, all the 
 
 other Images of their gods muft down ; if x Sam * J 4. 
 Jefus Chrift be fet up, all our Idols muft fall % 
 our Dagons will fall before the Ark. 
 
 3. Set Jefus Chrift above all your dutier, 
 parti, gifts, and abilities. Your felfi&neffe 
 
 proves 
 
78 The ZfournaBor T>iary 
 
 proves often your greateft prejudice. Lilrt 
 the viper in FauP$ bundle of flicks, which 
 he brought in to make a fire and warm 
 his fingers with, would fting you to death, 
 
 A&. i*. 3. did not God in mercy prevent the mifchief. 
 If you compofeyour felvcs withfuch fparks, 
 you (hall He down in forrow, if God be not 
 more gracious to you. In all your duties 
 
 xSam.ix. therefore it is beft to do as Joab did, when 
 3°* he had won Kabbah, he fent to Vavid to take 
 the Grown ; and good reafon, for all the 
 men and means, the money and ammunition 
 VfcrcVavicTs. So here, all your fufficiency 
 is from Ghrift, you can do all things through 
 
 Phil. 4.1 j. Chrift that firengtbens you. Let him therefore 
 go away with the Crown, Be not like proud 
 
 Eft. & 8. Haman, whom nothing could content, but 
 the royall apparell, the royall horfe and 
 crown. Chrift will part with any thing to 
 you but his cro wn,but his glory; take heed of 
 ufurping that. What part or member of the 
 body foe ver is u fed in getting the viftory, 
 by the content of all the head is crowned: 
 However you fpeed , let Chrift have th§ 
 crown. 
 
 When Ctfar and B'tbulus were Confuls, 
 Cdfar did all, Bibulus did nothing,being over- 
 awed by Ctfar : whereupon the Wits of 
 Rome would in jeft fubferibe their Letters, 
 Julio &- Ctfare confitltbus : Do you fo , if 
 through the grace of Chrift you czn bear 
 affliftions patiently, perform dnties fruitful- ' 
 ly, pray with heart, confrife with forrow, 
 
 beg 
 
of a Thanh full chriftiaril 7> 
 
 beg with life, frear with fruit, fay, we can do 
 all things by Jefus Chrift affifting us. 
 
 2. Obferve how all good things are be- 
 flowed upon you, continued to you, by the 
 Promife certainly. All providences to a 
 gracious heart, are but as fo many fulfill in gs 
 of promifes. Carnall men have nothing 
 but by common providence ; but whatever 
 this man hath, he enjoys by fpeclall pro* 
 mife; fo that his peace is the peace of pro- 
 mife, his liberty the liberty of promife, his 
 deliverance the deliverance of promife* La- 
 bour therefore to fee every comfort you have 
 noted in your Journal, conveyed to you in 
 and by a promife. Thus did Jcfhua* who 
 when the people were fetled in the Land of 
 Canaan, told them* that they knew in their 
 hearts and fouls, that not one thing hadJ^-S 1 * 
 failed of all the good things which the Lord 
 their God had ipake concerning them, all 
 was come to pafle. It is good to obferve 
 how Gods judgements are execnted upon 
 tranfgreffbrs, according to his Word, and 
 to fay as Jehu did, when the fierccnefle of * King.>. 
 Gods wrath was poured out upon Ahab and 2 * > 3*" 
 Jezibel, 7 bis is the burthen that the Lord laid 
 upon him> and this is the word of the Lord that he 
 frakf by Elijah the Tiftbite. When we fee A- 
 dulcerers brought to fhame, and a morfel of 
 bread, fay, This is according to the Word 
 of the Lord, who hath faid, WhinmorigersKd*. I3-4- 
 •ar.d adulterers God will judge. When ye fee 
 fwearers , and blafphemers , and perjured 
 
 per- 
 
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 perfons, puniflicd with a flrokc from heaven, 
 fay,This day is this Scripture fulfilled in oar 
 
 E*od. xo.7.eyt$, Cod will not bold them guiltleffe that takf bis 
 name in vain* But ic is far more comfortable 
 to fee all good things beftowed according to 
 a promife, and to be able to fay as David* 
 
 Ffc.n$ *f. T^u haft dealt well with thy fervanl, Lord, 
 accwdingto thy Word. So did Solomon, when 
 he fate upon the throne of his Father D*- 
 vid> Blejfed be the Lord God of Ifrael, who bath 
 fulfilled with bis hand that which he fpafy with 
 bis mouth. And again in the fame prayer, 
 
 aChr,4,io, Ihe Lord hath performed his word that he bath 
 fpokfn* for lam rifen up in the room of my Father 
 Vavidj and am fet on the throne of Ifrael, as the 
 Lord hath promifed. We talk much of Provi- 
 dences, and indeed we are apt to make Pro- 
 vidences to fcrve our turns ; as fonah ^though 
 a Prophet, and a good man, when he was lent 
 to Nineveh 9 and not wil ling to go upon that 
 Embaflage^buttoj^rf, and finding a (hip 
 
 Jonah t. 3. going to tarfhifby Oh furely ^thought he) 
 here's a providence, God would have me 
 now go rather to iarfhifhy Co providence 
 leads me ; and indeed this is a great part of 
 the Religion of our time, here was a provi- 
 dence, and there was a providence ; yea, a 
 continncd feries of providentiaii a&ings : 
 but no man asks, Where is the Precept re- 
 quiring, or the Promife encouraging > He 
 that walks by common providence, without 
 a fpeclall Precept to guide him, or lingular 
 Promife to comfort him, walks by a dark 
 
 Lant- 
 
of a Thankfull Chrijlian* Si 
 
 Lanthorn, and will finde that his fuccefles 
 will prove but pitfalls in the conclufion, and 
 will fall (hort of an happy iffue ; according 
 to that faying: 
 
 -Careat fuccefjibus opto 
 
 gjhifquis ab evemu fafia notanda putat. 
 
 But let every wife man obferve how his fuc- 
 ceflefull proceedings are fruits of a Promife. 
 So did the Virgin Mary^ God bath holfen hU Luk. i. J4j 
 fervant Ifraelin remembrance of bis mercy , as he 5J> 
 
 fpakfto our Forefathers y Abraham and his feed 
 f river. \ So did Zachariah \ God hath raifed up *9> 
 
 for Ufa how of falvation in the heufe of bis fer- 70, 
 
 vantVavidyas he fpake by the mouth of his holy 7!. 
 
 FropbetSy that we fhould be faved from our ene- 
 mies* and from the hands of al! that hate us ; to 
 perform the mercy promifed to our Father Sy and to 
 remember hit holy covenant. Go you, and do 
 likewife; fee how Promifes run out into 
 Providences. As, when we fee a fincere 
 courfe of lite bleffid ; fay, This is according 
 toGodsWord, whohaihfaid, Nogoodth'mg pf . 
 {ball be wanting to them that wall^uprightly. When a ' 4,X u 
 you fee the children of hontft godly parents 
 profper, you may fee the promife that day 
 fulfilled, which faith, the righteous walkj in p I0V ; 20 7 . 
 hit integrity , and his children are bleffed after 
 him- 
 
 Now that we may do this, that we may 
 •the better difcern in what channel, by what 
 promife fuch a comfort flowes in to us, 
 
 G leure 
 
2i The -fturmU or Dkry 
 
 foure things would be skilfully atten- 
 ded: 
 
 i. En devour to fort the promifes, and to 
 know their feveral kinds. Some are abfolute, 
 fome conditionall s fome are generally fome 
 are particular, made to fome pcrfons ; fome 
 for this 1 ife, fome for the life to come, God- 
 i Tim. 4.8 # Unejfe ( faith the Apoftle ) bath thepromifes of 
 tbif life, and of that which is to come* Some 
 promifes are encouragements, as i Cor.5.20. 
 Some are comforts, as 1 Cor. 10. 13. Some 
 bring rewards, as Pfal. 84. 1 1 . Some contain 
 privileges, as Joh. 1. 12. Tradefmen fore 
 their commodities, by which they live 5 fo 
 (hould believers promifes to which they 
 truft, and from which they have all.. 
 
 2. Be fure you underftand the language of 
 the Promife. Take heed that the Promife 
 give not an uncertain found, nor let the 
 promife be a Barbarian to you. Let the pro- 
 mife becleered to you. Chrift was very near 
 loh.ti. 15. to Mary Mtgdalen, when he appeared to her 
 after his reiurreftion^but (he thought he had 
 been the Gardener. 
 
 As for example : 
 %(oZi6.i7l Touch no unclean thing, and I wiV receive you* 
 This promife isneerto us, but few under- 
 derftand what it faith. Touch not\ that is, be 
 not married to your lufts, be not wedded 
 to your wills, but bedivorced from every 
 evillway : Scripture is the beft interpreter 
 1 Cor 7* 1. °* Scripture, another text will open it : It 
 is not good (faith the Apoftle J aftkecafeftan- 
 
 detb 
 
$f a Thankfull Christian. t $ 
 
 deth,for a man to touch a woman 5 that is, to be 
 married. 
 
 Taki another inftance : 
 
 He thai confiffeth and forfakftb his fins Jhall Pro.i8.xji 
 have mercy; that is, he that forfaketh his lint, 
 a? the young married woman leaves her Fa- 
 ther and Mother, andisjoyncd to her Hus- 
 band ; that is, fhe leaves them in regard of 
 communion with him , for (he muft now 
 live with her Husband, in regard of fubje- 
 ftion to them ; for her da fires muft be fubjett 
 to her Husband, and be muft rule over her : So the 
 foul leaves bis fin in regard of communion 
 with it, fubje&ion to it, as formerly ; and 
 now faith toChrift, *%?aul did when con- Aft. 9*6* 
 verted, What wihihou have me do? How few 
 understand the language of that promife, 
 Heb. 1 3. S- J will never leave tbee y nor forfakf 
 thee ? Where there are five negatives in the 
 Originall/Ou j*w0**V5,S/' ipd ui\yig.T*tiwi* . 
 I will never never never never never leave tbee. 
 With the Latines two negatives do more 
 ftrongly affirm, with the Grecians they do 
 more firmly deny. That yoU may thus un- 
 derftandthe language of the promite; Lei Col, 3,16. 
 the word of Cbrifl dwell plentifully with you * 
 nay, in you, in all wifdome. The good word 
 of the Lord fhould be your Vade me cum,y out 
 companion, you fhould have the pro- 
 mife alwayes with you, as Saul his fpear 
 «nd his crufe of water at his brds head. 
 Let it lead you walking, watch with 
 ' G 2 you 
 
84 The$ournallor Diary 
 
 you fleeping,talk with you waking. By this 
 means it will be cleared to you. 
 
 3. Endevour to underftand well the ex- 
 tent of Promifes, their latitude, and what 
 their boundaries are; that is, know how 
 much they difb out unto you, how far they 
 will go with you: If the promife will go 
 but a mile, do not compel it to go twain : 
 Some promifes are made to particular per- 
 fons, and will not reach you, as the pro- 
 mife co Abraham of a childe in his old age. 
 Sometimes a particular promife will go far- 
 
 Jofh. 1. j. ther,as that to Jo(kua, 1 mil never leave thee 
 nor forfakg thee. Which St. P<w/piakes ufe of 
 as a good motive to young married perfoni 
 to take heed of covetoufhefle, and be con* 
 
 Hcb. 1 j. j.tent; For he hath faid,l will never leave thee* 
 nor forjakf thee. No good thing fball be wan* 
 
 Pfal. $4 1 1. ting to tbofe that wa\ uf rightly y is a promife 
 chat muft be considered with boundaries 
 and limits. This (hall be fulfilled in Gods 
 time, in Gods meafure, after his manner,and 
 by his means 5 and according to your capa- 
 city, fecundum rnodum recipientis ; the head is 
 more capable of blood and fpirits then che 
 little finger , a Pottle-pot will hold more 
 then a Pinte : Some man can ufe abundance 
 of honor and wealth, becter then you can 
 fit may be) a low and a mean condi- 
 tion. 
 
 4. Be skilfull in the method of applying 
 promifes. A methodical! way is a fucceUeful 
 way. Therefore, be fare you make good 
 
 the 
 
of a Thankfnll Chrifim. f J 
 
 the main promife, and then the reft will fol- 
 low : I will he thy Gcd, is the main promife, 
 the fumroe of all promifes. Can you fay 
 as Vavid, Ibou art my God? You may fay 
 then,T£e LordU my rock^m) fortreffe, my deliverer, pfti. ig. ^ 
 Can you fay as the Pfalmift, I am thine? 
 You may then fay, Save me, fanftifiz rne 9 de- & u?, f+ % 
 liver me, provide for me according to thy Word. 
 God that by promife hath given us his Son, 
 cannot but fulfill every promife to us, ac- 
 cording to our neceflky. There can be no 
 limit in that love, no bound nor bottome in 
 that bounty. It Pharaoh will give Jacob and Gen.4y.15r, 
 his family Go(ben, the beft of all the Land of *<>• 
 
 JEgyft) to dwell in, he will provide for them 
 wagons and vittuals for the way. If you 
 be juftified by the death of Chrift, you fhall 
 certainly be faved by his life. So the Apo- Rom.y. ie« 
 file argues. Primitive a&s of Gods grace, 
 are engaging afts ; there was no reafon that 
 a finner (hould be juftified, but there is a 
 great deal of reafon that a juflihed perfon 
 (hould be faved 5 if God will take you as his 
 owne, he is bound to make you as his own 
 for ever. 
 
 3. Obferve how all thofe good things 
 mentioned in your Journall, arcdifpenfed 
 to you by the creatures fcnfibly. There is a 
 vaftand infinite diftance betwixt God and 
 man, majefty and meannefle, and therefore 
 we enjoy him, and receive good from him 
 •by men and means. All things both in hea- 
 ven and earth are at his command. All 
 G 3 creatures 
 
$6 The Jeurmll or Diary 
 
 yral. jo.io. creatures are his, and for our fervice; not 
 
 onely the cattle of a thoufand hills are his, 
 
 & 9M. but the ftrength of thofe hills are his alfo. 
 
 In all which obferve Gods wifdome and 
 
 goodnefle in this threefold choyce. 
 
 i. His wifdome and goodnefle in the 
 
 choyce of the inftruments. Why this man, 
 
 and that means, rather then any other? 
 
 God often choofeth where man leaves, and 
 
 leaves where man choofeth* He is wiler 
 
 then the wifeft, and better then the beft. 
 
 Of all the Sons of Jacob, who would have 
 
 thought of Jofefh, the youngeft, and fold 
 
 by his Brethren 5 that he (hould have proved 
 
 the inftrument of preferving his Father 
 
 and his family from perifhing in the famine, 
 
 Gen.yo.zo. and providing for them a dwelling place in 
 
 the Land of JE^ypt? And yet God made 
 
 choyce of him. Amongft all the Sons ot 
 
 ftjfe> even Samuel the Seer would not have 
 
 chofen David, the youngeft, and the leaft 
 
 regarded) and therefore fee to keep the 
 
 | San?; 16. (heep, to be the man whom God would 
 
 J3. anoint amongft his Brethren, to be King 
 
 of Ifiael : And yet God made choyce 
 
 pf him, and leaves Eliab, andShammah) and 
 
 Abinadab , though proper perfons , great 
 
 Souldiers, and prime Courtiers. When this 
 
 J) avid was fentby his Father into the Camp 
 
 to viiit his Brethren , none would have judged 
 
 him a fit man to encounter with Gol'iab, yea 
 
 even SWhimfelf could notbelieveit; Thou 
 
 art not able ( faith he ) to go out againft this 
 
 Phili- 
 
of d ThtnkfuU Chrifiidtf. $7 
 
 Tbiliftint) to fight with him ; for thou art hut a x Sam. i7. 
 
 youth* end be is a wan of irar from his )Outh. 3?* 
 
 And yet God chofe him as the man that 
 
 fhould flay that Giant, and fave IfraJ that 
 
 day. Jetbro a Midianite (hall give good coun- 
 
 fclto MofeSy and Gideon fhall befetchtfrom Excd. x *« 
 
 the threfliing floor, and made Captain Ge- 
 
 nerall over all the forces of Israel ; he (hall 
 
 fave them from the hands of the MidiamteSy Jucg.7,7. 
 
 and that with three hundred men alone. This 
 
 God doth, not onely to magnifie his power 
 
 and wifdome 5 whofe wayes and thoughts 
 
 are above our?,paft finding out-, often fecret, 
 
 but al wayes ju ft ; but to check the haughty 
 
 thoughts of proud man, who is ready to limit 
 
 the holy one of Ifrad^ and to conclude, that 
 
 if God go not his way to work, that cannot 
 
 be effe&ed, which is p: omiied and expe&ed. 
 
 It was the fault of good Melanfthon, though 
 a man of excellent parts, and very (eiviceable 
 forChriftscaufe, who was extreme penfive, 
 for fear of fomefad ifluesof thf grrat mee- 
 ting at Auffwge ; who though very humble, 
 yet had this pride ; his pro jefts muft like the 
 counfels of God unerringly and unchange- 
 ably fUnd, or the caufe was loft; where- 
 upon Luther w idled Spalatinut his friend to 
 exhort him, yea charge him in his name, 
 Nefiat Veus> that he make not himfelf a god. 
 It was (as fome have cbfervcdj the proud 
 
 humour of Ferdinand Alvares Duke de Alva* 
 
 # to negleft the advice of others, if beneath 
 
 # hini| though ni v^r fo good ; and wc uld ra- 
 
 G 4 ther 
 
88 The fottrnafler Dftry 
 
 ther ftumble then beware ot that block 
 that another had warned him of, becaufe 
 he fcorncd the inftrument. Suth an one 
 was Cardinal! Matheo Langi Archbitihop of 
 Saltzbnrg^ who zt the Diet of Aufburg con- 
 fefled that the reformation of the Maffe was 
 needfull, that liberty ©f meats was cohve- 
 ' nient,but that Luther a poor Monk fhould 
 reform all, and teil them what was to be 
 done, muft not be endured. But he that 
 walks much with Gad, and obfervet him 
 in the wayes of his providence, (hall in his 
 owne experience finde that he receiveth 
 leaft from thofe from whom in reafon he 
 might expeft moft, and mod oftentimes 
 from thofe from whom he could expeft no- 
 thing. Even the /Egyptians (hall favour the 
 Ifraditesy and lend them jewels of filverand 
 gold for their better accommodation in their 
 
 Exo.xi.13. J ournc y* * c wal r ^ e Lord indeed that 
 " gave them favour in the eyes even of their 
 enemies. The very Ravens in a famin (hall 
 bring Elijah food morning and evening; 
 and when that means fails, a poor Widow 
 (hall provide for him, when never a Prince 
 nor noble Lord in Ifrael did bear fo much 
 love to the Prophet, as to fuftain him in 
 that extremity. Ebedmelech the /Ethiopian is 
 very kinde to Jeremiah, and through his 
 intereft with the King, works out his in- 
 
 Jcr, 33,6,7. largement : When his own Countrey-men 
 caft him into the dungeon, Neiuzaradan • 
 by the commandment of Nebuchadnezzar, 
 
 King 
 
ef a ThtnhfuB Chrifian. *f 
 
 King of Btffy/w,delivers fereniy out of prifon, 
 & gives him liberty to go whither he pleafe, 
 when Zecfekiab his own King (huts him up in Jercm.jt.j, 
 prifon.lt is an excellent rule^herefore I wifh 19 ^U 
 all that fear God to obferve it. lift means, 
 love prayer, and truft God; which was 
 well implyed in that emblerre of fome Hea- 
 thens : A man with his hand on the plot?, 
 but his eye in heaven. 7kere is no reflraint l $* m ! 4^« 
 with Gcct} faith Jonathan to his Armour- 
 bearer. If there be many mean< 5 God muft 
 blefle them ; if but few means, he can mul- 
 tiply them ; if they be contrary means, he 
 can ufe them \ if there be no means, he can 
 create them, or work without them : He ic 
 is that appoints all means of our good : He 
 gives virtue to tbofe means that he appoints, 
 he draws out that virtue that he gives, he 
 blefleth that virtue that he draws our, and 
 by the finger of his providence points us to 
 the ufe of thofe means that he will blefle; 
 and in the want of all will work wonder- 
 fully for our good. In the Creation, God 
 had light without Sun, Moon, or Stars. He 
 made the earth fruiefull, and caufed every Gen. %'.j t 
 plant to flourifli when there was no rain, *e. 
 
 nor any man to till the ground, and could 
 finde out an help for Addth that was moft 
 meet, though he could not. 
 
 2. Obferve Gods goodnefle in the 
 
 choyce of the time. As God doth all things 
 
 . well, fo he doth all at the beQ time. The 
 
 gteateft things that God hath done in the 
 
 world, 
 
$0 The ffouvHAll or Mary 
 
 world, he hath done for his Church ; and 
 the greateft things chat God hath done for 
 his Church, he hath done as by the mod un- 
 likely inftruments, fo at the moft unlikely 
 time; and yet thofe inftruments were the 
 be ft inftruments, and that time the bed time. 
 The JEgypiam had wont to pifture Time 
 with three heads. Time f aft with the head 
 of a greedy wolfe, as one that had devoured 
 rouch time. Timeprefent with the head of a 
 crowned Lion,triumphing in the enjoyment 
 of the prefcnt time, time to come with the 
 head of a dog, fawning on that which is to 
 come. But all our times are in Gods 
 hands ( and in better hands they cannot be) 
 our time to come into trouble, our time to 
 continue in trouble, and our time to come 
 out of trouble, is at his difpofe. God fel- 
 dome comes at our time, alwayes at his 
 owne. And if deliverance from dangers, 
 fucceffe in our endevours, fupply of our 
 wants had come fooner or later, it had 
 not been fo good for us. Chrift is faid 
 
 Gal. 4; 4.3 to befentacthefulnefle of time, or at the 
 full time ; fo called, becaufe it was juft that 
 
 Exo,i*4i. time that God had defigned. Mofes was ftnt 
 to deliver Ifrael out of JEgypt, at the full 
 time, though the tale of bricks were dou- 
 bled, and their burthens encreafed ; and at 
 the end of 430 years, even the felf-fame 
 day as it waspromifed, ic came to pafie that 
 all thehoflsof the Lord went out from the 
 Lajidof J£%ypt. Chrift came to his Difci- ' 
 
 pics 
 
of a Thankful I Chrifti&n. 9 1 
 
 pies when they were diftrefled by a ftorm 
 at Sea, in the beft time, though it were at Matt.14.**. 
 the fourth Watch in the night, and they 
 010ft in danger. Our extremity is Gods 
 opportunity to magnifie his wifdome and 
 goodneffe to us 5 when we are worft, God 
 is ever beft; when we are at our wirs end, 
 then he makes the ftorm a calm, and brings P.a. 107 29. 
 us to our defired haven. When we know 
 not what to do, he knows how to deli- 
 ver. 
 
 Three perfons Chrift is faid in the Go- 
 fpel to haveraifed from the dead; one wag 
 dead,but not carryed out 3 and that was fairus Mar. 5. 4 T - 
 his daughter. A fecond was deadend carried 
 out,and that was the widows Son of Naim.h Luk - *•**■ 
 third was dead, and carried our, and buried 
 in the grave, where he had lyenfouredays, Job.11.3f. 
 fo that he began to (link, and that was 
 Lazarus. All thefehe raifed at his owne 
 time , and that the beft time. He works 
 as wonderfully in railing converts from 
 the grave of fin. Some are dead, but not 
 carried out ; thete are civili perfons, who 
 aredead in fin, but more modeft and mode- 
 rate, whofe difordcrs are not fo notori- 
 ous, and in tbepublick view of the world; 
 if they be drunk, they are drunk in the 
 night. Some are dead, and carried out ; 
 thefewith Abfalom will play their pranks on % Sam. »<« 
 thehoufetop, that are almoft in all evili **■ 
 
 inthemidft of the congregation and aflem- * roT 'M4- 
 bly. Some are dead, carried out, and bu- 
 ried; 
 
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 ried; whofe filthy lives ftink in the no* 
 ftrils of God and men. And yet when Gods 
 time is come, if he fpeakbut the word on. 
 ly» Lazarus come forth) they (hail live in his 
 fight. Even Manafjeh the bloody, and Mary 
 Magdalen the filthy, andP<w/ the perfecuter, 
 (ball be converted. 
 
 In all our tribulations, both Nationall 
 and Perfonall, it is good to wait on God; 
 who can and will at his owne time deliver 
 our perfons from trouble, and our Nation 
 from the grave of forrow ; yea, even when 
 
 Exek. 37.1. our bones art dead and dry, and fcattered ; 
 
 i®. he can then prophefie over us, and caufe a 
 
 gracious refurreftion,but wemufl wait till his 
 
 Pfal. 113.1. time come^astbe e)es offervants upon their Mafters 3 
 until he have mere) upon us. We are ail for the 
 time prefent, we would all be Matters, no 
 fervants. Wilt thou now ( fay the Difciples to 
 our Saviour after his refurreftion) reftore the* 
 Kingdome to Ifiael ? Who anfwered them,If is 
 
 Aft. 1.7S not for you to kpow the times and feafons that the 
 Father hath put in his owne power. And it is 
 good to wait : 
 
 Lam. 3. 16. 1. It is bonum bonorandum> an honorable 
 good. Happy are thefe tby [ervants (faith 
 
 x Kin.io.8. Sheba'i Queen ) that {land continually before 
 thee % King Solomon. But a greater then 
 Srttmon is here, 
 
 2. It is bonum utile> a profitable good.The 
 longer we wait,the better we fpeed. Abraham 
 waited long for a Son, Hanna waited long 
 for a childc • fo did Zachary and Elizabeth, 
 
 and 
 
§f a Thdnkfull Chrifhn. 93 
 
 and had they not all a raoft gracious ifliie > 
 When two Monkes came to King Will. 
 Rufiitp to buy an Abbots place, and ende- 
 voured to out-bid each other ; a third 
 Monk that came to wait on them, was 
 asked what he would give, and anfwered, 
 Not a penny* I came to wait on him that 
 thai have the place : upon which he gave the 
 waiter the place. 
 
 3. It is bonum jucundum, a pleafant thing 
 
 to wait : For all Gods wayes are wayes of Prov.3. 17. 
 pleafantnefle, and all his paths are peace. 
 
 4. It is bonum aquum : It is moft juft that 
 
 we fhould wait upon that God that would Jer. 30. IS, 
 wait upon us, that he might be gracious un- 
 to us. 
 
 Some Hiftorians have made this difference 
 betwixt Charts King of Sicily , and Fabius the 
 Komane Generall 5 the firft ftaid till the op- 
 portunity was paft, and fo loft all; the fe- 
 cond waited till the time came, & cunftand* 
 rejiituit rem, by waiting the fitted feafon, he 
 reftored the Common-wealth to her former 
 beauty. 1 bad fainted (faith the PfalmiftJ Pfil. 17.15* 
 unleffe 1 had believed to \ee the goodnejfeof the 1 V 
 
 Lord in the land of the living. But he adds by 
 way of advice to others, Wait on the Lord, 
 be of good courage, and be Jball ftrengthen thy 
 hearty Wait I faf on the Lord. Waiting is 
 nothing elfe but faith and patience and hope 
 lengthened out to Gods time* 
 
 3. Obferve Gods wifdome and good- 
 ttefle to you ia the choyce of the raea- 
 
 fure; 
 
94 * 7#* ZpouYnaUor Diary 
 
 fure } juft fo much comfort in the creature, 
 and no more. He it is that gives us our daily 
 bread, that feeds us with convenient food, 
 that is, an allowance fitted to our fixe and 
 fUture, a proportion fuitable to our con- 
 dition. A cruft of Gods carving is better 
 then a banquet cf our owne providing. I 
 Pfal^r.^am furc that is true that the Pfalmift hath 
 taught us, A little that a righteous man hath 
 is better then the richer of many xvickfd oner. 
 Becaufethat little is Gods allowance. Plen- 
 tifull provifions have oftentimes large bills 
 of accompt. How hard a matter is it to en- 
 joy much, with an Omnia bene I Many rich 
 owners are like weary Sumpter-horfes, who 
 having travelled all day under the burthen 
 of fome great treafure, at night lie down in 
 a foul liable with gall'd backs: fo thefe at laft 
 are laid down in their graves, with galled 8c 
 diftrefled confidences. And if it fo fall out 
 that their fpirits are quiet, that the tears of 
 the opprefleddo not cry out againft them, 
 yet high places are flippery, and great eftates 
 lie open to the blafts of envy and malice. 
 It is as great a mercy to be able to want that 
 patiently, that God denies juftly, as to u(e 
 that wifely that God beftowes bountifully. 
 Gods meafure is ever belt; fo much health, 
 and no more; fo much liber ty,and no more; 
 {6 much richer and no more; fo much con- 
 tent in a wife, fo much comfort in a childe, 
 fo much love from a friend, and no more. ■ 
 It may be our neighbour hath ten talents, 
 
 and 
 
of a Thank f»H C hrifi i an. 9% 
 
 and we but two, Gods allowance is ever 
 bed; beg we for our daily bread, but lee 
 God be our carver. Jofefh thought that hi* 
 good old Father had been raiftaken when he 
 laid his right hand on Efhraim's head, who 
 was the younger • and his left on Manaffeb, Gai ^ 1 ^ 
 who was the elder. And we are ready to 
 entertain hard thoughts of God, who often- 
 times layes an heavy hand upon his Saints, 
 that are his firft-born, and is very open- 
 handed to others. I was envyous at the foor T&rhh 1 ** 
 lifb ( faith the Pfalmift) when 1 faw the pro- 
 [ferity of the wick/d, when all the day long I have 
 been plagued, andcbafiened every morning. But 
 God is wife, and knows what is beft. Some 
 live upon their lands, and fome by their la- 
 bours, and fome by both ; fome live upon 
 their trades, and fome by alms, and fome up- 
 on their friends. God often teacheth his 
 by the want of fome mercies how to value ♦ 
 
 others, and to be thankfull for them, and 
 fruitfull under them. , Fulneflc is the bane 
 of thankful nefle, and want a good anti- 
 dote againft wan tonnefie. I am fure furfet 
 kills more then famine; more birds are ta- 
 ken with a net, then (lain with a gun. The 
 roaring of the Canon is good Rhetorick to 
 commend peace, and that Spring is ufually 
 moft pleafant that is uftiered in by a (harp 
 Winter. Yea further, the meaneft condition 
 is fometimes the fafeft. lob on the dunghill 
 • fpeeds better then Adam in Paradife. "David 
 with his fling and his ftone hath better fuc- 
 
 cefle 
 
5> 6 The $our»aU or Dhry 
 
 i&yp. i7.cefle againftGW/rffe, then he could have ex- 
 3^pefted in Saul's brave armour which he had 
 not proved. And I am fure a poor man on 
 foot may get to heaven as foon as the rich on 
 horfeback. God grant I may go to heaven 
 on foot (faith good Mr. lVelfli) when he faw 
 theBifhop of London vxAtm all ftate to the 
 Court. 1 have feen a great Lord in his Coach 
 drawn with fix horfes, ftayed at the turning 
 of a ftreet either by a Carman or a Golliar, 
 when many a poor m^n on foot hath flipt 
 by, find got fafe home. We are apt to think 
 thofemen that have moft wealth are of beft 
 worth^and we ufually call them the beft men 
 of theParifti, and our betters. Like igno- 
 rant people that judge thofe Luminaries of 
 heaven , as the Sun and Moon, to be the 
 greatefl^becaufe the loweft ; when ftelU prim* 
 magriiMldinis feem lefle, but are not, becaufe 
 higher. The things of this world are fuch 
 as commonly the beft want them, and the 
 word have them 3 and they are often reser- 
 ved for their owners, to their hurt. Vantur 
 bonis ne videantur mala^ dantur malls ne videantur 
 fumma bona : They are fometimes given to 
 good men, left they fhould feejn evil ; fome- 
 times to wicked men, left they fliould feem 
 the chiefeft good things. Some have loft 
 their fingers for their gold rings, fome their 
 lives for their purfes, others their fouls for 
 their mammon. Many Papifts in the Varifun 
 Maflacre were butchered with the Prote-, 
 ftants for their wealth , which mack them 
 
 Huge* 
 
of a Thankfull Chrijtian. gy 
 
 HugenM. Nabotb's vineyard was his greateft i Ki..*x.i|« 
 fauU* not blafphcmy agaJnft God and the 
 King. It was his land that coll him his lift. 
 Sir John Cornwall Lord Fanhope at his death 
 durftfay, that not himfelfe, but his brave 
 houfe at Ampthel was guilty of treafon. £0- 
 Im told Cixfus, w hen he (hewed him hisgreac 
 rreafureof gold, If your enemies Iron be 
 better then yours, he will carry away all 
 your gold 5 and fo it fell out afterward. 
 Silver and gold 1 have none, faith Peter to the Aft. 3. S; 
 larae man. AU thefe things will 1 give thee, Matr. 4. % 
 faith the Devil to Chrift. If thefe things 
 were fo very good, as the world mdgeth 
 them to be, Peter fhould not have wanted 
 them, nor would the Devil ever have offered 
 them. In fublimilate metus , in mediocritate 
 quits: A mean condition hath fafety, when 
 high places are full of fears. The poor of 
 the Land of Judea are fpared by N'bucbAd- J«rcm # j»; 
 nezzar, and left behinde to till Uie land ; 
 when Zcdekiab the King had his eyes put 
 out, his Princes (lain with the fword, and 
 the wealthy carried into captivity. Medio- 
 cria firma^ a middle eftate betwixt poverty 
 and riches, food convenient for w, which the 
 Wife man prayed for, is the more fecure, 
 when excefie hath danger. Which made 
 Scipio Africanusfay, when he was required 
 to joyn with the Prieft, who prayed for 
 more encreafe to the Romane State •, N3, our 
 State is rich enough, I will rather pray the 
 gods to keep ajjd continue what we have. 
 H Ho^ 
 
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 How many when they have found their 
 blood coo rank, have been at the charge 
 wich a Chirurgeon to let fame out ? 
 
 However God deal with you, whether 
 he give you moreorlefle, it will be your 
 wiiciome to hold thefe three conclusions 
 faft: 
 
 i . Conclude, that if God did fee you fie 
 to ufe more, he could and would afford 
 more. Are you ftraightned in outward 
 comforts ? It is not becaufe there is any 
 want in God, the want is rather in your 
 z Sam. ii. felves. So much God told David by Zfa- 
 7>*. than the Prophet; I anointeijhee to be King 
 
 over Ifrael, and delivered ihettfrom the hand of 
 Saul% and Igavh thee thyMa$ersboHfe, and thy 
 Mafiers wives into thy bofowt • and gave thee the 
 houfe of Ifraeland judah ; and if that had been 
 too little^ I would moreover have given thee fuck 
 and fitch things. He faith to every childe of 
 Ccn.23.15.his3 as Efbron the Hittite faid to Abraham, 
 when he came to buy the field and the cave 
 in Mdchpelah, to bury his dead in ; the land 
 U worth 400 (hekelsy but what is that betwixt 
 thee and me ? What are riches, and honour, 
 and peace, and liberty "? They are indeed of 
 great value^ but they are little betwixt you 
 and me, who am a great God, and have gi- 
 ven you my Son ; andean there be any li- 
 mits in that love? any bounds orbottome 
 in that bounty ? lama great God, and can 
 do more for you then you can ask or think, 
 and that exceeding abundantly. When one, 
 
 and 
 
of d thankfull Chriftian* 99 
 
 and he a poor man, asked Alexander a penny, 
 
 he cold him, it was too lictie lor huv o give; 
 
 whereupon he asked a talent, he then told 
 
 him, ic was too much tor him to beg. But 
 
 of God we may fay, he loves to give above 
 
 our petitions, yea, our thoughts, and chat 
 
 very bountifully* Jacob contefled fo much Gcn48.11. 
 
 to fofepb, I bad n<fi thought u have pen thy 
 
 face; and loe, God hath (berred me alfo thy 
 
 feed. 
 
 2. Conclude, that it is a rich mercy 
 when your mindec are conformable to your 
 means ; and fhould your means come up to 
 your roindes, ic might be a roifery. In / « 
 every eftate to be content, requires not an 
 ordinary meafure of grace; St. Paul attai- Phil, 4, 1*; 
 ned to it, but he had learned fo to do. Jt 
 is an bard leflbn, we had need to take out 
 that leflbn betimes. Yea, it is hard to learn 
 to be contented, to be full, and to abound ; 
 for commonly they that have moft are the 
 rooft discontented perfons^ and the more 
 they have, the more they would have. H*Ecd.r»io; 
 that Iwetb fiber ( faith Solomm ) fhall not be 
 fatisfied with filver $ and he that Iwetb abun* 
 dance* with encreafe. Whence one told Alexan- 
 der ,thas had he the Eaftern Empire in one 
 hand, and the Weftern in another, he would 
 not be contented. Whereas on the other 
 fide, Diogenes the Cyriiokg houfed in his tub, 
 and making even with his vi&uals and die 
 day together ; being invited to a great 
 feaft, could fay, 1 had rather lick fait at 
 
 H 2 Athens^ 
 
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 Athens^ then feaft with Cratem. It is re- 
 ported of one of the old Philofophers, 
 that when he law a Prince going by, with 
 the greateft pomp and (Ute that might be , 
 he faid to fome about him, See how many 
 things I have no need of. Hg that hath 
 food and rayment, and is therewith con- 
 tent, may fay with Cato, ( as Aulus Gdlm 
 reports of him ) Si quid eft quo utar utor ; 
 ft non fcio qui* [um y mihi vitio vertunt , quia 
 mulxvs egio ; & ego iUit , quia nequeunt egere* 
 I have neither houfe, nor plate, nor gar- 
 ments of price in my hands; what I have, I 
 can ufe ; if not, I can want it : Some blame 
 me, becaufe I want many things ; and I 
 blame them, becaufe they cannot want. 
 And it is not ft range that herein a Heathen 
 ftiouldgo beyond a Chriftian. 
 
 3. Conclude that God hath many wayes 
 to throw thcfe things in upon you, if he 
 fee them good for you; and as many 
 wayes to take them from you, if he per- 
 ceive they prove hurtfull to you. He that 
 can bleflc a little, can blaft a great deal. 
 He can raife you up on high, and bring 
 Job 41. ix. you downe again. Job one while was the 
 greateft man in all the Eaft, and in a fhort 
 time ftript of all ; and again, the Lprd 
 blelTed the latter end of Job more then his 
 beginning ; who gave him twice as much as 
 he had before. You are but Tenants at 
 will to the great Landlord of all the earth, 3 
 and all you have are but moveables. To be 
 
 able 
 
$f 4 Thdnhfull ChiflUn. lot 
 
 able to bear extremities of heat and cold, 
 difcovers a ftrong conftitution 5 fuch were 
 our Henry the fifth, King of England, and 
 Cujiavus Adolf hm King of Sweden-, of whom 
 it is reported in the Hiftory of their Lives 
 and War s 3 that no weather, of heat, or 
 cold, or wind, or ftormg, came amiffe to 
 them. I am fure it is an argument of a 
 very gracious heart, that is ftrong in the 
 Lord, and in the power of his might, to 
 be able to bear comfortably fcverall con- 
 ditions, even in their extremes. This may 
 be feen in Joftpb , who of all the twelve 
 Patriarchs is only mentioned with honour 
 amongft thofe famous believers in Heb~ii* 
 Today he is bis Fathers darling, the Son 
 of his love, and none greater in that fa- 
 mily then he, to morrow he is fold for a 
 (lave by his owne Brethren, and carried in- 
 to JEgyft. Now he is advanced by Yotipbar^ 
 one of the prime Peers of that Kingdtme, 
 and none greater in that houfe then he : 
 By and by a jealous Husband at the com- 
 plaint of his beaftly Miftris, caftshira into 
 prifon, where the irons entred into his 
 foul : Not long after that he is advanced 
 by King Pharaoh to great honour, even as 
 high as Subjection could permit, or Sove- 
 reignty endure* for onely in the throne the 
 King would be above him. And in all thefe 
 turns and changes Jo[e\h kept hf3 integrity. 
 In the Countrey, and in the Court 5 in the 
 ' Prifon, and at ehe Palace, Jopfh was iincere 
 H 3 and 
 
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 and faithfull 9 neither did his low cftatc 
 dejeft him, nor the high fail of honor and 
 greatnefle overwhelme him , but he kept 
 upright in both. Now as affli&ion cometh 
 not forth of theduft, neither doth trouble 
 
 Job f.4. fpringout of the ground, as Elipbas told 
 Job; but from on high : So promotions 
 come neither from the Eaft, nor from the 
 
 tBkfSfjK Weft, nor from the South, but God is the 
 Judge ; he putteth down one, and fetteth 
 up another. 
 
 Chap.V. 
 
 The manner how a journall or Diary 
 is to he ufed, according to the rules of 
 Trattife. 
 
 I AND thus far of the rules of ObftYva- 
 Xx.tion. We come now to the rules of 
 Pra&ice, which are to be followed, for 
 the better improvement of fuch a Journall 
 or Diary 5 and they are thefe twelve. 
 
 1. Look often into this Journall, and 
 read it over : Of all imployraents in the 
 world, a ftudious is the moft ingenuous 5 
 wherein the underftanding, judgement, and , 
 memory, the mofi: noble faculties of the 
 
 foul* 
 
ef a Thanh full Chrijlidn. l oj 
 
 foul ,are principally impIoyed:Of all ftudies 
 the ftudy of Hiftory feems to be moft excel- 
 lent : Hence even the Scripture it felf is for 
 a great part Hiftoricali; that the hearts of 
 people might be the better taken with i.and 
 delight in it: Of all Histories, the Hiftory 
 of mens Lives is the molt plcafant : Such 
 Hiftory, amongft many commendations that 
 maybe given to it, this is not the leaft,thae 
 it can call back Times, and give life to thofe 
 that are dead; & like a Lanchkip give a lively 
 difcovery of theaftionsof the Grandees in 
 former ages. But of all Hiftories of Lives, 
 I (hould think, the Hiftory of a mans owne 
 Life ( even out of common principles of 
 felf-love) rouft needs be moft acceptable. 
 To be able to read our Lives even from the 
 wombe to this prefent moment 5 from the 
 cradle, within (omefewdayesof the grave, 
 would furely be a ftudy as profitable as de- 
 lightfully It feems that Jxeob had fome skil 
 in the art of memory, though he wrote not 
 fuch a ftory ; who when he prayed unto 
 God that he might be delivered from the 
 hands of his Brother E/2w, that he might the 
 better prevail with God, he argues from the 
 experience he had of his former goodncfle, 
 and gives him a brief narrative of his life, in 
 fome particular paflages of providence; 
 With my ftaffe I carve over tbi* flood fordan> Gen^ic, 
 and no* I am become two bmdt. And quc- 
 •ftionleffe this duty was taught every Ifrat- 
 lite } who when they came yecrly to offer 
 H 4 their 
 
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 their basket of firft-fruits to the Lord* did 
 ufe to ran over afhort hiftory of their Fa- 
 thers lives ( wherein their condition had 
 Dan. irf.j, been wrapped up) in thefe words : A Syrian 
 6> 7> *? 9* ready to perifh wot my Father, and he went downe 
 into /Egypt, andfojourned there with a few, ard 
 became there a Nathngr eat , mighty 5 and populous : 
 And the JEgyptians eviU intreated us, and laid 
 upm us hard bondage ; and when ve cryedunto the 
 Lord God of our Fathers ^ the Lord heard our voyce, 
 and brought us out of Mgyptinlo thii Land, &c. 
 Eft. $. I**. It is reported of Mafbuerofb, that one night 
 when he could notfleep^e fent for the Book 
 of the Chronicles of his owne Kingdome, 
 and they were read before him : Now of all 
 the parts of that Hiftory., that which con- 
 cerns things done in the time of his Reign 
 was principally chofen ; wherein was writ- 
 ten what good fervice Mordecai did him in 
 difcovering the treafon of Bigihan and 7V- 
 re(b againft him^ which probably was moft 
 acceptable to him, as may appear in the fe- 
 quel in that Hiftory. 
 
 Tamerlane the moft viftorious Emperour 
 of the Tartars, the night before he fought 
 that fatall battle with Bajazet the lurbifb 
 King, having caft himfelf upon a rich carpet 
 in his pavillion, called for a Book, wherein 
 was contained a hiftory of the Lives of his 
 Anceftors; which he ufed often to read for 
 thisend,that he might the better imitate that 
 which was worthily done by them 5 and, 
 learn alfo to decline fuch dangers as they 
 
 by 
 
ef a Thankfnll ChriftUn. !•$ 
 
 by their overfighthad fain into. And furely 
 fiich Hiftories of our Fathers arc but next 
 dorc to our owne, and may provoke us to 
 look into our ownc lives with more care 
 and caution. And I am affured, to read a 
 ftory of ourowne lives* would be a ftudy 
 (next that ot the holy Scripture) as pleafant 
 and profitable as any. 
 
 2. When you have read over this Jour- 
 nal^ and fe<n what you have, caft up alfo 
 all your w~nts, and fee what at prefent 
 youftandin need of. When lfrael and his 
 family went down into JEgypt, it was fair 
 weather all the way, they had rich provifion 
 for their journey, fofephhi* Son came out 
 to meet him in great ftate, and they were re- 
 ceived into Gofhen, the bed of all the Land 
 of Jfyypi: But when lfrael went out of JE- 
 gypt towards Canaan, they met with many 
 ftorms, their wants were great, their enemies 
 mighty, their dangers grievous; a red Sea, 
 a howling WildernefTe, bloody Amdle\q\es % 
 and fiery Serpents Were in their way. So 
 falls it out with any Chriftian ; who, 
 though whilefthe walked in thebroad way, 
 that leads to more then an JEgyptian dark- 
 nefleand bondage, he had no caufe of com- 
 plaint, but all went well with him; yet 
 when he fethis face to heaven, and walkc 
 in that narrow way that leads to life, then 
 found that his wants were many, and his 
 , temptations great. The beft, even in die 
 midi! of their abundance, have their juft 
 
 complaints, 
 
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 complaints * and he that hath moff, hath 
 not all. One man hath wealth, but no ho- 
 nour, he is under a cloud ; another hath 
 wealth and honour, but not a diyes health 
 fcarce in a moneth ; a third hath all thefe, 
 but not a childe. The life of the beft is 
 like a (huttle-cock kept up a while betwixt 
 two battle-dores,and at the laft falls to the 
 ground : Betwixt profperity and adverfity, 
 good dayes and evill, light and darknefle, 
 our lives run on, and at the laft we are laid 
 in the grave. 
 
 The Germnnes have a proverbiall faying 
 of the three Princes Ele&ors, that the Paltf- 
 grave hath the honour , Brandenburg the 
 land, but the Duke of Saxony the money. 
 
 Gen. x 17. No man hath all. Even Adam in Paradife 
 was taught to want fomething, he muft not 
 eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and 
 
 Jofk i.i,i, cvill. Mofer> one of the five grand favourites 
 
 .7>iJ j if. of heaven, called in one chap, five times 
 the fervant of the Lord. And to be a fervant 
 of God is a great honor; Deo fervire regnare 
 eft, To ferve God is to reign. And yet 
 Mofes muft not go into the Land of Canaan, 
 though he begg'dliard for it : Let it fuffice 
 
 Deut, ;.iy. thee, (faith God to himj fpea\ no more to me 
 of that matter, 1 know no man that enjoys 
 that abundance of all good things, but I 
 may fay to him as our Saviour to the 
 
 MarlolI young man in the Gofpel, One thing thou 
 
 ' lackffi. If the poffeflion of many things 
 
 make us proud, God knows how by the 
 
 want 
 
ef a Thank full Chrifian. i of 
 
 want of one thing to keep us humble. Oh 
 be Cure that one thing be not that one thing 
 neceflarys namely, faith, by which we may 
 lee God in all, enjoy God with all, and 
 love God above all. 
 
 3. In the midft of all our wants, reckon 
 how many wayes thofe wants are fupplyed 
 with other comforts. God ufually makes 
 usa goodamends, zsVavid faid to Abifha> 
 when Sbimei railed on him ; ;It may be GodxSim.tf. 
 will requite me for this wfing this day. If ix- 
 
 Adam may not eat of the fruit of the tree Gen. 2. it. 
 in the midft of the Garden, yet of the fruit 
 of every tree in the Garden befides he might 
 freely ear. If Mofes may not goe into the Dcut,34X 
 Land of Canaan, yet his body (hall have 
 the rooft honorable buriall that ever man 
 had ; the Lord buried him, and no man 
 knows of his fepulchre unto this day, and 
 his foul went to heaven, which was far bet- 
 ter. If we be ftraightnedfn outward com- 
 forts, and enlarged with (piricuall graces; 
 if we be weak in body, and ftrong in the 
 Lord; if poor in the world, and rich in 
 faith*; if forfaken of friends, and God 
 ftands by us, we have no great caufe to 
 complain . 
 
 Travellers into forain parts will tell 
 you /that thofe Countreys that are raoft 
 Paganifh, are moftftored with gold and fil- 
 ver,* and chat thofe lands that are without 
 .thofe rich mines, have more of the know- 
 ledge of Ghrift and his wayes* One man 
 
 hath 
 
%o$ The tfournAll w Dht"} 
 
 hath little to live upon but his labours, bat 
 he hath ajvery ftrong and healthy body .JMa- 
 ny times the pooreft men have raoft chil- 
 dren, which fome efteem a great bleffing, 
 though others look upon it as a burthen, 
 and put it into the bill of charges. Even 
 
 Eft. j. ii. Haman, when he boafted before his wife and 
 friends of hisgreat wealth and honors, rec- 
 kons the multitude of his children amongft 
 his great preferments. If one childe be a 
 bleffing, then ten children are ten bkflings. 
 
 Pf. 117.4,5. Children of youth ( faith the Pfalmift) are Ukg 
 arrows in the hand of a mighty wan \ happy is 
 the wan that hath his quiver fuU of them. And 
 certainly many a man would willingly part 
 with half his eftatc for the fruit of the 
 loyns and wombe. If God fend mouths, 
 
 D*ut. 33, he will provide meat. Afhur'% bleffing was 
 
 z 4> l f • children, but God will provide for him and 
 them. Afhur (hall be blejfed with children* 
 (hhhMofet) but let him be acceptable to bis 
 Brethren, and let him dip bis foot in oyl; his fhoes 
 {hall be iron andbraffe ; and as his dayes be> fo 
 
 Gen.4*.io. (hall his ftrength be : His bread fhall be fat y 
 ( faith Jacob) and be fhall yeeld royaU dainties. 
 Every childe that cometh into the world, 
 commonly hath two breads. 
 
 The like may be faid of any other wants, 
 and the feveral wayes by which God is plea* 
 fed to fupply them very graciouily to his ; 
 yea, fomctimes to thofe that are without. Ic 
 is faid of Galba the Emperor of Rome , that 
 he had a crooked body, but a good head ; 
 
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 infomuch that one faid of him a Ingenlum 
 Galb* male habitat : Galbo'% great wit had 
 but an homely habitation, jE/c/r was much 
 deformed, but very wife ; and Erafmus, a 
 plain man, but a great Scholar. Such a man 
 (andbleffed be God there are many fuch) 
 is butoneftory high in the world; but a 
 very godly man, and high in Gods favour, 
 and efteem of all his people. 
 
 To conclude, could any man live the 
 dayes of Metbufelab, and (hould all his way 
 lie by Weeping- erode j God reconciled in 
 Chrift, with the enjoyment of heaven at the 
 laft, would make amends for all. 
 
 4. Take great notice of the lingular pe- 
 culiar excellency of all Gods difpen&tions 
 towards you above the world. Your wa- 
 ters are become wine, your gleanings are 
 better then the vintage of the world. God Heb * **• ?• 
 dealeth with you as with Sons ; the Ser- 
 vant (hall have his wages, and it may be a 
 livery, but the Son (hall have better : He is 
 the Saviour of all, but efpecially of them iTkMtio. 
 that believe. Every paflage of providence 
 towards you, if you be the Lords,hath Come- 
 th ing more fpeciall in it. God hath choyce 
 mercies for a chofen generation, peculiar 
 favours for a peculiar people, hidden com- 
 forts for his hidden ones ; that which eye 
 hath not feen, nor ear heard, nor can enter 
 into acarnall heart to conceive. 
 
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 See this made good in three paflages. 
 
 i> Such have ever what the world 
 hath, and (bmething n>ore ? an overplus; 
 the meaneft Chriftian may vie comforts with 
 the greateft men of the world, as Taul fome- 
 xtor.ju times with the ialfe Apoftle*. AmheyHe- 
 **>*3» brews? So ami. Are they Ifraelites? So am I. 
 Are they the feed of Abraham ? So am I> Are 
 they Mintftersof Qhrift ? I am more ; in labours 
 more abundant* &c So a gracious heart : 
 Are the men of the world honorable ? So 
 ami that am a Son of God, and a partaker 
 of the divine Nature. Have they friends ? 
 So have I, that have union to, and commu- 
 nion with Jefris Chrift and his members. 
 Are they rich ? So am I, that am rich in 
 faith, and an heir of heaven ; as poor, yet 
 making many rich ; as having nothing, yet 
 poflefling all things; as farrowing, yet al- 
 wayes rejoycing. lean take more content 
 in my tears, then they intheirdayesof jol- 
 lity. Have they health, peace, liberty, mo- 
 ney? I am more ; in comforts more lingu- 
 lar, in promifes more abundant. God deals 
 with 7 his and the world, as Jofefh dealt with 
 Gen.43 34. his Brethren; their lacks were all fill'd, and 
 their money put into their facks. But Ben- 
 & 4f. *. jamin (hall have the filver cup, which pro- 
 ved a pledge of love at the laft. All are 
 bountifully feafted, but Benjamin 9 * mefle is 
 beft. God is good to all, but his owne dial 
 
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 have fomething over and ( above 5 riches , 
 and the God of riches -, honour, liberty, 
 healthy and a good right to them, with a 
 gracious ufe o\ them ; which the world 
 never had. And notonely fo, but in that 
 falvation wrought for mankinde, by the 
 death of JefusGhrift, Gods owne people 
 have fomething more then others* accor- 
 ding to that of the Apoftle, He is the Savi- iTim.4.1* 
 our of all men> effecialfy of them that believe. 
 He laves all; that is, from that inevitable 
 ruinc the fin of Adam had involved them 
 in, and making them falvable upon condi- 
 tions of another covenant ; fo that now 
 falvation is notiropcflible, as it was before 
 Chrift, but may be offered to any nian^ 
 even the Jailor, a boyfterous bloody ve Jow, 
 upon condition of believing ; according to 
 the tenor of that commiffion,H*f&rf/ be^vetk Mar.if.Mfc 
 fhall be joved, So that a fpeciall rataatio* **• 
 
 is afforded to believers. Cbrift was a ranfome 
 jorally 1 Tim. 2. 6. but the Saviour onely 
 of his body, Eph. $.23. He redeemed all Roin -*-**i 
 from prefent ruine, but called, and juftified, *°* 
 
 and glorified onely whom he knew before, 
 and had predeftinated to be conformed to his 
 Image. He feves none thus, but thofe for J * 1 - T 7« .*• 
 whom he prayed, and he prayed not for the 
 world. 
 
 2. Such, even in thofe outward enjoy- 
 ments, have fomething more Angular then 
 jthc world; that lit tie that a righteous man 
 bath, is better then the gmt revenues of 
 
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 Pial.37.1 6. the wicked; their wealth is better,flheir liber- 
 ty better,their honor bettcr,their peace better 
 then other mens. For they have thefe things 
 & mercy with them,and a blefljng upon them. 
 They have thefe things, as by the fame cove- 
 nant, fo with the fame love that they enjoy 
 Jefus Chrift, and a little blcfled is better 
 
 Gen, 2*.u. t hen a world enjoyed. It is faid of lfctac y 
 that he fowed his ground, and received an 
 hundredfold, and the Lord blefled him. He 
 waxed great, and grew on till he became 
 very great; but the Lord was with him, 
 and blefled him. Others have a bit and a 
 whip, acruft and knock; rich and repro- 
 bate, honorable and damned. Abundance, 
 and go ye curfed at the laft. A little in 
 mercy is abundance, and abundance with 
 blefljng is Gods plenty. And indeed, he 
 that can blefle a little, can blaft a great deal. 
 
 (Sen, 4. 1 j. If Cain till the ground, and fow his feed, the 
 earth is curfed to him> it (hall not bring 
 forth, or yeeld to him her ftrength. Hence 
 the word in the Greek <*>*?)*&, fignifies both 
 bounty aviAble fling \ and indeed that is truely 
 bounty that is thus bleffed, flom. 15.29. 
 1 Cor. 10. 16. 2 Cor. 9. 5. 
 
 3. God ever gives to his owne, fatisfy- 
 ing mercies, contenting goodnefle. No man 
 bur a childeof God could ever truely fay 
 a* Jacob did, I have enough, Jofefh is alive* 
 My redeemer liveth. There is much difference 
 between the men of Gods hand, that are the, 
 men of this^world^nd the men of his heart; 
 
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 and there is as great a difference betwixt the 
 filling of the belly, andthefatisfyingofthe 
 foul. Thou filleft their bellies (faith David, PriI.T7.M1 
 fpeaking of the men that are his hand ) with **• 
 
 thy bid treafure ; but of for mi % I will behold thy 
 face in righteoufnefje, I jhall be fatitfied vhen I 
 awaig with thy likfnejfe. Thefe outward 
 things to the world is but a belly-full, and 
 how foon is the belly emptyed ? but they 
 that hunger andtbirft after righteoufmjfe, /hall be Mitth. $. 6. 
 fatijfied. God gives the world the worlds 
 goods, but not the Saints goodnefle. He 
 gives the world, as fometimes he did to 
 Jfrael, their rcqueft, bi t (ends leanneflc into Pfa.icS.if. 
 the foul; a fit purfe 3 and a fat heart; a whole 
 cftate, and a whole heart; a fat body and a 
 lean foul ; but he deals better with hh own, 
 hcfulfilsthe defires of them that fear him. 
 If he afflitt them, he fan&ifies their affli- 
 Sions, or they are not fatisfied. If he give 
 to them, he gives them all things that (ron- 
 ton life and godlinefle, or they are not fa- 
 tisfied. If he forgive them, he forgives all 
 their iniquities^ and remembers their fin no Ier. JM4. 
 more, or they are not fatisfied* Hence it is 
 obfervable, that the Saints of God in the 
 Old Teftament, are ever mentioned in the 
 Gofpel with honor, but their faults and 
 failings never remembred. Te have heard of the 
 patience of Job (faith fames) (o have we read J am * *• x u 
 fomething ot his impatience, but that is 
 quite forgotten. Ye have read of the Faith 
 of Abraham, of the Grief of Lot for the 
 
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 converfation of the wicked, of the Zeal of 
 Vavid> the Wifdome of Solomon, &c But 
 their fins are not remembred in the GofpeL 
 On the contrary, thofe wicked ones whofe 
 1 Job.?. n. names are recorded in the Old Teftamentj 
 Gal. 4. 19. are never mentioned in the New ^eftament 
 
 ^P« l ir^ but Wlth fome blpt > as > Cain > *** wa * °f 
 
 Jud" v. 1 1. tb*t ^ickfd one ; Ifmael, the perficuter ; Efau, 
 the profane ; Balaam, the covetous $ Corah, the 
 Gainfayer y &c. But what faith the Lord 
 
 Jcr f jo. 10. of thefe ? In thofe dayes, and at thai time> the 
 Iniquity of tfraelfhati be fought for, and there [hall 
 be none $ and the fins ofjudah, and they fhall not 
 be found \ for I will pardon them whom I referve. 
 5. Take great heed that the want of 
 fome one thing, do not rob you of the 
 comfort of all the mercies that you enjoy 
 befides. For fuch is the perverfnefle and 
 waywardnefle of mans nature, that though 
 fome have had more, have more, and look 
 to enjoy more then they can either want 
 or with for; yet they are more troubled 
 with the fenfe of one want, then they are 
 comforted in, or thankful for all they have. 
 This was not onely the fault of Ahab^ 
 whom not the royalties of the Kingdome, 
 nor the Cities he had built, nor the Ivory 
 houfe that he had made, would content and 
 
 1 Kin.M4. comfort , unleffc he might have Naboth's 
 vineyard alfo, which was denyed him. Nor 
 
 EH ?. 13. was this the fault of Eaman alone, who 
 though he did what he lifted, and had what 
 be pleafed* under the favour of his royall 
 
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 M.after; yet loft the comfort of all, becaufe 
 hiordecai would not bow. What avails aO 
 ( faith h« J yj Awg as I fee Moukcai fining in 
 the Kings gate ? but it was the fault olgoed 
 Racbel> that was able towreftlewich God* Gen. p. r. 
 who, though (lie had what a loving. Hus- 
 band could afford her, yet would die of the 
 fullens, becaufe (he had no Son. Ycj, evui 
 Abraham (as fome think) failed in this* 
 who brake out into this difcon ten teffpeech 
 before God, What wilt thou give me, feeing I & ly. 12, 
 go childlejfe? As if all bad been noihing,no 
 not Gods being his fhield, and exceeding 
 great reward, unleffeGod gave hi^n a Son : 
 Though fome have thought that his com- 
 plaint reached higher, (to whom I encline) 
 What wilt fhou give me ? all hitherto \i no- 
 thing, if I goe childclefie, if ChriflWfc, if 
 Saviourlefle; for it is fuch a Son that I have 
 waited for, inwhefefeed the Nations of the 
 earth (ball beblcfied j and it is fuch a Son 
 tfcat thou haft promifed me 5 and if not 
 fuch a Son, all is nothing. 
 
 6. Reckon often, not onely what yoii 
 have, and what yoa want, but what you 
 may want ; caft up all hazzards. Who 
 knows what lies in the wombe of the next 
 morning } All the pomp of the world is but 
 a fancy and may foon vanilh. 
 
 It is faid of Agriffa and Berenice, that 
 when they came to Jerusalem to hear Paul, Aft.1j.15. 
 they entred with great pomp ; the word in 
 the orig.nf^ xoftSiitaj-mgixc *.#£ ntfatfan- 
 
 1 2 
 
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 cy, with great pomp. Andhowfoon arc affaire, 
 *£ft, 7, 10. changed in a Kingdom,or in a family/ Human 
 the great Minion in the Court of Ahafbuerofh : 
 is hanged on that tree that he prepared for 
 Mordecai.lt hath been obferved by Hiftorians, 
 of T/£eriw,Efiiperor of Rome ; of Mahomet the 
 Great, Emperor of thelwr^x; and of Henry 
 the Eight, King of England-* that there was 
 no fecurity in their love, but chat fuch as 
 were higheft in their favour, were neereft 
 to ruine. Who ever hath read the ftories of 
 Bajazet and Bellizarim , who fell from the 
 higheft pinnacle of greatnefle, to the loweft 
 extreme of allfcorn and mifery, but will 
 acknowledge the uncertainty of all fublu- 
 nary comforts? Saladine the great Sultan 
 of Mgyft) and Conqueror of the Eaft, to 
 (hew the frailty and vanity of all worldly 
 felicity, commanded on his death- bed, that 
 no Princely folemnity fhould be ufed at his 
 Funeral 1, more then his (hire faftned to the 
 point of a Launce, and carried before his 
 dead body, a Prieft going before, and cry* 
 log aloud to the people io this fort: Sala- 
 dine, of all the great riches and honor that he 
 had in hit life parries no more with him at his death, 
 then his (bin. A Duke of Exeter^ that marryed 
 K. Edw. the fpurth his Sifter, was feen bare* 
 loot, begging in the Camp of the Duke oi 
 Burgundy. Hence a wifeman will caft up his 
 hazards, and reckon upon loflea, thus. Here 
 is a fine h on fe, &a moftp'eafant habitation, 
 feucafiremay fuddenly Icvcll it evenwth 
 
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 the ground. Here is a competent eftate of land, 
 but riotous children may fpend it ; here is a 
 great fumme of money, but as that fire that 
 came down from heaven, that confumedthe 
 facrifice, and the wood; and lick t up all 
 the water in the trench about the Altar that 1 K1.1S.3?. 
 Elijah caufed to be made : fo ficknefle,or furi- 
 tyGiip,or long Suites in Law,or a Civil war, 
 may confumeall. I have thofe comforts in 
 wife., children, relations, friends, that few 
 have ; but how foon death may deprive 
 me of all, I know not : And he died, and he 
 dyed is the end of every mans ftory$ and the 
 winding ftieet of theftrongeft man, and the 
 choyceft friend. I have health, ftrength, 
 and fuch perfonall endowments that many 
 want; but I may fuddenly by fome «oy- 
 fomedifeafe, or violent diftemper, be ftript 
 of all. Yea, which is more then all thi«, 
 I have peace with God and mine owne con- 
 fcience-, it is fair weather over head, though 
 foul underfoot; though I meet with fome 
 trouble in the world, yetth* lamp of God 
 {nines upon my tabernacle,and the Almighty 
 is with me, as Job fometimes faid of liim- 
 felfj yet I may be forfaken, and left to my 
 felf, and the raoftdreadfuli terrors get hold 
 of me for a time ; yea, God may write bitter 
 things againft me, and make me poiTefle the 
 fins of my youth ; for there is no evill of 
 fin,but that againft the holy Ghoft; nor evil 
 of forrow, but that of the bottomleffe pit, 
 but may befall me. When Jofefh dreamt of 
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 his great preferment, he never dreamt ofhi$ 
 imprifonment. We often look upon that 
 wehave^ but feldome confider what we doe 
 or rv3y want. 
 
 When a great City was burnt to afbes, 
 Seneca had this fay ing> Vna dies interefi intet 
 vvgnctm civitatem & mllam : One day makes a 
 great difference betwixt a great City and 
 
 ban 4. ;o, none. Is not this ^eat Babylon (faith Nebu- 
 3i;j2. chadnezzar) vrbkh I have built for the houfe of my 
 Kinjfonh and the honor of my Mijefiy, by the 
 might of my power ? While ft the word was in the 
 Kings mwtb\ there fell a voyce from heaven, faying 
 Ob Nebuchadnezzar ! to tkee be it fpokgn, the 
 Kingdome is departed from thee ^ &c. The fame 
 hour was the thing fulfilled. Chrifts pro* 
 phefieof the mine of theTtmpJe 3 and thoft 
 fhtt ly buildings that ihcdtfipLs fhew'd him, 
 
 lrlatt.^4.t^ wasdreadfull ; V*rily> I fay unto you^ there (hall 
 not be left here one &on* upon another > that fhall 
 ?;ot be thrown down* 
 
 j. In AM rux't pIace,from hence ftudy feri- 
 oufly the vanttyofall creaturc-comforts^ho- 
 iior$,pleafureVfchcs,frierids«0 quantum eft in 
 nbm inane ! Oh how much vanity is in thefe 
 things ! was the faying of Pet feus long agoe. 
 By this time we are fain upon the dregs of 
 time, the Lift and word age of the world \ 
 and'novj thefe things run a tilt^and therefore 
 rtlcf. i.i, have the lcife in them. Vanity of vanities^ 
 faith the Preacher, all U vanity. VanitM eft de- 
 bitk entitatlsvacwtas : Vanity is nothing elft 
 buc the want of a juft entity or being. 
 
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 Now, .1. Ajuftbeingis aprefent.being, 
 but thefe thing! arc often furtheft off when 
 we have moft need of them. God onely isa Kal, 4*. *• 
 prefent help m trouble, and can be with us 
 in all places, according to that promife to Gcn »* 8 «if« 
 Jacob. 
 
 2. A juft being is a conftant being, but 
 thefe things laft not, our pleafures end in 
 pain, our plenty in penury, our honor in 
 contempt; Tbe^fafhion of thit world faffeth iCor.731. 
 away 1 the rf %h*, thereto, the figure, the 
 
 image; like a brave pifture drawn upon the 
 
 ice, that under the heat of the Sun is foon 
 
 gone. God onely is from evtrlafting to Plal * 9 - 2 " 
 
 evcrlafting. 
 
 3. A juft being is a perfeft being, that 
 hath all excellencies in it ; but thefe things 
 want fomething ftill : Nihil eji ab omm parte 
 beatum : Nothing here is in every part com- 
 pleatly happy ; onely God is a perfeft good, 
 and he that enjoys him, needs no more. 
 
 4. Ajuft being is a folid being, that 
 hath no evillin it at all ; but thefe things 
 are not onely vanky, but vexation of fpirit. 
 Augertdi cura> & amittendi met us : A care to get, 
 and a fear to lofe, like burs, ftick clofe to 
 our choyceft comforts. Thefe things at the 
 firft fight feemvery good, but better confi- 
 dered, are not fo. §>u£ cito afpe&a placent ea, 
 melius mfpetiadifplicent, zsSemca cpuld fay, 
 They are feemingly good, but not certainly 
 fo. Like Calipolif, a City, that at a great 
 
 liftance feems very beautiful!; but if you 
 
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 come nigh to it, anf wers not cxpe&ation ; 
 but Godcmely is a folid good; he it light) 
 ijob. i^. and in him there is w darkpejfe at all. He 
 is altogether excellent. 
 
 See the vanity of thefe things yet further 
 infourepaflages. 
 
 x . They are fo vain, that all the world, 
 the profits of it, the pleafures in it, were it 
 ten times better then it is, are not enough 
 to makeup one childes portion, though a 
 jfervantbehindeihe Mill, or a drudge in a 
 Kitchin, if godly, the eternal, almighty, al- 
 fufficientGod, is but enough to be his por- 
 Pfa.117.57.tion: Thou art my portion, Lord, faith V4* 
 vi&. This one promife, J will be thy God 9 
 will outweigh them all. 
 
 %> They are fo vain that a fancy, a con- 
 ceit, a jealoufie, a humour, an ungrounded 
 fear, will rob a man of the comfort of them 
 all (and what are thefe things without 
 their comfort?) and make him run quite 
 % Ki 7.6,7. away from them, as the Syrians once did 
 from their camp, and all their tfcafure. One 
 man will not t live, becaufe his minion will 
 notlove. Another man will haften to the 
 gtave, becaufe his commodities are dead, 
 and lie on his hand. 
 
 3. They are fo vain, that had one man 
 as much wealth and honor, as much plea- 
 fure and outward content as his heart 
 cot^ld defire, or the world afford him, yet 
 within 24 hours he would be weary of all 3 » 
 rp4muftgo fleepj God draws th? curtiin 
 
 of 
 
ef 4 thank full CbriflUn. i % i 
 
 of the night, and hides them all from the 
 world under that dark canopy. Here omnium 
 return eft fat'iettf, all things have their ful- 
 fomnefle, and therefore we have day and 
 night. In heaven no night, there we (hall 
 never be weary of our enjoyments, but de- 
 light in them unto all eternity. 
 
 4. They are fo vain, that fuddenly 
 when we leaft think of it, they are gone. 
 Good news from them is like the found of 
 bels in a ftorm ; fometimes that pleafanc 
 ring is very neer, and fuddenly it cannot be 
 heard, Ihavefeena man compafled about 
 with plenty, and variety of all earthly com- 
 forts that can be imagined, in a (hort time 
 come to nothing; his honor, wealth,friends, 
 peace, liberty, health, beauty, pofterity, at* 
 tendants; like a great flock of birds, with 
 one (hout feared quite away, and return no 
 more 5 pluckt all from him, and never any 
 more recovered. Oh ! ftudy much the va- 
 nity of all fublunary contents. You can 
 never have high thoughts of Jefus Chrift, 
 his promifes, ordinances, union to him, 
 communion with him, till you have low 
 thoughts of the things of the world. Solo- Ecclcf. tX 
 men firft wrote his Ecclejiaffes^ before his Song 
 of Songs ; he could firft fay by experience, 
 All is vanity , before he could fct it downe 
 under his ownehand that Chrift was thecbhr Cant. $*io % 
 ffft among ten thwfiind> and altogether lovely. 1*. 
 
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 Therefore, in the next place, -be very mo- 
 derate in the ufe of thefe things. Take 
 heed you la(h not out too much of your 
 love upon them, and delight in them. Take 
 heed you make them not idols, left God 
 pluck them away from you. As it is an high 
 point of wifdome to feek thefe things «- 
 raifly, fo it is an argument of a great mea- 
 sure of grace, to ufe them foberly, and part 
 with them willingly. Quantum canif AfpuU 
 tantum. Like the dog that runs by the river 
 Niluty where the Crocodiles lie, and waitfor 
 their prey; but a fip, a tafte, and be gone, 
 left they be furprifed and devoured by them. 
 Jon.4.6,8. For^0ff<*6tobeglad of his gourd was fafe, 
 but to be exceeding glad, wasfinful. And 
 his vexation was greater in the lofle,then hi$ 
 content was in the enjoyment of it; his very 
 life is now a burthen to him, becaufe his 
 gourd is pluckt away from him. And in- 
 deed, ftrong affe&ions to thefe things are 
 good for nothing, unlcfle to breed ftrange 
 affliftions : How many have loft their difpo- 
 fitions amongft their advancements ; becaufe 
 when riches and promotion come, they fet 
 their hearts too much upon them. Magi- 
 ftratut viYum inditat ; give a man place and 
 power, and you may foon fee what* he is ; 
 thofe (hakes of corruption that I*y hid in 
 the cold winter of want and mcannefle, will 
 ftir abroad in the funfnine of honour and 
 greatnefle. 
 
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 It is reported of Pope SixXus quintus^ that 
 before he attained the Papall dignity, he 
 was the moft humble crouching Fryer that 
 (as my Author faithj) was ever lodged in an 
 oven* but once feated in that chair, the 
 ftouteft- and proudeft Prelate that ever ware 
 a triple crown. Some have obferved, that 
 even Judas, before he had the Bag-office, 
 carried himfelf honeftly and foberly; but 
 afterward, he grew fo covetous, that rather 
 then he would want money, he would fell 
 his Matter. 
 
 Oh therefore take heed that your affe- 
 ftions run not out in fo full a ftream to thefe 
 things. Height of affeftion,as well as height 
 of t&3itt is dangerous. Set not your affeftiom ^°^ 3 ■ *• 
 r faith the Apoftle ) upon things on earth. 
 God would not take away our affeftions, he 
 would onely tune them. If they be fet 
 upon thefe things, and not fet upon God, 
 they are out of tune. Riches are like briars 
 and thorns, good to (top a gap with; but if 
 you lay them in your beds, and fet your 
 hearts on them, this you fhall have of my 
 hand, you fhall lye down in forrow. They 
 are good fervants, butbad Mafters. Let the 
 world follow you as a fervant, and be 
 thankful!, but do not you follow the world 
 asaMafter, left you prove the greateft flaves. 
 If riches have been thy god, nuke them thy 
 (live. Serve it as Viagorx 'did Hercults his 
 image made of wood; being in an Inne, 
 and having nothing to feethe his broth with, 
 
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 made a fire with it* All thefe things will I 
 give thee >vtM the Devils ftrongeft temptation, 
 and therefore referved to the laft place. Hopes 
 of preferment have overcome thofe whom 
 ipnprifonment and the fear of the loffe of all 
 could not move. Take heed therefore, and 
 beware of covetoufneflTe. It is true, that 
 temptation prevailed not againft our Savi- 
 our,but it may overcome us,beCaufe we have 
 three euemies to contend and fight with, 
 Sin, World/' and Devill; he had but two, 
 the World and the Devil, whofe temptations 
 though fierce and frequent, could never pre* 
 vail j becaufe,though like to us in all things, 
 yet fin was excepted 
 
 9. But above all fublunary tWngs, take 
 great heed you truft not too far, depend not 
 too much upon men; no,not thofe men that 
 may have been inftrumental for your good, 
 
 Ifa. *, ii. Ceafe ye from man (faith the Prophet) for 
 •wherein is he tobetrufted? Tut not your truji in 
 Trincesy (faith the PfalmiftJ nor in the Son of 
 man. Neither in this generation, nor the 
 next, for they are all but Sons of men, and 
 
 Pfal j 9. 5. every man at his befi eft ate is altogether vanity. 
 We are apt to think that (henext man may 
 be better, but feldome comes a better, be- 
 
 Phil. 3. i m caufe all are men. Beware of do^s^ fiith the 
 
 Mat. 10.17. Apoftlc; but our Saviour Chrift faith, Be- 
 ware of mm ; though more mode ft and mo- 
 derate, yet if but rflen, they will deceive* 
 andperadventureperfecute you. The moft 
 intimate bofome iriend m>y prove an Achi- 
 
 tcfbel. 
 
of a Thtnkfttll ChrifUnl 128 
 
 topbel, if but a man. A* you fhould not 
 fear them too much, fo do not truft them pf a I. tf.x6 4 
 too far; not fear them, though they be made 
 rich, and the glory of their houfes be made 
 great ; for men of low degree are vanity , and & 62.. 9. 
 men of high degree are a lye\ if laid in the bal- 
 lance , they are altogether vanity- All the Nations Ifa, 40. \% i 
 C faith the Prophet) areas the drop of a bucket y 17* 
 
 and are counted as [mail as the daft in the ballance. 
 Alt nations before G?d are as nothings and are 
 counted to bimlejfe then nothing and vanity. What 
 then is one reighty man ? Ten hundred 
 thoufand times lefle then a drop. A drop 
 may wet, but it cannot drown ^ be not 
 afraid of him then, will you be afraid of 
 nothing, of a vanity, of a drop t Neither 
 do you truft them too far. Truji je not 
 in a friend, (faith Micah) put no confidence in a 
 guide, kgepthedores of thy month from her that 
 lieth in thy bofome. A ad why fo ? ch. 7. v. 4. Mica. 7. ^ 
 The beji of them is a briar ', the meft upright if ^6/ 
 
 fharper then a thorny hedge. And in v. 6. The 
 Sondifhonountb the Father, the Daughter rifeth up 
 aaainfi her Mother, the Daughter in law againji her 
 MAber in law, and a mans enemies are the men of 
 bit owne houfe. Thou fayd ( faith Ratfhakeh 
 toHezekjab) I have cmnfell and (ireigthjortbez Ki.18.1cv 
 war, but they are but vein words. Thou lay(r, 
 fuchaPrinceis my rViend, andfuch a greac 
 man is my kinfman, but they are but vain 
 word?. For he heapeth up riches, and can- 
 not tell who (hall enjoy them- not himftlf 
 knowr, much tefle then. What was Cwaan 
 
 the 
 
J2tf The $ our nail or Diary 
 
 the better for the Sons of Anally or Bafian 
 for their 0g } or the Thilifiines for their Go- 
 liahf So, what art thou the better for thy 
 mighty friends ? Ic is true, where goes the 
 bucket there goes the rope, fas the Spaniard 
 hath it in his proverb) the rope depends on 
 the bucket : But if thy friend fail,where are 
 all thy hopes ? But above all, truft no mans 
 judgement folely in matters of Religion ; 
 becaufe a man of note,' for great learning 
 and piety. I will not pin my faith upon 
 any mans fleeve, (faith SirTho More ) be r 
 caufe I know not whither he will carry it : 
 What if a very godly man ? I never faw 
 that Chriftian yet, but I might fee fome- 
 thingof a man in him ^ enough of the old 
 man in the new man to trouble the beft man. 
 Grofle errors have been maintained by good 
 men, to the prejudice of publick peace : 
 
 Matth. \6. Even P^ter a good man, adviled Chrift not 
 
 u ' to go up to JerHfalem> but to favour him- 
 
 felf $ and when he was at Antiocb> he dif- 
 
 CaU. 12,13, fembled, and many of the lews diflembled 
 x 4 likewife with him ; yea , Barnabat was 
 brought into thediffimulation alfo. When 
 mens parts are great, their graces eminent, 
 their names high, and their power large, 
 we are in danger to be biaffed by their coun- 
 fels. 
 
 To conclude this paffage, remember this 
 advice one gave to his friend; it may do you 
 good that have much to do with men. 
 
 i. Have 
 
of a Thtnkfull Chriftian,, l%*j 
 
 i . Have communion with few. 
 ?. Be intimate with one. 
 
 3. Deal juftly with alt. 
 
 4. Speak evill of none. 
 
 Jt is fomewhat lingular, but I am fare 
 very fafe, to have one as our intimate and 
 bofome friend. Alexander had his £pheftion> 
 andVavidin the Wilderneflca Jonathan* and 
 in the Court his Hufkai> called the Kings 
 friend. Yea, even Ghrift hirafclf had John> 
 if I may not fay his Favourite, yet certainly 
 the Difciple whom Jefus loved above the reft. 
 And he is a wife man that will not put all 
 intohis Ciwd, that hepu*s up in his Pater- 
 rtofter ; nor will (hew every man his minde or 
 his money, he may converfe with. Give unto 
 Ctfar the things that are C&jars ; unto God, the 
 things that are Gods. Give faithfulnefle ta 
 men, buttruft in God. And I am fure, to 
 fpeak evil of none, unlefle we have a calling; 
 to deal juftly with all, with whom we have 
 any dealing, will bring us much comfort li- 
 ving, great peace dying, and a good report 
 when we are gone hence, and (hall be ieen 
 no more. 
 
 Chap* 
 
1 1 2 The JournaU or Biatj 
 
 Ch ap, VI. 
 
 More rules of the fame kinic y that cm- 
 cerncurjtrafticc. 
 
 10. TN the tenth place, when youjbave 
 A read over your Journal!, and made 
 fuchufeof it as hitherto I have (hewed you; 
 ask your owne hearts thefe three queftions : 
 The firft concerns God; the fecond, our 
 neighbour ; and the third, our fel ves. 
 
 i. Ask your own hearts this queftion, 
 What honor do I bring to God for all this i 
 tft Do herein as Jbafbiterofh did, when he had 
 
 ' ' read in the Chronicles of hfr tifiK,what good 
 fervice Mordecai had done him,in difcovering 
 atreafon; he asked thofe about him, What 
 honor anddignity bath been done to Mordecaifor all 
 this ? So do you, upon a furvey of all the 
 good things God hath vouch fafed to you and 
 yours : Hitherto the Lord hath holpen me; 
 he hath preferved me from many dangers, 
 fupplyed me with many comfort*, afliftcd me 
 in many ftraights, afforded me many friends : 
 But what honor hath God from me for all 
 this? I live upon him,but do 1 live to him ? I 
 have allfromhim^butdolanything for him? 
 
 My 
 
ef d Thank full Chrifiian. ^29 
 
 My times are in bis hands, but are his prai- 
 fesin my mouth ? He is never weary I fee of 
 doing me good, but am not I weary of do- 
 ing him fervice ? Can I fay with St. Panl, His Aft, 17. *J. 
 IUm-> and him I (erve ? He is the alpha of all 
 myhappinefle, why fhould not he be the 
 omega of all my thankfulnefie ? But may not 
 my confcience anfwer as thofe Servants a- 
 bout Afofhuerofb did concerning Mndecaiy 
 There bath been nothing done for him ? Nay,have 
 I not requited him evill for the good he hath 
 done me > If anyfpiritbegrieved,itfhallbe 
 his; if any day be negle&ed, it (ball be his ; 
 if any commandements be broken, they fhall 
 be his; if my honor be called for, and I be 
 reproached ; if my liberty bethreatncd, and 
 I be imprifoned; if my wealth or eafe be 
 required, and I be endamaged or troubled : 
 How hardly corner any thing from me for 
 God, that hath done all for me? So that 
 God may fay to me, as David fometimes 
 complained oiNabal^ the unthankful churle, 1 Sam. if .^ 
 In vain have I kgpt all that ihit fellow hath in ii.\ 
 
 the rri!dernejfe> fo that nothing was miffed of all 
 that pertained to him\ and he hath requited me 
 evil/ for good. In vain have I kept your houfe 
 from firing at fuch a time 3 your fomiJy from 
 infe&ion at another time; your pcrfon 
 from danger, in fuch a journey ; your eyes 
 from tears, and your feet fronvfalling, many 
 a time ; and you have requited me evill for 
 good. Say rather to God, asEliJka to the 
 good Shunamite, who had provided a cham- 
 K ' ber, 
 
130 The fomn*B or Diary 
 
 ber, and all things convenient for him j 
 xKin.4%ij. Thou baft been careful for us with allthitcare$ 
 what if to be done for the? Thou Lord haft 
 been carefull of my health, that it might 
 not be impaired-, of mine eftate, that 'it 
 might not be wafted; of my name, that it 
 might not be reproached ; of my foul,that 
 it might not be damned : Lord, what is now 
 to be done for thee ? Is there any thing 
 too greats too good to part with to fuch a 
 God ? 
 
 It was a bravfe fpeech of Le wi* the 1 3. a 
 late King of France^ in a journey neer ¥aw y 
 in his owne Kingdome. The inhabitants 
 underftanding that he was coming, fent to 
 know how he would be received into the 
 Townc, and what honor they (houlddo to 
 him. He asked the meflengera, whether 
 therewereevera Church intheTowne; if 
 there were, he would enter as their King, 
 in ftate; if not, he would receive no ho- 
 nour in that place, where Almighty God 
 had no houfe, and therefore no honor given 
 him. A gracious heart would think all ill 
 beftowedonhim, if he had no fpiric at all 
 CO glorificGod* 
 
 BolefttWy a King of Poland, when he was 
 to fpeak or do any thing of concernment, 
 would take out a little pifture of his Fa- 
 thers, that he carried about him ; and k ilfi ng 
 it, would fay, Iwifht may do nothing at 
 this time unworthy thy name. Say you as 
 much* that can fee God in every mercy, and 
 
 enjoy 
 
of 4 Thank fall ChrijtiAn. I $ t 
 
 enjoy him with every favour ; Iwi(h that I 
 who every day have taftedfo much of Gods 
 goodnefle, may do nothing this day to the 
 difhonorof his name; but mdy bleflehim, 
 not onely With my lips, but honor him alfo 
 with my lite. 
 
 To give the fame thing we receive from a 
 friend, back again,is rudenefle amongft men; 
 but with God, is true Religion. Hannah, 
 after many prayers and tears, received aSon xSam.T.17, 
 from the Lord, and (he returned him back a- it. 
 
 gain to the Lord, as long as he lived. What 
 health, ftrcngth, peace, liberty, parts, gifts, 
 we receive from God, are beft ufed, when 
 they are beftowed on God in his fervice. 
 And there is nothing loft this way ; For he 
 that offcreth God praife, glorifieih him; 
 and to him that ordereth his converfation 
 aright, he will (hew the falvation of God; 
 that is, mighty and wonderfall falvation. 
 Which made Cardinall iVolfey % once King 
 tietiry the Eight his Favourite, to fay at his 
 death, Had t been as carcfull to ferve the 
 God of heaven, asl was to pleafe the King 
 of England, he would not have left me in 
 my old age, as this man hath done. 
 
 2. Put this interrogatory to your owne 
 hearts, What good do I to my neighbour** 
 It is true, God hath done all this for me, 
 and he hath dealt bountifully with me * but 
 what good do others reap by mc ; either 
 • my Prince or Countrey, the Church or 
 State ? What good do I in the Town where 
 
 K 2 i 
 
izi ?he $ our mil or Dfory 
 
 I dwell, to the family where I live? to my 
 relations, wift, children, fervants, with 
 whom I convcrfe; are any of thefe the 
 better for me? Even Seneca could fay Jdallem 
 mihi male effe quam mo/liter : I had rather be 
 fick then idle, and do no good. But it is 
 the greateft affli&ion to a gracious heart, 
 to be wholly unufefull; he had rather not 
 bee, then be idle and unprofitable. If 
 Mofes the Servant of the Lord, can do no 
 good in JEzyft) he will go to Midian. Every 
 man therefore fhall do well to put this 
 Querie often to his owne heart. Of what 
 uie are my parts and gifts of body, minde* 
 or eftate ? Yea, is my very life and example 
 fufficient to others? How do I promote 
 the good of my neigbour, by my alms, 
 prayers, counfels, labours ? It is not fuffi- 
 cient to fay , J do no body harm. With which 
 plea, fome are well enough fatisfied : But 
 remember what queftion Chrift aslct his 
 auditors ; not, What are you ; or, What kpow 
 Mat. 5. 47. y°u mre then others ? but, What do you ? Heze* 
 k^ah could make a good anfwer to fuch a 
 Ifa. 38.3. queftion, Lord remember how I have uraltyd 
 before thee in truth, and have done that which it 
 Neh.15.14. good in thy fight. So could Nehemiah, Re- 
 member me, Lordy for good-, and wipe not out 
 the good deeds that 1 have done for the houfeof 
 Cod and the offices thereof' Our charity fhould 
 be as a running fpring at our owne dorcs, 
 that will not onelyfupply our own wants, 
 but run through our neighbours paftures, 
 
 and 
 
of a Thank full Chrip An. 133 
 
 and water tbe field of a ftranger ; yeajfome- 
 times croflethe high-way, and run into a 
 common ditch. Whileft we have opportu- 
 nity, we fhould do good to all, but efteciaEy Gal. 6 10. 
 to the boufbold of faith. Yea, if our enemy 
 hunger 9 give him foods if he tbirft, give him Rom.n.i® 
 drln\* ferinfodtingwe (halt heap coals of fire 
 upon hit bead. 
 
 This indeed is to have the Spirit of 
 Chrift; and, if ye have not tbe Spirit *f Chrift, & *. 9. 
 ye are none of hit. Chrift was a friend to his 
 enemie? 3 and kindeto the unkinde. Jona- 1 Sam. 18. 
 than was fo friendly to Vavid>thit he ftript 4- 
 
 himfelf of his robe that was upon him, 
 andgave it him 5 and his garments, even 
 to his (word and his bow. But Chrift was 
 a better friend, who did not only lay afidc 
 his robe of majefty, but laid down his life 
 for us. Greater love bath no man then thit 9 that j h 1^1*, 
 be lay down hislife for bis friends. Chrift did 
 more, for he laid down his life for his ene- 
 mies. Ebedmeleck^ was very mercifull to 
 Jeremiah, that would let down cords, and j er .3 n> 
 old clouts and rags into the dungeon where 
 he was, and fo lift him out. Chrifl^ ( 3id 
 more 3 who would himfelf go dowff into 
 the grave, that he might deliver us who 
 • were dead in fins and trefpafles, and there- 
 by free us from the bottomlefie pit. 
 
 It is reported of frajan the Emperour, 
 
 that he rent off a piece of his robe to binde 
 
 tip the wound of a common Souldier. 
 
 Chrift did more, who fhed his blood to 
 
 K 3 heal 
 
heal our wounds. Fompey the Great, that 
 noble Romane Generall, being ready to un- 
 dertake a piece of Service for the State, and 
 advifed by one to defift, becauferhedefigne 
 was full of danger, anfwcredj Neecjfeefi ut 
 eamjim ut yivam : It is neeeffary that 1 go,not 
 tjiat I live. Chrift did more, for being per- 
 fwaded by Peter not to go up to Jerujakm, 
 where be was tofuffer, but to favour him- 
 felf, he was angry with him, and faid, Get 
 
 Mavi&z j. tbee behinde me Satan, thou art an of erne unto me, 
 thou favour eft not the things that are of God> but of 
 
 pen.44.3 j. men. fudah was a dutiiul Son to his Father, 
 and a loving friend to his Brother Benjamin , 
 who was content to ftay behinde in Mgypt> 
 and be a bondman to Jofepb, upon condi- 
 tion his Brother might be fent home to his 
 Father. Chrift did more, who would not 
 oncly be a Servant, but he would die, that 
 we might live, and be reconciled unto his 
 Father. 
 
 Charts the fifth, in a great ftorm neer Ah 
 g/>f j ; caufed many brave Horfes to be thrown 
 over-board, that the lives of a few Slaves 
 
 Jon 1 u a mi ^ 1 b e frved. Jonah the Prophet was a 
 ' * "better friend to the Mariners, who was con- 
 tent to be thrown into the Sea, that the 
 waves might be ftiiled, and their lives might 
 be fecured. But Chrift was the beft friend 
 of all, who was willing to be caft into the 
 Ocean of his Fathers fury, that we might 
 befetonfhore, and fo pafle from death to 
 1 Cor^.i7o life. Now certainly ; he that is joyncd unto 
 
 the 
 
§f a Thank full Cbrifiian. j 3 j 
 
 the Lord, is one fpirit. Ask your owne 
 hearts therefore often this queftion, What 
 good do I for others, for whom God hath 
 done fo much ? 
 
 It is reported of Mr. Fox, who wrote the 
 Book of Martyrs, that be never denyed any 
 man that asked an alms for Jefus fake, and 
 that he never refuted anything that was given 
 him; not that he might enrich himfelf, but 
 might relieve others, for he gave it all away 
 to the poor, A Student that was in want, 
 asking Luther fome money, he bad his Wife 
 give him fome; (he pleading her owne ne- 
 ceflities, he took up aiilvcrbowle, and gave 
 it him. When you have an opportunity of 
 doing good,never plead you have many chil- 
 dren. Cyprian had wont to (ay. The more 
 children, the more charity. AndourSavi- Luk.11.3j. 
 ourscounfell was to fell what we have, ra- 
 ther then negleft this duty of doing good. 
 Let him that fiole, Heal no more (Taith the A- Eph. 4. a8. 
 poftle) but rather let him labour with his hands y 
 the thing that is good. But for what end ? That 
 he may have to fupply his own wants only ? 
 No, but rather that he may have to give to 
 him that needcth : So that there is no man 
 under heaven, from the higheft Prince to the 
 lowed Pefanr, that may plead an immunity 
 from this duty of giving. The omiffion 
 whereof hath been as prejudicial! to fome f 
 as the performance of it hath been profitable 
 to others, j 
 
 K 4 Mauritius 
 
1 3 6 The $en wall or Diary 
 
 Mauritius the Emperor refilling to redeem a 
 few captive flaves from Saladine the JEgyptian 
 Sultan, which he might have done for a 
 fmall matter, upon which they were all 
 flain ; was afterward punifhed by Vbocaf^ 
 who in a fedition being proclaimed 1 Empe- 
 ror by the Souldiers, caufed his wife and 
 children to be put to death beforthis face* 
 himfelf all the while crying out, fuftus es 
 T>9tnine\ & reBa judicia iua. But on the 
 other fide, memorable is the ftory of Fyrhias 3 
 a Merchant of Itkaca> who at Sea efpyingan 
 aged man a captive in a Pirates (hip, took 
 compaffion of him, and redeemed him, and 
 With his perfon bought his commodities 
 which the Pirate had taken from him, which 
 were certain barrels of pitch. The old man 
 perceiving, that not for any good fervice he 
 Cou Id do him, nor for the gain of that com- 
 modity, but meerly out of charity he had 
 done this, difcovered a great made of trea- 
 fure hidden in the pitch. Whereby the Mer- 
 chant in a very fliort time became very rich. 
 At which time that Scripture was fulfilled, 
 
 Tro.i8.17. He that gweth to the poor, {ball not lack. And 
 that other Scripture, He that foweth liberally 9 
 
 a Cox t ^6 9 {hall reap liberally. Such giving is like the 
 pouring of a pale of water into a dry pump, 
 that will fetch abundance. Let us give that 
 which we cannot keep,that we may have that 
 in a time of need that we cannot lofe. 
 
 3. Ask 
 
cf a Thanhfnll ChriftUn. 137 
 
 3. Ask your own hearts often what good 
 you your felves get by all that God hath 
 done for you. Jf thou be wife ( faith Solo- FroY.9.11. 
 won) thou (halt be wife for tbf felf. As a 
 wicked fool hath no foe like himfelf, fo a 
 wife Chriftian hath no friend like himfclfej 
 who will be a gainer by every lofle, and a 
 faver by every comfort. Phyfitians and 
 Chirurgions mike much of their probmrn*$ y 
 and fo ftiould £very Chriftian of hi* expe- 
 riments. Let every man therefore ask hi« 
 owne heart upon a ferious furvey of his 
 Joumall, thus much: Ami bettered by all 
 this health, and wealth, and good dayes; 
 thisGofpel of peace, and this peace of the 
 Gofpel that I have enjoyed fo long? It is 
 with thefe things as with the phyfick or 
 dyetof the body, they will leave you better 
 or worfe then they findeyou. But by all 
 thefe good dayes, rich mercies, or fharp af- 
 flictions, do I grow into more acquaintance 
 with God, the world, and mine own heart; 
 with God, and his holineffe ; with the 
 world, and its vanity ; with mine owne 
 heart, and its deceitfulnefle ; that I may truft 
 him more,and the world and my heart lefle ? 
 All grace in truth hath growth. Vlterius was 
 Charts the fifth his Motto ; by which he fig- 
 nified, that greater periettions, more noble 
 enterprifes, were yetdaily tobeendevoured 
 after by Princes. Chriftians muft not (land 
 • at a ftay, but with the Apoftle, forgetting 
 thofe things that are behind,reach forth unto 
 
 thofe 
 
138 The $OHrnaUorI>hry 
 
 p bil. 3 # 13. thofe things that arc before. This being t 
 cleer difference betwixt the firft Adam and 
 the fecond ; The old creature in the begin- 
 ning, and the new under the Gofpel. The 
 firft^wwasmadeamanj and a holy man, 
 all at once ; but the Lord Chrift was concei- 
 ved in the worube, and at the fulnefle of 
 
 Luk. % t s 1. time was born of the Virgin Mary, and in- 
 creafed in wifdome, and in ftature, and in 
 favour both with God and man. In the 
 beginning all the creatures were made in 
 their full growth and ftrength, which made 
 fome to be of opinion, that Hmdm condim 
 fuh in Autnmno : That the creation of the 
 world was in Harveft, when all things 
 are in their full beauty. But now we muft 
 haveanegge before a bird, a feed before a 
 plant) abinh, and then a growth : So now 
 every Chriftian muft in timf grow in grace, 
 and the knowledge of the JefusGhrift, and 
 proceed by degrees from faith to faith; from 
 babes to grown men in Chrift; and therefore 
 where there is no growth, we may fear 
 there is no grace. Ask your hearts then. 
 Do I grow ? At fuch a time, I had a great 
 affli&ion, a long iicknefle; Am I more 
 humble fince? Where there is a rod of cor- 
 rcftion,there fhould be a word of correftion. 
 
 Judg. 8,if, God teacheth by his rod*; as Gideon taught 
 the men of Succotby with briars and thorns ; 
 
 Pfal.94.x1. and Heffedis that mm whom Godcorre8eth>and 
 teacheth out of bis law. Oh that I could bear, 
 the rod, as well as feel it ! A man cf wif- 
 
 dowe 
 
of a TthtnkfuH Chrijtiaru 1 39 
 
 dome (hall fee Gods Name ; hear the rod, Mic. I. 9* 
 and who hath appointed it. At fuch a time 
 God vouch fafed me great profperity, much 
 fuccefle in my calling; a long time of health, 
 with comfort in my relations: Am I more 
 holy, more humble, more heavenly * 
 more meek, more merciful], more faithful], 
 more fruitfull in my place > Or, am I not 
 rather worfe ; more rich, and more cove- 
 tous; more honorable, and more proud; 
 more healthful!, and more vvanton ? But if 
 you finde that the houfe of David growes 
 ftronger and ftronger, and the houfe of Saul 
 weaker and weaker ; that your corruptions 
 are abated,and your graces encreafed, happy 
 are you. And indeed the higher the Sun ri- 
 feth, the (horter are the (hadows ; as in a 
 Pyramide, the higher you go, theleffe com- 
 pafle you finde ; like a flame of fire, the 
 higher it afcends, the purer and thinner is 
 the flame ; fo the elder you grow* the better 
 you (hould be. If fo, it is well, ihefe things 1 Joh.y.i 3. 
 f faith St. John) I have written to you that be- 
 Utve y that you may bekeve\ that is, that you 
 grow more and more in that grace of faith. 
 Faith is "not like JonaVs gourd, up in one 
 night, and down in another ; but like the 
 found of the trumpet on the Mount, lowder 
 and lowder 5 or like a great bell that is long 
 in railing, and (kikes but a while on one 
 fide; butatlaftis up, and makes a great 
 found, and is heard afar off Such was the 
 faith of the Romanes, fiuall at the firft, but 
 
 afar- 
 
14° *fo $ourmll erDfary 
 
 Rom. i. 8, afterwards it grew to that height, that i* 
 was fpoken of throughout the world. 
 
 When Crave William the Prince of Orange 
 died,his Son Maurice was but young ; where- 
 upon the States were doubtful! whether 
 they ftiould choofe him their Genarall or 
 no. Maurice perceiving it by his friends, 
 wrote a Letter to them, and in it onely 
 theft foure words, iandern fit furculus arbor: 
 A young plant at laft becomes a tree. Upon 
 which they made choyce of him ; and he 
 made his Motto good, for he grew a brave 
 Souldicr, and proved not onely a happy 
 inftrument of their good, but a great orna- 
 ment to himfelf and family. 
 
 I (hall conclude this paflfage with a faying 
 of St. Auguftine. Si vis pervenire ad id quod 
 nones>femper difpliceat tibi quod ex: Si dixeris p 
 fafficit^ periifii. If you would attain to what 
 you are not> let it grieve you that you are 
 as you are; that is, no better : You are un- 
 done if you think that what you are is fuf* 
 ficicnt. 
 
 ii. In the eleventh place, Be fure that 
 
 ^ after all thefe queftions be ftriftly asked, and 
 
 ferioufly anfwered,you make it your -rlsfpr^ 
 
 your very work to be thankfull for all Gods 
 
 mercies ; otherwife,why do you keep fuch a 
 
 Journall? In every t ling give thankj ( faith 
 
 ^eff. *. the Apoftle ) for this is the rt>M of God in Chrifl 
 
 18. Jefus co?2:errimg you. It is ordained by the 
 
 Rabbins^ (as lomeobferve, who wrxre the 
 
 Hiftoryof the Jerrs) that ihey fhould fay a 
 
 bene- 
 
*>/ ATh*nkf*U Chrifiiarf. 141 
 
 benedi&iorij and render particular praifc 
 and thanks to God for every benefit they re- 
 ceive* not onely for every extraordinary 
 mercy that befalls them, but in every a&ion 
 that they do; for their meat, drink y and every 
 good fmell; for all the precepts of the 
 Law, and of the Rabbins ; for every new 
 thing, and every ftrange thing that befalls 
 them. And certainly, where God is never 
 weary of giving, his people fhould never 
 be weary of thankfgiving. God delights 
 much in the praife of his fervants. He loves 
 a cheerfull giver, but much more a cheerfui 
 thank fgiver. 
 
 Give God thanks for all things, but 
 efpecially for thefe foure : 
 
 1. For JefusChrift, and theunfearch- 
 able riches of Gods grace in him ; which is 
 the fountain of all the good we enjoy, or 
 hope to enjoy ; who wasby God made fin for , c r # 5. % 9 
 us, who kjtew no fin-, that we wight be wade the 
 righteoufnejfe of God in him. He that knew no 
 fin in the aft, knew all fin in the weight. 
 He that knew no fin by commiflion* knew 
 all by imputation, the chaftifement of our ifa. ^ % f % 
 peace wasuponhim^and by his ftripes we ate hea- 
 led. Who made peace for his people by his 
 death, and maintains this peace for them by 
 his intcrctffion ; he died once, bu; he prays 
 ever; his pafljon is over, but not his com- 
 panion; for heftands between us, and all 
 our harms, and will at laft reward every one 
 1 according to his works. 
 
 Cyru s 
 
141 The sfourmll or Diary 
 
 Cyrus in a great expedition againft his ene- 
 mies, the better to encourage his Souldiers 
 10 fight, in an oration that he made at the 
 lead of his Army, promifed upon the vifto-* 
 ry to make every Foot-fouldier an Horfe- 
 man, and every Horfeman a Commander i 
 and that no Officer that did valiantly fhould 
 go unrewarded. But Chrift our Generall 
 Rev* 3. il. doth promife more : tie that overcometh {ball 
 fit with me in my throne ; as I overcame > and am 
 fet with my Father in his throne. He will make us 
 all Kings. Oh therefore be thankful for JefuS 
 Chrift. It is our forrow, or fhould be our 
 ftume,that we cannot be thankful for Chrift 
 as we ought : It is our comfort, and (hall be 
 our happinefle,that one day we fhal be.Eter- 
 nity of time I confefie is little enough to be 
 thankful in for Chrift^ all the rich incomes 
 we have with him; but endevour whileft you 
 are here to be thankful! for him; and cer- 
 tainly, he that cannot be thankful for Jefus 
 Chrift 3 can never be thankful I for any mercy. 
 2. Bethankfull for affli&ions. Blefle 
 God for every twig of his rod, every drop 
 in bis cup. He holds the rod and the cup in 
 the fame hand by which he gives you jefus 
 Chrift : yea, he affiifts you with the fame 
 love t*iei which he gives you any good. 
 Affli£Hons are evill, many and will (faith 
 Father ^acob to Pharaoh) bavzthe dayes of my 
 den. 47. 9- life been. But being fan&ified, they are ne- 
 ceflary. So St. Peter, to thofe he wrote his 
 1 Pet. i. 6. Epiftle j mhrfor a feafon (if need be) you are in 
 
 heavy- 
 
of aThdnkfullChriftitn. 14J 
 
 beavyneffe, through many tribulations. Even the 
 belt ofr us are forac times like a top,that will 
 gono longer then it is whipc; we will not 
 mend our pace, and run the way ts of Gods 
 commandements, without the rod. 
 
 Some ftories fay, that there was a King of 
 Scotland, that whileft he was a prisoner in 
 Mortimer's hole, he fcraped the Hiftory of 
 Chrifts paflion in theftone wall ; which was 
 more then ever he did in his palace. Afflifti- 
 ons wil make us run to God, In their affliftion H *C f • *j£ 
 (faith God of his people)*^ mlfeekjne earfy % 
 thatis,fpeedily and infantly.Out of the depths 
 (faith David) I crytd unto thee % Lord. Deep 
 affliftions (hould raife up ftrong affe&ions. 
 The Ark was neereft heaven when the waters 
 of the flood were highci. AfBi&ions mee- 
 ting with a gracious temper, will melt the 
 heart, and make it tender and humble; and 
 the lowcft humility is neereft the high eft ma- 
 jefty. Anftipfus the Cynickf > fell on the 
 ground before Vionyfiw, andkifled his feet, 
 when he prefented a Petition to him $ and 
 being askt thereafon, anfwers, Awns babel 
 in fedibus : He hath his ears in his feet. Ne- 
 ver doth a poor proftrate foul , brought 
 down to extremity, ftek Gods face with 
 prayers and tears in vain, but meets with a 
 gracious anfwer. Now if affli&ions £m£H- 
 fiedbefo good, then furely you (hould be 
 thankfull for them; this being one eminent 
 excellency that praife hath above prayer, 
 that we may praife God for that for which 
 
 we 
 
144 ?hc tfoarnall ot Diary 
 
 we may not pray ; though we may not pray 
 foraffli&ions, yet we muft blefle God for 
 
 Job i. xi. t hcm. fob did fo, ?he Lord hath fallen away, 
 Blejfedbe the name of the Lord. 
 
 When one came to Mr, Bradford, and told 
 him, that if he would recant,he (hould have 
 the Queens pardon; he anfwered, If the 
 Queen will let me live, I will thank her ; 
 it (he will banifh me, I will thank her; if (he 
 will burn me, I will thank her. So a gra- 
 cious heart will fay, If the Lord give me 
 health or ficknefle, I will thank him; if I 
 have much or little, I will thank him ; if I 
 live or dye, I will thank him. Ecclefiaftical 
 Hiftories report this of one Servulus, who 
 for a long time was grievoufly afflifted with 
 the Palfie, his life was a lingring death, 
 whofe daily and ordinary fpeech was, God be 
 thanked. 
 
 3. Blefle God every day wherein he 
 hath kept you from fcandall. It is our mi- 
 fery that our hearts are fo vile 3 but it is Gods 
 mercy that they break not out continually 
 to his diflionor, and the offence of brethren* 
 thathefets bounds to thofe waves of our 
 unrujy Jufts, and faith. Hitherto and no fur- 
 ther. Efteem any condition better then a 
 finfull 3 andchoofe rather to fuflfcr the worft, 
 
 Heb.11.2j. ^en fin in the leaft. Mofeschofe rather tofuf- 
 fa affliftion with the people of God, (and who 
 meet with more forrows then they ?) jhen 
 enjoy the fleafures of fm for a jeafon. Tfnd 
 where might he fatigfiehisluft more to the 
 
 full: 
 
of a thankfuU Chriftian. ■ 145 
 
 full, then in the Court of a King ? Socra- 
 Us had fo vile an efteem of fin, that he 
 thought it would be one of the greateft tor- 
 ments in hell, to be given up to thofe fins 
 that men rood delighted in. Major fum,& 
 admajora naw, ( faith Seneca ) qukm ut ftm 
 mancifium corf or is met : I am greater, and born 
 to greater things then to be a flave or drudge 
 to my body. Say to the Tempter, as fofepb Gen. 39 ?. 
 to his Miftris> There it none greater in the 
 houfe then I ; and (hall I then commit this great 
 mckfdnefle ? Or as Nebemiah ; Shall fucb a Neh. 6, 1 1* 
 man as 1 flee? Shall fuch a man as I be 
 drunk, or deal unjuftly, or break my oath? 
 Thefe fons of Zzrviah are fometimes too hard 
 for us. Thefe unruly corruptions fome- 
 times prevail over us. Our darling fin like 
 Jeftba'i daughter, comes out with timbrels j u d g . tI , 
 and dances, with many pretty frailes and 34, }f, 
 fubtle reafons, and fometimes overcomes 
 us, and brings us low, and troubles us. We 
 all run in a race, how few get to the goal 
 without a fall by the way ? 
 
 There are two things that I defire daily 
 to make the matter, not only of my praife, 
 but admiration. And the firft is, that God 
 hath preferved from the beginning to this 
 day, a little flock of Gieep amongft a world 
 'of Wolves, and Lions, and Bears, that are 
 fet on mifchief. And the fecond is, that 
 God maintains a little grace in life, in the 
 midft of fo much corruption that the heart U 
 poyfoncd with } a little faith, and a little 
 L humi- 
 
■<4* 
 
 The ^ our mil or Diary 
 
 humility, in the midft of Co much unbe- 
 lief and pride. The reafon why the Church 
 is not wafted, is becaufe the Lord is their 
 God ; why this grace is not overwhelmed, 
 » and that our corruption breaks not out eve- 
 
 ry moment into mod notorious fcandalls, 
 is, becaufe the corruption is ours, but the 
 grace is the Lords. Hath God kept you 
 therefore any day, that your heels have not 
 been tript up ? Forget not to blefle him for 
 fuch a mercy. A notable example of (uch a 
 thankful fpirit we have in David,who by the 
 humble and prudent counfel of Abigail, be- 
 ing flayed from imbruing his hands in the 
 blood of Nabal and his family, blefled God 
 i Sam. *?. an d her that he was prevented. Bleffedbethe 
 31,33,34/ Lord God of Ifrael (faith he to her) which 
 fent thee this day to meet me, and bleffed be thy 
 advice h ctnd bleffed be thou tbath*fi kfpt me this 
 day from comingto fbed bloody and from avenging 
 my [elf with mine own hand, &c. In every af- 
 fliction forget not to blefle God for this. It 
 is mine affli&ion, not my lin. What ever 
 the erode be, it might have been worfe, for 
 it might have been my fin. Blefle God that 
 cither prevented the temptation, as he did 
 for "David, orafiifted in the temptation, as 
 Gen.5p.10. he did Jo\eph, who left his garment, but kept 
 hischaftky, and chofe rather to fuffer then' 
 to fin. 
 
 4. Blefle God not onely for what r you 
 have, and for what you want ; but for what 
 yoti hope to have. All is not come that h 
 
 promifed 
 
of a Thank full Chrijlian. 1 47 
 
 proraifcd by the Father, all is noc come that 
 is merited by the Son, nor is all come that 
 isaflured to you by the Holy Ghofi; the beft 
 is yet to come. Here joy enters into us , Mar. 2j.11. 
 there we (hall enter into joy. Here arepro- 
 mifes, there performances. Here is faith,there 
 is fruition. Here we enjoy God mediately, 
 there immediately. In htavtn there is a 
 Kingdome without cares, a throne without 
 a thorn, greatneffe of ftate without cor- 
 ruption of manners, a treafure without 
 moths, honour without envy Joy without 
 tears > love without jealoufie, and dayes 
 without end. 
 
 A devout Pilgrim travelling to Jtrufalem* 
 and by the way vifiting many brave Cities, 
 with their rare monuments ; and meeting 
 with many friendly entertainments ; would 
 often fay, Imuftnotftay here, this is not 
 JerufaUm. So do you, in the midft of all the 
 delicates that the world can afford you, not 
 onely with variety, but plenty 5 fayftill of 
 every one of them, This is not Jerufalem> 
 This is not heaven; thefe are but tents and 
 tabernacles, all no better then moveables; 
 our manfions are in heaven, where we fhall 
 abide for ever. But would you be thankfull 
 for heaven, and do you long to be there 1 
 Be truly thankfull then for Jefus Chrift. It 
 b Chrift that makes heaven to be heaven. He 
 that cannot be thankfull for Jefus Chrift, 
 cannot be thankfull for beaven ; nay, would 
 not go to heaven at the laft. A wicked man 
 
 L 2 at 
 
148 The fwrnall or DUry 
 
 at the day of Judgement, might he have his 
 L.>k.irf,*4> choyce, would noc go to heaven. Dives in 
 *8. hell torments, when he difcourfed with A* 
 braham afar off, did not defire to go to Abx* m 
 ham y but prayed that Lazawt might come 
 to hirn, he cared more for eafe then heaven ; 
 nor did he defire that his five Brethren 
 fhould go to heaven, but that one might be 
 fent to them, toteftifieto them, that they 
 might not come into the place of torment. 
 For certainly, they that could not endure 
 the prefence of Chrift with his fervants in 
 his ordinances, will have no defire to be 
 with him in all his glory. 
 
 In thelaft place, becaufe you may your 
 felvcs come very far (hort of what you 
 lhould do in this great duty of thankfulnefs; 
 declare to others, as occafion is offered., what 
 the Lord hath done for you, that they may 
 blefle God with you. It is an argument of 
 an ingenuous fpirit , to acknowledge the 
 courtefies oPa friend ; nonamot'u arbitrii^ fed 
 dare & ut audiat hojper ; not in private, but 
 in the prefence of others : Much more is it 
 an argument of a gracious heart to fpeak of 
 the loving kindnefle of the Lord before ma- 
 ny witneffes , that they may be provoked 
 alfo to blefle God, David was of this mind ; 
 Pfal. 40.10. 1 have not hid thy righteoufnefle> Lord, within 
 my heart ; I have declared tby faithfulnefle, and 
 thy falvation ; I have not concealed thy loving 
 kjndneffe and thy truth fromthe great congregation. 
 The Pfalmift exhortcth to this duty very 
 
 much: 
 
ef a Thank full Chrijttan. 1 4$ 
 
 much: Sing unto the Lord? fing Tfalms unto Pf. ic? x 
 himjalkj* of all his yrcndrout work/. I c wa s t h e 
 Pfaimift his pra&ice : Qme and hear all ye that & 66 - **• 
 fear God) and I will declare unto you what Gad bath 
 done for my foul Mofes the fervant of the 
 Lord did fo : HetQldJethro his Father in law, 
 all that the Lord had done unto Pharaoh, and to 
 the JEgjftians for Ifraels fakf ; and all the travel I 
 that had come upon them by the way, and how tht 
 Lord delivered them 1 Which occafioned much 
 prayfe unto God from a Midianite ; who 
 faid, Bleffidhe the Lord y who hath delivered you Exigg 3 i 0# 
 . out of the hand of the JEgyptians, and out of the 
 hand *f Pharaoh, &c Chrift himfelf com- Mar. 5. i 9s 
 manded the man whom he delivered from 
 the legion of Devil?, that he fhould goe 
 home to his friends* and tell them how great 
 things the Lord had done for him, and had 
 compaffion on him. And indeed, to return 
 thanks unto God for all his mercies, is fo 
 great a debt, that we alone cannot pay, un- 
 leife God give us time ; ( and no lefTe then 
 eternity is enough. ) And therefore we had 
 reed make colleftion of praifes from friend?, 
 that the fumme may be made up the more 
 full. The Pfaimift goes to all the creatures 
 both in heaven and earth, and makes a 
 
 , colleftion. Ueax em ', dngels ', (faith he) Sun, 
 Moon, and Stars i Kings and all people, youngmen Pfif. 148.^ 
 and maids y old men and bales, praife the name 2,3. 
 
 of ibeLord. ComentrxorationSzrtnon* which are 
 
 .inufein Colledges, andfome other placer, 
 are excellent: And as there may be good 
 
 L 3 ufe 
 
J 56 The $ on wall or Diary 
 
 u(e made of them divers waye§, (o this way 
 efpecially, that all may be provoked to 
 blefle God for their Benefa&ors. 
 
 Ic is obfervable, that to beg prayers is the 
 common complement of friends at their 
 parting, and Ora pro nobis is theconclufion 
 of all our Letters ; but we feldome beg 
 praifes. When do we fay, I befecch you 
 blefle God for me and with me, forfucha 
 late deliverance, for fuch fuccefle in mine 
 endevours, for fuch comfort in my rela- 
 tions.? &c. As if we ferved an hard Ma- 
 tter, as if God had been a barren heath 
 or a wilderncflTe to our fouls, as if his 
 fervice had no profit. Whereas, there is 
 no Mafter like the Lord, no fervice like 
 his ; whofe very work is wages. 
 
 Chap, 
 
tf a Thank full Chrifihn. i % : 
 
 Chap. VII. 
 
 An ufe of Exhortation^ wherein Chri- 
 stians Are ferfoaded to kup fuch a 
 tfournalhrDiarj. 
 
 AND thus far fhall fuffice to have been 
 fpoken of the manner how fuch a 
 Journallfoould beufed. 
 
 For the application of all, I fhall onely 
 exhort fuch as have not been acquainted 
 with this duty, to fetupon this work. In- 
 deed there is a latitude in Chriftianity, and 
 the wayesof God, that all do not reach. I 
 have feen an end of all ftrfe&M ( faith the P6.119.5tf 
 Pfalmift) but thy commandement is exceeding 
 large. When things are come to their per* 
 feftion, to their flower, they quickly fade ; 
 like a Lute firing, if wound up to the 
 higheft, it breaks; but the courfeof holi- 
 neffe, and way of righteoufneffe, have large 
 , limit and boundaries, that many come not 
 at. There are fins thatfome feldoraecon* 
 fefle, as Sacramentall fins, Sacramentall ig- 
 norance, Sacramentall unbelief, impeni- 
 . tency, uncharitablenefte, &c. There are 
 fome things they feldome pray for s Where 
 L 4 is 
 
152 The ZfeurnaU or Diary 
 
 Prov.^o.8. i*the man who with Agar prayes. Lord give 
 me no riches ? We often in prayer prefle the 
 promife, but how few at any time preffe 
 the feal ? wherein God is come under the 
 power of law, under the power of his own 
 law; wherein all his wifdome,power, faith- 
 fulneffe, goodnefle, and mercy is under the 
 power of his owne law i yea, fo far engaged 
 that he cannot go back : And yet how few 
 urge the feal, and enter a fuit with the 
 Lord > There are fbme duties we feldorae 
 or never perform. Where is the man that 
 makes confeience of private fading and 
 prayer, that (huts himfelf up in his clofet, 
 and wraftles with God in fecret, that his Fa- 
 ther that feeth in fecret may reward him 
 openly ? To conclude,how few are there that 
 keep a Diary by them of all Gods gracious 
 dealings with them ? 
 
 Now that I may perfwade fuch Chriftians, 
 atleaft, as have any abilities and opportu- 
 nities to enter upon this duty, I (hall doe 
 thefc two things: 
 
 i. Give fome dire&ions that may be 
 as advantages to further this fervice. 
 
 2. Give fome arguments that may en- 
 courage and provoke thereunto, and fo con- 
 clude. 
 
 i. Therefore often remember your finfulj 
 cftate, when you were in a naturalleftatc, 
 and therefore in the gall of bitternefle, and 
 
 in 
 
§f a Thanh full Chriftidyf, 1 53 
 
 in the bond of iniquity. God commanded 
 
 his people fo todo.Remetnber and forget not how 
 
 thou provokgdji the Lord thy God iri the wilder- J)eur. 9. 7. 
 
 neffie, &c 
 
 This charge the Apoftle lays upon the Ephe- Ephef.i.u, 
 fans? Remember that you being intimespafi Gen- 1*. 
 
 tiles in the fiefh, that at that time ye were without 
 Chrifi, aliens from the Common-wealth of Ifrael, 
 and grangers from the covenants ofpromife, having 
 no hope, and without Cod in the world. God 
 promifed that his people (houlddo fo. Tou 
 fhal remember your wayes and your doings wherewith Ezc v 10 -43- 
 you have been defiled, and you fhall loath your 
 felves- Paul did fo : he oftentimes makes 
 mention of his finfrull condition before his 
 conversion, he is not afhamed to declare it 
 before King Agrippa ; I thought verily with my ^a. 16. 9, 
 felf that I ought to do many things contrary to the 10, u. 
 name of Jefus of Nazareth ; which thing I alfo 
 did in Jerufalem, for many of the Saints Ifhut up 
 inprifon, and when they were put to deaths I gave 
 my voyce again ft them, and I punifbedthem oft in 
 every S)nagogue> &c. So much he telleth the 
 Corinthians, jam not worthy to be called an Apo- j Cor.i^ 
 file % becaufe 1 perfecuted the Church of 'God. The ie. 
 
 like he declares to Timothy, I was a blafpbe- 
 mer y a ptrfiecuter^ and injurious. Yea, he was iTim.i.ij, 
 more then an ordinary firmer in his owne 
 eyes. Jefus Chrift £ faith he) came into the v. if; 
 world to favefmners)*> p *iy»utu vt^T& 9 where' 
 of lam chiefs or prims, the firft, as it is in 
 m the originall. He vtsLtprimur, the firft, non 
 crdine 9 fid cxcellentia 5 not in order of time, 
 
 but 
 
154 ^i tfourwll er Diary 
 
 but in the exceffe of wickednefle, for Omne 
 peccatwn fum babet excellentiam, every fin hath 
 his eroinency. So did Jofpb's Breihren,when 
 he dealt roughly with them, and God lookc 
 fo mercifully on them as toafflift them for 
 
 Gen.4t.11. t ^ ieir fin,T&y faidonc to another^we are very guilty 
 concerning our Brother \ in that we faw the cwgwfh 
 of hisfottly when he befou^ht w, and we wouldnot 
 hear.hnd how have thofe old bruUe$ 5 and fins 
 of youth, being fadly and ten ufly remem- 
 bred, caufed much brokenneflfe and tender- 
 rede, much care and watchfulneflfe in fome 
 all their days ? 
 
 Ihemiftocles told his friends, when being 
 b t \nifhed out of hisCountrey^ and moft ho- 
 norably entertained by the King of Perfia, 
 Terhram nift periiffem, I had been undone, if 
 I had not been thus diftrefled. So may many 
 a gracious foul fay, [ had fain into hell if I 
 bad not fain into fin. Omfimut therefore de- 
 
 Rulem.1 J. parted^ (faith St. Paul to Philemon ) that thou 
 might eft receive him an awfiw, an eternall So 
 it is in the Originall. And thus if our fins 
 were heavy,Gods mercies would be weighty, 
 and worth the recounting. Were our fins 
 often in our eyes, Gods praifes would not be 
 long out of our mouths: We that fee we 
 havedeferved nothing, would be thankfull 
 for every thing ; and rather then his mercies 
 fhould be forgotten, would keep fome re- 
 membrances by us of Gods goodneffe to us, 
 who is every day mindfuil of us. 
 
 2. Re* 
 

 of a Thank fuB Chrijtian. 155 
 
 2. Remember often your low and poor 
 condition. It is little peradventure that 
 you have, but was ic not lefle ? God com- 
 mands his people this duty, Rememb r that Dcut.f.iJ« 
 thou waft afervantin the land of Mgyft* This 
 they Were en joy ned to do, when they came 
 yearly to offer up their basket of firft- fruits 
 to the Lord. Thus they rauft fay, A Syrian & x t % j $ % 
 ready toperi(bwas my Fat her ^ andLevrnt d.irn 
 into JEg)ft) and fojourned there with a f err 9 &c. 
 
 Agtibodes King of Sicily^ who was by 
 birth but a Potters Son, would al way es be 
 fcrved at his Table with earthen veflels, that 
 he might ever be mindful of his low & mean 
 condition at firft. facob did fo ; With my flaff Gen.32.10. 
 I came over thti fordan : His condition was 
 low when the earth was his bed, a (tone his 
 pillow, and the heaven his canopie over bis 
 head ; he is thankfull for this* becaufe he 
 forgat not his low eftate. He that well re- 
 members what he once wanted, will not for- 
 get to be thankful for what at prefent he en- 
 joys. Humility is a good fpur to thankful- 
 nefs.I have read of two garments in Scripture 
 of excellent ufe ; Firft, the garment of hu- 
 mility, Be clothed with humility, (faith Feter) iPee. *.*• 
 and the garment of praife. Chrift is laid 
 to appoint to them that mourn in Zion y the Ifa. £13, 
 garment of praife for the fpirit of heavy- 
 nefle. The under garment is commonly 
 plain , and of leffe worth , but the up- 
 per is very coftly. Let humility be like the 
 firft : It is no matter how vile we be in ou r 
 
 own 
 
i$6 The $oufn*U by Dl&f 
 
 own eyes ; but let praife be the upper gar- 
 Col. 2. 7, ment. Be ye rooted and built up in Chrift, 
 (faith the Apoftle) and etfablifhedin the faith, 
 abounding therein with thanksgiving. He that is 
 rich in faith, and low in humility, will 
 make his upper garment coflly j will be a- 
 biandant in praifes. 
 
 3. Labour to underftand a mercy a- 
 right. Endevour to difcern the height and 
 breadth of a providence, weigh every bene- 
 fit bcftowed skilfully. The reafon why the 
 Jfraelites remembred not the multitude of 
 fltl i<*7. Gods mercies, was *( faith thePfalmift ) be- 
 caufe they underfiood not bis wonders in JEgypt. 
 Mofes told them that they had feen all that 
 the Lord had done before their eyes in the 
 Land of JEgypt 9 unto Pkaraoh> and unto all 
 DeuM9.i, bis fervants, and unto all the land. The great 
 3 > 4* temptations which thine eyes have feen, thefignes 
 and thofe great miracles : And yet the Lord hath not 
 given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to fee, and 
 ears to hear, unto this day. It is true, they had 
 eyes and ears, but they wanted an under- 
 ftanding heart to perceive and difcern God 
 in all. Hence it comes to paffe, that as a 
 proud man will not be mindful], fo an ig- 
 norant man cannot remember God, and be 
 thankful!. It is good therefore not onely , 
 to remember our Jow and finfull eftate, 
 that we may be humble, but to underftand 
 the loving kindnefle of the Lord, that we 
 may record his favours. The reafon why , 
 the Difciples forgatwhat Chrifthad done, 
 
 and, 
 
of a think full chrifiian* 1 57 
 
 done, and therefore miftook him, ifyhen he 
 bad them takg heed of the leaven of the Pharifees Matt * ***** 
 and S adduces > was, they did not under ft and |Q# 
 
 the miracles of the five loaves amongft the 
 five thoufand ; nor the feven loaves amongft 
 the foure thoufand, nor how many baskets 
 they took up. They did not well underftand, 
 nor ferioufly confider the mighty power of 
 his divine nature, by which he did all that* 
 You (hall do well therefore to underftanda 
 mercy fully, in all the caufes, circumstan- 
 ces, manner and means of working. Some- 
 times he works without means, and then 
 his works are miraculous; fometimes by 
 weak means, and then his works are won- 
 derfull ; fometimes by contrary means, fo 
 that lodes enrich us, diviiions unites us, and 
 our routing in battle makes us conquerors ; 
 and then his works are glorious. Hence 
 the Lord commanded his people to under- 
 ftand why he gave them that good Land, to Deut.^.j^. 
 poffefleit; not for their righteoufnefle, for 
 they were a ftiffe-necked people, but for 
 his Name fake, and for the wickedneffe of 
 thofe Nations which were driven out before 
 them. It is not an eafie matter for men to 
 hit right on the true reafon of Gods difperi- 
 facions of mercy or judgement. Hence Sa» x s am- Tx- 
 ratff/advifed the people of Ifrael to confider, i\. 
 
 that is^to weigh & ponder wel in their hearts 
 what great things God had done for them. 
 Now we all know, things that are not 
 known, and therefore lightly valued, are 
 
 foon 
 
i 5 8 The journal I or Didry 
 
 foon forgotten* when matters that are loo- 
 ked at as things of price and worth, are laid 
 up very carefully. Ic is good therefore 
 when eur thoughts dwell upon mercies. 
 Omnis jeft'wtio c*ca> fwifc paffengers cannot 
 be feriousobfervers, atraniient thought is 
 too mean for a Handing mercy 5 onemercy 
 enjoyed deserves more ferious thoughts then 
 a million of miferies do one hearty tear ; 
 our mercies are from God, our calamities 
 from our felvcs. Underftand this well, and 
 confider this ferioufly , & you cannot be un- 
 mindful of the loving kiodnefle of the Lord. 
 4. Would you write down the great 
 things of God in a book, that you might 
 never forget them ? Take fpeciall notice of 
 theaftiogs of God in the wayes of his gra- 
 cious providence, whileft they are new and 
 frefh in memory, together with the wor- 
 kings of your hearts, whileft they are fo 
 considered. Oh! what vows, covenants, 
 purposes, refolutions are made and en- 
 tertained then? Owne novutn valcfe mHtatJmh 
 Scaliger : New things, frefli mercies make a 
 wonderful change upon mens fpirits for the 
 prefent. Omnia fubita vidmtur majora^ faith 
 Cicero : All fuddtn and unexpe&ed paflages 
 feem very great at firft fight, and work very, 
 much upon the heart. Obferve then what 
 Joy, what thankfulnefle, what meltings, 
 what refolutions : And what you doe, doe 
 quickly, ftrike while the iron is hot. §>ui 
 \Urde fait) din noluit> faith Seneca : He that 
 
 is 
 
ef a Thank full Chrijtian. 1 5 £ 
 
 is (lack in his performances, was but un* 
 willing in his resolutions. Oh! remember 
 your firft love, when you were newly con- 
 verted, and brought home to God ; how 
 zealous, lively,attive, forward, and favoury 
 were you in the wayes of God. So much 
 the Lord tells his people by the Prophet Hof. *• Xf« 
 Hofea, rhat at their reftitution, and Gods 
 reconciliation with them, chey fbould fing 
 as in the dayes of their youth, as they did 
 when they came out of JE&yt. Then fang 
 Adofts and Aaron* A converted condition is Erod.iy.i, 
 a lingingcondition. God takes fpecial no- 
 tice of this. I remember thee y (faith the Jcr.i.x._ 
 Lord of Ifi •a el) the kjndnejfe of thy youtb y the 
 love of thin* efpoufals> when xhm wenteft after 
 me in the xvildernejfe y in a land that was not 
 [own Our firft works and our laft works, 
 are commonly our bcft works ; when we 
 begin firft to live the life of grace, and 
 when we are ready to die, and are cntring 
 upon the life of glory, how excellent is our 
 carriage 3 how favoury our words, how hea- 
 venly our_converfacion? Even fo it is when 
 we are delivered from any sreat danger, when 
 enlarged with any Angular comforts, how 
 lively, how zealous, and how a&ive are we 1 
 Call tominde the fifth of November > 1605. 
 when we were delivered from that barbarous 
 Gunpowder treafon 5 how foward were 
 we in making laws again ft Papift*? how 
 fevcre in fuppreffing Jefuites? how zealous 
 • in fctling true Religion i 
 
 Ic 
 
1 60 the fournall or Diary 
 
 It is reported of the City of Berne, whert 
 firft delivered from Antichrift, when that 
 State catt off that Romane bondage, and re- 
 formed Religion, that they wrofe the day 
 of their Redemption upon pillars, in let- 
 ters of gold. And it is obfervable, that in 
 all the ages of the Church, God hath fet 
 out himfelf to his people by fuch names 
 and titles as weremoft fukable to his v pre- 
 £ent difpenfations, or fuch as were of the 
 laft edition. And why fo ? But that his late 
 mercies might be the better coniidered and 
 remembred. Hence in the beginning he was 
 called the moft high God, the pofleflbur of 
 heaven and earth, who had made all by the 
 word of his power. Under thofe times 
 Mekhlfedech blefled Abraham* Bkffedbe Abra- 
 fyrw(Taithhe) of the mofi high God, pojfejforof 
 heaven and earth. And Abraham covenanted 
 to take nothing from the King of Sodome 9 
 
 Gen 14.19, anc * t ' iat un< ^ er thefc terms. I havelift upmy 
 zz. hand unto the Lord, the moft high God y pojfeflbr of 
 heaven and earthy that 1 will not takg from a 
 thread to a fhoelatchet ; and that 1 will not tak$ 
 any thing that U thine. Afterwards, when God 
 entred into a covenant with Abraham and his 
 feed, he was called the God of Abraham* 
 and Ifiac* and Jacob. And under thofe titles 
 God gave his charge to Mifes, when he fent 
 him to bring hi* people out of the Land of 
 
 Exod.3,6. JEgyfti I am the God of thy Father, the God of 
 Abraham, the God oflfaac, and the God of Jacob. 
 After that he was called, the God that * 
 
 broughc 
 
of a Thank full ChriftM. 161 
 
 brought them out of the Land of JE^fU out 
 of the houfe of bondage. Such was the ?Exo4*ot*. 
 preface to his tew y I am the Lord thy God y 
 which have brought thee out of theLind of JE- 
 gjph 0Ht of the houfe of bondage. And fo it con- 
 tinued for many generations, even until he 
 brought them out of Babylon. And then Jer. i<5. i4 3 
 ( faith the Lord) It fkallbeno m:re faid^lke IJ ' 
 
 Lordliveth) that brought them out of the land of 
 JE&0: bur, The Lord liveth, that brought the & xj.7; 8 * 
 children of Ifnel out of the land of the North. 
 And now under the GofpeK ht is known by 
 this moft excellent name j IheGodand Father % Cor. J i.j, 
 of our Lord Jefus Chrift. And why fo ? But Epk i.|< 
 becaufe our redemption by Chrift is the laft, 
 and the great work he hath done for his 
 Church, and moft frefh in our memories. 
 Whileft therefore mercies are frefh, and work- 
 moft upon the heart, doe fomethingin re- 
 membrance of Gods goodnefs; and vt hy noc 
 then Write themdownein a Journal!? A 
 fmall matter ( I (hould think ) whileft the 
 heart is warm, and well affefted with the 
 prefent fenfe of fome lingular pledge of 
 Gods loving kindneffe, mayeafily perfwade 
 to this duty. 
 
 5. And finally, love the Lord for his 
 t goodneffe. If any thing tinder heaven will 
 conftrain us and help forward this dury,lova 
 will. Ob ! love the Lord all ye hit Saints, faith 
 thePfalmift. And indeed, none but Saints 
 # can love him. He knocks at every dor^ an J 
 ( as it were^ pulls every man by the flceve, 
 
 M and 
 
l$z The Zfeuryidll or DUry 
 
 and faith, Oh ! love you the Lord ; Let the 
 drunkard love his cups, and the adulterer 
 his harlots,and the covetous perfon his bags; 
 but do you that are Saints love the Lord. 
 Pfal 31.13, For, the Lord preferveth the faithfully and plenti- 
 fully rewardetb the proud doer* When one buc- 
 ket goes downe, the other will come up. 
 When Pharaoh is drowned, Ifrael is faved. 
 When Hainan is hanged,Mor<ft(W is advanced. 
 When proud doers aje plagued, the faithful 
 are delivered. Oh! love the Lord therefore. 
 And indeed, love is all that God looks at in 
 us, and expefts from us; and where there is 
 love, there is no lack. After fo larg&a re- 
 petition of the great things God hath done 
 Deut.20 n. for Ifrarf) What ( faith Mofes to them) doth 
 God now require for all thif , but that you would 
 love him ? And indeed love is complementum le- 
 gify the fulfilling of the Law. Neither cir- 
 cumcifionynor uncircumeffion availeth any thin& 
 6*1. j*>. (fait-btheApoftleJ but faith that workfth by 
 love. Faith and Love are like a pair of Com- 
 pares; Faith like one point, fattens upon 
 Chrift as the center; and Love like the other, 
 goes the round in all the works of holinefle 
 and righteoufnefle. Now certainly Love 
 hath a good memory* or would have a good 
 memory : What we flight, we foon forget ; 
 but what we love, we endevour to lay up 
 fure in our memories. Vbi am§r-> ibi an'wm : 
 Where our love is, our minde is. Where 
 our treafureif, there will our heart be. Ic # 
 was the eye that snade the mateh. That which 
 
 she 
 
cf d ThdnkfuR Cbriftian] \6$ 
 
 which the cy e fees not, the heart defires not: 
 And as love came in by the eye, fo it delights 
 by the fame dore to look after that beloved 
 objeft. Such a foul that hath feen God in 
 all things, and therefore loves God above 
 all things, delights ftill to look after God in 
 all his wayes, that he may love him more 
 and more. Such a foul loves God as Jm** 
 tbanloved David : 
 
 i. AmoreumoniSi with a love of union; 
 the foul of Jonathan was knit to V*vid\ ior iSanus.ii 
 he loved him as his own foul. 
 
 2. He loved him amort complacently ,with 
 
 a love of delight ; for it is faid that Jonathan Sc i?. z 6 
 delighted much in David. 
 
 3. He loved him amove lenevolentu ,with 
 
 a love of good will 5 for Jonathan faid to Da- & so ^ 
 vid, Whatfotver thy foul defnetb, J will even doit 
 for thee. 
 
 Even fo doth a gracious heart love God • 
 not onely with a love of union, and a love 
 of dclight,but with a love of good will too; 
 who faith to God, as VauUx. his conversion, 
 hordjwhat wilt thou have me to do? Such an one a&. 9 C, 
 is ready to fuffer whatever may be infli&ed 
 on him; and to do what ever may be requi- 
 red of him; efpccially, whatfoever may tc* 
 ftifiehow well he 'remembers God^ and his 
 loving kindnefle to him. 
 
 M 2 CHAR 
 
S&j, The foumdB or Diary 
 
 CHA*.viri. 
 
 Sever all arguments propounded, by which 
 Chrifiians may be provoked to keepfuch 
 4 journal/ or Diary as hath been com- 
 mended. 
 
 'Hatfuch Ghriftians as have any abili- 
 ties for the keeping of fuch a Journal or 
 Diary as hath been commended to them,may 
 be encouraged thereunto, I (hil in the fecond 
 place propound thefe foure arguments. 
 u Ab excel- Firft, it is a moft excellent duty, andpra- 
 ^ntf. ftifed by many, whofe example we may fol- 
 
 low : As, 
 
 i. It hath been the practice even of 
 the very Heathens, even from a principle of 
 common reafon, who made ufe of white and 
 black (tones for thefe two ends : One was, 
 They gave them to perfons at their arraign- 
 ment before the Judges : If any were con- 
 demned to death, they gave him a black 
 ftone; but if abfolved andfet free, a white 
 flone. To which cuftome the holy Ghoft 
 feems to al!ude, in that Epiflle to the Angel 
 of the Church of Fergamus^ in thefe words, ( 
 Rev. 'a, X7. To him that cvncomeib^wil I give a white ft one 3 &c 
 
 A 
 
of 4 Thank full Chrifiian. 1 6 J 
 
 A fccond ufe of thofe was, That by them 
 they might keep an account of all the good 
 dayes or evill they had met withall in their 
 lives. Hence Perfiuszdvi fed jbis friend Ma- 
 crinm to remember a good day {o. 
 
 Hum Mactine diem mmerameliore lapillo. 
 Count this day Macrine with a better ftone. 
 
 2. Perfons of good quality have a long 
 time praftifed 'this duty. How many noble 
 1 beophilus 3 xand Ele8 Ladies have fuch Diaries 
 by them ? But if any men of worth be ira- 
 ployed in the fervtce of the State, either by 
 Sea or Land, ic is their common praftife. 
 They that go to Sea, will tell you of their 
 Journall book, that on fuch a day they went 
 aboard the Bonaventure^ and on fuch a day 
 they weighed anchor, and fell downe to 
 Gravefetid; on fuch a day they met with the 
 whole Fleet 3 on another day they had ftormy 
 weather, or fought with the enemy, &c. 
 How exaftly doth S. Lukg fet down S. Paul's a«. 27. per 
 (hipping towards Romejio w a perfett a Jour- tot. 
 nail of that dangerous voyage, even day by 
 day. If they be employed by Land, and do 
 either befiege a Town,or are befieged ; not a 
 
 , a fally undertaken, not a mine fprung, not a / 
 
 breach made, not a man of note Gain, not a 
 tyre of Ordnance difcharged, but is is every 
 day recorded ; as you may fee in that famous 
 
 . fiege of Ojlende. 
 
 M 3 Eut 
 
i66 The ^eurnaHorViary 
 
 But in the 3. place,, God himfelf feems 
 to keep a Journal 1 by him of all the care he 
 hath of us, thecofthebcftowsupon us, and 
 the good things he gives to us. He hath a 
 book of remembrance of every paffage of 
 providence that concerns us. And indeed, 
 the Scripture for a great part is little el(e 
 but a hiftoryof his goodnefie to his people. 
 And that you may fee that God is very pun- 
 ftuall in keeping accompt of his mercies be-^ 
 flowed on us, you (lull find that in the Go- 
 Job,*, ti. fpelofSt. Join, when Chrift turned the wa- 
 ter into wine ; it is faid, This is the beginning 
 of miracles that J ejus did in Cana of Galilee, and 
 manifested forth his glory. And when he healed 
 & 4 54. the noble mans Son; This is again the \econd 
 miracle that Jefus did, when he came out of Judea 
 into Galilee* Thus God doth keep an account 
 of his mercies bellowed on us. This is the 
 firft Magiftrate, and this isthefecond Mini- 
 fies and this is the third affii&ion, and that 
 is the fourth deliveranceyou have had. And 
 if we remember them not to Gods glory, he 
 will remember them to our fhame \ as he did 
 1 Sam 1.17, to Eli, 1 did plainly appear unto the'houfeof thy 
 2 8 Father, when they were in JEgypt,in Pharaohs 
 houfe ; and I did ckoft him out of all the Tribes of 
 Ifrael, to be my Trie ft, to offer upon mine Altar , and 
 1 Sam. t<", to burn incenfe^ &c. The like he fad to Saul 
 *?• by Samuel, When then xvdfl little in thine owne 
 fight, waft thou not made head of the Tribes of If- 
 rael, and the Lord anointed thee King over Iftaelf 
 And how doih God reckon up the many 
 
 gieac 
 
of 4 Thank futt Chrifiml 1 67 
 
 reat favors vouchfafed toDtfv#/,efpecial Jyin 
 tbac great advancement of him to the throne, 1 Sam. ». 
 and delivering him from the hand of Saul ? 7> 8. 
 
 All thefe things are repeated to Eli, Saul) Da- 
 vid 9 for the greater aggravation of their (ins; 
 nay, Gods very judgements executed are par- 
 ticularly recorded by him, as you may fee in 
 divers places, efpecially that of Arms, ch. 4. Amos 4 4 
 v. 6. to the end of that ctu hisfeveral judge- 7, 8, 9, io', 
 ments,and their incorrigiblenefle. DothGod «* ■*- 
 keep a book of Remembrance, and (hall we 
 be without our Journall ? God forbid. 
 
 Secondly, it is very juftand equall, that*. Abtqa; 
 we (hould thus remember God, whoremem- 
 bcri us daily ; and that not only for the fup- 
 plying our wants, or delivering us in our 
 extremity, but alfo in the accepting of our 
 perfons, and our fincere performances. 
 
 1. Forthefirft: God remembred Noah Gen. S. 1. 
 when he was in the Ark, and fent him forth. 
 God remembred Abraham in that great over- & 19 2 9 ; 
 throw of the Cities in the Plain,and fent Lot 
 to him, to warn him, to comfort him. God 
 remembred Kacbel^nd gave her a Jofepb, God & 30. ]t. 
 remembred Hannah, and made herfruitfuil. 1 Sam. 1.9, 
 God remembers our wants, and fupplyes 
 theni; our friends, and requites them; our 
 enemies, and plagues them ; nay, our very 
 cattle, and preferves them.God did not only 
 remember Noah in the Ark,but he remembred Gen. J. 1. 
 every living thing> and all the cattle. God 
 chides Jonah for being angry tor the loffe of 
 * his gourd,upon this account ; Thou hadfi pity 
 
 M 4 «« 
 
i $8 The fourmll or BUrj 
 
 Jonah 4. i o, on the gourde &c. andfhouldnot I [fare Nineveh* 
 1 }- that great City, wherein there arefo many children^ 
 andalfo much cattle? Doth God remember and 
 take care tor oxen, and will he not much 
 more remember his people ? No, ( faith the 
 Lord J J cannot. Cana woman forget herjucking 
 
 jfa t 49, if, childe, that fbe fhould not have companion on the Son 
 16. of her wambe f Tea> they way forget ', let wilnot 
 I forget thee, huh the Lord of his people. A 
 Mother may break the bonds of Nature, but 
 J cannot break the bonds of my Covenant. 
 Why fo? Becaufe I have graven thee upon the 
 palms of my bands I may as foon forget my 
 ieli, as forget thee; thy walls are ever before 
 me. Now that which is continually btfore 
 us, we well remember. Will not God for- 
 get us ? And (hall not we ufe all means that 
 we may remember him > Rather then fail, 
 chalk up his loving kindnefles. 
 
 2. We never (hewed any love to God in 
 
 }«l'. £.*. cur live?, but he remembers it. I remember 
 (faith God to Ifrael} thekjndnejfe of thy youth, 
 the love of thine efpoufals. Sarah Cpakebut one 
 good word in that foolifli fit of her unbelief, 
 when (helaught, and (lighted the promife of 
 
 G.no8.i2. aSon; (he called her Husband Lord s After 1 
 am waxen old, Jhall I have pleafure, my Lord being 
 eld alio? This one good word is not forgot- 
 ten, but fet down in a book by the hand of 
 £ Teter, Sarah obeyed Abraham, and called him 
 Lord. Not a prayer made, nor a tear (hed, 
 but he hath a book for the one, and a bottle 
 Ipr the othe^rather then thev fhould be loft. 
 
 fut 
 
of a Thank full Chrifun. i 6g 
 
 f*t thou my tears inio thy bottle, Lord , ( faithPki. y 6. 8. 
 the PfalmiftJ are they not in thy book ? If Gods 
 people meet together, and pray and fpeak 
 often one to another, he hearkens and hears; 
 that is, he doth moft diligently attend to all 
 they fay; and a bool^of remembrance (hal be writ- Mai, 3, itf, 
 ten of it before the Lord. Corn Jim was a moft de- *7. 
 
 vout benefa&or, and the Angel tell him,that 
 his prayers and alms were come up in re- Aft. io« *• 
 membrance before God. It is a mercy that 
 God will remember us, though it be with a 
 rod to correft us ; but it is a rich favour in- 
 deed, if he remember us with a ftaffe to fup- 
 port and comfort us. As our remembrance 
 of God or men is the fumme of all we do for 
 them. 'Remember me (fairh Jofeph to Tha- Gen.40.T4, 
 atotfi Butler) that is, fpeak a good word for *3. 
 
 me, dome the favour as work out my de- 
 liverance. But the chief Butler did not re- 
 member Jofeph, but forgat him; that is, he 
 did nothing tor him; Even fo Gods remem- 
 brance is the fumma totalis of his goodnefle to 
 us : He remembers us indeed, for he pities 
 us, and fpares us, and pardons us, fupplyes 
 us inallourneceffities, and fupports us in 
 all our extremities ; he will not leave us in 
 ourftraights, nor leave us in our fins ; and if 
 wedoorfufferany thing for him, he hath a 
 book of remembrance, and it (hill be writ- 
 ten down. At the laft day it is faid,the books 
 ihall be opened, and is net this one of thofe 
 books? and the dead (hall be judged out of 
 thofe things which were written in thofe Uv/io.u* 
 
 books, 
 
170 The fourmll er Diary 
 
 books, according to their works. Jcfuft 
 Chrift will read to all the world the good 
 works of his people out of that book. I was 
 
 Matt.2j.3y. an hungry , and ye gave me meat ; I was thirfty^and 
 ye gave me drinks • I was a fir anger % and ye tookjne 
 in j nak{d> and ye clothed me. You never did 
 anything for God, but he hath put it down 
 in his book 5 it is very juft and equall then, 
 that what he hath done for you (houldbe 
 written down in your book. 
 
 %. A necef- Thirdly, it is very neceflary you flboald 
 
 fario. j£ Ce p f uc h a Journal!, and that in three re- 
 gards : 
 
 1. In regard of the badnefle of your me« 
 raory. Memoriaprimvmfenefcity (fay Phyfici- 
 ans) The memory decayes firft; old men 
 and dying men will tell you fo; but the me- 
 mory of a benefit fooner, the memory of di- 
 vine favours fooneft of all. Some things 
 we can hardly forget, as our forrows and 
 ourpleafures. It was about 20 yeers ere 
 
 Gtfi. jj.i.E/^could forget the forrow he conceived 
 for the lofle of the blefling, and the injury 
 facob did him, in getting it away from him. 
 
 & ij. z 9 . And he wasfo mindfullof his pleafures that 
 he forgat his bread. And there be fome things 
 we can hardly remember, as our faults and 
 our friends. It was two full years ( faith the 
 ftory ) ere Pharaoh's Butler could remember 
 
 & 4T. 9. J Q fpk> or call his faults to roinde, for which 
 he fuffered imprifonment. Many Lord my 
 
 Pfal. 40. j. God ( faith David) are thy wonder full works 
 which thou hrf done, and thy thoughts which are 
 
 to 
 
e( a Thank foil Chtifm. \ ft 
 
 torn ward, they cannot he reckoned wp in order to 
 tines if I jhould declare and fpeal^of them, they are 
 mort then can be mmhred.TheB certainly ,raany 
 of thefe mercies that God hath vouchfafed 
 to us, would quite be forgotten, did we noc 
 keep fuch a Diary by us. 
 
 2. It is neceflary, that thereby we pre- 
 vent the great fin of forgetfulnefle. To for- 
 get God isamother*fin, a root-fin. What 
 will not that man be, what will not he doe 
 that forgets God ? He is a very wicked man. 
 7hemckfd(ballbe turned into hell ( faith the pf a i. 9A ^ 
 Pfalmift ) and all the nation* that forget God. 
 He is a proud man, and I am fure a proud 
 man is a wicked man. Through the pride 
 of his coun tenance he wil not feek after God; 
 God is not in all his thoughts, his thoughts 
 are not of him; or his thoughts are, that & I0 «4. 
 there is no God. He that forgets God,forgets 
 that God is. He that forgets God is an hy po- 
 crice,and an hypocrite is a very wicked man. 
 Conjider tbj* ye that forget God. But who were & jo.iS, *7* 
 they ? Such as took Gods name into their **■ 
 
 mouth?, and yet hated inftruftion, andcaft 
 Gods words behinde them. He that forgets 
 God is a moft unthankfull perfon, and an 
 unthankfull man is a moft wicked man. 
 Vixens ingratum, dixeris omnia. Call a man an 
 unthankfull man, and call him any thing. 
 
 there was a little City (huh Salmon) befteged *<$£$•*+ 
 by a great King, and a poor wife man delivered that *' 
 
 City byhii wifdotnejet no man remembred that poor 
 Wife mm, 1c was a wicked part to forget that 
 
 man, 
 
i ji The $ our nail or Diary 
 
 man, but moft wicked it is to forget God- 
 When Tamtrlane (that vi&orious Emperor) 
 had beaten Bajazet in battle, and taken him 
 prifoner, he lent for him, and amongft other 
 queftions, asked him, Whether ever he were 
 thankfull to God for making him fo great a 
 King? heanfwered, that he never fo much 
 as thought of him; which was a moft wicked 
 fpeech of a wicked man. 
 
 3. It is neceflary to prevent the great 
 danger of forgetting God. To forget God 
 is a provoking fin. He that forgets God, fins 
 not at an ordinary rate., and therefore fhal be 
 punifhed not after an ordinary manner. Con- 
 Pfal jo it. fider this ye that forget God ( faith the Lord ) 
 left I tear y cu in pieces, and there be none to deliver 
 you. Eli forgat God, and fo did SWand Je- 
 roboam, they forgat the great things God had 
 done for them,and did not God plague them 
 and their pofterity ? Forgetfulnefle of God 
 makes him rage, not onely againft the work 
 of his hands,butthe(heepof his pafture. Va- 
 v'fd forgat God, and fo did Solomon ; and how 
 feverely were they punifhed ? The.one by his 
 Son, who rebelled againft him ; the other by 
 his Servant, that pluckt the greateft part of 
 the Kingdome from his pofterity. 
 
 A Souldier of Fhilip King of Macedonia, 
 having begg'd the lands of one that had en- 
 tei cained him kindly, was branded with In- 
 grater hofpesoti the forehead, to his perpetual 
 ihame. It is reported oiCdjar *nd Alexander y 
 two qji the moft valiant Souldiers that ever 
 
 the 
 
of a ThanhfuR Chrijiian. 173 
 
 the world had, that the one would never give 
 
 to, and the othcrforgive an unthankful man. 
 
 Becaufe ( faith the Lord) Tharaoh King of JE- 
 
 gjft faith the river ( that is Nilus) is mine owne 9 
 
 I have wade it for my/elf, therefore will I dry up the 
 
 river , and caufe the fifh tofiink^ Wh a t became 
 
 of Herod the proud ? who, after his oration, Aa.it/25, 
 
 and the peoples acclamation. The voyce of a 
 
 god, and not of a man, gave not the glory 
 
 to God; the Angel of the Lord fmote him, 
 
 and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the 
 
 Ghoft. He that forgets God, is unthankful 
 
 to God 5 and he that is unthankful, forfeits 
 
 all mercies 5 as the not paying ofCuftome 
 
 forfeits all a Merchants goods. 
 
 It is written of one Timethens the Son of 
 Conon a noble Citizen of Athens , that after he 
 had proudly faid in a great affembly, fcfcc ego 
 feci, n*n fortuna : Thefe things I have done, 
 and not Fortune, (which that people adored 
 as God ) he never profpered, but loft all the 
 glory he bad gotten. 
 
 A poor honeft man meeting with a very 
 rich neighbour in his Corn-fields,upon har- 
 veft, very plentifully ftored, confifting of 
 many acres, faid to him, You have Sir a very 
 rich crop \ anfwered, Yea,I wil have a good 
 crop; and gave not God the praife : Within 
 a few dayes after, by a mighty ftorm oi wind 
 the greateft part of his corn was blown out 
 of the ear, and with other wet weather it was 
 fo wafted that it came to little. If we forget 
 Godj hewillforgetus : He wHi remember 
 
 cat 
 
1 74 The $ our nail or Diary 
 
 our fins, and punifh us for them 5 but he wil 
 forget our perfons in time of trouble. To 
 w ch purpofe I (hall relate a fad ftory, which I 
 had from a good hand,in the hearing of very 
 
 * many; and I believe it to be very true. A man 
 
 that on his fickbed, that proved his death- 
 bed, had one time an extraordinary appetite, 
 and defired fomething that he might eat 5 
 which being brought to him, he did as much 
 loath as before he longed for • and therefore 
 without touching any part of it, was carried 
 away; fuddenly, he called for it again, his 
 ftomach 'to fuch provifion being as flrong 
 and quick as ever ; which was done accor- 
 dingly, and fet before him ; but his ftomach 
 rofeagainftit, with as great abhor rency as 
 before. This was done a third time,upon the 
 former ground, & carried away again for the 
 fame reafon. At laft he con felled that it was 
 juft with God fo to deal with him, that ne- 
 ver craved a bleflingfrom God upon his meat 
 when he fat down at his table^ nor gave God 
 thanks when he rofe up, but forgat God the 
 giver of all. And indeed it is juft with God to 
 forget us in our ftraights, that nerer remem- 
 ber him ia our enlargements.The keeping of 
 fuch a Journall would conduce much to the 
 preventing cf fuch an evil. 
 
 4; Abutiti. Fourthly, it is a very profitable courfe to 
 have fuch a Journal or Diary by us; and you 
 know, Who wil fhew us any good > Who wil 
 bring us any pro6t ? is the great queftion of 
 the world, and prevails very far. Now it is 
 profitable thefe 7 ways, 1. A# 
 
of a Thankful! chrijltin. 175 
 
 1. As it would be an excellent way to 
 advance the name and honorable memoriall 
 of fome, fo it would thereby much promote 
 the good of others : For would fuch as are of 
 lingular worth, and fpcciall note for their 
 learning,piety, and ufefulnefle in Church or 
 Common -wealth, be perfwaded to this duty 
 of keeping a Journall, howeafie were it foe 
 their pofterity, or fpeciall friends, to write a 
 hiftory of their Lives, efpecially fo far at 
 concerned their parents,their birth and bree- 
 ding, either in the Univeriity or Innesjof 
 Court 5 their great prefervations from dan- 
 gers,their great preferments to places of truft 9 
 with their employments and fuccefle in thofe 
 places,and fuch like? Other things might be 
 added, as occafion is offered, from the rela- 
 tion of others; which as it would much con- 
 duce to the honor of the dead, fo it would 
 very far advance the good of thofe that fur- 
 vive them. Moft people believe their eyes ra- 
 ther then their ears, and walk more by pat* 
 terns then they do by any rules. Mahomet the 
 Great, the firft Emperor of Con(laminople> did 
 ever fet before him the examples of Alexander 
 and C£far in all his Wars, whom he laboured 
 toimitate. And it is reported of ibemiftocles^ 
 that he had always in his thoughts the victo- 
 ries of MdtiadeS) which made him unfatisiiid, 
 till he had imitated him.Chriftians that have 
 fuch a cloud of witneffes (not unlike the pil- 
 p lar of a cloud to lfraeliw the wildemefs^may the 
 better be guided through the dark labyrinth* 
 
 of 
 
176 The Zpournaller Diary 
 
 of this evil world, till they come to that Ca- 
 naan of unutterable joy and happineffe, of 
 which thofe worthies are now made parta- 
 kers. And indeed, who can behold their love 
 to God« truths their zeal for his glory, their 
 patience in tribulation, their courage in a 
 good caufe,their perfeverance in well-doing, 
 their holineffe of life, their prayers, fading, 
 tears, alms, temperance, modefty, heavenly- 
 mindednefle, with their triumph at their 
 death ; but muft needs av*&7rv$v to %?&&** 
 7? 3*«, fiir up the grace that is in them ; ftir the 
 coals of their fervent delires, till they break 
 out into a flame, in being followers of thofc 
 worthies as they followed Chrift. The Lace- 
 demniam for the better ftirring up of young 
 men to noble enterprifes,ufed to have the fta- 
 tues of their moft famous Worthies* either 
 Gown-men or Sword-men, fct up in their 
 Senate-houfe, with this fentencein golden 
 letters, SI fueritisficut hi b eritisficut hi : If you 
 will be like thefe tor their fervice, you (hall 
 belikethefe for their honour. Some have 
 taken good pains in writing the Lives and 
 Deaths of fuch as have deferved well in their 
 generations, a Work in this regard very 
 commendable. How many fuch examples 
 would be preferved, and left to pofterity, 
 (which otherwife were like to be loftj were 
 this courfe of keeping Diaries obferved? t 
 
 2. This praftice would bring Chrifti- 
 
 ans into great acquaintance with God, and 
 
 his moft gracious nature. So the Pfalmift, 
 
 4 * who 
 
of a Thanh full Chrifiian. 177 
 
 who having fully difcourfed of his provi- 
 dence over divers forts of perfohs, in anfwe- 
 ring their prayers, and relieving them in 
 their neceflitics ; concludes, Whofo U wifejVL 107.43. 
 and will ebferve thefe things, tvenfucb fbaUundtr- 
 ft and the loving kjndnejfe of the Lord. N o w \x ha c 
 better way to obferve fuch things, then by a 
 conftant keeping erf iuch a Journal > Thence 
 we may difcerh his loving kindnefle. 
 
 1. Howfullitis; who giveth usrichly ,xim 6.17, 
 all things to enjoy. 
 
 2. How free it is i who doth all for tis 
 for his name fake. 
 
 3. How firm it is; with who>n there is jam. 1.17. 
 no variablencfle, nor (hadow of turning ; 
 
 whofe gifts and calling are without repen- Rom.11.15>. 
 tance. 
 
 And who would not endevour by all 
 means to be wel acquainted with God,whom 
 to know,is wifdome indeed; to fear, is god- 
 linefle indeed ; to enjoy, is happineffe in- 
 deed? 
 
 3. It will from hence much inlarge onr 
 love to God 5 for we mud needs love him 1 Joh.4,1^ 
 that hath loved us fir ft, efpeciilly that hath 
 loved us thus. Certainly the more we know 
 God, the better we fhall love him. / will Pfal. 9M4, 
 deliver him (faith the Lord by the Pfalmilt) 
 becaufc he hath fel bk lovs upon me \ and he 
 batbfet bit love upon mejecaufe he ha\b hpovrn rtft 
 name. Even Publicans ( faith our Saviour) 
 piU love thofe of whom they are beloved, by whom 
 thy ate rewarded: And (hall not Chrifiia^s 
 N 1 be 
 
178 The fmn*& or Diary 
 
 be in love with fuch a God, whofe mercies 
 
 Prov. 8. 17. are more then we can number, greater then 
 we can value? And will not this our love 
 to God be beneficial to us > If we love him, 
 he will love us again, and in his love there 
 can be no lack* for they that feck him early 
 
 Job. 14x1, (hail finde him. He that loveth me (faith Chrift) 
 *3. /hall be loved of my Father, and I will love him> and 
 manifefi my f elf unto him. And again, If any 
 man love me 9 he will kfep my comrnandements, and 
 my Father will love him ; and we will come unto 
 him, and makg our abode with him. Now this 
 God hath not onely enough in himfelf to 
 enable him untoallthis, (for he is the only 
 wife and almighty God) but he hath alfo 
 enough to enciine him thereunto, for he is 
 
 xCor. 1.3. the Father of mercies, and the God of all 
 comfort. Yea, he hath enough to engage 
 him ; for he is in covenant with u?,and that 
 covenant is under feal, that by two immu- 
 table things, in which it was impoflible for 
 
 Heb. 6. 17, God to lye, we might have ftrong confola- 
 i8.tion. 
 
 4. It will much enlarge our hearts in 
 kindnefle and compaffion to our brethren; 
 
 Pfal. \*.i£. (or beeauje (as the Pfalrmift faith) omgeodntjfe 
 cannot extend to God, it (hall to the Saints that are 
 
 1 Joh. 3.14. in the earth. And furely he that loveth God^ 
 loveth him alio that is begotten of God-And 
 fuch love to the Saints is very profitable , 
 
 1. Fortheprefent; for i t is a good evi- 
 dence that we are paji from death to life J>ectu five 
 love the brethren, He that loveth not his brotba^bi- 
 detb in death. 2. For 
 
of a ThankfnU Chriftian. 179 
 
 2. For the future; k (hall be remern- 
 brcd and rewarded at the laft day : For Chrift 
 will fay to fuch, In as much as ye did aU this to Hw.ij.^j 
 one of thefe my Brethren , ye did it unto we. Come ye *' Jt 
 
 therefore ye bleffed of my Father , inherit the King- 
 dome prepared for you from the foundation of the 
 world. 
 
 5. The keeping of fuch a Journal!, 
 cfpecially if we look often into it> and read 
 itjover will be a notable means to encreafe in 
 as that fclf-abafement & abhorrency of (pirit 
 that is tnoft acceptable in the fight of God. 
 The more we look upon the loving kindnefs 
 of the Lord, the more vile (hall we be in our 
 owneeyes. JVhtn Iconfider (faith David) the Pf. 8 4 3, 4, 
 heavens, the wor^ of thy fingers, the moon and the 
 fiars which thou haft ordained ; What is man that 
 thou art m'mdfull ofbimjr the Son of man that thou 
 vifileflhim? Alas, mania not onely (rail, 
 as a creature, but filthy alfo asaiinner, yet 
 the riches of Gods grace overlooks {all ; fo 
 that God will beftow his thoughts upon 
 him, and vifit him. We may be very mindiul 
 of fuch as we do not, we cannot viae ; but 
 God will do both. David in another place & X44 $ :4t 
 goes a ftep higher, What is mm that thou takefi 
 knowledge of bim> or the Son of man that thou mJ« 
 \eft account of him ? Man is lik$ to vanity., his dys 
 arelikeafiadow that pajfeth away. Min is not 
 worthy that God fhould caft an eye upon 
 him, and make any account of him; 2nd ycc 
 the higheft Lord will take knowledge of ihc 
 lowcft worm j Majefty will make fome rec- 
 N 2 ironing 
 
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 koningofmeannefs. Oh! how will the fe- 
 rious furvey of fuch a Journal abafe the foul 
 
 z Sam. 9/7,1 before the Lord I WhmVavid did but tell 
 8# Mephibofoeth, what he would do for him 3 and 
 he cryes out from the fenfe of his owne vile- 
 nefTe, What is thyfervam, that thou fhould loo\ 
 upon fuch a dead dog as 1 am ? A dog ; y ea, a 
 dead dog; What more vile in the world? 
 But when God told Vavid how he would 
 build "him an houfe 9 and ftt up his feed after 
 
 & 7.18,1?. him; hereplyes, IVhoaml^ and What am I 9 
 that thou haft brought me hitherto ? And this was 
 yet but afmallthing in thy fight, Lord,butthou 
 hafi fpok^n of thy fervants houfe for a great while 
 to come. If God be great and good in our eyes, 
 we fhall belittle and vile in our owne fight. 
 If God be high in our hearts, we (hall be as 
 low in our thoughts,as we are in our deferts* 
 And this will be for our profit; for if we be 
 mean in ourowneaccount, God will fet his 
 
 i Pet. j. y. heart up on us, and magnifie us; for as here* 
 jifleththeproudy Co he giveth grace to the humble. 
 6- This Journal, with a furvey of all 
 the good things God hath beftowed on us, 
 and continued to m, will much provoke us 
 to thankfulneffe. They that have but heard 
 much of Gods goodnefle, cannot be un- 
 thankfull.. Indeed, they that were born 
 deaf remain dumb; they that could never 
 hear, can never fpeak. They that could never 
 hear the voyce of the Son of God, and live, 
 are tongue-tyed in his praifes : But they 
 that have heard of him by the ear, feen him 
 
 by 
 
of 4 Thank full Chrifiian. 1 8 1 
 
 by the eye, and every day , tafte of his boun- 
 ty, their mouths will ever run over witti 
 thankfgiving. Now certainly the n.ore 
 thankful! any man is, the morefucceffefull. 
 As faith is the way to thankfulneffe, Co 
 thankfulnefle is the way to thrive. It is faid 
 that Aaron had on his robe round about a.E*o.i8.34- 
 bell and a pomegranate; the Bell fignified 
 thankfulneffe; and the Pomegranate fruit- 
 fulnefle. He that off eretb me prayfe (faith God) 
 llorifietb me ; and to him that order etb bis convex- Pk. f 0.13 . 
 fction aright, 1 will (hew tbefalvatim of God. I 
 will not be in his debt, but work fome great 
 extraordinary deliverance for him Lettbepeo- & $7. y, 6. 
 >ieprarfetbte y OGed', yea, let all the people praife 
 'bet* (faith the PfalmiftJ Then fhall the earth 
 Wing forth her increafe, and God evsn our own God 
 l^all bltffews. Prayers get mercies^ bnt praifes 
 keep them and enlarge them, with a bleffing ; 
 and a little blefled is better then the whole 
 world enjoyed. 
 
 7. Such a cour fe would very much help 
 Dur faith. Every experiment of Gods for- 
 mer goodnefle is a (Iron g prop for our faith 
 for the future. When Mofes went up to the e xoc j # , 7 9% 
 Mount to pray for Ifrael, and againft Amdek^ 
 he took the rod of God in his hand. And 
 the rcafon certainly was, becaufc by that 
 rod God had done wonderful things for his 
 people and^gainft their enemies; as by than 
 he turned the waters into blood, by that he & 7*°. 
 brought frogs and lice upon the land of JE- & ?. 17. 
 g^pr, by that he divided the waters of the Red & 14. \S. 
 N 3 Sea. 
 
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 Sea. And the very fight of that rod did en- 
 courage Mofes to truft in God for the delive- 
 rance of bis people* and the overthrow of 
 their enemies ; and that from the experience 
 of his former goodnefle. Now queftion- 
 lefle thebeft way to be ftored with (uch ex- 
 periments^ to keepfuch a Journal or Diary 
 by us: And who can read fuch an hiftory 3 buc 
 mu ft needs fay* Why ftiould not I truft to, 
 and depend upon fuch a God at all times,and 
 for all things? 
 
 Firft, lfay, at all times; for there is not 
 \rm& pfxenmin T)eo> firftandlaftin God, 
 as in man : He can do what he hath done, 
 37**5 «I am is his name. I have been youngs and now am 
 oW,was the language of VavidjbvLt not of P<*- 
 vi(T% Gcd. 
 
 Secondly, as at all times ^ (ofor all things for 
 there is not ma)w & minus in Veo^ not more 
 and lefTe in God, he can do what hewilldoj 
 he can pardon all fins as well as one, fupply 
 ail wants as Well as one, fubdue all our ene- 
 mies as eafily as one. I cannot do as I have done, 
 is the voyce of the creature, not ot the Crea- 
 Gen 48 if tor# ^ ee ^ ow ? aco ^ rea fons from experience, 
 is. when he bleffed fofepb's Son. The God which 
 fed me allmj life long unto thU day's The Angell 
 ubich redeemed me from all evilly bkffe the lads. . 
 
 Now is not faith a profitable grace? Faith 
 is the greateft gather-good in the world : 
 What need he care, why fliould he fear, what 
 can t e'wair, tine is rich in faith? For rich in 
 5a'tb ; and rich iiiGodp andhe thatenioyes 
 
 God, 
 
•/ a Thank full Chrift An. 1 83 
 
 God j (hall inherit all things. By this Rev.21,7, 
 aith ftrengthened, and by fomany experi- 
 ments thus enlarged, he may ereft a monu- 
 ment* md&y. Hitherto the Lord bath holpen me* iSam.7.1*. 
 And thereupon look up into heaven, and 
 thus admire at the large allowance that is 
 provided for hira there, with the Pfalmift 5 Pfal.3 1.20. 
 How great is thy goodneffefl Lord> which thouhafi 
 hid up for thofe that fear thee ! If my friend 
 will give me fuch entertainmentat an Inne 
 by the way, how welcome will he make me 
 when I come to bis houfe ? If earth be fuch, 
 what is heaven ? If my comfort in a cottage 
 be fo great, what are the joys of thofe ever- 
 lafting habitations, not made with hands,but 
 eternallin the heavens, where I (hall have 
 glory with a double byberbole, w9" i^Mwr 1 Cor. 4, 17. 
 «* <s&&o\iit Atdpuf &&&< Jb'£w , an exceeding 
 weight of gjory. Oh! that our treafure were 
 laid up in heaven, that our converfation 
 were in heaven, from whence we look for 
 the Saviour, the Lord Jcfus Chrift ; who (hall 
 change our vile bodies , that they may be fafhiomd p^-j \ tl0y 
 likf unto his glorious body^ according to the working 2. 1. 
 
 whereby he is able to fubdue all things unto him) elf 
 Heaven wil make us amends for all, but Jefus 
 Chrift is better then heaven. Jacob'%- Sons 
 met with hard meafure whileft they travelled 
 into JEgypt for food; but I am Jofeph your - 
 £ro/6er, and Governour of all JEgypt> did a- en 4JJ# 
 bundantly recompenfe ;them for all their 
 trouble. After all tour forrows and fuffe- 
 ringsin this vale of tears; Fear mot) his 1. 
 N 4 All 
 
1 84 The $ourn*R'Qr Di^ry 
 
 All power i$ given unto me ; your Captain, 
 your Brother, your Head will fatisfieabun- 
 
 Phil. x. ij , dantly . Paul had a defire to depart, and to 1 
 withChrift; which is far better. Riches are 
 good, but Learning is better; Learning is 
 good, but Grace is better; Grace is good, 
 but Glory in heaven is better; Heaven is 
 good, but Ghrift is far better, A pifture of 
 the globe of the whole earth,fet out with all 
 the brave things that Sea and Land can af- 
 ford, with thisfentence encircling it round, 
 %d te whb Cbrift is far better, is a Chriftians 
 embleme. Indeed Jefus Chriftisa Chriftians 
 
 V'A 1 t.ulu heaven \in whofe prefence there is fulnefs ofjoy y and 
 at who fe 'right hand there are pleafnres for evermore. 
 Whither he bring us, who hath fo dearly 
 bought tig; to whom with the Father, and 
 the Holy Ghoft, be given by usand all his 
 Sdinu, allhonorand glory, ndwandfor 
 evermore, Amen: v 
 
 Cbrijlianns gratulabundm 9 
 
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 FINI$. 
 
The Contents; 
 
 CHAP. I. 
 
 The Preface, wherein an entrance is made 
 to the words, and the duty of a $ our nail 
 or Diary is propounded. P^ 1 
 
 To forget Gods mercies a provoking fin. 2 
 
 God is very gracious in affording means 
 
 for the helping of our memories. 5 
 
 CHAP. II. 
 
 The matter whereof a -fournall or Diary 
 
 is compounded, and firfi National! and 
 
 1 publick. 14 
 
 1 . Take notice what Governours have ru- 
 led over us. Ibid* 
 
 2. What Religion was by fuch countenan- 
 ced. 1 6 
 
 3. How variable the condition of the 
 Times have been. 19 
 
 4. What 
 
The Content^ 
 
 4. What remarkable judgemints God hath 
 infilled upon notorious offenders. 2 2 
 
 5, What the NationaUfinfor the prefent 
 generation way be : It's good to know 
 that. 2 J 
 Some times have been more notorious 
 
 for Drunkenneffe. 26 
 
 Some for Swearing. 27 
 
 Some for Pride and Ambition. 28 
 
 Our generation {as fome think ) mofi 
 
 guilty of Contention* 30 
 
 S ome think \ Hypocrifie. 3 J 
 
 Some think , Apofiafie* Ibid. 
 
 Enmity againji the Kingly government 
 
 of chrifi in his Church is the fin of 
 
 this age. 39 
 
 CHAP. III. 
 
 What ferfonall and private parages of 
 Providence thofe are which ought to be 
 recorded in our ^ournall or Diary. 48 
 
 1. Keep an account of our converfion. lb. 
 
 2. Of all divine afftfiance^ either for the 
 doing of that which is required, or the 
 hearing of fuch evils as are inflifted* 5 1 
 
 3. All deliverances from dangers. 55 
 
 4. All 
 
The Contents^ 
 
 4. All the men and weans God hath ufed 
 for cur good. 58 
 
 5. AM the returns of our prayers. 61 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 
 The manner how a tfournall or Diary is to 
 be ufed, andfirfi what is to be done by 
 way of obfervation. 6 6 
 
 1. Labour to fee and obferve Cod in all 
 things. 66 
 
 1. Labour to fee and obferve all things in 
 God. 70 
 
 3. obferve the wayes and means by which 
 all good things are conveyed to us. 74 
 
 1. BjChrifi favingly. 75 
 
 2. By the promife certainly. 79 
 
 3. By the creatures fenfibly. 85 
 Wherein obferve Gods wifdome in the 
 
 choyce : 
 
 1 . Of the inftruments that are ufed. $6 
 
 2. Of the the time. 89 
 
 3. ofthemeafure. pj 
 In all which hold fafi theft three conclu- 
 
 fions : 
 I. Where God fees any ft to ufe mort^ 
 he can afford more. 98 
 
 2. That 
 
The Contents* 
 
 ft. That it is a mercy when our minde* 
 are conformable to our means. 99 
 
 3. That God hath many wayes to throw 
 theft things into us y and as many to 
 take them from us. loo 
 
 CHAP. V. 
 
 The wanner how a tfournall or Dtiry 
 u to he ufed, according to the rules of 
 fraftife. 102 
 
 1. Look often upon the journal, and read 
 it over. Ibid. 
 
 2. Cajl up all your wants* 105 
 
 3. Reckon how many ways thofe wants are 
 fupp/yed with other comforts. 1 07 
 
 %. Take great notice of tht peculiar ex- 
 cellency of all Gods difpenfations to- 
 wards you ^ above the world. ic$? 
 
 5. Take heed that the want of fome com- 
 fort do not rob you of all other. 1*4 
 
 6. Reckon much upon what you may 
 want. r i 5 
 
 7. Study much the vanity of all Creature- 
 comforts. 1 1 8 
 
 8. Be very moderate in the ufe of thefe 
 things, 122 
 
 $. Trujt 
 
The Contents* 
 
 9* Trufinottoofar y defend not too much 
 upon men. 124 
 
 CHAP. VI. 
 
 More rules of the fame kinde^ that con^ 
 cern our practice. 128 
 
 I o. Ask four own hearts 3 guefiions. lb. 
 
 I . What honor do I bring to God for all 
 
 this. " Ibid. 
 
 %. What good do I tow) negbbom$z 
 
 3. What good do I reap by all for my 
 
 ffl- ° 137 
 
 11. Labour to be thank full for all. 140 
 
 1 . specially for $efus Cbrijl. 1 41 
 
 2. For afflitfions. 142 
 
 3. For preservation from fcandals. 144 
 
 4. For heaven. 146 
 
 12. Declare to others what God hath done 
 for you, to provoke them to bleffe God 
 
 with you and for jor/ 9 148 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
 An ufe of Exhortation, wherein Chri- 
 stians are perfwaded to hep fuch a 
 $ our nail or Diary. I 5 o 
 
 Directions 
 
The Contents. 
 
 pirtclions to further this work* 151 
 
 1. Often remember your fwfnl eft ate. 1% z 
 
 2. Remember y cur low &poor eft ate. 155 
 
 3. Labour to under Hand every mercy a- 
 right. 156 
 
 4. Take notice of the attings of God % 
 whileft they are new. 158 
 
 5. Love the Lord for his goodnefs. 161 
 
 CHAP. VI U] 
 
 Arguments fr of ounded that may provoke 
 Chriftians to keepfuch a £ our nail. 1 6% 
 
 1. Ab excellenti, // is an excellent duty. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 2. Ab xquojt is very juft and equal. 1 67 
 
 3. Aneceflfario, // is very nece(fary. 170 
 1. In regard of the badnefte of our me- 
 mories. Ibid. 
 
 1. To prevent the great fin of un~ 
 thankfulnejfe. 171 
 
 3. To prevent the great clanger of for ^ 
 getfulneffe. 172 
 
 4. Abutili,/* is a profitable courfe, and 
 that in*] regards. 174 
 1. It would be an excellent '-.way to per- 
 petuate the mem or tall of fome, and 
 promote the good of others. 175 
 
 2. It 
 
The Contents. 
 
 2. It would bring us into great acquain- 
 tance with God. ij6 
 
 3. It would much enlarge our hearts 
 with hve to our God. 1 77 
 
 4 # It would enlarge our hearts with 
 kindnejfe aud companion to our Bre* 
 thren. 178 
 
 5. It would much encreafejn us f elf- 
 ahafement of heart. 1 79 
 
 6. It would provoke us to thankful- 
 nefle. 180 
 
 7. It would very much help our faith. 
 
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