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A19693	Time vvell spent in sacred meditations. Divine observations. Heavenly exhortations Serving to confirme the penitent. Informe the ignorant. ... And, cherish the true-hearted Christian. By that late able, painfull, and worthy man of God, Mr. Ezechiel Culvervvel minister of the Word.	Culverwell, Ezekiel, 1553 or 4-1631.; Symson, Andrew.	1634 (1634)	STC 6112; ESTC S116358	98,125	394

he is not to proceede 4. Whether they purpose to solemnize their marriage in the congregation These being granted before the parents or their vicegerent to proceede to prayer and exhortation to some generall duties of men and women and so to contract according to the common Liturgie in the sight of God with prayer The exhortation after the defence of this duty belonging to the Minister may be briefly a discourse of the doctrine of the law and faith applyed to their estate of marriage and so their speciall callings and most neede 2. They which contract themselves without their governours or parents consent if they be alive are to confesse their fault publiquely before they be marryed that others may heare and feare Corruption 1. Such is the corruption of our nature that though wee bee wonderfully delighted with Gods graces yet when wee abound with them we lesse esteeme them then when wee begunne to enjoy them 2. Our corruption is like to the wantonnesse of children who either will doe as they list or else leave all undone 3. It s a common corruption so to grieve at evills present that unthankfully wee forget former mercies 4. It s too common a corruption that wee can disclose many of our infirmities and keepe the greatest close Good Counsells Beleeve to be saved as a Publican live as a Justiciarie Pray as idle beggars who live by begging Labour for grace as worldlings toil for wealth Provide for thy soule as thou doest for thy bodie rest food apparell and such like necessaries feede to be fitter to labour so labour as to get a stomack to thy food Holy Dayes IN those wee must redeeme the time in resting from our callings Death 1. This amongst others ought often to be thought on to have all things in a readinesse against our departure out of this wretched world and therefore not onely to set our outward estate in order which naturall wise men doe for the good and peace of our posteritie but especially to set our spirituall state in such a readinesse that wee may with continuall care and comfort waite for our change and our Saviours second comming and withall to leave to our posteritie some testimonie of Gods satherly dealing with us and fidelitie in performing his promise to us the seede of faithfull parents that our posterity may be hereby stirred up to serve the Lord God of their fathers 2. Wee can better away to meditate on death which Sathan covereth with eternitie following then on the day of judgement where wee all must make our accounts 3. The bare meditation of death doth so farre move us from suffering with delight to dwell on earthly things as reason disswadeth us to make any cost about a tenement where wee know we shall dwell but a while yet such imaginations of death build up in the meane time the kingdome of pride in us Wherefore it shall bee more availeable when wee meditate of putting off this Tabernacle wee thinke also of putting on the Tabernacle of Righteousnesse and how without that we shall never stand with comfort before Christ in his Kingdome 4. As wee are so to thinke of life that wee bee content to die so wee are to thinke of death that wee be contented to live The feare of death is no more to be disliked then not to feare for both may be with good conscience and in faith if they exceed not for it s allowed by grace and nature to feare Gods judgements 5. To call to minde old sinnes of them which are a dying is necessary to bee done of those which visite them for if they have truly repented them then are they not guilty of them and others may profit thereby If they bee guilty the trouble of their minde shall turne to their good in that they finde their judgement in this world and escape the everlasting judgement to come Decay in grace 1. A most grievous judgement of God it is though secret and therefore not to us so sensible that having many excellent helps for our spirituall nourishment yet Gods curse seemeth to be thereon in that wee thrive so little thereby wherein notwithstanding the Lord is to be cleered who giving his grace ordinarily by meanes doth most justly keepe it from us partly for our unworthinesse either for some olde sinne unrepented of or some present corruption not resisted and partly for our contempt of it in that we setting so little by it have so sleightly sought it and having received it in any measure were no more charie and carefull in keeping it but through our carelessenesse lost it and through our pride and presumption provoked the Lord to take it from us let our earnest purpose and prayer bee for the better obtaining of it to avoide the letts and to use more carefully and constantly all good helps and particularly holy conference which by experience wee shall finde to be exceeding profitable 2. The causes why many decrease in godlinesse be divers as namely the neglect of those meanes which before they used especially of the private dealings with themselves and brotherly conferences in such strict manner as before whereof wee be soon wearie in that by nature wee seeke our ease and through custome grow cold and through security and pride waxe blinde and see not our neede thereof So also that wee by Satans suggestion and our owne corruption doe privily fall into a good liking of our estate in regard of former grace received wherby it comes to passe that wee feeling our selves to bee freed from the danger of sinne and condemnation doe not so feare it neither are terrified with the sight of it in us but through a privie presumption of our safety we easily pardon our selves and deale not so straitly with our selves as before and thus sinne creepes sore upon us to our great hurt Some there be though the fewer who more then they ought torment themselves for their little growth Others and those the greater sort who have and doe continue in a carelesse peace whom indeed it much cōcerneth to be humbled for their little growing in grace The meane wherin a man may with some comfort stay himselfe must partly arise from a wise judgeing of himselfe by comparing his former and present estate both in the use and profit received by the meanes wherein this may fitly be considered that a young plant doth more sensibly shew his growth then an olde tree but the olde tree brings forth more sound fruit in his season the decay or want whereof wee must thus remedie even by calling our selves to a strait account to see upon what warrant wee enjoy our peace and so to feare our hearts with such testimonies of Scripture as doe tell us that this life is not the life of a Christian who must bee a new creature and must walke in the

offered thee despise not but blesse God for the same accordingly making use thereof to his glory and thine owne good Farewell A. SYMSON THE AVTHOVRS PRAYER AT the writing of this Booke MOst gratious God and loving Father pardon forgive all my sinnes and write those things in my heart by thine holy Spirit which shall be written in this booke that as this booke shall through thy grace helpe my memorie so thy Spirit may sanctifie my meditatious that thorow this grace I may heare to understand understand to be moved in my affections and not for a time but for ever to remember meditate and practise thy word with an holy and humble perseverance thorow thy deare Sonne and our only Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen THe lips of the righteous feed many Prov. 10. 21. Hee that winneth soules is wise Prov. 11. 30. The Preacher was wise hee still taught the people knowledg yea hee gave good heed and sought out and set in order many proverbs Eccles 12. 9. I will meditate also of all thy workes and talke of all thy doings Psal 77. 12. O how love I thy Law it is my meditation all the day Psal 119 97. Who so is wise and will observe those th●ngs even they shal understand the loving kindnesse of the Lord. Psal 107. 43. Preach the word bee instant in season and out of season reprove rebuke exhort 2 Tim. 4. 2. THE PRINCIPAL heads of all things contained in this book A. ADmonition Page 1 Affections Page 2 Affliction Page 3 Angels Page 11 Anger Page ibid. Assurance of Gods favour Election and salvation Page 12 Atheisme Page 24 B. Baptisme Page 24 Benefits or blessings Page 26 Birth-day Page 31 Buying and selling Page ibid. C. Calling Page 33 Christ Page 34 Christian Page 36 Christianity Page 36 A Civill life Page 40 Comforts Page ibid. Communion Page 46 The Commnnion of Saints Page 48 Compassion Page ibid. Complaint Page 49 Concupiscence Page ibid. Conference Page 50 Confidence Page 53 Conscience Page 54 Consent Page 57 Contempt of grace Page ibid. Contentation Page 59 Contracts Page 60 Corruption Page 62 Good Counsels Page 63 D. Holy Dayes Page 64 Death Page ibid. Decay in grace Page 68 Delay Page 73 Delight Page ibid. Devils Page ibid. Discerning Page 77 Discipline Page 78 Despaire Page 79 Distrust Page 80 Doctrine Page 82 Doubting Page ibid Dreames Page 99 Dulnesse and deadnesse Page 100 Duty Page 102 E. Earnestnesse Page 102 Ease Page 103 Elect and Reprobate Page ibid. Evills Page 104 Excuse Page ibid. Examples Page 105 Exercise Page ibid. F. Failings Page 106 Faith Page ibid. Falls Page 133 Familiarity Page 135 Fasts Page 136 Feare Page 137 Feasts Page 139 Feeling Page 140 Fellowship with the wicked Page ibid The Flesh Page 141 Flock Page 142 Friends Page 142 G. Gift Page 143 Gods favour Page ibid. Gods goodnesse Page 144 Gods glory Page ibid. Gods mercy Page 147 Gods patience and long-suffering Page 148 Gods providence Page 149 Gods will Page 150 Godly Page 151 Godlinesse Page 153 Gospell Page 158 Grace with the growth therein Page 159 Griefe Page 182 H. The Heart Page 184 Helpe Page 185 Hereticks and Heresies Page ibid. An Holy life Page 187 Hope Page 188 Humiliation Page 189 Humility Page 193 Hypocrisie Page ibid. I. Ignorance Page 193 Indifferent Things Page 196 Infirmities Page 197 Ioy. Page 198 Iudge Page 202 Iudgements Page ibid. K. Knowledge Page 205 L. Law Page 205 Learning Page 206 Love Page ibid. The Lords day Page 210 M. Magistrate Page 211 Man Page ibid. Mariage Page 213 Meanes Page ibid. Meditations Page 214 Memory Page 218 Mercies Page 219 Ministers or preachers Page 220 Mirth Page 230 Mistrust Page ibid. Mortification Page ibid. Motions Page 231 N. A good Name Page 231 Nurcery of the Church Page 240 O. Offences Page 240 P. Parents Page 241 Patience Page 242 Peace and joy Page ibid. To please God Page 246 Poore Page 248 Popery Page 249 Praise and dispraise Page 250 Prayer Page ibid. Pride Page 260 Priviledges of the Saints Page ibid. Profession and professors Page 263 Promises Page 265 Punishment of sinne Page ibid. R Reconciliation Page 267 Regeneration Page 269 The Regenerate and unregenerate Page ibid. Remembrance of good Page 277 Renewing Page 278 Repentance Page ibid. Reports Page 279 Reproofe Page 280 Riches Page 282 S. Sacrament Page 282 Saints Page ibid. Salvation Page 283 Satans courses subtilty and temptations Page 285 The Scriptures Page 295 Selfe-love Page ibid. Sicknesse Page 299 Sinne. Page ibid. Slander Page 304 Sorrow for sinne Page ibid Soule and b 〈…〉 Page 318 Spirituall decay Page 319 Disquiet Sp 〈…〉 rit 320 Godly Strife Page ibid. Students Page ibid. Suffering Page 321 Selfe-Suspition Page 322 T. Table-talke Page 323 Teares Page 323 Temptations Page 324 Thankes Page 328 Thoughts Page 329 Tryall of a mans selfe Page 331 The truth Page 335 Time Page 336 Y. Vertue Page 337 Visions Page 339 W. Warfare Page 340 Watchfulnesse Page ibid. Wishes Page 341 The word of God Page ibid. Worldly mindednesse Page 346 Worldly wisedome Page 347 V. Young children Page 349 Z. Zeale Page 350 TIME WELL SPENT Admonition 1. MAny can stirre up themselves which cannot admonish others much lesse they which admonish not themselves can admonish others 2. Having admonished our brother in meeknesse and not prevailing its good to require him to trie his conscience after his sleepe what peace he hath in refusing our admonition 3. To speake to the consciences of others to rip up secret smnes a man must marke diligently his owne heart whereby hee shall see the secret corruptions of flesh and blood which are in all men Affections 1. An excellent tryall of our affection of anger grief joy c. is by this whether they make us fit to serve God or not 2. It s a notable point of wisedome to make our affections knowne in company as little as may be as did Ioseph and not to be extraordinarie at the table either in joy or sorrow without speciall cause but privately with some godly friend or onely with the Lord to powre out our hearts 3. Every excessive affection bringeth his owne punishment anger griefe love jealousie and the rest as daily experience sheweth Affliction 1. The onely way to moderate and sanctifie our earthly and naturall sorrow which in it selfe is not unlawfull but necessarie as a meanes to make us seeke to the Physitian of our soules is this so oft as we feele the prickes thereof which bee in none continuall but have their fits so oft wee should consider of the end why the Lord hath sent them and so continueth them that so by labouring to make the right use of them not only our mindes may bee withdrawne from vaine discoursing of our losse but also by making some profitable use of them wee may sooner attaine to the end why they were sent which alone

for our soules Note The use of holy dayes We are to be in readinesse against our departure out of this vvorld daily preparing for the same To meditate on death or judgemēt vvhich best liked Hovv to meditate on death profitably Hovv to thinke of life and death The feare of death not to be disliked The use to be made of dying people A great judgement it is not to thrive by the many helps vvee have of our spirituall nourishment The causes hereof 1. 2. The R●medie The causes vvhy many decrease in godlinesse 1. 2. 3. 4. The Remedies Why the Lord often delayeth comfort Who the Lord delighteth in A description of the devills or evill spirits Of olde men vvere more affraid of the devill then novv Note The protection of the good angels comforteth in vvell doing as the evill spirits being about us humbleth in evill doing Man seeth not as God seeth Wisedome and charitie requisit Three notes vvhereby to try those vvith vvhom vve vvould converse Gods vvisdome in affording no stricter discipline A good order of discipline Hovv the devill driveth to despaire Satan tempteth at sometimes to desperation as at other to presumption Hovv capitall a sin distrust is Wee are prone to it Hovv vvee fall therein Hovv to remedie it Gods former liberalitie doth not prejudice his future mercies Note Hard to discerne vvhat doubting stands vvith faith Gods children doubt and vvaver oftentimes vvhich the Lord disposeth to good To doubt is a sinne and to bee vvithstood Hovv to remove the same Causes of Salvation The assurance of our nevv birth a remedie against doubting Sense of our vveaknesse and infirmities no breeder of security Faith and an holy life goe together Comfort to a tender conscience The hypocrite disproved Having fallen into sinne to doubt of Gods favour vvill not raise up They vvho most suspect their ovvne vveaknesse prove strongest in the time of tryall The saints looke too much on the effects too little on the causes of justification Many seeing much corruption in themselves vveaken their faith that they might by feare be made more carefull in life vvho should indeed increase their faith that they might be more quickened thereby to an holy life A principall means of vveakning faith The removall thereof It s no presumption to give credit to God in his Word Unbeleefe an horrible sinne Causes of distrust Our unvvorthines must not let us from beleeving Hovv to remove doubts of Gods favour The use to be made of dreames vvhether evill terrible or good Dulnesse vvhen chiefely found The causes thereof to be searched The remedie to bee used Gods help to be vvaited for Note Why the godly are sometimes more dull vvith the publique meanes then vvithout The omission of a duty for infirmities sake hovv dangerous In earnestnesse the heart is to be searched Long ease hovv dangerous Difference betvveene the faith of the elect and of the reprobate What it is to come to Christ Tvvo dangerous evills Unvvillingnesse to do good to be striven against Particular examples vvhen to be made generall instructions The variety of heavenly exercises tedious to our nature What use is to bee made of our failings A proofe of a vveake faith What benefits vvee enjoy by faith Hovv to encrease faith M●anes vvhereby to be encouraged unto all godlinesse 1. 2. 3. Difference betvveene knowledge and faith The true doctrine and practise of faith a stranger Fevv knovv or doe every thing in faith Foure things to be laboured for of him that vvould doe any thing 〈…〉 1. 2. 3. 4. Note True faith never throughly quenched An holy life shevveth in vvhat sort vve beleev as iniquity vvho beleeve not Hinderances of faith 1. Security occasioned thorough ignorance neglect or contempt 2. Presumption or discouragements Remedies hereof 1. 2. 3. Faith likened to fire How dangerous not to be armed vvith faith Whether this speech I vvill goe to my father be of faith or before it Whence it is that being persvvaded that God is true in all that he saith vvee should yet not beleeve some things vvhich hee saith Faith cōpared to a noble princesse Graces preceding and succeeding faith By the temper of the heart faith may be best tried Note Many deceived in thinking they have faith and have not Chiefe lets of faith or causes vvhy so fevv beleeve 1. Simil. 2. Wee more easily beleeve vvhat God hath said shall be though it be above nature then things cōcerning our selves if they bee contrary to nature Faith like unto fire in sundrie particulars How it s to be kept The vvay to get faith 1. 2. 3. 4. The surest proofe of faith is by the causes and effects thereof The causes The tryall of our humiliation The tryall of our desire of Christ The try all of dravving to Christ The effects Comfortable notes of a sound heart 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. A speciall point of Gods mercie Hovv to prove vve have saith A reverend estimation of Gods mercies to be-retained A svveet comfort In affliction of minde vvhat is to be done The greatest faith is vvhere there is least feeling No man but may fall they soonest that think least of it What use to make of the falls of others He that standeth is to take heed lest he fall Even the best have some slips the vvorse some goodnesse The elect hardly fall tvvice into one grosse sinne Familiaritie vvith sinne hovv dangerous Fellovvship vvith the ungodly hovv fearefull With vvhat sort of persons and hovv farre vve are to converse Hypocrisie is to be avoided in fasting Benefits by fasting Difference betvveene feare and presumption How profitable to feare even those things vvhich never come to passe Those feares vvhich have not their events not to be accounted triviall We are to feare though not immoderately What use to be made of feasts Want of feeling to be prayed against Note Where and why the ungodly love or hate Affinitie vvith the vvicked dangerous The friendship of the vvicked deceitfull The flesh is to bee beaten dovvne the motions of the spirit to bee entertained The dutie of ministers tovvards their flocks A fault in friends meeting Hovv to have comfort of our friends What gift may bee received Upon the event of spirituall blessings upon any hovv to behave our selves Whence it commeth to passe that vvee are more affected vvith mans favour then Gods To meditate on Gods goodnesse how profitable it is Christians are to bee humbled for their light esteeme of Gods glorie In glorifiing God vve seeke our ovvne glory Gods glory still to be aimed at Hovv to knovv when God is glorified An encouragement to glorifie God God in shewing mercie is farre unlike unto man The use to be made of Gods long-suffering Hovv dangerous it is to play vvith our affections Serò sed seriò Gods providence in every thing is duely to be vveighed Gods providence to be observed in the speeches of our enemies Secret things are for the Lord the revealed for us Wherein the godly are