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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65308	A plea for the Godly wherein is shown the excellency of a righteous person / by Thomas Watson ...	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1672 (1672)	Wing W1138; ESTC R10636	40,142	126

it were to put the righteous and the wicked in a pair of Scales the one weighs as massy Gold the other weighs lighter than the dust of the Ballance Doctrine He who is truly righteous is far more excellent than any wicked person in the world whatsoever I say truly righteous to exclude the Hypocrite who hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Form and slight tincture of piety but knows not the grace of God in truth Col. 1. 6. He hath nothing of religion but the name Rev. 3. 1. and religion often suffers by him But he who is really righteous is the excellent person and hath a superiority to all others I Sam. 15. 28. For the illustrating of the Proposition I shall do two things I shall shew 1. Wherein the righteous man is more excellent 2. Why   1. Wherein a righteous man is more excellent than another This appears three ways In respect of 1. What he is   2. What he hath   3. What he shall have 1. A righteous man is more excellent than a wicked in respect of what he is 1. He is more richly endued with Wisdom he is of a dexterous sagacity mixing the Serpents prudence with the Doves innocency I Cor. 2. 15. He that is spiritual judgeth all things As the Soul in the eye is the cause why it sees so the Spirit of God in the mind is the cause why it savingly understands The anointing of the Holy Ghost is irradiating it clears a Christians eye-sight I Joh. 2. 27. The same Unction teacheth you all things The Saints are compared to wise Virgins Mat. 25. 2. Sensualists have often a greater reach in matters of the world but they have no insight into the deep things of God I Cor. 2. 14. A Swine may see an Acorn under the Tree but it cannot see a Star David being divinely illuminated grew wiser than his teachers Psal. 119. 99. A righteous man is Wise 1. To know himself Take the most Mercurial Wit the subtle Politician who is able to dive into the arcana Imperii the mysteries of State yet he is acutè obtusus ignorant of his own heart There are those Meanders and Sophisms those intrinsick pollutions that he cannot find out he dresseth himself by the flattering-glass of self-love he sees not that evil which is in him nor will he believe it Hazael could not imagine he should be so bad when he came to be King 2 King 8. 13. But a Soul spiritually enlightned sees that which the natural man doth not he sees legions of vain thoughts he sees how his grace is checker'd with corruption his humility is stained with pride his faith mixed with unbelief His very duties are but splendida peccata shining sins He sees so much of his heart that he dares not trust it 2. A righteous man is wise to know Jesus Christ The natural man hears of Christ by the hearing of the ear but he doth not know him Cant. 5. 9. What is thy beloved more than another beloved Those who journeyed with Paul heard a voice but saw no man Act. 9. 7. so the unregenerate person hears the Minister set forth Christ as altogether lovely he hears a voice but sees no man he sees not Christs orient beauties Christ is a treasure but an hid treasure But a gracious soul hath the vail taken off he sees the amazing Excellencies of Christ 1 Pet. 2. 7. Unto you that believe he is precious his Merits Graces Benefits are precious a righteous man hath Christs eye-salve to see his tried gold Rev. 3. 18. Zeuxis having drawn a curious Piece Nicostratus fell into the admiration of it and commended it an ignorant man stood by and asked him what such rare Excellency he saw in that Piece saith he If thou couldst see with my eyes thou wouldst admire as well as I. So if a carnal man could see with a spiritual mans eyes he would wonder at those surpassing beauties in Jesus Christ which now he makes light of 3. A righteous man is wise to discern the Times 1 Chron. 12. 32. The Children of Issachar were men that had understanding of the Times The world cries out Glorious times but a righteous man hath an eye of discerning he can see when the wicked make Gods law and when religion is crucified by such as cry Hosanna to it He is wise to keep from the contagion of the times Rev. 14. 2. These are they which were not defiled with women for they are Virgins A person divinely qualified is wiser than to run himself into snares or go to hell for company he is wise to Salvation Psal. 111. 10. A good understanding have all they that do his Commandments 2. A righteous man is of a more excellent birth Alexander fained himself to be Son to Jupiter every good Christian is High-born he is born of God and that is more than to come of Princes and be of the blood-royal David thought it no small honour to be the Kings Son in law 1 Sam. 18. 18. Oh what an infinite honour is it to be regenerated by the Spirit and enrolled among the first born of Heaven the righteous man derives his Pedigree from the Ancient of days Dan. 7. 9. he gives the fairest Scutcheon the Eagle and ●…he Lion he is near a kin to the Lion of the Tribe of Judah 3. A righteous person is of a more excellent beauty How is worldly beauty courted by all and what is it Prov. 31. 30. Beauty is vain the bravest features of body and the most lovely sanguine are no other than well-coloured earth But a righteous person hath a Coelestial beauty shining in him he is imbellished with knowledg love meekness which are of such Oriental splendour as allure the very Angels A good Christian is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he hath some idaea and resemblance of that sparkling holiness which is in the Deity Christ is infinitely taken with the spiritual beauty of his Church Cant. 6. 4. Thou art beautiful O my love as Tirzah comely as Jerusalem Tirzah was a map of pleasure Jerusalem was the Metropolis of Judea the Star and light of all the Eastern world This was Hieroglyphical to set forth the radiancy of the Churches glory And Ver. 5. Turn away thine eyes from me for they have overcome me as if Christ had said Oh my Spouse such a resplendent lustre is in thy Visage that I have much ado to bear it I am wounded with the delightful darts of thy beauty One eye of a Believer draws Christs heart to it Cant. 9. 9. Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes A Saints beauty never withers it out-lives death True grace like colours laid in oyl cannot be washed off 4. A righteous mans thoughts are more excellent Thoughts are the first-born of the Soul sinful thoughts arise out of a bad heart like sparks out of a furnace an