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A01235 The priuiledges of the vpright in heart Expressed in brief meditations upon the 84 Psalme: and more particularly vpon the 11 verse thereof. Studied for the vse of the right worshipfull Company of Drapers London By W.F. Freake, William. 1639 (1639) STC 11347.5; ESTC S120859 14,597 40

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THE PRIVILEDGES OF THE VPRIGHT IN HEART Expressed in brief Meditations upon the 84 Psalme and more particularly upon the 11 Verse thereof Studied for the use of the right Worshipfull Company of Drapers LONDON By W. F. The Lord is my light and my salvation whom then shall I feare The Lord is the strength of my life of whom then shall I be afraid Psal 27.1 LONDON Printed by Tho. Harper for Richard Harper and are to be sold at his shop at the Bible TO THE RIGHT Honourable Sir Maurice Abbot Knight Lord Major Master of the Company of Drapers and to M. Thomas Goodyer M. Thomas Bewly M. Steven Burton and M. David Edwards Wardens as also to the Assistants and rest of that Company William Freake wisheth all happinesse conducing to this life and a better Right Honorable and Worshipfull TO give a publike account of the reasons moving mee to make a private dedication of these Meditations to your Company may be expected by some But it sufficeth me and I hope will content others that I acknowledge a loving relation to your Company which unto me is a strong obligation for a due and thankfull respect to you all I must confesse some of you in your particulars have deserved of mee more then ordinary but your Company in general above all the Societies of this City though divers others well to God be the glory for it Accept then I pray you this oblation of gratitude from him who is and will be whiles God shall grant life for the welfare and everlasting happinesse of you all A daily petitioner to the throne of Grace William Freake From my study this sixteenth of February 1639. THE PRIVILEDGES OF the upright in heart PSAL. 84.11 For the Lord God is a Sun and a Shield the Lord will give grace and glory and no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly THat wee may make no disorderly entrance upon the exposition of this Verse the Porter which standeth before the doore thereof must first be spoken withall this causall conjunction ●ox For the Lord is the Sunne and a Shield And hee directs us to reflect our Meditations for a while upon the words of this Psalme in the verses foregoing the serious consideration and true understanding wherof will open us the right door of entrance to that which we desire The Prophet David in this Psalme expresseth an earnest longing after the communion of the Sanctuary in the 1 2 3 verses because of the blessednesse of those that enjoy the same as hee expresseth in the 4 5 6 and 7 verses And upon this Meditation hee layeth the foundation of his prayer to God that he would be pleased once more to admit him thereunto in the 8 and 9 verses Adding two forcible Reasons of his earnest longing in this case the one in the 10 verse the other in the words of this verse In the tenth verse For a day in thy Courts is better then a thousand elsewhere and I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God then to dwell in the tents of wickednesse that is his first Reason The second Reason is exprest in the words of this verse For the Lord God is a Sun and a shield c. I have given you the coherence and occasion of these words now take the division of them Here is first the party spoken of Domi●●● 〈…〉 Secondly what is said of him and that is in severall particulars First He is instiled a Sun Dominus Deus Sol est The Lord God is a Sun Secondly He is intituled a shield Dominus Deus clypeus est The Lord God is a shield Thirdly Hee will give Grace and Glory Gratiam gloriam ministrabit Fourthly He will withhold no good thing from them that walke uprightly These are the particulars which I shall endevour God willing to handle in order as they arise under my hand But first I crave your patience that I may have leave to stoop and gather a flowere or two as they grow in the way to our Text for so the first word therof adviseth mee being a conjunction causall and directing us a little to look back upon the coherence The Psalmist at such time as he composed this Psalme was driven out of Ierusalem by his rebellious sonne Absolon and now in this time of exile from the tabernacle hee is possest with frequent meditations concerning it and is brought to set a larger estimate upon the comforts therof carendo quàm fruendo by feeling the losse then by the enjoying the comforts of it 1. Object A disease that the best man may be subject unto Before this storm fell upon David even when hee had full freedome to to frequent the Tabernacle he could for all his thoughts thereof be too indulgent to himself and his lawlesse lusts in the case of Bathsheba To let us see how too much peace and prosperity is subject to befoole even the most sanctified soule Wee have Davids own confession to this purpose Psal 30.6 7. In my prosperity I said I shall never be moved thou ô Lord of thy goodnesse hadst made my hill so strong A passage of holy Writ that much confirmeth the truth of that which a Reverend Bishop of our own maketh his observation viz. The temptations on the right hand are more perilous than those on the left and destroy a thousand to the others ten as the Sunne more usually causeth the Travayler to cast off his cloke then doth the winde The saying is old and true Plures interimit crapula quàm gladius More lives are cast away through wantonnesse in surfet then are cut off by the sword And I dare say more soules are undone by the pleasures of prosperity then are shipwrackt by the stormes of adversity I would to God that the practice of these times did not proove this too true even among our selves Wee wantonnize with the Gospell and because the glorious Sun-shine thereof hath continued without interruption for some scores of years our souls begin to loath this heavenly Manna as did those lusting Israelites Numb 11.6 And if God should so deale with us as he hath with our Neighbour Churches that we should be debarred the happy freedome and liberty of the Gospell as many of us as belong to God would finde just cause to be troubled as David confesseth himselfe was when God upon the like occasion had turned his face from him Psal 30.7 and wee should learne better to prize the Word of God and his blessed Ordinances when our soules finde the misse of the comforts of his Sanctuary then now we do Our soules would then sonne cry out with Davids in this Psalme Oh how amiable are thy tabernacles thou Lord of hosts my soul longeth yea even fainteth for the Courts of the Lord Verse 1 2. Which extremity that our souls may never be driven to let us make it our suite daily to Almighty God that wee may know the day of our visitation the want