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A97360	The works of the judicious and learned divine Dr. Thomas Taylor, part 1. sometimes preacher of Aldermanbury, London. Published by himself in his life time, in several smaller volumes, now collected together into three volumes in fol. two of which are here bound together. The first volume containing, I. An exposition on the 32. Psalm ... The second volume containing, I. An exposition of the parable of the sower and seed, on Luk. 8. ... The third volume is in the press, and will containe in it, I. The progress of sts, to full holinesse ...	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1659 (1659)	Wing T560A	683,147	498

it for this being as Queen among the vertues goeth not alone but with all the train of vertues as hand-maids attending upon her The chief of them are these four 1 A true knowledge of the Word of God acknowledging it in part and in wh●le to bee the truth of God and that himself is straightly bound to believe and embrace the same and that hee hath a special part in the promise of grace and life by Christ in which grace he resteth himself daily growing up in the certainty and assurance of his salvation 2 A sound ●oy of the heart which the Apostle Peter calleth unspeakable and glorious breaking out into thankful praises in that the Lord hath begun 〈◊〉 ●iness by making Christ his Wisdome Righteousness Sanctification and 〈◊〉 ●tion The Poor Blind and Lame persons of whom wee read in the 〈◊〉 never leaped more joyfully when they had met with Christ and had 〈◊〉 ●s opened and their limbs restored by him than hee that hath met with him and received him into his heart to enlighten him to quicken him and to heal him of all his infirmities How gladly did Zacheus receive Christ with what joy of heart findeth any man the hidden pearl Mat. 13.44 how did the Eunuch converted go away rejoycing Act. 8. And all this is because they can value such a commodity as this is which they see God hath made their own for if they either knew it not or not to bee theirs they could not thus joy in it 3 Christian Hope is another hand-maid of Faith for so the Apostle teacheth Rom 5.2 Being justified by Faith wee have peace c. wee rejoyce under the hope of the glory of God For this is the special work of hope to wait for and rejoyce in the expectation of the glorious appearing of the Lord Jesu And hence is it that whereas unbeleevers are glewed to the earth and cannot think of Heaven but either with sorrow of a formal and false joy and what marveil is it that those who have no better should set their hearts upon the worse beleevers have preserved in them a willingness to leave this World and to bee with Christ which is best of all yea so sweet is their present tast of Christ through Faith and Hope that they are unquiet till they bee filled with the fruition of his fulness being often in his absence sick of love and pine away till they bee with him whom their soul loveth 4 An assured trust relying upon God beleeving hi● word of promise to raise and feed the heart of threatning to shake it and cast it down and submitting it se●f to the counsel and good pleasure of God because his faith hath let him see the truth the wisdome the equity and righteousnesse of all these Such a mans heart setteth nothing above God in prosperity it distrusteth not but hath God for his God in adversity it indeavoureth in all things to walk with God it is a sweet usher and disposer of the whole life so as it is most obedient to the word and most full of comfort and sweetness to it self The fourth mark or note or true Faith is taken from the infallible fruits IV. The infallible fruits of it four and effects of it which are many I will onely note four of the principal First it frameth and fitteth the own habitation it purifieth the heart Act. 15. it suffereth not unclean thoughts unlawful lusts or wandring motions to harbour there it guideth the affections of Love Hatred Joy Sorrow and the rest that a man love nothing more or so much as God and his Image hee hateth not mens persons but their sins and no mans sin so much as his own hee rejoyceth in nothing so much as in doing the will of God this is as his meat and drink hee sorroweth for nothing in the world so much as for offending so good and patient a God This pure heart also guideth the words with wisdome and maketh it his chief study how to preserve with faith good conscience in every thing Act. 24.16 Secondly Faith worketh by love Gal. 5.6 bo●h towards God and towards man towards him that begat and him that is begotten yea and him that is ye● not begotten This love of God expresseth it self 1 In much thankfulness unto him who hath loved us first Our love of God express●d in three things who hath given so much even his Son and all things with him pertaining to life and godliness who hath forgiven us so much and to whom many sins are forgiven they must love much who hath done so great things for us by becomming our portion our treasure and our chief good 2 In shame for our unkindness unto him both before and even since we knew this his love in Christ and have been acquainted with his waies taking up with shame in our faces sorrow into our hearts for the sins of our youth and of our age against the law the rule of righteousness but especially against the glorious Gospel which of all other are least of served 3 In desire of that blessed fellowship of his when and where wee may never sin against him any more accounting one day within his holy of holies better than a thousand besides and much more to bee ever with the Lord and to injoy the p●easures at his right hand for evermore to bee at home with him and sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob yea with Jesus Christ himself should make us groan in our souls and say with David Oh when shall I appear in this thy presence The Spirit saith Come and the Spouse saith Come Even so come Lord Jesus come quickly The love of men by which Faith worketh discovereth it self not onely in just dealing with them as wee would bee dealt by which many civil men indued onely with civil righteousnesse have excelled in nor onely in merciful distribution of outward comforts for the releeving of the bodies of our brethren yea and of our enemies which hardlier goeth down with the unconverted than the former but also in shewing most love unto their souls in helping forward their conversion and salvation For so soon as any man is converted hee will strengthen the brethren Faith wheresoever it liveth it loveth and love being an hand giving out moveth men converted to counsel exhort rebuke admonish comfort pray and wait when God will give unto others the grace of Repentance As soon as Andrew was called hee bringeth his brother Simon to Christ No sooner had Christ found Philip but Philip finding Nathaniel hee bringeth him to ●hrist The woman at the well no sooner heareth that Christ was the Messiah but shee bringeth all the City In finding this treasure the Christian cannot hide his joy neither can any mans joy bee so full unlesse hee with others rejoyce together For it is not here as in earthly things which the more they are communicated the more are they diminished and every mans share is the less but heavenly

bring us into an estate wherein all means fail us God remains as powerful and able as merciful and willing to help as ever he was and rather than his children shall miscarry he will save them by miracle 2 Our callings and means are not to bee neglected because 1 Christ denies not but that man lives by means but not only by them 2 They are a part of that every word of God whereby man lives and if ordinary means be offered we may not trust to extraordinary without some special promise or revelation 3 It is a tempting of God to pull poverty on our selves or cast our selves into danger and is a breach of his ordinance who injoyns every man to get his living in the sweat of his blows But one thing is a Christian care another a carking care for the things of this world one thing is the care of the world in Mary who especially minds the one thing necessary another in Martha who distracts her self with many businesses neglecting the good part which should never bee taken from her one thing to possess the world another to bee possessed by it one thing to use means another to trust in them More care must be had of Gods blessing than of means Vse 4. If man live not by means alone bee more careful for Gods blessing than for the means bee more thankful for that than for these else hee that made bread and gave it thee can break the staff of it else he can make thee great and rich but lay a sensible curse on thy person and estate either in thine own time or in thy heirs And as for thanksgiving Christ never used any means but by prayer and thanksgiving and taught us to pray for daily bread The comfort of the creatures a greater mercy than the creatures them selves i.e. for a blessing upon bread It is a greater mercy of God to give us comfort of the creatures than the creatures themselves Yet a number as if they lived by bread only come to their tables as the hog to his trough or the horse to his provender without either prayer or thankes A wonder that every crum choaks them not for without Gods blessing it might But by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God On ● the word yet every word of God prefer●eth the life of man Doct. This affirmative part of the testimony alledged by Christ teacheth us That It is only the word of God and every word of God that preserveth the life of man But first wee must distinguish of mans life which is either supernatural or natural and also of the word which is put forth either for the life natural or supernatural The former is a word of Gods power and providence creating and governing all things according to their natural courses called in the Text a word that goeth out of the mouth of God for no word of the creature can produce the being or well-being of any other The latter is the word of Truth whereby hee doth quicken the soul and repair it to his own likenesse and this word proceedeth not onely out of the mouth of God but of his Prophets Apostles and Pastors and this word begetteth and preserveth a supernatural life in man as the other doth a natural Jer. 15.19 Now our Saviour meaneth here the natural life of the body and the word of Gods power and providence generally sustaining the being and life of all creatures How the soul liveth by the word of God and not that a man can live by the written word without meat and drink It is true that the soul of man liveth by Gods Word of Truth for 1 Hee is begotten a Christian by it and born of this immortal seed Jam. 1.18 2 Hee is nourished by it as by sincere Milk 1 Pet. 2.2 3 As bread increaseth the body in all dimensions so the Word strengtheneth the soul in faith patience comfort hope love as children grow by Milk 4 Bread strengthens the heart and all the strength of a Christian is in the word it preserves the natural heat and the word makes his heart burn within him and keeps it in a readiness to every good word and work But yet this is not the proper meaning of this place neither can it agree with the meaning of Moses who plainly speaks of the bodily hunger of the Israelites and the feeding of them with Mannah that they may know that man liveth not by bread onely nor yet with the mind of our Saviour Christ nor with his present condition nor with the drift of Satans temptation nor with the sound repelling of his dart which was that Christ for the appeasing of his bodily hunger after his forty daies fast would turn stones into bread How man lives by every word of God And now wee knowing what is meant by the Word of God even the powerful word of Gods providence in creating and governing all things wee are further to consider that our Saviour addeth an universal particle every word the reason is because this word is twofold ordinary and extraordinary Ordinary when God changeth not his ordinary course but by means proportioned unto the ends which are a part of his ordinary word preserveth and maintaineth the life hee hath given as daily bread sleep and the like Extraordinary when by his word and decree he pleaseth to preserve man either above or without or against all means I. Above the means sundry waies 1 Above all that man can expect The word sustaineth 1 Above all means three waies thus God gave the Israelites Mannah in the wilderness and water out of a Rock thus hee tyed a Ram to bee sacrificed in stead of Isaac thus he brake the cheek-tooth that was in the jaw and water came thereout for Sampson Judg. 15.19 and by his word provided a gourd to come over Jonas his head to shadow him and deliver him from his grief chap. 4.6 thus hee fed Elias by Ravens 2 When hee makes a little means go beyond themselves as Christ made seven loaves and two fishes to serve seven thousand persons and much left thus hee made a few clothes serve Israel forty years so as their shooes did not wear out Thus the Word of God made a little meal and oyle serve the Prophet and a widow a long time 1 King 17.14 Thus saith the Lord God of Israel the meal in the barrel shall not bee wasted nor the oyle in the cruse diminished till the time that the Lord send rain and so it was though they are nothing else all the while 2 King 4.42 Elisha had twenty loaves sent him and some ears of Corn hee commanded his servant to set them before the people Oh saith he what are these to an hundred men but the Prophet said The Lord hath said they shall eat and yet there shall remain and it came to pass according to the word of the Lord. 3 When the means are not so small in

and set him on Ans It must necessarily be one of these two wayes either Satan must lead him or else must carry him The former that Satan took him as a Companion or a Leader seems not so probable 1 Because Christ of his own will would not goe for as wee have heard the Spirit led him into the Wilderness to bee tempted and hee would not of himself goe elsewhere because the Spirit of God called him thither and no whither else 2 Christ would not doe it at Satans instigation whom he knew to be the Tempter for neither must we doe any thing at Satans request be it never so lawful for whatever wee doe wee must have a word of God to doe it in faith 3 If Christ had yeelded to be lead as a Companion he might have seemed to have sought temptation and been a Co-worker with Satan against himself but it was enough to yeeld himself a Patient in it 4 The distance of the holy City from the Wilderness which was as those say that make it the least twelve miles from Jerusalem admitteth not that Christ being hungry and ready to faint should follow Satan so many miles The latter therfore seems to be the right manner of Christs conveiance namely that he was carried by Satan through the air who by Gods and Christs permission took him up and transported his blessed body to Jerusalem and set him on the battlements of the Temple For 1 The words he set him on the Temple signifies he set him down who had formerly taken him up and if he had power to set him there why should he not also have power to carry him thither And if he had not carried him thither but Christ had followed him the Evangelist would have said When they came to the pinacle of the Temple and not set him on the pinacle 2 This was the hour of the power of darkness wherein Satan was allowed to take all advantages to further his temptations and he might think this violent transportation a means either of shaking Christs faith with terror and fear what might become of him being now delivered into the hands of Satan or else to make him swell with pride and insolency that he was able to flie in the air or to be conveyed in the air from place to place without hurt which an ordinary man could not and this would well fit the scope of the temptation ensuing Quest But how could Satan carry the body of Christ being a spirit Or if he could why should hee Answ Hee is a Spirit 1 Of wonderful knowledge and experience to dive into secrets of Nature to work strange and hidden things 2 Of exceeding great power to shake the Earth move the mountains and confound the Creatures if God should not restrain him 3 Of Admirable agility and quickness proceeding from his spiritual nature whereby hee can speedily convey himself and other creatures into places far remote and distant one from another 4 Hee knows to apply himself to the creatures and to move them not onely according to their ordinary course but with much more speed and quickness 5 Hee is able to appear in the form of a creature or any person not by deluding senses but by assuming to himself a true body and move it by entring into it and to utter a voice in a known Language as hee did in the Serpent and so hee can in other creatures which have instruments of speech And thus it is not difficult to him to transport a body Witches and Wisards have been often by their own confession transported into remote places by wicked spirits which they call familiars Besides good Angels being in their nature Spirits as Satan is are able to transport men hither and thither as Christ was in the air Act. 8.39 The Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip and carried him from Gaza to Azotus which was about thirty six miles Some understand it of an Angel of the Lord as Mr. Beza noteth But if God by himself miraculously did that the additions to Daniel to which as much credit is to bee given as to any History which is not Scripture affirm that the Angel of the Lord carried Habbakkuk out of Judea into Babylon by the hair of the head Now why must Christ be thus carried by Satan Answ 1 It was not against the will of Christ but willingly hee puts himself into the hands of the Devil to pluck us out of his hands 2 It was not impotency or weaknesse of Christ but power and resolution who would not recoil nor shun any place where Satan would appoint for his assault or would carry him being as well the God of the Mountains as of the Vallies Here therefore wee must not admire the power of Satan but the patience of Christ that suffered himself to bee carried of the Devil being it tended to the greater confusion of Satan and the glory of his own victory 3 Our blessed Lord would be tempted in all things like unto us that as a careful Head hee might sympathize with his members God for the tryal of his children sometimes suffers Satan to have power even over their bodies and therefore Christ to sanctify this affliction to his members would suffer even his own blessed body for a while in the hands of Satan 4 What marvel if Christ suffred himself to bee carried by the Devil to temptation that suffered himself to bee carried by his instruments to execution How was hee haled and carried by the Devils limbs from place to place from Annas to Caiaphas from him to Pilate from him to Herod from him to Pilate again and from him to the place of execution Satan in himself might as well carry his body into Jerusalem to be tempted as his limbs carry it out of Jerusalem to bee crucified and as well might he suffer Satan to lead him into the mountain and tempt him as his instruments to lead his body unto Mount Calvary to kill him Vse 1. Consider the wonderful love of God to mankind who would give his onely Son and the Son of his love to such abasement to deliver him not onely into the hands of Satans instruments to mock to spit upon him to buffet yea to condem and kill but to deliver his blessed body into his own hands to carry and recarry at his Pleasure Adde hereunto the wonderful love of the Lord Jesus who was a willing patient in the hands of the Devil himself Hee knew it was the will of his Father and therefore submitted himself unto it Hee knew it was a part of that whole Righteousnesse which hee was to fulfil and therefore hee resisteth not Hee knew it to bee as great an indignity as never could bee the like yet for our sakes hee is well content with it Now as Christ was content because hee loved us thus to bee tossed of Satan here and of his instruments afterwards so let us shew or return our love to him If wee be tossed by Satan

bring light out of darkness as once hee did in the Creation Rom. 8.28 we know that all things are turned to the best to them that love God His wisdom and power turns things not only good into good nor only afflictions and trials but even their sins and infirmities like a good Physician that tempers poyson to a remedy and of the Vipers skin makes a remedy to heal the Vipers sting 2 This is the godly mans priviledge above wicked ones to find God sweet to their souls either in afflictions or in the ending of them 1 Because their persons whatsoever their estate is are accepted with God whereas the other are rejected 2 They are sealed with the earnest of Gods Spirit and can goe unto God in fervent prayer whereas the other want the Spirit and cannot pray to be heard Psal 18.41 They cried but there was none to save them even to the Lord but he answered them not 3 They have the grace of repentance which removeth sin the cause of affliction and are come out of Babylon though they live in Babylon being as so many Lots in Sodome Whereas the other are impenitent and never removing the cause the effect lies ever upon them and grows every day heavier than other 4 They have peace of conscience and can sing the new song to God and the Lamb having a set of sweet Musick in their souls and with peace they have patience supporting them unto Gods seasonable deliverance Whereas the wicked are as the raging sea and hath no peace nor patience but a sensless unfeelingness of his estate their hearts being either ignorant ascribing all their smart to Fortune or Constellations or fatal necessity or secundary causes being not able to ascend so high as God the Auhor or descend so low as their own sins the just meritorious causes of their evils or hardned and feared or sensless as Nabals whose heart was as a stone dead within him 3 It is one end of Gods extream humbling and afflicting his children not to sink or forsake them but that at the last the powerful work of God may bee shewed on them both for his glory and for theirs The poor blind man Joh. 9.3 carried his misery a great while from his birth to his mans estate and yet our Saviour witnesseth that it was neither for his sin nor his parents but that the work of God might be shewed upon him in the miraculous cure of him when all the power of Nature and Art could doe him no good Lazarus was extremely humbled dead buried lying in the grave stinking who would have thoughr beyond Mary that he should ever have been raised till the last day and yet our Saviour saith that even that death of his was not unto death but for the glory of God Yea the Lord never bringeth any evil upon his children wherein he intendeth not in the end to shew them some great good as Deut. 8.16 The Lord tryed humbled and proved his people in the Wilderness that he might doe them good at the latter end Job 23.10 Hee knoweth my way and trieth me and what was the issue I shall come forth like the gold And the Apostle affirmeth that the trial of our faith which is much more precious than gold shall be sound to our praise and honour and glory as t● appearing of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.7 4 God hereby manifests his care and faithfulness in his promises for hee hath promised how ever he suspend his comfort for a time to return in due season neither can his mercies come to an end nor himself leave his mansion finally Therefore it is that sometimes he fore-tells his children of evils to come that they should not come suddenly on them neither distrust his care in them nor be ignorant of a good issue out of them Sometimes he numbers them out and tells how many and how long they shall be Dan. 9.25 There shall be seven weeks that is thirty nine years and there shall bee sixty two weeks that is four hundred thirty four years and then the Messiah shall come c. And always he that setteth the setting of the Starrs and the bounds of the Sea setteth much more the period of our troubles and the furthest limits of his childrens trials which suppose they reach even to death it self they can follow them no further but then is a rest from their labour a reaping of the fruits of their sufferings a joyful harvest of a sorrowful seed-time wherein the Lord meets them with a full and final deliverance and putteth them in full possession of all his most glorious promises Vse 1. Let the godly consider of their priviledge to provoke their patience and constancy in their greatest trials which cannot make them unhappy For 1 The godly mans present estate is the best for him bee it what it can be the Furnace is the fittest place for gold 2 His trial shall bee turned to good because God hath the disposing tempering and moderating of it 3 His trial shall be but light and momentany not in respect of the present sense but because the time of temptation shall be swallowed up by the time of victory 4 The end of it shall be happy and all is well that ends well here shall be a most blessed issue And therefore let drossie Christians fear the fire who are sure to be wasted in it whilst the godly rejoyce in tribulation and with David walk fearlesly in the valley of the shadow of death because God who led him in was with him to lead him out Vse 2. Let the godly judge of themselves not always according to their present estate or feeling which may occasion their feet almost to step but look to the happy end of their trials And though the smart continue long yet let them be assured that the Lord keeps all their bones so that not one of them shall be broken Neither let us be weary and faint in our mindes for although God seemeth not to hear us yet he hears us well enough And though he seem to stand afarre off us it is but a delay no denial of our request And though he seem to neglect us let us not neglect him but hold on in the prayer of faith V●e 3. Let this serve as a ground of comfort and encouragement to us that when with Israel we stand as it were on the Sea-brink beset with dangers then we may be still and expect the salvation of the Lord. For as the Prophet speaketh Hab. 2.3 The vision is yet for an appointed time but at the last it shall speak and not lye if it tarry wais for it shall surely come and shall not stay Let us not make haste nor limit the Lord in prescribing him a time and means but leave all that to his wisdome lean upon his arm relye upon his word he hath a mind to doe us good and that when it shall be most for his glory and our salvation We are not yet perhaps