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A64284	Rihgt [sic] thoughts, the righteous mans evidence a discourse proving our state (God-ward) to be as our thoughts are, directing how to try them and our selves by them, propounding schemes of right thoughts, with motives and rules for keeping thoughts right : in two parts / by Faithful Teat.	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1669 (1669)	Wing T614; ESTC R11474	173,501	302

high and lifted up and Seraphims crying one to another Holy holy holy is the Lord God of Hosts which made the holy Man cry out Wo is me I am un lone because I am a man of unclean lips c. and mine eyes have seen the King The Lord of Hosts The Apostle Paul expresly saith that this holy Lord God was God the Holy Ghost I heard the voice of the Lord saith the Prophet and he said go and tell this people here ye indeed but understand not c. now saith the Apostle Acts 28.25 26 27. well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the Prophet unto our Fathers saying Go unto this people and say hearing ye shall hear and not understand c. So one while 't is said the Holy Ghost spake by the mouth of David Acts 1.16 Chap. 4.24 25 Another while 't is said Lord thou art God which hast made Heaven and Earth and the Sea and all that is in them who by the mouth of thy Servant David hast said c. and so Ananias his lying to the Holy Gho t is called a lying unto God Therefore the Holy Ghost is God Again Scripture and Reason saith that He that built all things is God Acts 5 3 4. Hebr. 3.4 Job 33.9 Now the Spirit of God hath made me saith Elihu and if he made man the Master-piece Man the Microcosme well may it be said Job 26.13 that by him were the Heavens garnished and by the sending forth of Him All things else were Created which Text by the after clause of renewing the Face of the Earth refers to works of Providence Psal 104.30 Therefore the Holy Ghost is God And as he made All things 1 Cor. 2.10 Isaiah 40.13 he knows All things The Spirit searcheth All things yea the deep things of Go● for who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord or being his Counsellour hath taught him And as He is Omniscient he is Omnipresent Psal 139.7 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit saith David or whither shall I flee from thy presence In a word He that prepared Christ a Body at his coming into the World is God Heb 10.5 for saith Christ a Body hast THOU prepared me then said I Lo I come to do thy will O GOD. But saith the Angel to the blessed Virgin Verse 7. Lu●e 1.35 The HOLY GHOST shall come upon thee and the power of the highe●t shall overshadow thee Therefore also the Inference is most full to our purpose That Holy thing that shall be born of thee shall be called the SON OF GOD. Therefore the Holy Ghost is God Sect. XL. The Holy Ghost called the SPIRIT as to his subsistence Joh. 4.23 24. Hebr. 1.3 Heb. 9.14 ANd as the Holy Ghost is a SPIRIT in respect of his Essence being One glorious God with the Father and the Son for as God the Father is said to be a Spirit the Father seeketh such to worship him as may do it in Spirit and then it follows God is a Spirit and God the Son who is expresly said to be the express Image of his Fathers Person through the Eternal Spirit that is to say his God-head offered up himself So the Holy Ghost is The Spirit in respect of his wonderful Subsistence in the blessed Trinity by way of ineffable Spiration between the Father and the Son Mat. 3.16 17. betwixt whom He carryeth and re-carryeth the mutual and Eternal expressions of Divine delight and complacency which the Father and the Son have naturally necessarily and unchangeably each in other Gal. 4.6 Job 33.4 Rom. 8.9 who therefore said both to proceed from the Father and yet to be the Spirit of his Son and called in the Old Testament the Breath of the Almighty and in the New the Spirit of Christ His Mysterious Subsistence being most nearly shadowed out to our weak apprehensions by our breathing Rom. 3 8. Mat. 3.11 Isaiah 44.3 which is the Going and Coming Efflux and Reflux of our Breath and so he is compared to the three fluid and moving Elements of Air Fire and Water but never to the dul fixed Element of Earth for as the personal property of the Father is to Beget of the Son to be Begotten so of the Holy Ghost John 15.27 to Proceed And now how awful should the Thoughts of Him be unto us who is a SPIRIT in his ESSENCE THE SPIRIT in his SUBSISTENCE in both Uncreated Infinite and Eternal who dictated and Indited the Word built the World garnisheth Heaven furnisheth and reneweth the Face of the Earth made Man Knows all things fills all Places Col. 2.16 and is every where present at all times whose peculiar and stupendious Work it was to Sanctifie the Womb the Fruit whereof was to be the Saviour of the World Mat. 28.16 and prepare him a Body in whom the fulness of the God-head was to dwell bodily 2 Cor. 15.14 in whose Name together with the Fathers and the Sons we are Baptized and whose Communion together with the Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ Hebr. 7.4 and the Love of God we do Implore Of whom therefore I may say as the Apostle of Melchisedec Now Consider how great this man was Consider how great this Spirit is Sect. XLI The high Reverence we ow to the Holy Spirit ANd yet Wo is Us What slight and low and mean Thoughts are the Carnal Minds of Men apt to have of the holy Spirit of God which the Scripture foreseeing in Deep wisdom as in Parental Relation the Mothers fear to be most easily and usually neglected and forgotten by Children It sets a special Guard upon it Levit. 19.3 saying Ye shall fear every Man his Mother and his Father though her Order be Lust because the Fear of the Mother is ordinarily too much the least so in the cause of the Third Person whose Order of Subsisting is after the Father and the Son though in Honour he be Co-equal and in Essence Co-Eternal Sin against the Holy Ghost I say It sets a most dreadful Guard upon that Awe and holy Fear that We owe to the Holy Spirit when it saith All manner of Sin and Blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men Mat. 12.31 32 but THE BLASPHEMY against the HOLY GHOST shall NOT be forgiven unto Men And whosoever shall speak a word against the son of man it shall be forgiven him But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither in his world neither in the world to come which last words are no Indication that there is any Forgiveness of any Sin in another world that is not pardoned in this But a vehement assertion that there is no forgiveness for this Sin in any world Luk. 1● 10 Mark 3.29 Therefore where S. Luke saith plainly It shall not be Forgiven S. Mark explains this Phrase of S. Matthews saying It hath never Forgiveness And so in the mouths of

which is in Christ Jesus What shall I then say to these things The Lord hath both spoken unto me and himself hath done it Isaiah 38.15 I will go with him though I go but softly all my years even in the bitterness of my Soul So then the Thoughts of the Righteous pick up encouragement Numb 14.9 as the Good Spies from their very difficulties They are Bread for us I will go with this man saith Rebeckah I will go with this Jesus saith the fixed Thought of heart Though I go sadly yet I will go I will go though but softly in my souls bitterness all my years Isaiah 38.16 But yet O Lord by these things men live And in all these is the life of my spirit so wilt thou recover me and make me to live so saith the gracious Heart And thus is the soul fed with Manna aad led about many years it may be in the Wilderness of Anxiety Deut. 8.2 And all this to humble to prove to know what is in the heart and to do it good in the later end The end of the draught or scheme of Thoughts 1. Wrought in conversion And thus have I given you as briefly as I could though more largely then I thought a Scheme or draught of such Thoughts in man as do ordinarily flow from the Grace of God as I have received from that sure Word that is a discerner of the Thoughts and a discoverer as well as a discerner and as I have known and perhaps felt in some small experience And the Holy Ghost Prov. 27.19 that knows all hearts saith expresly As in water face answers to face so the heart of man to man Regenerate mans thoughts flowing from a new nature agree with other natural motions in three things Sect. XII NOw because as I have said The Regenerate mans thoughts are sparks from a new Fire fruits of a new heart stirrings of a new Nature Therefore it must needs be that they partake with all natural motions in these Three points I. Facility Natural Acts and Motions 1. Facility Good thoughts delightful if from a right principle Prov. 2.10 If Nature be not oppressed as sometimes the New nature seems to be are facile yea pleasing and delightful as to eat to drink to sleep c. So are right Thoughts to a Righteous person When wisdome entereth into thy heart and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul c. A naughty heart is like a vitious stomach those very thoughts that are as an hony Comb Prov. 27.7 or as pleasant bread to others do make it turn as it were at the very sight of them Go thy way Paul for this time I have no stomach to think of Righteousness or Judgment to come No no Acts 14.25 Felix his Thoughts were another way suitable to his Corruption He thought saith the Text there was no money coming Verse 26. and 't was the thought of money that made Musick in his Mind But saith David of his God not of his Mammon My meditation of HIM shall be SWEET Psal 124 34. I will be glad in the Lord. When the Miser receives his Mammon Oh how it glads him nay he loves the Thought of it when he cannot come at it Nay he can Think with delight of the Bills or Bonds he can lay them in his bosome that do but Name it Money is his God and Worldliness his Nature So doth a gracious heart with sweetness entertain the Thought of his God nay hide his word in his very Heart Psal 119.11 It goes down with him with delight as his food when he is most hungry Thy words were found and I did eat them Jer. 15.16 and they were to me the joy and rejoycing of mine Heart The Bar drinks in words but it is the heart that eats them by setting the Thoughts to chew upon them And as it is with a man that is in health if he want his set meals so is it with a good Heart kept in good order without many gripes and secret gnawings it cannot want its set MEDITATIONS And surely it would be better with most Christians then it is were they but careful with Isaac to set a part some little time of the day for Meditation who are so little able to say with David O how love I thy Law Psal ●19 67 It is my MEDITATION all the day And this leads me to the Sect. XIII Frequency Davids thoughts good all the day Psal 119 97. How to be understood II. ANd that is Frequency A good pulse strikes many a good stroke in a day and so doth a good heart as you may see in David when he was in a good state of soul health you cannot think that he thought of nothing but Gods Law in the whole day when he sayes It was his Meditation all the day his Crown was lined with Cares And his Head with Thoughts as other mens But he would allow no Thought in the day contrary to the Law He would order all his Thoughts in conformity and subordination thereto And his Thoughts thereof were better pleasing to him then all other Thoughts He was in his Element when in such Meditations and reckoned so much of the day lost as wherein he was hurryed by Temptations to any contrary cogitations If a Bird fall into the water 't is not her Element she neither useth nor delighteth to be there If a Mole get above ground he is not where he would be or is wont to be Tryal what Thoughts thy Element Psalm 77.5 Ask thine heart seriously what Element it is that thy thoughts most use and with most ease My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness when I think upon thee when I remember thee upon my bed and meditate upon thee c. And thereby discern whether it be a Bird of Paradise or a meer Mole for to be carrnally minded is death but to be Spiritually minded is life and peace Romans 8.6 A bad man may have a Thought of God now and then and a Thought for God or the most are very much mistaken But a David can say of his divine Thoughts how great is the sum of them Gods Thoughts of him and his Thoughts of God and the reflection of his Thoughts upon Gods Thoughts Psalm 137.17 for Sect. XIV III. 3. Perpetuity THere is Perpetuity as well as Facility and Frequency in Natural acts and motions The pulse beats not only all the day but all a mans dayes so do good thoughts in a Godly mind What a blessed frame was holy David in when he could never awake but he found his pulse beating Heaven-ward when I awake I am still with thee Psam 139.18 Psalm 1.12 The blessed mans delight is in the Law of the Lord and therein doth he meditate day and night O happy He whose Thoughts are holy day and night that is continually I know Grace is lyable to

best as to Zechariah to the worst and most obdurate as the Keepers of the Watch upon the Sepulchre who for fear of one Angel did shake and became as dead men Luke 1.11 12. Mat 28.3 4. Heb. 1.7 Isaiah 37.36 And now no wonder for he maketh his Angels Spirits and his Ministers a flaming Fire So that one of them is able to turn 185000 armed Men to ashes in a night And yet as the very beams of the far distant Sun in the Firmament do baffle as it were and non-plus the Fire that flames on your hearths which Oh how frightful is it to you when it steals but a little out of its place and begins to reach the bones of your buildings and ride triumphantly on the tops of your houses so and infinitely more then so doth the Dreadful Majesty of GOD apale the Excellency of all Angelical glory Job 15.15 Chap. 26.11 And if the Heavens that were never stained thinks the serious Soul be not clean in his sight but the pillars thereof tremble and are astonished at his reproof If the Angels that never sinned are so affraid De●●ls affraid of God How terrible is his presence to that wicked one that is such a terrour to poor miserable mankind that some Nations worship Him as 't is said of the Indians that he may do them no harm whose very Apparition though in a visible shape is so confounding to poor Man that he becomes like Saul before the Witch of Endor or like Eliphaz 1 Sam. 28.20 when fear and trembling came upon him which made all his bones to shake a Spirit passed before his face Job 4.14 15. and the hair of his flesh stood up It is not needful to present purpose to determine what sorts of Spirits those were This is certain that who shall not fear thee O Lord Rev. 15 3 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is an Ode as Scripture calls it and as true that as Saints and Angels do fear before him so the Devils also believe and tremble And therefore when the Soul thinks O I dare not pray for the Devil tells me James 1.19 Job 15.4 Job 33.7 that if I go alone or retire my self to pray he will appear to me and affright me It thinks again O I dare less restrain Prayer from the Almighty for then his Terribleness will make me affraid And if his slave be so terrible how dreadful is he that hath him in his chain who can restrain him if I go God terrible to his Saints Job 31.23 Cap. 23.15 16. and will sooner or later let him loose upon me for not going Destruction from God was a terrour unto me saith Holy Job and by reason of his Highness I could not endure Therefore I am troubled at his presence when I consider I am affraid of him for God maketh my heart soft and the Almighty troubleth me When I CONSIDER c. Oh what high and awful Thoughts had this Holy Person of God! And indeed who would not fear thee Jerem. 10 7. O thou King of Nations For to thee doth it appertain as the Prophet speaks Wouldest thou then be made soft O mine heart as Job's was under the awful impressions of the most High Wouldest thou serve the Lord with fear Psalm 2.11 and converse before him with trembling Go but to his Water-works or Fire-works for many hard things are made sof● by Fire and Water And think of them a little seriously ASK of them of Old times God terrible in his Water-works Gen. 7.1 Psal 107.23 25 26. when the Fountains of the great Deep were broken up and the Floud Gates of Heaven opened in the same day and let them tell thee if God be not terrible Or if that be too far off let them that go down into the Seas in Ships that do business in the great Waters declare unto thee when he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind which lifteth up the waves thereof they mount up to the Heaven they go down again to the depths their Soul is melted because of trouble Verse 27. Fire-works Gen. 19.24 26. they reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits ends Or let Sodom say if God be not terrible and that Pillar of Salt that was set like an Hand in the Margin of that Dreadful Text Ask also of the trembling Israelites who saw the Mountain that burned with Fire Deut. 10.16 18. Heb. 12.21 and so terrible was the sight that Moses said I exceedingly fear and quake Spo●t thy self on the top of flaming AETNA or lay thy hand upon the hole of raging Vesuvius Bath thy self in the melted Minerals that flow in the bowels of the cold Earth Cool thy skin with Cantharides or with the cold leaves of that Plant in which one may feel so much of him that calls himself a Consuming Fire that a touch thereof doth blister the skin and burn the flesh Harden also the Eye-sight against the lightening and strengthen thine ears against the voice of Gods Thunder Thunder Psalm 29.3 Ask the Heathen why he ran under his Bed and that his Imperial Crown was not thought by him a sufficient security to his Head Ask Lebanon what it ails to skip like a Calf Verse 6.8 9. and Syrion like a young Vnicorn The Wilderness of Kadesh why it shakes and the Hinds why they cast their Calves before their time or why men more wild then the Wilderness and Bruitish then the Beasts do tremble when the God of glory Thundreth especially when he makes his Fire-works and Water-works meet in One when the Lord is upon many waters Psal 29.3 7. that is the Ocean And there the voice of the Lord divideth the flames of Fire that is the Lightenings Lightenings which Seafaring men find to be most terrible in Nocturnal Tempests Nay ask Men why they tremble without Thunderings at the still voice of a poor despised Man Felix Acts 24 25. Belstazzar Da●●el 5.6 Nay a Faelix on the Bench before a Prisoner at the Bar Nay a Bold Bels●azzar without any noise or whisper to affright him in the midst of Merriment and Godless security and that upon the first appearing not of an Hand with a sword in it but the Fingers of a Mans Hand silently inscribing a few words on the wall Pashur Jerem. 20.3 Spira Nay why so many are Magor Missabibs fear round about without voice or vision save what is within Ask poor Spira what he ailed and why he refused to be comforted And the many of the present Age that have been hung up in Chains of the Spirit of Bondage and made terrours to themselves and spectacles to all about them Verse 4. Others under the Spirit of bondage See also M● Brewers S● on Mr. 〈◊〉 Hevenin● As one Dales Wife of Chelmesford in Essex that lived many years in perpetual horrour to her self and those that saw her and one Maud a