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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89032	Good company being a collection of various, serious, pious meditations; Christian experiences, sayings, sentences; useful for instruction, consolation and confirmation. / By John Melvin, M.A. preacher of the word at Udimer in Sussex.	Melvin, John, M.A.	1659 (1659)	Wing M1656; Thomason E2124_1; ESTC R210169	44,421	139

natural corrupt weaknesse is a spreading deceit 4. If God at any time by any means restore thee to bodily health he can as easily give thee spiritual physick and soul-health 5. Praier hath the nature of violence in besieging God and taking him prisoner and bringing him to our conditions and God is as it were glad to be straitned by us in that siege 6. Little knows the Devil how much good he doth us when he tempts us exciting us to go to God who gives the issue with the temptation 7. God hath as many Antidotes as the Divel hath poisons as much mercy as the Divel hath malice 8. God is glorified in those victories which we by his grace gain over the Divel 9. An afflicted spirit and wounded soul dwell at the gates of atonement and restitution 10. A delicate and prosperous life is highly contrary to the hopes of a blessed eternity 11. He that considers himself well will find that for a secular joy and wantonnesse of spirit there are not left many void spaces of his life 12. Never any charitable man died an evil death for when other graces shall be useless this will bear up the soul upon the wings of Cherubims unto eternal bliss 13. Death to the Godly is the best of all evils and the end of all troubles 14. Impatience with a disease doth mischief by its self and mischief by the disease 15. They that bear the yoke with indignation and murmure gall their spirits fret the skin and hurt nothing but themselves 16. Faith is the life of just men the restitution of dead men the justification of sinners the support of the weak the confidence of the strong the magazine of promises and the title to eternal happiness 17. Faith will trust God's goodness and believe him to be a Father when the storm rises and the keels toss till the cordage crack 18. In all sufferings the cause makes it noble or ignoble tolerable or intollerable 19. Ignorant believers are soon swallowed up and rid over standing in an open field but understanding believers are in a fenced Town and have out-works reasons to lose before the Town be taken 20. No soul hath so prostituted her self but God can make her a Virgin again 21. In every sin we become prodigals but in the habit of sin we become bankrupts 22. He that knows not or takes no knowledge of an injury hath no injury 23. They that are too inquisitive what other men say of them disquiet themselvs 24. God warns before he wounds coming seldom to that dispatch a word and a blow but to a blow without a word to an execution without warning never 25. How many sell heaven and happiness for grains of dust 26. We are born in the last age of the world and died in the first 27. No meditation more serious then the worlds vanity no consideration more seasonable then the brevity of life and uncertainty of time no knowledge more wholesom then the diseases of the mind no contemplation more heavenly then humane misery 28. Poor Infants newly born not able to speak yet prophesie and the contents are lamentations mournings and woes by the tears they shed to fill up the vale of tears they enter 29. 'T is a sign of one nobly bred who first learns to hold his peace and afterwards to speak 30. Wise is that man that sets forth towards heaven in the morning of his daies giving God the first and best part of his time 31. Many old men at the instant of their dissolution desire the continuance of life their flesh being like the Peacocks which being sod grows raw again so after mortification by diseases and age desire to enthral themselves in earthly pleasures 32. No distinction in the grave all have hollow eier flat noses and ghastly looks and all is but dust 33. Seeing the fashion of the body is onely to be altered and the body to be worn again it 's fit we carefully lay it up in deaths Wardrobe the grave 34. On earth we labour for rest in heaven we rest from our labour 35. Water your plants at the departure of your dearest friends but drown them not for whatsoever we complain of here they are freed of in heaven 36. Never any died at London who never lived there so no man ever died in Christ who never lived in him 37. God seldom or never makes use of a godly man to be the scourge of his people 38. As water is powred into a garden-pot at one place but runneth out at an hundred holes so one coming into the world but an hundred waies of going out 39. It was a wise mans complaint that every man thought himself qualified either for Magistracy or Ministry two weighty burthens but now though in the declining age too many are undertakers of both 40. Ambition will to the pinacle of the temple for the glory of the world though it tumble for it to eternal ruine 41. Eminency is seldom sudden and permanent for they which in the dawn of fortune break so gloriously meet with a storm at noon or else a cloud at night 42. If destruction dog us wee are to thank our corrupt affections not blame our Maker he doth but leave us and they harden us 43. A busie prying into the Ark of Gods Predestination is accompanied with insolence and with danger to enquire the the cause of Gods will why this man is elected and not that is an act of lunacie not of judgment and the question is as guilty of reproof as the author 44. Make not curiosity the pick-lock of divine secrets knowing that such mysteries are doubly barred in the Coffers of the Almighty 45. Man's work is to contemplate God's works not to sift his mysteries to admire his goodness not blur his justice 46. In God's dark mysteries he that can see no reason if he see his own infirmity sees a sufficient reason why he should not see 47. Worm and no man take heed how thou struglest with thy Maker let it be thy happiness to be made his Steward though not his Secretary 48. O blessed Jesu though I have committed those transgressions for which thou maist condemne me yet thou hast not lost those compassions by which thou maist save me 49. Never a tear dropping in sincerity is unpitied or unpreserved 50. Outward percussion of the breast without inward remorse of conscience is rather an aggravation of sin then release 51. Study to be truly that what we seem to be and not seem what we are not 52. Meteors and false fires of Religion by-path the soul into blinded zeal leads others into steps of error 53. We may expect a blessing and an acceptance when God's ordinances are used in his order 54. God fills the hearts of his people according to the size and capacity of their vessels 55. As the Water which made the clean woman fruitful made the unclean swell and rot so as the receivers are so Sacraments prove either for good

that the least error entertain'd prepares the heart for greater and disposeth it to reject all truth at last 88. Seducers arguments are not settling but startling keeping men in a wavering condition 89. Piety and verity truth and godlinesse are like Hippocrates twins living and dying together 90. Sectaries lay out their time in examination of opinions and not of conscience looking after the notions of the brain not the bettering of the heart 91. The endeavour of the erroneus are for party not piety faction not faith not considering so much now a man lives but what doth he hold 92. Seducers may be known by their crooked expression uttering truth and error in one sentence shadowing their opinions with the Veil of godlinesse and their mistakes with the flowers of truth 93. As Physicians give bitter pills in sugar sops so Seducers vent damnable errors in fine expressions 94. It 's no small tentation when men in high esteem for piety and ability fall into error 95. The Seducer changes his opinions as often as he can get customers for his new ones 96. The Polypus by changing his colour hunts and takes the fishes so Seducers serve their followers 97. Seducers arguments are like Spiders webs catching little flies simple Christians 98. Where there 's curiosity and wantonness of brain old truths are rejected as stale meat 99. It 's the Divels policy to reproach true Religion by sending many false ones into the world 100. Men's outward conversation should be no protection to their errors for we are to judge of persons by their faith and not faith by persons Century 4. 1. AS dead Fish are carried along by the stream so are dead Christians by the times 2. The new creature is nursed and born under the Ordinances for faith comes by hearing and grows by the same 3. Men commonly who cast off Ordinances cast off also godlinesse for Ordinances awe men's consciences and keep them in a sober modesty modest sobriety 4. He is but a bad Christian that is so by fits and girds in publick assemblies and not in closets in hearing and not in practising 5. All secondary causes are but the rods of affliction in God's hand therefore we should make our peace with the Judge and not go to the Serjeant 6. Error spreads much by the strangeness of people to their spiritual guides 7. It behoovs us to be wary and circumspect seeing all men may deceive and be deceived some errors are so like truths 8. The clearer the water is the deeper wee see so where there 's least passion there 's most judgment for passion muds the understanding 9. Scripture is the great Standard of truth unto which all opinions must bee brought 10. A man may attain much literal scriptural knowledge and yet the minde of God in the Bible not in the man's heart 11. Religion at some times without profession may be profitable but profession without Religion is alwaies execrable 12. Whatsoever a man receivs upon the account of dispute or argument he is bound to disown when he meets with a more subtil argument or Sophister 13. Every head is not big enough to grapple with the depth of some arguments 14. The arguing of every truth disputes men out of truth into Atheism 15. There 's a holy sympathie betwixt a regenerate heart and a precious truth 16. As Oyle mixeth not with other liquors nor incorporates into no body so the divine unction like a well-spring of water works out all the filth that 's cast into the soul 17. He that hath light in his understanding and no honesty in heart is like a ship with no ballast and a great Sayl lying open to every wind 18. Comfort when not found on earth is very sweet to thy soul from heaven 19. There 's more mercy in God then can be sin or evil in us 20. God who requires rather truth of heart then length of time makes sick souls by a sharp repentance shoot out suddenly that if taken out of the world they may be eternally saved 21. He that is good onely under the Crosse is never good doing it from the fear of punishment not hatred of sin 22. It 's hypocrisie when in sicknesse we desire our recovery not the grace of God 23. It 's the hell of hell to damned souls that they brought themselves thither 24. God in bringing his children home sees the furthest way about is nearest suffering them to fall in sin and by sin to shorten their daies and so occasion their repentance 25. A Child of God at the worst is better then a Worldling at the best 26. We have often more occasion to blesse God for crosses then for comforts 27. There 's a blessing to the godly hidden in the very worst things 28. It argues neither grace nor wit for a man to take occasion to sin because God will save him for though God save such a man's soul he will take such a course with him as to make him deeply repent of trying conclusions with God 29. It requires much wisdom to manage our profession to our own comfort and God's glory 30. Education may civilize but not subdue onely grace makes the new change on the heart 31. Hee who hath tasted of heavenly comforts cannot but shew pity to others which he hath felt from God himself 32. Deliverance shall come when wee are fit to receive the greatest comfort and to render God the greatest glory 33. Never despair of the Church for rather then it shall fail it shall breed in a Lion's den 34. That which is not enjoied with overmuch pleasure is parted withall without over-much grief 35. In great distresse the Spirit of Praier will difference a sincere heart from an hypocrite 36. Such is our own inclination and Satan's temptation that no lesse then an Almighty power can deliver us from evil 37. A true Christians desire is not onely to clear his conscience from the guilt of sin past but to avoid for it the future 38. Grief no further yields comfort then it hath care of prevention 39. The triall of repentance is when we turn not onely from sin but to the contrary good 40. We wrong both the goodnesse and greatnesse of God in not trusting him for the time to come by the experience of former favours 41. Old Christians ought to be strong in faith upon this account that their old favours should help them to set upon new 42. Wicked men have not any bettering deliverance no preservation but a reservation to a worse 43. Doing ill is the cause of all ills and we may thank our ill in doing for ill in suffering 44. The Crosse neither daunts the godly man's courage nor stains his conscience 45. A purpose to live in one sin is enough for the Divel to hold his possession and in death to claim us for his own 46. He that hath not a care to prevent sin never yet truly did repent for sin 47. It 's ridiculous for Duelists to go to

heart at first doth tremble at the least sin or error but through custome and continuance will bear up any sin or error 14. The more sensible the soul is of outward things the lesse 't is of spiritual things 15. He that sets his love upon the creature loseth the very strength of his soul 16. Wise men when they go about spiritual duties cut themselves short of the use of the creatures 17. Conscience hardned in some great sin makes no stop in fin 18. A heart will not easily be kept tender that is not under the means of grace 19. A Reprobate hath joined with his heart security insensibleness obstinacie and contempt of the means 20. A Christian may have hardnesse of heart and yet feels it as a man that hath the stone and know it 21. If God take away the grace a man hath he becoms worse of himself then he was by nature 22. They that are not bettered by Religion under the means are so much worse by their use of the means 23. Spiritual grief for sin though it be not so vehement as outward grief for losses yet it is more constant 24. If there were no weaknesse in us what need Christ continue making peace for us in heaven 25. They that have a tender heart from God have also a tender heart for God 26. A tender heart is fit to run any errand of God's sending because its pliable 27. Tender hearts lay to heart other mens estates weeping over the misery of the wicked rejoicing at the good of the godly 28. A cerimonial hypocrite is more hard to be wrought upon then Turk or Pagan 29. It 's a disposition not unbefitting the greatest Monarch to humble himself before the great God 30. It 's the glory of a Christian that he hath got grace to humble himself 31. Many are humbled who are not humble and cast down who have proud hearts 32. True sorrow cannot speak distinctly for broken hearts speak but broken words 33. Justification of God and self-condemnation go with true humiliation 34. Hee that thinks highly of himself robs God of his glory and makes himself an Idol 35. An humble heart is a vessel of grace for so much humility so much grace 33. After the measure we empty our selvs in that measure we are filled with the fulnesse of God 37. All grace flows in upon the humble soul as water from the hills into the valleys making the soul rich in God 38. Seeing humble fouls are onely safe and secure we must either humble our selvs or God will 39. God works many times by graceless persons but he doth not work in them 40. Thunderclaps over our heads are feared but not those which are far off so wicked men fear judgment near but regardless if far off 41. If humiliation have not faith and hope to raise the soul to some comfort it turns to desperation 42. True humility makes a man nothing and yet fills the soul in God 43. A wicked man may be sensible of his judgment but not of the cause 44. Adversity will never hurt where there 's no iniquity 45. Outward expressions of sorrow are no further good then when they come from inward grief and affection for God must have inward affections or else he abhors outward actions 46. It 's an easie matter to force tears but it 's hard to afflict the soul 47. It 's the sin of many in stead of renting their cloaths in coming before God come to shew their bravery and to be seen 48. That man is falsly humble and truly proud who while he afflicts the body omits the soul 49. Tears for sin proceeding from inward grief is a temper becoming any Christian 50. All expression and manifestation of devotion is little enough so it be without hypocrisie 51. Magistrates who are tenderly affected with the condition of the people shall have a people carry a tender affection to them 52. It 's great cause of weeping to a gracious heart that it cannot weep 53. It 's a bad sign when we itch to hear of another man's fall thinking thereby to hide our own wickednesse 54. Praier begs blessing from God and thankfulnesse continues them with man 55. Many times there 's most grief where there are fewest tears 56. Spiritual sorrow is a great deal better then naturall for it fats the soul 57. God puts all his children's tears in a bottle But wicked men spare him a labour for they seldom weep though they have most cause 58. A broken heart expresseth it self more in sighs and groans then in words which the Spirit onely understands 59. It 's our wisdom to observe how God hears our prayert that so we may be suitably thankfull 60. He that prayes with a resolution to fin goes to God with a petition in one hand and a dagger in another 61. Whatsoever the crosses of a good man be his last end shal be assuredly blessed 62. God takes notice of every good word and work the godly do and will reward it 63. Hypocrites are recompenced because God will not be in their debt and it 's all their desire 64. When a Christian lookes onely on the ill that 's in him he robs God of his glory and himself of comfort 65. The good are scattered amongst the bad in their life but in death they shall be gathered to God 66. He that joins himself in love and affection to wicked men on earth shall be also joined in torment and destruction in hell 67. God sometimes reservs men in this life to worse miseries then death it self 68. One death is better then many and a sudden sometimes better then a lingring 69. A man may out-live his happinesse so that life it self may prove a judgement 70. Sight of misery works deeper on the soul then the hearing of it 71. Death indeed is the King of fears very terrible but that which is at the back of death is more terrible hell and damnation 72. Some men's death is like Josiahs a mercy and a correction 73. Many times good parents are taken away that they may not see the ruine of their children 74. Good Christians like good corn will sooner be ground to powder then yield either to the rough blasts of persecution or the smooth flattering gales of error and heresie 75. The chief care of the chief Magistrate is for the good of Church and State 76. Man is freed from the Law as it 's his Judge but not as it 's his Counsellor 77. If a godly man go out of the way he shall smart for it and be whipt home again 78. He that hath stuck long in the mire of sin must be haled and pulled out by violence and must not look for peace and comfort presently 79. Wee walk by faith in this world sense and sight is reserv'd for another world 80. No good is to be done to the soul by praiers and cries so long as we are carelesse of purifying the heart 81. Despise not the outward