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What is the reason that many professors are no more holy and humble, but waspish and peevish and harsh, and of a rugged disposition, but because they have not studied the gospel more
the Sabbath day is our market day, and then after we have bought our market on the Sabbath, we should roast it by meditation on the week. We do not go to the market on the market day to buy meat into the house only for the market day but for all the time until the market day comes about again. Indeed, Solomon says of the sluggard that he is so sluggish and slothful that "he doth not roast what he hath taken in hunting." The Sabbath day is the hunting day for souls wherein the venison is taken; on the weekday we are to roast it and to live upon it by meditation and otherwise. And what is the reason that many do not live upon their venison that they have taken on the Lord's Day? But because they do not roast it by meditation on the weekday.
Idleness breeds temptation. Our vacation is the devil's term; when we are least at work for God, then is Satan most at work about us. By doing nothing men learn to do evil. Yea, idleness is the burying of a living man.
Seek not great things for yourselves in this world, for if your garments be too long, they will make you stumble; and one staff helps a man in his journey when many in his hands at once hinders him.
What if God will that His people should have a taste of hell in this life, that so they may be sensible of and very thankful for their deliverance from hell and the wrath to come? There are three things in hell: torment of body, horror of conscience, loss of God. By our pains and torments, gouts and stone, we think of the torments of hell, or may think. By the horror of conscience that we meet withal, we may think of the horror of conscience there. And by God's withdrawing and God's departing from us here, we may think of the loss of God forever there.
Common and ordinary blessings once lost and found again become extraordinary.Lifting Up
The least sin is worse than the greatest affliction.Lifting Up, 68
What is affliction? Affliction is all that is contrary to one's will; thereby God eats out the core of our wills. Whensoever therefore you meet with any affliction, pray over it and beg that God would eat out the core of your wills thereby; and the more the core of your wills is eaten out, the more willing you will be to suffer for the name of Jesus Christ.Works 3:342
Let not your sense of sin quench your joy of pardon.
God may be blasphemed three ways.
1. When men shall deny these works, or either of them: deny the works of Creation, as those Philosophers who would have the world to be from Eternity, coexistent with God himselfe. Deny the work of Providence, as Epicurus did, and Aristotle is conceived to have done; attributing the events of things, either to the course of nature, to Fate and Destiny, or to Chance and Fortune.
2. When men shall villifie, speak disgracefully of the one or other of these works▪ Of the work of Creation▪ Momus like carping at Gods workmanship in any of his Creatures. Of the work of Providence, quarrelling with his dispensations, finding fault with his ordering and disposing of the course of things, as if it were not in Wisedome, in Justice, &c.
3. When they shall attribute the works of God unto Satan, as the malicious Jews, who ascribed those miraculous works wrought by the divine power of Christ unto Beelzebub, Mat. 12. 24. Thus is God blasphemed in his works.
Prayer is the Christian's element, and as the fish lives in the water as in its element and dies when it is out of it, so a Christian lives in prayer as in his element, and his heart dies when he is out of it.Lifting Up
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