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A00502	The saints legacies, or A collection of certaine promises out of the word of God Collected for the priuate use, but published for the comfort of Gods people. Whereunto is now added the saints support in times of trouble.; Collection of certaine promises out of the word of God.	Fawkner, Antony, b. 1601 or 2, attributed name. aut; Farindon, Anthony, 1598-1658, attributed name. aut; A. F.	1629 (1629)	STC 10636; ESTC S122118	53,335	250

THE SAINTS LEGACIES OR A COLLECTION OF CERTAINE PROMISES OVT OF THE WORD OF GOD. Collected for private use but published for the comfort of Gods people Whereunto is now added the Saints Support in times of trouble THE 6. EDITION OXFORD Printed by Leonard Lichfield for Richard Royston in Ivy Lane An. Dom. 1640. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE and happy Society of all true Believers militant in ENGLAND SCOTLAND IRELAND A Friend to you and the Author wisheth fulnesse of Grace Peace and heavenly comfort certaine assurance sealed evidence and seasonable entrance into and possession of the celestiall promised incorruptible undefiled and never fading inheritance BEloved Believers both you and I are infinitely beholden to our ever living Father who hath made his will and given all us his children great wealth rich portions and large Legacies now in present possession graces and comforts in unshaken expectation and assured reversion perfection and eternall glory Wee are greatly beholding to Iehova for his will directory hortatory correctory but most of all for his will consolatory in which he salves all our sores physicks all our sicknesses medecines all our maladies Psalm 103.4 Heales all our diseases and crownes us with loving kindnesse and tender mercies And surely wee are all of us much beholding to the holy Authour of this sweet though little Book who hath so piously painfully and profitably perused the holy will of our heavenly Father and wisely sought and found out and put into our hands the spirituall portion and Soule-Legacies given and bequeathed unto us by our best friend many of which most of scarce knew of few sought and sued for them and very few comfortable enjoyed and wisely and diligently used to the donors glory and their own good Carelesse children come oftentimes to be beholden unto their more carefull brethren and thriving friends who save all they have sue for all that is promised and seek for all they heare of so is it here wee carelesse negligent poore and ill thriven Christians must be beholding to this carefull diligent rich and well thriven Authour who obeyes Pauls counsell 1. Cor. 12.31 Covets earnestly the best gifts and will not suffer the heavenly Father to purse and keep a penny that is due to with-hold grace or comfort which hee hath promised in whole or degree but he shall heare of his promise and if he doe not presently fulfill according to covenant a petition is speedily drawne to be preferred in the Court of heaven and an Advocate prepared Jesus Christ the righteous 1. Iohn 2.1 Suite by prayer begun and in an eager pursuit continued till the thing promised be performed This little Book and private practise of the Author who hath sued for all these Legacies and in some good measure hath attained the same and thereby is become spirituall rich will sufficiently prove what I have spoken Wee are much beholden to this Author for letting us see our Portions and Legacies in our Fathers will and setting us a worke both by penne and practise to sue for the same The volume is little but the vertue contained in the same is great The book is extraordinary being altogether for application and practise The scope and drift of it is to furnish Believers with abundance of good to free them from all sins inward outward secret and open To fill them with all graces in life power and exercise To bring them comfort in and seasonable deliverance from all their troubles To draw down upon their foules and bodies abundance of blessings of all sorts and natures to give them full assurance of certaine and seasonable entrance into glory and to give them fast hold of heaven There are many I know that will little regard it the Prophane person will not like it for it is full of holinesse the carnall Protestant will not discern of it nor relish it for it is spirituall the dissembling hypocrite will not well approve of it for it will rob him of his Rimmon slay his Mris his Dalilah his Herodias his darling sin it will tell him if he applyes promises he must keepe the conditions obey precept and put every iniquty though never so pleasurable or profitable farre away from his Tabernacles But the honest hearted and sincere Believer will approve of it prize it use it and profit by it And not to overcommend my commodity as one desirous to make it more vendible and saleable for neither I nor its Authour God is witnesse ayme at any such thing but at the spirituall good of their soules unto whom it shall come this little Book like a well filled lttle Apothecaries shop containes within it heavenly receipts of all sorts wholesome physick of every kind for expelling and curing all sorts of diseases and sicknesses incident to Saints and for the corroborating and strengthning of new nature and for keeping the spirituall man in good health lusty and strong able for Gods service Phil. 2.12 and for working out his owne salvation with feare and trembling What here J speake unto one Believer I intend for all Hath sin that deadly poyson infected thee Loe here in this little Book an Antidote a preservative which will extract and expell this poyson Hath this serpent so fiery stung thee Num. 21.8 Loe here the Brazen Serpent upon the pole Hath it beggered and undone thee Iohn 3.14 15. Behold a way in this Book how thou maist become rich Doth it daily trouble thee will it needs tirannize and domineere over thee This little Book will learn thee to depose this tyrant Rom. 6.14 and tell thee he shall not have dominion and Lordship over thee Hath it stricken thee dead Loe here 's means of reviving and inliving thee to an happy life of grace Doth it threaten thy ruine Loe here Physick for thy feares Cor. 15.35 death hath lost its sting sin is destroyed death shall fully and finally free thee from it Art thou hunted like a poore Lambe by the hellish devouring Lyon Sathan and chased before this infernall dog like a silly Deere in temptations Loe here a thicket a shelter a sheepheard under which thou maist repose and rest thy self in safety Art thou overcome with his wilie stratagems Loe here wisdome Art thou beaten downe with his power Loe here strength Fearest thou the fiery darts of this evill one Loe here a little house full of targets shields and bucklers Ephes 6.16 promises applyed by faith which will repell and quench them Iob 6.4 Doe Gods terrours set themselves in array against thee are Gods arrowes in thee doth his slaming wrath burne in thy bosome and is likely to consume thee Loe streams of mercy and grace from a refreshing fountaine fluent in the pipes of the promises by thy hand of faith turn the cock and the coole water of Gods grace and mercy shall flow forth upon thy soule and allay its burning heat and inflamations Doth the wilie world endeavour to entangle and inveagle thee by its lures and snares Loe here liberty

freedome better things propounded and promised which Believers doe for the present in some measure enjoy and shall have a most certaine and full possession of afterwards Wantest thou Grace comfort deliverance blessing or any good thing Behold here thou maist have them to the great joy of thine heart and content of thy Spirit Set faith a work to draw out what thou wantest and thou shalt have it Sucke these sweet and heavenly breasts of God by the mouth of thy faith open these pipes and veines of the promises which runne so full of mercy grace truth comfort joy and peace for every Believer by faith and thou shalt bee satiate with every good thing Lest I should make too great a porch for this little house and too great gates for this little Citty I will conclude with an exhortation to all my beloved brethren and sisters which are Believers to perfect their faith by application of the promises both of these in this sweet little Book and of all others contained in the Old and New Testament Suffer not Gods promises as J may so say to milke themselves doe you draw them let not good rest with God which you may have by believing and begging to your great comfort and enriching but take Gods commodities off his hand trade with that wealthy Merchant in the farre Countrey the Lord Iesus in heaven for his rich commodities of graces and comforts and glorious hopes untill you be rich and wealthy and for this purpose cause those two good factours Faith and Prayer founded upon and quickned and confirmed by the pretious promises alway to trade for you in heaven untill you come thither your selves I would desire all Believers to make this their pocket booke that it may sollicite and woe them to prayer make solid and firme their faith increase their graces comforts and heavenly hopes prepare them for enduring the stormes of trouble and tempests of temptations and may encourage them in holy well-doing and Christian perseverance unto the end Heb. 6.12 Now brethren my hearts desire is that ye be not slothfull but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the Promises That you may be inheritours of them it shall bee my daily prayer unto the Lord my God to bestow upon your hearts to use all good meanes for the attaining of the good in these and other promises of God unto his people That he would teach and enable you to meditate upon them diligently day and night to believe them firmely to apply them severally particularly personally to sue for them earnestly by prayer constant and fervent to waite for their promised accomplishment by patience that so you may enjoy the good of them here and hereafter which God in mercy grant unto me and also you AMEN To the Reader MAN which at the beginning was created happy Gen. 1.26 Ephes 2.10 having now lost God and his Image is of all earthly creatures become most miserable no lesse then a slave of the Devill a child of wrath an heire of eternall damnation Eph. 2.2 3. This is not the estate of a few onely but of all mankind out of Christ for we are all by nature under the curse 2. Cor. 4.4 Rom. 5.19 Gal. 3.10 The best before their conversion were by nature children of wrath even as others Eph. 2.3 Rom. 5.12 for every womans child did fall equally in Adam hence it comes to passe that no man by nature is now in better esteem with God then other Cain and Abel as children of the first Adam onely were equally miserable the like may bee said of us all for both Iewes and Gentiles are come under sin Rom. 3.9 And as the Psalmist saith We all are gone out of the way we are altogether become filthy there is none righteous no not one Psal 14.3 O that men and women had their eyes enlightened and judgements convinced of that woeful plight in which naturally they are Oh! were their hearts throughly loaden therewith surely they would not long content themselves therein The truth is most in the world are spiritually blind and cannot discerne their owne misery and spiritually dead too 1. Iohn 5.19 Eph. 2.1.5 and cannot be affected with it The Holy Ghost saith thus of them Eph. 4.18 19. They walke in the vanity of their mind having their understanding darkned and are strangers from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them because of the hardnesse of their hearts who being past feeling have given themselves unto wantonnesse to worke all uncleanesse with greedinesse Such as these are so farre from having any right to Gods promises that for the present they are under the curse and consequently in the ●●nt of all the plagues threatnings in Gods Book Deut. 27. ult Deut. 28.56.63 Wherefore let not such as yet challenge any comfort from the Promises but let them after labour to the uttermost of their power in using all good meanes to bee made capable and fit subjects for mercy revealed in the Promises Is it not pitty so many sweet Promises of life should bee made and yet thou dye and bee damned notwithstanding Pray fervently to God that hee would touch thy heart with griefe for all thy sins and worke in thee a cleare apprehension of thine owne unworthinesse Acts 2.37 Luke 15.19 and that he would bestow faith on thee that by it thou maist bee able to goe wholly out of thy selfe to God through Iesus Christ for salvation Wee having departed from him who is the God of all grace and consolation are fallen into an estate of all basenesse desolation and misery and cannot bee recovered againe into the former estate of spirituall life and happinesse unlesse wee be brought againe to him who is the foundation of life and happinesse even the living God and brought to him we can never be but by Faith Heb. 11.6 which is nothing else but the going out of the soule to God through Christ to fetch a new principle of spirituall life and grace which once in Adam we lost and now need The which worke of faith is not wrought but by the promises and being wrought in our hearts gives us a most sure right and interest unto all the promises of Grace Rom. 10.8.17 Heb. 6.12.17 Thus we through faith and patience are said to inherit the promises therefore we are called the heires of the promise the promises are as well ours who truly believe as heaven it selfe is Now by these heavenly Promises God our Father hath engaged himselfe as a debtour to us his poore children for all things needfull to life and godlinesse 2. Pet. 1.3 untill that blessed time comes when wee shall be put into full possession of all things which wee have now only in promise at that time Faith shall end in fruition and Promises in performance As the soule is the life of the body and faith the life of the soule so are Gods promises the life of faith For from whence hath faith his