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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72054	The saints legacies: or, A collection of certaine promises out of the word of God Collected for private use, but published for the comfort of Gods people: by Anne Phoenix.; Collection of certaine promises out of the word of God.	Fawkner, Antony, b. 1601 or 2, attributed name.; Farindon, Anthony, 1598-1658, attributed name.	1633 (1633)	STC 10635.3; ESTC S124923	43,955	285

legacies in our fathers wil and setting us a work both by penne and practise to sue for the same The volume is little but the vertue contained in the same is great The booke is extraordinarie being altogether for application and practise The scope and drift of it is to furnish beleevers 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 downe upon their soules 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 wil not like it for it is full of holinesse the carnall protestant will not discerne of it nor relish it for it is spirituall the dissembling hypocrite wil not wel approve of it for it will rob him of his Rimmon slay his M rs his Delilah his Herodias his daling sinne it will tell him if he applyes promises hee must keepe the conditions obey praecept and put every iniquitie though never so pleasurable or profitable far way from his Tabernacles But the honest hearted and sinceere beleever will approve of it prize it use it and profit by it And not to over-commend my commoditie as one desirous to make it more vendible and sailable for neither I nor its author God is witnesse ayme at any such thing but at the spiritual good of their soules unto whom it shall come this little booke like a well filled little Apothecaries shop containes within it heavenly receipts of all sorts wholsome 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 lustie and strong able for Gods service d Phil. 2.12 for working out his owne salvation with feare and trembling What here I speak unto one beleever I intend for all Hath sin that deadly poyson infected thee Lo here in this little booke an Antidote a preservative which will extract and expell this poyson Hath this serpent so fierie stung thee e Numb 21.8 Lo here the Brasen Serpent upon the pole Hath it beggered and undone thee Ioh. 3.14 15. Behold a way in this booke how thou maist become rich Doth it dayly trouble thee will it needs tyranize and dominere over thee This little book will learne thee to depose this Tyrant f Rom. 6.14 and tell thee hee shall not haue dominion and Lordship over thee Hath it stricken thee dead Lo here meanes of reviving and inliving thee to an happie life of grace Doth it threaten thy ruine Lo here physicke for thy feares g 1 Cor. 15.35 death hath lost its sting sinne is destroyed death shall fully and finally free thee from it Art thou hunted like a poore lambe by the hellish devouring Lion Sathan and chased before this infernal dog like a silly Deere in temptations Lo here a thicket a shelter a shepheard under which thou mayest repose and rest thy selfe in safetie Art thou overcome with his wilie stratagems Lo here wisedome Art thou beaten down with his power Lo here strength Fearest thou the fierie darts of this evill one Lo here a little house-full of targets sheilds and buklers h Ephes 6.16 promises applyed by faith which will repel and quench them i Iob. 6.4 Do Gods terrours set themselves in array against thee are Gods arrowes in thee doth his flaming wrath burne in thy bosome and is likely to consume thee Lo streames of mercy 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 mercy shall flow forth upon thy soule and allay its burning heat and scorching inflamations Doth the wilie world endevour to intangle and inveagle thee by its lures and snares Lo here liberty freedome better things propoūded and promised which beleevers 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 mayest have them to the great joy of theine heart and content of thy Spirit Set faith a worke to draw out what thou wantest 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 run so full of mercy grace truth comfort joy peace for every beelever by faith and thou shalt be satiate with every good thing Lest I shold make too great a porch for this little house and too great gates for this little citie I will conclude with an exhortation to all my beloved brethren and sisters which are beleevers to perfect their faith by application of the promises both of these in this sweet little booke and of all others contained in the Old and New Testament Suffer not GODS promises as I may so say to milke themselves doe you draw them let not good rest with God which you may have by beleeving and begging to your great comfort and inriching 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 confirmed by the pretious promises alway to trade for you in heaven untill you come thither your selves I would desire all beleevers to make this their pocket book that it may sollicite and wooe them to prayer make solid firme their faith increase their graces cōforts and heavenly hopes prepare them for induring the stormes of trouble tempests of temptations and may incourage them in holy weldoing and christian perseverance unto the end k Heh 6.12 Now bretheren my hearts desire is that yee bee not slothfull but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises That you may bee inheritours of them it shal be my daily prayer unto the Lord my God to bestow upon your heartes to use all good meanes for the attaining of the good in these other promises of God unto his people That he would teach and enable you to meditate upon them diligently day and night to beleeve thē firmly to apply thē severally particularly personally to sue for them earnestly by prayer constant and fervent to wait for their promised accomplishment by patience that so you may enjoy the good of them here hereafter which God in mercie grant unto mee and also you Amen To the Reader MAn which at the beginning was created happy Gen. 1.26 Eph.