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cause_n	affliction_n	lord_n	sin_n	1,503	5	4.9511	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64802	A wise virgins lamp burning; or Gods sweet incomes of love to a gracious soul waiting for him Being the experiences of Mrs. Anne Venn, (daughter to Col. John Venn, & member of the Church of Christ at Fulham:) written by her own hand, and found in her closet after her death. Wherein is declared her exceeding frequent addresses to the throne of grace, and how speedily answered. Written for the comfort of such as mourn in Sion, and quickning of saints by her blessed example.	Venn, Anne.	1658 (1658)	Wing V190; ESTC R219225	131,041	301

of Encouragement as if the Lord should say You shall see that my heart is in this Work that I will not only do it but I greatly desire to do it and therefore if it were possible for me to forget it yet I give you this liberty and freedom to come and put me in remembrance nay I lay it as a law of love upon you that you do thus come and minde me of it Put me in remembrance let us plead together Oh the admirable condiscention in this high God who hath so much povver as he hath before expressed that he can work and none can let it and yet will suffer his poor Worm to plead with him About the beginning of this fifth Month there were these hints given me and hopes from the Lord which I do not yet know but I may take as an answer to several Petitions put up to him As first That I had not lived answerable to that counsel the Lord was pleased to hand out to me by Mr. Cradock i.e. Not to speak evil of any one or other behind their back but I have often cryed out to others not to themselves of the pride of this body and that body and the passion of this or that person and yet behold how sadly it reigns in my self may not the Lord righteously suffer it in me and shew me the evil and folly of it beholding the Mote in anothers eye and behold a beam in my own at this time also was that brought to my hands in Jam. 1. 2 6. If any man among you seem to be reli●ious and bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart this mans religion is in vaine A sad word Also in the 4. 5. 6. Verses of this same Chapter 4. But let patience have her perfect work that you may be perfect and entire wanting nothing 5. If any of you lack wisdome let him ask it of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him 6. But let him ●sk in faith nothing wavering for hee that wavereth is lik a wave of the sea driven with the winde and tossed A gratious promise to those that lack wisdome and aske it and in the 4. ch of Iam. v. 2 3 you ask and receive not because you ask amiss that you may consume it upon your lusts And truly what do I know but that the Lord doth suffer this lust as he did the Canaanites of old to trouble the Israelites so this lust to humble me and prove me and know or make me to know what is in my heart O my soule how hast thou need then to set all the force of thy soule a gainst this bitter root of pride which for ought I know was the cause of all other evils O the wayes that the Lord hath taken to pluck up this root out of thy heart hath not all thy afflictions of inward and outward man beene directed as it were against this sin what delight else hath the Almighty to lay sickness and weakness upon thee why doth he thinkest thou permit all the mocks and jears thou daily meetest with why it was for that continued working up of thy pride notwithstanding all his dealings with thee to pul downe when thou art lifted up too much so that thou mayst thank thy own pride for all Some hints from the Lord at Mr. Thorns about the end of the 5 Month 1654 which I know not but may be an answer of former petitions May-be thou wouldest honour God in one way and condition and he would have thee to honour him in another yea may-be he would have thee honour him by living by faith rouling upon him for the subduing of thy corruptions and in the mean time will be honoured by continual strugling and fighting with them O my soule hast thou not often yea oh how often tempted the Lord sadly concerning this and the Lord grant it may be the last after many solemn resolutions and promises unto the Lord never to provoke him thus any more and yet to do it again yea might not the Lord do this even in answer to prayer thou having begged of him that morning to give and order all thy words and actions that day oh that God would at last make thee wise and so order thy spirit and subdue this rising of corruption so as thou maist never more provoke him in this kind Vpon the 6 of this 6 month 1654. The Lorddrew out my heart in the morning to seek of him that he would be pleased to bow down and appeare gloriously and gratiously to and through his servant Mr Knight who had but the day before at Fulham Chappel so exceedingly pressed us to seek the Lord for him which wrought upon my heart greatly to begg of God that he might find the fruit of the prayers of his people on his behalf As also that my poor soule and others that did appeare to meet that morning might have a gratious visit from him that none of all my unfittness to attend upon him or unfruitfullness under former appearances might hinder his gratious presence with and to my soul this day but that though there was nothing in me to move him to it yet that he would doe it for his own name and glory sake that my soul might have such a light of him as might conform me more and more to him And how graciously was the Lord pleasd to bow down this day as a God hearing prayer that first on the behalf of his servant Mr Knight that was to speak this day in his name how gloriously did hee appeare not only through his Poor worms but even in him also greatly drawing out his heart both in prayer preaching In prayer and therein begging of God in the entrance of his services his presence and mightily in a way of faith rouling upon him for an answer of prayer even at this present season The 27 of this 6 Month being the Lords day and finding my heart very dead and cold all the week and also now very unprepared to meet the Lord or expect any appearance at all from him I did yet in a few short desires present my request to him beging his mighty presence unvailing the Lord Iesus both to and through his servant to our poor souls beseeching him also that I might have a clear sight of his goodness in it and that he would please to appear a God nay and not a God a far off telling him withal that my poor soul had found him to be so notwithstanding all my unfitness and unworthiness beseeching him even now to make it appear to my soul that he is a God hearing prayer and that he would give my soul a very glorious sight of my Lord Iesus and not only discover him to me but cause these discoveries to work with mighty power upon my heart really taking it off from all other things whatsoeuer and fix it wholy upon himselfe with many other requests of this