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cause_n	day_n	great_a	see_v	4,001	5	3.3205	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04405	The Christian's companion under soul-exercise : or, A sermon preached at the Hole of the Gate-rige in the parish of Bathgate and shire of Linlithgow. May 26. 1678. By Mr. John Mosman.	Mosman, John, ca. 1634-1693.	1678 (1678)	Wing M2857AA; ESTC R180720	15,365	25

and took a grip of me and drew me back again and now He is such an one to me as shall have no Fellow in my Account He shall never have a Companion and how ever or who ever they are that turn aside by the Tents of His Companions yet I know none that I will make Companion to Him Surely the Soul will say so who remembers how near hand Hell some Day they once were Secondly It will have great Influence upon your Carriage and Conversation it will make you a very Tender Walker with GOD Whenever an Old Lust or Idol comes back to seek the Old Room that it had in your Heart before it will not be made Welcome nor admitted by you to win so far ben again I lle keep thee now at the back of the Door and I will not let thee in at all Ay will the Man say a Curse be upon thee Idol or Lust for thou thought to have had me to Hell and indeed thou had brought me once very near the Pit but through Grace I escaped as a Bird out of the Snare of the Subtile Fowler And now through the Grace of GOD thou and I shall never shake hands together again O but the Soul that remembers how near Hell it has been but it will be a Christian of a Tender and Circumspect Walk and will be Spiritually Minded in every thing that Soul will be so far from making Peace with an Idol or Lust of the Heart upon any account that the very first thoughts strucken in 〈◊〉 ●pon the Heart to Intertain and Welcome it back again 〈…〉 Old Place will strick Fear and Terror in the Heart Thi●●●ly If ye remember how near hand Hell some time a day once ye were it will make you very Humble under every Cross and very Submissive under every Affliction When brought under Trouble or Affliction whether outwardly or inwardly or it may be both at such a time Satan will come to thee and say to thee see how Christ handles thee did I not tell thee how He would use thee and now see whether He uses thee Friendly-like or no. Nay but says the Poor Man for this Affliction or Cross shall I cast out with Him that has come in betwixt me and Hell and satisfied Justice for me and freed me from the Curse of the Law by His own Blood No that will I not do let Him do with me what He will let Him lead me where ever He please I will labour to be content with Him be my Lot what it will and it were even to follow him through a Wilderness a Land not Inhabited nor Sown ay and it were through Fire and Water yea and Death it self shall not be able to separate him and me But we come now to the Second thing that a Christian would never forget which is this What a Joyfull and Heartsome Welcome they received from Him in the Day of their Low Condition when they could do nothing for themselves nor had no Friends to give them Counsel or take them by the hand If ye remember his Kindness to you in that Day this will give you a sight of these Three Things First It will give you a very broad Sight of the Freeness of his Love to your Souls O what will the Thoughts of this breed in your Heart when ye remember once in a day I had nothing to Commend me to Him I had nothing to hold me Fast by Him I had neither Form Beauty nor Comliness in me and yer even in that very Day when I came to him so I was made very Welcome to Him and He intertained me very Kindly and Friendly and ●●ok me into the Banqueting-house of Wine and there He Feasted me with his Love O wonderfull that in that Day when there was none to speak a Good for me nor to do for me He both spake for me and did all my Business even when there was not so much as one to say for me He said Let thy Soul dwell with the rest of My Friends I both came to him without a Friend to speak for me and also in my Rags Filthiness and yet I was Welcome to him O but this may the Soul say was Great Free Love and Mercy to my Soul Undeserved from Him Secondly This will let you see or hold out to you the Riches of his Grace may the Poor Soul say that has gotten an Interest in Christ I went to him in the Day of my Low Estate and even when I had justly offended him and given him great cause to be Angry with me and to Frown at me and yet even in that Case he did not cast up to me my Faults nor any piece of my Folly or former Miscarriage but in his Gentleness he made me Welcome for all my Folly and stood not upon my Wickedness to Debarr me from his Presence as he might have done Thirdly If ye do not forget what a kindly Welcome ye have gotten from him it will let you see your Duty and make you to lay out your self for him to the outmost of your Power it will make you Tender of his honour Will the Soul say shall I do this and make the World speak Ill of him that has been so Kind to me Shall I for any Worldly Gain or Earthly Advantage or Honour or Pleasure or any thing else garr my Kind LORD be ill spoken of through his Strength I shall never do that while I live that may Dishonour him or make his Precious and Blessed Name to be Evil spoken off But the Third Thing I would speak a word too which ye would never forget so long as ye live is this The Seasonableness of his Appearance for you if ye remember how seasonably He came and appeared for you when ye were in your Low Condition it will have Influence upon you to make you do these Two or Three Things First It will make you remember him in all your Straits and wait patiently upon him till He appear for you There will never be a Strait or a Cross that ye can come into but ye will wait upon him in it for your Outgate It may be Satan and Corruption and Temptations will be ready to offer you a Back-door to escape out of the Trial But says the Soul that remembers of his seasonable appearing for them in their Low Condition his coming to me when I was in a Low Condition was seasonable enough before and why should not I wait upon him now in this Trial till he appear for me as formerly he did when I was not waiting for him And Secondly It will not only make you wait upon him but wait with great Confidence and Hope of his appearance for you Says the Poor Soul I will not quate my Confidence nor be Discouraged under this Cross And why so Wa says the Poor Body I wat well he that came so seasonably and in time enough for my Relief and appeared for me when I was not looking for