Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	church_n	part_n	universal_a	2,451	5	9.1017	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31041	The remains of Mr. Joseph Barrett, son of the Reverend Mr. John Barrett, minister of the Gospel at Nottingham being the second part / taken out of an exact diary written by his own hand.	Barret, Joseph, 1665-1699.; Whitlock, John, 1625-1709.	1700 (1700)	Wing B912; ESTC R28353	124,876	236

may be of good Use to many Souls I would not have you give them away all at once hand over head but as prudently as you can not to such where you can have no rational hope but that they will be quite thrown away and where you do bestow them I desire you would give some good Advice both to Parents and Children and follow it with your Prayers and as you have opportunity be enquiring whether they make any use of them or no and accordingly in the Spirit of Love and Meekness either reprove oxhort or encourage as there is occasion and the Lord crown your endeavours that way with Succes I received a Letter from the Reverend Mr. F. wherein he advised that the School Dame should be encouraged by some quarterly Pension to teach her Scholars the Catechisms and that some poor Children be put to School I much approve his Advice and gave G. thanks for it if you have seen him since I question not but he hath acquainted you with my Desire that you would seasonably and prudently go about it the whole business is much upon my Heart having a longing desire after the Salvation of your poor Country Men's Souls I should be glad to hear from you sometimes how things go on and I would fain know which is your Fortnight day that I might more particularly remember you then and the good Lord give us in some early and evident Token of his gracious Acceptance of us in this thing in revealing his Arm in his Word and Ordinances he is now pleased to send amongst you I have not time to add more now but intend to write to you again shortly Let me hear from you give my hearty Love to good Mr. P. and accept the same your Self I am your affectionate Friend I. B. If the School Dame will undertake it let all Her Scholars have Catechisms given them It hath pleased the Lord to put it into the Hearts of our Ministers and of a great Number of serious praying Persons among us to spend one Hour weekly apart in our Closets in earnest Prayer to G. for the Publick and particularly for this present Parliament which G. enabling us we intend to continue during their present Sessions the time is Tuesday Morning Seven a Clock As you meet with any serious Christians endeavour to engage them to the same Course and send away your enclosed to Mr. B. as speedily as possibly you can which goes upon the same Errand LETTER XXXIII To Mr. B. at Ford about the praying Project December 5. 1695. Reverend and dear Sir IT hath pleased the Lord to put it into the Hearts of our Ministers and of a great Number of serious and praying Persons in this Place to set apart one Hour every Week wherein in an humble wrestling Manner to seek the Lord as for his Church in general and especially amongst us in these poor sinful Lands so particularly for this present Parliament which we intend to continue the Lord enabling us during their present Session we think there are many things which loudly bespeak and will sufficiently warrant such an Undertaking as this but if I should go about to mention them to you it would shew my Weakness if not something worse therefore I forbear I shall only in a few Words acquaint you first with our purpose and resolution as to our Practice which I have indeed in part done already and then with our humble Request unto you as to our own Resolution which we shall the Lord enabling us forthwith the ensuing Week put in Practice and continue during this present Session of Parliament it is to spend one Hour every Tuesday Morning beginning at Seven a Clock as near as we can each of us apart in our Closets in earnest wrestling with the Lord for his poor Church and particularly for this present Parliament O that they may be a band of Men whose Hearts the Lord hath touched O that he would make them reformers and healers to us And now our humble and earnest Request unto you is that you would put to your helping Hand and that you would speedily endeavour in such a way as your Prudence shall direct to engage as many of your serious praying People as possibly you can to set upon the same Work we thought it most Prudent to engage Persons by speaking to them privately and particularly but that and other Circumstances we leave to your prudent Management Only dear Sir let us stir up our selves and one another and once more see what Prayer will do And we do further Request that you will use your Interest in other Ministers that are near you but out of our reach to engage them and their several Congregations in the same Work and also to use their Interest to engage others and when you have an opportunity I should be exream glad to hear in a few Lines what is done in this Affair amongst you I have divers others to write unto upon the same Account so must take leave beging a particular Remembrance of you in your Prayers who am one extream needy though very unworthy of the same I am dear Sir Very affectionately Your's I. B. LETTER XXXIV To dear H. London about the praying Project January 18. 1665 0. Dear and much Honoured Sir UPON the receipt of a considerable spiritual Mercy the latter end of November last as I was projecting what return to make it pleased the Lord to direct my Thoughts and strenuously to encline them to this Scil. to attempt the engaging of a weekly Hour of Prayer by Persons apart in their Closets ' as for the universal Church of God and especially that part of it amongst us in these poor sinful Lands so particularly for this present Parliament and he hath been pleased to succeed my poor Endeavours herein to the actual engaging of a great Number of excellent pious praying Ministers and private Christians as in this so likewise in divers neighbouring Countries as Darbyshire Leicestershire Yorkshire Cheshire and Lancashire my poor Thoughts have again and again been looking towards London where I know there are vast Numbers of such as are Princes upon their Knees but have had those discouragements arising in and from my Self as have hitherto laid an embargo upon my Pen indeed I was ready all along to fear as I had just Reason that this Religious project would if it took in the main yet suffer much damage by its passing through my sorry Hands but meeting with unexpected Success to my very great surprizing Joy I am now encouraged to hoist the Sails and make this further and higher Adventure O that it may be as prosperous yea more abundantly so And I am the more encouraged because I have your dear Self whose prudence zeal and interest in the Hearts of others I have such a full satisfaction of to apply my self unto And now dear Sir my humble and earnest Request is That you will be please to take the first convenient Opportunity