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day_n	friday_n	tuesday_n	wednesday_n	5,860	5	12.5459	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52818	A spiritual legacy being a pattern of piety for all young persons practice in a faithful relation of the holy life and happy death of Mr. John Draper / represented out of his own and other manuscripts containing his experiences, exercises, self examinations and evidences for heaven ; together with his funeral sermons ; published by Chr. Ness.	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.; Draper, John, d. 1682.	1684 (1684)	Wing N464; ESTC R29558	57,400	206

task as appears by his most Dilligent and Divine Diary This necessary but much neglected work of self-tryal I find he began at the spring-time Aequinoctial upon the 10. of March 1681 ‥ O Holy and Happy Soul that had now his hard frozen heart thus kindly thawed by a look of love from the Son of Righteousness as Peters was by a Look from his Lord Luke 22.61 62 Hereby the Lord helped him to say with the Bridegroom in the Song The winter is past the rain is over and gone The Flowers appear on the Earth c. Cant. 2.10 11 12 13.1 most blessed spring of Grace better than that of Grass was now upon him though I cannot give so distinct an account of his Diary as I would because 't was writ in obscure Characters only with a black pencil intended it seems solely for hi● own private use yet with the be●● key we could get it hath been opened that such precious treasur● should not be lost but communicated for the common good I begin here from the Manuscrip● both as to the matter and as to the time as I can judge upon what Sabbat● Day I heard a Sermon upon Peter going out and weeping bitterly after Christ had looked upon him Saith he I went to prayer that night and begged of God to give me Peters Repentanoe and in the earnestness of Spirit I fell flat upon the ground before the Lord to begg it Then I laid long till I had some comfort from my God yet remained I dull and muddy till wednesday night and then had I some communion with my God again even a new tast of his first goodness and comfort in prayer On Thursday night did I meet him whom my Soul loveth again which I found very useful to me finding by woful experience that without Christs strengthening me I could do nothing spiritually nor before the Sabbath ensuing nor in it had I the sweet communion with God I used to have before but on Munday night I met my God having a pretty deal of time that evening for Tuesday morning was not so good nor could I raise my heart at night till it was very late and then had I my former sweetness but much more upon wednesday the same I found upon the Sabbath following and on Munday night and on the next night also though everdul at the first yet inlarg'd after upon wednesday night I pray'd twice successively and found more than ordinary incomes On Thursday again I had inlargements but at the close the Devil made me drowsy to cut short my duty c. but on Friday my heart was kept better raised On Saturday I begged of God to direct me how I might meet the blessing of the next Sabbath which through grace I met with on that day yet was troubled with wandrings in my evening duty On Munday the presence of God was with me and made my duty sweet at night On Tuesday I met with a precious opportunity for my Souls good On Wednesday I did not so well which made me chide my Soul for no better requiting the Lords kindness On Thursday morning I had Gods presence the same at night though troubled with wandrings On Friday I had many outward mercyes yet could improve aright neither Gods word of Grace nor his works of Mercy On Saturday having spare time from business I sought the Lord thrice for a larger sight of the light of his Countenance when the Sabbath came the Lord gave me an Answer of Peace c. Thus might a large account of this gracious Young-Mans Self-Tryal and watchings over his own ways from Month to Month all along but because to do so distinctly from day to day would fill a volume I must therefore wave it and that not out of Judgment only but out of necessity also seeing the key that opened his Charactars could not reach them all neither in point of time nor in point of matter the judicious Reader may easily imagine that this defect will lame us in this work yet though it cost me unspeakable trouble and pains I shall follow my thread in this labyrinth I have already given an exact account how he examined himself upon every monthly Sacrament from August 7. 1681. to Jan. 7. 1681 3. which was the last he did partake of for not long after his Dear Redeemer whom he had so oft admired and embraced in the Lords Supper upon Earth called him home to Sup and Feast with him in Heaven As to his Self-Tryal at all other times between every one of those Seventeen Sacraments I shall proceed to relate so far as my key will carry me The best computation I can make out of the many manuscripts consisting of above thirty sheets which I have to abridge and methodize drawn out of his Diary Pocket-book and Almanack c. He renews his self-examining work again upon March 17. 1681 2. being Fryday how he spent all the time from the last March to this save only relating to the Sacraments we must be content to want it for want of better helps but upon that day he hath left upon record he had wandring thoughts in duty did little for the good of others my sins saith he lay but light I mourned not for the sins of the land I looked not into my own heart nor was I concern'd in holy ejaculations The same he saith of himself in spending the 18 and March the 19. being the Sabbath he remarks the same omissions and not having a frame Suitable to the Day yea in night-duty pestered with wandrings on March 20. I arose from Table without drooping being full glad to meet God there March 21. had the former omission and Heaven little in my sight 22d day could not mourn for the sins of the land and the same frame was upon me the 23. and 24. nor could I do better or look into my heart the 25 of March 1682. nor the six following Dayes of that month could he shake of those omissions April the first he brands himself with the same neglects the second day he adds to those neglects that wandring thoughts had eaten up the life of his duty on the third the same complaint on the fourth missed vain thoughts in a good measure yet only through the strenght o● Christ but on fifth he adds God our of sight Heaven out of mind on the sixth he makes the same moan of seventh my own sins and the sins of the land lay too light upon my heart c. eight the same and that he had done nothing extraordinary for the Church in herday of distress ninth the same yet had some good thoughts but troubled with wandrings tenth the same and so the eleventh adding I have been this day tempted to pride so the twelfth thirteenth and fourteenth are filled with the like complaints and fifteenth he adds I have been spending this noon much too vainly the sixteenth being the Sabbath he blessed God that distraction had not dulled him