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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	call_v	day_n	lord_n	3,188	5	4.3142	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30616	A narrative of the conversion of Thomas Mackernesse, late of March, in the Ille of Ely who was condemn'd for robbery, &c. and executed at Wisbech, Aug. 19, 1694 : with an account of his penitential behaviour, and discourses with the ministers who came to visit him / publish'd by J. Burroughs.	Burroughs, J.; Mackernesse, Thomas.	1694 (1694)	Wing B6128; ESTC R29165	12,362	41

touched and broken with godly Sorrow and that felt indeed what the Love of God in Christ meant Oh how did he abase himself saying There was no Creature upon Earth more loathsome than he was to himself by Reason of Sin adding He had been the Devils Vassal and Drudge hurried on by him to all manner of Evil and that now God should touch his Heart with remorse make him sensible of his Sin he did admire with greatest thankfulness One sitting by and speaking of Assurance that Christians should labour for it as a most excellent thing He answered If the Lord will not give me the assurance of the Pardon of my Sins before I die yet if he will but inable me to Hope in his Mercy to seck him wait and trust in him I will praise him I spent the greatest part of this day with him in Prayer Instruction and Exhortation He was not without some damps upon his Spirit that Afternoon signifying his fear of miscarrying oft loading himself with his Sins as exceeding the common size And yet durst not but own that the Merits of Christs Blood and Mercies of God through him were infinitely more and greater Verily it was marvellous to me to observe the Methods of Free Grace with this Poor Man How the Lord by a holy Fear and awakening Apprehensions of the evil of Sin and eternal Misery preserved him from carnal Security and Presumption And also upheld him from sinking into horrid Dispair by letting out some Tokens of his Love and Mercy to him now and then He was ever most humble when most raised with any Hopes of finding acceptance with God through the Lord Redeemer Having left him three or four hours in the Evening I visited him again at which time People came thronging into the Chamber so as created some trouble to the Keeper and He looking round on them dropt several seasonable and weighty Exhortations to them saying Come see the Fruit of Sin and what it will bring you all unto if you don't take warning by me and turn to the Lord by true Repentance I mean not you shall all come to Shackles and a Halter but to such an Hell in your Consciences Oh I have felt a Hell in my Conscience Then looking upon his Coffin Ah saith he I am thinking a House a Town a Countrey nay a Nation could not hold me not long ago and to morrow I must be confined within the narrow limits of that little room Look Sirs what they that have most must have at last but their length a Coffin Then shaking his Head saith he I may truly say with Solomon All worldly things are but Vanity and Vexation of Spirit Vexation of Spirit indeed to me Spending again some time in calling upon God with and for him he was sweetly affected in the Duty and cryed out Lord thou hast said Whoso is weary and heavy laden let him come to thee for rest for his Soul and he shall find it I am heavy laden with the Burthen of Sin it is a heavy Burthen that I have lain under these three or four days but thanks be to God it is lighter than it was Lord thou hast said He that cometh to thee thou wilt in no wise cast out It growing late he desired the Company might be dismist and I left with him alone I desired we might sing an Hymn before they went away all readily assented to it he joyned with us with a very audible and chearful Voice After we had done he said Blessed be God I can sing with chearfulness Did you not Mind me how chearfully I sang My Heart is very much refreshed with the Consideration of Gods Mercy so that it affected the Hearts of all that were present there were not many dry eyes in the Room though full of People who were astonished at what they saw and heard When all the Company was departed he told me his Companions that came to visit him said Look how he is fallen in two or three days shaking his Head and lifting up his Hands he retorted Oh happy fall for me would to God I had so fallen sooner Blessed be God for this fall it is the happiest fall that ever I had After a little pause To Morrow said he my poor Soul must take its flight out of this Body Oh that it might flie into its Saviours bosome I signified to him that I had thoughts of staying with him all Night he told me he could have been glad of it but for some reasons we omitted it He Prayed me to come Early in the Morning and then not to leave him till I saw him Executed He most Affectionately thanked me for the Service I had done him praying God to reward me I told him my work was wages excusing my self that I came not sooner to visit the Prisoners telling him it was oft in my mind so to do but a Sinful Shame prevented me Oh! said he Would to God you had come sooner And truly I found a General Acceptation among all the Prisoners beyond what I could expect I mention this only to encourage my Brethren in the Ministry to visit poor Prisoners You cannot tell till you try how welcom you may be to such distressed Souls and how serviceable for their Eternal welfare The general greeting I had from this poor Prisoner after my second visit was Welcome Welcome Here I cannot omit the Civility of Mr. Bloodwick their Keeper who did readily admit of any that might be helpful to the Souls of those under his charge and the peculiar excellency of Mrs. Bloodwick is worth taking notice of by whose over-sight the Prison is kept with great neatness whereas other Prisons are so filthy as renders it very prejudicial to the Health of those that visit them here it is not so the Nicest persons need not fear being offended with ill scents But to digress no further I left him that Night promising to be with him Early in the Morning Soon after Four I went to him we spent most of the time till Nine in Discoursing of what he had Read after I left him and in Prayer The frame of his Spirit still remained Humble Tender and in good measure Spiritual Death and Judgment were now Solemn things in his Account and the thoughts thereof lively and influential on his whole deportment He laboured with mighty concernedness how to Die Well pressed all about him with strong Arguments to live better than he had done especially he strictly admonished and charged his Wife who had been a copartner with him in all his villany that she should immediately Reform and what straits soever she came into still to depend upon and trust in God following and serving him in ways of true Religion and Godly Fear to keep her self from the snares of evil company which had been Ruinous to him so dangerous to her already and is one of the greatest Engines of destruction the Devil uses in the World Not only the Life of his own Soul