Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	day_n	like_a	sabbath_n	1,189	5	10.2088	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30555	A true description of my manner of life of what I have been in my profession of religion, and what I am at present, by the grace of God / this was given forth some time before that faithful servant of God laid down his body, who was known amongst many, by the name of Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1663 (1663)	Wing B6045; ESTC R12785	6,387	11

A TRUE DESCRIPTION OF MY Manner of Life Of what I have been in My PROFESSION OF RELIGION unto this very Day AND What I am at PRESENT by the Grace of God This was given forth some time before that Faithful Servant of God laid down his Body who was known amongst many by the Name of EDWARD BVRROVGH LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson in the Year 1663. A true Description of my manner of Life of What I have been in my Profession of Religion unto this very Day and what I am at present by the Grace of God I Was brought up and Educated by my Natural Parents in profession of Religion according to the Customes and Traditions of this Nation in saying Prayers professing the Scriptures and hearing men Speak upon them And I was exercised in the Formal Worship then upheld to Read and Hear and Sing and Pray according to Tradition And this was about the time when Prelacy was going down but I was Wanton and Leight and lived in Pleasures and without the Fear of God and knew nothing of him but by Hear-say and Tradition Neither was I then Zealous for what I Professed But when I grew up towards Twelve years of Age something of God stirred in my Mind and Understanding and shewed me That there was a Higher thing and that this was Darkness and not at all the Worship of the Living God but Ignorance and without his Knowledge And then I sought after and followed the cheifest Presbyterian Preists in the Country and would have gone several Miles to have heard one of the best of them which seemed liker Truth than the other Such was then my Thirstings and desire after God out of the sincerity of my Heart which were begotten in me So I followed the Highest of the Priests and Professors of that Form and grew in Favour with them and was Owned among them as Religious then I left off some small part of my Leightness and Vanity and Sober-minded as having somthing of the Fear of God before me Then through my industry in Reading and Hearing and writing Notes I gathered much Knowledge from the Scriptures of that sound and report of things Without me as of Christ Jesus his Life his Dying and Rising c. which I applied in may self to have peace thereby as I thought but it was in the enmity against God in my Nature all this while and unregenerate though grown very Zealous in Prayer and Duties and Performances highly respecting the Sabbath day and my Duties and the like So that thus I became a Scorn to many of my Acquaintance and was Reproached by the Name of a Round-head and such like But as I grew up in Wisdom and Knowledge so into Pride and High-mindedness and forgat the Simplicity and left the former Innocency and so was kept and continued in Ignorance of the Living Truth and but groping as a Blind man not knowing whether I went Then when I was about Sixteen Years of Age it pleased the Lord to shew Himself a little more to me and I was stricken with great Terrours many times and Judgment was set up in me and my Wisdom and former Knowledge was much confounded and my observing of my former duties of Righteousness was become dead and dry and empty to me for when I had been Praying I heard the Voice oft Thou art Ignorant of God thou knowest not where he is nor what he is To what purpose is thy Prayer And very often much Fear and Dread came upon me and broke me off from Prayer many times and trouble came thick into my mind and Fearfulness fell many times upon me Weeping and Crying took hold of me and I was stricken off my former Delights that I had loved and what I had gathered into my Wisdom as of Experiences and the Knowledge of God died in me And for a time I left off Reading the Scriptures for it was shewed me that I was Ignorant of the true God neither knew nor understood what I Read the Beauty of all things Vanished and I had no Pleasure in anything Even the Preaching of those whom I had formerly delighted to Hear was Withered to me and became Empty and Barren and he burthen of Sin lay Heavy upon me And many a time I sate down alone Weeping and Sorrowing and separated my self from the Vain wayes of the World and from Vain worldly People and was made to Reprove many often for Wickedness though therefore I was had in Derision for Wrath was in me against Sin though my self was Ignorant of God And I went to some of the Ministers and asked What this God was but no man could give me Satifaction herein And thus I was hurried up and down and many times grievously Tempted but knew not where to have my Mind stayed nor how to gain Power over my Enemies which were very many But for a time having been exercised through great trouble of Spirit it pleased the Lord to manifest his Love in my Soul and I had sweet Refreshings coming in from his Presence and I had Joy and Peace in abundance and great openings of the Mysteries of God was Revealed in me which the World knew not and through Judgement was a pure innocent Simplicity brought forth in me and great Thirstings and Desires more then at the first were begotten in me towards God and I saw many Glorious things afar off by way of Prophesie and was in much Rejoycing many times and could sing Praises unto God for then I was brought out of the Land of Egypt and Darkness and could say I had peace in Measure with God in the Light and many Scriptures were opened to me and the Ministry of Christ was looked into which before I had been blind concerning and my former Sorrow was not departed from me and forgotten for Joy and Gladness filled my heart and I grew up to know Great things in my apprehension and began to run forth in my Wisdom thinking to comprehend in my own Knowledge the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God having the True Light shining in my Understanding And through my Aspiring mind grew up into the notion of Truth but without the Life only to speak of Great things in my own Wisdom But not knowing the Cross of Christ to keep Low in it to have my Mind stayed upon the Principle of God to be preserved in my Peace and Joy with God I lost again my self through my forward Will and Wisdom and runing out into Knowledge without the Fear of God Though I was above many of the Priests and Professors in my Knowledge and followed only the highest Notionists but the Fleshly Man was set at Liberty and the Cross was despised though I was looked upon to know Much and could speak True Experiences but the Judgment I had lost and the former Terrour was gone and the Rod that once Smote me was Broken and out of the Serpent's Root sprang forth a Cockatrice and his Fruit was a firie stinging Serpent