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heart_n	conscience_n	faith_n	unfeigned_a	2,594	5	11.1136	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30168	One thing is needful, or, Serious meditations upon the four last things, death, judgment [brace] and [brace] heaven, hell unto which is added Ebal and Gerizzim, or, The blessing and the curse : with prison meditations and a catalogue of all this author's books / by John Bunyan.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1683 (1683)	Wing B5555; ESTC R36059	32,095	89

Satan though my heart indeed be worse Than 't was a wile ago Yet I perceive Thou shalt me not of happiness bereave Nor yet of holiness for by the Word I find that Jesus Christ our blessed Lord Is made Sanctification for me In his own Person where all Graces be As water in the Fountain and that I By means of that have yet a sanctity Both personal and perfect every way And that is Christ himself as Paul doth say Now though my crazy Pitcher oft doth leak By means of which my Graces are so weak And so much spent that one I cannot find Able to stay or help my feeble mind Yet then I look to Jesus and see all In him that wanting is in me and shall Again take courage and believe he will Present me upright in his Person till He humble me for all my foolishness And then again fill me with holiness Now if thou lovest inward sanctity As all the Saints do most unfeignedly Then add to what I have already said Faith in the Promise and be not afraid To urge it often at the Throne of Grace And to expect it in its time and place Then he that true is and that cannot lye Will give it unto thee that thou thereby May'st serve with faith with fear in truth love That God that did at first thy Spirit move To ask it to his praise that he might be Thy God and that he might delight in thee If I should here particulars relate Methinks it could not but much animate Thy Heart though very listless to enquire How thou may'st that enjoy which all desire That love themselves and future Happiness But Oh! I cannot fully it express The Promise is so open and so free In all respects to those that humble be That want they cannot what for them is good But there 't is and confirmed is with Blood A certain sign all those enjoy it may That see they want it and sincerely pray To God the Father in that Jesus Name Who bled on purpose to confirm the same Now would'st thou have a Heart that tender is A Heart that forward is to close with bliss A Heart that will impressions freely take Of the New Covenant and that will make The best improvement of the Word of Grace And that to Wickedness will not give place All this is in the Promise and it may Obtained be of them that humbly pray Would'st thou enjoy that Spirit that is free And looseth those that in their Spirits be Opprest with guilt or filth or unbelief That Spirit that will where it dwells be chief Which breaketh Sampson's Cord as rotten thread And raiseth up the Spirit that is dead That sets the Will at liberty to chuse Those things that God hath promis'd to infuse Into the humble Heart All this I say The Promise holdeth out to them that pray Wouldest thou have that good that blessed Mind That is so much to heavenly things inclin'd That it aloft will soar and always be Contemplating on blest Eternity That Mind that never thinks it self at rest But when it knows it is for ever blest That Mind that can be here no more content Than he that in the Prison doth lament That blessed Mind that counts it self then free When it can at the Throne with Jesus be There to behold the Mansions he prepares For such as be with him and his co-heirs This Mind is in the Covenant of Grace And shall be theirs that truly seek his face Is godly fear delightful unto thee That fear that God himself delights to see Bear sway in them that love him then he will Thy godly Mind in this request fulfill By giving thee a fear that tremble shall At every trip thou takest lest thou fall And him offend or hurt thy self by sin Or cause poor Souls that always blind have been To stumble at thy falls and harder be Against their own Salvation and thee That fear that of it self would rather chuse The rod than to offend or to abuse In any thing that blessed worthy Name That hath thee saved from that death and shame That sin would soon have brought thee to if he Had not imputed Righteousness to thee I will love them saith God and not depart From them but put my fear within their heart That I to them may always lovely be And that they never may depart from me Would'st thou be very upright and sincere Would'st thou be that within thou dost appear Or seem to be in outward exercise Before the most devout and godly wise Yea art thou thus when no Eye doth thee see But that which is invisible and be The words of God in truth thy prop and stay And do they in their Conscience bear more sway To govern thee in Faith and Holiness Than thou canst with thy heart mouth express And do the things that truly are Divine Before thee more than Gold or Rubies shine And if as unto Solomon God should Propound to thee What would'st thou have how would Thy heart and pulse beat after heav'nly things After the upper and the nether springs Could'st with unfeigned heart and upright lip Cry hold me fast Lord never let me slip Nor step aside from Faith and Holiness Nor from the blessed hope of future bliss Lord rather cross me any where than here Lord fill me always with thy holy fear And godly jealousie of mine own heart Lest I Lord should at any time depart From thy most blessed Covenant of Grace Where Jesus rules as King and where thy face Is only to be seen with comfort and Where sinners justifi'd before thee stand If these thy groanings be sincere and true If God doth count thee one that dost pursue The things thou cryest after with thy heart No doubt but in them thou shalt have a part The next word that I would unto thee say Is how thou may'st attain without delay Those blessed Graces and that Holiness Thou dost with so much godly zeal express Thy love to and thy longing to enjoy That sins and weakness might thee less annoy Know then as I have hinted heretofore And shall now speak unto a little more All graces in the person of the Son Are by the Father hid and therefore none Can them obtain but they who with him close All others graceless are but only those For of his fulness 't is that we receive And grace for grace let no man then deceive Himself or others with a feigned shew Of Holiness if Jesus they eschew When he ascended to his Father then It was that he received Gifts for men Faith hope and love true zeal an upright heart Right humbleness of mind and every part Of what the word of Life counts holiness God then laid up in him that we redress And help might have who do unto him fly For righteousness and Gospel-sanctity Now if thou would'st inherent righteousness And so Sanctification possess In Body Soul and Spirit then thou must To Jesus flye as

seeth due Read sin then by the death that doth ensue Most men do judge of sin not by the fruits It bears and bringeth forth but as it suits Their carnal and deluded hearts that be With sensual Pleasures eaten up but he That now so judgeth shortly shall perceive That God will judge thereof himself and leave Such men no longer to their carnal lusts To judge of wickedness and of the just And righteous punishment that doth of right Belong thereto and will too in despite Of all their carnal reason justifie Himself in their eternal misery Then Hell will be no fancy neither will Mens sins be pleasant to them but so ill And bitter yea so bitter that none can Fully express the same or ever stand Under the burden it will on them lay When they from Life and Bliss are sent away When I have thought how often God doth speak Of their destruction who his Law do break And when the nature of the punishment I find so dreadful and that Gods intent Yea resolution is it to inflict On every sinner that shall stand convict I have amazed been yet to behold To see poor sinners yet with sin so bold That like the Horse that to the battel runs Without all fear and that no danger shuns Till down he falls O resolute attempts O sad amazing damnable Events The end of such proceedings needs must be From which O Lord save and deliver me But if thou think that God thy noble Race Will more respect than into such a place To put thee hold though thou his off-spring be And so art lovely yet sin hath made thee Another kind of Creature than when thou Didst from his fingers drop and therefore now Thy first Creation stands thee in no stead Thou hast transgressed and in very deed Set God against thee who is infinite And that for certain never will forget Thy sins nor favour thee if thou shalt dye A graceless Man this is thy misery When Angels sinned though of higher race Than thou and also put in higher place Yet them he spared not but cast them down From Heaven to Hell where also they lye bound In everlasting chains and no release Shall ever have but wrath that shall encrease Upon them to their everlasting woe As for the state they were exalted to That will by no means mitigate their fear But aggravate their hellish torment here For he that highest stands if he shall fall His danger needs must be the great'st of all Now if God noble Angels did not spare Because they did transgress will he forbear Poor dust and ashes will he suffer them To break his Law and sin and not condemn Them for so doing let not man deceive Himself or others they that do bereave Themselves by sin of happiness shall be Cut off by Justice and have misery Witness his great severity upon The World that first was planted wherein none But only eight the Deluge did escape All others of that Vengeance did partake The reason was That World ungodly stood Before him therefore he did send the flood Which swept them all away a just Reward For their most wicked ways against the Lord Who could no longer bear them and their ways Therefore into their bosom Vengeance pays We read of Sodom and Gomorrha too What Judgments they for sin did undergo How God from Heaven did fire upon them rain Because they would not wicked ways refrain Condemning of them with an overthrow And turned them to ashes who can know The miseries that these poor People felt While they did underneath those burnings melt Now these and many more that I could name That have been made partakers of the flame And Sword of Justice God did then cut off And make Examples unto all that scoff At holiness or do the Gospel slight And long it will not be before the night And Judgment painted out by what he did To Sodom and Gomorrha fulfilled Upon such sinners be that they may know That God doth hate the sin and Persons too Of such as still rebellious shall abide Although they now at Judgment may deride FINIS Prison-Meditations Directed to the Heart of SUFFERING SAINTS AND REIGNING SINNERS By JOHN BUNYAN in Prison 1665. 1. FRiend I salute thee in the Lord And wish thou may'st abound In Faith and have a good regard To keep on Holy Ground 2. Thou dost encourage me to hold My Head above the Flood Thy Counsel better is than Gold In need thereof I stood 3. Good Counsel's good at any time The Wise will it receive Tho' Fools count he commits a Crime Who doth good Counsel give 4. I take it kindly at thy hand Thou didst unto me write My Feet upon Mount Sion stand In that take thou delight 5. I am indeed in Prison now In Body but my Mind Is free to study Christ and how Unto me he is kind 6. For though men keep my outward man Within their Locks and Bars Yet by the Faith of Christ I can Mount higher than the Stars 7. Their Fetters cannot Spirits tame Nor tye up God from me My Faith and Hope they cannot lame Above them I shall be 8. I here am very much refresht To think when I was out I preached Life and Peace and Rest To Sinners round about 9. My business then was Souls to save By preaching Grace and Faith Of which the comfort now I have And have it shall till death 10. They were no Fables that I taught Devis'd by cunning men But God's own Word by which were caught Some sinners now and then 11. Whose Souls by it were made to see The evil of their sin And need of Christ to make them free From death which they were in 12. And now those very Hearts that then Were Foes unto the Lord Embrace his Christ and Truth like men Conquered by his Word 13. I hear them sigh and groan and cry For Grace to God above They loath their sin and to it dye 'T is Holiness they love 14. This was the work I was about When Hands on me they laid 'T was this from which they pluck'd me out And vilely to me said 15. You Heretick Deceiver come To Prison you must go You preach abroad and keep not home You are the Churches foe 16. But having Peace within my Soul And Truth on every side I could with comfort them controul And at their charge deride 17. Wherefore to Prison they me sent Where to this day I lie And can with very much content For my Profession die 18. The Prison very sweet to me Hath been since I came here And so would also hanging be If God will there appear 19. Here dwells good Conscience also Peace Here be my Garments white Here though in Bonds I have Release From Guilt which else would bite 20. When they do talk of Banishment Of Death or such like Things Then to me God sends Hearts content That like a Fountain springs 21. Alas they little think what peace They help