Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	flesh_n	put_v	stony_a	3,688	5	11.7128	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06566	The experiences of God's gracious dealing with Mrs. Elizabeth White, late wife of Mr. Thomas White of Coldecot in the county of Bucks. / As they were written under her own hand, and found in her closet after her decease, she dying in child-bed, Decemb. 5. 1669.	White, Elizabeth, d. 1669.	1698 (1698)	Wing W1763; ESTC R186485	11,805	24

my spirit sometimes I was refreshed I could not tell how but I should be ready to think this was a delusion I remember the Scriptures were these Isa 50.10 Who is among you that feareth the Lord that obeys the voice of his Servant that walks in darkness and hath no light let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God Iohn 15.16 Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you and ordained you that ye should go and bring forth much fruit and that your fruit should remain c. Lam. 3.25 The Lord is good unto the soul that waits for him and to them that seek him It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the Salvation of the Lord c. These words did support me very much therefore I write them out and laid them in my Closet that they might still be in my eye that I might when I looked upon them be incouraged to hope in and wait upon the Lord but these comforts were but transient but yet whiles they lasted they were very sweet supports but when gone I fell to doubting thinking all was delusions and thus I dishonoured God 〈◊〉 my unbelief I doubted much of my sincerity often saying I was an hypocrite but if at an● time I was asked in what I was one I could not tell but had this Scripture very often in my mind There is a way which seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof is death And so I thought I was but seemingly right and therefore must needs perish and in this condition I continued a long time but I heard that a hypocrite seldome or never doubted his condition and that it was a sign of sincerity to desire a sincere heart and this I durst not deny knowing that I did desire it rather than the whole world Thus being better satisfied I resolved to se● about my duty but all this while I did not see such a high price upon the Lord Iesus as I should but still I thought that I must do something to merit salvation not daring to venture my soul with all its concernments upon Christ therefore I should tye my self to pray six times a day and then I should be satisfied and thin● all was well with me then but if I at any tim● failed of my number then I was dis-satisfied and so in other duties so that my comforts did not flow from the blood and righteousness of Iesus but from my own duties but blessed be the Lord who likewise shook this foundation even because he had a favour to me for being in discourse with a friend he desired me to read Shephards sincere Convert which I did and here did I see as in a glass my folly for there were signs given whereby I might try my self whether I did rest in duties One I remember was this If I never saw I rested in Duties then it was a sure sign that I then did another was this If I prized the bare performance of duties so as to think when I had prayed with some life that I had done very well and again If I saw but little of my vile heart by Duties then it was a sign I rested in them and that I was yet in the way to Hell though in the cleanliest way and should certainly perish if I rested here Now this I plainly saw was my condition but how to get out of it I knew not for now I was in a worse condition than at the beginning finding it abundantly more hard to deny righteous self than sinful self I thought it wonderful strange that I must be saved by the righteousness of another if ever I were saved O this my proud heart was unwilling to yeeld to and yet I was very desirous of salvation But when the Lord had led me into my own heart and shewed me the vileness of that more and that if the Lord should leave me to my self I should commit all kind of sin and that with greedines such was the vileness of my nature and that if it were possible I should now live holily yet I could not satisfie the justice of God for what was past therefore I resolved to cast my self upon Christ Iesus that sure foundation which God had laid and not man and if I perished to perish here but much opposition did I meet with from Satan and my own heart before I could really do it I could seal to the truth of that scripture Eph. 1.19 That God did put forth his mighty power when a soul was made to believe but yet I was not at quiet but had many fears and doubts that all was false because I had been so often deceived and now I began to ●ee mine own vileness more than ever and ●ound my heart ran out to the Lord Iesus in love but doubted very much of his love to me yet sometimes I should have some perswasions of my interest in Christ and that his love was towards me and whilst this perswasion lasted I should be very comfortable be ready to think I should never be moved as David did but when God hid his face I was troubled and fell to doubting all again not having learned that heavenly skill of living by Faith but yet I did not wholly cast off my confidence but had some pin hole of hope in the worst condition I remember the consideration of this scripture Iohn 3.8 He that is born of God doth not commit sin filled me with many fears knowing how apt I was to commit sin notwithstanding my striving against it but a little while after I was satisfied understanding the place better that it was not meant of sins of infirmity but of making sins ones trade c. and this was I confident I did not but rather trembled at the thoughts of it but when this was over Satan and my own unbelieving heart will still be presenting something whereby to occasion doubts so that for the space of one year and a half I had scarcely any settled peace now and then a good word thrown in which would revive me for the present but the comfort would be soon gone as Ezek. 36.26 A new heart will I give and a new spirit will I put in you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you a heart of flesh and will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes c. This Promise I should often plead with God very sensibly and with much confidence another was Iohn 11.25 I am the resurrection and the life he that believeth on me though he were dead yet should he live And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die This I remember was very sweet to me once when I was in great fear lest my heart should grow dead and when I was with Child I was much dejected having a sence of my approaching danger and wanting an assurance of my everlasting happiness