Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	exceed_v	righteousness_n	scribe_n	2,764	5	11.0489	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64802	A wise virgins lamp burning; or Gods sweet incomes of love to a gracious soul waiting for him Being the experiences of Mrs. Anne Venn, (daughter to Col. John Venn, & member of the Church of Christ at Fulham:) written by her own hand, and found in her closet after her death. Wherein is declared her exceeding frequent addresses to the throne of grace, and how speedily answered. Written for the comfort of such as mourn in Sion, and quickning of saints by her blessed example.	Venn, Anne.	1658 (1658)	Wing V190; ESTC R219225	131,041	301

world with me then did the Lord inable me to see that all my former desires would have been nothing but that I might even then have gone to hell as well as afterward whereupon I was much troubled and very desirous to read and hear all the marks of a righteous man that should go to heaven and accordingly I got a book called Mr. Roger's evidences and an other called the Touchstone of true Grace an other called None but Christ and divers others which I did daily read on for many houres together Then came the Divel upon me with this temptation that I should keep all this my trouble to my self and not discover it to any although never so neer or deer unto me which temptation I wholly yeilded unto and that for many years together until I even destroyed my bodily health with continual troubles fears and sadness but not discovering any cause of it so that all the support I had was what the Lord was pleased to hand out to me by hearing and reading which he was pleased to make effectuall still to lead me on though with much trouble and sadness then in the beginning of these troubles being in the year 1638. or 1639. I being some 12 or 13 years old which being times of great fears and sadness the people of God met often and spake one to an other and kept dayes of humiliation and seeking the Lord in the behalf of the nation and his poor people in it my parents often going to these meetings but not daring to tell me it the times being so dangerous at last having often observed the frame of their spirits at such times more especially I began much to long and desire to know whither they went and being very importunate with my Mother to that end and at last prevailing she was content to let me go along with them which was so pleasing to me that ever after I continued to go with them every week almost and sometimes oftner where I found often much refreshment especially bearing up my heart under those eminent dangers which in an especial manner we lay open unto which the Divel perceiving to be agreat incouragement to me in the way I now desired to walk in used many temptations working together with the corruptions of my own heart in this estate of my childhood to hinder me from enjoying these opportunities as some times sleepiness being fain to go early in the morning and cold it being in the deep of winter c. with several other temptations as the danger if we should be taken as some had been and all this to discourage me which sometimes he well nigh accomplished but pondering it sin my minde and being inabled to conceive it to be but a temptation I durst very seldome if ever give way to them but was still inabled to break thorough Though truely I have much admired since how my spirit was carried out in those dayes in joyning in prayer c. how exceedingly sometimes my heart was wrought upon and constrained to pour forth teares and groanes yea my heart was wrought up to such a frame and I found so much sweetness as I apprehended in the company of the saints and those enjoyments my soul felt in such duties that I thought I could freely and cheerfully lay down my life with them more freely than I fear I could long since Master Love then coming to London and sometimes meeting him at these private meetings and so having some knowledg of him and being afterwards chosen Chaplain to my fathers Regiment and so going to Windsor with us about the year 1642. and so living in the house with us for 2 years a half who at our first going perceiving much sadness to lye upon my spirit and knowing by experience what a troubled spirit was he having formerly laine under it for divers years did at last seriously burthen me with it which coming upon me in such a nick of time having but a little before been reading in a little book that I had wherein I was directed that if any trouble lay upon my spirit I should reveal it that so I might receive satisfaction which pondering with in my self I durst not deny it but tell him in some measure the ground of my trouble and he endeavouring to satisfie me from the word which he had no sooner done in any measure but still the Divell begins with new and fresh temptations and when what had been said to me was a little out of my mind which he would soon find occasion to put out then comes he over with the old temptations again working them fresh upon my thoughts endeavouring still to drive me to despaire of ever receiving any mercy of God Then stood I convinced from the word and divers instruction I met withall grounded thereupon that it was my duty to perform private duties as well as publick as prayer meditation examination and the like which I knew not how to set about in a serious manner being every way unfit for it and unable to it so that often through neglect and mis-performance this also added to my trouble and sadness Then hearing Mr. Love preach upon that Scripture Mat. 5. 20. For I say unto you Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees you shall in no wise enter into the kingdome of heaven And hearing how farre the Pharisees went in the performance of duties and avoiding of evills c. which I saw my self so short of which made me conclude I should also be short of heaven my eyes understanding being then with-held from the right understanding of the spiritual sense of that Scripture which since the Lord of his rich grace hath inabled me to see fulfilled in the Lord Jesus who is mine through faith A while after he did also preach upon that Scripture in Heb. 12. 15 16 17. Looking diligently lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau who for one morsel of meat sold his birth-right For you know how that afterward when he would have inherited the blessing he was rejected for he found no place of repentance though he sought it carefully with tears Upon the hearing of which it was suggested to me that I had never sought the blessing so diligently carefully and importunately as profane Esau did and therefore should much more go without it the thoughts of which scriptures among divers others struck so deep in me that it much increased my sadness so that I could take little delight in any thing in the world but as often as I could refusing to go into any company choosing rather a solitary life yet still endeavouring to keep all to my self making nothing known but only those daily bodily weaknesses which did also accompany me in great measure In this condition I continued for that time I was at Windsor being often condemned in my own conscience for my neglect of duties and commission of sin c. And what ever had at