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A72054	The saints legacies: or, A collection of certaine promises out of the word of God Collected for private use, but published for the comfort of Gods people: by Anne Phoenix.; Collection of certaine promises out of the word of God.	Fawkner, Antony, b. 1601 or 2, attributed name.; Farindon, Anthony, 1598-1658, attributed name.	1633 (1633)	STC 10635.3; ESTC S124923	43,955	285

legacies in our fathers wil and setting us a work both by penne and practise to sue for the same The volume is little but the vertue contained in the same is great The booke is extraordinarie being altogether for application and practise The scope and drift of it is to furnish beleevers with abundance of good to free them from all sins inward outward secret and open To fill them with all graces in life power and exercise To bring them comfort in and seasonable deliverance from all their troubles To draw downe upon their soules bodies abundance of blessings of all sorts and natures to give them full assurance of certaine and seasonable entrance into glory and to give them fast hold of heaven There are many I know that will little regard it the prophane person wil not like it for it is full of holinesse the carnall protestant will not discerne of it nor relish it for it is spirituall the dissembling hypocrite wil not wel approve of it for it will rob him of his Rimmon slay his M rs his Delilah his Herodias his daling sinne it will tell him if he applyes promises hee must keepe the conditions obey praecept and put every iniquitie though never so pleasurable or profitable far way from his Tabernacles But the honest hearted and sinceere beleever will approve of it prize it use it and profit by it And not to over-commend my commoditie as one desirous to make it more vendible and sailable for neither I nor its author God is witnesse ayme at any such thing but at the spiritual good of their soules unto whom it shall come this little booke like a well filled little Apothecaries shop containes within it heavenly receipts of all sorts wholsome physick of every kind for expelling and curing all sorts of diseases and sicknesses incident to Saints and for the corroborating and strengthning of new nature and for keeping the spirituall man in good health lustie and strong able for Gods service d Phil. 2.12 for working out his owne salvation with feare and trembling What here I speak unto one beleever I intend for all Hath sin that deadly poyson infected thee Lo here in this little booke an Antidote a preservative which will extract and expell this poyson Hath this serpent so fierie stung thee e Numb 21.8 Lo here the Brasen Serpent upon the pole Hath it beggered and undone thee Ioh. 3.14 15. Behold a way in this booke how thou maist become rich Doth it dayly trouble thee will it needs tyranize and dominere over thee This little book will learne thee to depose this Tyrant f Rom. 6.14 and tell thee hee shall not haue dominion and Lordship over thee Hath it stricken thee dead Lo here meanes of reviving and inliving thee to an happie life of grace Doth it threaten thy ruine Lo here physicke for thy feares g 1 Cor. 15.35 death hath lost its sting sinne is destroyed death shall fully and finally free thee from it Art thou hunted like a poore lambe by the hellish devouring Lion Sathan and chased before this infernal dog like a silly Deere in temptations Lo here a thicket a shelter a shepheard under which thou mayest repose and rest thy selfe in safetie Art thou overcome with his wilie stratagems Lo here wisedome Art thou beaten down with his power Lo here strength Fearest thou the fierie darts of this evill one Lo here a little house-full of targets sheilds and buklers h Ephes 6.16 promises applyed by faith which will repel and quench them i Iob. 6.4 Do Gods terrours set themselves in array against thee are Gods arrowes in thee doth his flaming wrath burne in thy bosome and is likely to consume thee Lo streames of mercy grace from a refreshing fountaine fluent in the pipes of the promises by thy hand of faith turn the cock and the coole water of Gods grace mercy shall flow forth upon thy soule and allay its burning heat and scorching inflamations Doth the wilie world endevour to intangle and inveagle thee by its lures and snares Lo here liberty freedome better things propouÌ„ded and promised which beleevers doe for the present in some measure enjoy and shall have a most certaine and full possession of afterwards Wantest thou Grace comfort deliverance blessing or any good thing Behold here thou mayest have them to the great joy of theine heart and content of thy Spirit Set faith a worke to draw out what thou wantest thou shalt have it Sucke these sweet and heavenly breasts of God by the mouth of thy faith open these pipes and veines of the promises which run so full of mercy grace truth comfort joy peace for every beelever by faith and thou shalt be satiate with every good thing Lest I shold make too great a porch for this little house and too great gates for this little citie I will conclude with an exhortation to all my beloved brethren and sisters which are beleevers to perfect their faith by application of the promises both of these in this sweet little booke and of all others contained in the Old and New Testament Suffer not GODS promises as I may so say to milke themselves doe you draw them let not good rest with God which you may have by beleeving and begging to your great comfort and inriching but take Gods commodities off his hand trade with that wealthy Merchant in the farre Countrey the Lord Iesus in heaven for his rich commodities of graces and comforts and glorious hopes untill you be rich and wealthy and for this purpose cause those two good factours Faith and Prayer founded upon and quickned confirmed by the pretious promises alway to trade for you in heaven untill you come thither your selves I would desire all beleevers to make this their pocket book that it may sollicite and wooe them to prayer make solid firme their faith increase their graces coÌ„forts and heavenly hopes prepare them for induring the stormes of trouble tempests of temptations and may incourage them in holy weldoing and christian perseverance unto the end k Heh 6.12 Now bretheren my hearts desire is that yee bee not slothfull but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises That you may bee inheritours of them it shal be my daily prayer unto the Lord my God to bestow upon your heartes to use all good meanes for the attaining of the good in these other promises of God unto his people That he would teach and enable you to meditate upon them diligently day and night to beleeve theÌ„ firmly to apply theÌ„ severally particularly personally to sue for them earnestly by prayer constant and fervent to wait for their promised accomplishment by patience that so you may enjoy the good of them here hereafter which God in mercie grant unto mee and also you Amen To the Reader MAn which at the beginning was created happy Gen. 1.26 Eph.

The Saints Legacies OR A COLLECTION of certaine PROMISES out of the word of God Collected for private use but published for the comfort of Gods people By ANNE PHOENIX Beleeve the Promises so shall you prosper By beleeving and applying the Promises we come to participate of the divine Nature 2 Pet. 1.4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious Promises that by these we might be partakers of the divine Nature The third Edition corrected and amended LONDON Printed by M. F. for R. Roystone in Ivy-Lane 1633. TO THE HAPPIE SOCIETIE of all true Beleevers Gracious Beleevers KNowing you to bee the only heires of those rich and precious promises which it hath pleased our gracious Father freely to give unto his freely beloved Children I have presumed without your knowledge to bequeath unto you a fatherless childe brought forth into the world with out the pareÌ„ts knowledg hoping you will not be unwilling to let it passe under your favourable protection For the subject matter of it it is very beautifull and of such use as no child of God can passe to Heaven without it and in that regard it shal be no shame unto you whom the Lord hath honoured with the grace of beleeving to accept of this small treatise from one that desires your prospering in your soules bodies There is no blemish in this that I dedicate unto you but such as came by the hands of the unskilfull bringer forth of it which onely minded their own good in it And weighing daily the beauty of it and the sweet refreshing strength which flowed from it for the overcomming of those three deadly enemies the Devil Sinne and the World they desired that God would bee pleased to move the mindes of some of his most skilful workmen to put to their hands to frame a more perfect worke upon so perfect a subject and to give a more comely forme to this so beautifull a subject and till then they intended to smother in their bosomes the beauty of this rather then to bring it forth with the blemishes of their unskilfulnesse But the good that may bee gained by it being unutterable I hope grace in the hearts of Gods people will cause them like the Bee sucke out the sweet and nourishing vertue of these fragrant flowers that growe here there in the garden of Gods word and not with discontent to cast away this pleasant posie gathered out of the celestiall Eden of the sacred Scriptures because an unskilfull hand and indeed unworthie hath bound them up together not so orderly as might please the curious eye of man no nor their owne neither was it their ayme so to doe If any gaine any good by it the gatherer of these sweet flowers together neither deserves nor desires thankes for they intended it to none but to themselves and some private friends whose importunitie wrung some copies from theÌ„ now without their consent have published it And now since it is published and cannot bee stopped the Lord cause it to work in all his according to that which he hath given the promises for to work in the hearts of his people even to make them partakers of the divine nature 2. Pet. 1.4 and as a meanes to make theÌ„ to take everie day a little posie from the rest one of the promises gathered together apply it to thy self see how thou standest in need of it and every word in it then apply it to thy selfe by faith let it stirre thee up to goe to God in prayer for the accomplishmeÌ„t of them unto thee then wait in the diligent use of all meanes for the gaining of them you shal finde God not onely making you heires of promises but you shal be comfortable possessours of those many good things which God hath promised to beleevers The more you meditate and the oftner you pray upon them the more good will you see in them and finde flow from them I say no more but I doubt not but your experiences of good by these promises wil be more then I can make known unto you I desire the God of mercies our louing father in our Lord Iesus Christ in whom all the promises are Yea and Amen to make you daily finde experimentally the truth of al his gracious promises TO THE SAME Right Honourable and happie Societie of all true Beleevers militant in England A Friend to you and the Author wisheth fulnesse of grace peace and heavenly comfort certaine assurance sealed evidence and seasonable entrance into and possession of the celestiall promised incorruptible undefiled and never fading inheritance BEloved Beleevers both you and I are infinitely beholden to our everliving Father who hath made his will and given all us his children great wealth rich portions and large Legacies Now in present possession Graces and comforts in unshaken expectation and assured reversion perfection and eternall glory Wee are greatly beholding to Iehova for his will damnatorie directorie hortatorie correctorie but most of all for his will consolatorie in which he salves all our sores physicks all our sicknesses medicines al our maladies a Psal 103.4 heales all our diseases and crownes us with loving kindnes and tender mercies And surely wee are all of us much beholding to the holy Author of this sweet though little booke who hath so piously painefully and profitably perused the holy will of our heavenly Father and wisely sought and found out and put into our handes the spirituall portion and soule-legacies given and bequeathed unto us by our best friend many of which most of us scarce knew of few sought and sued for them and very few comfortably enjoyed and wisely and diligently used to the donours glory and their owne good Carelesse children come oftentimes to be beholding unto their more carefull brethren and thriving friends who save all they have sue for all that is promised and seeke for all they heare of so is it here we careless negligent poore and ill thriven Christians must bee beholding to this carefull diligent rich and wellthriven author who obeyes Pauls counsell b 1 Cor. 12 31. 1 Cor. 12 31. Couets earnestly the best gifts and will not suffer the heavenly Father to purse and keep a pennie that is due to with-hold grace or comfort which hee hath promised in whole or degree but he shall heare of his promise and if hee do not presently fulfill according to covenant a petition is spedily drawne to bee preferred in the court of heaven and an advocate prepared lesus Christ the righteous c 1 Ioh. 2.1 1 Iohn 2.1 Suite by prayer begun and in an eager pursuite continued till the thing promised bee performed This little booke private practice of the author who hath sued for all these Legacies and in some good measure hath attained the same and thereby is become spiritually rich will sufficiently proove what I have spoken VVee are much beholden to this author for letting us see our portion and

ready to faint through weakenesse apply He is a river of water in a drie place to revive thy spirits and as the shadow of a great rocke under which thou maist safely repose thy selfe When thou findest thy sinnes very heavy apply I will ease you When thou hast no rest in thy soule because of sinne apply You shall finde rest to our soules He shall save his people from their sinnes both from the punishment the power If thou fearest length of time in temptations apply The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly The 6. Legacie WHen thou turnest from sinne and doubtest of the pardon of it apply Isai 1.18 Though your sinnes bee as skarlet they shall bee as white as snow though they bee red like crimson they shall be as wooll Isai 55.7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him returne unto the Lord and he will have mercy on him and to our God for hee will abundantly pardon Micah 7.18.19 Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage hee retaineth not his anger for ever because hee delighteth in mercy Hee will turne againe hee will have compassion upon us hee will subdue our iniquities and thou wilt cast all their sinnes into the depthes of the sea Prov. 28.13 He that confesseth and forsaketh his sinnes shall finde mercy 1 Iohn 1.9 If wee confesse our sinnes hee is faithfull just to forgive us our sinnes and to cleanse us from all unrighteousnesse When thou seest thy soule of a sinfull colour apply Though they be red like crimson they shall be as white as wooll If thou fearest God will hardly be intreated apply Hee will have mercie for he is ready to forgive If wee feare that our sinnes have taken such strong hold upon us as wee shall never get from them apply He will clense us from all our unrighteousnesse See God promiseth to be the cleanser feare not the hardnesse of the worke The 7. Legacie WHen thou feelest many rebellioÌ„s in thine heart and life and would'st have them not onely pardoned but subdued apply Hos 14.5 I will heale their back-sliding Which promise as I thinke containes thus much that God will not onely pardon but heale us and in stead of rebellious hearts and lives will give us obedient hearts and lives for as healing followeth the curing of sicknesse so obedience doth the curing of rebellion Micah 7.19 Hee will subdue our iniquities When thou feelest sinne very strong flie to this promise and apply the strength of him that promiseth against the strength of sinne it is the Lord that hath promised to subdue it what though Sinne and Satan joyne their force together yet the Lord is stronger then all their force wee need not doubt The 8. Promise VVHen thou feelest thine heart hard and full of corruption apply Ezek. 36.26 A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh Deut. 30.6 And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soule that thou maist live When thou feelest thine heart worldly carnall apply I will circumcise thine heart A new heart will I give thee When nothing will breake thine heart apply the power of Jehovah that hath promised to cure thee in taking away thy stonie heart The 9. Legacie WHen thou caÌ„st not bridle nature but it breakes forth into violent passions to contention apply Isai 11.6 The Wolfe also shall dwell with the Lambe and the Leopard shall lie downe with the Kid and the Calfe and the young Lyon and the fatling together and a little child shall lead them Such shall bee the power of the Gospell that those which are by nature like Wolves and devouring beasts shall dwell very peaceably and if wee finde our nature such we must apply the Wolfe shall dwell with the Lambe Micah 7.19 Hee will subdue our iniquities and will cast all our sinnes into the depth of the sea that which is cast into the Sea as it appeareth not in sight so wee cannot get it againe though we would so will God doe by our sinnes cast them out of his sight so as we shall not returne to them any more presse him with his promise and you shall finde more then you thinke The 10. Promise WHen thou feelest thy selfe in bondage to some sin apply Iohn 8.32 You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free Rom. 6.14 Sinne shall not have dominion over you When thou feelest thy bondage that thou canst not doe good or keepe thy selfe from evill apply The truth shall make you free If thy sins often prevaile against thee apply Sinne shall not have dominion over you Psal 130.8 Hee shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities The 11. Promise WHen thou feelest some sin so strong in thee that thou fearest it will breake out to Gods dishonour and the blemishing of Religion apply 1 Thess 5.23 24. That your whole spirit soule and body may be preserved blamelesse unto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ Faithfull is hee that calleth you who also will doe it That God which hath called thee will keepe thee blamelesse unto the comming of Christ therefore use the meanes and rest upon the Lords faithfulnesse which never faileth them which trust in him 2. Thess 3.3 But the Lord is faithfull who shall stablish you and keepe you from evill 1 Iohn 1.9 If we confesse our sinnes he is faithfull and just to forgive us our sinnes and to cleanse us from all unrighteousnesse By cleansing as I thinke is meant not onely from the guilt of sinne but the power of it that the filthinesse of it shall not appeare in our lives and conversations When sinne pursues thee hard to make thee fall doe thou pursue the Lord with prayers for performance of this promise and doubt not of the issue Micah 7.19 Hee will subdue our iniquities And to these adde the prayer of Christ John 17.15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world but that thou shouldest keepe them from the evill Now what greater evill then sinne therefore though thy prayers be but weake against it yet hee hath prayed that was alway heard therefore fight and be sure of victory The 12. Legacie WHen thou art stayed from sinne by admonition apply Ezek 3.21 If thou warne the righteous man that the righteous sinne not and he doth not sin hee shall surely live because he is warned When any admonish thee obey and it shall be life to thy soule therfore receive the admonition and apply Hee shall live because he is admonished The 13. Legacie IF thou fearest God will destroy thee for thy sinnes apply Ezek. 18.30 Turne your selves from

and yee shall live When thou hast got some life and fearest the losing of it apply Your hearts shall live for ever The 36. Legacie WHen thou fearest thou shalt fall away and beginnest to decline apply 1. Cor. 1.8 Christ shall also confirme you unto the end that yee may be blamelesse in the day of our Lord Iesus Christ Psal 16.8 I have set the Lord alwayes before me because hee is at my right hand I shall not bee moved Psalm 145.14 The Lord upholdeth all that fall and raiseth up all those that bee bowed downe Psalm 92.12.14 The righteous shall flourish like the Palme-tree He shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon They shall still bring forth fruit in old age they shall be fat and flourishing Psal 1.3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season his leafe also shall not wither Psal 31.24 Hee shall stablish thine heart Job 11.15.27 Thou shalt bee stedfast thine age shall bee clearer then the noone day thou shalt shine forth thou shalt be as the morning Judg. 5.31 They that love the Lord shall bee as the Sunne when it goeth forth in his might Now we see that nothing can hinder the Sunne in his might but it chaseth away the darkenesse and clouds before it and ceaseth not till it hath runne his race so shall the childe of God for the Lord hath said it wee need not doubt of it If thou fearest thine owne weaknesse and the power of temptation with the subtilty of Satan apply That God whose power and wisedome over-reacheth all other hath said Hee will confirme you to the end He shall stablish thine heart thy leafe shall not fade Art thou hard pursued by sinne and Satan apply that God whose power and wisedome over-reacheth all he hath said He will stablish thee If thou bee ready to fall and faint apply The Lord upholdeth all them that fall and lifteth up all them that are ready to fall thou shalt pot slide It thou fearest that though thou be kept froÌ„ sin yet thy graces shall decay apply The righteous shall flourish as a Palme-tree and shall grow as a Cedar in Lebanon They shall bring forth fruit in their age they shall be fat and flourishing thou shalt bring forth fruit in season thou shalt be stable thine age shall appeare more cleare then noone day Thou shalt shine as the morning The 37. Legacie WHen wee are falne and seare the Lord will leave us so then apply Psal 55.22 Cast thy burden upon the Lord and hee shall sustaine thee hee shall never suffer the righteous to be moved Psal 37.24.28 Though he fall hee shall not bee utterly cast downe for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand For the Lord loveth judgement and forsaketh not his Saints they are preserved for ever Jer. 32.40 I will put my feare in their hearts that they shall not depart from mee When thou art fallen and fellest a great loade of sinne or misery upon thee and no power to unload thy selfe thy graces so weak that they will not helpe thee and therefore thou thinkest thy state desperate apply Though he fall he shall not bee cast off for the Lord putteth under his hand Therefore though sinne and misery bee never so heavy to presse thee downe yet that powerfull hand of God when thou art at the lowest being under thee shall easily lift thee up thou hast his promise he will not suffer thee to fall for ever The 38. Legacie WHeÌ„ the Lord hath for saken thee in thine owne feeling and thou searest hee will not returne againe apply Isai 54 7 8 9 10. For a small moment have I forsaken thee but with great mercies will I gather thee In a little wrath I had my face from thee for a moment but with everlasting kindnesse will I have mercy on thee saith thee Lord thy Redeemer For this is as the waters of Noah unto mee for as I have sworne that the Waters of Noah shall no more goe over the earth so have I sworne that I would not bee wroth with thee nor rebuke thee For the mountaines shall depart and the hils shall bee removed but my kindnesse shall not depart from thee neither shall the covenant of my peace bee removed saith the Lord that hath mercie on thee Gen. 17.7 I will establish my covenant betwixt thee and me and everlasting covenant to bee a God unto thee Deut. 31.8 I will bee with thee I will not faile thee neither forsake thee feare not neither bee dismayed 1 King 6.13 I will not for sake my people 2 Chron. 15.2 The Lord is with you while you be with him Job 8.20 Behold God will not cast away a perfect man Job 36.5 Behold God is mighty and despiseth not any Hosea 2.19.20 I will betroth thee unto mee for ever yea I will betroth thee unto mee in righteousness and in judgement and in loving kindnesse and in mercies I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulnesse The 39. Legacie WHen thou feelest thy vilenesse and fearest the Lord will loath thee for it apply Levit. 26.11 My soule shall not abhorre you Hosea 14.4 I will love them freely for mine anger is turned away from them Deut. 7.13 I will love thee John 14.21.23 Hee that loveth mee shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and will manifest my selfe to him my Father will love him and wee will come unto him and make our abode with him Jer. 3.41 I will rejoyce over them to doe them good When thou seest a multitude of sinnes so that thou seemest most loathsome apply My soule shall not loath you When thou seest nothing in thy selfe that should move him to love thee but all to the contrary apply I will love them freely If thou fearest thy many sinnes will cause the Lord not to delight in thee apply I will delight in thee If thou fearest thy sin will cause the Lord to hide himselfe from thee apply I will shew mine owne selfe unto him The 40. Legacie WHen thou feelest thy spirituall poverty apply Math. 5.3 Blessed are the poore in spirit for theirs is the Kingdome of Heaven Isai 66.2 To him will I looke saith the Lord that is poore and of a contrite spirit and trembleth at my words When thou feelest thy sinnes many and thy graces very little and therefore fearest that such a miserable creature as them art shall not inherit heaven apply Blessed are the poore in spirit for theirs is the Kingdome of heaven If thou fearest the Lord will not looke upoÌ„ thee apply To him will I looke saith the Lord that is of a contrite spirit The 41. Legacie WHen thou art in a strait and knowest not what to chuse either in some truth or in something that is to bee done that thou knowest not what to chuse apply Psalm 25.22 Him shall hee teach in the way that he shall chuse verse 13. His soule shall dwell at ease

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