Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	believe_v	faith_n	word_n	11,191	5	4.5836	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25248	Redeeming the time a sermon preached at Preston in Lancashire, January 4th, 1657 at the funeral of the honourable lady, the Lady Margaret Houghton / by Isaac Ambrose.	Ambrose, Isaac, 1604-1664.; Houghton, Margaret, Lady, d. 1657.	1674 (1674)	Wing A2969; ESTC R29590	26,695	20

her condition she was all in confession of her spiritual poverty yet she cast her self into the blessed-bleeding armes of Jesus Christ yea she lay at his feet crying Lord I believe help thou my unbelief and again I rest upon Christ and upon Christ alone for Heaven and Salvation and again Though the Lord slay me yet will I trust in him and again He hath delivered and he doth deliver and I trust in him that he will deliver me still and again Hold out faith and anon thou wilt come to vision This last word hold out faith was one of the last words she spake on that last day of her life 5. In her love to Ministers Her heart was wholly set on Christ and as a true sign of it she loved Christs image especially in his Ministers And now I speak my own loss amongst others she was pleased to cast her affections on the unworthiest of all my Masters messengers In her life-time she preferr'd me to this place the Lord made her the first wheel of his providence in bringing me hither and it was some trouble to her spirit that I left this pastoral charge before she left the World Indeed she honoured all the Ministers of Christ yea the very function it self for Christ his sake Oh how will she rise up in judgement at the last day against those that make it their work to reproach vilifie and contemn the dispensers of Gods word 6. In her love and charity towards all Many discords have been in these sad times and she hath suffered much im many respects yet in her approaches near to the confines of Eternity I desired her to forgive others as she desired God to forgive her at which she proclamed it very affectionately that She freely forgave all the World and she desired all whom she had offended to forgive her Her children then kneeling about her she gave them a blessing as Jacob gave to Joseph and his children this blessing was pronounced with that cheerfulness heartiness and fervency of spirit that it melted hearts and caused aflood of tears round about her Bed in so much that she was forct to rouze up her self and to bespeak them as Christ did those weeping women Weep not for me but weep for your selves why should you weep for me that am going to my Christ and to those joyes prepared by Christ And then she gave a charge the subject of it was a relative respective duty to be performed by brethren it concern'd him most who was the begining of her strength or the excellency of her power Gen. 49.3 and so far as Justice or Religion calls I presume it will never be forgotten by him 7. In her desire to die and to be with Jesus Christ which was best of all Sometimes she cried Oh when will that good hour come And again sometimes Oh that I were dissolved that I might be with Christ But telling her of her duty that she must wait for waiting was a posture fit for servants Psal 123.2 Behold as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their Masters and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her Mistress so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God until be have mercy upon us Why then said she I will wait why Lord I will wait until my change shall come Only she minded that promise Heb. 10.37 For yet a very little while and he that shall come will come and he will not tarry One thing was her trouble she was afraid that her strong heart would not yield without much strugling to the stroke of death of this she told me and others once and again her reasons were best known to her self but she prophesied truly for indeed when death came to her heart she uttered such groanes that she outgroaned all our prayers At last death by degrees overcame the strength of nature and then she calmly and quietly left the world in the midst of our prayers just in that passage that her soul might be taken up by the Lord Jesus Christ into the Bridegroom chamber You see now how she redeemed the time in life and death As Christ said to the Lawyer so I say to you Go thou and do likewise Luke 10.37 It is but a while that all of you have to live and therfore I beseech you improve time lay hold of every season to get to Heaven Live every day as if it were your last on earth Walk accurately exactly circumspectly not as fools but as w●se Redeeming the time because the dayes are evil Soli Deo gloria