Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	heart_n	sin_n	soul_n	17,467	5	5.0240	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57937	Heaven's glory, and hell's terror containing the glory of the saints in heaven with Jesus Christ, and the eternal torments of the damned in hell.	Russel, Robert, fl. 1692.	1694 (1694)	Wing R2347E; ESTC R219967	8,408	21

must be a settled and deliberate Resolution Now when a Man seriously considers that except he becomes a new Creature he cannot be saved and thereupon takes up a strong and sixt Resolution hence forth to lead a new Life the Work is more than half done that Man is not far from the Kingdom of Heaven Thus for the Act of Repentance Now I will give you some Helps for the daily renewing of your Repentance 1. Every Morning as soon as you rise prostrate yourselves before the Throne of Grace and earnestly beg for God's assisting Grace to keep you from falling into any kind of Sin that day for after a Man is regenerated he is yet daily liable to fall foul into Sin without the assistance of God's special Grace Therefore earnestly desire of God in Prayer that he might strengthen you against all Temptations of the World the Flesh and the Devil and keep you that day from falling into any kind of Sin 2. When you have thus done then go about the works of your Calling But set a strict and continual Watch over your Heart and all your Senses watch your Eyes that they do not wander after Vanity watch your Tongue that no Lies nor vain Jesting nor unprositable filty and corrupt Speeches don't come from that But above all watch your Heart that no evil Thoughts do enter in there for the Heart is the Spring and Fountain of all sin and wickedness and be very jealous over yourselves in every thing you do lest at any time you should sin in it and keep yourselves from all the occasions of Sin meddle with none of the Devil's Baits least you tempt God to leave you to be overcome And as often as the Devil doth tempt you to any kind of sin or do offer you any Bait then immediately lift up your Hearts to God by Ejaculatory Prayers as thus Lord vanquish Satan at this time that he don't overcome me Lord preserve me this once from falling into sin Lord have mercy on my soul and keep and streng then me against this temptation of the Devil that I be not overcome And if wicked Men should at any time seek to draw you into Sin with them then make a firm Resolution with yourself never to consent and as much as possible you can keep yourself from the Company of wicked Men But when at any time you through Iufirmity fall into Sin then lye not in it but immediately go by yourself into some corner and there present yourself and humbly confess it to God and earnestly beg that God would cast it behind his back and wash it away in his Son's blood that it may never rise up against you to shame or condemn you and give yourself no rest until God hath given you some assurance of Pardon and withal renew your Resolution to be more watchful for the time to come Thus renew your Repentance as oft as you fall into Sin or if you cannot do it presently as soon as you sin to be sure to do it before you lye down to sleep at night every night before you lye down in your Bed look back into the day past what Sins you have fallen into and repent and beg pardon for them and look also and see what Temptations you have overcome and what Graces God hath strengthened in you and rejoyce and praise God for it Thus by continual watching and praying and striving you will find Sin to die in you more and more and Grace more and more to grow and increase in you And whilst others grow near Hell you will grow nearer and nearer to Heaven This is the first step in the Way to Heaven Repentance The Second is Faith As first I directed you to Repent so secondly Believe the Gospel Now Faith is a saving Grace whereby receive and rest upon Christ alone for Salvation as he is freely offered to us in the Gospel Now seeing a true saving Faith is not your Power but it is the Gift of God and God always bestows it upon those that use the Means which he hath prescribed in his Word for the obtaining it I shall therefore give you some Directions what you shall do to have this Grace of Faith wrought in you 1. Be deligent in reading the Scriptures First you must every Morning and Evening read a Chapter in your Bible or else some part of a godly Sermon and when you read you must not run it over and then leave it you were as good do nothing as do so But when you read you must take especial heed what you be a reading of and when you have done look back a little upon what you have read and see what Sins are condemned there that you know your self guilty of and be humbled for them what Duties are required there and resolve to practise them what Judgments God hath threatned against such and such Sins and stand in awe of them what Promises God hath there made and what are the Conditions of those Promises and resolve through the Grace of God inabling you to perform those Conditions that those Promises may belong to you and i● so doing then you read with Profit indeed 2. Be fervent and diligent in hearing the Word preached For faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God Rom. 10.17 But then you must not do as most do who either sleep all the Sermon-time or else lend their Ears for a while and then when Sermon is ended they let the Devil steal it out of their Hearts and so never mind it afterwards but you were better never go to Church at all than to go and hear after that rate But when you be at Church you must hearken with all the Attention you can hearken earnestly as if you were to die presently and go to Judgment And for your help herein you must mark what is the Doctrine what are the Reasons and Uses and how many they are 2. Hear with Affection and for your help you must hear as if God himself were a speaking to you and as if he spoke directly to you you must hear as if it were indeed the Word of God and not of Man 3. Whilst you are a hearing set a Resolution to practise what you hear and when you come home call over the Heads of the Sermon in your Mind and turn every Use and Direction that has been delivered into Prayer pray for God's Blessing on it and ma●e it matter of your Meditation all the Week and then lastly set to the practice of it 3. Another means for the getting of a saving Faith is earnest Prayer unto God for it Matth. 7.7 Ask and you shall have seek and you shall find kneck and it shall be opened unto you But you will say it may be God will not accept my Prayers for God heareth not Sinners and the Prayers of the Wicked are Abomination unto him I answer it is wilful Sinners that God will not hear they that pray for Mercy and other good things and yet hate to be reformed the Prayers of such God will not regard But they that come to God in a returning way with a full purpose to leave their Sins and pray and earnestly desire Grace especially this Grace of Faith they shall certainly be accepted and have their Prayers granted But if you desire indeed to have this Grace of Faith bestowed on you then you must look to the manner of your Prayers you must not pray as most do but you must pour out your very Souls in Prayer to God your Hear and Tongue must go together earnestly des●ing that which you pray for you must pray with zeal and fervency you must strive and wrestle with God in Prayer and never give him rest until he hath granted your desire these are the Prayers that God takes delight in and if God answer not your Prayers the first nor second time then try again and again as the Woman of Canaan did and then you need not doubt but God will hear you at last Now concerning the Act of Faith take but this Direction Make a Catologue of all the Promises as you did before of your Sins and God's Mercies and then heartily believe and assure yourselves that every one of those Promises belong to all those that perform the Conditions of those Promises and if you perform the Conpition then those Promises belong to you As for instance I will name this one particular Promise Matt. 19.29 Every one that hath forsaken houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my name's sake shall receive an hundred fold and shall inherit everlasting life Now to make use of this Promise when you thus embrace Christ as is he offer'd when you make your greatest care to obey the Commands of Christ all his commands out of love to him as our Saviour When you are heartily willing to forsake all your beloved pleasures your darling Lust your secret Sin for Christ's sake and if at last you should be called to it can willingly forsake Houses and Lands yea and your own Life too for him resting fully and wholly upon him for Salvation then you are true Believers and such a Faith as this will certainly bring you to Heaven Thus if you walk according to this Rule that I have here set you if you do thus Repent and believe the Gospel then at last when Unbelievers and all impenitent Sinnersshall be turned into Hell you shall be received into the Joys of our Lord and Master there to reign with him for ever and ever Which God of his Mercy grant unto us all Amen FINIS