Selected quad for the lemma: prayer_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	meditation_n	morning_n	night_n	6,381	5	10.0234	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70079	Golden remains of Sir George Freman, Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath being choice discourses on select subjects.	Freeman, George, Sir.; Freeman, Sarah, Lady.	1682 (1682)	Wing F2167B; ESTC R21279	41,541	130

have done had he not had a greater succour than any on Earth but God was all in all to satisfie his soul. He used to say all my strength is in God had I not depended on the Holy Jesus I had been dead e're this He could not lay himself to sleep but with some of these expressions Jesus is my strength God is a very present help in trouble in him we live move and have our being It is he that performeth all things for us All my fresh springs are in thee O Lord. He used to have the Italian Testament Bishop Hall's Book called The Balm of Gilead with other good Books at his beds-head which he would read in before he went to sleep finding some comfortable sentence suitable to his condition of which he would discourse with me as he laid himself to rest He used in great troubles to take the Bible and open it at adventure and then read what he first found which often hath been so suitable to his condition that he hath received great comfort and writ the places down which I have by me His heart was so much set on Heaven that he wonder'd how any Religious person could concern himself for any of these vain and transitory things and would use this expression of D r Hammond Let God govern the world And when he heard of any false reports he said Let us not trouble our selves but consider how we stand in the sight of God He was very fearful of taking Gods name in vain Insomuch that when Fits seized violently on him and pain made him cry O Lord he was troubled lest he had broken that Commandment who said he is able to help me but he in this my great extremity He could not endure to hear any one swear and hated a lye He wrote some of our blessed Saviours Sermon on the Mount which he intended to write out resolving to get it by heart and make it his practice but death seized him before it was finished He had a great love to the Word of God and said to his Sister on his death-bed I love Gods word and I fear him When he first waked in the morning he said God be blessed that I have lived to see the light of another day Lord grant that I may spend it to thy service and that Collect of the Church Prevent us O Lord in all our doings c. And when he rose crossing his Arms he said In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen and then he said the Lords Prayer which he had a high veneration for afterwards he read a Psalm He did not use long Prayers but short Ejaculations often both day and night When I have waked in the Morning I have seen him lifting up his hand with so great devotion that it hath moved my affection He delighted much in discourses of Religion and holy Meditations and hath told me in his bed he hath had such sweet Meditations as have raised him even to Heaven I am not able to express how excellently he would speak of his love to the Holy Jesus and the blessed Trinity He said he loved God above all and not any thing in comparison of him and that he would be a Martyr for God If he were sure his sins were forgiven and the pain of death over he could willingly leave this world for he desired to be dissolved and to be with Christ. He hath reckon'd to me the many dangers he had escaped and the many blessings he had received admiring the great goodness of God that had preserved him to that present and had given him time to repent of his sins and bestowed many undeserved blessings on him He told me he had desired some temporals which God denyed him but he look'd on it as a mercy and clearly saw that it was better for him to be in that very condition God had placed him in and would often speak of Gods Providence He was a great lover of the company of Divines and could not abide to see them slighted He had several of them in his prayers and desired the benefit of theirs for himself Satan would tempt him to lay aside his confidence in the mercies of God but he resolved and armed himself by faith against those assaults and hath said to me that he could as plainly see Satan in his malicious designs and temptations against him as if he saw him with his bodily eyes And sometimes Satan tempted him to infidelity but he did resist him and presently said the Creed I heard him say on his Death-bed Satan would tempt me but I will not believe him And then said I believe in God c. which made me think he had the same temptations then which he had told me of at other times And that that good God that had sustain'd him to that time would not then leave him but strengthn'd his faith to the last gasp About half a year before his Death he had many scruples which proceeded from the tenderness of his Conscience and made him full of fears lest in this or that he had offended and though when company came to see him he seem'd as chearful as he could yet when they were gone he would be troubled for any word or action he might offend in and did examine himself of his former life with sorrow for all he had done amiss He had very humble thoughts of himself and would judge and blame himself rather than others and often say a proud Man could not go to Heaven He was of a very sweet disposition and so tender hearted that he could not endure to see any creature in misery and hath told me of one that put his only Son to death for delighting in putting out the eyes of birds thinking he would be a cruel Man And though he was thus tender hearted yet upon a good account he had great courage as he hath shewed in his readiness to serve his King in the Surrey rising and at other times though he never had the fortune to be in any action He was a very good Scholar understood Hebrew Greek Latine and Italian and had the French Tongue as perfect as a Native He had great skill in Musick and delighted very much in it He had a great love to any he thought loved God Once a poor man came begging that said he had been taken by the Turks and used very cruelly but rather than he would deny Christ he would be torn in pieces I cannot express how much my Husband rejoyced to hear him say so and he was so taken with him that he gave him both Money and Cloaths There was a poor Woman that used to sit with the rest of the Poor at his Servants Table and he heard she had the report of a good Woman he took her to his own Table and used her with much respect He had such humble thoughts of himself that for some time he would not allow himself decent