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soul_n	affection_n	heart_n	will_n	3,771	5	5.8842	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66950	The Protestant's crums of comfort containing I. Prayers and meditations, with ejaculations for every day in the week, and other occasions. II. Thanksgivings for deliverances from Popery, tyranny, and arbitrary power. III. The rebellion in Ireland, and massacre of Paris. IV. The learned Bishop Usher's prophecy, concerning Ireland, and the downfall of Rome. V. Advice to the late besieged in London-Derry, under that reverend divine and valiant commander, Coll. George Walker. Illustrated with pictures suitable to each particular occasion.	Walker, George, of Londonderry.	1690 (1690)	Wing W342; ESTC R219333	41,249	189

God formeth by his Spirit in every Soul which he doth truly regenerate I found so little of it wrought in my self that I could speak of it only as Parrots by rote and without the knowledge and understanding of what I might have exprest and therefore I durst not presume to proceed any farther upon it When I seemed to stand amaz'd to hear such an humble Confession from so great and experienced a Christian. He added I must tell you we do not well understand what Sanctification and the New Creature are it is no less than for a Man to be brought to an entire resignation of his Will to the Will of God and to live in the offering up of his Soul continually in the flames of love as a whole Burnt-offering to Christ and how little says he are many of those who profess Christianity experimentally acquainted with this Work on their Souls By this Discourse I conceived he had very excellently and clearly discovered to me that part of Sanctification which he was unwilling to write I then presumed to enquire of him what his present apprehensions were concerning a great Persecution which should fall upon the Church of God in these Nations of England Scotland and Ireland of which this reverend Primate had spoken many years before when we were in Peace and Settlement I ask'd him whether he did believe those sad times were past or to come he told me They were to come and that he did as fully expect it as ever he had done adding That this sad Persecution would fall upon all the Protestant Churches in Europe I replyed I hoped it might be past as to these Nations of ours since I thought that though we have been punished much less than our Sins have deserved and that our late Wars have made far less devastations than War commonly brings where it pleaseth God in Judgment to suffer it yet we must needs acknowledge that many great Houses have been burnt ruined and left without Inhabitants many great Families impoverithed and undone and many thousand lives also had been lost in that bloudy War and that Ireland and Scotland as well as England had drunk very deep of the Cup of God's Anger even to the overthrow of the Government and the utter Desolation almost of a very great part of those Countries But this holy Man turning to me and fixing his eyes upon me with that serious and irefull look which he usually had when he spoke God's Word and not his own and when the Power of God seemed to be upon him and to constrain him to speak which I could easily discern much to differ from the Countenance wherewith he usually spake to me He said thus Fool not your self with such hopes for I tell you all you have yet seen hath been but the beginning of Sorrows to what is yet to come upon the Protestant Churches of Christ who will e'er long fall under a sharper Persecution than ever yet has upon them and therefore said he to me look you be not found in the outward Court but a worshipper in the Temple before the Altar for Christ will measure all those that profess his Name and call themselves his People and the outward Worshippers he will leave out to be trodden down by the Gentiles The outward Court says he is the formal Christian whose Religion lies in performing the out-side Duties of Christianity without having an inward life and power of Faith and Love uniting them to Christ and these God will leave to be trodden down and swept away by the Gentiles but the Worshippers within the Temple and before the Altar are those who do indeed Worship God in Spirit and in Truth whose Souls are made his Temples and he is honoured and adored in the most inward Thoughts of their Hearts and they sacrifice their Lusts and vile Affections yea and their own Wills to him and these God will hide in the hollow of his hand and under the shadow of his Wings And this shall be one great difference between this last and all the other preceeding Persecutions for in the former the most eminent and spiritual Ministers and Christians did generally suffer most and were most violently fallen upon but in this last Persecution these shall be preserved by God as ● Seed to partake of that Glory which shall immediately follow and come upon the Church as soon as ever this Storm shall be over for as it shall be the sharpest so it shall be the shortest Persecution of them all and shall only take away the gross Hypocrites and formal Professors but the true spiritual Believers shall be preserved till the Calamity be over-past I then asked him by what means or instruments this great Tryal should be brough● on He answered By th● Papists I replyed Th●● it seemed to me very improbable they should be able t● do it since they were no●● little countenanced and b●● few in these Nations and that ●he Hearts of the People were ●ore set against them than e●er since the Reformation He answered again That it would be by the hands of Papists and in the way of a sudden Massacre and that the then Pope should be the chief Instrument of it All this he spake with so great assurance and with the same serious and concerned Countenance which I have before observed him to have when I have heard him foretel some things which in all humane appearance were very unlikely to come to pass which yet I my self have lived to see happen according to his Prediction and this made me give the more earnest attention to what he then uttered He then added That the Papists were in his opinion the Gentiles spoken of in the Eleventh of the Revelations to whom the outward Court should be left that they might tread it under foot they having received the Gentiles Worship in their adoring Images and Saints departed and in taking to themselves many Mediators and this said he the Papists are now designing among themselves and therefore be sure you be ready This was the substance and I think for the greatest part the very same words which this holy Man spake to me not long before his death and which I writ down that so great and notable a Prediction might not be lost by my self or others This gracious Man repeated the same things in substance to his only Daughter the Lady Tyrrel and that with many Tears and much about the same time that he had exprest the aforesaid to me and which ●…e Lady Tyrrel assured me of ●…ith her own mouth to this ●…rpose That opening the door of ●…s Chamber she found him ●…ith his eyes lift up to Heaven ●…d the Tears running apace ●…own his Cheeks and that ●…e seemed to be in an Ecstasie ●…herein he continued for a●…out half an hour not taking ●…e least notice of her though ●…e came into the Room but 〈…〉 last turning to her he told ●…er That his thoughts had ●…en taken up about the Mi●…ries and