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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	believe_v	faith_n	promise_n	6,041	5	7.5865	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60155	A sermon preacht upon the death of Mrs. Anne Barnardiston (daughter of Nathanael Barnardiston, Esq., late of Hackney) who departed this life the 30th day of Decemb. 1681, at the age of seventeen with a brief account of some remarkable passages of her life and death.	Shower, John, 1657-1715.	1682 (1682)	Wing S3690; ESTC R5070	28,398	52

A SERMON PREACHT Upon the DEATH OF Mrs ANNE BARNARDISTON DAUGHTER of NATHANAEL BARNARDISTON Esq late of Hackney Who departed this Life the 30th day of Decemb. 1681. at the Age of Seventeen With a brief Account of some Remarkable Passages of her LIFE and DEATH Published at the Desire of her Relations Psal 103.15 As for man his dayes are as grass as a flower of the field so he flourisheth V. 16. For the wind passeth over it and it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more LONDON Printed by J. A. for Benjamin Alsop at the Angel and Bible and John Dunton at the Black Raven in the Poultrey 1682. TO The Much Honoured MADAM ELIZABETH BARNARDISTON MADAM THE sad Occasion of the Sermon and your Relation to Her whose dying request was fulfilled in my preaching it doth style the Dedication yours Though what I have mention'd of your excellent Daughter is less than others would have said on the same subject yet having given an account of her preparedness and willingness to dye methinks that should be considered as a sufficient Argument to mitigate your Sorrow and prevent its excess 1 Thess 13. 'T is the Apostles Instruction concerning them who sleep in Jesus that we ought not to sorrow as do others who have no hope Such were the Aegyptians and 't is observ'd of them that they mourned longer for the death of old Jacob Gen. 50.3 than his own Son Joseph did I know the Time of Her Death gives an Accent to the Calamity That before your Mourning Weeds were laid aside for one of the best of Husbands who hath a good Report of all men and of the Truth it self you should be forced to continue the same or put on more for the Loss of such a Child in the Prime of her Youth and Strength and Beauty A Loss for which you do not mourn alone since many others are partners of your grief not by sympathy only as pitying you but from a due Respect and Affection to her and their own Concern at her departure But as your Afflictions abound God can make your Consolations by Christ abound much more And such Losses as these though some of the smartest and most afflictive to humane Nature may turn to your Spiritual Gain And even this Rod like that of Aaron may blossom and produce the peaceable Fruits of Righteousness If in the want of their Company God himself be more depended on as your All in all If their removal out of this World promote your Mortification to it if their being taken up to Heaven assist your Preparations and excite your desires to follow God hath already made good his Covenant Promise in a very peculiar manner to those whom he gave and hath taken from you and I trust will do so as to those who remain that they may know and serve the God of their Fathers with a perfect heart and see the Felicity of his Chosen That they may tread in the steps of their departed Relatives and bear up the Name of God in their respective stations to his Glory and your Comfort and their Salvation And if God should not make your house to grow 2 Sam. 2 5. yet he hath made an Everlasting Covenant with you well ordered in all things and sure I wish the following Discourse may contribute any thing to your Support or at least be accepted as an Expression of my Obedience in complying with your request thus to make it publick And as a Testimony of my unfeigned Respect to the memory of the deceased with a serious desire of some benefit to others also by such a remarkable Instance of an Early Piety of an Exemplary Life of a peaceable Death Which God grant who alone can bring Good out of Evil all whose Works are perfect and whose Wayes are Judgment I am MADAM Your most Affectionate Humble Servant John Shower London Jan. 25. 1681 2 TO THE READER Reader I Being Earnestly desired both by the Relations of the Deceased Gentlewoman and by the Preacher of the following Funeral Sermon to Testifie what I knew of the Gracious and wonderful workings of the holy Spirit upon the Heart of this Person during Her Life I could not but yield to their Importunate requests And upon this occasion I must declare That having Known her from her Childhood and having very much observed her Conversation of late and being called to give her several visits in her sickness I do believe upon the whole that God did give her a sound Repentance for and a Full Remission of all her sins through the mediation of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I can assure thee Reader who ever thou art that she had an awakened sight of her sins accompanied with a great measure of Godly Sorrow for them I discerned also in her a deep Humiliation and I heard her open self-Condemnation thereupon I found in her also a clear Knowledge of the Nature of the New Covenant together with a Right Apprehension of the Nature of that Faith which is Required of all men and is through Grace bestowed upon some penitents whereby the Soul doth attain to an Interest in that Covenant It being thereby united unto Christ and consequently doth partake of the Benefits of his Merits and doth receive the Fruits of his Attonement with the Inhabitation of his Spirit Saving Faith and True Repentance are alwayes inseparable and their Conjunction doth evidence and speak them to be true and saving both These I do believe were united in the Soul of this deceased person And therefore I have very great Hopes of her State All Faith which is pretended to where Repentance is wanting I account to be nothing but a presumptuous Confidence and all seeming Repentance which is not Accompanied with some Faith in the Divine Goodness and in the promises made thereof by our Lord Jesus is no other than the Repentance of a Cain or a Judas his despair Our Lord Jesus did as it were Epitomize the whole Gospel and comprehended the whole Duty of man in two words viz. Repent and Believe and 't is to be observed that these two are set in the very Front as the Text to all his Ministry Mark 1.15 And by reason of the Import of them they may be accounted as the Contents of the whole Where these two Graces are not conjoyned Guilt Remains and Sin Reigns But where they are united in any Soul as that person is Justifyed so that Heart is savingly changed and that Nature is in measure Sanctified and the life of that man for the Future will be proportionably universally Holy Would the Genius of the present Age allow me to use Metaphors in Soul-concernments I should think that I did then best explicate to vulgar capacities the nature of saving Faith as when I did call Faith the Daughter of Knowledge the Sister of Repentance and the Mother of Love for the Holy Ghost tells us that Faith comes in by Hearing Ro. 10.17 That it