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spirit_n	good_a	heart_n	soul_n	7,867	5	4.7017	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67015	A letter of advice and comfort to the English captives, who suffer slavery in foreign parts By Josiah Woodward, D.D. minister of Popler.	Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712.	1700 (1700)	Wing W3518A; ESTC R221231	9,113	25

address your s●lf to your Heavenly Sovereign and say O Lord the Creator and Judge of all who art of infinite holiness and perfection and hast determined that without holiness no man shall see thy reconciled Face Be pleased I humbly beseech thee to save me from my Sins thro' our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and by thine holy Spirit to sanctify me in Soul and Body that I may glorify thy name on Earth and do the work which thou hast given me to do Vouchsafe good God to work in me that purity of heart to which thou hast promised an infinitly blessed vision And make me to glorify thine holy name amongst these strangers to the common-wealth of Israel amongst w●om I sojourn And be pleased to take from them all hardness of Heart all unbeleif and disobedience to thy holy will that they also may at last be saved amongst thy true and faithful People That we may all with one heart and mouth glorify thee and rejoice in thy Salvation thro' Jesus Christ sour onely mediator and Redeemer Amen And now my Brother having shewn you the never failing way to true Contentment here and to eternal happiness hereafter Let not the bitterness of any temporal sufferings leaven your Soul nor run you into sullenness frowardness or the withdrawing of your heart from God Be you assured that God hath brought many a person whom he hath greatly loved into worse sorrows and streights than you are burthened with all The beloved Disciple St Jobn was banished and confined to Patmos a desolate and uncomfortable Island and we read of some excellent men of whom the World was not worthy who wandered about in Sheep-skins and Goats-skins in desarts and Dens and Caves of the Earth being destitute afflicted tormented and yet they would not accept deliverance upon sinful terms because they fixed their hearts on the hope of Heavenly enjoyments Heb. 11. 37. 38. It ought therefore to be your care to acquit your self as they did in every point of Christian duty with all good conscience that you with them may partake of that Rest which remaineth to the People of God And upon the whole as you would perform any of the foregoing Duties in an acceptable manner or injoy any of these great Blessings relating to this or the other world you must be much in Prayer and earnest devotion to God the giver of all Grace who will be found of such as truly seek his face thro' his beloved Son Jesus Christ our only mediator and Redeemer And if it shall please his infinite goodness to restore you to your former Liberty and Enjoyments be sure to live in perpetual thankfulness for such a singular mercy duely answering the ends of it by a serious and truly Christian Life For if your temporal Liberty when obtained should become an occasion of your sinking under the slavery of sinful Lusts and Passions it were infinitly better that you remained all your days under the most bitter and disco●solate Thraldom in this world because no chains on Earth can sit so heavy as those of eternal Darkness werewith the Devil is bound and wherewithall he seeks to load us Labour therefore my Brother to obtain such firmness in the ways of God as no Prosperity nor Adversity may ever shock And then if it please God to set you free lift up your devout Soul to God with great fervency and say UNto thee O most gracious and merciful God who hearest Prayer unto thee shall all Flesh come thee will I praise with all the Faculties and Powers of my thankful Soul for that thou hast heard me in my Distress and hast by thy good Providence delivered me from mine Oppressors When thou wast pleased to rebuke me for my Sin and folly and to bind me with affliction and Iron Yet I was not utterly forsaken of thy mercy but I found thy gracious Supports under my Trouble and at last bless'd be thy Name thou hast broken my Yoke and set me at Liberty O Suffer not this desirable enjoyment to be an occasion to the Flesh keep me I beseech thee by thy grace that I fall not under that worse slavery of sinful Lusts and Passions but make me partaker of that Redemption from Sin and Hell which is purchased for us by the blood of thy beloved Son and is offered to sinners in thy blessed Gospel to the privileges of which as thy good providence has now mercifully restored me so let thine holy Spirit lead me in those ways of perfect Liberty which thou hast therein ordained for us that living to thy praise I may dy in thy peace and be for ever thine thro' Jesus Christ our Blessed Lord and Saviour Amen FINIS ADVERTISEMENT THere are some other little useful Books proper to be had and read by all Marriners and Sea-faring-People such as The Religious-Seaman The Pastoral-Letter from a Minister to his Parishioners The Christians Daily-Devotion The Christian Monitor and the Familiar Guide to the Lord's-Supper All which may be had for about 18 d. and much Cheaper in Quantities

always in its Vigor in your breast which is 4. The exalted Degree and Eternal Duration both of the Rewards and Punishments of the world to come The wicked shall go away into Everlasting Punishment But the Righteous into Life Eternal Math. 25. 46. Consider my Brother you cannot hold your hand in the fire which burns on your Hearth for one hour without such Anguish as you reckon intolerable How can you then dwell with everlasting Burnings And this in utter Darkness in company with other howling desperadoes and mocking Devils Where is our sense and our self-love when we do not strive to escape this place of Torment For it is the amazing aggravation of these miseries that they never end How doleful a thought is it that after all the time we can think of is spent there will still be as much torture to come to the damned as at the First moment in which they entered into it Let not such a thought as this pass off hastily my Brother but give your mind leisure to consider it till it kills the very thought and desire of sinful injoyments which are but for a moment Suppose therefore that a nimble Writer did set himself for one whole day to advance the bigest summ in Numeration that he was able How vast would the number of Years be that he would set down before Night every single figure that he made towards the close of his Labour would contain an inconceivable term of time and the whole summ would utterly astonish us Now I would ask any one who beleives a Life to come whether of these two conditions is to be chosen either to live threescore and ten years the common Age of man in the love and service of God and then to enjoy all desirable Blessings for all those Millions of years which would be contained in that summ before mentioned Or on the other hand To live according to our foolish and extravagant Will for the space of Seventy years and then to ly in flames and exquisite tortures for such a vast and astonishing term of Years as the aforesaid Arithmetician had set down In this case every one would speedily determine for the service of God and the blessed Hope that attends it And yet this is nothing of a parallel case to Eternity For tho' not onely that one man but every person in the World added summ to summ throughout their whole Life and if all the Angels good and bad threw in all the Numbers that they were able to swell the prodigious Account to the utmost Advance they could and after this double and treble the whole to the utmost that your mind can imagine Yet still there is more in this one word Eternity than all this And we may hence learn what wonders a lively Faith in the Gospel of our Lord would be able to do were it duely improved and excited It would not only remove Mountains but the whole World when ever it stood in our way to Heaven and we should with great scorn and indignation say what should I be advantaged if I gain'd the whole World and lost my immortal Soul by the bargain Fix your mind seriously on these things my Brother till you find your heart affected with the meditation and then direct your Soul with fervor to the Throne of Grace and say O Blessed God who art the Light and Life and Bliss of all thy Creatures vouchsafe I beseech thee to pity and pardon me a vile Creature that have long lived in darkness and folly and Unbelief How little have I considered the weighty things of thy Law and the dismal consequences of transgressing it I have been blinded and hardned by unbelief and inconsideration and the love of this World and have not duely deny'd my sinful Lusts and Passions nor faithfully employ'd thy Talents O Lord vouchsafe to pardon all my past enormities thro' the Blood of attonement shed by our Lord Jesus Christ whom it pleased thee to appoint as a propitiation for our Sins and a mediator for Sinners And be pleased of thy goodness to determine my Soul unalterably for thy Kingdom and the Righteousness thereof in opposition to all the allurements of the World the Flesh and the Devil And grant that thro' the gracious conduct of thy Blessed Spirit I may daily advance in all grace and may overcome all the temptations of things seen by a firm Belief of things invisible O Lord vouchsafe to settle and envigorate my faith in the Eternity of those rewards and Punishments which thou hast been pleased to annex to our good or Evil deeds and make me with earnestness and constancy to do good and eschew Evil that I may so live to thee whilst I live that I may dy to thee when I dy and may be thine to all Eternity thro' our Lord Jesus Christ to whom with thee O Father and the eternal Spirit be all Blessing Honour Glory and Power ascribed by Angels and Men for evermore Amen Supposing therefore my Brother as in charity I must that you will rather chuse to live or dy in the most painful and wretched outward circumstances than to renounce your God and Saviour and part with your Religion and the hope of Eternal Life through it Your next care must be to walk worthy of that Holy and Venerable name that you bear that is of a Christian That the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ be not blasphemed by the Heathen by reason of our evil deeds but that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in Heaven You are reputed to have been brought up in the School of Christ and unbeleivers will be prying into your actions to see what there is in Christianity above other Religions and will judge of it according to what they observe in you be it good or bad O what a motive is this to the strictest Vertue and Piety Since your Lord and Master will be accounted a Divine and Blessed Saviour or a base cheat and Impostor according to your good or bad behaviour Yea and some of those Infidels who might have been brought over to your Religion by your singular Piety will assuredly be hardened against it by your looseness and debauchery So that here are two of the most constraining considerations to induce you to holiness of Life besides those other which have been already laid before you which ought to constrain you to shun all appearance of Evil and to make you careful to shew before an unbeleiving People what Purity meekness Sobriety Patience Charity and integrity our holy Religion teaches and produces Oh! dare not swear lye curse or cheat or to be drunk passionate clamororous or abusive But in meekness and patience possess ye your Souls as having your conversation in Heaven and your hearts set on things above And then God will in his time either remove you to your own Land or what 's better to his heavenly Kingdom In the contemplation of which you may humbly