ready to faint through weakenesse apply He is a river of water in a drie place to revive thy spirits and as the shadow of a great rocke under which thou maist safely repose thy selfe When thou findest thy sinnes very heavy apply I will ease you When thou hast no rest in thy soule because of sinne apply You shall finde rest to our soules He shall save his people from their sinnes both from the punishment the power If thou fearest length of time in temptations apply The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly The 6. Legacie WHen thou turnest from sinne and doubtest of the pardon of it apply Isai 1.18 Though your sinnes bee as skarlet they shall bee as white as snow though they bee red like crimson they shall be as wooll Isai 55.7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him returne unto the Lord and he will have mercy on him and to our God for hee will abundantly pardon Micah 7.18.19 Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage hee retaineth not his anger for ever because hee delighteth in mercy Hee will turne againe hee will have compassion upon us hee will subdue our iniquities and thou wilt cast all their sinnes into the depthes of the sea Prov. 28.13 He that confesseth and forsaketh his sinnes shall finde mercy 1 Iohn 1.9 If wee confesse our sinnes hee is faithfull just to forgive us our sinnes and to cleanse us from all unrighteousnesse When thou seest thy soule of a sinfull colour apply Though they be red like crimson they shall be as white as wooll If thou fearest God will hardly be intreated apply Hee will have mercie for he is ready to forgive If wee feare that our sinnes have taken such strong hold upon us as wee shall never get from them apply He will clense us from all our unrighteousnesse See God promiseth to be the cleanser feare not the hardnesse of the worke The 7. Legacie WHen thou feelest many rebelliōs in thine heart and life and would'st have them not onely pardoned but subdued apply Hos 14.5 I will heale their back-sliding Which promise as I thinke containes thus much that God will not onely pardon but heale us and in stead of rebellious hearts and lives will give us obedient hearts and lives for as healing followeth the curing of sicknesse so obedience doth the curing of rebellion Micah 7.19 Hee will subdue our iniquities When thou feelest sinne very strong flie to this promise and apply the strength of him that promiseth against the strength of sinne it is the Lord that hath promised to subdue it what though Sinne and Satan joyne their force together yet the Lord is stronger then all their force wee need not doubt The 8. Promise VVHen thou feelest thine heart hard and full of corruption apply Ezek. 36.26 A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh Deut. 30.6 And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soule that thou maist live When thou feelest thine heart worldly carnall apply I will circumcise thine heart A new heart will I give thee When nothing will breake thine heart apply the power of Jehovah that hath promised to cure thee in taking away thy stonie heart The 9. Legacie WHen thou cāst not bridle nature but it breakes forth into violent passions to contention apply Isai 11.6 The Wolfe also shall dwell with the Lambe and the Leopard shall lie downe with the Kid and the Calfe and the young Lyon and the fatling together and a little child shall lead them Such shall bee the power of the Gospell that those which are by nature like Wolves and devouring beasts shall dwell very peaceably and if wee finde our nature such we must apply the Wolfe shall dwell with the Lambe Micah 7.19 Hee will subdue our iniquities and will cast all our sinnes into the depth of the sea that which is cast into the Sea as it appeareth not in sight so wee cannot get it againe though we would so will God doe by our sinnes cast them out of his sight so as we shall not returne to them any more presse him with his promise and you shall finde more then you thinke The 10. Promise WHen thou feelest thy selfe in bondage to some sin apply Iohn 8.32 You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free Rom. 6.14 Sinne shall not have dominion over you When thou feelest thy bondage that thou canst not doe good or keepe thy selfe from evill apply The truth shall make you free If thy sins often prevaile against thee apply Sinne shall not have dominion over you Psal 130.8 Hee shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities The 11. Promise WHen thou feelest some sin so strong in thee that thou fearest it will breake out to Gods dishonour and the blemishing of Religion apply 1 Thess 5.23 24. That your whole spirit soule and body may be preserved blamelesse unto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ Faithfull is hee that calleth you who also will doe it That God which hath called thee will keepe thee blamelesse unto the comming of Christ therefore use the meanes and rest upon the Lords faithfulnesse which never faileth them which trust in him 2. Thess 3.3 But the Lord is faithfull who shall stablish you and keepe you from evill 1 Iohn 1.9 If we confesse our sinnes he is faithfull and just to forgive us our sinnes and to cleanse us from all unrighteousnesse By cleansing as I thinke is meant not onely from the guilt of sinne but the power of it that the filthinesse of it shall not appeare in our lives and conversations When sinne pursues thee hard to make thee fall doe thou pursue the Lord with prayers for performance of this promise and doubt not of the issue Micah 7.19 Hee will subdue our iniquities And to these adde the prayer of Christ John 17.15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world but that thou shouldest keepe them from the evill Now what greater evill then sinne therefore though thy prayers be but weake against it yet hee hath prayed that was alway heard therefore fight and be sure of victory The 12. Legacie WHen thou art stayed from sinne by admonition apply Ezek 3.21 If thou warne the righteous man that the righteous sinne not and he doth not sin hee shall surely live because he is warned When any admonish thee obey and it shall be life to thy soule therfore receive the admonition and apply Hee shall live because he is admonished The 13. Legacie IF thou fearest God will destroy thee for thy sinnes apply Ezek. 18.30 Turne your selves from
legacies in our fathers wil and setting us a work both by penne and practise to sue for the same The volume is little but the vertue contained in the same is great The booke is extraordinarie being altogether for application and practise The scope and drift of it is to furnish beleevers with abundance of good to free them from all sins inward outward secret and open To fill them with all graces in life power and exercise To bring them comfort in and seasonable deliverance from all their troubles To draw downe upon their soules bodies abundance of blessings of all sorts and natures to give them full assurance of certaine and seasonable entrance into glory and to give them fast hold of heaven There are many I know that will little regard it the prophane person wil not like it for it is full of holinesse the carnall protestant will not discerne of it nor relish it for it is spirituall the dissembling hypocrite wil not wel approve of it for it will rob him of his Rimmon slay his M rs his Delilah his Herodias his daling sinne it will tell him if he applyes promises hee must keepe the conditions obey praecept and put every iniquitie though never so pleasurable or profitable far way from his Tabernacles But the honest hearted and sinceere beleever will approve of it prize it use it and profit by it And not to over-commend my commoditie as one desirous to make it more vendible and sailable for neither I nor its author God is witnesse ayme at any such thing but at the spiritual good of their soules unto whom it shall come this little booke like a well filled little Apothecaries shop containes within it heavenly receipts of all sorts wholsome physick of every kind for expelling and curing all sorts of diseases and sicknesses incident to Saints and for the corroborating and strengthning of new nature and for keeping the spirituall man in good health lustie and strong able for Gods service d Phil. 2.12 for working out his owne salvation with feare and trembling What here I speak unto one beleever I intend for all Hath sin that deadly poyson infected thee Lo here in this little booke an Antidote a preservative which will extract and expell this poyson Hath this serpent so fierie stung thee e Numb 21.8 Lo here the Brasen Serpent upon the pole Hath it beggered and undone thee Ioh. 3.14 15. Behold a way in this booke how thou maist become rich Doth it dayly trouble thee will it needs tyranize and dominere over thee This little book will learne thee to depose this Tyrant f Rom. 6.14 and tell thee hee shall not haue dominion and Lordship over thee Hath it stricken thee dead Lo here meanes of reviving and inliving thee to an happie life of grace Doth it threaten thy ruine Lo here physicke for thy feares g 1 Cor. 15.35 death hath lost its sting sinne is destroyed death shall fully and finally free thee from it Art thou hunted like a poore lambe by the hellish devouring Lion Sathan and chased before this infernal dog like a silly Deere in temptations Lo here a thicket a shelter a shepheard under which thou mayest repose and rest thy selfe in safetie Art thou overcome with his wilie stratagems Lo here wisedome Art thou beaten down with his power Lo here strength Fearest thou the fierie darts of this evill one Lo here a little house-full of targets sheilds and buklers h Ephes 6.16 promises applyed by faith which will repel and quench them i Iob. 6.4 Do Gods terrours set themselves in array against thee are Gods arrowes in thee doth his flaming wrath burne in thy bosome and is likely to consume thee Lo streames of mercy grace from a refreshing fountaine fluent in the pipes of the promises by thy hand of faith turn the cock and the coole water of Gods grace mercy shall flow forth upon thy soule and allay its burning heat and scorching inflamations Doth the wilie world endevour to intangle and inveagle thee by its lures and snares Lo here liberty freedome better things propoūded and promised which beleevers doe for the present in some measure enjoy and shall have a most certaine and full possession of afterwards Wantest thou Grace comfort deliverance blessing or any good thing Behold here thou mayest have them to the great joy of theine heart and content of thy Spirit Set faith a worke to draw out what thou wantest thou shalt have it Sucke these sweet and heavenly breasts of God by the mouth of thy faith open these pipes and veines of the promises which run so full of mercy grace truth comfort joy peace for every beelever by faith and thou shalt be satiate with every good thing Lest I shold make too great a porch for this little house and too great gates for this little citie I will conclude with an exhortation to all my beloved brethren and sisters which are beleevers to perfect their faith by application of the promises both of these in this sweet little booke and of all others contained in the Old and New Testament Suffer not GODS promises as I may so say to milke themselves doe you draw them let not good rest with God which you may have by beleeving and begging to your great comfort and inriching but take Gods commodities off his hand trade with that wealthy Merchant in the farre Countrey the Lord Iesus in heaven for his rich commodities of graces and comforts and glorious hopes untill you be rich and wealthy and for this purpose cause those two good factours Faith and Prayer founded upon and quickned confirmed by the pretious promises alway to trade for you in heaven untill you come thither your selves I would desire all beleevers to make this their pocket book that it may sollicite and wooe them to prayer make solid firme their faith increase their graces cōforts and heavenly hopes prepare them for induring the stormes of trouble tempests of temptations and may incourage them in holy weldoing and christian perseverance unto the end k Heh 6.12 Now bretheren my hearts desire is that yee bee not slothfull but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises That you may bee inheritours of them it shal be my daily prayer unto the Lord my God to bestow upon your heartes to use all good meanes for the attaining of the good in these other promises of God unto his people That he would teach and enable you to meditate upon them diligently day and night to beleeve thē firmly to apply thē severally particularly personally to sue for them earnestly by prayer constant and fervent to wait for their promised accomplishment by patience that so you may enjoy the good of them here hereafter which God in mercie grant unto mee and also you Amen To the Reader MAn which at the beginning was created happy Gen. 1.26 Eph.
strength If thou art ready to give over through wearinesse then gather strength from this They shall run and not be weary and walke and not be faint And if thou findest not these promises performed unto thee either thou endeavorest not to keepe the conditions or else thou art negligent in searching out the promises or cold in suing for them the Lord will be sought to for the performance Isai 41.10 I am thy God I will strengthen thee yea I will helpe thee yea I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousnesse Isa 26.4 Trust thou in the Lord for ever for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength To know there is strength in the Lord is no comfort unlesse wee know it shall bee for us Therefore since it is given for a comfort it must include this promise Thus the Lords strength for evermore shall be imployed for our good Therfore when we want for either soule or body wee must fixe our confidence in him who will-not faile us if wee seeké unto him The 22. Legacie WHen thou feelest thine heart dryed up for want of grace that thou canst not send forth any water of grace in thy thoughts words and workes apply Isai 44.3 I will poure water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground Isai 58.11 The Lord shall satisfie thy soule in drought and make fat thy bones and thou shalt be like a watred garden and like a spring of waters whose waters faile not Ier. 17.8 Hee shall bee as a tree planted by the waters that spreadeth out her roots by the river and shall not see when heate commeth but her leafe shall be greene and shall not be carefull in the yeare of drought neither shall cease from yeelding fruit Jer. 31.12 Their soule shall bee as a watred garden Jam. 4.6 God giveth grace unto the humble Isa 35.6 7. In the wildernesse shall waters breake out and streames in the desert And the parched ground shall become a poole and the thirsty land springs of waters That is the most barren heart shall abound with grace according to that promise John 7. Out of their bellies shall flow rivers of the waters of Life Isa 41.17.18.19 When the poore and needie seeke water and there is none and their tongues faile for thirst I the Lord will heare them I the God of Israel will not forsake them I will open rivers in high places and fountaines in the middest of the valleys I will make the wildernesse a poole of water and the drie land springs of water I will plant in the wildernesse the Cedar the Shittah tree and the Mirtle and the Oyle tree I will set in the desert the Firre tree and the Pine and the Boxe tree together So now though thou feelest thy heart barren know that God will bee thy Gardiner to thy barren heart to make pooles plant pleasant grapes of graces therefore seeing hee taketh upon himselfe the worke feare not the badnesse of the ground for hee will make it good as a fruitfull garden The 23. Legacie IF thou feelest thou wantest the Spirit of God apply Ezek. 36.27 I will put my Spirit within you Luke 11.13 If yee then being evill know how to give good gifts unto your children how much more shall your heavenly Father give the holy Spirit to them that aske him Joel 2.28.29 I will poure out my Spirit upon all flesh and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophecie your old men shall dreame dreames and your young men shall see visions And also upon the servants and upon the hand maids in those dayes will I poure out my Spirit Joh. 6.14.16.17.18 And I will pray the Father and hee shall give you another Comforter that hee may abide with you for ever even the Spirit of truth hee dwelleth in you and shall be in you I will not leave you comfortlesse I will come to you When thou canst not pray thy selfe stay thy selfe on these prayers that Christ hath prayed to the Father to give the Spirit he was heard in all hee prayed for therefore thou mayst claime it though thy prayers be but weake The 24. Legacie WHen thou lookest upō the great love of God unto thee and canst not finde thine heart inlarged in loving God againe apply this promise Deut 30.9 I will circumcise thine heart that thou maist love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soule The 25. Legacie WHē thou canst not bring thine heart to delight in the Lord apply Isai 41.16 Thou shalt rejoyce in the Lord glory in the holy One of Israel Psalm 89.16 In thy name shall they rejoyce all the day and in thy righteousnes shall they be exalted Job 22.26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty Psalm 33.21 For our heart shall rejoyce in him because wee have trusted in his holy name When thou seest cause of rejoycing in the Lord and yet canst not move thine affections apply They shall rejoyce in him If through many troubles and temptations thou findest thy joyes often interrupted apply they shall rejoice continually in thy name The 26. Legacie WHen we seele not the feare of God in our hearts apply Jer. 32.40 I will put my feare in their hearts If wee would have a reverent feare of God when wee performe any holy duty or at other times as thou feelest thy need so urge the Lord with this his promise for he delights to be sued to upon his promise by his servants Ezek. 36.37 I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel to doe it for them The 27 Legacie WHē thou canst not bring thine heart to praise the Lord apply Isai 43.21 This people have I formed for my selfe they shall shew forth my praise Joel 2.26 Yee shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the name of the Lord your God Psal 22.29 They shall praise the Lord that seeke him When thou seest what great things God hath done for thee and findest not thy selfe able to set forth his praise apply They shall set forth my praise When thou findest thy ingratefull heart not affected with the mercies thou enjoyest so as they stir thee not up to praise the Lord apply He shall eate and bee satisfied and praise the name of the Lord. The 28. Legacie WHen thou seest thy want of wisedome makes thee not walke like a Christian so unblameably as thou ought apply Jam. 1.5 If any of you lacke wisedome let him aske of God that giveth to all men liberally and up braideth not and it shall be given him When thou findest thou want'st wisedome to improve thine afflictions to the best advantage or for the ordering of thy actions occasions and course of life to Gods glory the good of others and thy selfe then faile not to aske wisdome and doubt not of the obtaining of it The 29. Legacie WHen thou canst not understand the voice of God in his word or workes not knowing what
to learne by them apply Isa 35.5 The eares of the deafe shall bee unstopped That is those that were as deafe not understanding any thing shall be made to heare that is to understand John 10.16 Other sheepe I have which are not of this fold them also I must bring and they shall heare my voice Which is a promise to the Gentiles that they shall understand the voice of God The 30. Legacie IF thou canst not see into the divine mysteries of the Gospell apply Isai 35.5 The eyes of the blinde shall be opened Isai 42.7 Hee shall open the eyes of the blinde Luk. 4.18 Hee hath sent mee to recover sight to the blinde These places are what Christ will doe to his people therefore wee need not feare our disease seeing Christ is our Physitian If every creature doth that for which it was ordained then hee will surely doe that which hee was sent to doe of the Father to give sight to the blinde The 31. Legacie WHen thou seest a good way hast no power to walke in it or art to performe any duty ordinary or extraordinary and feelest no strength to walke in that way apply Ezek 36.27 And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walke in my statutes and yee shall keepe my judgements and doe them When thou lookest at the greatnesse of the duty which God commands looke also at the largenesse of his promises for the keeping of them and then thou wilt not be discouraged at it What matters it what he commands seeing wee haue his promise If thou fearest the strictnesse of thy wayes that thou shalt not bee able to walke in them though thou step into them sometimes strengthen thy faith in this promise I will give thee my Spirit to cause thee to walke in my wayes Can sinne or Satan then resist Nay surely the Spirit is stronger and greater is hee that is in us then those that are against us And when wee see great duties which God commands and feare wee shall want strength to doe them apply Hee hath said You shall keepe my judgements and doe them Isai 40.31 They shall runne and not bee weary they shall walke and not bee faint That is Those which of themselves could not step one step shall bee able to runne swiftly in the wayes of God The 32. Legacie WHen thou wantest memory to remēber the word of God apply John 14.26 But the Comforter which is the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name hee shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remēbrance whatsoever I have said unto you The 33. Legacie WHen thou seest thine ignorāce fearest thou shalt not bee able to glorifie God as thou mightest if thou had'st more knowledge stirre up thy selfe to desire and apply Jer. 31.33.34 Thus saith the Lord I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and they shall all know mee saith the Lord from the greatest to the least Hosea 2.20 Thou shalt know the Lord Prov. 1.23 I will poure out my Spirit unto you I will make knowne my words unto you Psal 25.9.12.14 The meeke will he guide in judgment and the meeke will hee teach his way What man is hee that feareth the Lord him shall he teach in the way that hee shall chuse The secret of the Lord is with them that feare him and hee will shew them his covenant Prov. 2.4.9.11.12.13 If thou seckest her as silver and searchest for her as for treasures Then shalt thou understand righteousnesse and judgement and equity yea every good path Discretion shall preserve thee understanding shall keope thee to deliver thee from the way of the evill man from the man that speaketh froward things who leave the paths of uprightnesse to walke in the wayes of darkenesse Isai 11.9 The earth shall bee full of the knowledge of the Lord. Prov. 8.17 Those that seeke me earely shall finde mee Isai 35.8 The foole shall not erre John 7.17 if any man will doe his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it bee of God or whether I speake of my selfe Isai 32.3 4. The eyes of them that see shall not bee dimme and the eares of them that heare shall harken The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge When thou thinkest of the great mystery of God manifest in the flesh and of one divine essence and three Persons seest thine owne inability to conceive of this great God apply They shall all know the Lord The heart of the foole shall understand When wee feare God will not reveale his will to us apply I will poure out my minde to you Hee will teach the humble his wayes he will teach him the way he shall chuse If thou fearest that though God reveale his will yet thy ignorance is such as thou shalt not be able to understand it apply I will cause you to understand Thou shalt understand judgement righteousnesse equity and every good path If thou fearest men will draw thee away to errour apply Counsell shall preserve thee and understanding shall keepe thee and deliver thee from the evill way and from the man that speaketh froward things and from them that leave the wayes of righteousnesse to walke in the wayes of darkenesse The fooles shall not erre He shall know the doctrine whether it be of God The 34. Legacie IF thou desirest Grace and thy desires are not satisfied apply psalm 34.7 Delight thy selfe also in the Lord and hee shall give thee the desires of thine heart Psal 145.19 Hee will fulfill the desires of them that feare him Psal 81.10 Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it Matth. 5 6. Blessed are they which doe hunger and thirst after righteousnesse for they shall be filled Prov. 10.24 The desire of the righteous shall bee granted Doest thou desire grace fearest thou God will not grant thy desires apply Hee shall give thee thy hearts desire Hee will fulfill thy desire Fearest thou that if he give grace it will bee but a little apply Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it Thou shalt be filled Isai 30.18 Blessed are all they which wait for him Hee will certainely have mercy upon thee at the voyce of thy crie when he heareth hee will answer When thou beginnest to faint with waiting apply Hee will certainely have mercie upon thee The 35. Legacie VVHen thou feelest thine hart dead that it will not stirre to God or goodnesse apply Ps 22.26 Your heart shall live for ever Prov. 3.21.22 Keepe sound wisdome and discretion so shall they be life unto thy soule Isai 57.15 I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of contrite ones Amos. 5.4 Seeke the Lord and yee shall live When thou fearest thou shalt never overcome the deadnesse of thine heart apply Your heart shall live Seeke the Lord
things for thē apply His seed shall bee mighty upon earth The 68. Legacie IF thou wantest children apply Deut 7.14 Thou shalt bee blessed above all people there shall neither be male nor female barren among you Deut. 28.11 The Lord shall make thee plentifull in the fruit of thy body Psalm 128.3 Thy wife shall bee as a fruitfull vine by the sides of thine house thy children like Olive plants round about thy table vers 4.6 Loe thus shall the man bee blessed that feareth the Lord. Thou shalt see thy childrens children If thou hast conceived apply this promise for keeping of it Exod. 23.26 There shall none cast their young nor bee barren in thy land This and all other promises of earthly things are to bee applyed so farre as is good for us wee are not to doubt of them The 69. Legacie IF the Lord deny thee children apply Isai 56.5 To them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better then of Sonnes and of Daughters I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off The 70. Legacie IF thou wouldest have the comfortable and holy use of thine habitation apply Iob. 5.24 Thou shalt know that thy Tabernacle shal be in peace and thou shalt visit thine habitation and not sinne Psal 91.10 There shall no evill befall thee neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling Prov. 14.11 The Takernacle of the upright shall flourish Prov. 12.7 The house of the righteous shall stand If thou wouldest prosper in thine house apply Peace shall be in it No plague shall come neare it It shall flourish If thou wouldest have it continne so apply It shall stand That they may not bee a snare to thee but thou maist use thy blessing and not sinne apply Thou shalt visit thy habitation and not sinne The 71. Legacie IF thou wouldest have thy comming in and going out blossed apply Deut. 28.6 Blessed shalt thou bee when thou commest in and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out Psalm 121.8 The Lord shall preserve thy goin out and thy comming in from this time forth and even for evermore When thou goest out if thou wouldest have the heavens and earth and all creatures blessed to thee and bee made able to make the spirituall use of them apply Blessed shalt thou bee when thou goest out and when thou commest in The Lord shal preserve thy going out and thy comming in If thou wouldest haue the continuance of it apply From this time forth for evermore The 72. Legacie WHen thou eatest or enjoyest any blessing that it may satisfie thee and thou mayest have the sanctified use of it apply Ioel 2.26 Ye shall eate in plenty and be satisfied and praise the name of the Lord your God That thy meate and outward blessings may give thee content and satisfie thee apply Thou shalt eat and be satisfied That thou maist have the sanctified use of it apply Thou shalt praise the Lord. The 73. Legacie WHen thou takest thy rest at night apply Prov. 3.24 When thou lyest downe thou shalt not bee afraid yea thou shalt lie downe and thy sleepe shall be sweet Job 11.19 Also thou shalt lie downe and none shall make thee afraid If thou art troubled with feares of the night apply Thou shalt not bee afraid When thou takest thy rest apply None shall make thee afraid If thou art troubled with any thing that breakes thy rest apply Thy rest shall be sweet The 74. Legacie WHen thou puttest thine hand to any worke that it may bee blessed apply Deut. 28.12 The Lord shall blesse all the worke of thine hand Deut. 30.9 The Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every worke of thine hand The Lord will not onely blesse some of thy workes but every one therefore in every worke send up short prayers for the clayming of them and so at our going out and comming in or eating or sleeping renew these promises upon thy selfe by faith applying them and by prayer suing for them The 75. Legacie IF thou wouldest have thy outward blessings blessed of God apply Deut. 28.4 5. Blessed shall bee the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of thy cattell the increase of thy kind and the flockes of thy sheepe Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store Deut. 7.13 14 The Lord will also blesse the fruit of thy wombe and the fruit of thy land thy corne and thy wine and thine oyle the encrease of thy Kine and the flockes of thy sheepe There shall bee neither male or female barren a mong you or among your cattell That thy goods and thine house may be blessed apply Blessed shall bee thy basket and thy store If thou beest in debt apply Deuteron 28.12 Thou shalt lend unto many and shall not borrow The 76. Legacie IF thou desirest to enjoy the labours of thine hands apply Isai 65.21 23 23. They shall build houses and inhabit them they shall plant vineyards and eate the fruit of them They shall not build and another inhabit they shall not plant and another eate for as the dayes of a tree are the dayes of my people and mine elect shall long enjoy the workes of their hands They shall not labour in vaine nor bring forth for trouble Ps 128.2 Thou shalt cate the labour of thine hands The 77. Legacie WHen thou art diligent in thy calling apply Prov 12.14.24 The recompence of a mans hands shall bee rendered unto him The hand of the diligent shall beare rule When thou enjoyest that thou hast laboured for apply Psal 128.2 thou shalt cate the tabour of thine hands happie shalt thou bee andre shall be well with thee The 78. Legacie WHen thou seest the wicked to be carried with restlesse desires hungring and thirsting after those things which satisfie them not and thou desirest content apply Isaiah 65 13 14. Thus saith the Lord behold my servants shall cate but yee shall be hungry behold my servants shall drinke but yee shall be thirsty behold my servants shall rejoyce but yee shall be ashamed Behold my servants shall sing for joy of heart but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart and shall howle for vexation of spirit The 79. Legacie IF thou fearest thou shalt lose by following the Lord apply Psal 37.9 11 18 19 Those that waite upon the Lord shall inherit the earth their inheritance shall be for ever they shall not be ashamed in the evill time They shall inherit the earth and delight themselves in the abundance of peace Psal 112.3 Wealth and riches shall bee in his huse Iob 22.23 24. Thou shalt bee built up thou shalt lay up gold as dust the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brookes verse 25. Yea the Almighty shall be thy defence and thou shalt have plenty of silver Gen. 15.1 I am thy exceeding great reward Fearest thou the losse of thy land apply Thou shalt inherit the earth their inheritance shall bee
in the hand of the Lord and a roy all diadem in the hand of thy God Isaiah 61.4 5 6. They shall build the old wastes they shall raise up the former desolations they shall repaire the wast Cities the desolations of many generations And strangers shall stand and feed your flockes and the sonnes of the alien shall be your plow-men and your vine-dressers but yee shall bee named the priests of the Lord men shall call you the mintsters of our God yee shall cate the riches of the Gentiles and in their glory shall you boast your selves Isaiah 49.22 23. Thus saith the Lord. Behold I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles set up my standard to the people and they shall bring thy sons in their armes and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders and Kings shall be thy nursing fathers and their Queenes thy nursing mothers they shall bow down to thee with their face towards the earth and licke up the dust of thy feet THese promises I have observed many more there bee of most excellent use but because they need opening for the understanding of them I would not set them downe lest through the shallownesse of my understanding I should wrong the precious promises but I picked out the most plaine and those that I found of continuall use for Soule and Body which I have found much good by for the promises are our Legacies bequeathed to us in the will of our Father wee are to claime them as wee stand in need of any of them and surely that God which would not have children wronged in that which is bequeathed to them in the will of their fathers much lesse will he withhold that which his Son hath bequeathed to us in his last will which he sealed with his blood Therfore let us sue for them for the saith hee will bee sought to to performe them to us And when thou applyest any promise seeke unto the condition and labour to keepe it and doubt not of the performance of what is promised for he is both able and faithfull that hath promised FINIS A TABLE FOR THE right and ready finding out of any Promise in this Booke for the comfortable supplie of present necessitie the number shewes the page where the Promise wee would have is to bee found RVles for reading the Promises If wee finde nothing in our selves that may move God pag. 1. If wee feare God will remember our sinnes to punish them pag. 5 If often suing cause thee doubt of pardon pag. 6 If thou despaire pag. 7 If thou findest sin an heavy burden and Satan pursuing pag. 10 If thou turne from sinne and yet doubt of pardon pag. 13 If thou wouldest have thy many felt rebellions subdued pag. 16 If thy heart be hard and full of corruption pag. 18 If unbridled nature break out into passion pag. 20 If thou be in bondage to some sinne pag. 22 If thou fearest the breaking out of strong sinnes pag. 23 When thou art stayed from sinne by admonition pag. 26 If thou fearest God will destroy thee for sinne pag. 27 If thou be tempted to uncleannesse pag. 28 If thou caust not finde out thy sin for which God corrects thee pag. 29 If thou doubt of salvation pag. 30 If thine heart bee as a wildernesse barren of good pag. 31 If thou wantest holinesse pag. 37 When thou canst not offer up any sacrifice pag. 38 When thou feelest but little grace pag. 40 When all thy graces are weake pag. 41 When thy heart is drie for want of grace pag. 41 If thou wantest the spirit pag. 45 If looking on Gods love thou canst not love God againe pag. 48 If thou canst not bring thine heart to delight in the Lord ibid. If thou seelest not Gods feare in thine heart pag. 53 If thine heart wil not praise the Lord pag. 54 If thou wantest wisdome pag. 56 If thou canst not understand Gods voyce pag. 57 If thou canst not see into the mysteries of the Gospell pag. 58 If thou seest a good way and hast no power to walke in it pag. 59 If thou wantest memory pag. 62 When thou seest thine ignorance pag. 68 If thou desirest grace art not satisfied pag. 68 If thine heart bee dead pag. 70 If thou fearest falling away pag. 72 If thou art falne pag. 76 When the Lord hath forsaken thee pag. 78 When thou feelest thy vilenes pag. 81 When thou feelest thy spirituall poverty pag. 83 When thou art in a strait pag. 85 If thou fearest Satan wil cause thee to fall pag. 88 If thou canst not profit by the word of God pag. 90 If thou findest thy selfe unlike Gods people pag. 91 If thou wouldest have Gods blessing rest upon thee pag. 92 If thou wouldest be a blessing in thy place pag. 94 If thou separatest from the wicked in their corrupt worship ib. A promise to be applied in every ordinance pag. 96 When thou prayest pag. 97 Whē thou meditatest pag. 99 In meditating conferring reading Gods word pag. 101 In reading of the word if thou understandest not pag. 102 If thou canst not conferre pag. 103 When thou art to goe to the assemblies pag. 106 Wouldest thou enjoy the ordinances of God and a blessing upon them pag. 114 If thou enjoyest grace or meanes of grace pag. 117 When thou art banished from Gods ordinances pag. 120 Whilst thou art banisht from Gods house pag. 124 When wicked shepheards are over us pag. 127 When through wicked shepheards thou art come to great miserie pag. 129 When thou settest thy selfe to fast pag. 132 If thou art railed upon for well doing pag. 133 If thou art persecuted pag. 134 In partaking with Gods people in suffering pag. 137 When thou art called to defend the truth ib. If thou wouldest bring forth seasonable fruit for every estate pag. 139 If thou hast children pag. 141 If thou wantest children pag. 143 If the Lord deny thee Children pag. 145 If thou wouldest have a comfortable and holy vse of thy habitation ibid. If thou wouldest have thy going out and comming in blessed pag. 147 When thou eatest or enjoyest any blessing that it may satisfie and be sanctified pag. 148 When thou takest thy rest at night c. pag. 150 When thou puttest thy hand to any worke pag. 151 If thou wouldest have thine outward blessings blessed pag. 152 If thou desirest to enjoy the labours of thine hands pag. 154 If thou art diligent in thy calling pag. 155 When thou seest wicked men follow unsatisfying things with restlesse desires and thou desirest content pag. 156 If thou fearest thou shalt lose by following the Lord pag. 157 When thou hast lost blessings by sinne pag. 159 If thou fearest losse of thy good name pag. 160 If the world despise thee c. pag. 161 When thou art in want for soule or body pag. 163 In liberall giving pag. 165 If sicknesse be among us pag. 168 If thou fearest death pag. 170 If thou fearest untimely death pag. 171