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A00502 The saints legacies, or A collection of certaine promises out of the word of God Collected for the priuate use, but published for the comfort of Gods people. Whereunto is now added the saints support in times of trouble.; Collection of certaine promises out of the word of God. Fawkner, Antony, b. 1601 or 2, attributed name. aut; Farindon, Anthony, 1598-1658, attributed name. aut; A. F. 1629 (1629) STC 10636; ESTC S122118 53,335 250

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the holy Spirit to them that aske him Ioel 2.28.29 I will powre out my Spirit upon all flesh and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophesie your old men shall dreame dreames and your young men shall see visions And also upon the servants upon th ehandmaids in those dayes will I powre out my spirit Ioh. 14.16.17 And I will pray the Father and hee shall give you another Comforter that he 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 and he was heard in all hee prayed for therefore thou maist laime it though thy prayers bee but weake THE XXIV LEGACY If looking on Gods love thou canst not love God againe WHen thou lookest upon the great love of God unto thee and canst not finde thine heart inlarged in loving God again 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 XXV LEGACY If thou canst not bring thine heart to delight in the Lord. WHen thou canst not bring thine heart to delight in the Lord apply Isai 41.16 Thou shalt rejoyce in the Lord and glory in the holy one of Israel Psal 89.16 In thy name shall they rejoyce all the day and in thy righteousnesse shall they be exalted Iob. 22.26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty Psal 33.21 For our heart shall rejoyce in him because we 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 rejoyce continually in thy name THE XXVI LEGACY If thou feelest not Gods feare in thine heart WHen wee feele not the feare of God in our hearts apply Ier. 33.40 I will put my feare in their hearts If we would have a reverent feare of God when we 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 bee inquired of by the house of Israel to doe it for them THE XXVII LEGACY If thine heart will not praise the Lord. VVHen thou canst not bring thine heart to praise the Lord apply Isa 43.21 This people have I formed for my selfe they shall shew forth my praise Ioel 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 self 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 stirre thee not up to praise the Lord apply Hee shall eat and be satisfied and praise the name of the Lord. THE XXVIII LEGACY If thou wantest wisdome WHen thou seest thy want of wisdome makes thee not walke like a Christian so unblameably as thou ought apply Iam. 1.5 If any of you lacke wisdome let him aske of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him When thou findest thou want'st wisdome to improve thine afflictions to the best advantage or for the ordering of thy actions occafions and course of life to Gods glory and the good of others and thy selfe then faile not to aske wisdome and doubt not of the obtaining of it THE XXIX LEGACY If thou canst not understand Gods voyce VVHen thou canst not understand the voyce of God in his word or works not knowing what to learne by them apply Isa 35.5 The eares of the deafe shall bee unstopped That is those that were deafe not understanding any thing shall be made to heare that is to understand Ioh. 10.16 Other sheep I have which are not of this fold them also I must bring and they shall heare my voyce Which is a promise to the Gentiles that they shall understand the voyce of God THE XXX LEGACY If thou caust not see into the mysteries of the Gospell IF thou canst not see into the divine my steries of the Gospel apply Isa 35.5 The eyes of the blind shall be opened Isa 42.7 Hee shall open thee eyes of the blind Luk. 4.18 Hee hath sent me to recover sight to the blind 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 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 blind THE XXXI LEGACY If thou seest a good way and hast no power to walke in it WHen thou seest a good way and 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. 36.72 And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walke in my statutes and ye shall keep 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 hee commands seeing we have 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 keep my judgements and doe them Isai 40.31 They shall runne and not be weary they shall walke and not bee faint That is Those which of themselves could not step one step shall be able to runne swiftly in the wayes of God THE XXXII LEGACY If thou wantest memory VVHen thou wantest memory to remember the Word of God apply Ioh. 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 remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you THE XXXIII LEGACY When thou seest thine ignorance VVHen thou seest thine ignorance and fearest thou shalt not bee able to glorify God as thou mightest if thou had'st more knowledge stirre up thy selfe to desire and apply Ier. 31.33.34 Thus saith the Lord I
in earth Psal 335.6 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts so shall I talke of thy wondrous works Psal 11.27 6. Remember thy Word unto thy servant upon which thou hast caused me to hope Psal 119.49 Who is like unto the Lord our God who dwelleth on high Psal 113.5 7. Incline my heart unto thy Testimonie and not unto Covetousnesse Psal 119.36 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me thou knewest my paths Psal 142.3 8. My soule is continually in my hand yet doe J not forget thy Law Psal 119.109 Stablish thy word unto thy seruant who is devoted to thy feare Psal 119.38 A POSTSCRIPT TO ALL TRVE BELEEVERS Gracious Beleevers KNowing you to be the only heires of those rich and precious promises which it hath pleased our gracious Father freely to give unto his freely beloved Children I have presumed without your knowledge to bequeath unto you a fatherlesse child brought forth into the world without the parents knowledge hoping you will not be unwilling to let it passe under your favourable protection For the subject matter of it it is very beautifull and of such use as no child of God can passe to Heaven without it and in that regard it shall bee no shame unto you whom the Lord hath honoured with the grace of believing to accept of this small Treatise from one that desires your prospering in your soules and bodies There is no blemish in this that I dedicate unto you but such as came by the hands of the unskilfull bringer forth of it which only minded their own good in it And weighing dayly the beauty of it and the sweet refreshing strength which flowed from it for the overcomming of those three deadly enemies the Devill Sin and the World they desired that Ged would bee pleased to move the minds of some of his most skilfull workmen to put to their hands to frame a more perfect work upon so perfect a subject and to give a more comely forme to this so beautifull a subject and till then they intended to smoother in their bosomes the beauty of this rather then to bring it forth with the blemishes of their unskilfulnesse But the good that may be gayned by it being unutterable I hope grace in the hearts of Gods people will cause them like the Bee to suck out the sweet and nourishing vertue of these fragrant flowers that grow here and there in the garden of Gods word and not with discontent to cast away this pleasant posy gathered out of the celestiall Eden of the sacred Scriptures because an unskilfull hand and indeed unworthy hath bound them up together not so orderly as might please the curious eye of man no nor their owne neither was it their ayme so to doe J fany gaine any good by it the gatherer of these sweet flowers together neither deserves nor desires thanks for they intended it to none but to themselves and some private friends whose importunity wrung some copies from them and now without their consent have published it And now since it is published and cannot bee stopped the Lord cause it to worke in all his according to that which he hath given the promises for to work in the hearts of his people even to make them partakers of the divine nature 2. Pet. 1.4 And as a meanes to make them to take every day a litle posy from the rest one of the promises gathered together and apply it to thy selfe see how thou standest in need of it and every word in it and then apply it to thy selfe by faith and let it stirre thee up to goe to God in prayer for the accomplishment of them unto thee then waite in the diligent use of all meanes for the gayning of them and you shall find God not only making you heires of promises but you shall be comfortable possessours of those many good things which God hath promised to Beleevers The more you meditate and the oftner you ●ay upon them the more good will you see in them and find flow from them I say no more but I doubt not but your experiences of good by these promises will be more then I can make knowne unto you I desire the God of mercies our loving father in our Lord Iesus Christ in whom all the promises are Yea and Amen to make you dayly find experimentally the truth of all his gracious promises FIVE TABLES FOR THE Right and Ready finding out of any Promise in this Booke for the comfortable supply of present necessity the number shewes the page where the Promise wee would have is to be found The 1. Table Concerning sin RVles for reading the Promises If we find nothing in our selves that may move God pag. 1. If wee feare God will remember our sinnes to punish them pag. 4. If often sinning cause thee doubt of pardon pag. 5. If thou despaire pag. 6. If thou findest sinne an heavy burden and Satan pursuing pag. 8. If thou turn from sinne and yet doubt of pardon pag. 10. If thou wouldst have thy manifold rebellions subdued pag. 13. If thy heart be hard and full of corruption pag. 14. If unbridled nature break out into passion pag. 16. If thou be in bondage to some sin pag. 17. If thou fearest the breaking out of strong sinnes pag. 18. When thou art stayed from sinne by admonition pag. 20. If thou fearest God will destroy thee for sinne pag. 21. If thou bee tempted to uncleannesse pag. 22. If thou canst not find out thy sinne for which God corrects thee pag. 23. If thou doubt of salvation pag. 24. The 2. Table Concerning Grace IF thine heart be as a wildernesse barren of good pag. 25. If thou wantest holinesse pag. 29. When thou canst not offer up any sacrifice pag. 30. When thou feelest but little grace pag. 31. When all thy graces are weake pag. 32. When thy heart is dry for want of grace pag. 35. If thou wantest the spirit pag. 38. If looking on Gods love thou canst not love God againe pag. 39. If thou canst not bring thine heart to delight in the Lord. pag. 40. If thou feelest not Gods feare in thine heart pag. 41. If thine heart will not praise the Lord. page 42. If thou wantest wisdome pag. 43. If thou canst not understand Gods voyce pag. 44 If thou canst not see into the mysteries of the Gospell pag. 45. If thou seest a good way and hast no power to walke in it pag. 46. If thou wantest memory pag. 48. When thou seest thine ignorance pag. 49. If thou desirest grace and art not fatisfied pag. 52. If thine heart be dead pag. 54. If thou fearest falling away pag. 55. If thou art falne pag. 58. When the Lord hath forsaken thee p. 60. When thou feelest thy vilenesse pag. 62. When thou feelest thy spirituall poverty pag. 64. When thou art in a strait pag. 65. If thou fearest Satan will cause thee to fall pag. 67. If thou canst not profit by the word of God pag.