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love_n	heart_n	love_v	sin_n	9,337	5	4.8347	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91558	A present for youth, and example for the aged, or, The remains of Damaris Pearse containing her speech after she kept her bed, and a copy of a written paper, of her own composing, which she left as her last legacy to her brothers and sisters, and was the last thing that ever she wrote : and also several pious expressions, occasionally uttered in her last sickness, worth minding : together with her funeral-sermon, preached by a reverend minister of the Gospel.	Pearse, Damaris, 1659-1679.	1683 (1683)	Wing P969C; ESTC R43889	49,302	145

Kingdom of God John 3.3 and Mat. 18.3 Except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven And become as little children that is we must be kind and loving one to another and tender hearted and we should be humble and lowly in heart have mean and low thoughts of our selves and forget injuries and pass by wrong done to us by others we should forgive our enemies as we hope for forgiveness from God Now we should examine our own hearts Psal 4.4 Commune with your own heart upon your bed 1 Cor. 11.28 Whether ever there hath been a real change wrought upon your souls or no If the bent of your souls be after sin and the pleasing of your flesh more than for the pleasing of God If your hearts be set upon carnal things to gratifie self and to fulfil the lust of your flesh and to love this world more than to love God then your case is very sad but if your great care be to please God and to eschew evil to avoid sin and to save your souls then you are the people of God Do you study so to walk as to approve your hearts to God is your great comfort in God is he your portion and treasure and if your greatest comfort be in the enjoyment of God then you are his peculiar people It is not the forsaking of some sins that doth make the change in the heart There are many that do forsake some sins such as may disgrace them before men but they love all sin in their hearts why they are as wicked as any neither is the forsaking of sin in time of affliction onely the changing of the heart but the hating of all sin the least sin the most secret sin the striving against it and the forsaking of it is a sign that there is a change wrought in the Soul We should consider the great love of the Great Almighty God towards us poor miserable sinners that when we were in a lost condition and could no way help our selves then he sent his beloved Son into the world to deliver us from our sins and to give unto us eternal life John 3.16 and we should consider the great love of the Lord Jesus Christ towards us He came down from Heaven from the Glory of his Father and took upon him the nature of man he satisfied Gods Justice in his suffering for our sins he suffered a most shameful painful and cursed death even the death of the cross for sinners all that should believe in his name O now that people would but lay hold on the Lord Jesus Christ for life and for salvation He is the onely way the truth and the life Joh. 14.6 They that have an interest in the Lord Jesus Christ shall have eternal life And then as for all such if they are sure of nothing here in this world yet they are richer than if they had all this world to their command without him What shall it profit any man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul Mat. 16.26 O it is the great desire of my Soul that people would but turn from their sins and give up themselves unto the Lord Jesus Christ and receive him by faith into their Souls there was never one Soul that came unto him and stedfastly believed on him that ever he cast away but they have all eternal life it doth grieve his heart when sinners will not come unto him that they may have life John 5.40 We may see how he was greived because of the people of Jerusalem that they had out-lived the day of their visitation Luk. 19.41 42. And when he was come near he beheld the City and wept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things that belong unto thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes We should take care that our hearts be not hardned through the deceitfulness of Sin Heb. 3.13 We should pray to God that he would keep us from a seared conscience and from a hardened heart and that he would make us truly sensible of our sins that we may be humbled and that our hearts may be broken for sin that we may have a godly sorrow upon our hearts such as worketh repentance unto salvation never to be repented of 2 Cor. 7.10 It doth greatly concern us to know whether we are of the number of those that shall be saved We know not how soon we shall dye and depart out of this world and if we dye without an interest in the Lord Jesus Christ it will be miserable with us to all eternity we have all of us precious and immortal souls within our bodies which must be either saved or damned must go either to Heaven and be glorified with God to all eternity or go to Hell and be tormented with Devils to all eternity There is none can express the delight and comfort that the Saints in Heaven do enjoy they shall have everlasting rest and peace Isa 57.2 and continual joy in the Lord Mat. 25.21 They shall have a kingdom Luk. 12.32 and a Crown of life which the Lord hath promised to them that love him Jam. 1.12 None here can tell their blessed state as it is written Eye hath not seen nor ear heard neitherr have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 2.9 They shall be glorified with God and Christ to all eternity And then on the other way there is none of us that doth know nor can conceive what it is to be damned O what a dreadful thing damnation is it is to be banished for ever from the presence of the glorious God and to be tormented with Devils to all eternity 2 Thes 1.9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power It is eternal banishment and separation from God Christ Angels Saints Heaven This is the punishment of loss and the worst of Hell Mat. 25.41 Then shall he say unto them on the left hand depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels O terrible terrible to be doom'd and sentenc'd to lie under the wrath and hatred of the insinitely great and dreadful God for ever and ever so long as God shall live whose being is to eternity so long as there is a Devil to torment or to be tormented shall their plagues last O that people would consider now while they are here in this world and prepare for death To one of these two places their souls must for ever be O that the thoughts of Heaven and the Torments of Hell would cause people to consider and prepare that they might come safe to this Heaven and escape this Hell Oh it doth greatly grieve me when I do seriously think of it of the great number of those which shall be damned and

delights therein but I am not yet ripe but I desire I may be fitted for his great store-house When I look upon my self I find my self filthy and altogether polluted then I left my self but not hopeless but gave my self to God and he took me but I should have said that God made me pure and I polluted my self then I gave my self to God and he cleanfed me and he will take me to himself and I shall never be filthy more Here we are like little children just like so many little children when they are out in the dirt to play their Mother calls them to come in to be drest made handsome and fine for their Fathers and Friends to look upon them and they out of their childishness run away the further into the dirt and will not come when called So it is with us our heavenly Father calls us and we out of childishness run away from him in the Wilderness to sin and follow vanity rather than be drest for Eternity by our Heavenly Father It is with us here as if a Noble Person should make a feast and invite many guests and he invites them into his inner Room his best Parlour but they run away or stay in some outer Room in some filthy nasty Place So it is with God the Father He makes a great Feast and invites the Children of men to come some come in the inner Room into the best Parlour but the most stay in the worst Room without O this is sad and will be so for ever I have heard my Saviour say That wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be that go in thereat and strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that find it My dear Brothers and Sisters If you live after my departure have a care to enter in at the strait gate do not spend time vainly and make fair promises and afterward be idle and vain be careful to please God and his Spirit and do not please the flesh that hath been too much therefore do not please your selves and mispend time as in looking in glasses and the like but look more into the Glass of the Word of God This night hath been a comfortable night to me Here one asked if much speaking would not do her hurt She replied The Lord gives in more Strength and proceeded thus Improve all friends and interests for your souls good whatsoever you do for God it shall not lose its reward my desires were for spiritual things and so I desire you my Parents Brothers and Sisters that your aims and ends may be for spiritual things I have had much affliction but the greatest were those that troubled my spirit This night hath been quick and it made me mind mortality the more time runs away quick we know not our own time I believe it will be a considerable time before the day of general Judgment but we know not how near the day of our partlcnlar Judgment is therefore strive to prepare for that day Have our Saviour rooted fast in you Those thar are in Christ shall be received into Abrahams Isaacs and Jacobs Bosoms and be with the Twelve Apostles and with all other gracious persons that are departed as † She knew and had heard Mr. Vincent preach and had desired him to recommend her case to God Mr. Tho. Vincent and Mr. Whiddon and others The hearing some and reading the books of others hath made me very joyful As Mr. Joseph Alleins and others And you have joyed me heretofore O that I might be an Instrument to give in a little comfort to you Our Saviour saith Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the Temple of God and he shall go no more out and I will give him a new name Rev. 3. Again my Saviour saith Rejoice not that the spirits are subject to you but rather rejoice that your names are written in Heaven I have cause to rejoice all that I can which is but little that my name is writren in Heaven for who so is not shall be cast out into outer darkness let that be stampt upon your consciences but for me I desire to praise him that made me Again my Saviour faith My Sheep hear my voice and they follow me and I give unto them eternal life and none shall pluck them out of mine hand I have exceedingly grieved to think how many shall go into the lake of eternal fire but mostly fearing lest any of these present should over and over and over have I grieved for them O now think upon it while time lasts this is a precious day this is a good day a day of salvation It is said To him that overcometh I will give a white stone and in the stone a new name which no man knoweth but he that receiveth it Here she hreathed a little afterward thus There was never a covetous person more desired riches or a drunkard his cups or a gluttonous person to fill his appetite or an unclean person to satisfie his lust or an ambitious man honour or a sick person a physician or a hungry man meat or a thirsty person drink never any that is naked or cold more desired clothes or heat or a sorrowful person ever more desired to be comforted or an indebted person more desired a surety never a weak person more desired to be strengthned never any of those persons hath more desired any of those things than I have desired the grace of the eternal spirit None of them hath been more desirous of any thing than I have been even with longing for Christ and the Graces of the Spirit The Graces of the Spirit are love of God faith in Jesus Christ hatred of sin hungring after righteousness long-ruffering c. all these and many more I have exceedingly longed for And now my Parents tho I cannot cast your natural bread yer I trust I am full of the bread of life and shall be so for evermore There is a fulness of fat things in the house not made with hands in Heaven There God and Christ sit on the Throne and the Saints shall 〈◊〉 where too for they shall judg the world O that we would judg our selves now I gave my self to God and when I have been weak and sick he hath strengthed me through Grace The Lord will not be limited If here be any that have done me any wrong or offence I 〈◊〉 not I do heartily forgive you and all the World I bear no enmity to any person or thing in the world but against sin Whether you forgive me or not for the wrongs I have done you I know not but if the eternal God forgive me it will be well with me and then if any should kill me I reckon no more of it than of a flea on my hand The Lord is my portion saith my soul therefore will I hope and trust in him