promise that the Gentiles shall bring forth the fruits of the Gospell therefore every believing Gentile may apply it THE XLIV LEGACY If thou findest thy selfe unlike Gods people WHen thou findest thy selfe not like the people of God either in heart or life apply Ier. 32.39 I will give them one heart and one way When thou seest thine heart not like the people of God either in their affection to God or his people or ordinances or in their sorrowing for sinne apply I will give them one heart When thou seest thy life and conversation not so holy as the people of God apply I will give them one way THE XLV LEGACY If thou wouldst have Gods blessing rest upon thee IF thou wouldst have the blessing of the Lord to rest upon thee apply Psalme 5.12 The Lord will blesse the righteous Deut. 7.13 I will blesse thee Psalme 3.8 Thy blessing is upon thy people Psal 24.5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord and righteousnesse from the God of his salvation Psal 115.12.13 The Lord will blesse us be will blesse the house of Israel hee will blesse the house of Aaron Hee will blesse them that feare the Lord both small and great THE XLVI LEGACY If thou would'st be a blessing in thy place IF thou would'st be a blessing in thy place apply Gen. 12.2 I will blesse thee and thou shalt be a blessing Ezek. 34.26 I will make them about my hill a blessing THE XLVII LEGACY If thou separatest from the wicked in their corrupt worship WHen thou separatest thy self from the wicked in their corrupt worship and manners apply 2. Cor. 6.16 17 18. I will dwell in them and walke in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the uncleane thing and I will receive you and will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my sonnes and daughters saith the Lord Almighty Thus farre of Grace the next Promises are about the meanes of Grace either ordinary or extraordinary THE XLVIII LEGACY A promise to be applyed in every ordinance IN every Ordinance thou maist apply this promise Isai 12.3 With joy shall you draw water out of the wels of salvation Now in that it is said out of the Wels of salvation and not Well I thinke we ought to apply it to every ordinance of God so as wee are to use them with a comfortable perswasion that wee shall receive abundance of grace from them As the Lord promiseth we shall draw waters from out of them wee shall not only use them but draw from them with joy Therefore when we pray meditate heare conferre fast in every duty apply this promise and you shall find him faithfull which promiseth THE XLIX LEGACY When thou prayest WHen thou prayest apply these promises for the strengthening of thy faith and for thy hearing Mat. 7.7 Aske and it shall be given you seek and you shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you Mat. 6.6 Pray to the Father which seeth in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward the openly Mat. 21 22. And all things whatsoever ye shall aske in prayer believing ye shall receive it Iohn 14.13 14. Whatsoever ye shall aske in my name I will doe it Ioh. 16.24 Aske and ye shall receive that your joy may be full Iohn 15.7 Aske what you will and it shall done unto you Isai 65.24 Before they call I will answer and while they are yet speaking I will heare Iob 22.7 Thou shalt make thy prayers unto him and he shall heare thee and if thou seek him he will be found THE L. LEGACY WHen thou meditatest WHen thou meditatest apply these promises Prov. 14.22 Mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good Psal 103.17 18. The loving kindnesse of the Lord endureth for ever to them which think upon his commandements to doethem Philip. 4.8 9. Thinke on these things which ye have both learned and received and heard and seene in me and the God of peace shall be with you If thou desirest mercy or the truth of God to be forthy good or the loving kindesse of the Lord to bee for ever towards thee and that God which brings peace with him to be with thee then meditate on good things with such a meditation as may stirre thee up to practise thē all these promises shall surely be performed to thee And because meditation is an hard duty therefore encourage thy selfe to it by the benefit it brings and it being a way of God he will give thee his Spirit to cause thee to walke in it THE LI. LEGACY In meditating conferring and reading Gods word IN meditating conferring and reading of the word of God apply Iosh 1.8 Let not this booke of the Law depart out of thy mouth but meditate therein day and night that thou maist observe to doe according to all that is written therein for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous and then thou shalt have good successe THE. LII LEGACY In reading of the word of thou understandest not IN reading of the word if wee understand not apply these promises Prov. 1.23 I will powre out my Spirit unto you I will make knowne my words unto you Prov. 1.4 It gives subtilty to the simple to the young men knowledge and discretion Psal 19.8 The Commandement of the Lord is pure inlightning the eyes THE LIII LEGACY If thou canst not conferre WHen thou canst not speake in conference to edification but feelest thine heart shut up then apply Iohn 7.38 He that believeth on me out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water Prov. 10.31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdome Prov. 12.14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth Isai 32.4 The tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speake plainly Isai 35.6 The dumbe mans tongue shall sing When thou art with the people of God that thou maist receive good from them and doe them good apply Prov. 13.20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise So apply Prov. 12.14 Iohn 7.38 Ezek. 47.12 His fruit shall be meat and his leaves medicine If thou findest thy soule stand in need of wisdome keep company with the people of God which are the only wise people and then thou hast the only sure promises of the Lord thou shalt bee wise If thou hungrest after good resort to the righteous and thou shalt bee satisfied with good things If thou feele thy selfe dead apply out of him shall flow rivers of water of life for thy quickning If thy soule be faint or sicke apply His fruit shall be meant and his leave medicine Let all this good which is gotten by their fellowship cause thee to delight in them and take heed of forsaking the fellowship of the Saints When thou goest into company apply these promises to thy selfe that thou maist be so to others and
is the Lord about his people for ever Psal 125.2 XXIV That otherwise God will bee with preserve and keep his Children in afflictions that they hurt them not In all their afflictions hee was afflicted and the Angell of his presence saved them in his love and in his pitty he redeemed them and he bare them and carried them all the dayes of old Esa 63.9 They shall not be ashamed in the evill time and in the dayes of famine they shall be satis sied Psal 37.19 He is their strength in the time of trouble 39. The Lord shall help and deliver them from the wicked and save them because they trust in him 40. Feare thou not for I am with the be not dismayed for 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 Feare not thou worme Iacob I will helpe thee saith the Lord God and thy Redeemer the hold One of Israel 14. When thou passest through the water I will be with thee and through the Rivers that they shall not over-flow thee When thon walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt neither shall the flames kindle vpon thee Esa 43.2 XXV That God will deliver his Children out of afflictions in his due time He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noysome pestilence I will be with him in trouble I will deliver him and honour him 15. Many are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord delivers them out of them all Psalm 34.19 Call upon me in the day of trouble and I will deliver thee Psal 50.15 I will restore health unto thee I will heale thee of thy wounds saith the Lord. Ier. 30.17 I will deliver thee in that day and thou shalt not fall by the sword Ier. 39.17 Iohn 3.19 XXVI That God will sanctify all afflictions for the good of his people I will turn my hand upon thee and purely purge away thy drosse and take away all thy tynne Esa 1.25 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Iacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his sinne Esa 27.9 And some of them of understanding shall fall to try them and to purge and make them white Dan. 11.35 Many shall bee purified and made white and tryed Dan. 12.10 And I will bring the third part through the fire and I will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tryed they shall call on my Name and I will heare them Zach. 13.9 XXVIII That God in his owne time will subdue all the enemies of his Church I will subdue all thy enemies 2. Chr. 17. I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the King of Assyria and the glory of his high lookes Esa 10.12 Therefore I will put my hooke in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips and I will turn thee back by the way which thou camest Esa 37.29 For the armes of the wicked shall bee broken Psal 37.17 I am against thee O Gog. Ezek. 39.1 And I will turn thee back 2. And then shall that wicked bee revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightnesse of his comming 2. Thes 2.8 And the ten hornes these shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire Rev. 17.16 I will smite thy bow our of thy left hand and I will cause thy arrowes to fall out of thy right hand Ezek. 39.3 XXVIII That the Children of God shall dye happily They shall come to the grave in a full age like as a shocke of Corne commeth in his season Iob. 5.26 He shall goe in peace they shall rest in their beds each one walking in his uprightnesse Esa 57.2 Marke the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace Psal 37.37 XXIX That the just shall bee raised unto eternall life I will ransome them from the power of the grave I will redeem them from death O death I will be thy plague O grave I will be thy destruction Hos 13.14 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake to everlasting life and some to shame Dan. 12.2 All that are in the graves shall come forth they that have done good unto the Resurrection of life Ioh. 5.29 I will raise him up at the last day 6.40 He that raised up the Lord Iesus shall raise us up also by Iesus 2. Cor. 4.14 When Christ who is our life shall appeare then shall yee appeare with him in glory Colos 3.4 XXX That God will reward the labours of the righteous in the life to come Rejoyce and be glad for great is your reward in heaven Matth. 5.12 Whosoever shall forsake houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my Names sake h shal receive a hundred fold more and shall inherit everlasting life 19.29 Come ye blessed of my Father inherit yet the Kingdome prepared for you before the foundation of the world Math. 25.34 Thou shalt bee recompensed at the resurrection of the just Luk. 14.14 Hee that overcometh shall inherit all things Rev. 21.7 XXXI That God will make good and performe all that he hath promised And I will performe the Oath which I sware unto Abraham thy Father Gen. 26.3 Know therefore that the Lord thy God he is God the faithfull God which keepeth Covenant and mercy with them that love him Deut. 7.9 Blessed be the Lord that hath given rest unto his people there hath not fayled one word of all his good promises which he promised 1. Kings 8.56 My Covenant will I not breake nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips Psal 89.34 Thus saith the Lord if you can break my Covenant of the day and my Covenant of the night That there should not be day and night in their season Ier. 33.20 Then may also my Covenant bee broken 21. For all the promises of God in him are yea and in him Amen 2. Cor. 1.20 1. GIve me understanding and I shall keepe thy Word yea I will observe it with my whole heart Psalm 119.34 Deale with thy servant according thy mercies and teach me thy Statutes Psalm 119.124 2. How sweet are thy words unto my taste yea sweeter then honey to my mouth Psal 119.103 What shall J render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me Psalm 116.12 3. Consider how I love thy precepts quicken me O Lord according to thy loving kindnesse Psal 119.159 With my whole heart have I sought thee O let me not wander from thy Commandements Psal 119.10 4. For ever O Lord thy Word is setled in heaven thy faithfulnesse is unto all generations Psal 113.19 Plead my cause and deliver me quicken me according to thy Word Psal 119.154 5. Whatsoever the Lord pleased that did hee in heaven and
THE SAINTS LEGACIES OR A COLLECTION OF CERTAINE PROMISES OVT OF THE WORD OF GOD. Collected for private use but published for the comfort of Gods people Whereunto is now added the Saints Support in times of trouble THE 6. EDITION OXFORD Printed by Leonard Lichfield for Richard Royston in Ivy Lane An. Dom. 1640. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE and happy Society of all true Believers militant in ENGLAND SCOTLAND IRELAND A Friend to you and the Author wisheth fulnesse of Grace Peace and heavenly comfort certaine assurance sealed evidence and seasonable entrance into and possession of the celestiall promised incorruptible undefiled and never fading inheritance BEloved Believers both you and I are infinitely beholden to our ever living Father who hath made his will and given all us his children great wealth rich portions and large Legacies now in present possession graces and comforts in unshaken expectation and assured reversion perfection and eternall glory Wee are greatly beholding to Iehova for his will directory hortatory correctory but most of all for his will consolatory in which he salves all our sores physicks all our sicknesses medecines all our maladies Psalm 103.4 Heales all our diseases and crownes us with loving kindnesse and tender mercies And surely wee are all of us much beholding to the holy Authour of this sweet though little Book who hath so piously painfully and profitably perused the holy will of our heavenly Father and wisely sought and found out and put into our hands the spirituall portion and Soule-Legacies given and bequeathed unto us by our best friend many of which most of scarce knew of few sought and sued for them and very few comfortable enjoyed and wisely and diligently used to the donors glory and their own good Carelesse children come oftentimes to be beholden unto their more carefull brethren and thriving friends who save all they have sue for all that is promised and seek for all they heare of so is it here wee carelesse negligent poore and ill thriven Christians must be beholding to this carefull diligent rich and well thriven Authour who obeyes Pauls counsell 1. Cor. 12.31 Covets earnestly the best gifts and will not suffer the heavenly Father to purse and keep a penny that is due to with-hold grace or comfort which hee hath promised in whole or degree but he shall heare of his promise and if he doe not presently fulfill according to covenant a petition is speedily drawne to be preferred in the Court of heaven and an Advocate prepared Jesus Christ the righteous 1. Iohn 2.1 Suite by prayer begun and in an eager pursuit continued till the thing promised be performed This little Book and private practise of the Author who hath sued for all these Legacies and in some good measure hath attained the same and thereby is become spirituall rich will sufficiently prove what I have spoken Wee are much beholden to this Author for letting us see our Portions and Legacies in our Fathers will and setting us a worke both by penne and practise to sue for the same The volume is little but the vertue contained in the same is great The book is extraordinary being altogether for application and practise The scope and drift of it is to furnish Believers 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 down upon their foules and 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 will not like it for it is full of holinesse the carnall Protestant will not discern of it nor relish it for it is spirituall the dissembling hypocrite will not well approve of it for it will rob him of his Rimmon slay his Mris his Dalilah his Herodias his darling sin it will tell him if he applyes promises he must keepe the conditions obey precept and put every iniquty though never so pleasurable or profitable farre away from his Tabernacles But the honest hearted and sincere Believer will approve of it prize it use it and profit by it And not to overcommend my commodity as one desirous to make it more vendible and saleable for neither I nor its Authour God is witnesse ayme at any such thing but at the spirituall good of their soules unto whom it shall come this little Book like a well filled lttle Apothecaries shop containes within it heavenly receipts of all sorts wholesome 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 lusty and strong able for Gods service Phil. 2.12 and for working out his owne salvation with feare and trembling What here J speake unto one Believer I intend for all Hath sin that deadly poyson infected thee Loe here in this little Book an Antidote a preservative which will extract and expell this poyson Hath this serpent so fiery stung thee Num. 21.8 Loe here the Brazen Serpent upon the pole Hath it beggered and undone thee Iohn 3.14 15. Behold a way in this Book how thou maist become rich Doth it daily trouble thee will it needs tirannize and domineere over thee This little Book will learn thee to depose this tyrant Rom. 6.14 and tell thee he shall not have dominion and Lordship over thee Hath it stricken thee dead Loe here 's means of reviving and inliving thee to an happy life of grace Doth it threaten thy ruine Loe here Physick for thy feares Cor. 15.35 death hath lost its sting sin is destroyed death shall fully and finally free thee from it Art thou hunted like a poore Lambe by the hellish devouring Lyon Sathan and chased before this infernall dog like a silly Deere in temptations Loe here a thicket a shelter a sheepheard under which thou maist repose and rest thy self in safety Art thou overcome with his wilie stratagems Loe here wisdome Art thou beaten downe with his power Loe here strength Fearest thou the fiery darts of this evill one Loe here a little house full of targets shields and bucklers Ephes 6.16 promises applyed by faith which will repell and quench them Iob 6.4 Doe Gods terrours set themselves in array against thee are Gods arrowes in thee doth his slaming wrath burne in thy bosome and is likely to consume thee Loe streams of mercy and 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 and mercy shall flow forth upon thy soule and allay its burning heat and inflamations Doth the wilie world endeavour to entangle and inveagle thee by its lures and snares Loe here liberty
freedome better things propounded and promised which Believers 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 maist have them to the great joy of thine heart and content of thy Spirit Set faith a work to draw out what thou wantest and 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 runne so full of mercy grace truth comfort joy and peace for every Believer by faith and thou shalt bee satiate with every good thing Lest I should make too great a porch for this little house and too great gates for this little Citty I will conclude with an exhortation to all my beloved brethren and sisters which are Believers to perfect their faith by application of the promises both of these in this sweet little Book and of all others contained in the Old and New Testament Suffer not Gods promises as J may so say to milke themselves doe you draw them let not good rest with God which you may have by believing and begging to your great comfort and enriching 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 and confirmed by the pretious promises alway to trade for you in heaven untill you come thither your selves I would desire all Believers to make this their pocket booke that it may sollicite and woe them to prayer make solid and firme their faith increase their graces comforts and heavenly hopes prepare them for enduring the stormes of trouble and tempests of temptations and may encourage them in holy well-doing and Christian perseverance unto the end Heb. 6.12 Now brethren my hearts desire is that ye be not slothfull but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the Promises That you may be inheritours of them it shall bee my daily prayer unto the Lord my God to bestow upon your hearts to use all good meanes for the attaining of the good in these and other promises of God unto his people That he would teach and enable you to meditate upon them diligently day and night to believe them firmely to apply them severally particularly personally to sue for them earnestly by prayer constant and fervent to waite for their promised accomplishment by patience that so you may enjoy the good of them here and hereafter which God in mercy grant unto me and also you AMEN To the Reader MAN which at the beginning was created happy Gen. 1.26 Ephes 2.10 having now lost God and his Image is of all earthly creatures become most miserable no lesse then a slave of the Devill a child of wrath an heire of eternall damnation Eph. 2.2 3. This is not the estate of a few onely but of all mankind out of Christ for we are all by nature under the curse 2. Cor. 4.4 Rom. 5.19 Gal. 3.10 The best before their conversion were by nature children of wrath even as others Eph. 2.3 Rom. 5.12 for every womans child did fall equally in Adam hence it comes to passe that no man by nature is now in better esteem with God then other Cain and Abel as children of the first Adam onely were equally miserable the like may bee said of us all for both Iewes and Gentiles are come under sin Rom. 3.9 And as the Psalmist saith We all are gone out of the way we are altogether become filthy there is none righteous no not one Psal 14.3 O that men and women had their eyes enlightened and judgements convinced of that woeful plight in which naturally they are Oh! were their hearts throughly loaden therewith surely they would not long content themselves therein The truth is most in the world are spiritually blind and cannot discerne their owne misery and spiritually dead too 1. Iohn 5.19 Eph. 2.1.5 and cannot be affected with it The Holy Ghost saith thus of them Eph. 4.18 19. They walke in the vanity of their mind having their understanding darkned and are strangers from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them because of the hardnesse of their hearts who being past feeling have given themselves unto wantonnesse to worke all uncleanesse with greedinesse Such as these are so farre from having any right to Gods promises that for the present they are under the curse and consequently in the â—â—nt of all the plagues threatnings in Gods Book Deut. 27. ult Deut. 28.56.63 Wherefore let not such as yet challenge any comfort from the Promises but let them after labour to the uttermost of their power in using all good meanes to bee made capable and fit subjects for mercy revealed in the Promises Is it not pitty so many sweet Promises of life should bee made and yet thou dye and bee damned notwithstanding Pray fervently to God that hee would touch thy heart with griefe for all thy sins and worke in thee a cleare apprehension of thine owne unworthinesse Acts 2.37 Luke 15.19 and that he would bestow faith on thee that by it thou maist bee able to goe wholly out of thy selfe to God through Iesus Christ for salvation Wee having departed from him who is the God of all grace and consolation are fallen into an estate of all basenesse desolation and misery and cannot bee recovered againe into the former estate of spirituall life and happinesse unlesse wee be brought againe to him who is the foundation of life and happinesse even the living God and brought to him we can never be but by Faith Heb. 11.6 which is nothing else but the going out of the soule to God through Christ to fetch a new principle of spirituall life and grace which once in Adam we lost and now need The which worke of faith is not wrought but by the promises and being wrought in our hearts gives us a most sure right and interest unto all the promises of Grace Rom. 10.8.17 Heb. 6.12.17 Thus we through faith and patience are said to inherit the promises therefore we are called the heires of the promise the promises are as well ours who truly believe as heaven it selfe is Now by these heavenly Promises God our Father hath engaged himselfe as a debtour to us his poore children for all things needfull to life and godlinesse 2. Pet. 1.3 untill that blessed time comes when wee shall be put into full possession of all things which wee have now only in promise at that time Faith shall end in fruition and Promises in performance As the soule is the life of the body and faith the life of the soule so are Gods promises the life of faith For from whence hath faith his
will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and they shall all know me saith the Lord from the greatest to the least Hosea 2.20 Thou shalt know the Lord. Prov. 1.23 I will powre out my Spirit unto you I will make knowne my words unto you Psal 25.9.12.14 The meek will hee guide in Iudgement and the meek will he teach his way What man is hee that seareth the Lord him shall he teach in the way that he shall chuse The secret of the Lord is with them that feare him and he will shew them his covenant Prov. 2.4.9.11 12 13. If thou seekest 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 keep 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 darknesse Isai 11.9 The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord. Prov. 8.17 Those that seek me early shall find me Isai 35.8 The foole shall not erre Iohn 7.17 If any man will doe his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God or whether I speak of myselfe Isai 32.3 4. The eyes of them that see shall not be dimme and the eares of them that heare shall hearken 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 and seest thy owne inability to conceive of this great God apply They shall all know the Lord. The heart of the soole shall understand When wee feare God will not reveale his will to us apply I will powre out my mind 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 bee 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 keep 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 darknesse The fooles shall not erre He shall know the doctrine whether it be of God THE XXXIV LEGACY If thou desirest grace and art not satisfied IF thou desirest Grace and thy desires are not satisfied apply Psame 35.7 Delight thy selfe also in the Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thy heart Psal 145.19 He will fulfill the desires of them that feare him Ps 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 be granted Dost thou desire grace fearest thou God will not grant thy desires apply He shall give thee thy hearts desire he will fulfill thy desire Fearest thou that if he give grace it wil be but a litle apply open thy mouth wide I will fill it Thou shalt be filled Isai 30.18 Blessed are all they which waite for him Hee will certainly have mercy upon thee at the voyce of thy cry when he heareth he will answer When thou beginnest to faint with waiting apply He will certainly have mercy upon thee THE XXXV LEGACY If thine heart be dead WHen thou feelest thy heart dead that it will not stirre to God or goodnesse apply Psal 22.26 Your heart shall live for ever Prov. 3.21.22 Keep 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 thy heart apply Your heart shall live Seek the Lord and ye shall live When thou hast got some life and fearest the loosing of it apply Your hearts shall live for ever THE XXXVI LEGACY Jf thou fearest falling away WHen thou fearest thou shalt fall away and beginnest to decline apply 1. Cor. 1.8 Christ shall also confirme you unto the end that ye may be blamelesse in the day of our Lord Iesus Christ Psal 16.8 I have set the Lord alwayes before me because he is at my right hand I shall not be moved Psal 145.14 The Lord upholdeth all that fall and raiseth up all those that be bowed down Psal 91.12.14 The righteous shall flourish like the Palmetree Hee shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon They shall still bring forth fruit in old age they shall be fat and flourishing Psal 1.13 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season his leafe also shall not wither Ps 31.24 He shall stablish thine heart Iob. 11.15.27 Thou shalt be stedfast thine age shall be clearer then the noone day thou shalt shine forth thou shalt bee as the morning Iudg. 5.31 They that love the lord shall bee as the Sunne when it goeth forth in his might Now wee see that nothing can hinder the Sun in his might but it chaseth away the darknesse and clouds before it and ceaseth not till it hath runne his race so shall the child of God for the Lord hath said it we need not doubt of it If thou fearest thine own weaknes the power of temptation with the subtilty of Satan apply That God whose power and wisdome over-reacheth all other hath said He will confirme you to the end He shall stablish thine heart thy leafe shall not fade Art thou hard pursued by sinne and Satan apply that God whose power and wisdome over-reacheth all he hath said He will stablish thee If thou be ready to fall and faint apply The Lord upholdeth all them that fall and lifteth up all them that are ready to fall thou shalt not slide If thou fearest that thou bee kept from sinne yet thy graces shall decay apply The righteous shall flourish as a Palme tree and shall grow as a Cedar in Lebanon They shall bring forth fruit in their age they shall be fat and flourishing thou shalt bring forth fruit in sea son thou shalt bee stable thine age shall appeare more cleare than noone day Thou shalt shine as the morning THE XXXVII LEGACY If thou art fallen VVHen wee are fallen and feare the Lord will leave us so then apply Psal 55.22 Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustaine thee he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved Psal 37.24.28 Though he fall he shall not be utterly cast downe for the