Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	know_v	lord_n	see_v	2,747	5	3.2536	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27351	The legacy of a dying mother to her mourning children being the experiences of Mrs. Susanna Bell, who died March 13, 1672 : with an epistle dedicatory by Thomas Brooks ...	Bell, Susanna, d. 1672.; Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1673 (1673)	Wing B1801; ESTC R4336	27,041	66

free indeed John 8.36 And blessed is that people that knows the joyful found they shall walk O Lord in the light of thy countenance I finde the Lord ●esus very free in the tenders of his love to poor sinners And that love hath in a great measure been manifest●d to my poor soul After this it pleased the Lord to visit one of my Daughters with a great sickness upon which my heart was drawn out to s●ek the Lord on her behalf then that Scripture was brought to my mind Iohn 11.21 Then said Martha unto Jesus Lord if thou hadst been here my Brother had not died But I know that now whatever thou wilt ask of God God will give it to thee Jesus saith unto her thy Brother shall rise again Martha saith unto him I know that he shall rise again at the last day Jesus saith unto her I am the Resurrection and the Life and he that believes in me shall never die And it pleased the Lord to give me her life as an Answer of Prayer It pleased the Lord after this to visit this Land with the Pestilence a severe stroak of his that swept away many thousands and under that sad Providence of his the Lord did help me to rely alone upon himself from that Scripture Psal 91.7 A thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy rght hand but it shall not come nigh thee And according to my saith it pleased the Lord to preserve both my self and all my Relations from that sad stroke though some of them were often in the midst of danger blessed be his Name The next year after rhe Lord did again for our sins visit us and that by a dreadful fire which reduced to ashes many thousand houses and yet his love was then manifested to me in the preservation of my habitation when many better than my self were burnt out Therefore unto my God shall I who am less then the least of all his mercies render that praise which is due unto his Name Since that whilst I was upon a languishing bed and Death even knocking at the door it pleased the Lord once again to alarme me in that weak condition by a dreadful fire which brake out very near us and at that time it pleased my good God to support and strengthen my spirit with that Scripture Isa 43.2 When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee and through the Rivers they shall not overflow thee when thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt neither shall the flame kindle upon thee And that Scripture Isa 54.5 For thy Maker is thy Husband the Lord of Hosts is his Name and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel the God of the whole Earth shall he be called And this second time also the Lord was gratiously pleased to preserve me and my House from that amazing stroke which did so much threaten us And O that all these new and old Experiences might be high obligations upon me and mine to holiness and fruitfulness all our days Whilst I remained in New-England there hapned a great Earthquake which did shake all in the house and my son being by me asked me what it was I told him our Neighbours were all amazed at it and knew not but that the world might then be at an end and did run up and down very much affrighted at it but I sate still and did think with my self what a Christ was worth to my poor soul at that time And then God made these Scriptures sweet refreshings supporting and quieting my soul Psal 18.46 The Lord liveth and blessed be my Rock and let the God of my Salvation be exalted Heb. 11.13 These all died in faith not having received the Promises but having seen them afar off and were perswad●d of them and embraced them and confessed they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth Rev. 7.9 After this I beheld and lo a great multitude which no man could number of all Nations and Kindred and People and Tongues stood before the Throne and before the Lamb cloathed with white Robes and Palmes in their hands ver 14. And he said to me these are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their Robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. FINIS Bridges Remains being Eight Sermons viz 1 Of Mans Blessednesse c. By Mr. Bridges Preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth A Discourse of Christs Coming By Theophilus Cale The Nature and Principles of Love as the End of the Commandment declar'd in some of the last Sermons of Mr. Joseph Caryl with an Epistle of Dr. Owen D.D. All to be sold by John Hancock Sen. and Jun. at the Three Bibles in Cornhill

to bring us in safety on shore his people gave us the best entertainment they could and then I thought I could never be thankful enough to the Lord for his goodness in preserving us upon the Sea I being big with Childe and my Husband-sick almost all the Voyage After this my Husband would have gone by water hi●her into the Countrey But I told him the Lord having been so good in bringing us saf● ashore amongst his people I was not willing to go again to Sea And it was a good Providence of God we did not for most of them that went were undone by ●t The first Sermon that I heard after I came ashore was out of Ier. 2.13 For my people have committed two evils They have forsaken me the Fountain of living waters and hewed them out Cisterns broken Cisterns that can hold no water Now the Minister did shew that whatever we did build on short of Christ would prove but a broken Cistern and by that Sermon the Lord was pleased to shake my foundation but I being a poor ignorant creature thought if I could but get into the fellowship of the People of God that that would quiet my spirit and answer all my Objections And I did accordingly attempt to joyn with the Church but they were very faithful to the Lord and my soul and asked me what Promise the Lord had made home in Power upon me And I answered them Jer. 31.3 Yea I have loved thee with an everlasting love therefore with loving kindness I have drawn thee But they told me that that was a general Promise that I must look to get some particular Promise made home in Power upon me and perswaded me to wait a little longer ro see what God would further do for my poor soul which accordingly I did And going to hear Mr. Cotton who did preach out of Rev. 2.28 To him that over cometh I will give the Morning-star from which words he did observe that that Star was Christ And this he came to shew how a soul might know whether it had an interest in Christ or no and that was by the Lords giving out such precious Promises as these to the poor soul viz. That God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself 2 Cor. 5.19 and that John 16 2● And your joy shall no man take from you And Isa 54.22 I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions and as a cloud thy sins and that Isa 43. ●5 which Promises afterwards God made sweet to my soul After this I went to hear Mr. Shepherd and he was preaching out of the Parable of the ten Virgins Matth. 25.1 13 In his discourse he shewed that all were Professors but the foolish had nothing but Lamps without oyle a Profession without grace in their hearts but that the wise had got grace in their hearts and so were ready prepared to meet the Bridegroom when he came Now by that discourse of his the Lord was pleased to convince me that I was a foolish Virgin and that I made a Profession but wanted the oyle of grace in my heart and by this means I was brought into a very sad condition For I did not experimentally know what it was to have oyle in my Lamp grace in my heart nor what it was to have union with Christ that being a mystery to me And then I did think my self guilty of breaking all the Commandments of God except the sixth For I thought I had neither desired wished or endeavoured any mans death But then the Lord shewed me that if I were saved by Christ my sins had murdered him according to that Acts 3.15 chap. 4. ●0 And th●● 〈◊〉 greatly aggravate my sin the more unto m● Now one of my Neighbors observing that I was in a distressed condition told me that she had been a hearing and that the Ministe● she heard was a shew●ng that the Lord had more glory in the salvation then in the damnation of sinners For in their salvation his Mercy and his Justice were both glorified but in their destruction only his Justice was glorified Hearing of this the Lord was pleased to draw out my heart to plead with him That if he might receive more glory in my salvation then in my destruction that then his Mercy might be manifested to me For I thought although I had many worldly comforts yet I had no interest in Christ and that if I should die presently Hell would be my portion and in this sad and sore distress the Lord was pleased to imprint that Scripture upon my mind Job 10.2 I will say unto God do not condemn me shew me wherefore thou contendest with me Job 40.2 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him he that reproveth God let him answer it and that word of the Apostle Rom. 9. ●0 21 N●y but thou O man who art thou that repliest against God Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it Why hast thou made me thus Hath not the Potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour After this it pleased God that Mr. Elliott and some other of the people of God seeing me in this sad condition to●d me the Church would have me come in to be a Member with them but I did reply that all Church-fellowship would do me no good Then Mr. Elliott asked me What would do me good and I told him Nothing but an interest in Christ His Answer was That I was already in the pangs of the N●w Birth and he did believe it would not be long before the Lord spoke peace to my poor soul After that reading a book of Dr. Prestons where he did shew that when the Lord joyned himself to a believer he did first comprehend the soul and then enabling the soul by faith to apprehend him Which double Act of faith I then knew not About fourteen days after considering what a distressed condition I was in I was bemoaning my self before the Lord and the Lord was pleased to bring that Scripture to my remembrance in John 16. I will give you that joy that no man taketh from you And then I thought with my self that it was Christ that I did want and not joy But the Lord brought that Scripture to me that Christ was tidings of great joy Luke 2.10 11. And I thought how could this be to such a poor wretch as I was and the Lord was pleased to bring that Scripture to my mind That he looked not as man looked 1 Sam. 16 7. And that he was God and not man Hos 11.9 And by this means he took aw●y all my fears And then the Lord did help me to discern that this was a mystery indeed and did so quiet my heart that all the World seemed as nothing unto me For I never heard such a voice before blessed be his Name And then the people of God would have me come into fellowship with them And soon