Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	blood_n	sin_n	wash_v	5,624	5	9.0032	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56991	The wise virgin, or, A wonderfull narration of the hand of God wherein his severity and goodnesse hath appeared in afflicting a childe of eleven years of age, when stricken dumb, deaf and blinde through the prevalence of her disease, yet upon her wonderfull recovery was heard at severall times to utter many glorious truths concerning Christ, faith, and other subjects : to the wonderment of many that came far and neer to see and hear her / by James Fisher ...	Fisher, James, minister of the Gospel in Sheffield.	1653 (1653)	Wing R1004; ESTC R204524	88,491	208

praise Lord pour out thy Spirit upon our souls and it will make us draw nigher and nigher unto thee Many are they Lord that cannot obtain Jesus Christ it is because they do not take pains but let us arise and be doing for without pains we can get nothing we must take pains and struggle for Jesus Christ else we can never obtain him Lord fill our hearts with Jesus Christ for they are empty fill them full of Jesus Christ that we may be able to live by faith upon him Lord fill our hearts with the knowledge of Jesus Christ for our hearts are empty and with the righteousnesse of Jesus Christ Lord enrich our souls that we may enrich the Kingdome of God Let us be thankfull to God for all his mercies and blessings which he is pleased to bestow upon us for the more thankfull we are the more will he poure down his mercies and blessings upon us How gracious is our God that doth all things in wisdome and mercy to his poor servants he doth nothing to them but that which is for their good in mercy and in righteousnesse O Lord give us true faith in the righteousnesse of Jesus Christ that we may relie upon him for our Salvation What a sweet thing it is to enjoy Jesus Christ happy is that soul that doth enjoy such a gift from our Father If we should be thankfull all our dayes we can never be thankful enough for he suffered the death upon the crosse for our sins Lord pardon and forgive us all our sins and wash them away in the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ and then shall we be purified and become pure Christians Let us give praise unto our God for all his mercies and blessings that he hath bestowed upon us let us alwayes be praising our God and be thankfull and ever thankfull May the 30th Lord humble our hearts and open our eyes that we be not led away with Satan and run headlong to our destruction We have enemies too many to draw us back from Jesus Christ but there are very few that will draw us to Jesus Christ Lord take our souls into thy protection and keeping for when they are with thee they are safe Let us sing praise to our God for his mercy endureth for ever Lord take away our unbelief and fasten us to Jesus Christ that we may become new Christians Lord wash away all our sins in the blood of thy Son Jesus and purifie our affections that vve may become pure Virgins in Jesus Christ Come let us drink of the water of life and then we shall never thirst again Oh hovv happy are they that can but obtain Jesus Christ for if vve be never so poor in this vvorld if vve can but obtain Jesus Christ vve shall have riches enough for then vve shall be rich in glory May 31. The Lord give us faith for without faith we cannot get Jesus Christ The Lord give us knowledge for without knowledge we cannot attain faith and without faith we cannot attain to salvation If we can attain to the height of faith we shall attain to the height of Jesus Christ and if we attain to the height of Jesus Christ we shall attain to the height of glory Lord humble us under our burthen of sin That when Christ who is our life shall appear we may also appear with him in glory Come my people Call upen me in time of trouble and I will heare you and answer you Oh wash us and cleanse us that neither spot nor stain be upon us wash us clean in the bloud of Christ that we may become new Virgins pure Virgins Let us bless God and be thankful for all those mercies that he is pleased to poure down upon us let us be thankful yea very thankful for the more we thank him the more will he poure down his mercies upon us June 1 1652. Lord pardon and forgive us all our sins and give us hearts earnestly to beg pardon for them if thou hadst not been a merciful Father we had all been burning in hell-fire we had all been burning and howling in hell-fire before this but thou hast given thy So Jesus Christ to die for our sins for his sake we beg pardon for them Lord give us thankful hearts we have cause to be thankful if we had a thousand hearts we could never be thankful enough to thee for all thy mercies that thou hast bestowed and showred down upon us Lord give us thy Word and ground it in our hearts Lord give us thy Spirit into our hearts for without thy Spirit the Word i● but a dead letter I will be your God and ye shall be my people Lord give us faith in Jesus Christ for without faith in him we can never acknowledge Jesus Christ to be our alone Saviour and Redeemer She spake not again until June the fourth Oh my God I give unto thee my soule my body and my heart and all hoping that I now am going unto that happy place which I have desired so long June the 5th If a poor man which hath not a bit of bread nor a broom to sweep his house withall yet if he have but Christ he is richer then that man which hath all the riches of this World Who would but trust in such a God that will save and defend us from all evil Who would but trust in such a Christ that will defend us from Satan and all our enemies both bodily and spirituall Who would but trust in such a Christ that will preserve us as he did Jonah three dayes and three nights in the Whales belly Lord humble humble our stony hearts that they be not puft up with pride and vanity How often would I have gathered you together as a Hen gathereth her Chickens under her wings and ye would not but were stubborn and rebellious June the 6th Oh Jerusalem Jerusalem how often would I have gathered you together as a Hen gathereth her Chickens and you would not Let not your hearts be drawn after the vanities of this world nor after the steps of Satan which goeth lurking lurking watching and waiting like a Serpent but follow Christs steps for if Satan get you he will fling you into hell-fire Long is the way to heaven and much a-do we have to get thither but short is the way that leadeth to hell What disobedient children are we that will not follow Gods commands that which is evil he forbids us and that we do and that which is good he commands us and that we we do not Lord wean our hearts from this world let us not be led by sin nor Satan let not Satan get any power over our souls if he get power over our souls he will cast them into the bottom of hell for ever and ever This world is nothing but fading comforts nothing but drosse losse and dung in

could utter any words at last she exprest her self as followeth Take heed you do not despise Gods Ordinances and his Word which he spake out of his own mouth for if you despise Gods Ordinances and his Word God will despise you and cast you of his left hand and say Go you cursed into hell-fire prepared for you Let us labour to be followers of Jesus Christ and defie the fiery darts of the Devill Let us labour to build our conversation upon the Lord. Take heed of the Devill for he is alwayes ●erplexing and terrifying the servants of God but take heed for it is more danger●us when he commeth in white then when ●e commeth in black for he will but flatter ●ou and make you believe that he will save ●ou shevv you fine things but take heed ●e vvill but flatter you and deceive you that ●e may cast you into hell September the 23th This night and the other nights follovving till the 19 of October she spake constantly about 8 a clock at night Lord build up our hearts upon the High corner-stones vvhich high-corner stones are the Father Son and Holy Ghost Lord pardon all our sins vvhether they ●e Scarlet-sins or Crimson-sins or sins of a double die or sins of ignorance or sins of vvilfulnesse Lord pardon them and vvash them avvay in the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ It is our sins that is the cause of the sufferings of that thy Beloved One thy Son Jesus Christ No man can come to Christ except the Father draw him Let us struggle and strive to have our conversation in Heaven and let us press forward to have our conversation there for without we have our conversation in heaven there will be howling and torment in hell-fire for ever and ever but in Heaven there will be life everlasting Prepare prepare against the day of death for when the day of death commeth then after commeth the day of Judgement and then cometh death to the wicked and life to the righteous Take heed that Satan that roaring lion do not reign in your hearts for it is more dangerous when he cometh in white like an Angel of light then when he cometh in black like a Blackmoore Lord purge and purifie our drossy ignorant and corrupt hearts that we may be followers of thee and wash us and cleanse us in the blood of thy beloved One thy Son Christ Jesus Take heed that Satan get not power over your souls for if he get in his head he will strive to get in his whole body Then she laughed and closed her Arms and said Joy joy joy everlasting joy September the 24th Lord take away these stony thorny and corruptible hearts and purge them purifie and refine them even as silver and gold is refined Let the Word of God be written in your hearts in letters of gold Take heed you sowe not good seed on thorny ground for the thornes will spring up and choke it My Christ will tread Satan under foot he hath promised to do it and he will fulfill his promise he will do it he will not fail he is to be trusted One glimpse of Christ is worth all the world Lord pull back Satan that roaring lion that goeth about to devour my poor soul but he cannot but he cannot touch it Lord establish our hearts upon thee and set them stedfast upon thee and fix them upon thee and change our hearts and make them new vessels Lord wash us and cleanse us in the blood of thy beloved One and make us without spot and blemish even as thy spotlesse lamb My Christ hath vanquished Satan that lurking roaring lion which goeth about to destroy my poor soul but he cannot enter in my Christ is stronger then he he is an help to my soul in the time of trouble in the time of extremity When a poor soul is going a journey to heaven then Satan is alwayes in troubling him for he thinketh if he cannot get power then he can never get power then he is busiest he sheweth his strength he putteth out all his strength Abstain abstain from all vices in this world that are so strong in us as drunkennesse lasciviousnesse blasphemy and drawing into evill company and all other vices lying and thieving for if we anger God it will be just with God to pour his wrath down upon us September 25. Oh Jerusalem Jerusalem how often would I have gathered thee together as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings but thou wouldst not Thy destruction is of thy self Let us wean our hearts from this world for if it once get into us it is hard to get out again we toil and moil for our bodies but which of us taketh that pains for our souls we are sooner fill'd with the trash of this world then with our God we are apt to seek into this world but which of us looks into our hearts and examines our hearts whether they be for God or not and whether we follow the commands of God if we do not follow his commands he will not hear us The heart of man is false and hollow a hollow-hearted man will shine on the out-side but he is rotten within he sheweth it so to this world but God knoweth the heart of man Seeing we have put off the old man with his deeds let us put on the new man which is renewed with knowledge Take heed you put not new wine into old bottles lest the bottles break and scatter the wine Let us labour to lay hold upon Christ and stick close to him and follow his Commandments aud not be like the man that looks his face in a glasse and presently forgetteth what manner of man he was Let us labour for Christ and get faith the greater faith the greater joy Faith is a gift to win Christ by Christ will not be won without faith Many there be that will not believe there is a God but it is the littlenesse of their faith the weaknesse of faith they are fools and do not understand that think so for the fool hath said in his heart There is no God There are many that say they have Christ and they are Christ but there is no more Christs but one Many there be that say that they have Christ and they Christ but they do but make a shew to the world and flatter the world when God knowes they know not what Christ is They make a shew to the world and say Christ i● within them and Christ is within them when alas they do not know what he is 〈◊〉 they flatter the world and they think to flatter God too but alas alas the day of judgment the day of judgement alas alas they are blinde and cannot see there is a mis● before their eyes they run but they cannot tell whither they stumble