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Some remarks upon the life of that painful servant of God, Mr. Nathanael Heywood minister of the Gospel of Christ ... who died in the 44th year of his age ... / by Sir H. Ashurst.
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Ashurst, Henry, 1614?-1680.
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but my pain is not in the same manner as formerly but liker an Ulcer in the Bladder which makes my disease more dangerous as well as painful it is the Lord's mercy I am not utterly consumed that I can sit thus long to write to you which many times I cannot but I am now weary with it The last Letter so far as I can find was by him dated Octob. 23. 1677. which I shall mostly transcribe My dear Brother this evening I received yours for which I thank you it breathes nothing but love and comfort to me Oh! how sweet how seasonable love in you Oh! how tender Especially I thank you for your prayers and the prayers of others by your means I account them a precious treasure and the surest and speediest remedy in all troubles Oh! pray again who knows but that may prevail when nothing else can I have been sensibly better since that day of your tears and groans But who am I that any should be concerned for me A poor weak useless wretch nothing and less than nothing I have been long in regard of work in God's Vineyard a withered branch a dry stick and now my body is withered like the grass my skin parched my moisture dried up through extremity of pain which hath continued nine or ten weeks day and night About a Month ago friends seeing death in my face and looks they prevailed with me to send for Dr. Grundy who found me in a languishing condition yet not without some hope He told me my distemper was not the Stone nor Ulcer in the Bladder which I feared because of my sharp pains and soreness but a Dysuria my Blood was vitiated my moisture sowre and there wanted due separation of the Serum from the Blood that it would require much time and patience to bring the Body to a good state c. For since I have been taking one sort or other of Physick and am now taking a Diet-drink for the Scurvey which I think hath done me most good but still my pain continues though not altogether so acute as at the first but I have very weary restless nights many times I am constrained to get up and walk two or three hours but God supports his word comforts in all and over all his ways are mercy and truth it is his mercy that I am not consumed yea 't is mercy and faithfulness that I am afflicted I have reason to say I could not have been without nay I would not have been without this trial for an earthly kingdom if God please to spare my life and restore strength I hope others will find that I have gained considerably by this Sea-adventure I am your indebted and endeared Brother N. Heywood His distempers growing thus upon him gradually wore away and weaken'd his body and took out the pins and pluck'd down the stakes of his frail tabernacle he wore away insensibly his friends seeing he had strength to walk did not apprehend his end so near as indeed it proved On Thursday Decemb. 13. 1677. they perceived him to alter and grow something worse than he had been not so much in the violence of pain as in the decay of Spirits and falling into drowziness and slumbering that very day he said with tears runing down his face that he could willingly die if it were the next hour but for the good of the Church and his poor Wife and Children and with them he could be content to live were it in Prison That night being ready to go to Bed he sate down in his Chair and looking up towards Heaven moved his eyes very much his Wife asked him How he did but he could not answer as she supposed but soon after he said he would go to Bed being got to Bed he fell into the like Trance and lay for a while speechless being better he looked about him and saw them weeping and said if you knew Christ better this carnal affection would cease and natural would be sanctified and run in a spiritual channel Oh! learn to know Christ more for my own part I have preached Christ all my Life and I bless God with good success It 's common with many now-a-days to have base and low thoughts of Christ and his imputed righteousness but if I had twenty lives to live I would spend them all in that work On Friday a Kinsman that was come from London visited him but he was so weak and listless that he was very unfit for converse and indeed at the best he was sparing in discourse he used to speak little but what he spake was very pithy pertinent and sententious On Saturday night Mr. Starky a Reverend and Godly Minister visited him he asked him Whether it was any trouble to him that he did not Conform He answered No it 's a great comfort to me this he spake with much chearfulness adding some more words to evidence his satisfaction in what he had done and suffered Mr. Starky asked him What Promises he could now rely upon or what Scripture-passages supported him He answered For to me to live is Christ Phil. 1. 21. and to die gain Christ hath loved me and given himself for me He Gal. 2. 20. was frequently repeating those words Come Lord Jesus come quickly About four hours before he died being asked how he did he answered very well His last words that he was heard to utter were Come away Lord come come and so he breathed out his blessed Soul on the Lord's-day morning Dec. 6. 1677. about nine a Clock so God made the day of his hard and sore labour the day of his entrance into his Eternal Rest And 't is worthy observation that God hath drawn off many eminent Ministers and choice Christians from the stage of this World near or upon that day This Holy day of heavenly Rest hath commenced upon them the everlasting day of Rest in Heaven Christ's Resurrection-day hath been their Ascention day They parted with this jarring Musick on Earth to be joined to that coelestial Choire above This our Brother often made melody in his heart though he was not very tunable in his voice below now the high Praises of God are sounded by him and at the Great day Soul and Body shall make a melodious Consort in that Blessed Harmony And now this Holy Learned Industrious Man of God is advanced above guilt corruption temptation and persecution pains of Body fears of Spirit disturbances in God's Worship Imprisonments Confiscations Banishments Oh what a blessed State have they above taken possession of happy Souls that are safely lodged in the Arms of their Dear Redeemer It were worth the while to stand still and take a view of the Spirits made perfect Heb. 12. 23. in the other World Let us only glance a little on their privative and positive Happiness from Rev. 22. 3 4 5. 1. There shall be no more curse i. e. no more fruits of God's displeasure upon man for Adam's sin nor causeless