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A67065	An account of some of the dying-sayings of Susannah Yeats, late wife of Samuel Yeats, of the parish of Minching-Hammpton in Glocester-shire with a sermon preached at her funeral by Thomas Worden ...	Worden, Thomas.; Yeats, Susannah, d. 1688.	1688 (1688)	Wing W3577; ESTC R31846	16,577	40

AN ACCOUNT Of some of the Dying-Sayings OF SUSANNAH YEATS Late Wife of SAMVEL YEATS of the Parish of Minching-Hampton in Glocester-shire WITH A SERMON Preached at her Funeral By THOMAS WORDEN Minister of the Gospel LONDON Printed for William Marshall at the Bible in Newgate-street 1688. THE EPISTLE TO THE READER IT is storied of Latimer the Bishop that on a time when he was to Preach before King Edward the 6th his Theme was Take heed and beware of Covetousness and so kept on the Repetition of it five or six times together as if he intended that his Sermon should consist of no more words than his bare Theme viz. Take heed and beware of Covetousness BVT if the Bishop were now alive he would see cause to alter his Subject in turning of it from Covetousness to Death FOR as he made use of after Arguments to dehort his Auditors from that Sin so now would he see need to make as often a Repetition of the word Death as the Prophet did of the word Earth O Earth Earth hear the word of the Lord and all would be too little to affright this Age from more gross Sins IT is our unhappy Lot to live in an Age wherein our most sharp Brains are more enclined to exercise the Vanity of Wit than to labour after true Wisdom which would render the ensuing Subject the less pleasant to them For how is it possible that Men should read a Subject of Death with pleasure who so much abound in Sin while they live with so much pleasure IT was the saying once of Queen Elizabeth That of all the Books which she had read she prized mostly these two viz. Senica and the Bible and it would be no small mercy to the most of our Age if they could say That of all things in the World they mostly love these two viz. to live to Christ and to dye to Sin because to such a man Death will not appear as a Lyon but as a Lamb. For those whose bleeding Wounds by Sin are not healed by the Blood of Christ their Death will make the greatest Wound at last IF the Preaching of Death to mens Ears would be the Death of Sin in their Hearts the ensuing Subject then might be as Solomon speaks of seasonable Words viz. like Appels of Gold in Pictures of Silver But instead of any hope this way may we not sit down with the Prophets complaint and cry out as he did Isa 28. 10 12. Tho line upon line be brought to this People and precept upon precept here a little and there a little yet they will not hear As to the following Subject treated upon it was preached at the Funeral of one of my Congregation But if any shall expect quaintness of Words or elegancy of Phrase he will find but little which would suit that humour THEREFORE those that usually read Books to please their Fancies more than to encrease their Faith and love to have their Ears tickled with fine Words rather than their Hearts toucht with real Truths will little applaud the Discourse IF thou readest rather to acquaint thy self with flourishing Sentences than to affect thy Heart with real Substances thou must leave the School of Christ and betake thy self to a Heathenish Academy THE greatest care taken about the following Discourse hath been to trim it up in a Jacob-like Dress plain and pious It s Garment is like to the Israelites Robes for their Humiliation not Silk but Sackcloth Therefore what Beauty lieth in it resembles the stile given of the Church Psal 45. 13. It 's only glorious within It s beauty appears not so much in the Letter without as it doth in the Spirit within AND if thou contemn it only for want of an external Beauty that will but bespeak to thy face thy want of Spirituality I DO declare I never had any further intent in the Study of the ensuing Discourse than to content my self with the bare Preaching of it For to say all I never deem'd it worthy of so publick a view as it 's now arrived unto only strong Importunity hath drag'd it out of my Hand and that it 's now published it 's rather to humour my Friend than to please my self any further than it may be serviceable to some poor Soul. But that God that can make dry Bones to live if he shall make this dry Bone of any quickning-use to thee give God the Praise and me thy Prayer That God would make me in his hand A means that some may understand What slavery their Souls are in Who wilfully do live in Sin That so they may be brought to see The captiv'd State and Misery That Satan have them in beyond all doubt Unless the Lord of Life do work them out And then when they to Christ by Faith do run As Persons that are quite undone And so by Faith on him do clinch Their fiery heat of guilt to quench Which will make Sin the greatest pain And Godliness the greatest gain And by believing rest upon The Lord of Life when this is done Do live to him in Righteousness Its wages being Blessedness Which alters Death from being a foe Which will also free them from woe And land them in their Haven of Rest Where they shall ever be and blest The good of which will make my Crown So heavy that it will weigh down All the discouragements which attend My painful labours to the end Yet do but me thy Prayers give And that will always me relieve Until my painful work be done And I at rest to Joy am come Thine and the Churches Servant THOMAS WORDEN The Dying-Sayings of Susannah Yeats the Wife of Samuel Yeats an Inhabitant in the Parish of Minching Hampton c. ON the Monday night after she fell sick was a night of great temptation to her who lay under the violent assaulting hand of Satan for four hours together the next morning she related her Condition to a Friend which came to see her When after her Friend had asked her how it was with her She replied in these words I remember what my Pastor said once That when Satan is busy with his Tempations to a Person in a Sick-bed it is a sign of Death But said she he hath been busy with me this Night After she had thus said she related what her temptations had been the Night before First she had a sight of Satans appearance to her claiming a propriety in her and that all her endeavour would be but lost labour at last Unto whom she replied O thou Coward that knowest I am a weak Woman weak in Body and weak in Faith if thou hast any thing to lay to my Charge get thee gone go to the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah he will plead my Cause for me if there be not Mercy enough in God if there be not Merit enough in the Blood of Jesus Christ if there be not worth enough in his Righteousness nor Grace enough in his Sanctification