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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47565	The life and death of that old disciple of Jesus Christ and eminent minister of the Gospel Mr. Hanserd Knollys who dyed in the ninety third year of his age written with his own hand to the year 1672 ; and continued in general in an epistle by Mr. William Kiffin.	Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.; Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.	1692 (1692)	Wing K715; ESTC R25128	24,815	65

and pray God to pardon this and other our Sins whereupon we both kneeled down upon the plowed Land and I prayed wept and made Supplication to God as well as I could and found so great Assistance from God at that time that I never used any set Form of Prayer afterwards which done we both kissed each other and went to School Afterwards I went to Cambridge and there a godly Minister preached on Hosea the 5th Chap. and 17. ver His Doctrine was That the joyning to Sin by often committing it after Conviction of Conscience for it did provoke God to give over many to the power of their Corruptions and let them alone to dye in their Sins I was thereby convinced that it was my Case for I had oftentimes broken the Sabbath after Conviction and I had disobeyed my Parents and had often told Untruths The same Lords-day at Night another godly Minister preached at five a Clock upon Eph. 2.3 and thereby I was much more convinced of my sinful Condition and that I was a Child of Wrath without Christ and Grace c. which Work of Conviction remained strongly upon me above one year under which I was filled with great Horrour and fears of Hell sore buffettings and Temptations of the Devil and made to possess the Sins of my Youth But yet I prayed daily heard all the godly Ministers I could read and searched the Holy Scriptures read good Books got acquaintance with gracious Christians then called Puritans kept several days of Fasting and Prayer alone wherein I did humble my Soul for my Sins and begg'd Pardon and Grace of God for Christs sake grew strict in performing Holy Duties and in Reformation of my own Life examining my self every night confessing my Sins and mourning for them and had a great Zeal for God and an Indignation against Actual Sins both committed by my self and others June 29th 1629. I was ordained Deacon and the next day June 30th I was ordained Presbyter by the Bishop of Peterborow having Preached above 16 Sermons before I would be Ordained by way of Tryal of my Ability for that great Work of the Ministry After my Ordination the Bishop of Lincoln gave me a small Living at Humberstone where I preached twice every Lords Day and once every Holy-day That which made me strict and Laborious in Preaching was partly the Work of Conviction upon my Conscience but more especially a Providential Acquaintance that I had gotten with a very godly old Widdow in Gainsburgh where I taught the Free-School before I came to Humberstone who told me of one called a Brownist who used to pray and expound Scriptures in his Family whom I went sometimes to hear and with whom I had Conference and very good Counsel Whilst I was at Humberstone there lived a very Religious Widow who falling sick sent for me and charged me that I would not depart her House on the day-time until she ended or mended least Satan should tempt her above her strength The Doctor of Physick had given her over some godly Ministers Friends and Relations did take leave of her as a Dying Woman She received nothing for several days but a little Julep which was put into her Mouth with a Spoon and ran most of it out again lay speechless two or three days her Family mourning over her and expecting her Death every Hour I had brought some of my Books to her House and was studying her Funeral Sermon and when I had almost finished the same the Devil set upon me with a violent Suggestion That the Scriptures are not the Word of God He had suggested this Temptation to me divers Times before but prevailed not Now the Tempter assaulted me with this Argument Whatever you ask in the Name of Christ God will do it but that Scripture was not true and if I would put it now upon Tryal I should find it not to be true for if I would ask the Womans Life in the Name of Christ God will not do it and thereby I should know the Scriptures are not true nor are they the Word of God for his Word is true To which I answered Satan thou art a Lyar a Deceiver and a false Accuser The Holy Scriptures are the Word of God and the Scriptures of Truth And seeing thou hast often tempted me in this kind and now dost assault me again that I may for ever silence thee thou wicked and lying Devil I will trust in God and act Faith in the Name of Christ in that very Word of his Truth which thou hast now suggested I will leave my Study and go and pray for her and believe that God will hear my Prayers thrô the Intercession of Jesus Christ and restore her Life and Health that thou mayst be found a Lyar Whereupon I went into the Parlour where she lay speechless without any visible motion or use of any Senses and I locked the Door and Candles being in the Room I kneeled down by her Bed-side and prayed above half an hour using my Voice and then she began to stir toss and struggled so much that I was constrained to stand up and holding her in her Bed still prayed over her Sathan then gave me a great Interruption and suggested to me she was a dying and these were the pangs of Death upon her I notwithstanding this Assault of the Devil was assisted by the Holy Spirit to pray and believe still and in a short time she lay very quietly and I kneeled down again and prayed fervently and within half an hour whilst I was yet praying she said The LORD hath healed me I am restored to Health Then I returned praises to God and she did joyn with me lifting up her eyes and hands still saying I am Healed Then I rose up from my knees and asked her how she did O Sir said she God hath heard your Prayers and hath made me whole Blessed be his Holy Name Then I unlocked the Door and some of her Kinswomen and Servants being at the Door came in and asked me if she were dead to whom I answered No. Then they asked me How she did I bad them go to her and ask her self She had been speechless four days I told them she could speak now and as soon as they came to her Bed-side she lift up her self and said I am well the Lord hath heard Prayer and healed me I am very weak and sore in my bones but I am in Health I pray you give me something to eat and as soon as they brought her some broth she sat up and eat it and took some of her Julep and from that time received strength and the next day she did rise and walked with a Staff which being heard of many godly Ministers and Christians came to visit her and to know the truth of what was told them touching her Recovery I told them it was not any thing in me but it was the Lord that had done it for His own Glory and to silence