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The VVidow VVhiterows humble thanksgiving for the Kings safe return With an account of John Hall's vision upon the first day of the eleventh month, 1693/4. And also a letter to a friend concerning John Hall's message with a letter from Jamaica concerning the earthquake that happen'd there; a warning to the inhabitants of the earth, to fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgments are come Licensed, D.P. April 18.
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Whitrowe, Joan.
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Fleetstreet the precious presence of the LORD accompaning Me being filled with Joy and returning thanks to the LORD for his great goodness and manifold Mercies in given me power and strength to do his exceptable Will and finding my self clear as I thought of the Blood of all I communed thus with the LORD in deep humility That if I had found favour in his sight and that I had finished the Work he had given me to do then I might return to him in peace for my Eyes had seen his Salvation Upon these Words a mighty Power fell upon me that operated in all parts of my Body and a strong powerful Voice Said Arise and thrash Oh Daughter of Sion for I will make thy Horn Iorn and thy Hoof Brass Upon these Words I was greatly bowed down in deep humility weeping before the LORD and humbly beging his assisting Power and heavenly Wisdom to fulfil His holy devine Will in all things that His pleasure was to require of me Then after this I wrote another printed-Printed-book to the King and Queen and four Papers in writing at several times which I delivered into their one hands and then after I had delivered those Writings I wrote another Book which I had almost finished but this coming so forceable upon me I laid that by and this hath been longer in hand than I expected when I begun it for indeed all things looking so â—ark and dismal I rather expected some dreadful Judgment would break â—orth before this Book would be finished and seeing so little notice taken â—n the general of all the Patience and Long-suffering Judgments and boundâ—ess Mercies of the LORD But all manner of Wickedness and open Proâ—hainess appearing openly with an impudent face saying Who is the LORD â—hat we should fear him and seeing Wickedness rage as a pestilential Fever and the Angels of darkness let loose out of the Bottomless-pit and Hell â—eign on Earth I thought in my self these are the Evil-days wherein the Prudent are to keep silence and the Days of Vengance are at hand I threw the writing out of my hand as Moses threw the Tables of Stone out of his hand and concluded all in vaine that was spent in labour of Love upon this Generation which is passing away like the Smoak of a Furnace for thought I the time is come That he that is wicked must be wicked still and he that is righteous shall be righteous But in this Exercise of Mind the power of his Love broke in upon me who was never weary in Well-doing and charged me with Neglect of my Duty that would a-mount to his Glory and the Good of Souls Upon this I hastned again to the Work I had laid a-side and since I have grudg'd the time that hath been spent from it and now I have given you an Account why it was not committed to the Press before now The next is the Salutation of the Love of God to all of what Perswasion soever whether in Forms or out of Forms through out the whole Universe that loves no Iniquity but the Truth as it is in Jesus my Soul hath fellowship with you herein and if you presevere to the end of all Iniquity to destroy the Root and Ground of all Evil that the Righteous Seed which is Heir of the Kingdom of Glory may be sown in the good Ground which will bring forth Fruit to God an Hundred Fold Friends of all Perswasions that are in this Work all the Promises are yours the Blessing of the everlasting Hills is upon your heads the Eternal God is your Refuge and under his Arms you shall be preserved for ever he shall cast out the Enemy before you and by the Power of his Word destroy them then Israel the Fountain of Jacob shall dwell alone in safety in a Land of Wheat and Wine his Heavens shall drop the Dew Blessed art thou Oh People saved by the LORD the Sheild of thy help which is the Sword of thy Glory therefore thine Enemies shall be in subjection unto thee and thou shall tread upon their high Places Deut. 33.27 28 29. But the Hipocrite the Proud the Covetous the Malicious the Back-biter Lier and Slanderer shall have their Portion in the Lake the Self-ended shall wither the Luke-warm GOD will spew out the Wicked of the World and Sinners in Sion God will thrust a-way as Thorns that cannot be touched with hands therefore must be burnt up in the place where they stand But unto those thaâ— fears my Name shall the Sun of Righteousness a-rise with Healings liâ— his Wings and they shall be mine in the Day that I make up my Jewels and I will spare you as a Man spareth his only Son that serves him saith the LORD As I lay on my Bed waiting upon the LORD having my self and alâ— worldly things in a low esteem and value humbling my self to the dust and making Self of no Reputation but having a wonderful great and high esteem of GOD beyond what my Tongue is able to express to love adore and follow him without the least interest of my own let it be ever so holy so it be according to his divine Will And as I was thus giving my self all up to GOD a powerful Voice said Write down thy Poverty which I immediately did and said My LORD and my GOD that I may use no vain Repetitions to Thee but that which comes from me to Thee may be the Begettings of thy own Life Father I beseech Thee be Thou the Begetter of every Thought that rises in me to thee for then shall my Prayer be exceptable to Thee when Thou art the Father of it â— Then may the LORD of Life and Glory say This is my Beloved in whom â— am well pleased For LORD what am I but as the Dust before Thee who am nothing nor can do nothing not so much as keep out a wandring Thought or keep my Mind fixt upon Thee one moment therefore I lie in my own vileness in my own Corruption who am nothing nor can do nothing No righteous LORD without Thee I can do nothing but in thee holy Father and by thy Eternal Power I can do all things Glory be to Thee All weakness is mine but all Power and evenlasting Strength is thine Thou Omnipotent GOD unto whom my Heart and Soul Strength and Might Poverty and Nothingness ye all that is within me doth ascribe unto Thee the Everlasting Majesty all Honour and Glory all Love and humble Obedience with everlasting Praises and Thanksgiving be returned unto Thee the HOLY ONE Amen saith my Soul World without End Amen J. W. And whereas it is thought by some that are strangers to me and my Writings that a Woman did not write these Books which I have puâ— forth but at least say that I have the help of some Man give GOD the glory Jone Whitrow writ every Word I poor nothing unworthy Creaturâ— wrote it I cannot say whether a Word might be mispelt and mended
up your rest in your sights tho they should reach to the Third-heaven without this life of Christ I have been a treating of and this I can assure you it will be more for your profit when you come together to sit in Dumb-silence than to spend your precious time in Discourses of your Attainments for what are all your Attainments but airy Notions if you come not to the life of Christ for how many have seen the good Land that never entred it and this know That Visions and Revelations may cease for how many have I heard of and knew some that have had all these and yet lives evil Lives witness Balam who from his sight desired to die the Death of the rightous and that his last End might be as his yet through Coveteousness which is Idolatry by his Counsel caused Israel to commit Sin against the Lord tho' to his and their own Destruction Therefore this is a sandy Foundation to build on but if you build on CHRIST the Corner-stone the tried precious and Elected-stone chosen for that use whom the Master Babel-builders have rejected which is the cause of all their Confusion these have conceived a Faith in the air and therefore bring forth nothing but Storms and pestious Winds striving without Foundations and so are driven to and frow but brings nothing to perfection and therefore must be all thrown down and not one stone left upon another before the Holy City the New Jerusalem which cometh down from God can be but therefore as was said Sights Visions and Revelation are little worth but to condemn those that have them if they do not answer the End for which they were given them to wit a holy pure and undefiled life which is the End of all gifts And farther I know a Soul could write a Volume of Sights Visions and Revelations which she hath had above these thirty Years and some that were given highly to justifie her Ways and Works when she was little in her own Eyes and nothing in her own sight it may be Judging and condemning her self for that which he in his Exalted Power hath justified her and for confirmation hath taken her upin to the bosom of his love where she injoyed close and amorous Embraces His sealing to her the precious promises of His Glorious Life and Eternal Love And now among the many Sights Visions and Revelations she may instant one in three Years abstainency somtimes fasting two Days and two Nights together sometimes three Days and three Nights and at the time of this sight three Days and three or four Nights together she being at this time in great Travail of Soul and suffering in Body with conflicts of Spirit she poured out her Complaint before the LORD and said Oh! my LORD If I have found favour in thy sight and what I have done be pleasing unto thee shew a Token of Good to thy Hand-maid that may be as an Anchor to my poor troubled Soul And that very Night she had a Vision of an invisible Glory which is too long to insert here but how it was with her is as followeth Her Sences were all shut up in GOD she was in closs Communion with the LORD she was as she thought wholly desolved out of the Earthly into the heavenly she thought she was as an innocent Child new born and though she had fasted so long together yet she was filled as with new Wine and the heavenly Manna by the strength of which she declared the great things of GOD's holy Law of his Royal Acts and of his heavenly Power and she was filled with his Praise and then no Tongue can tell nor Pen write how it was with her for she was as if she had had a new Body given her in Innocency Joy and Content as it were quite translated out of the Old into the New all over in ravishing Joy filled with unutterable harmonious Praises so lying for many hours in this heavenly Transportation a heavenly Silence came over all and in this Silence these Words were spoken aloud to her This is the Rest wherein I will cause the Weary to rest this is the Life of the Innocent Swain And this was the Token of Good she required which the LORD in his endless Love Answered This and above a hundred times more which she never took up her Rest in though her Sights were attended with his ravishing Life for these heavenly Mansions are given as a Loadstone to draw the Soul of the down-ward Earth up-ward to fix it self in GOD the Fountain of all these ravishing Streams and Beams that comes from his glorious Son of Rightousness lifting up himself in the Soul to draw it after him as Himself said When the Sâ—n of Man is lifted up He will draw all Men after Him But the time is not yet come that He will draw all Men after him therefore we must wait for the Day of his Power we must wait at Jerusalem for the Promise of the Father which is that He will pour out His Spirit upon all Flesh Jâ—â—â— for hetherto the highest Attainment that hath attended the Life of CHRIST hath been but a glimps of that Glory that is ready to break forth were we but ready for it But is this the way for the Bride to make her self ready to meer the Bridegroom for her to pride her self with the Bridegroom's gifts and that her rich Attier should be the cause to take her Love and Affections off her Bridegroom who should be clean humble and chast to meet her Lord Thus the Harlot having oâ— this Attire is taking for the chast Spouse and virtuous Bride but the Day of her Discovery is at hand wherein she shall be stript naked and bare and then her shame will appear to all But to the aforesaid Attainments the greatest of which hath been but as the Voice of one crying in the Wilderness prepare the Way of the LORD and make straight ways in the Desert for all that hath been hetherto must lay their Mouths in the Dust and say as Iohn Baptis I am not be nor worthy to unlcose his Shooe-latchet because I must Decrease but He must Increase Therefore this is the Work of our Day to know the increase of his Grace of which there shall be no End to know in our Souls and Bodies the fellowship of his Sufferings and to be Baptized into his Death and then we shall know the Resurrection of his Glorious Life the Lamb of GOD that taketh away the Sins of the World who shall change our vile Bodies and make them like his glorious Body to praise Him Evermore World without End Once more I have discharged my service to GOD and Duty to you not of my one Mind or Will for had it stood with my Will I had never been concern'd more with this Generation after I had delivered the three first books to the King and Queen but having delivered the last of the three Titled to Queen Mary going in