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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65443	A vindication of Anne Wentworth tending to the better preparing of all people for her larger testimony, which is making ready for publick view. Published according to the will of God, and direction of charity. By Anne Wentworth. To which is annexed a letter written by an eminent Christian, concerning the said Anne Wentworth, and directed to the several congregations of the Anabaptists, and their respective pastors. As also a song of tryumph by the said Anne Wentworth, a daughter of Sion, newly delivered from the captivity of Babylon, &c.	Wentworth, Anne.	1677 (1677)	Wing W1356; ESTC R219445	15,970	25

spoken by the Holy Ghost to the Apostle James restrain you 1 James 26. If any man among you seems to be religious and bridle not his Tongue but deceiveth his own heart that mans Religion is vain You may sooner hinder the Sun from shining then the truth of God from displaying it self in such manner and by such instruments as he is pleased to chuse who is the Holy one of Israel who will not suffer himself to be limited by man the great God hath put the word of truth in her mouth and dare you forbid her to declare it can your scorn and contempt of the weak instrument frustrate the purposes and Counsels of God no his foolishness is wiser then your imaginary wisdom and his weakness stronger then all your conjoyned power Can you prove that God hath not spoken to her and by her No you dare not produce that Book of hers in yours custody you too well know it would demonstrate her to be in the Truth and your selves shameless Lyars Pray consider if one of your Preachers should be silenced you would presently cry out of Persecution and dare you attempt to silence the Word of God whose sound is gone forth to the ends of the Earth Take heed of resisting deriding a Message sent from Heaven though by a weak Instrument lest you be found guilty of Blasphemies against the Spirit of God but rather to day while you hear his Voice harden not your hearts lest he swear in his wrath that you shall never enter into his Rest It is heard and received by such who love the Truth and submit to the Power of it but if you persist in your Rebellion against it you will find and feel to your cost that Truth is stronger than all Consider these-things Brethren and the Lord give you understanding to judge aright The 5th of the 10th Month 1677. The Lord Awaked me in the Night-Season and by his Spirit taught me thus in Verse and made me Sing unto him a Triumphant Victorious Song over my Enemies with a command from God to send it forth into the World to be answered by the same Spirit of Love Meekness Gentleness Goodness Plainness Lamb-like lowly and Humble for such is the Spirit of Gods Teachings Let us be followers of our Head Christ Jesus as dear Children whom we have for our Example Ephes 5. 1 2. For he that overcometh shall Inherit all things and I will be his God and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters The Promise belongs either to Sons or Daughters walking in the Truth Revel 21. 7. I Am commanded by the King of Kings to send this in the same manner and method he taught it me Let none despise the Spirits teaching quench not the Spirit despise not Prophesie There hath been too much despising and disdaining of me already I pray God forgive them for all their hard speeches and cruel usage of me for they have done they know not what The Lord help us to remember our Creator in the days of our youth and declining years for when we have done all we can to please our selves yet the end of all is death for pride passion self-will bitterness wrath envy malice will yield no comfort at the Judgment Seat where we must give an account of all the deeds done in the flesh whether they be good or evil Eccles 12. 14. Who hath believed our report hath been the cry of old and to whom is the Arm of the Lord revealed Esa 53. 1. For they have not at all obeyed the Gospel Rom. 10. 16. To England sweet my Native soyl This summons now I send Her speedy answer I require Before this Year doth end In four and twenty years Declare What evil have I done VVhat all this time they have against My Conversation VVhat cause gave I to make your wrath So hot to burn at me Speak as you 'l answer it to God And let all hear and see In Coffee-House and Ale-House now VVhy do you me Defame VVhy doth your Church a Heathen me And Publican proclaim Speak out and spare not what 's my sin Speak truth in his presence Else God a bitter Cup will give You as your recompence If he who judgeth Heaven and Earth Disowneth what you have done Then to curb you and set me free He 's now most surely come You 'l punish me and think for me No Prison is too ill But whether you or I offend most he determine will I 'm falsly slandered and opprest By men that have no Love But I commit my cause to him who sees and sits above And from his Sanctuary looks and roars out of Sion To shew my Foes he is my God and I his little one He sees my griefs so great the weight I can no longer bear That now he comes to be my Judge The Innocent to clear To restifie he is my Spouse and Husband of my Soul Whom I must serve and keep his Laws though proud men would controul I give no other cause but in the Worship of my God If clean from sin I 'm in his sight my Foes will feel his Rod. The same measure of wrath which they do pour forth upon me According to his word he 'l pour On them as they will see They can't excuse themselves before God for what they have done They hate me ' cause I in Gods word and ways of Truth do run Full eighteen years with grief consum'd and to the Grave bow'd down Because the Lord have rais'd me up to make his power known And bad me shew his wonderous works and glorifie his Name This only nothing else but this a great offence became They rage they Persecute to Death a Woman weak and wan For giving all glory unto God and not to wretched man Now Country-men if I the Truth do not make to appear Disprove me plainly if you can Before the next New Year For after that great wrath expect which on those will burn as fuel Who to their fellow creature were Not merciful but cruel And have no Love to God his way His Truth and holy word But only love themselves as he hath seen and much abhor'd For taking up this heavy Cross to follow the Lord my God Wormwood and gall they give and scourge me with their sharpest Rod. O God arise make hast to judge between my Foes and me O stop their mouths clear me and let not guilty ones go free Now strike at Babylon thou said'st This year thou would'st begin To pour thy Plagues on that great Whore Babylon for her Sin Give Testimony speak aloud O Lord and make them hear To let them know I speak from God And only him do fear Thou knowest O Lord I have no end Doing and suffering this But that thy will obeying I May gain Eternal bliss If King and subjects cannot me disprove in what I say If truth I speak O Lord let them Not take my life away That will not quench the wrath denounc'd For what 's already done Nor can prevent the pouring sorth That wrath which is begun What he hath purpos'd and decreed on Babylon to do Shall suddenly in one day come Her Judgment Plagues and wo. As he revealed hath unto his faithful Servant John Such as ne're was nor e're again the world shall fall upon That for my Native soyl and folks I now could weep and mourn Though they unkind to me no thanks But Grief and Scorn return Only some of the little flock Of Christ I late have seen VVho have to me distrest and left Alone a comfort been Blest be his power who helpt and faith He will my sorrows end I hope he will my foes convince That they their lives may mend Take me O Lord from strife of Tongues as thou hast promis'd me Give rest and peace if so thou please O take me home to thee Let me no longer bear this Yoak And in this vile world stay Think on thy promise Lord and free me before New-Years Day The Ninth of the same month the Lord taught me this Song in the Night IF all Men can't disprove what by me God hath said Then with all England it will be very sad VVhat ye do do quickly before New-Years Day Least after that all your lives be swept away Wo wo to England for what she hath done For woes upon England will certainly come Because she doth not love God with all her heart Nor 〈◊〉 up her self to take his Childrens part Shall I yet doubt when God upholds me then Fear mortal Men who ' ve done the worst they can No lift up thy Head and now rejoyce That God for thee made such a choice A. W. My Maker is my Husband the Holy one of Israel my Redeemer the Eternal ever living God my Father in obedience to his reveiled will do I suffer in obeying his strict commands I offend their are several of his Children that are sufferers with me and are not ashamed of me in my bonds which are for doing the will of Christ Now as they have owned me so God will own them and bless them but for such as are ashamed of me under my reproaches for Christ they in time may be more ashamed for their Neglect in not owning me in the work of the Lord. O my God fulfil thy word and deliver me for thou knowest I have suffered as much Tiranny and Cruelty under a formal profession of Religion as I could have done amongst Turks Heathens and Infidels and if so then what need is it that my Country-men should so highly scorn me as they do for if I live to see New-Years Day over I shall be able to speak to them and ask them how they do and rejoyce when they will have cause to mourn and I now know my friends from my foes and if I out of this world be taken it will be my greater mercy to be singing Halauajah in Heaven FINIS

A VINDICATION OF Anne Wentworth TENDING To the better preparing of all People for Her Larger Testimony which is making ready for Publick View Published according to the Will of God and Direction of Charity By Anne Wentworth Be still and know that I am God I will be exalted among the Heathen I will be exalted in the Earth The Lord of Host is with us the God of Jacob is our Refuge Psal 46. 10. 11. To which is annexed A Letter written by an eminent Christian concerning the said Anne Wentworth and directed to the several Congregations of the Anabaptists and their respective Pastors As also a Song of Tryumph by the said Anne Wentworth a Daughter of Sion newly delivered from the Captivity of Babylon c. How should we Sing the Lords Song in a strange Land Psal 137. 1. 2. 3. 4. Where is God my Maker that giveth Songs in the Night Job 35. 10. Let the Saints be joyful in Glory let them Sing upon their Bed Psal 149. 5. Printed in the Year 1677. THe Great Searcher of hearts has seen neither is it unknown to several Christians in and about this City of London or to the Consciences of my very Enemies what Severe and Cruel persecutions I have sustained for the space of Eighteen years from the unspeakable Tyrannies of an Hard-hearted Yoak-Fellow and since from the bitter zeal of several eminent professors of Religion commonly call'd Baptists VVho have most unjustly and unchristian-like caused all their pretended Church power to wait upon and serve the wrath of my oppressors and who not being able truly to charge me with any sin committed against God that call'd for such a proceeding have declared me an Heathen and a Publican for matters of Conscience in which I was faithful to the Teachings of God according to the Scriptures of Truth and obey'd the voyce of the Lord who called me out from amongst them that I might not partake of those Terrible Plagues and dreadful judgments which are coming upon all Formalists Hyppocrites and profane Persons who are all of them the Inhabitants of this Earth and who however separated from one another now by outward forms and observations or inward notions and opinions in that particular and great day of the Lord which is coming upon this Nation will be found to be in one Spirit and Principle My cause in this respect being committed to Almighty God the Righteous Judge of all unto whom I have appealed and who has accepted my appeal and is speedily arising on my behalf I will say nothing of it here But only acquaint thee whoever thou art that readest these few lines that it has pleased my most gratious God and Father who abounds towards his Children in all wisdome and prudence of Love to turn all the fierce wrath of man which has been against me into his own praise And to change all the evil mine Enemies have thought and done against me into a sweet designe for good making all my unspeakable sufferings from man my wonderful supports and deliverances from God a figure of his intended dispensations towards his Enemies and people in this Nation Revealing to me how Babilon the Mother of Fornications is in her inward principle and Spirit as also in her outward practices and pollutions spread over the whole face of the Christian world and every where found among the litteral and outward Churches How her delusions forceries and fornications are here most bewitching and dangerous because she here comes forth as the mystery of iniquity dressing and adorning her self in all the forms and notions of the heavenly things sitting and showing her self in the Temple of God As also revealing to me that the judgments which are determin'd to come upon her should begin at the House of God the Formal Carnal Notional Christians the worshipers in the outward Court And that the flood of the Divine vengeance having swep't away what is to be destroyed there the Rod of Gods anger should be thrown into unquenchable fire and the indignation of the Lord should end in the utter desolation Ruine and confusion of the Prophane world and grosser Babylon And that these things are at the very door and ready to enter upon us as an Armed Man And because the mouth of iniquity is opened against me and I bear the reproaches of the mighty ones wherewith they have reproached the foot-steps of the Lord and his deallings with me representing me as a Proud Passionate Revengful Discontented and Mad VVoman and as one that has unduly published things to the prejudice and scandal of my Husband and that have wickedly left him designing according to the craftiness and subtlety of the old Serpent in all Ages by Marring my face to darken and disappoint my Testimonie from the Lord which I am with all convenient speed making ready for publick view In great tenderness to all people concern'd in my Testimony and that they may be the better prepared to receive the same when it shall be layd before them I do in the presence of the most holy and Jealous God who is our God and yet a consuming fire and in a deep sence of the manifold weaknesses infirmities and passions I am subject too hereby solemnly declare That I am not conscious to my self of any spiritual pride in this matter nor in the least desirous to have any appearance or to make any noise in this VVorld Nor durst I for ten thousand worlds pretend to come in the Name of God or in the pride and forwardness of my own Spirit put my self into this work without his express command concerning it and his Spirit and presence with me in it having learnt what unprofitable things the Staff and Mantle are without the God of the Prophets how dangerous and desperate an attempt it is to put the Commission and Authority of God upon the Dreams and Visions of my own heart I am well assured if spiritual pride the eagerness of my own spirit any worldly designe or any other delusion whatsoever has engaged me in my present Testimony the holy God will discover me herein and take open vengeance on all my Inventions my Idols and strange Gods and that this matter will prove unto me like the waters of Jealousie unto the suspected person And I have also through the tender mercies of God the riches of an assurance that my God who has been so many years Emptying me from Vessel to Vessel breaking me all to peices in myself and making me to become as nothing before him and who has by many and great Tribulations been bowing my own will and fitting me for his service and who having taught me to tremble at his word has thereby call'd and commanded me into this work when I was as a thing that is not in my own eyes and pleaded with him to be excused I have I say the riches of an assurance that this God will be with me and however the Spirit of prophecy in a poor weak VVoman