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A60250 An edifieing wonder, of two children dyeing 100 yeares old or A short account of the last houres of Susanna Bickes (in the 14 yeare of her age) before her death. Septemb. 1. 1664. Also of Jacob Bickes her brother of 7. yeares old. Aug. 6. 1664. 1666 (1666) Wing S3807A; ESTC R221484 16,426 34

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AN EDIFIEING WONDER OF Two children dyeing 100 yeares old OR A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LAST HOURES OF SUSANNA BICKES In the 14 yeare of her age before her death Septemb. 1. 1664. ALSO OF JACOB BICKES her Brother of 7. yeares old Aug. 6. 1664. ESAI 65. 20. The childe shall dye an hundred yeares old bot the sinner being an hundreth yeares old shal be accursed MATTH 21. 16. Have ye never read Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfyted praise LUK. 18. 16 17. And Jesus called the litle children to him and said Suffer little children to come unto me for of such is the Kingdome of God Verilie I say unto you who so receiveth not the Kingdome of God as a litle childe he shall in nowise enter therein Printed in the Year 1666. READER THis was done at first in another language And albeit I knowe that ther is soe much sobriety in the most able who put pen to paper in those dayes as maketh them to find some scarring upon their owne spirits when they suppose how many of those who look upon a new book may happen to welcome it into the world with a word of snuffing disdaine Tush the world is too full of books already Yet I am some what above the feare of the hardest censure for this small and indirect accession to the adding of one poor sheet more that I am rather confident that Read who will these few pages his conscience within him such as it is will extort so much from him like a testimony to the wayes of God that he shall at least say O that I may dye the death of the righteous and that my latter end might be as his And that the Reader who is taught the feare of the Lord wil be farther enlightened and refreshed and perswaded of the wayes of holines And more particularly of these few things following First that ther is a Holy Ghost which dwelleth in and shal be with the saints for ever And 2. that he is the comforter who alone can and should comfort the soule And 3. that his consolations are not small by which ther is singing for joy of heart and glorifieing God even in the fires and by which beleivers are enabled to laugh at destruction and famine and dearth and pestilence and to lift up their heads and be able to stand before the Sonne of God though they should live to see the greatest distresses of nations and the shakeings of heaven and earth which make the hearts of the stoute to stoope and faile 4. That the pure ordinances of Christ are noe vayn things but ought to be much followed and cleaved unto and that there Christ giveth his loves 5. That the word is that sword of the Spirit and ther is none like it against that Goliah that red Dragon that Leviathan and the King of Terrors How mighty was this young Damsell in the Scriptures and the young one wanted not his own number of Scripture places by which through grace they did quit themselves like men and overcame and at their death declared themselves by the faith and consolation of the Scripturs to have attained to the stature of perfect men Christians know what houre it is of your day and what is your work Be faithfull in the lesser or greater things of opportunity and means of working out your salvation You do not know what evill may be upon the earth albeit we know that the Cup of trembling go round as it will from Nation to Nation from Church to Church from Citie to Citie from Family to Family yea often it beginneth at the house of God and his own sanctuary Ezek. 9. 2 Pet. 3. But yet a little while and it shal be taken out of the hand of the Lords people and the dregs therof shal be wrung out by all the wicked of the earth and that most Signally by Antichrist apostates seducers persecuters and others also who have a forme of Godlinesse and deny the power therof THE LAST HOURES OF SUSANNA BICKES in the 14th yeare of her age SUSANNA BICKES borne in Leyden Ianuarij 24. 1650. was visited from the hand of the Lord with the Pestilence upon the 30. of August 1664. being Saturnday betuixt 7. of 8. at night And after the beginning of her sicknesse there were considerable presages of her death And very speedily she betooke herself to the great Physician of soule and body The first night she exercised herself to earnest prayer by herself alone without many words or speech to others that God would furnish her with strength in her soule to beare out that great conflict which she did apprehend to be approaching with the waves of death that she might by faith and patience as becometh a dyeing Christian pertake of the victorie which Christ hath purchased over death to all these for whom he himselfe had tasted of death And as God had blest the preaching of the word abundantly to her and the exercises privat and publict upon the Cathechisme So that she had acquired a mervellous measure of knowledge and daily increasing in the same from the very day that she was in any capacity to learne So what instruction she received in the grounds of Religion it did soe take hold upon her that not only she retayned the notions therof in her understanding Bot the impressions of the trueth wer engraven upon her heart of which she gave remarkable proofes at this tyme of her death And that the word of God had dwelt plentifully in her wherby she was enabled to speak unto herselfe and to sing with grace in her heart making sweet medoly to the Lord while surrounded with the billowes of the King of Terrors marching in battell array against her with the terrible slaughter weapon of the Pestilence As abundanly is evident by the ensueing words uttered by her and faithfully collected and by the advyce and help of some iudicious and Religious persons published for the use of others both old and young The accompt whereof might have been much larger then heer it is done but that severall things did escape the memories of the bystanders and of the Penman being partlie through grief and partlie through wonder diverted from the exact noteing of the things which she uttered At the beginning of her sickness she was heard with much feeling and power breaking foorth to God with these words of Psalm 119. If thy law wer not my delyt I should perish in my affliction Wherupon her Father said to her be of good comfort my child the Lord wil be neer unto thee and us under this heavie and sore tryel and will not forsake us although now he chasten us David by these words belike meant of the Lords hand which had been heavie both upon his house and upon his person severall wayes Wherof we read in the Scripture Yea Father said she Our heavenlie Father doth chasten us for our profit that we may partake of his holinesse As we read