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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94794	A legacy for saints; being several experiences of the dealings of God with Anna Trapnel, in, and after her conversion, (written some years since with her own hand) and new coming to the sight of some friends, they have judged them worthy of publike view; together with some letters of a latter date, sent to the congregation with whom she walks in the fellowship of the Gospel, and to some other friends.	Trapnel, Anna.; Proud, John, fl. 1654.; Ingold, Caleb.	1654 (1654)	Wing T2032; Thomason E806_1; ESTC R207169	57,632	72

came nigh me to praise that had the spirit of praises and still I was entreating the Saints to speak sweetly and gently to all persons that they might appear to be the sheep of the great shepheard Christ I told them how it b●came Saints to be of a meek spirit and I was not ashamed to confess that I was by nature of a contentious perverse spirit which I now loathed and every proud thought was an abomination to me and I told the Saints they were to look up for strength to walk as people of another Nation that it might be said they are the people of the living God who have the mark of God in all their actions Now friends I shall tell you once concerning my raising from weakness to strength from pain to ease and that both to the amazement of my self and those that were present with me but oh that I might never forget to praise the Lord not only in word but in my holy conversation in all these discoveries that have been related my body still grew weaker and weaker and the Sent of dead souls turned out of the grave was still in my nostrils and my body like unto a clod of earth and pain working up to my heart the day before my recovery one Captain Harris prayed by me and in that prayer I was mightily strengthened in believing and could not but say Lord why may not I be raised now And answer was suddenly darte● into my spirit I the Lord can raise thee now but thou shalt be raised at that time that thy God hath given thee to believe Oh how sweet was this answer in my Spirits that though I had a desire then to arise and I strove to list up my self yet I could not for the Lord told me his time was not yet and untill the day of deliverance came I was not onely weak and sick in body but my spirits were very dead not activity or liveliness in them all the forenoon but in the afternoon this Scripture was handed by my father to me why is thy soul troubled why is thy spirit sad within thee Believe in God believe also in me John 14.1 in this I was mightily refresht and my spirits quickned and faith much strengthened not that unbelief did seize upon me at any time after God had sealed these things upon my spirit though Satan told me that at that instant I believed I should recover my breath should be taken out of my body now it did not fear me God still perswading me that his power should be made manifest but I still grew to the earth my body waxt very cold and in clamy sweats that those that had been present with persons when their breath departed from them they could not imitate or liken me to any other but a dying person to my own feeling and sence my hands were dead and the rest of my body very liveless my breath to my own sence was even departing from me this was about six or seven a clock that night then I was raised and suddenly God poured a mighty spirit of prayer upon me that I felt my breath which was taking leave of my body heated and I pleaded with God in believing for the accomplishment of his promise and Abraham was set before me his faith strong though he saw no sacrifice he believed God would raise an Isaac out of the ashes so God carried my spirits up contrary unto sence and when the spirit of prayer was off me then god instructed me what to say to the Saints that stood by quivering and fearing not being able to see this accomplished by the eye of faith it being very contrary unto sence and when the spirit making use of me had done incouraging the Saints telling them they should surely see the work of the Lord and after thus speaking I fell in a trance in which I saw the glory of my Saviour exceedingly but I cannot speak what I saw and this lasted about a quarter of an hour and when it began to wear away this voice was given into my Spirits I say arise walk and praise me set forth my glory this came with a mighty strength that I felt strength given into my limbs that were deadest first revived and a song of Hallelujah sounded into my spirits saying now sing praise unto the great God and to the Lamb that sits upon the throne and great joy came into my spirits from the holy Spirit and no sooner did God say arise walk but I was lifted up by the power of the most high God from my bed and I called for my clothes all pain was ceased the Fever left me and I put on my clothes and as soon as I came out of my bed death pangs seized extraordinarily upon me my heart strings were ready to crack and I was even sinking a swiming in my head being very great also and my spirit suddenly was drawn forth to say Lord wilt thou now nullifie the work and shall thy hand maid now be deserted and the Lord answered me am not I thy strength and I found strength immediatly and could walk about the room without fainting or any body to help me and my stomack was opened that I could let down broth which before I could not and I continued up till midnight praising God with the Saints and after I was laid in my bed I could not shut my eyes to sleep all that night to think that on such a sudden so great an alteration should be made that I could lye down free from all pain and distemper that I felt before and so I grew still every day more strength was given in to me on the fourth day at night thus God appeared and on the first day of the week after which is called the Sabbath day I went abroad to the praise and glory of my father which hath ever since continued my health and I minded thus much in Gods raising of me he doubled his power in recovering me once and again when I began to faint and also the week following God told me I should have my perfect strength which week was the third day instanced in Hosea 6. And thus Saints having an incouragement from the Spirit of Truth to set before your view some of the experiences God hath given into me through his own free love but a creature-capacity cannot contain all the incomings of God I had while I lay in my sickness but being very much importuned by some friends I have fulfilled their desires through the assistance of God in setting forth as much as was brought to my remembrance I being a weak worthless creature a babe in Christ which makes his power the more manifest And now Saints I intreat your prayers continually for me HEre is further added a short discourse written eight years ago weighty and precious for that it pierceth through the veil searcheth into the inside of things and giveth some hint of things now looked for by many but then more

ready to fall flat on the plain ground I have had sometimes so great ravishing of spirit when I have been alone in a room by my self my outward man hath been so altered on a sudden to the view of those that have been in the house which have found me alone and not able to speak to them for a season so that they have been frighted thinking me not to be in health and they beholding the tears falling from my eyes have wondred what I ailed but it was because the Son of righteousness shone hot upon my spirit which caused a melting into tears and many Scriptures opened to me which I spoke to them that sat by which have been astonished to hear and see a poor creature so filled but it was Christ in me making use of me to publish the excellency of Jesus Christ which my soul was so enamoured with that my old Aunt sitting by me said she had lived above threescore years and yet never felt such joy of the spirit and yet a very godly woman she wept to see me so her heart was much affected And this year in which I was new-born I shall the Lord helping me give forth some few of those discoveries which whole volumes cannot contain Let free grace have all the glory Oh to be in Christ who can tell out his or her estate night and day How pleasant is it Such a one where ever it goes cannot but set forth it s beloved it cannot tell how to speak of any thing else but Christ it cannot tarry there where it may not speak of its Saviour no language is pleasant to it but that wherein its God is exalted oh how sweet was my sleeping and waking still I had rest in the bosom o● Jesus oh what a great delight I had to be amongst the Saints and my heart was full of zeal for his glory oh what an eagerness and forwardness there is to receive good and to do good in that time of the souls first conversion then it s forward to suffer any thing for Christ nick names are nothing to it scandals and reproaches it can trample under foot but when the doctrine of free grace was nick-named as some would tell me it was a doctrine of liberty to sin then I could not but speak sharply to such I found no doctrine leading to holiness so much as it no salve drawing out corruptions and ill humors like this no plaister healing the most desperate wound like the plaister of free grace its cleansing physick it runneth between the marrow and the bones sinners would you be rid of bloody sins Free grace hath opened a fountain for to wash in not onely your feet but head and hands yea your whole man in this fountain I was cleansed by this wine my drooping spirits were revived Christ was that good Samaritan that found me wounded whom the Law nor Priest did not pitty legall threatnings and legall promises looked upon me but pissed by and left me wallowing in blood and pained with wounds and if it had not been for that tender hearted Samaritan Jesus Christ I had perished oh how comfortable was his oyl and wine to my wounds great was his care for me no tender mother like to Jesus the Saints told me when I mourned for the loss of my tender mother that Christ would be more tender and would be all to me in the loss of earthly comforts and he was more to me then they told me he was double comfort and a Comforter that hath tarried and abided with me and will abide with me for ever a Comforter that was still revealing love and bringing love tokens to my soul and setting before me varieties of dishes at every bankquet for a year together my meat was sweet meats from heaven my drink wine upon the lees wines well refined milk and hony was my ordinary dish the least appearance of God was marvellous sweet some days and nights I had feasts full of marrow and visious full of glory In the night before sleep had seized upon me a bright light shined round my head visible and in the midst of that light stood one all in white in the likeness of a creature all covered with brightness my outward man at this light was stricken very weak and all in a sweat but I received much joy and was bid by the inward speaking of the spirit not to fear for I had seen an Angell surely it was a very glorious vision such a perfume was left in my spirits all that night and my strength of body given me as soon as this vision was ended and I was full of triumphing in the Lord who killeth and maketh alive oh how sweet are true visions oh that I could praise more that God that hath is and will be gracious to me for ever my song was when the sentence of death was on my earthly Tabernacle by reason of illness I still was filled with this joyfull long Oh death where is thy sting Oh grave vvhere is thy victory Death vvas still presenced vvithout a sting and the Lavv vvithout strength these vvere novv dissolved and gone and I savv an accomplishment of the great vvork of Redemption by Jesus Christ I could not but dance before this Ark though Michols mocked I must declare that I was past from Mount Sinai into the Regions of Mount Sion where I saw an end of the Law for Righteousness sake to every one that believes not that I was now without Law unto God neither despised I any part of the Law but beheld it good if a man or woman use it lawfully the Apostle could not have said the Law had been faulty as in the Hebrews But in respect of our corruptness in the using of it we it were that were faulty not the Law in it self that was pure but I looked not where I might not onely see it in its purity without me but enjoy it within me which while I looked first on commands and then on promises I could not attain to it but when I beheld first promises and then commands novv I savv an attaining to the Lavv of righteousness though not in or by my self yet in and by another novv I looked on the Lavv and legall precepts vvith an Evangelicall eye vvhereas before the light of the spirit cam● I turned Gospel into Lavv but novv appeared a harmony betvveen both a Lavv within me not making void that vvithout me but novv vvas given me a help meet in behold●ng morall precepts in Evangelicall arms Sinai's voice in Sions breast novv frovvns are gone and similes are come thunder is fallen and the still voice is risen death under life in the top which crown sin nor Satan can never deprive Saints of for Saints are not under legall precepts but under Gospel commands and in this sense they are dead to the Law by the life or Christ in them And for this tenent of truth I passed under the name of Aninomian but praised be the Lord