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A relation of the labour, travail and suffering of that faithful servant of the Lord Alice Curwen Who departed this life the 7th day of the 6th moneth, 1679. and resteth in peace with the Lord.
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Martindell, Anne.
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Curwen the younger Thomas Cobb Thomas Curwen HIS TESTIMONY Which is in behalf of his Wife's Testimony which she did bear faithfully for God and for his Eternal Truth ever since she was Convinced and her Heart and Mind turned from Darkness to the Light of Jesus Christ and from Satan's Power to the Power of God who did serve the Lord in Fear and rejoyced with Trembling whilst Breath and Life remained And Blessed are the Dead that Dye in the Lord they do Rest from their Labours and their Works do follow them AND this I can say to the Praise and Glory of our God That she did Dye in the Lord for she did Praise and magnifie the Name of the Lord and was freely given up to dye and the Lord's Presence was with her which did carry her up above her Weakness in the Flesh and though she be dead and her Body return to the Dust yet her Spirit is alive where Hell Death and the Grave can never seperate us Glory to our God forever who is the God of the Living and not of the Dead and the Living Praise the Lord the Dead in the Grave of Sin cannot For the Wages of Sin is Death but the Gift of God is Eternal Life and blessed are they that know the Gift of God and have their Minds exercised in it or else it had been better for them they had never known it but as their Minds are exercised in the Gift of God they come to witness Redemption from Sin and Death and come to witness Eternal Life where the Redeemed of the Lord do rejoyce who are redeemed out of the Earth and have a Habitation in Heaven and the Redeemed do sing Praises and Halelujahs to the Lord God and the Lamb forever and for evermore over Death Hell and the Grave for he is risen whom the Grave could not hold Glory to our God forever to whom all Power is given both in Heaven and in Earth and he will rule all with his Iron Rod everlasting Praises forever be given unto his holy blessed Name the Lamb of God who was slain from the Foundation of the world by whom the world was made who was dead but he is alive whose Name is called The word of God who was in the World and the World knew him not And ye will not come to me saith Christ that ye may have Life who hath given us Life Breath and Being that we may live to his Praise and to his Honour and Glory forever who is worthy who is worthy forever and for evermore saith my Soul And this I can say concerning my dear and loving Wife who was dear and tender over me to serve me in any thing that might do me good either for Soul or Body and the Consideration of her endeared Love to me doth often times come very fresh into my Remembrance which doth break my Heart into much Tenderness which doth cause me to write these few Lines concerning God's Testimony which she did bear for his Eternal Truth And I can truly say She was given me of the Lord who was a Meet Help for me who did live Husband and Wife about Thirty Eight Years who was my true Friend and Companion in Tribulation who did keep the Word of Patience in the Day of Tryal and in the Hour of Temptation and did bear the Burthen in the heat of the Day without Murmuring or looking back to the Flesh-Pots of Egypt but did Rejoyce in Tribulation Know ye not saith the Apostle that Tribulation worketh Patience and Patience Experience and Experience Hope and this Hope maketh not ashamed because we have obtained the End of our Hope which is Salvation to be as Walls and Bulwarks And now we can say to the Praise and Glory of our God That now is Salvation nearer than when we first believed And when a measure of the Spirit of Grace was manifested to her and she did feel the Operation of it working in her Heart and was led and guided by it Oh! how she did improve her Talent for the Lord and for one Talent he gave her more and the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ did teach her to deny all Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts and to live Soberly and Righteously and Godly in this World and she did grow in the Grace of God from Strength to Strength and from Grace to Grace and her Affections were not on things below but on things above for her Treasure was in Heaven where neither Rust nor Moth could corrupt nor Thieves break through and Steal and the Lord was her Portion who is the Portion of the Righteous And when she was got into the highest Form of Profession she was very Zealous in her Way and Form that when the Truth came she was ready to receive it who did receive it with great Joy and Gladness of Heart and said Now I have found him whom my Soul loves which was my Desire which the blind watch-men could never know in reading of the Scriptures of Truth She had much comfort in reading of David's Psalms which was much Refreshment to her to sound forth Praises to the Lord and she did sing with the Spirit and with Understanding and she was almost alwayes Praising the Lord and magnifying his holy and blessed Name and when she could not speak she put her Hands together and did lift them up unto the Lord and did Praise the Lord in her Heart And when the Lord did send her forth to preach the Everlasting Gospel she did not reason with Flesh and Blood for the Lord's Power and Presence was with her wherein she did sound forth his Praises to the Nations and did declare of the Wonderful Works which the Lord had done for the Sons and Daughters of Men And she was not ashamed to confess the Name of the Lord before men who was brought several times before Magistrates and Rulers and was cast into Prison and was set in the Stocks and brought to the Whipping-Post for her Testimony which she had to bear for the Lord and for his Eternal Truth for she did follow Christ Jesus fully who was the Captain of her Salvation and did make War in Righteousness with the Beast and the False Prophet and her Captain did never fail her in time of Need but did go before her and did tread down her Enemies as Ashes under her Feet and the Lamb did get the Victory Glory to our God forever who did plead the Cause of the Innocent and did put a Word in her Mouth in every needful time and the Lord was with her and his Eternal Arm and Power did cover her Head in the Day of Battel And she did often pray to the Lord and said Lord let me injoy thy Presence and I desire no more and the Lord did hear her Cry and did answer her Desire for the Love of God was so large unto her which is more than I can express Glory and Everlasting Praises be unto the Lord. And she had great
the Foundation of the World and while the World has a Foundation in man's Heart who was dead but is now alive whose Name is called the Word of God Praises Praises endless pure living eternal Praises be given ascribed rendred and returned by all the faithful Followers of the Lamb as this faithful Servant of the Lord hath done Alice Curwen Praises Praises endless Praises be given to the Lord God and the Lamb forever and for evermore saith my Soul and the Souls of the Righteous who are travelling on in the New and Living Way which is the Way of Life and Salvation Glory Honour and Everlasting Praises forever and for evermore And this little Testimony I do not write in any way but that it might be upon Record for Ages and Generations to come and that every Testimony that is from the Right Seed may be kept and that not one Grain be lost that the Blessing of the Lord may be with us and with our Posterity forever which was the Desire of my dear Wife Thomas Curwen Alice Cobb 's Testimony concerning her Mother Alice Curwen OH my dearly beloved Mother though she be gone from us and her Body in the Bowels of the Earth doth lie yet to me her Memorial will never dye and to thousands more of the faithful ones for indeed her Labour hath been great both in this Nation and other Nations and Islands to gather many from Darkness to the Light in which she did walk and in her Day did bear a noble Testimony for the Lord God and his Truth She was freely given up to spend be spent in and for the Service of the Truth for she thought nothing too dear nor too near to part with or from but was freely given up to follow the Lord what way soever he did call her to go and she did preach the Truth very powerfully and in God's Authority did she go on not mattering what man could do unto her for indeed the Lord was with her in every Exercise Tryal for her Labour was great but she did know the Lord to support her and to lift up her Head above the many waters for indeed before Rulers and Governours though they were never so great she was bold and valient for the Lord his Truth And as for us her tender Children our Loss is great for she was a tender Mother to us indeed and she did in her wise Walking and her harmless Conversation preach to us daily for truly her Life was all along as it was now upon her Sick-Bed breathing to the Lord God for her Off-spring That they might live to his Praise and she prayed to the Lord very powerfully and in as much strength as in her Health That if the Lord see it good to remove her that he would lay no more upon her than he would give her Patience to bear that so whether she lived or dyed it might be to the Honour and Glory of the Lord God and the Lord did give her Patience for there came not an unpatient word out of her Mouth in all the time of her Sickness but was exceedingly filled with the good Power and Presence of the Lord our God for she lay making sweet Melody to the Lord when she could not speak a little before her Speech was taken away from her I asked my dear Mother How art thou now and how dost thou feel thy self I fear thou art worse than thou wast and her Answer was My dear Child be not troubled for me I am very Easie and have little Pain upon me but Weakness And so all along the Power and Presence of the Lord did keep her and preserve her to the great Refreshment and Consolation of those that were with her And so the Memorial of my endeared Mother can never be forgotten by me Alice Cobb A Testimony concerning Alice Curwen THE Enemies of Truth among other Devices of the Devil beset the Son of God with hard Questions thereby to ensnare him one which is brought to my Bemembrance was to oppose the Resurrection of the Dead and the Son of God to reprove it sayes God is the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and of Jacob and not the God of the Dead but of the Living This Answer left that Ranting Generation of the Saduces as blind as 〈◊〉 â—ound them but the Living thereby then learned and are now strengthned in assurance of Faith that He Christ the Resurrection and the Life is risen and alive and lives for evermore and who of this Life hath part the Second Death hath no power over So I speak not the Praise of the Dead but of the Living which in Spirit the Righteous have fellowship with when the outward Vessel is going or gone to Dust as this Servant of the Lord is known to me more by her Life and Testimony than by any outward Acquaintance being with her on her Dying-Bed though I heard not so much as some about her did I could not but take notice of her Resignedness to God's Will though she shewed to me her Unwillingness to take any Medicine not chusing any thing but the Will of God to which she freely gave up though she seemed not very Aged and but a few dayes before appeared a healthy strong Woman and was so and as her Desire and Endeavour was freely to declare what she received of the Spirit of Life and in this she lives and in this stands the Fellowship and Communion of the Saints whether in these earthly Bodies or out of them and in this stands my Unity with her And a near Relation of this deceased Alice Curwen shewing me a Paper writ by one with her in her Sickness and asked me If I could add any thing to it for he intended to print it and in my mind I had not much for printing it there being not much Prophecy in it and so put it off not purposing to do any thing to it But upon my Bed that Night or towards Morning when in stillness was set before me the Blessing of Abraham God's Friend and his Portion was to Dye in Peace and this thou art a Witness this good Woman did and dost thou think it small to be testified to when thou seest so many Restless Impatient Ones tossed and crying for Help to Physicians of no value and can find no Rest Then said I Let me Dye as she has done for I feel it a blessed End to Dye in Peace for Prophecy has and must cease and Torgaes fail but the Peace that is given us of Christ Jesus is Everlasting So in the Spirit is witnessed the Bond of Peace to bind up together in the Bundle of Life which Hell nor Death can never break and here is the Heaven where no Unrighteous enter but the Sanctified rejoyce together therein for evermore R. T. A RELATION OF THE Labour Travail and Suffering OF Alice Curwen THE 10th day of the 11th moneth 1677 when I was retired in my Mind waiting upon