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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52031	Some testimonies of the life, death and sufferings of Amariah Drewet of Cirencester in Gloucestershire, lately deceased and to the way of life wherein he walked, whose living words upon his dying bed are worthy to be had in remembrance.	Drewet, Mary.; Drewet, John.; Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698.; Townsend, Theophila.	1688 (1688)	Wing M743; ESTC R40454	12,100	17

Faithfulness that it might be well with them upon a Dying-Bed as it is with me said he Praises to the Lord forever I was with him when he Departed and I can truly say the Lord gave me a sence of his Condition and I travelled with him under the Pangs of Death in a fellow-feeling of the Exercise he was in and when Death touched his Heart I bore a part with him in a sympathising Spirit and travelled in Spirit with him before the Lord for his Deliverance and when Death was upon his Body I felt the Resurrection of the Life of Jesus with his Soul ready to receive him into that Heavenly Mansion of Glory and Habitation of Rest and Peace with the Lord which the Lord hath prepared for his People which he had the earnest of in his Life time even the earnest of the Spirit that sealed to him the assurance of that Inheritance that shall never fade away into which he is entered and gathered into that fulness that is Incomprehensible which God the Father in and through Christ Jesus the Lord had prepared for him where Heavenly Joy and Gladness and Divine Comfort and Lasting Peace is and will be his Portion for evermore He departed this Life the 25th day of the 7th Morth 1687. about the 6th Hour in the Evening he lay for about half an hour as if he had been in a sweet Sleep and went away quietly like a Lamb without Sigh or Groan his dear Wife and Family have a great Loss in parting with him and I may say we all miss him and I can say my Heart hath been often tendered and broken into Tears of Sorrow for the loss of him but mixt with Joy in a sense of his happy State but in submission to the Will of God I am well satisfied the Lord best knows when it is the fittest season to take his own unto himself and for this our dear Friend he is now in a Habitation of Safety out of all danger of falling into Temptation or of being hurt by any of the Wiles of the Enemy and the desire of my Soul is that all that know the Truth may walk in the same way and travel in the Just Mans Path as he did that they may arrive at the same Haven of Rest and Peace with him and all the Sanctified in Christ Jesus in the Kingdom of God World without End Amen He was Buried the 27th Day of the 7th Month and was acompanied to the Grave with many good Friends and the Power and Presence of the Lord was with us and that Life that was with him to his joy upon his Dying-Bed Spake forth the Praise Goodness of the Lord at his Burial though his Brethren the Servants of the Lord that did acompany him to his Grave this was upon me to Publish for the Good and Benesit of those that are left behind even of all tender People to whom this may come that they may so Live and so Walk that they may be made Pertakers of the fame joy which is obtained through Faith in Christ Jesus and obedient to the Light of his free Spirit who is the leader of his People and this lead him our dear Friend before mentioned out of Sin into the way of Peace this is the Holy Ghost the Comforter that which Christ Jesus promised his Disciples to send to Lead them into all Truth and farther said as the Scripture testifies That he shall Convince the World of Sin of Righteousness and of Judgment and it is the same that Convinces of Sin that leads out of Sin and gives Victory over Sin to all that believe in it and are willing to deny themselves and take up their daily Cross and follow him they come to know the assurance of Peace Rest with the Lord before they go out of the Body so the thoughts of Death is not terrible to such as it is to the Wicked for Death is the King of Terrors to the Wicked because the way of Truth they have not known For there is no Peace to the Wicked saith the God of the Righteous and they are made Witnesses of it through faith in Christ Jesus who are subject to his Light and Grace in their own Heart and Consciences but wo to the Wicked it will go ill with them they shall Eat the Fruits of their own doings and go down to their Graves in Sorow if they do not Repent of their Wickedness and turn from the Evil of their Doings and obey the Light of the Son of God that they may be led out of Darkness into his mervellous Light and by it be turned from the Power of Satan to the great power of God that they may know the good word of Life that is quick and Powerful as Sharp and Sharper then any two Edged Sword that divides asunder even Soul and Spirit and between Bones and Marrow that Ingrafted Word of God that is able to save the Soul Christ Jesus the Word of God the Light of the World as he said of himself and again he said He that believes in me shall not abide in Darkness and the Scripture further testifies that in him was Life and the Life was the Light of men so the Life of Jesus is the Light of men so I would advise all to take heed how they Slight the Light both Professors and Prophain or how you Villifie the Light and say It is Insufficient to Lead to Life and Peace for in so doing you Slight and Villifie the Life of Jesus and the Grace of God that brings Salvation which the Scriptures saith Hath appeared to all men and teacheth to deny ungodliness and Worldly Lust and to Live Godly and Righteously and Soberly in this present Evil World therefore in the Love of God I intreat you both Professors and Prophain Love the Light and the Grace and Truth that comes by Jesus Christ who is God Salvation to the ends of the Earth and there is no other Name Given under Heaven by which any can be Saved but by the Name of Jesus the true Light that Lighteth Every man that comes into the World as the Scriptures saith That God is Light and in him is no Darkness at all and this was the Message the holy Apostle had to deliver and this was the Work that he had to do To turn People from Darkness to Light and from the Power of Satan to the Power of God so here People may see the Scriptures do declare that God is Light and Christ is Light and they that slight this Heavenly Divine Light slight both God and Christ Jesus and so are liable to Perish in their Gain-saying and Rebellion against the Light and never be made Pertakers of Gods Salvation therefore I intreat all People that have any tenderness towards the Lord or any true Regard to the welfare of their own Souls both Professors and Prophain Neighbours Kindred and Acquaintance Love the Light that convinces of Sin and reproves in secret for

every evil Deed and believe in it that you may be saved from the Power of the Destroyer by it the same that Convinces of Sin Leads out of Sin and gives Victory over Sin and brings into Everlasting Peace with God the Father in and through his Son Christ Jesus and I testifie in the holy Fear of the Lord and in the tender Love of God that opens in my Heart and Soul unto the Children of Men that there is no other way to Salvation for in Christ the Light is the universal Love of God held forth to all People for he delights not in the death of a Sinner but would have all to come to the knowledg of the Truth and be saved who is calling his People out of Babylon out of Confusion Come out of her my People and touch no unclean thing and I will Receive you be not pertakers of her Sins lest you are pertakers of her Plagues So I intreat you for the Lords sake and for the good of your own Souls draw near to the Lord and he will draw near unto you seek him while he is to be found and call upon him while he is near for he is not far off from Every one of you that your Peace may be sure with the Lord for evermore which is the true desire of my Soul for you all who am your Friend and one that Travels for the Prosperity of Sion known by the Name of Theophila Townsend Charles Marshall's Testimony concerning Amariah Drewet THe foregoing Testimonies are concerning the Life and Death of our dear Friend Amariah Drewet I also having had certain knowledg of him and conversation with him have this Testimony to give concerning him Viz. That he was a man fearing God and eschewing Evil of a tender Spirit having the Awe of God in his Heart he greatly loved the Gospel of Peace and those that were sent of God to Preach it in the Power and Demonstration of his Eternal Spirit his Heart was made glad when the Power of the Lord reached and affected the Heart of his Neighbours because he greatly desired their Eternal Welfare more might be said of his Life Sufferings and Death but I refer to the foregoing Testimonies of Ear and Eye Witnesses of his latter End by whose Testimonies it appears that as he Lived so he Dyed in the living enjoyments of Gods Immortal Presence felt Refreshment from the Throne of his Eternal Glory An● now Oh Inhabitants of Cirencester unto whom the Word of Eternal Life hath been Preached in a clear Demonstration of the Spirit and Power of the most High and over whom hath been a blessed day of Visitation tenderly consider your States and Conditions and Imbrace that great Blessing namely A being turned every one from the Evil of his doings seek the Lord while he may be found call upon him while he is near at band striving with you by the Spirit of his Son Christ Jesus and knocking at the Door of your Hearts Oh let the Saviour In that ye may be saved from Sin and Redeemed from the Nature of it So is the Blessed end of Christ Jesus his coming answered namely To destroy the Works of the Devil Consider in the Dread of the most High your time is short and not only short but also uncertain therefore remember your latter End that as you must follow your Righteous Neighbour through Death so it may be that your latter End may be like his that living the Life of the Righteous ye may enjoy Eternal Life when time in this World with you will be no more that through the following the Spiritual Pillar of Fire which leads out of Spiritual Egypt you may obtain the Spiritual Canaan the Rest and Sabboth of God. And unto those that do profess the same Truth that our dear Friend deceased did in these parts Ah prize your precious Time and the season of Love and Kindness that is over you and the Mercy attending you and walk worthy of it and give not way to a Spiritual Idleness which leads into a Spiritual Slumber through which the Lamp goes out and unreadiness to answer the Midnight Cry and that which follows is Dreadfull a Shutting of the Door therefore while it s called to Day answer the Lords Call and tender Visitation that both Calling and Election may be made sure so will the Lord delight in you and bless you and water you that in the Innocent Life of Christ Jesus ye might Live that your part in the first resurrection ye may obtain and thereby be preserved from the power of the second Death so that on the Dying Bed you may hear that Joyfull Testimony Blessed are the Dead that die in the Lord ye saith the Spirit they rest from their Labonrs and their Works shall follow them And now dear Friends as ye desire this Portion and to Honour and Renown the great Name of our Merciful and Tender Father be stirred up to great Diligence redeeming Time loving and obeying the sweet redeeming Power of the Lord that his Blessed Work blessedly begun in the Hearts of many may be accomplished that you being made free from the Law of Sin and Death by the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus may lay down your Heads in Peace and enjoy the Crown of Immortallity which is the Lot and Portion of all that follow the Lamb in the Work of Regeneration And so dear Friends in the Love of God these few Lines upon this occasion were on my Heart to bring in a Testimony to the Lords goodness that gave our dear Friend that had followed the Lord faithfully so sweet a Passage out of this Life to injoy Immortal Life for evermore Charles Marshall London the 25th of the 11th Month 1687 THE END