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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96467	A wonderful pleasant and profitable letter written by Mris Sarah Wight, to a friend, expressing the joy is to be had in God in great, deep, long, and sore afflictions. Occasioned by the death of her brother, the troubles of her mother; but especially the workings of God in her own heart. Published for the use of the afflicted.	Wight, Sarah.	1656 (1656)	Wing W2106; Thomason E1681_1; ESTC R209156	28,056	89

in the firy furnace to glorifie him in the fires is most excellent O they cannot but do it when they see him keep them alive in the midst of that fire which consumes onely the dross preserving the Gold pure for his Use That enlightening hony which is in the top of our Gods Rod doth enlighten us to behold this great and glorious sight why the Bush burns and is not consumed O this honey out of the rock Gods love-manifestations will sweeten and doth all conditions and changes to us and all Christians some are afflicted for the tryall of faith and patience that they may have their perfect work by exercise Sometimes that the handy-work of God may be made more manifest upon us the Lord may take away our corn Wine Wool and Oile which he giveth us when we do not prize him above all that hereby we may learn to love our giver more then gifts and to know the worth and sweetness of them more by the want of them a while We may be Deprived of any comforts yet not of the God of comforts and sadly cast down yea seemingly forsaken and overwhelmed with sorrows like unto David and weary of life with Job distracted as Heman and yet belong to and dearly beloved of God as they were therefore it 's good to take up this Holy Resolution to wait on God in the way of his seeming Judgments and in meditation of his loving-kindness till he shall make hard things easy and crooked things strait rough places plain and bring to light the hidden things of darkness making darkness light before us Said good Jacob who found it good to wait upon God I have waited for thy Salvation and I will wait and David In waiting I waited and Job All my appointed time will I wait till my change come O how desirable a thing is it to see Christians have such patient believing submitting hearts to the Lords will Though he kill me yet will I trust in him and I am thine save me This is a sweet rolling on God in a day of trouble and saying with Christ The Cup which my Father hath given me shall I not drink it it's a Cup not a Sea and a Fathers Cup not an enemies and a Fathers gift By considering these things the Lord pleased to work comfort renew his love to my soul when much troubled at my deare brothers death by which I hope the Lord will gradually crucifie all that he would have crucified and blast all of creature-props and helps that he alone may be our onely stay and blessedness The neerer a soul comes to God its haven of happiness the more it meets with sad storms and tempests Which makes our port of glory more desired and gladsome to us when we come unto it The bitterness of misery sets off the sweetness of mercy as the blackness of the night the glory of the day I am sure my brothers afflictions here were sharp before he went hence which causeth me to believe he is now for ever comforted Some comfort came from this word to me Refrain thy voice from weeping and thy eyes from tears when my soul was in bitterness for thy work shall be rewarded of the Lord and thou shalt see him again with greater Joy though thy desire was crossed here in some things as Davids was and others Yet ye shall rejoyce together in my Kingdom I finde this was of God coming in power to the satisfying of my troubled soul in an agony of sorrow I answered this voyce Lord it 's enough if thou make thy word good thy will thy unknown will by any but thy self be done O Father And further it was said That nothing should separate him and Christ nor estrange his love from him Till God appeared in this maner to me Quieting my heart in some measure I was much troubled touching his honour to think how he would suffer by some till he told me he knew what was most for his glory far better then silly I. Truly I may say How had it been unless the Lord had been on our side wee had almost fainted and dwelt in silence had not Jehovah our Mighty God been seen in the mount wonderfully for our preservation and deliverance for which I desire to Bless his Name for ever who comforts me much from these words bidding me look to Jesus the Authour and finisher of our Faith who for the Joy that was set before him endured the cross despised the shame and is now set down on the Right hand of the Majesty on High He was oppressed and afflicted yet he open'd not his mouth learn of him for he is meek and lowly which makes him so unspeakable lovely Patient was Christ when he suffered he overcame by patience as well as by power As Christ was patient so was his members and so should they be like David in their suffering seasons says David I was dumbe and opened not my mouth and let the Righteous smite me and it shall be an excellent Oil it will be for my profit his correction This our loving friend Christ will not wound us but heale us when he smites he smiles upon us for he even then refreshes us with his brook and well-spring of life in our waylesse wildernesse under all our sorrows and smitings and hereby God makes us to lift up our heads with Joy and praise O what cause have We to blesse the Lord under our crosses for his supporting hand of love truly as great cause as if he took them away from us It 's a desirable thing to own God to be Just when he shews mercy and when he gives grace to be still exalting the Riches of his glory O the happyness the heavenlyness of those spiritualized souls whose wills are subdued to the Lords will in all things so to acknowledge him Righteous in all he doth and our selves vile O what a blessed state are they in who have no will to be guided by but the Fathers will in all things which easily learns them to deny and defie self fully in all they do and say and to esteem onely of God and the workings of his Spirit above all O that we might be as Christ was lovely in all conditions by our Holy submission to our Father Christ we know learn'd obedience by the things which he suffered O how lovely was he when he lay in a Manger when he lay on the ground and sweat Water and Blood when he was scourged and crowned with Thorns when he hung on the Cross between two Theeves when he lay in the grave even now Christ appeared most lovely by how much he abased himself thus low O how desirable a thing is it to see goodness and greatness kiss each other in one noble person O what a great condescention of love was this in such agreat person as Christ who is King of Kings O that such a gloryous Majesty should so low condescend to such poor weak unworthy worms to teach sinners in

is of God shall and vvill stand all vvindes and vveather against all the many tempests and violent stormes of all principalities and powers of spirituall wickedness in High places all this hath been in vain for this fire though a little while it did but Smoak Yet it will Blaze and that with fervent heat it will never go out it 's God Everlasting it 's God beginning a good work in the soul who will undoubtedly perfect it it 's God in darkness or glimmerings who will be a Shining light to us and fulness of Heavens Glory in us Precious friend I finde all that a poor soul can do against the smoaking flax or Day-breaking of God shall never prevail against it for it overcomes all and can be overcome of nothing O that I could more praise and exalt the Lord for his unspeakable loving kindness to me whose compassions fail not to his unworthy servant though once and often she thought they had under her spirits captivity Now I can through mercy say That Jehovah the infinite and glorious being shews wonders to the dead and makes the desolate arise out of the grave of sin and silence as Lazarus did and praise him who preaches loving kindness to such and puts an end to death and destruction by his own life and salvation I finde the Lord makes known his faithfulness and loving kindness in the land of forgetfulness to souls that know not him nor his wonders in the deeps which causeth me to wait with joy for the further manifestations of the goodness and glory of God Our God of love whose communications of love are very precious to our soules strongly engaging our hearts to praise him O when says my soul shall we do this sufficiently When we confess God to be his own praise Some say of Parents That their Children can never render to them their due I am sure we may say so of God our Father and Wisdom our Mother which is Christ for let a soul give never so much to God it comes short of what is his due from us for making us free and joyfull in himself from the bondage of corruption by awaking and arising from under the black dark veils of Ignorance and Unbeleife saving us from our enemies which are too strong for us and so redeeming and gathering us to himselfe who can no ways be happy out of him Now that we may be made thus happy Christ is a Refiners fire to us to burn and destroy all our dross hay and stubble that we may be made a meet and fit habitation for God through the Spirit O how should we be content with this purging fire knowing it to be our Gods design of love in sending his bosom-Son to utterly abolish Mortality and all that hath Death in it and then cloath us with life glory and Immortality according to his will that we may be fit Brides for the Marriage of the Lambe appearing like those who are begotten of the Immortall seed and so changed from glory to glory by love Whose irradiant beames and sweet shinings forth makes the Lion a Lambe the vile precious and ravening ones meek and lovely These experienced souls I finde can more admire then speak forth the exceeding riches of Gods grace and free-love and of his strange and mighty acts in renew making of us by destroying the old creation in us and transfiguring his new one in spirit When this new life and glory or new creation is come down into us or we taken up into it then may a Christian be called A new Jerusalem a heaven and earth wherein dwells righteousness or the righteous Lord who makes all things new and glorious by whose in dwelling presence in our hearts we come to see what all the mists and fogs of darkness were which hindred the Revelation of Christ in the Gospel and his sweet discoveries of love from us which was onely our proud vile vain corrupt self this is the obscuring veile which veile for our comfort the Lord Jesus puts aside as he said he would do in the appointed time this veile of darkness I finde also to be that vile woman which Solomon speaks of her specious pretences to man in his lost condition to bewitch us from the true knowledg of our dear God and his ways and spirituall Worship but he who is our wisdom and Power our all is stronger then all enemies to save and keep us for ever from them Christ is our over-topping Mountain in and by whom God hath promised to destroy the veile of the covering of the flesh sin or self-righteousness which is cast over all people this our spirituall eyes shall see with joyfull heart when Christ shall be established above all other Mountains in the souls of his people above every high thought proud vain imagination which offers to exalt it self above God where it ought not to be in our hearts till the Holy Child Jesus is born and brought forth thence our beloved Isaac heir of all things with the Government of life and Peace upon his shoulder to rule all as only Lord and King King of Salem Prince of Peace who hath doth and will bring all things in us into Obedience to his Holy Scepter even our corrupt averse wills to subject to his Holy Divine will in all things this great work Christ accomplishes by degrees when he takes up his abode in our hearts Ah what a joy to the spirit but what a sorrow to the flesh is this indwelling presence in the hearts of his sanctified ones it's a sorrow to the flesh or old man in us because it 's death and it 's very joyous to the new man or second creation because the life and glory of it the indwelling presence of Christ is a death to all that is evil in us and a Quickning spirit to that which is good the first work our King Jesus doth when he enters into our hearts he shews us the falsness foulness Ignorance and darkness and all manner of evil in them and afterwards he shews us the reality and purity of his own native beauty and Supernaturall Glory When the Sun of righteousness arises in our dark hearts we then immediately see the gross darkness in us and are then able to discerne aright between darkness and light good and evil truth and Error by the Spirit of God which searches all things even the deeps of Gods Counsels and the deeps of our hearts shewing us the weakness and unworthyness of our selves and also the Power Glory and Omnipotence of God above them who can turn and change them how and when he pleaseth for his own glory and our sole comfort and make us of vile precious and beautyful through his comeliness O what could God do more for his vineyard his people then he hath done he hath invested them with his own glorious Image and married them to Himself or Son which is all one who is Heire of all things King of Kings and also dignified