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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93711	A voice from Heaven: or, The words of a dying minister, Mr. Kayes, in the county of Kent, at the town of Sundrage, eighteen miles from London, neer Westrum, a market=town in the same county: delivered before those who were then in his chamber severally present to the things he spake, who dyed as he foretold himselfe, the 19. of November, 1644. Master Rogers, Master Rogers his sister, Richard Thomas Yeoman, the wife of Iohn Overy, the wife of one Ford, Master Pain the elder, Master Pain the younger, Mistresse Kaies the sister of Master Kaies, the brother of Master Kaies, Master Saltmarsh minister in the same county, Nicholas Crosse, the son of Master Crosse. Set forth by Iohn Saltmarsh, Preacher of Gods Word in Kent, at Brasteed.	Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.; Kayes, Mr., d. 1644.	1644 (1644)	Wing S506; Thomason E19_12; ESTC R16000	6,495	8

observe it and come up more to the Power of godlinesse then they do and about day he died that very time he had told on so much having assured both himself and us all of his death about that hour Observations I shall observe some few things concerning him and his speeches In the beginning of his weaknesse he left off the formes of Common prayer he used more then before whence I observe these mixtures in the worship of God must needs be uncomfortable and unwarrantable which dare not abide the triall of a grave II. He used but little of these formes of late for he had almost layd them by before his sicknesse and yet so much as he used was a burthen now we may observe that it is no dallying nor trifling in the worship of God and the least mixtures will be thorns and briers in the conscience of a tender Christian when he gives up his accompt little sinnes will be great ones at that day III. He spoke still in the assurance and full perswas●on of his death and the time of it an evidence not ordinary to departing souls as if God had raised him up higher then others to see his grave and to argue from heaven for the power of godlinesse IIII. His speeches carried a strength and spirit in them more then naturall and deeply pierced the better affected that were present and could not but convince the other We may observe that the children of God the neerer they come to Glory the more of it they take in and their last breathings are purest and strongest V. The time of his perswasion that he should die was after the slumbers he had Thus God did as it were awaken him from another world and truly all the words that he spake were me thought like the words of one that had ingaged himself to dye when he had reported something he had to say from God to the world VI In the first part of his speech he sadly and passionately spake of his dying and his certain going down to the grave about the morning or very time he departed we may observe that the revelations of God concerning his purposes and decrees are unchangeable and have their just accomplishment in the things he foretells VII In the next passages of his speech you may see his spirituall conflict with sinne and sathan Iustice sayes smite mercy sayes no And here his words were like the words of one that had seen a vision of the attributes of God of his justice and mercy pleading for him and his carriage was like one that had looked onto see the issue of that glorious pleading in Heaven for a poor soul and here I observe further that while we are in this body of sinne justice will sparkle into the soul that mercy and free grace may be more exalted and thouh there be no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus yet the soul stands not alwayes in so clear a view of this free justification we see but in part and darkly as in a glasse VIII In his spirituall conflict we may observe by the interminglings of fears and comforts that God will have the souls of his to see what he could do against sinne and what in justice they might expect and yet in all these he holds forth so much of Christ as may bear up the soul and their comforts and faith work still higher then their feares and doubtings as we observe in his speeches for the free grace of Chr●●●●●d his assurance in that kept him above all IX In his reasonings he had with his own actions he could not find in the best of them any thing he could make up a soul cordiall on for speaking of conscience oh sayes he but what do I speak of conscience and thus he threw off his own righteousnesse as a menstruous cloath and nothing would hold out to him but free grace and Christ Iesus there only he grasped and held as you may see in his expressions X. He was sorry that he lived not to perfect some holy resolutions in his ministery in the Power of godlinesse We may observe that when good purposes are kept too long at home God lets them not stirre abroad when they would it is good performing while it is in the power of the hand to do it XI He was much grieved that he sought no more the Communion of Saiats as he sayes here below we may see that the neerer any soul draws to the communion above the more they see into the precious societie of the Saints below and the communion here and we see it is a comfort to a soul that they can be here in the Kingdom of grace with those with whom hereafter they shall be in the Kingdom of glory this would be well observed by those who account slightly of godly meetings or cast notions of Scandall or Conventicle upon them XII It grieved him that he spent time in disputes that did not profit when the soul is preparing for another world no other thing can give it any proportionable comfort but something that hath more communion with glory the purest and highest learning and reasonings are but vanity and vexation of spirit the soul that is for Heaven finds no advantage in any thing but what hath the Power of God in it to salvation XIII His speeches did much tend to the advancing the Power of godlinesse in his ministery if God did restore him we may observe that the emptinesse of mans inventions in the worship of God are then only discerned to be emptinesse and folly when the soul is neerest God and most spirituall no wonder that mixtures and formes of men in the ordinances of God are so little discerned by so many Neuters and Malignants for the more carnall they are the darker is their judgement in the things of God he that is spirituall only discerneth XIV He spoke against the formes of his father in Law who it seemes is not now of so pure a practice in worship who can desire a stronger evidence next to Scripture then the judgement of a Divine whose learning was now more gloriously sanctified from the immediate light of God to a clearer discerning though carnall reasons may plead strongly for mixtures and corrupt formes yet when Heaven opens to convince the soul and to argue against them which of them or their Abettors are able to appear against such an argument and mighty evidence XV He spoke against not coming in the right way into Benefices which corrupt Patrons and Ministers that are as easie to give as the other to take may do well to observe and all such who come in by other wayes of contract or bargain or marriage Symony I observe the severall expressions in his speeches give a clear and undeniable testimony to these Scriptures I. His certain perswasion of his death and the very time to this Scripture Joel 2. 28. I will power my spirit upon all flesh and your sonnes and your