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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65944	The work of God in a dying maid being a short account of the dealings of the Lord with one Susannah Whitrow, about the age of fifteen years, and daughter of Robert Whitrow, inhabiting in Covent-garden in the county of Middlesex, together with her experimental confessions to the power and work of the Lord God, both in judgments and mercy to her soul / published for the warning and good of others who are in the same condition she was in before her sicknss [sic].	Travers, Rebecca.; Whitrowe, Joan.; Martin, Ann.; Ellis, Sarah.	1677 (1677)	Wing W2039; ESTC R33641	14,505	50

THE Work of God IN A Dying Maid BEING A short Account of the Deallings of the Lord with one SVSANNAH WHITROW About the Age of Fifteen Years and Daughter of Robert Whitrow inhabiting in Covent-Garden in the County of Middlesex Together with her Experimental Confessions to the Power and Work of the Lord God both in Judgments and Mercy to her Soul Published for the Warning and Good of others who are in the same condition she was in before her Sicknss Printed in the Year 1677. THE Work of God IN A Dying Maid FRiends and People to whom these following Lines may come these may give you knowledge that being spoken unto by a Friend of the State of Sickness and Wonderful Expressions that were uttered by this Maid now Deceased made me desirous to see her and as a Mother fearing God knowing what Joy it must be to have a Child that had Transgressed to turn to the Lord with all the Heart and to find Acceptance with the Almighty as I have cause to believe she did for he was with her and I felt a living Power to opperate in her that neither her Youth nor Comliness with any other outward Expectation that she formerly had or might have of the Glory of this World left a place in her to desire any longer Life in this World but as she had before I came cryed out against her self for loving and going to these Vanities and Parish Places of Worship so now in my hearing she was much raised in her Spirit in the Sense of the Joy that she believed she was entring into praying and praising the Lord with a pleasant Melody and desiring also that her Mother might be taken out of this Wicked World I felt the Loving-kindness of God unto her and she was brought near to me the Lord shewed me she must Dye and being the Only Child of her Parents and having heard this tender-hearted Mother had buried her Only Son not a Quarter of a Year before which by relation was an excellent Child for his Years not being Six and an Half for Wisdom and Learning and Outward Comliness a very Beautiful Child and one of a great Courage yet of a very tender sweet loving Nature and more than all in Soberness pursuing of the better part so I felt and know in these sudden and renewing Trials there was Judgment and beholding her Mother's Quiet and Patient bearing of it had this brought to my Remembrance That they are blessed that can stand in Judgment and none but a Tender Mother can tell what it is to have Hopeful Children so soon taken from them and fee the Lord is Righteous in what he doth and I that have drunk into this Cup and a more bitter one must confess The Lord is Righteous in all and his Judgments are true but his Mercies are over all his Works and his Love Everlasting and who lives therein gives Thanks for all things and this appears to me worthy to be known and retained that so Young a Hopeful and Beautiful Maid should be taken off from her Vanity yet that the Mercy of the Lord should so freely extend it self unto her that she might testifie against her own and the World's Vanities and Worships and tho' but in the last Hour the Lord of Goodness granted her an Entrance into his Vineyard and Power she received to magnifie his Justice and Mercy that out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings will perfect his own Praise And sure I am the Dealings of the Almighty God with her on her Dying-Bed was Forewarning some and Instruction to others that all might believe and come to the Obedience of the Life where all may profit and be built up unto Eternal Life over Death and Hell in the Life of Jesus our Lord which is the Desire of Her that through Grace is a Lover of all your Souls called Rebecca Travers SVsanna Whitrow sickned the 5th Day of the 3d Month 1677. and lay until the 9th Day under great Judgment and Terrors of the Lord for Sin and Iniquity and about Four in the Afternoon she broke forth in exceeding Earnestness crying to the Lord for Mercy with Wonderful Words till about three hours then did the Lord hear her Cries and answered the Desire of her Soul and when she had obtained Mercy from the Lord then did she fall into an exceeding travil in Soul and Spirit praying mightily to the Lord in the behalf of her Father and so lay four or five Hours crying earnestly to the Lord for her Father before we writ down any of her Words Her Natural Spirits were almost spent before these Words were taken as follow Lord Remember not his Offences let me bear them Lord let it be easie to him Lord make the Way easie make his Friends to be Enemies unto him that thou mayst have Mercy on him Lord his Temptations are great Lord carry him through O let him not perish with the World Lord do thou support him over this World Should a little silly Dirt of this World draw away his Mind O Lord satisfie me whether thou wilt grant me my Desires Blessed Lord hear me O Lord hear me O Lord let his Mind be set on things above Lord fix his Mind upon thee Lord let me never rest unsatisfied Lord help him turn him Lord and he will be turned Lord if I leave him behind me O Lord help me O Lord help him O Lord hear me O my Lord I have not strength left O Lord take him to thee but Lord grant me my Request O Lord help me Lord take not away my Strength before thou hast granted my Desire O Lord my Desire is not to live in this Abominable World Lord if thou take me not to thy self the Tempter will come again O Lord my Heart can never rest until thou hast turned him to thy self O Lord must I be taken away without any Satisfaction O Lord shall I have no help for my Distress O Lord Lord there is no way for him but to Watch and Pray continually lest the Tempter prevail Lord are my Sins forgiven O Lord had not my Eyes been in those Vanities my Heart had not gone after them Lord strengthen thou me but to see my Desires O Lord can I pray no longer O Lord how hath my Strength failed and my Heart decayed O Lord let all consider what is this Kingdom O Lord thou comest as a Theif in the Night O Lord I beseech thee to tell me if thou hast granted my Desire O Lord thou wilt take me O Lord must I go before my defire be Answered O must I go O is there no delay O Lord let me but stay to hear an Answer I am very happy that I shall not live in this Wicked World O Lord I am going O Lord take me Then to her Relations O why will you keep me so long I shall be kept longer Robert Whitrow her Father Joan Whitrow her Mother William Nash Susanna Meurs Nurse Sarah Ellis her

the Lord had required it yet I durst not ask thier Life of the Lord although my dear Child so much desired it but I said unto the Lord Glorifie thy Name let thy Will be done in my Ea●th as it is in Heaven And now O Lord by thy Hand thou hast brought this to pass and for the Exaltation of thy glorious Name thou powerful God art striking Dread and Terror into the Hearts of thy Enemies and all that will not bow to thee shall be slain before thee for O thou long-suffering God how is the Throne of Iniquity established and thou disposs●ssed of thy Princely Dominion whose right it is to Reign in the Hearts of the Sons and Daughters of Men but they have robbed thee of thy Right and entertained thy Enemy in thy room but now thou art come now thy Day is come thou so long spake of by the Mouth of thy holy Prophets That thou wilt dismount the Man of Sin out of his Throne and set thy Son upon thy holy Hill yea the Mountain of the Lords House shall be established on the top of all Mountains for thou hast determined to destroy all Iniquity and to bring in Everlasting Righteousness Amen Amen saith my Soul a llG ry Glory and Eternal Praises be given unto thee thou King of Glory Joan Whitrow Concerning my dear Son JASON I Need not speak much for most that knew him did know what manner of Child he was both in Person and Parts natural therefore I shall only give a small Relation of some of the sensible Words that came from him before he fell sick for the Satisfaction of some that desire it Before he went to the Latine School he was in a most sweet heavenly frame of Spirit and had such a Zeal for Truth that if any Lightness or Airyness did appear in any at that time he was a continual Reprover of such the precious Words that came from him at that time are past out of Mind I writ down some of them but they are lost he delighted exceedingly to hear me rehearse the noble Acts of the Lord and would be exceedingly broken he would often pray when he was alone he did earnestly desire his Father upon his Death-bed That he would let him go from him to the Wall that he might pray to his God He desired much to converse with me concerning God and his Kingdom and would ask me deep Questions with such heavenly Expressions to the Astonishment of the Hearers that I have often said in my Heart This is the Inspiration of the Almighty that gives my Child this Vnderstanding He loved the Lord and his People and would often say when he saw any that he thought were good Friends It made his Heart glad to see them He would often say If I live I shall be a good Quaker I shall go forth and declare the Word of the Lord I shall be a true Minister I will not Preach for Hire I will proclaim the dreadful Day of the Lord against the Wicked About three days before he fell sick he said unto me Mother the next time I go to the Tavern they will bid me preach a Sermon to them in Latine then I will say unto them I will preach you a Sermon in English and they will bid me say on then I will say Wo to the proud Persons Wo to the Scoffers Wo to the Drunkards of England Wo unto them that rise early to follow Drunkenness and to them that continue until Night till the Wine doth enflame them you Workers of Iniquity what will you do in the dreadful Day of the Lord that is coming upon England for because you have wasted the good Creatures upon your Lust the Lord will bring a Famine upon England Mother sometimes I have such a Trouble in me that I am not so good as I would be that I play so much and do not every thing as you would have me I pray to the Lord and I say Lord destroy this wicked One in me and put thy fear into my Heart that I may never do any thing that shall displease thee yet for all this the Devil will come in and take my mind off the Lord oh then I am so troubled that I say Lord have Mercy upon me The day before he fell sick he did take me by the hand and said Mother I shall dye oh that you might dye with me that we might both go to the Lord together Then I said my dear Child why dost thou desire to dye He answered That I might be always with my dear Lord God and out of this Wicked World When at any time he had seen me retired unto the Lord he hath sate down by me and would be mightily broken and hath often said weeping Oh that I did enjoy that that you enjoy Oh that I did know what the Fear of the Lord was that my Heart might be made glad as yours is The Lord shewed me when he was three Years of Age he was his beloved Child and he would take him and from that time I have expected his Death He departed this Life not being Six Years and a half Old Joan Whitrow THE END