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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

them with the graces of his Spirit and cloathed them with the Glistering Spangles of his Holyness the Angels Glory and cull and chuse them from the common part of Gods earth to be the chiefe or precious part of his earth his choice Golden Mine his peculiar treasure O may we not say who have but seen heard or tasted ever so little a glimpse of this free rich grace and precious love of God what O what shall we render unto the Lord for these unspeakable special mercies for certainly God looks for some returne of his own from us he looks for some thing present from us as we do present and future from him He looks we should live answerable to our enjoyments and hopes Says Peter What manner of persons ought we professors to be in practice in all holy conversation O how excellent a thing is it to see all the Saints adorne the Gospell of Christ in walking as well as talking Noah is recorded for a walker with God O to walk holy as Christ did when he was upon earth in the days of his flesh is excellent we know his life was a life of Sanctity an holy life for said he Which of you convinceth me of sin and he who had no sin nor guile found in his mouth nay more the Devil confest him the Holy one of God O what a precious life was this holy life as Christ walked holy so humble O that all Saints might walk in humility as their Lord and Head did who though he were Lord and Heir of all yet he washed his Disciples feet and humbled himself to death even the death of the cross The humble soul looks likest Christ humility is the veile of Christs Bride O how beautifull doth she look in Christs eye when this veile of Rebekkah is upon her be ye cloathed with humility saith God to us As this veile hides anothers faults so it s own graces as Rebekkah did her beauty true grace you know shines most irradiant through the mask of humility O what are all Christian duties without heavenly humility Incense smels most sweet when beaten small then it sends forth its fragrant perfume As Divine humility studies Gods goodness so it s own unworthiness Better is that sin which thorowly humbles the soul like David then that duty which lifts up Pharisee-like In this the grace of humility is precious it gives all to God as Joab when he had gotten the Victory sent for King David to carry away the Crown of it so a believer when he or she hath gotten Victory over some corruption or temptation then they set the Crown upon Christs head and say with David By my God I have leaped over a Wall and if they finde strength to go thorow duties then they with Paul write Christ and free grace upon all I laboured more a bundantly then them all yet not I but the grace of God in me To walk in love and amity as Christ did to the glory of God is very desireable he breathed forth nothing but love he was full of this perfume as his person was lovely so was his disposition he was composed all of love he was so full of love within that it broke forth without his lips dropped honey his hands Myrrhe his sides blood his heart Love love O how ought all Saints who look for glorious things to come to live in love as Christ did upon earth O that this sweet spice might send out its fragrant smell more among Christians that all things by them might be done in love We know saith John we who live in love and amity That we are passed from death to life surely none can love the Person of Christ really but they will love his Picture though very contemptible to the world O how might the Saints highly honor God if they were more united in love and quite dispossessed of these two evil spirits that of self-conceitedness or vain glory and uncharitableness O why should this be why should not we love as brethren have we not all one Father indeed that is a blessed strife when the Saints contend for the faith this consists in unity O it 's good indeed when simply out of love the Saints shall be willing to suffer patiently for Christ as he did with a Lamb-like spirit considering all our many and great sufferings are but one dram to his To think of Christs sufferings and of his faithfull ones Davids Jobs Jeremiahs Sions and many others that we are not alone in troubles sorrows and sufferings hath administred much comfort to me under all our sad changes The Lord give us to submit and subscribe more to our Gods will in all troubles and changes that we may swim in the laver of his Love Glorifying Him in the fires Sir having these scattered Meditations upon my spirit at present I was moved to communicate them to you by way of writing being deprived of another oportunity I hope you will accept my poor mite out of my scanty store into you full treasury with love as I have done yours formerly in your lines I remember a saying of yours which stirred me up a little to this communicating you said As the rich ones of the World Visit one another opening their treasures to each other so much more should the Saints declare the goodness of God to each other Fearing my many lines at present may weary you and being somewhat weak in body through sharp exercises I shall now leave you with all Saints in the Everlasting imbraces of our dear Lord Jesus whose delight is to make his beloved the bosom of his rest the bed of Spices whose precious graces doth perfume all our tribulations thorow which we enter into the Kingdom and this love of the Lord also makes the world and evil of it a sweet savour of good Peace and rest to us in the end The good Lord cause us more to indulge and honor the spirit of these graces above them for the sweet incomes of them this will demonstrate to the world that We injoy more Within then we make sound of Without which my spirit covets after and live not onely in the form but in the Power of Godliness and so cannot be led away with the Error of the wicked or fall from our own stedfastness but grow in grace and in the pure perfect knowledge of our dear God alone Now the God of love and peace be with ye making ye perfect in every good work of faith and love working in you and all Saints and us that which is well pleasing in his sight causing us all to walk as Angels among Men as the Powers and glory of Heaven upon Earth like the children of the day in practice as burning and shining lights in this dark world As the Saints believing heart and undaunted spirit is their glory before God so is their unspotted life their holy walking their Glory before men for when they see their good work they will glorifie their God Sir having no further freedom to write more to you now I shall take leave and rest Remaining Your engaged friend to love and serve you as a member of Christ an heire of Heaven and one anointed of the Father SARAH WIGHT An empty nothing whose fulness is all in that Fountain that filleth all in all I am unskilled in Apologies and excellent expressions and if I were not I had not whereof to glory of the excellency of mans wisdom Sir my dear mother is still tossed with many tempests of temptations but the Lord graciously supports her and gives her a little hopes sometimes of a gracious Issue The Lord cast her into your heart to beg patience for her to wait silently for a fresh manifestation of the Lords love to her sad soul that she may with joyfull lips set forth his praise she sees so much evil in her and no good which makes her often doubt whether it will go well with her in the end and I tell her this is a token for good for the more vile in our own eyes the more precious in the sight of the Lord this is a terrible sight to flesh and blood To see our selves as we are and God as he is Sir your kind acceptance of my former lines encouraged me to present these to your view at your leysure in spare hours Sir I desire you to give my cordial respects to Mr. T. though unknown by face with thanks for his Christian care and love to us in an unthought-of way it 's not he but the Lord in him and by him who will not leave a cup of cold water unrewarded to him and you and all his FINIS

worthyness in me Justifying me or any unworthyness condemning me O how admirable is it for to find God thus freely and fully loving and saving his poor people and owning all that is his as he hath been and appeared in them and causing all that hath been and sprung from us to pass away for evermore My soul shouts forth with the true spiritualized Christian this voice Dear God as I am a selfish corrupt creature so let there be no profit of all my labor and travel but thou who alone art the Author of every good and perfect gift we enjoy do thou reap the travels of thy soul for its high time for thee to enjoy thy own for my part I cannot but turne from all the fruitless works of my hands all the motions and delights of my Spirit in the inward world of my heart and with as much irksomness and great tiredness of spirit as ever Solomon did in the outward world yet I know every thing is beautiful in its season time and place though nothing is lovely out of it there is a beauty in living when the spring of life is come O how lovely is it thee is also a beauty in death when that season is come it 's as beautyful to see things in Winter as to see them live in the Spring of Summer there is nothing so deformed but when we look upon God in it we see much beauty written in it nor nothing so evil but it hath good on it there is nothing so bad but it 's good in its own order place and season and course nor nothing so good but it 's bad and uncomely out of its place order and season There is a beauty in killing healing weeping in Rejoycing and triumphing but this beauty shines not so glorious out of their seasons as it doth in There is the very nature and exellency of God in every thing that he doth which makes it beautyful for every thing that springs from him savours and tastes of his life and perfection The outward and inward man hath but a poor lowe dark shallow knowledge of the things of God whatever they may pretend to have There is no soul able of it self to reach these things they are onely spiritually discerned and known by the sight of the Spirit it 's by this Spirit onely that the soul comes to know observe and understand the ways and wonders of God in the deeps and his various motions and operations in things which he doth There is nothing seen in the Root by the sense of the creature as it lies or springs from thence or as it returns thither Man as man you know hath onely a brutish understanding of every thing so of God I had not says one the understanding of a Beast as of God himself so of all his motions thoughts actions and intentions in and about things times places and persons seeing onely a present appearance of this or that not knowing what it is whence it came what it means or whither it tends So he judges according to a present outward appearance and shews himself to be what he is and what God will have him to be A fool in himself that the pride of his glory may be stained and God alone exalted Though this be a dark obscure dispensation yet because God will have it so with us this is beautiful in its season as darkness is proper for the natural night so is spiritual darkness for the spiritual night as proper for it as light becomes the day and as truth and substance is proper for it so are shadows and lyes for the night while the night remains it 's as sutable they should remain as when the day dawns the shadows fly away O how clearly doth herein the excellency of Christ of Sion the holy seed appear though they are not exempted from any varieties or changes in the inward or outward world running thorow them yet they still sweetly remain the same being one with the Father they are as he is like him as Seth was like Adam what ever their cloathes their appearances be yet their life and substance is still the same For a season the inward man I find is so benighted and bewildered yea all his life so deaded and his light so put out and his glory darkened that he is made to see and confess that he knoweth nothing as he ought to know nor hath nothing to boast of no more then the outward man and that it 's onely the spiritual man that shall grow up to perfection and live and flourish whether in the seed or grown up For the coming of this full enjoyment of all blessedness happiness longeth my poor waiting soul in a daily expectation upon the God of all our mercies who is coming to fulfill our desires to compleat our glory he comes not with a thought to tarry or go back he comes swiftly with speed leaping to meet his beloved waiting Jacobs to revive their spirits with his loves his wisdom power grace goodness yea all his Riches of grace and glory that they may sing sweetly strongly thorowly fervent and frequent the new songs of Hosanna Hallelujahs blessing and glory power and praise to our God for ever who is the Authour of all our present good and the Omega of our perfect happiness in that heaven of heavens where Just men made perfect take up Sanctuary and assured Rest for ever solacing their souls with their Beloveds loves the riches honors pleasures and soul-delights of eternity that are in the bosome of our dear and precious father in the full fruition of this rest and glory longeth my waiting soul to be where time shall be no more the time of sin sorrow paine death any weakness or imperfection when that which is perfect is come I know all this which is imperfect will be done away yea then there will be no complaining or cause of complaining within or without because all sin and so all sorrow and sighing shall certainly be done away as being momentary the pure language the new melodious tune of Joy and gladness from the Spirit shall be onely sung heard and known to be for ever in the Saints to their Saviour who is our choice our chief our only and dearly beloved One in all without and above all in himself Worthy Sir because Honourable in the Lambs cloathing having put pen to paper with an intent to salute you your neer relation with a few broken fragments gathered up from my Masters table I shall take leave having a little freedom to communicate a few more lines to you hoping it will not be too burdensome to you Sir I cannot but Christian-like thank you for your Remembrances of us at all times though I know you are in covenant with that God who will recompence sevenfold into your bosom for all your labor of undeserved unexpected love your sympathizing from a fellow-feeling of our affliction and others plainly demonstrate you to be

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