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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46836	The exceeding riches of grace advanced by the spirit of grace, in an empty nothing creature, viz. Mris. Sarah Wight lately hopeles and restles, her soule dwelling far from peace or hopes thereof : now hopefull, and joyfull in the Lord, that hath caused light to shine out of darknes ... / published for the refreshing of poor souls, by an eye and ear-witness of a good part thereof, Henry Jesse ...	Jessey, Henry, 1603-1663.; Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.	1647 (1647)	Wing J688; ESTC R18578	106,320	192

enemy to us An enemy would not reconcile enemies But God reconcil'd us when we were enemies to him We were then without God far off in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling them dead in sins and trespasses Eph. 2. read it When God comes with power he quickens them that were dead in sinnes Are you weary in your Condition Gentlew. I give over all means I think it bootlesse to use any for me M ris Sarah I found no help by any means yet I went on I was contented with nothing to heare or not to heare read or not read pray or not pray no peace in any thing I have great experience of that place If he give peace who then can trouble but if he hide away his face who is able to bear it r Iob 34.29 You doe not seek him and he saith I am found of them that sought me not that asked not for me I said Behold me behold me to a Nation that was not called by my Name s Isa. 65.1 That 's a place for a poore soule to ponder much upon Wait a little while and he will come t Hab. 2. 3. Gentlew. If you knew what sins I am in you would not say so to me M ris Sarah The bloud of Christ clenseth from all sin not from one sin or two sins but from all sins Gentlew. When I went on in sin the Devill told me I was Elected M ris Sarah The Devill saith no such thing but Thou art damn'd for ever Gentle I have been strangely deluded by him M ris Sarah The sad Temptations and corruptions that deluded me never any were in the like I never read nor heard of any such as mine But the Lord came in an acceptable time to succour me u Isa. 49. 8. When I saw I had no good by good peoples speaking to me nor their prayers for me nor by all my reading nor hearing no good to me I felt such horror I thought hell to come could not be worse then what I felt I road to Shrewsbury I would not hold the bridle I would gladly the horse might stumble or throw me in a ditch and kill me I let him goe where he would Thus shee was thrown in a ditch and when shee came to the Inne she being all wet would not shift her nor dry her but sat in the wet cloaths because shee was weary of life and would have been out of it I would not eat I saw nothing but condemnation I thought as I went the earth was opening every foot and that the stones in the streets would open and swallow me up I saw no other but condemnation The more was my misery the more is his mercy manifested One moment of his mercy swallowed up the depth of my misery Before I could not eat nor drinke but I was troubled for it I thought it was to me as to some at Sacrament that I did eat and drink my damnation Gentlew. I am not troubled at my condition though I know if I dye I goe to Hell M ris Sarah Are you not weary of your condition Is it no burden to you Gentlew. Yes yes M ris Sarah He is never weary nor faint in succouring sinners Christ was weary and was in all things tempted as we are yet he knew no sin that he might sympathize with us and succour us that are full of sin Heb. 2. 18. He hides himselfe from you I le look to him that hides himselfe from the house of Jacob They are Jacob his people yet he hides himselfe from them x Isa. 8. 17. He hides himselfe that wee might the more desire him as a mother from her childe Gent. I am fit for nothing I can do no work M ris Sarah I oft could doe none and it terrified me that I did none when I could doe none yet it terrified me night and day Gentlew. I am not troubled though I have no faith M ris Sarah You can have no true rest till you beleeve If God set on the least sin to a young childe it will terrifie it as much as the greatest sinnes of one that 's a hundred yeer old as I have found When he creates peace there will be peace y Isa. 57. 19. Gentlew. That 's to his people he creates it M ris Sarah He cals them his people that were not his people and her beloved which was not beloved z Rom. 9. 25. Gentlew. There 's no peace to the wicked M ris Sarah All are wicked till he makes them good There 's no peace to sin nor Satan but there 's peace for the sinner Christ is peace for the lost sinner Ep. 2.14 Part of another Conference May 11. 1647. taken at the writers coming in it being begun before he came G. There 's no hope for me S. There 's hope in God though none in you G. It s said No temptation hath taken you but that that 's common to men a 1 Cor. 10. 13. But that is except they be given up as I am for their condition was not as mine is S. He makes no such exception some have been before in your condition and he saith He makes a way to escape not that way you thinke best but the way he thinks best that you may be able to beare it Christ bare burdens that you might be eas'd when 't is too heavy for you b Mat. 11. 28. G. I cannot be affected with my case S. It s God must give it Wee wrastle not with flesh and bloud but with principalities powers wee wrastle not with them in our owne strength but in the strength of Christ in the power of his might c Eph. 6.10.12 The party being silent and slow to speak or to aske shee put out fit questions to her and so gained in upon her answers Is your sin so great God cannot forgive you G. God can forgive me but he will not S. God will graffe them in because God can graffe them in as he saith d Rom. 11.23 No soule beleeves indeed that God is able to forgive it but that beleeves he is as willing to forgive as he is able The Lord sware saying As I live I will not the death of a sinner but that he turne from his sin c Ezek. 33.11 and he turnes it and it is turned He sweares he is willing and yet you say he is not willing He proclaimed his own Name that he is Gracious forgiving iniquity transgression and sin and yet you say he is not willing to forgive you You beleeve not The great sin Christ dyed for is unbeliefe You have no will to him It s he that works both to will and to doe and that 's his good pleasure it s because he is very willing to it Of his own will he begat us f Ia. 1. 18. You see how willing he is to it You see your sin now more then you did before Did you see it so before G.

because I have not been above two moneths so violently troubled May 31. Being Munday came to her the Lady Willoughbie of Parham with D r Coxe Physician and M rs Cox M r and M rs Adderley of the Charter-house c. Having heard of her great comforts Dr. Cox put severall Questions to her Which with her Answers were to this effect 1. D r Cox Some say of your Comfort that it is but a Delusion some say it is not Q. How do you know t is no Delusion S. Ans. You cannot know what my comforts are except you knew what my terrors were But I beleeve the Lord did not keep me in them and carry me through them and deliver me from them not foon one but from all my fears and give mee comfort to delude me with his comfort For nothing could satisfie in those Terrors but Christ therefore it is apparent that it is Christ because nothing else could do it to free me from one of my terrors much lesse to free me from all Could any thing keep me from such great temptations but the power of God then shee told of some of her Temptations Q. How know you it was the power of God Ans. Because it was the bare arme of God that brought salvation to me Isa. 59.16 nothing else could and nothing els did it I went about seeking rest and could sind none till he gave me rest Q. How know you this working in you is the Spirit of God A. Where the Spirit of God is there is libertie he d 1 Cor. 3 17. sets the soul at liberty that was in bondage for I was in bondage The other is a Spirit of Error this is the Spirit of Truth the other is the Spirit of darknes this is the Spirit of light This is the Spirit of Truth and not of Error because he leads the soul into all Truth e Ioh. 1 13. and he set me at liberty that I am no under the Law but under Grace f Rom. 6.14 2. Q. How or in what sense are you not under the Law S. Ans. Because the Spirit of life in Christ Iesus hath made me free from the law of sin and of death For what the Law could not doe being weak c. Rom. 8. 2. 3. It was weak to pardon my sinne and to carry it into the land of forgetfulnes therefore God sending his Son condemns sin and saves the sinner even me the chiefest of sinners 3. Q. Whether have you SIN in you A. Yes a thorn in the flesh as Paul had to humble me but not to condemne me 2 Cor. 12. 7. Q. Whether doe you think that others judge of your condition now that it is but in hypocrisie A. They that saw or knew me in my Terrors when I could not be ruled might well know that nothing but the Peace of God which passeth all understanding could so rule me which was as Ephraim an untamed heifer Phil. 4.7 Ier. 31.18 she spake this very low 4. Q. Why do you speak no louder are you weaker with your joyes then you were with your Terrors Ans. I had more cause in my Terrors when I abus'd my body but I never felt it till now I beat my head oft against the wall and took my flesh in my teeth and the more and ofter I did it the lesse I felt it And when I had an opportunity against my life and did not take it then I beat my self for it most of all because it took not effect Or if I spake any thing that was offensive to any with me or did that I should not when it was brought to mind afterward then I abused my body for it most of all And that I did so then is the cause why I lie here now For now that he hath brought me to my self now I feel it He did not onely bring my soul to hell and brought it back again but my body to the grave that he might raise it up again if he see it good 1 Sam. 2.6,7 5. Qu. Why do you not eat Why do they now get things for you that you may rise again Ans. I do eat But its meat to eat that the world knows not off but those that taste of it His words were a Jer. 15. 16. found and I did eat them His words are the joy and rejoycing of my heart his words of mercy and love and joy in the holy Ghost which sill an empty soul indeed as I was which is meat indeed both to soul and body at the present Qu. Whether do you not refuse the creatures our of temptation An. No for I would eat if I could my stomach was then sild with terror that I could not eat now with joy If I could I would take the Creatures but for the present I cannot But if he see it best for his glory and my good I wait for a power from him for this as well as for the rest that he hath done for me for I know that all power is in his hand and all my times are in his hand therfore I desire to wait on him Q. Whether could you endure to be mock'd and skoff'd and jeered at in the world if some should say This is she that was mad or that counterfeited could you endure it Ans. It s no more then my Lord and Master was before me They said he was mad and had a Devil and the Souldiers mock'd him Let me undergo the uttermost I do but follow his a 1 Pet. 2. 22. steps And if I will be one of Christs I must do so b Luke 14. 26. He suffered it but for such a one as I though he was the Son of God yet he made himself of no reputation c Phil. 2. 7,8 And what was it for but to die for me the the chiefest of sinners that I might live to have life from him that I might live to him d 2 Cor 5. 14 15. 7. Q. Whether could you be content with Christ alone now and take no comfort in any thing in the world but be satisfied with him alone Ans. Yes very well for he is a satisfying Christ for having him I have enough I have all things Therefore I desire not to look after pleasures in the world for I have enough in him e Phil. 4.11 12. For he is full of satisfaction and I have tasted of that fulness Grace for Gr..ce. f Io. 1.16 8. Q. Whether do you love God now more then ever you did before Ans. I know not that ever I lov'd him at all before For I had no love at all g Tit. 3.3 neither to the Creator nor to the creature for all were enemies All the sight of God I had then was that he was an enemy I saw no excellency nor beauty h Isa. 53.2 nor comliness in him to be desired at all It must be one that hath attained to great love that can love a deformed creature God is