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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96678	The yovng-mans second vvarning-peece, or, A miracle of mercies being a true relation of the horrible suggestions and tentations, wherwith Satan assaulted me A. W. stationer of London : wherby he prevailed so far, as to force me to sin grosly, and to despaire fearfully, in so much that he brought me near unto the making of my selfe away, many and sundry ways, from the which the Lord in mercy delivered me : and therefore as a testimony of my thankfullnesse to God, and love to my brethren and former sinfull associats, I have thought good to publish in print, both the manner and time of my conflict and also of my delivery.	Wildgoos, Anthony.	1643 (1643)	Wing W2A; ESTC R42997	5,273	9

my sick bed yet was it his good pleasure to defer the healing of my soule a long time after In which time the Devill who as Father Latimer speaks of him is the onely diligent Bishop in his Diocesse did bestir himselfe and like a roaring Lyon went about seeking to devoure me tempting me to lay violent hands upon my selfe And this he did first by tempting me and provoking me to commit grosse sins and then in suggesting unto me after this manner as followeth Wherefore dost thou not make thy selfe away thou belongest not to Christ therefore it is thy best course to make thy selfe away quickly for thou committest great sins daily and therefore the longer thou livest the greater sinner thou wilt be and answerable to thy sins shall be thy torments in Hell fire And truly brethren this foul Fiend did prevail so far with me hereby that I was divers times very neere the making away of my selfe I lived such a Melancholy discontented life that indeed I was weary of living upon the earth and I thought that death would put an end unto all miseries here and seeing I must to hell at last I had as good go sooner as later Whereupon one day being very sore assaulted after this manner Satans second temptation there standing a Ladder in the yard where I dwelt I was tempted to get a Cord to have hanged my selfe but through Gods great mercy I was prevented Then he perceiving he could not prevaile this way he left off this tentation for a season and yet he left not off tempting me to the committing of grosse sins and would never let me be at quiet except I were acting and committing one sin or other to the terrour and disquieting of my Soul insomuch that I lived a most miserable discontented life so that sometimes yea divers times I had not power to follow my Calling but would oft sit by the fire or lye upon my bed divers dayes together and neglect my businesse though I had scarce bread for my selfe and my wife Thus continuing for the space of six or seven yeeres after my forementioned trance without peace or rest night or day and playing many unadvised wilfull feates rejecting the Counsell of my best friends At the last the old Serpent comes again with his Satans third temptation former Assault and Tentation labouring to put me upon the work of sending both my soul and body in a bloody Chariot speedily into Hell fire And to effect this he takes his opportunity on a day I lying upon Satans fourth temptation my bed in a miserable discontented fit and my wife going to market to buy provision and leaving me alone I took a knife in my hand and put it to my throat and did so much with it that blood came out and I felt it smart Whereupon it pleased the Eternall God Creator and Preserver Gods merciful deliverance of all mankinde to put this Meditation or Consideration into my mind O wretched man that thou art art not thou able to abide one quarter of an houres paine and smart in cutting thine owne throat and wilt thou suffer the devill so to beguile and couzen thee so much as to perswade thee thou art able to endure eternall torments and so to plunge thy soule into everlasting misery Whereupon me thought I heard the voyce of God from heaven saying O do not make away thy selfe dost thou know what I have for thee to do And so My soul to speak in the words of the Psalmist is escaped Psal 124. 7. as a bird out of the snare of the Fowler the snare is broken and I was delivered blessed be the name of the Lord. Howbeit the Tempter left me not yet but after that the Lord Satans fift temptation had delivered me from my former danger Satan followed me suggested unto me that it were best for me to leave my wife and children and live in some other place and sometimes that it were best for me to drown my self and very neer unto the doing of these and such like wicked and unnaturall actions had Satan sometimes brought me but the Lord in mercy prevented him And in all this time give me leave also to tell you I had no heart Neglect not holy duties to Prayer for being such a wicked wretch as I apprehended my my selfe to be I was perswaded that my prayers and all other duties were abominable so that I did either omit them or else I performed them untowardly the truth is I had no heart to any goodnesse And thus brethren by reason of my yeelding unto Satans Yeeld not to Satans temptations tempting me first to the committing of sin and then to despaire and make away my selfe by reason of my sin I endured a hel upon earth for the space of above ten yeeres and then it pleased the Lord out of his abundant mercy to deliver my soule and that by this meanes I being at my work upon the 14. of November 1643. my fellow Take notice of the Lords mercy to me workman and I falling into discourse of good Ministers he told me that that evening I might heare a good Sermon at Bartholomew Lane neere the Exchange so we having no great haste of work we concluded to go together to hear it and when we came thither we heard one Mr. Willes whose Text was 1 Cor. 16. 22. If any man love not the Lord Iesus Christ let him be anathema Maran-atha from which Text he delivered such heavenly matter concerning the excellent condition of them that love Christ and so laid open the fearfull condition of them that doe not with the properties and qualifications of true love to Christ that through the mercy of God it wrought so upon my inner-man that since that time I blesse God I have been well in minde And now Brethren I beseech you do not conceive of this Relation Brief Exhortations as a fained or forged thing for I professe unto you all it is a most certain truth and therefore I beseech you beleeve it and labour to make good use of it Oh learn by my example to beware of sin lest God in justice not only give you over to be temporally tempted by Satan as he formerly hath done me but also to be eternally tormented by him without all hope of recovery And you my Brethren of my Society for to you especially do I intend my Exhortation I beseech you consider that you have more means by reason that your Calling is oftner to have to doe with good Books then many other Callings have and yet alas Brethren I feare we have been more profane and wicked then such as are of many other Callings O beware of Intemperance and Excesse for that we have been too guilty of Oh labour to know God and to live with God and keep close to him in frequenting holy duties both in publick private and so turn unto God with all our hearts and that speedily And I beseech you be thankfull to God for me and pray for me that the Lord who hath in mercy begun a good work in me would confirm it unto the day of Jesus Christ which he grant for Christs sake Amen NOw if any through ignorance may suffer themselves hereafter to be perswaded either by their own corruptions or Satans temptations that this former Relation is but a fained thing or some melancholy Fit onely or such like I would entreat them to take an opportunity to come to my house in Little-Woodstreet in Bunting-Alley and I will with the Lords help give what satisfaction I am able FINIS