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A75270	The virgin saint, or, A brief narrative of the holy life and Christian death of Mary Wilson with some memorable passages, and occasional speeches a little before her death added thereunto ; to which is also adjoyned a sermon, preached at her funeral by Mr. Geo. Nicholson, together with several consolatory letters, written by divers ministers, to her mournful father, Mr. Richard Wilson of Crosfield in Cumberland.	S. A.; Nicholson, George, ca. 1637-1697. Sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Mary Wilson.	1673 (1673)	Wing A28A; ESTC R42607	83,061	185

are but a weak man and I am persuaded that another Winter will set my Mother hard to it And as for you my Grand mother it will not be long till you will be with me Therefore make ready and settle your Concerments in the world assoon as you can that you may not be toyled in the world and then table your selves with Mr. Nicholson Then she calling to mind that Mr. Nicholson was sent for asked If he was come But he being gone upon a Visit of the like nature three Messengers were sent for him before he came which made her think the time exceeding long for his coming and often prayed and desired others to pray that she might live to see his face his precious face that had been so Instrumental for the good of her Soul Then she cried again This Death is hard to abide Pray pray that my Passage may be easy Then she called to their man Andrew saying Where is that Promise I even I will blot one thine iniquities for my Names sake and will not remember thy Sins Then he turned to the place Isa 43.25 And many a time did she go over these words I even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for my names sake and will not remember thy Sins Then pausing a little said Here will I rest for I have nothing else to rely upon but Christ in a Promise As for all my best Duties that ever I performed in all my life I quit them all as Physicians of no value and do freely cast my self at the feet of Christ And if I perish I 'le perish there This was unspeakable satisfaction to her Father that now those Sermons that sometimes with difficulty she had heard and those Duties she had performed and which had cost her many a Tear should now be all disowned by her as to Justification when she was going to look grim Death in the Face And this her father affirms of his own knowledg she was of such a broken frame of Spirit that seldom or never did she come from her private Retirements but with red Eyes and watery Cheeks And sometime upon particular occasion he hath joyned with her in Prayer when she would have poured out her Soul in such a melting frame of Spirit Heavenly language and powerful Arguments as would have caused him to have groaned in his Spirit and blessed the Lord for those eminent Endowments of Gifts and Graces he had endued her withal Presently she cries again Oh my Father this Death is hard to abide Pray pray that my Passage may be easie Then suddenly with much ardency of Spirit with Hands and Eyes lift up to Heaven said Lord Jesus put forth thine Arm and take me by the Hand and say Come up hither Then she enquiring again for Mr. Nicholson she was told he was not come She prayed again That if the Lord will she might live to see him Then beholding her Father she said How comes it that my Father is without a Cap Then she called for one and sat up and opened it with her own hands and then put it upon his Head who said It was the last that ever his dear would put him on Then she desired to be remembred to all her natural Relations leaving a word of Exhorto them all namely That they should come off from the world and make sure of Christ Then she desired to be remembred to all Christian Friends and named some of them saying Oh the Society of the Saints the Society of the Saints Were I to live again I would more highly value the Society of the Saints the least of Saints Then she asked her Father What day it was He told her Friday Then she said It will not be long till I shall be in Eternity of Felicity and I shall be interred upon the Lords day Then she asked If she might give them out her Grave-dress Which being referred to her liberty she called for her Desk and sat up and opened it with her own hand and laid aside her Shift and the rest of her Cloaths that she would carry with her to her Grave being all plain She desired her Aunt to put her Fore-headcloath low upon her Brow Then perceiving that this enflamed her Fatherwith Sorrow with the rest of her Relations she said Father Whether shall the Saints know one another in Heaven Who then gave her that satisfaction he could on the Affirmative and further called to mind that Mr. Bolton in his Joys of Heaven doth positively affirm the same by many Arguments as first That all Knowledg is desirable but to know one another in Heaven is most desireable 1 Corin 13.12 But then shall I know even as I am known Secondly The Disciples in the Transfiguration knew Moses and Elias whom they never saw before Ergo we shall know one another in Heaven with many more Arguments to that purpose which were so satisfactory to her that ●he blessed the Lord for that knowledg especially that she should know her dear Father again in Heaven She further enquired Whether the Sins of Saints should come into the Judgment of Discussion at the great Day of the Lord She then remembring Mr. Brooks in his Apples of Gold did speak fully to it and desired it might be read to her which accordingly was done And when she heard it she then blessed the Lord saying whom he loves once he loves to the end A Friend coming in and asking her how she did she said She was taking flight into another world Pray pray that my Passage may be easu Then said Come Lord Jesus take me to thy self hold me fast in thine Arms and let me not go Then she enquired again for Mr. Nicholson who presently came and after Salutation he fell down before the Lord to beg Mercy for her Soul After Prayer was done she desired that the Room might be spared that she might have a little private Converse with him He spent about half an hour with her which as he after told was mostly about some Doubts she had about the strength of her Corruptions and want of Assurance In the close of their Discourse she was still of that mind that she would die He told her others were fitter to judg in that Case than she And asked her how she knew it She then said She felt that that he did not feel So in the close of the Day she fell into a ho● Feaver and was violently in it for a season D●ring which time the Tempter waited his opportunity knowing well he had but a little time t● do his work in so that through his Temptations and the violency of the Feaver for a sma●● time she was under a damp Then in the close of the Evening the Docto● came again who gave her some things that presently did loosen her Flegm and not loo● after she fell upon a sweet sleep as the Docto● and Mr. Wilkinson and others that sat with her said it was about two Hours she

you 〈◊〉 be glad that she is now in a full peaceable y●● glo●●ous condition and state in Heaven Y●● have great cause of rejoycing sith her joy 〈◊〉 begun which shall never end Now the Lo●● hath betrothed her to himself in Righteousne●● and that for ever Hos 2.19 I cannot reme●ber that you were ever absolutely against her Marriage no nor that you were against it at all provided that she got a good Husband She hath now gotten a good Match indeed the Marriage betwixt Christ and her Soul is compleated and consummated 2 Cor. 11.2 Rev. 19.7 8. Let us be glad and rejoice in him sith she is now married to Christ and will you not rejoice at least a little with your Daughter on ●her Wedding-day She hath sown in Tears and now is reaping in Joy Psal 126.6 And let this also a little prevail with you God gave you your Daughter but during pleasure He might have taken her away the very first day he gave her and have done you no wrong We are Tenants at Will God may when his pleasure is put us out of Possession and therefore we should learn with Job to submit our selves and bless his Name when he giveth or when he taketh away You shall shortly go to her she shall not return to you It 's but a little while and you shall for ever have her company Wherefore comfort your self with these words 1 Thes 4.13 14-17 18. This is all that I can further do to recommend your Case to your Lord who hath engraven you upon the Palms of his Hands If I were able to do more you may believe me that I gladly would Now the God of all Grace confirm and stablish your heart in Truth and Peace till the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God be obtained and I pray that God may be to your Soul the God of all Consolation I pray remember my Love to your Wife and to all our Christian Friends with you My Wife hath her Love remembred to you and begs your Prayers Blacklough Aug. 27. 1672. Your unworthy Brother J. H. The Copies of two Letters written to Mr. Rich. Wilson that tender and sorrowful Father which lately buried his dear and hopeful Daughter Dear Friend I Was informed of the sad tidings of the Death of your Daughter and yesterday yours of ●ugust 10. came to my hand and the Relation 〈◊〉 the manner of her Death did somewhat allay ●●e sorrow and since the Lord hath dealt boun●fully with her in giving her Grace and Glo●y you may sing I confess if you respect your ●ss it is so great that you may mourn and ●efuse to be comforted because she is not But ●nsider she was a Loan lent of the Lord. All 〈◊〉 Comforts are but lent Comforts and we are not to repine when God calls for them again but ●●tiently to submit to Gods holy Will Seing it 〈◊〉 the Lord who hath done it who hath abso●●ute Soveraignty over all his Creatures We ●●st be dumb and say nothing and as Aaron ●●ld our peace She is taken away in the flow●● of her Age but God knew it the best time to ●op her and haply she is taken away from ●e Evil to come She is entered into peace ●ou may account your self more happy that once you did enjoy her than now miserable that she is so suddenly removed for she is not lost but gone before us We shall go to her she will not return to us The Lord hath delivered her from Sin and Sorrow and you fro●● Fear and Care concerning her How happy would you have esteemed you● self if she had been match'd to one who ha● all desired Accommodations and to a Person who had been endowed with all possible A●● complishments both Sacred and Civil you● eyes seeing it Thus it hath been done to be● whom the King of Heaven had a delight to ●●nour He hath betrothed her to Himself for eve● and this day of her Espousals may be the Day 〈◊〉 the gladness of your Heart For this hath in the bowels of it many glorrous Mercies God hath done it and that is enough to satisfie any Sou●● and he hath done it for ever His heart is so 〈◊〉 it that there shall never be any breach of 〈◊〉 Conjugal Love and Communion Y●● have heard of the Patience of Job and ha●● seen the end of the Lord that the Lord is ve●● pittiful and of tender mercy and happily 〈◊〉 end of the Lord in this is for to draw you heart Heaven-ward Where not only you● Child but your best and chrefest Love is Be now more frequent in Heavenly Visi● and have your Conversation in Heaven a●● where your Treasure is there let your Heart also Mourn not that you go Childless but rejoice that you do not go Christless Neither ●●y I am bereft of the comfort of my life when ●●e God of all comforts is yours David at ●●glag comforted himself in the Lord his God ●o and do likewise for God is All-sufficient to apply all our wants and the Earth is never so ●●id of Comfort but there is Comfort enough ●●the God of Heaven in whom Wives Children ●nd every good thing are lodged You could not be assured though you say ●our Daughter never grieved you in all her ●●me that you should alway have comfort in ●●er But in the Lord Jehovah there is constant ●●msort and constant joy Psal 37.4 You ●now the Comforts of the world are but cisterns and may fail Therefore wipe away all Tears and go to the Fountain God whose Favour is ●●ter than Life and better than all in this life ●●n whose Light we shall see light However sorrow not like them that have no ●ope The Egyptians bewailed Jacob Seventy Daies Joseph his son mourned but seven Daies Which teacheth Christians to keep a mean in Mourning we may sorrow but it must be with sobriety and in measure When David's Child was dead he arose from the Earth and went into the House of the Lord and worshipped And Job when his Children were dead he blessed the Name of the Lord. And indeed the People of God turn all their Afflictions and Crosses into Prayers and Praises Grace makes every condition work Glory to God as God makes every condition work together for good to them that love him And if we bless God in our Afflictions then our Afflictions are Blessings to us Unto the Righteous saith David there arise Light in Darkness Comfort in Troubles and Deliverances out of all Distresses are the fruit of Gods Grace therefore wait on God in the way of his Judgments and you shall y●● find that he is good and can do you good● Though others dye yet God lives and eve● lives to do good When therefore you look o● the right hand and see your Dearly-Belove● gone then cry to the Lord and say Thou 〈◊〉 my Refuge and my Portion in the land of the ●●ving And ever remember that of the Apost●● Christ is all and in all

taken you into it who were as they are and is especially engaged to your Children by the tenour of his Covenant with you That nothing but their own willful refusal final impenitency obstinacy and infidelity can deprive them of his Salvation Bewail the Sins of any in your Family as if they were your own resist them by Instruction Admonition Reproof and Correction as the case requires and pray earnestly against them Especially teach all under your charge to eschew evil and do good by your own daily Practice and Examples And be sure you engage them and train them up in the constant Duties of Gods sacred Worship and Service Sixthly As Religion is your signal Profession so let your whole Lives in all the natural and civil actions thereof be influenced animated and as it were fermented by it Eat drink work walk ●ake sleep speak and be silent mourn and be merry by the Rules of Religion And let the lustre of it be conspicuous in all ●our civil Converses of Buying Selling Borrowing Lending Giving and Re●eiving Let your Principles Grounds Motives ●nd Ends be really religious not carnal ●nd selfish Be true and faithful Just and Upright Sober and Temperate Chast and Modest Courteous and Affable Compassionate and Charitable Meek and Peaceable Innocent and Patient Kind and Helpful Look that your relative Duties to Superiors Inferiors and Equals both in Church and State Rom. 13. 1 to 7. 1 Tim. 2.12 Tit. 3.1 1 Pet. 2.13 to v. 18. be religiously discharged and performed Honour the higher Powers Pray for them fervently pay Tribute willingly And be conscientiously subject in all true Loyalty Let his Majestie 's Eminent Clemency evident so signally in our precious Gospel-Liberty attract and ingage your Affections to him Let your Church-communion be glorious in all the holy Effects of mutual Love Watchfulness and Tenderness And keep the Unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace Eph. 4.3 Let the Splendour of Religion in your Conversations evince the Purity 1 Pet. 2.12 and Power of Religion in your Consciences that God may be glorified and men may be edified by you Let none you live neer or meet with lack your possible and seasonable Help for the good of their Souls that need it and will but accept it And Finally Rom. 2.4 my Brethen whilst others despise the Riches of God's Goodness Forbearance and Long-suffering not knowing that the Goodness of God leadeth them to Repentance But after their Hardness and impenitent Hearts treasure up unto themselves Wrath against the Day of Wrath and Revelation of the righteous Judgment of God Who will render to every man according to his Deeds See that you by patient Continuance in Well-doing seek for Glory Honour and Immortality And he will render unto you eternal Life at the End of this temporal Life The least glimps and foretaste whereof how glorious and ravishing it is they can best tell you that have had the Experience Oh! Let Christ and all of Christ his Natures Person Attributes Offices Obedience active Passive Conflicts Conquests Triumphs and Purchases and all of God in Christ be precious unto you for all are yours if you be his Let him be the fat and the sweet the hope and the help and the happiness of your whole life and death whether you live Rom. 14.8 live to him or whether you die die to him which only by holy living and dying you shall do and then whether you live or die you are his Though you can but dye once naturally yet you may dye dayly spiritually i.e. in (a) Phil. 1.21 23. Affection (b) Job 14 14. Expectation (c) Deut. 32.29 Preparation (d) Matth. 26.39 Submission and (e) Ps 31.5 Act. 20.22 23 24. Resignation I leave you to pick out the matter which I have couched in words for you use as concisely as I could that I might not too far transcend the bounds of an Epistle The ensuing Narratives present you with a worthy Example of a dear deceased Vi●gin-Saint once a Member of your Fellowship now translated into the Celestia-Chore Early living and timely dying i● the Lord and to the Lord. Not permitte● by him to have other Husband than Himself in greatest mercy doubtless to herself Whilst others sought her He sen● for her and unexpectedly but not unpreparedly took her from all her Relations and Lovers to marry her in Glory whom H● had espoused in Grace Whose Piety Prudence Gravity Modesty with other Gif●● and Ornaments natural and supernatural were illustrious in her above most of her Age and Sex But I 'le detain you no longer from the Natratives themselves And the seasonable and useful Sermon preached at her Funeral with some prom and Consolatory Letters from several Godly Ministers to her disconsolate Father upon the sad occasion of her Death All which I commend to your diligent perusal and to Gods Blessing thereupon for your Spiritual and Eternal Good I am A servent well-wisher oft your Souls prosperity and your Servant in the Lord for that end The Introduction THe Saints of God most Christian Reader are to be honoured both living dying and after death though not with the honour of Invocation which finds no letter of Command or Direction no letter of Promise or Acceptation no letter of Example or Practice in the whole Word of God but is a reproach to the Saints and a dishonour to God whose Name and incommunicable Title is The God hearing Prayers and therefore to him shall the desires of all flesh come and if all to him then none to Saints yet with the honour of benediction and imitation of their Vertues and Graces They they only are the most magnificent illustrious noble excellent ones in the world Psal 16.3 They are more noble than others Acts 17.11 They are Kings and Priests Rev. 1.6 They are more excellent than their neighbours Prov. 12.26 More excellent in regard of their Descent and Stock as having God for their Father In regard of their Inheritance Heirs of Heaven and Earth 1 Cor. 3.20 21. In regard of their Food they are fed with heavenly Manna they eat Angels food eat the Flesh and drink the Blood of Christ and in regard of their Cloathing their Cloathing being of imbroidered Gold Psal 45.13 They have put on the Wedding-Garment the Garments of Salvation the white Robes of Christs Righteousness the white linnen yea Christ himself Whereas the unjust are men of no name vile persons though never so great Dan. 11.21 To be contemned and despised Psal 15.4 They deserve not the name of men Jerem. 5.1 They are not to be honoured in some Cases so much as with a Look or with a Word or with a Bow 2 King 3 14. Luk. 23.9 Esth 3.2 But the Godly are men of renown they want nothing that can make any truly honorable and noble they are admitted into the King of Heavens Service Servants of the great King Gods Attendants and Courtiers employed in

slept When she first awaked she said Thou wicked Satan How durst thou tempt the Lord of Life After that she fell into a Slumber again and alwaies ●s she awaked she cried Sweet Christ pity me Sweet Jesus pity me Sweet Christ have mercy upon me several times going over those Petitions Then in the Twilight her Father going to ●er asked her how she did She fixed her eyes stedfastly upon him but never spake more Twice before Breath was out we fell down be●●re the Lord and sent her to Heaven upon ●he wing of Prayer Thus it was apparent That the many Petitions she had put up to Heaven for her easie ●●assage were granted her and her Entrance ●●to her Fathers House in Glory where she hath ●●ken up her everlasting abode to be ever with ●●e Lord was about the Hours of Four or Five ●n the Morning August the Third 1672. Amen Amen Hallelujah A SERMON Preached at the Funeral of Mrs. MARY WILSON By George Nicholson Minister of the Gospel Psal 103.14 15 16 17 18 verses were sung Luke 12.40 Be ye therefore ready also for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when ye thin● not WHile the Lord Jesus was at his Setmon there started up a certain Person out of the Auditory that moved an unseasonable suit 〈◊〉 Him v. 13. Master speak to my Brother that he divide the Inheritance with me Like many poor Creatures that when they come to he●● the Word of God they have their Hearts so stuffed up with the World as that the Word of God takes no place with them nor finds no ●oom in them such was this poor man now men●ioned that while Christ was Preaching he was proling for the world Well! His unsea●nable request though it did interrupt Christ ●n his present Discourse yet occasioned new pro●table matter to flow out of his mouth For ●ster the Lord Christ had given him a particular ●heck for such a Proposal together with a denial 〈◊〉 gratifie him in such a request Ver. 14. He ●●eth on and delivereth a seasonable and ne●●ssary Caution v. 15. Take heed and beware of ●●ovetousness the which he backeth with a ●●ong Argument in the same verse For a mans ●●e consisteth not in the abundance of the things ●at he possesseth And to make the Caution to take hold of his ●●arers He gives an instance by way of Parable 〈◊〉 a certain rich man that was covetously bent ●●er the world who whilst he was racking his ●●ains about his worldly Profits his life was cut ●● his Soul required and he a Fool for his ●●ins from v. 16. to the 20. v. The Applica●●●n of which Parabolical instance ye have in 〈◊〉 21. So is he that layeth up Treasure for him●●●f and is not rich towards God Well in his ●●●lowing Discourse he applieth himself unto 〈◊〉 Disciples from ver 22. to the 30. wherein in he useth several Arguments with them to setch them off from the love of the world All which lye dispersed in the aforementioned verses which I cannot now stand to draw forth but must leave them for you to cull out at your leisure And that he may effectually take them off from the world he setteth before them and proposeth to them greater and better objects than the world could present them with As i● he should say If ye will lay out your selve and spend your strength and spirits about thing● Behold here are excellent things that are worth your pursuing after and labouring for Her● is the Kingdom of God the Righteousness o● God Bags that wax not old and Treasure i● Heaven that faileth not v. 31 32 33. Math. ●● 33. Let your Hearts be taken up with th● things and never fear but all other things ●● far as they are necessary for you shall be add●● unto you And that they may receive th●● Kingdom and Treafure which faileth not 〈◊〉 The Lord Christ directeth them to be ready 〈◊〉 waiting for the coming of Christ v. 35 3● And this he presseth upon them by two con●●derable Arguments The First is drawn from that honourable a●● happy Welcome which such shall have at 〈◊〉 coming of Christ v. 37. Blessed are those S●●vants whom the Lord when he cometh 〈◊〉 find watcki●g Verily I say unto you that 〈◊〉 shall gird himself and make them to sit down to meat and will come forth and serve them The Second Argument is drawn from the uncertainty of the time of Christ's coming which is laid down by a familiar Comparison of a Thief 's coming to break up a House when the Good-man of the House is off his watch v. 39. And this know that if the good-man of the house had known what hour the Thief would come he would have watched and not have suffered his house to be broken thorow From which comparison of the Thief 's sudden and unexpected coming the Lord Jesus presseth them to be ready For as the Thief so he himself cometh at in hour when men think not Be ye therefore ready also for the Son of Man cometh at an your when ye think not The words are a serious Exhortation delivered to his Disciples and his then present Auditory wherein we may take notice of these two general parts First An important Duty enjoined Be ●e therefore ready also Secondly A plain yet ●owerful Argument to press this Duty upon ●hem For the Son of Man cometh at an hour ●hen ye think not The words are so very plain as that we need ●ot spend much time about their Explication ●or shall we make knots where there are ●one The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is here translated ready signifieth generally Preparation or Readiness according to the subject matter that it hath relation to so that be ye ready here is be ye prepared for the coming of Christ But that which will need a little unfolding is What we are to understand by this coming of Christ in the Text Answer There is a twofold coming of Christ First There is his coming to the particular Day of Judgment and that is at the Death of every Person For it is in the power of his own hand alone to fetch away the Souls of Men The Souls of Men are brought before Christ immediately upon the Death of the Bodies of Men to receive their Doom or Judgment Heb. 9.27 It is appointed unto men once to die and after this the Judgment Secondly There is Christ's coming to the 〈◊〉 Judgment which is at the end of the World and the Resurrection of the Bodies of Men. Th●● I grant is called signally The coming of Christ his Second coming Acts 1.11 1 Thes 4 1●● Heb. 9. last I know some Expositors would have this coming of Christ to the last Judgment to be intended here But I rather think it to ●● meant of his Coming to the particular Judgment and that for this reason Because his Disciple●● and the then Auditory to whom he spoke we●● not like to live to see Christ's last Coming