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To Queen Mary: the humble salutation, and faithful greeting of the widow Whitrowe With a vvarning to the rulers of the earth, before the Day of the Lord breaks forth, that shall burn as an oven, and all the wicked, and all the ungodly shall be as stubble: the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
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Whitrowe, Joan.
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acquainted with Griefs and after he came into the World in the Holy History of his Life of temptations and miseries he saith I am the Way the Truth and the Life none can come to the Father but by Me and he that climbs up another way is a Thief and a Robber Another Way O Queen Then through his bitter Sufferings a Way indeed that at the first Entrance his Visage seems black and his Form to be without Comliness yet is he the Beloved of our Souls and the Chiefest among Thousands to them that have followed Him through the many Tribulations and have washed their long-suffering Robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb These shall walk with me saith He in White for they are worthy for because you have suffered with me therefore shall you Reign with me for evermore saith he that is Holy and True But at the first you know the Learning of any Language or lawful Art it cannot be attained but with great Industry and hard Labour so this inward Exercise of the Soul at the first saith the Prophet She meanng Wisdom will walk with him by crooked ways and bring him into fear and dread and torment him with her Discripline until she have tryed his Soul and hath proved him by her Judgments Then will she return the strait way unto him and comsort him and shew him her secrets and heap upon him the Treasures of Wisdom and the Vnderstanding of Righteousness Oh! This was an experienced Man in the Work of GOD on the Soul this I bear Record is the way of the LORD which He takes to redeem Mankind to Himself out of his fallen State But saith the Prophet if he goes wrong she will forsake him and give him over to his Destruction Therefore O Queen live for ever in the holy and self-denying Life of Christ for be it known to the Queen when I heard of the vain Pastimes and sinful Pleasures with the Excess of Finery in Richness of Apparel that was at the Court on the Kings Birth Day which was Reported by one of the Ladies at Court to a Lady a near Relation of hers which told me that there was never seen such costly Apparel at the Court. After I heard this and that the Queen went to Plays Oh how was my Soul bowed down before the LORD crying bitterly to the LORD that He would be pleased to forgive the Queens Transgression as hoping it was not in the Queens Inclination but overcome by the Perswasions of others Oh Queen Is this to return Thanks to the most High GOD according to the great Benefits she hath received Is this to Answer the end of her Creation and the King 's safe Return from Ireland Must all the Goodness of GOD and his manifold Favours end here in the Excess of Vanities the Abominations of England as Plays and Dancings the Two grand In-lets to all other Abominations I knew it once to my Sorrow as I could give a large Account thereof the Influence those cursed Vanities as Pride Plays Dancing and Singing had upon me when I was young but in my Youth the LORD had Mercy on me and called me to himself out of all those sinful Pleasures into the Pleasure of Waiting and Attending upon Him who is alone Worthy to have all our precious Time Love and Delights whose Right it is and for that end it was given us to return it with that Increase of Grace that shall never have an end For O Queen Wherein should Youth take pleasure But in seeking a Measure Of Wisdoms saving Treasure And saith Christ seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you But this know O Queen it must be a Heart-breaking seeking that must find the LORD an inward seeking yea more inward than our most inward Parts We must often retire alone as Christ did from the Multitude and inwardly into our own Souls to the Spirit of GOD in us waiting upon the Spirit to receive Power to do the Will of GOD in all things constantly watching against the Out goings of the Mind to any thing but to GOD alone This is waiting at Jerusalem to receive the Promise of the FATHER And in my seeking I have found this to be the Way in which GOD will be found in Here I have found and do sind the Spirit of Prayer and Supplications poured into my Soul here I find my Heart and Mind taken off from all Visibles and set upon GOD alone here I find my heart united to the LORD here I find the height and depth of His Love that hath so fastned me to Him as a Nail is fastned in the sure place so that height nor depth things present or to come shall ever be able to separate me from the Love of GOD which I have received in Christ my LORD who hath given me the Victory over Death Hell and the Grave so that here I can do as my Saviour hath commanded me Love my Enemies and Pray for them that hate me and so not to be overcome with Evil but to overcome the Evil with the Good Glory for ever be given to Thee my Soveraign LORD and to Thy Glorious Power from a Heart rended to pieces before Thee in the sence of Thy Gracious Goodness and boundless Favours Oh! When shall it be that my Tongue shall never cease praising Thee And this was the Way that all the People of the LORD ever sound him in as the Queen may be pleased to search the Scriptures and she shall find what that Holy Prophet Isaiah saith With my Soul have I desired Thee in the night and with my Spirit within me will I seek Thee in the Morning O LORD we have waited for Thee in the Way of thy Judgments The Desires of our Souls is to Thee and unto thy Name Like as a Woman with Child that draweth near to the Time of her Travail is in sorrow and cryeth in her Pains so have we been in thy sight O LORD And David saith The sorrows of Hell hath compassed me about I eat Ashes as my Bread and mingled my Drink with my Tears Besides Time would fail to Mention all the Travels of the Souls of the Righteous But Queen Hesther that Honourable Queen who was worthy of the Dignity she was brought to for that very Act of deep Humiliation who with a holy Zeal and couragious Spirit Commanded Mordecai saying Go and assemble all the Jews in Shushan and fast ye for me and eat not nor drink in three days day nor night I and my Maids will do the same and so will I go to the King which is not according to the Law and if I perish I perish Now see the Effect of this holy Act for it prevailed both with GOD and Man It had Power to change King Ahashuerus's heart from a Lyon's to a Lambs For this kind saith Christ to his Disciples can come out no other way but by Fasting and Prayer And thus shall it be with