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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56991	The wise virgin, or, A wonderfull narration of the hand of God wherein his severity and goodnesse hath appeared in afflicting a childe of eleven years of age, when stricken dumb, deaf and blinde through the prevalence of her disease, yet upon her wonderfull recovery was heard at severall times to utter many glorious truths concerning Christ, faith, and other subjects : to the wonderment of many that came far and neer to see and hear her / by James Fisher ...	Fisher, James, minister of the Gospel in Sheffield.	1653 (1653)	Wing R1004; ESTC R204524	88,491	208

her if the Devil did not go about to destroy her Yes said she It was asked Who conquered those Temptations she said Jesus Christ the Devil goeth about to destroy us with his Temptations but I hope they will not be laid unto our charge but to the charge of him from whence they came At another time she was asked why Christ had conquered Satan she answered For his own Names sake and for my sake At another time I being with her did ask her whether she thought that God would recover her strength by his immediate power as he had begun or by the use of means She answered me very solemnly I do believe that God will raise me up by his immediate power without means h.e. Physick Then I asked her if she did not desire that means might be used She answered that she had oft prest her selfe to be willing to use means but yet she could not finde her heart made willing Then I asked why she desired to be willing to use means She answered Because her friends desired it and for their satisfaction Then I asked her what ground she had to believe that God would raise her up by his immediate power She answered Because God did not make her willing to use the means though she had oft desired it of him and if he would have her use means he would make her willing and then she had heard of that Providence how God shut up her teeth whilest the Physician was in the House from the eighth of September till December about three moneths and she further said that she thought that God would not that the Physician should have any one part of the honour of raising her to health but he would have all the glory to himselfe At another time I spake thus to her Cozen Mattee you told me that you did believe God would raise you up by his immediate power he hath done much for you but yet you have many reliques of weaknesses upon you Will you endeavour to act faith upon that power of God She answered It is my desire but I have nothing but what is freely given me of my God One night when they were undressing of her one told her she had no shoes for they had given all her clothes and wearing things to some poor children not expecting her life and her Father said there was a Shoe-maker in the Town but he was a Quaker she asked what that was it was answered he was one that sleights Ministers and Gods Ordinances She replied she would have no Quakers Shoes then At another time the same thing being discoursed of and she giving the same answer her Sister Hannah who was very tender of her and had prejudiced herself with her care of her and of her Mother in their weaknesses asked her if she knew what the Quakers were She answered They are such as are above Onances for then she could not pronounce many words her speech being gradually restored to her her sister said What mean you she answered I shall make you understand they are such as slight Gods Ministers whom he hath sent to preach his Word Another hearing of this discourse did ask her why she would have no Quakers shoes did she think there was any errours sewed up in the seames of the shoes she answered No but saith she they say I am a Quaker and to convince them that I am not I will have no dealings with them Many other such passages there were but I forbear to adde more She continued pretty well and with much cheerfulnesse of spirit and the Lord was pleased to make her meat and sleep comfortable to her but she had no use at all of her legs but was carried to bed and from bed untill the 21th of December which day she being in bed about 9 a clock at night her Father being in the room she told him she felt strength come into her legs he asked her How she said It trickled down and came into her thighs knees and ancles like warm water and so continued a quarter of an hour and after that working was past her Sister Hannah took her up and set her upon her feet and she stood by her self without holding which she had not done for three quarters of a year before having had no use of or strength in her legs and when she was laid in bed again she fell into extremities of hot and cold fits four or five severall times one while as if she had been dipped in hot water and again suddenly as though she had been dipped in cold water and presently after she was very ●ick and vomited and that being over she had much pain in all her joynts and in great extremity from the head to the feet then at an instant she said I praise God I am now as well as ever I was in my life I am neither sick nor have any pain Then her Mother spake to her Ah Childe now thou understandest how suddenly the Lord hath given thee thy limbs even so suddenly did the Lord give thee thy senses and thy speech but then thou wast not able to apprehend it Oh said she how shall we be ever able in any measure to extol the Name of the Lord in praises that are due unto him for all his mercies to us I desire that the Lord would be pleased to perfect my heart and frame it as he will be pleased to accept of it for I have cause to praise the Lord more then others seeing the Lord is pleased to take notice of me more then others Her Mother said Childe is not thy minde full of the apprehensions of the Lords wonderfull dealings with thee Yes said she but I cannot expresse it so largely as I desire to do but I hope the Lord will help me ● can do nothing of my self but I may say with the Apostle Paul I can do any thing through Christ that strengthens me Then her Mother said What are we poor miserable Miscreants that the Lord should make choise of a childe of ours to hold forth so much of his power and glory She answered It is not any worthinesse that is in us but it is the Will of the Lord the Lord saw It good in his all-seeing Decree for he had decreed before I was born that it should be so Her Mother said Oh my unbelieving heart would never yield to think that there would be such a glorious end of this affliction Ah Mother said she the Lord hath done above your faith what cause have we to praise him The 22th of December when she rose in the morning she said she could go but we were afraid to trust her strength it being so long a time since she had any use of her legs yet she desired leave to make triall how she could go and she went up and down the room beyond all expectation and the Lord

that they be not led a●ay by sin and Satan and he will give them 〈◊〉 light eye Lord fill our hearts with the fulnesse of ●esus Christ that we do not sink into the ●ottomlesse pit Come and knock at the gate of righteousnesse and wait till Jesus Christ come and open the gates Lord pull back that roaring lion that serpent that goeth about seeking to devour our poor souls God will but suffer him to step in that we may stick closer to Jesus Christ Lord rebuke that roaring lion and chain him up that he may have no power over our poor souls Lord prepare our unprepared hearts 〈◊〉 ●gainst thou call Oh God prepare our hearts 〈◊〉 may come before thee with thankf●● 〈…〉 for every mercy that thou hast 〈…〉 on us Lord give us faith for without faith we cannot come to thee June the 14th Good Lord enrich our poor souls that we may enrich the Kingdome of Heaven We have but drie and ignorant hearts Lord quicken them that we may sit at the right hand of God with Jesus Christ rejoycing with him for ever Iune the 15th Good Lord what shall we do to inherit the Kingdome of Heaven Iune the 18th The Lord be with you for I am going to change and after shall never change I pray you pray that my soul may be precious in the sight of God God is going now to finish his work My God hath laid up treasures for me in he●●n Iune the 19th 〈…〉 I see the fine sights of Heaven 〈…〉 ●mbracing me in his armes and 〈…〉 the light of Heaven Then she spake no more till June 21th The Lord of Heaven be with you all though we part here I hope we must meet in Hea●en my Christ is shewing me the way to Heaven Pray pray pray for some help from God and pray that your prayers may be accepted of God These valedictory expressions of hers I conceive might arise from that change which now should be in the manner of her disease for now she had no more the liberty of speech given to her untill the 29th day of Iuly and then Iuly the 29th About eight of the clock at night as that was the ordinary time that she began at and so continued some two hours with intervals to speak she being in a stiffe fit spake these words with a smiling countenance My Christ is come again I have obtained Christ I have my desire I have now a crucified Christ Then she spake not again untill August 11th about 10 of the clock at night Now my Father hath given me Jesus Christ again I hope to save my soul Now I have obteined Christ again a cr●cified Christ Let us put off the rags of sin and put o● the robes of righteousnesse August the 15 about 7 of the clock she lying in the same posture spake as followeth My Saviour is come again that suffere● death upon the Crosse to save my soul I was in darknesse but now I am in light My Christ hath vanquished Satan tha● goeth about to destroy my soul Then she spake not again untill August the 17. When she had the extreamest convulsion● fit that ever she was drawn with her face turned behinde her and one eye looking up and the other shut and in that fit she spake as followeth I will be with my God and my God will be with me I hope my soul is precious in the fight of my God I am not in the hands of the Devil but in the hands of my God Which words much refreshed the spirits of her friends who stood weeping by her to see her so sadly handled then she proceeded My Gods Angels have pitched their Tents about me and will carry my soul into heaven I will never forsake my God and my God will never forsake me Take heed of slighting Gods mercies for if we slight his mercies he will slight us if we slight his mercies he will pour his wrath upon us August 20. Call upon me in the time of trouble and I will relieve you Ask and ye shall have knock and it shall be opened unto you Ask and you shall have life everlasting Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the Devil and all his Angels Let us wait upon the Lord untill his time appointed and he will ease us for our time is of the Lord we cannot have it when we would but when the Lord pleaseth August 23 at 8 a clock at night Call upon me in the time of trouble and I will hear and deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me Lord humble our haughty and proud hearts that they be not led away with this world for we are apt to follow the steps of Satan rather then the steps of God First he prepareth our hearts that they may be capable of faith and then he worketh faith in them Lord purge our rusty hearts that they may be clean that we may become pure Virgins of thine for if thou do not purge them they will be like rusty iron that lieth long My Christ will tread Satan under foot which goeth about like à roaring lion hunting to destroy my poor soul but he can go no further then my God giveth him leave he hath a malice unto my poor soul Those that belong to God Satan is alwayes in perplexing and troubling them but God doth but let him step in to make them stick closer unto God if Satan get but one step in and get in his head he will strive to get in his whole body the least opporrunity he can get he will seek it and will not lose it Let us cast off the rags of sin and put on the robes of righteousnesse and then we shall obtain Jesus Christ Let us suck sweetnesse from Jesus Christ even as the Bee sucketh honey from the flower August the 30th Let us draw comfort from Jesus Christ ●s the childe milk from the mothers brest ●he harder we draw the more we shall get Take heed you slight not Gods mercies for if you slight his mercies it is just with God to slight you August 31. at 10 a clock in the morning Lord cast out our stony hearts and make them new that we may be new creatures Lord purge the drosse out of our hearts and purifie them Let us stand at the gate of righteousnesse and wait untill Jesus Christ see time to open the door of faith Lord rebuke that crooked Serpent that would destroy my poor soul but my Father will not suffer him he hath a malice to my poor soul but God will but let him step in and get a look in but it is to make me stick closer to Jesus Christ Let us fear the Lord that we may live in his fear and die in his favour Let us take heed that we slight not Gods mercies lest he turn his back off us if we do not fear him and