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A94794	A legacy for saints; being several experiences of the dealings of God with Anna Trapnel, in, and after her conversion, (written some years since with her own hand) and new coming to the sight of some friends, they have judged them worthy of publike view; together with some letters of a latter date, sent to the congregation with whom she walks in the fellowship of the Gospel, and to some other friends.	Trapnel, Anna.; Proud, John, fl. 1654.; Ingold, Caleb.	1654 (1654)	Wing T2032; Thomason E806_1; ESTC R207169	57,632	72

shaken by that foundation that shall stand for ever God will set his Mountain on the top of all Mountains there indeed shall be the munition of rocks on rocks and one glory within another Oh what varieties are in the feasts that the Saints bridegroom provides for them If they be slumbering when his feasts are ready he sounds out the golden trumpet of his spirit and causeth a great alarm to come forth from himself which immediatly awaketh the Spouse that it saith it is the voice of my beloved that saith arise and come away leave those Babylonish garments behind that thou hast as it were been wrapt in surely the filthy polluted ragged garments that hang upon the Lords Ioshuaes Zach. 3.3 4. those who are his anointed Priests shall be shaken off the white robe of Righteousness shall be their clothing although the evil one may hang his rags on Gods Priests they shall not abide because they are of a royall descent they are the Kings children rags are the clothing of such that sit on dunghils and filthy garments for such that tumble in the mire but Saints clothing is whiter then the snow in Salmon purer then the purest thing that mortall eye can behold and this spirituall part of a Saint nothing can defile though it be of never such a tainting nature I confess what ever action or word or thought hath any thing of flesh in it there is rags for flesh is altogether a garment of rags the most refined flesh is a filthy garment not becoming a Saint no garment becomes a Saint but Jesus Christ his words and actions and thoughts and motions Oh how ragged and polluted are they if their clothing be not Jesus Christ streams are full of mud that flow not from this fountain those waters are brack●sh that come not from this Conduit no water refresheth like that River the streams thereof are said to refresh the City of God Psal 46.4 this is water of life that in dying times makes lively and when weeds are burnt up and wither the plants shall sprout forth and wax green and blossom as the rose and none shall pluck them up This short word is all that we meet with of this discourse she being to this day prevented of perfecting it with that enlargement intended and desired if what hath been presented here may administer any service either to the spirit of God in her for the Justification thero● which is now under a cloud or to poor sinners or trembling Saints for the drawing or refreshing of their benighted imprisoned spirits by the discovery of the riches glory of free love and the power of the spirit thus far appearing in this handmaid of God it will increase through Christ our rejoycing and abundant thanksgiving in the Lord who is shortly putting a new song into our mouths of Glory and triumph over all things whatsoever through the approaching and appearance of Iehovah in his glory amongst us FINIS To the Church sometimes meeting at AL-HOLLOWS Dear Friends IT hath pleased the Lord to cast me at a distance from you and your precious meetings and sweet lovely spirituall desirable enjoyments which is more prized by me then my life or liberty the which is now in Jeopardy but I am through Divine strength not onely willing to be bound but to dye upon so honourable an account as I here suffer for which is onely the expressing the Lords bounty and rich grace to sinners my heart overflowing therewith I cannot hold my compassion and dear affections worketh forth towards Christs flock so strongly that the Anti-christian Clergy hearing the sound were not able to bear it and therefore because they saw so many adhere to the extraordinary things discovered by and through a weak instrument it was grievous to them and they would not admit of any discourse with me but cryed out to the Magistrate to lay bonds upon me saying we must not have the people so deluded calling me witch deluder Imposter and other vilde terms they cast on me and farther said I stirred and provoked the p●ople to Rebellion against powers though I never spake as touching them since I came into the Country any great matter so as to be questioned by any but a Clergy man one Mr. Powel a great Teacher in these parts hath taken his oath against me that he heard me repeat that vision spoken of in the book which he never did Concerning the Cows and Oxen. I never changed a word with him but he coming into a friends house where many pretious souls were met which desired me to give an account of Gods dealings with me from a child which I did and I never found such a broken self-abasing self-denying frame of spirit in me as then and though this man pretended much mildness towards me yet he hath discovered much falshood and rage and because I when brought before the Rulers said I was not guilty according to the form of the bill as it was laid together against me he said I denyed my Christ and the Spirit But I have sent you the bill for to pass your judgement of my answer whether I should not have denyed Christ if I had acknowledged guilty to all therein which I must have done had I said guilty And they have bound me to the good Behaviour then they granted me a Travers to the next Sessions which is 13. weeks hence and Captain Langdon my faithful friend I came down with he and Major Bauden they were bound for my appearance 150 l. a piece and 1200 l. these dear friends they were of the late Parliament which the Priests had no good will unto and their hatred is because their standing quivers and their fat benefices are almost at an end sure I am they are Christs greatest enemies that hath been and now is Therefore that you may be answered as touching Christs Reign beg that to be tumbled down that as rotten rafters stand in the way I am very sure the Lord will cut his work short in righteousness and by all interruptions is making way for his Dyadem of beauty to appear he will set his King up as chief Protector let men and devils do what they can Therefore my dear friends be not of a doubtful mind stand fast hold your confidence and Resolution concerning those particulars you first engaged in at the setting that blessed meeting up wherein the Lords presence hath been eminently seen and their spawn is discovered therby which we thought had been free from sting and because we own that second days meeting in joyning with your pounds a few mites therefore we are watched by professors as if we were treacherous to the State but here are a company of close walking Saints to what they know and they would be more informed concerning generation-work but warning is to speak no more in that name and many of the souldiers for coming to the place where I am are warned to their colours and an Ensign

A LEGACY FOR SAINTS BEING SEVERAL EXPERIENCES of the dealings of God with Anna Trapnel In and after her Conversion written some years since with her own hand and now coming to the sight of some friends they have judged them worthy of publike view Together with some Letters of a latter date sent to the Congregation with whom she walks in the fellowship of the Gosspel and to some other FRIENDS London Printed for T. Brewster at the three Bibles in Pauls Church-yard near London-House 1654. To all that fear the Lord under what form soever who have fellowship with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ The Church of God usually meeting in Great Al-Hallows London whereof Mr. John Simpson is Teacher sendeth greeting SOme Experiences of Anna Trapnell our dea● Sister now Prisoner in Bridewel coming to our hands we have perused and considered And although the various and wonderful dealings of God with her soul known to many of us for divers years last past are not herein mentioned as she intended but was prevented by her present troubles nevertheless by our own hearts we judge this small Legacy will be of much price and use to the Lords people And seeing the malice of Satan and hard measure from men have endeavoured to bury her both name profession and if possible spirit in her whilest she yet lives and ●e think leans on her Lords bosom Therefore is this Legacy now administred which otherwise had waited the death of the Testatr●x as she fully purposed All we conceive necessary to be said by us concerning the Legacy it self is onely to give our Testimony so far as we have knowledge as our duty to God and to his hand-maid obligeth us to the reality of the Experiences therein mentioned whereof divers of us have been eye and ear witnesses and were with our Sister at several seasons when she was under those particular dealings of God We purposely forbear to enlarge our commendations because we apprehend this kinde of Subject is always best commended by that presence and efficacy of God which he pleaseth to afford and also because we would not in the least degree infringe your liberty to tast and try what spirit and excellency is in it and so to judge freely yet with seriousness as having to do with God therein what entertainment and esteem it deserves we are also engaged by our duty to give you some account of the person by whom this Lagacy is bequeathed who is indeed under much reproach and misrepresentation among all sorts of people and we apprehend we might without offence say made a spectacle to the whole Land being rendred a Contemner of Scriptures of Ordinances and of late as one of a vile Conversation For her present imprisonment at Bridewel if it were not so intended cannot but suggest extream scandal and viciousness touching her to all that hear thereof though we that know her and the cause for which she is laid there are not ashamed of her or it and hope we never shall be which is all we shall now say to that Onely give us leave briefly to impart for your satisfaction what we have known of her for we have had communion with her in the light love spirit and ordinances of the Gospel divers years and to this day also so far as we can obtain it for the restraint she is now under and are able to say in opposition to what she is aspersed with That 1. She hath the Scriptures in very great regard as that holy word which hath flowed from God by men who had extraordinary inspiration and ability to give it forth according to what hath been apprehended among the most sober and spiritual Saints from time to time concerning the same with the excellency whereof she professeth her self much ravished making it her business to study and to live in the power and spirit of them whose profession and principles having suffered many assaults and temptations herein she remains exceedingly confirmed in her perswasions of and love to the truth holiness authority and precious usefulness of the Scriptures 2. She is for the spiritual exercise of all the ordinances of God to the uttermost degree of light she enjoys against Ranters profane Notionists and all sorts of men of scornful opinions to the contrary for which we have not onely her word but her practice with us which doth best express any ones principle And touching the Ministry because in relation thereunto also a very hard sentence is past upon her there is this to be offered in vindication of her that her principle is plain and firm for it and that she doth much love and reverence own all Ministers that enter in by the door and have the true unction her dissatisfaction is onely to that standing and institution which hath been by Bishops it being derived from Rome or such as are evidently after that pattern and that also without the least prejudice to the grace of God in any 3. Her conversation for any thing that ever came to our knowledge we must testifie hath been very beautiful and unblameable exceeding unworthy of those black mouths which have been opened against it and of those injurious hands she hath fallen into We might say much of her tender conscience her sweet meek sober exemplary temper and impartial love to all Saints and also her freedom and desire to have communion with them upon that old large and universal principle of Saintship and union with Christ wherein we know her to be very excellent as some letters of her own which we have thought our duty to make publike will more effectually declare then we are able This short Testimony we have thought fit to send abroad with this Legacy and Letters of our dear Sister for the exoneration of our duty to God to her and to your souls which we would not have indisposed by any hard thoughts that reports may beget concerning the person whose it is to re●p the fruit and refreshment which our god blessing may redound thereby Dated the 9. of the 5. moneth 1654. Signed in the name and by appointment of the congregation in the absence of our Teacher by Iohn Proud Elder Caleb Ingold Decon Reader thou art desired before thou readest this small Legacy to take notice of these few faults and mend them which by reason of the difficulty of the Copy being old written and torn have escaped the Press AS in page 15. line 6. for Aninomian read Antinomian p. 24. l. 19. r. the soul is made p. 30. l. 1. for from r. for p. 31. l. 31. for men r. me p. 33. l. 27. for 3 Joh. r. 1. p. 35. l. 8. for words r. worlds p. 38. l. 31. for the 40. of Isa r. 29. p. 41. l. 2. for Ioh 1. 14. r. 14. and 1● A LEGACY FOR SAINTS SOme experiences of the workings of God in legall convictions and in the time of childhood First When a child then the Lord awed my Spirit and for the

I was not one by adherency though by imputation Antinomianism was not inherent in me or adhered to by me this name in plain terms is liberty to sin as the Divel nick names Saints so he nick names the doctrine of grace too and sin which is like himself he puts upon is a nick-name garment greater is he that is within Saints then he that is in the world Saints garment is Jesus Christ and nothing can rear or rent or defile this garment Saints clothing is the purest white no dirt throwed upon it can soil it oh Saints rejoyce with me shall we be found worthy to enter in at the straight gate and plucked into the house by the hand of the Angell of the new Covenant when they without shall be stricken with blindness and so not able to find he door Why must a Zoar be preserved for us and a Sodom set on fire Why must some be vessels of dishonour and some of honour some that are high-wayes and lyers about in the hedges fetched in to sup with Christ and the grave ones of the world must not so much as have a taste of Christs dainties F●ee grace and nothing but free grace makes us to differ from others oh let the redeemed of the Lord say so let not Sion boast of her own righteousness which she hath done but let her look by whom she hath her dignity who strikes off all self-boasting the more free grace is apprehended the more self-righteousness is reprehended the creature can never learn the lesson of humiliation and self-denial till it hath been in the School of free grace that is the free School where the best learning is to be had the poor and fatherless here find mercy and here the Governor of this Free-school receiveth every poor Orphane he refuseth none that comes though they have not one friend to make suit for them nay such are soon entertained that trust wholly to this great Governors mercy they have the best learning here is no respect of persons but the poor begger that lyeth in the street that knows not where to have a bit of bread lath nothing but a clothing of tatters to outward view a very miserable creature such a one more respected then a rich Dives that goeth in his velvet and diadems of gold very day oh what manner of love is this that makes no difference between fools and learned ones preferring ideots before the wisdom of the world making the ignorant and erring Spirit to have the greatest understanding Surely such must needs magnifie free grace oh how low is that creature in its own eyes that lives in the spirit and fetcheth nothing from its own free will or from any work of his own but all from Christ he sticks no flower in his bosom but that which none can snatch from him his walks of delight is in no garden but where he may see his beloved walk before him the Saint that is throughly spiritual loves dearly to walk inclosed in the arms of its Saviour and to be imbraced by him and kissed with the kisses of his mouth for his love is better then wine the spirits of wine hath a great efficacy in quickning those that faint and sound away but of a stronger efficacy is divine love it makes dead souls live yea though they are as a tree twice dead and plucked up by the roots dead once and plucked up and set again and again and pruned and dunged and it becomes withered dead though sin hath killed the soul so as to make it wither no convictions no legall promises those are such promises that are made with conditions no such striving can fetch life into one dead in sin and trespasses all strugling and striving in this case is but like the pains which the gardner takes with dead plants that passeth his skill to recover but what the skill of the Gardner cannot reach Divine love can the dead withered soul though to its own view and to others view it appear irrecoverable Divine love lifts this dead soul though it hath lain in the grave of sin that in the thoughts of others it s quite putrified as they thought of Lazarus body Let not dead souls be discouraged for there is life enough for them when not appehended by them once my note was nothing but sorrowful complaining of a dead seared stony hard heart a Spirit I though nothing could have stuck upon it or have soaked into such a heart so hard as it was often my expression my heart nothing can possible enter it for it is as hard surely as the neather mil-stone I could not tell what to liken it to I thought it harder then any thing yet though it was very hard melting love wrought upon it Now I wrought from life and not for it the spirit makes every duty a pleasure whereas I sorely tugged to get up my heart in a duty when I looked upon it as a task which I must do and provide straw too it was a burden I greatly groaned under when I was put upon duties by a command and I had no frame of spirit suitable nor no words I had nothing to fulfill my task and yet I was prest to do it or else the threatning reached me and terrified but when my Mediator came he overcame all my enemies that kept me under and shewed them to me dead and drowned in that red Sea his blood which victory was a long time accomplished before I saw it but when Christ made known to me my freedom bringing me out of Egypt then I offered sacrifices without interruption now I had that brought to hand which wrought all in me and for me when duty is accompanied with priviledge there is then a delight in duties I was mightily taken with priviledge and it was meat and drink to me to be much in hearing praying and meditating and conversing and I could do little else for a year I now met with God in duties I made them not my Comforters but Christ in them and as they were priviledges given me by him so I enjoyed them giving Christ the preheminence which was due to him I having all from the father not of debt but by gift those that say they enjoy all from him they give all to him and rejoice in him as their onely Portion My Dear bosom friends with whom I have fellowship in the spirit from that ingagement of love that is upon me I am strongly moved to declare to you the sundry dealings of God with me the time of bondage and freedom from that bondage hath been declared though but in short Now after this hot Sun shine there arose a black cloud which appeared small at the first rising but it still spread bigger and bigger till it filled the heavens with blackness the heaven in which God had set up his throne in which the King of glory took delight which is the Saints this heaven was covered with clouds and this dark cloud had its

have but spoke a little of that I have been tyred so that I told them to speak of my body was but lost time but if they would hear of Divine things I was free from them I moved in the right sphear and was in my center it was my delight to tell of the unfoldings of God for as I told them it was my desire to spend and to be spent for the Lord Jesus and when they desired me to take to creatures I answered them I would but I could not they wished me to take the advice of the Physician I told them I had not faith to make use of him and whatever is not of faith is sin and besides I told them I could not get down any thing my stomack was so weak and closed up many arguments they brought to me but God gave in answers to all of them but after thus speaking they were about to go away and not to praise and pray with me but there was such an earnestness stirred up within me to entreat prayer that I never desired any with that eagerness and fervency of spirit to pray as I did Mr. Greenhil though he told me he would but that it would weaken my Tabernacle and he said the waters many times arise so high that they wash down the banks yet I could not let him go till he had joyned in praises with me and prayer for me and to me it appeared such a prayer of faith that I never heard him pray so and when the Spirit breathed in him for my recovery he said Lord strengthen thine hand-maids perswasion no sooner were these words gone forth which I am sure was from the Spirit and it was the purpose of God at that time to seal to that which was before spoken therefore God so stirred me up so to desire prayer because that was the time of Gods intentions to give me a farther testimony and as the words before mentioned came forth it was stampt upon my spirits in much glory and majesty in these words it is finished be it according unto thy faith then I was confident without staggering that I should recover though I saw no probability in body for that continued still weaker and like earth even the Sent of a dead carcase but God carried me up abundantly in believing that after this I said Friends now I dare not question any more because it is the voice of my God that hath spoken it and no delusion therefore I said I am not afraid to tell the whole world if I could see them that God would raise me up at the time that though the stript me of my strength of body he would restore it to me again even at that night as I said before God making it out to me by Scripture and after sealing it to me But to tell you how I was that night after Mr. Greenhil was gone about the ninth hour that night an extream pain seized on me and my throat was very sore and a swelling in my mouth which even stopt my breath and Satan violently seized on me tempting me strongly that my breath that night might be stopt and I might have a quincy in my throat and death take me away suddenly and then what will become of thy faith No sooner came this attempt though very strongly yet stronger was he that was within me then he that is of the world and God gave me a word to say to Satan immediatly which was this avoid Satan God is true and thou art a lyer it is the voice of my God I have heard and I know it is true and ere morning my throat and mouth was healed then I saw the love and power of God in that but the Fever continued very much burning my body outwardly like a clod of earth cold and yet in great sweats that I have been as in a reaking bath when I have done speaking that I have been removed from one side of the bed to the other yet nothing troubled me neither cold nor heat and it was a time of extream heat to others they could not tell how to endure it it was so faint a time yet I complained of nothing the carryings up of God were such that when company was restrained from me through the tender love of my friends yet I could not but utter my voice such a mighty spirit of prayer was poured on me in my weakness that when none were with me I could not keep silence what the Spirit spake in me as David saies so may I that when I thought to be silent I could not my spirits rejoyced exceedingly to be speaking of what I saw and heard and as I often said O Saints that you did but feel see and tast with me what unutterable joy would you have I could wish you all as I am except my weakness and if I could speak to you as it was spoken to me I told them it would appear far more glorious but it come from men at second hand which is as water running through the channel but it came to me as water out of a fountain that is from one it came not so swiftly into me now it came so fast from me to the astonishment of friends that one so weak not able to sit up in my bed a quarter of an hour but in great pain though they put pillows to keep me up and this was after God had sealed to his own word that I should recover for then I could have waited if it had been never so long and in never such great torture as I told the Saints now I could lye upon a Rock till the time of deliverance come had God set a longer time I could have been content it was such delight to me to wait after the Sealing For still when the tempter would tell me when I laid my eyes together I should be struck dead and when I said I should recover the Devil told me I should not but death should deprive me of my confidence yet no attempts startled me or weakned my faith in the least measure for God was still at hand to deliver Many times Sathan strove to shatter my confidence but as my Saviour prayed for me when he was here upon the earth in praying for all that should believe so he was ready to rescue me upon all occasions both night and day praised be his holy name which told me he would not fail my expectations but according as he had given me faith to believe it should be to me and still my Saviour encouraged me to believe and I should see his glory And the day after Mr. Greenhill was gone Mr. Simpson came he was with me the fourth day after I kept my bed and I told him how greatly God had appeared to me for which I desire to praise the great God and after this Trumpeter in Israel for I could not but give him that title so soon as I saw him come into the Chamber and assoon as he had

under Captain Fox which is Governour of Pendennis-castle who coming to visit my friend where I am this Ensign Randal inviting me to his house as he did the other friends Fox hearing of it put him out of his place this man hath an excellent humble spirit and of a very good report I give you to understand these several pushings of the horn that so you may not onely have life in your wrestlings but might have it more abundantly striving together in prayer for the day of the Lord Man the devil and Anti-christ hath their day now the Lord make you all sensible of the blaspeming of the Lords coming and raign truly it often makes me tremble to hear and see Christ derided and scoffed at by men that are great Rabbies professors indeed but of the largest kind such as dare lye and revile those that are not of their opinion my beloved brothers and sisters I am bound always to bless God for you and your tender care and dear love to me doth much work up my affections for you and draweth out my whole heart to serve you any way And I knowing the workings of your desires after my welfare the which to understand will be well pleasing to you therefore I need not crave acceptance The Lord whom I serve hath from a child kept me and still doth keep me as a Rememberer of him in his wayes as well as rejoycing and working righteousness and he meets me in all these according to his promise praise free grace for me I intreat prayer and praises abundantly to him whose spirit and eye guided and counselled me hither and is still my safety you would admire divine love with and for me if you knew the lettings down of all might that hath been in me and on my behalf the which is too large to give you an account of by writing but in this little ●ast given to you I know it will satisfie for the present I found the benefit of your prayers this time twelve moneth I being in Satans sore enthraldom which was as a Lion and a Bear to me I shall never forget your labour of love for me then and seeing you were prevaile●s then which was manifest even this moneth deliverance was wrought for you unworthy sister but I will bless God for the worthiness of a Christ crucified for me who manifested himself as a safety and Saviour to the utmost now the Lord tryeth my faith by suffering the uncircumcised Philistime to war against me and this storm calls forth prayer afresh for me though this is but a small encounter to the other because my stroke I cryed out was heavier then my groaning and I could not find nor see God any where nor in any thing as a God of love but now mercy and goodness follows me day and night and blessed be his name he is an open treasure-house and much treasure he conveyeth pray that I may walk worthy of his Kingdom and glory Truly my dear brothers sisters the joy of the Lord is my strength he thinketh nothing too dear nor too much for those that are sealed to the day of Redemption we are beholding to Christ who becomes all in all I see every day much leanness barrenness and unfruitfulness in me that is in my flesh there is still strugling and fighting and warring but through faith in Christ I am an overcomer and I am not foyled but the more I see of brightness the more I am filled with self abhorrency and loathing my own ways thoughts Dear friends I intreat an exhortation and advice from you it will much add to my joy I hope I need not use any motive to stir up and draw out your love towards me for I having found it ready to serve me upon the greatest occasion I will not doubt of it now though I am so remote I know many waters cannot quench love and therefore before I take leave of you for this time I shall desire that you with my own soul may be more in the practice of love provoknig one another unto that love and unity which is a perfect bond and fulfiller of the Law it beareth and forbeareth it envieth not it takes up no evil reports against any of the flock it judgeth not rashly it seeketh not her own it surely praiseth for another members enjoyment as for its own Seeing all members make but one body let the same mind be in us which dwelt in Christ Jesus this is the earnest desire of her which prayeth for you without ceasing and salutes the whole Church and rests Your unworthy Sister in the fellowship of the Gospel ANNA TRAPNEL From Tregasow at Captain Langdons near Trurow this 15. of the 2. moneth 1654. A Letter to a Friend Dear Sir I Waited for a fit opportunity and matter still more fuller to present you with and truly matter is so much that now I cannot by writing give an account the Lord hath been a very tender father and hath and doth give me many expressions thereof his provision is much and of the best continually I may say he is more and better to me then my desires for they are scanty but he is fulness and ever since I saw you I have had Rivers of pleasures spiritual kindnesses unutterable but have I any thing to boast in save in Free grace No surely O of Divine love will I make mention who is the same yesterday as to day and so will be for ever it alters not and I find it so but however if I did not yet it hath not so much as a shadow of change in it but the Lord is a never failing portion and I every day have new experience thereof I may well use that admiring speech of Paul Oh the heighht and depth both of the wisdom and knowledge of God his ways are past finding out yet untrodden paths hath wisdom brought out but to whom even to fools and low base vilde nothings and this the wise learned rich knowing ones cannot bear True Scripture language cannot be born in these days the people of this generation vote it down and the cry is amongst all sorts especially the Clergy and that of the refined sort too that cryes away with Christs raign and Subjects we will have our Barrabasses live And shall not hearing and se●ing Christ so despised cause us to say with them under the Altar that so many years ago cryed out Come Lord Jesus come quickly Oh now is a time to beg God to work now his Law of the Spirit is so made void and that by those that are frequent in forms and much they plead for them but the power is hated as their actions witness which are sufficient Judges but what can be said to these things God is for the work of the day who shall then frustrate Dear Sir I shall now acquaint you with the tumultuous waves and high billows that rise up in these parts I said when Satan was letting out the noise