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A52284	A burning yet unconsumed bush, exemplified in the dolorous life and glorious death of ... Mrs. Mary Harrison, who departed this life June the 21st, in the 23d year of her age, or, A brief and faithful narrative of the effectualness of her conviction ... together with the author's speech to the inhabitants of Havant, at the close of her funeral sermon ... / by C. Nicholetts ...	Nicholets, Charles.	1700 (1700)	Wing N1084; ESTC R8929	72,094	172

the Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness if the Absoluteness of the Covenant of Grace if believing Justification to be an immanent and instaneous Act if the excluding Works and all other Concauses whatever with the Merits of Christ in the matter of our Justification be Antinomianism the Lord keep me an Antinomian whilst I live for in the firm Truth of these great Points I desire to be found believing when I dye Oh! my Dear Friends and Brethren hold fast the Form of sound Words keep close to the Blessed and Glorious Truths of the Gospel do not give heed to the Seducing Fables of Men who cry up Inherent Righteousness and previous Qualifications in order to a Regenerate State making an Idol of them Singing Songs of Triumph to them as Israel did about the Golden Calf These be thy Gods O Israel that brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt 'T is the Honour of your Pulpit that no other Sound but that of Aaron's Golden Bells no other Melody but Grace Grace has as yet been heard there No Trash of Legal Righteousness or Humane Glittering Performances as Antecedaneous to a closing with Christ have been bellow'd forth within your Virgin-Walls that are yet undefiled and God of his Mercy still keep them so with the Language of the Beast For though you have had many Preachers yet they have been all acted by the same Spirit spoke the same thing borne Witness to the same Truth even Salvation by the Blood of Jesus without any Hay or Stubble of Man's Endeavours And if the Opposers of the everlasting Gospel gratifie their Luxuriant Fancies by Nick-naming it Antinomianism Oh! let not that discourage or disturb you Fourthly My last Advice to you is That you would have a special care of your Walking you have the Light Oh! Walk as Children of the Light You are Foundation Stones I heartily with none of you may prove rotten or unsound ones for that will prove very pernicious to your future Building and most dreadful to your own Souls in a dying Hour Remember Oh! Remember Holiness becomes the House of our God for ever Holiness is the Crown of the Church-Militant and it will be for ever the Glory of the Church-Triumphant You have many Eyes upon you many envious ones that are impatiently watching for your halting Oh! therefore I beseech you I most humbly and earnestly beg you for the Lord's sake for your Souls sake for the Gospel's sake for your Friends sake take special heed to your Steps and that in every respect Oh! do not fill Gath with Joy or the Streets of Askelon with Triumph put no occasion of insulting in the Mouths of the Uncircumcised by any Failing or Miscarriage Grieve not the Spirits of your Friends by giving your Enemies any just cause to upbraid you But walk in all things in all cases according to the Rule of the Gospel Loath Sin and leave it yea hate the very Appearance of Evil Remember the Son of God walks up and down among you to observe you with his Eyes as Flames of Fire you are not now in the wide World but in the Sacred Boundaries of Mount Zion and therefore you cannot Sin at so cheap a Rate as you did before Oh! that you would follow the Footsteps of your Dear and Precious Sister She has left you a Copy Oh! that you would Write after it Oh! that you may so live Oh! that you may so dye as she did Then comfortable will it be for you here and happy will it be with you hereafter As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk ye in him rooted and built up in him and stablished in the Faith as ye have been taught abounding therein with Thanksgiving And we will not cease to Pray for you and incessantly to desire That ye might be all filled with the Knowledge of the Will of God in all Wisdom and Spiritual Vnderstanding That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all well-pleasing being Fruitful in every good Work and increasing in the Knowledge of God Strengthned with all Might according to his Glorious Power unto all Patience and Long-suffering with Joyfulness Giving Thanks to the Father who hath made you meet to be Partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light Who hath delivered you from the Powers of Darkness and hath translated you into the Kingdom of his Dear Son My Dear Friends Excuse my Plainness bear with my Earnestness for my Soul loves you and you are very near my Heart I would not have you in the least miscarry or fall short in any thing of the Hopes we have of you for the whole World But as you have begun so hold out hold on and you will certainly Reap at last if you faint not It is but a little while and you shall he where your Heavenly Sister is gone before you even in the Mansions of Eternal Glory with the ever-blessed God In whose Presence there is fulness of Joy and at whose right-hand there are Pleasures for ever-more Now the God of Peace that brought again from the Dead the Lord Jesus that great Shepherd of the Sheep through the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant make you perfect in every good Work to do his Will working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be Glory for ever and ever Amen And I beseech you Brethren suffer the Word of Exhortation for I have written a Letter unto you in few words with which I bid you heartily Farewel in the Lord Sincerely Subscribing my self Your Truly Affectionate Servant and Brother in our Dearest Jesus C. Nicholetts TO HIS Worthy and much valued Friend Mr. R. W. SIR I Received yours wherein you pressingly desire an Account of that young Gentlewoman Mrs. Mary Harrison who lately went to Heaven from amongst us whose Fame I perceive has reached your Ears Really Sir the Person you enquire after deserves to be known by the whole World For I sincerely think considering every thing and all Circumstances as to the manner of her Conversion and the Fruitful Consequence of it together with the Agonies of her Soul in yearning after Christ and her prodigious aspiring Heaven-ward she has hardly left her Fellow behind her 'T is pitty the Pencil was not in an abler Artist's Hand that her Picture might be drawn to the best Advantage according to the Truth of those lively Colours the many Passages of her Life would afford to set it off for then I am sure it would be as valuable at least in the Eyes of the Serious as any Life whose History has pass'd the Press these many Years and so universally satisfactory that the Censures of the severest Criticks would be turned into Astonishment and Admiration You are pleased to tell me I am the fittest Person to write the Narrative of her Case I confess in respect of my intimate Knowledge of her and frequent Converse both day and night with her and as one to whom

A Burning yet Unconsumed Bush Exemplified IN THE Dolorous Life and Glorious Death Of that Young Convert And Most Excellent SAINT Mrs. MARY HARRISON Who Departed this Life June the 21st in the 23d Year of her Age. OR A Brief and Faithful Narrative Of the Effectualness of her Conviction The Painfulness of her Conversion The Dreadfulness of her Temptation The Deplorableness of her Condition And the Triumphant Joyfulness of her Dissolution Together with the Author's Speech to the Inhabitants of Havant at the close of her Funeral Sermon Published in General for Common Good but particularly at the Request of some of the New gather'd Church at Chichester of which she was a Member And especially to satisfie a Worthy Friend far off who by Letters importun'd the Author thereunto By C. NICHOLETTS Minister of the Gospel in HAVANT LONDON Printed and Sold by B. Harris at the Golden Boars-Head in Grace-Church-street 1700. To the Reverend Mr. Richard Robins Pastor of a Congregation in London My very Dear and much Esteemed Brother WHEN I Reflect on the blessed Providence that opened so wide a Door for the Occupation of your Talent the last Winter at Chichester and the strange and amazing Success that attended your Labours there I cannot but hope the Glorious Day which Zion's Converts have so long Mourned Prayed and Waited for is nigh at Hand even a plentiful Effusion of the Spirit upon all the Followers of the Lamb of which more than a Taste was given in the mighty Portion that rested upon you whilst you were delivering your Masters Errand in that Place Your Face like Moses did eminently Shine during your Commemoration on that Mount of Vision to the Observation and Admiration of all the Beholders none but your self was ignorant of it so that the Multitude was ready to Hosanna you as they did your Master before you and in the same Language too Never Man spake like this Man And so strange a Consternation was there in the Minds of all and so wonderful a Conviction in the Hearts of many as quite confounded the Opposers of Gospel Light and Truth and made them even gnash their Teeth for Madness Oh! how did the Dukes of Palestina tremble and the Inhabitants of Canaan melt away How did the Formal and Legal Rabbies Vex and Fume that a Nehemiah so suddenly so unexpectedly stood on the Wall with undaunted Courage and they could not pluck him down That there appear'd a Man whom with all their Machinations they could not hinder to seek in good Earnest the Welfare of Immortal Souls by Preaching the Truth fully and clearly as it is in Jesus so that the People which before sat in Darkness saw great Light and to those who were and a long time had been in the Regions of the Shadow of Death Light sprung up But though the Enemies of Free-Grace were grieved exceedingly by your so powerful and spiritual Preaching the Children of the Bride-Chamber were as much Comforted Enlivened Refreshed and many poor Dead Sinners Awakened Convinced and Perswaded to Embrace the Everlasting Gospel which was Sounded in their Ears in such a Strain that many though Old Hearers to my Knowledge did Profess they never heard the Gospel before And Oh! What an Astonishing Change was visibly Observ'd in the Faces of the Inhabitants of Chichester Such Crowding and Thronging to hear the Word dropping as sweet smelling Myrrh from your Lips the Oldest Man Alive never saw the like The Walls of the Meeting-house though in the coldest Season of the Winter Sweated with Heat a true Emblem of the Warmth many Frozen Hearth felt by the reflective Rays of Zion's Glory and the Spirits of the most Ignorant were strangely Reviv'd with the fragrant odoriferous Savor of Aaron's sweet Perfume so Plentifully and in a Theop-must Manner disfus'd amongst them Concerning this Perfume which I take to be an eminent Type of the Riches of Free-Grace there was a Law Enacted in the Court of Heaven Whoever made any Thing like it should be put to Death If that Statute was still in Force few Preachers in our Day would be in danger of its Penalty Alas they don't come near it their Preaching is far enough wide from it They are either bellowing Bulls of Sinai thundering out the Terrors of the Law and belching forth the Flames of Hell to affrighten and distract poor Creatures and make them run Mad or else they are for putting them to Earn their expected Happiness as Adam was doom'd to Eat his Bread with the Sweat of their Brow This they must do and that they must do to get an Interest in Christ And then we have a Learned Receipt so many Pints of Repentance that must be extracted from the Limbeck of their moist Brains so many Pounds of Duties that must be weighed at the Beam of their own Intellects to make them capable of God's Acceptance and they must be sure to come full Loaded with a Bundle of Qualifications at their Backs if they would have Christ to be their Saviour Oh! What pitiful Trash is this how far from that Gospel which the Lord Jesus sends his Ambassadors whom he anoints with the Unction of the Holy One to Preach and Hold forth to poor Sinners That sounds forth a free Offer and Tender of Mercy to all that Look to and Believe in a Crucify'd Jesus of which Ambassadors Sir you apparently and beyond Contradiction manifested your self to be One and a chief One too when you first lifted up your Voice as a Trumpet in the Audience of the Inhabitants of Chichester Oh! how Beautiful were your Feet shod with the Preparation of the Glorious Gospel for that you brought good Tidings to them that were ready to Perish you Published Peace even that Peace which the World cannot give and which the Devil cannot take away you brought good Tidings of Good the Goodness of Free-Grace the Immense Ocean of Divine Love You Published Salvation and that with a Gospel Spirit and in a Gospel Dialect as it was Published by the Lord Jesus himself and all his Apostles You said unto Zion thy God Reigneth on the Throne of Mercy dispencing Grace and Favour to the worst of Sinners For this were your Labours Accepted for this was your Person Honoured for this was your Ministry in very high Esteem among all sorts of Persons How many will have cause to Bless God to all Eternity they ever saw your Face Oh! How many visible Seals of your Apostleship did you leave behind you when you left the Place You never Preached a Sermon there in Vain but many Eyes were Opened many Hearts Affected and deeply Touched many Consciences Awakened whenever you opened your Mouth which made a worthy Person well Vers'd in Gospel Affairs Write me Word then at London he verily Believ'd you did more Good Two or Three Sabbath-days in Chichester than any Minister yea than all the Ministers in Sussex had done Seven Years before This was very refreshing News to my Soul it made my Heart