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knowledge_n	jesus_n	patience_n	temperance_n	1,484	5	11.2902	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65271	An epistle by way of testimony to the friends of Manchester and thereabouts given forth shortly after the death of my dear daughter, Mary Moss, wife of Isaac Moss of Manchester, who departed this life the XXIX of the 11th month, 1692 : with a testimony concerning my dear wife Mary Watson, who since departed this life the 2d of the 9th month, 1694 / by Samuel Watson ; together with a few words written by Elizabeth Moss concerning her dear mother.	Watson, Samuel, ca. 1618-1708.; Moss, Elizabeth. Few words by way of remembrance of my dear mother M. Watson.	1695 (1695)	Wing W1096; ESTC R13490	8,499	18

behind who were sometimes conversant with this dear Servant and Follower of the Lamb who was a sweet-smelling Savour unto you that have received the Truth in the love of it and in measure walk in it this Council and Admonition I give unto you Keep in the Holy Watch in the holy stay'dness of Mind that you may be ready to answer the Mind of him who is the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob that hath called you out of Darkness into his Marvailous Light and liberty of his Son Christ Jesus let no other liberty in your Conversation be given way to than what is purchased by the pretious Blood of the Lamb by which you are bought so that you may find in Spirit continually a Standard lifted up in you to the resisting of all Evil and that you are not your own but are bought with a Price a Holy Engagement is upon you to serve the Lord in your Souls Bodies and Spirits which are his This one thing keeping to will keep you in a Holy and humble frame of Life and Conversation in the daily Cross as becomes the Gospel and in the feeling of the Love of God shed abroad in your Hearts the Branch of Righteousness will spring forth in you and as a well-watered Garden and a Spring of Water whose Waters fail not will your Souls be to bring forth Fruits of Love godly Patience and holy Obedience to God in a dayly self-denial and taking up the Cross which Crucifies to the World the Vanities and Lusts thereof and slays the Enmity on the Cross so will more and more Branches appear which spring's from the true Root and Ground of Holiness where every little one that keeps in the Holy fear may partake of the Sap and Nourishment which will make you prosperous and witness a daily growth in the heavenly Life And I exhort you all to give all diligence to make your caling and Election sure that an entrance you may know into the Kingdom and add to your Faith which you have received in Christ Jesus the Author of it Vertue and to Vertue Knowledg and to Knowledge Temperance and to Temperance Patience and to patience Godliness and to Godliness Brotherly kindness and to Brotherly kindness Charity which is the Mark of Christianity and the Birth which inherits the Kingdom and those that abide in these things they cannot be barren or unfruitful in the Work of the Vineyard God hath called them into but are always ready and prepared with the wise Virgins to enter into the Bridegrooms Chamber not knowing how soon the last call may be to any of us that are yet remaining in these Tabernacles of Clay but keep so Waiting and in Faithfulness that the Crown of Glory we may obtain with this pretious obedient and dear Sister that is gone before us And be not weary in well-doing and meeting often together and as you keep in a holy Thirst and hungring after Righteousness you will partake of a daily Watering at that living Stream and feeding on that living Bread which comes down from Heaven without which you cannot live and walk up to God nor keep in that which is acceptable unto him as this dear Plant of our heavenly Father kept to the end of her days So unto the great Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls do I commit you all to be led guided and taught by him who is the Comforter and Spirit of Truth which leads into all Truth I communicate this in tender Love to you all tho' but a small number and one of them being taken from you who was great in Love but little in her own Eyes The Lord with whom all things are possible will give an Encrease and enlarge your Borders in the Truth in his own time So in a Holy salutation of Love and Good will to you all I bid you farewell and rest Your dear Friend and Brother in the Truth S. WATSON A short Testimony concerning my dear Wife Mary Watson who departed this life the 2d of the 9th Month 1694. Dear Friends THis dear Companion and Fellow-labourer in the Gospel of life and Salvation who was a dear and tender Wife to me given by the great God of Heaven and Earth to be a Yoke-fellow to me not only in Body but in Spirit and though she was attended and afflicted with many Infirmities of Body yet great hath been our Travails and Exercises in Spirit together in Prayer and Supplication to God who hath fitted and prepared our Hearts with prayers and thanksgiving to offer up to him as Incense upon his Holy Altar who hath helped us through many Tribulations and shed abroad his love in our Hearts and made us livingly to partake together of the Springs of Life and Salvation in our Bosoms and keep us in a true unity of Spirit as Heirs of the same Grace that our Prayers were not hindred but with Jacob in that Seed we came often to know a wrestling in our inward Man and a prevailing with God for a Blessing And the end of my dear Companions Labour Travail and pure Breathings is accomplished in her final Testimony who is visibly gone and taken from me to her sweet Eternal Rest where no more Afflictions either in Body or Mind can surprize her But as her terrestrial Body is gone to its Center from whence it came unto which it was to return again in the appointed time so her Immortal Soul in and through Obedience to the Seed Christ Jesus in it's redeemed State is gathered into a glorious Mansion and everlasting Habitation where the Resurrection unto Heavenly Happiness stands sure on the Foundation and Rock of Ages and Generations She was sometimes under Fears of this great passage from Mortality as some have been in antient time but my Travail in Spirit with her Spirit was That through the living Faith she had received in Christ the Author of it she might keep still stedfast and fight the good Fight of Faith and Victory should be obtained which was in God's season manifested in her inward Man and afterwards she spoke forth pure Acknowledgments of the same to our great refreshing several Weeks before her departure giving me comfortably to understand That the Work of Redemption was wrought and compleated in her and all doubts and fears removed And now she waited to be dissolved and to be with Christ that redeemed and sanctified her and put on Righteousness as a Garment and Salvation as a Lamp that burneth so that as a wise Virgin she was prepared to enter into the Bridegroom's Chamber of Eternal Joy and Praises filled her Vessel while she had any Strength in her Vitals remaining and her Eye was to that heavenly Family out of all the Families of the Earth where she would gladly be rejoycing with her tender Off-spring and Relations gone before her as often her Expression were to be with them All visible Helps and outward Enjoyments failing she had the Lord for her Portion and kept in a Possession of