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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

they loved Saints as Saints and oh that Saints were in such a frame as to eye Saintship more and to love one another because of that heavenly relation they are in having one Father and one Saviour I onely briefly mention some things concerning the time of my spirits first step into dissertion and I cannot but warn Christs babes nay though they be young men that is such as are grown from their time of infancy to riper years yet those that are more strong in the faith that have got higher then an Infant in spirituality even these may be cautioned to take heed that they look not more upon externals then upon internals Saints fetch all your comforts from your Saviours bosom still eye that which is from everlasting to everlasting it s a very secure centering in Jesus we are still in hazzard of losing our spirits when they take a rambling from Mountains to Hills sometimes they fall into a deep valley ere they are aware and when they are down many again find it a long time ere they can get up HItherto you have had an account of the Proceedings of God with her from the beginning of his Works in her in various dispensations of Free-Grace through Light and Darkness Liberty and Bondage wherein the deep and more discerning Generation of Christians may discover the beginnings and growing up of the child Jesus in her unto greater measures of Wisdom and Power then are common to most Saints and withall some hints from God of the pleasure of his will to magnifie the Wonders and Powers of his Spirit by her in some notable and transcending way where God begins to break down the Walls of flesh in a Creature in such a rending way upon those ruines he raiseth up a foundation of Heaven and of Glory to be admired In the deeps do men behold the wonders of the Lord and be lays the foundation of his Chambers in the depths Here followeth a Relation how the Glory of God appeared in her in a time of sore sickness when to all appearance she was nigh unto death shewing the precious and Powerfull faith that wrought in her and the mighty witness of God to the truth of her faith in a Glorious Effect of his Power demonstrated upon her in a visible way whereby god would seem as by a visible Sign to manifest that the Invisible God dwells in her and would put to silence the Ignorance Pride and Rage of flesh against the Presence and Power of God in her And whereby she seems to be set forth of God as an Example to all them that believe of a Faith and Power with God that is to be attained beyond what most have yet received the enjoyment of The Mysterie of Faith with Power in the heights and depths of it being yet very little understood and less enjoyed by the Lords dearest Children For whose sake this is come forth at length after some years Concealment and the rather in such a day as this wherein the Saints are called to put on again the Faith once delivered whereby they overcame all things both within and without and all things became subject unto them The account hereof follows as it was delivered to us in her own Words and Writings IT being the desire of all the Saints and of all that wish well to Sion to hear of the experiences each of other that they have in the pourings out of the Spirit which God hath said he will pour out in the latter days upon all flesh his Sons and his Daughters shall Prophesie many promises we have in the like nature And faith Christ those that believe as the Scripture hath said out of their belly shall flow Rivers of living Waters this spake he of the Spirit which should be given after his Ascention to the Father therefore the Saints are to expect it and the more the Spirit appears the greater will be the rage of Antichrist but the greater their Tribulations are the nearer will be their time of deliverance and Christ encourages Saints to list up their heads for their Redemption draweth nigh And Christ tells believers it is not only given them to believe but to suffer and the Apostle bids us not think it strange concerning fiery Tryals for such things we must meet withall before we enter into Glory even that glory promised the Saints in this life Now Saints the dropings and glimmerings of the Spirit begin to appear the day begins to dawn the day-star shall appear in its brightness so that it shall be said to the Saints arise and shine for your light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you then shall the Saints be of one mind and one heart and shall not need to teach one another Saying know the Lord for they shall all be taught of God from the least to the greatest and then shall light break forth as at noon day Surely then believers shall be more frequent in calling to each other to tell what God hath done for their souls as I the most unworthy servant of the Lord Jesus am engaged to declare what God hath lately done for me putting forth his Power both for the removing of the distemper from soul and body which now I shall relate to the praise and glory of Free-Grace And I doubt not but that it will be to the joy of all the Saints for unto them I call to magnifie the Lord with me and that we may exalt his name together for it should be the delight of Saints to set up God and not self because what they are or have is all by Grace so that the Psalmist saith Not unto us but unto thy name be the praise this O friends this makes me to abhor my self in dust and ashes because I have seen the Lord more then in an ordinary manner So that I cannot but speak the things which I have seen and heard from the holy Spirit and this may be sufficient to draw out your attentions and serious considerations to that experience I am about to speak through the strength of the Spirit which bears witness to what I speak to be truth which Spirit shall lead into all truth Saints let me tell you or the Spirit making use of me to tell you that though a Cloud and Darkness may for a time cover your Spirits after you are Called and Justified and Sanctified by the holy Spirit in believing for the Tryal of your faith which is much more precious then Gold or Silver for certainly when God seems to be at a distance from the soul in respect of Communion so that God seems to be afar off and yet the soul made one Spirit with the Lord Jesus And this was my condition that though I could own God as my Father and had the Spirit of Adoption whereby I could cry Abba Father and faith given to believe the pardon of all my sins past present and to come even then my Spirits were ready to crack in

may be pleased and this was their envy because I saw their downfal and told of it they could not abide me but that which made them cry out was their Diana Tythe this gain brought to them by the Rulers makes them cry up the fourth Monarchy not that they care for them but it s theirs that they are greedy after and that maketh the Priest take false oaths or do any thing to ingratiate with the Rulers that so they may put into their mouths but their time will not be long I am confident for their horn groweth blunt pointed it will ere long be broken to pieces it cannot last many years for woe and great fury is against them being the greatest enemies Christ hath in England and they make the poor Countries drunk with their Fornication Oh therefore lament and mourn and pray down this abomination and bless God that you are come off from the Adulterers function and take heed of medling with a hoof of that beast any more I believe you never saw nor felt that horn as I have done since I came from London but if as to my hurt the pushing had been I would have been silent I am sure I should but seeing its against the Priestly office and prophetical and Kingly cower of King Jesus I must declare for him and while I have tongue and breath it shall go forth for the fifth Monarchy-Laws teaching and practice Oh let not life be more valued then it shall we think too much for the chiefest of ten thousands God forbid My dear Brothers and Sisters your beloved wives I beg leave to encourage you and to comfort you with my comfortable enjoyments being perswaded they are for your sakes And oh that you may be strengthned thereby hearing of a poor Shrub one of a timerous fearful cowardly nature and in her own concernments no whit valorous the Lord knoweth but as for the Lords concernments I see fierce Rulers and reviling Priests and mocking rude multitude and Swords and Guns do not nor hath not so much as caused the least damp to arise in me but I praise that such a vile unworthy Creature as I should have so much honor inferr'd upon me I never was sure so much in self-loathing and abhorring as now If that the Trial of faith be so precious what is faith it self but what is that object then for whom it s tryed I pray rest on him and abide faithful to the end for I know he will Crown you with Deliverance and Conquest Fight under his Banners he will not forsake you wait for you shall not be ashamed you shall see the end of your faith and your tongue shall say let the Lord be magnified Praise ye the Lord for me and Pray for me a poor silly Creature in whom the Lord is seen I have nothing to glory in save in infirmities Pray that I may not be proud of sufferings I have a base heart but the Lord through Grace maketh me for the present more then a Conqueror Pray that I may continue I dare not say if all deny Christ I will not Yet through his strength I shall not love my life to the death and I have believed therefore have I spoken and I believe and therefore speak and the Lord our God increase our Fai●h Amen so be it saith your sister in the Faith and Fellowship of the Gospel Anna Trapnel For the Lords Prisoner at Windsor Castle From the same Lords Prisoner at Plimouth Fort who is to be sent by Sea I do not know when But I am to be conveyed to Portchmouth and the Order saith to the Council and so to be dealt with according to Justice but I know not what their Justice is But I am sure their true Justice shall make them know what it is in due time I am no fearful nor careful as to what they may say and do The Lord and his Council is on my side that shall be my defence for ever To the Church sometimes meeting at All-hallows the Great in Thames-street In LONDON My Dear BRothers and Sisters Grace Mercy and Peace I am perswaded are your companions And it s no small joy to me Neither is it a little matter in my esteem to be taken in and reckoned one of your companions in the sweet and lovely Fellowship of the Gospel And that upon that noble account of Union and Communion with Christ Which Principle you do well to look unto that nothing take it away from you For sure it is a Crown worth the prizing And will and doth make you as a Beakon on a Hill lighted And if this Crown be let go then Antichrists rigid thorny Crown will be advanced by you and I you will put your selves out of a capacity of doing and receiving that good which I am sure this Gospel Principle affords and honors you with But of that I need say no more for I know you are taught of God and being so I know you are not unwilling to be put in mind by your unworthy sister whom I am sure hath a dear honored honouring respectfull love to you in her heart and where-ever she goeth And saying often to the Lord what am I that thou shouldest put me among those children I am melted by loves flame and in the suns thaw and heat I through Grace now write unto you my beloved friends that though your unworthy sister be in a Prison here at Plimouth Fort it s for the matters and concernments of King Jesus Therefore I am perswaded it will be no blemish to your dear Fellowship the which I prize more then my liberty or life If I know my own heart Sure I have cause to bless God for your Prayers for I know I have much benefit thereby Not now only but ever since I saw you O my friends Pray Pray Pray still for her which never ceaseth Praying for you even when my bodily senses sleepeth my Spirit hath Communion with you and for you I never had so many smiles and such constant intimate familiarity with God as since my outward imprisonment O that you were all as I am except my bonds for its a condition worth the high esteem of you all But shall I boast of Visions and Revelations and Faith wound up very high I will not hereof boast But of free Grace I will think and speak and praise and give thanks and let me herein engage you also and Christs love to his friends I beseech you for his sake do not be silent hold not your peace day nor night till Jerusalem be made the praise of the whole earth You have a prise put into your hands lay hold O do not let it go They that draw back the Lord will have no pleasure in He cannot abide tottering frames of spirit He no way approves of a setting the hand to the Plow and falling back again to a lazy idle state they are not like to attain to that stature Scripture speaks of which is better

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

then worldly state and dying pomp and withering prosperity and fading gallantry What will they do who takes up spends and wasts away that time which sure is precious Dear friends you probably may hear divers reports concerning me from that false evil spirits raising in these parts and sending their Rumerous sound into those Eastern parts which I know hath grieved many of you though as to the harboring of Reports against me whereby to be prejudiced concerning the work of the Lord in me and magnified by me I am perswaded you will not receive any thing of such like nature which hath the Spawn of Satan in it But I would not vindicate my self were it not for truths sake But however I leave my own particular with the truth who will vindicate it self and me too at the conclusion For the which I am made willing by Divine strength to wait and not compulsively but willingly For I know him in whom I trust will stand by me And indeed he is always with me against enemies within and without what I have suffered since I saw you For the Lord thereby he is still putting on more of that cloathing of humility which my soul exceedingly desires and pray friends do you beg this for me too and that I may not be proud of Sufferings Methinks they are high honors I sure am unworthy to be so honored but O how beholding am I to Christ and his worthiness and to that I look and I know he keepeth me else I should soon depart from him and his ways I stand not one moment but by Omnipotent power And of this he maketh me largely to experience I may admire his love Many ways it hath let out its imbraces I will not fear what men can do unto me for I am not ready to be bound but to dye I speak not a Pauls word but the Lord knows I speak from seeing hearing tasting and feeling that which maketh my heart live And I know that Christ lives in me and the life that I live is by the faith of the Son of God who dyed and gave himself for me and the knowledge of this makes souls active for him not only to honor him in prosperity but to glorifie him in the fires And if any be cast into Prison by Satan either inwardly or outwardly if it be for Christ they shall have great joy and though I could not count it all joy when I was in Satans horrible Pit Yet for that sorrow occasioned by him I have had abundance of joy and can and do account it a choice pearl in my Crown that I am now Crowned with which is freely given to me not only to believe but to suffer and truly this second Prison of Satans is a joyfull one not onely to me but to many spectators My dear brothers and sisters you mourned while I was in that last years Prison But I beseech you rejoyce and be glad that your unworthy sister hath liberty and enlargement in a Prison I should rejoyce to see your faces and enjoy that sweet Communion in Gods Sanctuary but though absent in body I am sure I am not so in Spirit and the thoughts of this affords me great contentment For I cannot say woe is me because I am not in Mesech neither am I an inhabitant in the Tents of Kedar For the Lord is a Sanctuary here as well as in the West and I know if he carry me West East North or South he will not let me fall But if my self or Creature carry me I durst not be so confident My dear friends bear with my boldness for Christ I am sure I have a bashfull nature and as to my own matters I am not forward Do I herein justifie my self I do not but I praise the Lord and our Father that keepeth me whatsoever any besmearings are he washing open Fountain washeth away And I see all thing working for good though I come very short of my duty to God-ward and indeed I may cry O my barrenness and un●●u●fulness and that truly for I tail much the expectation of so many showers of mercy in that I am so little in bringing forth fruit But I can say m● desires are large Pray then O pray to our Father to fulfill such desires which is a●ter much Sanctifie that I may glorifie him in Soul Body and Spirit they being the Lords I would not be my own nor for my own things I would be and be for the Lord intreat that I may hold out to the end notwithstanding all rage or rages I shall give you a fuller account of my demeanor when the Lord brings me to see you which sure I shall do though many seek my life They that loose their life for King Jesus sake shall take it up again and they that cowardly seeks to save it shall loose it I sent you a Letter from the West in one to brother Gardner wherein I desired your Counsel and Exhortation but I have no Answer I believe you do not forget me Yet I am grieved you do not write to me now in my bonds But I am perswaded they are made easie through your Prayer if I any way offend you tell me that I may do so no more but if any are not perswaded concerning the extraordinary dispensation that hath been and is still upon me I am sorry that any should be offended at such Soul-ravishing Sin-subduing Creature-Crucifying Christ-Exalting Ordinance Loving Enjoyments If any of these be not prized and endeavoured after by me then chide me O spare not to reprove me for in many things I offend But my dear friends if Christs eye ravisheth I must sing If he open the mouth it will Pray if the Spirit say come the Brid saith so to and they that hear utter come Lord Jesus come quickly I am taking my Voyage Time and Tyde will not tarry I take my leave Pray for my journey from Portchmouth and for courage to bring me to the Council I have much at the present I bless God Farewell my dear friends I Rest Your Engaged sister in the Spirit and Faith and Fellowship of the Gospel Anna Trapnel Who desires not to be her own but the Lords and his Peoples For Whole Sion she suffers with whole Sion she shall Reign Though unworthy From Plimouth Fort in haste going strait with Captain Kendal a States Ship to Portchmouth This 8 of the 3 Moneth 1654. 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