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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65443	A vindication of Anne Wentworth tending to the better preparing of all people for her larger testimony, which is making ready for publick view. Published according to the will of God, and direction of charity. By Anne Wentworth. To which is annexed a letter written by an eminent Christian, concerning the said Anne Wentworth, and directed to the several congregations of the Anabaptists, and their respective pastors. As also a song of tryumph by the said Anne Wentworth, a daughter of Sion, newly delivered from the captivity of Babylon, &c.	Wentworth, Anne.	1677 (1677)	Wing W1356; ESTC R219445	15,970	25

come to condemn themselves in the Person and case of another The Spirit and the letter are no where contrary but thou mayst think them so and by not duly attending upon the Spirit in the letter mayst unnaturally set the letter to oppose the Spirit from whence it comes to which it testifies and whither it tends I beg of you all that read these lines for your own sakes that you will remember still how the Jewes did of old vilifie reproach condemn and execute our Saviour and justified themselves herein by the letter of the Law of God with the breach of which Law they were continually charging him throughout his whole life yet was it exactly according to their own Law and in those very cases about which they were so much offended at him Nor has it fared otherwise with the whole seed of Christ and all the spiritual manifestations of him in all ages The best of Men and Principles have still been challeng'd for their Non-conformity to the letter and outward rule although they have been most agreeable thereunto As the Apostle speaks not without Law to God but under the Law to Christ And I do further declare that the things I have published and written and which are such an offence to my Husband and indeed the cause of all the Persecutions I have suffered from others were written sorely against my own natural mind and will That I often beg'd of God I might rather die then do it That I was commanded of God to record them That my own natural temper was so greatly averse to it that for eleven months together I withstood the Lord till by an Angel from Heaven he threatned to kill me and took away my sleep from me And then the terrors of the Lord forced me to obey the command And indeed the writings that man was so displeased with were in themselves very warrantable if I had not had any such command of God for I only wrote the way he lead me in a wilderness of affliction for 18 years to do me good and declared my experiences my great and wonderful deliverances my many answers of Prayers in difficult cases from time to time but most true it is I did not speak of these things nor set Pen to paper for several reasons till the Lord commanded and by his word and Spirit constrained me so to do at 18 years end after I was consumed with grief sorrow oppression of heart and long travail in the wilderness and brought even to the gates of Death and when past the Cure of all men was raised up by the immediate and mighty hand of God And being thus healed I was commanded to write and give glory to him who had so miraculously raised me up from the grave And I do further declare the things I have written are true and no lye and that what is so distasteful in them to man are such things as I could not leave out without prejudice to the Truth and disobedience to God And what ever censures I now undergo from mans day and judgment for this plain dealing in matters which concern so near a Relation in the flesh I am well assured my faithfulness to God herein will be owned in the day of his impartial and righteous judgment And yet I must declare it would have been much more agreeable to my Spirit to have concealed the miscarriages of my Husband then to have exposed them if I had not been under a command herein not to be disputed and it was not without great resistings that I was at length made obedient having tasted of that love which both covers and teaches us to cover a multitude of sinnes And yet I am fully perswaded that my duty to God in this matter will be found not only most reasonable and necessary on my part but exceeding beautiful in its season and to have been mannaged in some measure of the Spirit of that God who is still Love and in whom there is no fury however he marches against goes through the Bryars and Thorns and burns them together when they are set against him in Battle And whereas my Enemies have represented me as one distracted and beside my self in answer to such wicked proceedings against not only me but the truth I do for the Truths sake further say First That I judge my Enemies who have raised this false report of me to be themselves most highly concerned that this their Report should be found a Lie for as much as if it were otherwise the cause and occasion of my distraction might justly be laid at their own doors for as the Preacher says Eccles 7. Oppression makes a Wise man Mad. Secondly And yet I also judge it is the mistaken and rotten Interest of my Adversaries not only to report but to believe me a person beside my self for if I be sound in a right mind how Mad must they be discovered to have been in their blind rage and fury against me and my Testimony Thirdly I do with great chearfulness receive the reproach of this report and all the humiliation that goes along with it as a further measure of my conformity to my Saviour and fellowship with him in his Sufferings For thus has he throughout all ages been blasphemed in his Prophets his Messengers and in himself Thus when Elisha sent a young Prophet with instructions to anoint Jehu his Fellow-servants askt him Wherefore came this Mad fellow to thee 2 King 9. Thus we read in Mark 3. That the Kindred of our Lord went out to lay hold on him for they said he is beside himself And again in Joh. 10. Many of the Jews said he has a Devil and is mad Fourthly I do with great pleasure acknowledg that in this great work in which I am set for a sign and a wonder I have no wit no wisdom no understanding no will of my own And if this be to be mad I confess my self to be beside my self to God whose Love constrains me and whose Spirit has in this matter after an irresistable but sweetest manner Captivated my proper understanding will and affections to his Divine wisdom and will And Lastly I am well assured that it will speedily very speedily be known that I am not mad as my Enemies have reported but have spoken forth the words of truth and soberness I have not run before I was sent but the word of the Lord is Come unto me and his Spirit is upon me And he will perform every Iota and title of his own word to overthrow Babylon with such an overturning as never was nor never will be again The beginnings of this overturning will within a few days be seen upon her more refined parts and the severity of the wrath shall afterwards come upon her Walls Although man is so confident I am deceived and has loaden me and my Testimony with all manner of reproach yet the God whom I serve and obey and who has spoken by me will speedily turn the

wonders of the Lord for my deliverance I cry'd unto him when there was none to help me and in a deep sense of my own unworthyness and nothingness my Soul was humbled and laid low at his foot and my heart was lifted up to him and he raised me from the Grave and took fast hold of me at that very time when heso wonderfully healed me which was the 3d of the 11 month 1670. Then was the full communion between Christ and my Soul the Love knot the comly bands of Marriage then did he espouse me unto himself for ever and enable me to follow him and give up my self as a thank-offering unto him no more to be my own but the Lords subjecting my self to all his will as a chast Virgin holy in lip and life pure and undefiled in heart Then did the Lord my God say unto me I even I am he that comforteth thee who art thou that thou shouldest be affraid of a man that shall die and of the Son of Man which shall be made as Grass And again he said he was come to Judge the Fatherless and the opressed that the Man of the earth may no more oppress And many more pretious Promises did the Lord make to me when he first called me to write what man has been so offended with and his word was and is my support and he has comforted me therewith assuring me as soon as I had done his will I should receive the promises And he afterwards revealed to me what I did not then know that my oppressions and deliverance had a Publick Ministry and meaning wrapt up in them that it must be seven years before I could perfect that writing and the Lord would bring forth his end in all this and give an open Testimony to the world that he had chosen and called me to write to glorifie him And now I have done his will my deliverer is come to make good his word and set me free from the oppresion of Man and to bear witness against him that has wounded and oppressed me for 18 years and more severely is his anger kindled against them who have so deeply wounded me since the time of my healing and who have made me an Heathen and a Publican for no other cause but obeying the word of the Lord and following him And as near as new-New-Years day is before that day the Lord will begin to cast a cloud of his anger upon all them that have done me so great wrong and persecuted me without a cause and stroak after stroak will follow until all Hypocrisie be discovered and formality thrown down and whole Babylon sinck like a stone never to rise up any more and let not the minds of any be lifted up to scorn me because I have said God will begin to appear in my behalf within so short a time for my God has a many times over made that Season of the year eminently signal to me in the dispensations of his grace and providence towards me Then was I enter'd into my aflictions then was I in an extraordinary manner healed and chosen and call'd to write what has occasion'd so many persecutions to me from formal and literal professors and now it will be compleatly 7 years since my healing and the Lord has made known the end of all his dispensations to me and has revealed to me that I shall now receive the promises having done his will and be made partaker of his blessing for he will fulfil his word to bind up the Broaken hearted and proclaim liberty to the Captive and open the Prison doors and I shall no more be under the oppression of man and he has also revealed to me what wrath shall fall upon the same spirit throughout the Nation which every where oppresses the true seed as I have been oppressed by it and the deliverance which is drawing nigh through terrible things in righteousness to all his poor and meek ones A more full accompt of which things and how the Lord has lead me into this ministry and witness I am with all convenient speed preparing for the Press and had before this been made publick had not my Enemies hindred by seizing and destroying my writings And in the mean time I beg of all Persons to whom this paper shall come that they will for their own sakes lay a side all prejudice and try me my Spirit and Testimony according to the word of God and wait patiently upon the Lord to know his mind in this thing and in love to themselves take heed how they rashly reproach and condemn me and my witness least they should in so doing run against that Hiding of power the Prophet Habakuk mentions chap 3. 4. and that they be watchful over themselves that they be not found dispising Prophecy and quenching the Spirit because of the contemptibleness of the messenger alwaies remembring that God will destroy the Wisdome of the Wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent that be chooses the foolish the weak the base and dispised things of the World yea and things which are not to bring to naught things that are In a word let all Persons so far take the Alarm as to look well to their own Souls where they stand Whither they are founded upon that Rock against which the Gates of Hell shall not prevail whither they are interested in that Covenant of Grace which is ordered in all things and sure and which is all our Salvation in a day of desolation Whether they be in the number of those that are Eating and Drinking with the Drunken and beating their Fellow Servants or of the Family of the true Noah who shall be taken into the Ark and preserved in the day of that Flood of the Divine vengence which is ready to overflow the inhabitants of the Earth What I have here published is according to the word of truth which must be fulfiled in its time It is but a very little while and this matter will be cleared made manifest and determined In the mean while I declare to all the world I am at rest in the will of my God who has not left me without his witness presence and seal in this work and who ever thou art that canst not yet see a Divine Charactar either upon me or it my advice to thee is that thou perplex not thy selfe concerning me but wait patiently upon God and quietly expect the discovery which the day will make herein To the Congregations of the Anabaptists and their respective Pastors THese verses contain the summons complaint and appeal of a despised and oppressed Christian once a member of one of your Churches now by your unjust and unchristian abuse of her made a spectacle to God Angels and Men yea a gazeing stock to this great City and a by-word to the common Rabble Beloved have you so learned Christ Doth the Gospel teach you to defame you neighbour in Coffee-Houses Ale Houses will not that word

spoken by the Holy Ghost to the Apostle James restrain you 1 James 26. If any man among you seems to be religious and bridle not his Tongue but deceiveth his own heart that mans Religion is vain You may sooner hinder the Sun from shining then the truth of God from displaying it self in such manner and by such instruments as he is pleased to chuse who is the Holy one of Israel who will not suffer himself to be limited by man the great God hath put the word of truth in her mouth and dare you forbid her to declare it can your scorn and contempt of the weak instrument frustrate the purposes and Counsels of God no his foolishness is wiser then your imaginary wisdom and his weakness stronger then all your conjoyned power Can you prove that God hath not spoken to her and by her No you dare not produce that Book of hers in yours custody you too well know it would demonstrate her to be in the Truth and your selves shameless Lyars Pray consider if one of your Preachers should be silenced you would presently cry out of Persecution and dare you attempt to silence the Word of God whose sound is gone forth to the ends of the Earth Take heed of resisting deriding a Message sent from Heaven though by a weak Instrument lest you be found guilty of Blasphemies against the Spirit of God but rather to day while you hear his Voice harden not your hearts lest he swear in his wrath that you shall never enter into his Rest It is heard and received by such who love the Truth and submit to the Power of it but if you persist in your Rebellion against it you will find and feel to your cost that Truth is stronger than all Consider these-things Brethren and the Lord give you understanding to judge aright The 5th of the 10th Month 1677. The Lord Awaked me in the Night-Season and by his Spirit taught me thus in Verse and made me Sing unto him a Triumphant Victorious Song over my Enemies with a command from God to send it forth into the World to be answered by the same Spirit of Love Meekness Gentleness Goodness Plainness Lamb-like lowly and Humble for such is the Spirit of Gods Teachings Let us be followers of our Head Christ Jesus as dear Children whom we have for our Example Ephes 5. 1 2. For he that overcometh shall Inherit all things and I will be his God and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters The Promise belongs either to Sons or Daughters walking in the Truth Revel 21. 7. I Am commanded by the King of Kings to send this in the same manner and method he taught it me Let none despise the Spirits teaching quench not the Spirit despise not Prophesie There hath been too much despising and disdaining of me already I pray God forgive them for all their hard speeches and cruel usage of me for they have done they know not what The Lord help us to remember our Creator in the days of our youth and declining years for when we have done all we can to please our selves yet the end of all is death for pride passion self-will bitterness wrath envy malice will yield no comfort at the Judgment Seat where we must give an account of all the deeds done in the flesh whether they be good or evil Eccles 12. 14. Who hath believed our report hath been the cry of old and to whom is the Arm of the Lord revealed Esa 53. 1. For they have not at all obeyed the Gospel Rom. 10. 16. To England sweet my Native soyl This summons now I send Her speedy answer I require Before this Year doth end In four and twenty years Declare What evil have I done VVhat all this time they have against My Conversation VVhat cause gave I to make your wrath So hot to burn at me Speak as you 'l answer it to God And let all hear and see In Coffee-House and Ale-House now VVhy do you me Defame VVhy doth your Church a Heathen me And Publican proclaim Speak out and spare not what 's my sin Speak truth in his presence Else God a bitter Cup will give You as your recompence If he who judgeth Heaven and Earth Disowneth what you have done Then to curb you and set me free He 's now most surely come You 'l punish me and think for me No Prison is too ill But whether you or I offend most he determine will I 'm falsly slandered and opprest By men that have no Love But I commit my cause to him who sees and sits above And from his Sanctuary looks and roars out of Sion To shew my Foes he is my God and I his little one He sees my griefs so great the weight I can no longer bear That now he comes to be my Judge The Innocent to clear To restifie he is my Spouse and Husband of my Soul Whom I must serve and keep his Laws though proud men would controul I give no other cause but in the Worship of my God If clean from sin I 'm in his sight my Foes will feel his Rod. The same measure of wrath which they do pour forth upon me According to his word he 'l pour On them as they will see They can't excuse themselves before God for what they have done They hate me ' cause I in Gods word and ways of Truth do run Full eighteen years with grief consum'd and to the Grave bow'd down Because the Lord have rais'd me up to make his power known And bad me shew his wonderous works and glorifie his Name This only nothing else but this a great offence became They rage they Persecute to Death a Woman weak and wan For giving all glory unto God and not to wretched man Now Country-men if I the Truth do not make to appear Disprove me plainly if you can Before the next New Year For after that great wrath expect which on those will burn as fuel Who to their fellow creature were Not merciful but cruel And have no Love to God his way His Truth and holy word But only love themselves as he hath seen and much abhor'd For taking up this heavy Cross to follow the Lord my God Wormwood and gall they give and scourge me with their sharpest Rod. O God arise make hast to judge between my Foes and me O stop their mouths clear me and let not guilty ones go free Now strike at Babylon thou said'st This year thou would'st begin To pour thy Plagues on that great Whore Babylon for her Sin Give Testimony speak aloud O Lord and make them hear To let them know I speak from God And only him do fear Thou knowest O Lord I have no end Doing and suffering this But that thy will obeying I May gain Eternal bliss If King and subjects cannot me disprove in what I say If truth I speak O Lord let them Not take my life away That will not quench the wrath denounc'd For what 's already done Nor can prevent the pouring sorth That wrath which is begun What he hath purpos'd and decreed on Babylon to do Shall suddenly in one day come Her Judgment Plagues and wo. As he revealed hath unto his faithful Servant John Such as ne're was nor e're again the world shall fall upon That for my Native soyl and folks I now could weep and mourn Though they unkind to me no thanks But Grief and Scorn return Only some of the little flock Of Christ I late have seen VVho have to me distrest and left Alone a comfort been Blest be his power who helpt and faith He will my sorrows end I hope he will my foes convince That they their lives may mend Take me O Lord from strife of Tongues as thou hast promis'd me Give rest and peace if so thou please O take me home to thee Let me no longer bear this Yoak And in this vile world stay Think on thy promise Lord and free me before new-New-Years Day The Ninth of the same month the Lord taught me this Song in the Night IF all Men can't disprove what by me God hath said Then with all England it will be very sad VVhat ye do do quickly before new-New-Years Day Least after that all your lives be swept away Wo wo to England for what she hath done For woes upon England will certainly come Because she doth not love God with all her heart Nor 〈◊〉 up her self to take his Childrens part Shall I yet doubt when God upholds me then Fear mortal Men who ' ve done the worst they can No lift up thy Head and now rejoyce That God for thee made such a choice A. W. My Maker is my Husband the Holy one of Israel my Redeemer the Eternal ever living God my Father in obedience to his reveiled will do I suffer in obeying his strict commands I offend their are several of his Children that are sufferers with me and are not ashamed of me in my bonds which are for doing the will of Christ Now as they have owned me so God will own them and bless them but for such as are ashamed of me under my reproaches for Christ they in time may be more ashamed for their Neglect in not owning me in the work of the Lord. O my God fulfil thy word and deliver me for thou knowest I have suffered as much Tiranny and Cruelty under a formal profession of Religion as I could have done amongst Turks Heathens and Infidels and if so then what need is it that my Country-men should so highly scorn me as they do for if I live to see New-Years Day over I shall be able to speak to them and ask them how they do and rejoyce when they will have cause to mourn and I now know my friends from my foes and if I out of this world be taken it will be my greater mercy to be singing Halauajah in Heaven FINIS