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To Queen Mary: the humble salutation, and faithful greeting of the widow Whitrowe With a vvarning to the rulers of the earth, before the Day of the Lord breaks forth, that shall burn as an oven, and all the wicked, and all the ungodly shall be as stubble: the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
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Whitrowe, Joan.
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Wing W2037; ESTC R220184
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Queen Mary if She follows Christ her Pattern In the first place her Dominion will be great within bearing Rule over her own Will Ways and Works Words and Thoughts not giving her self the least Liberty to any thing that shall bring the least Dishonour to the holy Name of the LORD In the next place She shall have the Wisdom of GOD to Govern her People beginning first at the Court Ruling in the Fear of GOD keeping all in Subjection by her pious Life and heavenly Instructions encouraging Vertue and suppressing all Vice and great Necessity there is for the Reformation to begin there For by lamentable Experience we have seen that as it hath been at the Court so it hath been for the most part throughout the Nation Therefore O Noble Princes for the Glory of GOD and the Everlasting welfare of thy Immortal Soul and the Good of all these Nations be not negligent in this great Work and this know O Queen there is more required of you that is of KINGS QUEENS and POTENTATES of the Earth than of others for you stand in the place of GOD to the People Therefore the blood of all must lie at your Doors if you do not quit your selves by your saithfulness to GOD and Man for saith Wisdom Mighty Men shall be mightily punished Therefore Hear O ye Kings and Queens and Judges of the Earth Give Ear ye that Rule the Multitudes and Glory in the multitude of People for the Rule is given you of the LORD and Power from the Most High which will try your Works and search out your Inventions for if you that are Officers of His Kingdom judge not right and keep not His Commandments to walk after the will of GOD horribly and suddenly will He appear unto you and give you the reward of your Works for He that is LORD over all will spare no Mans Person neither shall He stand in awe of any Mans Greatness For He will take His Jealousy for his Armour and shall Arm the Creatures to be revenged of his Enemies as might be seen in that astonishing amazing great and wonderful never to be forgotten Thunders which were lately in these parts of the World and those horrible Earthquakes beyond the Seas for as by the greatness of His Eternal Power He made all things and upholds all things by the same so by the Word of his Power can He consume us all and turn all things into nothing and yet in this Work will He put on Righteousness for a Breast-plate and take true Judgment instead of an Helmet He will take Holiness for an invincible Shield He will sharpen his fierce Wrath for a Sword and and his Angels who are his Ministring Spirits in Flames of Fire shall sight with him against the unwise Therefore be wise O ye KINGS and understand learn ye Judges of the Earth serve the LORD in fear and rejoyce in trembling kiss the Son least he be angry and you perish in your ways for when His wrath shall suddenly burn O then blessed for ever will they be that put their whole trust in Him and that the latter may be your Portion is the desire of my Soul to GOD for you all Your faithful Friend and the LORD's Servant Joan Whitrowe AND further to the Queen my desire to GOD for her is That GOD would give her another Heart a heart to walk in all the ways of the LORD and that the LORD would pour out his Holy Spirit upon her as He did upon all His Anointed Ones and that she may be an Instrument in His Hand to convert many to Righteousness then shall the Prophesy of Daniel be fulfilled on her which saith Those that convert many to righteousness shall shine as the Stars for ever more And O that GOD would touch the Hearts of them that follow the Queen as He touched the heart of those that followed Saul after he was Anointed King over Israel and that the Spirit of the LORD would come upon the King and Queen and all that belongs to them as it came upon David after the LORD had Anointed him in the midst of his Brethren that by the Power of his Holy Spirit they may follow the LORD fully as Joshua and Caleb did that they may be possessors of the good and holy Land of everlasting Peace and Rest for evermore This is the Land that flows with Milk and Honey but not a Land for outward pleasures but the inward ravishments of the Soul which is the reward of the faithful who follow their LORD through the strait and narrow Way which is the way to Eternal Rest as their LORD said Strait is the Gate and narrow is the Way that leads to life and few there be that finds it Ah! but broad is the Way and wide is the Gate that leads to destruction and many there be that goes therein Indeed to Flesh and Blood the Way to Life and Glory seems strait and narrow at the first entrance until the Soul is accustomed to bear the Yoke but afterwards it is Eternally true as Christ said My Yoke is easy and my Burthen light Yea for ever I am a Witness That in all His Ways are Pleasantness and in all His Paths are Peace And this I declare in the Power and Spirit of the LORD there is no Tongue can speak Heart conceive nor Pen can write the sweet Reposes and Heavenly Enjoyments in the Ravishments of His Love which that Soul is a possessor of that keeps upon its Watch-Tower whose Meditation is in the Law of the LORD Day and Night it enjoys Heaven whilst it is on Earth Well might David say A day in Thy Courts O LORD is more than a Thousand elsewhere I had rather be a door-keeper in the House of the LORD than to dwell in the Tents of the wicked and to this Wisdom answers saying Blessed are those that heareth me watching daily at my Gates and giving attendance at the Posts of my Doors for he that findeth me findeth life and obtaineth favour of the LORD And the Apostle Paul in a holy Extasy cries out O the height and depth of the love of GOD neither can it enter into the Heart of man the things that GOD hath prepared for them that love Him No certainly not the men of this World who have their Portions in this Life which David desired to be delivered from But it entred into the Heart of Mary when she sat so attentively at Jesus Feet to hear the precious Words that dropt from His Gracious Lips where she received the sweet in-comes of His Eternal Love whilest the Martha's of this World are hurried incumbred and distracted in their covetous earthly Spirit caring how to add House to House Land to Land and one Thousand to another and the other sort how to consume what they have upon their lusts in vain wicked recreations and both these dispossesses the LORD of Life of his Right and robs him of his Glory And Farther I am to