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A43584	A narrative of the holy life, and happy death of that reverend, faithful and zealous man of God, and minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Angier, many years Pastor of the Church of Christ at Denton, near Manchester in Lancashire wherein are related many passages that concern his birth, education, his entrance into the ministry, discharge of his trust therein, and his death.	Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702.	1683 (1683)	Wing H1772; ESTC R177987	61,863	136

do you apprehend of your self he said I know not but I have lived almost two Years above the age of a man and if God have any further work for me to do he will recover me if not why should I desire to live I have taken great pains all my life and never desired to live an idle life or a life of pleasure But for me to be with Christ is far better henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous judg will give me His next fit was on Saturday Aug. 25 Being very restless one asked him where his pain lay he said no great pain but heat is pain enough he asked what time a day it was they said ten a Clock he said the day went slowly on when one is sick but when well we think time goes too fast At another time he said God hath set back the time as in Hezekiahs days but said he if I could go to Chappel to morrow I should think all well but I have no hope of that But if God have a favour to me he will bring me back and shew me both it and his holy habitation if not let him do as seemeth him good His Daughter coming into the Room he said Oh that I could see my Children walking in Gods ways and fear if I could see my Son his Wise and Children minding the best things and walking with God I could dye with comfort I could much desire I could live to see it I have Prayed and long waited for Gods Salvation And thou Solomon my son know thou the God of thy fathers and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind for the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts if thou seek him he will he found of thee but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off for ever 1 Chron. 28 9. Aug. 27. Early in the morning after a restless night and many weary tossings being unable to lye still he said my strength is spent and added I may say as Hezekiah I am oppressed Lord undertake for me Isa 38.14 To his cousin he said We must not decline Gods service for difficulty Upon Tuesday Mr. Constantine a worthy Minister coming to visit him he desired him to Pray with him and being asked whether it was not fitter for him to pray for him in another room because the Physitians advised him to forbear company he said no but let him pray with me yet to prevent tediousness he told them this passage of Mr. Horrocks which he had oft mentioned in his health When Mr. Horrocks was sick Mr. Angier came to visist him just as Mr. Pike another honest Minister was gone out from him Mr. Horrocks said Mr. Angier you must pray with me but Mr. Pike hath kill'd me with a long prayer When Mr. Constatine was gone Mr. Angier said In sickness we are wi●ling to send for the Physitian of the Body and should we not send for the Physitian of the Soul Ministers are the Souls Physitians we need their help That night he desired that Jam. 5.13 to the end might be read and when it was read he said Physitians of the body say let not the Minister pray with the sick but the Apostle saith is any sick among you let him send for the elders of the church When prayer was done he said what a mercy is it my understanding is as good as ever in all my life one said to him Sir I think you understand every thing well but your own weakness he answered I am sensible of weakness and weariness and burnings but what a mercy is it that tho my bones are vexed my soul is not sore vexe also as Davids was I bless God I am not afraid of death yet what I may be I know not Satan may tempt me when his chain is lengthened One said No doubt you will not want peace he answered I know not that tho Satan could find no sin in our Saviour yet he may find matter enough in me and added that he had not in his health been altogether free from Satans Temptations he had met with his Temptations both in a marryed and single condition The same night while one rubbed his feet he said what a wonderful mercy is it that the great God should think upon and bestow his love upon such a poor worm as I am This he spake weeping then said he I die but God shall be with you saying I cannot leave you a greater comfort than the gracious presence of the great God he then added Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection on such the second death hath no power His feet being cold and swearing one rubbed them he said my body is weak and feeble an old tree will soon wither but it must be cherished and be tenderly cared for as well as the Soul for it is the Temple of the Holy Ghost and doth keep in it an immortal Soul for a while Altho the pangs of death were on him yet he said Blessed be God I feel no pain but your cold hand I would wait on God for a little sleep Lord I wait on thee remember thy covenant and thy word to thy Servant which I have hoped for and it hath been my support and strength in mine affliction and through thy strength I have been doing thy will and endeavouring to keep thy commandments altho in much weakness now Lord own thine own servant do thine own work make good thy own words I believe in thee I hope and wait for thee hear the Prayers of thy servant come Lord Jesus Then said he I love Christ and he loves me and there 's no love lost betwixt us I am his and he is mine and my desire is towards him One being present with him from Manchester he asked of all his friends and acquaintance there and desired to be remembred to them charging them to live in love and peace he said intreat them to pray to God for me and that will do me more good than their presents and being told that many of the people of God were praying for him he said Who am I a poor creature that Gods people should be so concerned for me I fear lest they should offend in being too earnest with God for my life for who knows but the Lord may hear prayers and may bring me back from the greve as he is wont to do Afterwards he perceiving that others did suspect his death he desired the 48th of Genesis is to be read where said he old Jacob blessed his Sons and the 49. Where alter he had spoken to them by a Spirit of Prophecy and commanded them Gen. 49. v. 33. he gathered up his feet into the bed and yielded up the ghost and was gathered unto his people And when they had done reading he spake to them one by one and prayed for a blessing for them kissing the Children he took leave

will make it good to some and why not to the children of the Covenant how oft hath he told the Lord even in our hearing that he was resolved he would not let go that hold that God had given him but would stick to him by faith and prayer as ●ong as he had a day to live and die in hopes that God would make his promise good to his seed when he was dead and gone His opinion for a young man that intended the Ministry His opinion for young Scholars was to be placed for some time with fomeable Minister and to preach under such alones eye and ear and that it was hazzardous for beginners to live in great mens houses he was of excellent use in giving advice to young Scholars in publick and private in the times when the Sectaries were at the height at an ordination at Manchester he gave the Exhortation four were ordained and he said it rejoyced his Soul to see in these discouraging times so man desirous of the calling but saith he it m● be it is but as a Husbandman with his har●● toward Night when he sees a storm co●ing he calls out all that can carry a she● to come forth makes all his force for 〈◊〉 may be it is but a short time as coming i● at the Eleventh hour but one hour to wor● in He advised them to take heed of t●● things as in the case of the prophet to J●roboam sometimes the hand of Authorit● may be lifted up against you yet that ma● bed ried up be not affrighted with it b● then the seducer may slay you consent not 〈◊〉 him He was wise and happy in his counsel and usually being a man of much observato● he had exceeding pat instances his grave counsels to set on h● counsels with as this It is good for persons to submit to the Lords hand and to l● him chuse the Rod for us A Woman 〈◊〉 Manchester burying a Daughter of t●● years never looked up but repined at 〈◊〉 came often to the Grave to mourn over it yet it was a Child miserably infirm h●● the Evil runing on it in many places afterwards God took away the use of her Li●●● and lying in torturing pain acknowledge that it was nothing to bury a Child a● was now made sensible of her impatien● under her form● affliction and that no● God had dealt smartlier with her And upon this Mr. Angier mentioned an Aunt of his who had great bodily weakness and pain and she desired that God would take that affliction away and lay on her what affliction he pleased but that the Lord did take that away and laid affliction of spirit upon her which was far sharper and she never recovered it while she lived So to count the affliction best for us be it never so sharp he sometimes told how Mr. Daniel Rogers his first Wife was a very cross Woman and he bore it a long time at last he made his complaint to his Father Mr. Richard Rogers and he gave him this answer Any thing Daniel to bring thee to heaven He was very faithful in admonishing as he saw cause His faithful admonition when an eminent Minister said he ●ook such a thing ill or unkindly from such 〈◊〉 one Mr. Angier gravely and smiling●y answered Would I so little favour ●y self as to take unkindness from ●ny one which saith that good man 〈◊〉 thought of since to my great advantage for this taking unkindness is ac●ompined with a fretting within ones self ●nd so it is a leaving the offender and ●lling upon ones self Mr. His thoughts of the Dutch War Angier was much afflicted with that sad War betwixt the Dutch and us yet he comforted himself that God did not give us over to be corrected by Papists but that Protestants are in the hands of Protest ants tho upon a sad account and he hoped that the drops of the storm might begin with the reformed Churches but the fury of it should be poured upon the Papists It pleased the Lord to lay upon Mr. His afflictions in old age Angier many grievous and cutting affliction in his old age the latter part of his days according to his own observation on Joh. 21. concerning Peter our Lord told him that when he was old he should be carried whither he would not That God oft exerciseth his choicest servants that have been men of eminent activeness and usefulness in his service with great afflictions in their old age 1 Chron. 16.12 Invit Ger. Maj. 470. as bodily pain so Asa in the latter part of his life was diseased in his feet Melchior Adams tells us of Mr. George Major that he saw the Funerals of six sons whereof one i. e. Leonard died by the biting of a mad Dog several Daughters Nephew died in all this and much more saying Si bona accepimus annon mals sustineamus shall we receive good and not bear evil at last he died of sore diseases having kept his bed near three years thus Mr. Angier instanced in Mr. Rogers o● Dedham who had great pain of the stone so had worthy Mr. Storer of Stockport and Mr. Johnson Parson also of the same place old Mr. Bourn Mr. Herle and at that time when he spake of it good Mr. Harrison of Ashton his neighbour it may seem a Riddle and an unaccountable mystery of Providence why God should think fit to lay the heaviest load on the weakest Horse old age is a burden to it self Mr. Angier gave this account of it that thereby God thinks it fit to wean his Children from the World fit them for Heaven and render it more desirable besides God will make his Children perfect Christians exercised every way in suffering that they might be ●ntire lacking nothing according to Jam. 1.4 His old-age afflictions were 1. His Daughters dying The death of his beloved lovely Daughter Elizabeth who tho she was Married and lived with her Husband in Yorkshire yet being in a deep Consumption he sent his own easy going-Horse to fetch her home in hopes that change of Air might tend to her recovery but there she grew worse and anguishing died May 26. 1661. and was ●d by her own Mother in Denton Chappel●ard whose death tho it went near to his heart yet being abundantly satisfied that ●he was got safe to Heaven he bore it with great composedness and aequanimity for indeed she was the mirror of her age for parts and piety yet it could not but be an affliction to his spirit since fo hopeful a blossome of his Family was so quickly nipt off in the flower of her age 2. The Churches afflictions laid to heart But this presaged more crosses it was a great affliction to him that things wen● so ill with the Church of God as to publick liberty with which he sympathized tho he injoyed his but himself also must ta● a few drops of that cup that many of 〈◊〉 Brethren hath a large draught of

grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctifyed it was an excelent seasonable and pathetical discourse and well worthy to be annexed to this present relation if the worthy Author ●ad judged it fit however the solemnities of that day will not easily be forgot●en Thus the best must die Zech. 1 5. ●our Fathers where are they and the Prophets do they live for ever the holi●st men cannot plead for an exemption or expect Enochs priviledg of a Translation only to the godly deaths sting is pluckt ●ut this swelling Jordan is driven back the passage is rendred easy and safe to the heavenly Pilgrim God brought this ●aithful watchman through his long and boysterous sea to a safe harbour in a ●asonable time and if we imbark in the ●ame ship of the Church and have our Lord Jesus with us as our faithful and skilful pi●t though in storms and tempests he be as it were asleep yet believing prayer will awake him and he will rebuke 〈◊〉 Winds and Sea and there shall be calme and the Ship shall presently be at land and the passengers shall b●●afe I have now dispatched the History 〈◊〉 Mr. Angiers life as far as matters o● cur to our present observation a● have drawn it thus far on till this Thre● of his life be cut off and lets hi● drop into the Grave and so cuts o● the line of our Historical account 〈◊〉 him THere are yet two things behind which shew something of the breathings o● his gracious soul living and dying 1. The first is some observables gather● out of his own Diary under his own hand 2. His dying Speeches prayers counsel● and admonitions to those about him in 〈◊〉 last sickness Both these declare much of Gods Grace ●nd manifest the Holy exactness of his serious and savoury Spirit The first is a considerable paper respecting his frame of spirit in his younger days and reviewed and revsied in his elder years 〈◊〉 runs thus I do now seriously resolve between God and my own Soul to read his word diligently morning and evening before private prayer thereto adjoyned and do purpose to be constant in respect of time there●o to be allotted to wit in the morning before Chappel if it may be with convenience or otherwise without delay when return from the Chappel at Night between 5 and 6 of the Clock if extraordinary occasions hinder me not because my spirits being fresher than after supper I shall 〈◊〉 the fitter to do God acceptable service 〈◊〉 do likewise resolve to be diligent in my ●udy every day for the space of 6 hours ●t least no day to be overflipped without ●he full accomplishment of them I likewise promise faithfully to God and my own Soul ●o refrain as from the common sins of the ●me to wit Drunkenness Licenciousness 〈◊〉 the like so to strive against those sins 〈◊〉 am by nature most addicted to and for ●e prevention of the like faults to shun 〈◊〉 the occasions thereunto leading enticing or provoking as bad company l●scivious talk or excess in the use of th● Creature the which that I may perfor● according to Gods will and pleasure I d● dain all my own abilities and fly to his infinite mercy desiring his special help an● assistance his spirit to instruct me his spirit to direct me his spirit to sanctify me th● I may be kept blameless being without sp● till the day of his appearance my des● hath been is and shall be upon my bended knees for the furtherance of these motion begun and kindled by his holy spirit which I hope will cherish them till th● flame into an holy fire of Heavenly conversation the Life of Virtue the Glory 〈◊〉 Grace Written with my own hand April 6. 16●● John Angier Perused with comfort May 1. 165● July 19. 1657. I found a paper in 〈◊〉 study of May 9. 1626. A Bill for Phys● when I was in a Feaver in Cambridg abo●● 31 years since so long hath God lengthened out my life My going to New England was ve● forward Mr. Newman earnestly invited 〈◊〉 I received Letters from Bristol April 〈◊〉 1630. That I was expected there to ta● Shipping for N. E. this April and had m●● kindness offered me yet the Lord over-ruled it Upon the coming on of troubles I had comfort from Zeph. 2.3 It may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lords anger Josiahs mercy was not to see the evil Jeremiahs mercy was to be secured in the midst of sight My Wife dyed December 12th One Night after her death the Children were in the Parlour Praying together and hearing a noise I went to the door and heard my Son at Prayer with his Sister he acknowledged to God that they had despised Father and Mother contrary to Gods command and therefore God hath taken away their Mother he desired God that they might not provoke him by their sin to take away their Father also which did much affect me Upon a recovery from a sickness unexpectedly I was much affected with Isa 33. ult and in prayer the Lord brought to my mind Matt. 8.9 affliction is Gods servant if he bid it come it comes if he bid it go it goes At Bolton I was sent for to visit a godly man that was sick at Great-Leaver found him in a comfortable condition he told me he received his first comfort by my Ministry ●at Denton Preaching on 1 Cor. 5.7 Christ ●ur passover is sacrificed for us ten years ago Blessed be God who gave me this encouragement He notes in the margent The fruits of my labours manifested ten years after Nov. 30. 47. A day of thanksgiving was kept with some friends for the recovery of a Child that had been sick it should seem they were in the journey and had small hopes of recovery the very same day they prayed the Child revived at night and gathered strength in the journey sensibly● they were by the sickness of the Child detained against their own minds and the minds of the people but God had a special hand in it for God sent the Pestilence into the Family where they were ●o sojourn and had they gone at the time purposed they had gone into an infected house and had been shut up there June 18 71. God gave rest to our aged afflicted Mother about 3 in the afternoon it being Lords day it is observable that the day after God took away our Mother and that supply from her sailed God se● me notice of some supply out of my own estate as he had formerly done when the rent of my Land fell in Essex Phil● 4.19 Novem. 19. 72 Died good Bishop W●kins of the Stone a great loss he d●ed comfortably and rejoyced in his moderation whilst he was Bishop his deat● was much lamented in the City of Chester Aug. 22. 73. upon hearing that Mr. Case going from home 4 or 5 days they returning found themselves Robbed to a great value he