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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94793	The cry of a stone. Or A relation of something spoken in Whitehall, by Anna Trapnel, being in the visions of God. Relating to the governors, Army, churches, ministry, universities: and the whole nation. Uttered in prayers and spiritual songs, by an inspiration extraordinary, and full of wonder. In the eleventh moneth, called January. 1653.	Trapnel, Anna.	1654 (1654)	Wing T2031; Thomason E730_3; ESTC R203788	62,587	80

Oh souldiers can you stand against the sword of the Lord that great shield can you pierce the Breastplate that is from on high Oh the Saints are able to fight with you not with material weapons but with the sword of faith and the Spirit oh where is the sword of Goliab that can come and fight against that oh poor Souldiers the Lord hath sent his servant to tell you of your wickedness and to tell you what hath been done in Scotland Ireland and elsewhere if you keep not Chronicles others do the Lord hath written them down and he will bring them forth Thou hast a controversie with all languages and they only that have the language of Canaan shall be taken into thy Canaan and shall have the honey drops there They cannot believe such great things are coming out as the raign of Jesus Christ that thou art staining the pride of all Glory and that thou wilt have no more Monarchies till the Monarchy of Christ come forth it is because they are so much seeking one from another they are so taken up and wrapt up in their own mantles that they have no eyes to look up for Elias his Mantle They have the spirit of Man and the courage of Man but what is all that courage says Elihu I have seen that for all that Ages should teach wisdom and Years give understanding yet you could not bring forth an answer in wisdom to the condition of Iob so I waited for others and was afraid my self to speak untill the Spirit came upon me then I was carried forth to speak beyond my own courage Oh thy Spirit is above the spirit of man thy Spirit informs and teacheth and brings forth new things and declares old things thy Spirit brings forth what the ways of men are it doth declare the great overturnings and disappointments that men shall meet with when thou openest who can shut it is not all their jealousies and surmisings concerning designings and this and the other thing it is not all these things that can stop the pipes of Christ that are golden can you hinder the oyl that runs so sweet Blessed be thy Name for that glorious Priviledge that thine have they are made partakers of thine Annointing and he calls them fellows oh they are poor Mortals that he should call them fellows oh some poor creatures call themselves Christ because of this oneness with Christ they will have no distinguishing thou wilt make them to know that there is a difference between Head and Members there is a wicked Generation that are risen up about this place that do say so that do pretend many spiritual things who are enemies to Jesus others come out more openly others more secretly how are they ready to joyn their evil spirit with the Spirit of the Lord Jesus thy Servant sometimes contended against them neer this place and now she is come to bear a greater testimony against them when thy sweet wine comes forth and thy Spirit is poured out then they being in their false wine oh but it shall never enter into thy treasury where thine are they say they speaking of some rude spirits which came to hear her are one spirit with thy servant but thy servant abhors it through the Spirit of that crucified Jesus This that thou hast now done upon thy servant they will not understand that it is an intimation to them of the pouring out of thy Spirit upon thine own wherein they shall go forth against the world thy servant was one that was simple an Ideot and did not study in such things as these and must thy servant now float upon the mighty and broad waters meaning of the Spirit thou saidst indeed that thy servant should declare in Gath and publish in Askelon They will say the spirit of madness and distraction is upon her and that it is immodesty but thou knowest Lord that it is thy Spirit for thou hast cast thy servant where she would not and hast taken her contrary to all her thoughts surely thou shalt be glorified and advanced by it it is the Lord that comes and enlarges and fils with his Spirit and lays his foundation with precious stones and sparkling colours thy servant would not have any take it in without tryal let them try whether it is from thy Spirit or from what it is Oh thy servant knows it is from thy Spirit let them know that it is so too by the language of it by the Rule through which it comes how is the written Word carried forth in it thy Spirit takes the Scripture all along and sets the soul a swimming therein oh those things that are concealed are made manifest when thy Spirit comes forth oh that they might know what is the true sountain and what is pudled water wilt thou dip them Father in the spiritual Baptism this Baptism of Fire cleanseth Zeal is another thing then a passionate humour where true Zeal is there the flame of the Lord is there is much in nature that may deceive A fine curious nature may seem to be Grace which is not an amiable carriage and good words these are all nature Tell the sons of Issachar that go forth to the work of the Lord what qualifications what manner of conversations should be in them and in the World sutable to such a day as this this is a day wherein thou callest up thine to glorifie thee in the fires or that the names Courtier and King should never come up again and though there be now a finer name yet there is the same thing the same superfluity and vanity as was among the Kings of old they come forth in sheeps clothing you Councel you think you have done well in this but surely the passing-Bell shall ring for you this is the saddest day that ever poor England had formerly their Children had their black patches and naked necks and powdered locks and so it is now Kings must then sit alone and so they do now What David thou whom I have raised up from the lowest of men from the dust wilt thou do this these are crying things that are come up in thine ears oh Lord how can they be fit to Rule and Judge a Nation to reprove sin in a Nation when they cannot Rule and Judge and reprove their own Families they that will not hear of their sins they shall feel of the smart thereof That is the sins they are galled within their Conscience but it was not so with David For when Nathan told him of his sin he struck upon his brest and mourned Though the name of Gideon was upon him speaking of the Supream Magistrate in the field yet now it is taken off from him thou shalt no more be called Valiant because thou canst not be contented with the name of thy righteous ones therefore thy name shall not be long As to the name General thou hast Lord been with him and hast shewed him thy presence But in thy other name

greatnesse you have here For every one that 's high wil Christ he 'l put into great feare She proceeded againe unto Prayer and among many other expressed these following passages They that are thy true Seers shal stand when they that are false Seers shal fall and wither and dye the true Seers they shal goe on and prosper thou wilt provide for them sufficient maintenance Oh let not men thinke that thine doe cry downe the Ministry of them that are full of the Ministerial Office and of thy Spirit and doe speake from thee but there are that are called Ministers that doe deny Jesus Christ his coming to set up his Kingdome O thine would have them throwne downe before thee the Lord wil not let there be a famishing of the Word in the Land and he wil take care of them let there not be a cry among them that if maintenance goe downe the Ministery wil downe let them know that thy servants are not enemies to them that are truly taught of thy Spirit let them looke into the Scripture and there see what is the true Ministry and what is their pay let them see what those were who were thy true Ministers were they such as did pamper their bellies and their backs were not thine willing to feed upon any thing to goe in Skins to bee any thing for the Gospel of Jesus Christ Has not their fulnesse brought blindnesse upon them Oh where has been that marrow and fatnesse flowing forth from them Oh let there be more of that thou wilt delight in such as delight in thee they that delight to serve Tables more then thee and thy flocke thou wilt not serve them what ever judgement or opinion they are of Is not the Narrative come from Heaven concerning what thou art a doing Oh let all thine know it in time they that are such as are true Students doe thou fill them more and more let them come forth as Trumpeters with a ful sound for if they give forth an imperfect sound how shal the Horse prepare to the Battel let them not goe forth with the sound of their owne mindes and their owne carnal studies but with the sound of thy Spirit and that is a right sound and such wil follow thee with Timbrels and with Musick O let such rejoyce evermore and let them pray continually oh they love alwayes to be praying they can never be weary not that Prayer that is called a Gift or an Habit but it is a spirit it is the out-goings of thy Spirit it is an Harmony that they that have only a Gift cannot understand and it is but like a beating of brasse true Prayer is an excellent talking to the most High it kindles up the affections and sokes into the judgement for thy people are accounted by the world a people of much affections but of little judgement but by this thou dost try thy People for they that have little affections doe soone change their note but they that have sound judgements soaking judgements and then the affections right set they Center then in thee alone every way the Soule is raised that is indeed wrapt up in thee there are raptures in the Tongue and in the Braine but the raptures of the Heart no flouds can drowne no fire can quench the Tongue and the Fancy and the Natural life may be taken away but the Spiritual sense that returnes into the Sun oh what is the Carcasse the Vessel they are nothing but when these are gone then where am I but there where I am made perfect in thy selfe thou wilt bring thine into the Grave before thou raisest them up to live til thou commest and puttest a sentence of death upon all things here below they wil not look upon that which is glorious Here she passed off from Prayer to Singing some or most of the Song was taken and was as followes O That they may say unto Death O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy victory over them thine shall sing When they doe thorow death up mount unto eternall life O then their hearts and speeches too shal run to thee most rife O till they see grim Death before and its most gastly lookes They would not mount up unto thee to see thy pleasant lookes Till they doe feele his biting teeth their tongues will not sing to thee O therefore let them it behold Pale-faced death let them see They wil then pray to thy rich grace thereto they then wil fly They wil to the most high then mount and that with open eye They shal look on the Sun so bright and on its beames of grace Which doth appeare and cometh forth and on them casts its rayes The foure last words of the last Verse are added by the Relator who could not take the Maids owne words her voyce as it were dying and sinking into her breast with which the closed for that time The fifteenth day being the first day of the Weeke she began with Prayer the principall things whereof are noted in the following account in the Language they were delivered by her though much more largely then the Relator did or could take them from her He that is entred into rest hath ceased from his owne workes as God did from his Where Lord dost thou take up thy rest O Lord doest thou take up thy rest in man thou art the Center of rest yet the out-goings of thy rest were upon man man must have thy Breath breathed into him other Created pieces must have thy Name but he must have thy Breath O how great is his Fall and thou hast showne kindnesse to him yet he doth not consider he doth not take notice what he fell from and what thou hast restored to him Oh thy Servant loves to travel with thee in these created Pieces to see thee the Alpha and Omega the great beginning and the end O what sights of the world what fashioning of curious Wits can compare with that infinite Wisdome O that thy Breath should be life to Man that thou shouldest come and breath upon him that thou shouldest give forth substance about a poor shadow and take counsel about a poor shadow Oh Father what disputes there are about the Souls mortality and immortality Oh it is because they do not thorowly search into things they do see no more then the breath Oh who can set it out who can give a definition of mans soul which is the breath of God Thou Lord alone knowest what it is Thine that have conversed with thee in it do see it is a most excellent out-going of God into a poor carkass It is a most excellent breath of God into a poor creature Mans life as confidered as the breath of God and the work of the Counsel of God Oh how watchful should they be over their breath that they do not breathe against their Eternal Breath against the Work and Language of God When thou hadst made Man then thou saidst thou

that I should be saved through the fire This temptation remained with me from the first of the twelfth moneth 1653. till the latter end of the second moneth called April lying in the Mineries seven days in which time I had two Godly men and a Godly woman watched with me every night temptations of all sorts were so violent upon me And at the end of those seven days my body was freed from that torture caused by Sathan and I repaired home to Hackney to my Kinsmans house Mr. Wythe and there I remained till the latter end of April under very bitter storms being forced by Sathan to walk up and down the fields attempting to throw my self into a Well saying God shall not be dishonored For it shall be thought said Sathan some put thee in and so thou shalt be in happiness presently For what can pluck thee out of thy Fathers hand he hath made an everlasting Covenant with thee Ordered in all things and sure and this is all thy desire and all thy Salvation which thou hast made mention of to many and I was forced to lye in ditches frequently till it was dark night that some found me and led me home And again frequently I took Knives to bed with me to destroy my self and still they were snached out of my hand I know not how not by any Creature I durst not eat nor drink for four days together because it was said to me If thou doest thou worshippest the Devil For in every thing give thanks whether thou eatest or drinkest do it all to the glory of God but thou canst do nothing to the glory of God therefore thou gratifiest Sathan And do not add sin to sin by so doing In this time still Sathan came as an Angel of light though I was so full of terror he still affrighted me in every thing If I did so and so I should sin that I durst not speak to any that feared the Lord nor I durst not have any prayer because he said I sinned if I prayed or suffered any to pray for me and I was exceeding affraid to sin though he drew me abundantly by his false pretences to vow against coming ever among the Saints or into institutions more and said to me also That if I did I were the most notorious lyer that ever spake and that made me affraid because of that dreadful Scripture in the last of the Revelations where the fearful are ranked with those that shall have their portion in the Lake Many other dreadful assaults I had and casting my self at length down on the ground said Lord there is no recovery I shall surely go out like a snuff presently there shone a light round about me and this saying Arise why lyest thou upon thy face pray and eat this day is Salvation come to thy house behold this is the day of Salvation this is the acceptable time Ask now what thou wilt in the height or in the depth and see whether God will not give thee the desire of thy soul I replyed and said I would not tempt the Lord he answered me it is not a tempting of God when he requires this of thee I said then Lord give me an humble broken melting frame of Spirit pour upon me a Spirit of prayer and supplication which immediatly the Lord did in abundant measure and many singings concerning the excellent nature of faith And now having procured a very terrible ague and feaver upon my body in locking my self up in such bitter cold weather coming at no fire not among any lest they should speak to me of my former experiences which I found did aggravate my sorrow very much But the Lord as he had cured me in my spirit so by faith he restored my body and as to that Temptation mentioned never to come among the Saints again which was that grand temptation that drew in the other It being first setled in my heart I desired that the Lord would give me a Scripture to enform me that this was slain and should no more have the least puttings forth in me at which time opening my Bible this was given to me in Job Thou hast been tied in Fetters and holden in Chains of Affliction and it is that the Lord might shew thee thy work and thy transgression which hath exceeded in this time of thy Assaults Now he openeth thine ear to discipline and he commandeth that thou return from iniquity Lord said I what is my work Reply was to go forth to the tempted and whatever their temptations were I should have to speak forth to them And also he having opened mine ear to Discipline I should go among the Saints and that company that I walked in fellowship with and there I should manifest a departing from that iniquity that Sathan had led me into in drawing me from all institutions making me believe that I should find the presence of God in reading and praying and in the book of the Creature and that should satisfie me But I found him a lyer to purpose though he told me that God had delt all along singularly with me and though I were not to forsake the Assemblies of the Saints yet if God would deal in a singular way with me it should not go upon my account but the Lord might do what he pleased And so he endeavoured to bring me into those Familistical ranting Tenents that I had almost spent my lungs in pleading against the Lord having thus freed me he hath kept this upon my heart to begg the life of faith and self denyal to hold forth these his dispensations towards me both in Gath and Ashkelon whom he bid me tell them unto After my storms I went down into the Countrey to Hillington near to Vxbridge and so soon as I came thither at one Mr. William Atcrosts house the Lord filled me with many spiritual Hymns as to my temptations promising me that my joy should abundantly outpass my sorrow And while I was thus singing and triumphing over Sathan challenging now a battel and seeing the Lord so glorious before me I was drawn into my Visions as the calling in of the Jews the over-throwing and shaking all Nations And a Vision I had concerning the Dissolution of the Parliament about four days before it was not knowing any thing of that nature was intended which I sung the manner of it that suddenly Gideon as I called him and M. G. Harrison came into the Parliament-house and desired removal of them desiring Mr. Speaker to deliver up his Commission and so I saw suddainly a departure of them though they were very loath thereunto And this many in the Country can witness the Minister of Hillington Mr. Taverner by name whose wise sent me word of it within four days after I had the Vision of it In these Visions I lay seven days and then arose having strength as formerly Nine weeks after this coming up to London Mr. Smith a Linnen-draper in Newgate-Market at the golden