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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61113	A discovrse of divers petitions of high concernment and great consequence delivered by the authour into the hands of King James, of famous memory, and into the hands of our gracious King Charles : and divers other letters delivered unto some great peers of the land and divers knights and ladies and others of great worth and quality : a treatise of melancholie and the strange effects thereof : with some directions for the comforting of poor afflicted soules and wounded consciences : and some directions for the curing and reclaiming surious mad men and some rare inventions in case of great extremity to feed them and preserve them from famishing and to procure them to speak : which it pleased the God of wisdom to enable me to finde out in the long time of fifty years experience and observation / by John Spencer, gentleman.	Spencer, John, Gentleman.	1641 (1641)	Wing S4953; ESTC R19173	61,728	130

doth threaten many heavy Judgements against the children of Israel Deut. 28.47 Because thou servest not thy Lord thy God with ioyfulnesse and a good heart for the abundance of all things therefore thou shalt serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send uppon thee in hunger and in thirst and in nakednes and in need of all things And thus according to my simple understanding I have satisfied your request in setting down some directions humbly beseeching that mighty and glorious God who giveth wisdome to the simple and worketh great effects by weak meanes to give such a blessing unto my poor endeavours that his great power may be seen in my weaknesse that you may finde such comfort to your soule and such peace to your conscience that hereafter you may tell unto others the great mercies that the Lord hath shewed unto you in the dayes of your afliction and therefore say with the Prophet loe this is our God we have waited for him and he will save us this is the Lord we have waited for him we will rejoyce and be joyfull in his salvation Amen Lord Jesus Amen From him that would willingly exchange some of his comforts for some of your sorrows and some of his best delights for some your repentant teares Iohn Spencer MAster Frankling a man of great worth almost a thousand pound a year fell into a wonderfull melancholie and distraction for seven yeares his eyes closed up his mouth closed up his hands closed up so that he was like a dead corps and almost famished he was with Master Nappier that famous Physician about a yeere and a halfe but could not prevaile with him some two yeares after he returned unto his own house he fell into a strange humour of eating and drinking wine and strong ale and it is almost uncredible to report how much he did devour in a day and night but this putting strength into him he grew very outragious and fell a burning and fighting and greatly endangered the killing of his servants and the burning of his house and then my brother Master Gery that maried Master Frankl●ngs sister entreated me to go unto him I told him my opinion was as it was before that he must be removed from that house and have some others placed about him that would follow other directions my brother was desirous still to have me go to see him so with his importunity I went and took with me Master Iones a grave Preacher and one that had taken great pains with him we found him in a great chamber the glasse windows broken down and one chaire another afterwards was brought we sate down my intention being at this time onely to observe his carriage he was in a slight suit hardly worth five shillings like Irish trouses without a band the haire of his head on both sides being rubbed off and standing with his back to a great fire and looking so terribly that he would have terrified a man that was not acquainted with furious obiects so having spent some halfe an hour in observing of him Master Iones very respectively rose up and put off his hat and made his Apologie to Master Franklin because he did not come to see him for he went to Thurly but he slighted him and would make him no answer Then I spake to him and said Master Francklin you are much beholding to Master Iones for his great care of you but he sweld up and said unto me Sirrah how dare you speak thus unto me And I saw it was now time for me to get out of my chaire and because he should see that I was not daunted at his speeches I drew neerer and said Who are you that I must not speak unto you And thereupon he suddenly darted off the hearth and with his filthie nailes raked over my face and tore my ruffe so I was so ingaged that I must win the horse or lose the saddle but it pleased God to give me such strength that closing with him I threw him down and gat his hand and swaked it to the boards and called for a knife to pare his nailes but he would then have set upon my face with his teeth I was fain then to loose one of my hands and take him by the throat and with all my strength thrattle him but he made a hideous noise and cryed to his brothers to help him so one of them came and took me off and then I washed my face for I had not lost so much blood in any fray since I was at the siege of Ostend Afterwards he would be friends with me for he knew that I did it as a Souldier of Ostend A while after there was a meeting of divers Iustices of Peace and other gentlemen and there he was delivered unto me as by vertue of a commission out of the Court of wards and so we removed him to another place and set other attendants about him and gave other directions and so after a short time her rode abroad a hunting and coursing and grew into great jollity and married my Ladie Charnockes daughter a brave and vertuous young gentlewoman by whom he had one daughter and is lately dead And another beautifull young woman one Wapooles daughter of Southoe neer Huntington and one Master Beadles Son falling in love with her and intending to marry her but after his father perceived it he would not give his consent because her father was not able to give a portion according to his estate whereupon she fell into great discontentment and fell distracted and wandering from her fathers house in the depth of winter and in great floudes toward evening she came to my house and being in the porch made a strange kinde of noise I went to see her and she was wet and moiled as though she had been dragged thorow a river I fear'd at first she had coundterfeited and thought of sending her to the constable but afterward I had more pitty on her and caused her to be brought to the fire and got some warme drinkes and a warme lodging and so with in some few dayes it pleased God she was so well amended that she was able to declare unto me where her father dwelt and related unto me this pittyfull story of her love after she was able to doe some businesse I sent to her father to fetch her home he was glad when he heard she was living for they did thinke she had been drowned in the great floods when her father came we had been at prayers and I was reading a chapter when her father came in the young woman looked upon him very earnestly but would neither speak nor do any reverence unto him I used many perswasions to her but could not prevaile I sent out her father into another roome but it would not be then I called for pinfers and opened her mouth and dealt very roughly with her as though I would have plucked out her teeth but it would not be then I took a Bible

feare of God with good works I beseech you in the feare of God deck your selfe with these rich jewels of faith and repentance humilitie patience fasting and prayer and good works that so you may be like the Kings Daughter glorious within and this will make you amiable in the sight of God and glorious in the eies of his Saints and remember you are the Daughter of a religious Ladie and the Wife of an ancient Knight and the Mother of two Sons and therefore you must give them good example of wisdome and sobrietie for godlinesse is great gaine if we can be contented with that we have and God hath blessed you with a rich portion of outward beauty and comelinesse and therefore do not deface that incomparable worke of God with such base trash and trumperie for you shall never enter into the Kingdome of Heaven into the companie of glorious Saints with that trumperie on your back and gaudes on your head Consider what I say and the Lord give you grace to repent of your sins before you go hence and be no more seen Amen Amen From him that doth desire your endlesse happinesse Iohn Spencer Good Brother I Am desirous to heare if my Father Winne have paid the fifty pounds unto Sir Milss Fleetwood and also to admonish you as I take it of your unseasonable payment of one hundred pounds upon the Sabbath day morning before Harborough Faire alas was that a fit time to tell money and to make your Accompts with men when you should accompt with God was that a fit time to rumble in your Chest for your money-bags when you should have ransackt your heart for your sins must not the Lord of Sabboths needs be highly offended to see the service of men preferred before his divine Service and more care had for the buying of Oxen than for the keeping of his holy Sabbath must not the Lord needs visit for such sins nay hath he not already visited although in great mercy for was not your dear and onely son within a few dayes after closed up in a Chest and there found by his mother speechlesse and near his last breathing had not the Lord in judgement remembred mercy and restored life when we deserved death and if you did not already make use of it I beseech you in the feare of God assure your selfe that in that judgement the Lord would have you take notice of that particular sinne for if you remember when I was with you at Arlsen I told you before I heard of this that you must thinke that there was something amisse that the Lord would have reformed when he threatened such fearefull judgement to this effect And therefore I beseech you bewaile that grievous sinne and as Iob made a Covenant with his eyes so doe you make a Covenant with your hands never to abuse them so againe with telling money upon the Sabbath day And remember it was Balaams ever to be lamented error still to pursue the wages of iniquity although the Angell threatened him with a drawing sword but let his fearefull end teach us with wisedome to returne in time and repent of our sinnes and make our peace with our God before we goe hence and be no more seene and to say truth these dayes and dangerous times requires a continuall preparation for our last departure when so many wise and strong are taken away and their honour laid in the dust and we must looke also for our changing we know not how soone and therefore good brother let us walke circumspectly as the children of the light and such as are risen with Christ setting our affections on things that are above and not on things that are on the earth for our life is hid with Christ in God When Christ which is our life shall appeare then shall we appeare with him in glory In the meane time let us be diligent to exhort and admonish one another and to edefie one another in our holy faith that so we may grow from grace to grace and strength to strength till we become perfect men in Christ Amen Lord Jesus Amen Your loving Brother and the Lords unworthy Creature John Spencer Staughton More Novemb. 7. 1616. A Copy of a Letter to the prisoners at Bedford with a Booke of common Prayer and M. Dods exposition upon the Commandements bound up together with bosses and claspes BRethren my hearts desire and prayer to God for you poore prisoners is that your soules might be saved For I beare you record that in these places you endure many times hunger cold and much misery together with the fearefull expectation of the Judges comming and the sentence of death yet if God doth not worke in your hearts true repentance and sanctifie these afflictions unto you it will be but as a forerunner of the appearing before that dreadfull Iudge that will pronounce that fearefull sentence of damnation against the wicked of Goe ye cursed into hell fire and these yron chaines a shadow of those everlasting chaines of darknesse wherein the wicked shall be for ever tormented and therefore that I might be a meanes through Gods mercy to further you in that holy worke of true repentance I have procured these two bookes to be bound up together for your better use in this place of restraint the one commended and commanded by the publique authority for the publique service of God the other the worke of a reverend Preacher an excellent exposition of the Commandements both being undertaken in the feare of God and diligently used may be a blessed meanes to further you in the way of repentance and to set your feet into the way of peace First therefore pray earnestly to God to give you understanding hearts and then read and then pray and read againe and the Lord of heaven so blesse you in reading and praying that you may truly repent you of all your sinnes before you goe hence and be no more seene Amen Stoughton Moore 1624. From him that wisheth your everlasting happinesse LEt me intreat you in the feare of God that one of you that is best affected and best inabled to read Prayers and the Psalmes for Morning and Evening Prayer according to the order that is appointed in the booke of common Prayer and then instead of the Chapters which you should read in the Bible if you had it read every morning and evening a portion of the Commandements as is appointed for the day of the month that so the booke of the Psalmes and the exposition of the Commandements may be read over once every moneth and upon every Sabbath day I would have you besides the ordinary portion appointed for that day of the month read the exposition of the fourth Commandement halfe at morning prayer and halfe at evening prayer Let one read distinctly and reverently and let the rest heare diligently and devoutly I doe humbly desire the honourable Court of Parliament to take that to their consideration that every prison