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An edifieing wonder, of two children dyeing 100 yeares old or A short account of the last houres of Susanna Bickes (in the 14 yeare of her age) before her death. Septemb. 1. 1664. Also of Jacob Bickes her brother of 7. yeares old. Aug. 6. 1664.
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if a man should live long yet the longer he should live he should the more have sinn Psal 90. 10. The dayes of our yeares are threescore and ten yeares And if by strength they be fourscore yet is the strength therof labor and sorrow Now the Lord shall free me from all that labor and that sorrow Suppose and think with yourselves that ye were both sick and the Lord should come and take you from us and leave us poore children behind you How farr greater loss should that seem for us Is it not better that the Lord remove us first who would belike have so few freinds behind you Bot we know not the thoughts of the Lord yet we know they are peace and good and not evill and to give an expected end unto good But oh what shall I say my life shall not continue long I feel so much anxiety Oh Lord look upon me graciously have pitty upon my weake and distressed heart my distressed soule I am opprest undertake for me that I may stand fast and overcome Heer again a little reviving she said It is said Joh. 14. 16. I wil pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter who shall remain with you for ever even the spirit of trueth O Lord let him not leave me O Lord continue with me till my battell and work be finished Without thee I can doe nothing Ioh. 15. 5. I am said Christ the true vine and my Father is the husband-man ah ah my God let me be a branch of that living vine Oh what are we poor wormes who can of ourselves do nothing O dear Father how lame and halting goe we in the wayes of God and salvation 1. Cor. 13. 9 10. For we know but in part and we prophecie but in part but when that which is perfect is come then shall that which is in part be done away Oh that I had attayned to that Now but what are we of ourselves Gen. 6. 5 see not only the weakenes nothingnes but also the wickedness of man that all the imaginations of the thoughts of the heart are evill and only evill continually and Eph. 2. We were by nature the children of wrath and are conceived and borne in sinne and unrighteousnes Psal 51. Oh oh this wretched and vile thing sinn But thanks be to God who hath redeemed me from it Rom. 8. 15 16 17. Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to feare but ye have received the spirit of adoption by which ye crie Abba Father It is the spirit which witnesseth with our spirit that we are the children of God And if children then are we heirs Heirs of God and joint heires with Christ Thence ye see Father that I shal be a fellow heir with Christ who hath said Joh. 14. 2 3. In my Fathers house are many mansions I goe to prepare a place for you And if I goe to prepare a place for you I will come againe and take you to my selfe that where I am there ye may be also O Lord take me to thy selfe Behold dear M. he hath prepared a place and dwelling for me Yea my dear child said her Mother he shall strengthen you with his holy spririt untill he hath fitted you and prepared you fully for that place which he hath prepared for you Yea Mother it is said in Psal 84. How lovlie are thy Tabernacles O Lord of hosts my soule doth thirst and longeth for the courts of the Lord one day in thy courtes is better then a thousand Yea said David I had rather be a doorekeeper in the house of my God then to dwell in tents of the wicked Read that Psalm D. M. and therwith ye may comfort one another As for me I am more and more spent and draw neer to my last houre Pray with me Pray that the Lord would vouchsafe unto me a soft death And when they had prayed with her she turned her to her Mother and with much affection she said ah my dear and loving Mother that which cometh from the heart doth ordinarily goe to the heart Once come and kiss me before I leave you and also my dear father and my sister And father let my sister be trained up in the wayes of God as I have been I bewailed and weeped for my sister thinking she should dye and now she weepeth for me Also she took her young litle sister in her armes a child of 6. monethes old and she kissed it with much affection as if her bowels had been moved and spake with many heart-breaking words both to the parents and the children Her father said to one standing by Take from her that poore lambkin from the hazard of that fierie sicknesse Give her from you for ye have too much already to beare Well father said she did not God preserv the 3 children in the fierie furnace Ye yourself learned me from Isai 43. 3. When thou passest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt neither shall the flame kindle upon thee After this she had some litle rest and being awaked she said We read 1. Cor. 15. 42 43. The body is sown in corruption but shal be raised incorruptible It is sown in dishonour but shal be raised in glory it is sown in weakness but shal be raised in power Behold thus it is and thus it shal be with my poore mortal flesh Revel 14. 13. Blessed are the dead who dye in ye Lord becaus they doe rest from their labour and their workes shall follow them Isai 57. 1 2. The righteous perish and no man layeth it to heart and the upright are taken away and no man regardeth it that they are taken away before the evill which cometh They shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds every one who have walked in their uprightnesse Behold now father I shall rest and sleep in that bed-chamber Also Job saith chap. 19. 25 26 27. I know that my Redeemet liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth And though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God Whom I shall see for my selfe and mine eyes shall behold and not another though my reines be consumed within me Behold now father this very skin which ye see and this very flesh which ye see shal be raised up again and these very eyes which now are so dim shall on that day see and behold my dear and pretious Redeemer Albeit the wormes shall eat up my flesh yet with these eyes shall I behold God even I myself and not another for me Joh. 5. 28 22. Mervell not for this for the houre is coming in the which all who are in the grave shall heare and come foorth these who have done good unto the resurrection of life See Father I shall rise on that day and then I shall behold my Redeemer then shall she say come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared fore you before