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A65271	An epistle by way of testimony to the friends of Manchester and thereabouts given forth shortly after the death of my dear daughter, Mary Moss, wife of Isaac Moss of Manchester, who departed this life the XXIX of the 11th month, 1692 : with a testimony concerning my dear wife Mary Watson, who since departed this life the 2d of the 9th month, 1694 / by Samuel Watson ; together with a few words written by Elizabeth Moss concerning her dear mother.	Watson, Samuel, ca. 1618-1708.; Moss, Elizabeth. Few words by way of remembrance of my dear mother M. Watson.	1695 (1695)	Wing W1096; ESTC R13490	8,499	18

behind who were sometimes conversant with this dear Servant and Follower of the Lamb who was a sweet-smelling Savour unto you that have received the Truth in the love of it and in measure walk in it this Council and Admonition I give unto you Keep in the Holy Watch in the holy stay'dness of Mind that you may be ready to answer the Mind of him who is the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob that hath called you out of Darkness into his Marvailous Light and liberty of his Son Christ Jesus let no other liberty in your Conversation be given way to than what is purchased by the pretious Blood of the Lamb by which you are bought so that you may find in Spirit continually a Standard lifted up in you to the resisting of all Evil and that you are not your own but are bought with a Price a Holy Engagement is upon you to serve the Lord in your Souls Bodies and Spirits which are his This one thing keeping to will keep you in a Holy and humble frame of Life and Conversation in the daily Cross as becomes the Gospel and in the feeling of the Love of God shed abroad in your Hearts the Branch of Righteousness will spring forth in you and as a well-watered Garden and a Spring of Water whose Waters fail not will your Souls be to bring forth Fruits of Love godly Patience and holy Obedience to God in a dayly self-denial and taking up the Cross which Crucifies to the World the Vanities and Lusts thereof and slays the Enmity on the Cross so will more and more Branches appear which spring's from the true Root and Ground of Holiness where every little one that keeps in the Holy fear may partake of the Sap and Nourishment which will make you prosperous and witness a daily growth in the heavenly Life And I exhort you all to give all diligence to make your caling and Election sure that an entrance you may know into the Kingdom and add to your Faith which you have received in Christ Jesus the Author of it Vertue and to Vertue Knowledg and to Knowledge Temperance and to Temperance Patience and to patience Godliness and to Godliness Brotherly kindness and to Brotherly kindness Charity which is the Mark of Christianity and the Birth which inherits the Kingdom and those that abide in these things they cannot be barren or unfruitful in the Work of the Vineyard God hath called them into but are always ready and prepared with the wise Virgins to enter into the Bridegrooms Chamber not knowing how soon the last call may be to any of us that are yet remaining in these Tabernacles of Clay but keep so Waiting and in Faithfulness that the Crown of Glory we may obtain with this pretious obedient and dear Sister that is gone before us And be not weary in well-doing and meeting often together and as you keep in a holy Thirst and hungring after Righteousness you will partake of a daily Watering at that living Stream and feeding on that living Bread which comes down from Heaven without which you cannot live and walk up to God nor keep in that which is acceptable unto him as this dear Plant of our heavenly Father kept to the end of her days So unto the great Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls do I commit you all to be led guided and taught by him who is the Comforter and Spirit of Truth which leads into all Truth I communicate this in tender Love to you all tho' but a small number and one of them being taken from you who was great in Love but little in her own Eyes The Lord with whom all things are possible will give an Encrease and enlarge your Borders in the Truth in his own time So in a Holy salutation of Love and Good will to you all I bid you farewell and rest Your dear Friend and Brother in the Truth S. WATSON A short Testimony concerning my dear Wife Mary Watson who departed this life the 2d of the 9th Month 1694. Dear Friends THis dear Companion and Fellow-labourer in the Gospel of life and Salvation who was a dear and tender Wife to me given by the great God of Heaven and Earth to be a Yoke-fellow to me not only in Body but in Spirit and though she was attended and afflicted with many Infirmities of Body yet great hath been our Travails and Exercises in Spirit together in Prayer and Supplication to God who hath fitted and prepared our Hearts with prayers and thanksgiving to offer up to him as Incense upon his Holy Altar who hath helped us through many Tribulations and shed abroad his love in our Hearts and made us livingly to partake together of the Springs of Life and Salvation in our Bosoms and keep us in a true unity of Spirit as Heirs of the same Grace that our Prayers were not hindred but with Jacob in that Seed we came often to know a wrestling in our inward Man and a prevailing with God for a Blessing And the end of my dear Companions Labour Travail and pure Breathings is accomplished in her final Testimony who is visibly gone and taken from me to her sweet Eternal Rest where no more Afflictions either in Body or Mind can surprize her But as her terrestrial Body is gone to its Center from whence it came unto which it was to return again in the appointed time so her Immortal Soul in and through Obedience to the Seed Christ Jesus in it's redeemed State is gathered into a glorious Mansion and everlasting Habitation where the Resurrection unto Heavenly Happiness stands sure on the Foundation and Rock of Ages and Generations She was sometimes under Fears of this great passage from Mortality as some have been in antient time but my Travail in Spirit with her Spirit was That through the living Faith she had received in Christ the Author of it she might keep still stedfast and fight the good Fight of Faith and Victory should be obtained which was in God's season manifested in her inward Man and afterwards she spoke forth pure Acknowledgments of the same to our great refreshing several Weeks before her departure giving me comfortably to understand That the Work of Redemption was wrought and compleated in her and all doubts and fears removed And now she waited to be dissolved and to be with Christ that redeemed and sanctified her and put on Righteousness as a Garment and Salvation as a Lamp that burneth so that as a wise Virgin she was prepared to enter into the Bridegroom's Chamber of Eternal Joy and Praises filled her Vessel while she had any Strength in her Vitals remaining and her Eye was to that heavenly Family out of all the Families of the Earth where she would gladly be rejoycing with her tender Off-spring and Relations gone before her as often her Expression were to be with them All visible Helps and outward Enjoyments failing she had the Lord for her Portion and kept in a Possession of

AN EPISTLE By way of TESTIMONY To the Friends of Manchester And thereabouts Given forth shortly after the Death of my dear Daughter MARY MOSS WIFE of ISAAC MOSS of Manchester Who departed this Life The XXIX of the 11th Month 1692. With a Testimony concerning my dear Wife Mary Watson who since departed this Life the 2d of the 9th Month 1694. By SAMVEL WATSON Together with a few words written by Elizabeth Moss concerning her dear Mother Pretious in the sight of the Lord is the Death of his Saints Psalm 1 6.15 And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me write blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord from hence-forth Yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their Works do follow them Revelations 14.13 LONDON Printed for Tho. Northcott in George-Yard in Lombard street 1695 An Epistle by way of Testimony to the Friends of Manchester and thereabouts Given forth shortly after the Death of my Dear Daughter Mary Moss DEar Friends of Manchester and thereabouts and all who are concerned for the prosperity of the Truth as it is in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour it lives upon me to write this Epistle of Memorial concerning our Dear Daughter Mary of whose departure out of this Life you have a great Loss as certainly her dear Parents and Relations her Husband and tender small Babes have which she left behind her a loss I say unexpressible whom she was in her life time a comfort and help to But the infinite wise God in whose Hand we all are hath ordered these things according to his divine Will and Pleasure sometimes for the speedy deliverance of his tribulated Children in the Work of their Redemption from all visibles that the Joy set before them of that which is Eternal they may without Interruption possess so that though she be removed or departed who was a comfort to us in her Life-time and the loss of whom is great yet the Gain to her is incomparable and our Peace and great satisfaction is in full assurance That she is gathered with the wise Virgins gone before her into the Bridegroom's Chamber of Eternal Joy and Felicity And pretious in the sight of the Lord is the death of all his Saints and her Memorial shall be had in everlasting Remembrance I cannot sufficiently express this tender Branches amiableness her inward Beauty and glorious Garments which she had put on as one of the King of Zion's Daughters whose Royal Robes of Righteousness Holiness and true Charity did shine not only to the gladding the Members of the same Body but to those who as yet are Strangers to the Commonwealth of Israel that in the universal love God has to all in that he would not the Death of any Sinner so she as a Hand-maid of the Lord manifested her love and Law of kindness to all exceeding many others The Anointing Oyl she was inwardly beautified with which gave a sweet smelling Savour to the House-hold of Faith and at seasons heavenly Breathings prayers and praises sprung in her which was as Incense ascending to the Throne of Glory And many have been comforted in those springs of Life that streamed from that Well of Salvation opened in her So she had received from her Spiritual Joshua not only the South-Land of a good prepared Heart and Ground but obtained the upper and nether Springs of living Water to the making fruitful this tender Branch and weak Vessel And as she was not lavish or spending her Portion where she ought not she was not sparing neither withheld the good Things which she was made Partaker of from the Remnant that loved the Lord Jesus with whom her Unity stood and Fellowship in the Covenant of Life sealed up in that pure Spirit of Adoption which she had received in him and through the Pourings in of his abundant love who is the Alpha and Omega She was of a bearing Spirit and did not love any contention willing rather to suffer great Trouble and bear Her Exercises patiently than to lay open the weakness of others so that Love in the Truth was setled in her Bosom rather to cover a multitude of Faults than to make one And this Labour of true Love which hates the Garment spotted in the Flesh is the true Work to help and gather out of the World the Snares and Pollutions thereof Those that are yet unescaped She laboured to reach to the little Seed of the Kingdom where it did lye as buried under the Earth that the Power she had partaken of to work her Redemption they might also come to feel and be made sensible of what she witnessed of that inward Circumcision in Spirit from her Minority so that little of the Glory of this World was over-pleasant in her Eye but her Eye was opened to behold and look after those things which are Celestial and Eternal And the Candle which was lighted in her did shine forth to others so that it is well for them that are left behind that observed and loved her godly Conversation Coupled with Fear to follow her Example and now to wait while a day is given to keep in the Path and Steps of this godly Woman who was a Pattern of Purity Patience Sincerity Poverty of Spirit and true Humility eschewing that which comes from an evil Root of Bitterness and Uncleanness which is too much brought forth in some of those that profess Godliness so that a Branch of the true Vine she was manifest to be in her day and season abiding in him who is the true and antient Vine receiving Supyly and Refreshment from him who made her bring forth much Fruit wherein our Heavenly Father is glorified for not by the profession only But as our Saviour said by their Fruits ye shall know them Her Conversation being in Heaven the Fruits of the Spirit of God were brought forth in her viz. Love Meekness Temperance Chastity Brotherly Kindness and above all she had Charity which is the Bond of Perfectness I can now leave her in the Arms of her blessed Saviour at whose Feet she kept in the days of her Pilgrimage and washed his Feet Spiritually with the Tears of Joy and wiped them as with the Hairs of her Head in pure Obedience nothing being too dear to pass thorow or to do for him that had done so much for her O happy art thou Daughter of Zion that is thus taken away from the evil that is to come and now crowned with Immortal Glory which no Spirit of Darkness can bereave thee of To him be the Glory who hath done this Work for thy poor Soul whose glorious Resurrection in Christ will appear in the Kingdom of Heaven and a remnant who Love the Lord and loved her are pressing on to obtain a share in the same glory and dignity with our Heavenly Father and High-priest of our Profession to whom be Praises ascribed for all his mercies continually And now my dear Friends you that are left