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A56991	The wise virgin, or, A wonderfull narration of the hand of God wherein his severity and goodnesse hath appeared in afflicting a childe of eleven years of age, when stricken dumb, deaf and blinde through the prevalence of her disease, yet upon her wonderfull recovery was heard at severall times to utter many glorious truths concerning Christ, faith, and other subjects : to the wonderment of many that came far and neer to see and hear her / by James Fisher ...	Fisher, James, minister of the Gospel in Sheffield.	1653 (1653)	Wing R1004; ESTC R204524	88,491	208

there is 〈◊〉 stumbling-block before their eyes Oh how happy a thing it is and joyfull for to see when a poor Christian is imbraced in those two armes of love that beloved One that beloved One those whom he hath chosen he will take them for his own for ever he will lock them in his Cabinet from all sin and sorrow and from the Devils assaults In the day when I make up my jewels they shall be mine saith the Lord. She concluded with much rejoycing but exprest no words September 26 I am the true Vine and my Father is the Husbandman every branch that bringeth not forth good fruit in me shall be hewen down and cast into the fire Those that I do not chastise they are not sonnes but bastards saith the Lord. Lord pull back Satan that roaring lion which would devour my poor soul but he cannot but he cannot my God will not suffer him Obey the Commmandments of God and do not dishonour him but honour him and do not abuse his Titles Words or Works labour to make a right use of them it is them that we must be overthrown or accepted by Take heed you live not in a known sin for if you live in a known sin it is a double sin and if in a double sin God will double his Judgements God will denounce against you the greatest Judgement amongst the Catalogue if you dishonour God he will make you smart for it Take heed of Satan that cunning Serpent beware of him beware of him for he is alwayes drawing and flattering us unto him and when he hath got us unto him hell-fire will be our end Let us labour to forsake sin and cleave unto Jesus Christ and let him be our safeguard if you give way to little sins it will bring on greater sins For which things sake the wrath of God commeth upon the children of disobedience if you give way to little sins it will bring on greater sins and then the greater will be your Judgement Lord sanctifie it unto us that it may take an impression in our hearts and work it in us that it may take a deep impression in our hearts Let us labour to be partakers with that thy beloved One that suffered death upon the Crosse to save us from hell-torments had not he suffered death upon the Crosse for our sins we had been howling in hell this day have we not cause to love him have we not cause to love him that suffered death upon the Crosse that cruell death by the Jews if we should suffer never so much we could never suffer so much for him as he did for us Oh have we not cause to love him let us lay down our lives for his sake that laid down his life for us What miserable creatures are we so that our souls be but saved we never think of Christs sufferings for us we alwayes forget that but we must remember it at the day of Judgement the Lord will call us to an account for all these things In the day when I make up my jewels they shall be mine saith the Lord Jehovah September 27. Lord as thou hast fed our bodies with tempor all food so feed our souls with spirituall food Lord work thy Word with faith in our hearts unlesse it be written with thy Spirit it is but a dead letter In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and all things were made by him Beware of Satan that Serpent that goeth about and stands in corners to watch to vanquish my soul but he cannot but he cannot touch it he cannot enter in labour to have the foundation of life that he may not touch it which foundation is an everlasting foundation it will stand it will never fail Let us labour for Christ for the stronger we are in Christ the weaker we are in this world the stronger we are in this world the weaker we are in Christ Let us labour to build our conversation upon the three-corner stones which is the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost Trust in the Lord Trust in the Lord Jehovah for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength Lord satisfie our unsatisfied hearts for if a man have all the world he hath not enough but he hankers and hungers and thirsts more after the things of the world but when we have Christ Oh what can we desire more what would we have more Oh! what can a Christians heart desire more then that beloved One that Christ Jesus labour to have your foundation built upon that Holy one that Holy One. September 29. Take heed you lie not one to another seeing you have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the Image of him that created him Be wise in all your doings and be ye present be ye present before the eyes of the Lord ô fear the Lord ô fear the Lord though you fear not men See that you serve the Lord above with trembling and with fear see that with reverence you rejoyce in him in like manner ô let us fear the Lord that we may live in his fear and die in his favour Oh that we had hearts to observe the Commandments of God if we had but hearts to observe his Commandments we should never ruu upon our own souls destruction as we do Labour to spend your time well in this world of abomination and sin for it is but for a little moment and labour to repent before the day of death for after the day of death there is no repentance lest you run headlong into hell to your own destruction for ever and ever Beware of Satan that Serpent and give not vvay to his assaults but despise them and flie back from them Let us labour for Christ let us hunger thirst after him for one glimpse of Christ is better then a 1000 worlds for one glimpse of Christ will ravish a poor Christians heart for when a Christian is drooping and thinking that God hath forsaken him then God out of his favour sheweth him one glimpse and then goeth back again sheweth him but by glimpses and glimpses to make him stick closer unto him even as a star that lightens and darkens and lightens and darkens to make the light shine brighter She spake no more until the sixth of October Come my people enter into my Tabernacle Having spoken these words she fell into an exraordinary fit of laughing and tittering heartily six or seven several times as she used to do in her best health when she was over-joyed with any thing and soon after fell into a mourning and as it were wept in her brest and then she spake the words following Beware of Satan that Serpent lest he reign in your hearts for if he touch you he will creep in and in like a

be whole and she arose and was healed Oh vvhy should not vve be contented for his Arme is not shortened nor his Povver diminished therefore vvhy should no● vve be contented In this vvorld whilest we are in affliction we think it is miserable and grievous bu● hereafter it will be sweetened while we a● in affliction we think it is miserable and grievous but the Lord will sweeten it with th● cup of mercy the Patient must taste of 〈◊〉 bitter potion before his stomack be cleared Oh let us labour to fear the Lord that we may live in his fear and die in his favour for as we do so we must look to be done by October the 20th Children obey your parents in all things knowing that it is well pleasing unto the Lord. Oh let us labour to have our wills melted into the will of that everliving and glorious God The secrets of God are hid from man and his wayes past finding out but the Lord will reveal them to his children in some part when his time appointed is come Lord humble these proud hearts of ours and endue us with the gift of Humiliation Oh let us labour to return thanks unto the Lord for all his mercies that he hath poured down upon us for the way of begetting more is to return thanks unto the Lord to give reverence unto him we reverence our earthly fathers our natural fathers Oh why should not we much more reverence our Heavenly Father Oh let us labour to forsake this world and all things that are therein for there is nothing that is desirable Oh let us labour to stick close unto that Holy One for when all things in the world fail he will never fail he will stick close to us when all things in this world decay and moscer away he will be an everlasting rock Lord open our blinde eyes that we may see clearly the weaknesse of our selves and the strength of Christ Oh let us labour to lead our lives and conversations well in this life for as we do so we must look to be done by if we sowe unto the flesh we shall reap corruption but if we sowe unto the Spirit we shall reap life everlasting October the 21th Let us labour to repent of all our sinnes which we have lived in formerly which lieth unrepented of for after the day of death there is no repentance as life leaveth us so Judgement findes us October the 22th Oh let us cast our care upon the Lord for he will care for us he hath promised to be a father to the fatherlesse and a husband to the widow Lord pull back Satan that lurking roaring lion that goeth about to devour my poor soul but he cannot my Christ will tread him under foot that he can get no power over my poor soul Lord graft thy Word into our heads and not onely into our heads but into our hearts also We are poor Earth-wormes Lord breath into us the breath of life that we may become lively Saints of thine that we may become lively Saints of thine and that we may sing Hallelujahs with thee in the highest Heavens Take heed you lie not one to another for if you go in that way the Devill will take that occasion to pour in more corruption Lord mollifie these hard hearts of ours with thy graces that are so hardened with sin and corruption October the 24th Lord open the eyes of the blinde that ●ey may see clearly the purity that is in Christ and the corruption that is in them●ves they see and perceive not they hear ●nd understand not Lord enrich our souls with thy graces that ●e may be instruments to enrich the King●ome of Heaven Lord pull back Satan that lurking roar●g lion that goeth about to destroy my poor ●ul but he cannot my Christ will give him ●o power he will not let him touch it He ●oth what he can to get victory but he can●ot my Christ will not let him The Devil ●aliceth the children of God he is alwayes ●usiest about them and flattering them he 〈◊〉 alwayes thinking to make them fear him ●nd flattering them and thinking to over●ome them but those whom God hath ●hosen he will take them for his own the ●oor doubting Christian the Devil is always ●utting feares and doubts into them but when he thinks they are in the lowest con●●ition they are in the highest and when a man thinketh he is in the highest condition he is in the lowest when a poor doubting Christian thinketh he falls he stands a● when a man thinketh he stands he falls Lord take away these hearts of stone a● renew us with hearts of flesh Lord humble these proud hearts of our● that we may not be swallowed up with th● vanities of this world we are apt to 〈◊〉 drawn to the vanities of this world and 〈◊〉 flie back from Christ Oh what disobedie● children are we that follow not the commands of so loving a Father that which 〈◊〉 biddeth us to do that we do not and th● which he biddeth us not do that we do Oh let us labour for faith for he that 〈◊〉 faithfull untill death he shall enjoy the crowne● life October the 25th Come my people enter into thy chamber sh● the door upon thee hide thy selfe for a little m●ment untill the indignation of the Lord be overpast He that doth not the will of my Father which is in heaven he is not worthy of me saith th● Lord. Take heed you sowe not good seed upon thorny ground lest the thorns spring up and choak it My Christ hath pulled back Satan that lurking roaring lion which goeth about to devour my poor soul he maliceth my poor soul and thinks to get the victory but he cannot Oh let us labour to be partakers with that Beloved one that immaculate lamb of God that spotlesse lambe that laid down his life to take away the sins of the whole world Oh let us labour for faith that rich grace of our God Lord pour it down upon us that is that rich grace of eternity that is the grace by which we must either live or die without we have that grace we shall never come to God we shall never come to Christ Oh let us labour for faith ô let us labour for faith no faith no Christ no Christ no salvation Lord as thou hast fed out bodies with temporall food so feed our souls with spirituall food that we may be able Instruments to enrich the Kingdome of Heaven Lord endue our spirits with the gift of Humiliation for the Spirit of God is a humble Spirit a meek Spirit a holy Spirit a full Spirit it acts powerfully and breaths where it listeth Trust in the Lord Jehovah for in the Lord Jehovah is our everlasting strength Come my people let us reason together though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as wool though

of him that we should not be so carried away with the vanities of the world but we should give up our selves to ●hrist and make him our Habitation The same night about 12 a clock She had great extremity of pain and as conceived would gladly have spoken ma●ing signes that her heart was in Heaven as was thought by those who were present with her for she pulled at her brest seve●all times and held up her hand as high as she could reach looking up with her ●yes and then after a short space she spake and said Me is not in the hand of mine enemy but ●n the hand of my loving Father he is an ever-living ever-loving and glorious Lord God he is a wise God and he will not give his children one lash more then he sees good for them After this she spake no more until the eighth day of December which was the day after the Lord had graciously given her the use of her Senses and of her Understanding To close up this second part of the Narrative I shall adde this that some of these Speeches she uttered though but few of them will need such Apologie in weaknesse as a childe under such strange distempers as did somwhat confuse and perturbe her intellectuals but other things she uttered thorow the strength of the Spirits assistance extraordinarily guiding her tongue to utter such things as now she cannot tell that ever she did speak them There be some things oft repeated yet because either they are uttered with some variety and were things that it seems her heart was much carried forth to mention therefore I have set them down and hope they will not be tedious but may raise up further thoughts of them when you read them over again and compare them with the Scriptures in the Margin and if you knew the state of the family and the condition of some that came occasionally to hear her you would say there was a Divine hand that guided her tongue and that God was with her mouth adapting her speeches to their necessities And I suppose her heart was more affected with some truths before this ill fit and of those things she makes the most frequent mention But whilest I am Apologizing ●or her Repetitions some may tax me for Omissions some have said that she prophesied and no such passages are here related to which I answer there is no ground for such a report there is one passage related in one of her Speeches October the 19th in the end of page 107 and beginning of page 108. about Raising of the Maid unlesse they fancie this to be a Prophetick foretelling of her Recovery I know not any thing uttered by her nor could upon enquiry hear of any thing that might give ground for such a report but the truth is such Reporters I hear do some of them expect to have the gift of Miracles and it may be of prophesying and seemed to be much taken with Gods dispensations to this Childe hoping it would have conduced something to the promoting of their cause but are disappointed for God hath opened the mouth of a dumb childe to confute their follies It may be they prophesied that she would prophesie and so have proved themselves to be false prophets My hearts desire and prayer to God shall be that these Speeches may take as deep impression upon the hearts of the Readers as they did upon her body who was the Speaker God was pleased to hold her upon the rack for so many weeks nay moneths in which she endured grievous torturings and yet to enable her to speak such things surely so extraordinary a Teacher requires more then ordinary attention When Jonah who had bin so close a student in the Whales belly Colledge came to preach to the Ninevites● the strangenesse of the Relation concerning the Preacher might make his Sermons take more with them Shall not they rise in Judgement against the men of this Generation some it may be with Pharaohs South-sayers will acknowledge the finger of God is in this when his whole hand is visible but if men sleight such dispensations no wonder for if they hear not Moses and the Prophets neither will they be perswaded though one rose from the dead God indulged to the Israelites its thought to enjoyne them Ceremonies of his devising to prevent their use of or hankering after such as were of mans devising God seems to indulge to the weaknesse of some in such extraordinary actings of his Providence in this Instance and a few others which might be mentioned but if the Father of the Family take all this care and yet men are not contented with his established Institutions but they are finding out new Inventions God will certainly correct this wantonizing humour It argues our stomacks are foul and crazy when we must have new dishes every meal and cannot ●eed upon the standing dishes of Gods Ordinances the King of Saints will nor be thus affronted but level and discharge the Ordnance of his power against those that disclaim the Ordinances of his Grace But I hope through the pourings out of the Spirit many shall be so wise as to observe these things and to profit by ordinary and extraordinary dispensations and surely They shall understand the loving kindenesse of the Lord. The third Part of the NARRATIVE Containing The wonderfull Recovery of this Childe of Wonders MAny dayes had been set apart in the Family to seek the face and favour of God on the behalfe of this afflicted Childe which Duties her parents as Obed-Edom the Ark were forward to entertain as at other times so now in this their afflicted condition They have had much experience that God was a God hearing prayer and therefore would not be beaten off from these now alas too much neglected meanes from which they had sucked much sweetnesse having found God sometimes marvellously helping of them till they were strong in the power of his might but alwayes helping them with a little help and bearing up their spirits under the trials though they did not obtain a full enlargement and when one told the father of this childe that the room was not able to bear so many as came to seek God in those duties he replied The more the better so that those who come can pray and believe But yet the Lord in wisdome seemed to us to be as one astonished as a mighty man that cannot save the Childes distempers of body growing more violent she having most terrible crying fits by reason of her extream pain which crying fits continued till she vomited blood and then she was quiet which were very grievous and afflictive to the spirits of all that heard her and the whole Family so continually under sadnesse and their sleep so broken that you might have seen Every one with their hands upon their loines as a woman in travell and all faces turned into palenesse Which dealings of the Lord with that family

feares but God who comforteth such as are cast down comforted them in this Infant-preacher much of whose discourse was an earnest pressing unto faith When her sorrowing parents and astonished friends were as it were at their wits end in relation to her sad condition even then she wished them frequently to roll upon upon God who would bring them to their desired haven to their expected end Oh let us labour for faith said she for He th●t is faithfull unto death shall receive the crown of life And in relation to their affliction she said Satan is always malicing perplexing the Children of God to make their journey uncomfortable thinking that if he get not victory then he shall never get victory but my Christ hath vanquished Satan This handmaid of the Lord Reader to give thee a taste of her was piously principled even from her Cradle the Spirit blossoming in her in the very Spring of her age Even while she spelled words and syllables she spel'd out Christ for if she met with a free promise or some good sentence holding out Gods love to man she would say Mother this is a sweet place and usually read it over again Yet though she thus grew in the inward her outward man was weakened and decayed till the twelfth year of her age the year of these wonderfull transactions betwixt God and her spirit as if that year Christ would again honour now in this member of his to confute such as would be thought some-body in these days as once in his own person he silenced those Doctors of the Jewish Synagogue In this eleventh year viz. Aprill 1652. her bodily disease increased so did her love to heavenly things also for even those toyes which that age delights in she desired not so much as ●o hear named by her sisters setting her thoughts upon and inuring her tongue to speak of those things above where shortly she expected to arrive At last the disease over-mastered her strength seized upon the Organes of her senses so that she could neither speak see nor hear to the apprehen●ion of any about her she could not move ●ut as she was born by others and much of this time her teeth was so closed that she was not capable of receiving food onely some liquid matter they dropped in at a broken tooth and this very little she putting it out so fast as it was given her thus lay she diverse moneths even untill December an object of sorrow to her parents and of astonishment to all others capable onely of their pity not of their help but a mirrour of the mighty power of God proving by this argument that Man liveth not by bread alone it is not the arm of flesh that is to be confided in but he that knoweth our infirmities is onely able both to help and heal them During this continued Paroxysme she had very frequently sometimes every day certain grand extasies whereby after that her body had been racked on the wheel of convulsion it became as stiffe and expanse as that bodie which is seized on by death and coldnesse In which extasies God did to astonishment appear For now flowed those streames of living waters those precious divine sentences contained in the ensuing pages which thou tasting with the Organes of the same Spirit they were delivered thou canst but admire Look on the person a childe going on twelve years and canst but confesse that out of the mouth of a babe and suckling God hath perfected praise Look at the condition wherein she uttered these in a deep ●ance and dost not see it fulfilled that the tongue of the dumbe shall sing Look at the things she spake are they not deep things of God is there heresie or errour intermingled Couldst thou discern the manner of her expressions the vivacity of spirit how the words drop from a touched experienced self-concerned heart thou wouldst say as the Queen of Sheba said of Solomon The halfe was not told thee Look at the suitablenesse of the things spoken and thou 'st confesse they came not by the will of man but this holy one of God spake as she was moved borne supported and carried out by the holy Spirit Concerning this last cir●umstance when some rashly affirmed that ●e was acted by Satan they judging accor●●ng to carnall reason at the next extasie which was the onely time of her speaking ●he uttered thus I am not in the hands of ●atan but in the hands of my God when ●ome pretenders to Revelations as these ●mes are full of such visited her at that ve●y time she was carried out to say Take ●eed you sowe not tares for if you sowe tares you shall reap tares and afterwards fully witnessed gainst them thus Take hee● you de●ise not Gods Ordinances nor his Instruments that he hath sent to preach his Word God will let you go on with your delusions for a time but there will come a day of Judgement to try whether you be right or false and again Lord restrain those that go about to interrupt those Instruments which thou hast sent to preach out thy holy Word in thy Congregations it is requisite that offences should come but wo to them by whom they come November the ninth being purposed ●or a day of seeking God by fasting and prayer the night before she encouraged them that were about her with that of the Psalmist Call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me And the night after the work was done she admonished them thus Oh let us call to minde what the Lord hath done for us and not be like the natural man that looketh his face in a Glasse an● presently forgetteth what manner of man he was Thus God by this his handmaid opposed profane scoffers cautioned misled creatures and bare witnesse to the excellencie and necessity of the now sleighted Ordinances and Ministery Reader here thou mayest a while behold as it were a conflict in her godly parents betwixt joy and grief their teares issued not all from the same Fountain the one eye was swolne with drops of gladnesse the other of sorrow while they beheld the deep trials of God upon them their lips quivered rottennesse entred into their bones they trembled in themselves but when again they beheld how God laid their tossed and afflicted with fair colours checkered his work paved his steps with black and white marble then again they are comforted As that Popish Bishop when not able to determine whether Solomon were a childe of wrath or love caused his Effigies to be drawn half in heaven half in hell so they judge their affairs ●o resemble that Cloud which ushered the ●sraelites to the land of Promise it had a ●ark side as well as a bright Thus God ●olds them till the time came that he would command deliverances for them then