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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
Hebr. 12. 10 11. And albeit as it is said there no chastening for the present time seemeth to be joyeous bot greivous neverthelesse afterwards it yeeldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousnesse unto them who are exercised by it The Lord is now chastening me upon this sick-bed and I hope he will blesse it soe as to make it to yeeld unto me that same blessed fruit according to the riches of his mercy and compassions which faile not and then sighing to God with her eyes up to heaven she said be mercifull unto me o Father be mercifull unto me poore sinner according to thy word And looking upon her sorrowing parents who stood by her Father said she It is said in the 55. Psal vers 23. Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustaine thee for he will never suffer the righteous to be moved Therefore dear Father and Mother cast all your care and sorrow upon the Lord who shall make all things goe well that concerne you Oh said the Mother my deare child I have had noe small comfort from the Lord in thee and the fruits of his grace in thee wherby thow hast been so much exercised unto godlinesse in the word and prayer and religious and gracious discours unto thine owne and our comfort and edification The Lord himselfe who gave us thee make up our loss of thee If it be his pleasure that we must now parte one from another D. Mother said she albeit I leave yow yet God shall never forsake yow for it is said Isai 49. 15 16. Can a woman forget her sucking child that she should not have compassion on the fruit of her wombe yea she may forget yet I wil not forget thee Behold I have graven thee upon the palms of my hand c. Oh comfortable words both for mothers and children Mark dear Mother how fast the Lord keepeth and holdeth his people that he hath them even graven on the palmes of his hand Therefore think with your self that albeit I must parte with yow or ye with mee yet the Lord shall never separat from you or me She being wearied through much speaking desired to rest a little and after a verie little tym she awaked Her Father asked how it was with her but she asked what day of the week it is now Her Father told her it was the Lords day Well said she have ye given up my name to be remembered in the publict prayers Her Father told her he had done soe I have learned said she that the effectuall fervent prayer of the Righteous doth availe much The two worthie Ministers who are aftermentioned she wold have much desired they should have been by her but from her love to them being much tender and carefull of their safetie she wold not have them desired to visite her but rather satisfied herselfe to be cast upon the Lords owne hand and to accept of and improve the visits of others whom the providence of God should send unto her or those who being judged by the Church sitt for the visiting of the sick in these caices of hazard arewont to come with more freedom Of whom their was one who used to come severall tymes to her and who was through the Lords blessing usefull to her to whom she gave heartie thanks for his visit And one tym after he was gone she began to weep bitterlie and her Father asked her the cause Have I not matter for weeping said she for what I have heard but just now by the visiter that Domine de Witte was to day taken sick in the pulpit and went home so unwell which is a sadd token for the people For when God is about to smyte a Land or a Citie often times he smyteth and removeth their Pastores and ought we not then to lay such a thing to heart altho for my part I know that I shall not long live to behold the evill which may come and which I have helped to procure al 's well as others And therefore I pray with David Psa 25. Remember not O Lord the sinnes of my youth nor my trespasses according to thy tender mercie remember thou me for thy goodnes sake O Lord. Oh how do I long even as the Hart panteth after the water brooks so panteth my thirstie soule after thee O God My soule thirsteth for God the living God Oh how doth my soule thirst all the day after thee O God Psa 42. And farther in the words of that 51. Psal Have mercy upon me O Lord according to thy loving kindnesse according to the multitud of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions And so forward to the 11. vers which she much insisted upon often repeating the same especially the 5. vers Behold I was shapen in iniquitie and in sinne did my mother conceive me Vpon which words she enlarged her meditation and speech according as she had learned from the Scriptures and the Catechisme and the books written thereupon for explication concerning that subject of originall sinne This is comed said she from the disobedience and fall of our first parents in paradise that our nature is soe corrupted that we are all altogider conceived and borne in sinne So we read also Gen. 5. 3. Thus Adam it is said begat a sonn after his owne liknesse Sinne is not of God for he hath formed man upright in the begining but he hath sought out many inventions Eccl. 7. 29. Therefore as by one man sinne entered into the world and death by sinne and soe death passed upon all men for that all have sinned but death reigned from Adam to Moses even over them who had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression Rom. 5. She spoke also many things verie judiciouslie of the old man and the putting off the same and of the new man and of the putting on thereof from Eph. 4. and then she fell again upon the 51. Psa and these words The sacrifices of God are a broken heart a broken and a contrite Spirit O Lord thow wilt not despise that brokennesse of heart said she which is built upon and floweth from faith and that faith which is built upon Christ who is the propper and alone true sacrifice for sinne And heerupon she spoke of the offerings and sacrifices of Abel and of Cain Hebr. 11. 4. Thereafter she desired to rest and haveing slumbered a little she said ah dear F. and M. How weake doe I find my selfe My dear child said her Father God shall in his tender mercy strengthen you in your weakenesse Yea Father said she that is my confidence for it is said Isai 42. The bruised reed he will not break and the smoaking flax he will not quench Should I not then believe read Hebr. 11. How Abraham being proved of God did by faith offer up Isaac in sacrifice Oh what a stedfast loyall faith was that of Abraham which made him willing and readie to offer that his owne one sonne Oh what is