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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65443	A vindication of Anne Wentworth tending to the better preparing of all people for her larger testimony, which is making ready for publick view. Published according to the will of God, and direction of charity. By Anne Wentworth. To which is annexed a letter written by an eminent Christian, concerning the said Anne Wentworth, and directed to the several congregations of the Anabaptists, and their respective pastors. As also a song of tryumph by the said Anne Wentworth, a daughter of Sion, newly delivered from the captivity of Babylon, &c.	Wentworth, Anne.	1677 (1677)	Wing W1356; ESTC R219445	15,970	25

flood of scorn contempt bitter railing false accusations scandalous papers and lying Pamphlets upon them by whom they have been poured out against me The Lord frustreth the tokens of the Liars and maketh Diviners mad he turneth wise men backwards and maketh their knowledge foolish but he confirmeth the word of his servant and performeth the Counsel of his Messengers Isa 44. And now in this Faith and assurance I do shut up this my Vindication and preparitory Testimony Declaring unto all people whom it may concern That it is the Lord has mooved me and his Spirit which has stirred me up My heavenly Bridegroom is come and has given me courage with an humble boldness and holy confidence to speak the truth in all faithfulness and to fear no man but God alone in whose strength I stand to encounter with all discouragements from my own understanding will affections former thoughts and principles within and with all opposition from difficulties dangers temptations of friends and conspiracies of enemies without I am sensible any of these things would be too strong for me a worm of no might or strength but I have renounced my self and laid down my own wisdom and will in this work and am given up to all the will of God herein standing upon my watch and having in his power put on the whole Armor of God the Shield of Faith the Brestplate of Righteousness with my Loyns girt about with truth and my feet shod with the Preparation of the Gospel of peace having taken the Helmet of Salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God Praying alwaies with all prayer and suplication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all Saints In this spiritual warfare and combate I am called to wrestle not only against flesh and blood but against Principalities and Powers against the Rulers of the darkness of this world and against spiritual wickedness in high places and must have no respect of persons because of advantage but be faithful to God and his Word sparing neither Friend nor Brother in matter of Truth nor calling good evil or evil good nor puting light for darkness or darkness for light but obeying God and not Man loving him above all keeping his Commandments and pleasing him although the whole world should be displeased Man has made my Cup very bitter and my Cross very heavy for obeying God but my God has sweetned my Cup and caused it to overflow with draughts of Love my God has made my Yoak easie and my But then light because he bears me and them he draws me and binds me with Cords to the Altar his left hand is under my Head his right Hand doth Embrace me and his Banner over me as Love I must not I will not be affraid to make my boast of my God by whose Almighty Power I have been hitherto helped and upheld or else I had perished in my afflictions When the compassion and bowels of man were shut up the tender mercies of God were opened When it was come to Mordecay's pinch Israel's distress Paul's streight God appeared My extremity was his opportunity he beheld my affliction the sorrows and Agonies of my Soul my groans my prayers my cries my appeals ascended up for a memorial before him and were had in remembrance with him And he will arise and that right speedily he will make haste and not tarry but send relief from Heaven and save me and all the poor of his Flock who heat the voice of their own Shepheard and follow him but a stranger they will not follow He will smite the Rocky heart he will convince the Consciences of men he will bring down all them that glory in appearance in face and not in heart he will make a speedy decision he will turn the stream and flood of scorn and contempt cast upon me and his poor despised ones in me he will arise to our joy and they shall be ashamed that have hated us without a cause and cast us out for his Name 's sake saying Let the Lord be glorified I have committed my way unto the Lord who judgeth righteously who will not suffer the guilty always to go undiscovered and unpunished He will take the Cup of trembling out of my hands and put it into the hands of them who have afflicted me who have said unto my Soul Bow down that we may go over and he will make their own Tongues to fall upon themselves and will measure out unto them again the measure they have meeted The Lord has said it and he will perform it The Lord will plead my cause and the cause of all his meek ones but his anger is kindled against all Formality Hypocrisie Idolatry and Prophaneness He knows the secrets of all hearts we are all open and naked in his sight there is no dissembling in his sight no mocking before him no outward Form no empty Opinion can shelter from his wrath Upon the 13. of the Twelfth Month 1673. The Lord wonderfully discovered to me the unprofitableness of the best outward forms of Religion without the Power and what a great deal of blindness injustice false accusations barbarous usage bitter and cruel zeal with all manner of wickedness has at this day taken Sanctuary in the exactest Forms according to the Letter which are without the Spirit yea in enmity against it It was the time four eminent Professors of the people called Baptists did in a most rough and severe manner come to deal with me to accuse me falsly and blindly and bitterly to rebuke me although I was then in a very weak and dangerous condition of body And I mention it here because it is a time in remembrance with the Lord and God was in that very season pleased to open mine eyes to show me where Babylon was what Spirit she was built upon and how the Lord would begin to strike at her and throw her down and then it was he called me out from her that I might escape the anger I then saw was kindled against her And however they are now justifying themselves and their proceedings against me and have condemned the Innocent yet an appeal has been made to God and accepted by him and he will search out this matter and make a true and manifest judgment of it for there is nothing hid from him and this matter is now become a publick figure Yes I am satisfied God will speedily arise and decide this controversie and he has shown me when I have been thinking his Chariot wheels move slowly that then his motion has been swiftest And that whatever seems to hinder and work against me does indeed help on and work things to a more full and perfect end And although I should be surrounded and beset on every side and left alone in the midst of all discouragements from within and without yet can I believingly call to all that fear the Lord to come and behold the

shall be dispised by the wise and prudent of this world yet Wisdome is justified of her Children and that God who has commanded me to go forth in his Name will by a Divine power go before me making way for me and subduing the Spirits before me which I am to deal with and will also by a Divine presence support me in the midst of all those sufferings his work can bring me into Out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings God has ordained strength because of his Enemies that he might quell the Enemy and the avenger Psal 8. 2. And I declare I have no wrath discontent or revenge in my Spirit against the person of my Husband or of any of his abettets but am taught by the forgiveness of God freely to forgive all the Injuries he has done me and my hearts desire and prayer to God who can alone change the heart is that he may be converted and saved and I bow my Soul to the Father of lights that the Eyes of all my persecutors may be opened some of which I judge to be the Lords People however acted in this matter by a Zeal without knowledg God is love and he that dwells in love dwells in God and God in him And however I am censured and reproached by persons who judge onely according to outward appearance but not Righteous judgment that I have unduly left my Husband I do for the satisfaction of all plain hearted ones that may be offended at their reports herein Declare first That it would be very easie for me from the great Law of self-preservation to justifie my present absence from my Earthly Husband to all persons who have learn't to judg of Good and Evil not onely according to the outward Act but the inward Spirit and Principle and who have tenderness enough duly to weigh the various Tempers of minds and the different circumstances of Bodies Forasmuch as the Natural constitution of my mind and Body being both considered He has in his barbarous actions towards me a many times over-done such things as not only in the Spirit of them will be one day judged a murdering of but had long since really proved so if God had not wonderfully supported and preserved me But my natural life through the springing up of a better not being otherwise considerable then as it is my duty to preserve it in a subserviency to the will and service of that God whose I am in Spirit Soul and Body I will not urge any thing of this nature as my defence upon this occasion having learnt through the mercy of God not to be affraid of him who can only kill the Body but can do no more I do therefore secondly in the fear of him who can kill both Soul and Body further declare That I was forced to fly to preserve a life more pretious than this natural one and that it was necessary to the peace of my Soul to absent my self from my earthly Husband in obedience to my Heavenly Bridegroom who call'd and commanded me in a way too terrible too powerful to be denyed to undertake and finish a work which my earthly husband in a most cruel manner hindered me from performing seizing and running away with my Writings And however man judges me in this action yet I am satisfied that I have been obedient to the Heavenly Vision herein not consulting with flesh and blood All the clouds of afflictions troubles sorrows and deaths upon the outward man are nothing compared with those of the inward man when the life of our Souls is angry and withdraws himself cutting off the sweet beams of a spiritual communion between himself and us This was my case and I am not affraid or ashamed to say my Soul 's beloved has abundantly owned me in this matter and whilst men have done all they can to break my heart he has bound up my Soul in the bundle of Life and Love and he pleads my cause and takes my part and has spoken by his Word with power and authority from Heaven saying I shall abide w●th him and he will abide with me and come and Supp with me and never leave me nor forsake me And he bids me take no thought what I shall eat what I shall drink or wherewith I shall be cloathed but cast all my care upon him for he careth for me And I am enabled in his power to role my self upon him and my heart is fixed trusting in him and comforted with his word in which he has caused me to hope having no confidence in the Arm of Flesh knowing that the Earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof and that he knows all my weaknesses and wants and my willingness to work so far as he inables me that my own hands may administer to my necessity that I may not be burdensome to any And he has assured me that the man of the earth shall oppress no more no more shall I return to be under the hands of the hard-hearted Persecutors unless he become a new-man a changed man a man sensible of the wrong he has done me with his fierce looks bitter words sharp tongue and cruel usage And I do further declare That in the true reason of the case I have not left my Husband but he me That I do own every Law and Command of God in the letter of his word to be right and true and do submit to every rule given forth by the Spirit of God to govern the relation of Man and Wife in the Lord. And that I always stand ready to return to my Husband or to welcome him to me and have signified so much to him by several Christian friends provided I may have my just and necessary liberty to attend a more then ordinary call and command of God to publish the things which concern the peace of my own Soul and of the whole Nation In which work I stand not in my own will but in the will of him who has sent and sealed me as the day will very quickly declare and decide this matter between me and my Husband and all his abettors To which day I do here appeal for my justification not doubting but that God to whom I have committed my cause will speedily arise and cause my Innocency to break forth as the Noon day For I do hereby declare in the presence of the most holy God that I have no revengful worldly or sinister end in this matter but am against my own natural will obeying God herein And I do in all tenderness admonish and caution all my Enemies and all persons whatsoever to whom these Papers shall come that they take heed least they hurt themselves in reproaching me and that they do not set themselves to justifie by the letter that Spirit that is to be condemned or to condemn that Spirit which it ownes and allows And that they take heed least they urge the letter of any command against the Spirit of it and so