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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52031	Some testimonies of the life, death and sufferings of Amariah Drewet of Cirencester in Gloucestershire, lately deceased and to the way of life wherein he walked, whose living words upon his dying bed are worthy to be had in remembrance.	Drewet, Mary.; Drewet, John.; Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698.; Townsend, Theophila.	1688 (1688)	Wing M743; ESTC R40454	12,100	17

every evil Deed and believe in it that you may be saved from the Power of the Destroyer by it the same that Convinces of Sin Leads out of Sin and gives Victory over Sin and brings into Everlasting Peace with God the Father in and through his Son Christ Jesus and I testifie in the holy Fear of the Lord and in the tender Love of God that opens in my Heart and Soul unto the Children of Men that there is no other way to Salvation for in Christ the Light is the universal Love of God held forth to all People for he delights not in the death of a Sinner but would have all to come to the knowledg of the Truth and be saved who is calling his People out of Babylon out of Confusion Come out of her my People and touch no unclean thing and I will Receive you be not pertakers of her Sins lest you are pertakers of her Plagues So I intreat you for the Lords sake and for the good of your own Souls draw near to the Lord and he will draw near unto you seek him while he is to be found and call upon him while he is near for he is not far off from Every one of you that your Peace may be sure with the Lord for evermore which is the true desire of my Soul for you all who am your Friend and one that Travels for the Prosperity of Sion known by the Name of Theophila Townsend Charles Marshall's Testimony concerning Amariah Drewet THe foregoing Testimonies are concerning the Life and Death of our dear Friend Amariah Drewet I also having had certain knowledg of him and conversation with him have this Testimony to give concerning him Viz. That he was a man fearing God and eschewing Evil of a tender Spirit having the Awe of God in his Heart he greatly loved the Gospel of Peace and those that were sent of God to Preach it in the Power and Demonstration of his Eternal Spirit his Heart was made glad when the Power of the Lord reached and affected the Heart of his Neighbours because he greatly desired their Eternal Welfare more might be said of his Life Sufferings and Death but I refer to the foregoing Testimonies of Ear and Eye Witnesses of his latter End by whose Testimonies it appears that as he Lived so he Dyed in the living enjoyments of Gods Immortal Presence felt Refreshment from the Throne of his Eternal Glory An● now Oh Inhabitants of Cirencester unto whom the Word of Eternal Life hath been Preached in a clear Demonstration of the Spirit and Power of the most High and over whom hath been a blessed day of Visitation tenderly consider your States and Conditions and Imbrace that great Blessing namely A being turned every one from the Evil of his doings seek the Lord while he may be found call upon him while he is near at band striving with you by the Spirit of his Son Christ Jesus and knocking at the Door of your Hearts Oh let the Saviour In that ye may be saved from Sin and Redeemed from the Nature of it So is the Blessed end of Christ Jesus his coming answered namely To destroy the Works of the Devil Consider in the Dread of the most High your time is short and not only short but also uncertain therefore remember your latter End that as you must follow your Righteous Neighbour through Death so it may be that your latter End may be like his that living the Life of the Righteous ye may enjoy Eternal Life when time in this World with you will be no more that through the following the Spiritual Pillar of Fire which leads out of Spiritual Egypt you may obtain the Spiritual Canaan the Rest and Sabboth of God. And unto those that do profess the same Truth that our dear Friend deceased did in these parts Ah prize your precious Time and the season of Love and Kindness that is over you and the Mercy attending you and walk worthy of it and give not way to a Spiritual Idleness which leads into a Spiritual Slumber through which the Lamp goes out and unreadiness to answer the Midnight Cry and that which follows is Dreadfull a Shutting of the Door therefore while it s called to Day answer the Lords Call and tender Visitation that both Calling and Election may be made sure so will the Lord delight in you and bless you and water you that in the Innocent Life of Christ Jesus ye might Live that your part in the first resurrection ye may obtain and thereby be preserved from the power of the second Death so that on the Dying Bed you may hear that Joyfull Testimony Blessed are the Dead that die in the Lord ye saith the Spirit they rest from their Labonrs and their Works shall follow them And now dear Friends as ye desire this Portion and to Honour and Renown the great Name of our Merciful and Tender Father be stirred up to great Diligence redeeming Time loving and obeying the sweet redeeming Power of the Lord that his Blessed Work blessedly begun in the Hearts of many may be accomplished that you being made free from the Law of Sin and Death by the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus may lay down your Heads in Peace and enjoy the Crown of Immortallity which is the Lot and Portion of all that follow the Lamb in the Work of Regeneration And so dear Friends in the Love of God these few Lines upon this occasion were on my Heart to bring in a Testimony to the Lords goodness that gave our dear Friend that had followed the Lord faithfully so sweet a Passage out of this Life to injoy Immortal Life for evermore Charles Marshall London the 25th of the 11th Month 1687 THE END

good Examples in our places and before our Children in all manner of plainness as becomes the Truth for this Generation passeth fast away so that they may come up in our room to serve the Lord and bare a Testimony for his Truth that they may be made pertakers of this blessed Inheritance that shall never fade away and that the Lord has prepared for them that Love and Serve him which this my dear Husband did in his day according to the measure God had given him and is row entered into his Rest where his Praise is sure forever with the Lord and his Memorial will Live in the Hearts of the Upright although his Body is taken from us and returned to its own Center Mary Drewet John Drewet's Testimony concerning Amariah Drewet THis is the Testimony I have to bare for ray dear Unkle Amariah Drewet that he was a Man of an Innocent Life and Conversation he was well seasoned with the Grace of God and was Faithful to the Truth which I believe was more precious to him than all things besides it I was often with him in the time of his Sicknoss and he was preserved in a sweet fraine of Spirit often speaking of the Goodness of the Lord to him on his Death-Bed and his Heart was filled with Praises to the Lord in the openings of Life to the great Comfort and Refresh ment of those Friends that were about him he was a Man that was Faithful to the Lord in his Testimony in the time of Tryal and was bold for the Truth and was Strength to those that were Weak and did encourage them to stand Faithful to the end as blessed be the Lord he was preserved by the mighty Power of God through all his Sufferings which was great both by Imprisonments and Spoiling of Goods which he bore with much Cheerfulness and stood stedfast without Wavering blessed be the worthy Name of the Lord that did uphold him I watched with him one Night and I was sweetly Refreshed with him he was much attended with the good Presence of the Lord and many sweet Expressions came from him some of which I wrote down from his own Mouth what I could understand but sometimes he spoke so low that I could not well understand what he said but take this as followeth viz. O Lord Strengthen my poor Body that I may Praise thy Name Dear Father my Rest is in thee who pours out of thy Spirit into thy prophets Islessed be the Lord forever and for evermore O the largness of thy Goodness that I feel O Lord bear my Cries and bare up my Head in all my Exercises O thy sweet Presence and fresh Springs of Life that I feel Glory and Henour and Praises be unto thy Name forever Blessed Lord a Weak Man bus in thy Power do I receive Strength thy Presence and Love I feel Blessed and Praised be thy Holy Name O Lord help me and keep me close to thy Power O Lord attend my dear Wife with thy Presence Some more Words that he spoke at another time O thou mighty Jehovah before whom all Nations are but as a drop of a Bucket and as the small dust of the Ballance thou who weighest the Mountains in Scales and the Hills as in a Ballance Mighty art thou in Power but the World will not believe in thee nor in thy Son Christ Jesus that they may be Saved and much more to his purpose that was not taken O my dear Unlse the great loss I have of thee hath cost me many a Tear but our Loss is thy Gain who was Faithful unto the Death and hast obtained a Crown of Life and an entrance into that Inheritance that shall never sade away where thy Rost is fore with the Lord forever in which I am well satisfied John Drewet Theophila Townsond's Testimony conterning the Life Death and Sufferings of Amariah Drewet lately Deceased HE was an Innocent Upright Man one that bore a good and faithful Testimony for the Lord in his Day and Time both in Doing and Suffering and finished his Testimony with Joy as through the Goodness and Mercy of the Lord I was made a Living Witness having a Living Sence upon my Spirit of the Living Presence of the Lord that did accompany him in the time of his Sickness it often tendered his Heart and refreshed his Soul that in the sence of Gods Love and in the rising of Divine Life his Mouth was often opened to those that came to visit him and also to them that were about him of his own Family and Relations in good Advice and tender Counsel to them to be Faithful to the Lord and to abide in his pure Fear that they might have Peace when they come to a Dying Bed as said he Through the Goodness of the Lord I can say I have true Peace with God and if I Dye I am well satisfied it will be well with me and it will be a happy Change for me Blessed and Praised be the worthy Name of the Lord whose goodness to me hath been beyond Expression now in the time of my Weakness and then he broke forth into singing high Praises to the Name of the Lord and sweetly sounding forth Holy Renown and Living Thanks to the Living God for his Goodness and Mercies and Blessings to the great Comfort of those that were in the hearing of it this and much more to the same effect was spoken by him in the time of his Sickness something more of it may be mentioned in order as way opens for it and first shall spake a little more of his Life and Sufferings he was Open-hearted Kind Courtuous and Tender his Heart and House was open to receive the Lords Messengers and Ministers that travilled in his Work and Service and he desired much to have them with him and entertained them with Cheerfulness He was a Man attended with great Sufferings in this last Perfecution which was very Hot and Violent here in this Town of Cirencester in the County of Gloucester the place of his abode but he stood in his Testimony stedfast and was bold for the holy Truth notwithstanding all the Rage and Fury of our Persecutors which was great against us for several Years of which he had his share both by Imprisonment and loss of Goods he had his Doors Broke and his Goods Seized several times till they had Seized all that was in the House and the Officers returned answer unto the Justice that there was nothing to be had but he bore all with Patience and kept constantly to Meetings and when the Meeting-House-Doors were Nailed up and Friends kept out and met in the Yard he was not slack in coming to Assemble with them and sometime kept Meetings in his House though the Justices frequently in their own Persons did visit our Meetings several Years together But blessed be the Lord whose Power and Presence was with us and whos 's powerful Arm did uphold us and keep us out of the Fear