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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

Faithfulness that it might be well with them upon a Dying-Bed as it is with me said he Praises to the Lord forever I was with him when he Departed and I can truly say the Lord gave me a sence of his Condition and I travelled with him under the Pangs of Death in a fellow-feeling of the Exercise he was in and when Death touched his Heart I bore a part with him in a sympathising Spirit and travelled in Spirit with him before the Lord for his Deliverance and when Death was upon his Body I felt the Resurrection of the Life of Jesus with his Soul ready to receive him into that Heavenly Mansion of Glory and Habitation of Rest and Peace with the Lord which the Lord hath prepared for his People which he had the earnest of in his Life time even the earnest of the Spirit that sealed to him the assurance of that Inheritance that shall never fade away into which he is entered and gathered into that fulness that is Incomprehensible which God the Father in and through Christ Jesus the Lord had prepared for him where Heavenly Joy and Gladness and Divine Comfort and Lasting Peace is and will be his Portion for evermore He departed this Life the 25th day of the 7th Morth 1687. about the 6th Hour in the Evening he lay for about half an hour as if he had been in a sweet Sleep and went away quietly like a Lamb without Sigh or Groan his dear Wife and Family have a great Loss in parting with him and I may say we all miss him and I can say my Heart hath been often tendered and broken into Tears of Sorrow for the loss of him but mixt with Joy in a sense of his happy State but in submission to the Will of God I am well satisfied the Lord best knows when it is the fittest season to take his own unto himself and for this our dear Friend he is now in a Habitation of Safety out of all danger of falling into Temptation or of being hurt by any of the Wiles of the Enemy and the desire of my Soul is that all that know the Truth may walk in the same way and travel in the Just Mans Path as he did that they may arrive at the same Haven of Rest and Peace with him and all the Sanctified in Christ Jesus in the Kingdom of God World without End Amen He was Buried the 27th Day of the 7th Month and was acompanied to the Grave with many good Friends and the Power and Presence of the Lord was with us and that Life that was with him to his joy upon his Dying-Bed Spake forth the Praise Goodness of the Lord at his Burial though his Brethren the Servants of the Lord that did acompany him to his Grave this was upon me to Publish for the Good and Benesit of those that are left behind even of all tender People to whom this may come that they may so Live and so Walk that they may be made Pertakers of the fame joy which is obtained through Faith in Christ Jesus and obedient to the Light of his free Spirit who is the leader of his People and this lead him our dear Friend before mentioned out of Sin into the way of Peace this is the Holy Ghost the Comforter that which Christ Jesus promised his Disciples to send to Lead them into all Truth and farther said as the Scripture testifies That he shall Convince the World of Sin of Righteousness and of Judgment and it is the same that Convinces of Sin that leads out of Sin and gives Victory over Sin to all that believe in it and are willing to deny themselves and take up their daily Cross and follow him they come to know the assurance of Peace Rest with the Lord before they go out of the Body so the thoughts of Death is not terrible to such as it is to the Wicked for Death is the King of Terrors to the Wicked because the way of Truth they have not known For there is no Peace to the Wicked saith the God of the Righteous and they are made Witnesses of it through faith in Christ Jesus who are subject to his Light and Grace in their own Heart and Consciences but wo to the Wicked it will go ill with them they shall Eat the Fruits of their own doings and go down to their Graves in Sorow if they do not Repent of their Wickedness and turn from the Evil of their Doings and obey the Light of the Son of God that they may be led out of Darkness into his mervellous Light and by it be turned from the Power of Satan to the great power of God that they may know the good word of Life that is quick and Powerful as Sharp and Sharper then any two Edged Sword that divides asunder even Soul and Spirit and between Bones and Marrow that Ingrafted Word of God that is able to save the Soul Christ Jesus the Word of God the Light of the World as he said of himself and again he said He that believes in me shall not abide in Darkness and the Scripture further testifies that in him was Life and the Life was the Light of men so the Life of Jesus is the Light of men so I would advise all to take heed how they Slight the Light both Professors and Prophain or how you Villifie the Light and say It is Insufficient to Lead to Life and Peace for in so doing you Slight and Villifie the Life of Jesus and the Grace of God that brings Salvation which the Scriptures saith Hath appeared to all men and teacheth to deny ungodliness and Worldly Lust and to Live Godly and Righteously and Soberly in this present Evil World therefore in the Love of God I intreat you both Professors and Prophain Love the Light and the Grace and Truth that comes by Jesus Christ who is God Salvation to the ends of the Earth and there is no other Name Given under Heaven by which any can be Saved but by the Name of Jesus the true Light that Lighteth Every man that comes into the World as the Scriptures saith That God is Light and in him is no Darkness at all and this was the Message the holy Apostle had to deliver and this was the Work that he had to do To turn People from Darkness to Light and from the Power of Satan to the Power of God so here People may see the Scriptures do declare that God is Light and Christ is Light and they that slight this Heavenly Divine Light slight both God and Christ Jesus and so are liable to Perish in their Gain-saying and Rebellion against the Light and never be made Pertakers of Gods Salvation therefore I intreat all People that have any tenderness towards the Lord or any true Regard to the welfare of their own Souls both Professors and Prophain Neighbours Kindred and Acquaintance Love the Light that convinces of Sin and reproves in secret for

of Man which was my Cry to the Lord that in his pure Fear we might be preserved unto the end and Gods Power was over all Blessed and Praised be his worthy Name forever and for ever more who is not wanting to his Faithful People but is their exceeding great Reward who hath Rewarded this our dear Friend and deceased Brother with a Blessing of Rest and Peace in that Kingdom that never has End and hath received him into the Bosom of his Love where he shall solice his Soul forever and forever This Innocent Man who had been a great Sufferer by them several ways too much here to mention he bore it all with Pacience and constantly frequented the Meetings of the Lords People called Quakers where he was a Strength to the Weak encouraging them to Faithfulness We may see a difference between the Death of the Righteous and the Death of the Wicked for this Innocent Man A. D. before mentioned upon his Dying-Bed often signified That he was satisfied that if he Dyed it would be well with him and it would be a happy Change for him Blessed be the Name of the Lord over all forever who is never wanting to his faithful People The Sufferings which A. D. under went did not starttle him but with Boldness and holy Confidence he bore his Testimony for the Truth and against his Persecutors unchristian Proceedings which was contrary to the Doctrine of Christ who said Whatsoever ye would that Men should do unto you do you the same to them And he often advised them to cease from Presecution and so eased his Spirit in clearing himself of them and left it at their Doors and left the Issue to the Lord who hath taken him out of the reach of all his Enemies and received him into that Rest which is Glorious where he shall solice his Soul in the Bosom of Divine Sweetness Endless Blessedness and Tryumph in Heavenly Glory forever and forever of which he had a living sence and feeling in his Life time Magnified forever be the worthy Name of the Lord for his Goodness to his People for he is an exceeding great Reward to them that Fear before him and put their Trust in him for the Righteous shall shine as the Stars forever and ever and their Memorial is Blessed but the Name of the Wicked shall Rot and they shall Perish forever like their own Dung as the Scriptures say and though many Men perceive not the difference between the Death of the Righteous and of the Wicked because both go down to the Grave in like manner It hath pleased God of his Mercy and Goodness to let us see a difference as is apparent by this our dear Brother A. D. whose Dying-Bed was made comfortable to him through the Comfort of Gods Love in and through Christ Jesus to his Soul as the Scripture saith The Righteous shall Sing for Joy of Heart when the Wicked shall Howl for Vexation of Spirit so in this Life the difference between the Death of the Righteous and the Wicked the Joy and Comfort of the one and the Sorrow and Misery of the other for the Righteous know and are assured that before they put off this House of Clay that they have a Habitation not made with Hands eternal in the Heavens and their Peace is sure with the Lord God through the Son of of his Love and that for evermore as this faithful Servant of the Lord before mentioned often gave Testimony of in the time of his Sickness of the assurance of his Peace with God whose living Presence did accompany him to his End as long as he could speak he made mention of it saying Often the Lords sweet Presence is with me beyond my expectation When I came first to see him he said He was freely given up in the will of God whether to Live or Dye and said if the Lord see it good to take me it will be well with me and it will be a happy Change for me and he was so filled with the Joy of Gods Salvation that he sung for Joy of Heart and Praised the Lord as with an heavenly Harp as one of them that stood before the Throne of God and the Lamb having the Harps of God in their Hands and they Sung a new Song before the Throne that none could learn but those that were Redeemed from the Earth My Soul was Refreshed to see and feel the heavenly frame of Spirit that he was in all along upon his Dying-Bed Another time when I came to visit him he took me by the Hand and said Thou hast been a Faithful Friend and a Help to me in the Truth all along and I have had a tender esteem for thee and all honest-hearted faithful Friends and that which I chiefly and most desired ever since I knew the blessed Truth of God was that the Lord would preserve me faithful to himself and his holy Truth unto the End and I bless his Name he hath been very good to me all along that nothing did discourage me in the time of Sufferings to weaken me but rather as Sufferings increased I was stronger and was freely given up according to my weak Capacity to answer the Lord and do that which I understood was right in his sight I could never speak much but desired to live to what I knew and the Lord hath accepted of it Praises to his Name and I can truly say that the only thing I aimed at in desiring this my dear Wife was that she might be helpful to me in the Truth and the Lord did make her a help to me I Bless and Praise his holy Name for his goodness to me on every account I said to him I am perswaded if the Lord see it best to spare thee and that it would make most for Gods Glory and thy Good the Lord will raise thee up again he said I believe the same And when his Relations put him upon it to send to some Physitian he answered no for I have that which is known to be good and approved Medicines and if these will not do me good I do not expect help from Man for if the Lord see good to take me to himself all the Men upon the Earth cannot keep me alive so I am given up in the will of the Lord He was gently visited with a Feavour not Violent nor complaining much of Pain nor Dryth but Weakness so he said to me when I came to visit him I asked him how he did he said Weak in Body but Strong in the Lord Weak in the outward Man but Strong in the inward Blessed and Praised be the Holy Name of the Lord forever And when he Slumbred as soon as he awaked his Mouth was opened with a Song of high Praises to the Lord and when the People came in to visit him he had a Word in season for them warning young People to fear God and watch against those things that did Corrupt Youth exhorting them to