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A65944	The work of God in a dying maid being a short account of the dealings of the Lord with one Susannah Whitrow, about the age of fifteen years, and daughter of Robert Whitrow, inhabiting in Covent-garden in the county of Middlesex, together with her experimental confessions to the power and work of the Lord God, both in judgments and mercy to her soul / published for the warning and good of others who are in the same condition she was in before her sicknss [sic].	Travers, Rebecca.; Whitrowe, Joan.; Martin, Ann.; Ellis, Sarah.	1677 (1677)	Wing W2039; ESTC R33641	14,505	50

is They have tasted of their perishing Life of Vanities yea they they have drunk a full Cup their Measure is running over O but they never tasted the Joys the unspeakable Ravishments of Soul that attend the humble holy Life of Jesus Oh if they had ever tasted the least Mite thereof they would bid adue to all their dirty Life of Vanity ah they would not dare to spend their precious Time in adorning themselves like Jezabels Patching and Painting and Curling their Monstrous Heads but O the Christian Life is another thing they must not give themselves the liberty to think their own Thoughts much less to act such Abominations as these After she had lain a while Praising and Magnifying the Lord then she spoke very deep and weighty things which are not set down concerning the Wise Virgins and their Lamps burning and exhorted all to keep very diligently upon their Watch for said she The Lord will come as a Thief in the Night and in a Day when he is not looked for therefore Watch and Pray continually here the Tempter cannot enter this is the way my Saviour spake off when he said You must take up your daily Cross this is that Flaming Sword which is spoken of you must pass through mark that you must pass through it before you can come to the Tree of Life this is the Cup my Saviour asked if you could drink off and this was that Baptism he asked if you could be baptized withal Come all you that call your selves Christians what of the Life of Holy Jesus is in you who was a Man of Sorrows you light and airy Ones you wild and wanton Ones you that are Lovers of Pleasures more than God you Workers of Iniquity who are always crying Lord Lord but do not the things that I say this shall be your dreadful Doom that you are SATERS but not DOERS you Workers of Iniquity that think you can never have enough of the Pride of Life the Lust of the Eye which is not of my heavenly Father and so you are of your Fathor the Devil for his Servants you are whom you obey At another time she said I have heard them say that my Mother is so grounded in her Religion that it is impossible ever to turn her My Mother is grounded indeed she is established upon the Rock that shall never be moved my Mother shall never be moved her Name is written in Heaven yea in the Lamb's Book of Life it is sealed it is sealed the Lord hath told me so and bid me tell her There should none be able to pluck her out of his Hand Come my blessed Mother I have something to say to thee thou art Mary thou art Mary my Mother thou hast chosen that good part which shall never be taken from thee thou shalt sit continually at the feet of thy Lord Ay this is my Mother's Portion O what Portion is like this this is more than to sit in the Thrones of Princes Be ye holy as I the Lord your God am holy this they say is Impossible O would the holy just and true Lord command that which is impossible In this they count the Lord a hard Master O but what can my Soul say of thy Power when I sought thee but could not find thee I knocked hard but none would open for my Sins stood like Mountains that I could not come near thee I would fain have prayed but could not I lay several days and nights prostrate before thee strugling for Life but could find none and I said There is no Mercy for me then said I I will never leave thee if I perish I will perish here I will never cease crying unto thee Then I heard a Voice say Jacob wrestled all night before he obtained the blessing O then thy Word was strength to my Soul O then my stony Heart was broken to pieces before the Lord and then the Spirit of Prayer and Supplication was poured into my Soul and now I can sing as David did of Mercy and Judgment unto thee O Lord will I sing O with a rended Heart and my Mouth in the Dust will I sing Praises unto thee my blessed Saviour c. For several days she had a very great conflict in Soul and Spirit concerning the Tempter and strong were her Cryes to the Lord for strength to overcome the Enemy she was so deeply engaged in the holy War of the Lord against the Enemy that she would not suffer her Head to be removed from the Pillow but said It must be as it were nailed there till she had overcome the Tempter she said I would not suffer a thought to wander if I move I shall be drawn off my Watch and then the Tempter will prevail then she had a Vision and as it were the appearance of an Angel giving us the full description thereof which we have forgot only that it was arrayed in White she had also a Vision of the Tempter which she said stood before her bound in Chains then she said It is finished I have overcome my Saviour hath bound him then she broke forth into Blessing and Praising and Magnifying the Lord that it is beyond the Tongue of Utterance to give a Relation thereof for many Days and Nights together she would hardly suffer her self to Slumber but would waken her self to sing Praises unto the Lord and to declare of his wonderous Works that he hath done for her Soul Some Friends came into the Room but she saw them not and after many sweet and precious Words she said Don't you Feast but Fast you are the People that must Fast and Pray and be you contented with mean things O what matter for fine Houses or silken Apparel O remember him that sate on the Ground but wore a Garment without a Seam our blessed holy Lord who went up to the Mountain to Pray that with-drew himself into Gardens and Desolate Places of the Earth my Soul hath Fellowship with him O my dear Mother if it please our dear and heavenly Father to spare me this time we will get us into the Country to some little remote Place amongst the Woods where none can hear us O then shall our Crys pierce thro' the Heavens which shall make the Earth to Ring and the Birds shall hear the Eccho thereof O there my blessed Mother will we sing Praises Praises Praises with rended Hearts and our Mouthes in the Dust to the one holy holy Lord. O thou Glorious One thou hast overcome my Heart thou hast ravished my Soul O thou pure pure holy One what shall I say of thee or what shall I render to thee for thy loving-kindness to me O my Heart is overcome with thy love Praises be unto thee for thy loving-kindness to me O how shall I do to set forth thy Goodness for my Heart drops before thee Lord if it be thy holy Pleasure to take me out of this Life then let me have I beseech thee one whole Day that

THE Work of God IN A Dying Maid BEING A short Account of the Deallings of the Lord with one SVSANNAH WHITROW About the Age of Fifteen Years and Daughter of Robert Whitrow inhabiting in Covent-Garden in the County of Middlesex Together with her Experimental Confessions to the Power and Work of the Lord God both in Judgments and Mercy to her Soul Published for the Warning and Good of others who are in the same condition she was in before her Sicknss Printed in the Year 1677. THE Work of God IN A Dying Maid FRiends and People to whom these following Lines may come these may give you knowledge that being spoken unto by a Friend of the State of Sickness and Wonderful Expressions that were uttered by this Maid now Deceased made me desirous to see her and as a Mother fearing God knowing what Joy it must be to have a Child that had Transgressed to turn to the Lord with all the Heart and to find Acceptance with the Almighty as I have cause to believe she did for he was with her and I felt a living Power to opperate in her that neither her Youth nor Comliness with any other outward Expectation that she formerly had or might have of the Glory of this World left a place in her to desire any longer Life in this World but as she had before I came cryed out against her self for loving and going to these Vanities and Parish Places of Worship so now in my hearing she was much raised in her Spirit in the Sense of the Joy that she believed she was entring into praying and praising the Lord with a pleasant Melody and desiring also that her Mother might be taken out of this Wicked World I felt the Loving-kindness of God unto her and she was brought near to me the Lord shewed me she must Dye and being the Only Child of her Parents and having heard this tender-hearted Mother had buried her Only Son not a Quarter of a Year before which by relation was an excellent Child for his Years not being Six and an Half for Wisdom and Learning and Outward Comliness a very Beautiful Child and one of a great Courage yet of a very tender sweet loving Nature and more than all in Soberness pursuing of the better part so I felt and know in these sudden and renewing Trials there was Judgment and beholding her Mother's Quiet and Patient bearing of it had this brought to my Remembrance That they are blessed that can stand in Judgment and none but a Tender Mother can tell what it is to have Hopeful Children so soon taken from them and fee the Lord is Righteous in what he doth and I that have drunk into this Cup and a more bitter one must confess The Lord is Righteous in all and his Judgments are true but his Mercies are over all his Works and his Love Everlasting and who lives therein gives Thanks for all things and this appears to me worthy to be known and retained that so Young a Hopeful and Beautiful Maid should be taken off from her Vanity yet that the Mercy of the Lord should so freely extend it self unto her that she might testifie against her own and the World's Vanities and Worships and tho' but in the last Hour the Lord of Goodness granted her an Entrance into his Vineyard and Power she received to magnifie his Justice and Mercy that out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings will perfect his own Praise And sure I am the Dealings of the Almighty God with her on her Dying-Bed was Forewarning some and Instruction to others that all might believe and come to the Obedience of the Life where all may profit and be built up unto Eternal Life over Death and Hell in the Life of Jesus our Lord which is the Desire of Her that through Grace is a Lover of all your Souls called Rebecca Travers SVsanna Whitrow sickned the 5th Day of the 3d Month 1677. and lay until the 9th Day under great Judgment and Terrors of the Lord for Sin and Iniquity and about Four in the Afternoon she broke forth in exceeding Earnestness crying to the Lord for Mercy with Wonderful Words till about three hours then did the Lord hear her Cries and answered the Desire of her Soul and when she had obtained Mercy from the Lord then did she fall into an exceeding travil in Soul and Spirit praying mightily to the Lord in the behalf of her Father and so lay four or five Hours crying earnestly to the Lord for her Father before we writ down any of her Words Her Natural Spirits were almost spent before these Words were taken as follow Lord Remember not his Offences let me bear them Lord let it be easie to him Lord make the Way easie make his Friends to be Enemies unto him that thou mayst have Mercy on him Lord his Temptations are great Lord carry him through O let him not perish with the World Lord do thou support him over this World Should a little silly Dirt of this World draw away his Mind O Lord satisfie me whether thou wilt grant me my Desires Blessed Lord hear me O Lord hear me O Lord let his Mind be set on things above Lord fix his Mind upon thee Lord let me never rest unsatisfied Lord help him turn him Lord and he will be turned Lord if I leave him behind me O Lord help me O Lord help him O Lord hear me O my Lord I have not strength left O Lord take him to thee but Lord grant me my Request O Lord help me Lord take not away my Strength before thou hast granted my Desire O Lord my Desire is not to live in this Abominable World Lord if thou take me not to thy self the Tempter will come again O Lord my Heart can never rest until thou hast turned him to thy self O Lord must I be taken away without any Satisfaction O Lord shall I have no help for my Distress O Lord Lord there is no way for him but to Watch and Pray continually lest the Tempter prevail Lord are my Sins forgiven O Lord had not my Eyes been in those Vanities my Heart had not gone after them Lord strengthen thou me but to see my Desires O Lord can I pray no longer O Lord how hath my Strength failed and my Heart decayed O Lord let all consider what is this Kingdom O Lord thou comest as a Theif in the Night O Lord I beseech thee to tell me if thou hast granted my Desire O Lord thou wilt take me O Lord must I go before my defire be Answered O must I go O is there no delay O Lord let me but stay to hear an Answer I am very happy that I shall not live in this Wicked World O Lord I am going O Lord take me Then to her Relations O why will you keep me so long I shall be kept longer Robert Whitrow her Father Joan Whitrow her Mother William Nash Susanna Meurs Nurse Sarah Ellis her

Testimony CONCERNING Susanna Whitrow To her Mother A few Words which were expressed by this precious Child in the time of her Illness I Not thinking she was so near her End did not bear in memory as many of her Words as I might have done I can truly say I was much refreshed in seeing the great Work and Power of the Lord upon her and hearing the precious Words that proceeded out of her Mouth When first I came to see her she had lain about a Weekill she seemed to be in much Extremity of Pain and crying out to the Lord saying O Lord the Enemy has wounded my Heart he has wounded my Head and he has wounded my Hell Come Lord I make room I make room my Heart is open O rip me up and set me in thy Bosome as thou didst the last Night O I feel the Enemy coming in like a Flood Lord drive him out Another time I went to visit her when she was in great Conflict of Spirit and Body and her Mother withdrew from her to seek the Lord leaving her Father by her Bed-side in which time she uttered little or nothing but lay Groaning she would hardly suffer her Mother to be from her if she could help it after a while her Mother came again and she said O Mother Cease not Cease not though no one had told her that her Mother was a praying to the Lord but only as she had a sence of it in her self and when her Mother came to her again she was in a sweet still Frame of Spirit and cryed out Ah! my dear Mother O my blessed Mother the Lord has shewed me my Mother shall have a double Portion of his Spirit yea my Mother shall have a double Portion This she spoke several times over with many more precious Words that are past out of my Mind Another time I came to see her a Day or two before she dyed and her Countenance was changed and she looked very sweetly and lay praising the Lord saying Oh my Saviour my blessed Saviour Another time her Mother went out of the Room in to the next Room about some Business and she called earnestly to her Mother and said Ah! Mother I had much in my Heart to have spoke to thee Care not for this World a little will serve us we shall not want the Lord will feed his People as he did Elisha by the Ravens yea the Lord will feed us as he did Elisha Sarah Ellis COncerning that False Report that was raised by some Envious Persons which she formerly kept Company with hearing of her Change from that Vain Conversation she had formerly lived in they reported That she was in love and that that was the Cause of her Distemper When her Father came home and had given me a Relation of what those Persons had infused into him although I was satisfied to the contrary I went to my dear Child and examined her concerning it and because I would be clear of what-ever might happen hereafter concerning it I said unto her My dear Child thy Father and I will give our Consent freely for thee to Marry him and we will do to the uttermost of our Power for thee to make thy Life comfortable with him all thy days Then she said My dear Mother I thank you but that Man is no more to me than one I never saw with my Eyes neither will I ever him if he had all the Possessions of the Earth It 's true there was something betwixt us he being very urgent with me upon the account of Marriage proffering to settle a considerable Estate on me and my Father at that time being a little harsh to me I thought I would set my self at Liberty but upon better Consideration I told him I would do nothing without my Father and Mother's Advice which he was unwilling to in that and some other things I was dis-satisfied I considered if I should have him I should be ruined so that small Affection I had to him I withdrew and before I fell sick this last time I did desire never to see him more And now my Mother I am clear of him and all Men living Oh my bowed down and broken-hearted Mother What hath been thy Sufferings in this Family Oh! how hast thou been oppressed with our Iniquities Ah bowed down Ah! how often hast thou told my Father The Lord would visit him with sore and grievous Judgment if he did not Repent and turn from the Evil of his Ways Ah! how often hast thou said The Lord would plead thy Righteous Cause with us Now the Day is come thou hast so long warned us of now the Lord is risen now the Lord is broke in upon us Oh how great hath been thy Care and Pains which thou hast taken to bring us into the Fear of the Lord Oh thou Blessed of the Lord Great shall be thy Reward the Lord will give thee Beauty for Ashes and the Garment of Praise for the Spirit of Heaviness Bleffed be thou my Mother Her Mother being at that time Praising and Magnifying the Lord then she said My blessed Mother now is that Vision fulfiled which the Lord shewed thee concerning me That my Soul should bless thee and thy Soul should bless the Lord. Then she broke forth into sweet Melody singing Praises unto the Lord. Blessed are the Poor in Spirit Lord I am Poor I am Needy I need thy Strength continually to withstand the Temper O Lord stand by me move not from me for if thou go the Tempter will come I will hold the fast thou art my Saviour thou shalt save me from the Tempter My dear Mother send for that dear Friend meaning R. T. that prayed by me the other day she is a precious Woman her Heart is upright before the Lord the Lord hath shewed it me I love her let her pray by me to the Lord against the Tempter And send for that faithful Servant of the Lord W. P. The Lord will hear the Prayers of the Faithful but I have been Unfaithful O how often have I sinned against my Saviour the Light in my Conscience which shewed me the Way I should walk in O how often hath he knocked at my stony Heart saying This is my blessed Truth which the Quakers Preach by which all Souls that I have made shall be saved in Then I have said in my Heart After such a thing and such a thing is accomplished I will leave off my Life of Vanity and become a new Creature Oh! I was she that trusted in LYING VANITIES I thought I should have had LONG LIFE and then I did intend to serve the LORD in my OLD AGE Oh! how have I been against a Woman's speaking in a Meeting but now whether it comes from Man Woman or Child it is precious indeed O that I could be with my Mother the Lord is with her that I might have a little time longer that my dear Mother and I might go in the Country and walk in a