would believe But I have a Heart full of vile affections vain thoughts and doubts that I cannot believe Consider Are Praying Mourning Humbling our Souls Gospel Duties even so is believing a Gospel Duty which God Commands 1 Joh. 3.23 And he threatens to Damn them that hear the Gospel preached and will not believe Acts 13.41 Secondly The Aim and End of our Zeal must always be the Glory of God and guided as I said by Discretion Wise as well as Warm Greatest zeal in greatest Matters and lesser zeal in lesser matters Compare Gal. 5.11 13. with 1 Cor. 11.13 14 15 16. 1 Cor. 10.3 and Prov. 19.11 My Counsel also is and I humbly beseech our honoured and beloved Elder and entreat our Ministring Brethren who are Helps in Government to joyn together to set in Order these things I mean no other things than those holy Administrations which Christ his Apostles and Disciples practised in the beginning Search these Scriptures 1 Pet. 2.21 Philip. 3.17 Luk. 14.16 17 18 19 20 21 22. 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and pray God to pardon this and other our Sins whereupon we both kneeled down upon the plowed Land and I prayed wept and made Supplication to God as well as I could and found so great Assistance from God at that time that I never used any set Form of Prayer afterwards which done we both kissed each other and went to School Afterwards I went to Cambridge and there a godly Minister preached on Hosea the 5th Chap. and 17. ver His Doctrine was That the joyning to Sin by often committing it after Conviction of Conscience for it did provoke God to give over many to the power of their Corruptions and let them alone to dye in their Sins I was thereby convinced that it was my Case for I had oftentimes broken the Sabbath after Conviction and I had disobeyed my Parents and had often told Untruths The same Lords-day at Night another godly Minister preached at five a Clock upon Eph. 2.3 and thereby I was much more convinced of my sinful Condition and that I was a Child of Wrath without Christ and Grace c. which Work of Conviction remained strongly upon me above one year under which I was filled with great Horrour and fears of Hell sore buffettings and Temptations of the Devil and made to possess the Sins of my Youth But yet I prayed daily heard all the godly Ministers I could read and searched the Holy Scriptures read good Books got acquaintance with gracious Christians then called Puritans kept several days of Fasting and Prayer alone wherein I did humble my Soul for my Sins and begg'd Pardon and Grace of God for Christs sake grew strict in performing Holy Duties and in Reformation of my own Life examining my self every night confessing my Sins and mourning for them and had a great Zeal for God and an Indignation against Actual Sins both committed by my self and others June 29th 1629. I was ordained Deacon and the next day June 30th I was ordained Presbyter by the Bishop of Peterborow having Preached above 16 Sermons before I would be Ordained by way of Tryal of my Ability for that great Work of the Ministry After my Ordination the Bishop of Lincoln gave me a small Living at Humberstone where I preached twice every Lords Day and once every Holy-day That which made me strict and Laborious in Preaching was partly the Work of Conviction upon my Conscience but more especially a Providential Acquaintance that I had gotten with a very godly old Widdow in Gainsburgh where I taught the Free-School before I came to Humberstone who told me of one called a Brownist who used to pray and expound Scriptures in his Family whom I went sometimes to hear and with whom I had Conference and very good Counsel Whilst I was at Humberstone there lived a very Religious Widow who falling sick sent for me and charged me that I would not depart her House on the day-time until she ended or mended least Satan should tempt her above her strength The Doctor of Physick had given her over some godly Ministers Friends and Relations did take leave of her as a Dying Woman She received nothing for several days but a little Julep which was put into her Mouth with a Spoon and ran most of it out again lay speechless two or three days her Family mourning over her and expecting her Death every Hour I had brought some of my Books to her House and was studying her Funeral Sermon and when I had almost finished the same the Devil set upon me with a violent Suggestion That the Scriptures are not the Word of God He had suggested this Temptation to me divers Times before but prevailed not Now the Tempter assaulted me with this Argument Whatever you ask in the Name of Christ God will do it but that Scripture was not true and if I would put it now upon Tryal I should find it not to be true for if I would ask the Womans Life in the Name of Christ God will not do it and thereby I should know the Scriptures are not true nor are they the Word of God for his Word is true To which I answered Satan thou art a Lyar a Deceiver and a false Accuser The Holy Scriptures are the Word of God and the Scriptures of Truth And seeing thou hast often tempted me in this kind and now dost assault me again that I may for ever silence thee thou wicked and lying Devil I will trust in God and act Faith in the Name of Christ in that very Word of his Truth which thou hast now suggested I will leave my Study and go and pray for her and believe that God will hear my Prayers thrô the Intercession of Jesus Christ and restore her Life and Health that thou mayst be found a Lyar Whereupon I went into the Parlour where she lay speechless without any visible motion or use of any Senses and I locked the Door and Candles being in the Room I kneeled down by her Bed-side and prayed above half an hour using my Voice and then she began to stir toss and struggled so much that I was constrained to stand up and holding her in her Bed still prayed over her Sathan then gave me a great Interruption and suggested to me she was a dying and these were the pangs of Death upon her I notwithstanding this Assault of the Devil was assisted by the Holy Spirit to pray and believe still and in a short time she lay very quietly and I kneeled down again and prayed fervently and within half an hour whilst I was yet praying she said The LORD hath healed me I am restored to Health Then I returned praises to God and she did joyn with me lifting up her eyes and hands still saying I am Healed Then I rose up from my knees and asked her how she did O Sir said she God hath heard your Prayers and hath made me whole Blessed be his Holy Name Then I unlocked the Door and some of her Kinswomen and Servants being at the Door came in and asked me if she were dead to whom I answered No. Then they asked me How she did I bad them go to her and ask her self She had been speechless four days I told them she could speak now and as soon as they came to her Bed-side she lift up her self and said I am well the Lord hath heard Prayer and healed me I am very weak and sore in my bones but I am in Health I pray you give me something to eat and as soon as they brought her some broth she sat up and eat it and took some of her Julep and from that time received strength and the next day she did rise and walked with a Staff which being heard of many godly Ministers and Christians came to visit her and to know the truth of what was told them touching her Recovery I told them it was not any thing in me but it was the Lord that had done it for His own Glory and to silence
some others brought several Red Coat-Souldiers and took it by force thrust out those persons I had left in Possession and kept Possession by Souldiers both of my House Garden and my Goods which had cost me above 700 l. with the Purchase bought of the Artillery Company of London to whom I paid 300 l. and laid out 400 l. more in building upon the Ground which I had bought and paid for I had at the same time 200 l. in Weavers Hall which was given away to the King among many greater Summs of other mens Money I spent above 150 l. more in Holland and Germany and when I had spent all that I was forced to sell all my Goods there to bring me to England again In which Return I met with two remarkable Acts of Providence towards me my Wife and two Children I had agreed with a Skipper at Cullen in Germany to Rotterdam for a Summ of Money and he was to pay all the Tolls Licences which he did at two or three places till we were come where we were Strangers and then he made me pay Licences at 2 places and at a place called Rurote upon the River Rhyne he made me pay both Toll and Licence and kept me there two or three days at great Charges and my Wife being set and very sad in an Harbour or Victualling house came in a Gentleman and observing of her asked me what the Gentlewoman ailed I told him she was my Wife and he understanding the Latin Tongue aâ—ked me what the matter was I told him all my Case and what my Condition was Well said he if you be a Son of Abraham God will deliver you and so he went into his Chamber and sent for the Skipper and Toll Masters and caused him to produce our Agreement and understanding how he had wronged one he being Lord and Chief over the Tollmasters there he Commanded them to take our Goods from him and to hire us another Skipper to carry us and our Goods to Rotterdam And made the Skipper that had done me wrong to allow me so much as I had paid for Licences all the way thither After we were come to Rotterdam and my Wife and Son and Daughter were come to England God made two Catholicks in Cullen instrumental to prevail with the Prince Dewit to send me by a Bill of Exchange 160 Rix-Dollers for a House that I had Built in his Country and could not Sell which I received at Rotterdam and then came over to England my self and came to my Wife and Children whom I found at a Friends House in London Then I set upon teaching School again and by Gods Blessing upon my honest Labours have provided things Honest Necessary and Convenient for my Family To my Eldest Son I had given 60 l. per Annum during his Life which he enjoyed above 21 Years ere he Died. To my next Son that lived to be Married I gave the full value of 250 l. in Money House School and Houshold-Goods and left him 50 Scholars in his Schoal-House To my only Daughter then Living I gave upon her Marriage above 300 l. in Money Annuity Plate Linnen and Houshold-stuff and left her Husband 50 Scholars in the said School-House in Partnership with my said Son To my youngest Son that lived to be Married I gave more than 300 l. Sterling besides it cost me above 60 pounds in his Apprenticeship and 40 l. afterwards Thus my Heavenly Father made up my former Losses with his future Blessings even in outward Substance besides a good increase of Grace and Experience in the space of 40 years that I and my dear faithful Wife Lived together we removed several times with our whole Family whereof once from Lincolnshire to London and from London to New-England Once from England into Wales twice from London into Lincolnshire once from London to Holland and from thence into Germany and thence to Rotterdam and thence to London again In which Removings I gained great Experiences of Gods Faithfulness Goodness and Truth in his great and precious Promises And I have gained some experience of my own hearts deceitfulness and the power of my own Corruptions ond the reigning power of Christ and his Captivating and subduing my Sins making Conquests of the Devil World and Sin and then giving me the Victory And causing me to Triumph and to bless his most Holy Name Three things made my latter Sufferings very easy to be endured 1. The former Straits and Hardships which I had undergone with patience 2. The present lively acts and exercise of Grace especially Faith and Hope under those latter and greater Tryals 3. The Light of Gods Countenance and the full assurance of his Love and of eternal Life I would not want those experiences and teachings that my Soul hath enjoyed for all that ever I suffered My Wilderness-Mercies Sea-Mercies City-Mercies and Prison-Mercies afforded me very many and strong Consolations The Spiritual sights of the Glory of God the Divine sweetness of the Spiritual and Providential presence of my Lord Jesus Christ and the joyes and comforts of the Holy and Eternal Spirit communicated to my Soul together with suitable â—nd seasonable Scriptures of Truth have â—o often and so powerfully revived refreshed and strengthened my heart in the days of my Pilgrimage Tryals and Sufferings that the Sence yea the Life and sweetness thereof abides still upon my heart and hath engaged my Soul to live by Faith to walk humbly and to desire and endeavour to excell in Holiness to Gods Glory and the example of others Though I confess many of the Lords Ministers and some of the Lords people have excelled and outshined me with whom God hath not been at so much cost nor pains as he hath been at with me â— am a very unprofitable Servant but yet by Grace I am what I am In the beginning of my Ministry I Studied in the Forenoon and Visited my Religious acquaintance in the Afternoon and some of my natural Relations I did Preach constantly twice often 3 times and some Lords days 4 times at Holton at 7 in the Morning at Humberston at 9 at Seartho at 11 at Humberston at 3 a Clock all in the same day I also Preached every Holiday once at every Burial Poor or Rich. And I have most commonly Preached 3 or 4 times every Week if in any measure of Health for above 40 years togather except now and then I got some other Godly Man to Preach for me but rarely When I was in Prison I did Preach usually every day if well And God was pleased to confirm my Call unto that great Work 1. By the Conversion of many Sinners who having declared the dealings of God with their Souls testified God did convince them convert them and establish many of them by my Ministry through the powerful and effectual Operation of his Holy Spirit and Word preached by me unto them 2. By some healing power of God put forth upon the sick and infirm