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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44496	The efficacy of the true balme being a true relation of Mrs. Rose Warnes carriage, confession of her sins, and profession of her hope in the mercy of God, so far as it was known to an eye and ear witness of much of it after she was apprehended, and to the time of her death, to which she was adjudged April 1667. At Lin Regis in the county of Norfolk, upon strong presumption of her murther of her infant, and suffered April 14. With some means used for her help in her imprisonment. As also an in perfect [sic] yet pretty full relation of what she spake to the people at her execution. Published by John Horn of Lin Regis with his epistle and some verses on her.	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1669 (1669)	Wing H2800; ESTC R215355	31,398	101

the instructions thereof to her but she called for her Bible and did consider and ponder on what was said and then desired the woman that brought me to leave her chamber and when she was gone out told me I had spoken that which went to her heart and discovered to her all that she had done and yet in shewing where her help was and that now she would freely and fully tel● me all that was in her heart that accidentally she killed her Husband she beleived but not wittingly intentionally and that was not it that had provoked God to bring her to this judgement but something else that she had done hidden and allowed her self in which lay much upon her but now something had touched her heart that made her willing to acknowledge it as perceiving though it was vile there was for giveness and washing and therefore she was free to confesse her sins and declare her wayes to me and desired me to pray for her telling me others had been with her urging and pressing her to confess her self guilty of what she knew her self clear off and because she could not confess what they would have her judged and conde●ned her and left her as hopeless but as they set nothing before her of any ground or door of repentance opened for such so it wrought nothing upon her but wrath but after she was instructed she repented and sorrowed after a godly sort even unto life to the hope of which she was quickned and strengthned by the resurrection of Christ who was delivered for our offenses c. And retained that hope in him even unto death as was discerned and believed by some that continued with her to this I adde no more in this place nor unto this relation of Rose VVarnes but that she me● with more such tryals in the two or three dayes time she lived and was in like manner streng●hned to resist the tempter in them and not moved from the faith and hope of the gospel but waxed more strong therein by occasions of tryalls Some broken remembrances of Mrs Rose VVarnes speech at her execution containing the summe of it with some supplyes of words where her spirits and strength failed according to what her self had expressed o●t in the Prison and before many witnesses You are gathered together a great company to look upon me I hop● none with any joy at my shamefull death I am perswaded there is none rejoyce at it but that you do pitty me sympathize with me and I pray God make it of good use to you all The Lord is righteous in all that is come upon m● even unto this shamhful death I suffer it justly from his hand for I have sinned against him greivously sinned and sin brings shame it must have punishment yea I may say what profit had I of those things of which I am now ashamed the end of those things is death there fore let all take heed and be warned in time not to dally with sin God hath condemned sin in the flesh in condemning his own Son in the flesh for our sins he was made the banished One for us his Fathers wrath lay hard upon him he was in an Agony and under the power of darkness and sweat as it were greae drops of blood and water trickling down to the ground and was hung on a tree and all this as our surety he suffered in the flesh for our sin sin therefore must still be judged and condemned in the flesh and if we sin against him that was hung on a tree for us all if we sin against his grace that brings salvation to all men in due time for he by the grace of God tasted death for every man he shead his blood for every one of you for every Creature of mankind on the earth and gave himself a randsome for all and is the true light that lighteth every man that comes into the world a testimony in due time therefore if we sin against this grace especially those that name the name of Christ and that have tasted that the Lord is gracious as I have done he can by no means in clearing clear the guilty he will not let sins go unpun shed it must be judged in the flesh and if judgement be not received and ●ubmitted to now that we judge our selves it must be judged in the flesh for ever for ever in the wrath to come where their worm dyeth not and their fire is not quenched oh that is a hundred thousand sold worse then this shameful death this will be over presently and the sting is taken out of it by him that was hung on a tree for us but no end of that when a thousand times a thousand years are past its never a white shortned it s still for ever and ever therefore God is gracious as well as rightteous infinitely gracious in judgeing me thus here that he may not condem me in the world to come I have all my punishment here though far lesse infinitely lesse then my iniquity deserves yet here I have all and all this is nothing to the lake of fire the second death and whatever I could have suffered less then that had been infinite mercy yet such his mercy I might have escaped this too had I received reproof and judged my self in time but I heardned my heart against many reproofs of instruction the reproofs of this Gospel they are the way of life they powerfully reprove and melt the heart though I did not turn at them I was as a Bullock unaccustomed to the yoak nothing less then all this would bring me down I made mention of the name of the Lord but in late times not in truth nor in righteousness I walked with a blessed pretious people I tell you they are a blessed people think not the worst of them nor of the way of truth they walk in or as if the word of the Gospel of the grace of God that brings salvation to all men were without efficacy because I so sinned for I walked close with God and with his people and hid his word in my heart which I heard among them I had been preserved from so sinning against him but it was not heeded by me I did not hide it in my hart that I might not sin against him I went sometime to hear and of these late years when my iniquities had prevailed over me I went but seldome and when I heard I heard overly overly overly I did not in hearing hear I did not do what it was working in me to will and to doe I heardned my heart against the reproofs of instruction and would not take shame I thought to hide my self as Adam but with pitiful coverings when I had greviously sinned against God in turning aside to another then my Husband I thought to have concealed it that I might not take shame and that brought me to this in which God is righteous and if men have done me any wrong

in medling more then they needed or in not affording me what mercy and priviledge by the law of the land I might have had in my sad case the Lord forgive them and graciously set home convincement upon their hearts of their evil and wrong I forgive them I blesse God I have not the least prejudice against any I take it out of his hand that is righteous and infinitely merciful in punishing me with less then Hell fire for ever and be you all warned in time to flee from sin as from the Devil for it will lead you captive to the Devil flee to Christ for help and strength against it for sin brings shame it must be owned and acknowledged and Gods Judgement submitted too the sooner and the more voluntary the better for Whore-mongers and Adulterers God will judge Oh that such as have sinned as I have done would make hast to confess their sins and take shame turn at his reproofs in time that you may escape the damnation of Hell that is infinitely worse then this Therefore to day while it is called to day the Holy Ghost saith harden not your hearts if ye would hear his gracious voice harden not your hearts against the reproofs of his instruction to day even to day off that this spectacle may be a warning to you all and that God would set home to your hearts these broken words of a dying woman oh that they may be laid to heart now in time Take heed especially all ye that name the name of Christ depart from iniquity flee it as from a Serpent void evil lascivious wanton company chamring wantoness provoke lust lead into further snares I had thought I had been strong enough to withstand dally not with him take heed of dallying with the temptation it will get dominion at last it bites like a Serpent make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof for he that soweth to his flesh shall of it reap corruption and God will more severely judge them on whom his name is called that all may know he cannot endure iniquity he will least of all eudure it in them that come nigh him he will magnify his name and will be sanctifyed of all that come near him Take heed all of you that none of you harden your harts against him and his voice by his pretious people because of me but hear and attend to the Gospel know them that call on the name of the Lord in truth God is in and with them of a truth though I have sinned against God and them and therefore am thus corrected with the rods of men and they are permitted to use extremity upon me I have sinned the Lord is righteous let others take heed of despising the grace of God or hardning their hearts against it and against the way of truth because of what I have done for even that Grace of God bringing salvation to all men is the true grace of God and doth truly teach and powerfully work It doth in its appearing to us teach that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world it did teach me but I wanted a Ioseph like spirit to have reasoned from all the Grace appearing in Christ how then shall I commit so great wickedness and sin against God oh that I had harkned but I rebelled and hardned my heart therefore he was fain to bring down my heart withall this labour and in all love to my soul and to warn and admonish others not to harden their hearts be not mockers or despisers least your bands be made strong do not for lying vanities for sake your own mercies for there is eternal mercies life redemption in Christ prepared for you whether you beleive it or beleive it not it is prepared in him for every one of you given with him that you might know and beleive and 〈◊〉 made pertaker of it in and with him ●he King the God of glory hath made a marriage for his Son the marriage is made the feast prepared and ready for you all the servants are sent to the bidden guests and they make excuses some their Farmes Oxen Wives and such things for lying vanities for sake their own mercies and some complement themselves out they say I have sinned and am so vile a sinner so unclean and so polluted I am not fit I must first wash my self or make my self clean or be washed by my tears or works of the law before I may come to him to eat of his bread and drink of the wine that he hath mingled take heed of this let none complement themselves out here c●me as ye are 'T is a faithful saying worthy of all acceptation that Iesus Christ came into the world to save sinners sinners as sinners he came to save but not to save them in their sins but to save from them to redeem us from all iniquity and unless he save and wash us we cannot be clean he knew what we were before he called us and he called and gave himself for us that he might wash us and unless he wash us we can have no part with him come therefore in his calls and drawings come as thou art he will in no wise cast thee away how sinful and vile soever but he will wash thee with the washing of water by his word for consider how great things he hath done for thee while thou wast dead in sins and trespasses and altogether filthy and polluted in thy blood and while such he calls thee and such were some of those that are now made accepted in the beloved even such as I have been Whoremongers Adulterers c. But they were washed in their coming to him washed in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God they did not wash themselves first or were washed by any other means before they came oh come therefore to the waters he that hath no money come ye and do not complement your selves out well but the bidden guests refused and the King was forced to look for guests where he could he sent out to the high wayes and hedges and that once and again to call draw into the house that the house might be filled and when many were come in the King looking among those come into the house finds one without a wedding garment and said to him friend he calls him friend for Christ had been a real friend to him But how camest thou in hither not having on a wedding garment loe he was speechless he had not that to say for excuse that there was none prepared for him or he had no way on means offered to come at it he was speechless nothing to say for himself There is certainly a wedding garment provided for you all in and by Christ t is made ready loe all things are ready and with him tendred a perfect righteousness to cover you and make you acceptable in