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truth_n	heart_n	know_v	speak_v	4,049	5	4.4293	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60091	A Short relation concerning the life and death of that man of God, and faithful minister of Jesus Christ, William Simpson, who laid down his body in the island of Barbadoes the eight day of the twelfth month, M DC LXX	Fortescue, William.; Hooton, Oliver.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Hooton, Elizabeth, ca. 1600-1672.; Simpson, William, 1627?-1671. Going naked a signe.	1671 (1671)	Wing S3618; ESTC R10632	9,466	16

us to understand the same saying It lyes very hard upon me it is fixed in me relating the thing that he had seen and I observed that the pangs of Death seized on him at that instant which might be about the eleventh hour and being desired to keep his bed because moving of him caused him to faint he gave us an innocent look like a Babe as he was lying still submitting to what we said whose innocent looks and behaviour caused tears from some which he beholding was trobled speaking to us tenderly that we should not be grieved c. And towards evening he grew so weak that he spake very inwardly so that we could scarcely hear him and after that manner he spake much of and to the Lord praising him wonderfully but with a very low voice And after a while we perceived that he did not know us saying Friends be noble and do not hinder me in my Passage for I am an innocent man And being asked whither he would go he said I must pass away And by what else he spake at that time we surely know That his heart was wholly fixed upon the Lord For had any evil been in him something of it would have shewed it self at such a time yet this holy Man of God did not neither spake he at any time any word unbecoming the Truth which he once more powerfully preached Between the sixth and seventh hour he lay very still and silent and one came there who hath been invited to Meetings but never came and taking him by the hand asked him how he did who answered I am a very sick man And looking towards the man William Simpson was on a suddain endewed with the Power and Spirit of the Lord by which he marvelously preached the glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ about a quarter of an hour sweetly praising and magnifying the Lord which was so contrary to our expectations that it caused great amazement with trembling and tears who held forth powerfully the Doctrine of Perfection and freedom from sin on this side the Grave and that Friends should be valiant for the Truth upon Earth and that they should not again be entangled with the Yoak of Bondage which brings Imperfections but to stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ had made us free that every Bond and Yoak may be broken that that which is pure of the Lord God might go free in all that God might be glorified and honoured and we preserved in the day of tryal which must come upon all flesh and so to grow from grace to grace and from strength to strength and from one degree of holiness unto another that a daily growth may be witnessed in all further saying Oh Friends It is the Life that the Lord looks at for he that hath the Son hath Life and he that hath not the Son hath not Life Examine your selves no Son no Life without the Son without Life c. And thus he Declared wonderfully and often glorifying and praysing the Lord after this manner Oh all that is within me praise and magnifie the Lord God who is worthy for ever and ever of all Glory and everlasting Prayses to the God of my Life who is only worthy and lives over all is above all God blessed for ever Amen And after this sort did he often ascribe living praises to the God of his Life c. And in his Declaration he said That what he had spoken was laid upon his Spirit by the Lord so to do c. When he had spoke a word not plain he repeated it again and so went forward until he had finished his Last Testimony with supplication Continuing sensible unto the last Richard Clarke asked him If he knew him and William answered That he could not tell But when he told him his Name was Richard Clarke the Candle being brought near William wrung him hard by the hand and spake no more And about the tenth hour of the Night he departed this Life like a Lamb and the next Day his Body was carried to the Bridge-Town it being General Meeting day nigh which he was buried in a Garden belonging to Richard Forstal being honourably accompanied thither with several hundreds of Friends This Relation I hope will give content to his Son who I have heard him speak off and all Friends who may enquire after him for as he lived so he died Preaching the Word of the Lord in the Demonstration of the Spirit and Power and many Seals are in this Island confirming the Gospel that hath been ministred by him and his Fellow-Labourer And as for the Sufferings of this Just Man William Simpson his being often in Perils by his own Country-men who honour not their Prophets Whipt Stockt Stoned and Imprisoned Such Bonds and Tribulations have attended him yea as much as any man most Towns and Cities bear record for him in England and Scotland He hath been a Man of Sorrows and acquainted with Grief and was made perfect through Sufferings who is ceased from his Labours and is entred into his Rest. Written in Barbados the 10th of the 12th Month 1670. By one of the least of the Flock of Christ whose Name is William Fortescue Here are a few Lines more concerning our dear Friend and Brother WILLIAM SIMPSON The Righteous perish and no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away and none consider that the Righteous are taken away from the evil to come Isa 57. 1. THE glorious day of God everlasting is dawned and the light of his excellency hath shined by the glory of his heavenly virtue through the thick clouds of darkness which hath long been as a Vail over the hearts of the people of the Nations during which time the world was as a Wilderness that was untilled and brought forth Thistles Thorns and Briars in stead of Corn Wine and Oyl but since it hath been the good pleasure of the Lord of the whole earth to manifest the glory of his Spirit of burning by the operation of Life which appeareth through the Light to burn up the Briars and Thorns and to sow his good Seed He hath sent forth painful Labourers to gather the Harvest of the Earth for his Seed hath long been sown in the heart of Man and how can he expect any thing now but fruits and he hath sent his Servants into many Nations Kingdoms and Countries some whereof have been raised from Death to Life by the Ministration of the glorious Gospel and have brought fruits to the praise and glory of God Almighty Now those whom the Lord hath been pleased so to send forth he hath not sent them empty nor without the enjoyment of his heavenly presence but hath endued them with the operation of the power of his Divine Spirit even the Spirit of Wisdom and Vnderstanding of Righteousness and true judgement And among the many Regions Kingdoms and Countrys the Lord hath been pleased to visit this Island of Barbados whereunto