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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63021	A testimony concerning the life and death of Jane Whitehead that faithful servant and hand-maid of the Lord, who was a mother in Israel, and her memorial is blessed of the Lord for ever : concerning her sufferings, and her faithfulness in her testimony in sufferings : with an exhortation to turn to the true light, in a few words to all backsliders from the truth / by a lover of truth and righteousness, who hath a testimony against oppression, cruelty, and persecution, wheresoever I see it appear against the innocent, T.T.	Townsend, Theophila.	1676 (1676)	Wing T1989; ESTC R23565	17,583	29

us so that we never wanted any thing And this I give as a Testimony against the vain imaginations that have risen in the minds of some Carnal Professors in those parts And truly the Lord made her a blessing unto me in many Respects whose secret hand did bring us together and now hath taken her from me again who was so neer and dear unto me and she is out of the reach of all her Enemies and Persecuters and those that did hate her for the Gospels sake and is at Rest with the Lord with whom is her Reward for ever and ever Yea Blessed are the Dead that dye in the Lord they rest from their Labours and their works shall follow them And that which remains as a desire in my heart is That I may serve the same God to the end of my dayes who never failed her under any Exercise or Tryal that she was accompanyed with for when the Officers sometimes were taking our Goods for to levy a Fine for a Meeting they asked her whether we did still intend to keep Meetings and she answered as it was in her heart Yes we resolve to follow the Lord fully Moreover under the great Exercise or weakness of Body that she was in before her departure she often acknowledged that the Lord was wonderful good unto her for though sometimes she might be under some Exercise of mind by reason of her great Weakness yet she was kept quiet and patient and did often say That the Lord had broke in upon her and with his Heavenly Presence did fill her to the Comfort of her Soul and the Joy of Heart as she did many times acknowledge and said O that the 〈◊〉 may never take his presence from me It was so 〈◊〉 pretious and desirable unto her and blessed be the Lord he was good unto her to the very last she was kept sensible and did acknowledge that she had the Testimony of his Love and that it would be well with her and that she had no desire to live any longer in this World and a little before her departure she had no desire to have her Children with her though they were very neer dear unto her but having given them a Charge to be obedient to their Father and that they should mind Truth and then the Blessing of the Lord would be with them so she desired to be retired and the morning before her Departure she had a sense that the time of her Departure was at hand so she 〈◊〉 a Friend that she was going to her long home and that morning she desired me to go about my occasions though all along before she still desired my Company and I being sometime wanting was called in again she being now upon Departing our dear Friend J. Anderdon being with me we went in unto her and he held her by the hand and I held her up about the neck and she manifested her Sensiblenss and her Faithful Constant Love to me unto the very last and so departed in the Love and Peace of God as several had a Testimony of it that were there present The 28th day of the 7th month 74. was the day of her Departure and she was Buryed the 6th day of the 8th month following being accompanyed with very many Friends and many Neighbours So They that are wise shall shine as the brightness of the Firmament and they that turn many to Righteousness as the Stars for ever and ever South-Gadbury the 8th day of the 8th month 75. Thomas Whitehead Here followeth a Relation of more of her Sufferings the 28th day of the 9th Month 1671. JAne Whitehead was brought to Ilchester Prison with a young Child Sucking at her Breast through the Envy and Wickedness of the Priest of North-Cadbury one John Atwood who malitiously Swore against her she being accused that she came into his Congregation with Force and Arms and did Interrupt him and Disturb his whole Congregation which was a very Lye for she neither used Force nor Arms but spake soberly in the Fear of God bearing her Testimony for the Truth against the Covetous Practises of the False Hirelings and spake the words of Truth and Soberness and we are well satisfied that no True Minister nor good People would be offended nor disturbed at this yet notwithstanding R.H. a Justice Committed her to Prison from her Husband and four small Children and one tender Child she carryed in her Arms and brought them again from Ilchester Prison to the Sessions at Wells in the Winter Season and through the fallacious actions of the Priest sent her back to Prison again where she remained until the 2d month 72. all the Cold Winter yet the Goaler was civil towards her but the Lord will plead her innocent Cause in his own Season with those her Enemis as he hath done with other that rose up against her for the Lord was with her in the time of her Exercises who did uphold her by the word of his power and gave her strength and courage to encounter with Truths enemies and blessed be his Name for ever he hath now brought her through the War to Peace and everlasting Rest to sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of God for ever and hath Crowned her with Victory with a Crown of immortality and eternal Life Glory over all to the Lord God and the Lamb that sits upon the Throne Therefore dear Friends you that are but young and tender who are convinced of the everlasting Truth of the living God and have believed in the Light of his blessed Son Christ Jesus our Lord this is my Councel in the Love and Councel of the Lord unto you all That you abide in the Light and yield all holy Subjection by living in obedience unto it according to the Divine operation and holy requirings of the Spirit of Truth in your inward parts that you hearken to the councel of it and be willing to be led and guided by it and to receive instruction from it at all times and upon all occasions that the way of the Lord may become your delight for ever and the path of the Just the place of your footsteps that so through righteousness you may obtain the blessing of peace from the hand of the Lord as your portion for ever and ever Therefore travel on in the strength of the Lord ye tender Children of the day of Gods everlasting Love I say travel on with Courage with chearful hearts and ready minds in the footsteps of the flock of the holy Companions as this our dear faithful deceased Friend hath done that so you may with the Lords Worthies Open ye everlasting doors that the holy Nation may come in that so you may come truly to be of the general Assembly of the Church of the first Borne whose names are written in Heaven and to the innumerable Company of Angels to the Spirits of Just men made perfect and to God the Judge of all to receive an

Inheritance among them that are sanctified and have fellowship with the Saints in Light and so come to witness life and immortality brought to light through the Gospel of our Lord Christ Jesus the mighty power of God to whom be Glory for ever Amen And this is to be obtained by following the holy divine Light that shines in the heart in the dayly Cross and true self-denyal of our own wills in true and holy subjection unto the will of God who hath truly loved us and gave his Son Christ Jesus for us who bare the Cross and despised the shame who came not to do his own will but the will of the Father that sent him who was made of no Reputation though he was Lord of all he took upon him the form of a Servant and became obedient to the death of the Cross and was Scourged for our transgressions and bruised for our sins that we might receive Redemption by him and Salvation through Faith in his blood and his living and ruling in us who hath caused his heavenly Light to shine in our hearts that by the living virtue of it our understandings are opened whereby we come to see him that is invisible and to know him that is true and we are in him that is true who having finished the work that his Father sent him to do is ascended up on high and hath led Captivity Captive and given gifts unto men for the work of the Ministry and for the perfecting of the Saints and the edifying of the body of Christ till all come to a perfect man to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ who is sate down at the right hand of the Majesty on high glorified with the Father for ever and ever yet nevertheless he that inhabits eternity also dwelleth with the man of a broken heart and contrite spirit and trembles at his word of this we have a living experience through the goodness and mercy of the Lord unto us who hath begotten us again by the immortal word of Life unto a lively hope in Christ Jesus our Lord who is worthy over all to have the praises the glory honour everlasting renown with living obedience from all that are made pertakers of the riches of his grace now henceforth and for ever Here followeth the Testimony of John and Jane Anderdon concerning Jane Whitehead THis Testimony we have to give for Jane Whitehead that she was a good and honourable Woman in her day and time the Lord having poured forth his Spirit upon her as upon many other of his Servants and Hand-maids in this the day of his power and she was truly called to the work and service of the Lord in which she was valiant for the Truth and feared the Lord in faithfulness in her generation and held the Faith and kept her Integrity to the last was a good Savour in her life and death she is blessed and her good works do follow her and we never found her too forward to speak in Meetings or to seek the Preheminence but to clear her Conscience before the Lord which was well We were present at her death and she died like a Lamb for death was swallowed up of life and she is happy and gone to her grave in peace with God and at her Burial her life did preach and her memorial is blessed and she said a little before she dyed that the Lord laid nothing to her charge and that the Lord did bear her Witness that she never sought her Self in all her Labour and Travels in which she met with many exercises even to bonds and Imprisonment for the Testimony of Jesus and the word of God in all which he kept and preserved her faithful to himself even to the end and she spared not iniquity but took up the Cross and dispised the shame and is entred into rest and she was desirous that all should be in truth and reality what in word they outwardly professed themselves to be and made a shew of and she could not endure Hypocrisie but rejoyced in godly Society and her dear Love was to all Friends whose welfare and prosperity in the Truth she much desired and Peace and Unity among all the Flock of God that they might keep together under the one Shepheard in the Lord Jesus Christ in the Unity of his eternal Spirit for ever Ilchester Prison the 14th day of the 8th month 1675. John Anderdon Jane Anderdon The Testimony of Jasper Butt for Jane Whitehead I Have known her for neer twenty years past about the time when Truth first brake forth in the Southern parts of this Nation she was one on whom God fulfilled his Promise even a Hand-maid on whom he poured out his Spirit and accompanyed with his living Presence he having committed a Dispensation of the everlasting Gospel to her in which she was faithful according to the measure received And though she was the weaker Vessel his Power was manifested in her to the reaching of his own Witness and turning many from Darkness to the Light and many Children may rise up and call her blessed for she was a Mother in Israel She came forth neer the beginning of the Lambs War in these latter dayes and was a faithful follower of him through many Tribulations and Sufferings The Unity Peace and Welfare of the Lords People was precious to her and she Travelled in many Counties of this Nation in the Lords Service in which his Power and Blessing was with her and minded that more than any Self-interest towards her latter end she had a pretty long time of Weakness her body being in a Consumption I was with her a few dayes before her Departure and was well refreshed in the sence of Gods living Presence manifested in her which truly refresh'd and comforted her in her outward weakness and gave her true content in the will of the Lord in which she was gathered to her Fathers and laid down her head in everlasting Peace her memory is blessed and her name yields a good savour and in that life into which she gathered whilst conversant amongst us we still enjoy a fellowship with her and though dead she yet lives with us having Fought the good Fight and kept the Faith and finished her Course she hath obtained the Crown laid up in store for them that have the appearance of the Lord Jesus The 29th day of the 11th month 1575. Jasper Butt SO my dear Friends all people to whom this our Testimony may come this is my Exhortation unto you all that you all tread the same path and walk in the same way of holiness of righteousness and faithfulness that this dear Lamb hath trodden and mind the same thing and obey the same Spirit that you may have the same blessed reward and be made partakers of the same everlasting happiness and blessedness by receiving an entrance and having an habitation in that Inheritance that shall never fade away that when this earthly