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A65152	God's mighty power magnified as manifested and revealed in his faithful handmaid Joan Vokins, who departed this life the 22d of the 5th month, 1690, having finished her course, and kept the faith : also some account of her exercises, works of faith, labour of love, and great travels in the work of the ministry, for the good of souls.	Vokins, Joan, d. 1690.	1691 (1691)	Wing V685; ESTC R9069	73,393	156

and a cunning Hunter seeking for the precious Life and chased my poor Soul as a Partridge on the Mountains but my God had shewed me that the way to Rest was through many Troubles and that he would be at hand to Deliver out of them all by his Almighty Power but I could hardly trust it then but yet turning to it I found Preservation by it when the backsliding of some had like to have caused me to stumble but the unerring Spirit of Jesus shewed me that if thousands fall on the one hand and tens of thousands on the other that should not defile me and if all the rest were Righteous that should not justifie me if I did not obey the Truth now he had made known his Covenant of Life which I so deeply engaged to be faithful unto and then I turned my back on the World and all the friendship and glory of it that I might obtain the favour of Jesus who condemned me for my Self-righteousness as for my known Sins for I was cautious of Sinning against the Lord ever since my Youth and desired after the best Religion and Company and when I was very young in years I greatly delighted to go to Professors Meetings and could bring home the Text and repeat much of their Sermons but yet that brought no benefit to my poor hungry Soul And when I was in secret before the all-seeing Eye of the Lord he administred Condemnation upon it all and I had no Peace inwardly although none could condemn me for any misdemeanor as outwardly but when my own Righteousness became loathsome to me then was I made willing to part with all that had been near and dear unto me that I might feel and witness the Robe of Christ's Righteousness revealed and be cloathed therewith And as for my Husband and Children my true and tender Love was so great that I could have done or suffered much for them But if I had disobeyed the Lord to please them I might have provoked him to have withholden his Mercies from us all and to bring his Judgments upon us And then who shall excuse in the Day of Accompt Then if a Man as the Scripture says should give the Fruit of his Body for the Sin of his Soul it will not be accepted Then Husbands and Wives and Parents and Children and Servants shall all receive according to their doings and none that disobeys the Lord can be excused no more than Adam was when he said That the Woman gave him the forbidden Fruit and he did eat and so provoked the Lord that the Curse came upon himself and could not be excused And although Man and Wife should be helpful one to another in Righteousness yet too many there are since the fall that hinder and hurt each other for which an account must be given anavoidably And this did I consider many a time and earnestly endeavour to avoid notwithstanding the false Aspersions that might arise yet I still endeavoured to keep my Conscience clear in the sight of my tender God and none can lay any thing to my Charge except it be for serving the Living and True God though in that way that many may call Heresie yet I do worship him in Spirit and in Truth For as Christ Jesus hath said it is come to pass that our Heavenly Father seeketh such and always sought such to worship him in his own Spiritual way of Worship which shall stand when all Idolatry and invented Worships shall fall Written aboard the first Ship The 1st month 1680. as I went to New-England when none that saw me expected my life but the Lord was with me and relieved me and his blessed Power raised me as at many other times And I arrived at New York the 4th Day of the 3d Month 80 and a Maiden Friend whose Name was Sarah Yoklet went with me from England and travelled with me until I came to Oyster-Bay in Long-Island and the Lord so ordered it that when she left me another Woman-Friend that had a Testimony was my Companion several Months whose name was Lydia Wright Oh matchless Mercies of the Lord who can rightly consider them as they have been manifested and not be tendered as I am Oh how long did his tender Spirit strive with me before I gave up to go to Sea How did his long Patience wait and suffer Surely it 's worthy to be remembred for he might have cut me off in a disobedient Condition But blessed and magnified be his Heart-tendering Power it bowed me from Year to Year and brought me into Subjection when in a low Condition I could not help my self nor had no other to help me Oh then did it support me in Exercises sore both in Body and Spirit when my Mind hath been so dejected that my Faith almost failed then did my tender Father through the Son of his Love Christ Jesus yeild me sweet relief though in a weary Land and sweetly encouraged me to travel on and many sweet Promises which before he gave me as I stood singly resigned to obey his Commands and be at his dispose he was never wanting to fulfil but by Sea and Land hath multiplied his Mercies and renewed a right Spirit in me to the resolving of Doubts and casting out of false Fears everlasting Praises to his most holy Name for often did that cause Torment when the dark Reasoner was very busie Then did I cry unto the Lord and say Surely thou knowest all and I have none but thee to help and many Eyes are over me and great Difficulties surround me on every hand and I am the poorest and weakest that I do know and if I should fail by the way how would the Enemy rejoice and the Truth be reproached And much buffeting did I undergo in my long and sore Exercises but as I cast my Care upon him he hath cared for me and blessed be his Name he hath helped in my greatest straits and hath made hard things easie and what he shewed me by his pure Spirit of Light for my encouragement before I came forth he hath brought to pass Glory to his Name for ever may all those say with my Soul that love the Leadings of the Light of Jesus for though it leads through Tribulation yet it brings the Soul sweet Consolation and therefore worthy to be followed through the Self-denial for it 's through the daily Cross to obtain the Reward of the Crown and precious is the feeling of the Life of Jesus to the awakened and illuminated Soul and that made the roaring Sea and dry Land and lonesome Wilderness all one to me by Night and by Day and great was my encouragement to commit all that my Heavenly Father had given me to his keeping and to follow him and in taking up the daily Cross I found Power to preserve me from looking out at my affliction of Body when sorely exercised in Mind ready to sink under the oppression of it had not the Spirit of

but all to be diligent that God's Plantation may flourish in every Heart that he may have the Fruit to his Glory for he is making manifest his great love to his tender Seed in those remote corners of the Earth and he will make his Power known and his Gospel-light is shining and he will multiply his Mercies and increase his Blessings both Spiritually and Temporally unto those who live the Gospel-life and keep to its blessed Order Oh the great love and tender dealings of our God that he is visiting those Islands which causes my Soul often to rejoyce for he have heard the Cry of the poor and is arisen for the help of the needy and have made many willing to leave their Native Land that are as Instruments in his hand for to build up in the pure victorious Faith which have long been the breathing of my Soul for you and for the Seed sake I have been concerned close with the God of my Life and the cry in me hath often been unto him to send forth more faithful Labourers amongst you that his Vineyard may be dressed and cleansed from all that hindreth its growth and he hath heard and answered in measure blessed be his Name Oh Friends let every one be concerned and none to be idle but all to the work of the Day lest Night come and prevent you For now is the day springing from on High visiting you and the affliction of Joseph and the troubles of Jacob the Lord have removed and for his Seed sake will yet more appear and work its deliverance in the hearts of all that are truly tender of it although the Serpent is very subtil and busie and always trying to betray Innocency yet the Watch being kept he is prevented and our Souls preserved Therefore dear Friends let us not forget that Command lest the Enemy should prevail Oh feel a necessity of watchfulness that we may keep our hearts diligently that we may feel the issues of Life that the inward Man may grow and be capable to act for God for we have every one both Male and Female a Service in our proper places and them that are diligent in doing their Duty shall be sure of a blessed Reward of Life and Peace therefore let all be encouraged that are poor and needy and feeble-minded Oh let them put on Courage yea the very hindermost of the Flock for our Captain is couragious he goes on Conquering and to Conquer victoriously and by his Power he brings great things to pass and is working deliverance for his suffering Seed that have breathed to him in secret and could not be satisfied but was without all hope of help until the ancient Power was brought to light and the Spirit of Truth revealed to help our Infirmities and to teach us to depart from Iniquity and to do the things that is well pleasing unto our God Oh the day of our convincement in which our hearts and souls were tendered and we made sensible of our states is never to be forgotten but the Ancient Power that tendered us then to be kept unto that we may do the work of the day for the Gospel-day calls for purity of Life to adorn it Oh that we may be as John said fearing God and giving glory to him for the hour of his Judgment is come and we and ours ought to fear him and stand in his awe and not sin against him Oh that we above all things may endeavour that our Families may be of his Family and our Assemblies crown'd with life that living Sacrifices may be offered in our Spiritual Worship for broken hearts and contrite spirits our tender God will never despise And therefore dear Friends let us keep low in the Valley of our Father's love where the Well springs of Life do flow that a living People we may be to the praise of our God and the promoting of Truth in Generations to come that our Off-spring may be encouraged by our good Examples successively to honour Truth when we are gone to our Rest that our Posterity may be blessed of the Lord and be to his praise and our everlasting comfort for ever and for evermore Amen Written in Barbadoes in the first Month 1681. An Epistle to some Friends in New England but it hath respect to the general state of Friends there T. and Ann Potter DEar Friends my Love do truly reach to you and your Children desiring your welfare every way even as for my own not forgetting your love to me when I was there but in a sense of that love that our God have shed abroad in our hearts do I salute you earnestly desiring that our Children may be his Children and that they and we may magnifie his power together though outwardly far asunder Oh that we and ours may truly endeavour after this for its the breathing of my Soul that we may feel one another in harmless hearts that we may breath one for another and be refreshed one in another though absent in body yet present in spirit serving our God and eying him that he may direct our hearts and keep our minds staid that when the winds do blow and the storms do beat we may be upon a sure foundation for all foundations shall be tried and the sandy buildings will not stand in the trying times and therefore we had need be builders up of one another in our most holy faith that we may be firmly established and as good souldiers enduring hardships unto the end for our Captain is on his way Glory to his worthy Name and he goes on triumphantly conquering and to conquer and he and his faithful Followers shall have the Victory and his love is sufficient to encourage the feeble ones for by his power we have been preserved in dangers many and very great and difficult and he hath been a present help in the times of our greatest need and though we have in our travel here met with many troubles yet he who is our God at hand delivers out of all Everlasting Praises be unto his Name for ever he hath made known the spiritual Armour Oh that we may rightly prove it that the Strong-holds of Sin and Satan may be pulled down and Righteousness and Holiness set up in the place thereof that our God may be honoured and his Truth exalted and his Children comforted for ever and for evermore Amen Mind my dear love to Elizabeth Hooten and to the Friend and her Husband that went with me to West Jersey and to William Aston and his Wife and Tho. Leeds and his Wife and let them know that I should be glad to hear that a Meeting were setled at Middleton and mind my love to S. Cooper and his Wife and Family and let them and other Friends know that I believe there would be great Service in establishing a Meeting there my love to R. Lippingcot William Shaddock and the Friend Warner and to all the rest of Friends for my love is truly

worthy Name and magnifie his preserving and delivering Power for it hath been largely manifested may a little remnant truly say that has known the wonderful works of our God to admiration Oh we have great cause to speak well of his Name and to remember his mercies of old and to hold the continuation of his favours in great esteem and blessed be the Lord Jesus he hath not been wanting to us but his renewed Mercies daily are sufficient to deeply ingage us to renew our faithfulness and obedience that our heavenly Father may be pleased to continue and multiply his tender dealings towards us that whatever is yet to come may never be able to separate us from the sense of his love or from the seasonedness of his holy fear or from that cementing life that joyns us as Members unto Christ our Head that if Tryals should abound we may all feel the Love and Life of Jesus to super-abound that every bitter Cup that is yet to come may be sweetened and all hard things made easie and we encouraged to travel on in our heavenly progress keeping a narrow watch in the precious Light and diligently waiting in the same that we may be filled with heavenly Treasure for all other is very uncertain And we here do meet with a sufficient share of many and variable Exercises neither do I expect that you there do go free but this is that I do desire above all things even your living growth in the precious Truth and that you may indure to the end for they are assuredly happy and a blessed Reward is prepared for them And in a living sense of the same the Lord God of our Lives keep us here and you there that our Breathings may be continued one for another that we may be refreshed one in another and praise the God of Heaven and Earth together in his one Eternal Spirit as with one Heart and Soul for he is worthy to be had in living remembrance and his pure power to be magnified and renowned over all and unto it I commit us all for it is over all and worthy to have the disposing of us all and with it I leave all for there is nothing too hard for it to do and it 's worthy to be exalted over all Heaven and Earth and that for evermore saith the Soul of your loving Sister in the unchangeable Truth Joan Vokins London 28. 4 Mo. 90. POSTSCRIPT HEre have been a very precious time of heavenly Bedewings at our General Meeting at this Season as at many other times blessed be the God of Heaven and Earth his Power has filled the Assemblies of his People and the remembrance of you and other remote Islands is signified by Epistles that were Signed at our Womens Meetings and ordered to be sent to you when opportunity presents that you may rejoyce with us and joy in the God of your and our Salvation in and through Christ Jesus who lives and abides to make intercession for us his poor helpless ones who have had no helper but him Oh glory to his Name for ever he has been with us in many Troubles and gives us cause to believe he will be with us for ever And unto his tender care do I commit all our States and Conditions for fresh and sutable Supplies comes from him the Fountain of all our Mercies to whom be returned the Honour and the Glory over all for he is worthy for evermore The Lord my God in his great goodness to me after a long time of weakness has enabled me by his Power to come once more to this Yearly Meeting to be refreshed among his worthy ones and could do no less then cast my Mite into the Treasury And when the Epistle comes as is directed to West and East-Jersey and Philadelphia I intreat thee and thy Wife to let Copies be sent to York and Long Island J. V. To Antegua and Nevice c. G. W. DEar Friend after the Salutation of my Dear Love which truly reaches to thee thy Wife and Friends This is to let you know That I cannot forget you in those remote Islands but have been often concerned for you in a Travel of Soul before the Lord and now having this opportunity after a long time of bodily Weakness to visit Friends at London I can do no less than let you know that through tender Mercy I am yet alive to tell of the Goodness of the Lord and to admire the Works of his Almighty Power and to speak well of his worthy Name for Glory and Honour and Praises thereunto he is the same as ever and his Mercies and the continuation of his Favours are never to be forgotten and his renewed Goodness and Mercies both Spiritual and Temporal are daily sufficient to engage us to renew our faithfulness and obedience unto our tender God Oh that thus it may be with all that he has been so good unto as to bring near unto himself and one unto another who were once afar off from the Fellowship of the Saints in Light but blessed be the Lord who hath caused his Light to shine in our Tabernacles and shewed us the way that we should walk in and now Christ Jesus is our Life and Salvation and he fills our Cups with sweet Consolation and as many as do walk in the Light have fellowship one with another and the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin and purifies and fits the Earthen Vessel for the Heavenly Treasure and the excellency of the power is of the Lord and the Glory over all is his and he is near unto them that seeks his Glory more than their outward Interest and he will fill their Treasuries with this heavenly Treasure and so as we follow him we inherit substance and have no more need to wander as in the days past after Husks and Shadows but to keep to the Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls for blessed be his Name he feeds us in the green Pastures of Life and causes us to lye down by the still Waters when the raging Sea foams out Mire and Dirt Oh this is he that led Israel in the days of old and never said to the Seed of Jacob Seek ye my Face in vain And therefore dear Friends we have cause to say to the praise of his holy Name That goodly are the Tents of Jacob and blessed is his dwelling place for it s within the munition of Rocks where our Bread is ever sure and the Water of Life never fails where the weary finds sweet repose and the thirsty are refreshed and where our Souls feed together when our Bodies are far asunder So therein the Lord preserve us and you unto the end that he may have the Honour and our Souls the Benefit for evermore And by this thou may'st know that we have had a precious time here at London at our Yearly Meeting and many precious Testimonies have been born by Sons and Daughters to the Almighty Power of God that have filled the Assemblies of his People Oh how have the Heavenly Dew distilled upon our Branches and brought forth Fruit that reaches unto you in these Islands and I dearly desire it may be pleasant to your taste that we may be refreshed one in another and be one anothers joy and rejoycing in the Lord Jesus and that the Epistles of Love that were Signed here at our Yearly and Quarterly Meetings may induce you to Write again that you there may have a correspondency with Friends here in the Work and Service that our God hath called us unto that Spiritual Fruits may be brought forth and abound in all the Churches for our heavenly Father who delights in those that brings forth the Fruits of his Spirit and every Member that bringeth forth Fruit to his praise he purges and waters with the Seasons of his early and latter Rain and causes them to bring forth Fruit more and more And so the Dew of the Everlasting Hills rest upon you and us and upon all the Heritage of God every where for evermore Amen saith the Soul of thy true Friend and Sister in that which reaches over Sea and Land as length of time cannot wear out JOAN VOKINS At London I hope to hear from Nevice as opportunity to present my Dear Love is to W. Fifill's Widow if yet alive and to all the rest of those that are alive that loves the Truth and lives in it for they are very precious to me J. V. This was written soon after the Yearly Meeting 1690. about the end of the 4th or the beginning of the 5th Month 1690. THE END A Catalogue of Books Printed for and Sold by Thomas Northcott JOhn Burnyeat's Works Price 2 s. 6 d. G. Keith's Presbyterian and Independant Visible Churches in New-England and elsewhere brought to the Test and examined according to the Holy Scripture Price 1 s. 6 d. His Way to the City of God 1 s. His Fundamental Truths of Christianity Price 8 d. Stephen Crisps Alarum sounded in the Borders of Spiritual Egypt which shall be heard in Babylon Prince 3 d. His Epistle concerning the Present and Succeeding Times Price 2 d. G. Fox the Younger's Works Price 1 s. 8 d. Elizabeth Bathursts Truths Vindication Price 8 d. Sam. Fisher's Works Price 12 s. William Tomlinson's Innovations of Popery Price 6 d. 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