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A27351	The legacy of a dying mother to her mourning children being the experiences of Mrs. Susanna Bell, who died March 13, 1672 : with an epistle dedicatory by Thomas Brooks ...	Bell, Susanna, d. 1672.; Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1673 (1673)	Wing B1801; ESTC R4336	27,041	66

of men but was she not a secret and hidden Reliever of Gods distressed ones Did she not refresh the bowels of many with her hid treasures Will you all learn to write after this Copy Of Midus it is Fabled That whatever he torched he t●rned into Gol● 't is most sure That whatever the Hand of Charity toucheth it turneth it into Gold be it but a Cup of cold water nay Mat. 10.42 into Heaven it self cold water having not fuel to heat it cold water which costs not the charge of fire to warm it Salvian saith that Christ is Mendicorum maximus the greatest Beggar in the world as one that shareth in all his Saints necessities Heb. 6.10 and will never forget the charitable person the merciful person Cicero could say That to be rich is not to possess much but to use much And Seneca could rebuke them that so studied to increase their wealth that they forgot to use it I have read of one Euagrius a rich man that lying upon his Death-bed being importuned by Synesius a pious Bishop to give somthing to charitable uses he yielded at last to give three hundred Pounds but first took Bond of the Bishop that is should be repayed him in another world before he had been one day dead He is said to have appeared to the Bishop delivering in the Bond cancelled as thereby acknowledging what was promised was made good according to that promise Matth. 19.29 And every one that hath forsaken houses c. Fourthly imitate her in keeping off from the sins and pollutions of the day wherein you live was she not one of Gods mourning ones for the abominations of the time Ezek. 9.4 6. Jer. 9.1 2. 2 Pet. 2.7 8 Psal 119.53.136.158 did not mens abomination in worship and practice vex grieve and wound her poor soul was it not her great work to live by no Rule to walk by no Rule to worship God by no Rule but by that which she dared to die by and to stand by in the great day of our Lord Jesus she knew John 4.23 24. Phil 3.3 2. that worshipping of God in spirit and in truth was the great worship the only worship that God stood upon she did not she durst not worship God according to the Customes of the World or the Traditions of the Elders or the Examples of great men she knew that that Worship that is not according to the Word is 1. Worshipping of devils and not God Those that depart from the true Worship of God and set upon false worship forbidden by God do not serve God by it but the devil Re● 9.2 2 Chron. 11.15 Amos 5.25 26. 1 Cor. 10.20 1 Tim. 4.1 Ezek. 8.3 what boasting soever they make as you may evidently see by comparing the Scriptures in the Margent together She knew 2. That that worship that is not according to the Word is an Image of Idolatry which of all sins is most provoking to a holy jealous God The Devil saith Synesius is as glad to be worshipped in an Idol as he was by Israel in a Calf Exod. 32 4. there being nothing that provokes God to destroy poor sinners more then this The learned Jews have a saying That no punishment ever happened to them in which there was not an ounce of the golden Calf grounding it on Exod. 32.34 Nevertheless I will remember to visit this sin upon them The Egyptians worshipped a pide Bull and whereas some thought it strange that when one died they should have another of the same colour Austin thinks that the devil to keep them in idolatry might do with their Cowes as Jacob did with the Ewes present to them when they conceived the likeness of such a Bull. Certainly Satan will use all the Art he can to keep poor sinners in ways of false worship it being the most compendious way that can be to engage God to destroy them She knew 3. That that worship that is not according to the Word hath destroyed the most flourishing Churches and Nations witness the Church and Nation of the Jews See Hos 8.5 6.7 Rev. 9.20 Ezek. 10.2 2 Chron. 7.20 the seven Churches of Asia and the whole Eastern parts of the Empire She knew 4. That that worship that is not according to the Word is a cursed worship It is the observation of one well skill'd in the Jewish Learning that there is only one verse in the Prophecy of the Prophet Jeremy which is written in the Chaldee tongue all the rest being in Hebrew and that is Jer. 10.11 So shalt thou say Cursed be the gods who made neither Heaven nor Earth Weems Christ Synag and this so done by the Holy Ghost on purpose that the Jews when they were in captivity and solicited by the Chaldeans to worship false gods might be able to answer them in their own language Cursed be your gods we will not worship them for they made neither Heaven nor Earth That God that made Heaven and Earth is only to be worshipped according to his own Word for he will own no worship but what he will accept of no worship but that he will bless no worship but that nor he will reward no worship but that Your glorified Mother kept close to instituted worship when she had health and strength in this it will be your wisdom to write after her ●air Copy But Fifthly imitate her in justifying of the Lord under the sharpest bitterest and most afflictive Providences and ●ispensations how often have I heard her to justifie the Lord Joll 13.26 even whilst he has been a writing bitter things against her when Gall and Wormwood hath been put into her Cup hath she not said with Ezra Ezra 9.13 Neh 9.33 God hath punished us less then our iniquities deserve and with Nehemiah Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us for thou hast done right but we have done wickedly and with ob Job 1.21 The Lord gives and the Lord takes and blessed be the Name of the Lord. And with Daniel Dan. 9.14 The Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doth You know what afflictive Providences she has been under both in respect of her person and in the loss of her husband and in those variety of weaknesses that attended her body and in the great losses that some of you have met with in this world Besides several other exercises yet how has she commonly been taken up in blessing of God and in justifying of God and also in admiring the goodnesse of God that it has been no worse with her and here I am satisfied she would not have exchanged her gains by afflictions for all the gains of this world Stars shine brightest in the darkest night Torches are better for the beating Grapes come not to the proof till they come to the Press Spices smell sweetest when pounded Young Trees root the faster for shaking Vines are the better for bleeding

for another world and not according to their worldly Greatness or Grandeur Pro. 12.26 Pro. 28.6 Did she not preferr a holy Job upon the dunghil before a wicked Ahab upon the Throne Luke 16. did she not set a higher price upon a gracious Lazarus though cloathed with Rags and full of sores then upon a rich and wretched Dives though he were cloathed gloriously and fared sumptuously every day was not her love to the Saints universal to one Christian as well as another to all as well as any to poor Lazarus as well as to rich Abraham Phil. 1.21 1 Pet. 2.17 to a despised Job as well as to an admired David to an afflicted Joseph as well as to a raised Jacob to a despised disciple as well as to an exalted Apostle did she not love to see the Image and Picture of her heavenly Father though hung in never so poor a frame and in never so mean a cottage without peradventure he that loves one Saint for the Image of God that is stampt upon him he cannot but fall in love with every Saint that bears the lovely Image of the Father upon him And O that this might be all your mercy to write after this Copy that she has set before you But Eighthly imitate her in her constancy in the ways of God with a notwithstanding all the hazards stormes dangers and troubles that has attended those ways especially in these latter days of Apostacy wherein God had cast her lot She was not a Reed shaken with every wind she was unchangeable in changeable times whatever stormes beat upon the ways of God or the people of God she remained fixt Psal 44. Ps 119.112 firm and immoveable in the ways of the Lord and doubtless such souls as are truly good they will be good in the worst of times and in the worst of places and amongst the worst of persons Principles of grace and holiness 1 John 3.9 Hos 6.4 they are lasting yea everlasting they are not like the Morning-cloud nor the early dew Let times and places and persons be what they will a sincere Christian will not dishonour his God nor change his Master nor quit his ways nor blemish his Profession nor wound his conscience to sleep in a whole skin or to preserve his safety or to secure his liberty and was it not thus with her in the most trying times An upright man is a right man So 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jashar is rendred by the Septuagint Judg. 17.6 Gen. 6.9 Rev. 14.4 Rev. 3.4 Job 17.9 He is one that won't be bowed or bent by the sinful customes or examples of the times and places where he lives Let the times be never so dangerous licentious superstitious idolatrous and erroneous yet a sincere plain-hearted Christian will keep his ground and hold on in his way as might be made evident by a cloud of witnesses Heb. 12.1 Ps 125.1 2. The Lawrel keeps its freshness and greenness in the Winter-season a sincere Christian is semper idem let the wind and the world and the times turn which way they will a sincere soul for the main wi●l still be the same He will be like Mount Sion which cannot be removed he will stand his ground and hold his own under all changes he is like the Philosophers good man Tetra-gones four-square cast him where you will like a Dye he falls always square and sure so ●●st a plain-hearted Christian where you will into what company you will and into what condition you will yet still he will fall sure and square for God and godliness let the times be never so sad nor never so bad yet a plain-hearted Christian will still keep close to God and his ways and will rather let all go then let his God go or his Religion go or his Integrity go or Ordinances go Lapidaries tell us of the Chelydonian stone that it will retain its vertue and lustre no longer then it is enclosed in Gold a fit Emblem of an unsound heart who is only good while he is enclosed in golden prosperity safety and felicity An unsound Christian like green Timber shrinks when the Sun of Persecution shines hot upon him the heat of fiery trials cools the courage of unsound Christians but a sincere plain-hearted Christian is like a massie vessel of Gold that keeps its own shape and figure at all times in all places and in all companies when one of the Ancient Martyrs was greatly threatned by his Persecutors he replied There is nothing saith he of things visible nothing of things invisible that I fear I will stand to my Profession of the Name of Christ and contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the Saints come on 't what will in these evil days wherein multitudes have turned aside into crooked paths She kept close and constant to the ways of the Lord so long as her natural strength lasted And O that all you her children would make it your business in this as well as in other things to write after your Mothers Copy remembring that if you are not faithful unto death you shall never receive a Crown of life Rev. 2.10 And that if you do not continue to the end that is in well-doing you shall never be saved Matth. 24.13 But Ninthly Imitate her in her high valuations of Jesus Christ what low and little things were her own graces Phil. 3.8 9 10. Mat. 13.44 duties services and mercies when she cast her eye upon Christ when she fell into discourses of Christ Christ was her Summum bonum chiefest good What was all the world to a sight of Christ to a day yea to an houres communion with Christ They are no believers that don't value Jesus Christ above all the world 1 Pet. 2.7 and all things in the world for unto every one that believes he is precious most precious only precious and for ever precious They value him 1 Above their lusts Gal. 5.24 They can pluck out right eyes for Christ and cut off right hands for Christ 2. They value him above the world Witness David Psal 73.25 and Daniel Dan. 6. and the disciples Matth. 19.27 and Moses Heb. 11.25 26. and the primitive Christians and the Martyrs of a later date 3. They value him above their lives Rev. 12.11 They loved not their lives unto the death So Paul Acts 20.22 23 24. Acts 21.13 So the Martyrs 4. They value him above all their Relations If all the World were a lump of Gold said the Dutch Martyr and in my hands to dispose of I would give it to live all my days with my Wife and Children in a Prison but Christ and his Truth is dearer to me then all You have thousands of such instances upon record 5. They value him above their goods Heb. 10.34 Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your Goods So has many thousands since under sharp persecutions 6 They value him above all natural spiritual and acquired excellencies