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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31097	A reviving cordial for a sin-sick despairing soul in the time of temptation the same being an extract of the unworthy authors experience of the particular following ... / by Ja. Barry ...	Barry, James.	1699 (1699)	Wing B971; ESTC R16318	57,560	144

were Communicated to me in such a manner and measure as unspeakably passeth my Frail Capacity to tell forth or express Which occasioned me to call to Mind my former Wondering and Musing while going on in the way of my Ignorant and Blind Zeal in Serving God before the Spirit of Bondage visited me to think what the Joy of the Holy Ghost should mean Whenever I did Read of the Joy of the Holy Ghost Or did hear any mention thereof Joy of the Holy think I Lord what is that What is the meaning of it I cannot tell or apprehend what this Joy of the Holy Ghost should be Sixthly The Spirit of Adoption was given me whereby I was enabled to come to God's Throne of Grace and with a Holy and Humble Boldness to call him my God and my Father The Instinct in the New Creation wrought by the God of all Grace in me led me to God as the Fountain of all Good The Spirit given me putting into my Mouth Words of Solemn Thanks and Praise for the Greatness and Strangeness of my Salvation To my Knees I betook me Adoreing and Worshipping with my Spirit That Holy Jehovah Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity Father Son and Holy Ghost the True and Eternal God Whom all the time of my Blind Zeal and during the time of my Bondage State I had so Ignorantly Worshipped I was now and never before Enabled Jacob like to catch hold of and to Wrestle with a Reconciled God The Greatness Holiness and Infiniteness of his Majesty which before I knew him in Christ terrified and affrightned me with a Witness Animated and Encouraged me in Praying to him It is not to be Exprest in Words with what Alacrity and Chearfulness of Spirit I approached the Throne of Grace and with what Enlargedness and inward Meltings of Heart and Soul I called on God When I did but mention this My God and my Father Oh! what Ravishment of Soul did I Experimentally feel Overflowing and Drowning my very Spirit To my Bed I went with a Glad Ravish'd Heart Christ knows The Burning Inflammation which the Horror and Bondage of my Wounded Despairing Conscience caused in my Body was gon and my Bodys Disposition to Crookedness thought the sinking weight which lay on my Spirit within was Instantly Rebuked and caused to Retreat by the Glad and Joyful Tideings of Gospel Peace which that Night took up its Lodging within me Succeeding and Powerfully Supplanting that Spirit of Bondage which made me so hopeless and as I thought Past all possibility of escapeing Hell No sooner was I stretched in my Bed but Swooning and Fainting Fits of Love Sickness seized me I was Inwardly and Spiritually so Apprehensive of the Mysteriousness of Christs Incarnation his Humbling himself even to Death his lying Confined as a Prisoner in the Grave and his being Raised therefrom again his Ascending to Heaven from whence he came and his Sitting down at the Fathers Right Hand to Enter on the Work of Intercession with God And that as my Surety and Mediator and all for me that I verily thought my Body was near its Dissolution A thing which the clear and certain assurance given me of my being an Adopted Son of God made me even Long and Pant after My Thoughts and Meditations were now wholly Employed about Christ and that Blessed Change which I Sensibly felt was Past on me The sweet and Soul Ravishing Communion I had with Father Son and Holy Ghost was to me instead of Meat Drink and Sleep and that the most Pleasing and Satisfactory that I ever Enjoyed The Actings and Sufferings of Christ in the assumed Nature for me were so realized and the Virtue and Reconciling Efficacy of the same so sensibly set home on my Wounded and Bleeding Soul by the Spirit of Adoption that I thought I had the Person of Christ claspt in my Arms in the Bed Oh! The sweet Intercourses which by the Operation of the Holy Ghost passed between Precious Jesus and my Languid Soul Then was I made to know Experimentally the meaning of Rev. 3. 20. While I was Wakeing I was entertained with strange variety of Interlocution or Discourse which Passed between Christ and me which did Explain and Unfold to me that in Prov. 6. 22. During this I continued in such a Melting Frame that the very Pillow-beer under my Head was as if dipt in a River through the great abundance of Tears of unconceivable Joy which the Sense and feeling of Christ's Love constrained me to shed When I found a necessity of turning in my Bed I could not turn without my Dearly Beloved and Incomparably Loving Jesus in my Arms with me When I Slumber'd and Slept I was soon visited with most Joyful and Ravishing Dreams of God Christ Holy Ghost the Glory of Heaven and the unutterable Bliss and Felicity of those Souls who are Reconciled to God by Christ This was very Frequent and common when Sleep came on me after I had been Sealed in Beleiving And albeit I never durst to heed or mind Nocturnal Dreams yet they have sometimes had such a strange Influence on me that I have felt such delightful Joy and Comfort in my Spirit that sometimes I have been at a stand to think whether I had been asleep or awake It was a frequent Practice with me for some considerable time how long I cannot now Remember to arise in my Bed when I awaked out of My sleep to Bend my Knees and lift up my Eyes Hands and Heart to heaven to Land Praise and Magnify Father Son and Holy Ghost for the greatness and strangeness of my so unexpected and unlook'd for Salvation Being but the Night before yea and every Morning ready to Drop into final Desparation of ever being Saved Oh! What a loss was I at in my self Not knowing how sufficiently to Extol and Bless God for what had now befallen me I was even ready to quarrel with my self because of the narrowness and streightness of my Soul which hindred that I could not take in more of God and go out in more enlarged Expressions of Love and Praises to him For above six Months together I could neither lye down nor arise go down or come up Stairs pass in or out from one place to another but I strongly Conceited that I perceived a Guard of Angels attending my Person It cannot be Expressed with what scorn and abhorrence I look'd on the Pride and Gallantry of the Family where I Lived Their Changeable Suits of Rich and Glittering Apparel with their Choice Meats and sweet Musick with other delightful Pastimes I look'd on and accounted them but as Smoak and Dust The Titles of Worldly Honour wherein the Rest of my Relations did not a little Glory I accounted the same but a meer empty Vanity Oh! think I That my Poor Relations could see taste and feel what I do how would they disrelish and be ashamed and weary of these Poor perishing sensual Delights wherein they Place their Delight and

Case to be altogether desperate and hopeless It is not to be told by Tongue or Pen what Soul Conflicts and Agonies accompanied me whereever I went and whatever I set about Insomuch that they became frequent and Familiar to me in the very Night Visions The Devil Hell Damnation with the manner how the Wicked are handled in Hell were things very often presented to my Phancy in those short and Tormenting Slumbers whereinto I fell Yea I have sometimes Dreamt that I have seen and felt my self in Hell among the Damned tumbling and sinking down deeper and deeper feeling no Bottom Which hath occasioned me often to think of Job's Case of which he bitterly complains Job 7. 14. Then thou scarest me with Dreams and terrifiest me with Visions As it was with Job so it was with me when I had been even spent with the Conflicts and Temptations of the Day I thought sometimes and hoped at least that my Bed and Sleep would something ease and lessen my Pain and inward horror of Mind But wo and alass I was never wearier of the Fatigue of the Day than I was of the restless Tossings of the Night And that because of those Dreams and Visions which did as it were realize the things themselves to my Mind The consternation into which those Soul afflicting Visions did put me did often startle me out of my Sleep and caused in me restless longings for Day-light and that because I could not employ my Thoughts about any thing but what had a Tendency to augment my Despair and Misery My Thoughts running out and Fixing upon the Sins of my Youth thinking how many and Black they were Calling to Mind the Advances I had formerly made in the way of Strict and Zealous Religion and what Methods and Ways I had used to get Healing and Comfort and all in Vain and to no purpose And that because as I concluded God had given me up to be a Prey to the Enemy Sometimes in the Night when I could not Seep I heard Dogs howle and cry Pittiously in the Cold Weather this I apprehended was a lively Representing to the Ear the Skreeks and Roarings of the Damned in Hell Thus are they in those Eternal Flames and so shall I e're long Oh! That I could but see one glimps of the Morning Light But wo is me Deserted and Forsaken of God I shall be with the Damned in that place of Torment before Morning I shall never see Light Well when contrary to my foolish and wicked Thoughts and Expectations I had Lived to see the Morning Light I would then begin to Reason and Query with my self what I had so earnestly desired the Day for My Day of Grace is certainly past and gone there is no Mercy in store for such a one as I am All the helps and means of Grace which have had a Blessing attending them for special Good to others are attended with a Curse to me I am a Reprobate in vain it is to Pray any more or spend any more time in the Duties of Religion I have had sad experience of that under this Weight would I lye in my Bed concluding it altogether in vain to arise to engage in any Duty This Temptation so far prevailed that I did for a time Refrain Prayer and neglect other Duties of Religion From my concluding that I belonged not to God I found my self like a dead Log as if I had neither Life nor Soul left in me I expected certainly every Hour nay each Minute nay every Breath I fetch'd to be hurried away into the Place and Company of the Damned which caused in me such amazement and unusual horror that I would creep like a Condemned Malefactor into the Chimny corner among the Company there resolving to stay while any stay'd there On purpose to avoid and shun those Damned Spirits whom I expected every twinkling of an Eye to see Among my sad and despairing Thoughts concerning the ineffectualness of all Means and Duties to do me good there did come into my Thoughts a Passage which I had Read in some Author whose Name I have forgot it was this viz. That there are different Degrees of Torment among the Damned in Hell This thing I Fix'd my Thoughts on so long till I did hence Infer and Conclude that seeing there are different Degrees of Torment among the Damned in Hell and that the Damned exceed each other in the Degrees of Sin must necessarily be the Ground and Foundation of such a difference I concluded that the less Sin I committed the less would be my Torment in Hell Now every omission of Duty think I as well as doing what is Possitively forbidden in the Moral Law is a sin against God and therefore to make my Chain the lighter in Hell I am resolv'd against all known Sin And accordingly I fell to Works again perceiving in my self no other Motive or Inducement hereto but meerly expecting and hoping that by this means my being in Hell would be made more tollerable and easie than that of other Reprobates By this very thing it will easily be understood how near I was to final Despair in my own Thoughts and Apprehensions But among all the Combates and Conflicts I met with in the time of my Bondage none more Rackt and tormented my Spirit than those hideous and abominable Thoughts which by the Devil were like Fiery and Poysoned Arrows Injected into my Mind sometimes against the Holy Scriptures as that they were not the word of God but the Cunning and Politick Inventions of Men devised and contrived by some to Awe and keep others in Subjection This Temptation caused no small Anguish and Perturbation in my Mind but did not continue long for though sad and desperate I thought my Case to be I was enabled to Consider what a mighty Power went along with the Scriptures in discovering my most Secret Corruptions and putting my Conscience and Spirit into such fear of what would ensue in Case I did not cofess and forsake them This very Consideration viz. that the Word which discovered to me my vain and sinful thoughts and Condemn'd the ill Life I had led and that laid me under such Captivating horror and fear for the same must needs be the Word of an Infinite All-knowing and powerful God did foil and repel that Temptation No sooner had the first Temptation been over but a Second immediately ensues which was That there is no such thing as a God in Nature and that Mens Believing and Professing the Being of a God was more from use of Custom and from the strong Workings of Phancy than from any real Truth grounded on sensible Experience Oh! The sad Concussion this Temptation gave to the Powers of Nature I was so strangely influenced by it that I solemnly Prosess I felt my self sinking and and just tottering to fall off my Feet All over in a Muck Sweat with a strange Shivering and Trembling in all the Powers and Parts of Soul and Body But