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A46836	The exceeding riches of grace advanced by the spirit of grace, in an empty nothing creature, viz. Mris. Sarah Wight lately hopeles and restles, her soule dwelling far from peace or hopes thereof : now hopefull, and joyfull in the Lord, that hath caused light to shine out of darknes ... / published for the refreshing of poor souls, by an eye and ear-witness of a good part thereof, Henry Jesse ...	Jessey, Henry, 1603-1663.; Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.	1647 (1647)	Wing J688; ESTC R18578	106,320	192

handmaid for divers yeeres and was no small occasion of trouble to the said superior afterwards 2. Branch The like Caution it may be also to all Inferiours to wives to children to servants flock and subjects against fearing man that shall dye more then the living God and obeying man rather then God by doing speaking or acting of any thing to please men that the word or conscience shew to be displeasing to God Lest for your so doing your terrors and punishment may be as great or greater then those of this hand-maid for the like offence Yea lest God tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you Psal. 50.22 and lest both you and your Commander repent when it is too late I heard of a Maid in Suffolk whose Parents feared she should grow too pure and precise and on a Lords day evening the Mother bid her do some work which she judging unlawfull or at least doubting of entreated to be spared in it but her Father threatning to beat her she did it and the next morning she kept her bed and so did shee many weeks together upon it being terrified in Conscience for her preferring man before God being unfit for work it repented her Parents and her self too too late I never could hear that she got any comfort Also a young Gentleman being a scholar of whose deep despairing of ever being saved and of his strong perswasion that he should be damned Master Case Master Whitakers Master Chr. Love and the Relator with many other Preachers and Christians had notice and sad observation His Father a Gentleman in the Countrey brought him up to London to procure some to speak to him and to pray for him having him present with them This Christian duty was solemnly performed by those before-named and by others in several solemn daies of Fasting and Prayer The beginning and chief first moving cause of those so sad perswasions was because of the Oaths and Subscriptions imposed by the Governours in the Vniversity which he submitted to with the multitude that stuck not at them though he had his Conscience warning him yet thus doubtingly or against his Conscience he yeilded to the Ordinances of his Superiours But his thus doing brought great sorrow on his own soul and on his Parents and friends that sympathized with him Amongst others the Relator could more sympathize herein then many others in regard himselfe had been much afflicted in Spirit for his Vniversity Oaths and Subscriptions and yet had found though his sin abounded therein it being done with a staggering or worse with a relucting Conscience yet the n Rom. 5. 20. Grace of God had the more abounded and been magnified towards him in manifesting that he had forgiven so soul and hainous sins After all meanes used with this young Gentleman many severall daies he returned home more wounded and terrified because so many had taken so much pains with him and he was no whit better and therefore far the worse in his account as he shew'd after his returne home in many sad Letters in black lines to the Relator and because he could write no other language but the language of hell as he said he therefore would cease to weary him with it And so he ceased writing And although since that time the Lord hath given him hopes of his love in pardoning his sins and transgressions yet these sad examples and many moe of like nature that might be produced may suffice for a Warning to Heads and Governours in Vniversities and Corporations and to all Magistrates Officers Masters Husbands and Parents all Superiours whatsoever to beware of laying on heavie burdens by o Seeing OATHS should be given and taken onely in such cases and in such ritae and forme as is warranted by the word of God viz. in truth righteousness and judgement Ier. 4 2. Revel 10. 5 6 Oaths Subscriptions or Commands on any persons whose Consciences when they are distressed they are never able to relieve or release from Hellish continual fears and torments Psal. 50. 22. Matth. 27.3 4. To be an end ef all strife Hebrewes 6. 16. Because of Oaths so frequent not warranted this land mourneth Ier. 23. 10 Oh that Reformamation were herein as in all things else And for all Persons to keep the heart and Conscience above a Prov. 4.23 Hebrew Luk. 12.4 5 Act. 5.29 Luk. 14.26 27. 2 Tim. 4 12 13. Heb. 10.26 27. all keeping Fearing God above all Fiftly Learn hence to fly Censuring the most vile and desperate of all sinners Say not they and Reprobates though they are damn'd already in their own perswasion as this Party was So was M ris Honywood M ris Drake c. and yet obtained mercie Sixtly Be not weary therefore of using all good means for help to such as are hopeless and desparate as these parties were The Lord may come in the last hour He is not weary nor b Isa. 40.28 faint in seeking your good daily However your c 1 Cor. 15. 58. labour of love is accepted of the Lord. Seventhly Limit not the Holy One of Israel any outward means whatsoever seeing he gave the Party Faith and glorious joy in himself when she was struck deaf and blind that till that deafness was as one in hell already But rather believe the Proverb Jehovah ijreh Iehovah will be seen in the Mount d Gen. 22. 14. Eightly Exalt the Lord the Creator e Isa. 2. 11. Psal 8.1.2 Act. 3. 12. alone and not the Creature Say not What a one is shee But What a f Mic. ● 18 God is he in all reading and speaking of her or to her For the Lord is jealous of his glory and will not g Isa. 42.8 give it to an image of him Ninthly Behold here what 's the most effectuall means of humbling the heart and melting it and of furthering faith and love and what 's the greatest support and comfort in the greatest troubles and burdens about sin namely the discovery of the abundant h Eph. 2.4 Rom. 4.5 Grace of God in justifying the ungodly in giving his own Son to reconcile i Ro. 5. 6. 10 Isa. 53.5 enemies and the love k Eph. 3.19 Eph. 5.25 Ezek. 16.6 ●2 of Christ whilst we were in our sins and had nothing in us that is lovely that yet he so loved us as that he gave himself for us Tenthly and lastly Let all such as read or heare these wonderfull dealings of the Lord herein Consider how it is with their own soules First If the Lord hath sealed thee by his Spirit to the day of Redemption in the Spirit magnifie God and feed on him and on his Sons love daily in the Gospel promises and priviledges And the more thou hast received be the more humble l 1 Cor. 4.7 and thankfull to God and serviceable to him in m Is. 116.12 the Power of his Son and the more pittifull and tender to others n Tit. 3.2 ● considering thy self o Gal. 6.1 Secondly If thou hast no experience of such kinde of speakings of the Spirit to thee or of such maner or measure of Faith as here is mentioned both of which the Relator wanting waits for 1. Do not decry or cry down what thou knowest not a. Envy not others 3. Be not dejected because more is given to others then to thee But blesse the Lord in his various dispensations that best knoweth what kinde and measure is meetest for all Mat. 25.15 Eph. 4.7 16.4 Pray for more pourings out of his Spirit upon his sons and daughters as he hath promised to do in the last dayes Act. 2. 17. 33.38 39 John 7.38 39. Thirdly If thou art of a sorrowfull spirit by reason of sin fearing because it is so and so with thee that there never was an effectuall work upon thy heart finding such a power of sinne and corruption such dulnes coldnes hardnes of heart lazines filthines pride self-ishnes or the like basenesse Doth not thou so much backward in toiling to make out the former worke and still questioning about it and how bad thou hast been and art since as forward at that abundant GRACE herein magnified and ADVANCED to them that yet are a far off without God ungodly enemies to him to unfitted unprepared ones to the CHIEFEST OF SINNERS Fourthly If thou hast desires after full enjoyment of Jesus Christ and some hopes that he is thine but no assurance of it Blesse the Lord and be thankful to him that hath done so much for thee that did more desire sin and vanity But rest not in such desires but seek and presse hard for assurance And lastly If thou hast long sought and waited for assurance that Christ is thine and yet hast not attain'd it 1. Beware of murmuring and quarrelling against God and by this Example seeing how grieve to her son her murmuring hath been 2. Despair not because she obtain'd mercy that was so deep in that sin 3. Wait humbly and patiently on the Lord that hides himself that thou maist still seek and the more prize his mercy when at last he shal manifest it to thy soule For therefore will the LORD wait that hee may be gracious to you and therefore will hee bee exalted that hee may have mercy upon you For the LORD is a God of judgement BLESSED are all they that wait for him Isa. 30.18 A power to wait is also from him that bids you wait and promiseth that they that murmured shall learn doctrine Isa. 29.24 And to put his law in our heart Heb. 8.10 Namely to enable us to what hee commands us THE GOD OF ALL GRACE perfect the good work he hath begun in thee Phil. 1.6 To him be all glory by Christ Jesus * Greek to the age of ages Eph. 3.21 AMEN From July 7. till the end of Septemb. 1647. she remained at High-gate hoping then to returne to LONDON having eaten no bread nor flesh at all since March last and but very little of any other sustenance through the weaknesse of her stomach and yet looks as well as formerly At the writing hereof in this second Edition September 27 1647. H. J. FINIS

but I understood not what I read till now that I had the Teaching of the Spirit He is worth the waiting for him There is a blessing pronounced to such Blessed are all that wait for him I did not wait patiently for him I was weary and could wait no longer But he is not weary He faileth not He lets the Creature goe his way for a time for his own good to humble him more and shew his mercy the more He hath him in a chaine and the enemy in a chaine So he hath the soule to dispose of it My times are in thy hands that he might magnifie mercy indeed and free love indeed No soule ever was as I have been I am sure of it If all the sins of all sinners that I read of or heard talk of were in one it were all short of me And yet t is his goodnesse that such a one as I should obtaine mercy I wish all may take heed of * The like expressions were by H.T. another in London in sicknesse Iuly 1. 1646. censuring the vilest creatures that are seeing the Lord hath done thus for me the vildest Creature but pitty them with teares of bloud One asked her how long it was since her hearing was restored to her She answered A few days agoe I asked if M r Simson and M r Jesse would come to praise the Lord with me and I found it was restored at that instant Part of a former Conference between her and another young Gentlewoman M ris A. whilst both were in despaire They met in Lawrence Pountney to hear the Lecture before it began M ris Sarah saw one walk about and about in a sad habit and went to her and asked her how shee did shee answered In as sad a condition as ever was any M ris Sarah None is in a Condition like to mine So they sate together and after that they went together and spake further of their sad conditions each counting their own state the worse Another day M ris A. said The Lord knows that knows all things that I would rather then all the world that I were in your condition M ris Sarah W. answ But if you knew how desperate my condition is you would be afraid to change place with me for you know not my sad sorrows None in the world can compare with mine Except you would desire to be in hell you would not desire to be in my condition M ris A. I must be damn'd M ris S. I am damn'd already from all eternitie to all eternitie it s not to doe but t is done already M ris A. I was a great professor but I was but an hypocrite and an hypocrites hope shall perish M ris S. I have bin an hypocrite a revolter a backslider M ris A. I know it shall be well with you M ris S. As well as it was with Judas who repented and hang'd himselfe which I must do before I shall be free from these torments At their parting for a farewell M ris A. said I think I shall perish ere I see you againe Yet the Lord spared her and shee came to her againe and they were somewhat gladded to see each other againe that could be sensible each of the others condition To sadded soules some joy it is to have companions Shee had another Conference April 24. 1647. since shee was comforted with another Maid being in deep despair that had heard of her former despair and her late comforts The words were to this effect Maid I am darkened in understanding and I am tempted to beleeve there is no God nor no Creation from God M ris Sarah W. ans So was it with mee I was so tempted The very Creation shews there is a God a Rom. 1. 19 20. and yet I could not beleeve it Maid said Some kept a fast for me yesterday and I remain as I was still and therefore I am the more terrified that no prayers shal be heard for me M ris Sarah W. So was it with me I was so terrified when there was no answer of prayers for me when in my dayes were kept for me But I was rather worse then better For I knew no prayers should be heard for a damned Creature I concluded I was rejected But the Lords time is the best time to give an answer b Psal. 88. 9. 16. Maid I have resisted the Spirit The Lord hath spoken mercy to me but I have resisted it M ris Sarah W. The day of Sealing was not come then you could not resist that work when he comes with power c Psal. 110. 3. els you would make God weaker then you God would bring you this way about and hides himselfe when you have grieved the Spirit that you may seek him the more earnestly and that he may give you the surer comforts and to make himselfe a glorious Name as in Isa. 63. 10 11. They rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit therefore he fought against them as an enemy Then he remembred the dayes of old when he led them by the right hand of Moses dividing the water before them to make himselfe an everlasting Name That led them through the deep So through the deepest troubles till the Spirit of the Lord causeth them to rest to make himselfe a glorious Name Though you have rebeld and vex'd his holy Spirit what could you doe more yet saith he I have carried thee all the dayes of old I le be your guide even to death Maid It s not possible that such a one as I should find mercy I look every moment to be swallowed up M ris Sarah W. But Gods thoughts are not your thoughts nor Gods wayes your wayes d Isa. 55. 8. In the Wildernesse Israel murmured yet the Rock followed them not they the Rock but went from the Rock yet the Rock followed them and that Rock is Christ e 1 Cor. 10. 4. So this Rock will follow you in this your Wildernesse Maid It s not possible I finde such a wicked heart that if it were not for feare of wrath or punishment I should fall into all wickednesse M ris Sarah W. Now you shew you beleeve there is a God You are not worse then Peter that so denied and forswore him against his Conscience f Mar. 14. 71. or then Mary Magdalen that had seven Devils was full of the Devill g Chap. 16. 9. The Theefe on the Crosse Persecuting Paul that persecuted Christ and my selfe was so injurious and blasphemous The chiefe of sinners yet these found mercy And what can you be more You can be but a sinner and the chiefe of sinners He dyed for such He is therefore cald Jesus because he shall save his people from their sinnes What people those that were not a people these he cals and these he saves Maid I am no better for going to the means and am ready to neglect all M ris Sarah W. I was so terrified I was not able

be neer in himselfe and is not this to be admir'd He first finds the soule and then the Spouse saith Shee had found him whom her soule loveth He destroys selfe righteous selfe and all selfe that he alone might have the glory He leaves nothing for the Creature to boast in It s his Wisedome that he alone might have the Glory Turne thou me and I shall be turned Heale me and I shall be healed Convert me and I shall be converted So many soule hath found by experience One told her It s said a Ezek. 18. 31 32. Turne yee why will yee dye O house of Israel Shee answered It s Christ that comes with a power in the Word and turnes them And the Church knew her own unsufficiency to returne and therefore shee saith Turne me and I shall be turned b Jer. 31. 18. Behold he comes leaping over the mountaines and skipping over the hills He makes rough places plaine and raiseth up valleyes c Luk. 3. 3. It s easie for him to pardon mountainous sins multitudes of sins as one sin He came to me and pardon'd me though my sins were as the stars in Heaven for multitude He hath delivered me from the hard bondage wherein I was made to serve He appear'd to me in the dark and thick Cloud a thick Cloud indeed One beam of the Sun of righteousnesse dispeld it in a moment What a sinfull creature was I I never read of any that was in so desperate a condition as I And he hath delivered me from all my feares not from one or two but from all my feares Therefore I desire high and low rich and poore to magnifie the Lord and to praise his Name in my behalfe that he hath looked on the low and base estate of his handmaid His works praise him his Saints blesse him Ps. 145. 10. Especially the work of the New Creation in the soule I could beleeve nothing before but that there was no Hell but in this life I had no rest no rest in hearing nor reading and then he made me rest on himselfe d Mat. 11.28 And though I was weary and faint He was neither weary nor faint His wrath is but for a moment but of his goodnes and mercy there is no end He layes the foundation and he builds up It s I the Lord doe all He bare me and carried me and did at last deliver me This Rock followed me though I was not aware of him The Sun of righteousnesse arose with healing under his wings and the day-star arose in my heart e 2 Pet. 1. 19. It was a dark heart till he arose and then he made it light Christ suffered for me He needed not to suffer and be tempted but to succour such as mee that was tempted f Heb. 2. 18. I never had rest till I saw my selfe crucified with Christ g Gal. 2.20 and that my sins pierced him and there came out of his side a fountaine of bloud for the guilt of sin and not onely so but a fountaine of water to wash away the filth of sin to wash away all my filth There 's enough in him not onely to justifie but also to sanctifie h Joh. 5. 6. The life that I now live is by the faith of the Son of God who hath loved me and given himselfe for me though before I was an unbeleever and unholy and unthankfull and a murmurer and every way sinfull yet now hath he lov'd me and washed me And it not be to be prized and admir'd of all his Saints And his Name to be had in everlasting remembrance He proclaim'd his Name to be Mercifull and Gracious abundant in Goodnes and in Truth and that to sinners to the chiefe of sinners May 4. 1647. The same day at evening when some came to see her M r Iessey and M ris Palmer wife of the late Minister there in Lawrence Pountney who with M r Palmer had known her soule in affliction One telling her M ris Palmer was glad to heare of Gods goodnesse to her M ris Sarah said I desire that M r Palmer and you and all Gods people may praise and magnifie the Lord for his goodnes in looking down on the i* Lu. 1.48 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so Mat. 23.12 base estate of his handmaid M ris Palmer said After what manner did your comforts come in to you M ris Sarah My earthly tongue cannot expresse what I felt it s beyond expression I was in such extremitie that either deliverance must come or I must perish I was able so bold no longer Then I fell into a Trance This was April 6. at night I lay in visions And in that time the Spirit of God was powr'd in upon mee And then Iesus Christ was presented to me as crucified for my sins I saw it and my selfe crucified with him and when I saw a glimpse of his love then I mourned bitterly for my sins and never truely sorrowed for sin till then I never mourn'd for sin as sin before But then I mourn'd bitterly k Zach. 12.10 And now praise the Lord with me and let us magnifie his Name together M ris Palmer Are you nod desirous to enjoy your inheritance M ris Sarah Yes But Christ hath taught mee by what I enjoy to submit to his will My terrors so long were nothing to one moment of mercies All the miseries I endured though they were very great were nothing to one glimpse of his mercy M ris Palmer How are your thoughts acted what are they acted upon M ris Sarah A living active Christ in a dead passive creature makes it act to God l Gal. 2. 20. For a farewell shee said Rejoyce in the Lord with me Mention was made before that from the 27 th of March to the 21. of April in those 24. dayes shee had not eaten at all and her drink had been onely two or three or four little cups of fair water once in two or three or in four dayes together Some having spoken of this others have counted it a forgery or pretence By such injections the Enemy would obscure and darken the Works of the Great God of Heaven But many Godly Ministers and Gracious Saints that know M ris Wight and the Maid and this Daughter of Abraham have ground to judge they truely feare the Lord and that they dare not lye but abhorre lying Now the Relator by conference with them hath it from their own mouths that from the time of her ceasing to be in Trances and to be deaf and blind which was April 19. to the day of the writing of this part of the Relation being May 5. shee hath not taken so much sustenance as shee did take in that time from March 27. to April 19. And from May 5. till Iune 11. being the longest day in the yeare lesse then that from April 19. The power of God appearing therein wonderfully to the beholders in upholding

the more low in her own eyes and having the more melted and humbled her soul by the greatnes of his goodnes towards such an one which frame the Lord continue to the end The Occasion of the meeting was declared Many of the most materiall of the former passages of the Lords speciall providence being related in a way to exalt the LORD alone and not a worthlesse Creature Praises were then rendred to the Name of the Lord which is exculted * Neh. 9. 5. above all blessing and Praise In speciall with respect to this mercy to soule and body and to the Glorious Attributes of God manifested herein Some Instructions were also given for some direction and furtherance herein both to the Party her selfe and to her Mother and to all present Amongst others some from 2 Chron. 32. 25. But Hezekiah rendred not againe according to the benefit done unto him for his heart was lifted up therefore there was wrath upon him Whence was observed 1. That the mercies of God require rendrings unto God rendring the glory thereof to him 2. That the measure of rendring back that the Lord looks should be endeavoured is according to the benefit done to them 3. That all neglect of thanks or rendring againe springs from pride or the lifting up of the heart that 's the root 4. That the Lords choice servants are very subject the fearefull sinnes of pride and unthankefulnesse 5. That the wrath of God is against pride and unthankefulnes The Lord takes it heavily when his people walk proudly or unthankfully The first was then insisted upon which being opened confirmed and applied and Praises further rendred with prayer suitable there was then a time of bodily refreshing in a cheerfull manner after the middle of the day eating and drinking of what was sweet and pleasant a Neh. 8. 10. that it might not be as a day of Fasting b Joel 2.12 14. This was but short and moderate that it might be no hinderance but rather a furtherance to the main work then intended Having eaten and blessed the Lord further Instructions were given from the words of our Lord Jesus to his owne Disciples in Luke 10.20 In this rejoyce not that the Spirits are made subject to you but rather rejoyce that your Names are written in Heaven Where is held out to us 1. That evil Spirits have been made subject to Christ Disciples and so they shall be c Mar. 16. 17. d 1 Cor. 6. 3. 2. That the Prime cause of rejoycing is that one knows his Name is written in Heaven He is known there what he is he is of esteem there hee hath interest there and happinesse there 3. That even the Disciples of Iesus Christ are prone to be carnall or fleshly in rejoycing and not so spirituall as is meet Praises with prayer again and again being rendred in the Name of Jesus Christ and those for whom nothing is prepared beeing remembred Neh. 8. 10. and Conclusion being made the Assembly in convenient time was dismissed many being greatly refreshed in the Lord who had thus exalted his great and glorious Name in causing LIGHT thus to shine out of DARKNES restoring her soul from so deep despair and thus wonderfully raising up her body that had been long to the eye of reason ready to see corruption And as her Brother M r Ionathan Vaughan before her sowls enlargement had writ from Oxford confidently that Iesus Christ would deliver her as is touched before in pag. 5. So he having been brought to London by a good providence just at that time to see it done as pag. 25. and 29. when he was returned to Oxford before the end of April 1647. He writ thence That he made no doubt but the Lord would restore her body also to its perfect health though then it drew not to death His words were these Most dear Mother I am constrained to confess with thankfulnesse that it was an Almighty Providence indulgent to me which brought me home to you in a most seasonable and acceptable time in which have both heard and seen the goings forth of the Love towards my choice and precious Sister to be in love mercy and peace The strong man is dispossessed by stronger Christ the hope of Glory now reigning in her I make no doubt but the Great Physician the good Samaritan who hath poured out into her wounded Conscience his wine and oyle will restore her body to its perfect health whereby shee may be able in the land of the living to declare the Riches of the free Grace and love of God to poor sinners I came safe to Oxford I praise God c. Iune 30 being the Monethly Fast-day she went to Great Alhallows London it being neer Lawrence Pountney and heard Mr Io. Simpson there hee having known her soul in adversity was desired to have helped there in the Day of Praises but was hindered by his Preaching that day elsewhere M r. Prime the Minister of Lawrence Pountney had an impediment that hindered him also where he was desired After the Fast-days Sermons were ended her heart was drawn out to goe to two women that were in deepe despaire for refreshing them by the comforts she had received being greatly affected with their sad conditions And the day following being Iuly 1. she so went to another woman in like condition one of the former women and this having been with her severall times of late since her soul was comforted By speaking much to them and by going so farre about a mile to and fro this day and about as farre the day before shee was much wearied and spont so that her body was in some weaknesse for some dayes after And this was the more encreased by the resortings to her daily of many in London who would draw out expressions from her to her further spending of her small strength Hence that shee might bee the more retired and recover strength for further service among the little ones that are afflicted c. her tender Mother hath procured for her a place in the Countrey neer a friend there a few miles distant from London The LORD hath given her to enjoy much of himself in the City as much may he give hath he given her in the Countrey We cannot leave her better then in these enjoyments which are a Christians ALL IN ALL. Before that her retire into the Conntrey the night before Iuly 4. which was the First day of the week called the Lords day it being but three dayes before her removall into the Countrey shee had a Dream or Vision which left so deep an impression on her Spirit that after she arose she wrote it down and related it to her Mother and to the Maid by whom the Relator hearing of it asked her about it and desired to see the writing The substance of it was this On Saturday-night last I was in a Dream in great terror and so quaked that the bed did shake under me I