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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44496	The efficacy of the true balme being a true relation of Mrs. Rose Warnes carriage, confession of her sins, and profession of her hope in the mercy of God, so far as it was known to an eye and ear witness of much of it after she was apprehended, and to the time of her death, to which she was adjudged April 1667. At Lin Regis in the county of Norfolk, upon strong presumption of her murther of her infant, and suffered April 14. With some means used for her help in her imprisonment. As also an in perfect [sic] yet pretty full relation of what she spake to the people at her execution. Published by John Horn of Lin Regis with his epistle and some verses on her.	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1669 (1669)	Wing H2800; ESTC R215355	31,398	101

her and tend most to his praise I endeavoured then and in my several visits before the Sessions to open and apply that gracious instruction encouragement and warning in Isa 50.10.11 Both shewing who is the Lords servant there spoken off whose voice is to be obeyed in all things and why called Gods servant what his voice is and why called the voice of the Lords servant and how to be obeyed in all things in all it saith or testifieth instructeth reproveth requireth and how therein God is truly feared and worshipped by us and likewise that such true fearers and worshippers of God may sometime walk in darkness and have no light and in what fence that is to be understood and lastly that when so yet they are not left wholly comfortless or as Orphans but bave the name of the Lord to trust in their God to stay upon to lean and depend on and wait for though they know not what to pray for as they ought in such cases not knowing what manner of deliverance may be best for them and tend most to his praise nor see any way of escape looking on the right hand or on the left or which way deliverance should come yet he that knows how to deliver doth also make intercession with God according to his will and hath the tongue of the learned and so knows how to speak a word in due season to him that is weary and is made perfect and infinitely fitted to all his work and office through sufferings this the rest this the refreshing But when we will be in such dayes of darkness kindling a fire and compassing our selves about with sparks we must expect this at the hands of the Lord to lye down in sorrow from them She much rejoyced in the word of the Lord which as she found she did eat and it was to her the joy and rejoycing of her heart yet was she not without some unsettlement and confusion or discomposure upon her spirit between fears and hopes as to this life being encouraged by many to hope for the saving of it and seek't to pervert the hope and perswasion given her in the mercy of God through Christ to an expectation and looking for it in saving her from this judgement and on the other hand by all the instruction and encouragement she met withal from the Name of the Lord and his grace in Christ led to rest and rejoyce in that which gave her hope in Death and therein willingly to resign and give up the hopes and desires of this life and to leave the matter to him quietly as accounting the hope of eternal life which God had given her in Christs infinite mercy and enough to sati-fie The Sessions being past and she condemned to death being found Guilty by the Jury upon little or no certain evidence of her guilt of the fact of which they found her guilty yet without any frowardness or prejudice I could perceive against the instruments she did acquaint herself with the Lord in it and accepted it as from his hand as a righteous and gracious punishment of her iniquity and was much more setled and composed in her spirits than before and so more fit to hear and receive the encouragements and instructions of his name as I found at my first visit of her immediately on her return from the Sessions when she had received her sentence When first I applyed my self to some reminding and further opening of the name of the Lord and particularly of that great instruction and encouragement in it that through and by the means of his death by which peace and atonement is made for sin and he impowered to forgive sins on earth he hath power to save from wrath to redeem from all iniquity to restore and bring back from all their wandrings to God to receive and make accepted on their turning to him in his gracious drawings even such as have sold themselves for their iniquities and for their transgressions are put away from suc● nighness fellowship mercy and good things as otherwise they might have enjoyed here and to this purpose be is Annoynted and consecrated for evermore having on his Ascention on high received gifts in the man not only for men as they are sinners in themselves and from their first natural root but from the rebellions also though rebellion be as the sin of witchcraft in which men make a new and personal compliance and confederacy with Satan as if the compliance made with him in their first natural root were not enough and sell themselves for their iniquities as if their being carnal and sold to their hand under sin through the disobedience of one were not sufficient they sin after the similitude of Adams transgression yet though they have so done to him belongs mercy forgive ness even for towards them see Dar 9.8.9 with Isa 50.1.3 There is help in him for such as have destroyed themselves Hos 13.9 'T is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners even such sinners as are lawless and disobedient sinners that will not be reformed or reclaimed by the law of grace but prophanely go on hideing and holding fast and allowing themselves in their sins and are murtherers of Fathers murtherers of Mothers Man-slayers Whore-mongers Adulters Abusers of themselves with mankind and if there be any thing contrary to sound Doctrine they are lawless and disobedient in going on in the trade and way of their own iniquities till the laws of God and men say hold on them yet such Christ came into the world to save and not for such only but for blasphemers of the Name of Christ and Persecutors of the Ch●rch of God which are mentioned by the Apostle there as his sins and greater then the former as to matter of fect and as in the sight of God yet such Christ Jesus Came into the world to save not to save them in their sins but from them And God hath exalted him a Prince ' and a Saviour for to give repentance and forgiveness of sins to such He is the propitiation now with God for sins of that nature that might have been prevented and might have been kept from by the Grace of God and that not only for those to whom he hath given an understanding to know him that is true and that are in him but also for the world for them who yet lye under the power of the wicked one that judgement may not be speedily executed but a door of mercy and life may be held open while yet he is by any means calling them that in turning their sins which yet are detain'd in heaven against them while they continue in them may be bloted out c through this man therefore is preached to you the forgiveness of your sins for he came because of that truth to forgive such sins as men cannot righteouslly forgive as in that Jer 3.1 c And can have

compassion where none can have none And by him all that beleive are justifyed from all things from which they could not be justifyed by the law of Moses even for such sins as that afforded not a typical justification from but condemned the sinner to death under the mouth of two or three witnesses yet by him all that believe through this Name in which repentance and remission of sins is preached to them are justified from all things even from all things from which they could not be justified by that law yea this perfection of the righteousness of God and plentuousness of redemption even the forgiveness of sins in and through it is witnessed in the law and Prophets for to him give all the Prophets witness that through his name whosoever beleiveth in him whosoever whatsoever they be or have been yet now beleiving in him that justifyeth the ungodly should namely through the same name of him through which they beleive receive the forgiveness of their sins it s to him not to or of us that the Prophets gave this testimony therefore 〈◊〉 his work and office as through his name his power which the Father by means of his death to blot them out in honour so through the opening of his Name in which they trust to make them partakers of it in their mind and conscience by his knowledge or still in and unto such things and so by or through the knowledg of himself shall my righteous servant justify many Here truly me thought she prevented with her understanding and with great refreshing and delight desired further to hear off express her understanding of this matter how through his name he gives the remission of sins and quickens to and nourisheth a lively hope by the resurrection of Christ from the dead and did her self very aptly oppose that name of the Lord to the fire of mens own kindling c. And with gladness still more clearly to see wherein she had exceeded did acknowledge her folly and take shame to her self for her eadiness to ca●ch at any thing to kindle a fire to her self and compass her self about with sparks for a vain hope of this life when she had such a worthy name to trust in and the grace in Christ was sufficient for her to her to encourage defend and strengthen her in her expectation of the mercy of God unto eternal life so in whatever might most conduce to that which now she was well assured this should or else should not have come upon her but while she was thus with pleasure rejoycing in the name of the Lord and in the discovery of the vanity of other confidences and sparks of her own kindling and with gladness relinquishing them shem et with some tryal of her faith by means of some coming in happily some of them not having well learned the truth as it is in Jesus and so not enough acquainted with such rejoyceing in the Lord and in his name only or not acquainted with her former exercise in the time of her afliction who urged the necessity of seeking some certain evidence and assurance of the forgiveness of her sins and thereunto pressed to a particular confession c To whom she replyed that grace of God that bringeth salvation to all men in its appearance powerfully moves to repentance oh saies she they were her sayings oft and with an appearance of deep sence as having felt and proved the truth of what she said that melts and breaks the heart it turns all the inwards of a man as it were within him that not only teaches that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world but when through forgetfulnesse and departing from it we have sinned and sinned grievously yet it admonisheth and moveth to repentance and when the heart is turned again to that oh what sorrow and melting it works in the sight of such infinite grace to be so abused and shame with encouragement to hope that yet God should wait to be gracious to such she oft repeated and asserted that it did so work even to all such things in truth as they pressed too only upon the account of duty and as a work of the Law and for knowledge of the truth of her faith and repentance without declaring any certain ground that might be as a foundation for it and move to it and work it and told them it had so taught her though she had sinned against it and though she was a vile wretched sinner yet this grace of God was exceeding abundant to her with faith and love which was in Christ Jesus and she could not but desire oh that all other sinners knew this grace of God and the gift by grace For it is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom said she I am the cheif I am the cheif Howbeit he hath mercy on me for a pattern to others this grace is sufficient for me I have found it s●icient oh it is sufficient for you all oh that all knew it when some told her of what evidences some in her condition had sought and found of the truth of their repentance and graces and thence and from other like means got assurance of the forgiveness of their sins she replyed she knew no other sign or witness but the sign of the Prophet Jonah even him whom God had given for a witness to the people nor needed she any other for to him give all the Prophets witness that through his name whosever believeth in him shall receive the forgiveness of sins his name through faith in it had healed and made her strong when others urged she must take heed of resting in a false faith she again replyed 't is a faithful saying that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners no false faith 't is the true grace of God that bring● salvation to all men and she could not but wish for them that they all knew it when again they replyed upon her that it was not others concernment but her own that was now to be minded by her and that there was something necessary to be found in her faith and repentance more then in all cases was necessary to evidence the truth of it she pleaded that there was but one Faith she knew but one and that she knew nothing she had to do but now to believe on him that justifyeth the ungodly that imputes righteousness without works and that it is to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifyeth the ungodly that ceaseth from his own works to believe c when to this reply was made true this was one thing needful to be found in her repentance a ceasing from her own works that is said they from her evil works but this not all necessary in her case she again replyed nay from all my own works for the best of them are dead