HEAVEN REALIZED OR The Holy Pleasure of daily intimate Communion with GOD, Exemplified In a blessed Soul (now in Heaven) (Mrs. Sarah Davy.) Dying about the 32 Year of her Age. Being a part of the precious Relics, written with her own hand. (Styled by her) The Record of my Consolations, and the Meditations of my heart.  
Published by A. P.  Come and hear all you that fear God, and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul, 66 Psalm 16. 
Printed in the Year, 1670.   

To all sort of Readers.  
WHosoever thou art into whos● hand providence may cast thi● small piece I have to beg o● thee that thou wouldst no● despise it before perused; it pleaseth th● wisdom of God, thus to choose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, an● weak things to confound the things that ar● mighty, things that are not to bring to naught thing that are, that no flesh can glory in h● presence, especially when the wisdom ● the flesh exalts itself against the Wisdom of God, in the simplicity of the Gospel and the lusts of men against the Holin● of it, when the mystery of God in Chri● there, the dwelling of the Spirit, in sanctified believers is denied and called a delusion I say, in such an hour of blasphemy, the appearance of the Spirit in its clear enlightening, and excellent workings, in a weak instrument is a blessed testimony against the Atheism, Profanity, Blasphemy; and high derision of Godliness, that every where abounds; If thou art one of those who hast only a Form of godliness and Worship, satisfying thyself with some kind of outward Worship, and so makest a sorry shift to still thy conscience whilst in thy sins, and walking after thy lusts, a Lover of pleasure, more than of God, as the Character of the Apostle, of such is.  
And hast thence a low and slight esteem ●f serious Godliness, and d●●mest the ●artings with the World, and pleasures of sin and vanity like death itself, and ●hat living wit● G●d in self-denial, mortification of s●n, holiness, an● Communion with God is a dark m●lancholly and uncomfortable walk (as t●e Devil and a carnal heart suggests) here thou has● a full confutation thereof; as also the experience of all the holy people of God i● the world) in this precious soul who realized that rich consolation and holy pleasure in serving God, and walking with hi● and choosing (very early) the despised ways of God, rather than the pleasures o● sin for a season, in a holy disdain and daily trampling under her Foot the vanity which the foolish hearts of most go after in a daily solacing her soul, in drinking of the Rivers of the pleasures of God, bein● sick of Love to blessed Jesus Christ, who● she had chosen her Saviour, Bridegroom Lord, and King; whose love, beauty, an● glory ravished her heart, who held him i● the galleries, in his banqueting hous● whose banner over her was love, and i● his blessed Ordinances came as to th● gate of Heaven, there giving him he Loves.  
Thou, poor sinful soul, yet in darkness to these things, which are but as a soun● of words to thee, In reading hereof (● ●he grace and power of the Lord may accompany it▪ cast of those mean and base thought of the despised ways of Christ ●nd holiness and believe these things to ●e real, and satisfyingly enjoyed by ●his blessed Soul, and thereby break off ●rom thy course of Vanity, and of this World, and fall in Love with Heavens ●ays; and set thyself (the Lord helping ●hee) to seek and know this beloved Jesus, ●ho was this Soul's delight, and fall in ●ove with him, and attend at Wisdoms ●ates (though blacked and scorned by ●e World.)  
And thy own soul may come to expeence the same things; to find out a pleant life of sweetest contentation in the Fa●ur of God, and enjoyment of his good●ss and Love in his dear Son Jesus ●hrist, the true wisdom (as this Soul ●th blessedly cleared) that makes wise un● Salvation; with Jesus Christ thou shalt ●d the Righteousness that can justify thee, ●e precious blood that can cleanse thee, ● Light that shall shine into thee, the Love that shall for ever endear thee, the Life that shall quicken thee, the power and spirit that shall convert and change thee, the fullness that shall satisfy thee; the peace and joy in believing that shall quiet and comfort thee in every condition here on earth, and assure thee of Eternal blessedness and glory hereafter; If this be not to be chosen before making provision for thy deceitful lusts, that entice thee, flatter thee, in walking after them will certainly damn thee, to Everlasting terrors, and horrors, wail, howl, that will never have an end among the impenitent the careless, unconverted, the unholy in the lake provided for them, I say, if glorious delightful certain salvation from this wrath to come, be not to be chosen, embraced, pursued, laid hold of in the first place let thy soul seriously weigh and consider take time apart every day to muse on it pray and betake thyself to the Scriptures and hearing Godly Ministers that give of the experience hereof, then let the word and conscience judge, etc.  
Particularly; let younger persons (especially young Gentlewomen) be greatly affected with this precious example and be persuaded of the joy and sweetness this blessed Soul did find in seeking the Lord in the days of her youth, who received instructions betimes, about the eleventh year of her Age; began to know God as a holy God, to fear sin, to pray in secret, to delight in daily reading the Scriptures, to fall in love with the beloved Jesus Christ, to choose him her Lord and Bridegroom, and to wait in the Ministry of his despised servants, to know him, and hear his voice, & became a Disciple and follower of him; ravished with his love, admiring his grace, and glory, diligently enquiring af●er his feedings, and betaking her to the ●ollowing of his people, in a congregation ●f believers, where her soul delighted it ●elf (and as she speaks in her Meditations ●ere) solaced herself in Communion with ●er Lord, sitting at his Feet to hear his precious words, going home with her ●eart filled from God, and in her retirements, praying meditating feeding on the word, making the day of the Lord a holy delight, go, tender soul, and through grace, be found in all these blessed practices, and thou mayst live delightfully here, and be saved eternally.  
When thou art come to years, to be capable to understand any thing, as 'tis said of Moses, Heb. 11. 24. 25. Refuse the pleasures of sin, which are but for a season, and choose the true wisdom, and to be found in her paths, for her Mershandize is better ●hen the Merchandise of silver, and the gains thereof then fine gold, which this Heavenly Soul really experienced, and one part of her choice Meditations is of this Wisdom, as in the perusal of it; you will fi●d? Oh what is the pleasures of sin; and that but for a little, very little season, ●anity, emptyness, a bubble, a pleasant ●ream, to such a rich, solid, satisfying, durable, glorious enjoyment of Jesus Christ, while h●re as but a taste of the glory shall be revealed? Those vain pleasures of Youth must issue in sorrow, and deep repentance, and bitterness of Soul if ever pardoned, and saved; but the pleasure of knowing, having, being in Christ Jesus and the delightful fellowship of the Saints have with him, issues a bl●ssed, cheerfulness, and joy in God, without fear of Repentance, unless it be that we have no more of Christ in us; and that we sin against such Love and Grace so freely revealed to us?  
Oh how happy are younger Men and Maidens as the Psalmist speaks 148 Psal. that begin to fear the Lord from their youth to seek early after Jesus Christ; for the Lord to see their Faces, before the throne and to hear their sighs and cries after him, for Christ, the Spirit, saving grace, power against all sin, to take up a Cross, and choose ye affliction and reproach of the Lords people, before the vanity's, Pride of Life, and Fading Glory of this world, this, oh this, is happiness, soul-happiness, everlasting happiness, richeses, honour, peace, blessing, which none can take away.  
Especially in an Age of the great corruption of youth, when Religion is made a byword and a scorn, when many hardened and blaspheme, when so Few of the youth of noble and generous families, Fall in with serious Godliness, sobriety, but serving divers lusts and pleasures, to all excess of Riot, to the debasing of their Spirits, in a degenerateness from true Nobility and generousness of Spirit, which is in knowledge, good learning true wisdom and piety, as fitting them to serve God and their Generation.  
Oh in the midst of such impiety's, how beautiful, how honourable, how pleasing to the Holy God, for any younger persons, especial such as pretend to a generous mind and education, such as are in Family's, where excess profaneness abounds or the Sons and Daughters of Godly Parents, to betake yourselves to seek and know and fear, & serve the great & blessed God betimes, to be an example and a blessing to secure Christ and holiness, and heaven, to walk in the truly noble, delightful, precious ways, which this piece and she that lived it holds forth unto thee.  
In order hereunto how should the Soul of Parents (unless they will be Soul Murderers to their Children) be in travail for grace and Conversion for their Children, and not think it enough, to get them Estates, honours, and great things in this Life, and leave them and it under a curse, that all sorts of Parents not only give them liberty, but encourage them to Godliness, to pray and read the Scriptures, and attend upon powerful means of grace to tremble at sin; to dispose of them in the world in order hereunto, as this blessed Soul acknowledgeth the good use of Parent's reproof and instructions unto her.  
1. In this piece, you have first an account of her Conversion and calling, how the Lord gradually carried on her first convictions, her daily diligence in prayer and the word when a child, the discoveries she had of the Free grace of the Gospel of the Mystery of Christ, of Righteousness by Faith, of being in Christ, of the love o● God, and Fellowship with him, of which she gives an exact and distinct account, discovering the choice and spiritual understanding she had in the Mystery of the Gospel, not taking up only from sin to duty, when Christ and grace little understood, as it may be feared many do; nor yet turning grace into wantonness, but under the constraints of the choice discoveries of Free and glorious Grace, and the loves of God (in the admirement and adoration of which she lived) to attend to most intimate Communion with him, the breathe and partings of her Soul, as you will see still running out afrer more enjoyment of and likeness to her dea● Lord Jesus, and exactest holiness, bemoaning herself wherein she fell short.  
2. Next you will meet witk her longing after the re●l Communion of Saints, (which all profess to believe in the Creed but will not bear the practice of) in the pure ordinances of the Gospel) in a con Congregational Church, (so called) which when she enjoyed she expressed those blessed delights she had in Fellowship with the Lord Jesus, the kisses of his Lips she there met with his blessed Ordinances, and establishment of soul, in peace and joy in believing;  
3. You have a choice discourse of Wisdom, the true Heavenly Wisdom, which her Soul diligently sought after, and found, which was more precious to her then Rubies, and all the things that are not to be compared to it; the rich experience whereof she commends to the World in the debasement of all fleshly Wisdom i● comparison of it!  
Especially to her dear Relations in the flesh, which is the next particular in this discourse, to whose acceptance she commends it, with such bowels and gratio● affection, and sweetness of Spirit, such powerful convincing motives, and from what of Heaven her own Soul hath tasted, as might become one very skilful in the word of Righteousness; to whose serion perusal with the blessing of God, I would commend it as that which may lead you into the path of Life, helped on by the singular example of her Life, in her Holy, sweet, acceptable, conversation towards you, which I hope you are convinced did arise from a divine principle of Grace, so to fill up every Relation to you, longing after all your Eternal Salvation in Christ Jesus, oh may all of you be engaged not only to read but to beg of God; the same Spirit of Wisdom and grace, that was found in her, to walk in the same steps and ways Heaven ward, that this be not a witness against any of you at the great day of Jesus Christ.  
4. The next part is (as she styles it) the mystery of Godliness, namely of the mystery of God in Christ, the grace and love of ●●e Father revealed by h●m, in which I may take liberty to say, is as much of the Mystery of the Gospel, discovered as usually I have met with in so little a Room, especially as to living in a delightful fellowship therewith which was her great business, till taken up unto him.  
5. The rest consists of occasional Meditations, choice experiences, ravishments of Divine Love, admirations of grace, holy praises, sweet supports under trials, with the account she used to take of herself of hearing the word, and the preparation of her soul thereto, in those precious long of her Soul, to meet with her dear Lord in Ordinances and the high value she put upon Communion of Saints, in a Church of Christ, of which there is but Room for the giving out of some tastes, in this little Treatise.  
Lastly, her Meditations of death, which the spirit of Christ was preparing her for in her time of health, whereby death was made familiar to her, that she fell asleep in Jesus, even before we were ware of it and indeed she could hardly bear the absence from her dear Lord any longer; as in her last Poem you will perceive.  
Surely by such a despised Testimony, the sleepy World is condemned, and every Soul t●at peruseth it, should be provoked to take the Kingdom of Heaven by the same violence; And Professors of Godliness may hereby be convinced of slightness of Spirit, sinful neglects, formality in duty; and ordinances Love of the World, decays in Grace, taking up with privileges of Saints, when intimate Communion with the Lord, and growth of grace is not so seriously attended to by them, against which this Treatise is also a living Testimony, and may be blessed of God to the quickening of them.  
Let all such specially but remark that ve●n and Spirit runs through their short discourses, which was to prepare and keep her Soul to God, to be duly calling in her own heart, much in deepest humbling and ●el● reflection, Praying, Reading, Meditation, being her Morning and Evening exercise, highly esteeming every opportunity of enjoying the Lord, accounting the feet of those beautiful that brought the good tidings, having a high reverence and affection for the servants of Christ in that work, and an entire love to all Saints; as Saints, though of different persuasions at this day, in the weakness, Tenderness, Patience, Love of the Spirit; especially let me bespeak the Congregation of Christ whereof she was a Member in this City, as also all the Churches of Saints, to be following this Holy and precious example and practice, which seems to be ordered by a hand o● providence and grace, to awaken professors from the evils mentioned, which I fear have overtaken many, instead of their soul being kept in life, and warmth, and attending to spirituality; and growth in grace, and being full of love and good works, under the loud calls they have thereunto by the word and providences of God they are under, that they may witness a good profession, as they are called thereunto, in the midst of a gainsaying generation.  
Reader in a word thou mayst here learn what it is to live and die, comfortably, which is the great concernment before thee, which the Lord in his rich grace give unto thee, and bless the reading hereof for the ends for which it is published; as prayeth,  
Thy Servant for Jesus sake. A. P. In the Year 1670.   

The Account of her early conversation.  
O my Soul, consider the wonderful goodness of God, revealing his free Grace and unbounded Love towards thee a poor Worm; oh how wonderful is this condescension, of his that thou shouldest be made an object of mercy? my soul forget not his unspeakable love, let it be recorded, keep in remembrance th●se choice blessings of a loving Father, bestowed so freely on me in the Lord Jesus Christ the dear Son of his Love, who hath born with thee in many weaknesses, infirmity, and ever seemed to ov●rlook all corru●tions and set thee unde● his eye of pity, and compassion; O let this be a means more to incite to a near closer walking with God, that thou mayst be born up against the w●les of S●tan, thy subtle enemy, whose aim i● to destroy thee for ever.  
IN the 11 Year of my Age the Lord was pleased to take away my dear Mother, my Parents were very dear and tender of me and did not leave me without instructions of the things of God; At that time the Lord was pleased to carry out my heart to things I then knew not. For as soon as my Parents had taught me there was a God, I had an awe upon my heart concerning him, I could then reason with my heart and said, the Lord made me, and he made me to serve him, and I must do it; so being young, the Lord was pleased in the freeness of his Grace, to kindle in my heart some small sparks of affections to himself; I remember on a time a little Brother of mine was sick and my Mother being very tender of her Child one Lords day would not go to Church, which caused me also to stay at home, but wanting employment, out of my Mother's sight went to work about my babies, at night the Lord was pleased to take a way the Child I standing by the Cradle, which brought a fear upon me presently that I had been the cause, by my working that day, of the Lords anger in taking away my brother.  
I also remember that I went out and wept bitterly, in the consideration of my days work, but never let my friends know it, I was much troubled at it, but hoped such was the ignorance of my heart that all would be well again by my praying and going to Church, which I was careful to do and fearful to om●● one duty which might hinder the means of my salvation, and cause the Lord to be displeased with me.  
The Ten Commandments was much upon my heart making that my only rule to walk by, and was earnest with the Lord that he, would help me to the daily observing and fulfilling of them for! then knew there must be a greater power than my own to enable me to the performance of it, also my Parents taught me in my Carechism what was my duty towards God and towards my Neighbour, & by my continual saying of them the Lord was pleased to work them upon my spirit, and into my affections and then in mercy to take notice of me in the freeness of his Grace, and tender mercy to own me in the Lord Jesus Christ, whom I was ignorant of a● to what he had done and undergone for my soul, but now I can't but admire to behold the infinite goodness and tender love of God, who was then pleased to choose me from amongst my Brethren, and his own self took care of me, leading me by many paths of providence, passing over all my Corruptions, my weaknesses and my failings caused me to find a tender hearted Father of a great and Holy God, oh how sweetly hath the Lord been pleased to carry on the work of Grace in my poor unworthy Soul! How exceedingly doth his Glory shine and his goodness appear in that he wh● i● the high and mighty One, the Great God of Heaven and Earth, the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords should condescend so far as to cast his eye upon a Worm, much more His love upon a distressed creature, About the same year of my Age, the Lord was pleased to take away my dear Mother by which I had a great loss yet knowing it was my duty to trust God at all times I laboured therefore to be content and the Lord was pleased to bear me up by considerations of his love, I was in the time of my Mother's life sickly and weak, subject to divers bodily infirmity, which made my Mother the more tender of me, hence I was more sensible of my great loss, but such was th● goodness of God that he was pleased then wholly to take away my distemper and so heal m● that I have through his mercy never since been troubled with it, I fell under some other trial but the Lord was pleased to enlarge my heart to lay open my case before him and in mercy caused me to see that he did not despise my poor supplications, but was graciously pleased to sweeten my troubles, and by this to comfort me in that they carried me nearer to the Lord, sometimes he was pleased to mitigate them, but mostly gave me strength to go through them and patiently to bear them, thus was the Lord pleased to exercise his loving kindness and tender compassions to my poor soul carrying of it as a Lamb in his Arms; But oh why was my heart so dead that I was so long contented in a state of Ignorance, and not more desirous to come to the knowledge of his ways? but thou O Lord art good and thy ways past finding out, thy tender compassions never fails those whose hearts are upright before thee; O blessed is the Soul to whom thou impu●est no sin for certainly O Lord shouldst thou have been so just a● to mark what was done amiss, O Lord my sins, my corruptions, my daily actings, besides that guilt of original sin brought into the world with me was enough to have sunk me into the bottomless pit for ever.  
I could not see the need I had of my troubles, nor the end for which they were sent, but blessed be thy Name O Lord, who in thy righteousness and goodness, and tender mercy did●● afflict me, thou mightest have spared thy pains and have bestowed those sweet discoveries of thy love on such who would have better improved it▪ and have let me perish to all Eternity.  
Oh how is my soul bound for ever to extol the riches of thy grace, now I have seen his glory, I abhor myself in dust and ashes, oh how unworthy am I to appear before ●●ee? but blessed be thy name who have not left me in despair; but in the sight of my unworthiness and the wretchedness of my condition, caused me to se● that there was hope concerning this matter, that thou hadst laid help upon one who was mighty to save.  
About a years time I lived very contentedly and in much ease, in my outward conditions, but I began to be unmindful of the Lord who had done so much for me; O how apt was I to forget the rock of my salvation, I began to find these things indifferent to me, which before I had prosecuted with much Zeal, the dishonouring of God's name by others being so common where I was, I did not find my se●f so affected as before, nor so much troubled at it, till the Lord was pleased by new alarms to aw●ken my drowsi●●oul, which was so willing to be lulled a sle●p b● Satan in a sinful security, and by afflictions some outward trouble, brought me truly to consider my ways, and to lie low again before the Lord, often spreading my condition before him in private, who was graciously pleased once more to look upon me and caused me to see the tenderness of his love towards me.  
Then did I begin to grieve at their dishonouring God by their profane walkings, and the Lord was pleased to cause an awe upon my spirit concerning him and his ways I was mighty desirous to receive the Lords Supper, but I dared not, I wondered at some that made so light a thing of it, when I found it to be of much weight upon my spirit, I found them in their ways very profane and cold to any good duty, I then began to apply my heart unto the Scriptures, desiring the Lord to give me an understanding therein, it was much upon my spirit to desire that the Lord would be pleased to open my heart as he did lydia's that so I might attend unto the things that were of God.  
It pleased the Lord, my time being expired at school, to return me home to my Father's house Mr Pierce being then Minister, the first Sermon I heard from him did much take upon my affections and raise up my desires unto the ways of God, preaching from the 4. Cant. 7. 8. Thou art all fair my love, there is no spot in thee. wherein he opened the beauty of a Soul in Christ, and the love, the Lord was pleased to honour such a Soul withal, this filled me with desires and long to be such a one, but how to attain unto it I did not know, than was I full of fears and doubtings and Satan brought into my mind my evil and unworthy walkings, under so much of the love of God as I had been partaker of this made my Soul walk heavily under much dispute a long time and when the Lord was pleased to come into my heart by a word at any time which did refresh me, it lusted but a little time.  
The Devil would be ready to tell me, that was not my part, I was too apt to catch at Ch●ldrens bread and think that my own which did not belong to me, thus did he follow me a long time, robbing me of the comfort of many a sweet Sermon, making me wa●k in such sadness which was taken notice of by my friend's, I would fain have related my condition, and declared my doubts but could not do it, yet in these doubts found some comfort, I found my Soul much carried out in love to Christ, I could delight to sit alone and meditate on the love of Christ, held forth in the Gospel to poor sinners, and in the former testimonies of his love wherewith he had followed me in every outward providence my soul would be many times carried out to admire the freeness of his love, my soul longed for such a heavenly communion which put me much at the throne of Grace to desire one glimpse of his Glory, one testimony of ●is love in Christ, but Satan's suggestion put ●e to a loss in my comfort he would often persuade me I was a Hypocrite, and that I was fallen from Grace, this was a sad and great burden upon my spirit, and I thought my sins was so great I must cry out with Cain, my punishment should be greater than I can bear, yet was the Lord in his goodness pleased not long to leave me in this condition, but to incline my heart more, and with much affection to the word, remembering the deadness of spirit I had been under.  
There was few I was acquainted with whom I could in the least have any converse with in the whole Town, thus did I labour to keep my troubles to myself, I remember a sentence which did something refresh me (which was) He w●ll lead sinners ●n the right way, and the Lord was pleased to come into my heart with this truth, I never said unto the ●ouse of Jaco● s●ek ye me in vain, then did I go unto the Lord a●d earnestly desire the assistance of his spirit to seek counsel, in this matter I sought ove● the book of God and begged of the Lord with tears, that he would be pleased to give me a right understanding in what I could not well apprehend, so gracious was the Lord at that time to give in answer to my poor request and caused me to find much sweetness and comfort in reading, which before I never had found, this raised up my heart to praise the Lord for his mercy towards me and gave me much comfort in that I hoped the Lord had not forgotten to be gracious but had in mercy owned himself to be my God hearing prayer, and that the poor weak prayer of a wretched miserable creature▪ who was looked upon with the e●e of scorn and much despised) this carried up my soul to joy in the Lord with praises to him, in which I found much comfort and encouragement, than did I in my heart resolve to wait upon the Lord with my poor petitions for strength till he should p●ease to give me a clearer evidence of his love, and the true knowledge of his ways, which I desired to know above all earthly things; t●us was the Lord pleased to come in with a gracious influence of his holy spirit whereby I received comfort from every ●ermon I ●eard, for about 2 months' space.  
But then how was my sinful and deceitful heart puffed up, what thoughts did I begin to have of myself how had the Devil changed his not● and told my proud heart, my state was now good and my graces were much increased, for which I ought to be much esteemed, how ready I was to do any thing which might secretly make me bethought well of by such as knew it, than did I walk as one that was well principled in Religion and a great professor. O wicked wretch that after so much love should dare to be so careless as to let Satan steal away my heart, yet the goodness of the Lord whose mercies endure for ever, would not suffer me to rest in this condition, but was pleased by a Sermon to make me behold my condition and search into with a single eye, the subject he preached from was the 25 of Matthew, the parable of the ten virgins, whereby he shown how far a carnal outward professor might be like a real Christian, and ye● have never a dram of grace whi●h the Lord was pleased to fasten upon my soul making me to weigh my actions and the thoughts of my heart with the pure word of God where I ●ound much unsoundness and rottenness, than was my heart east into its former sadness, than was the Lord pleased to h●mbl● my soul under the sense of a proud dis●●●d●ent heart and made me to be more watchful to my ways and apply my heart to reading and prayer▪ which before it was much straightened in.  
Thus did I look into the ways of some other professors, where the Lord discovered to me many weaknesses and failings by comparing of their ways unto the pure word of God, I saw a shortness of that Gospel spirit the whole Gospel so sweetly treats of this was a stumbling block to my soul thus was my trouble greatly increased wherein Sa●an was very busy to destroy the comforts I had formerly had, None could I find to declare my trouble so malicious was the fire brand of hell to cause several jealousies in the hearts of people what might be the cause of my trouble, and as Daevid says my humbling become a reproach unto m●, I cared not for company but most to be alone, in which I did contemplate the sweetness of his Divine Mercy, yet desiring the Lord would ease me of my burden, which I thought to be very great often should I sit and bewail my sad condition; and be ready with Job to curse the day of my birth, yet in this my distress the Lord was pleased to bring me to his feet, than would I come with tears and offer up my poor supplications before the Lord, where I found my heart much enlarged being affected with the love of God to sinners, and carried out much upon those words, call upon the Lord and he will hear thee, he is nigh un●o a●l that call upon him, to deliver them ou● of trouble, and many more sweet and seasonable Scriptures was the Lord pleased graciously to bring into my remembrance, and powerfully to apply unto my heart, which made me go often unto the Lord and spread my condition before the Throne of his Grace, having much encouragement to hope in his mercy, thus did I find much comfort and sweetness in my secret communion with the Lord and found much ease in my troubles, which I took a● gracious returns of my poor broken prayers, and was much carried out to trust in him and to w●it upon him, than could I sit and call to remembrance the mercies of old as a tender and a loving father, who nourished up my poor soul, which made me exceedingly admire the infinite riches of his Grace and the freeness of his love in Christ Jesus to my poor Souls; which made me often cry out, Lord what am I that thou shouldst take such notice of a poor creature, that thou shouldest cast thine eye of love upon me, (though the Devil would yet be busy and often cast into my thoughts doubtful fear) what was there in me should cause the Lord to pity me, and indeed I could do nothing in myself, which began to increase my trouble, yet I remembered it was the saying of David when my father and my Mother forsook me, than the lord would look upon me, this did at first revive me, but then I considered David was a holy man after Gods own heart, how dare I to lay claim to any thing belonged to him.  
Thus was my base distrustful heart exercised with va●i●●y of tempta●ions by the Devil, as to distrust the goodness of the Lord; and to rob my soul of the comforts he was pleased many times to come in withal, many times has the Lord been pleased to come in by a Sermon to my soul, and as it were spoke unto my present condi●ion, but oh how dull have I been to remember, and how did my unworthy walking cause those blessed truths to slip out of my mind, yet was the Lord in mercy pleased to keep my heart sincere before him, to plead for mercy for the Lords sake, for whose sake he was graciously pleased to continue his tender and compassionate love unto me,  

The sweet experiences of the tender love of God to my Soul, at Mrs. W. at School.  
THen was the Lord pleased in much bounty to appear very gracious to my poor Soul and drawed out my heart much to long after the knowledge of his ways, now being yet under the old way of Worship, I besought the Lord truly to convince my Judgement as well as my afflictions of the way which is of his own setting up, but for a small time the Lord was pleased yet to leave me to myself that I found myself at a loss being dead and dull yet performing outward duties but with little spiritual life, and my heart also was carried out after vanities, than I found that I had lost the former sweet incombs of the Lord, and the refresh of this blessed spirit, and was as one lulled a sleep by the deceitful enchantments of Satan, and malicious devices.  
O wicked and deceitful ●ea●t; how couldst thou so soon forget such bondage delivered from such 〈◊〉 a● the Devil had so often got thee into, how soon hast thou forgot the God of all thy mercies how hast thou made the Lord to serve with thy sins.  
Yet once more was the Lord pleased to call me out of my benumbed conditions and shown how I was running myself into my own destruction.  
Oh the goodness of the Lord who never d●d leave me but to see my o●n in a●ility to live without his he●p, then did the Lord in mercy convince me of the emptiness of all Earthly vanities and also of that way of formal worship that it was a dead carnal lifeless thing under which my soul cou●d not prosper and so growing weary of it more and more at length besought the Lord to guide my poor ignorant Soul which was so easy to be led away with every wicked and subtle device of ●atan, my heart desired much to hear go●d men, and when I could with convenience, which some took notice of and said I was one whom the Apostle speaks of, having i●chi●g ears, ever learning; etc.  
●his did mu●h afflict me, about which the Lord was pleased to give me a heart to see● him and that earnestly for his assistance in the knowledge of his truth;  
One more experience of the providence of God appeared unto me, as an encouragement to trust in his mercy and to wait upon him by prayer for all things, I had at that time a distemper upon me of which I saw no hope of cure, yet one day particularly being in a serious meditation of the infinite goodness of the Lord, toward me, the Lord was pleased to direct my eye upon a place of Scripture where I found the woman coming to the Lord, confessing that she had ●pent a●l she h●d ●o be cu●ed of her Infirmity, and one touch of Christ's garment had done it, from thence may not I come trembling that have received so many testimonies of his love & tried so many medicines before I came unto the Lord, or loo●ed up to him for help then did I bewail my unprofitableness yet went unto the Lord in the language of the Lepper and said Lord if th●u wilt thou canst make me clean, who was not deaf to my poor request but in some small time was graciously pleased as I may say without means wholly to clear me of it, this mercy carried up my heart more to praise the Lord then any yet I had received who notwithstanding all my weaknesses and sinfulnesses was graciously pleased to follow me with many mercies.   

Of further discoveries of Christ,  
Then was the Lord pleased in his gracious Providence to remove me to a place in H. Sh. where I had much more advantage of means and helps for my poor Soul.  
Where the Lord was pleased to give me through his grace, a little more insight into the mind ●f Christ, evidencing himself to be a God gracious and merciful, abundant in goodness, etc. I was filled with admiration, to see the holy glorious God, abase himself to so poor a wretchless Creature as I then was, I cried out with earnest desires and long after more of the knowledge of this God, but here came I under strong temptations, Satan was powerful in raising up of spiritual Pride, but the Lord whose goodness never failed me, did then take care for me, thou O Lord who broughtest me out of the Pit of despair, O suffer me not to climb up to the Mount of Presumption, than was the Lord pleased in the tenderness of his love to convince me that the poor in Spirit, were heirs of the Kingdom; that the lowly Soul was his habitation, than I besought God, begging at the Throne of Grace, for the assistance of his gracious Spirit, without which I could do nothing, and that he would humble me even to the dust, that so my Soul might not lose the sight of that Glory revealed in the face of Jesus Christ.  
This the Lord was graciously pleased to grant; and sweetly bring me to see a riches in Christ Jesus and that this was more to be desired then all the treasures upon Earth.   

The long of her Soul after Church Fellowship, and all the Ordinances of Christ.  
THen did I long after God, and the enjoyment of him in his own way, and said Lord thou hast made me, O lead me in that way wherein I may bring most glory to thyself, I durst ●ot trust my own judgement but resigned myself unto his will, and continued my petitions at t●e ●hrone of Grace, and at length he was pleased g●ati●us● to answer my poor prayer, ●less●d be ●hy name O Lord, O let my Soul be enlarged in thy p●a●ses.  
One day the Lord was pleased by a strange providence to cast me into the company of one that I never saw before, but of a sweet and free disposition, and whose discourse savoured so much of the Gospel, that I could not but at that instant bless God for his goodness in that providence, it pleased the Lord to carry out our hearts much towards one another at that time, and a little while after, the Lord was pleased to bring us together again for the space of three days, in which time it pleased God by our much converse together, to establish and confirm me more in the desires I had to join with the people of God in society, and enjoy Communion with them according to the order of the Gospel, she was of a society of the Congregational way called judependants, and gave me so clear a demonstration of their ways, that upon considerations and searching of the Scripture for the understanding of which learnestly besought the Lord) I was clearly convinced in my judgement▪ that this was the way which came nearest to the ru●e of the Gospel, and the commands of Christ, then were our hearts firmly united, and ● blessed the Lord from my soul for so glorious and visible an appearance of his love, for I had many sweet refreshments given me at that time, when she was gone, I was sensible of the great mercy the Lord had been pleased to show me, but in an instance snatched it from me again, at which I began to be troubled, but a●ter a few reflections to this purpose, why do I not patiently submit to the will of my Father, who knows what is best for me, my soul was again filled with hungrings and thirstings after God for a more clear and full in●oyment of him, and that in that b●essed ordinance appointed for a seal to confirm the Covenant he hat● graciously made, through hi● dear Son with a●l believers, this was at a time; when the Lord was pleased as to outward appearance to frown upon his people, it seemed an hour of darkness to me, my heart was troubled, then was I earnest with the Lord further to direct me in the way that he should choose, and the Lord was pleased to shine in with some Gospel light, and cause me to see a vast disproportion between a superstitious way of worshipping of God and a spiritual sincere way, in w●ich spiritual Christians serve him, than I said O that God would please to bring me into the Fellowship and Communion of his own people, and if he hath appointed them to suffer. Oh that I might be one that he would count worthy to suffer for the name of Christ, Oh how d●th my Soul desire to bear part in the affliction of Zion, much rather than to enjoy the mirth and pleasure of an earthly Kingdom, than did I cast myself upon the Lord and offer up my Soul to him who knows how to frame it according to his own blessed will, than I said Lord hast not thou the ●earts of all creatures in thy hand, and hast power to turn them into what frame soever thou pleasest, bring mine into a conformity to thy blessed will, O do it Lord for thy mercy's sake, than I made known my desires unto my friend by letter to join in society with that congregation whereof my friend was a member.  
For about that time the Minister of the Parish intending to give the Sacrament preached a preparatory Sermon from 1 Cor. 11. 27, 28, 29. v. Showing the sweet nature of that blessed ordinance, the danger of unworthy receivers and how a Christian ought to be qualified before partaking thereof at the hearing of which I was awakened and the Lord was pleased to come in with sweet comfort and refreshments considering th● blessed provision God had graciously made for those that prepared to mee● him therein; but I was troubled when I considered that very few or none of his Communicants were so qualified to appearance which was my great burden, for I longed much to partake of that ordinance but dared not to▪ do it in that manner and with such persons  
None could I use freedom with in this matter but those who I feared would make my trouble greater but thou O God who art ever ready to help in time of need thou the wise counsellor wilt not be far from the Soul that truly seeks thee, than I called upon the Lord who was graciously pleased to grant an ear to my request, and through the help of my friend to b●ing to remembrance, 1 Cor. 10 16. 17. v. by which I was much established, but more when I saw the number of his Communicants whom he had examined and accepted such as was very blind, ignorant, forma● creatures than I came to a resolution through the blessing of God to wait with patience till he should see good to open away wherein I m●ght enjoy such ordinances in power and purity and so as I might expect God's presence and blessing, which at last he was graciously pleased to do making that my friend an instrument thereof.  
Oh let my heart be more carried out to God with praises, and put a new Song into my mouth, make it my work to glory that thy great name, since thou art thus pleased to own me in thy dear Son.   

Of Recording her Experiences.  
O My Soul thou hast found by sweet experiences how good a thing it is to wait upon the Lord let not the gracious taste of his love slip out of thy remembrance but whilst he hath given thee life improve these mercies and the talon he hath lent thee, to his own glory, and let the gracious workings of the Lord as he is pleased to honour thee with incomes of his love, and the sweet breathe of his holy spirit, recount them here in order as the Lord shall give thee leave that they may be upon record against an evil day, a day of temptation, for how many precious evidences hast thou lost, for want of remembering them, but now O Lord help me to deal faithfully with my Soul in declaring thy power and the riches of thy Grace in the daily remembering of thy mercies, O cause me to see the growth of my Soul, in Grace and in the knowledge of my gracious God, that my ●oul may only aim at the Glory of my red●●mer.  
The Lord was thus pleased to carry on his gracious work with much pour in my poor Soul, notwithstanding ●he Devils suggestions, many ●ear●▪ etc. As that my condition surely was not yet so good as I did hope it to be, and to doubt whether my joy was not mere presumption, but the Lord in his goodness was pleased in a little time to clear it more fully to me and cause me to se● by the workings of his holy Spirit, sweet evidences of his tender love and b●ought into my meditation many blessed premises which he was pleased to bless unto my So●l, a●d confirm unto me with much establishment.  
The Lord being thus pleased by his wise Council and his tender love thus to guide my unworthy Soul, at length b● hi● gracious providence brought we to the place where the Church met though they were strangers to me yet was he pleased to cause me to find much love and tenderness, and there I had that blessed opportunity to receive that sweet refreshing Ordinance which my Soul had so much longed after. Blessed be his Holy name: O thou my Soul since thou hast seen the gracious dealing of the Lord towards thee be not thou unmindful of his praise.  
Improve thy talon to thy Master's use; lay out thy strength for God, and let thy heart be carried out for ever to remember the tender and unspeakable love of thy dear Lord unless thou put thy hand to he●p, my strength is nothing, I am a po●r weak nothing not able to do any thing if thou shouldest once leave me never so little.   

The Choice Discoveries of Christ to her Soul, when joined to a Church, in the Lord's Supper,  
OH how was the Lord in mercy pleased to manifest his Glory and goodness to thee O my Son in this Ordinance in which he was graciously pleased by faith to draw thee up to receive those outward elements the bread and wine as presenting the immediate body and blood of the Lord Jesus broken and shed for thy sins, O tho● unworthy Soul how graciously was the Lord pleased to come with power, raising thee up to praise and admire the exceeding riches of his Grace in choosing thee to be partaker of so great a blessing, how was he pleased to fill thee with spiritual joy at thy returning home, and give thee leave to come into his presence to return him thanks with joy that he was pleased so graciously to manifest himself unto thee poor unworthy Soul, as a God hearing prayer and answering thy poor request with so much mercy, which the Lord enable thee for ever to remember to his Glory thou knowest I desired to do so even from my Youth, and if my deceitful heart deceive me not I dare appeal unto thee for the sincerity of it oh that thou wouldst make me useful to thee in that way or any way thou shalt be pleased to choose that I might glorify thy great and holy Name.   

Sweet Discoveries of the Love of God in Jesus Christ.  
Oh how good a God have I, who is pleased every day to bear up my Soul with the sweet influences of his gracious Spirit, and precious incomes of his tender Love, O how could I sit and meditate of thy loving kindness all the day long, where can I find any comfort in this World but in thy presence, there have I Lord indeed through thy Grace found a fullness of Joy, a time of endless pleasures, O what am I or what is my Father's House, that I should be the daughter to a King that I a worm a poor detestable creature mad● up with clay and dust nay worse than a worm they being creatures which shall pray upon me for that I am appointed for their food, yet that the Lord of Hosts the Holy One of Israel the High and Mighty God, the King of Glory, the King of Kings, who is a King over the whole Earth, should yet be pleased thus to abase himself as to have thoughts of love for such a poor unworthy wretched creature as I am, oh how unworthy am I of thy favours, yet Lord because thou hast b●d me hope in thy mercy I dare do not otherwise, nay Lord thou hast commanded me to believe, Lo●d I believe pardon my unbelief, that should in any ways cause me in the least to distrust the riches of thy Grace or thy unspeakable goodness which is thy Glory, since thou art pleased dear Lord to make a worm the object of thy grace, Oh let my Soul enjoy these sweet transcendent pleasures which lie discovered to my soul in the rich treasury of thy unbounded love whilst others take their fill of Worldly vanities.  
When I considered the sinfulness of my nature, my weaknesses, my frailtyes, and my many infirmities, oh what is there in me should ever cause the Lord to pity me or yet to continue his favour to me, in so ●aspeakable a manner, N my Soul bless thou the Lord for Jesus Christ in whom the Lord is pleased richly to look upon thee? O happy is the soul that is born up by such a support, how wretched had my soul been, had not the Lord laid help on one who is mighty, hadst not thou had the Lord to be thy Saviour, Christ the dear son of God to be thy Redeemer! O blessed be the Lord, and blessed be my Rock who hath thus looked upon sinful mankind, and thus loved the Sons of Men as to give his only dearly beloved Son to die for such poor miserable wretches as I! O the wonderful goodness of God the transcendent and unspeakable riches of his grace in Jesus Christ! O my Soul canst thou but be filled with holy admiration at the infiniteness of his Glory▪ the unspeakable and transcendent beauty of thy dear Redeemer, this indeed is rich mercy.  
That the Lord should come into the World and give his life a ransom for poor sinners, but that thou shouldest be one for whom the Lord was pleased to leave his glory to take upon him the habit of a servant, the nature of a sinful man, that thou shouldest be one for whom the Lord became himself a curse to redeem thee from the curse, that was due to thee and from that which there was no Redemption but through the blood of that pure and spotless Lamb, that Christ the Son of God should give himself to die a shameful death for thee that thou mightest live, that thou mightest be partaker of those glorious benefits and gracious privileges which came by him? O my soul▪ that thou should be one to whom such exceeding love is shown! O my soul how doth the love of Christ constrain thee to love him, O my poor unworthy soul how art thou bound for ever to admire, and only aim at and seek the glory of thy dear Redeemer! O my dear Redeemer how is my poor unworthy heart carried out to admire thy dear and tender love?  
Lord if to enjoy the Communion with thy Saints, and people here on earth be such a glorious privilege which thou hast made my soul to long after; O then what is it to enjoy Communion with thy Saints and Angels to all Eternity in the presence of my Lord and Saviour? What darkness can Eclipse that glory or rather will not that glory quite put out that glory which the World but falsely yields; what is all the glory of the World, or all the Kingdoms of the Earth compared to the apprehension of a Heavenly Kingdom in the soul here, much less to the full enjoyment of it to all Eternity? What is all the glory of the world, but poor empty husks, poor deceitful vanities; a very lie, which at the best makes but ashamed, but Lord how glorious art thou in the beauties of holiness, my Soul, hath found enough in thee to fill it with a holy admiration: O that I might forever be admiring of thy glory: what are the treasures of the earth poor low base things, that we should have our hearts so much carried after them? What is it the hearts of the World runs out so much after? is if there was their greatest happiness? Is it not that they may gain abundance of riches? and what are they when they are gotten but thorns to put out their own eye●, they ●oyl and labour hard in the wo●ld ●or that which is at best of no enduring substance, and if they make a shift to keep it whilst they continue here, yet at the Grave this the great happiness must leave them; O misserab●e are they whose chiefest good consists in worldly vanities, what is all the treasure upon Earth to that in esteemable Riches, which are only to be found in Jesus Christ, of how much greater value is that one pearl of great price, than all the Pearls and Diamonds a●d the richest treasure upon earth, Lord fill thou my heart with Heavenly Treasure and let my Soul be rich in grace, oh t●at i● might be such in which I might bring glory to thy Name,   

Meditations upon my Saviour's Love.  
HOw excellent a thing is Love, how doth it adorn a Christian and comes most near the Image of a loving Saviour, never was any love like to his love, he loved us not because we first loved him, no we were enemies, yet even then he loved us and had compassion on us; O the riches of divine Love, see the sweet endearments of a loving Saviour; greater love can no man show then to lay down his life for his friends; yea but our dear Lord said down his life for us when we were enemies, and from being enemies he is pleased to style us friends, and not only so but behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God and if sons, than Heirs of God, and Coheirs with Christ in Eternal Glory.  
O blessed change from enemies to friends, from friends, to Sons, and so heirs with the Lord Jesus of an eternal inheritance; O the gracious effect of this transcendent love; Now are we Sons of God, but yet it doth not appear what we shall be, why can greater testimony of love be shown then this to be taken into the number of God's Children? to be counted Sons and Daughters of the Great and Glorious God? the Lord of Hosts; the High and Mighty King of Kings. Oh yes, it doth not yet appear what we shall be, now we see but darkly as in a Glass, but here is mercy, this is tender love▪ that when he shall appear who hath so loved us, even our dear Redeemer in his Glory, we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is, our dear Saviour who was content not only to lay down his life for us that we might be partakers with him of his Sonship and also of the Glory.  
Oh the transcendent and unspeakable love of God to poor Souls, whom the Lord Jesus is pleased out of the rich treasury of his divi●e Love to reconcile unto God by the blood of the Cross, and what hath the Lord required again of us poor Worms for all his benefits, but that we should return him love again, and this is the love he requires that we should keep his Commandments, oh bl●ssed Lord and thy commandments are not grievous but delightful to the Soul that loves thee, and what is thy Commandment dear Lord this is my Commandment (and it is a ●ew Commandment) that you should love one another my Commandments are not grievous it is only love that is required, and that you should manifest it in obedience to my commands; one of which is that you love one another, but how dear Lord shall we manifest our love to thee in loving one another, how hast thou required that we should love one another, have not I set you an example.  
Did not I first love you? and therefore give you this new Commandment; that as I have loved you so you would love one another, with a sincere pure unbounded love, such a love as seeks not your own things, but the good of others, such a love as is inward and not in outward show only, but in deed, and in truth, in the sincerity of your hearts, such a love as seeks the good and spiritual advantage of one another's Souls, to love one another as I have loved you, or to love thy friend, as thou lovest thyself, most willing to do that which may be for thy friends good, although it be to some prejudice to thyself; this is love and by this you shall know that you are my Disciples, if thus you love one another; and by this men sha●l know that you are mine, such as I have loved from the beginning, Oh dear Lord how art thou pleased thus to plead with pooe clods of cl●y what sweet argument of thine own matchless goodness.  
Art thou pleased to lay down thy life to draw poor sinful Souls to thyself, O Lord whom didst thou ever bless with a clear sight of the least glimpse of thy most gracious goodness, that yet could not love the Lord, are not our hearts harder than stone, How many is there do profess to love thee but in works deny thee, even in this great matter of love even in loving one another,  
Do we not rather backbite, and discover one another; where is that tender bearing one another's burdens? Where is that sweet convincing spirit to reprove as should be in Christians? how few are to be found but such as fear both to reprove and to be reproved, to exhort or to be exhorted in that s●nce; where is that love which hides a multitude of faults? that love that works no● thinks ne ill to his neighbour, where is that spirit of mourning over one another's infirmities, that spirit of supplication in one another's behalf, Lord where is this Spirit to be found in the measure it ought.  
Sure but in few that do make profession of thy name Lord! is there not secret pride lie● hidden through Hippocricy in our base deceitful hearts; whoever saw the Lord that could not love, who Lord hast thou ever brought under the power of thy constraining love, that are not willing there to rest, but Lord unless thou teachest by thy holy spirit, and give us daily supply from thine own self we can do nothing O Lord we are not able to the one good action without thy especial grace, but here lies our fault still we have not power no strength, Lord we have not because we a●k not, Our dear Lord hath said, Ask and you shall receive, O how largely is he pleased to make promise unto poor worms, Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name I will do it; and again repeats it, And if ye shall ask any thing in my name I will do it, is not there a gracious promise from the mouth of him in whose power it is to make it good; Is it not from the Lord himself who is the only giver of all good, whose word the least tittle of which shall not fall to the Ground, O then, why are we not more at the throne of Grace, since he is pleased in mercy to afford unto us so glorious a priviledg●, O that my soul may abide seeking of thee, that my heart may still more and more be carried out with this sincere love, unto thee and thine; O suffer me dear Lord once more to say with boldness through thy Grace I will not let thee go until thou herein will bless me.    

This before her Marriage.  
La libre de mon Consalationes & la meditationes de mon Coeure, Sarah Roan, December 1660.  
My Meditations from that blessed experience the Lord hath been pleased in much mercy through the infinite Riches of his Grace, to give my poor unworthy Soul, of his unspeakable love in Jesus Christ, by the preaching of the word and reading of the Scriptures.   

Meditations of Wisdom in embracing the offer of Jesus Christ.  
WISDOM is accompanied with a most glorious train of Heavenly beautie● exactly form into a scene; which doth present the souls eternal happiness and being united with the soul, make it partaker of her graces she carries ever with her (and those that fin● her shall find with her) in esteemable values and things of great price, happy therefore is the man that sits knocking at her gates for in her are all the paths of pleasure, and the ways of peace, and what can be desired more? Pleasure is that the world is most eager after, but it is such a pleasure as ends in sorrows, these pleasures cannot bring peace to the soul, they may satisfy themselves with vain hope and say peace, we shall do well, but surely sudden destruction shall come upon them, there is no peace for such saith my God.  
But now here is pleasure which proceeds from the breast of wisdom, such pleasure as will bring profit to the soul, and peace also, such pleasure as will never hurt the soul but make it happy for ever.  
What is it people take pleasure in, is it not commonly in things that excel for richness, for glory and delight, etc. Pray consider what thing more glorious can we have then to be found in the radiments of Heaven for glory, for beauty, for splendour, for delight and comfort, such are not to be found in the earth, nor in the least to be equalled with it, to enjoy Communion with a God who is infinitely glorious, so that there is none like unto our God, to have an interest in a Christ, who is altogether lovely, and can it be expressed the good and comfort a soul in Christ is enriched withal, even with joy unspeakable and full of Glory? Oh what comparison can be made with the joys of heaven and those Rivers of endless pleasures, which are at Christ's right hand for evermore, these are the pleasures which true spiritual Wisdom, is accompanied with, nay her paths are pleasantness and her ways are peace, she leads in the ways of God; and those ways are the ways of peace, and worldly troubles can never overcome a heavenly peace, is it not a comfort to a Soul though in the midst of storms, in the world to see himself at peace with God, what sufferings would he think hard and too much for him to bear, when he sees his Soul in a bond of peace being reconciled unto the Father by the Son even Christ Jesus? This is not such a peace as the world giveth, no 'tis the peace of God which passeth all understandings which God is pleased to give unto his Saints alone as an earnest of eternal happiness; and 'twas the care of our dear Saviour himself at his parting out of the world to leave his peace with us even with his own, to bear them out and keep up their hearts in those trials, temptations, and conflicts which they are sure to meet withal in their pilgrimage before they come to that holy Hill of Zion, that heavenly Jerusalem, that glorious City of which the Lamb himself is the light, which being attained the recompense surely outpasses very much the labour after it here is the pleasure of a true believer, in the fruition of God, and here lies his comfort in being at peace with God, and this can bear him up, and support him though in the midst of a fiery furnace, now those are the pleasures of the godly, but the worldlings pleasures are of another kind, the wicked deli●hteth himself in world i● vanities, as if their were the greatest happiness, and truly so it is to them they think not of their eternal being, 〈◊〉 make provision ●or the fl●sh ●ha● they may 〈◊〉 the lu●t thereof; And h●d rather lose heaven with all the glory of it, although it be a being of eternal rest, rather than part with their base lusts in which they take pleasure, and which they cannot keep long but may in the midst of those their pleasures ●e snatched away and 〈◊〉 to receive the reward of their actions in horror and eternal darkness those that had rather sin then suffer for the cause of Christ here, shall assuredly suffer for their sin to all eternity, he is not worthy of Christ that cannot with co●ten● par● withal for him, what is our all even nothing, when we consider the gain we have by Christ; nay what have we of our own to lose what we have is it not from the hand of our heavenly father who is the given of all goodness.  
We ●●ceive it and cannot he that giveth all take it a● again whensoever he pleaseth, and if he through his infinite wisdom seem good to take hose things from us which might through our base corrupt hearts proves snares to our Souls, and give unto us heavenly treasures, the riches of his grace and gift of his holy spirit, the true wisdom, to know him, who to know a right is life Eternal, and having of these how great will the exchange be, what cause can a Soul in such a case have to complain, although he were stripped of all worldly comforts, surely he ought to lay his hand upon his mouth and submit unto the Lord in all things; Naked came I out of my mother's womb, etc.  
Yet sometimes the Saints of God, walk in heaviness under the afflicting hand of God, even when the Lord hath withdrawn his quickening presence from them, which made David lie sobbing under so great an oppression, also all the dear Children of God have been sensible of the loss they have sustained by Gods withdrawing of his presence from them, what, sad cries and complaints have the church made for the same reason? but will God forsake for ever, no he will not, for a moment I hide my face from thee but in everlasting kindness will I remember thee whom God loves he loves for ever, and chastisements are but effects of his love the dearest of God's Children may stand in need of the rod of Correction.  
And God is pleased as a loving Father to try all wa●es for his children's good, he will hid his face from them that they may see the evil of their sin▪ which hath caused them to lose the comfort of their Souls, and thereby return with repentance that they receive mercy, for he is a tender hearted father who looks with the eyes of compassion on his Children and will hear them when they cry unto him, he will put their tears into his bottle, so precious are they in his sight, he will comfort the mourner and hath pronounced him blessed, O blessed be the means that brings such blessedness to the Soul? that it should be taken notice of by the great God, who would not be a mourner all his days to have such a comforter to help and secure him? and who would not forsake the vain pleasures of the world to enjoy those heavenly felicities and eternal pleasures, which are at Christ right hand for ever more.  
Lord give me evermore that bread and satisfy my Soul there with; O see where beauty lies, the King's daughter is all glorious within, there's her beauty, not laid open to the eyes of worldlings, but in the sight of her well beloved alone, to the world they look black and swarthy, yet are they washed in the fountain of his blood hence they are declared to be without spot, the world seethe not these things, but the Lord is the searcher of hearts, and the tryer of Reins whose eyes go through the earth and knoweth who they be; whose hearts are upright before him; O here is wisdom, even in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus, whom to know, to know a rigbt is life Eternal, to know God to be a wise just and merciful God to those that have his fear in their hearts, who desire to walk in obedience to his ways, and whose soul trembleth at his righteous judgements, but to such that wilfully disobey his commands and despise his Laws setting their hearts against God and fight against him by their lusts, the language of whose heart is truth, God seethe it not; God seethe all thy do, ye the very thoughts are not hid from him, thou hast thy inventions, and gloriest in thy strength, know vain man God laughs thee to scorn, if God sayas but the word thy devices shall perish and thou shalt be consumed in the fire of his Wrath? who will come rendering vengeance upon such who obey not his word, and who can stand before a consuming fire, if the thoughts of God be so dreadful to unrepentant sinners; here what will it be to such as the day of Judgement when they shall be summoned to appear before the presence of an angry God being only covered with their abominati- abominations, then shall they call to the 〈…〉 fall upon them, and the Mountains to hi●e 〈◊〉 from ●he fierce wrath ●● an angry God, who will consume th●m with t●e brea●● of his nostril's; Al●s▪ than there is no Mediator for their poor Souls, no interceeder shall they see; he▪ who would have been a Saviour to them, now their Judge, then sha●l they look back and consider the pieteous time they have lost▪ the many offers of Grace they have rejected and despired the Spirit of the Lord, which would hav● led and instructed them in the way which leads to eternal happiness.  
But now 'tis too late, the time of grace is gone, the day is past, Christ knocked at the door of thy heart▪ but thou wouldst not▪ he has proffered grace and mercy but thou rejectedst it, and wouldst have none of it, Christ has word and entreated and waited that he might be gracious, yet thou hast been deaf and blind and hardued thy heart against him who pitri●d thee and would Have brought th●e out by 〈◊〉: entreaties of the way thou hast run headlong into, to thy own destruction, but thy heart was filled with vanities at best which now thou hast found to be but shadows, and thine ears were stopped and so taken up with thy lusts and pleasures that thou couldst give no ear to the entreaties of a Christ, nor the kind invitations of a blessed Saviour, who has called upon you to come and buy without money or prize only with the loss of your lusts, justly may it be said that thy destruction is of thyself, that thou ha●t wilfully and willingly ●un thyself headlong into that gulf of hor●●r and eternal misery, O Souls, consider whom you do despise what dulness is it thus posseseth you to reject the Lord of life; who●e service is so precious who is all love & sweetness, and the only thing to be desired, what is there to be desired that is not to be found in him, who is all fullness, out of whose fullness his own receive ev●n grace for grace, and what can we see in our minds to be more pleasant to us then that which is but full and lovely what beauty can be like this beauty, what glory can be equal to thi●e, what is there can be compared unto thee, O my Lord thou art all together lovely, who do you despise, O see how wretchedly rather (naturally) dost thou sit upon a dunghill and feed upon husks, rather rhen feed at the banquet of fat things, feasted at the King's banquet, that had rather be bondslaves to Sin and Satan, which brings nothing but shame and confusion both to Soul and body, then to be freemen of Jesus Christ, by whom comes life salvation and eternal hapyness. what thing is there in the world is so requisite and so needful, that we should be thus blinded, from beholding the necessity and the need we have of a crucified Christ, what things is there in the world so glorious and so beautiful that should take our hearts off from those heavenly objects, those celestial beauties, those beams of glory, that are set at the right hand of God, O then be no longer fools but wise, redeeming the time get wisdom, which is of so glorious a nature as to bring you to the true knowledge of God who calls upon you saying  
Blessed are they which attain to this Wisdom, and lay it up in their hearts, in so doing they shall find riches and honour profit and pleasure and that of a higher Nature than any the world can produce and with all that blessed peace of conscience which brings the Soul to joy eternal▪ what are the riches and the honours of the world? riche● take wings, thy are but a little dust, things which God in an ordinary way of providence gives to the wicked, wh●n he has denied them to the dearest of his Children; aye, and they are the wickeds portion, therefore grudge it them not, for they are their good things in this life, but thine are laid up in the bosom of the Father's love, theirs shall be but for a time, but thine for eternity, besides, they that have most of them have them not without their trouble, they are empty having no substance nor reality in them, but shadows.  
Which by a fair show, delude the Soul and draw it in to a snare, these are the things the world is so eagar after which being gained the value of them would not counter veil the loss of the least smile of God; how much better is it to gain Christ though with the loss of the world and allworldly enjoyments, then to gain the world with the loss of Christ; So likewise honeurs, they shall all fall, and come to nothing, keep it as long as thou canst which will be but as long as thou livest, it is but for a moment, and there be many thing, may combine together to cut it short even in the midst of that moment, but say thy henor should carry thee to the Grave it will leave thee there, it will not carry thee to Heaven, the wise and the honourable dyeth as doth the fool; the poorest man that is, can claim so much ground as to bury them in, and thou canst do no more, of earth thou wast made and to earth thou shall return, there is nothing more sure than what is honour worthy? [worldly honour  
What ●ools are we when at the best it is but vanity and most that are in honour perish as do the beasts happy is the man a f●om ●he Lord the King of Kings will honour with h●s grace & holy Image, surely the best Robe is put upon him ev●n the Robe of Ch●ists Righteousness, the White Robe of his innocence, the Ring shall be put upon his finger, and he shall be more glorious and honourable than the Kings of the earth; you'll say, 'tis honour to a man to have the King his friend, much more honourable it is then when the King is his Father and if this be honour to be a friend or child to an earthly Prince, of how much greater honour is it to be the child of the Heavenly King who is so infinitely above all the world, that the whole earth is but as the d●op▪ of a Bucke● on the small dust of the Balance unto him, at whose feet Kings shall lay down their crowns and Rulers shall be i● subjection, and when he speaks, who can resist his power? who with his voice maketh the earth to tremble, the Lord who i● mighty in ●ower, in Wisdom, in knowledge, in me●cy, and in tru●h, who made all things out of nothing & can withone word of his mouth reduce them to nothing again gain, he is the King of Kings and the Lord of glory, he pulleth down and seateth up as he pleaseth.  
Here then lies true honour and true happiness even in the favour of this God; O what advantage has that Soul over the world whose Soul hath an interest in the Father's love as there is no love so great so there is no love so true as that where with he loves his peculiar ones, his love it is a transendant love; so it is in comprehensible love, it hath no bound, but it in dures forever; what love is there like unto it? what variety and change do we see daily the world produceth: in this ma●ter or love of creatures, to day we may see a show of love and affectious and think we are happy in them but how suddenly do they change, how little a thing will set them at a distance and break their amity; O this is the love of the world and what 1st worth? but here is a love which is not subject to change as to the Nature of it is such a love as the substance of a man's house will not purchase, which the Lord of love in spires his people with it is a Spiritual and evangillicall love, such a one as proceed from the divine nature a perfect love which admits of no change, his love is infinite and eternal whom he loves he loves forever, A Soul once re-received unto the Father's love shall a bide forever; Who shall separate us from the Love of God which is in Christ Jesus neither height nor depth nor principalities nor powers neither things present nor things to come shall do it; Death itself cannot take this love from his beloved ones▪ no it will but make a way for the perfecting of that love which here we enjoy but in part.  
The love of God is also a tender and compassionate love, the love of friends wax cold but the love of God shall never be diminished, A mother may forget her child, but such is the Nature of our Heavenly Father who hath engraven his beloved ones so deeply in his heart that 'tis impossible they should be forgotten sometimes he is pleased to correct his dearest Children, but it is as a dear and loving Father chast●ising whom he loves, sometime he hide● his face but 'tis for a moment that he might remember them in everlasting goodness, he looked upon us in our low estate when no eye pitied us, than was a time of Love, than the Lord had compassion on us, and out of his infinite wisdom found out a means for the recovery of our Souls, he laid help upon one that was mighty, even his dear Son, the son of his love; who gave himself a ransom that he might redeem our souls out of eternal misery; behold with what manner of love the Father hath loved us when we were vile wretches, sinful creatures he sent his only begotten, who was willing to leave his Glory to invest himself with misery for the good of Souls, he that sat at the right hand of the Father's Glory, he, even the Lord of Glory took upon him the form of a servant.  
He became poor for us that we through his poverty might be made rich, and heirs of the Kingdom of glory, O what was there in us to invite the Lord thus to love us, it was an act of mercy alone, riches of his Grace bestowed upon us in Jesus Christ.  
O then why do we spend our money for that which is not, why do we spend our pretions' time in catching shadows, and in the mean time let go the substance, why do we promise ourselves good out of vanities, which are nothing but deceit, and in the mean time deprive ourselves of that Soul satisfying comfort which can only ma●e us happy to all eternity, is God so gracious and is the riches, of his grace so freely bestowed upon us O then shall we any longer reject so great a blessedness doth Christ stand knocking at the door of our hearts out of love to our Souls and shall we deny him entrance, shall we despise his calls.  
And those tenders of Grace made in his word, those entreaties and sweet i●vitations sent unto us to compel and bring unto him, to bring to life itself, and so raise us out of the Grave of Sin, wherein we lie and so be made partakers of that ●●vine nature, and Coheirs with him in the Kingdom of Glory, and shall we now continue sti●l in our stubborness, and resist wilfully our Souls good, shall we whilst Christ woe● & entreats us in his word and by his spirit to be reconciled unto God, to lay hold of mercy before it be too late, stop our ears and ha●den our hearts to our own destruction? he can raise up Children out of the dust to praise him! 'tis the love and tender compassion of God towards us who wills our Salvation, and would not that we should perish, but should live for ever, ●hall we for the love of a base lust forgo so great a blessedness, O hardness of heart. blinded and benumbed with Sin, who having any sense would not melt before beams of divine love▪ what heart so hard as stone cannot but be pierced at the considerations of that love which with Christ hath loved us.  
In whom is all fullness and will give out his fullness, in such abundance into thy Soul, as shall make thee for ever happy, who would not joyfully submit to be under the protection and sol● Government of such a King, whose ●oke ●s easy, and whose burden is light, whose ways are pleasant and whose paths drop marrow and fatness, in whom is all things and who i● infinitable to supply all wants, and whatever thou standest in need of Oh consider what a blessed comfort is it for thy soul to have such a friend, to stand by thee at the great and terrible day, when the Lord shall pour out the Vials of his wrath rendering vengeance upon those who have wilfully neglected and made slight of those tenders of love and mercy, the Lord has so freely offered unto them, who have despised the means of their salvation.   

To my dear Brothers and Sisters, this poor, yet sincere Manuscript of my truest love, from the serious Meditations of my Soul, out of the blessed Word of God.  
Exhertations never come unseasonable, never are unuseful unto the Sou● who delights itself in the ways of God, which my Soul, throu●h Grace hath experienced, and that alone hath put me upon this according to the measure, wherewith the Lord hath enabled me, to desire the good and eternal welfare of the Souls of my dear Brothers and Sisters; and as we are all one in flesh and blood, oh that it were the will of the Lord that we might be all of one and the same spirit, sanctified by faith through the blood of Jesus Christ, (and it may be) as I hope it will (a Sister's counsel) which hath experimentally tasted the wonderful goodness of God, may work yet more upon you through the operation of his good spirit, therefore suffered me to say it is good to seek the Lord whilst he may be found to call upon him whilst be is near.  
Oh that I could persuade you to lay hold on time, whilst the day lasteth, not to resist the tenders of Grace, when they be offered to you, lest they be hid from your eyes, it is only the infinite wisdom, goodness, and mercy of God, which only causeth him to look upon such sad wretched rebellious creatures as we are, who could of stones raise up Children to praise him, he hath no need of us nor our services. but the need we had of a Saviour, hath caused him to look upon us when no eye pitt●ed us, and in his infinite wisdom found ou● a means of deliverance even the dear son of his love, whom he hath given to be broken, bruised, suffer death, and become a curse for poor sinners, that he might redeem them from the curse of the Law, but this privilege doth not belong to all sinners in general, but to such who by a lively faith, lay hold upon this crucified Christ, else they who are sinners, will be sinners still they shall die in their sins and the wrath of God will be upon them to all Eternity, great is the misery of a Christless and graceless soul, being an enemy to God, then how can God be otherwise then an enemy to it? Oh how can a soul rest in such a condition as this, what peace can they have.  
Doth it not then behoove every soul to be earnest in searc, hang to find out the true estate of his soul knowing for a truth (they being the words of our Saviour▪ that unless a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, till they are regenerated & become new creatures in Christ, putting off the old man with his deeds and putting on the new man, which is after the spirit, in righteousness and true holiness, and this is all to be done by an interest in Christ, that so his righteousness may become ours, and all those privileges of grace and mercy which he hath purchased may be imputed to us through the blood of his Cross, and so by being in Covenant with the Father, through the Son we shall have all things, Oh what a blessed state is it to be in Covenant, with the great God of Heaven and Earth! Oh what a depth of Love i● it, and how great a comfort is it to a poor soul covered over with a leprosy to see a Ph●sitian not only able but willing to cure him, for a poor lost creature which sees himself undone, in himself by reason of the vast guilt and debt which lies upon him, the shame which lies upon his soul by reason thereof.  
As not daring to lift up his eyes to heaven when he shall not see only his debts paid, but also Christ his advocate pleading with the Father in his behalf, oh here lies the Souls true happiness, and here is a believers comfort, that Christ died not only for sinners, but for me, a sinner, what is this to me, or what comfort can it bring me to have a notion as most of the World hath, that Christ died for sinners, and I am one amongst the rest; and therefore I hope to be saved by Christ, had I no greater evidence for heaven, my condition would surely be ever miserable, but blessed be God it is otherwise with me, and certainly if it were not, my soul would be in a very restless condition, oh did but any of you know what it is to be in a state of Grace, you would surely see a sweet change you would look over and lament the many precious hours you have let go in se●king after vanity, and in the mean while lost so much sweetness and comfort as is to be had in the knowledge of God▪ ways, which are the things only delightful, having substance and reality, and can only profit the Soul, All other things are mere shadows; empty husks, which canno● satisfy the Soul, these things which appear so pleasing to you now, would (when b● Grace you come to see the evil of them) be the objects of your hatred; there is nothing so glorious, so sweet, and so lovely, as is the Lord Jesus, he is altogether lovely to a gracious Soul, who has tasted of divine goodness, and hath been refreshed with the sweet streams of his Love, which had you once but tasted▪ you would surely see all earthly enjoyments but poor, vain things, and count them all as nothing, yea worse than nothing in comparrison of that hidden treasure, that unsearchable riches, which is laid up in the Lord Jesus, and shall ●e revealed in his Saints, oh that the Lord would incline your hearts to consider and weigh these things in your mind, which is it better that your bodies, should for a moment of time enjoy the deceitful pleasures in this World, then that your immortal Soul●s should enjoy those transcendent and certain pleasures which shall never fade? those heavenly Mansions of eternal rest; which those Souls shall find who are in Christ, at the last day and shall live in the presence of their dear redeemer for ever, where the Soul shall never find more trouble, but be ever praising the Lo●d, and singing HAL●LE-LUJAHS to the King of Sain●●, oh how glorious a time will this be, who is it then, that would not be content (with Balaam) to die the death of the righteous, but unless we live the life of the righteous our latter end would not be so, if Christ be not in us, we are reproba●es, we lie under the heavy Wrath of an angry God, and as it were dropping into hell every moment, there ro receive the just reward of our do in eternal destruction from which there is no redemption, in a Lake which burneth with brimstone and fire, and never goeth out, is not assurance better than suspense, is it not good to have assurance always about us, that when we shall come to render up our Souls at what timesoever they are required of us, we may have nothing to do but resign it unto our father's bosom? Oh presume not in thy own supposed goodness Nothing but Christ's blood could purchase Redemption, and if by a lively faith thou canst lay hold on him thou shalt be made partaker of Christ and his benefits his righteousness made over to thee.  
Then mayest thou with boldness, through Christ, have ●c●e●s unto the throne of Grace; and, through the Son, enjoy communion with the Father, being related to God, having him to be thy Father, b●ing a member of Christ, being bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh, the temple of the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God dwelling in you; and is God thy Father then consider who 'tis is pleased to own thee for a child? not a man, no nor the best of men, would you not think it great honour to be the Son of some Noble Man, much more if you were Son to a King, is it honour to be Son to an earthly King an will you count it no glory to be Son to the King of Kings? will you give honour to an earthly King and will you not honour him by whom Kings Reign? surely if God becomes thy Father he deserves honour from such a poor wretched creature as thou art? consider the transcendent love and infinite wisdom of the great God in calling all out of the world, if thou belong to him; he will look on thee when thou art in thy blood when thou art covered over with a Leprosy of sin, and corruption, and no eye pitied thee, when thou wert dead then he saith, l●ve ye being an enemy he reconciled to himself, through the Blood of his own Son, the Son of his love in whom he was well pleased, in whom he delighted, in whom there was no sin neither guile found in his Mouth yet this was the infinite unspeakable Love of God to poor sinners and for our sakes was the Lord of glory willing to come down out of the Bosom of his Father, into the Circle of corruped earth, to disrobe himself of his glo●y, and take upon him sinful flesh, nay, he took upon him the form of a Servant and ●umbled h●mself unto death, even thaes cursed death of the Cross, that he might exalt thee and purchase for thee a crown of Glory; what heart is there but a heart of stone that these charractors of Gods unspeakable Love cannot make impression upon, have you seen the Love of God in Christ and not been touched with a lively sense of so infinite a mercy; have you experienced it is any wise and not found the love of Christ to be a constraining Love? surely, those that have tasted the gracious sweetness of the Lord, will be filled with a holy admiration, and will have a heart full of breathe after those Heavenly visions and long for a more entire Communion with the Father of mercies and the God of Love;  
But these seem to be strange things to a carnal Soul, they are not to be seen with the eyes of flesh but by the eye of faith through the operation of the Spirit the holy spirit of God the holy Ghost the comforter which our Saviour promised to send to his disciples and with them the whole elect of God, now did we but consider the miserableness of our condition by nature, being dead, du●l, blockish, having no life, or sense at all in any spiritull action, yet that the Lord should awaken such out of the graves of there sins and reveal the righteousness of Christ unto them, who can but admire the infinite goodness of our God, now when this spirit of God works it comes with power, discovering sin, and teaching the Soul to deny all ungodlyness and sinful lusts, and to live righteously and soberly in this present evil world, the Soul is convinced of siin, before of righteousness, Christ came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance, who will seek to a physician that is not sensable of any want he have of him, be that thinks himself most secure hath the most need of help, La●dicea said she was rich and full and needed nothing when Christ found her poor blind and naked and she knew not not her miserable condition being destitute and wholly wanting,  
When we see ourselves at a loss, O whether shall we go but unto Christ, who is infinitely able to save unto the uttermost all that by faith come unto him, let us not despair for God is faithful who hath promised and his word shall stand for ever, let us fly unto the throne of his graee by that new and living way which he hath found out and appointed for the eternal comfort of poor sinners, even the Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of glory, and the Son of his love, that whosoever truly reputes from his heart, and by faith lares hold upon him sha●l not perish but have everlasting li●e, O let us admire the infinite goodness of the ●ord, and diligently inquire whether we have ever had this change, effectual wrought in us or no, have we the sh●mt●mbes of a new born Soul in us than we shall ●ee what cause we have to magnify the riches of his grace in calling us from the world unto himself by his holy spirit, that hath not suffered us to lie buried under the ruins of our own sins out of which we cannot come without the dr●wings of God and the greatness of the mercy will heighten our praise, when we consider the infinite number of dead Souls on the right hand and on the left, and yet that the Lord should please in a more particular manner graciously to look upon us▪ A Heaven born Soul as new born babe desires the sincere milk of the word that it may grow thereby, which being fed upon through the power of the spirit, is able to bring the Soul into a perfect state in Christ Jesus, who is the word of life and the express image of his father's person, A new creature finds in himself a wonderful change, every faculty of his soul is changed, Christ died to redeem us to himself from the world from our vain conversations, As well to sanctify us as to save us, that we should live no longer to ourselves but to him that hath bought us and purchased to himself a peeular people zealous of Good Works; that he might reign as a King in our hearts who is the King of righteousenss and who has commanded us to be holy as he is h●ly; without which there is no seeing of the face of a holy God; and si●ce it is only Love and new obediance which proceed from Love that the Lord of Glory hath required of us in return of those unspeakable tok●ns of hi● Lov● to us, O what are we or what is our Love that we should not think all we have two little for so good a God that we should not willingly render unto the Lord our ALL is nothing at all, what is good is of the Lord not ours, and his but just that he should have his own; O then let us not keep back any part of what the Lord hath required of us, but let us turn to him with the whole heart, for it is his by purchase and though he hath in mercy afforded us greater comforts for our use, it is not that our hearts should be taken up in them but that we might have a Santified use with comfort of them, that we might use them to his glory who is the giver of all good things; these hath he given to us for to be our Servants to supply our necessity and if we set a higher price upon them, he can take them from us he has required that we should set our affectiones on things more noble, on things that will never fade away, but are of an enduring substance, which if we do in the seeking the Kingdom of Heaven, he has promised that all things shall be added to us; O could we but do so, how sweet and comfortable might our lives be, when being invested in the Robe of our redeemers righteousness, we may through him enjoy Communion with the Father and live in the assurance of his love, who hath said I will never laave thee or forsake thee, O Blessed promise which if we could but by faith lay hold upon we need not be dismayed nor fear nor be in care for any thing but may with blessed David say, the Lord is on my side I will not fear what Man can do unto me.   

Meditations upon hearing the Voice of Christ.  
MY Sheep hear my Voice, the Sheep of Christ a●e few, a little flock, and to be one of these Oh how great a blessing is it? the world is large and full and that the great JEH●VAH should please to pick out for himself one of a Tribe▪ and one of a Family, a small remnant, a peculiar people, and (thou) ONE, O how great and gracious is thy wonder working God? It could not be from any thing of thy desert but from his tender pity his bowels of compassion, to thy poor sinsick soul, O what canst thou render unto the Lord, for all his benefits, what recompense is there for so much mercy, when all is mercy thou art made partaker of; y●a thy whole life it is made up of mercy, thou art, through Grace, O Lord, my gracious God, my tender hearted Father in thy Son, And if thou please to water this barren ground, barren by nature it shall be made a fruitful garden yea thou canst make it bring forth fruit yea much fruit, yea such fruit, in which thou takest delight, in which thou mayst have glory is thine own Grace.  
And give comfort to this poor unworthy Soul of mine, unworthy in itself but thou dear Lord hast been pleased to favour it with so great evidence of thy Love, O let me Lord for ever ●●nd, these sweet refreshing showers.  
O how sweet a thing it is to sit at Wisdoms Gate, at the footsteps of the beautiful gate of the Temple of Zions King, there to behold his glory? As a sheep of Christ to graise upon those Mountains of spices on which the Son of Righteousness shineth, O how glorious art thou in the beauty of holiness, here indeed is rest and here is comfort, true satisfaction and everlasting felicity.  
The Lord Jesus Christ, the King of glory, is pleased to stoop so low to poor unworthy creatures, and in the condescension of his gracious Love, to take upon himself the stile of a poor shepherd to his people yet is he such a one who through his grace will teach his sheep to know his voice and follow him, O who can learn this Lesson, Lord, but such whom thou shalt teach therefore, says David blessed is the man whom thou teacheth, and instructest out of thy Law.  
A shepherd leadeth his poor silly sheep, creatures, who of all others have lest to defend themselves, into the green pastures, there to feed securely, whilst his watchful eye is over them, lest Wolf or Bear should rob him of any one, his care is also for the young and tender Lambs, in cherishing and preserving them from cold and hunger which they cannot bear.  
Such is the care of him, who is thy Shepherd O my soul if thou art one that hears his voice if thou art one whom he hath known, whom he hath looked upon in grace and mercy, and so known as to make thee follow him art not thou one of his Sheep? O then, with comfort be assured thou shalt be fed, thou art enriched by this with greater treasure and more honour, then if thou wert the only child unto a King, yea than if thou hadst in thy possession the greatest treasure in the world, know he that is thy shepherd is the Lord of Lords, and King of Kings, who doth not only know what thou standest in need of and what is fittest for thee but is willing yea ready to give out of his fullness to supply thy wants, and help thy necessities, then will I go unto my Rock since he hath brought me to behold his Glory and to taste through Grace, the powerful influences of Love, My earhly parents were they Kings or Princes could do no more, but give me life and place to breath in, but Eternal Life and endless Glory hath thy great Kingly shepherd purchased for thee, 'tis no less than a Kingdom, hath it been the father's good pleasure, to take his little flock whilst here into his gracious Custody that none; no not Satan himself that enemy of Souls, shall ever be able to pluck them out of his hands, Oh let thine eyes be upon him by whom thou livest, that rock and fortress of thy souls salvation, O what comfort is in his smiles. And 'tis he can keep thee in his favour and continuance of his Love, therefore make glad my Soul, O Lord, with the bright beams of thy most glorious countenance; that so my Soul may live; O there is bitterness in thy frowns? when thou hidest thy face I am as those that go down into the pit of utter darkness; O 'tis thy presence makes things pleasant to the soul, and only gives it comfort in this world; O 'tis thy presence fits us for thy will, and keeps humble, and sincere before thee, life is a death unto the soul without thee, O that I might no more offend that Grace by which I live, O Lord take thou my soul▪ though weak into thy everlasting Arms, that so I may no more be drawn aside from thy Commandments nor do the things that may displease thee.   

Of heart examination.  
O How good a thing it is, my soul, to be often taken up in this blessed work of self examination; how it doth stand between thee and thy Lord, the Lord will give thee his assistance to help in so great and good a work, if thou wilt make thy addresses to him, with blessed David commune with thy own heart and be still, surely thine is not without evil? when the wise man says the hearts of the Sons of men are full of evil, yea the Lord himself hath declared, Gen. 6. 5. v. and every imagination of the thoughts of Man's heart to be only evil, and that continually, the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked and who can know it? says the Prophet Jer. 17 9 v. none but God, he searcheth the heart and ●ryeth the reins, Great mistakes through a deceitful heart, thou mayst entertain and apply to thyself that comfort which of right belongs not to thee, a deceitful heart saith, oft times Peace where no true peace is, therefore, O how precious is that peace of God that passeth understanding▪ that only can make the Soul happy▪ that blessed peace which the Lord Jesus breathed upon his poor disciples, and left them as a glorious legacy of precious Love, O my soul, It must be Christ in thee, the hope of Glory, must be the author of thy comfort and eternal happiness, therefore says the Apostle by this truth try the truth of your condition, examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith, 2 Cor. 13. 5. Prove your own selves know ye not your own selves, that Christ be not in you except you are reprobates, a sad and dismal condition to be rested in, and since it is so needful a thing to be found in Christ.  
O my Soul, how requisite would it be, and how much would it add unto thy present and eternal comfort to be fully assured in this point of so great importance, but what should a poor weak creature do, Lord I will cast myself at thy footstool, O do thou prove me and try me, and suffer me not to rest under a deceitful heart, make clear this in the way of prayer, meditation, etc. and to my Soul, that by the spirit speaking peace my soul may be sealed up with everlasting comfort by which to glorify the riches of thy free Grace for ever.   

Meditations of being in Christ.  
TO be in Christ is to be a new Creature quickened, inlivened, delivered from the power of sin and Satan, and the deadness of our sinful natures, to serve the living Lord, the spirit is given unto those whom he hath called by Grace and taken into Covenant with himself, for he that hath not the spirit of Christ is none of his; and this spirit is holy, humble, gracious, teaching the soul to know the voice of him that gives it; My sheep her my voice, the Lord knows them also, for he hath given them of his own spirit, and so made them to be partakers with him of the Divine nature, by which grace the soul comes to be a follower of Jesus Christ denying ungodliness and sinful lusts.  
All these things which are in opposition to so glorious a change, and to be more in conf●●mity unto our Lord and Saviour, who hath given of his spirit unto poor souls that they might be so, n●w the fruits of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gen●●●●●ss, goodness, faith weakness, temperance, fulfilled all in that blessed pattern the Lord Jesus, who out of Love to the poor Soul made himself an example that thou thereby mightest learn of him instructions.  
Now the righteous Lord loves righteousness; and is graciously pleased to place a delight in that soul that desires to walk humbly before him, having access unto the father by the same spirit of Christ living in the soul; by faith through him to find acceptance at the throne of Grace, and favour in the sight of the great and holy God, now my soul be earnest in the search, this great thing ask the assistance of thy great JEHOVAH thy tender loving father who only can give grace and promiseth graciously that he will supply the wants of them that truly seek him, and shall spread their case before him through so rich a mediator, the Mediator of that new and everlasting Covenant of grace and mercy, who hath said for the comfort of his poor Worm● here whatsoever ye shall ask the father in my name▪ believing it shall be done unto you, O is the Lord so gracious and hast thou so great refuge to run to, why standest thou here gazing?   

Meditations of being the Servant of Christ  
OH how rich a privilege is it to be a Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ? hath not my Lord been pleased to give me a heart truly to beg this, yea from my soul to beg that he would cast his yoke upon my neck, that he would accept of me poor worm to be his servant? O how much more did my soul long to be made a door keeper in the house of my God then to enjoy the greatest glories of the world? O how hath my soul longed, yea thirsted after the living Lord, that he would please to make me one, whom he would honour with the beholding of ●is glory not desiring greater privilege, O but my Soul now see and above all admire the gracious condescension or thy glorious God, who hath not only answered the poor request which he did through grace enable thee to breath out before him, but hath abundantly enlarged his bounty, and filled thee with joy, he hath filled the hungry Soul with good things; with the best things, and given thee not only a sight of his Glory, but, O the abounding Love, the unspeakable goodness, of thy gracious God an interest in that glory, so that thou canst through grace now say thou art my God, thou art my Lord, so great a privilege to me; thou knowest dear Lord, my soul desires to resine itself to thee, make it such as thou wouldst have it, Lord I am thine, do by me whatsoever seemeth good in thy sight, this afternoon the Lord was pleased to bring open home unto my soul the glorious nature of prayer, through the Ministry of our dear Pastors, from the 12 of Rom. to the 12 v. that this prayer is, It is a Saints recreation, A glorious exercise in which the Soul hath access to go through a Mediator, whereby a Saint may improve his interest daily at the throne of grace, and make humble confession of our manifold transgressions, to ask things needful for us, these remain on our part, but to return humble and hearty thanksgivings to the Lord for all our mercies, herein is the Lord glorified; and O what a comfort through Grace is it, when we can give thanks, when we can come and return hearty and humb●e thanks at the throne for all the good we have, and do daily receive from the bountiful hands of our great JEHOVAH, Lord be thou pleased to engrave this upon the heart of thy poor servant.   

Meditations on the 11th of Luke 19 Of a new heart.  And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you, and I will take t●e stony heart out of the flesh and will give them a heart of flesh. 
WHo is the giver of this new heart even the Lord of Glory, what is this new heart, it is a pure, single, upright, sincere heart, why doth the Lord in the conversion of a Soul, give him a new heart, because it is the heart; that he requires in duties the sincerity of the soul to walk before him in Love; this cannot an old base carnal heart do, until it be renewed, an humble soul goes with a regenerated Soul, the Lord will give more grace unto the humble (but pride the Lord resisteth.  
Oh give thy poor unworthy one more grace and keep my soul humble under the sense and feeling of thy gracious Love, so shall I Lord still praise thee and whilst I live extol the riches of thy grace, O to enjoy this sweet communion with thy glorious self.  
Dear Lord this is more delightful and more precious to me then to enjoy the greatest treasures upon earth, how precious is the Lord unto my soul? These are the excellencies and the glorious privilege of a regenerate soul, a new creature, whose heart is changed, through the gracious operation of the holy spirit, the whole nature is changed the glorious Image of the Lord Jesus is renewed on it, it is made an heir of Heaven, a temp●e of the Holy Ghost, a member of Christ.   

Of thirsting after assurance of Heaven▪  
BLessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled, they shall be made to drink deep of the wells of Salvation, they shall be filled in the mansions of eternal glory, when others shall be deprived of the least crumb of comfort 'tis he that seeks, shall find, and he that knocks shall have the door opened unto him, seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven, and the righteousness thereof, and all these things shall be added unto you, things of this life are but additional acts of his bounty,  
The great and prime part of a Christians work, is to make sure of Heaven and his eternal happiness hereafter, O great is that goodness of the Lord, how abundant his compassion, his love to poor sinful man, who would not have them set their hearts on such poor low things, as only this world affords; but a Kingdom of glory, yea an everlasting Kingdom, that shall never fade, a kingdom in which dwelleth righteousness, the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, no less than these things would the Lord have his poor people covet after, the rest are but things less material, and shall be given over and above, these things shall be added to you, O wonderful goodness.  
Such great and glorious privileges, such promises, such additional comforts, Oh what is man that thou shouldest be so mindful of him, or the son of man that thou shouldest thus delight to do him good, Oh my soul this is the Lords do, it is the great JEHOVAH, is thus pleased to stoop and condescend on terms of mercy, to take poor sinful souls into his favour, I, and he willeth, nothing less to them then an eternal weight of Glory, and is not this worth seeking after, O sure it is to that soul, who hath had a taste of what it is, sum: e heavenly treasures far exceed all earthly vanities, then surely in proportion to the goodness of them, should the desire of the ●oul be let out after them, Therefore, O let thy affections be set on heavenly things, since it is the goodness of the Lord to thee that thou mightest ●ast that he is gracious, that thou shouldest by sweet experiences find him to be faithful in whatsoever he hath promised for good unto thy soul, thy poor immortal soul, which without his grace had perished to all eternity, O 'tis for good to thee, the Lord hath thus commanded thee to seek that everlasting Kingdom, O 'tis thy soul will be the gainer, and thou, through grace shall one day find it so.  
O remember my Soul, thy Covenant with God in the day of thy espousal, then when it was the time of love, when he was pleased to put thee in the clefts of the rock Christ Jesus, and then to cause his glory to p●s● before thee, to make with thee an everlasting Covenant, settled and sure; th●t in the unchangeableness of his Grace shall stand for ever, were't thou but all ways in the contemplations of these heavenly joys thy heart could find no time to place itself on such mean things as this poor world affords, to be rich in Grace, and to be heirs of Glory, O how much better is it then to be encumbered with the things below, to have Communion with God, and to joy in the presence of thy King, is far better than to be in favour with the greatest Princes upon Earth, oh let my soul, dear father, live daily in the rich experience of this blessed truth more and more, whilst my abode is here, oh let me find the daily quickening of thy gracious spirit, to enjoy thy presence is to live in Heaven whilst here, oh t●s thyself that makes the passage sweet to Glory, oh 'tis the cords of thy Love, that makes the soul to run with hungrings and breathe after thee, that makes it love thy precepts more than its daily food, thus thou hast made me through thy grace experimentally to taste, O then hid not thy face, dear Lord, from my soul; The Loves wherewith thou hast delighted my soul, goes beyond all earthly glories; oh in the sense of this let my soul walk before my God in its integrity, yea for this will I go unto my God and Father for daily supplies since he it is that giveth liberally.   

Meditations of Death.  
IS death a terror to a gracious Soul? what is there in it can affright thee, when as the sting is gone, let it put on its worse ill shapen dress it can, it shall produce no harm unto thee.  
Death shall but release thee from a wretched world of misery, and prefer thee to a glorious Crown of blessedness the one will make thee everlasting miserable, the other eternally happy in the fruition of the father's Love in the full, free, and perfect enjoyment of his glorious presence unto all eternity, oh then how happy how blessed a thing it is to be dissolved and be with Christ, where sin sh●ll no more haunt thee, here, poor soul, thou canst not choose but see thyself daily involved with sin, followed with corruptions one of the worst of sinners; and in that thy shame should pull thee down into the dust, and make thee daily mourn in the abhorrency of thy vile self, since 'tis a God of so much Love that thou dost daily sin against, oh wretched Soul mayst thou cry out who shall deliver thee from this body of death.  
Yet O my soul take comfort in a dying Lord and glory in the strength of him, who is the God of thy salvation; O let his strength be magnified in thy weakness, and the riches of his grace appear more glorious in the saving of such a one, thou well mayst say thou art the worst of sinners, and yet through grace thou canst say thou dost abhor sin, dost thou delight in it, no, 'tis thy burden and since 'tis so, take comfort.  
In the remembrance of him who sweetly says, come unto me, he hath taken out the sting, and is become thine advocate, yea, and will plead thy cause, through his own merit, and everlasting Righteousness, in which through free grace, and infinite mercy he will present thee spotless before the throne of that Heavenly Grace;  
But since, O Lord, it is thy children's privilege not to sin sure 'tis our duty to be looking up to thee for new supply of strength to be kept daily in thy fear O how blessed is the Soul whom thou shalt keep, and ●each out of thy law? whom thou shalt feed with the pleasant fruits of Righteousness, and cause to rest under thy shadow with much delight, sure here alone is pleasure and everlasting peace; to feed with the flocks of Christ and to lie down in those pleasant pastures of eternal comfort, where Christ the beloved of thy soul shall preserve thee unto all eternity;   

Of Communion of Saints.  
O my Soul, what a mercy is it to go into the presence of the Lord in the Congregation of his people, to enjoy Communion with thy God in the assembly of his Saints.  
YEt if it be his pleasure, by a just cause to keep thee back; yet hast thou cause to hless him for ever for Jesus Chrsst that rich mercy, that unspeakable goodness, & for that word wherein he is received unto thee, O my soul through the Spirit of that infinite grace, here mayest thou solace thyself in divine Loves, and fill thyself with joy, hast thou but faith, then may thy joy be full, in Meditating of his gracious Attributes; he is the Lord God All Mighty, but if not so to thee, what availeth thee couldst not thou say, through grace, this it my Lord, this great God is my Father, how miserable would thy condition be to have this God to be thy enemy, though thou wert full of what this world could give thee, of highest enjoyment yet shalt thou be for ever miserable; but thy God is a merciful God, O it is good for thee that he is so, he is a God whose Glory is his Goodness; and his goodness is his glory; a God who is still▪ the same and changeth not, man may be said in all he doth or saith to be but vanity as a thing from himself, he being but a finite Creature, but who shall gain say the great and everlasting God, whose power is in and from himself, he is in deed a faithful God, a God that keepeth Covenant with those whom he through grace, hath taken into Covenant with himself;   

Meditations of the unchangeable Love of God,  
THen, O my soul, is the Lord unchangeable, is he still the same, and will be so, O then rejoice in the rich mercies of thy everlasting God; here is comfort for thee in your assurance of his love unto the end, ● have made an everlasting covenant with the house of Jacob, and if thou be'st of the seed of Jacob, this promise sure belongs to thee, Jesus Christ in Testates thee in this new covenant, who hath once for all offered up himself a Sacrifice, the everlasting satisfaction of divine justice, for those whom by the Lords gracious determinate will should have an interest in this rich redemption, O rich ind●ed, being purchased (not with corruptable things) but with the pretions' blood of Jesus Christ, that lamb of God without spot, or blemish, 'tis want of faith, poor soul, makes thee doubtful though thou manifest; as to thyself, condemn thyself as one unworthy, to hope for the least mercy, much less to believe such rich privileges belong to thee yet considering; my soul (for to thee I writ) thou art commanded to believe and without faith it is impossible to please God, and the Lord is thus wonderfully pleased in the great condescension of his gracious Love, to take it as a glory done to him from a poor creature, though the good of believing is to us, the glory of the act unto the Lord, who gives the power to any poor creature to believe, so to believe as to see so great a Salvation; in so believing, how can the soul but stand in admirations and glorify the riches of that grace, which caused, the great JEHOVAH to look upon so poor a worm, with such a Love, Behold with what manner, of Love the Father hath loved us, that we, even we, might become the children of God heirs with and in Christ Jesus of an eternal inheritance incorruptable and full of glory; and that thou mayest be filled with joy in these thy sweetest contemplations; has not the Lord then pleased, sometimes to evidence his gracious love, to thee in Christ Jesus and therein seek thee by his gracious word, with that holy Spirit, of promise to be thy God and Father?  
O he is the same God still, and if he loved thee, it was with an everlasting Love, if he hath taken thee into covenant with himself, it was to be thy G●d for ever, hast thou h●d this saving grace made sure to thee, fear not, but that the Lord not only can but will preserve his own, he will ass●●edly fulfil and ●erefect that good work he hath begun in thee; was one drop of Christ's Blood ●●●d in vain was it not of power sufficient to accomplish the end, for which it was shed even the bringing many Sons to glory; surely the Lord shall not come short of what he hath designed, the Devil may strive to pluck thee from thy God, but remember that g●atuus ●ord of thy redeemer unto his Sheep, that hear his blessed voice and follow him; I give unto the eternal life, and they shall never perish, whom the Lord hath owned, neither shall any man pluck them out of m● hands: O what a gracious privilege is here, thus to be kept by an Almighty power, the power of that great God, out of whose hand, no man, nay Satan, nor any of his Instruments, can ever be able to pluck thee; Christ hath purchased an everlasting redemption and to those who are in him, there is no condemnation; O blessed, and for ever blessed be the Lord; for this sweet truth, and f●r the evidencing of it in some measure to my poor unworthy soul; O how good a God is our God, who hath not only stored up such rich mercies for poor worthless ones, but is also please to leave it on record and wills that his poor creatures should be made happy in the knowledge of this their eternal happiness, O then, my soul, take comfort in those bleeding wounds of thy sweet Saviour; yet be thou humbled for it was thy sins that pierced his tender side, he knew no sin, yet for thy sake became sin to bear thy punishments thou wast his enemy, yet he could die for thee, to reconcile thee to himself; when thou wast in thy blood, a loathsome creature, then pity moved him, to show compassion to thee, that thou might live, he loves thee first, that thou shouldest then Love him; 'tis not thy flesh makes thee accepted but thy Saviour; thou art still a soathsome lump of filthiness; but by that comeliness which Christ hath put upon thee thou art accepted through an interest in him, thou shalt be beautiful in the sight of thy Lord and Father; this is O soul thy privilege, renew thy interest by thy daily approach and acting faith upon those glorious objects; let Christ be all in all to thee that thou having nothing in thyself might see thy ALL in him and fetch thine ALL from him; O blessed be that fountain in whom all fullness, yea everlasting fullness dwells?   

Meditations on the 11th Ch. of Matthew verse 28, 29, 30.  
See here (O Soul) the precious invitations of a glorious Christ.  Come unto me all ye that labour, and are heavy laden and I will give you rest, etc. 
WHo is it the Lord invites, is it not poor distressed sinners, O it is such he calls to taste his mercies lo, every one that thirsteth come, and come freely these tenders of my Love, these are the tenders of Love, the Soul satisfying comforts, come unto me, bring hither thy wearied soul though laden with iniquities I will give thee rest, cast thy burden upon me? O merciful Redeemer that art thus pleased for the good of man to bear the burden of our sins, those loads of Iniquities, which we should have sunk under in wrath, to all Erernity.  
But since the Lord hath in his wisdom, in his goodness, in the abundant riches of his Grace, been pleased to be the sinner's friend, O let it be of great use unto my soul who am the greatest of sinners 'tis thou who seest my wearied tired Soul.  
O blessed be thy holy Name, for the riches of this grace, thy unspeakable Love that wilt not despise the poorest nor unworthy soul that nee●s thy help, although they cannot crave it, nor dare not lift up their eyes unto the Throne of thy Grace, yet wilt thou be gracious unto whom thou wilt be gracious, and because thy tender comp●ssions fail not, therefore thou art pleased to have mercy upon me, a poor wretched creature, ah to thy name be glory and let my soul dear Lord for ever live thy praise, for thou alone canst work that frame upon my heart, that only pleaseth thee, O 'tis into thy gracious hands I would commit my soul, work in it Lord thy will, since I am thine through grace, O let me live no longer to myself, for thou art my strength by which work O Lord in me such a child like frame of spirit, as becomes thine, to yield thee in true obedience with holy fear, O let the Image of my Lord be form in me, that so in his light I may see light, that I may be filled with joy, and comfort and may have something to support me in an evil day, a day of trial and temptation, My soul, O meditate upon the unbounded love of God in Christ thy Lord, and the Lord in the abundant riches of his Grace in able thee with a sincere heart and sound judgement to apply these sweet soul experienced comforts and relishes of Love, wherewith thou hast, through grace been comforted often, and since prayer and Meditations is the way to make safe the soul; when Satan with his subtle Engines seeks to batter; Lord let him not prevail but let thy grace be now sufficient for me, and now my soul taste here, feed upon the sweetness of this call, Come unto me, it may be thou hast said thy sins are many and thou darest not come, an but consider who it is that calls thee is it not Christ thy Lord, yet he commands thee because thy sins are many and thou art troubled with the weight of them, therefore come, leave not thy sins behind thee, for that thou canst not do, but bring them to the feet of Christ thy Saviour, he in his grace will ease the burden wherewith thy soul was laden and give thee a blessed exchange, even his own righteousness imputed to thee, so hast thou found a righteousness in him, made thine by which being clothed, thou hast access unto the Throne of Grace, and shalt find favour with thy God, yea the Lord will be thine everlasting Righteousness and though thou art polluted and defiled with sin and corruption, yet in Righteousness were thou called, and Christ will  thy naked Soul with his Righteousness, a garment without spot or blemish, O come and come daily at his call, give no time to Satan to cast it in thy Teeth that thou shalt one day perish through the multitude of thine iniquities, for Christ is mighty and of power to save unto the utmost, and though thou canst see nothing in thyself but that which might bring eternal wrath upon thy head every moment yet here is thy comfort in that he hath accepted thee in the beloved, for whose sake he can deny thee nothing and therefore O Lord to thee be Glory for ever, who in thy love and tender compassion to my poor Soul hast delivered it from the pit of corruption.  
For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back, O that my Soul made living by thy Grace might ever praise thee; who is it calls me, O my Soul; behold the Lamb of God made Man to take away the sins of the World, Christ Jesus the eternal Son of God dis-throned himself to be a Saviour, of poor sinful Man, lost and undone Man, for whom there was no way of Redemption, but by him, and by him alone, O here is love indeed; Behold I come says he to do thy will O God he was willing to come from heaven to earth from Glory to be clothed with flesh, the garment of sinful man and all that thou mayest be clothed with Glory, immortality eternal life, Behold O my Soul & be filled with holy admiration, with what manner of Love the father hath loved us, that so we should, we sinners be called the Children of the great and Holy God; a God who inhabitest eternity, whose dwelling is in the highest heavens, who is the King of Glory, and being come to call poor sinners co repentance through the eternal wisdom of the father perfected redemption by taking our natures upon him, he who knew no sin became sin for us, that we should be made in him partakers of the Righteousness, which is by faith in his blood, he hath paid thy debts and canceled thy bonds, he is become thy surety, and has broken down that pertition wall which was between thee and thy father's Glory, hath made a way that new and living way, through his own blood to approach the Throne of Grace, and is there now making intercession for thee, O blessed is that Soul whose iniquities thou hast covered and whose sin thou hast pardoned; and blessed be that Soul to whom thou (in grace) shal● be pleased to impute no sin, for how great O Lord are our daily sinnings against thee, the least of which were enough to separate this poor immortal Soul of mine for ever from thy gracious presence, but 'tis thy grace which makes thy unworthy creature hope, and the unchangeableness of thy most glorious will? O therefore it is such poor unworthy sinful creatures were not long ago consumed, O blessed be God for thy grace and thy long suffering, mercy whereby thou bearest and hast pity on thy poor redeemed one's; O than my Soul fly thou unto the Throne of Grace.  
Lose not so great an opportunity of coming to thy Saviour, refuse not so great love tendered unto thee, the bearing so great a burden, the weight of which would sink thee down into the bottomless pit of eternal perdition, under the heavy wrath of God, there to have perished to all eternity; O the unfathomed and transcendent love of thy God and Heavenly Father? O my Soul, how canst thou read and not live ever in the meditations of such great and glorious Love, as this where with the Lord hath loved thee, he was content to give himself a ransom unto death to satisfy the Justice of his Father, and to regain that favour for thee, which thou by sin hadst lost, he was content not only to forsake the bosom of his father to empty himself of all his glory; but to come down upon this sinful earth, he who was the glory of the whole world, was content to confine himself in a Virgin's Womb, he who had possession of the utmost parts of the earth was now content with a poor lodging in a stable, he who is a King of Glory was pleased to take upon him the form and habit of a servant, and all for thee, he was content to be come poor and low that thou through his poverty mightest become rich, he who with one blast of his Nostrils could have consumed at once his enemies was now content to be scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with Thorns, and all this to purchase life for sinners, he who was equal with God, the express image of his father's person, he the Son of God, the dearly beloved of his Soul, was sweetly content to bear the scoffs and base reproaches of sinful ma●e and prayed for them, Father forgive them for they know not what they do, this the Lord Jesus was pleased to undergo for thee, nor is this all, but O those bloody sweats which run down his tender cheeks for thy hard heart, those terrible agonies of Soul he felt having the whole wrath of God due unto thee▪ and the world of sinners poured forth upon himself, being smitten as with the strokes of an enemy, which made him cry out, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, these are the gracious evidences of the Love of God to these poor sinful Souls and thus hateful is sin in the eyes of a holy God, as not to spare it in his dear and only Son, who never sinned but in that he took upon him our sins, he must also bear our punishment; he himself bear our iniquities in his own body, upon the tree, he became a curse for thee, to redeem thee, from the curse of the Law, this was the love of thy Saviour, O behold the Love of thy Redeemer how powerful and constraining is this Love, was ever any Love like this? Hardly shall we see a Man lay down his Life, for us when we were enemies, to be buried in a Grave that with him thy sins might be buried in everlasting forgetfulness, he risen again that in him thou mightest be glorified, and to prepare a place for thee in endless Glory, where he is now at the right hand of God making intercession for thee, who would not have an Interest in this Christ, who would not be in union with this Saviour, O Soul taste and behold the goodness of this Lord in whom it hath pleased the Father all fullness should dwell, Oh the sweet constraining power of his transcendent Love, who loved thee when thou wert miserable to make thee happy, O who would not fear thee, O thou King of Na●ions, and now what hath thy glorified Redeemer, thy Lord required of thee for all his love to thee he caused thee to cast thy burden upon him, when weary and heavy laden, and imposeth nothing upon thee, but a sweet and easy yoke, take my yoke upon you; be interested in my Love, what is this yoke but a sweet complacency of love in uniting of the parties loving, Soul, saith the Lord of Lords give me thy sins, and take myself, to be thy Saviour, take my yoke on thy neck, that so thou mayest become in union with me, thou mayst become mine and I thine; as my tender Spouse? Lord, what are we poor empty sinful creatures that thou show dost thus condescend, to woe, invite entreat, such poor despicable creatures, who mightest command us by thy power to do whatever pleaseth thee.  
O were it not the infinite goodness of our God to poor sinful man, thou mightest have, left us to have perished in our iniquities, and raised up children of the stones to praise thee, O sweet condescending love for us to be yoked in your affections unto thee and from enemies become thus thy friends; to receive the yoke of Christ it is to receive the love and commands of Christ and be united as a branch unto the vine by which thou dost enjoy true Spiritual communion with thy God; what happiness like this? how great and many are the privileges that come by him; O blessed be God for this love, and the eternal riches of his grace in effecting and calling thee to so great an eternal weight of glory, O had it not been through free grace what benefit couldst thou have had of this most glorious redemption by Jesus Christ? what power couldst thou have had to come and cast thyself at his feet u●der the weight of thy sins it was free grace that led the out, to see thine own insufficency, unto any thing that was good, and thy miserable condition without a Christ, O was it not free grace and mercy by which the Lord was pleased to draw thereby the cords of love, unto the Lord Jesus by whom a loan thou hast redemption; O what hadst thou been and what had been thy life had it not been for this sweet crown of all thy comforts; therefore O Lord to thee be glory for the riches of thy grace, by which my soul is yet alive to praise thee; and blessed be thy mercy, for it is great to me poor miserable sinner, what are the privileges thou injoyest through this sweet union with thy Saviour; O surely they are enough to make rhee live for ever in the meditations of them, who can fathom that bottomless Ocean? O how canst thou comprehend that which is in comprehensible; this love which passeth understanding, into which the more thou searchest the more thou admirest, O what canst thou say, but be filled with holy admiration, to behold with what manner of Love the Father, the omnipotent King of Kings, and the eternal Lord who reigns in endless Glory hath loved thee,   

Meditations on the great mystery of Godliness.  
O how great is the mystery of Godliness, in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.  
HOw wonderful excellent, of how great concern, to know him aright? Help thou my Soul d●ar Lord to meditate on this sw●●● incomprehensible subject, O fill it with this Rich and Heavenly Treasure; O let me not only know, but solace myself in the fountain of this Eternal comfort, did it not please the father out of infinite love and pity to poor lost and undone wretch's to find out a way for their Redemption, not by the blood of Bulls and Goats, whereby a yearly atonement was Typically made for the appeasing of his Wrath, no but a full and satisfactory Redemption by the precious blood of Jesus Christ as of a Lamb without blemish, now what was this Lamb but a divine branch of Glory, equal with the Father, the dear son of his Love, for whom it was his gracious pleasure to provide a body, for a sacrifice that thereby poor man who had lost himself by disobedience in a sinful body of death might in the obedience of Jesus Christ, in his body, and blood, and through his merits find everlasting life, such was the love and pity of the great and holy God there being no other way for our restoration, but to part with the dearly beloved of his soul, and to bring him under his severest anger, ●● he paid to Justice the ulmost farthing, and such was the gracious pleasure of our dear Redeemer who was content it should be so, Lo●● 〈◊〉 to ●● thy will O God, O matchless goodness? methinks I s●e th● heart and affection of my dear Redeemer in this work putting the father in mind of his determinate will, sacrifice and  offerings thou wouldst no●, but a body hast thou prepared or fitted me, than said I, lo I come, In the volumn of this look is is written of me, to do thy will, O God, in sacrifices and  offerings for sin thou hadst no pleasure but Lord thou hast spoken of me and fitted me for the full and complete satisfaction to ●hy Justice, and here I am, lo I come to do thy will, O my God I am ready to give myself a ransom, for the good of poor Souls, Poor Soul see what matter here is then of comfort in the application of this great transcendent love unto thyself, it was not thy desents but his great mercy made him own thee.  
O this constraining love, let it work more upon thy heart to draw thy will to his, he came to do and was obedient to his father's will for thee, and wilt thou not be subject unto him, that hath done so much for thee?  
Now the work for which Jesus Christ came into the world was to save sinners such as by faith lay hold upon him for Eternal life God was pleased to make man in his first Creation in a perfect state of Innocency gave him power in his own hands either to stand or fall, but poor man that would be wise, yea wiser than God himself soon lost hi● happiness for one poor temptation.  
So having broken the Law, lies liable to the curse of it, to all eternity, it being my possible that a finite creature, should ever be able to make restitution to an infinite God, by keeping that Law, that Righteous law, that pure law, which in one very thought is broken; the Lord therefore seeing the sad condition of poor fallen man, being under the curse of the Law, and wholly unable to make the least satisfaction to Divine Justice, was infinitely pleased in Grace and Me●cy to look with pity on them, and to find out this way the only way for their deliverance, so he was pleased to lay help upon one that was mighty, and infinitely able to save unto the utmost, those that come unto him, Christ then by his sufferings and obedience hath finished the work his Father gave him to do, h● hath paid the uttermost farthing his Father's Justice can demand, he hath answered the Law in taking upon himself the curse of the law, so that he was made not only sin for us, but the curse also, but Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law, in being made a curse for us, Gal. 3. 13. v. Thus hath the Lord Jesus Christ regained Eternal Life, which man had lost and to him hath the Father given this eternal life.  
Even unto the Son, whom he hath made heir of all things and it is by having a propriety in Christ, this life is to be had, 'tis he that hath the son hath life, this life eternal, and he that hath not the son hath not life, 1 Joh. 5. 12. v.   

Of the excellency of the knowledge of the mystery of Christ.  
O What wonderful sweetness is there in this knowledge; what Divine excellency is in it, what does this import to me unless I know him to be mine? this is the knowledge of him which brings eternal life, when I can through grace, have the witness of this in my Soul, and that the father hath been pleased in his infinite grace to give me unto Christ, as one for whom he hath shed his blood and taken into Covenant with himself.  
Poor Soul wha● a mercy is it to come to the knowledge of what the Lord Jesus is; and what he hath done for poor sinful Man, this little comforteth till thou knowest what he hath done for thee, it is the particular application of it to thyself that makes thee happy, since thou art one whom he is pleased in infinite grace and mercy to make choice of, and thus to set his Soul upon thee. Thou mightest have heard of Christ & yet have perished to all eternity, it would have been small comfort for thee when in a storm ready to be beaten in pieces with the waves, though thou didst see a ship afar off sailing from thee what good would the ●ight of that do thee? but it is those whom the Lord is pleased to take & shut into the Ark Christ Jesus that are secure, that are preserved from the storms & tempests, even unto eternal life; O live still in his favour. by paying thy vows to thy dear Redeemer, grieve not the holy spirit of his Grace, by which he hath thee unto the day of Redemption, O consider him not only given of the Lord as Priest; but also as King, & Prophet, the Lord give thee a heart to own him in his Kingly Office, and help thee by meditation to apply thy Soul in faith unto his sovereign power; and hath the Lord redeemed thee, poor Soul look up and see thy happiness thy debt is paid and thou art set at liberty.   

God enjoyed in mercies.  
HOw sweet and comfortable is it to sit at mercy's Gate, and be fed by the bountiful hand of Graces, Charity, those who are full of employments bless themselves in abundant of what they possess, forgetting the God of mercies, from whence they slow, but those who receive their mercies daily from the Lord they are truly sweet to that Soul, that sees how its whole life depends on mercy, and every thing it hath or can in joy comes all from mercy, this is sweet to it and the soul thus sensible of mercy will be serious in praises.  

Then Lord if mercies be so sweet,  
let me beg mercies still,  
Oh let the Channels of thy Love,  
run free my Soul to fill,  
Oh le● the bounty of thy Love  
each day my Soul secure,  
And let dear Lord, thy mercies sweet.  
to me poor worm endure,  
So shall I taste with much delight  
thy blessings which are sure,  
In them O Lord would I rejoice  
as coming from the hand,  
Of my dear Lord, and Sovereign,  
who doth all things command,  
Let not the fullness fill my heart  
with pleasure and delight,  
And take away my serious thoughts  
from praising thee aright.  
O rather let me be in want  
then filled with loathsome Pride,  
That will the Soul securely blind,  
and sweetened mercies hid,  
O let it be thy mercies still  
that I through grace may sing,  
A song of praise to my Lord,  
from whence all mercy's spring.    

Of self insufficiency.  
HOw apt is the foolish heart of man to be puffed up with strong conceits of its own abilities and think itself, something when indeed it is nothing, O a monstrous piece of deceit, therefore the Lord in his infinite wisdom suffers Souls to wander a little and so discovers the heart's deceitfulness, that so poor creatures might go more out of themselves, and see their own in abilities to any good, and that they have nothing to depend on but the sure mercies of jesus Christ have I not said with David, surely I shall never be moved, these sweet experiences of mercy and constraining love hath so engaged my Soul to walk uprightly before God, but I see there is no strength in me, nor am I able to do any thing without fresh supplies of strengthening grace from thee▪ therefore dear father be not far from helping thy poor worm that cries for succour from thee, shall I ever give the reigns of my heart, to run after the foolish pleasures of the world?  
No not in the least, there is a snare, and Satan lurking to deceive, therefore, O Soul, be watchful, and despise them all as things unworthy of thy love, why they are vain and foolish, but increase thou still after that greater good, that Souls enamouring sweetness, consisting in eternal pleasures, in the most glorious Mansions of heaven, where are celestial treasures and transcendent comforts.  

Lord keep my heart from fooiish vanity,  
And let my Soul feed ever upon thee,  
O let my joys and comforts once again,  
Quicken my Soul and there through grace remain  
O let the glory of thy grace appear,  
To joy my Soul and to suppress my fear;  
In sight of precious Christ my Saviour dear,  
Then shall I never have more cause of fear;  
Yet 'tis too great a privilege for me  
I have deserved naught but shame from thee,  
Shouldest thou be just ●o mark what is amis●  
There's nothing Lord of good dwells in my flesh,  
'tis at thy gracious footstool I would lie;  
To plead for mercy without which I die.    

Of Worldly Honour.  
HOw poor a thing is worldly honour yet how it is hunted as if that were the chiefeli good, as if the only way to make them happy were to have respect and honour from this foolish vain World, poor Soul why are we so deceived with vain shadows, whilst letting go the substance, that Soul is truly honourable which is truly gracious.  
O how much better is it to be blessed with the least smile of Christ, then to be made empress of the whole world, man being in true honour understandeth not, abideth not but is like the beast that perisheth, soon forgetting his Maker, and from whence he is t●ken, not willing to remember that he is dust and thither he must ●eturn, his heart is taken up with other things, how to exceed in state, in richness of attire, in gallant speeches yea is there not too many who would thing it most honourable to be most vicious, O how my Soul bleeds for their desperate blindness!  
O why will you thus rebel, and cause the Lord to pour forth the Vials of his Wrath upon your heads, who thus profane that holy and blessed name of the eternal glorious Majesty at whose presence Angels cover their faces and at whose voice the earth shook, O what a Monster is sinful man, whilst in the state of Nature.  
But now poor Soul go not too far in searching others ways; Keep more at home unveil thy sad deceitful heart, thou hast cause enough to lament and sadly bewail thy own miscarriages. Is there not still rebellion, harbours in thy breast? O too too much, many for rebelling against an earthly Prince go not unpunished, but from whom dost thou revolt but from thy dear and loving father a tender hearted God who through riches of Grace looked upon thee, had mercy on thee, and owned thee in his dear Son, the Son of his love▪ what punishment mayest thou not be thought worthy of, that shouldest grieve the spirit of God, who hath abounded thus in love and mercy unto thee, Ah wretched soul, when he hath hid it from thousands of others.  
Surely had but the Lord been pleased to cause one of the least glimpse of Glory to shine upon several of their rejected Souls, they had exceeded thee in holiness of life, sincerity of heart, and all humble obedience, they would not have had those daily fail●ngs thou art attended with, had but they tasted of that heavenly banquet that soul enriching treasure which is laid up in an eternity of Glory, would they not more thirst and long? O could they be satisfied without being swallowed up in Glory, without that immediate possession that faith gives, Heb. 11. 1. v. Would they see any thing to take delight in, in this World below Christ, would they not set the Lord ever before them, and desire to be ever with him, but what art thou, and how far comest thou short in every duty, but O my Lord in thee is my hope, here is my comfort still, for what am I without supports and supplies from thee, I had fainted long ago hadst not thou by special grace upheld me, and given in comforts from thyself.  
Sure Lord it was from free love, and thou hast said thy love injures for ever, thou art God and therefore changeth not, O therefore it is that I was not consumed long ago, and since thy Grace dear Lord is still the same. O let my Soul for ever trust in thee, till thou shalt please to free me from this body of death, in which I cannot serve thee without sin, for when I would do good, evil is present before me, O but blessed be the Lord that there is a deliverance wrought and that by Jesus Christ, and that in him I am not left without this blessed hope, which being revealed in due time, I shall be released and enter into my father's joy, O Heavenly joy indeed, where thou shalt be for ever happy, in the most glorious presence of thy Lord from whence nothing shall part thee, and where thou shalt never sin more, but be for ever singing HALLELUJAH'S to his holy Glorious Name, for this than will I wait, but Lord grant me help from us above to run with patience that race which thou hast Lord appointed me to run, with perseverance in true Godliness unto the end.  

That when any B●ridegroom comes  
I may be dressed,  
With him to go unto that  
Marriage Feast;  
And being fitly trimmed  
may meet my Dear,  
And gracious Lord  
where I shall never fear,  
More to displease him,  
but delighted be,  
In fresh Communion  
to Eternity;  
O blessed Lord how hast  
thou sweetened grace,  
In making me to behold  
thy Heavenly face,  
How beautiful dost thou  
appear to thine,  
On whom thou makest  
thy glorious face to shine;  
Inflame my heart Lord  
with more heavenly fire,  
And fill my heart with love  
more to aspire,  
Through grace dear Lord  
thou hast made love to me,  
More sweet and pleasant  
than all Wines can be,  
By sweetness blest  
and put in gracious store,  
Given to those poor Souls  
which will implore,  
Thy Heavenly blessings  
O let thy love then fill,  
M● Soul with Songs  
of praises to thee still,  
If drops of love  
thus pleasant are to thee,  
What will the Ocean  
in thy presence be.   
But I have tasted the abundant goodness of my God therefore shall my Soul trust in thee, and though my sins are many, yet thy love is unchangeable, O blessed be thou, O Lord, and blessed in thy everlasting love, by which thou wert pleased to look upon so poor and base a creature, and  her naked soul.  
(When new born by grace, in Eternal Wisdom) with that most glorious robe of Righteousness, through which to afford it so glorious a privilege as to come into thy presence, even I a poor worm and to plead with the great and holy, O infinite and transcendent love of the eternal glorious God? to poor sinful Dust and Ashes?  
And now what hath the Lord required in return of this his great and tender love, by which he hath broken thy bands, but love for love again, canst thou not love the Lord with all thy heart that thus hath loved thee, What love, Lord, was ever like that of thine to me and shall it be for gotten?  
O shall my stupid heart forget what Christ hath done for me? O let it be more deeply engraven in my Soul?  
But now my Soul should we examine how far thou hast gone in thy Master's work he hath committed to thee, how far short dost thou come of doing what thou wert commanded, yet through grace, my Soul desires to be found faithful in the talon thou Lord hast in mercy committed to my trust, and nothing more hath my soul desired then to be made conformable to thy blessed will in all things, what is thy will O Lord, let my will be wholly assenting thereto, thou art he who knowest what is best for me, O how sweet and how much pleasure should I find in afflictions or in the greatest evil this life could inflict upon me, could but I find my God in them.  
O how sweet and glorious would be the darkest and obscurest corner of the earth might I but find there thy glorious presence, far better than the Courts of Princes, what are they Lord or all the pleasures of this vain world to one hours' communion with thy blessed self.  
O blessed be the holy name of my most gracious Lord, who caused me to say with blessed David, I had rather be a doorkeeper in the House of my God then to enjoy the greatest pleasures and preferments upon the earth.  
Yea Lord so do I fear my frail Nature and my Deceitful Heart, that I dare not ask thee any thing of that, lest I fall into temptation, or be taken in a snare; and so forget my God; but this would I do, dear ●ord, wholly resign myself into thy gracious hands, what Lord thou seest fitting for me, let me be there with content.  
My time, O Lord, which here I have is short, and thy pleasure shall suffice, since thou hast chose for me an Heritage Eternally in thy presence where is fullness of joy, and rivers' of pleasures for evermore, but this, Lord; let me beg, since t●s thy gracious pleasure thus to condescend to suffer such poor Worms to plead with thee, O that thy grace may be sufficient for me to answer all my wants and subdue all my corruptions, and every thing that stands in opposition to thy Glory, that I may pass the time of my so journing here i● fear to offend my good and gracious God, whom I have not found flack concerning his promise, but infinitely beyond what I dare ask;  
For Lord in thee are all my fresh springs, and thou only knowest of what I stand in need, this is my comfort that through grace I can say, O let me ever remember it unto thy Glory that though thou feed me with the bread of affliction yet thou art my God and, though I am a poor unworthy sinful creature yet art thou still a God that changeth not, but thou hast made with me through thy free grace and mercy an everlasting Covenant, which shall never be revoked.   

Meditations on the power of God, God being her Father.  
FIx thou, O Lord, my Soul upon those heavenly Mansions those Celestial Glories where thy presence dwells, then shall I say Lord make thou here my resting place, my soul desires to be with thee and to behold thy Glory, man in his best estate is altogether vanity, and yet the infinite and holy God sees matter of pity in him, yea he pitied them in their low estate because his mercies endure for ever, it was mercy caused him to take such pity of the poor Soul, when in thy blood, when poor and miserable, wretchedly miserable, and he is the same God still, not only able but willing to continue merciful ye the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting unto them that fear him; and as the heavens are in height above the earth; my poor soul look up then and see. O see what great things the Lord hath done for thee; it is ●e the holy one of Israel who in habiteth eternity, who dwelletl● in the ●ighest heavens in the infinite and in compre●ensiable God the King of glory the Lord of hosts, omnipotent in power, Majesty's, and glory, omnipotent in every place, a God w●ose name is wonderful, and who glorieth in his mercy, because he delighteth to be gracious, 'tis he whose own arm brought Salvation for thee and hath redeemed thy life from destruction, and saved and called thee out of the cruel bo●dage of him who sought thy final destruction; O therefore, my soul, forever bless the Lord and forget not all his benefits; let them be written on the table of thy heart for an everlasting memorial, this great King of Heaven and earth that hath condescended so far as to stoop to the poor sinful dust and ashes, from whom thou deservest nothing but frowns, and eternal wrath, begs thy acceptance of him to be thy Saviour behold I stand at the door and knock O open those everlasting doors that the king of glory may come in, A●d take up his abode in the poor Soul so ever, O how blessed is that place where thou wilt dwell; shall I not be kept? O keep me from sin, from grieving that holy spirit of grace, O come sweet Saviour take up thy rest here in my poor n●ked Soul, and let my resting place be under the shadow of thy wings, then shall I fear no ill for thou art my support and comfort for ever.  
My Soul what great use mayest thou make of this great grace, what singular comforts mayest thou reap from this great benefit, if this gr●at God be thy Father, poor Soul here is grace indeed why then as a father pittyeth his children so he is pleased to pity thee; O he considers thy frailty, and that thou art but dust, therefore as a tender father who hath long waited that he might be gracious, he still retaineth mercy, his everlasting mercy unto those he hath been pleased to take into his everlasting Covenant, Is this God thy Father? O then poor Soul how greatly art thou honoured? Is it no small thing in the eye of David to become the Son in Law unto an earthly King, and shall it not be a great thing in thy account to be the Daughter of so great a King? Ah my poor Soul hath the Lord thus honoured thee hath he i●d●ved thee with so great a Glory: O then walk worthy thereof.  
Will't thou dishonour him that gave thee breath, and form thee out of the dust to live and praise him, who hath purchased thee to b● a peculiar one unto himself: O wilt thou defile that glory by thy unworthy walking? If thine earthly Father deserves that honour as is due to him by nature, and the commands of God, of how much more honour is thy heavenly father worthy, to whom thou art beholden for thy All; O then be careful, my poor Soul, and do not dishonour the name of thy great God, is this great God thy Father, then delight thyself in his presence, and rejoice in him above all, for thou ●ast found, through grace, how sweet 'tis to be in the presence of thy God and Father, to solace thyself in his Love, O how sweet a thing it is to possess this, to enjoy that Communion in which thou art said to be kissed with the kisses of his Lips, and made partaker of those heavenly Glories.  
O how good is it to be in the contemplation of these eternal and transcendent beauties, these glorious streams of living waters, these sweet shades of everlasting comforts, and to be filled with that everlasting fullness, that filleth all in all; O how much better is it to my Soul to be one of the meanest in thy presence to behold thy Glory, then to be the greatest potentate upon Earth.  
Let me behold thy Glory; O cause thy face to shine upon me, so shall all darkness be dissipated, and nothing shall appear too ha●d for me, when thou hast clothed me with thy strength; O 'tis thy presence makes all things beautiful, O 'tis this presence brings true comfort, and gives full satisfaction to thy Soul; satisfaction is not to be had in any thing below a Saviour, no not in very friends, they are all but fading comforts, and may leave thee, and forsake thee, but then saith David, even than the Lord took me up, my heavenly father hath a greater love a pity for me, he hath said, In the presence of the Fathere shall no ill come to thee, the Lord will take thy drooping Soul into his banqueting house, and speak peace to thee, by love embraces, he will stay thee with flagon, and comfort thy love sick Soul with the choicest delights; O how sweet is his fruit, eaten under his shadow, what comfort is it to a wearied Soul, lie down under so sweet a shade, to to take its rest from scorching heats, storms, and tempests.  
If th●s great God be my Father, than I will go unto him and make known my wants he can he●p in every condition, and supply all my w●nts, plentifully; Lord I want wisdom▪ Lord I want all things but hast thou m●d● 〈◊〉 ●hrist to be all things for me, then in giving him to me thou givest all and blessed be thy great a●d holy name; And ●rt thou O God, my Father! How can i● be so gr●at a privilege belongs to me, poor wor●, O let me then indeed and truly depend on thee, O let my trust be in my God, and suffer not my Soul to turn aside from thy commands; O my poor Soul cast all thy care upon the Lord, and trust in him for ever, for blessed are they that trust in him at all times, and who canst thou better trust thyself with then in the hands of thy Father? And such a Father whose tender bowels are so great as will not suffer any thing to come nigh thee for thy hurt; he knows what is best and fittest for thee, a God whose p●wer reacheth over all the World, and can bring to pass whatsoever pleaseth him.  
O there is nothing, Lord, too hard for thee? thou canst in one moment make thy poor servant such as thou wouldst have her to be: O do so, Lord, for thy dear mercy's sake, and let the glory of all return to thee.  
Then hast thou such a God to go to as thy father in the time of need, O what comfort is there for thee in any time of outward troubles when thou canst say thou art in the hands of a gracious, merciful God, who afflicteth bu● in measure, when ●he doth afflict and that not according to what thy sins and iniquities have deserved, a God that is slow to ●●g●r, plenteous in mercy, and when he doth chastise it is to separate thee from thine iniquity, and make thee know in what thou hast offended him, O let the end of thy chastizing hand, dear Lord; be such to me as may refine my Soul, from all its dross, than such afflictions shall be good ye good for me, that keeps me in th● favour, that cause me to find acceptance with thee.  
Make that a great comfort to me in the greatest strength and difficulty that can come in this world, he who hath all power in his own hands shall he not do whatever he pleaseth with his own, yet he hath promised never to leave nor for sake them, he will be still the God of those that fear him, and will deliver them when they cry unto him; O therefore my soul, fear the Lord and let thy trust be ever more in him, fear not man who hath a Linited power, and shall go no further than thy Heavenly Father gives them leave, they plot and devise mischief against thee and thine anointed, thou seest, O Lord, and wilt thou not arise to plead thine own cause, that they may see and be confounded, every one, when there council shall be brought to nought, and they made to see the greatness of the God of Jacob; O Lord, though we have sinned, let not thy great name be polluted by those who know thee not  
O let that be still more glorious, though thy people perish and come to nothing; and as for me, dear Lord, fit and prepare me for thy will, O let my soul and heart be filled with looking and long after thee, O let me still be ever in thy presence and it shall be well with me for ever;   

My further meditations on Death.  
DEath is a Jailor who unlocks the prison doors of a gracious soul, and ushers it into the presence of his heavenly father who is a gracious and a merciful God, there to be embraced in the arms of a loving Saviour; and to enjoy a fullness of eternal glory; by hearing the voice, Come ye blessed of m● father receive the Kingdom prepared for you: But the wicked, Death arrests and brings bound before the Tribunal Seat of God where he shall behold alone the frowns of an angry God before whose anger who is able to stand? there shall he see Divine Justice eternally satisfying on him, and never satisfied, Satan on one side and his own conscience on the other accusing of him, and Jesus Christ who would have him his Saviour now his judge pronouncing the dreadful sentence of that eternal damnation, Go ye cursed of my father into everlasting destruction prepared for thc Devil and his Angels; Blessed and for ever blessed are they who have the Lord for their God, for whom Christ will say, O death, I will be thy death, ye through the power of his might, will I not be afraid; Christ hath over come Death, he hath taken away the sting, then in Christ I shall be through grace more than a Conqueror; then Death I will bid thee welcome, blessed Messenger when thou art sent to break my chains and unlock my Fetters, Locks, and Bolts, which keeps me from the presence of my Lord, which is a burden to my soul, and hinder me of the most blessed prospect of mine eternal happiness, and when thou shalt bring me into the presence of my redeemer, there to behold his face in glory, then shall my soul be satisfied, when I wake I shall behold thy face in Righteousness; O my God.  
Now, O my soul, thou dost pretend to fear the Lord but dost thou really, so examine thyself, canst thou approve thy heart to God, in all sincerity, he hath done great things, O and wonderful, for thee what hast thou done for him hast thou demonstrated a return of Love to him that has bestowed so much Love on thee surely it is a day in which the Lord doth threaten an end of all flesh before him and art thou exempt from his ever ruling power 'tis time to make up thy accounts for how knowest thou how soon the Lord may call to reckon with thee, O it will be sad to have a name to live, and yet be dead; to have thy portion among Hypocrites it is thy duty to be found serving the Lord with all fervency of spirit out of a pure mind giving glory unto him: to walk holy and humbly with thy God, to take delight in thine approaches before him, to lie low at his footstool, in the sense of what thou art and what thou hast received; to have respect unto all his commands and do his will to submit thyself unto him, in all obedience, to live in a continual dependence upon him, to take up thy Cross dai●y, and follow him; wilt thou be a wise child then understand the will of thy heavenly father, O how hast thou fallen short of thy duty to thy gracious Lord? who never yet was wanting unto thee, Lord thou art my helper, and unto thee I fly, for my soul have had experience, even of the truth of grace, to th●e be glory my hope is still in thee my God who knowest the frailty of thy poor creatures and pittyes them under their infirmities because they are but dust; O Lord it is free grace that must enable me to do what thou requirest and blessed be God for that glorious gr●ce, by which thou hast in abled me to find the sweet experience of spiritual in livenings to all or any of these things in any measure; though but small; In thee my well springs are, this I can say, O Lord, my soul desires to do thy will, make me such a one as thou wouldst have me be, Lord I am thine, do with me what soever pleaseth thee, I could desire to live if by my living I might glorify thy name, yet allo wish to be dissolved to be with Christ, to be disrobed of sin, and clothed upon with his eternal Righteousness, to be freed from imperfection, to be complete in Christ, in all perfection so to enjoy a free Communion with my Lord in Glory to all eternity.   

Meditations of a day of trial, or preparation for sufferings.  
THe Soul that truly fears the Lord is happy, and he that exercise th' faith shall ever find him faithful let what will come▪ he shall not be afraid of evil tidings, etc. O happy Soul that is in such a case, yea happy is he that hath the Lord for his God; An interest in Christ in a day of trouble is help and succour, what can come amiss to me if the Lord be my God, 'tis true I may be spoiled of all I have, but they that take it from cannot rob me of my glory in being a believer, then come what will, seeing my Crown is safe through grace will I receive.  
'tis no great honour to be trading in the paths of Christianity, when there is none forbids it, and when a change comes, cast of any Religion because it is out of fashion and credit. O remember that any who have once set their hand to the Blow and look back are not fit for the Kingdom of Heaven, for they that are such draw back unto perdition and the Lord will take no pleasure in them, no it is he and only he that endures to the end shall be saved? But what if our Estates▪ our liberties nay our very lives lie at the stake, you must either part with these or submit unto humane invensions, this is indeed a great, but poor Soul be not thou disturbed.  
But remember any former arguments and be not afraid to trust God with thy condition be it what it will for therein thou mayest deny the Sovereignty power, and faithfulness of the great and holy God double the portion of the fearful and unbelieving, But O my Soul for to come nearer to thee, suppose the Lord should suffer thee particularly to come under this trial unto the utmost extent, for O who knows how soon that may happen, and thou art not prepared to encounter with it; therefore how needful is it to be mindful of thy Lords commands, watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation, it will be a sad reward thou wilt meet with by entering into a temptation to save thyself, and thereby lose thy God and thy Souls comfort; Is not Christ to be esteemed more than all things? besides what is he not made exceeding precious to thy Soul and wilt thou, canst thou, part with him on any terms, surely thou hast not loved him for Loaves only, but for that excellency the Father hath clothed him with, the fear of man brings a snare, but he that trusteth in the Lord shall be safe; man says thou shalt not do this etc. 'tis disobedience to commands of men, and the Issue of it will be either prison, Banishment, or death, but the spirit of God says pay thy vows though it come in competition with thy very life, for he that loveth his Father Mother etc. Ye his very life, better than me is not worthy of me and he that taketh not up his Cross to follow me cannot be my disciple, then surely 'tis better disobeying man on earth then to be found an offender of the Majesty on high; the ways of Christ are still the same good ways, in persecution; and they were in peace, nor are they a whit the less disowned by Christ for being disallowed of man; the soul that truly is established in Gospel truths is upon a sure foundation, and owning Christ to be his Lord and King, gives the honour due unto his, King, his Lord, and Law giver.  
As thy redeemer as thy saviour; as a mediator now in heaven, interceding for thee, as thy Lord and King, as one who being fully interested in the father's love, and in all the father is, and hath also made thee through grace to perticipate thereof; O the unbounded riche● of free love, what love was ever like to that of Christ's, who loved not his life unto the death; but gave it freely for thee, that thou mayest thereby freely come out of that cursed damned estate thou else hadst lain in unto all eternity: and into the glorious liberty of Sons; O how sweetly sounds that word, Sons and Daughters, heirs of a Kingdom, and Coheirs with Christ Jesus this is a believers portion; and a glorious portion through the lively exercise of faith for the Lord in the offers of his grace, says come, come freely; without any worth in yourselves, or good of your own, and take my Son and with him all that shall make you eternally happy, the Lord Jesus he a loan is thy redeemer, he a loan is thy Redeemer he alone hath perfected the work of thy Redemption?  
And unto him be glory, ye all glory for ever and for ever who still had been a glorious and a holy God though thou hadst perished to all eternity; and now what hath he required of thee; O my soul; but to love him to own him and this love begits obedience to him; and love unto his laws and from which if thou shouldest now draw back thou wilt deny thy love to him and through a slavish fear make Shipwreck of thy faith deny the power faithfulness soveranity and omnipotency of the great God and so be come a prey to Satan, and lose thy soul, thy God, thy Christ, and all thy heavenly treasures forever: the Lord in his mercy prevent it and all this for a song, a sinful compliance with the men of the world and for fear of there threats sin against such Light; such Love, such Convictions, of Conscience as the Lord through rich grace hath manifested to thee; then consider how the Lord speaks to his poor covenant people, who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, when I am on thy side, who hath power to do with all men whatsoever he will; am not I your Father, and cannot you trust me with your preservation, though in suffering times, there fore, O my soul, trust in the Lord, let him be all thy stay, and ●●e assured all shall be well with thee if suffering be thy Lot, as it is all theirs that will live Godly ●● Christ ●esus; the Lord will give out strength proportionable, for he hath said that he will lay no more upon thee then he will enable thee to bear; then let thy sufferings be what they will, they shall be crowned with a glorious Isue thy small moment of affliction shall work for thee an eternity of glory: say; they then vaunt over thee with reviling speeches and reproach the too with sedition, Hypocrite, Heretics, Schismatics etc.  
Better is it to bear the Reproach then be truly guilty but what is this when the Lord▪ saith, Blessed are ye when all men hate, Reproach; and speak all manner of evil against you for my sake, shall the Disciples be about his Lord; for what can they do to thee that they have not done to him?  
He suffered a vile and shameful death without the camp, for the bearing this reproach; he was scoffed at, made a scorn off, reviled, buffered. spit upon; and at lengt crucified, and all for thy sake, taking it patiently and quietly, and can't thou be content to suffer some small thing for his sake, who hath suffered such great things for thee; therefore my soul, fix thou thy faith on Jesus Christ who ever liveth to make intercession for his affiicted ones, & is ready at hand to give seasonable supplies for every condition; O be found still walking in his ways, and full of love to his precious Laws, and trust him with thy condition, who can deliver thee from trouble, or else preserve thee and bear thee up under it;  
Blessed David saith the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me, and for thy sake I have borne reproach, shame hath covered my face, it was good David's portion to fall under such reproaches, as were even ready sometimes, to have broken his heart, yet for his help hath his recourse to God, ye though the Lord is pleased seemingly to turn away his ear, yet he will seek no other help, I was a reproach to all mine enemies but, especially among my Neighbours, ye his very friends reproached him but says he, As for me I will call upon God and he shall save me, evening and morning, and at noon will I pray and cry aloud & he shall hear my voice, O let this be thy work to approve thy integrity and sincerity unto God, And so plead with thy God for mercy and deliverance, for what matter is it how man Judgeth of thee so thy heart be right with God; what disadvantage will reproaches bring unto thee; M●ses esteemed the reproaches of Christ; greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; therefore says Paul; I take pleasure in reproaches, Yea if you be reproached for the name of Christ h●p● are ye, for the spirit of glory and of God (in a more eminent manner) resteth up●n you, the Church of God in all ages hath lain under such afflictions and the father hath so ordained it, for the purging away of sin, the purifying of man from his dross, that so he might become as tried silver resigned, fit for holy use, and therefore seeing the necessity of it, saith the Apostle, beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you; 'tis no new thing, therefore know thy duty in it; but rejoice in as much as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, that when his glory shall be revealed ye m●● be glad also with exceeding joy; And in another place, if you suffer with him you shall also Reign with him, and let none of you suffe● a● an evil doer at a Murderer, thief, or as a busy body, in other men's matters, yet if any man suffer as a Christian, (clea●ly) on that account, let▪ him not be a shamed ●ut let him glorify God on this behalf for the time is coming that judgement must begin at the house of God, and if it first begin at us what shall the end b● of them tha● obey not the Gospel of God, and if the righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly and siners appear,  
Wherefore let them ●hat suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their Souls to him in well doing; as un●o a faithful Creator; through grace I desire to pitch my Soul ●n everlasting faithfulness, by which I trust I shall be kept in even walking in his own paths; be they never so rugged, yet if I meet my Lord, I shall do well; his gracious presence makes every condition sweet, and though this poor pi●gramage represents nothing but thorns a●d briers; it will be recompensed with an eternity of glory; A place where no sorrow shall be known, but fullness of joy add pleasure, and the complete enjoyment of thy Lord for ever; therefore O Lord into thy gracious care I do commit myself, my Soul and spirit; Lord fit me for thy will, and let me only fear thy righteous judgements and be sound trembling at thy word; so shall I be kept faithful unto the end.   

Sparks of Divine Love.  

Love is a heavenly fire fetched from above  
Irradiant beams shot from the God of Love,  
Un●er those blessed shines my Soul abide  
Let all thy paces there be multiplied,  
In firength and beauty there to rest secure  
Through Love divine which ever shall endure.   

Hast thou, dear Lord, such great things done for me,  
And shall I not give up my heart to thee,  
●oo poor a thing, yet Lord since 'tis my All,  
O take it Lord though it be poor and small,  
O take it, Lord, by purchase it is thine  
Let me not any longer call it mine.   

Nor set it on poor fond things here below  
Which vainly are but actors of a show,  
Or feigned objects painted o'er delights  
Appear a little and pass from our sights  
Vain shadows of a poor short Sunny day,  
While ●e peruse them, quickly fly away.    

A praising Soul.  

Lord shall a heaven born Soul forget to sing  
Eternal praises to her Lord and King  
Shall she be one that seemeth not to know  
The hand from which her mercies still do flow  
O quicken Lord thy servant, O that she,  
May have her life all praises unto thee.   

O 'tis a life of praises thou wouldst have,  
Thy poor redeemed ones return to thee,  
Give Lord what thou art pleased from them to crave.  
Of thy own store, what thou acceptest must be,  
Then, my dear Lord, I shall not cease to sing  
The Song of Canaan unto Israel's King.   

Though in a Land so far and strange I be  
As destitute of what I would enjoy,  
Let me by faith my Native Country see  
And not forsake my treasure for a toy,  
O blessed be thy name which still doth keep,  
My dro●sie soul which else would ever sleep.   

And lose its glorious comforts, sweet delights  
Which in the presence of its Lord is found,  
Those Heavenly Glories and transcendent sights  
In which to empty souls Grace doth aboundi  
O glorious Grace let my soul still admire,  
And warm itself at this blessed Heavenly fire.   

O shall I grieve that glorious spirit which  
Is pleased to bow and condescend so low,  
Thus to a poor unworthy sinful wretch.  
How is it Lord that I thy Grace should know  
And that thou shouldest be pleased to look on me  
So as redeem me from such misery.    

A hymn of free grace.  

What shall I do my soul, shall I then speak  
Or shall I let my heart through silence break  
Should I be dumb then sure stones would cry  
Me shame and magnify the Lord on high  
Who doth his riches wonderful bestow  
On such p●o● worm● as crawleth here below.   

But now to praise him would I fain begin  
Who is my God my Lord and eke my King,  
Who in his goodness hath done more for me  
Then can with admiration spoken be:  
O though I would I want both power and art  
For to express what l●es within my heart,   

But since it is the heart Lord thou wouldst have  
Acceptance is the thing I only crave,  
Receive it Lord O that I could aspire  
Into thy a●ms which is my Souls desire.  
On wings of faith and Soaring acts of Love  
Oh in the Clefts behold me as thy Dove;   

My sweetest Lord, help me to sing thy pra●se  
And tell the world the wonders of thy grace,  
Shall I be dumb and live henceforth as one  
To whom such favour never had been shown  
Then were I sure unworthy ere to live  
But Lord what's wanting thou canst quickly give.   

Both tongue and heart that daily I may bring  
Of sweetest Odour, my poor offering,  
Let my soul bless the Lord with all delight  
Of thy glory have a daily sight,  
Goodness and mercy that do so excel  
O in its fillings my Soul still dwell.   

The ocean of his love so sweet and pure,  
Which shall to all eternity endure,  
What greater good unto my soul can bring,  
Then singing praises to my Lord and King,  
Lord take and keep me there why shall we part,  
'tis thy own hand must hold my feeble heart.    

A short dialogue between flesh and spirit.  Flesh. 

Fond foul what aileth thee thus low to deem,  
Our pleasure and our comforts here below,  
And that thou dost so highly them est●em  
As if thou didst not care such things to know  
Is it not better mirth for to enjoy,  
Which maketh fat the bones and glads the heart,  
Then in thy muse thus thyself annoy.  
At last persuaded he with them to part.   Spirit. 

Fond fleshly part this all thou hast to say  
Cease now with all spetious flattering speech,  
And never think by all thy pleas to sway  
A soul that now is got above thy reach,  
All thy suggestions I cannot approve  
Seeing in earth thy comforts all do lie  
But I much live in flames of heavenly love  
With heavenly comforts which will never die.   

What are your pleasures that you count so great  
But very froths and bubbles in the wind,  
What can they do for you at mercy's seat  
Or can you true contentment in them find,  
Indeed your fleshly e●es cannot behold  
These Jewels of most rich and glorious worth,  
That pearl of price, that City of pure Gold,  
And therefore think to set your pleasures forth.   

Poor Soul alas why dost thou cavil so,  
My comforts come from a far greater spring,  
Then are the puffs of mirth which you would know  
Whilst I desire the love of Christ my King,  
My musing such with which I would not part  
For all your mirth and pleasant melody,  
Christ's dearest love take away my heart  
In which lies Joy and true felicity.   

Your company wherein you do delight  
Like to yourself are made of earthly moul●  
Which will at length to feast the worms invite  
Then where's your pleasures which so dear you hol●  
My joys my comforts and my aim shall be  
To rest in Heaven to all Eternity.   

There's fellowship with holy Angels bright  
And Hal●le-lujahs sing to the King of Kings,  
There's sweet Communion with the Saints in light  
When fire consumes your perishing earthly things,    

The Lord feeding and keeping his Flock,  

See how the Lord doth of his Flock take care  
And plenteously his Love to them doth share,  
Reaching his arm of mercy them to guide  
And leading them fast by the River's side,  
Thore doth them feed in pastures pleasantly,  
And hiding them from Rage o'th' enemy,  
Now let thy heart with praises ever sing,  
Even to thy Saviour, Shepherd, Lord and King.    

Long to be with Christ.  

Sin sick am I  
And fa●n would die  
Reaching forth to Eternity,  
I'll leave the world with all my heart  
With it i'm willing Lord to part  
To be with thee; O Lord its best,  
And in thine arms to be at rest,  
Unto the world I ●ain would die  
To live with thee Eternally,  
Sweet Saviour than thou art gone before  
A place in Heaven to prepare.   
 
Post Script of her own.  
I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that I shall see him with these eyes, O that the time would come.  
But I will wait upon the Lord, the days of my appointed time till my change come.  
FINIS.   

The Contents.  

1. THe account of her early conversion.  
2. Of further discoveries of Christ.  
3. The long of her Soul after Church Fellowship.  
4. Of Recording her experiences.  
5. The discoveries of Christ to her Soul when joined to a Church in the Lord's Supper.  
6. Sweet Discoveries of the love of God in Jesus Christ.  
7. Meditations upon her Saviour's love.  
8. Meditations of Wisdom in embracing the offer of Jesus Christ.  
9 Exhortations to her Brothers and Sisters.  
10. Meditations upon hearing the voice of Christ.  
11. Of heart examination.  
12. Meditations of being in Christ.  
13. Meditations of being the Servant of Christ.  
14. Of a new Heart.  
15. Of thirsting after assurance of heaven.  
16. Meditations of death.  
17. Of Communion of Saints.  
18. Meditations of the unchangeable love of God.  
19 Meditations on the 11th Chap. of Matthew 28, 29, and 30. v.  
20. Meditations on the great mystery of Godliness.  
21. Of the excellency of the knowledge of the mystery of Christ.  
22. God enjoyed in mercies.  
23. Of self insufficiency.  
24. Of worldly honour.  
25. Meditations on the power of God, God being her Father.  
26. Her further meditations of death.  
27. Meditations of a day of Trial or preparation for sufferings.  
28. Sparks of Divine Love.  
29. Apraising Soul.  
30. Ahymne of free grace.  
31. A short dialogue between flesh and spirit.  
32. The Lord feeding and keeping his flock.  
33. Long to be with Christ.    

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