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A54208 Saul smitten to the ground being a brief, but faithful narrative of the dying remorse of a late living enemy (to the people called Quakers, and their faith and worship), Matthew Hide : attested by eye and ear-witnesses, whereof his widdow is one ... : with an appendix both to foes and friends on this occasion / by William Penn. Penn, William, 1644-1718.; Hide, Matthew, d. 1675. 1675 (1675) Wing P1358; ESTC R1572 8,266 17

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concerning my Husbands expressions on his Death-Bed concerning the People called Quakers I was an ear-Witness and Mary Fooks too Elizabeth Hide Mary Fooks To all ATHEISTICAL PERSECUTING and CONTENTIOUS OPPOSERS of the Universal Light of Jesus in the Conscience and particularly th●se that are Disturbers and Vilifiers of them that believe in him at their publick Meetings to worship God according to the Illumination and Motion of that Blessed Principle TO you all a Warning in the Name and Fear of God that you leave off your vain Thoughts your chaffy loose unsavoury Words and rebellious Practices against the Light of Jesus in your own Consciences that you dread any more to revile backbite disturb or slander his poor People that have believed in him and that follow him according to the Shinings of his blessed Light in their Hearts speak not evilly of that you do not know much less go you on to kick against those Pricks in your own Consciences as Saul did lest you become entirely hardened in your Gainsayings and the Lord God cut you off in his sore Displeasure O that you would consider your latter End and repent you vain mortal Men for you know not how soon that dismal Trump may overtake any of you Are ye ready are ye prepared have you the Wedding-garment are you of them that have suffered with him being dead and buried to Self-will Pride Envy Revenge and the Lusts of this ungodly World and risen with him in the Life Glory and Rayment of the Resurrection If so where are your Fruits If you are not as ye are not I affirm in God's Name then where's your Authority for these Evil Fruits you bring forth scoffing mocking jangling disturbing and bawling against us stirring up the Scum of the Multitude to abuse us Consider before it be too late who is your Master in all these Things and whose Servants you are in whose Name and Errand you go and what Spirit sets you thus to work against so glorious a Principle and so harmless a People that not being contented with lifeless Worships human Faiths and meer traditional Religions cry to the God of Heaven to appear and operate in their Hearts and teach them by his own holy Spirit to be his Disciples and Children according to his Promise yea though it cross the World's Life Spirit Customs and Fashions and therefore cannot longer serve God in the Oldness of the Letter by meer Imitation or after the Manner of the loose Christians of this World only with outside Performances but in the Newness of the Spirit in the Immediate Leadings and Guidings of the holy Ghost according to Rom. 8. 14. though they were never so much made a Reproach and By-word and be encompassed about with Loss and Danger I say have a Care of resisting reviling and disturbing these poor People these Believers these Assertors these Followers and Children of the Light of Jesus begotten again of the everlasting Day of Righteousness lest you treasure up Wrath against the Day of Wrath and the Revelation of the righteous fierce Judgments of God and your Portion be appointed you in that Day with the Workers of Iniquity forever And as I warn you to forsake your vain frothy envious and contentious Courses so do I exhort you in God's Fear to unfeigned Repentance and invite you in Love to the true Peace of Conscience even that Conscience which is sprinckled from Unbelief Hatred Malice and all Ungodliness which is only obtained by an humble and sincere walking in the Light of the Son of God as 1 John 1. taking heed to and not despising this holy and spiritual Appearance of Christ within to dethrone Satan and destroy Sin and to bring in his own everlasting Righteousness as the Jews did Jesus whom they only knew after the Flesh crying out Is not this the Carpenters Son this Fellow and if thou art the Christ or Son of God show us a Sign and tell who smites thee and come off from the Cross and save thy self I say cavil not thus at the Light of Christ in your Consciences despise not his Sufficiency with your carnal Mind neither turn his Grace Mercy and Forbearance into a prophane Presumption and bold tempting of the living God for then very woful will your End be behold read ponder and meditate on the latter End of this poor Man let his Case be both a VVarning and Visisitation to all that oppose the Light of Christ within and the Children of it that you may consider your latter End find Mercy and be saved when I read the Narrative of his dying Condition Oh my Heart was much broken before the Lord and I could not but reverently magnifie his glorious Power Mercy and Truth that had wrought so strange so great and so blessed a Work for his Names Defence his Peoples Vindication and I hope for the poor Man's Soul too O let him have the Glory forever for who is like unto him in Heaven or in Earth whose Goings are in the Deep and whose Wayes are past finding out but in his own time And truly Pity rose in my Soul towards all you whose Day is not over a secret strong Groan to God that you might all see your Folly and repent before you go hence and be no more seen This Man I have known many Years being One that he hath often opposed in publick Meetings his main Stroak was against the Doctrine of Christ the true Light in lighting every Man that comes into the World with a divine and saving Light the Sufficiency and Universality of this to Salvation he constantly and resolutely withstood not furiously madly and frothily like outragious Mockers as some still too evidently and frequently shew themselves against us but with great external Sobriety and Gravity as well as Zeal reasoning after his Manner and not bawling against us nor was his Conversation scandalous but honest and exemplary in worldly things towards Men for ought that I ever heard upon Inquiry So that his present Convictions as they were not the effect of any affrighting Discourse Insinnuations or Besetments of ours in his Sickness neither could they be interpreted to be any Trouble for a dissolute Life in which he might be thought to condemn himself generally and confusedly nor yet did his Remorse only arise from the Way of his Oppposing us as if he still retain'd his Judgment but the very Ground of the whole Trouble and Exercise of Spirit for which he was willing to see any of us and utter the foregoing pathetical Expressions was his gainsaying us the People called Quakers in the Way of our Faith and Worship and so much his own Words testifie Let all take heed of the reviling Thief 's State upon the Cross least they enter not into the Paradise of God forever And now my dearly beloved Friends and Brethren who have hearkned to the holy Reproofs of this instructing Light of Jesus in the Conscience and by it been redeemed from the Wickedness