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B08802	Faith & experience:, or, A short narration of the holy life and death of Mary Simpson, late of Gregories Parish in the city of Norvvich: who dyed, anno 1647 in or about the thirtieth yeare of her age after 3 yeares sicknesse and upwards. Containing a confession of her faith and relation of her experience, taken from her owne mouth. To which is added a sermon preached at her funerall, upon Rom. 14. 6,7. / by John Collings.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.; Collinges, John, 1623-1690. Life & death of a true Christian deciphered in a sermon.	1649 (1649)	Wing C5316A; ESTC R231574	44,489	160

glorious manner now than ever Let this stop thy mouth Thy friend is with the Lord he hath him he ownes him the Sun-beame is but in-bodyed in the Sun the blood is but runne to the heart Ah! but we have lost What hast thou lost Christian 1. Was not thy friend the Lord's while he lived the Lords by right thine only by loan was he not the Lords purchase shall not the Lord come when he please and take possession of it may he not pull it down build it up again at his pleasure shal he not do what he will his own we use to say A man may take his owne where ever he finds it hath not God the like liberty he hath found one of his lambes in thy pasture it will argue an ill mind in thee not to bee willing he should take it home what because hee hath let thee keep it for him wilt thou deny his right His Saint can be spared out of heaven no longer 2. Is he not the Lords possession and shal not God take his house into his owne hands if he will when the tenants lease is out God useth not to renew leases Once I confesse he did it to Hezekiah but his ordinary custome is as leases of Saints lives expire to take them into his owne hands till he hath got in all his redeemed morgages and the full day of redeeming the purchased possession shall come Mayest thou remove thy house and shall not God remove his whither he pleases The Saints are Gods dwelling place here he lives in Cottages of clay now when the beleever dyes God puls downe his clay-Cottages intending to fetch away the timber and bricks to build up himselfe a temple in the paradise of glory 3. Nay are they not the Lords by nearer relation than thine shall not the father take home his child because the Schoolmaster shall lose the best Scholler of his schoole shall not the husband take home his wife because her friend shall lose a good companion Hath God any thing from thee but his owne wouldst not thou take it ill if thy friend should keep thy wife or child for his owne pleasure when thou sendst for them after a long absence Lastly consider shouldst not thou thy selfe live to and rejoyce in the glory of God Earth is a loser of what was none of its owne ever but heaven is a gainer there is one Saint more there one starre more in the firmament of glory Wilt thou weep because thy friend hath a Kingdome and one jewell more is set in Christ diademe should not the child rejoyce at the increase of his fathers family If at the Increase of the family of Grace then surely at the Increase of the houshold of glory There 's one servant more added to the Bedchamber Thy friend lived to the Lord and died to the Lord and now in Death is the Lords and more the Lords than ever I have done with my Doctrine and my generall Application Let me add a little in particular relating to this occasion You that mourne for this our sister removed Mourn not neither weep while she lived she lived not to her selfe but to the Lord when she died she dyed not to her selfe but to the Lord. In her life she was the Lords and now in her death I question not but she is the Lords You know it is not my custome to speak any thing concerning any upon these occasions But there are two sorts of persons concerning whom I think it is fitting that if they have lived to the Lord while they lived and dyed to the Lord in their death their examples should be held out like Dorcas her clothes 1. Eminent persons in the Magistracie 2. Eminent preachers in the Church Of the first sort she was not Not of the Noble and great persons of the Earth but out of a poor family did the Lord chuse this elect vessell to declare the Riches of the glory of his grace in But you shall pardon me the expression if I say that while she lived she was an Eminent preacher and give her the character which our Saviour gave S. Iohn she was a burning and a shining light and I am confident did more good to poore soules in the three yeares of her sicknesse by telling them her experiences directing quickning exhorting strengthening satisfying them than God hath honoured any of us who have been preachers of his word to doe in much more time I meane not that she was a Pulpit-preacher No God had taught her to be wise to sobriety she preached as Noah by making the Ark nay more as Priscilla Aquila by privately instructing others in the wayes of God I shall speake but little of her who while she lived spake her selfe so much I meane the strength and grace of God in her self for I must not exalt her whose constant designe and practice was so much to debase her selfe and all creatures that the Creator might have the glory of all I shal not commend her for her mor all vertues and naturall duties which is too usual upon such occasions as these surely because better things cannot be spoken But I shall set out her example to you so as to exalt the infinite grace of God towards her and to let you see who they are whom the Lord delighteth to honour and how acceptable it is to him for yong ones to returne to their Father early and for the poor to receive his gospell Give me but leave to repeat my text and Sermon over her and I have done While she lived she lived to the Lord when she dyed she dyed not to her selfe but to the Lord. It was but a little acquaintance I had of her not yet two full years in which time too my multitude of occasions were too much enemies to my happines in denying me so many opportunities of seeing her as I desired I shall not speak any thing from others but only what I have heard and seen will I declare Her whole time since I knew her was a Schooling time of Affliction without any cessation As I remember she wanted some yeares of thirty when she dyed and for three yeares and upward before that time she was Gods close prisoner and the greatest part of that time so bitter was her cup was spent in her bed I have heard her relating the beginning of her conversion and for that I shall referr you to her owne account penned by a faithfull See the precedent Relation friend from her owne mouth Her life was a life of afflictions 1. Inward then outward Inward by the temptations of the Devil terrors of conscience and such usuall pangs as accompany the first birth besides that her God was sometimes afterward behind the Curtain and when he hid his face she was troubled when after much seeking she had found him whom her soule loved and had got inward peace that she was as it were rapt into the third heavens then lest she

make the word a light unto your feet and a lanthorne to your paths Let your eyes be often upon it and let it be Sit tibi vel oratio assidua vel lectio nunc cum deo loquere nunc deus tecum ille te praeceptis suis instruat ille disponat quem ille divitem fecerit nemo pauperem faciet Cypr. in Ep. 1. ad Donatum p. 9. your Eye Saint Hierome praiseth Marcella a godly woman of his age that he could never come to her but she was asking him somewhat about the Scripture and had so high an opinion of her that he sayes if himselfe had any doubt he would aske her judgement O let not much reading there be a wearinesse to your flesh They are Gods Counsels and may well be our Counsellors Walke with God in their light write your lines by that rule Read often and with judgement alwayes carrying your heart with your eye You will find a glory a majesty a mystery a depth in those lines which you will never be weary of fadoming though you shall never be able to find the bottome I here presume to offer to your hands an Example which I am sure your goodnesse cannot despise for the meannesse of it She is now more Noble than you and in this happier that she hath alreadie been in Heaven a yeare before you Noblest Lady your opportunities are more your talents of Time and Parts are greater Outstrip all Examples and goe on to be as unparallel'd a president of holinesse to others as you are of other Excellencies Now the God of Grace fill you with his fulnesse and be unto you both in life and death advantage and preserve you the crowne of your surviving Noble Parent the Glory of your Sex the Comfort of your Noble friends the continuer of the Religious name of your Family and the joy of his Saints Which is and shall be the continued prayer of him who is ambitious to be accounted Noblest Lady Your most humbly obliged and devoted servant in the Lord Jesus JOHN COLLINGS TO THE Christian READER Reader THese sheets are partly my owne and partly anothers For that part of them that is not my owne it is a Relation of the precious Life and Death of one that was lately Ours but both then and much more now Christs The Relation was brought to my hands many Moneths since but my crowd of occasions hindred me from perusing of it I shall now give thee a true account of it The Relation was penn'd from her mouth by a faithfull friend nor have I injured her or thee in the transcribing of it having only rank'd the Articles of Confession in such order as I conceived most sutable and made a supply sometimes both there and in the Relation of a word or two where was some defect through the neglect or mistake possibly of the first Pen-man and in some places where her phrase though safe if safely understood was more dark subject to ambiguitie I have given thee her sense in a clearer and lesse ambiguous terme I will assure thee I have neither added nor substracted any ●hing which I conceive materiall For what is mine in these sheets It is a short Copy of a Sermon at her Buriall it was composed in a short time and transcribed with as much haste I had rather profit thee by plainnesse than tickle thee with exactnesse I am sure the Sermon hath rather lost than got by keeping in my Study I was willing for thy good to let it wait upon her memorie who while she lived we were all so much beholden to The plainness and meannesse of the Sermon will tell thee I hope I send it not to thee to beg Honour but to serve thy soule in the meanest place Reader thou hast here a Sermon proved by a fresh Experience O adde another Proofe requite my paines by letting the truth delivered have a witnesse in thy bosome Beleeve it Reader thou hast before thy eyes in these sheets a Rule and a President It is Gods word to thy soule Goe thou and doe likewise If thou readest the Relation thou wilt see what is got by seeking God early to what a pitch of grace a Saint may reach the right frame of a sober Gospell-spirit the picture of a Saint If thou readest and gainest nothing thank thy owne base heart Here 's a description of a true Christian a sight of him in a Copy and a Picture Certainly something may be got for thy and my souls profit from either If thou gainest any thing blesse thy God and pray for him who is Norwich Nov. 20. 1648. Thine in the Lord Iesus JOHN COLLINGS Faith and Experience A short Explanation of her selfe concerning divers Articles of Faith especially such as are most fundamentally necessarie to salvation Taken from her owne mouth Concerning the God-head I. I Believe there is a God and that this God i● infinite 1. In Substance 2. In Holinesse and in Being that there are 3 Persons in the divine Being The Father the Sonne the Holy Ghost each one God and yet in being but one God Concerning the way to come to know God II. I believe that this God is made knowne to us by his Word and by his Workes That there is a way of the knowledge of God by the Scripture and that there is a way of the knowledge of God in a more speciall way wherein God by his Spirit revealeth himselfe to his people experimentally yet according to Scripture Concerning the Word of God the holy Scriptures III. I believe That the holy Scripture is the very Word of God 1. Because it declares the Wisedome of God 2. Because it discovers our vilenesse and folly 3. Because it puts us upon purity 4. Because it reveales to us the great mysteries of Salvation I believe That God by this his Word is made knowne to us 1. As he is in himselfe by his Nature 2 By his Names which are his Attributes or 2. his Names of Relation Concerning Gods works of Creation and Providence IV. I believe That this God is further made knowne to us by his Workes of Creation I believe His work of Creation was his Creating of all things in heaven and earth I believe That God did create all things in heaven and earth I put a difference between Creating and Making To make is to produce something out of something To create is to produce something out of nothing I believe that God did make all things in heaven and earth for man and man onely for himselfe and his service Concerning the Creation of man in speciall and the state of innocency in which he was created V. I believe That God made man only for himselfe and his service I believe That man was made in such an estate whereby he was able to serve God by that divine grace which was put into him by God himselfe I believe That man being thus created was infinitely ingaged to serve his God because hee had

thus made him and all things else for his use and service I believe That all that God made amongst which was man was exceeding good and whatsoever was afterward not good was through the defect of the Creature I believe That man being thus made and engaged to serve his God yet was made liable to fall Concerning the Fall of man VI. I believe That Man fell and that wholly from God and that being thus fallen God might justly have taken advantage upon fallen man and have cast him and his posterity off to all Eternity as hee did the fallen Angels Concerning Gods workes of grace 1. Of Election VII I believe There is an Election of Grace and that according to that Election there shall be but a few that shall participate of the way of recovery by Iesus Christ. Concerning the work of Redemption and Reconciliation VIII I believe That there was no cause in man being fallen to move God to recover him from that fallen estate but onely he was moved from his owne bowells I believe being moved so from himselfe hee found out a way himselfe for mans Recovery I believe That the way so found out and the meanes by which alone fallen man can be restored was by a Mediator taking upon him our Nature that so he might pacifie the wrath of God for the sinne of our Nature that wee might thereby be fit to live with God in our Nature Concerning Originall sinne IX I believe That our Nature was sinfull and that the sin of our Nature was the cause of all our sorrowes temporall and Eternall we dyed spiritually at the instant of the fall and all shall certainly dye a temporall death and only some shall be delivered from dying eternally Further. Concerning the worke of Redemption and Reconciliation the sole Redeemer the fruit of Redemption the mysterie of conveyance c. X. I believe That as the whole Trinity did worke in the Creation of the world so they did also equally worke in the worke of our Redemption God the Father and the Holy Ghost sending and the Son being sent and comming But I believe that Christ hath alone performed the worke of redemption and reconciliation fully satisfying the Iustice of God to the utmost for all his I believe also that every man in the world is beholding to God for Iesus Christ for the enjoyment of their lives and of the creatures and that for the present they are reprieved from hell and damnation I believe That Reconciliation is to be found in no other but in Iesus Christ who is the alone great Reconciler betwixt God and his people I believe That the worke of Redemption is a great mysterie for the divine Nature to take upon him the humane nature O it is a great Mysterie I believe also That it is a great Mysterie in regard of the way of its particular conveyance And that Christ hath not onely purchased this salvation but also makes a particular Declaration of it 1. By his Word 2. By the Worke of his spirit on the soule And 3. By the witnesse of the spirit I believe That in this worke Jesus Christ purchased strength for every beleever to withstand Sin Death and Hell Concerning Perseverance in Grace XI I believe That by the Lord Jesus Christ there is power purchased for every Believer to withstand Sinne Death and Hell Notwithstanding that the fallen Angels the Devils as they were the first occasion of the fall so they are great hinderers of this worke of Grace and Restauration they having us at such an advantage Concerning Death and the Resurrection and the Immortality of the soule XII I believe That all men according to Gods appointment must dye and continue in the Grave The bodies I meane of every Man and Woman that so they might be made fit for eternity some for eternall wrath others for eternall glory I believe That the soules of all immediately after death goe to God that gave them there to give an account for what they have done in the flesh I believe that the Resurrection of the Saints to grace here and glory hereafter is purchased by the Death Resurrection and Ascensian of Jesus Christ I believe That the same bodies both for substance and forme every joint and limbe shall rise againe and not a bone shall be wanting A substantiall body both for flesh and bones that I prove by Christs resurrection who was raised with the same body Object But you will say Christs body lay but three dayes in the Grave and so his body was not rotted in the dust but ours will lye so long that our bodies shall be turned into dust Ans I Answer The same power that made the body of Adam out of the dust the same power can raise our bodies again although turned to dust So that the worke of Resurrection is a curious worke and secretly wrought in the wombe of the earth as the child is secretly wrought in the womb of the mother There shall be the same matter to make the bodies of in the Resurrection at the last day that there was when God first formed the body of Adam viz. The Dust of the earth The same power shall raise all our bodies though turned to dust Concerning the day of Iudgement XII I believe That Christ shall come personally to judge the world and that with an audible voice by the word of his mouth he shall raise the dead And that at the day of judgement all the sins of the godly shall be laid upon Iesus Christ. They here in the world accuse themselves for sinne and so shall be excused at the last day It is the office of conscience to accuse here or hereafter Conscience having done its office there shall be nothing objected against them at that day But they shall heare that blessed Sentence Come ye blessed of my Father Concerning Glorification heaven XIV I believe The godly at the day of Iudgement shall heare that blessed Sentence Come yee blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you before the beginning of the world I believe In Heaven there shall be no Infant of dayes nor old man of yeares The corruptible life of of the creature shall not inherit eternall life there shall no weaknesse no deformity what ever accompany that life there shall be no eating nor drinking in it but singing Hallelujahs to God for ever I will conclude with the Psalmist Psalm 139. I will praise the Lord for I am fearefully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy works and that my soule knowes right well Reader Thou hast thus far read her Faith now hear her Storie that was faithfully taken from her own mouth And so also was this that followes being the Relation of Gods dealings with her Psalm 34. 8. Taste and see how good the Lord is Psalm 66. 16. Come and I will tell you what God hath done for my soule I shall speake nothing but what God hath done in me and for me THe