THE EFFICACY Of the true BALME BEING A true Relation of Mrs. Rose Warnes carriage Confession of her Sins and profession of her hope in the mercy of God so far as it was known to an Eye and Ear witness of much of it after she was apprehended and to the time of her death to which she was adjudged April 1667. At Lin Regis in the County of Norfolke upon strong presumption of her murther of her infant and suffered April 14. With some means used for her help in her imprisonment As also an inperfect yet pretty full Relation of what she spake to the People at her execution Published by John Horn of Lin Regis with his Epistle and some verses on her Printed for T. Passenger at the three Bibles on London Bridge 166â— Reader HAving lately put to the Press a discourse upon the Parable of the Prodigal cheifly the two last verses of it and therein treats much of the merciful compassion of God toward sinners and readyness to receive the cheif of them upon their return to him yea to give by Jesus Christ repentance and remission I have thought it very agreable with that discourse to make publick also this ensuing Relation of God's gracions dealing with a woman in our town of Lin a woman of good parentage and that sometime lived in good fashion but through decay and poverty partly fell into temptation and so into sin â—ter she had some understanding of the truth and goodness of God and had made thereof somtime some profession and surely as sins against knowledg and after mercy extended are very provoking of God's displeasure so it was a token of his displeasure against her so sinning to permit her after many convincements warnings and reproofs given her and still sinned against by her to fall into so gross sin as to pull upon her open shame and punishment in the veiw of men falling with child adulterously and being delivered in secret she caused it to be cast forth which God in severity against her so hainious sinning yet in mercy to her soul would have come to light and there by her brought to shame and suffering during the time of whose imprisonment he yet magnifyed his grace and mercy toward her in giving her repentance and filling her with good lively hope of her salvation as ensuing this Relation will inform thee being the summe of diverse passages and observations noted by a relation to her by Marriage viz. Thomas Moor junior since that alass deceased and now with God and for the use of Friends written by him who as he was indued with great understanding and wisdome in the knowledge of the holy Scriptures and of the grace of God and therethrough made a very skilful able and expert spiritual Physitian to poor sinful and aflicted souls so was it her mercy to have much converse with him and helpfulnesse from him in the time of her imprisonment whose endeavours for her as his abundant charity through the grace of God led him to undertake them so through the blessing of God were a very good means of her repentance and of the comforts encouragements that her soul met with she was it seems much exercised about the Parable of the Prodigal and I was much exercised about what I have thereupon published by occasion of her with whom I also conversed in the time of her restraint though she speaking to me but once about it I knew not that she was so much exercised in it till I had neer finished what I thereon writ but when I understood it it made me the willinger to publish it And the publishing of that moved me also to publish this being an instance of mercy so agreable to it I had noted something my self about her and of her speech at her suffering but finding those passages of my Friends and Brothers more large and full then mine own mine own also as to the main of them being inserted into the Treatise or discourse before mentioned as to what might be without mention of her name her speech being also here remembred and set down much fuller then my memory retained thereof or was related by me I chose rather to publish this of heâ— then any thing of my own this also being full of very useful observations profitable to be known which â—udged great pity should be wrapt up in a napkin and be only in the hands of some fewer Persons I have only aded some brief answers to some things objected by some against her with a few homely verses and now it is publick do thou read and make good use of it and the Lord give his blessing with it Thine to serve thee in the Gospel of Christ J. 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Passenger at the three Bibles on London Bridgeâ— MArkhaw's Master pâ—ice in 4 to newly Printed corrected and amended Dod on the commandements Doc-litls spiritual Antedote Pichard on sanctification The wife Virgin The penitent prodigal by John Horn somtimes Minister of Lin Alhallowes Halls sussurium cum Dâ—oâ— or his Divine Soliloquies Pilgrims port Pathway to health Mariners compass rectified Academy of complements the first and best sort far surpassing any other book of that nature Book of Palmistry Book of Knowledge Valentine and Orson large History of Palmering of England Destruction of Troy in three parts History of Paladine of England History of Amadis d'Gaule 5th part Scarborough spaw The jovial Garland The loyal Garland FINIS The Efficacy of the true Balm or Medicine for Restoring and healing the Soul A true Relation of Mistriss Rose Warnes Carriage Confessian of her sins and Profession of hope in the mercy of God so far as it was known to an eye and ear witness of much of it after she was apprehended and to the time of her death with souâ—e mention by the way of the means used for her help AFter the Justices had been with her and taken her examination I went with my wife to see her and found some women with her and her self full of sorrow and shame I told her whatever she had done and however grievously she had sinned against the Lord and against her own soul and against his name and people of which though I knew nothing particularly of what procured this shame and sorrow to her nor desired at this time any perticular confession from her yet I doubted not but there was somewhat of shameful iniquity and long stubbornness in hiding it that procured this shame and sharp correction And that which made made me so judge was the infinite mercy of God and his slowness to anger who is not easily provoked to such severity and sharpness in rebukes yet whatever it was I desired she should not adde this to all to say there is no hope But know there was yet forgiveness and mercy with him that he might be feared and hoped in by her for still this saying remains faithful and true that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners even
great joy and composure and after earnestly praying to God for the people and that he would graciously receive her soul which she freely and cheerfully committed to him she yeilded her body to the Executioner to whom she said alas poor man come do thy office shall I go higher or lower which caused some that stood by to change their minds for they had said a while before that she lengthned out her discourse to spin out time because she was loath to come at it but now observing this free proffer of her self to the Executioner without any hastening her they on the other hand admired to see her so willing to dye when the rope was fitted to her neck she again protested her great peace and joy in the view of the blessedness she was going to and it was thought by many the body scarce retained the soul or life after it was turned off for she was not seen to struggle nor scarce if at all move in any part as they said that was neer blessed be God for his mercy in giving such a proof of the truth and faithfulness of that saying that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners Her Speech SInners come hither you to me I call That you may warned be by this my fall Which for your sakes the just Lord ordered To appear so publickly admonished That you thereby might be and so prevent Your suffering such like or worse punishment For such like punishments or worse will be Thiâ—â— lot that won't henceforth be warnâ—d by me Had I been warn'd before by others I Had not come hither in this wise to dye But since his mercies I therein dâ—d slight And turned not to him so as I might In justice he permitted such a fall Mercy to shâ—w to me and to you all Take heed of sins deceits the wayès thereto Take heed how you do venture on to go For Sin more sub ile then a Serpent is Happy the souls that its inchantments mâ—ss I thought my self once strong enough to stand Against its charms and that I had command So of my self that I from it could keep Me safe but since alas for grief to weep It â—ft hath bronght me so it will do you If you by me will not he warned now The vitious courses which I see possest The minds of many I did once detest I loathed to think to wrong the marriage bed Or walk in such bad wayes as thereto led But oh alas while some smooth company Pretendiâ—g love and friendship cheerfuly I entertain'd and sorted with no harm Thinking in them their fair pretence did charme My foolish heart into so plâ—asing sleep That under shows of love lust gan to â—reep Slily into my breast to laugh and play And jest and sport with them while I gave way Such was sins first in windings and the wayes That sinners used heapes of woes to raise Upon my person while some snares did lay To catch me and their mates did me betray Who being nought themselves did seek that I Might be so too as if my company In badness would their badness mittigate Or their litentiousness extenuate And I alas too ready was to close With sins and their sweet charms till I did loose Of vertue all the savour then I feltâ— The pangs of hell within me but I dealt Deceitfuly and hid my sins and grew From worse to worse which now I saâ—ly rue Woe worth such false acquaintance whâ— pretences Of love and friendship gave to my offences The spring rise oh then be warn'd by me And shun all foolish wanton company All merry junkettings and gossipings For much iniquity from such things springs Who walkes with wise men wisdome shall attain But a companion unto persons vaine For such vile sinners who their faults confess And heartily therein do seek redress Had I not mercy now therein obâ—ain'd Oh how my soul had stain'd been my heart pain'd With fears of after woe sinners behold Take heed of sin never therewith be bold For it will-misery to you procure Either while here or that that will indure Eternally be warned then by my fall Let me Rose Warne a warning be to all And yet an instance of such mercy toâ— As may perswade you whatsoere you do Not to despair of mercy but submit To bear Gods chastisement and turning yet To hope and seek for pardon of him who His only son sent that he might undoe The devils works of sin and death for all Who gave his life and unto all doth call To look to him and saved be since this A faithful saying worth acceptance is That he into the world did come that he Might Saviour of the cheifest sinners be And such hath saved yea since God dâ—th swear That of the truth of what he saith no fear Might us possesse that he hath no deâ— light In death of wicked men but that the right They rather turne to and their sins forsake That of life in his love they may partake To sin is bad but to despair is worse For that 's the certain way to death and curse Who sins not shanâ— be tempted to despair Therefore of sin and its deceits beware But having sinn'd repent for God will give Mercy to those that turne and they shall live Through Jesus Christ our Lord so farewell all And see ye warned bee by this my fall Qui ante non cavet post â—olâ—bit Who so doth not of sin beware before His doleful state shall afterward deplore Et qui ante dolet post gaudebit Who penitently here their sins bewaile Hereafter shall have joys that nere shall faile Upon R. 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She that was lost we hope is found Shee that was dead doth live again She that in lust and sin was drown'd We hope with Christ doth now remain Oh pretious blood that washt her so Free grace that did her so redress That by the ladder she might go To endless and eternal bliss Lord send us to that fountain too And throughly wash our souls therein Without which all that we can do Cannot deliver us from sin And keep us from such sins and shame As blurd and shortn'd here her daies That we may glorifie thy name And go to heaven by better wayes Rofe Warne EPIGRAM Rose Warne thy name was oh that thou hadst been Rose Warned thou such mischeifs hadst not seen But being not Rose Warned by thy fall Thou art Rose Warne a warning unto all SHe left by her speech and demeanour a very great admiration of it and affectedness with it in the auditory which was very great and numerous from the Town and Country though the fewer from the Country because it was not the market day who generally so far as they heard her at least returned with abundance of compunction and seriousness upon their spirits glorifying God for and in her diverse saying they never saw any executed that dyed in that manner and with that cheerfulness and hope in God and with such
such lawless and disobedient sinners And God hath exalted him a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance and forgiveness of sins even to rebellious and backsliding sinners And he was now using those means to save and redeem her from her iniquities because milder ones would not effect his end And therefore not to be angry or frown against him for judging thus for which we make it our work to hide our sin he is ingaged in love and faithfulness to us to make it his work to discover and make us take shame and if we would timely judge our selves we should not be judged with such sharpness and when we have provoked him to use sharpness still he judgeth us in this world that he may not condeâ—n us with the world Therefore now at last Humble your self under the mighty hand of God and to day if yet you wilt hear his voyce harden not your heart for still it s to day which he is sparing you and hath not cut you off in your iniquity and is still by any means calling you that you may escape the damnation of hell Therefore now let us take shame and judge our selves Truly I must take shame to my self for my unfaithfulness to you that I have not been more watchful nor more laid to heart what I have observed and heard I have observed that you have been of latter times very seldom in the Company of your faithful friends and negligent when you have been with them of minding and giving earnest heed to that which might and would have kept you from this I thought it might be occasioned through the troubles and cares of of this world coming on you by your necessity and straâ— and having your children like to be cast on you and desolate and therefore sought to help it by seeking to make your life more comfortable by engaging for you to put you into a way for your help and the help and relief of your children with bread I heard also of your being oft in evil vain and wanton company and having fellowship with them in such vanity fiâ—thyness and foolish talking as is not convenient But partly hoped it was not so because it was hid from me and though not without some fears of some truths in such reports yet was ready to excuse it as an issue of the temptation of the fear of want and hoping of getting some advantage or relief by such friendship which though very evil yet I was the less severe in judgeing because of your poor condition and thought rather first to seek to take away the occasion by such means as aforesaid But did now see cause to blame my self and therefore could the more pitty her and earnestly professed that she and we all might now take notice that God would by no means allow or suffer it in those that make mention of his name and keep company with those that call upon him in truth To have fellowship with others in their unfruitful works of darkness And in their merry meetings and revellings in which also it is a shame to speak of those things that are done of them in secret but would more severely correct it in them then in others that know not God I desired her to acknowledge to Gods glory whether she had not been more a frequenter of such private meetings that are indeed unlawful lawful wicked and lascivious then a companâ—on of those that truly fear him Amongst whâ—m I told her I had very â—eldome seen her of late times Upon this she freely confessed that she had been so formerly until iniquity had got dominion over her But since that she feared her being with childe and was also made sensible of the pitty and kindness of her friends who knew not what she had done she was filled with shame fear and horrour and had not frequented such evil company But earnestly begged of the Lord to forgive and hide her sin and cover her shame and not make her a reproach to the foolish which also she was perswaded he would have done for her had the at last obeyed his voice speaking to her when alone and by his servants when she was sometime in their company Admonishing and moving powerfully no longer to hide her sin but to declare her ways to some faithful friends that might pitty and pray for her and seek her help and healing And she many times was resolved to do it and yet could not when she had opportunity they that she thought she could most freely have opened her self too not first finding her out nor being jealous of any such thing she knew not how to break the Ice but still full of shame and guilt came seldom among them and when she did met with such powerful reproofs as made her afraid and ashamed of them as if they had known all that was in her heart and seen all her ways which reproofs of instruction had she submitted too and been willing to take shame with her faithful friends she knew she should have met with help and healing and might have prevented this that was now come upon her but she refused to take shame and now the Lord had shewed himself above her in the thing in which she dealt stubbornly and proudly and now he had made her willing to accept of this shame as a just and gracious punishment of her iniquity she now saw that all this was needful to bring down her heart And yet could not but hope in his mercy that by his thus judging her in this world he would save and redeem her from her iniquities and deliver her soul from going down into the pit of destruction Afterward my wife and I being with her alone she declared something of her ways of iniquity and deeds of darkness more particularly but as I feared and told her with too much extenuating hiding and excusing and so much she confessed the next time I was with her Alass said she I have yet sought to hide my sin and to excuse it and put off as much as I could of the blame and shame of it from my self even in my confessions of it to you But God hath found me out and made you an instrument of showing me the dark corners of my heart I think you know me better then I do my self I confess you have discovered the root of all this evil and of mine iniquities getting such dominion over me The Idolatrous esteem I had of having a self sufficiency in my own hand of those things God was rending from us this love of money made me unwilling to submit to Gods chastisements of that nature and laid me open to such temptations as being yeilded too promised help in the things my soul lusted after and though still God crossed me in all yet my purpose being not broken but my heart inclined to its covetousness I went on frowardly and stubbornly after the way of mine own heart c. I believe and am verily perswaded she then