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band, though their marriage was never legal, according to the good laws of our country. But like an insatiable harlot, she is never satisfied; she will lay claim to another woman's Husband, (Christ) the Husband of the free woman, the church; and will be called by his name, to take away her reproach." (Isa. iv. 1.) She will be called after Christ's name she will be called christian though she is anti-christ, or against Christ. Like all harlots, she cares not for him, neither has she any love for him, but only for what he has, namely, only for temporalities, or his temporal goods: and thus she has endeavoured to enrich herself, through borrowing his name; and thus, like all proud whores, she has "arrayed herself in purple and scarlet colour, and decked herself with gold and precious stones, and pearls," (Rev. xvii. 4,) to entice young men and silly people after her. And this filthy old harlot, dresses herself up with beads, crosses, crucifixes, silk, gold, pearls, crimson, and purple-builds altars, burns incense, makes fine paintings and painted windows, to strike the natural senses of men, and deceive silly souls, to her perfumed bed of whoredom. While she is rotten within, with the most filthy and loathsome disease of sin, lies, deceit and hypocrisy, yea, death, devil and hell, are in her. "Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death." (Prov. vii. 27.) And to prove how much she likes evening and candle-light, she burns candles in her house all the day long, pretending that they shew the purity of her faith and vigilance; whereas, it is spiritual whoredom and hypocrisy. The night is upon us—our calamities make haste: and it appears, the twilight precedes evening; evening precedes "the black and dark night." (Prov. vii. 9.) No doubt but that black Popish night will soon be experienced in England, and over all the world; and will, it appears, have all nations in her adulterous bed, at midnight, when the good man who is gone a long journey comes. (Prov. vii. 19.) When the Son of man comes, shall he find

faith on the earth?

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The night is darker than we are aware of. Our English constitution is undermined, while we have been asleep. You must know for a certainty, that the Puseyites are nothing less than the Jesuits revived in disguise, who have been subtlely working underground ever since the Catholic Emancipation Bill passed. The Jesuits, or Puseyites, are an ancient order of cunning, learned, intelligent men, who are infidels, or, strictly speaking, atheists; but they assume any form, garb, or profession of religion, to deceive or carry out their own designs; and, although they work with the Catholics now, under a disguise, they intend their utter overthrow with every other reli

gious sect, to establish an absolute monarchy of their own. This sect of Jesuits was driven out of England, in the year 1604, but have been subtlely working in different nations. They caused the revolution in France: some of them made their escape to England, and established themselves at Stoneyhurst, in Lancashire. I have been in their college, which is the seat of subtlety and mischief in England, from whence Puseyism springs. They have a secret oath among themselves : and their principle is, to divide and then destroy. They have divided the Church of England: thousands of her priests, called Puseyites, are really of the order of Jesuits, and doubtless many ministers among the dissenters are of the same cast, though in disguise. I have my eye on some. Watch those who are endeavouring to pull down the English constitution, to establish themselves. in greater political power. Those who despise governments, presumptuous are they, self-willed-" they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities." 2 Pet. ii. 10,

"The

Strictly speaking, Jesuitism or Puseyism; is old Paganism revived in disguise, under a different form. There are many antichrists, which I would describe if my limits would admit. There is Pagan antichrist and Popish antichrist: the latter is always spoken of in the feminine gender, as 66 a woman on a scarlet-coloured beast," the great whore, &c., the former is spoken of in the masculine gender, as the "Man of sin," (2 Thess. ii. 3.) who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God-namely, he is antichrist himself, yet he opposeth antichrist to exalt himself-for, depend upon it, Jesuitism, or Puseyism, is "the man of sin," and will be the destruction of Popery in the end. mystery of iniquity, is working mightily now: it is a mystery; and Infidelity or Atheism, Jesuitism or Puseyism, if you like, called that Wicked, shall soon be revealed, "whom (after this) the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming; even him whose coming is after the working of Satan. (2 Thess. ii. 9)-and truly the Jesuits have for sometime been working in England with all the cunning of the devil. He, "the man of sin," is compared to a leopard, approaching from the thickets, very cautiously, on its prey; and the dragon, the devil, gave him his power and authority. "And there was given unto him, a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months," (Rev. xiii. 10.) agreeing with the three days and a half, or three years and a half, when the witnesses are to lie dead in the streets of this

Sodom and Egypt. "This beast was, and is not, and yet is." It was. Paganism, is not, not now in the old form, and yet is, the same

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-,when a Mr.- occupied the pulpit. The subject selected for meditation, was Acts xiii. 38, 39. In the course of which, when speaking of justification, it was asserted "That justification was eternal." In support of which, he quoted Romans viii. 30, and then asked, "Why should we invert the order?" at the same time warning his hearers against trespassing on a subject of such solemn importance.

Now I had hitherto thought that the matter was settled in the councils of the eternal Three; and on looking at the passage above to, I did not find it run thus:

will justify, but, "them he also justified.' The tense is not present or future, but past; God had fixed on the objects of his choice, he gave them to his Son to redeem, and by his Holy Spirit in the fulness of time, had determined to bring them into the bonds of that covenant which is ordered, &c. I cannot see the propriety of the remark, and it has perplexed me. I know well that the sinner cannot realize it only by faith, but still I seem to think notwithstanding his inability while in an unregenerate state to understand it so as to embrace it, to lay hold of it; yet that this has nothing to do with the mind of the Lord.

spirit in the Jesuits or Puseyites; and he is now coming up again, and will open his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blåspheme his name, and his tabernacle: and all the world will wonder after this beast, "whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is." (Rev. xvii. 8.) This beast, Infidelity, or Jesuitism, was united to Popery in 1814, under Pope Pius VII.; and is now the beast that is carrying Popery over all the earth. The Jesuits are a military body, sanguine or bloody in their disposition, called a scarlet-coloured beast. "I saw the woman sit upon a scarlet-Whom he called, them he also justifies," or colored beast, full of the names of blasphemy." (Rev. xvii. 3.) And when the beast and its rider have overcome the saints, (Rev. xiii. 7), then the beast will throw off its rider, the great whore, and tear her to pieces. The ten horns are European kings that will become infidels, and receive power with the beast one hour. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast: and when these kings and the beast, (or Jesuitism) are united, they will have power over the whole world, in the black and dark night, and all will worship the dragon and the beast, saying "who is able to make war with him?" (Rev. xiii. 4.) But, as the iufidels or Jesuits will hate the whore, and be loathed with her fornications, they shall destroy her; and after this they shall be destroyed with the breath of Christ's mouth, and the brightness of his coming. "For these ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast they shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire." (Rev.xvii. 16.) Here shall be an end of the great whore, the well-favored harlot, the nations shall see her nakedness, and the kingdoms her shame. (Nahum iii. 5.) And as Jehu, an infidel king, destroyed Jezebel; so shall these infidel kings destroy Popery, and then be destroyed themselves. But, "who shall live when God doeth this?" None but those whose "life is hid with Christ in God:" and if their bodies be killed their souls are safe in their hiding-place, Christ Jesus their Lord.

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If you would give me a thought or two, 1 should esteem it an especial favor. I should rather have it before the Vessel, at the same time I thought it might afford matter of thought for some of your readers.-X.

LUTHER.

"The solitary Monk who shook the World."
IN Germany, the Gospel light,
By Luther shone, when dead of night

Throughout the world did reign;
Rome curs'd, and curs'd, from morn till noon,
As noisy curs howl at the moon,

As senseless and as vain.
In knowledge and in grace increas'd,
The "powers of darkness," Pope and Priest,
He boldly challeng'd all:
Amid the storm, the raging flood!
A rock-bas'd Beacon firm he stood,
For Truth, a "brazen wall."
Hercules in theology!
Fearless, and sans apology,

He club'd Rome's idols down ;-
Fell'd the old renown'd Tree!
The Pope's infallibility,

(His shelter, and his crown.)
The popish rooks, and owls, and bats,
Minus crosses, bows, and hats,

Shrieking, cawing, flew ;
Their threatenings loud, their bitter hates,
Fall still upon their shaven pates,
And every morning new! J. H.
Leicester, Jan., 1846.

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF Mrs. HANNAH JUDD.

By the Rev. BERNARD GILPIN, Minister of Portvale Chapel, Hertford.

THAT Bernard Gilpin has conferred upon | us, in common with all the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, into whose hands this little work may fall, a great blessing, is beyond all question. The life, the experience, the sins, the sorrows, and the salvation of Mrs. Hannah Judd, are herein set forth in a clear, sober, yet most delightful manner. “Oh," we said, as we eagerly and profitably perused its pages, "What a most glorious testimony and witness to the truth as it is in Jesus is here! There is no magnifying the creature: no, no: Bernard Gilpin! you have faithfully done, what is but rarely accomplished in these days; you have not beautified, ornamented, covered over, nor exalted the sinner; but by a simple detail of facts of a highly interesting character, you have shewn that "the grace of our Lord," which was bestowed upon that dear afflicted saint, "was exceeding abundant with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus."

"Attention to the following memoir, (says our able biographer,) will shew us how in the case of this true sheep of Christ, he, as the good Shepherd, both fed her, afflicted her for her spiritual profit, restored her soul from time to time, preserved her spiritual life under circumstances which seemed likely to extinguish it, and was with her to the end, in his saving power, though not always in the sensible manifestations of his love. Let us then regard both her and every member of the church militant in the true scriptural light. These all are called 'lively stones chosenin Christ and precious;' but all that is going on in this world may be compared to hewing and squaring, to fitting and polishing. For the temple of God in heaven, (like its type upon earth, 1 Kings, vi. 7,) is built of stone made ready before it is brought thither; so that there is neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron, heard in the building of that house' which is above."

There is but one thing that we have to complain of connected with this little work, and that is its price. One shilling and sixpence is more, much more than thousands of the Lord's poor disciples can afford. Not that we would infer that this beautiful little book could be sold for less money: the only question is, might it not have been brought out in a cheaper form?

Fully aware as we are, that but few to whom we can be instrumental in recommending this Memoir of Mrs. Hannah

Judd, will be able to purchase it, we are anxious to afford our brethren and sisters in the wilderness, an opportunity of knowing a little of the dealings of the Lord with that venerated and much beloved saint. Only further premising that the work itself is published in London by Groombridge and Sons, we proceed to make an extract or two as follow:

In

"Hannah Judd, whose family name was Shephard, was born in the village of Little Hadham, Herts, in November, 1758. Her father was in a small way of business, and her mother's family were farmers. the twenty-second year of her age she married Mr. twelve children, every one of whom the mother surJudd, a farmer in the same county, and they had vived, though ten grew up. She became a widow about the year, 1812, but continued to carry on a farm at Barley, in Herts, till the year 1827, before which time she had become entirely blind; and in this state she went with her only surviving daughter Sarah, and her youngest son, Benjamin, to reside with another son William, at a farm called Clay-pits, in Blackfan-wood, Bayford, about three miles from Hertford. Here, first Benjamin, and then Sarah died, and their mother was left in a state of considerable destitution with her son William only; who, not finding the farm to answer, became too poor to keep even a

female servant. In the year 1839, they retired together to a little cottage near Wormley in the same neighbourhood, where William's health began gradually to decline, and he died in the year 1842, his blind and helpless parent having been for nearly two years confined to her bed through weaknesss, though not from disease. A relation by marriage (widow of one of the sons) had come to wait upon William at the last, and remained after his death to nurse her mother-in-law, who, after a lingering and painful decline, died on the 24th of July 1843, in the eightyfifth year of her age.

"Thus it appears that her life was in a peculiar manner one of labour and sorrow. I first heard of her in Autumn of the year 1835, while she and her son William only, resided together in the farm at Black-fan-wood. She had then been blind for about ten years. A friend, who mentioned her case to me, had for some time been in the habit of visiting her, and had been much impressed with her conversation; and on September 2, 1835, we went together to see her.' power in her religious conversation on that day, so There was much simplicity, clearness and that I felt great affection and regard for her; and this sides myself went with my friend, Mr. Bourne (whose was confirmed shortly afterwards, when several beletters to her are inserted in this memoir,) to see her again.

It is thus that Mr. Bernard Gilpin gives first a summary of her life. At subsequent visits which he paid her, he prevailed upon her to give him the particulars connected with her life, conversion, experience, trials, &c.: and which at great length are recorded. We have been so solemnly blessed in the perusal, that we

dare not withold a brief analysis of the

same.

Of her early life, Mrs. Judd says:"While I was only a child, I believe the Lord gave me some intimation of his spiritual presence and favor; and I used some times to venture to speak a word of my inward feelings to my parents and other relations; but they always used to check me, and tell me I was very presumptuous.

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were in heaven already.' But do you think that this satisfied me? No, no; nor if a hundred had united together to say the same be searching-I must be seeking out and thing. I could not be contented. I must praying-I must have the Lord to shew me, and to make known these things to me.

"Yet for all I sought so, at the time I am speaking of, I continued in a very confused When I was thirty years

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and horror were heavy at times. I knew 1 old, I began to grow worse. My distress was a sinner, and yet did not feel the weight of my sins; I saw I was not able to repent. I heard a sermon at Buntingford from these words 'Turn me, and I shall be turned.... Surely after that I was turned, I repented.' It confirmed me to know that repentance is the Lord's work. I longed for it asked for it-but did not think I was either longing or asking, not so as to satisfy myself. My husband could pray night and morning, but I did not think I was praying at all. It used to comfort me that my husband prayed for me, for I supposed he was an experienced Christian, regular in attending his place of worship, had no darkness of soul, and no misgivings: he was always comfortable, but I grew worse.

"I married when about twenty-one years of age; and soon afterwards fell into very deep concern in my soul: but I did not understand my own case-everything was a mystery to me. I remember this passage of Scripture was very powerfully brought to my mind, Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and other things shall be added. I said, 'Lord, what is this seeking? How shall I seek?' and I longed to know, but I could not. At times I was in a very dull state, and seemed without any life in my soul. I could not tell anybody what I felt. I do not know that there were any of my relations who had the true fear of God, excepting only my husband's grandmother. I thought then, and I think yet, that she was a child of God. I could speak to her, and she used to like talking to me; for she saw the Lord had begun a work upon my "All this brought on by degrees impatisoul. One day I very earnestly said to her, ence and fretting, and my fretting provoked There is one thing I long to know-oh, the Lord. For I used to be saying 'It is how I do long to know it!-I seek-I try- better for me to die than to live.' And I I study, but I cannot find it out.'Well, thought the Lord would take me at my child,' she answered, 'what is it?" Said I, word; for one day while yet in this bad state, It is what the new birth means;what it my mind was impressed suddenly that in means, that we must be born again.' She three days I should die indeed. This brought smiled, and said, 'Child, you shall know; a change, it fell on me like a judgment. for the word says, Then shall ye know, if yeDie! (I said) I'm not fit to die;' and I follow on to know the Lord.' That was her answer; and I could get no more from her at that time. In those days, I would take the Bible, and go into a spare room away from all the din of the family, and search, and search, and search, that I might know this great thing. And to this day 1 feel satisfied that it is this seeking which must continue and abide with us. I remember, long afterwards, and when 1 had more knowledge, that this seeking continued, and many would say to me, 'Why you are safe enough without all this to do!' and 1 used to say, 'You call me religious, but you none of you know my heart; it's very devilish! it's always sinning! I know nothing right.' For so it really seemed to me, though I could not persuade them. Also I remember a gentleman farmer, who would hear what I had to say; and when I told him my ways and feelings, he seemed to like the account, and he said, 'Why you are as safe as if you

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prayed that I might live. O Lord, (I said)
lengthen my days and enable me to repent,'
for I thought I should go to destruction, it
seemed clear to me. However it was wonder-
ful what that impression meant, not that I
should die in body, but that on that day I
should begin to die to sin and to live to God.
For on the third day a change came.
Spirit struck in with the word, and brought
this text to my heart, Thy Maker is thy
husband.' It followed, "Fear not, I have
redeemed thee-I have called thee-I will
uphold thee by the right hand of righteous-
ness, for I have redeemed thee, saith the
Lord.' These words altered my state, they
made me understand the grace of God, and
I was satisfied that I had never understood
things rightly before. I had light now from
the Lord, and seemed to be in a new world,
all things were new to me. I tried to explain
my happiness, but I found that those about
me did not like it, and could not conceive

what I meant; so I was obliged to keep my Judd, as regards the condition of her feelings to myself. husband. She says:

his profession. This was a heavy thing."
Lord's
's dealings, though he was so steady in

Yes-these are heavy things, but God's living Israel, in this wilderness state, must, more or less, dwell alone; like the sparrow upon the house-top.

Oh, reader; you have the living, genuine features of vital godliness set before you here: God help you by his grace, to discover a similar work in your own soul: and then, you will find but few to whom you can open your heart, but God will be your refuge for ever. You will now notice what conflicts of soul followed upon this deliverance:

Reader! Mark here the spiritual dis- "Now it was that my husband quite discernment which the blessed illuminating, appointed me. For as long as I had conlife-giving operations of the Holy Ghost tinued in my bad state, he would frequently impart ! Mrs. Judd's husband could put such questions to me as these, 'How do "pray night and morning :" and it was you go on?' Does the Lord hear your even" a comfort to me (says this dear prayers?' So I thought he would be very old saint,) to think that my husband indeed. But when I gave him the account, glad to hear that my prayers had been heard prayed for me; for I supposed he was he did not understand it at all. He said 'You an experienced christian." Ah! she supare mistaken.' 'No, indeed,' (I would say) posed he was an experienced Christian: I am not,' for I was quite sure I was not, and it is thus that thousands of ministers but I never could make him see it; so that and men pass for experienced Christians: instead of being able to speak with him more and how can it be otherwise, until God the and more, I was obliged to speak less and Holy Ghost gives a living elect sinner less, and at last I could say nothing at all. the light of life? it is then, a suspicion For I began by degrees to find out that he will be felt towards these supposed Chris-had never known a change, never knew the tians; yea, a discovery will be made, of the state and condition of many who have before passed for experienced Christians. The Holy Ghost by Ezekiel, speaking of these supposed Christians, says (in his 33rd chapter) that "they come as God's people come:" (that is, they come in by a natural light and a natural faith in Christ :) further; he says these supposed Christians "sit before God's prophets as God's people sit:" (that is they continue to stand in Gospel ordinances; and become hardened in their dead profession :) further; God says, of these supposed Christians; that "with their mouth they shew much love; but their hearts goeth after their covetousness. Oh, what solemn instances have we seen of this description! Men that could preach like angels; pray like saints; weep like Mary Magdalene; talk of Christ like holy Paul himself: and yet with all this, grind down the poor; scratch and crawl for money, not to supply their real necessities; but to hoard up: ah, and there is a man now wandering up and down in the earth; who for years stood in just such a position as we have described but we fear he is a sinner without a saving faith: a "branch that was in Christ," by profession and in appearance; but bearing no fruit-it is taken away. Oh, ye sweet and oily priests; who are grinding the poor; selling your gospel at the highest price ye can; beware, lest bye and bye, the sentence shall be passed upon you-"Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever.And, presently, the fig tree withered away." See what a solemn discovery was made unto the living soul of Mrs.

"Well, I hoped I had almost done with sin, but sin began to return more and more. I seemed to myself worse than before. I began to be like the children of Israel, who turned back. For a long time after that light sprang in, I had felt like death to have a worldly spirit, but by degrees I began to cleave more and more to the world again. thinking I had been shewn great things by I became vain in my dress, and very proud, the Lord; and so dead I was in my soul, that though 1 went to public worship, I hardly knew what for, but kept swinging to and fro like a door on its hinges. Only at times I felt many secret rebukes, and was quite sure that the Lord would punish my sins. All my comfort left me, and I began to feel great At this time horror and lowness of mind. deavoured to pray that I might enjoy the we moved to a farm at Barley. Here I enpresence of the Lord; but soon afterwards I was tempted in a very strange way by the devil. He put it this way in my heart; 'There is no fear of God in this place; God will not attend to your prayers here; forsake him, and live as you list. My conscience was never easy. A great fire broke out at Chishill, near us. I really envied some of

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