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A02735	Deaths aduantage little regarded, and The soules solace against sorrow Preached in two funerall sermons at Childwal in Lancashire at the buriall of Mistris Katherin Brettergh the third of Iune. 1601. The one by William Harrison, one of the preachers appointed by her. Maiestie for the countie palatine of Lancaster, the other by William Leygh, Bachelor of Diuinitie, and pastor of Standish. Whereunto is annexed, the Christian life and godly death of the said gentlevvoman.	Harrison, William, d. 1625.; Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1602 (1602)	STC 12866; ESTC S117329	105,988	243

Princes say Pesants say all corruption thou art my father rottennes thou art my mother wormes and vermine yee are my sisters yee are my brethren say graue thou art my bed sheet thou art my shrine earth thou art my couer greene grasle thou art my carpet death demaund thy due and thou gathering host Dan come last sweepe all away And now my brethren that all is gone where is the remaine of our religious hope spes in olla nay spes in vrna There is hope in the graue ●o saith Isaiah the sonne of Amos in this place of all the Prophets most Euangelical and of al the Euangelists most Propheticall In which Scripture for the better carrying away of the whole you may obserue these special points First gladsome tydings from heauen and what it is peace to the soule and rest to the bodie Secondly gladsome tidings from heauen and to whom it is to all such as walke before him Euerie word if you weigh well truely Euangelicall I meane good newes from a farre countrie gladsome tidings of heauenly things What more acceptable then the welles of sweete water to a thirstie soule what more pleasing then to heare of peace in the time of warre what so to be desired in this moyling world as after toyle to heare of rest And what so comfortable to check all miserie as to heare of mercie And fully to be assured that in the middest of death we are in life and that peace shall come This impression of immortalitie and assured hope of deliuerance from daunger death and miserie hath euer possessed the hearts of Gods Saints and beene as it were a naile of the sanctuarie to keepe them in life and fasten them to a further hope of future perfection Thus peace shall come Iob in the plea of all his miseries as hee thought endles easeles and remediles to the weake and sillie eye of flesh and blood yet vpon a better suruey with the single eye of faith helde by this verie hope and none other Peace shall come For when hee had grieuouslie complained that the Lord had hedged vp his waies that hee could not passe and set darkensse in his paths when hee had spoiled him of his honour and taken the Diadem from his head when he had destroyed him on euerie side and remooued his hope like a tree when his armies of afflictions came together made their way vpon him and camped about his tabernacle when his brethren were remoued farre from him and his acquaintance were strangers vnto him when his neighbours had forsaken him and his familiars had forgotten him when his houshold seruants both men maides tooke him for a straunger and would not answere him though hee prayed them with his mouth when his breath was straunge vnto his wife though he besought her too for the childrens sake of his owne bodie when the wicked despised him his secret friends abhorred him and those whom he loued were turned against him finallie when beside these great losses and most cruel vnkindnesses he was tucht in his own person so as his bone claue to his flesh and he onlie escaped with the skin of his teeth yet in all these dolours thus he demurred Peace shall come though in different words yet in equall sense hee made it the issue of all his maladies Scio quod redemptor meus viuit I know that my redeemer liueth and hee shall stand last on the earth and though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie yet shall I see God in my flesh peace shall ●ome Oh that these wordes were now written Oh that they were written euen in a booke grauen with an i●on pen in lead or in ●●one for euer to the ●●lace of al distressed Saints I know that my Redeemer liueth that peace shall come Dauid euen distressed Dauid anchored vpon this hold when tossed vpon the ●eas of worldlie woes he felt the froth and furie of Saules rage and Doegs despite the rebellion and incest of his owne children besides the horror of his proper sinnes which night by night caused him to water his couch with teares all these surges had sunke his soule had not his eyes been fixed vpon this pr●montorie bonae spei Peace shall come which vndoubtedly he felt in his heart when he spake with his mouth and said to the solace of his shrinking soule I should vtterly haue fainted but that I beleeued verely to see the goodnes of the Lord in the land of the liuing O tarrie then the Lords leasure be strong and he shall comfort thy heart Paul is powerfull in this kinde of pleading and if you marke it well in the course of all his Epistles you shall finde that euer as afflictions were multiplied his ioyes were increased Death was to him an aduantage dissolution was his desire and to be with Christ was best of all Peace shall come was his plea against all the issues of death and doome When in labours more abundant in stripes aboue measure in prison more plentiously in death often when of the Iewes fiue times he had receiued fortie stripes saue one when thrise beaten with roddes once stoned thrise hee had suffered shipwracke and beene in the deepe sea both night and day when in iourneyings often in perils of water in perils of robbers in perils of his owne nation in perils among the gentiles in perils in the citie in perils in the wildernes in perils in the sea in perils among false brethren in wearines and painefulnes in watchings often in hunger and thirst in fasting often in cold and nakednes and to conclude when beside the things that were outward hee was combred day lie and had the care of all the Churches yet here was his hold and to this hope was hee fastned I account that the afflictions of this present time are not worthie of the glorie which shall be shewed vnto vs. Therefore we faint not saith the blessed Apostle vpon the like plea but though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed daylie for our light afflictions which is but for a moment causeth vnto vs a farre more excellent and eternall waight of glorie while wee looke not on the things which are seene but on the things which are not scene for the things which are seene are temporall but the things which are not seene are eternall Peace shall come ●●ul Paul this issue of life and soule-solace his heauenlie hold and spirituall rauishment hath made thee to forget all that is behind and to hold hard vnto that marke which is before euen Iesus Christ the authour and finisher of thy faith Here in grace thy life was hid in Christ and for that now in glorie it doth appeare in Christ happie place happie Paul happie shrine happie Saint so to bee blessed both in life and death woe vnto vs vpon whom the ends of this world are come if being compassed with

mother Paula Let vs not mourne because we haue lost such a one but let vs rather giue thankes that we haue had such a one yea rather that we still haue such a one for all liue vnto God and whosoeuer returneth vnto the Lord is reckoned in the number of the fanstlie Let vs learne to imitate those good things which were in her let vs be stirred vp by her death both to consider the vncertaintie of our owne liues and also to prepare our selues for our last end that it may be the beginning of our euerlasting glory The Lord God graunt that euery one of vs may doe it Amen FINIS THE SOVLES SOLACE AGAINST SORROW A funerall Sermon preached at Childwall Church in Lancashire at the buriall of Mistris Katherin Brettergh the third of Iune 1601. in the afternoone of the same day By W. LEYGH Bachelor of Diuinitie and Pastor of Standish PSALME 126. 5. 6. 5 They that sowe in teares shall reape in ioy 6 They went weeping and caried precious seede but they shall returne with ioy and bring their sheaues IONDON Imprinted by Felix Kyngston 1602. To the reuerend man of God and faithfull Preacher M. William Leygh Bachelor of Diuinity and Pastor of Standish in Lancashire William Brettergh wisheth increase of all good graces for the gathering of Gods Saints and building vp of his Church and for his owne euerlasting saluation in Iesus Christ. GOod Sir after I had read with comfort that which I gayned from you with much intreaty I meane a copie of your Sermon preached at my wiues Funerall I was so ful and pregnant of the birth that I could beare no longer but must needs bring foorth the same and lay it in the lap of Gods children which how euer I vse it in the nursing was from your selfe a per●est birth Happily you will deem I do you wrong to publish the same without your futher warrantie indeede you may and my selfe should thinke none other but that fearing vpon a second intreaty you might either perswade me in your loue or ouer-awe me by your authority to desist from printing the same I haue thought good rather to venture vpon all carthly replies thē to hazard the want of so heauenly a solace Good sir pardon my boldnes for and if you would giue me your house full of gold I cannot keepe in what God will haue out nor can I bee silent where God will speake The best is I lacke no priuiledge The Lord hath giuen good success The Examiner full allowance The Learned good approuall And my conscience is cleare within I doe it neither to your praise or my own but with a single heart to set out the Lords glory And for the wantonnes of the world the iniquitie of the time and the multitude of malicious wreslers of whom you speake let them alone whilest they but pine themselues in feeding vpon our best things The Lord giue you grace countenance and continuance in the bleshed worke of the Ministery for his Sions sake London this 20. of Nouember 1601. Your assured in Christ Iesus William Brettergh The Soules Solace against Sorrow ISAIAH 57. 2. Peace shall come they shall rest in their beds euerie one that walketh before him IT was the preparation day before the Saboath when Ioseph of Arimathea with Nichodemus and the women that came from Galile begg'd of Pilate the bodie of Iesus wrapt it in sindon imbalm'd it with spices buried it and so gaue him the last dutie of eternall obsequie As that was honourable in Christ the head so is it not dishonourable in vs his members And for that I hold this day you haue done well who haue followed the hearse of this our deare sister to giue her the last honour of buriall though last I say yet not the least of Christian duties All which on your behalfes blessed preacher and blessed people how readily and religiouslie hath beene performed I rather ioy to feele in my heart then can finde the way to expresse with my tongue howbeit in lieu of my vnfained loue to her that resteth now in peace as also of you my deare brethren who yet a while must indure the warres of this wofull world giue me leaue in respect of both to charge my selfe with a dutie more particular more abounding For as the Maries could not bee satisfied with al that was done by Ioseph and Nichodemus for their maister Christ vnlesse their poore balme went withal so can I not content my self with al you haue done though most sufficient vnlesse I bring some sindon of mine owne and buy some balme to bestow vpon this Saint As loue is full of labour so it spareth no cost and for that I say with Dauid I will not offer burnt offerings vnto the Lord my God of that which cost me nothing so then being called vnto this place by him who may commaund me much for that his praise is in the Gospell I meane the saddest Saint in all the assemblie I did not consult with flesh and blood but haue as you may see most willinglie obeyed the heauenlie call Desirous by my best endeuours sweetest balme to comfort the liuing by commending the dead so did Isaiah in this place as you haue heard from the former Angell who tooke the commination to himselfe out of the verse going before of Gods peremptorie summons of all by death iust and vniust righteous and vnrighteous faithfull and faithles and hath left the consolation for me thereby to raise you vp from deepe despaire and put you in a place of peace lay you in a bed of rest with the Saint that gone is and all such as walke before the Lord. That all must die as hath bin told you there is no remedie for wee come by the wombe and goe by the graue and ere you come to the sweet running waters of Shilo that runneth softlie you must passe the turbulent waters of Iordan that goe roughlie Death is the Lady and Empresse of all the world her seasure is without surrender and from her sentence there is no apple It is not the maiestie of the Prince or holines of the Priest strength of bodie feature of face learning riches or any such secular regard can pleade against death or priuiledge any person against the graue nay I say more be thy dayes neuer so few or thy yeeres neuer so full count with Adam and tell with Methusalem 969. yeares truelie told yet die thou must be they many or be they few all is one yeeres are no priuiledge against the graue For the generall then I thus conclude statutum est omnibus semelmori The decree is out all must die Balthashars embleme is vpon euerie wall and his imprese is vpon all flesh Mene Mene Tekel Vparsin Numerauit appendit diuisit God hath numbred thy dayes he hath laid thee vpon the ballance thou art found wanting thy kingdome is diuided and giuen to the Medes and Persians Say

psalmus personat verū est quoniā pat 〈…〉 s mater mea dereliquerūt me Dominus ●●tem assumpsit me because my father my mother haue forsaken me the Lord haue taken me vp If then our fathers do forsake vs how can they care for vs and if our fathers do not care for vs qui sunt ill● mortuorum qui nor unt quid agamus quidue patiamur who are they amōg the dead that know what we do or care what we suffer 2 A second reason is taken out of Isaiah the Prophet who moued in misery after a deliuerance and greatly complayned of mercies with-holden and compassions restrayned gayned at no hand but at the hand of God nor was pitied of any but of himselfe and for that he ●●ith doubtlesse thou art our father though Abraham be ignorant of vs and Israel know vs not yet thou Lord art our father and our redeem●r thy name is for euer Whereupon the father concludeth with an argument drawn frō the stronger Si tanti Patriarchae quid ●rga populum ex his procreatum ageretur ignorauerunt c. If two so great Patriarches were ignorant what should become of that people themselues had begotten and frō whose straine should spring by promise Christ the father of all the faithfull If Abraham being the friend of God yet could neuer enter into that secret nor Israel as preuayling with God yet neuer obtayned such a blessing as once dead either to know to ease or help their posteritie in life or death then hush to heauen and to all that therein is except God al are ignorant none can know none can help none can heare none can ease our plaint or paine either in earth or elswhere 3 His third argument is drawne from the memory of blessed Iosiah vnto whom Huldah the Prophetisse pronounced this blessing from God that he should dye and be gathered vnto his fathers before he saw the euils which the Lord had determined vpon that place and people Her words be these Thus saith the Lord because thine heart did melt and thou hast humbled thy self before the Lord when thou heardest what I spake against this place and against the inhabitants of the same to wit that it should be destroyed and accursed and hast rent thy clothes and wept before me I haue also heard it saith the Lord. Behold therefore I will gather thee to thy fathers and thou shalt bee put in thy graue in peace and thy eyes shall not see all the euil which I will bring vpon this place Hereupon I inferre with the father hos put amus quietos quos inquieta vita viuorum solicitat May we think them at quiet whom the troublesome sturs of this world may vexe I trow no for doe but suppose that the Saints in heauen did behold the miseries here on earth Princes the subuersion of their kingdomes Noblemen of their houses Gentlemen of their lands line and families did fathers see the sinnes of their sonnes and mothers the shame of their daughters clad with pride fed with idlenes and shod with bloud to the destruction both of their bodies and soules finally did heauen but heare see or feele with passion how Sion is wasted her stones lye buryed in the dust and there is none to pitie her desolations did they but see the grasse of the earth dieperd with the bloud of the saints by Antichrist in the east and Antichrist in the west banding themselues together against the Lord and against our Christ the one to destroy the honor of his person the other of his offices I say if Saints in heauen had a sense and feeling of these miseries woes and calamities small were their rest li●tle were their ease and heauen were no hold for happines If the presence of God were vpon hell as on saith infernus in amoenum conuerteretur Paradisum it would become the port of Paradise so contrarily it may be sayd if the presence of our sinnes woes and calamities should p●ster heauen if earthly miseries hellish horrors and as our aduersaries wil haue it Purgatories plaints should reach the saints then should heauen bee turned into hell rest into toyle peace into warre and blessednes into bane Iob saw this when hee sayd of the dead he changeth his face when thou castest him away and he knoweth not if his Sonnes shall bee honorable neither shall be vnderstand concerning them whether they shall be of low degree Whereunto accordeth Augustine in another place The sonnes of them that are dead are there where they do not see nor heare what things are done or chaunceth in this life such is their care for the liuing that they know not what we do euen as our care is for the dead that we know not what they do For conclusion of this point that I bee not tedious say no more eyther for your selues or ouer your dead Heare heauen help saints send peace giue rest they see you not they heare you not nor haue they feeling of your miseries Your ora pro nobis is out at doores and your Missa requiem is a pregnant idoll Popes pardons are bables for Pagans to sport withall and like the mad Gaderen you hunt the graues of the dead to grieue the liuing taking vp these and such like stones to wound your selues and build vp your Babel of all confusion But of you my brethren I am perswaded better things and such as accompany saluation though thus I speake for God is not vnrighteous that he should forget your worke and labour of loue which you shew towards his name giuing him alone the sacrifice of your prayers and praises saying with holy Iob my witnes is in heauen And with the sweete Psalmist Whome haue I in heauen but thee and whom haue I in earth besides thee As also with blessed Hester O my Lord thou only art our King helpe me desolate woman which haue no helper but thee And for the dead take this from Siracides for a memento Forget it not seeing he is at rest let his remembrance rest cease thy prayers thou shalt do him no good but hurt thy selfe 2 Now to come to the second support I meane our aduersaries bath to supple and ease their dead before they come to heauen and for that they cry help Purgatory purge fire heathenish in deuise hellish in practice and Romish for gaine That I may say no more I can say no lesse of that popish puddle if I say the truth but as the Apostle sayd of an idoll Idolum nihil est so say I of Purgatory Purgatorium nihil est it is none of Gods creatures it is none of Gods ordinances it was neuer in his counsell and for that it can neuer stand with his prouidence Nay if you reade the approuers of it who loue it most and like it best you shal finde thē like Sampsons foxes tyed by the tayles but deuided in the

consecrate it glorious to the Lord. And as it is said of Iosiah his heart melted when he heard the law so may it be said of her her heart was so tender and full of compassion that oftentimes she was seene to heare Sermons reade pray and meditate with teares She made conscience of all sinne yea of the least sinne such as worldlings count no sinne she neuer vsed to sweare o th great nor small nor yet to abuse her tongue with vaine or vnseemely speeches no not so much as a iest-lye or immodest word neither durst she name the name of God or take his titles in her mouth without great reuerence In priuate speech where shee might speake with profit she did it so well that her speeches might haue been deliuered by a stronger vessell then her selfe her words being so well seasoned and proceeding from such a sanctified heart did alwaies minister grace to the hearers To reade to pray to sing to meditate was her daily exercise and her chiefest delight was in the holie societie of the Saints vpon earth which I say not for any cause but only to shew the fountaine frō whence her godly end flowed and that the world may see some there be which chuse rather to be ioyned with the people of God then to enioy the pleasures of sinne for a season and these I doubt not haue chosen the better part Finally the precepts of the Lord were precious vnto her for from her childhood she feared God and walked before him both knowledge and sanctification did ioyne in her the fruits effects whereof did appeare in her life and was seene at her death to the glorie of God and comfort of all beholders She was not like the simple Popish women of our daies which are euer learning and neuer able to come to the knowledge of the truth but rather like the noble men and women of Ber●a which receiued the word of God with readines and were able to discerne of Paul and Silas preaching But why doe I speake of Popish women whose vnderstandings are darker then the darkenes of Aegypt Let vs come and examine many other which seeme to detest Poperie and aske them a reason of their faith they can tell you a tale of their ruffes and their pride and their vanitie but for Religion it is the least thing they regard or seeke to know which I speake not so much to solace my selfe in the sinnes and simplicitie of others as earnestly desiring all Gentlewomen that either knew this holy saint of God or hereafter shall heare of her insteed of your glasses at home wherein you prick and prune and pin your selues to looke into this glasse before your eyes that so her life and death may be an example for you to follow When she was about twentie yeeres old by the consent of her selfe her friends shee was married to a young Lancashire Gentleman Master William Brettergh of Bretterghoult neere Liuerpoole one that likewise embraced Religion sincerely and for the same indured many grieuances at the hands of Papists Two yeeres and more she liued after she was married and had issue only one daughter during which time this couple liued together in such mutuall ioy and comfort as well beseemed the children of God which make profession of his trueth And although this Gentlewoman came from the habitations of Abraham to dwell in Sodome amidst the tents of Kedar that is to say among inhumane bands of brutish Papists induring many temporal grieuancos from them yet her knowledge patie●n●● mild inclination and constancie for the trueth was such as that her husband was farther builded vp in Religion by her meanes and his face daily more and more hardened against the diuell and all his plagu●● agents the Popish Recusants Church P●pists prophane Atheists and carnall Protestants which swarmed together like Hornets in those parts It is not vnknowne to Lancashire what horses and cattell of her husbands were killed vpon his grounds in the night most barbarously at two seuerall times by Seminarie Priests no question and Recusants that lurked thereabouts And what a losse and hinderance it was vnto him being all the stocke hee had on his grounds to any purpose This fell out not long after shee was married to him yet this was so farre from dis●laying her or working such passion in her as are common to her sex that she rather reioyced then sorrowed turning it into matter of praising God and submitting her selfe to his good prouidence Oft she would haue 〈…〉 It is good that such things be but w●● be to them that doe them It is good in God there by to chasten his children and preuent some sinne which he sawe vs like to fall into It is good in respect of Gods Church that the weake may be confirmed in the trueth and that Papistrie may be disgraced when the world shall see such wickednesse flow from it It is good in God that so the wicked may bee without excuse at the day of iudgement when their consci●nc● shall tell them that howsoeuer God suffers them to doe such villani● for some iust cause knowne to himselfe yet they commit it onely of malice and reuenge Oftentimes also in these vexations she would haue said the mercies of God are infinite who doth not only by his word but also by his iustice make vs fit for his kingdome Little doe our enemies know what good by these things they doe vnto vs and what wrack they bring to their owne kingdome while they set foorth the wickednesse thereof Many times she would pray that God would forgiue them which had done them this hurt and send them repentance and she would call vpon her husband that he would doe the like and blesse them that cursed him And for feare least her husband should faile in that poynt through infirmitie and weakenes as it is said of Iob who offered sacrifice for his sonnes least peraduenture they should sinne and blaspheme God in their hearts so she neuer failed but daily prayed vnto the Lord to sanctific her husbands thoughts and direct his heart aright only to seeke Gods glorie without either desire of reuenge or satisfying his owne affections So humble was her spirit so carefull to auoyde and preuent sinne both in her selfe and others and so mild of nature that as Iacob with his mildnes softened the malicious heart of Esau his brother and Dauid by his kindnes in the caue chaunged the furie of Saul into weeping and confessing that Dauid was more righteous then he●so she by her meeknesse humilitie and vnspotted carriage in the world forced some of the aduersaries to Religion to speake well of her For her life she was well reported of all that knew her Pitifull and bountifull was she to the poore and slacked no opportunitie to doe good wherein she could but constantly held her course and kept her times of praying reading and meditating wherein she

portion of mine inherita●●● The place where I now am is sweet and pleasant oh how pleasant is the sweete perfume of the place where I lye It is sweeter then Aarons composed perfume of principall spices how comfortable is the sweetnes I feele It is like that odour that proceedes from the golden censor that delights my soule The taste is precious do you not feele it Oh so sweete it is yea sweeter then mirrh the hony or the hony combe Let me therefore sing againe and againe vnto my Lord and my God Then she did sing the 19. Psalme beginning at the 7. verse how perfect is the law of God c. and so on to the end of the same And after y● spirituall reioysing in singing of Psalmes she then prayed vnto God faithfully and praised the Lord againe ioyfully And being still full of these and such like heauenly consolations she did sing againe most hartily vnto the praise of God the 136. Psalm Praise ye the Lord for he is good for his mercy indureth for euer c. In which Psalme for his mercie indureth for euer is 26. times repeated A christian friend comming in at the same time which was about sixe of the clock in the euening marueiling to see her exceeding ioyes and heauenly harmonie wherein she continued with such words and phrases that were so spirituall prayed for the continuance of the same vnto the end whereupon she then burst out relating further of her ioyes saying Oh the ioyes the ioyes the ioyes that I feele in my soule oh they be wonderfull they be wonderfull they be wonderfull And after that she prayed for increase of faith and that God would strengthē her against temptations with continuall crauing of remission of sinnes euer meditating of heauenly matters as by her sudden and often breaking out into heauenly speeches and praises did appeare for the same euening she lying still and silent for a while one prayed her to remember the Lord Iesus and that she would in her heart pray for constancie in her ioyfull course whereunto she answered with a delightsome cheerefull countenance and comfortable voyce Oh said she so I doe for the Lord is my light and my saluation whom then shall I feare Though an host pitch against me yet my heart shall not be afraid for the Lord hath said I will not leaue thee nor forsake thee Indeede I should verily haue fainted but that I beleeued to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the liuing And now my heart is readit my heart is readie and prepared yea it panteth after thee O God as the Hart brayeth after the riuers of water so panteth my soule after thee O God my soule thirsteth for God euen for the liuing God When Lord when shall I come and appeare before thy presence c. Saying then further Lord sith it hath pleased thee to prepare my heart whether to life or death thy will be done dispose of me to thine owne glory I am thine Lord worke thy blessed pleasure and good will vpon me And after this she fell into a short slumber awaking said as the spouse said vnto Christ in the Canticles Oh come kisse me with the kisses of thy mouth for thy loue is better then ●ine Oh how sweet the kisses of my Sauiour be Then one said vnto her alluding to that place of S. Iohn Reuel 3. 8. and praying that the Lord would annoint her with the eye-salue of his grace that she might see and behold his glorie To whom she answered Mine eyes are opened mine eyes are opened though for a while they were closed vp and shut yet now I thank my God mine eyes are opened and I do feele and see the euerliuing mercies of my Christ saying then further as it is in the 27. Psalme Thou saidst seeke my face my heart answered to thee O Lord I will seeke thy face O hide not therefore thy face from me nor cast thy seruant away in displeasure thou hast been my succour leaue me not nor forsake me O God of my saluation And being willed to commit her soule into the hands of Christ she said O Lord Iesus thou hast redeemed me pleade thou my cause for into thy hands alone doe I commit my spirit O thou God of truth And then feeling more ioy to abound one praising God with her for his great mercies shewed toward her she further said I giue thee thankes O father Lord of heauen and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and men of vnderstanding and hast opened them vnto me thy poore handmaid which am but dust and ashes O how mercifull and marueilous gracious ar● thou vnto me yea Lord I feele thy mercie and I am assured of thy loue and so certaine am I thereof as thou art that God of truth euen so sure doe I know my selfe to be thine O Lord my God and this my soule knoweth right well and this my soule knoweth right well which speech of her assurāce she oftē repeated Presently after this sitting vp in her chaire she sung the fourth Psalme and then being laide downe againe in her bed she confidently spake these words I am sure that my redeemer liueth and that I shall see him at the last day whom I shall see and mine eyes shall behold and though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie yet shall I see God in my flesh with these eyes and none other Then came in to see her toward euening Master William Harrison the Preacher praising God for her continuance in that her ioyfull and most happy course and perswading her to an holie perseuerance in the same she thanked him and desired him to reioyce in Christ with her and to praise God for his mercies to her and said Oh Master Harrison my soule hath been compassed about with terrors of death feare within and feare without the sorrowes of hell were vpon me knots and knorres were vpon my soule which twice or thrice she repeated and a roring wildernesse of woe was within me but blessed blessed blessed be the Lord my God who hath not left me cofortles but like a good shepheard hath he brought me into a place of rest euen to the sweete running waters of life that flowe out of the sanctuarie of God and he hath lead me into the greene pastures where I am fed and exceedingly comforted yea he hath restored my soule and lead me into the plaine and easie paths of righteousnes The way that now I goe in is a sweete and easie way strowed with flowers and as a fine sandie way yea it is more easie and soft then the sand for I goe and tread vpon wheate euen vpon the finest flower of wheate Oh blessed be the Lord O blessed be the Lord that hath thus coforted me hath brought me now to a place more sweeter vnto