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love_n	death_n	heart_n	let_v	2,927	5	4.1783	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B22887	Living testimonies concerning the death of the righteous. Or The blessed end of Joseph Featherstone and Sarah his daughter; written by Sarah his wife, and Thomas Browne her second husband; not unworthy the knowledge of friends and their posterity; that all may be incouraged to live well, that their latter end may be blessed. Also something concerning Charles Wray, Grace Browne, and Katharine Browne her daughter, writ by Thomas Browne the elder, in Partney in the county of Lincoln. All of them being a sweet favour of life, laid down their heads in peace	Featherstone, Sarah, of Partney-Mills, Lincolnshire.; Browne, Thomas, of Partney. aut; Wray, Charles, member of the Society of Friends. aut	1689 (1689)	Wing F576B	16,265	47

they with some Friends went one Evening to visit him and we had a heavenly Meeting together for the Power and Presence of the Lord was plentifully manifested amongst us and our Weak Brother whom I am speaking of was at that time made Strong to declare of the Goodness of the Lord and to praise his most holy Name to the great comfort and refreshment of the Faithful he often desired of the Lord that he would be pleased to endue him with a good Understanding to the end of his days and lay no more upon him then he would give him Patience to bear all which the Lord in his great Love and Mercy was pleased to answer Praises to his most holy and powerful Name for evermore Amen saith my Soul for he did speak sensible Words a little before he departed and was born up with much Patience all the time of his Weakness he said to a Friend a little before his Death That the Candle did burn dim and presently departed without either Sob or Groan that was heard he remembred his Creator in his young time and made his peace with God whil'st here and now is gone to receive the Fruits of his Labours and to rest with the Lord for evermore so hoping I have done my Duty which I did owe and eased my Spirit I desire to rest in peace with the Lord in whom is my chief delight Written in Partney the Tenth day of the Eleventh Month 1682. By Thomas Brown the Elder I felt a weight laid upon me to Write this Testimony concerning my dear and truely loving Wife Grace Brown whom the Lord hath been pleased to take to himself THis I can say she had an honest desire after the Lord in the Summer of her days as I may say early when I had little in my mind that was good she did often breath unto the Lord for me and my dear Child Eliabeth likewise who was a Loving Tender and Obedient Child to us both whom the Lord hath been pleased to take to himself likewise about a eleven days before her dear Mother and he was pleased to hear their Cries and Tears and change my mind to that which was good and acceptable to himself Praises to his Powerful Name for evermore Amen saith my Soul. We were both Convinced of Gods precious Truth about the year 1669. Our dear Friends John Whitehead and Charles Wray were very tender over us being chief Instruments in the hand of the Lord towards our Convincement c. she was a true faithful and loving Wife to me a true yoke-Fellow a help-Meet indeed Zealous for God and his Truth which was very precious to her which she delighted in more then any thing in this World she was freely given up to the Will of the Lord and bore things with great Patience to the admiration of some in the time of my Confinement in Lincoln-Castle where I was thrown in by a Hireling-Priest for bearing my Testimony against Tythes whom she bore a faithful Testimony against when he sent his Wife to demand Tythes when I was in Prison for not paying the same and said She did believe that Tythe was not due according to the Law of God now in this Gospel day she was made willing to part with me at that time though I was very dear unto her as a Husband could be to a Wife but it was that recompence of Reward which she had an eye unto and was made willing to suffer for that now through Mercy she hath obtained by Faith she took great delight in going to Meetings and entertaining honest Friends in the latter end of our time I speak it to the Praise of our God who was so good unto us several times as we lay in Bed together with broken and contrite Hearts we did earnestly desire of the Lord that he would be pleased to give us of his Power and Spirit that we might spend that little time that was yet behind in his most holy Fear and undefiled Way to the Glory and Praise of his Powerful Name we lived in true Love together her Company was very pleasant to me and I took more delight in it then in any thing in this World she said mine was so to her about three or four Weeks before her Death she did Write these following Words viz. It is the real desire of my Heart to walk humbly before the Lord for his Love hath engaged my Heart unto himself she was one of few Words ready to hear slow to speak in her Health and in her Sickness and so Departed this life like a harmeless innocent Lamb as though she had been a sleep so good was the Lord unto her at that time Praised be his powerful Name for ever and for evermore Amen saith my Soul much more I might say concerning her faithful Walking and tender Care over her Children to bring them up in the Fear of the Lord c. She Departed this Life the Thirty first day of the Tenth Month at Partney-Mills in Lincoln-Shire in the year 1682. about the Forty eight year of her Age she lived with me about Thirty years we had eight Children together five of them dyed before her I Buried her decently and according to good Order practised amongst us the second day of the eleventh Month and in the year aforesaid being accompanied with a pretty many Friends and Relations at Tumby-Wood-side in the Parish of Kirkby on the Baine in Friends Burying-Place and so having somewhat eased my Spirit I himbly desire of the Lord that he would be pleased to endue me with his Power and Wisdom to Govern my Children and Family in his most holy Fear and undefiled Way to the Glory of his most holy Name Amen so that when time here in this World will be no more I may lay down my Head in Peace as my dear Wife hath done Praises to the Lord over all for ever and for evermore Amen saith my Soul. Written in great tenderness of Spirit by a lover of Peace and Truth the Twenty fourth day of the Eleventh Month 1682. at Partney-Mills being the place of my outward Habitation Thomas Brown The Elder The Name of the Righteous shall be had in Everlasting remembrance This Testimony I have to bear concerning Katharine Brown my dear Child it hath remained as a weight upon my mind for several days to Write to this effect c. IT was the care of some in days past to keep in remembrance the Words and Works which sprang from the blessed Power of God and one said The Righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance and said The Name of the Righteous was pretious c. This Child that I am speaking of was from her Childhood very desirous to go to Friends Meetings insomuch as one time it was with me to examine her what she went for she very tenderly gave me this answer To wait upon the Lord it was not distance of Way nor difficultness of Weather that did hinder this Child

Life Oh sick at my heart which often tendred our hearts to see our dear Child pass through these great troubles at some times and then she would say Oh Lord in mercy remember me and bear me up above all my Afflictions for my heart trusteth in thee I said my dear Child if the Lord should be pleased to take thee from me where hast thou a desire to be Buried wilt thou be Buried by thy dear Father in Friends Burying-place in Crowland where we came from she said I have some thoughts formerly to have been Buried by my dear Father but considering the greatness of the Journey and so many Buried near him I am satisfied I leave it to thee and my Father I said my dear Child art thou willing to be Buried in our Burying-place where I hope to be Buried by thee she said dear Mother Bury me where thou and my Father pleaseth I leave it to you it s no matter how many Miles distance these Bodies lies our Souls shall one day rejoyce together then I asked her what she would have disposed of of that which was hers she said I would have my poor Relations have something and poor Friends Children where we came from what thee and my Father pleaseth I leave it to you for my Father is a good Man and hath been very tender over me and my Love to him hath been very dear and then she said dear Mother do not trouble me with any thing but let us be submitted to the Will of the Lord in all things do not speak to me nor give me any thing without I desire it and so lay still in a sweet frame of Spirit and with as sweet a Countenance and as chearful as if she had no such Weakness upon her only sometimes a great trouble in her head which the Lord was pleased to bear her up in much patience to pass through not a discontented word was heard to pass from her but true Contentedness in much Patience often saying Ah my dear and heavenly Father come away come away for my heart trusteth in thee some time before she departed her Speech failed her after which a sweet harmony often ran through her often lifting up her Hands with a very chearful Countenance and so she fell a sleep in the Lord who I then felt a stay to my mind living Praises to his most holy and powerful Name who is a God of endless Mercies my Spirit was much comforted in the Lord in the behalf of my dear Child in the time of her Sickness who endued her with much patience and wonderfully bore her up above all her Sickness and Pain which was upon her Body at sometimes not knowing where to lay her Head to have a little ease which she through the great love of the Lord was born up in much patience to pass through in true submission to his blessed Will and I do believe is at rest with God her Maker being asscended above all her Sorrows and Troubles to praise the Lord that sits upon the Throne and the Lamb for evermore in the undoubted sence of which my Soul doth Praise and Magnifie the Lord on her behalf and indeed the same doth out-ballance the great loss I have of her as to the outward well knowing my Loss is her everlasting Gain and desiring that I may be subject to the Will of the Lord in what he may be pleased to try me withal and that he may have the Glory of his own Works for he is worthy who gave me her and now hath taken her away Blessed and Praised be his most holy Name for ever Partney-Mills the place of my abode the the 20th of the 12th Month 1689. Sarah Brown Her Mother A POSTSCRIPT SInce I writ this Testimony concerning my dear Child there hath often fresh springs of the Lords great Love concerning her arose in my Heart which I had omitted my Duty in when this Child was in the eleventh year of her age it pleased the Lord to suffer Persecution to come upon us for the tryal of our Faith for Meeting together and Worshiping God as he requires that is in Spirit and in Truth we being at a Meeting about eight Miles from our outward Dwelling the Meeting being ended and Friends ready to depart some in the yard some in the high-way comes two Informers after a very rude manner calling of us Rogues and Whores and Swearing desperately to many untruths my Husband reproved one of them called Chipsam for Swearing he was very angry and held up his Stick and said He would break his Head did he tell him he was the Kings Officer Observe the said Chipsam was not long after carried to Linclon Goal for Debt and their dyed and was there buried after a very mean manner in the Castle yard c. But before the Meeting fell to be there again by course which was a Month they had made much spoil of Friends Goods it pleased the Lord to visit my dear Husband with much Weakness so that we could not go to the Meeting but my dear Child having a great desire to go again with her Brothers we wear freely willing and they had a peaceable Meeting and Friends ready to depart as before came the same Informers as rude or worse then before and within a few days Levied my Husbands Goods again upon the account of one of his Sons but she being under Age they could take nothing from her Father in Law upon her account at which she seemed to be troubled she having a considerable Portion in his hand and said If they be suffered to take all that my Father hath he shall not want to give up to serve the Lord so long as I have any thing and would sometimes say to me I do believe I shall never want any good thing which the Lord sees convenient for me in which she manifested her Love to him upon her dying Bed as it is fully declared in the fore-going Testimony so having eased my Spirit and discharged my Duty which I did owe I desire to rest in Peace with the Lord and in Love to his Truth and People to the end of my days and time here in this mortal World so that when time here will be no more I may lay down my Head in Peace as my dear Child hath done and then as she said upon her dying Bed Our Souls shall rejoyce together Written at Partney Mills the 11th of the 3d Month 1689. by Sarah Brown. Thomas Brown his Testimony concerning his dear Daughter-in-Law Sarah Featherstone THis Testimony I have to bear concerning my dear Friend and Relation Sarah Featherstone first let me say something of her outward Abilities she was Born of honest Parents and Educated in the plain and decent parts her dear Mother thought convenient as Sowing Kniting Reading Writing c. In which she exceeded most of her equals she was Womanly about Business and what she did she did it with all her might she was of a