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A79898	A Looking-glass for good women to dress themselves by: held forth in the life & death of Mrs. Katherine Clarke, who dyed, Anno Christi, 1675. Late wife of Mr. Samuel Clarke, minister.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1677 (1677)	Wing C4540A; ESTC R223051	22,206	99

God are without Repentance Rom. 11.29 These Texts of Scripture having been as so many Cordials unto her in Times of Temptation it is hoped that they may prove so to others and therefore for their sakes they are here set down And hereby it appears that she was not without some shakings but through Gods Mercy they were such as made her root the faster And by her prudent and seasonable holding forth the Shield of Faith and the Sword of the Spirit she became more than a Conquerour through him that had loved her In another little Book which was found after her Death she gives this account of herself and of Gods gracious dealing with her From the beginning writes she of Gods shewing me Mercy in my Conversion I here set down Gods gracious dealings with me Her Conversion not for mine own Praise but for the Glory of God and to stir up my Heart unto true Thankfulness for such invaluable Mercies And then she set down the time manner and means of her Conversion And afterwards proceeds thus What have been my Experiences of Gods gracious dealings with me at several times under Afflictions As First when Personal Afflictions have lain upon me in regard of Bodily Sickness or Spiritual Distempers Secondly Or Family Afflictions when God hath taken away my dear Children Thirdly Or when I have been under fears that God would take away my dear Husband by some dangerous Sickness which he lay under Fourthly Or when I have been under great fears in the time of our Civil Wars Fifthly Or when I have been under spiritual Desertion by Gods hiding his Face and Favour from me Or by reason of weakness and wants in Grace Or by reason of strong and prevailing Corruptions Or by reason of Satans Temptations In all which Cases she left a memorial of Gods gracious dispensations towards her I shall set down only a few of them It pleased God saith she for many years to keep me for the most part in a sad and disconsolate estate and condition not cleerly Evidencing the certain Assurance of his Love to my Soul So that many times I questioned whether I was a Child of God or no Whether I had part in Christ Jesus or no Whether I should ever attain to Life and Salvation or no And this made me walk with a drooping and disconsolate Spirit so that I could take no true comfort in any thing But though heaviness endured for a Night Yet joy came in the Morning when the Lord caused the Light of his Countenance to shine upon me which was better then Life It pleased God upon the Death of my youngest Child that it lay very heavy upon my Spirit insomuch as I was brought oft upon my Knees to beg support from God and to crave his Grace and assistance that I might not break out to speak or act any thing whereby Gods Name might be dishonoured or the Gospel discredited And that he would be pleased to make up this outward loss with some more durable and spiritual Comforts And I found a seasonable gracious and speedy answer to these my Requests For though I lay long under the burden of that loss yet in this time did the Lord sweetly manifest his special Love to my Soul assuring me that he was my gracious and reconciled Father in Christ whereby my Love to him was much encreased and even inflamed So that by his Grace it wrought in me more diligence and carefulness to maintain and preserve these Evidences of his Love and to yield a holy submission unto his Will as well in suffering as in doing As also by avoiding whatsoever might provoke him to withdraw the Evidences of his Love from me without the sense whereof I could take little or no comfort in any thing And furthermore I bless God for it and speak it to the Praise and Glory of his Rich and Free Grace My Prayers and earnest Desires have been answered by Gods giving me comfortable Assurance both from the Testimony of his Holy Word and the witness of his Blessed Spirit of my Eternal and Everlasting Salvation in and by Jesus Christ Yet have I not been without fears and doubtings many times through want of looking over my Evidences or by neglecting to keep a narrow watch over my Heart Or from weakness of my Faith and all through my own default and negligence The Lord pardon it and make me more circumspect for the time to come By all these I have gained this Experience First That God is true and faithful in making good all his Promises seasonably unto us As That all things shall work together for our Good And that God will never fail us nor forsake us c. Secondly That it is not in vain to wait upon God and to seek unto him in our Straits who is mote ready to hear then we are to ask Thirdly That I desire to see Yea and the Lord hath shewed me the vanity and incertainty of the most satisfying Comforts that this World can afford and what an emptiness there is in them that so I may and I desire so to do keep weaned affections towards them and to sit loose from them that I may be ready to part with them when God calls them from me or me from them Again in regard of Bodily weakness and Sickness my Experiences have been these First That as a broken Shoulder can bear no Burden So the least Distemper when the Heart is not in an holy frame and temper is a burden insupportable If God hides his Face from us and withdraws the Evidences of his Love and denies to assist us by his strength we can neither do nor suffer any thing And on the Contrary I found by Experience that I could with much cheerfulness holy submission and willingness bear great Distempers when I enjoyed the favour of God in them So that then I could readily say Good is the work of the Lord as well as his Word And I will bear the Indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him Mich. 7.9 And Though he slay me yet will I trust in him Job 13.15 Secondly I found by experience also that by my pains and Sickness I was the better able to Sympathize with and to pitty and pray for others in the like Case Thirdly Hereby I learned the more to prize Health And that First Because in Health we have liberty and opportunity to enjoy the Publick Ordinances with others of Gods People whereby the Graces of Gods People are quickned strengthened and encreased in us which otherwise by reason of our corrupt natures are apt to grow cold and languish as will our Bodies when they want food Secondly Because in Health we injoy the benefit and the comfort of sweet and quiet sleep which much refreshes and cheers and which commonly we want in Sickness Thirdly Because in Health we find sweet satisfying comfort in the use of Gods good Creatures whereas in Sickness the daintiest Food is lothsom and

and yet nothing prevailed to quiet and calm my Heart and to bow me to the Obedience of his revealed Will And withal considering that it was God only that could quiet the Heart and set our unruly and carnal Affections into an holy frame and order and That he was a present Help in times of trouble I often and earnestly sought unto the Lord with many Prayers and Tears beseeching him to quiet my Heart and to over power and tame my unruly Affections so as to be willing to submit unto him and to bear his Afflicting Hand patiently and fruitfully and to be ready and willing to submit either in doing or suffering to whatsoever he pleased to impose upon me And to be ready to part with the best outward Comfort I enjoyed whensoever he should please to call for the same And it pleased God seasonably to hear my Prayer to regard my Tears and to grant my Requests by calming and quieting my Heart and Spirit and by giving me much more contentedness to submit to his Holy Will and good Pleasure who is a God of judgment and knows the fittest times and seasons to come in with refreshing comforts and who waits to be gracious unto those that trust in him Yet surely I was not without many Temptations in this Hour of Darkness from that subtile Adversary who always stands at watch to insinuate and frame his Temptations answerable to our Conditions and like a Roaring Lyon walks about continually seeking to devour poor yet pretious Souls Then I called upon the Lord in my distress and he answered me and delivered me Bless the Lord O my Soul and all that is within me Praise his Holy Name For he hath remembred me in my low and troubled estate because his Mercy endureth for ever Having thus had new experience of Gods readiness to hear and help when I called upon him And having found that it is not in vain to seek to and to depend upon God in all our Straits I could not but record these things that so Every one that is Godly may seek unto him in a time wherein he may be found who is a present help in times of trouble and who doth for us abundantly above what we can ask or think The Lord knows that I write these things for no other end but that God may have the Glory and that others especially my Relations may be encouraged to seek God in their Straits and to trust in him at all times Amen After her Decease there was also found in her Cabinet a Paper with this Superscrip My Will and desire is with the leave of my Husband to bestow upon my Children these things as tokens of my Motherly Affections and that I may be remembred by them She began with her Husband and what she gave to him and all the rest were all wrapped up in several Papers and each Name endorsed on the outside to whom it did belong And then concludes all thus But above all my Prayers unto God are that he would especially bestow upon you all needful Saving Graces whereby y●u may be enabled to Glorifie his Great Name in those several places and callings wherein he hath set you Amen Amen She left also Legacies to some Poor Neighbours As also ten shillings to Mr. W. the Minister of the place to buy him a mourning Ring Concluding thus If God shall please to bring me to my Grave in Peace let this be the Text at my Funeral Ephes 2.8 For by Grace ye are saved through Faith This Scripture I was oft put upon to have recourse to in times of Temptations and Desertion In an other little Book she had collected sundry Texts of Scripture which might minister grounds of great Comfort against Satans Temptations whereby he labours by setting before us a black Bill of our Sins and daily Infirmities and our great inabilities to every Good Duty to blot out our Evidences to stagger our Faith and to make us go heavily and drooping in our way to Heaven Isa 1.17.18 Cease to do Evil Learn to do well And then Though your Sins be as Scarlet they shall be as white as Snow Though they be red as Crimson they shall be as Wool Isa 43.25 I even I am he that blotteth out thy Transgressions for mine own sake and will not remember thy Sins Ezek. 16.6 When I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thy Blood I said unto thee when thou wast in thy Blood Live Yea I said unto thee when thou wast in thy Blood Live V. 8. When I passed by thee and looked upon thee behold Thy time was the time of Love And I spread my Skirt over thee and covered thy Nakedness Yea I sware unto thee and entred into a Covenant with thee saith the Lord God and thou becamst mine V. 9. Then washed I thee with Water Yea I throughly washed away thy Blood from thee and anointed thee with Oyl Ezek. 36.26 27. A New Heart will I give you and a New Spirit will I put within you And I will take away the Stony Heart out of your Flesh and I will give you an Heart of Flesh And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my Statutes and ye shall keep my Judgments and do them Lam. 3.31 The Lord will not cast off for ever Joel 3.16 The Lord will be the Hope of his People 1. Joh. 1 9. If we confess our Sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our Sins and to cleanse us from all Unrighteousness He that believes shall be saved Rom. 8.33 34. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect It is God that Justifies Who is he that Condemneth 2. Tim. 2.13 If we believe not that is If sometimes we are not able to act Faith yet God is faithful He cannot deny himself Ephe. 1.4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the Foundation of the World V. 5. Having Predestinated us to the Adoption of Children by Jesus Chrisi to himself according to the good pleasure of his Will V. 6. To the Praise of the Glory of his Grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved v. 7. In whom we have Redemption through his Blood the forgiveness of Sins through the riches of his Grace 2. Thes 5.9 For God hath not appointed us unto Wrath But to obtain Salvation by Jesus Christ our Lord. Joh. 10.28.29.30 I give unto them Eternal Life and they shall never perish neither shall any Man pluck them out of my Hand My Father which gave them me is greater then all and no Man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers Hand I and my Father are one Isa 50.10 Who is among you that searcheth the Lord that obeyeth the voice of his Servant That walketh in darkness and hath no Light Let him trust in the Name of the Lord and stay upon his God Psa 32.1 2. Blessed is the Man whose iniquity is forgiven Whose Sin is covered Bless●d is the