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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02734	The christian life and death, of Mistris Katherin Brettergh late wife of Master William Brettergh, of Bretterghoult, in the countie of Lancaster gentleman. With the manner of a bitter conflict shee had with Satan, and blessed conquest by Christ, before her death, to the great glory of God, and comfort of all beholders.	Harrison, William, d. 1625.	1634 (1634)	STC 12865; ESTC S117327	20,842	26

Lord to sanctifie her husbands thoughts and direct his heart aright onely to seeke Gods glory without either desire of reuenge or satisfying his owne affections So humble was her spirit so carefull to auoide and preuent sinne both in her selfe and others and so milde of nature that as Iacob with his mildenesse softned the malicious heart of Esau his brother and Dauid by his kindenesse in the caue changed the fury of Saul into weeping and confession that Dauid was more righteous than hee so shee by her meekenesse humility and vnspotted carriage in the World forced some of the aduersaries to religion to speake well of her For her life shee was well reported of all that knew her Pitifull and bountifull was shee to the poore and slacked no opportunity to doe good wherein she could but constantly held her course and kept her times of praying reading and meditating wherein shee had plentifull gifts and contiuuasly used the same at such times as were fitting for her estate sex and calling At the exercises of Religion as prayer and instruction in her family she would not be wanting besides priuate prayer and meditation which she omitted not but vsed dayly both in her chamber as also abroad secretly and solitarily in the Orchard Garden or Fields as Isacks manner was In reading the Scriptures shee vsed euermore to taske her selfe eight Chapters a day at the least and for the time which shee saw euill or idlely spent without doing some good shee vsed to call the time of tentation Many times also she would read some godly writer or expositor of Scripture or in the booke of Martyrs and was seene to weepe most bitterly when either she had read of that which touched her affections neere or of the cruell Martyrdome which the deere Children of God were put vnto by the cruell and wicked tyrants of former dayes For Popery she saw it so grosse and foolish that she would not once name it except it were to argue against it but neuer for it so zealous was shee of Gods glory and loued the truth so entirely that shee would not once open her mouth to plead for Baal Sinne aboue all things was hatefull vnto her for thereat shee would haue grieued as well when shee had seene it in others as in her selfe One or two examples I cannot omit wherein shee bewrayed a worthy spirit sanctified by the Spirit of God and prepared for all the assaults of Satan On a time as her husband and shee were riding toward the Church he was angry with his man Alas husband quoth shee I feare your heart is not right towards God that can be thus angry for a trifle And weeping shee said further you must pray against this your affection and alwayes bee sure your anger bee of God for else how dare you appeare this day before his Minister And offer vp your prayers in the publike congregregation of the saints of God Another time a Tenant of her husbands being behinde with his rent shee desired him to beare yet with him a quarter of a yeere which he did and when the man brought his mony with teares she said to her husband I feare you doe not well to take it of him though it be your right for I doubt he is not well able to pay it and then you oppresse the poore So great a compassion had shee of other mens wants that all things being duely considered and rightly weighed methinks I may say of her as Paul said of Timothie I know none like minded Thus after she was married shee continued in the things shee had learned and held her profession with much sincerity that the common enemies to our religion the very Papists had nothing to say against her but confessed her life was vnreprooueable And as for the godly that knew her they alwayes acknowledged that modesty and vertuous carriage in her ioyned with knowledge and practise of all the duties of religion that they had lust cause to report of her as of a sound and faithfull professor of the Gospell Two yeeres and something more shee liued with her husband till about 〈◊〉 it pleased God to send her that sicknesse whereof on Whitsonday 1601. she died Her sickenesse tooke her in the manner of a hot burning Ague which made her according to the nature of such diseases now and then to talke somewhat idely and through the tempters subtilty which abused the infirmity of her body to that end as hee oftentimes useth to doe in many from idle words to descend into a heauie conflict with the infirmity of her owne spirit from the which yet the Lord presently and wonderfully deliuered her giuing so ioyfull an issue to the tentation that shee might well vse the words of the Prophet as afterwards she did For a moment O Lord thou diddest hide thy face from mee for a little season but with euerlasting mercy thou hadst compassion on me On Saturday seuen-night before Whitsonday what time she sickened she began to feele some little infirmity and weakenesse of faith more than shee had wont to shew but shee soone ouercame it On Munday night it encreased vpon her and the assault of the enemie began to be sharpe and so continued till the next day at afternoone what time God deliuered her and sent her peace and comfort of conscience and so encreased the same in her continually till shee died The manner of her affliction was this First the seuerity of Gods iustice and the greatnesse of her sinnes began to come into her minde which much afflicted her and shee would often speake of it Then shee accused her selfe of pride that shee had delighted to much in her selfe and her beauty Afterwards she thought she had no faith but was full of hypocrisie and had not embraced religion so earnestly nor glorified God so worthily especially with her tongue which oft she repeated nor loued him so sincerely as she ought to haue done Sometime she would cast her Bible from her and say It was indeed the booke of life but shee read the same vnprofitably and therefore feared it was become to her the booke of death Sometimes she would say her sinnes had made her a prey to Satan a spectacle to the world a disgrace to religion and a shame to her husband kindred and all true Christians and here she would weepe bitterly Sometime the originall corruption wherein she was borne troubled her and the sinnes of her parents and the common parents of all the eaters of the forbidden fruit as if that had made her vnworthy of God and were then laid to her charge Many times shee accused her selfe of impatience bewailing the want of feeling Gods Spirit and making doubt of her election and such like infirmities She wis●●d that she had neuer been borne or that shee had been made any other creature rather than a woman She cried out oftentimes Woe woe woe c. a weake a wofull 〈◊〉