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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02733	The Christian life and death of Mistris Katherin Brettergh, late wife of Master VVilliam Brettergh, of Bretterghoult in the countie of Lancaster, Gentleman, who departed this world the last of May with the manner of a bitter conflict she had with Satan and blessed conquest by Christ before her death, [to the great?] glorie of God, and comfort of all beholders.		1612 (1612)	STC 12864; ESTC S2715	18,381	24

particular interest in these general promises she was told that the Almighty who was mercifull as she had proued and faithfull as she confessed intended all these mercies to as many as he did call and make promise to And that hee called her she must néeds confesse both because that then she not only her selfe read but heard others reade those blessed words of God vnto her and also for that in former times she had bin touched with the loue of God and that his truth and had well profited in the detestation of sinne and imitation of her Sauiour in a holy life And for the proofe thereof she was wished to remember in former times her Baptisine her frequenting of Sermons often receiuing the most comfortable repast of the holy Communion her daily and almost continual exercise of reading meditating and praying c. Also he assured her that neither the present agony she was in nor the spéeches then in that distresse tending to the signification of despaire extorted from her were any iust causes why either she or any that heard her should iudge fearefullie of her because all might see the fault was not in her will as appeares by her prayers confessions plaints sighs teares and grones to God for mercy and full assurance in the blood of Christ but in her iudgement not able at that time to discerne the waies of the Almightie And therein he told her she was made cōformable not only to many the holy Saints of God Iob Ieremy Dauid Iob 3.1 c. Ier. 20.14 Iob 6.4.8.9 Iob 16.9 Lament 3. c. others more but also to her head our Lord and Sauiour Christ Iesus of whom we reade that some haue cursed the day of their birth and called for their end and darkenes to couer them They haue been as men without hope and swallowed vp in despaire They haue cried how the wrath of God hath torne them Psal 6.3 and the terrors of the Almighty haue fought against them They haue had no peace in their soules nor comfort in their consciences their prayers haue bin shut from God their sinnes haue been terrible vnto them crying that their iniquities had gone ouer their heads Psal 38.4 c. Psalm 71.7 Psalm 77.1.7 c. Psalm 51.5 Psalm 102.3 c. Rom. 7.24 and were a burthen too heauie for them to beare And they haue thought themselues spectacles of shame and reproch and as monsters vnto men They were grieued for the sinnes of their parents and complained that they were desolate forsaken and most miserable and wretched in the world yet for all this were they still the deare children of God as you are this day Nay saith hée I pray you consider what torments God inflicted vpon his deare Son vpon the Crosse did he not crie out Matth. 27 46. Matth. 26.38 Heb. 5.7 May 26. My God my God why hast thou forsaken me He complained that his soule was heauie vnto death yet was hee heard in that which he feared and God deliuered him After this he read vnto her the 22. Psalme wherein Dauid complained partly of his owne but principally of the most bitter anguish which our Sauiour Christ endured and suffered in body and soule putting her in mind that her case was not so bad as Dauids nor much vnlike our Sauiours who endured all that and more for her and therefore she had no cause to feare séeing Christ had obtained victorie and would vndoubtedly bee with her deliuer her and eternally glorifie her with himselfe for euermore and so continually hee propounded to her such comfortable places of Scripture as might meet with her infirmities This greatly refreshed her and gaue her occasion many times to call vpon God for encrease of grace and deliuerance from her grieuous tentations the which God of his accustomed goodnes vouchsafed on Tuesday about thrée a clocke in the afternoone what time shée felt her selfe in very good measure deliuered from all her former feares and afflictions But on Saturday next after which was the day before her death she was wholly released and filled with such inward comfort that it greatly affected vs that saw it This is the summe of that tentation which shee had wherein what can any man sée that might giue iust occasion to report our religion comfortles or the Gentle woman died despairing This we are sure of that to be without tentation is the greatest tentation as also that nothing befell her which hath not befallen the holiest of the children of God And she that considered her owne corruption which how great it is in the best of Gods Saints I need not say and be thought her selfe of the punishment due therto if God in iustice should reward her no maruel if she brake out sometime into heauy complaints I make no question it was the worke of God in her to suffer Satan to accuse her and afflict her for her sinnes that so shée might the better see them and consider the hainousnes of them and before her departure repent her of them and betake her wholly to Christ for the sauing of her soule And if it pleased God thus to make her possesse her sins before she died let those which neuer yet knew the waight of their sinnes be wise in time and remember that he shall neuer haue his sinne forgiuen which first or last doth not vndergoe a holy despaire for it and acknowledge nothing to remaine in himselfe but matter of iudgement and condemnation and comfort and eternall life to flow alone from Iesus Christ And as for those which haue learned to scoffe at the terrors of Gods children and to censure such as are at sometimes cast downe with feeling the anger of God against sinne let them consider the blessed issue that God gaue to the troubles of this Gentle woman and let them acknowledge his worke in her And if they will not doe this but proceed to traduce the dead Fox Acts and Mon. pag. 1904.61 pag. 1908. then let them call to mind those of the Popish crue and persons of greater note among them then this Gentlewoman was which haue died most fearefully indeed Cardinall Sadelot Iacobus Latomus the Diuinitie Reader at Louaine Hofmester the Frier Guarlacus Bomelius Crescentius the Cardinall Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester and diuers the bloodie persecutors in Queene Maries time and some of the Popes themselues as namely n = * Francis the Monke one of the ten popish persons conuerted in France Anno Dom. 1601. See Hasen Mill. historia Iesuirica who sets downe certaine examples of the Iesuites to this purpose Pope Sixtus Quintus of late yeeres all which died most fearefullie and miserablie and shewed manifest signes at their death that their popish superstition was the condenmation of their soules And if they will iudge of my religion by my death let them acknowledge their religion is the doctrine of desperation and that the truth and faith which was able to fill the heart