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An account and testimony of Samuel Browne, concerning his dear mother Sarah Browne, widow, who departed this life at his house in Leicester the 30th of the 9th month, 1693.
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Browne, Samuel.
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Wing B5149; ESTC R170844
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An Account and Testimony OF Samuel Browne Concerning his dear MOTHER Sarah Browne Widow Who departed this Life at his House in Leicester the 30th of the 9th Month 1693. HAving something in my Heart to leave upon Record as a Testimony unto the Memory of my Honoured Mother and of the Goodness of our God unto her I could not well be clear until I had put Pen to Paper as followeth She was born in Loughborough in the County of Leicester of honest Parents who gave her a Sober Education being aged near 83. She was a Woman who in the Course of her Life was deeply exercised with many Difficulties and great Tribulations so that it may be truly said of her That she was a Woman of Sorrows and well acquainted with Griefs But through all her Tryals inward and outward her Relyance was upon the Lord her God Who in his infinite Mercy in his own due time delivered her out of all her Troubles for which she often praised and magnified his holy excellent and great Name She sought the Lord earnestly and sincerely in her tender years using to frequent the Assemblies of the soberest People in that Day which were called Separates or Puritans c. And when the People called Baptists appeared she search'd into their Principles even as the Noble Bereans did with real purpose to find that way to walk in in which she might have Peace with God and Salvation for her weary and mournful Soul and with them she joyned several Years walking so inoffensively that she gained a good Esteem among them During which Communion she often receiv'd the Publick Members of that Society duly administring her Charity as occasion But in the fulness of Time God having fitted and prepared a People in the Northern Parts of this Nation whom the World in Scorn call'd Quakers to whom the Lord had reveal'd his Holy Will and Way of Life and Salvation and given them Commission to publish his Everlasting Gospel-day When they came she received them and their Testimony with great Joy and Thankfulness unto the Lord and became as a Nursing-Mother among them And my dear Father at her request gave up his House for her Friends to keep Meetings in even in the Morning of that Blessed Day she accounting nothing too dear to part with for the Truth 's Sake She walked so lovingly soberly and humbly with them and so inoffensively that she had the Love of all good Friends that were acquainted with her being a good Example of Temperance Meekness and Charity towards those with whom she was concerned She was dutiful to her Parents in their time a true and loving Wife to her Husband in his Day even unspotted of the World She was a tender Mother to me and mine living with us near twenty Years in her Widowhood She truly loved all her Relations and was a good Neighbour and firm Friend having a Word of Comfort in due Season to many when in Afflictions and often exhorted her Offspring to fear God and to remember their Creator in the Days of their Youth and to do their Duty both to God and Man telling them That then the Lord would bless them She was taken in the Night-Season with a violent Pain in her Legs on the 6th Day of the Week and deceased the next 5th Day I was immediately called to her she desiring the Lord to mitigate the Violence of her Pain and to give her Strength to bear his Hand with Patience I was much grieved for her which she perceiving said Child do not do so rejoyce and be glad for thou hast no other cause Thou hast been a dutiful and loving Son to me even unto the full And the Lord visited my Soul with his heavenly Power and Divine Presence and gave me a living Sense of his everlasting Love unto her and made me willing to give her up into his good Hand to do with her as to Life or Death as he pleased the which I was never able to do before for which my Soul hath cause to bless his holy Name And the Lord had regard unto her when she cryed unto him and in a short Time took away the Violence of her Pain and she magnified his Mercy and Goodness unto her speaking of his great Mercy and Favour to her all her Life long to the great and mutual Comfort of me my dear Wife and Children who were exercised during the time of her Weakness with great Care Tenderness and Dutiful Affections towards her Which she perceived and was well pleased with saying The Lord bless thee and thine for thy Love and Duty unto me for I do rejoyce that thou wast born unto me She particularly took notice of my dear Wife's Diligence Duty and tender Care towards her in the time of her Weakness saying Daughter thou promisedst to take Care of me when Weakness should approach and now thou art as good as thy Word The Lord bless thee and thine for all your love to me And her sweetness of Temper and Gratitude was such that she returned her Thankfulness to my honest Servant Joseph Hardy for his Kindness and Readiness to serve her at all times And in a deep Sense of the Love of the Lord to her she uttered these Words O Lord guide thy poor Handmaid by thy pure Eye into thy everlasting Kingdom where I may sing Allelujas to thee for ever She designed her Interment at Barrough upon Sore but 2 Days before her Departure gave Orders to me to lay her Body in our Burying Place in Leicester by her Grand-Children which was done accordingly upon the first of the 10th Month 1693. And now what shall I say of thee my dear Mother thou art taken from me even in a good old Age Thy Memory is sweet unto me thou wast one that in thy Day didst truly love thy God and his People highly esteeming them that walked wisely who loved the Prosperity of Sion and thou pitiedst them who were Enemies to their own Happiness Thou lovedst to visit the Widow and Fatherless the Prisoners and the House of Mourning to Feed the Hungry Cloath the Naked and wash the Saints Feet and often lamentedst the Calamities of Mankind and wert for preferring others before thy self Thou gavest thy Body to the Prison and thy Goods to the Spoiler counting all as Dross and Dung that thou mightest win Christ Thou wast a diligent frequenter of the Meetings of Friends in thy Day and lovedst the good Order of Truth among them Thou receivedst the Messenger of Death with contentedness committing thy self to the Lord thy God being sweetly given up to his good Will and Pleasure thou finishedst thy Course with Joy and restest from thy Labours and art entred into everlasting Happiness and thy Works follow thee for which my Soul doth magnifie the holy Name of the Lord my God for evermore Amen S. B. THis I have to say of my dear Mother She was a Woman of great Temperance full of Love without Dissimulation no Whisperer