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A88065
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Short remains of a dead gentlewoman and wife: published by her surviving husband, for the continuance and advancement of her memory, and the good example of those to whose hands it may come
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L., Elizabeth, d. 1690?
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1690
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Wing L17A; ESTC R231026
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Short Remains of a Dead Gentlewoman and Wife Published by her Surviving Husband for the Continuance and Advancement of her Memory and the good Example of those to whose Hands it may come My Dear IT has Pleased Almighty God to call me to the Estate of suffering great Pain and Sickness thereby to wean my Affections from the things of the World I do receive his Chastisement with all Humility and Thankfulness as coming from a Merciful and Gracious Father and do acknowledge he deals with me in great Kindness and that hitherto he has laid no more upon me than he has enabled me to bear I acknowledge my Sins and Offences are so great that if he should be extream with me and mark what is amiss and Punish me accordingly he might justly destroy me and cast my Soul into eternal Torments But he is a Merciful God slow to Anger and of great Pity And I have a full trust and confidence in him and in the Merits and Intercession of my Blessed Saviour and that he came into the World to save Sinners That he died for my Sins and rose again for my Justification That there is no Name under Heaven by which I can be saved but by my Blessed Saviour JESVS I love God with all my Heart with all my Mind with all my Soul with all my Strength I put my whole Trust and Confidence in him and do freely and willingly resign my self to his Pleasure to do with me as he pleases and do humbly and heartily beg that he will not leave me nor forsake me but thaâ— when I am weakest he will be strongest and will inable me to overcome the Temptations of the World the Flesh and the Devil And that I may prove a Conqueror thrâ—… Christ that Strengthens me That I may Fight a good Fight keep a good Faith and finisâ— my Course with Joy that I may rest in JESVS and have a House not made witâ— hands eternal in the Heavens where all Tears shall be wiped from mine Eyes wheâ—â— there shall be no more Sorrow nor Death nor Crying nor Pain but shall be in peâ—fect Happiness without end and shall follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth anâ— this I humbly and earnestly beg for my dear and ever Blessed Saviour's sake I 〈◊〉 freely and willingly resign my Soul to God who gave it and my Body to the Earth and do desire I may be Buried in Rawden Chappel near the place Mr. L designs for his own Burying-Place I am willing to part with Mr. L and with all the World and I heartily pray to Almighty God to forgive me all my Sins and I do with all my Heart forgive all the World whatever they have done against me I desire Mr. L that he will forgive me in whatever I have at any time offended him in I confess I have been too apt to say such things as he hath taken ill and has imputed them to ill nature I am sorry I have at any time done or said any thing that might give him disturbance I beg God will forgive me and that he will do so too But I think I ought to do my self that Justice as to affirm I have been Faithful to Mr. L both to his Bed and Fortune in what he has trusted into my Hands I hope I have a clear Conscience to those things that I shall not have any thing to answer upon those accounts There has been many Differences betwixt us and Mr. L has both said and done several severe and hard things to me which have stuck close to me and I know he has thought me a Fool that I could not tell what to say to him but my computation was much otherways for it was very seldom but I could have answered with as much Sharpness as he but I knew he would not bear it and if I had done so I could not have lived with him Therefore I made it my daily request to Almighty God that he would enable me to govern my Tongue that I might always set such a watch over that as that it should be no occasion of difference betwixt my Husband and me And I humbly thank him I have been able to do it I believe as much as most People and I hope when I am gone to my long home Mr. L will be sensible that what I say is true I heartily pray to God to bless him and that when I am gone he may live happy and enjoy the Blessing of Almighty God in as great a measure as he shall see good for him and that we may have a Joyful Meeting at the Resurrection And I humbly beg of Almighty God that he will forgive us both all our Offences against him and against one another And I make it my Request to Mr. L that he will please to give to my Sister Constable a Suit of Damask Linnen which was my Mother's and was bought against my Christening It lies in the bottom of the great Trunk in my Closet at one end there is a long Table-cloth Two less Table-cloths and Two Dozen of Napkins I also desire she may have a little Scarlet Silk Purse and the Gold that is in it only one Broad Piece taken out of it for a Ring for my Brother Yarbrough The Purse is in a private Drawer in the Table in my Closet at the Stairs-head I desire my Maids may have every one of them something of my Clothes and Joseph and Tim may have each of them Twenty Shillings a piece I desire there may be a Sermon at my Funeral which I would have one I had from Mr. Wood It may be found in a thin Red Book which lies on the top of other Books and in it is a little Paper Book of Mr. Wood's Writing The Text is Matth. 24.44 Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as you think not the Son of Man cometh I desire Mr. Wood may have Two Guinea's from me besides what Mr. L will give him This is what I desire may be done if Mr. L be willing But I know I have no power to dispose of any thing without his Consent and if he be not willing I should be sorry to displease him in the last Act of my Life and if he be not willing these things should be as I desire I am contented all should be as he pleases This is all I shall say but as long as I live 〈◊〉 shall continue Your Dutiful and Affectionate Wife ELIZABETH L â—he foregoing Letter was Superscribed by the dead Person 's hand in these Words This for Mr. L which I desire may be given to him after my Death and before I am buried And this direction was fulfilled and performed accordingly Here follows a Confession of her Sins found after her Death and written in and by â—er own Hand An Humble Confession to Almighty God of the Grievous Sins I am too guilty of O Lord I confess I offend and Sin in preferring and loving many Worldly Vanities and