Patriarckes and Fathers yea to God himselfe After which words very suddenly she seemed as it were greatly to reioice and looke verie chearfully as though she had seene some glorious sight and lifting vp her whole bodie and stretching forth both her armes as though she would embrace some glorious and pleasant thing said I thanke my God through Iesus Christ he is come hee is come my good Iayler is come to let my soule out of prison Oh sweete death thou art welcome welcome sweet death neuer was there any guest so welcome to me as thou art Welcome the messenger of euerlasting life welcome the doore and entrance into euerlasting glorie Welcome I say and thrise welcome my good Iayler do thy office quickly and set my soule at libertie Strike sweet death strike my heart I feare not thy stroke Now it is done Father into thy blessed hands I commit my spirit Sweet Iesus into thy blessed hands I commend my spirite Blessed spirite of God I commit my soule into thy handes Oh most holy blessed and glorious Trinitie three persons and one true and euerlasting God into thy blessed hands I commit both my soule and my bodie at which words her breath stayed and so neither moouing hand nor foote she slept sweetly in the Lord. Thus hast thou heard gentle Reader the discourse of the vertuous life and christian death of this blessed and faithfull seruant of God Mistresse Katherine Stubs which is so much the more wonderfull in that she was but young and tender of yeares not halfe a yere aboue the number of xix when she departed this life The Lord giue vs grace to folow her good example that we may come to those vnspeakable ioyes wherin she now resteth through Iesus Christ our Lord to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour glorie prayse dominion and thankesgiuing both nowe and for euermore Amen FINIS P. S. Gent. Her Parentagâ— Her mariage Her godly â—eale Her loue of â—he word of God Her gentlenesse Her integâ—â—â—tie of life Her demeaâ—nour towarâ— her husbanâ— Her little 〈◊〉 of the worlâ— â—er prophesie 〈◊〉 her death â—er deliuery of â—â—ilde â—er sicknes Her desire to be with God Her absolute prayer for death Her godly meditation Her glorious 〈◊〉 Her request to her husbad for the bringing vp of his childe Her hatred to worthly Her extasie or swound The causes mouing heâ— to make coâ—â—fession of 〈◊〉 faith â—otable 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 trinitie 〈◊〉 God is 〈◊〉 created 〈◊〉 things 〈…〉 〈◊〉 fortune or 〈◊〉 Mans perfection Manâ—fâ—sâ— Christ his incarnation Christ his sacrifice 〈◊〉 heauens 〈◊〉 holde 〈…〉 body til the 〈◊〉 of iudge 〈◊〉 â—hrist his â—omming to â—â—dgement â—nd of our â—â—surrection Whither the soules of the faithful do go after their departure out oâ— their bodies Purgatory of the Papists blasphemou◠〈◊〉 iustified â—y faith only Why we â—hould doo â—ood works â—he canoniâ—al scriptures â—he infallible â—ord of God Her faith in the predestination of Goâ— and what it is Our vocation or calling â—he Church â—wo folde and 〈◊〉 How when 〈◊〉 Church â—annot 〈◊〉 Christ is the â—â—ole head of â—he Church Two Sacraments and what they are whereof they do consist and what they represent vnto â—s Neither the bread nor wine changâ— in the Lordâ— Supper Sacraments dâ— not conferre grace 〈◊〉 onely to 〈◊〉 called vpon 〈◊〉 not Saints 〈◊〉 beliefe â—hither her â—oule should 〈◊〉 after her â—eparture We shal knâ—â— one an other the life to come 〈◊〉 wonderful â—emptation 〈…〉 in the â—ame Her dispuâ—â— on with 〈◊〉 Her victory ouer Satan 〈◊〉 gard of â—ngels 〈◊〉 sweete â—editations 〈◊〉 request 〈◊〉 her husâ—â—nd not to â—ourne fâ—r 〈◊〉 Her talk with death and heâ— friendly welcomming of him Her last wordes Her death
mee loue not the worlde nor anie thing in the worlde affirming that if I loue the worlde the loue of the father is not in mee Againe Christ biddeth mee first seeke the kingdome of heauen and the righteousnesse thereof and then all these worldly things shall be giuen to me Godlines is great riches if a man be cōtent with that that he hath I haue chosen with good Mary in the 10. of Luke the better part which shall neuer be taken from me Gods treasure she would say is neuer drawne drie I haue inough in this life God make mee thankeful and I knowe I haue but a short time to liue here and it standeth me vpon to haue regard to my saluation in the life to come Thus the godly yong Gentlewoman held on her course three or four yeares after she was maried at which time it pleased God that she conceiued with a man Childe after which conception she would say to her husbande and many other her good neighbours and friendes yet liuing not once nor twise but many times that she should neuer beare more Children that that child should be her death that she should liue but to bring that child into the world Which thing no doubt was reuealed vnto her by the spirit of God for according to her prophecie so it came to passe The time of her account being come she was deliuered of a goodly man childe with as much speede and as safely in all womens iudgements as any could be And after her deliuerie she grew so strong that she was able within foure or fiue dayes to sit vp in her bed and to walke vp and downe her chamber and within a fortnight to goe abroad in the house beeing throughly well and past all daunger as euerie one thought But presently vpon this so sodaine recouerie it pleased God to visite her againe with an extreame hot and burning quotidian Ague in which sickenesse she languished for the space of sixe weekes or there abouts During all which time she was neuer seene nor perceyued to sleepe one houre together neither night nor day and yet the Lord kept her which was miraculous in her perfect vnderstanding sense and memorie to the last breath praised be his holy name therfore In all her sicknes which was both long and grieuous shee neuer shewed any signe of discontentment or of impatiencie neither was there euer heard one worde come forth of her mouth soūding either of desperation or infidelitie of mistrust or distrust or of any doubting or wauering but alwayes remayned faithfull and resolute in her God And so desirous was she to be with the Lord that these golden sentences were neuer out of her mouth I desire to be dissolued and to bee with Christ. And oh miserable wretch that I am who shall deliuer mee from this bodie subiect to sinne Come quickly Lord Iesus come quickly Like as the hart desireth the water springs so dooth my soule thirst after thee O God I had rather bee a doorekeeper in the house of my God then to dwell in the tents of the wicked with many other heauenly sentences which least I should seeme tedious I willingly omit She would alwayes pray in her sicknes absolutely that God would take her out of this miserable world and when her husband and others would desire her to pray for health if it were the will of God She would answer I beseech you pray not that I should liue for I thinke it long to be with my God Christ is to me life and death is to me aduantage I cannot enter into life but by death therefore is death the doore or entrance into euerlasting life to me I know and am certainely perswaded by the spirit of God that the sentence of my death is giuen alredy by the great Iudge in the court or parliament of heauen that I shal now depart out of this life and therefore pray not for me that I might liue here but pray to God to giue me strength patience to perseuer to the end to close vp mine eies in a iustifying faith in the blood of my Christ. Somtimes she would speake very softly to her self sometimes very audibly these words doubling thē an hundred times togither Oh my good God why not now Why not now oh my good God I am redie for theee I am prepared oh receiue me now for thy Christs sake Oh send thy messenger death to fetch me send thy sergeant to arrest me thy purseuant to attach me thy herauld to summon me oh send thy Iaylour to deliuer my soule out of prison for my body is nothing else but a stinking prison to my soule Oh send thy holy Angels to conduct my soule vnto the euerlasting kingdome of heauen Other sometimes she would lie as it were in a slumber her eyes closed and her lips vttering these wordes very softly to her selfe oh my sweet Iesus oh my loue Iesus why not now sweet Iesus why not now Oh sweet Iesus pray for me pray for me sweete Iesus repeating them many times together These and infinite the like were her dayly speeches and continuall meditations neuer worser word was there heard to come forth of her mouth during all the time of hir sickenesse She was accustomed many times as she lay verie suddenly to fall into a sweet smiling and sometimes into a most heartie laughter her face appearing right faire redde amiable and louely and her countenance seemed as though she greatly reioyced at some glorious sight And when her husband would aske her why she smiled and laughed so shee would say if you sawe such glorious visions and heauenly sightes as I see you would reioyce and laugh with me for I see a vision of the ioyes of heauen and the glory that I shal go too and I see infinite millions of Angels attendant vpon me and watching ouer me readie to carie my soule into the kingdome of heauen In regard whereof she was willing to forsake her selfe her husband her childe and all the world besides And so calling for her child which the Nurse brought vnto her she tooke it in her armes and kissing it said God blesse thee my sweete babe and make thee an heire of the kingdome of heauen and kissing it againe deliuered it to the nurse with these wordes to her husband standing by Beloued husband I bequeath this my child vnto you hee is no longer mine hee is the Lordes and yours I forsake him you and all the world yea and mine owne selfe and esteeme al things dung that I may win Iesus Christ. And I pray you sweet husband bring vp this childe in good letters in learning and discipline and aboue all things see that he be brought vp and instructed in the exercise of true religion The childe being taken away shee espied a little Puppie or Bitch which in her life time she loued well lying vpon her bed she had no sooner espied
his owne Sonne Christ Iesus foorth of his owne bosome into this miserable world to take our nature vpon him and that in the wombe of a Uirgine without spot or blemish of sinne and without the helpe of man by the wonderfull operation and ouershadowing of the holy ghost And as I constanâ—ly beléeue that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh according to the scriptures so I vnfaignedly beleeue that he hath offered vp his blessed bodie vpon the aulter of the Crosse as a sacrifice propiciatorie satisfactorie and expiatorie for the sinnes of â—he whole world and for me the chiefest of all sinners By vâ—râ—ue power and efficacie of which Sacrifice and oblation onely I trust and beleeue to be saued and by the merits of the shâ—ading of the bloud of this immaculate lambe Christ Iesus to be set free pardoned of all my sinnes whatsoeuer And whereas the professed enemies of GOD the Papists doo bragge of their good workes of their merits righteousnesse and deserts I here before you al in the presence of God his holy Angels do vtterly renâ—unce abandon forsake all my own merits righteousnes and deserts as filthie dounge acknowledging my merits to bee the merits of GOD in Christ who is made vnto me righteousnesse holines sanctification and redemption For I am assured that if the Lord should wey my very righteousnes in the ballance of his iustice rewarding mee according to the same I should receiue nothing but iust damnation for my deserts I doo further beleeue and confesse that Iesus Christ hauing suffered death vpon the Crosse for me and all mankind rose againe to life the third day after by the spirituall power of his Godhead conquering thereby sinne death hel Sathan and al his hellish band I do also beleeue that the same Iesus Christ after his most victorious resurrection ascended into heauen in the sight of the Apostles and holy Saints a cloude receiuing him out of their sight there not onely to prepare a place for vs but also to make coÌ„tinuall prayer and intercession for vs to God the Father at whose right hande hee now sitteth in equall glorie and blisse for euermore I do constantly beleeue that the Heauens must holde his corporall presence till the day of iudgement that his blessed bodie is circumscriptible and contained in one locall place and can not be present in euery place at one and the same time his Deitie and his Godhead notwithstanding being in euery place at once and fulfilling all places and yet contained in no place For it is against the nature of a true bodie to be present in many places at once And therefore the Papists in effect denie that bodie of Christ to bee a true essentiall and naturall bodie by teaching it to be present in their so many and sundry Pixes at once I doe beleeue and confesse that this Iesus Christ shall come at the latter day of iudgement when the number of Gods elect shall be fulfilled in the same likenes that he was seene goe vp into heauen and with the same naturall bodie to iudge both the quicke and the dead and to rewarde euery man according to his workes At which day I doe constantly beleeue that all flesh I meane of mankind onely shall rise againe by the omnipotent power of God whereby hee is able to subdue all things to himselfe not one hayre of our heads lacking Then death shall yeeld vp his dead the graue his dead the sea his dead hell his dead And then shall the soules of the godly of the elect and chosen of God enter into their owne bodies againe and be reunited together their bodies now being renued altered and changed for being before corruptible bodies now they shall bee made incorruptible being before mortall bodies now they shall bée made immortall being before filthy and vncleane now they shall bee made cleane and pure like to the glorious bodie of Christ Iesus shining as the Sunne for euer in the kingdome of heauen where they shall dwell for euer in such ioy as no heart can thinke no tongue expresse nor pen is able to write Upon the other side the soules of the wicked and reprobate shall bee vnited to their proper bodies and both together bée cast into hell fire where is nothing but weeping wailing and gnashing of téeth for euermore Further I beléeue and confesse that my soule and the soules of al the elect children of God immediately after their departure out of their bodyes doe goe into the kingdome of heauen into the hands of God being guided conducted thither by the ministerie of the Angels of God not into Purgatorie Lymbo patrum or any other place whatsoeuer For whither the soule of Christ was receiued when he cryed Father into thy hands I commend my spirit thither are all the soules of the children of God that die in the true fayth of Iesus Christ receiued immediately after their departure hence In the Gospell after saint Luke we reade that the soule of poore Lazarus of blessed Lazarus straight after his death was caried into heauen by the Angels of God and not into popish Purgatorie which was not hatched almost in 200. yeres after The soule of the penitent and faithfull théefe was caried straightway into Paradice for so Christ tolde him this day shalt thou be with me in Paradice that is in the kingdome of heauen and not in Purgatorie Salomo saith cap. 3. The soules of the righteous are in the handes of God and there shall no torments come nigh them Christ saith he went into heauen to prepare a place for vs then not into Purgatorie except they wil haue their Purgatorie to be in heauen He saith further that where hée is there shall his seruants be also But I hope they wil not say that Christ is in Purgatorie but in Heauen and thither shall al the soules of the faithfull ascend immediately And therefore is the opinion of popish Purgatory both blasphemous sacrilegious But the true Purgatorie in deede is this the blood of Iesus Christ which clenseth vs from all sinne no other Purgatorie doo I know of by the worde of God nor acknowledge I beleeue also and confesse that man is iustified that is pronounced iust before God freed from sinne and al punishments due for sinne byâ—r true and liuely â—aith in the bloud of Christ onely and not by his workes merits righteousnesse or deserts neither yet by any inherent righteousnesse in himselfe as tâ—e blasphemous Papists teach nor by any other meanes whatsoeuâ—r And therefore the Apostle to thâ— Rom. 4. was 〈◊〉 to say that if Abraham were iustified by works then had he wherein to reioyce but not with God for he saith afterward in the fift chapter Being iustified by faith we haue peace towâ—rds God through Iesus Chrst. And therefoâ—e doo I constantly beleeue that wee are iustified by faith onely and not by the works of the law for if good
works could â—aue vs then had Christ died in vaine And if they could saâ—e vs why should they not be called by the name of Sauiour But when I say that Faith onely iustifieth I meane not a barren faith or a dead Faith wiâ—hout good works such as the diuels haue but I speake of such a Faith as bringeth forth good works in great pleÌ„ty and can no more be without good works than the Sun without light the fire without heat or the water without his natural moysture If you would know why we should doo good works if we cannot be saued by them I will tell you we must doo good works for foure causes chiefly First to shew our obedieÌ„ce to him that commaunds vs secondly to glorifie him that created vs and ordained good works also that we should walke in them Thirdly for the mutuall louâ— and charitie which we beare towards the brethren Fourthly to make our saluation sure and certaine vnto vs as the Apostle speaketh For these other causes must we do good works yet must we not trust to be saued by them for there is no other name giuen vnder heauen wherby man can be saued but onely the name of Iesus Christ. I do also constantly beleeue conâ—esse â—hat al the canonical scriptures are the inâ—allible word of God and that the holy spirit of God was is the onely author of them that holy men of God spake writ them as they were taught and inspired by the spirite of God as blessed Peter beareth record I also beleeue that the holy scriptures do contain all things necessary to saâ—uation without all popish trash of vnwritten verities or rather vnwritten berie lyes I do further also beleeue and confesse that God the father hath from euerlasting and before all worlds in his secret counsel and in his euerlasting purpose and decree elected chosen and predestinate in Christ Iesus certaine of the lost sonnes of Adam to be members of his body coheirâ—s with him of his heaueÌ„ly kingdom And othersome hath he prâ—destinated to euerlasting destruction leauing them in their naturall sin and corruption still Now if ye aske me what predestination and reprobation is I answer it is the euerlasting purpose or decree of God whereby he doth chuse some to saluation some to damnation If you demaund why he chuseth some to saluâ—tion and not all finding them all in like state and condition I answer In chusing of some to saluation he sheweth his vnspeakable mercy grace fauour and loue and in chusing other some to damnation he sheweth his power his iustice and his iudgemâ—nt to all the world For as by the one the mercy of God appeareth so by the other wee may see what we haue all deserued And if you aske me why he chuseth some and reiecteth othersome I tell you hee may doo it at his blessed will and pleasure for if I haue two debters that owe me a thousand pound it is in mee to release the one of the whole debt and to exact the whole of the other for to the one I shew but mercie and to the other but iustice Now those that the Lord hath predestinate in Christ Iesus to euerlasting saluation them doth he call in his good time to the knowledge of his truth to repentanâ—e to integrity of life to all perfection and those whom he doth call them doth he iustifie and whoÌ„ he doth iustifie them will he glorifie And that this doctrine of predestination reprobatioÌ„ standeth thus the Apostle Eph. 1.11 sheweth euidently saying we are chosen in Christ when we were pâ—edestinate according to the purpose of him that worketh all things aâ—ter the counsel of his will And in the 4 5 ver of the same chapter he â—aith we are chosen in him meaning Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy blamelesse before him in loue Read Rom. 9. and many other places of holy scriptures you shall finâ— this doctrine to be very cleare I do further beleeue and confesse that God hath his seuerall churches as namely his Church triumphant in the kingdome of heauen his Church militant dispersed vpon the face of the earth I do also beléeue that this militant Church is two folde visible and inuisible The visible Church is knowne and discerned by these marks the word of God preached the Sacraments sincerely ministred Ecclesiasticall discipline and other censures of the Church duely executed The other Church I call the inuisible Church not for that men are inuisible but for that it alwaies appeareth not to the eye of the world but is knowne to God onely who alone knoweth who are his I beleeue that this Church this spouse of Christ cannot erre finally in matters of saluation and damnation so long as she holdeth her head Christ Iesus aright And I constantly beléeue that Iesus Christ is the onely head ruler and gouernour of his Church and not Antichrist the Pope nor any of his shauelings as Paul testifieth Ephes. 4.15 saying Let vs grow vp in all things in him who is the head Christ Iesus Againe in another place hee saith As Christ is the head of the Church so is the husband head ouer his wife I beleeue and confesse that Iesus Christ hath left not onely the holy Scriptures to instruct and teach his Church but also Sacraments in number two to wit Baptisme and the Lords Supper as seales of his grace towards it to confirme it in his truth and as conduits of his mercy to conuey his grace goodnesse to it also These Sacraments I say are Seales and signes of holie things and therefore cannot be the things themselues For it is against the nature of a Sacrament to be the thing signified therby Baptisme consisteth of two natures the visible Element and the inuisible grace The visible Element is water the inuisible grace is the gifts and graces of the holy Ghost conferred in baptisme The water signifieth vnto vs that our whole nature is corrupted and had need to be purged and cleansed It signifieth also vnto vs our regeneration sanctification and new birth And it representeth also vnto vs the bloud of Iesus Christ which cleanseth vs from all sinnes And I faithfully beleeue that it is no more lawfull for a woman to minister this Sacrament then it is lawfull for her to preach or to minister the Sacrament of the Lords Supper And as concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper I beleeue and confesse that it consisteth of two natures also an earthly and an heauenly nature or quality The visible element or earthly nature is bread wine the heaueÌ„ly nature or quality the body and bloud of Christ signified thereby The wine doth represent vnto vs the bloud of Christ which was shed for vs and the bread doth signify vnto vs also the body of Christ which was giuen for vs. And as many as doe receiue this Sacrament worthily
in remembrance of the death passion of Iesus Christ doe eat and drink Iesus Christ spiritually to their euerlasting saluatiō And I do verely beleeue that in this Sacrament neither the bread nor the wine neither before nor after the wordes of consecration as they tearme them are chaunged altered or transubstantiate into the reall essentiall or materiall body of Christ but doe remaine the same still in nature and substance that they were before And therefore Paul feared not to call it bread still many times in his epistle to the Corinthians And our Sauiour Christ in the 6. of Iohn saith that they should see him ascend into heauen with the same body that he sate in with them at Supper whole and vneaten adding further that the wordes that he spake were spirite and truth and that it is the spirit that giueth life the flesh profiteth little And he biddeth vs to celebrate this Supper in remembrance of him and to preach his death therin till he come againe If Christ were in the Sacrament flesh blood and bone then the wicked might eate him so should there neuer any wicked be condemned for Christ sayth hee that eateth his flesh and drinketh his bloud shall neuer die yea Rattes Cattes and Mice might eate his body which were blasphemous and sacrilegious once to imagine though the Papists are not ashamed to teach it openly And albeit that these Sacraments doe represent vnto vs most excellent things yet do they not conferre grace of themselues neither is the grace of God so tied to the materiall Elements that hee cannot saue without them And therefore are the Papists more then cruell that teach all children to be damned that die before baptisme For wee read of certaine in the Acts of the Apostles that were baptised and yet they had not so much as heard whether there were any holy Ghost or not Simon Magus was baptised yet he receiued not the holy Ghost tho And againe Cornelius had receyued the holy Ghost before his Baptisme Iohn the Baptist receiued the holy Ghost in his mothers wombe and the like But yet notwithstanding although the grace of God be not tyed to the Sacraments yet hee that may receyue them and wil not or else setteth light by them or contemneth them shall neuer receiue the gifts and graces signified by them I doe also most constantly beleeue that as Iesus Christ is the vndoubted Sauiour of the worlde so is he our onely Mediatour aduocate and intercessour to God the Father and none but he alone who is ascended into the Heauens sitteth on the right hand of God and maketh continuall praiers to God for vs. And Iohn saith If any man sinne we haue an aduocate with the Father Iesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins And to the same effect Paul speaketh 1 Tim. 2.5 There is one God and one mediatour betweene God and man which is the man Christ Iesus And as I beleeue that Iesus Christ is our onely mediatour and aduocate so I constantly beleeue that he onely is to be called vpon inuocated and prayed vnto and neyther Saint nor Angel Patriarke nor Father Martyr nor Confessour Peter nor Paul Apostle nor Euangelist Iames nor Iohn no not Marie herselfe nor any other creature how excellent soeuer they seemed to be in the eye of the world For we are assured by the word of god that the saints can neither heare our praiers nor grant our requests And therefore Christ saith Call vpon me in the day of thy troubles and I will deliuer thee and thou shalt prayse me And againe the Apostle sayth how shall they call vpon him in whom they haue not beleeued Then as it is not lawfull to beleeue in any other saue in God alone so is it not lawfull to pray to any other but to God alone in the name and mediation of Christ Iesus onely I doe also most constantly beleeue that my soule so soone as euer it shall depart foorth of my bodie shall be caried by the ministerie of the holy Angels of God into the kingdome of Heauen where I shall see and certainly knowe Adam Euah Noah Abraham Isaac Iacob Moses Samuel Dauid and all other Prophets Patriarkes and Fathers together with Marie the mother of Christ Peter Paul Iames and Iohn and all other Martyrs Confessours and holy Saints of God which haue dyed since the beginning of the worlde or which shall die to the ende of the same Oh what a comfortable thing is this that we shall know one another in the life to come Talke one with another loue one another and praise God one with another and all together worlde without ende And because some of you peraduenture will hardly beleeue this doctrine to be so I pray you giue me leaue to proue it by the worde of God and then will I make an end When God had cast Adam into a dead sleepe made woman of a ribbe of his side he brought her vnto him and he knew her straight way and called her by her name Could Adam in the state of innocency know his wife he being in a dead sleepe whilest she was in making And shal not we being restored to a farre more excellent dignity and perfection then euer was Adam in not know one another Shall our knowledge be lesse in heauen then it is in earth Doe we know one another in this life where wee know but in part and see but in part yea as it were in a Glasse and shall we not know one another in the life to come where all ignorance shall be done away In the 16. of Luke we reade how that the rich man lying in hell knew Abraham and Lazarus in heauen a farre off Then I reason thus If the wicked that be in hell in torments doe knowe those that be in heauen so farre aboue them how much more shal the godly know one another being altogether in one place fellowe Citizens in the kingdome of heauen We reade also in the 17. of Matt how our Sauiour Christ meaning to shew vnto his Disciples Peter Iames and Iohn as it were a shadowe or glimmering of the ioyes of heauen and therefore hee is sayd to bee transfigured before them and his face did shine as the Sunne and his apparell was like the light there appeared vnto them Moses and Elias sayth the text Then it followeth that if the Disciples being in their natural corruption and but in a shadow and glimmering of the ioyes of heauen did knowe Moses and Elias the one whereof died almost two thousand yeares before the other not much lesse how much more shall we knowe one another in the life to come all corruption being taken away and we in the full fruition and possession of all the ioyes and glory of heauen This is my faith this is my hope this is my trust this hath the spirite of God taught me and this haue I learned out