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 MICHA 7. 8. Reioyce not against me O mine enemies though I fall I shall rise againe And when I sit in darkenesse the Lord shall be a light vnto me PSALM 37. 37. Marke the vpright man and behold the iust for the end of that man is peace LONDON Imprinted by FELIX KYNGSTON 1634. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER grace and peace in IESVS CHRIST VVHen Achimaaz the sonne of Zadoc requested that he might be the messenger to bring Dauid word of Absoloms death Ioab would not suffer him Thou shall not saith he be the messenger to day but thou shalt carry newes another time but to day thou shalt carry none for the Kings sonne is dead He knew Dauids affection was such that the newes of his childes death would bee most heauie to him and the messenger himselfe not welcome for his message sake This is all our infirmity no tidings more grieuous to us then when wee heare of the death of those whom wee loue The Parent bewailes his Childe the Husband his Wife the Friend laments the death of his Friend and wee thinke it the losse of another friend to depart with this our griefe Iacob mourned for Ioseph his sonne that hee would not bee comforted of a long season but thought hee would weepe for him as long as he liued When the Amalekites had burned Ziklag and led away captiue the mens wiues and their children Dauid and his campany wept till they could weepe no more When Lazarus died his sisters Martha and Mary were much discomforted for him So heauie a thing wee see it is to bee seuered for a time from those that are deare vnto us One onely thing there is which is able in this case much to temper our affections when we see our friend to die in the Lord that is in comfort of conscience and assurance of saluation through Christ. This blessed departure God giues to many for diuers good purposes First that the world may know that peace is the end of the iust and comfort in death is the portion of the righteous Secondly That his eternall truth in our holy profession may appeare to bee able to comfort us not only in our life but in our death also when all other comforts forsake vs. Thirdly that our enemies may see our faith is not in vaine Fourthly that the weake by their example may be encouraged to a holy life when they see it bring with it so happy a death and that they may be strengthened against the feare of death seeing it is alwayes comfortable to those that lead a godly life Fifthly and finally that the friends of the departed by their heauenly departure may be admonished not to mourne so much for their death as to reioyce for their life and to thanke God that euer it was their lot in any degree to be ioyned or matched with so blessed seruants of God This Gentlewoman Mistresse Katherine Brettergh was one of this number her life as long as God continued it was deere to those among whom she was as the life of a friend might be Her husband friends kinsfolks brethren sisters and all the godly that knew her enioyed a great blessing of God of her and her death no doubt was grievous to her husband as the death of a vertuous yokefellow This is the thing I thought with profit might bee presented to the view of other also that knew her not for when I had for my owne priuate vse and the vse of my friends faithfully collected out of the fresh memories of those that were present and eie-witnesses as well as my selfe and set downe the manner of her sicknesse and death I considered that the knowledge thereof could not but bee welcome to all those that desire to dye the death of the righteous And so the same causes that moued me to collect it gaue mee also occasion to publish it I remembred the saying of one That it is is great piety to set forth the vertues of the departed if they haue excelled therein yea it is a meanes to encrease grace in our selues I thought so great mercie of God shewed to one among vs ought not to be forgotten but should remaine to us and our children an example to teach vs how good God is to them that loue him and to assure vs that he will neuer forsake vs but in like manner as he did her helpe and comfort vs when we shall by death be called vnto him I considered the vngodly and vncharitable tongues of the Papists abiding in our Country who since her death haue not ceased to giue it out that she died despairing and by her comfortlesse end shewed that she professed a comfortlesse Religion Wherein they bewray their malice and madnesse and shew themselues of what generation they are euen a people saith Ieremie which bend their tongues like bowes for lies and as Dauid saith make ready their arrowes to shoot at them which are vpright in heart And lastly when I remembred the censure giuen by our Sauiour Christ of the woman that powred costly oyntment on his head a little before his Passion though some of his Disciples vniustly blamed her for the same saying What needed this wast yet he himselfe did not only excuse her for that fact saying shee did it to bury him but also commanded that wheresoeuer the Gospell should bee preached throughout the world there also that which shee had done should bee spoken of for a memoriall of her Euen so seeing this vertuous Gentlewoman hath been vniustly accused by some popish persons I thought it â—it that she should not onely be iustly excused but also that a true history of her holy life and Christian death should be now published in print as a briefe history to be seene and read for a memoriall of her I had no other odours wherewith to embalme her I am but the penman the thing it selfe was her owne wrought in her by the spirit of diuine prouidence the which God grant that we may all imitate Amen The holie Life and Christian Death of Mistris KATHERIN BRETTERGH THis Gentlewoman was borne in Cheshire the daughter of Iohn Breuen of Breuenstapleford Esquire well descended and of an ancient House Her education before her mariage was such as became the profession of the Gospell in godlinesse and purity of life and Religion and well beseemed the house where shee was brought up The Scriptures shee knew from a childe and by reading thereof gained such knowledge that shee was able readily to apply them when occasson was offered as we may see at the time of her death and that so fitly and effectually that shee seemed
them and the terrors of the almighty have fought against them They haue had no peace in their soules nor comfort in their consciences their prayers have beene shut from God their sinnes haue beene terrible vnto them crying that their iniquities had gone ouer their heads and were a burden too heavy for them to beare And they have thought themselues spectacles of shame and reproch and as monsters vnto men They were grieved 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 hee I pray you consider what corments God inflicted vpon his deare Sonne on the Crosse did hee not cry out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me He complained that his soule was heavie vnto death yet was he heard in that which he feared and God deliuered him After this hee 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 minde that her case was not so bad as Davids not much vnlike our Sauiours who endured all that and more for her and therefore she had no cause to feare seeing Christ had obtained victory 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 meete with her infirmities This greatly refreshed her and gaue her occasion many times to call vpon God for increase of grace and deliuerance from her grieuous temptations The which God of his accustomed goodnesse vouchsafed on Tuesday about three a clocke in the afternoone what time shee 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 shee was wholly released and filled with such inward comfort that it greatly affected vs that saw it This is the summe of that temptation which she had wherein what can any man see that might giue iust occasion to report our religion comfortlesse or the Gentlewoman died despairing This we are sure of that to be without temptation is the greatest temptation as also that nothing â—esell her which hath not befallen the holiest of the children of God And shee that considered her owne corruption which how great it is in the best of Gods Saints I need not say and bethought her selfe of the punishment due thereunto if God in iustice should reward her no maruell if she brake out sometime into heauie 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 shee might the better see them and consider the haâ—nousnesse 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 weight of their sinnes 〈…〉 e wise in time and remember that hee 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 Gentlewoman and let them acknowledge his worke in her And if they will not doe this but proceed to traduce the dead then let them call to minde those of the Popish crue and persons of greater note among them than this Gentlewoman was which haue died most fearefully indeed Cardinall Sadelot Iacobus Latomus the Diuinity Reader at Louaine Hoâ—mester the Frier Guarlacus Bomâ—lius Crescentius the Cardinall Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester and diuers the bloudy persecutors in Queene Maries time and some of the Popes themselues as namely Pope Sixâ—us Quintus of late yeeres all which died most fearefully and miserably and shewed manifest signes at their death that their popish superstition was the condemnation 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 and toâ—â—ue of this blessed Gentlewoman at her death with such heauenly comforts is the doctrine of Christ reuealed from heauen that wee might liue and dye in it From Tuesday till Whitson euen her comfort still increased and temptations banished away Shee would thâ—â— very chearefully ioyne with the company in prayer and singing Psalmes as occasion offered and performed all such duties as was meet foâ— her in that estate One day her brother Master Iohn Breuen of Breuenstapleford came from his house in Cheshire to visit her and after some kinde salutation passed betweene them hee said vnto her Sister be not dismaied at your troubles but remember what the Apostle saith that iudgement must begin at the house of God To whom shee answered as one that was also very readie in the Scriptures with the very next words following True it is and if it begin at us and the righteous shall scarce be saued where shall the sinners and vngodly appeare After that she prayed with him and sung a Psalme with him as one that receiued great comfort by him and acknowledged in him a heart set to seeke the things belonging to the Kingdome of Christ. During this time in the night with such as waked with her shee would pray and rehearse for her comfort many texts of Scripture and namely the 8. to the Romans many times concluding and closing vp that she read or repeated with prayer and most comfortable bles and applications thereof to her selfe with shew of such ioy and comfort that the hearers reioyced at it When she receiued any meate shee prayed God not onely to sanctifie those creatures for her bodily sustenance but also to fill her soule with the waters of life often repeating that of the Reuelation To him that thirsteth will I giue of the waters of life freely One time she tooke her Bible in her hand and ioyfully kissing it and looking vp toward Heauen she said that of the Psalme O Lord it is good for mee that I haue beene afflicted that I may learne thy statutes The law of thy mouth is better to mee than thousands of gold and siluer Another time shee called her husband to her and said O Husband beware of Papistry keepe your selfe holy before the Lord Yeeld not to the abomination of the wicked lest they reioyce and
so you dishonour God and destroy your owne soule Againe shee said Let my little Childe bee brought vp among the Children of God and in the true feare and knowledge of his Maiesty so shall I meete her in heauen whom now I must leaue behinde me on earth Againe sometime she would pray with a low voyce to her selfe and that saying of Paul Wee haue not receiued the spirit of bondage to feare any more but the Spirit of adoption whereby wee cry Abba father was much in her mouth and the last words Abba father she would double oftentimes ouer She would sing to her selfe the last verse of the 13. Psalme I will giue thankes vnto the Lord and praises to him sing Because he hath heard my request and granted my wishing Finally in these and such like exercises and meditations did she spend the whole time of her sicknesse after the Lord had once enlarged her heart from the tentations of Satan But vpon Saturday about eleuen of the clocke in the morning the Lord disclosed himselfe in mercy to her more plentifully than euer before and as I may say hee dealt familiarly with his handmaid for from that time to her very death which ensued the next day the feeling of Satans tentations seemed quite to be banished from her so that she made no shew of them her thoughts were not occupied with the world husband childe or any thing else to our thinking neither was her sickenesse troublesome to her as before it had beene but as one raised from death to life or rauished in spirit so seemed shee to vs that stood by her countenance ioyfull her tongue flowing with the praises of God and her voyce as most heauenly musicke and melody of peace sounding praise and honour and glory to God in a wonderfull manner as followeth About eleuen of the clocke shee began to tremble and quake a little and withall shee asked her husband if he would helpe her with prayer to God against the tempter saying will yee neither pray with me nor bring some godly man that may put holy things into my minde whereby I may bee able to resist Satan hauing thus said shee vttered these words O Lord God of my saluation helpe my weaknesse plead thou my cause O God of truth for in thee doe I trust After this they prayed together and shee answered Amen to euery petition Then after this shee required him to reade some part of the Scripture whereupon hee read vnto her the 8. to the Romans the 91. Psalme and the 17. of Iohn the which as he read and came to the fourth verse I haue finished the worke which thou gauest me to doe and now glorifie me She desired him to pause a while and then said Blessed be thy name O blessed Sauiour perfect the worke I humbly beseech thee which thou hast begun in me Then as he read the 9. verse I pray not for the world but for them which thou hast giuen me for they are thine she interrupted him againe saying O Lord Iesu dost thou pray for me O blessed and sweet Sauiour How wonderfull how wonderfull how wonderfull are thy mercies Reade on said shee the blessedst reading that I euer heard the comfort whereof doth sweeten my soule Then reading verse the 22. And the glorie which thou gauest me I haue giuen them that they may be one as we are one With maruellous ioy she vttered the words of Dauid many times ouer I confesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse and his wonderfull workes before the sonnes of men for hee hath satisfied my soule and filled my hungry soule with goodnesse When he came to the 24. verse Father I will that they which thou hast giuen me be with me euen where I am that they may behold my glory which thou hast giuen mee Stay said shee and let mee meditate on the goodnesse of the Lord for this is the sweetest saying that euer came to my soule for now I perceiue and feele the countenance of Christ my redeemer is turned towards me and the bright-shining beames of his mercy is spread ouer me Oh happie am I that euer I was borne to see this blessed day Praise O praise the Lord for his mercies for hee hath brought mee out of darkenesse and the shadow of death he hath deliuered my soule from the snare of the hunter aâ—â— hath taken me out of the denne of Lions euen from the iawes of Leuiathan that piercing and crooked serpent and hath set me in a place of rest and sweet refreshing Oh praise the Lord O my soule all that is within mee praise his holy name my soule praise thou the Lord and forget not all his benefits which forgiueth all thine iniquities and healeth all thine infirmities which hath redeemed thy life from the graue and crowneth thee with mercy and compassion This shee often repented And then againe remembring the 21. and 22. verses of the 17. of Iohn shee said O my sweet Sauiour shall I be one with thee as thou art one with thy Father And wilt thou glorifie mee with that glory which thou haddest with the Father before the world was And doest thou so loue me which am but dust and ashes to make me partaker of glory with Christ What am I poore wretch that thou art so mindefull of me Oh how wonderfull how wonderfull how wonderfull is thy loue Oh thy loue is vnspeakable that hast dealt so graciously with mee oh I feele thy mercies and oh that my tongue and heart were able to sound forth thy praises as I ought and as I willingly would doe oh that you all would helpe me to praise the holy one of Israel the God of all consolations And thus for the space of fiue houres together at the least she continued praising and lauding the Lord with such a gladsome and heauenly countenance testifying such inward ioy from a comfortable feeling of the mercies of God in her soule and vsing such sweet sentences and sugred phrases of perfect and holy eloquence as the truth thereof if it could haue beene taken were admirable continuing so many houres together some part whereof was this O my Lord oh my God blessed bee thy name for euermore which hast shewed me the path of life Thou didst O Lord hide thy face from me for a little season but with euerlasting mercy thou hast had compassion on me And now blessed Lord thy comfortable presence is come yea Lord thou hast had respect vnto thy handmaid and art come with fulnesse of ioy and abundance of consolations O blessed be thy name O Lord my God Then shee repeated part of the 16. Psalme saying The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance wherefore my heart is glad and my tongue reioyceth Thou wilt shew mee the path of life In thy presence is fulnesse of ioy and at thy right hand there are pleasures for euermore Oh that I could therefore praise the Lord as he is worthy to be
praised I will sing to the Lord I will sing to the praise of the God of Israel come come saith she and helpe me O helpe me to praise the Lord. And with that shee began to sing the third Psalme and continued to the end of the Psalme as perfectly and with as sweet a voyce as euer she had before in her health and concluded with the 49. verse of the 106. Psalme The Lord the God of Israel be blest for euermore Let all the people say Amen praise ye the Lord therefore And after this she said O praise the Lord for he hath filled mee with ioy and gladnesse of heart and brought me from the gates of hell and of death repeating that of the 16. Psalme My line is fallen vnto me in a pleasant place yea I haue a faire heritage for the Lord is the portion of mine inheritance The place where I now am is sweet and pleasant oh how pleasant is the sweet perfume of the place where I lye It is sweeter than Aâ—rons composed perfume of principall spices how comfortable is the sweetnesse I feele it is like that odour that proceeds from the golden censer that delights my soule The taste is precious doe you not feele it Oh so sweet it is yea sweeter than myâ—â—h the hony or the hony combe Let me therefore sing againe and againe vnto my Lord and my God Then she did sing the 19. Psalme beginning at the 7. verse How perâ—ect is the Law of God c. and so on to the end of the same And after that spirituall reioycing in singing of Psalmes shee then prayed vnto God faithfully and praysed the Lord againe ioyfully And being still full of these and such like heauenly consolations she did sing againe most hartily vnto the praise of God the 136. Psalme Praise ye the Lord for he is good for his mercy indureth for euer c. In which Psalme for his mercy endureth for euer is 26. times repeated A Christian friend comming in at the same time which was about six of the clocke in the euening maruelling to see her exceeding ioyes and heauenly harmonie wherein she continued with such words and phrases that were so spirituall prayed for the continuance of the same vnto the end whereupon she then burst out relating further of her ioyes saying Oh the ioyes the ioyes the ioyes that I feele in my soule oh they be wonderfull they be wonderfull they be wonderfull And after that shee prayed for increase of faith and that God would strenghthen her against tentations with continuall crauing of remission of sinnes euer meditating of heauenly matters as by her sudden and often breaking out into heauenly speeches and phraises did appeare for the same euening shee lying still and silent for a while One prayed her to remember the Lord Jesus and that shee would in her heart pray for constancy in her ioyfull course whereupon shee answered with a delightsome and cheerefull countenance and comfortable voyce Oh said shee so I doe for the Lord is my light and my salvation whom then shall I feare Though an host pitch against me yet my heart shall not be afraid for the Lord hath said I will not leaue thee nor forsake thee Indeed I should verily haue fainted but that I beleeved to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the liuing And now my heart is ready my heart is ready and prepared yea it panteth after thee O God as the Hart braieth after the riuers of water so panteth my soule after thee O God my soule thirsteth for God euen for the liuing God When Lord when shall I come and appeare before thy presence c. Saying then further Lord sith it hath pleased thee to prepare my heart whether to life or death thy will be done dispose of me to thine owne glory I am thine Lord worke thy blessed pleasure and good will vpon me And after this shee fell into a short slumber and awaking said as the Spouse said vnto Christ in the Canticles Oh come kisse me with the kisses of thy mouth for thy loue is better than wine Oh how sweet the kisses of my Sauiour be Then one said vnto her alluding to that place of S. Iohn Reuel 3. 8. and praying that the Lord would annoint her with the eye-salue of his grace that shee might see and behold his glory To whom she answered Mine eyes are opened mine eyes are opened though for a while thy were closed vp and shut yet now I thanke my God mine eyes are opened and I doe feele and see the euerliuing mercies of my Christ saying then further as it is in the 27. Psalme Thou saidst seeke my face my heart answered to thee O Lord I will seeke thy face O hide not therefore thy face from me nor cast thy seruant away in displeasure thou hast beene my succour leaue me not nor for sake me O God of my saluation And being wiâ—led to commit her soule into the hands of Christ she said O Lord Iesus thou hast redeemed me pleade thou my cause for into thy hands alone doe I commit my spirit O thou God of truth And then feeling more ioy to abound one praising God with her for his great mercies shewed toward her shee further said I giue thee thanks O Father Lord of heauen and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and men of vnderstanding and hast opened them vnto me thy poore handmaid which am but dust and ashes O how mercifull and merueilous gratious art thou vnto me yea Lord I feele thy mercy and I am assured of thy loue and so certaine am I thereof as thou art the God of truth euen so sure doe I know my selfe to bee thine O Lord my God and this my soule knoweth right well and this my soule knoweth right well which speech of her assurance she often repeated Presently after this sitting vp in her chaire she sung the fourth Psalme and then being laid downe againe in her bed shee confidently spâ—ke these words I am sure that my redeemer liueth and that I shall see him at the last day whom I shall see and mine eye shall behold and though after my skin wormes destroy this body yet shall I see God in my flesh with these Eyes and none other Then came into see her toward euening Master William Harrison the Preacher praysing God for her continuance in that her ioyfull and most happy course and perswading her to an holy perseuerance in the same shee thanked him and desired him to reioyce in Christ with her and to praise God for his mercies to her and said O Master Harrison my soule hath been compassed about with terrors of death feare within and feare without the sorrowes of hell were vpon me knots and knorres were vpon my soule which twice or thrice she repeated and a roaring wildernesse of woe was within
me but blessed blessed blessed bee the Lord my God who hath not leâ—t me comfortlesse but like a good shepheard hath he brought mee into a place of rest euen to the sweet running waters of life that flow out of the Sanctuary of God and he hath lead me into the greene pastures where I am fed and exceedingly comforted yea hee hath restored my soule and lead me into the plaine and easie paths of righteousnesse The way that now I goe in is a sweet and easie way strowed with flowers and as a fine sandie way yea it is more easie and soft than the sand for I goe and tread vpon wheat euen vpon the finest flower of wheate Oh blessed be the Lord O blessed be the Lord that hath thus comforted me and hath brought me now to a place more sweet vnto me than the Garden of Eden Oh the ioy the ioy the delight some ioy that I feele Oh how wonderfull how wonderfull how wonderfull is this ioy O praise the Lord for his mercies and for this ioy which my soule feeleth full well praise his name for euermore And these praises of God she soundeth foorth like Dauids harmonie being indued with Dauids spirit to the praise of the eternall and mercifull God continuing all night in such like prayers and prayses to God except some small time that shee was silent and quiet Master Harrison prayed twice with her that euening as also in the morning being Whitsunday After hee had prayed once with her going then toward his publike charge shee sent for him to pray once more with her before he went which he did to the ioy and gladnesse of heart both of her and all that were present and so hee tooke leaue of her and departed Another faithfull man or two came presently in the morning and diuers other well affected who were with her at the time of her death and often prayed with her that forenoone shee still abounding in spirituall comforts and consolations sometimes as one awaking out of sleepe she would say the Lord was her keeper and deliuerer Againe one saying vnto her the Lord blesse you Yea said she and the Lord Iesus blesse vs all And so seeming to sleepe a little while and awaking againe shee said Lord I trust in thee haue mercy vpon me giue me strength to praise thee defend and preserue me in the houre of tentation and lay no more vpon mee than thou wilâ— enable me to beare Afterwards being asked if shee would haue them ioyne in prayer together againe with her O yes said shee for Christs sake I desire it saying thus to her selfe Heare O Lord and haue mercy vpon me Lord bee thou my helper thou hast loosed my sacke and girded me with gladnesse therefore will I praise thee O Lord my God I will giue thanks to thee for euermore With that all that were present did ioyne in prayer with her and in conclusion â—sing the Lords prayer which she said with them to thine is thy kingdome her strength then being gone her tongue failed her and so shee lay silent for a while euery one iudgeing her then to be neere death her strength and speech failing her yet after a while lifting vp her eyes with a sweet countenance and still voyce said My warfare is accomplished and my iniquities are pardoned Lord whom haue I in Heauen but thee and I haue none in earth but thee my flesh faileth and my heart also but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for euer He that preserueth Iacob and defendeth his Israel he is my God and will guide me vnto death guide mee O Lord my God and suffer me not to faint but keepe my soule in safetie And with that she presently fell asleepe in the Lord passing away in peace without any motion of body at all and so yeelded vp the Ghost a sweet Sabbaths sacrifice about foure of the clocke in the afternoone on Whitesunday being the last of May 1601. This was the death of that vertuous Gentlewoman happily dying in the Lord and reaping the benefit of a holy profession wherein wee cannot but acknowledge and reuerence the mercie of God who in our greatest infirmitie makes his grace to shine most clearely A sure testimony of the truth of our profession seruing to incourage vs therein and to moue vs to a godly life It must 〈◊〉 be a diuine Religion and a truth comming from God that thus can 〈◊〉 the heart and mouth of a weake woman at the time of death with such admirable comfort And a wretched conceit and meâ—re Antichristian is that religion which so hateth and persecuteth this faith which is thus able to leade the true-hearted professors thereof with such vnspeakable peace vnto their graues Her funerall was accomplished at Childwall Church on Wednesday following being the third of Iune 1601. And now for conclusion seeing this blessed Gentlewoman is taken from among vs and receiued into the holy habitations of the heauenly Jerusalem there to remaine in ioy glory and blessednesse for euermore let vs lament for our losse but reioyce for her gaine and let vs pray that in heare wee could as willingly wish to bee with her as she is now vnwilling to be with vs. Salomon saith The memory of the iust shall be blessed but the name of the wicked shall rot Prou. 10. 7. FINIS 2 Sam. 18. 19 20. Gen. 37. 3. 1 Sa. 30. 4. Ioh. 1â— 19. Nazianz. Monod Baâ—ilii Ier. 9. 〈◊〉 Psal. 11. 2. Mat. 16. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. Stapleford Gen. 34. 1. â—â—a 1. 9 1â— Psal. 84. 10. 2 Ki. 22. 19. Psal. 16. 3. Heb. 11. 25. 2 Tim. 3. 6 7. Act. 17 11 12. Anna Brettergh Ps. 120. 5. * Iohn Wright intoâ—â—squier Richard Orme Raph Heaton c. and many 〈◊〉 Mat. 5. 44. Iob. 1. 5. Gen. 33. 3 4. 1 Sam. 14. 17 18. Ge. 24. 63. Exo. 13. 13. Psal. 16. 4. Ephes. 5. 3. Iudg. 6. 31 32. Eccles. 4. 25. 28. Phil. 2. 20. 〈◊〉 Dâ—â— â—â—01 Isai. 54. 〈◊〉 May 23. May 25. M. William Brettergh Master Will. Fox M. Edward Aspinwall M. Iohn Brettergh Mistris Maâ—d Brettergh Mistris Scholastica Fox William Woodward Elizabeth Challoner Will. Fox Mark 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cor. 8. 12. William Brettergh Iohn Brettergh Edward Aspinwall William Woodwaad Isai. 40. 1 2. 28. 29 30 31. Isai. 41. 8 9 10. 13. 14. 17. 18. Isai. 4â— 1. 8. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 13. 14. 15. 16. Isai. 43. 1. 2. 5. 15. Mat. 11. 28. Iob 31. c. Ier. 20. 14. Iob 6. 4. 8. 9. Iob. 16. 9. Lament 3. c. Psal. 6. 3. Psal. 38. 4. c. Psal. 71. 7. Psal. 77. 1. 7. c. Psal. 51. 5. Psal. 102. 〈◊〉 c. Rom. 7. 24. Mat. 27. 46. Mat. 26. 38. Hob. 5. 7. May â—6 Fox Actâ— and Mon. p. 1â—04 61. pag. 19â—8 * Francis the Monke one of the ten popish persons conuerted in France An. Dom. 1601. See Hasen Miller historia Iesâ—itica who sets downe certaine examples of the Iesuites to this purpose Iohn Bruen Esquire William Brettergh Will. â—oâ— Iohn Brettergh William Woodward Iohn Holland Maud Brettergh Scholastica Fox 1 Pet. 4. 17. 18. Iohn Holland William Brettergh William Woodward * Richard Orme Iohn Holland William Brettergh Will. Woodword Will. Foâ— Reuel 21. 6 William Brettergh Will. Fox Psal. 119. 71. 72. William Brettergh M 〈…〉 Brettergh William Brettergh 〈◊〉 8. 15. Will. Fox Maij 30. William Brettergh Maud Brettergh Elizabeth Challoner Psal. 107. 8 9. â—â—ai â—7 1. Psalm 103. 1 〈◊〉 3 4. Psal. 144. 3. Psal. 8. 4. Isai. 54. 8. Psalm 16. 5. 9. 11. Iudg. 5. 3. Psal. 16. 6. Exo. 30. â—3 Râ—vel 8. 4. M. William Fox William Brettergh Will. Fox Will. Woodward Will. Fox Psal. 27. 1 3 Deut. 4. 31. Psal. 27. 13. Psal. 108. 1. Psal. â—2 1 2 William Brettergh Cant. 1. 1. Will. Fox Psal. â—7 8. 9. William Brettergh Psal. 31. 5. William Woodward Mat. 11. 25 William Fox Psal. 139. 1â— William Brettergh Iob 19. â—5 â—6 â—7 M. William Harrison William Brettergh Will. Fox Iohn Brettergh William Woodward Psalm 23. 2. 3. Psal. 147. 14. William Brettergh William Woodward M. Edward Aspinwall Will. Fox William Brettergh Iohn Brettergh William Woodward Mistris Maud Brettergh Mistris Scholastica Fox Elizabeth Challoner and diuers moâ— Psalm 30. 10 11 12. Isai. 40. 〈◊〉 Psalm 73. 25. 26.