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B01813
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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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1693
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Wing B5149; ESTC R170844
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nor Backbiter and as she loved the Lord and desired to live in his Fear from her Youth so he honoured her with his heavenly Presence and stood by her in the Hour of Death Which blessed be the Lord I had a sense of and of her eternal Happiness to my great Comfort which caused my Soul and Spirit to Rejoyce in the God of our Salvation and I believe has received the Answer of Well done thou good and faithful Servant and is entred into the Joy of the Lord and according to her Desires will sound high Praises and Allelujahs to him for ever and evermore E. B. The Testimony of Tho Pitstow concerning his ancient Friend Sarah Browne and his Wife Anne Pitstow with a tender Exhortation to Friends to be faithful to God THe Name of the Righteous shall be had in everlasting Remembrance but the Name of the Wicked shall rot And this hath often been the Word of the Lord in my Heart say unto the Righteous It shall go well with them but unto the Wicked it shall go ill And this I have seen in my Day that when the Lord hath sent his Messenger of Death to lay hold upon the Wicked and upon the Hypocrite what Fear and Amazement Anguish and Tribulation hath been upon their Souls and Spirits And again on the other Hand those that have feared the Lord in their Day and have wrought Righteousness they have been accepted of the Lord for behold the latter End of that Man is Peace as it was with this our dear Friend Sarah Browne For when I was sent for unto her I said unto her The Lord hath sent his Messenger she made Answer He was come and I can truly say She had Unity with Death for she had nothing to do but to die and the Cry of her Soul was Lord give me an easie Passage and the Lord heard her Cry and answered the Desires of her Soul and sweetned her Passage with his blessed Presence that in a living Sense thereof she many times praised the Lord and blest his Name for his Mercies for they endure for ever I need not say any thing of her Birth and Education and Convincement and Sufferings because her loving and dutiful Son hath already touched upon those things But this I have to say Ever since I have had Knowledge of of her which is about 15 Years I have had good Unity with her She was a tender Woman and like a Mother to me and mine She always â—ook Care of my dear Wife in all her Extremity as if she had been her own Child and I have this to say of my dear Wife She well deserved it who lived and died as one of â—he Lord's Worthies and had gained a good Report as a sweet Savour in the Hearts of Friends and others to the great Joy and Comfort of my Soul O the Victory that they â—btain that be faithful unto God in their Day and Generation as it is written 1 Cor. 15. Death is swallowed up in Victory O Death where is thy Sting O Grave where is thy Victory the Sting of Death is Sin and the Strength of Sin is the Law but Thanks be to God who hath given us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ And this is that Crown that they enjoy that be faithful unto God O my dear Friends that be convinced of God's blessed Truth this is the Exhortation that springs in my Heart unto you O live in the Truth and be inwardly exercised before the Lord in Living Desires to enjoy the Presence of the Living God for it is not a bare Profession that will stand us in stead when Death looks us in the Face but the inward Enjoyment of divine Refreshments and inward Comforts from the presence of the living God This is that my Soul desires above all other things who truly desires the everlasting Happiness and well-being of the Souls of all People Thomas Pitstow FINIS