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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35574	Hagio-mimesis The imitation of the saints : opened in some practical meditations upon the death of Mrs. Anne Browne, late wife of Mr. Peter Browne of Hammersmith / by Thomas Case ...	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.	1666 (1666)	Wing C822; ESTC R37528	40,369	103

Christ Her Temperance and Sobriety In Temperance and Sobriety she exceeded many not only of the ordinary rate of vvomen but even of such as not without cause have the repute of Religion In Apparel In her Habit she affected nothing of the pride and curiosity of the present generation Accounting it more honour to beautifie her Attire then to owe any beauty to it Nor was she in love with any fashion but that which the examples of the most pious and modest of her rank commended to her She was of great temperance in her diet Temperance she did as much disgust whatever might savor of delicacy and indulgence to the flesh as the delicate do what is mean and ordinary eating and drinking at such a rate as one whom not Nature only had dieted but Grace Provident she was without avarice frugal Providence not that she might get the more goods but that she might do the more good accounting that het best riches not which she laid up for her self but that which she laid out for God Her Charity was very extensive Charity not knowing any other limits but want of opportunity nor any other partiality but the Houshold of Faith Gal. 6.10 Her Mercy refused not the lowest office Mercy to the lowest object her enquiry being not what the person was but what vvas the need She thought it no robbery to impoverish her self that she might make others rich Heroick spirit She had a tender and yet an Heroick Spirit she feared nothing but sin and could bear any thing but Gods dishonour and the reproach of Religion A Coward she was when Christ possibly might suffer by her but couragious when she was called to suffer any thing for Christ Her whole deportment was made up of Sweetness and Gravity Gravity which put such a Grace upon her that she Commenced a Matron in Religion before her time as if nature had over reckoned it self one age of her life at least and took the degree of old age before she was forty Her sincerity Lastly Her sincerity commended her to God and Man She vvas fully as much as she appeared to be to God without hipocrisie to Man without fraud a true Nathaniel in whose spirit there was no guile These Vertues as they were eminent in her so they deserve a larger share in her just Character but it is time to give you some account of her Death Her Death of which though much might be spoken worthy observation yet take the Epitome of it in a few words Three things she did upon her Death-Bed The first thing she did was to give a clear and full account of the work of Grace wrought in her soul both in the Methods and Progress of it The foundation whereof she acknowledged was laid in the Catechistical principles of her Parental education the rudiments of Religion were by their care and her diligence so distinctly imprinted in her understanding that they became a good foundation upon which the superstructure of more practical and spiritual truths of the Gospel were more prosperously and fruitfully raised After that by Precept and Pattern she had learned the necessity of secret duties instruction and experience soon taught her the insignificancy of them without regard to the manner as vvell as to the matter From thenceforth she began seriously to study a Duty-frame of spirit and to eye the Pattern in the Mount John 4.24 After this notwithstanding in the progress of the Ministry under which she lived during the time of her single state she found her self at a loss the Holy Ghost convincing her of a present absolute and indispensable need of Jesus Christ in point of Righteousness She well perceived her own Righteousness too short a garment to cover her nakedness from the all-piercing eye of Divine Justice From thenceforth with the Apostle she accounted all things even the best of her own Righteousness but loss and dung that she might win Christ and be found in him not having her own Righteousness which is of the Law but that which is through the Faith of Christ the Righteousness which is of God by Faith According to the Original Method asserted by our Lord Joh. 16.9 10 11. But the Conviction stayed not long there but soon was improved by the same spirit into a Conviction and discovery of the beauty and excellencies that is in Jesus Christ A Christ she must have as a fountain of Holiness as well as of Happiness for a Soveraign as well as for a Saviour for his Person as well as for his Portion A Christ for Himself as well as for Her self she was sick of Love But yet further Interest would not serve her turn without evidence Scripture evidence This she now made her business she was very diligent to bring her Hopes and Evidences to the Scripture and to compare them and the word together by the light whereof as she discovered any fault or defect in them or cause to be jealous of them She repaired to the judicious faithful Ministers of the Gospel for the help of their judgement especially that near and tender Relation whom she trusted above any with her spiritual concerns whom she acknowledged God had made of singular use and advantage to her in the doubts and difficulties of this nature But above all she constantly made her address to Him whose Name and Office is The searcher of Hearts and tryer of the Reins with holy Davids Petition Search me O God and know my Heart try me Psa 139.23 24. and know my Thoughts And see if there be any way of wickedness in me and lead me in the way everlasting From evidence at length she put in for assurance in the serious and vigorous pursuit whereof death met her as well in the midst of her work as of her dayes unexpectedly indeed but blessed be God not unpreparedly and though her sickness was not fraught with extraordinary joyes and ravishments Yet she was sustained with a sweet peace and serenity of Spirit which God did not permit Satan to interrupt all her sickness long and this was not the fruit of a blind unsensible security as in most that cry up a Lamb-like death for she was able to give answer to any one that asked her reason of the hope that was in her with meekness and judgement 1 Pet. 3.15 It was the account she her self gave why neither in her sickness nor health she had experienc't any great raptures or extraordinary joyes of the Spirit of Adoption as some do for said she neither was I brought in with any extraordinary terrors or tremblings of the spirit of bondage Nevertheless it pleased the Lord not to leave Himself nor his poor Handmaid without witness not only in giving her a sweet serenity of spirit insomuch that she suffered no Ecclipse of that Sun of Righteousness in all the time of her confinement to her Chamber who Himself upon the Cross suffered